【The Divine Sea Society, under the guise of protecting the aquatic demon clans, speaks endlessly of righteousness and morality.】
【But in reality, their actions are far more evil than the demons themselves.】
【Take Ba’an Sea for example.】
【On one hand, the Divine Sea Society secretly cooperates with Liangxin Workshop, using Liangxin Workshop as a base to buy at high prices the spoils the Sea Capture teams acquire from the demons.】
【This in turn encourages the Sea Capture teams to slaughter aquatic demons even more fiercely.】
【On the other hand, they quietly send core members disguised as undercover agents to contact the Sea Capture teams.】
【They provide information and locations about the aquatic demon clans.】
【It can be said that the ongoing Sea Capture War wouldn’t have lasted this long without the Divine Sea Society.】
【The purpose of the demon clans led by An Ce and Qu Wenmiao is simple.】
【They use the Sea Capture War to eliminate dissenters and create a constant threat of annihilation among other aquatic demons.】
【This forces those demons to submit under the banner of the Divine Sea Society.】
【Of course, among the aquatic demons, there are stubborn clans.】
【Such as the Seahorse Clan, and the Li Water Clam Demon Clan.】
【These aquatic demons are regarded by the Divine Sea Society as obstinate and unyielding.】
【Hence, the Divine Sea Society targets these clans with attacks!】
【Moreover, from An Ce’s memories, it is learned that this tactic is not limited to the Ba’an Sea branch of the Divine Sea Society.】
【The entire demon realm’s Divine Sea Society branches operate this way.】
【Their goal is to bring all aquatic demon clans under their control.】
【Previously, some aquatic demons speculated that the Divine Sea Society’s intention was to become the largest maritime power in the demon realm.】
【But that is not the case.】
【What the [N O V E L I G H T] Divine Sea Society truly wants are the lives of these aquatic demons!】
【Whenever newcomers join, they select those with superior talent to become core members.】
【The rest are drawn into a special formation where they are completely refined.】
【This produces what An Ce called the Ten Thousand Souls Divine Sea Liquid.】
【The name is truly well deserved.】
【Thousands upon thousands of aquatic souls are absorbed into the Divine Sea Society and transformed into this nourishing black liquid.】
【It may look unappealing,】
【but it is filled with surging vitality!】
【After all, it takes ten thousand aquatic demons to refine only a small amount of this liquid.】
【Its vitality is naturally tremendous.】
【Qing Rui once said many aquatic demons who joined the Divine Sea Society mysteriously lost contact.】
【Undoubtedly, those demons have become Ten Thousand Souls Divine Sea Liquid.】
【The Divine Sea Society has existed for nearly a million years. The number of aquatic demons refined is terrifying.】
【Yet, even now, they have not stopped refining the liquid.】
【Its purpose is to supply the Supreme Leader of the Divine Sea Society.】
【An octopus demon named Chu Shouhe!】
【Every hundred years, branch leaders exchange the amount of Ten Thousand Souls Divine Sea Liquid they supply for corresponding points.】
【The points are used simply—to exchange for any technique they need from Chu Shouhe.】
【Strangely, in An Ce’s memories, Chu Shouhe never leaves the main hall of the Divine Sea Society.】
【Yet he possesses countless demon realm techniques.】
【If you can think of it, he can produce it.】
【To become stronger, all branch leaders spare no effort collecting Ten Thousand Souls Divine Sea Liquid.】
【As for why Chu Shouhe needs so much of it,】
【An Ce doesn’t know, having just awakened himself.】
【However, the liquid is indeed powerful.】
【It can accelerate the awakening of demons who have not yet woken.】
【If Qu Wenmiao had not applied the liquid onto An Ce’s divine statue before,】
【An Ce would have needed at least another half month of demonic energy recovery to awaken.】
【After learning this information,】
【Ye Yu grew somewhat curious about the Divine Sea Society.】
【Such a large-scale operation, just to refine aquatic demons?】
【The liquid may be precious, but perhaps it has little use for high-level cultivators?】
【At most, it might help heal injuries.】
【Besides, it’s been nearly a million years—how much liquid could they possibly need?】
【Ye Yu couldn’t figure it out and didn’t plan to dwell on it for now.】
【Instead, following the memories in An Ce and Qu Wenmiao’s minds,】
【he headed to the Ba’an Sea branch of the Divine Sea Society.】
【There, he swept away everything accumulated over many years.】
【He also found a jar of Ten Thousand Souls Divine Sea Liquid.】
【It looked black and murky, but was saturated with dense demonic energy.】
【Having accumulated so much over half a year, it seemed Qu Wenmiao had indeed refined many demons!】
【Ugh, disgusting.】
【After venting, Ye Yu turned and returned to Liangxin Workshop.】
【He arranged three tasks for Feng Zhenxin.】
【First, to set aside some Ten Thousand Souls Divine Sea Liquid for research—whether besides vitality and healing it has other effects.】
【Second, to auction all the items looted from the Divine Sea Society inside Liangxin Workshop.】
【The auction would not accept demon stones but would be trade for techniques—barter only.】
【Low-grade techniques are to be discarded; high-grade ones could be negotiated.】
【Feng Zhenxin was naturally skilled in this field and handled it expertly.】
【Third, Liangxin Workshop was to issue another bounty, ordering the Sea Capture demons to clear all Divine Sea Society demons in Ba’an Sea within half a month.】
【No excuses; just throw demon stones at them.】
【The Sea Capture demons are simple—they recognize demon stones, not people.】
【Give them demon stones, and they dare to do anything!】
【Ye Yu was fully confident about this.】
【After settling everything, Ye Yu returned to Yingning Mountain to reunite with Luo Ning.】
【The saying “a short separation makes the heart grow fonder” was vividly true for them.】
【After all, they had just expressed their feelings when so many things happened again.】
【Now finally having time, they naturally wanted to talk heart to heart.】
【However, this led to】
【a few rumors spreading on Yingning Mountain.】
【The arm really can’t win against the thigh!】
【Thanks to the efforts of the Demon King, Ye Yu ultimately did not hold out until the end.】
【Honestly, hearing these rumors made Ye Yu very angry.】
【Why are they so gossipy?】
【Whether I agree to be with Luo Ning is none of their business!】
【Ye Yu originally wanted to make an example out of this matter.】
【But unexpectedly, the demons spreading these rumors were none other than his father Ye Chuang and mother Lü Hongying.】
【Looking at the two elders, Ye Yu could only sigh deeply.】
