Xu Qing’s eyes narrowed as he turned to look at the Captain.

The Captain looked back at him with an enigmatic smile.

“There are grues in this forbidden region,” Xu Qing said. “But they’re not that bad.”

“Right. Sounds good. I haven’t been to many forbidden regions. I spend more time at sea. I guess this’ll be a good opportunity for me to learn a thing or two.”

As they entered the forbidden region, the two of them dropped the previous conversation topic, leaving it behind as if they had forgotten it. Both of them knew that it was too weighty of a topic for them to be talking about openly. It related to Seven Blood Eyes as a whole. But even just thinking about it, it was obvious there was something very big going on behind the scenes.

After all, the Seazombies currently had nine ancestor statues. But that didn’t mean they had always had nine.... In the ancient past, there had been more of those divine likenesses. However, after certain events unfolded, some of those statues were taken by other species to research. And for whatever reasons, they were never returned. In the end, the Seazombies were left with only nine statues. [1]

It was worth noting that Seven Blood Eyes hadn’t used the Sixth Peak fortress...