Chapter 221 Deep Sea Returns to the Window of an Old Friend
Huali fled in panic at the sight of the old tortoise's loving expression.
It turns out that one really shouldn't be so impulsive; she was guilty, and she apologized.
The former palace was now in ruins. After turning several corners, Huali finally stopped in an inconspicuous, secluded courtyard. "In the first dream, Brother Turtle couldn't see me, but in the second dream, he could greet me."
Huali asked in confusion, "But I just came out of the Sea King's Palace, and the guards couldn't see me. Why?"
Ao Bai pondered: "It should be related to the progression of dream layers. The higher the level, the more realistic the dream. Brother Turtle is a passerby turtle, so he can see the host in advance in the second dream."
As the person and the cat were talking, a ripple came from the water.
"This is for you. It contains a healing ointment. It's very helpful for external injuries." The girl's slightly shy voice came from afar.
Huali looked in the direction of the sound and her eyes widened when she saw who it was.
A little bird? No, wait!
Big bird? No, no... medium-sized bird!!!
The little mermaid in front of me had transformed into a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, with a tall and straight figure, long silver-blue slightly curly hair that reached his waist, and pale skin, like a lone pine tree after a snowfall.
However, what shocked Karin the most was his eyes.
It was still the deep blue of the ocean, but it was no longer clear and innocent, nor was it the empty and lifeless despair of despair. Instead, it was an extremely cold blue that had been tempered through countless life and death experiences and had absorbed all the darkness of the abyss.
Ao Bai clicked his tongue, "Isn't this little girl Pearl, Li Yuan's maid? She's interested, but the water is indifferent."
Yan Xi's thin lips pressed into a straight line as he took the jade box under the girl's slightly nervous gaze. His fingertips didn't touch her at all; he simply used his spiritual power to lift it into the air.
Even so, Pearl's anxious heart was instantly filled with new light, and she immediately smiled and said, "Don't push yourself so hard on missions in the future. You know that His Highness... Well, I'll be going now. See you next time."
Huali watched Pearl skip away and clicked her tongue, "Zhongniao is quite fashionable, she even has a puppy love affair."
"Clatter".
Before he could finish speaking, a soft, crisp sound rang out.
The boy loosened his grip on the jade box, and the Jade Renewal Cream fell straight to his feet like discarded trash.
He didn't even look down.
Immediately afterwards, the hand that had been holding the jade box conjured up a plain white handkerchief out of thin air and began to wipe its fingers one by one.
Even from five meters away, Huali could feel the chill and disgust emanating from Yanxi.
Ao Bai: "...The fish that was perfectly fine has finally gone mad."
One extreme has led to another.
In one dream, she is a soft, cuddly little crybaby.
The dual dream, when it turns completely evil, can freeze people to death.
"If you don't like it, you don't have to accept it. It's such a waste to do this every time." The courtyard gate was pushed open, and Guanlan strode out from inside.
Yan Xi remained noncommittal; he naturally had his reasons.
"Your Highness has given us another mission." Guanlan sighed. "This time, we're sending you to the Eye of the Abyss to find the mother pearl from the oyster. It's another tough job."
Yan Xi nodded expressionlessly, then turned to leave.
Guanlan held back for a moment, but finally couldn't help but say, "Can't you tell he's deliberately making things difficult for you?"
“It’s been a hundred years…you…” Guanlan fell silent before she could finish her sentence, her voice trailing off under Yan Xi’s gaze. “Never mind, you should rest first…hey, I haven’t finished speaking yet.”
A large lobster emerged from behind him. "Kids are disobedient mostly because they're spoiled. A few beatings will fix it."
Guanlan shook his head: "Since ancient times, those who are deeply in love have only ended up with regrets, and these regrets will last forever."
The lobster immediately chimed in, "Excellent poem! Excellent poem! As expected of the President, this poem is truly..."
"Do you know why you haven't been promoted to a permanent position even after a hundred years?"
Shrimp Bro: "......"
Fine, I'll just have to bear it.
Whether he gets a permanent position or not is irrelevant; he's already become a bestselling romance novelist in the ocean thanks to "Miss Bubble and the Mermaid Prince."
The reason he didn't quit his job after achieving financial freedom was twofold: firstly, working in a state-owned enterprise didn't have as much pressure, and secondly, he wanted to observe the protagonist of his second book more closely.
That's right, the title of his second book is "Desperate Illiteracy".
Seeing the bird leave, Huali quickly followed.
The desperate illiterate man felt a blur before his eyes, as if he could vaguely see a blurry outline. "What is that?"
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Yan Xi did not go to the abyss immediately.
He has been cultivating desperately for the past hundred years, and his cultivation level has now reached the Golden Core stage, but it is still far from enough.
For some reason, whenever his spiritual energy reached its peak, a faint black circle would appear on his wrist, and his spiritual energy would dissipate instantly.
At this moment, he was silently suspended above the cold palace that had once imprisoned him, his gaze familiarly fixed on the direction of the small hole.
The spiritual energy in his palm was like an invisible tentacle, precisely probing into the thick silt and coral.
He is searching.
Brushing across every inch of sand and gravel, every piece of debris, I carefully traced out those ancient fragments.
However, the seashell bearing the "Kunpeng" pattern could not withstand the erosion of time and vanished completely in an instant under the gentle spiritual power.
The undercurrent in Yan Xi's eyes froze and solidified, eventually replaced by an undisguised disappointment.
Not far away, Huali, who had been watching everything, immediately took out the seashell she had been searching for for a long time from her bosom.
There used to be so many pearls here, but this time there are pearls, but the shells are gone.
I don't know who's so clueless.
She thought for a moment and decided to take a break. She drew a crooked smiley face on it and handed it over.
However, the expected shock did not occur. The seashell was handed to Yan Xi out of thin air, and almost instantly, a murderous intent flashed in the little mermaid's eyes!
The familiar scene struck his soul, but he was no longer the useless man who cried day and night.
Over the course of a century, such scenes have been countless.
Countless ripples in the water, countless self-righteous "feelings," and countless "shells" visible only to him all drove him to chase after them like a moth to a flame, disregarding everything else.
—However, what they got in return was an even more desperate illusion.
Without any hesitation, spiritual power tore through the seawater and blasted directly at the floating seashell.
Karin was startled and quickly backed away. "What's wrong with the little bird?"
Unconvinced, she took out the seashell and tried again, but no matter how many times she repeated it, she got the same result. Yan Xi's eyes grew redder and redder, and a small red pearl slowly slid down his chin.
Hua Li's heart clenched, but the boy had already swum into the abyss without looking back.
Without a second thought, she immediately ran to Yan Xi and flung out the fire card in her hand!
The dazzling crimson light, like an inverted galaxy, suddenly lit up above Yan Xi's head in an instant.
The firelight, trailing countless tiny rays, was imprinted in the boy's wide-open pupils in its most dazzling and wild form.
The firelight...
That fire!
In a daze, a gentle force, without warning, covered the back of Yan Xi's clenched fist hanging by his side.
It no longer feels like the touch of flowing water.
Rather, it is a completely clear and seamless contact between entities!
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