Cangying's pupils, like those of a beast, were vertical, black with a golden tinge, beautiful and mysterious: "Why do you say I am the High Priest of the Merfolk, and not an Elder of the Merfolk, Your Majesty?"
Jiang Dandan: "!!!!"
Not human.
It's not a fish.
It's a big guy.
A large creature with scales standing upright.
Jiang Dandan, being particularly sensible and timid, poked Jiang Si's snow-white neck with her little paws, reminding her that the other party was a big guy and she should be careful.
Waaaaah!
Jiang Si and it seemed to have a tacit understanding. When it poked her neck, it probably knew what was going on. She smiled and extended her hand to Cangying: "I'm rather self-assured and tend to trust my first instincts and first impressions, so I stick to my belief that you are the High Priest of the Merfolk!"
"Nice to meet you, my name is Jiang Si!"
Cangying lowered her eyelids slightly, looked at the slender, fair hand that was outstretched to her, and slowly reached out to grasp it: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Jiang Si, who is not human!"
Jiang Si raised an eyebrow, gripped his hand slightly, and saw golden scales faintly appearing on the back of his hand.
The scales resembled fish scales, snake scales on Lingxi's body, and dark scales on Jiang Dandan's body.
Jiang Si raised her head and looked at Cangying, saying, "Cangying, may I ask if you are too old to control your scales, or too young to master the technique?"
Cangying's gaze was indifferent as he held her hand and asked in return, "What do you think?"
"I said, you want to fight me!" Jiang Si smiled at him, saying with great arrogance, "Like a cat seeing a dog, it bristles with fur, and you... you're bristling with scales now!"
Cangying loosened his grip on her hand, took a step back, put his hands behind his back, and the two strings of white and black pearls hanging from his waist swayed slightly. The bells and lucky charms on the red rope around his ankle made a crisp sound. His golden-black vertical pupils scrutinized Jiang Si, looking her up and down: "I misspoke. You are not a human lady. You are not human at all."
She had a grassy, alluring scent, and an incredibly attractive aura that he couldn't quite describe. This aura made his scales involuntarily bristle when he made physical contact with her.
Scales were uncontrollably sprouting from his hands—something that had never happened before. So… he had misjudged the other person. He had mistaken the other person for a human who wasn't human. The other person wasn't human at all, and might even be… the same species as him.
Jiang Si's smile deepened, becoming incredibly radiant: "Cang Ying, look at what you're saying. I'm certain you're a dragon, and even though you don't admit it, I haven't pressed you for an answer. On the other hand, you don't believe what you see and come to ask me if I'm even human."
“I’m a living, breathing person in front of you, with a heartbeat, and you’re saying I’m not human? If I’m not human, I’m not human. You’re trying to equate me with something inanimate. That’s just ridiculous.”
Cangying's scrutinizing gaze did not lessen. He took a step back, then stepped forward again, as if exploring something, his eyes searching over her.
Finding nothing of interest on her, Cangying said, "Jiang Si, has anyone ever told you that you have two scents?"
Jiang Si's smile remained bright: "No, nobody told me, I don't know anything!"
There were two smells. Could it be that she was a fox spirit with body odor, and he, a non-human creature, smelled it and felt like he was going to faint from the stench?
Cangying looked at her with utmost seriousness, his eyes and brows revealing a hint of liveliness: "Jiang Si, you have two scents on you. One is the fragrance of herbs and trees, which makes people feel refreshed and invigorated, an alluring scent. The other is a very subtle yet powerful scent that is irresistible."
Jiang Dandan: "???"
Huh!
The description of this big guy sounds a bit like it?
It is not powerful.
It is weak and pitiful.
An unhatched egg is a coward.
The hatched dragon is a coward!
To be described as powerful, with an irresistible aura and presence, is like a dream, completely contradicting my ambition to wait for death, soar through the stars, and aspire to be a sea dragon king.
Jiang Si was incredibly decisive, turning around in front of Cangying and saying, "Your nose is the problem. I have nothing else on my body besides it!"
"As for the other smell you mentioned, it's probably from the animal itself."
As Jiang Si spoke, she reached out and swung her ponytail, placing it in front of her chest. Thin, dark strands of cinnabar swirled around the ponytail.
Lingxi coiled on her ponytail, its dark color almost blending into her beautiful hair. It flicked its tongue, its eyes gazing at Cangying. "So fragrant, he smells so good, even better than eggs. If I eat him... I'll become a dragon."
"A snake transforming into a dragon!" Cangying stared at Lingxi with golden black pupils: "It has grown scales and legs, and it's almost a dragon transforming into a human?"
