In that case... the impact would actually be considerable.

On the Dragon King of the Sea, of course.

The factions that had come to attend the Dragon Palace banquet, naturally, would not find anything objectionable about it.

After all, during the Dragon Palace banquet, Qixia City provided food and lodging free of charge.

The finest food, the finest beds.

They were probably wishing it would be delayed a few more days.

But those few days of delay... most of the losses would likely have to come out of the Dragon King of the Sea's own pocket.

As a live-in son-in-law... ah.

"Hm?" After agonizing over the losses, the old sea turtle suddenly noticed something missing before its eyes.

"Holy Shell Physician, where is Lord Shi Jin?"

The Holy Shell Physician, who had already run off to study the toxin again, said, "Seems, seems like he said he was going to take a look over at the Ocean Relic?"

Turtle Chancellor: ???

Damn it, these humans of the Eleventh Bureau—why did they always, every time they were in Dividing Star City, have to go running off to the Ocean Relic, the Dragon God Relic, and all the various relics of Shenyuan City?

...

The Ocean Relic was indeed on this Pure Water Island.

The Ocean Sprite wielded the power of purification, and this island was also called Pure Water Island—there was probably some connection, some historical tale behind it.

After obtaining the consent of the Holy Shell Physician and the others, Shi Jin brought the Ginseng Baby over to the Ocean Relic.

It was his first time seeing this kind of relic.

The Ocean Relic was immensely tall, exceeding a hundred meters in length, width, and height. It closely resembled a building in Shi Jin's memory—the Water Cube. The dreamlike blue surface of the relic looked like crystal-clear water droplets under sunlight; at least as far as Shi Ying could sense, this relic was probably composed entirely of water elements.

"Found it."

As he approached the Ocean Relic, Shi Shuo investigated the records concerning the Ocean Relic through the archaeology compendium and learned that this too was a semi-independent secret-realm-type spatial relic.

From the outside, the Ocean Relic looked like an enormous Water Cube, but in truth, the interior of the Ocean Relic was a world of its own. Most importantly, whether the Ocean Relic in Qixia City or the countless Ocean Relics scattered throughout the oceans, the Water Cube visible from the outside was always a projection from within the secret realm, a materialized mirage—the true relic was but one: the interior space to which these Water Cubes led.

They were essentially broadcast stations and spatial teleport points spread across every corner of the ocean, seemingly existing only to make it more convenient to call the reincarnated body of the Ocean Sprite.

"Ying."

"Mm."

"Yi."

"Mi."

At this moment, besides the Ginseng Baby, Shi Jin had summoned out the other three little family prayers as well.

They too stared with wide eyes, craning their necks to observe the beautiful Canghai Ruins.

"The Ocean Sprite is a creature of refined taste—look how beautifully it built its ruins," Shi Jin said, rubbing his chin.

"Mmm~~" Buggy agreed; this was far more beautiful than the Ice Dragon Ruins.

"Meow!" Hearing Buggy question Mu Huiyin's aesthetic judgment, Crimson Eye would have none of it.

"Eek!" Eleven told them to stop squabbling—even at their worst, could they possibly be worse than the Iron-Eater Ruins of the Ancient Capital?

That one was a thoroughly broken-down ruin, not even possessing an independent space.

"Eek."

But... could one really call the Iron-Eater Ruins shabby?

After all, it was a ruin where something could be heard, and from it they had obtained the Iron-Eater's method of evolution.

So long as there was something to gain, it was a good ruin; otherwise, one that looked pretty but stayed mute was useless.

As for this Canghai Ruins before them... it looked flashy but hollow.

"Indeed..." Shi Jin muttered. In the archaeological compendium's records on the Canghai Ruins, there were actually comments left by the seniors of Bureau Eleven.

That was no surprise... the records were compiled by people, and for a ruin of this caliber, likely only the seniors of Bureau Eleven were qualified to evaluate it.

He also saw Lu Yan's evaluation.

Lu Heng: [Not recommended for rookie archaeologists.]