Chapter 194 You're fooling me, I'm fooling you
"Of course!" Karin nodded without hesitation.
She reached out her small hand to brush away the long, silver-blue hair that was brushing against her face. "Don't worry, I won't restrict your freedom."
"You can leave once all my friends have arrived."
Yan Xi's leaning motion froze. "Leave?"
That's a nice idea.
Yan Xi continued to lean forward, his upper body almost completely covering Xiao Huali's head. Although he looked like he was about to cry, he exuded an indescribable sense of oppression.
Beneath the cool, clear tones of the sea, a delicate, pearly fragrance, refined by moonlight, lingered and quietly permeated the air as he approached.
How could he possibly let her go before he went to the Abyss to break the seal?
“But the Cangming Sea is now full of cultivators who capture merfolk, and I myself…” he sighed, “I’m afraid I’ll be captured again on the way home.”
Huali's expression shifted slightly, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Seeing that things were going well, Yan Xi tried even harder to coax him, "My little benefactor is so amazing, why don't you take me home?"
Go to the deepest part of the Boundary Abyss and break the seal. Then, stay in the Boundary Abyss forever in his place.
Karin quickly bared her teeth and then shut her mouth again. "Little bird, I know you're in a hurry, but can you speak properly?"
She wiped the water off her face miserably, saying, "Your hair has been raining down on my head." And the smell of it made her crave seafood.
But she didn't dare to say it.
After all, saying you want to eat fish in front of a fish is just too gory.
Yan Xi: "......"
He could see right through the girl's thoughts at a glance, and the tears he had carefully prepared in his eyes were almost about to spill over. He had lost count of how many times he had sighed today.
never mind.
Originally, I didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble. If I had taken her from Jiangling to Jieyuan on our first meeting, I was afraid that the people behind her would notice something was amiss. That's why I pretended to be innocent.
But this little girl is completely unyielding, and there's a hothead next door eyeing her with predatory intent. A thousand-year wait is too long; the opportunity is right in front of us. If appeasement doesn't work, we'll just take her away directly.
Yan Xi secretly formed an intricate hand seal with his fingertips in a blind spot in Hua Li's sight, and silently opened his lips.
"Huali, willingly, with Yanxi, back to the abyss."
The power of the words from the sea monsters in the Tribulation Transcending stage condensed, and like icy seawater, it instantly submerged Huali's body, sinking her consciousness into an ancient and cold abyss.
In that instant, the small furnace inside Huali's body was released completely with a "whoosh".
Countless fragments of memories came rushing in.
Yan Xi watched as the girl's gaze sharpened, a cold, determined smile, befitting a deep-sea overlord, curving his lips.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
"Wait a moment!"
Karin, who should have been nodding obediently with dazed eyes, suddenly raised her hand. "I'll reply to a message first, then we'll play a game of who blinks first."
After she finished speaking, she quickly flipped open the communication stone.
Yan Xi: "..."
The first thing I saw was Luo Chuan's latest message, which was too long, and Hua Li had already read it but wasn't replying.
Next was Shen Yu. He would arrive in Canglan Prefecture in just one more day.
Wait, Lian Zhuo can even use communication stones?
Wen Jin also sent her three messages.
Hua Li searched all the way to Tang Wanwan, who had been rushing through the night and would be arriving in two days.
Huali replied: "No rush, I just found myself a guardian, a little mermaid."
Tang Wanwan replied instantly: "Mermaid? Mermaid?" Her mind immediately went into high alert, "Male or female?"
Karin: "A gorgeous male merman!!"
Tang Wanwan, who was flying on her sword, almost fell off the Xuanfeng Sword. Xiao Ta, who was standing next to her, quickly poked her head out and asked, "What happened? What happened? Is Huali in danger?"
Tang Wanwan shook her head in anguish.
"This kid found himself a mermaid in just one day! I can't even seduce her as fast as I can fly on my sword!"
One against four is already crowded, where are we going to put the fifth one?!
*
There's definitely room for the fifth one!
With a "crack," Yan Xi inside the bathtub shattered completely.
It wasn't a facade that cracked; it was the string of "patience" within him that snapped completely!
The power of words... has failed?!
Against a Word of Power that could withstand dozens of breaths of the same Tribulation Transcending stage, it just fizzled out like that?
After failing to transcend her tribulation, the dignified sea monster, who was over a thousand years old, once again experienced what it meant to be incredulous!
A tremendous sense of frustration shot straight to the top of my head!
Yan Xi could barely control the expression on his face; a fleeting glint of the ferocity of a predator that had lurked in his eyes flashed by.
Prepare yourself emotionally! Lower your stance!
Put them in the cage! Put them on the cart!
They even used that sickeningly sweet term of endearment, "little benefactor," and yet the magic of their words failed?!
After replying to the message, Huali rolled over again, blinked, and asked, "Do you still want to play with the little bird?"
"Why do you look so pale? Are you injured somewhere?"
Yan Xi bit down hard on the soft flesh inside his mouth, and after tasting the metallic sweetness, he forcefully calmed his violently heaving chest. The shaky, innocent, and fragile smile on his face was forcibly...welded back on with the last bit of acting skill he had left.
He used too much force, causing his eye to twitch slightly.
"I'm...I'm not hurt." Yan Xi's voice was strangely soft, forced into a tone of suppressed anger, but this time it wasn't feigned; it was pure anger!
"I just...feel that my little benefactor is...especially good." He lowered his eyes, concealing the overwhelming waves of "misfortune" and "frustration" that were about to burst forth.
Yan Xi took a deep breath and told himself to calm down! Otherwise, before the seal was even broken, he would be driven mad by this damn thing.
*
late at night.
The moonlight, filtered through thick clouds, shone through the window onto the bathtub beside the bed.
The silvery-gray moonlight flowed across Yan Xi's delicate jawline, glided over his bare upper body, and finally landed where the fish tail should have been.
A silent transformation is taking place there.
The violet's scales resembled shattered silver melted by moonlight, their edges gleaming with a soft yet cold luster like mother-of-pearl, before finally dissipating silently into the stars.
Instead, a pair of human legs, long and straight, enough to take the breath away of any sculptor, were fully exposed to the cool moonlight.
Yan Xi twitched her newborn toes slightly.
He stepped out of the bathtub, glanced at the sleeping girl on the bed, his deep, unwavering eyes revealing no emotion, and slowly approached her.
Just as his slender fingers were about to touch Huali's cheek, he suddenly stopped.
Then, like a weightless ghost, he turned around silently, his bare feet stepping across the cold stone floor, disappearing into the deeper darkness outside the door.
The moment the faint sound completely disappeared, Karin, who was fast asleep on the bed, yawned and opened her eyes.
"They've left?"
Ao Bai, slumped on the pillow, said, "I'm leaving."
The next second, Ao Bai sensed something was wrong and jumped up. "Host?"
Karin stretched and said, "Hmm, I remember now."
Her memories had been fragmented over the past two days, but the little bird's words of wisdom helped her break free of her shackles, and her memories quickly returned.
That's why she was momentarily distracted.
Ao Bai cheered excitedly, "Then why didn't you expose him when you knew he was faking it?"
"Who cares if it's real or fake?" Huali picked up the little pearl from the bed. "The Little Mermaid is so beautiful, and she even pops gold coins on her own. If she wants to act, then let her act."
Anyway, she's guaranteed to make a profit, hehehe.
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