A sharp pain exploded from inside my body.
Zhao Cheng looked down in disbelief at the blade that had pierced through his chest, which was covered in bright red blood.
Lingyue stood behind him, gripping the hilt of her knife, her face filled with a devastating hatred.
She pulled out the hilt of her sword, intending to stab again, but was slashed down by a nearby imperial guard who reacted quickly, falling to the ground.
Zhao Cheng covered his wound, and blood began to spill from his mouth.
Fortunately, the woman's stab missed slightly, coming within three inches of her heart.
Lingyue lay on the ground, vomiting a mouthful of blood. She stared intently at Zhao Cheng and screamed in anguish:
"Zhao Cheng, through two lifetimes, you've deceived me so cruelly..."
Zhao Cheng clutched his wound, suddenly realizing that he had forgotten today was the tenth day. She remembered too.
Rewind to the beginning, Qi An told Zhao Cheng that Ling Yue would regain her memories in ten days.
Zhao Cheng was forced to refrain from taking action beforehand, fearing that Lingyue would lose control once she regained her memories.
But in reality, Qi An was lying to him.
Qi An did not take any action against Ling Yue at that time.
She only truly began to recover just now, when Qi An flicked out the pearl; her memories only truly began to return.
Along with his memories, his eyes also returned.
After Qi An flicked out the pearl, Zhao Cheng felt she was no longer of any use, so he threw her to the ground and had her taken into custody by the Imperial Guards.
After a headache subsided from the fall, Lingyue suddenly had a new memory in her mind.
She sat on the ground, processing that memory, her whole body trembling like a leaf.
It was out of fear, and also out of hatred.
She remembered everything, including her final fate in her previous life.
In order to save her own life, she betrayed her people, tricking them into coming ashore and falling into the trap set by Zhao Cheng.
The merfolk were destroyed because of her.
After all her clansmen were killed, she thought that Zhao Cheng, who had gotten what he wanted, would keep his promise and spare her life.
But she forgot that if Zhao Cheng were a person, how could she have ended up in that situation?
He ordered his men to carefully pack the hundreds of mermaid pills, and then gave instructions to the Imperial Guards:
"Everyone has worked hard in this battle. This merman is a reward from Your Highness. Everyone will receive one."
Having followed Zhao Cheng all the way, the Imperial Guards, who already knew the value of merfolk flesh and blood, went into a frenzy.
This is a treasure that even the emperor coveted, yet they were fortunate enough to get a share of it.
The Imperial Guards looked at Lingyue with fervor and shouted in unison, "Thank you for your reward, Your Highness!"
Zhao Cheng smiled, knowing that once they returned to the capital, these imperial guards would be loyal to him wholeheartedly.
Lingyue was surrounded by the Imperial Guards, who were like hungry wolves. They used knives to bleed her and cut her flesh.
Some couldn't wait and even bit off a piece of flesh and swallowed it raw.
In the end, Lingyue's elixir was consumed by Zhao Cheng.
In the face of overwhelming fear and pain, her entire body was torn into countless pieces by the Imperial Guard.
He died without a complete corpse.
Ironically, given the chance to do it all over again, she made the exact same choice as in her previous life.
Choosing to save him, choosing to believe him, and once again choosing to betray one's people in order to survive.
No wonder they hated her so much.
She understood everything.
It turns out she really was a sinner of the Merfolk.
She had lost too much blood and had completely lost her magic power. She was also blind and looked completely harmless.
Therefore, when the two sides went to war, the imperial guards who were watching over her abandoned her in order to gain merit and joined the battle.
Lingyue, having regained her memories, glared at the man's back with eyes blazing with hatred.
This man has ruined her life twice.
It is foreseeable that he still has no intention of letting her go this time, and her fate will be exactly the same as in her previous life.
With both old and new grudges combined, Lingyue picked up the knife from the ground and stabbed Zhao Cheng.
Ata witnessed the scene and exclaimed excitedly, "They've made their move! They've made their move! This idiot at least knows how to seek revenge; he's not entirely without merit."
