The beautiful mermaid stood gracefully below the massive beautiful glowing chandelier. Her teal green upper clothes with a mesh fabric dancing around her elegantly and brushing pass through her snow white skin. Her lifeless teal green eyes staring at them and the silver jewelry accessories on her hair slightly fluttering.

She spoke again, voice sounding so alluring like a beautiful song.

Liu Xiao who was dumbfounded, forced a smile and replied to the mermaid,

The mermaid looked astonished and glanced at him with her lifeless teal green eyes.

Liu Xiao was confused but he shook his head as an honest answer. The mermaid's astonished look turned into grief and sorrow. she started crying and a sparkling silver tears flowed out of her eyes, a sign that she was a mythical being.

Silver tears are those for beings that borrowed power from a god and golden tears are those who were Gods or Demigods. That was the sign of a noble and sacred blood that flows down on the being's body. Most of them say that silver tears was able to forge a powerful weapon or an armor, or maybe a spectacular jewelry that will not break forever and radiate beautifully and the others said that silver tears can bring endless wealth to people.

The others said that golden tears, on the other hand, can bring back anyone into life with only a single drop or maybe gave them a hundred years of cultivation breakthrough or maybe just a single drop me make them a god themselves. Golden tears are called the most sacred type of tears because it came from the gods itself.

Liu Xiao didn't respond glanced at her with a pity in his eyes. The mermaid noticed his expression and growled at him, she shrieked and cried again while gripping on her hair.

She really became mad... Liu Xiao gave up on trying to talk to her because it was obvious that they won't have a clear conversation from the mermaid's situation on her mental breakdown so Liu Xiao took a few steps back and bumped on Wu Qingge behind him.

The mermaid groaned in pain and she snapped into anger.

Liu Xiao, looking at her sad situation, couldn't help but blurt out words to his mouth.

The mermaid was staggered and Wu Qingge on his back was slightly astounded. Liu Xiao who was in aze and vlurted those words was taken aback and abruptly shook his head.

The mermaid sparkling silver tears were flowing non stop on her beautiful snow white face. The mesh fabric all over her swayed gracefully as she raised her small hand to wipe down her tears but the silver sparkling tears flowed non stop again, like her endless sorrow and grief haunting her all this time.

She glanced with a sorrowful look at Liu Xiao.

Then in a split second an black smoke of evil energy flowed out of her body, making her yell in pain and her loud shrieks and cries filled every corner of the massive silent hall.

The mermaid yelled in pain, and a glowing teal green light surrounded her mixed with a black colored wisp. The glowing light became larger and larger, until the it reached the chandelier up the ceiling and the glowing light halted followed by a loud roar that made the tiny little mermaids tremble in fear and run away from the majestic teal blue palace.

A teal green giant sea serpent greeted their sight, looking beautiful and terrifying at the same time as it roared continiously that made the pillars on the hall explode from the vibration of the evil energy flowing inside the mythical creature. If the Sea Kings were as tall as a combined imperial palace, the Sea Serpent on the other hand was as big as a combined four mountains. The Sea Kings were just half her size and Liu Xiao and Wu Qingge were merely the size of the nails in her claws.

Liu Xiao cursed under his breath and yelled inside his mind. Chen Yi and the others found this thing?! No wonder they lost!!! This is why i'm kinda anxious to let them enter the trial because the sea serpent is stronger than they think. It was a mythical creature borrowed a power from the gods and bestowed her the ocean! So the ocean is her domain and of course she would have the advantage!

Liu Xiao wasn't able to think of anything when the Sea Serpent raised her tails and striked their direction like a whip. Because Liu Xiao had no spiritual qi and he won't be able to judge it in time, he subconsciously blocked Wu Qingge and cried inside his mind while saying hi to his ancestors inaide his mind when Wu Qingge suddenly grabbed him by the waist, and in the blink of an eye, they were already behind the sea serpent.

