But this time, Bino was careful and swam at the very top, close to the stone wall above.

The group cautiously traversed this underwater forest, realizing that this small forest served as a barrier, likely planted by the sea giant race themselves using magical plants.

After passing through the forest, they quickly discovered a magnificent structure.

"Is that... an altar?" Sophia asked.

They descended, and in the light of the Sea Soul Lamp, they saw steps leading into the darkness.

As they moved forward, the appearance of the giant altar was finally revealed.

A small stone circle on top of a larger one, and an even smaller one on top of that.

At the very center, on the central stone circle, they saw two giant footprints.

Looking up, they had reached the end. Before them was a slightly blurred mural.

"Juliet," Sophia said, pointing to the mural, "Record this image."

As she spoke, a piece of broken wood floated by in the current.

Juliet pouted unhappily, took the floating piece of wood, held the lamp in one hand, and floated over.

In front of her, Jiang Xiao was already carefully observing every part of the mural.

The painting seemed to tell a story.

A story of a group of deep-sea giants conquering all things in the world.

Jiang Xiao didn't recognize most of the creatures, but he saw the two-headed monster bird of the Fenghr Kingdom, and the three sculpted star beasts they had passed on the way to the castle.

Clearly, the races of the three sculptures had submitted to this group of underwater giants.

Jiang Xiao looked up and down, all the way to the right, and finally saw a carving of the altar on the mural, with underwater giants lining up to step onto it.

The picture ended there.

What does this mean?

Jiang Xiao turned his head and looked at the real altar below. Were the footprints on the altar made by one underwater giant after another, lining up to step on it?

Where did they go in the end?

Did they ascend to the void through the altar?

In the very center above the huge mural, a deep-sea giant youth wearing a cloak was depicted, his head raised, his arms open, as if embracing the world.

Was this the main information?

"Buzz..." A distant, ethereal singing sound came.

Jiang Xiao was stunned for a moment. The deep-sea whale was still up there.

He had been playing and forgot about the big cutie. Ah, what a sin...

Although this underwater passage was large, it was still small for the deep-sea whale.

Jiang Xiao thought for a while, came to Sophia, and drew a circle.

Sophia understood, and held up a bubble with one hand.

"Hoo~" Jiang Xiao took a deep breath and said, "You guys investigate here, I'll send it up to see the sky, I promised it."

Sophia was obviously stunned: "What?"

Jiang Xiao said, "That whale, you guys play in this city, I'll be back in a while."

Sophia frowned slightly and said, "No, you can easily get lost. After we finish investigating here, we'll search the city again and think about how to get the book back.

After that, I also plan to return to land. This trip has been enough for us. There's too much information, and I should inform some people."

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, then I'll go up first."

With that, Jiang Xiao left the strange underwater altar and swam up the passage for a long time, finally returning to the huge castle.

"Buzz..." Another soft whistle, a behemoth brushed past a giant sculpture.

Jiang Xiao carried the Sea Soul Lamp and swam up, stroking the smooth skin of the deep-sea whale with one hand, even pinching it.

Wow, so soft and bouncy.

Hehe.

Jiang Xiao's body circled around the whale's body, swimming out of the castle.

The deep-sea whale also twisted its body and followed, but its size was too large, so the twisting was also larger. The heart-shaped tail behind it accidentally smashed a huge stone pillar.

Jiang Xiao was startled and quickly looked back. Fortunately, the castle was still sturdy.

Jiang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, led the deep-sea whale to the open ruined city, came to its eyes again, and patted its huge eyes.

The whale was obviously a creature with high intelligence, and immediately understood Jiang Xiao's meaning, and connected to Jiang Xiao's thoughts again.

This time, Jiang Xiao provided the whale with a scanning map of the underwater ruins, and not a finished scanning map, but the process of the terrain map being scanned out little by little when the whale sang.

"Buzz..."

With the help of the whale, Jiang Xiao once again carefully observed the re-scanned map.

Let's go~ Let's go play in the palace.

Jiang Xiao controlled his body in his consciousness, swimming forward.

The small figure happily swam up and down in the front, leading the way, and the behemoth behind silently sensed the little guy in front of it, quietly chasing Jiang Xiao's figure.

This picture was so beautiful.

The sculptures in front of the palace were no longer "land, sea, and air", but pure underwater giant warriors. Jiang Xiao also discovered that the youth in a cloak, holding a book, was everywhere. In the huge palace, there was also a statue of him, as if he was a leader-level figure, leading these underwater giants.

The huge castle before was empty, and now, the palace was the same. Besides sculptures, murals, and stone pillars, there was nothing else. In the huge palace, there were a full seven statues.

And they were all embedded in the walls, really like "gods", for people to admire. The cloak-wearing reading youth that Jiang Xiao had discovered was placed in the main position, in the wall directly opposite the entrance of the hall, which made Jiang Xiao even more certain of his judgment.

The six statues were male and female. From their size and the weapons they held, it could be seen that they had magic-type and warrior-type, and the warrior-type was also clearly divided into battle warriors and shield warriors.

A pantheon?

