Chapter 169: Hateful People Must Be Hurt
"I can't believe you've been using the name 'Ajin' for three hundred years!" The mountain god said with a smile, "You're still so easily deceived by humans."
"I never thought that after three hundred years, you'd still be so deceptive." Ah Jin leaned against a nearby tree, the branches obscuring his features, making it difficult to see clearly. "Not only that, but you've even developed a bad habit of meddling in other people's affairs."
"Mortals often say that time flies by, and these three hundred years have been but a fleeting moment for us. We've endured such a long river, wouldn't it be boring if we didn't find some fun?" The mountain god said, but suddenly changed the subject: "Speaking of which, do you really think you can achieve enlightenment from that child?"
Ah Jin didn't answer him, but just snorted: "What's going on over there?"
The mountain god sighed upon hearing this: "Ah, it's been so many years, guarding a head is so boring, even if he plays with it, so what? It's not a big deal."
"Be careful. If you can't find it by then, you might become the second Xing Tian." Ajin said, turning into a cat and walking towards the deep pool on the mountain.
Behind him, the mountain god muttered quietly: "After all these years, you are still so annoying."
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The mermaid roared for a long time without stopping. Everyone present had a splitting headache. Liu Xia's ears began to bleed. Just when everyone began to be unable to bear it, a fire talisman suddenly flew over and hit the mermaid on the back.
As soon as the fire talisman touched the mermaid's back, it exploded, forcing the mermaid's still-roaring breath back into his stomach, and then he began to cough violently.
After a violent cough, he looked back and saw Banxia, wrapped in a talisman robe, lying on the edge of the pond. In her hands, she held two talismans suspended above the water. She said to the mermaid:
"If you don't stop, I'll put this black mud talisman into the water. I just don't know if the woman at the bottom of the lake can withstand the filth of the water!"
Upon hearing this, the mermaid's eyes widened and she shouted at Banxia, "You dare!" But Banxia seemed to be fearless and shouted back with great courage, "See if I dare!" As she said that, she was about to let go of the yellow talisman in her hand.
Seeing that black mist had begun to gather around the yellow talisman, the merman immediately softened his tone: "Okay! Don't move! I won't attack!"
Seeing him like this, Banxia knew that her guess was correct, and quickly asked him to put down his weapon and go ashore.
The merman was unwilling to do so upon hearing this, but when Banxia saw him like this, she pretended to throw the talisman paper into the deep pool. The merman had no choice but to throw the trident into the pool and then swam to the other side of Banxia.
He leaped from the shore and out of the pool. Under the moonlight, his fish tail shone with a multicolored light, transforming into two legs in mid-air before landing steadily on the ground. However...
But he was naked!
The roar of the mermaid just now seemed to still linger in everyone's ears, and it has not calmed down until now. They only felt a burning pain in their ears and kept covering their ears.
However, Xinyi was at the Golden Core stage, so even though she was feeling very uncomfortable, she recovered quickly. As soon as she recovered, she saw a naked man standing on the shore. Banxia was staring at him intently, her hands raised.
Xinyi sighed in her heart: Are women nowadays so vigorous?
Just as he was startled, he heard Banxia yell, "Turn around! You're looking at me like an eye-catcher!"
It happened that Liu Xia recovered at this time, and it happened that he heard these words. What's more, when he stood up and looked forward, the mermaid turned around honestly.
Liu Xia seemed to have forgotten the pain he had just felt, with only shock in his eyes. He had never imagined that Banxia was such a powerful figure, capable of commanding the mermaid to obey his orders! What he hadn't expected was that Banxia showed no shyness at all towards the naked man in front of her, but instead looked over at him openly...
this……
this……
This doesn't look like what a girl should look like!
Liu Xia quickly took off his outer robe and threw it to the naked mermaid, but did not say much. He just vaguely told him to put it on quickly.
The merman picked up Liu Xia's robe and just as he shook it open, he heard Banxia urging him in a stern voice: "Hurry up! I still have something to ask you!" The merman shook his hands when he heard that, and quickly put on the Taoist robe and wrapped himself up.
But it is just an outer robe after all. No matter how tightly it is wrapped, there will be gaps between the hems. Now when the mermaid walks, the white flesh on her legs will be exposed, which looks really funny.
