Chapter 27 The Fathead Fish's Kinship
After Ah Chen quietly slipped out of the town, he made the fathead fish grow bigger and carried him in the direction Zeng Daxiong had mentioned.
The fathead fish flies extremely fast. When it passes through the territories of many strange beasts, they can't even sense the unfamiliar presence invading their territory before the beasts have a chance to retaliate.
Finally arriving near the cliff, Ah Chen was about to activate the Floating Cloud Pearl to conceal his and the fathead fish's auras when he discovered that the fathead fish's emotions suddenly became extremely agitated.
"Xingyao, what's wrong with you?" Achen communicated with it telepathically.
"Chirp chirp chirp!" But the answer he received was a series of excited chirps. The fathead fish seemed to have suddenly forgotten how to communicate with him and just excitedly chirped loudly.
Ah Chen was terrified, thinking that it had been affected by the powerful beast below the cliff and had lost its self-control for a moment.
But shouting and yelling in a place like this is tantamount to open provocation, isn't it?
Sure enough, a powerful pressure was soon released from below the cliff. If it weren't for the Floating Cloud Pearl blocking this pressure for him, Ah Chen felt that his bones would probably have been crushed.
"Fathead Fish, please wake up! Hurry up and take me away, or we'll all die here!" Ah Chen used his strongest will to communicate with the fathead fish.
However, the next second, a deep voice came from the bottom of the cliff: "You deceived the cubs of our Kunpeng clan, human. You think you can escape? No way! Come down!"
The powerful suction made it impossible for Ah Chen to resist. Only at this moment did Fathead Fish regain some sense of reality and hurriedly set up a defensive barrier to protect him.
Then it kept chirping down the cliff, like a little bird arguing with other birds.
The powerful beast at the bottom of the cliff responded to it in the same "bird language," but its voice was not as clear as that of the fathead fish; instead, it was very deep.
The process was actually very short, but it felt like Ah Chen had experienced a long, seemingly bottomless fall.
The two birds finally stopped arguing, and Ah Chen finally fell to the bottom of the cliff.
The expected horrific fall resulting in multiple fractures did not occur. Instead, a gentle force supported him, and he was gently placed on the ground.
The bottom of the cliff wasn't as dark as it appeared from above; it was lush with greenery and many trees and exotic plants he had never seen before.
Even more amazing is that a net woven from green vines covers a huge lake in a hemispherical shape, and in the center of the lake lies a giant fathead fish.
As soon as Achen saw its shape, he immediately understood that it was a member of his family's Xingyao, because it was a completely enlarged version of a fathead fish.
"Senior, are you a member of my Xingyao clan? That's wonderful! It has finally found its own kind, and now it has family!" Achen asked loudly without any fear.
"Human cub, who helped you conspire to deceive my cub and make it form a contract with you?"
"Do you know that we Kunpeng are ancient divine beasts, able to freely roam the vast universe, and would rather die than be enslaved by humans!" The giant fathead fish's voice was filled with anger.
“We didn’t deceive Xingyao! The situation was like this…” Achen explained the reason for his contract with the fathead fish.
"So, this is the same excuse you used to deceive my cub? Saying that if we didn't form a contract, he would be eaten by those lowly sea beasts?" the giant fathead fish said coldly.
"Senior, what I said is true. Besides, I was just a baby less than a year old at the time. I hit it off with Xingyao at first sight, and it took the initiative to form a contract with me."
"Besides, we signed an equal contract, which can be terminated at any time as long as both parties agree," Achen argued, sounding a bit aggrieved.
In fact, his memory of the contracted fathead fish was vague. No matter how smart he was, it was impossible for him to remember things before he was one year old. These were things his mother told him later.
However, although his memory was vague, Xingyao's memory of that period was complete. The divine beast cub had memories from the time it was still in its egg.
Xingyao naturally remembered that he was attracted by the scent of Achen when he was still a baby and swam to the vicinity of that net.
Then the baby used its mental power to conjure five hooks, three of which hooked it and dragged it into the net. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn't escape.
Then it opened its mouth and bit Ah Chen's chubby little paw, piercing his finger and sucking a drop of his blood, unintentionally taking the first step in making a contract with him.
Later, it was caught in a net and dragged ashore. Originally, the plan was to destroy it in one fell swoop, but when Baby approached it, he used his mental power to help it calm its rampaging supernatural abilities. The feeling was so comfortable.
Later, Ah Chen's mother coaxed and threatened it, and promised to sign an equal contract with it, and it gave in.
However, these are all its dark histories, and it will not tell this tribesman in the lake, lest it laugh at it!
Seeing that Ah Chen didn't utter a single word of rebuttal while his own cub was narrating, the creature in the lake understood that its cub was now siding with the outsider and protecting the human cub.
This is understandable, as both parties naturally develop a sense of closeness after signing a contract, especially since their own cub and this human cub have been bound by a contract for more than six years.
Although the equal contract can be terminated, it is only on the premise that both parties are willing. If the cub is unwilling and the contract is forcibly terminated, it will suffer the backlash.
Thinking of this, the giant fathead fish once again communicated with Xingyao using bird calls: "My name is Lingxiao. What is your name? Who is your mother? Why did you end up at the bottom of a remote planet?"
“My name is Xingyao, and my mother’s name is Hanhai. When my mother was passing through that star system, she witnessed a stellar explosion. She was shocked and went into premature labor. In her semi-conscious state, I was hit by the blast wave and fell to the bottom of the sea on the Algae Star,” Xingyao replied.
Even before they hatch, mythical beasts begin to inscribe all their memories into their heritage. It is through these memories that their offspring can learn many skills without a teacher.
"So you are Xingyao's child! She left her clan's territory to travel around more than 1,500 years ago, and there has been no news of her since."
As you said, then she must have fallen into some spatial rift and can no longer return to where you are; otherwise, she would never have abandoned you.
Ling Xiao was both sad and regretful. It was extremely difficult for the Kunpeng clan to reproduce, and the cubs had to stay in the mother's body for at least five hundred years before they could be born in the form of an egg.
After birth, it takes at least a hundred years for the mother to incubate it before it can hatch.
According to Xingyao, it stayed at the bottom of the sea for three hundred years before hatching, because it did not have the nourishment of its mother's spiritual power.
It was incredibly lucky that it didn't die inside the egg; it just so happened to fall onto a planet teeming with violent energy, allowing it to absorb enough energy to hatch.
And then he happened to meet this human cub, who could often help him manage the violent energy, so that his meridians would not be damaged by the violent energy.
Otherwise, he would never have survived to this day. Even if he had survived by chance, his essence would have been damaged, leaving him weak and sickly, making it difficult for him to advance.
Thinking of this, Ling Xiao's last bit of anger towards A-Chen, the human cub, dissipated.
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