What a coincidence.
Just as he was about to leave the room, Lin Xiao still felt somewhat uneasy. He planned to take advantage of the moment the mermaid in front of him spoke and was distracted to get a little closer, so he could react if anything unexpected happened.
However, after hearing that name, a slight ripple stirred in his heart.
If he remembered correctly, this mermaid named Liya was the very resentful soul that would later be collected into the Myriad Soul Banner by the Myriad Soul Douluo.
At this thought, he once again recalled the Myriad Soul Douluo and the Abomination Douluo who had come to the seaside with him.
The reason they, along with the Grand Elder, had come here was probably not just to lure away the Sea Princess so he could steal the Ocean Heart; they clearly had other objectives…
"It's a nice name, isn't it? By the way, what's your name?"
"My name is Shen Hao," Lin Xiao used this alias once again.
"Shen Hao? It sounds like the names of those humans from the outside." Liya softly repeated it.
"You're very interested in the human world?"
"Yes! Although Mother doesn't allow it, I used to sneak close to the coast all the time." Excitement crept into Liya's tone.
"Those humans have extremely weak spiritual power; they couldn't detect me at all. I've seen the tools they made—some can float on the sea's surface, and some can even dive into the deep sea like us."
"Though they can't go too deep, that's all."
Listening to Liya's description, Lin Xiao could roughly guess that she had encountered soul tools that the Sun Moon Empire was currently testing.
The ocean was so vast and contained countless sea soul beasts; naturally, the people of the Sun Moon Empire would not let this untapped treasure trove go unexplored.
While at the Mingde Hall, Lin Xiao had already seen many soul tools resembling the submarines from his memories, though he wasn't clear on the exact progress.
"You should still stay farther away from humans in the future," Lin Xiao said softly as he looked at Liya's back with a light sigh.
"You sound just like my mother. Don't worry—I'll dive deep into the sea if there's danger. They can't catch me."
As Liya spoke, she suddenly stopped.
Lin Xiao's brows furrowed, and his left arm instinctively lifted.
But in the next moment, Liya raised her hand and pointed toward a room ahead. "We're here. Mother said I've only just reached one hundred thousand years, not long ago, and she's still worried about me, so she didn't let me live too far away."
"Alright, thank you."
"You're welcome." The fishtail behind Liya swayed gently. "I'll take you over."
Lin Xiao nodded and continued following. As the two passed through another water curtain, the earlier "ding-ding-dang-dang" sound rang out once more.
Unlike the previous room, the instant Lin Xiao stepped into the Sea Princess's residence, he felt an extremely rich heaven-and-earth origin energy filling the entire space. And its source…
He turned his head slightly. Beside him stood a long table. On one side was a small, exquisite shrine, with dense pearl curtains hanging in front of it, obscuring the statue inside so that no one could see what it looked like.
On the other side was a spherical ornament, encased in a thin layer of water curtain that formed a perfect sphere. Inside floated a blue hexagonal crystal, gently hovering.
The moment he approached it, a vast spiritual force poured out from within the water curtain, making Lin Xiao's head spin and leaving him dizzy.
Lin Xiao steadied himself, clarity returning to his eyes.
This sensation was somewhat similar to the water curtain he had passed through earlier to enter the building, but its power was many times greater—or rather…
The water curtain surrounding the entire structure outside originated from here.
Could he really take something like this?
Lin Xiao stood before the long table, not moving for a long time.
Just passing through the outer layer of mist had already plunged him into an illusion once again. If he tried to reach through this seemingly ordinary spherical barrier now, he feared that the moment his hand extended, the immense spiritual force inside would completely shatter his consciousness.
"You're looking at this?" Liya also came closer. "Mother said that inside it is the residual spiritual force left behind by all our clansmen who have passed away. It protects our mermaid clan's supreme treasure. Unless one is of royal blood, even we cannot retrieve what's inside."
"Hahahahaha—"
As soon as she finished speaking, a loud laugh suddenly echoed through the room. Liya whipped her head toward Lin Xiao, only to see him wearing an equally shocked expression as he looked down at his right wrist.
On Lin Xiao's right wrist, at some unknown point, a patch of pale blue scales had grown, faintly glowing. The laughter just now had come from within those scales.
"You've done well."
"Grand Elder…" Lin Xiao's expression turned ugly.
During this entire time beneath the deep sea, he had been constantly enduring the pressure of the seawater. Experiencing pain from time to time was normal, and since his right wrist had been held by the Grand Elder the whole time, he hadn't noticed anything unusual.
After adapting to the water pressure of the deep sea, he had unknowingly also grown accustomed to the extra scales on his body.
In the blink of an eye, the pale blue scales had already densely covered Lin Xiao's entire right arm, dragging his body forward toward the water curtain.
In an instant, an enormous pressure bore down on Lin Xiao. It was as though countless mermaids were singing in unison. Within his sea of consciousness, the river representing his spiritual force had already overflowed its banks, splashing into the air.
His entire sea of consciousness churned violently, and even the faint gray mist on Teacher Electrolux's side began to surge and roll.
This seemingly simple layer of water mist contained the spiritual force left behind by the mermaid clan over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. Even though Lin Xiao's spiritual force far exceeded that of ordinary people, in this single moment, his consciousness was forcibly expelled from his body, involuntarily appearing within his sea of consciousness.
"Teacher?"
Lin Xiao softly called out. The blurry figure of Electrolux slowly emerged from within the gray mist.
"Sigh, what a child plagued by misfortune," Electrolux sighed lightly. "It is also my fault for not noticing what she left on your body."
"No, this isn't the Teacher's fault." Lin Xiao shook his head and looked up at his endlessly turbulent sea of consciousness. "It's all my own fault."
"I have always been cautious, but later… I first killed a Titled Douluo while only at the Soul Sage level, and then I took you as my master to learn necromancy magic from another world."
"Although it wasn't very obvious, I truly no longer possessed the same caution I had before. Some of the things Holy Spirit Cult taught me seem to have gradually faded from my mind as well."
Saying this, Lin Xiao turned slightly toward Electrolux. "Teacher, can the method you mentioned earlier to avoid danger still be used now?"
Electrolux sighed again and shook his head. "Right now, your right arm is no longer under your control. If we still follow the method I spoke of before, your body can escape, but the arm cannot be kept."
A cold light flashed in Lin Xiao's eyes as he nodded heavily. "That's fine. Teacher, let's begin."
Yet Electrolux shook his head again. "It hasn't reached that point yet."
"Relax your mind."
Lin Xiao nodded upon hearing this. In the next moment, a streak of emerald green blossomed from within his body.
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