Don't touch it, don't make a sound, back away slowly, that thing is not a waterweed...
In the Scalegorge Waterscape, the birthplace of the Vidyadhara race, there is a special profession: "Pearlkeeper." During Vidyadhara's stage of hatching rebirth, they had no means of resisting external threats. Thus, the Pearlkeepers were needed to protect their vulnerable compatriots. Crane used to be a Cloud Knight, but returned to Scalegorge Waterscape to be a Pearlkeeper after retiring. One day, during a routine inspection, Crane came upon some unusual signs. At that time, she didn't know that it was because an evil beast that had been sleeping underwater for thousands of years had awakened... Crane had to join forces with her comrades to battle the evil beast in the dark ancient sea, and protect the vulnerable sacred land of Scalegorge Waterscape.
Deep Water is possibly the first immersia of the evil beast genre. Director Yong Zheng and screenwriter Fu Rong could even be called the inventors of the said genre. In addition to this, Luofu Monster, Heliobus Ingenia, and Xianzhou Predator that they collaborated on are also widely regarded as classic evil beast immersias.
How to impart the sense of overwhelming oppression of evil beasts, how to use the dark and mysterious environment to invoke terror (such as the ancient sea of Scalegorge Waterscape in Deep Water), and how to shape the moment when human beings fall into fear and burst into courage when facing evil beasts... It is no wonder that scholars of the immersia genre have a saying: "Memorize all the immersias of Yong Zheng, and you will master evil beast immersias."
Another point worth mentioning about Deep Water:
The art of Butterfly Immersia is loved by all races in the Xianzhou Alliance, the directors of almost all immersias are Foxians.
This is inevitable... After all, the filming and production of Butterfly Immersias rely on Foxians' innately keen mental prowess. Focusing on and regulating the fantasy world requires extraordinary meticulousness and ability. Without this ability, making a immersia is tantamount to creating music for the hard of hearing or painting for the hard of seeing... Strictly speaking, it is not impossible, but very difficult.
Yong Zheng is undoubtedly an exception. As Vidyadhara, he has become one of the greatest directors in the history of Butterfly Immersia. It is hard to imagine how many difficulties he had overcome to achieve such great success.
Foxian directors account for an overwhelming majority in the immersia industry. This also leads to another problem: Before Yong Zheng debuted, most of the Butterfly Immersias told the story of Foxians from the perspective of Foxians. After all, people are better at and more willing to create characters they are familiar with. However, all of Yong Zheng's works in his creative career are from a Vidyadhara's perspective.
Be it Crane, the brave and fearless Pearlkeeper in Deep Water, or Linda, the Vidyadhara scientist who was attacked by their own crazed experiment in The Xianzhou Predator, they have all become classic characters in the history of immersia. After Yong Zheng became a household name, more and more works began to bravely choose to tell stories from the perspective of non-Foxians.