Chapter Thirteen: The Mermaid Queen

  "Terrible!"

  The old man in white suddenly stopped and gazed at the nearby strange rock formations on the seafloor, saying with a sigh: "I was thinking of getting rid of him, but he's actually followed me to the territory of the South Sea Merfolk."

  As the elder of the Yin Yang Sect, he was in charge of all matters within the temple.

  There have always been some guests with peculiar tastes who have special requests. Before the merfolk of the South Sea and the Xianjian fell out, he had already sneaked in several times to catch mermaids. Mermaids are beautiful and slender, their physical structure is quite different from that of human women, but if they use secret methods to open up their fish tails, they can transform into human form, however, that way they will no longer be able to obtain the pearl.

  Mermaid's chastity is fierce.

  Often just after being caught and brought back, they would bite their tongues and kill themselves.

  So, after coming a few times, the old man in white gave up on the idea of capturing mermaids and cultivating them into prostitutes in his brothel.

  This piece of seabed strange rock is actually a huge maze!

  It's still calm for now, but if it really gets started, even a loose immortal would get no benefits.

  Li Qingyun's escape method is naturally perfect!

  As the chief disciple of Qingyang Palace, his ability in Taoist magic is absolutely among the best. Moreover, he spent ten years in the Scripture Pavilion, deducing countless techniques repeatedly, with the goal of finding a way to break through his limits. Compared to those complacent Golden Elixir cultivators dispatched to other places, he doesn't know how much higher he has risen. Generally, this kind of cultivator stationed elsewhere is often because they have no hope of achieving the Great Way, and are therefore assigned to various locations. The true core disciples all remain within the sect, cultivating in secret.

  Gold generates water.

  The dragon tribe was originally the master of the ocean.

  Li Qingyun felt a sense of returning to the vast ocean after diving into the South China Sea, and he could even swim freely at the bottom of the sea without using his aquatic breathing technique.

  If it weren't for that white-robed old man having a Golden Elixir later-stage cultivation base, he would probably have already shaken off his opponent!

  However.

  As a strange underwater rock formation appeared in front of him, Li Qingyun sensed an opportunity.

  This strange rock looks peculiar, but in fact it is man-made, and he can see at a glance that it is a huge underwater magic array. As long as he enters the magic array, the white-robed old man's divine soul will not be able to lock his position, and then he can naturally use the maze-like terrain to shake him off.

  Since he started practicing Taoism, Li Qingyun had never been pursued and killed so far away.

  This also stirred up a thread of anger in his heart. Now, he was not skilled enough and the golden elixir liquid in his body could not support him to launch sword moves.

  After he finishes building his foundation, he will definitely go back and ask that white-robed old man for guidance!

  Li Qingyun rushed directly into the maze.

  The old man in white hesitated for a moment before following him inside.

  As long as he didn't delve deep into the maze's interior, with his current cultivation at the later stage of the Golden Elixir, he could still easily come out.

  However.

  It's just a matter of time.

  Li Qingyun's breath was getting farther and farther away, vaguely becoming untraceable.

  ………

  A magnificent underwater palace.

  The surroundings were filled with strange red coral, and large night pearls were inlaid on the walls of the palace.

  "Your Majesty!"

  A slightly urgent female voice sounded, and then a mermaid woman swam quickly into the palace.

  She has a delicate face, wearing a magnificent palace dress made of shark skin, her figure is quite elegant and charming, apart from the long fish tail, there are many other places that are different from humans.

  "The South Sea produces silk fabrics, which when immersed in water are not wet."

  This mermaid silk was originally a specialty of the South Sea, and the mermaids would exchange the woven mermaid silk for some things they needed.

  However, with the slaughter of merfolk by the monks, the southern sea merfolk also completely turned against the monks, and the original trade in mermaid silk was directly terminated.

  "Don't panic."

  Above the magnificent palace, a tender voice came, as if it was an immature child.

  Then a tall figure emerged, she wore an exotic veil, but her eyes were full of majesty, she looked down at the female official below and said slowly: "What happened?"

  "Two monks rushed into the maze."

  The female officer slightly calmed her breathing, and her full chest rose and fell with deep breaths. Merfolk were skilled in the art of holding their breath, and the interval between their breaths was more than twice that of humans.

  The woman official calmed down slightly and continued: "Just a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage."

  "But another one is a Golden Elixir period cultivator."

  Merpeople are a very peculiar race because underage merpeople have no gender.

  They will choose their sex according to their emotions when they grow up, and this opportunity only comes once in a lifetime.

  However, mermaids are a matriarchal society, with women holding the highest status, and the number of male mermaids has always been very small.

  Moreover

  Mermaids reproduce not like humans, who need males and females. If there is no external disturbance, some mermaids will maintain a genderless state throughout their lives and only give birth to offspring at the right time. This is why it is said that South Sea mermaids are beautiful and gentle. According to legend, when the moon is full and the tide is high, mermaids will condense the essence of life in their abdomen, and during this pregnancy process, their gender will gradually change to female, eventually giving birth to their own offspring.

  Newborn babies also have no gender.

  Yes.

  Mermaids are a race that does not need males.

  "Human Monk?"

  The mermaid queen on the throne furrowed her brow, let out a cold snort, and said in a childish voice, "Is that prince still trapped in the maze?"

  "It's still there."

  The female official looked up and took a stealthy glance at the mermaid queen on the throne, Her Majesty had just come of age and her sex was still in transition, so her voice sounded like that of a tender young girl.

  She hesitated for a moment and said: "What if I disturb His Highness?"

  "I'm afraid..."

  The mermaid queen's mouth curled up with a playful smile, looking somewhat coquettish, but immediately felt that this was not in line with the queen's dignity, and suddenly put on a serious face: "The maze is now borrowed by that lord."

  "Nature is now her own thing."

  "Those two ethnic monks broke in, and His Highness would naturally take care of them himself, so we don't even need to lift a hand."

  Hmph!

  How dare you rush into the maze at this time.

  Really don't know how to write the word "death"?

  The mermaid queen seemed to have foreseen the next scene, and a sly smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

  However, the female official below the palace was a nervous and uneasy look. If that prince was disturbed by two human monks, once he got angry, the entire South China Sea would really be turned upside down.

  ………

  Weird.

  Li Qingyun felt an inexplicable eerie atmosphere.

  Ever since he delved into this oceanic formation, he felt like he was being secretly watched all along.

  But somehow he couldn't find out where the gaze was coming from no matter how hard he looked, and what made him even more uneasy was that he seemed to have gotten lost in this vast formation.

  The old man in white has long since disappeared!

  Nor did he know if he was lost in this vast formation or had given up the pursuit and retreated back to Cloud City.

  Li Qingyun wants to leave here.

  But the slow-flowing water seemed like another world, trapping him in this vast array.

  He can only keep moving forward.

  The strange rock in front of him had moved on its own and a dark blue underwater passageway appeared before his eyes.

  Then.

  He saw a dragon.

  A thousand two hundred feet long, coiled up like a giant sea mountain, like a mighty beast from the mythological era of chaos, was measuring his white dragon with huge dragon eyes.