Wow! Teleportation! As expected of the protagonist——No stop thinking about it at situations like these! Liu Xiao shook his head and focused on the doors beside the pillars. The sea serpent roared and whipped her tail again in a spinning motion. Wu Qingge jumped easily to dodge to the incoming tail while he was grabbing Liu Xiao by the waist who was staring at the doors.

Wu Qingge followed his order and continued dodging the sea serent's attack. Liu Xiao on his arms closed his eyes to feel just a slight faint of spiritual qi all over the place to determine the location of Chen Yi and the others.

A few moments later, a faint yellow colored spiritual qi emerged on the empty pitch black darkness and Liu Xiao opened his eyes to follow the traces of the spiritual qi and the yellow aura of te spiritual qi in the air halted at the highest part of the Water Palace.

Liu Xiao shouted,

Liu Xiao glanced at the opened window and tugged the hem of Wu Qingge's sleeve as he pointed at it.

Wu Qingge's hand the was wrapped around his waist gripped tighter as his other hand supported his thigh. He jumped out the window and the side part of the water palace collapsed when the Sea Serpent's tail pierced through the majestic wall.

Wu Qingge tapped his foot once as he carried Liu Xiao in a bridal style then leaped high in the sky and landed on te highest place where the statue of the mermaid and the sea serpent interwined on each other was decorated beautifully surrounded by some different colored glowing coral reefs and swimming fishes.

beneath the beautiful teal blue statue, Chen Yi, Bai Lan, Lan Yang and Shan Ling were lying on the ground bathed in blood and their eyes peacefully closed. Liu Xao was horrified and anxiety spreaded out all over his body. He struggled on Wu Qingge's grassp and ran through the four who were lying on the ground, as if they had died long ago.

The first thing Liu Xiao had checked was all of their wrist, they were barey breathing and their spiritual qi were all drained into emptiness. Liu Xiao had wanted to pour in his own spiritual qi but he was also injured on his spiritual core and can only ask for help. He glanced at Wu Qingge while he hold back his tears and spoke.

Liu Xiao nodded while biting his lip.

Wu Qinnnge let out smile as he caressed the orange jewel that looked dull on Liu Xiao's forehead like he always do back then.

Liu Xiao nodded and a tear escaped from his resistance and flowed down his cheeks. Wu Qingge used his thumb to wipe down the drop of tear that escaped from his eyes and kissed the jewel on his forehead before going to Chen Yi and the ither's direction and summoned a four demon flames and ordered them to enter their bodies. The four's bodies radiated a dim black and purple light that was not that blinding and spinned around them in a slow pace.

Their pale faces had gained a bit of color and their slow and shallow breathing became normal. Liu Xiao silently thanked Wu Qingge on his mind and glanced at the sea serpent that had already climbed up, letting out a loud growl. Wu Qingge on the back was busy healing the four and he was using his black lotus qi to heal the four of them at the same time so he will basically need to focus a bit more on the four rather than fighting the sea serpent infront of them.

Liu Xiao was at loss of what to do and stared at the sea serpent who was actually staring back at him with a sorrowful and angered eyes mixed into one. He couldn't help but feel but to the mermaid's past but also feel angered on what she did to Chen Yi and the others so he only just sighed and didn't dared to look away to the sea serpent.

They were both standing infront of each other, looking at their eyes as if they were battling inside their mind. The sea serpent stared down intently at Liu Xiao below and Liu Xiao looked up on the sea serpent above, both looking like as if they were seeing through each other's souls and identifying each other's secrets.

"YA JUST NEED TO CALL HUANGTIAN, THAT'S IT!"

He remembered what his grandpa said back then at the island and clenched his fist tightly while never letting himself look away from the stare battle between the serpent and him. If this works, i live but if this doesn't...i will.... Liu Xiao sighed heavily and loosened his clenching fist as he proceed to go on to this gamble as he uttered words.

Liu Xiao gulped before continuing.

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