Far, far away from the Heavenly God Estate, in an entirely different part of the Upper Domain, lay a realm where very few outsiders ever dared to set foot.
This place was known as the Abyssal Deep.
Everywhere one looked, there was endless, crystal-clear water sparkling like dark gems under the faint sunlight.
Floating in the middle of these vast waters were massive land-planes where beautiful beastmen and their females resided in shimmering stone palaces.
Inside one of the grand, damp halls of the palace, a tall man named Cang Ling stood with a cold, terrifying expression.
THUD!
Without a shred of gentleness, Cang Ling threw the small mermaid cub into the arms of another man standing near the stone pillar.
"You can’t even take care of one single cub!" Cang Ling reprimanded harshly, his voice echoing violently through the high hall.
"How are you supposed to take responsibility for deep?! Do you have any idea how far this little brat ran away today?!"
Standing beside Cang Ling was a female named Liang Rou. Her expression was utterly lifeless, her dull eyes staring into space as if she possessed zero attachment to the living world around her.
The small cub trembling in the second man’s arms was none other than little Yuze, the tiny mermaid cub who had secretly swum into the Heavenly God Estate’s pond.
The man holding Yuze stiffened as he listened to Cang Ling’s harsh words. Slowly, Cang Hai’s eyes turned pitch-black and beastly as he looked down at the shivering cub in his arms.
"R-Revered Uncle..." little Yuze squeaked out, his small tail trembling violently. "Big Brother, I don’t..."
"Shut your mouth!"
Before Yuze could even finish his sentence, Cang Hai’s right hand, which had long, razor-sharp claws extending from his fingertips, clamped down hard around the small mermaid cub’s fragile neck!
GASP!
Cang Hai lifted the cub straight off the ground by his throat, his dark eyes flashing with an enraged, vicious snarl. "You really just can’t help but cause trouble for me, can you?!"
Yuze thrashed his small blue tail helplessly in the air, his tiny hands desperately clawing at Cang Hai’s iron grip as he gasped for oxygen.
"What will it take for you to stay put in this palace?!" Cang Hai sneered, his clawed fingers tightening just enough to inflict sharp pain. "It’s not like we’re mistreating you here!"
Hearing those shameless words, tears of pure agony pooled in little Yuze’s big, tearful eyes.
He desperately wanted to scream out! He wanted to cry out that yes, they were mistreating him!
They were so horribly cruel compared to the gentle parents of the little white snake, Yue Yue!
When Yuze had been hiding near the garden of the Heavenly God Estate, he had secretly watched how Su Qinglan and her beast husbands treated their children.
Their fathers held them with infinite care, wiped their faces, fed them sweet cakes, and protected them from the slightest chill.
Yuze had thought that all parents in the world were as cold, ruthless, and terrifying as the adults in the Abyssal Deep.

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