One person and one whale played in this city, touching here and looking there, until Bino came to Jiang Xiao and found that Jiang Xiao was holding the whale's heart-shaped whale tail with both hands, and his body swayed with the up and down movement of the tail, quite like riding an underwater roller coaster...

Prince Bino's mouth twitched awkwardly. You really know how to play~

"Let's go, Jiang Xiao Pi."

Huh?

Jiang Xiao released the whale tail, turned his head to look, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Prince Bino: "Our underwater trip has been a great success. We need to return immediately and report this to my father. Let's go."

Aren't you going to catch the Sea Soul Mask?

Well... indeed, the amount of information in this underwater ruin is too great, and it's no wonder that the Sea Burial King siblings want to go back immediately.

Jiang Xiao nodded, looked at the whale twisting its body and turning its head, Jiang Xiao quickly waved his hand, signaling it to follow.

"Buzz..."

After receiving a response, Jiang Xiao quickly swam towards the exit of the underwater ruin's other-dimensional space.

There, Sophia and Juliet were already waiting, and Jiang Xiao found that Sophia was holding a water ball in front of her chest with both hands. There was a very clear boundary between this water ball and the underwater water.

And in this huge water ball, the huge book was floating.

Jiang Xiao secretly praised in his heart: What a bold and skillful artist! You really dare to take it! Aren't you afraid that this book will break!

Sophia had a solemn expression, staring at the huge book in front of her chest, holding the water ball with both hands, and said, "Let's go, vertically upward, keep the movements smaller and slower."

Oh, Sophia!

My movements can't be small, and the speed can't be slow. You don't know how much this child behind me yearns for the blue sky.

Jiang Xiao took the lead in floating out of the space gate. In this seabed, there may not be many space gates that can accommodate whales. Obviously, the underwater ruins are one of them.

The whale passed by, and all living beings retreated.

The huge body chased after Jiang Xiao and swam out. None of the trio dared to compete with it...

As soon as the trio swam out, they saw Jiang Xiao and the whale going straight up, swimming wildly upwards.

Prince Bino looked helplessly at the heart-shaped whale tail flapping back and forth, but Sophia's voice came from beside him: "Guard me, slowly."

Prince Bino: "Yeah."

...

Above, Jiang Xiao grabbed the left "hand" of the deep-sea whale with one hand, letting it carry him upstream.

Go!!!

Under the connection of thoughts again, Jiang Xiao provided the whale with one beautiful picture after another.

"Buzz..."

Very obviously, the whale's speed was getting faster and faster.

Such a heavy body, swimming so fast, was clearly beyond Jiang Xiao's expectations.

Whale songs scanned all the surrounding illusions, outlining all the contours.

This time, there were no more boundaries!

This time, there was no more air wall to block it!

Charge! Charge! Charge!

Jiang Xiao controlled his body, slapped the whale's pectoral fin hard, and constantly conveyed the idea and picture of swimming upstream in the shared thoughts with the whale.

It never hesitated, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

Did it trust Jiang Xiao? Or, even if it had that boundary, had the whale already decided that it must smash it this time?

Jiang Xiao didn't know any of this. The water was surging around him, and the giant tail was slapping back and forth.

All the creatures on the way upstream scurried around and dodged frantically.

But some weak creatures, perhaps because their senses were weak, or perhaps because the whale's speed was too fast, Jiang Xiao discovered "old friends" again.

A group of slowly swimming cold-scaled fish...

Whoosh...

The whale plunged into the school of cold-scaled fish, disrupting their overwhelming formation. The small fish stirred up streams of water mixed with bubbles, surging in all directions.

Yoo-hoo!

Jiang Xiao spat out a string of bubbles, holding the whale's pectoral fin tightly with one hand, almost unable to keep up. Cloak, you have to give me some strength, help me...

Bang!

A loud noise,

The water exploded!

"Haha! Cough cough... cough cough..." Jiang Xiao just laughed out loud, then coughed for a while. Losing the support of the water flow, Jiang Xiao was directly thrown out.

"Whoa whoa!" Jiang Xiao was in a flurry, and the spinning body that was collapsing in the air suddenly stopped.

Behind him, the wide cloak fluttered, carrying Jiang Xiao slowly down, and his feet landed on the sea.

"My God..." Jiang Xiao rubbed his eyes and looked up in a daze.

The whale rushed out of the sea, but it did not fall because of gravity, but continued to swim upwards, continue to swim upwards...

Under normal circumstances, Jiang Xiao would call this action "flying", but for the whale, it was really "swimming" towards the night sky.

Under the dark night, the stars in the night sky were bright.

The bright moon shone on the sea, and the drops of water slipped from the whale's body, casting a sparkling light.

The huge figure slowly swam upwards, as if searching for the end of the starry sky.

The sea filled the night, and the fish soared in the starry sky.

Jiang Xiao looked up, watching the huge figure gradually drifting away under the bright moon and starry river. He stood on the sea and murmured softly: "Go... Your world has no more imprisonment."

"Buzz..."

A cheerful song rippled in the night, penetrating layers of night, floating far, far away.

In his sight, the huge figure that was gradually drifting away actually slowly turned its head and swam back, swimming towards Jiang Xiao...