novelhk Chapter 109 Slapping the Face of the Vicious Hostage (Part 1)
Chapter 109 Slapping the Face of the Vicious Hostage (Part 1)
The cold moon star's fishtail is a shade of blue that gradually lightens from its waist, shimmering like stars in the deep sea.
Its broad tail fin resembles a giant gauze skirt, fluttering gracefully in the sea as the water flows.
Her long, waist-length golden curly hair shimmered with a dazzling golden light.
He wore a headdress made of pearls and gemstones, with a teardrop-shaped blue gemstone hanging from his brow, resembling a crystal-clear teardrop.
The Cold Moon Star floats in the deep sea, like a deity descending from the darkness, its figure dreamlike and ethereal, like a creature that only exists in a dream.
With a nervous heart, Leng Yuexing looked down at his chest. He was only wearing a silver-white vest made of sharkskin, which revealed his flat chest.
Just in case, he glanced again at the area around his waist and abdomen covered by scales. Leng Yuexing breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, he was a male mermaid.
After glancing around and finding no other mermaids, Leng Yuexing began to examine the information she had received from the sapling.
Yun Sheng, the chosen one of Heaven in this world, is a prince of the mermaid race.
On the day a mermaid turns twenty, she will be allowed to take a peek into the human world on the shore.
On the day Yun Sheng swam toward the shore, he encountered a human who had fallen into the sea from a ship.
He rescued the human and then took him to the shore.
Then he hid among the rocks and watched him silently.
Unexpectedly, a person ran over from a distance, reached the human, helped him up, and put his arm around his shoulder.
When that human was conscious, what he saw was the person holding him.
He thought that person had saved him, and he was extremely grateful to him.
After returning to the sea, Yun Sheng missed that human every day.
He often secretly swam to the shore to see the human, and learned that the human was the prince of the country of Es.
The other person was the prince of the country of Auburn, who was sent to the country of Es as a hostage.
He wanted to be with the human prince, and after learning that the wizard in his tribe had a way to turn his fishtail into legs, he went to find the wizard.
The wizard gave him a bottle of potion and told him that the potion would only last for one month, after which his legs would turn into a fish tail.
He accepted it with great joy, then swam to shore and drank the medicine.
Having gained human legs, he found the prince he had saved and prepared to tell him the truth.
But to his surprise, he overheard the conversation between the prince and the hostage.
It turns out that the prince knew the hostage wasn't the one who would save him, but he didn't care.
The prince wanted to help the hostage win the throne of the country of Auburn, and then make the country of Auburn a vassal state of the country of Es.
The prince never cared who saved him, nor did he ever think of looking for that person.
After learning about this, Yun Sheng was utterly disappointed in the prince. Just as the one-month period was about to end, he jumped into the sea and swam back to the mermaid clan.
After this incident, Yun Sheng lost his longing for the human world.
From then on, he lived peacefully in the tribe's territory.
Yun Sheng also suggested to his father that mermaids should no longer be allowed to go to the human world.
They only send elites from their clan to the human world to investigate at fixed intervals.
After Yun Sheng succeeded to the throne, he discovered that human development was rapid, so he also worked hard to develop the merfolk so that they could compete with humans.
Under Yun Sheng's leadership, the merfolk grew stronger and stronger.
But the arrival of outsiders in the previous life changed everything.
He possessed the hostage's body and, after learning of Yun Sheng's existence, sent people to monitor him.
After learning that he had gone to the beach, he took the prince with him, wanting to show off his intimacy with the prince to Yun Sheng.
Yun Sheng never expected to meet the two of them at the beach. The potion took effect, and in front of them, his legs turned into a fishtail.
Realizing he had been discovered, he quickly turned and hid in the sea, swimming back to his merfolk.
Yun Sheng never expected that his exposure would give the hostage a bad idea.
He decided to lead his army to hunt down mermaids, hoping to gain merit and then return to his country to compete for the throne.
Although mermaids live in the deep sea, many of them go to the shallow waters to hunt and play.
The hostage led his army in a massive search in the sea and actually caught many mermaids, many of whom were just reaching adulthood.
Their claws and teeth haven't become sharp enough to escape human pursuit.
