Chapter 213 If you can't handle the little fish, how do you handle the little bird?
Li Yuan's slightly dim eyes widened instantly. "You found it!"
Pearl smiled and nodded. "I heard that Commander Guanlan has already settled the people according to the King's orders." She coaxed gently, "Your Highness was born weaker than other mermaids. These are spiritual plants that the Queen specially found for you. Your Highness, please drink them."
Li Yuan ignored him and asked only, "Then may I see him?"
“No.” Pearl shook her head. “Your Highness is worlds apart from him. Since this person was a sacrifice, he is no longer human. Your Highness must not associate with him.”
Huali listened in astonishment.
This is supposed to be a fantasy world, yet Cangminghai still practices feudal superstitions.
Fortunately, Li Yuan was only asking and didn't actually intend to do anything. After drinking the green liquid in the bowl, he waved to Pearl.
As the maid closed the door, she immediately looked at Huali and asked, "You're not a cultivator here to participate in the Dream Realm. Who exactly are you?"
"Why don't you let others see you? What is your purpose in approaching me?" The little mermaid's shy demeanor vanished, replaced by a serious expression. "And how do you know I am the young prince of the Cangming Sea?"
Karin: "...Didn't you say that yourself?"
The little mermaid's expression clearly showed disbelief. She stroked the pearls used for decoration on the table and slowly said, "The entire Cangming Sea is under my father's watchful eye. No matter what happens, it will not escape his notice."
Ao Bai grumbled, "You have a narrow mind, kid. We really did escape his notice."
Huali looked at Liyuan's admiring and proud expression when he mentioned his father and asked in confusion, "Are we on the wrong wavelength?"
"Isn't this just a fantasy 'rooted' in birds? Now that he's not here, how can I tell that my merman has been replaced?"
"Did the little bird really get plastic surgery?"
Ao Bai: "...If health products can't be sold, you need to look for the reasons within yourself."
"Logically, the dream should belong to a little bird, but it's possible that you, the host, are a special case. Because of your intervention, other elements have been added to the dream."
"If this little mermaid is also a chosen one, it's reasonable for her to be able to see her host."
"Did the headquarters system tell you that?" Huali's tone was blatantly distrustful.
"No." Just mentioning Ao Bai makes me angry. The headquarters system probably gave it the silent treatment because it wanted to leave.
They never reply to my messages!
Meow King sneered, "Trying to force me to resign using this method, and then not give me any compensation? Dream on!"
Even if the headquarters system didn't say anything, Ao Bai had a vague impression in his mind. Although the memory was incomplete, he could sense something in some way.
Perhaps this is the strength of the future top sales champion.
Seeing that Huali didn't speak, Li Yuan thought he had scared her with his words, so he pursed his lips.
He was frail from childhood, and due to his special status, the other mermaids dared not play with him. Although Pearl and the others obeyed him, they were ultimately afraid of his father.
He has been alive for over fifty years, and the girl in front of him is the first person to have spoken so much to him.
Li Yuan paused for a moment, his fingers fidgeting nervously again. "...As long as you don't hurt me, you can stay here."
“This is my side hall,” the little mermaid glanced quickly at Huali, “I…I usually stay in the main hall, and I rarely…come here.”
"I will continue to ask around for your friend."
This saved her the trouble of actually "finding a bird in the ocean," and Huali nodded happily. "In return, I can tell you more stories about the land."
Li Yuan's eyes lit up. "It's a deal."
*
The boundary seal is like a maggot clinging to a bone.
Yan Xi's blood dripped continuously from the corner of his lips. He staggered and fell beside the rosewood couch, feeling the immense pain of his soul being torn apart under the rules.
This demonic dragon is an ancient, exotic species, its bloodline naturally possessing a poison powerful enough to incinerate all things. The reason he kept it was not only to have it as a watchdog, but also because the blood mist was truly irritating.
Anyone who inhales the blood mist will instantly sink into a dreamlike state.
Dreams range from one level to three levels. Logically, given Karin's personality, she should wake up after the first level of a dream, unless...
Yan Xi's long, silver-blue hair was spread out on the side of the girl's soft couch. She curled up on the cold ground, her deep blue pupils dark and unfathomable.
If the dream is truly related to him, when would it be?
