"Civilization rift..."
Gu Shanhai walked around and came to this conclusion.
"So, what is the deep-sea vortex aiming to accomplish by sending the sea people here?" Gu Shanhai's spiritual sense swept the area, and he quickly identified an anomaly.
An active energy source, or to put it bluntly, a life-form that had just awakened, not one that had always been active.
"So, by offering the sea people, they forcibly awaken some ancient entity, and then dispose of it."
Gu Shanhai immediately thought of this.
Indeed, all the sea people had been completely devoured by the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers, but the other party had achieved their goal through other means.
Even more drastically, the newly awakened life-form might indeed be the actual tribute, and the sea people nothing more than tools and a pre-dinner dessert.
"Elemental life-form?"
