Meiji fully displayed her graceful figure in the water.

The enormous fish tail swayed in the water, a truly beautiful sight. This wonderful scene could make one briefly forget the pain they had just experienced.

Huo Rui and she swam hand in hand. If you looked closely, you could see that he had grown something resembling fish gills on both sides of his cheeks.

"Huo Rui, have you mutated?" Jia Xitong asked curiously.

"What?"

Huo Rui was puzzled.

Mei Ji noticed Jia Xitong's gaze and seemed to understand her meaning. "This is an innate ability of my merfolk, allowing my husband to breathe underwater."

Husband...

Hearing this intimate address, Jia Xitong secretly smiled, as if Mei Ji was calling her that.

Huo Rui glanced at the two of them, his primary concern still being Shang Yanting's health. "Your Excellency, are you alright?"

"fine."

His injury wasn't serious, and he's almost fully recovered after some rest and recuperation.

"I have already made contact with the others. Niu Chuanchuan has led his senior brothers away from Dingtian Academy and, according to your previous plan, has gone to the Southern Wilderness Mountain for training."

Huo Rui talked about what he had done before he came to us.

Huo Rui handled the tasks Shang Yanting had given him very well. However, he was confused about what to do next. "Your Excellency, now that Xianlong Peak has been destroyed, what should we do next?"

His Excellency rejected the offer of amnesty from the Temple of Martial Gods, thus offending the temple.

The future of His Excellency, along with the entire Xianlong Peak, is uncertain.

"Mei Ji".

Shang Yanting's sudden interruption broke the conversation between Jia Xitong and Meiji.

"Your Excellency."

Meiji lay prostrate on the uneven seabed.

"As a member of the merfolk, you grew up among humans. Do you still remember the approximate location of the merfolk community?"

In the eyes of martial arts practitioners, the Merfolk are a treasure trove.

No one is as powerful as a martial artist, yet they possess extremely high value. Many of the merfolk were slaughtered, and the surviving merfolk had no choice but to seek out secluded places to hide.

When Meiji was asked about the merfolk's place of residence, her extremely vague memories were awakened.

"My only memory is of a mermaid with a blurry face, who led me all the way north..."

Meiji was too young at the time.

That's all I have.

Countless nights in my childhood, those memories replayed in my mind countless times.

The water was very clear that day, and the sky was very blue.

She excitedly followed the older merman to the surface of the sea to see the sun for the first time in her life, and then she could never go back. She suffered inhuman abuse and torment in the human world, for which she regretted countless nights.

"Mei Ji".

Huo Rui placed his hand on her shoulder, gently pulling Mei Ji into his arms.

"It doesn't matter."

That's all in the past.

The information Meiji provided seemed limited, but it wasn't entirely empty. Some things could still be inferred from her words.

The merfolk have always lived at the bottom of the deep sea.

She swam northwards, while the merfolk lived in the south, in the opposite direction.

"Next, we'll go find the merfolk's territory."

Shang Yanting slowly announced his decision.

Jia Xitong, who was sitting to the side eating dog food, suddenly looked up and said, "Huo Rui, you're meeting your mother-in-law?"

Shang Yanting reached out and patted her head, signaling Jia Xitong to stop talking nonsense. Then he looked at Mei Ji's somewhat surprised and worried face, "This time we went to the Merfolk to take something away."

"Relax, you pose no threat to the merfolk."