Supreme Emperor of Swords

Chapter 9 The Sea God Palace

After a tour, Ding Hao had a clear understanding of the current situation of the Seven Seas, so he also had a more comprehensive understanding of the entire Southern Wilderness.

Obviously, the most important thing for the Southern Wilderness now was handling the contradiction between the population and the land. He further speculated that the Sea Clan in the Southern Wilderness might not be the only one facing this problem at the moment. Maybe other places would also be overcrowded.

“The law of the jungle is the fundamental law of this world. Since I took control of this continent, I have been fully carrying out the law of peace and development, stopping the war. Does this violate the natural laws of this continent?”

Ding Hao let out a sigh.

After walking around the Seven Seas Sea Region, Ding Hao returned to the Sea God Palace accompanied by the Mermaid Princess.

This time, there were only two of them.

“I’ve observed the Sea Clan in the Seven Seas and found a very serious problem,” Ding Hao said to the Mermaid Princess next to him.

As soon as the two of them entered the hall, there were only two priests and several guards.

When they saw Ding Hao and the Mermaid Princess coming in, they hurriedly bowed and said in unison, “Greetings, Imperator Ding and High Priest!”

The Mermaid Princess waved her hand slightly, indicating that everyone should go back to their own business. She turned to Ding Hao and asked, “Are you talking about the population problem of the Sea Clan?”

“So you have also realized this problem, High Priest.” The two chatted as they walked.

“As the Holy War Priestess of the Sea God Palace, I should have noticed such a problem related to the survival of the Sea Clan long ago,” the Mermaid Princess said softly.

Ding Hao turned his head and asked the Mermaid Princess, “Have you thought of a solution?”

“Imperator Ding, this is a practical problem in the entire Southern Wilderness Sea Region. It involves too many people, and there are too many interests to consider. The Sea God Palace and the Council can’t come up with the best solution at the moment.” The Mermaid Princess told him the truth.

“Do you have any backup plan?” Ding Hao asked further. He wanted to know what the higher-ups of the Sea Clan were thinking.

“Yes, but…” The Mermaid Princess seemed to have an unspeakable secret.

“Just say it,” Ding Hao said.

The Mermaid Princess said slowly, “Yes, we have thought about migration on a large scale and sending a large number of people of the Sea Clan to the nearby waters of the Central Continent and the Eastern Frontier.”

“I’m afraid the Central Continent and the Eastern Frontier won’t agree so easily.” Ding Hao shook his head gently.

“Your Majesty is wise. We tried to negotiate with the Central Continent and the Eastern Frontier, but we were rejected euphemistically,” the Mermaid Princess replied.

“Do you have any other plan?” Ding Hao continued to ask.

“Since both the Central Continent and the Eastern Frontier have rejected us, and considering that the Sea Clan in the Southern Wilderness may not be able to adapt to the middle and eastern sea regions, we plan to explore the unknown sea regions to the south.”

Ding Hao’s expression did not change, and he did not stop walking either. He waited for the Mermaid Princess to continue.

The Mermaid Princess went on. “It’s risky to develop a masterless sea area, but it’s always better than doing nothing until the Southern Wilderness gets overcrowded. In addition, we’ve decided to plan to control the reproduction speed of the Sea Clan.”

“By carrying out birth control?” Ding Hao said softly as if he was talking to himself.

The Mermaid Princess was meticulous. When she heard Ding Hao talking to himself, she said, “We do plan to carry out birth control. With our expansion to the south, we may be able to slow down the desperate situation of the Sea Clan.”

“Now, let’s do this first,” Ding Hao said lightly and did not give any comment on this measure.

How could Ding Hao not have thought of this? After all, it was only a treatment for the symptoms, not the root cause. Before finding a fundamental solution, they could only control the problem within an acceptable range.

They talked about some other issues in the Southern Wilderness. About an hour later, they arrived at the entrance of the Sea God Palace’s interior.

The Sea God Palace was also one of Ding Hao’s purposes for this trip.

Before this trip, Ding Hao had never been to the Sea God Palace.

This divine hall had existed for an extremely long time. It was said that it had existed before the Immortal Period. The Divine Clan was an extremely mysterious clan, and it could even be said to be one of the primitive residents of this world.

Ding Hao suddenly seemed to want to go into the Sea God Palace to have a look.

Especially when he had a little doubt in his heart.

The Sea God Palace was the core area of the entire Sea Clan, equivalent to the Great Palace of the Great Leiyin Monastery. Unlike the Great Palace, only Adorable the Sea God and the Holy War Priestess were allowed to enter the interior of the Sea God Palace.

Of course, Ding Hao could enter it. He could naturally go anywhere he wanted.

In front of him stood an oval-shaped door. The doorframe was inlaid with pearls and gems, which emitted rays of colorful light, adding a hint of brilliance to the dark underground palace of the Sea God Palace.

The giant door was like a mirror, but the mirror was made of water. There were circles on its surface. There was no water stirring but clear and pure ripples. It was just like a vertical clear pool.

Under the giant door, in front of the mirror, a golden figure flashed nimbly, as if to ask Ding Hao to hurry up.

Ding Hao looked closer.

It was the dolphin, Adorable.

It turned out that this clingy little guy had been waiting here for a long time. Ding Hao stepped forward and picked up Adorable, who snuggled up to him with a very happy expression.

