Every time she withstood a heavenly thunderbolt, the shadow of the golden elixir in her dantian became more solid. Sheng He kept comforting herself, telling herself to hold on a little longer, the more stable the golden elixir became, the stronger she would be.

After an unknown amount of time, the thunder gradually stopped and the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated. Sheng He's robes were torn to pieces by the thunder and his face was black.

But when she felt the shiny golden elixir in her dantian, she was obviously in a very miserable state, yet inexplicably felt full of strength.

Sheng He wiped the blood from the corner of his lips, stood up and looked around. The group of men in black were lying on the ground in a mess, foaming at the mouth, as if they had fainted.

Chen Yuanhua was still conscious, his whole body was burnt black, his eyes were staring blankly at the sky, and the silver-white spear was thrown aside.

"Don't hit me."

"Don't hit me."

Chen Yuanhua kept repeating in a low voice that he had clearly experienced a thunder tribulation as well, but perhaps because his Jindan cultivation was accumulated through the use of medicine, his thunder tribulation was all white thunder, with at most two or three purple thunders mixed in.

But the man named Sheng in front of him, his thunder tribulation was all purple thunder. He had already hidden far away, but was still struck by purple thunder four or five times. His meridians were damaged and he couldn't even lift a gun.

Didn't she say she was just a stinky woman who had just established her foundation? How dare Chen Zichuan, that little bastard, lie to him!

When he gets back, I'll make sure that little bastard is given a lesson!

Chen Yuanhua kept vomiting blood. There were many pills in his storage bag. He fumbled around his waist, but he couldn't find the storage bag after searching his whole body.

"Are you looking for this?"

Sheng He tossed the storage bag in his hand and looked at Chen Yuanhua jokingly.

"You! Why are you still here?"

"Didn't you say so? Consider giving me a chance to live."

Chen Yuanhua looked at Sheng He in horror, but he tried his best to remain calm: "I...I'll let you go now, hurry up and leave!"

Sheng He stopped smiling, took out an iron sword from his storage bag, and slashed hard at Chen Yuanhua's eyes.

"ah!"

Chen Yuanhua covered his eyes and screamed loudly, but the expected pain did not come. After a while, he opened his eyes a little and saw that the distance between the sharp sword blade and his eyeball was less than half an inch.

Chen Yuanhua was so frightened that his heart and liver broke, and he begged for mercy: "Please spare my life, fairy, I didn't mean to do it, I was also instructed by someone! If you want to find someone, go find them, don't look for me, I am innocent!"

Sheng He asked coldly: "Are you from the Jiang family or the city lord's family?"

"I am from the city lord's family! I am the city lord's younger brother! It was the city lord's son who ordered me to do this!"

"He said you have a mermaid in your hand, and that the mermaid is beautiful. As long as you get the mermaid, you can make it into a furnace for me... Fairy, please spare me. This was all Chen Zichuan's idea. He asked me to come here, and those people were also hired by Chen Zichuan!"

"Oh!"

Sheng He retracted the sword, and just as Chen Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief, the cold sword blade stabbed into his heart.

"You despicable people are all the same. You all like to ask your uncle for help."

Zhao Yanran:?

Chen Yuanhua stared at Sheng He with his eyes wide open: "You...you..."

Before he finished speaking, Sheng He pulled out the iron sword, and warm blood splattered all over the ground. Fortunately, Sheng He ran fast and the blood did not stain her clothes.

Ao Shuang had brought A Yuan back without anyone noticing. A Yuan witnessed Chen Yuanhua's death with his own eyes and could not help but take a few steps back in fear.

Sheng He glanced at her sideways, put Ao Shuang back on his back, and took out the mermaid from his sleeve.

A Yuan immediately took a step forward excitedly and tried to snatch the mermaid, but Sheng He quickly dodged to the side.

"I...I will give you the spirit stone. Don't worry, I won't snatch it away from you. I won't snatch it away."

As A Yuan said this, he withdrew his hand awkwardly, but his eyes still kept looking at the mermaid.

"How are you going to raise 200,000 spirit stones?"

Ah Yuan touched his thigh again and smiled reluctantly: "I... can always raise the money, don't worry, Miss Sheng."

"But I don't need spirit stones."

"I can give you this mermaid, and even send you and her back to the sea."

"You know, right? Even if I give you the mermaid now, you won't be able to escape far."

Sheng He pressed forward step by step, and A Yuan kept retreating, pinching the corner of his clothes, until his body hit the tree trunk, and then A Yuan finally stopped.

"What do you want?"

Sheng He put the mermaid into A Yuan's arms, suddenly laughed, and patted A Yuan's shoulder: "Don't be afraid, I only want one tear from you."

"A tear?"

Sheng He nodded and pointed at the mermaid in Yuan's arms: "Whether it's yours or hers, it's fine."

A Yuan's pupils suddenly shrank: "You! You recognized my identity!"

"It is said that mermaid scales are impervious to water and fire and are worth a fortune. Apart from this, I really can't think of any other way you can raise 200,000 spirit stones in two days."

As Sheng He spoke, he gently lifted up A Yuan's trouser leg and saw that her leg was covered in blood. Sheng He frowned and threw a bottle of pills to A Yuan.

"Healing, don't pull out your own scales next time."

A Yuan took the pill hesitantly. Sheng He was right, she was indeed a mermaid.

This mermaid is her sister.

Half a year ago, a cultivator broke into the Eastern Sea. He was no ordinary cultivator. The mermaids had infinite power in the sea, but they could not hurt the cultivator at all.

She and her people were hunted all the way, and eventually her mother was captured by the monk in order to protect her and her sister. The two sisters were seriously injured and unconscious, and were washed ashore by the waves.

She was luckier, as she woke up to an uninhabited reef. However, her sister was picked up by a nearby fisherman and was said to be sold to a wealthy businessman in the city.

As a last resort, she could only risk going ashore.

The mermaids are strong in the water, but once they come to land, all their spiritual power will dissipate and they will be no different from mortals.

She originally wanted to buy her sister with two pieces of gold, but the news about the mermaid spread, and a group of monks came and forcibly took her sister away.

She knew she was powerless to compete, and when she heard the monks talking about the auction, she had no choice but to pluck her own scales and sell them.

Now, she was also very clear that their whereabouts had been exposed, and the city was full of people who wanted to kill them. She could not bring her sister back to the Eastern Waters safely on her own.

She raised her head and looked at Sheng He seriously.

"You only want our tears?"

"Yes, I only want mermaid tears."

A Yuan pursed her lips for a long while, then she nodded slightly as if relieved.

"We mermaids are as good as our promises. If you send Ling'er and I back to the sea, I will give you mermaid tears."