Jiang Dandan: "!!!!"
As expected of its clever and adorable aunt, she skillfully shifted the blame.
I'll let Lingxi rub her scales later!
Let it grow into a dragon soon, so it can have a cool ride, hehe!
Jiang Si tossed her ponytail behind her: "A snake cultivates for a thousand years to become a python, a python cultivates for a thousand years to become a serpent, a serpent cultivates for a thousand years to become a jiao, a jiao cultivates for a thousand years to become a dragon, and a dragon cultivates for a thousand years to develop horns. It's almost a dragon now, but whether it can transform into a human is still unknown."
"Oh right, after talking to you for so long, I've forgotten why I came to the Merfolk. I need to use your forbidden path to go to the Deep Sea Ruins of the Merfolk in the Abel Galaxy!"
Cangying seemed not to have heard her words, and gently asked Jiang Si, "Can I take a look at it?"
Jiang Si countered, "Could I use your restricted passage for a moment? I have urgent business to attend to!"
The gold in Cangying's eyes faded, and his pupils returned to normal: "How urgent?"
Jiang Si's smile vanished: "My newborn daughter has been kidnapped!"
"Daughter?" Cangying looked her up and down again: "A newborn daughter. You don't look like you just gave birth."
Jiang Si curled her lips into a smile. "Didn't you say that I'm not human? If I'm not human, having a daughter will help me recover faster, right?"
Cangying withdrew his gaze from her: "Your mental strength is very strong, and your physical strength is very formidable. After giving birth, you can indeed recover in a few days and show no trace of childbirth!"
"If I may ask, what about your child...?"
"My child is waiting for me!" Jiang Si knew what he wanted to ask. He wanted to ask her if her child was a person or something, but she didn't want to answer him: "Cang Ying, my patience is also limited. I'll talk to you amicably now. If I can't leave today, then I'll have no choice but to slaughter you all!"
She was so anxious. If she weren't waiting to save the baby, she could have chatted with him at length and even become friends with him.
Forget it now, my daughter is the priority. I don't want her to be taken for research and end up following in my footsteps if I go back too late. That would be infuriating.
Cangying pursed his lips, looked at her for a moment, and said, "Please come with me!"
He finished speaking and walked away.
He had red ropes, bells, and lucky charms tied to both of his ankles. When he walked, only the bell and lucky charm on one of his feet swayed and rang.
The sounds of bells and lucky charms were melodious and far-reaching, echoing throughout the empty palace, like a ritualistic summons, or like... the opening of an ancient and mysterious symphony.
Jiang Si followed behind him, listening to the melodious music as she walked and wandered through the palace.
The palace had an extraordinary number of pillars, and the dragons on each pillar were so lifelike that they seemed to be alive, but they had no eyes.
Jiang Dandan remained hidden, not daring to utter a sound. It knew that discretion was the better part of valor; it couldn't defeat, outfight, or outmaneuver the large creature leading the way.
Therefore, it's not a disgrace for a dragon to be unable to win, be fierce, or be ruthless. A dragon's life is important, and a dignified sea dragon king can bend and stretch.
The palace was very large and very tall. In addition to the dragons carved on the pillars, the walls were covered with murals and reliefs. The murals depicted things that seemed to belong to another world or another dimension.
The life forms that appeared were bizarre and chaotic, and no humans were seen.
Jiang Si felt a little curious. In the past, she would have asked if there was nothing wrong, but now she just wanted to take the forbidden path back to the Abel system and rescue her baby.
As they walked, a group of people approached them. They were a group of beautiful mermaids whose fish tails transformed into human legs, and they wore dark robes that reached their ankles.
Perhaps because of her good looks, even at her age, she remains beautiful and handsome, a stunning sight to behold as she walks by.
Jiang Si wrapped the willow branch around her fingertips, faced them, and prepared to start her own attack when they were about to make their move.
unexpectedly!
A group of people walked over and bowed extremely respectfully to Cangying: "High Priest!"
Cangying nodded slightly to the crowd, and without stopping, said as she walked past them, "There's nothing else, you may all leave!"
The group stepped back and said, "Yes!"
Jiang Si was slightly surprised, not because she was surprised that she had guessed Cangying was the high priest of the merfolk, but because she was surprised by the group of people who looked like elders who had stepped aside.
Cangying told them to leave. When they saw her, they didn't ask anything or say anything, as if they hadn't seen her or that she didn't exist, and then they left.
No shouting, no questioning, no cursing, and no fighting... Cangying's aura is quite strong.