As soon as the merman turned around, Banxia asked viciously, "Tell me! Whose girl did you kidnap?!"
Hearing Lingxiang's question, the mermaid's face was filled with sorrow. He forgot to glance at the crescent moon hanging in the sky, which looked like it had been cut in half by a sharp blade. He sighed and said, "She is my wife."
Banxia was shocked when she heard this. The person in the water looked like just an ordinary human woman, so how could she be the wife of a mermaid?
She was startled at first, then swung the yellow talisman in her hand and yelled at the mermaid, "Do you think I'm uneducated? How dare you make up such a ridiculous lie to deceive me? Why would a beautiful girl like me marry an old monster like you?"
Xinyi and Liu Xia looked at each other in bewilderment. Although they knew that Banxia was usually free and easy, they had never thought that she could be so tough. It was nothing strange that a woman was willing to marry a mermaid. Why was she so angry? Shouldn't she be surprised that this woman stayed in the water?
Hearing Banxia's roar, the merman was startled. Most of the women he knew were gentle and submissive, even the mermen in his tribe were very kind. He had never seen such a fierce woman. But despite his surprise, he still had to answer now that his wife was in someone else's hands.
Looking at the yellow talisman that kept shaking in Banxia's hand, the mermaid quickly said, "Pay attention to the talisman in your hand and listen to me slowly. This is a long story..."
But Banxia didn't show him any mercy and shouted angrily, "Let's cut to the chase!"
The merman sighed: "My name is Luo Li, I come from a merman tribe in the East China Sea..."
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People all say that mermaids' tears turn into pearls, but little do they know that these mermaid pearls come in different grades.
The tears of mermaids can indeed form pearls, but most of the time they will shatter in a crystallization step before forming pearls. Even if they become mermaid pearls, many factors must be considered, including the day, time, and location of the tears, as well as the cultivation mood of the weeping mermaid.
For example, the pearls formed from the tears of ordinary mermaids are often not round. While they can still be considered mermaid pearls, they are of lower quality. Meanwhile, mid-range mermaid pearls, while round, lack color or smoothness. Only those that are both round, smooth, and colorful are considered top-quality.
Mermaid pearls can also grow. Once tears form a pearl, it will gradually grow larger as it absorbs the mysterious light and spiritual energy of heaven and earth, until it reaches the size of an adult man's fist. Therefore, many mermaids often surface when the moonlight is at its best, walk on the waves, and go to the nearby beach to nourish their mermaid pearls.
Luo Li was the one Doukou whom he met while drying pearls one night.
Logically speaking, most people in the world, except for those night watchmen, would be asleep late at night, and it would be even harder to see people at the seaside.
But it was such a coincidence that when Luoli came ashore, he happened to meet Doukou, a fisherwoman who was wandering on the beach in the middle of the night. She was muttering something while wandering.
Luo Li was naturally shocked at first. Although he was nearly a hundred years old and had heard of mortals on land from the elders in his tribe, he had never seen one.
But at that time he had already stepped on the waves and walked ashore, with nowhere to hide. However, the strange thing was that even though he was right in front of her, Doukou seemed not to see him, and continued to walk back and forth as usual, muttering to himself.
Luo Li suddenly became curious. He approached carefully, patted Doukou gently, and then immediately dived back into the water. However, Doukou was half dead and had no reaction. She was still walking back and forth barefoot over and over again.
Seeing this, Luo Li plucked up his courage, transformed into human feet, walked in front of Doukou, and waved his webbed claws in front of her, but Doukou ignored him.
This is extremely strange. Could it be that I met someone who is both deaf and blind?
But this time he came here to dry the pearls after all. Seeing that this man had no influence on him, Luo Li calmly dried the mermaid pearls aside.
Mortals consider the mermaid pearl a treasure, yet they lack the true value of it. Most consider it a decorative object, or cultivate it into a magical instrument, absorbing the profound light and spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, the true value of the mermaid pearl lies in its supreme medicinal value, capable of healing the body and enhancing cultivation.
Naturally, the better the quality of the mermaid pearls, the better the effect.