The protons paraded the captured mermaids through the streets, thus exposing the mermaid race to humans.
Many humans, driven by the immense profits from mermaids, have risked their lives to hunt them in the sea.
Yun Sheng led the mermaids to the human world to rescue the captured mermaids, but they fell into a proton trap.
The mermaids he led were all captured, and Yun Sheng was tortured to death by the hostage because he lost the luck of the Son of Heaven.
The merfolk were thus plunged into danger.
After receiving the information from the sapling, Leng Yuexing felt a mix of emotions.
He lamented the fate of the merfolk, but he also knew that the reasons for this outcome, besides Yun Sheng's exposure and the hostage's malice, also included the merfolk's weakness.
The weak have no way to save themselves, no way to escape bullying.
Only by becoming strong themselves can the merfolk avoid the fate of their previous lives, and prevent outsiders from succeeding so easily.
Yun Sheng was aware of this, which is why, in the normal timeline, he vigorously developed the merfolk race in order to make them stronger.
In the cultivation world of Lengyue Star, there exists a mermaid race.
Merfolk also possess large fish tails, but the sides of their tail fins are incredibly sharp; a single flick of the tail can shatter a massive rock.
The fingernails are retractable, and the extended fingernails can also pierce through rubble, making them extremely powerful.
Leng Yuexing swung his broad fish tail; he could sense that the mermaid's physique was very powerful.
However, the maximum force his fish tail could exert was at most enough to stun a few large fish; smashing rocks was out of the question.
He then looked at his fingernails. His fingernails could extend and retract, but the extended nails could only pierce seashells; their sharpness and hardness were not comparable to those of merfolk.
Leng Yuexing couldn't understand why the merfolk, who also lived in the deep sea, were so weak.
Until he arrived at the merfolk's territory, he discovered that merfolk were indeed a race without any competitive spirit.
Their lives were simple and peaceful. Although it was a country, it didn't even have any real soldiers.
Besides hunting, they spend their days leisurely strolling in the deep sea.
A small number of mermaids will spend their energy spinning mermaid yarn and doing things that interest them, but most mermaids live more instinctively.
If the mermaids lived in a turbulent deep-sea world, they would face various ocean storms every day.
While resisting the forces of nature, they also struggle for survival. Leng Yuexing believes that their fighting power should not be underestimated, at least comparable to that of the merfolk.
Leng Yuexing felt that the most important thing right now was to improve the mermaids' combat power.
Thinking of this, he checked the time.
Unexpectedly, Yun Sheng had already rescued the prince by this time.
When Leng Yuexing arrived, Yun Sheng was on his way to see the wizard.
Leng Yuexing originally intended to stop going to the human world and focus on developing the mermaid race.
However, without contacting outsiders, there is no way to reclaim the destiny of the Chosen One. Leng Yuexing has to go to the human world no matter what.
After thinking for a long time, Leng Yuexing decided to go see the wizard first, and then find a suitable time to go to the human world after he obtained the potion that would turn him into a leg.
The mermaids' homeland was originally in the deep sea, where there was no sunlight, only scattered sea plants emitting light to illuminate Leng Yuexing's path.
Based on the information provided by the sapling, Leng Yuexing swam forward along the huge reef at the edge of the clan's territory.
After swimming for a long time, Leng Yuexing finally found a huge door on the reef.
The door was carved from the reef and looked incredibly heavy; it would take a great deal of strength to push it open.
With her current strength, Leng Yuexing had no power to push the door open.
He swam to the door and banged hard on the huge handle, the sound of which was deafening.
A few seconds later, the door slowly opened in front of Leng Yuexing.
The wizard Leng Yuexing was looking for appeared behind the door.
It was a slender, black mermaid!
Unlike Leng Yuexing's tail fin, which resembled a gauze skirt, his tail fin was sharp and pointed, with tiny barbs along the edges.
He exuded a chilling aura, his figure like a ghost in the night, hidden in the darkness and indistinct.
His dark eyes were cold and ruthless, and his gaze toward Leng Yuexing seemed to pierce through his soul.
"What do you want?" The wizard Mu Chen's cold, chilling voice rang out.