"Miss Ji, you’re lucky..."

Yui Zhen’s eyes were cold, and he walked toward her with light steps, yet the ground beneath him seemed to sink slightly.

"So many of us have eaten the lotus seeds, yet only you were chosen to become mermaids. Do you know how precious this opportunity is?"

His expression was somewhat grotesque, his eyes and cheeks bulging outward as if something beneath his skin was about to burst forth: 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"The Water God! He will descend upon his kin! Do you know how much we wish to become his kin? But we cannot, we can only be his followers... So you demon race are truly primitive, so wasteful and blind! Such a race as yours should be like lowly livestock, forever trapped in your own pigsty!"

Ji Xueruo’s chest heaved continuously, the blue veins standing out beneath her fair skin, her sharp nails dug into her palm, drawing crimson blood.

The ancestors of the demon race were various animals, and it was understandable that some humans, who consider themselves the spirits of all things, would look down on the demon race. These people are absolute opponents of the demon race, but due to various pressures of reality, few like Yui Zhen openly display their disgust for the demon race.

"No matter how pathetic the demon race is, they at least never believe in such filthy evil entities like you!" Ji Xueruo gritted her teeth.

Yui Zhen was momentarily stunned, then, as if hearing the funniest joke in the world, burst into laughter, wiping the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes:

"Miss Ji is even more sincere than I thought... I don’t know how you broke free from the Divine Blood, but I’ll give you one last chance. As long as you personally kill Mr. You! I’ll grant you a few more fresh lotus seeds, and you’ll still have a chance to become the vessel for the Water God!"

Seeing Ji Xueruo remain silent, he raised his head again, looking condescendingly at the weak girl:

"As long as the Water God chooses you! You’ll have the chance to leap from the lowest race to gain the most noble lineage! Don’t easily give up on this opportunity to leap like a carp over the dragon gate... Miss Ji!"

"Mr. Yui, let me tell you a story."

The one who spoke first was You Su, teeth clenched in pain.

Yui Zhen glanced at him and replied with a smile, "Please go ahead, Mr. You."

"I had a dog at home, one day it went out and ate a bite of excrement, it thought it was delicious, came back and told its owner how tasty the excrement was, and encouraged the owner to eat it too. Mr. Yui, if it were you, would you eat it?"

You Su held a faint smile, not caring at all that he was in grave peril.

Upon hearing these words, Ji Xueruo smiled even more brightly. She too raised her head, looking condescendingly at Yui Zhen, and added, "Your dog is indeed quite ignorant. After all, what people and dogs like to eat is different."

Yui Zhen showed no anger, instead, he calmly lamented:

"Indeed... people and dogs are different indeed..."

Immediately, countless threads trembled slightly. Yui Zhen resembled a spider with a long-prepared plan or a maestro plucking a string. His demeanor shifted completely, and he spoke with great conviction:

"In that case, let’s set you on your way!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the threads instantly tightened, with a flash of cold light, and slashed toward the two of them.

You Su struggled to stand up again, the Mo Song Sword he wielded flickered in spherical afterimages, keeping the threads from approaching them in the slightest.

Yui Zhen wasn’t in a hurry, calmly controlling the threads in his hand. He knew You Su couldn’t sustain such high-intensity swordplay for long and would soon be completely exhausted.

For the people of the Jade Ring Pool, catching the white dragon carp was of great importance, and they couldn’t use swords to injure the fish as it would ruin its flavor. So their method was to keep chasing the white dragon carp until it was thoroughly exhausted, making it easy to capture an uninjured one.

This habit became ingrained in the people of the Jade Ring Pool.

At this moment, Ji Xueruo was deeply anxious. These knife threads were formed by Profound Qi, representing a move without a doubt. As a bright new star in the demon race’s arcane skills, she had never heard of such a move.

To form thousands of sharp threads with Profound Qi and control them at will, even a Void Realm Venerable specializing in skills would find it challenging to possess such high-level Qi control.

If Yui Zhen were truly such a genius, how could he be just an ordinary servant?

Ji Xueruo prided herself on her skill talents, but now she found herself at a loss. With her realm and knowledge base, it was impossible to decipher these knife threads.

Standing in front of her was You Su, already injured in multiple places, his left shoulder nearly sliced away, exposing the smoothly cut shoulder bone.

Such a wound, just looking at it, made one’s own shoulder ache, and Ji Xueruo felt a mix of sadness and anger, yet utterly powerless.

Just like You Su, she had the ability to fight beyond their level, but no matter how high their talents were, it was impossible to defeat an enemy above the Feather Transformation Realm with only a Middle Spirit Platform Realm cultivation.

Ji Xueruo regretted deeply, the only chance to defeat Yui Zhen was the drop of the Ancestor Serpent’s poison, which she had used on the Condensed Water Upper Realm’s eldest master. At the time, she thought it was a proper use, but now she regretted it endlessly.

If only she could squeeze out another drop of the Ancestor Serpent’s poison...

With just one more drop, she could save him, otherwise, he’d be sliced to bits like tofu!

"Just one drop, one drop is enough!"

Suddenly, the Ancestor Serpent that had been dormant for millennia seemed to sense the call of its descendants, and that divinely endowed power appeared once again within Ji Xueruo’s body!

Ji Xueruo raised her hand in astonishment, a dense drop of black poison resting on her smooth, pale wrist.