Although Luo Li was a poor mermaid, the mermaid pearls he cried out for were very strange. However, he never mentioned them to anyone, so he always traveled thousands of miles alone to the mortal coast to dry the pearls. This was because his mermaid pearls were better than those of anyone else in his tribe.
Luo Li's mermaid pearl is extremely rare. Its surface is round and shiny, and it is no different from other high-quality mermaid pearls. However, most of the high-quality mermaid pearls are green or red, or red and green, while his mermaid pearl is blue, the color of the sea.
This has never happened before and must not be known by others, otherwise it will definitely bring unnecessary trouble!
I have heard from the elders that a long time ago, some tribes were invaded and exterminated by other tribes because they had high-quality mermaid pearls.
That's why he always runs very far.
He had found a good place to dry pearls before. It was an uninhabited place and looked like no one had ever been there. So he kept drying pearls there. However, one time he was discovered by other mermaids while drying pearls, and that's when he found this place.
There was nothing unusual in the first two times, but I didn't expect to meet a human woman this time. Fortunately, this woman was deaf and blind, so I felt relieved.
What he didn't expect was that every time he came to dry the pearls, he would meet this woman, and this woman would walk back and forth as usual, muttering to herself.
However, when he came again one time, he didn't see her, which made Luo Li suspicious.
In the past, every time I dried the pearls, she would always chatter beside me. I had long been accustomed to it. Now that I suddenly couldn't hear her chattering, I felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.
He couldn't help but wonder if Doukou fell somewhere and got hurt because he couldn't see. Just as he was looking around with the beads in his hand, the beads were snatched away by someone.
"What on earth are you doing lying here with the ball in your arms every day?"
Luo Li was already shocked by the sudden snatching of the mermaid pearl, and then he heard a voice, which frightened him so much that he dived into the sea and even forgot to get the pearl back.
The person who was speaking was none other than Doukou, whom Luoli could see every time.
Seeing Luo Li being so timid, Doukou immediately rolled over on the shore with laughter. Seeing her like this, Luo Li angrily emerged from the water and slapped his tail towards the sea.
The seawater splashed onto Doukou, soaking her from head to toe. However, she was not angry. She just stared at Luoli's huge tail fin and exclaimed, "Is your tail real? It's so beautiful!"
As Doukou spoke, she approached Luoli, which made Luoli feel strange. Normally, when ordinary people saw such a situation, they would regard them as monsters and either run away or scream in fear. However, this woman did not show any fear at all and actually walked towards him.
Walking towards him?
While Luo Li was stunned, Doukou had already stepped on the sea water to approach him and was even stroking his tail.
A strange feeling spread throughout his body. He shuddered and wanted to dodge, but fell on Doukou in panic. Suddenly, water splashed everywhere with the afterglow of the moonlight, and Luoli's heart seemed to be splashed with flowers.
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"So?" Banxia asked fiercely, "This long speech you've been talking about for half a day is all about your Xueyue Fenghua, how she married you, and why you came here to do evil. Does it have anything to do with it?"
Seeing Banxia like this, Liu Xia couldn't help but look at Xinyi, asking with his eyes, what happened to Banxia? Why did she suddenly become like this?
Xinyi naturally didn't know either, so she just shrugged and motioned for him to listen first.
Luo Li sighed after hearing Ban Xia's question. "I later learned that Doukou has been sleepwalking since she was a child. She was sleepwalking when we first met, but I woke her up later. When she saw my appearance, she didn't dare to say anything and had to pretend to continue sleepwalking."
"But it was only the first time that we went out at night. The next few times were actually fake, and they were deliberately waiting for me."
"We gradually fell in love and got together, but for some reason, someone found out about my mermaid pearl and captured Doukou."
"Doukou was already pregnant at that time, but they made her take a demon poison and forced me to hand over the mermaid pearl. After I handed over the mermaid pearl, they went back on their word and wanted to kill her. I used up all my strength to save her, but was unable to escape. At this time, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck from the sky, and when I woke up, I found myself here..."
Xinyi was startled when she heard this and frowned as she asked, "What you meant just now is that you were brought here by someone else, and didn't come here on purpose?"
Luo Li shook his head. "Those who can control lightning are either divine beings or mortals who have borrowed divine power. How can a little demon like me possess such power..."
Hearing him say this, Xinyi suddenly felt something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong for a moment...
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