The young master looked indifferent and sneered, "She's just a lowly child born of a concubine. What right does she have to expect me to give her a kind look?"
As if deliberately speaking to the mermaid who hadn't yet been carried far, the young master raised his voice and said, "Don't you know what you are? You insisted on coming out with me. You really are relying on your father's favor to think you're the second Gongsun Lian!"
"Only that incompetent brat Gongsun Yi would be bullied by you lowly bastards. I, this young master, will not tolerate any nonsense!"
In front of the whole street, the young master shouted like that, scaring his servants so much that they almost knelt down before him.
If it weren't for the timely intervention of the elders from the Gongsun family who came along this time, the Gongsun family's scandal would have been quite a spectacle today.
"Crack, crack..."
Tianning skillfully took out the melon seeds, but unexpectedly, the first ones served were from an old acquaintance.
Xuan Yun, who was standing next to her, wanted to warn her that she could easily get beaten up if she did that...
While others would cautiously prick up their ears to eavesdrop, she was all smiles, holding sunflower seeds and practically clapping for them.
Fortunately, the Gongsun family had no time to pay attention to the onlookers, and the people from the ten major families quickly dispersed.
Only then did the female cultivator in the next group dare to answer Tian Ning's question: "Fellow Daoist Tian, you may not know this, but there is a special sea area in our Western Continent inhabited by a group of mermaids."
"The merfolk are very special. Although they are not like the dragons, they are also full of treasures."
"Mermaid tears transform into mermaid pearls, which, when ground into powder, can be used to refine elixirs, greatly effective in preventing cultivation deviations and demonic possession; mermaid scales can be made into brocade and silk, not only possessing a visually appealing, shimmering beauty but also serving as excellent defensive magical artifacts; mermaid flesh is exceptionally delicious and has the effect of enhancing cultivation..."
Tianning: "..."
Why does this sound so off?
"Mermaid meat?" Tianning asked in surprise.
Hearing their conversation, Xuan Yun came over and tapped the female cultivator's head twice, correcting her, "Fellow Daoist, don't misunderstand. These are all recorded in ancient books from the Western Continent. She just memorized them all at once."
Xuan Yun said, "In the past, the mermaid race was indeed subjected to mass slaughter because they were so valuable. In a sense, as Xiao Mei said, all their value was squeezed out, and even their bodies were eaten after they died... Because of this, more and more mermaids died, and they became increasingly rare. The people of the ten great families even went so far as to propose artificially raising mermaids, keeping them like livestock, so that they wouldn't have to worry about extinction..."
"Fortunately, the Celestial Venerable Tianqi appeared later! The Celestial Venerable protected the mermaid race with his own power, freeing them from their situation of being raised as pets, and enabling them to return to the sea."
"The Immortal Venerable even became their backer, enabling the merfolk to trade mermaid pearls and shed scales with cultivators in exchange for useful resources..."
Tianning listened patiently as Xuanyun recounted Tianqi's deeds with admiration, feeling a sense of satisfaction as her child grew up.
Perhaps seeing his own past reflected in the mermaid race, Tianqi, now possessing sufficient power, stepped forward to protect the entire mermaid clan.
The female cultivator called Xiaomei fully agreed with Xuan Yun's praise of Tianqi, but she didn't forget to add to the list of evil deeds committed by the ten great families:
"Even if the Immortal Venerable has gone to such lengths, the Ten Great Families still refuse to give up this enormous profit. They have begun to have their descendants seduce merfolk to produce children with blood ties. If the child is human, they will raise it normally, but if it is a merfolk, then they have a legitimate reason to control the merfolk..."
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