The Night Spirits couldn't be trusted, but the same didn't go for the various creatures of the Endless Sea. Water Spirits, Ice Spirits, Ice Phoenixes, Flood and Sea Dragons, Jeweled Tortoises, Snow Wolves, Nine-Headed Hydras, and other Divine Beast lineages. From the archipelagos to the undersea principalities, the Endless Sea concealed myriad sea bloodlines and opportunities. So, while no clan—single or combined—could challenge the Night's hegemony, pure bloodline quality and potential-wise, some were not that inferior to this Hengye branch—they just lacked resources.
As long as he could leverage his prestige as God-Monarch and Greatest of the Night Pantheon and seduce these clans and forces with his Five Elements Transmutative Technique, Xinzi estimated that, within a century, his Creed of Indulgence would blossom into the most dominant faith of the Great Desolation World—perhaps even...the only faith!