Qi An disagreed, believing that Ling Yue's hatred was probably more about Zhao Cheng's actions towards her.
She may not necessarily feel much remorse for the clansmen she killed.
She was avenging her own family, not her clansmen.
The fighting between the two sides continued. Although more than half of the Imperial Guards had been killed, their numbers were too great, and the merfolk were gradually becoming exhausted.
Tongtong watched the fierce battle below with bated breath, her little body trembling with fear, but her eyes remained wide open.
Grandpa the clan chief said that Tongtong is not allowed to close her eyes and must obey.
Imperial guards began shooting arrows at the merfolk watching from above, attempting to kill them and disrupt the concentration of the merfolk participating in the battle.
Tongtong was so frightened by the arrows flying towards her that she fell down on the seashell.
Seeing this, the older merfolk quickly stepped forward to protect the cubs behind them.
Unexpectedly, the arrow stopped abruptly as it approached, as if it had been blocked by something.
Only then did the old merfolk realize that the huge shell was completely encased in a light blue, transparent barrier.
Invulnerable to swords and spears.
"Mother..." Tongtong suddenly cried out.
Qi An looked over and saw that Tongtong's mother had been stabbed in the abdomen by a spear.
The beautiful mermaid endured the pain, fiercely pulled out her spear, and plunged it into the heart of the imperial guard.
Qi An looked around and saw that the Imperial Guards had suffered heavy casualties, but the Merfolk were also almost all seriously injured.
Their arms began to tremble from exhaustion, but every mermaid fought fiercely with a mindset of mutual destruction.
That's enough!
Qi An wanted them to take revenge themselves, but he didn't intend for them to exchange their lives for his.
After this experience, these silly guys will probably not live such an "unconventional" life anymore.
Qi Anqing shouted and flew into the air, where he stopped.
Then he formed a hand seal and grabbed upwards fiercely, causing all the weapons in the hands of the Imperial Guards to fly out and float in mid-air.
Everyone below stared wide-eyed, even Zhao Cheng, who was applying medicine and bandaging his wounds, looked up.
With a wave of his hand, Qi An caused the weapon hovering in the air to turn around instantly and fly swiftly toward the Imperial Guards below.
The Imperial Guards fell like wheat before a sickle.
Several of them were strung together with spears, forming a candied hawthorn skewer.
In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, and screams and wails rose and fell.
The peaceful town instantly turned into the deepest hell.
Apart from the hundred or so Imperial Guards who were protecting Zhao Cheng and hiding at the very back, the rest were all killed instantly by Qi An and lay peacefully on the ground.
The ground was covered with the corpses and severed limbs of the Imperial Guards, among whom stood the bewildered merfolk.
The merfolk, now without their opponents, stared at Qi An with their mouths agape, completely bewildered.
They thought this revenge battle was a fight with a slim chance of survival, and they were prepared for mutual destruction.
How... how did it end so suddenly?
Qi An raised his chin forward, gesturing to the merfolk: "What are you standing there for? That bastard is about to run away."
The imperial guards protecting Zhao Cheng were terrified and began to flee for their lives, dragging Zhao Cheng along with them.
Zhao Cheng, clutching his still-bleeding wound, was being carried by the Imperial Guards at breakneck speed, appearing almost frantic.
He couldn't understand. Everything was exactly the same as in his previous life. Where did things go wrong?
Why have the merfolk suddenly become so powerful?
Especially their clan leader, why does he have such terrifying power?
At this point, he didn't care about anything else; all he wanted was to escape.
What are the elixir of immortality, what is the throne? You have to save your life before you can even dream of them.
The merfolk discovered the culprit who had escaped and caught up with him effortlessly.
They killed all the imperial guards protecting Zhao Cheng and brought Zhao Cheng and Ling Yue back.
Thirty thousand imperial guards are dead, but those were merely knives in the hands of their enemies.
The real revenge has only just begun.
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