Seeing this, the Mermaid Princess also showed a happy expression. She had not seen Adorable so happy for a long time.

As Ding Hao whispered in Adorable’s ear, Adorable understood and immediately activated the power of the Sea God. The giant door trembled slightly, and drops of water appeared on the surface of the mirror. Ding Hao and the other two immediately passed through the door and entered the interior of the Sea God Palace.

The light was dimmer than before. It was a completely different world from that of the Sea God Palace. The bottom of the sea, which was like ruins, was filled with an indistinguishable aura.

This was the Sea God Palace’s internal structure. It was an independent world, a wasteland, and a desolate world.

It was as if they had passed through the giant door and arrived at another space.

Ding Hao glanced around with his Divine Senses. As expected, this place was completely cut off from the Sea God Palace. The huge mirror door was the only passage connecting the Sea God Palace and this place. Although it was the internal space of the Sea God Palace, its area was probably more than twice as large as that of the Seven Seas Sea Area.

This place was filled with an aura that was left behind from the Age of Teras. Looking from a distance, one could vaguely see some broken walls and ruins as well as some collapsed divine temples.

Also, there were underwater pyramids.

In the vast underwater world, there were magnificent pyramids scattered in the dusky world.

They were like fossils that had been sleeping for tens of millions of years. People couldn’t help but wonder if there were also sleeping gods in the pyramids.

It was hard to believe that the pyramids on Earth had something to do with the underwater pyramids on this continent. Could it be that in the depths of the memories inherited from those ancestors, the pyramids had some special meaning?

However, the pyramids were not the most dazzling buildings in this vast underwater world.

Ding Hao’s powerful Divine Senses swept over the place. The huge pillars, which were like Sky-Supporting Pillars, were very eye-catching. There were ten towering pillars with a radius of a pyramid. They went straight up to the top, just like the key stands.

At a glance, Ding Hao could see that there were 108 such giant pillars here, all supporting this underwater world.

Upon closer inspection, he found that numerous statues were carved on each of the huge pillars.

Each pillar was inscribed with the legendary stories of the Sea Clan heroes. Each pillar represented a hero, and these pillars were the Sea Clan heroes’ pillars of history.

The lives of the legendary Sea Clan heroes were recorded on the giant pillars. Every time Adorable and the Mermaid Princess came to the interior of the Sea God Palace, they would gain something different from these giant pillars.

The Mermaid Princess knew very well that not only could the giant pillar statues here help her improve her inward power, but they could also help her break through the bottleneck of cultivation many times. It could be said that she benefited a lot.

Ding Hao took a rough look at each pillar.

When he glanced at the 108th pillar, which was the last one at the bottom of the sea, Ding Hao clearly felt that this pillar was completely different from the other huge pillars.

Ding Hao’s current cultivation had transcended the Eternal Realm, so the distance between him and the pillar did not affect the judgment of his Divine Senses at all. Although the location of the pillar was distant and secret, it should not be in a vague state.

Ding Hao immediately realized that it must be that someone had set up an inscription tactical deployment.

It was a clever design. Not only did they put the pillar at the farthest place from the entrance, but that person also reinforced a layer of inscription tactical deployment to interfere with the invasion of Divine Senses.

At this time, the Sea God Adorable and the Mermaid Princess were immersed in the statue of a giant pillar nearby. Naturally, they had not found anything unusual about the 108th pillar.

In fact, it was difficult for any God Realm or even Immortal Realm Master to clearly see the statue protected by the inscription tactical deployment in the deepest part.

Only Ding Hao with the Seven Star-shaped Eyes of Fate could see through all illusions.

He saw that it was clearly a statue of a Sea God. Unlike other giant pillars, this pillar was not carved with complete materials. Only a Sea God was carved near the bottom of the giant pillar.

After cracking the inscription tactical deployment, Ding Hao took a closer look and found that the statue of the Sea God suddenly became clear.

This Sea God looked like a human being, and its figure was carved according to the actual proportion. Ding Hao’s Divine Senses flashed, and he seemed to be able to talk directly to this Sea God.

However, they couldn’t talk. This Sea God didn’t leave behind a trace of Divine Senses, only an extremely ancient remnant aura.

Ding Hao had a strange feeling about this Sea God statue.

Ding Hao looked him up and down over and over again. Both his appearance and expression gave Ding Hao a sense of deja vu, but he couldn’t figure out who he was at the moment.

Ding Hao focused his inward power on the face of the statue again and carefully observed every detail of it.

At this moment, Ding Hao’s eyes stopped between the eyebrows of the statue. He vaguely felt that there was a very subtle fluctuation of space mysterious strength between those eyebrows.

“Eh? That’s quite interesting.”

This space fluctuation was extremely obscure, and its concealment technique was very clever. Except for Ding Hao, no one could see through it.

Ding Hao decided to divide his Divine Senses and go to this space to explore.

However, this small space seemed to have intelligence. It resisted Ding Hao’s invasion and launched an extremely tenacious resistance, trying to prevent Ding Hao from entering.

But how could it resist Ding Hao?

After running his power a bit, Ding Hao easily entered the space hidden in the 108th giant pillar statue.

Om!

His vision turned white and then black.

Ding Hao entered a hidden space.

It was a small world in front of him.

It was a strange old world where even Ding Hao could not see its origin clearly.