Was it his tearful wailing after failing his tribulation as a cultivator, or his daily roars when he was first sealed in the Abyss of Boundaries... or perhaps the miserable sight of him tearing his soul in two and spending a hundred years crawling out of the Abyss of Boundaries and rolling into the River of Reincarnation?
Yan Xi slowly closed his eyes.
Anything is fine... but... it absolutely cannot be those three hundred years in the Cangming Sea after the River of Reincarnation.
absolute!
*
Anyone who has uttered those two words will absolutely be proven wrong!
Huali floated in the sea, looking at the large pearl oysters below the coral reefs. "For example, right now, I've opened two blind boxes and got nothing."
Ao Bai was also puzzled, "But this is exactly what I see in Douyin live streams, all of them are huge pearls."
Huali continued to descend, passing by the soldiers guarding the sea without looking to the side, drifting further and further away.
The fact that others couldn't see her made it easier for her to move around.
In the past few days, Huali has toured the entire Dragon Palace according to the directions Li Yuan gave her. Apart from the Sea King and Sea Queen's palaces, she has seen at least eighty or a hundred silver-blue-haired mermaids, none of whom are small birds.
"Huali wants pearls?" Li Yuan, who was holding a seashell nearby, blushed. "I have plenty in my treasure trove, I can give you any of them."
Huali immediately patted the little mermaid's head, "Good child."
Unfortunately, even if I gave it to her, she couldn't take it away. Opening blind boxes is just a way to relieve stress.
A blush immediately appeared on Li Yuan's face. He reached out and took the girl's hand. "Where else does Huali want to go? I'll go with you."
Ao Bai, who seemed to see through everything, narrowed his eyes: "..."
"Over there." Huali didn't stand on ceremony, taking it all as payment for her days of soothing the child. "What place is that?"
Li Yuan looked in the direction she was pointing.
Compared to the magnificent Dragon Palace, there were neither colorful fish nor coral reefs there, only bare, dark reefs.
Like the jagged ribs of a giant beast, it stands silently on the boundless muddy plain.
Before he could speak, the girl in front of him had already swum over there.
The little mermaid immediately followed, "Karin!"
As you get closer, the faint light becomes clearer at the boundary, and the first thing that catches your eye is the chain.
Countless thick, rusty black chains hung down from the darkness above, firmly anchoring themselves to the twisted figures below.
Mermaid.
Thousands... no, tens of thousands of mermaids were bound and tightened by heavy chains, their fish tails dragging helplessly in the filthy mud. Each swing stirred up a ring of murky water carrying black silt.
On this cleared seabed, a building larger than anyone could imagine is struggling to rise from the silt.
Its pointed tip is deeply embedded in the seabed, while its top strangely extends upwards into the dark waters.
It's like an inverted pyramid.
The rough, black boulders were carried on the shoulders of these mermaids, who used their peeling fingernails to pry them apart, moving and piling them up inch by inch.
Huali gasped.
Just as a male mermaid was pushing a boulder toward the base, the chains on his shoulder blades tightened suddenly. He couldn't pull his arm out in time and was instantly crushed underneath.
Blood gushed out instantly, staining the surrounding seawater red.
Seeing his futile struggles, another tethered mermaid staggered over and tried to help him push away the heavy stones with her equally scarred hands.
But with each exertion, the injured person only convulsed more violently.
A flicker of reluctance crossed Karin's eyes, and she almost instinctively drew the card.
"Don't touch Huali." Li Yuan suddenly slid in front of her from behind, his obsidian-like eyes clear and deep, his brows furrowed, "Dirty."
Huali was taken aback. "What are they doing here?"
"They are building an altar for a festival three hundred years from now."
Li Yuan pulled Hua Li towards the back with a slight look of disdain, saying, "These are all lowly merfolk from the Cangming Sea, born as slaves. Your friends won't be here."
“Let’s go back first. Don’t you like pearls? I’ll give you a big pearl, and you can continue telling me stories about the land.”
Huali "..."
Ao Bai: "With this little tagalong around, it's inconvenient for the host to move around. Why don't we go back with him first, and then find a time to sneak out..."
"Sedative Talisman!"
A flash of light from the gold card, and without a word, Huali knocked the person down. "If you can't even handle a small fish, how are you going to deal with a bird?"
Wait? We can't wait even a moment longer!
Hua Li casually cast a protective barrier around Li Yuan, then waved her hand, "Let's go take a look!"
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