His gaze swept across the dark trench walls like a hawk's.
If it couldn't be found here, then this treasure was simply impossible to salvage.
Just as he felt his lungs about to burst and his Mysterious Water Escape was on the verge of collapse, a massive shadowy outline loomed into view along the trench wall ahead!
It wasn't a mere rock face, but a large, protruding, dark platform.
The edge of the platform was jagged and strange, like an ancient boulder jutting from the abyss, eroded by time and seawater for millennia.
On this platform, the remnants of a colossal object were wedged!
The wooden structure, long blackened and decayed by sea water, was covered with thick coral, barnacles, and unknown deep-sea algae, yet the distinctive contour of a Great Xuan Royal Navy's main battleship was still recognizable—the tall mast was broken, yet still pointed slantingly skyward.
