Not long after, Zaun met with Kachir and was overjoyed to hear that he had found the crown: "Good, I will send someone to retrieve the crown immediately."
“Wait a minute,” Zuan stopped him. “We still need Shang Liuyu later. If you go and get it now, won’t that expose things? I’ve already gained her trust. For now, I’ll just take the crown back and leave it with her so she can work for us without us even realizing it.”
"Brilliant!" Kachir gave a thumbs up, finding his idea increasingly ingenious, and quickly agreed.
Next, Zuan found an opportunity to take Shang Liuyu to find the hidden crown. Now that he was leading the way in the Dragon Palace, it would be more convenient in many situations.
Along the way, Shang Liuyu glanced at Zu An several times, making Zu An unable to resist touching his face and asking, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
Shang Liuyu shook her head: "It's nothing, I just feel that you seem a little different than before."
"What's different?" Zuan's heart skipped a beat. Could there be some details we'd overlooked? It would be troublesome if Kachir and the others discovered them.
“When you used to meet me in private, you would always find all sorts of excuses to take advantage of me, but now you’ve become much more well-behaved,” Shang Liuyu said coldly.
Zuan: "???"
That Dragon King truly deserves to die.
So he said with a smile, "Do you want me to take advantage of you?"
Shang Liuyu's face darkened, and he took a step back: "I thought you had changed, but I didn't expect you to still be so hopeless."
Zuan: "..."
"We didn't actually fight, and with so many big things happening now, I don't have the same feelings as usual."
Shang Liuyu snorted and muttered under his breath, "You seemed to be in a very good mood last night."
Anger from Shang Liuyu: +22 +22 +22...
Zuan: "..."
It seems she was kept awake all night by the noise yesterday, and she's quite resentful.
Unbeknownst to them, the two had arrived at a spot in the ocean outside the Dragon Palace. Shang Liuyu took out the xun from his waist and began to play it gently, and a very rhythmic melody spread out in all directions.
Zuan's heart skipped a beat. The frequency of this sound seemed to be beyond the range that ordinary people could hear. Perhaps only some creatures among the sea races had this racial talent.
After a while, a series of responses suddenly came from afar.
"This is... a whale?" Zu An was shocked. He often heard this sound when he was watching videos on Douyin.
Before long, the figure of a huge whale, hundreds of meters long, drew closer and closer, soon swimming around the two of them happily.
Shang Liuyu smiled and affectionately patted its head.
The enormous whale seemed to be thoroughly enjoying itself, a look of pure pleasure on its face.
Seeing this harmonious and loving scene, Zuan felt a warmth in his heart.
Not all creatures in the sea have developed sentience. There are also many ordinary sea creatures that cannot cultivate to transform into human form; they simply rely on the power within their bloodline to gradually strengthen themselves.
"Alright, I'm here to get my things." Shang Liuyu gently patted its mouth.
Upon hearing this, the whale opened its mouth, and soon spat out a brocade box.
Zuan noticed that there were many magic arrays on the brocade box, some for defense and some for isolating auras. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly that Shang Liuyu was really clever to hide the crown in the belly of a whale. This way, the crown could move at any time and had no fixed location. Even if Kachir and his people turned the Dragon Palace and even the Merfolk upside down, they would not be able to find it.
At this moment, Shang Liuyu used his magic to open the brocade box and handed it to Zu An: "The Crown of the Sea God should be returned to its rightful owner."
Zuan's heart skipped a beat. He had originally thought it would be called the Crown of the Dragon King or the Crown of the Sea King, but he didn't expect it to be called the Crown of the Sea God. Could it really be related to the gods?
It's no wonder he thought that way; the crown in the box truly exuded an extraordinary aura.
From an appearance standpoint, the Crown of Poseidon is actually quite simple, consisting of just a golden circle with a trident-shaped symbol on the front, which barely forms the shape of a crown.
But the crown seemed to exude an infinite magic, and even lying there quietly, it possessed an inexplicable aura of power.
"A divine artifact!" Zuan had only seen similar auras on items such as the Sun-Shooting Bow and the Human Emperor's Seal.
I originally thought it was just a crown symbolizing power, but I never expected it to be such a powerful artifact!
"Try wearing it," Shang Liuyu said with a puzzled look in his eyes. "If you had carried this with you back then, you probably wouldn't have been taken advantage of by those demons."
"Back then, who was talking about the existence of someone in the world who could hurt me?" Zuan chuckled, while inwardly cursing the Dragon King for being a womanizer who ruined things.
He reached for the Crown of the Sea God, as he would likely need it soon and wanted to familiarize himself with it as soon as possible to avoid any mishaps later.
As soon as his hand touched the crown, the crown suddenly trembled, and an invisible ripple spread out, seemingly resisting Zuan's touch.
Shang Liuyu's expression changed instantly; in fact, she had always felt that something was wrong.
Although her sister kept assuring her that her brother-in-law was real, and after spending two days together she couldn't see anything wrong with him, she still felt a vague unease in her heart.
What if even my sister got fooled...?
She didn't know when the thought arose, but it sent chills down her spine the moment it appeared.
She tried several times to nip the terrifying thought in the bud; if it were true, it would be utterly despairing.
But the more she tried to extinguish the thought, the clearer it became.
So when she brought the Crown of the Sea God just now, she decided to make one last test.
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