524: Chapter 524 The Sea Changes Color

"Huh? No, wait!!!" Nine Infants suddenly exclaimed.

"My King, what's wrong?" The Sea Octopus Clan big man quickly asked upon hearing this.

"Why are so many people dead on both sides of the Nanyue River?" Nine Infants pointed downwards and said.

The powerful cultivators looked in the direction he pointed, and indeed, they found many Sea Race members dead on both banks of the Nanyue River. Their deaths were extremely gruesome, as if they had been dismembered into eight or ten pieces, their entire bodies incomplete...

"Could it be that they died in the river and were then washed ashore by the flood?" Someone guessed.

"It doesn't look like it. If that were the case, their bodies wouldn't be concentrated in one place, would they?" Someone objected.

"Indeed! Moreover, their bodies are relatively dry, clearly not having died in the flood, but rather when they tried to land earlier. The most likely scenario is that the Human Race attacked them!" The Sea Octopus Clan big man concluded.

"How could this be?! Did the Human Race set up assassins along the river?" A chill ran through everyone's hearts. They hadn't expected the Human Race to have set up an ambush without them noticing...

Nine Infants observed carefully for a moment, then said coldly, "There are no Human Race assassins in ambush! But they were indeed dismembered!"

"How is that possible? Who killed them?! So many people died!" Everyone was shocked, and fear involuntarily crept into their hearts. After all, the unknown is the most terrifying.

Moreover, the number of Sea Race members who died trying to land was too great. Looking along this path, it could account for at least thirty percent of the total!

Why would so many Sea Race members land?

This was actually related to the overcrowding in the river channel. The water in the river channel was less than half of its original volume, and a massive number of Sea Race members squeezed into it in a short period. It's easy to imagine how terrifyingly congested the river channel was at the time. Many Sea Race members wanted to go ashore to catch their breath, and some Sea Race members had poor discipline. They had long wanted to plunder and kill after entering the inland, so they eagerly went ashore to act. Once one person started, a continuous stream of people would follow suit and go ashore...

The Sea Race's formation in the Nanyue River had stretched very long, and Nine Infants and the others were at the very rear, supervising the battle. They didn't have modern high-tech communication tools like the Human Race, and relying solely on individual abilities, they couldn't control the actions of the Sea Race members in front. Therefore, no matter how good Nine Infants' strategic thinking was, without proper execution, its effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

Nine Infants' face was grim. He racked his brain but couldn't understand why so many Sea Race members would go ashore and why they would be inexplicably slaughtered. Most importantly, too many people had died, shaking the Foundation of the Sea Race. It was important to know that thirty percent of the Sea Race had died on land, and at least thirty to fifty percent would die in the river. Together, six to eight percent had already been annihilated. What kind of war was this?!

What chilled him even more was that the Sea Race had lost seventy to eighty percent of its strength within two days of entering the inland, and he hadn't even seen a shadow of the Human Race yet!

How was this completely different from what he had learned from his Bloodline Legacy?!

To say that the Bloodline Legacy was incorrect was also wrong, because he had risen rapidly in the sea domain precisely by relying on the Bloodline Legacy, becoming the King of this sea domain. So, the Bloodline Legacy was definitely effective. Then where exactly was the problem?

"Right, and what about the Sea Fowl? Didn't I tell them to follow? Why haven't I seen a single Sea Bird until now?!" Nine Infants suddenly thought of this.

He quickly questioned the remaining powerful Sea Race cultivators. No one knew the reason, but the order had definitely been transmitted.

"Quickly follow me to the sea to investigate the reason! As long as the Sea Fowl are still here, we still have the strength to destroy Great Ming!" Nine Infants roared.

"Yes! My King, rest assured!" The powerful cultivators responded and sped towards the sea...

When they arrived at the delta, the sight that greeted them nearly made them faint. Countless Sea Bird corpses floated on the sea, big and small, complete and dismembered. This was just what was floating on the sea; who knew how many more had already sunk underwater? There wasn't a single Sea Bird in the sky. Had they all died?!

"Oh my god, how could they all be dead?!" Someone shrieked, their voice trembling and uncontrollable.

"They were all killed by immense power!" Nine Infants hissed through gritted teeth.

"Could it be the Human Race? But isn't the Human Race's strength very weak? How could they have annihilated the Sea Fowl in such a short time?!" The Sea Octopus Clan big man exclaimed, feeling as if some danger was surrounding him, and a chill uncontrollably rose in his heart...

"If not the Human Race, then who?! I must find the perpetrator and avenge them!" Nine Infants' words carried a chilling intent. He felt like he was going crazy. He hadn't expected the Sea Fowl to be completely wiped out, and now they had no power to turn the tide. Even if he possessed the Golden Core Realm, no matter how strong he was, if he was alone, it would be difficult to conquer a territory, right?

The simplest point was that even if he conquered it, it would be useless if there was no one to manage it. Being a lone wolf was just self-indulgence...

As he was secretly seething with hatred, he suddenly heard someone exclaim, "Look! Why has the sea water suddenly changed color?!"

"The sea water changed color?!" Nine Infants was startled. This was another situation he rarely saw in his Legacy.

He quickly observed carefully and indeed found that the sea water was rapidly changing color, gradually turning murky from its original blue-black. There were all sorts of colors: blue, green, red, yellow... among them, red was the most prominent, with half of the sea water dyed red!

After observing with his Divine Sense, Nine Infants' expression changed. "How could so much Sea Race blood flow into the sea?"

"My King, this should be the blood of the Sea Fowl, right? It's their blood, spilled after they were slaughtered, that has dyed this sea red..." The Sea Octopus Clan big man said.

"Some of the Sea Fowl' blood has flowed out, but now a large amount of new blood is rushing into the sea... No, it's from the direction of the Nanyue River!!!" Nine Infants suddenly realized, quickly turning to look at the Nanyue River. He saw the surging river water rapidly rushing towards the sea, and the color of the river water was precisely the murky, bloody color they had just seen!

"Oh my god! The river water has changed color too!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Are all our soldiers finished? How is that possible?!"

"Impossible, they would only be swept into the sea by the river water, but we haven't seen any sign of them yet..."

"Go!!!" Nine Infants roared, charging first above the Nanyue River. Looking at the rolling bloody water rushing from afar, he was completely stunned!

Could it be true, as they said, that the Sea Race was finished? Otherwise, why was it not people being swept down by the river water, but murky, bloody water?

The Sea Race aura emanating from the bloody water completely confirmed his conjecture: the Sea Race in the river was very likely completely wiped out, having become part of this murky, bloody water...

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