Jiang Si followed Cangying past them, touching the willow branch wrapped around her fingertips. Nothing happened; there was no sneak attack or interception, as if she didn't exist.
Jiang Dandan: "..."
Big guys know how to train people.
Eight wrong, eight wrong, eight wrong!
Worth learning from, worth learning from!
Passing through the palace, we came to a winding corridor. On both sides of the long corridor hung pearl curtains, one white and one black, each pearl plump, large, and priceless.
Of course... the most priceless thing is the two strings of beads hanging from Cangying's waist. The two strings, one white and one black, are exactly the same size, perfect, and bright.
Jiang Si walked along, looking around, and passed through a long, winding corridor until she arrived at a pearl mountain.
That's right, Pearl Hill.
Piles of pearls, black, white, yellow, all colors, piled together, exuded the scent of money.
Jiang Si felt that if it weren't for saving Da Zai Zai, she would definitely have stayed and moved this mountain of pearls away. After all, if they cried, they would get pearls.
Cangying glanced sideways and saw Jiang Si looking at the mountain of pearls, so he asked, "Do you like these pearls?"
Jiang Siduo was very straightforward. She stepped forward and stood next to him, pointing to the string of black pearls hanging from his waist: "I like it, but I like the string of pearls on your waist even more. It looks to be of good quality!"
When Quanjian brought out a black pearl, all the mermaids stared in disbelief, which shows that the black pearl was valuable, worth a lot of money.
With a casual tug, Cangying pulled off the string of high-quality, perfectly round, and uniformly sized black pearls that had been hanging from her waist to her ankles.
He casually handed it to Jiang Si: "This is for you!"
"Thank you!" Jiang Si was slightly taken aback, but without any affectation or pretense, she accepted the gift and put it into her spatial storage. She then took out a large basket of fruit from her storage and handed it to Cangying: "This is a return gift. I don't know if you'll like it!"
Cangying paused, his gaze falling on the fruit. He reached out and took the basket, lifting it up as he walked, saying, "Natural fruit without any mutations and imbued with spiritual energy!"
Jiang Si nodded: "Yes!"
Cangying twitched her nose slightly and sniffed: "The fruit is very good, thank you!"
"Don't mention it, I'll give you some more if you like." Jiang Si said, taking out two large baskets from her spatial storage: "I have plenty, consider it a thank you for the pearl necklace!"
The main reason is that I don't want to owe anyone a favor. If I take something and they are so polite, I feel I have to give something in return.
Cangying put the basket of fruit in her hand into her spatial storage, and then took the large basket from Jiang Si's hand: "Don't be shy, these are just small trinkets, there are plenty in the ocean."
Jiang Dandan: "..."
Look at this arrogant and conceited person, it's truly enviable.
Indeed, as the high priest of the ocean, revered and worshipped by the merfolk, he has seen better things and used more beautiful things, so these are just small trinkets.
Alas, as a sea dragon king about to roam the stars and the sea, it seems that besides his scales, he has nothing and is nothing at all.
As expected, comparing people only makes you more popular, while comparing goods only makes you lose. It's infuriating!
Jiang Si smiled back at him: "Thank you!"
That string of beads has at least 108 beads. Even if it's not priceless, if you sell it in the Abel Galaxy, you could probably afford to hire Yuan Yi Gun to bring people to Earth to do infrastructure work.
If she's lucky... she could buy a lot of high-tech equipment to surround the Earth layer by layer. Of course, she's not greedy; a string of black beads is enough for her.
Cangying looked at her smile, his eyes narrowing: "You're welcome!"
After saying that, he continued walking forward.
Jiang Si took a small step off him and followed him.
We passed Pearl Mountain, then Shell Mountain, Coral Mountain, and Chequ Mountain!
In short, everything of value from the sea was piled up like mountains in the palaces of Atlantis, an extravagance beyond compare.
After walking for about half an hour, Cangying stopped.
Jiang Si took a step forward to stand beside him, and looked in the direction of his gaze, but saw nothing.
Jiang Si blinked, then looked again, but saw nothing but an endless expanse of rippling seawater.
Jiang Si was puzzled and confused. Was she just blind or had poor eyesight and couldn't see anything?
Just as she was about to ask what she was looking at, Cangying turned her head to look at her, her voice flat and emotionless: "Jiang Si, when I held your hand, scales grew on my hand!"
Jiang Si asked, puzzled, "Yes, your hand grew scales when you held it. What happened?"
Cangying stared directly at her and said, word by word, "In my long-standing heritage, there are only two kinds of people who will make my scales appear when I take human form: one is my blood relatives, and the other is the person I am destined to be with!"
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