Chenxi had a cute baby face, looking like a young lad. His big eyes were now filled with tears, and out of fear, he didn't dare to look up at Shen Qing and Li Xian.
Shen Qing vaguely saw that Chenxi also had a fishtail for his lower body.
"How come the sword spirit also has the merman form?"
Hearing Shen Qing's question, Chenxi didn't dare to hide anything and spilled the beans about his origin clearly: "I'm not an ordinary sword..."
"Back then when Li Yuan was born, even though the Saintess was cold - hearted, she couldn't bear to abandon this little one connected to her by blood. So she took off the eight most important scales from her body and made them into talismans for Li Yuan."
"When Li Yuan grew up, he threw those eight scales into the furnace and forged the Chenxi Sword."
"Since the scales contained the Saintess's loving heart and her spiritual power, that's why I, as the sword spirit, have the merman form."
"Shen Qing, your sword spirit also has the dragon form..."
After the explanation, Chenxi hung his head again, like a child who had done something wrong.
"I see..."
"Chenxi, those crazy mermen..."
"Sorry, sorry. I'll seal them up again right away."
Chenxi flew towards the group of mermen in a hurry. With the help of the magical power of the Inheritance Land, he sealed up all these mermen again.
Seeing this, Wu Wang obediently shrank in size but still kept his dragon form. He stayed on Shen Qing's shoulder, looking at Chenxi curiously.
"Is this... okay?"
Chenxi nervously twisted his clothes with his fingers and stole glances at the sword on the ground from time to time, afraid that Li Xian would break his physical form with a single step if she got angry.
Li Xian sneered: "You didn't look like this when you tried to possess me just now. Didn't you say you were going to kill us all?"
"Who are you pretending to be so submissive for now?"
Li Xian still held a grudge against being tricked by Chenxi. Moreover, Chenxi had caused Shen Qing to be so badly injured. She was really annoyed with Chenxi at the moment.
After causing so much trouble, now he was putting on a pitiful act. It just made people angry.
Although Shen Qing didn't have a good impression of the troublesome Chenxi, she still wanted to know the truth. After those crazy mermen were moved out, Shen Qing asked Chenxi to tell the whole truth.
Chenxi looked at Shen Qing regretfully, seemingly regretting that he had almost succeeded just now.
This single look immediately enraged Li Xian again.
Li Xian picked up the Chenxi Sword and grinned sinisterly, wanting to break the sword. This made Chenxi beg for mercy for quite a while.
Finally, after Shen Qing's persuasion, Li Xian gritted her teeth and let Chenxi go for the time being.
Back then, the merman clan retreated to the depths of the South Sea and built the Merman Palace. Their purpose was to tame the sea beasts in the sea and form an army to fight against the human race.
Unfortunately, most of the sea beasts were blood - thirsty and lacked spiritual intelligence, so it was hard to achieve their goal.
The clan leader at that time couldn't swallow this humiliation. So he used the blood of the beasts as a sacrifice. With the help of a prophet in the main shrine, he made the merman clan fuse with the blood of the beasts, thus improving the combat power of the merman clan.
However, the good times didn't last long. The blood - thirsty nature of the beasts gradually manifested in the mermen, but the prophet disappeared without a trace.
In order to suppress the mutated clan members, the Saintess and the clan leader successively tried various methods, but none of them worked.
But the clan leader went crazy. Regardless of the consequences, he released the mutated young mermen from the Merman Palace and let them take revenge on the passing cultivators.
The Saintess couldn't bear to see the younger generation of her clan suffer. So she developed a method of using silver needles in the brain to suppress the clan members, but this method could only be used for a short time and gradually became ineffective.
In order to satisfy the clan leader's desire for revenge, almost all the female mermen in the clan were captured and used as child - bearing tools. Slowly, even the Saintess was defiled by the clan leader and gave birth to Li Yuan.
Although the Saintess hated the clan leader, she still felt pity for the little life she had given birth to. After that, things were almost the same as what Shen Qing knew.
Although Li Yuan gave birth to Li Xian with ulterior motives and once struggled between saving the clan and protecting his own child.
But in the end, he chose to protect Li Xian. It was Chenxi who擅自 modified the memories left by Li Yuan and made Li Xian bring Shen Qing to the Merman Palace.
Chenxi inherited the will of the Saintess and was determined to save the merman clan, so he resorted to such extreme measures.
"Was that prophet from the dragon clan?"
Shen Qing's question made Chenxi suddenly raise his head. He opened his eyes wide and asked in surprise: "How did you know?"
"Although I've never seen that prophet with my own eyes, I can guess the prophet's identity from the Saintess's description. I originally thought that the dragon clan had completely disappeared from the world, but unexpectedly, your sword is also related to the dragon clan."
Shen Qing and Li Xian glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of solemnity in each other's eyes.
Unexpectedly, the main shrine had always been active in places where no one could see.
Shen Qing had another guess but couldn't bear to tell Chenxi.
She was afraid that from the very beginning, the conflict between the human race and the merman clan was caused by the main shrine. Their purpose was to make the merman clan retreat to the South Sea and use the blood of the beasts as a last resort.
Han Ze... What on earth was his purpose?
"What about the sacrifice?"
Chenxi paused and frowned苦恼ly: "I don't know much about the sacrifice. I only know that every hundred years, the prophet would ask the clan leader to find five mermen and take them to the Demon Abyss. This was the condition for the prophet to help the merman clan."
"But I don't know exactly what was sacrificed. However, the Saintess once eavesdropped on the conversation between the prophet and the clan leader and heard words like the Demon Abyss, the giant mouth of the abyss, and the remaining souls."
Chenxi told Shen Qing and Li Xian all he knew, then looked at Li Xian pitifully, hoping that Li Xian would spare him.
"I've told you everything I know. Can you let me go?"
Li Xian pursed her lips tightly and stared at Chenxi for a while before squeezing out a sentence: "All these years, you didn't form a contract with me. Was it because of my father?"
Chenxi opened his mouth in surprise, seemingly not expecting Li Xian to ask such a question.
"I... no... it's not... it's also not..."
Since Li Xian had memories, she had always used the Chenxi Sword. As the sword spirit of the Chenxi Sword, Chenxi had watched Li Xian grow up bit by bit. It was impossible to say that there was no affection.
"At first, I was created by your father. When your father left, I was very sad..."
"Moreover, I thought that I would hurt you and the people around you sooner or later, so... I refused to recognize you for a long time."
"Li Xian, you're very much like your father, excellent and brave. You will... find another sword that suits you."
As Chenxi said this, he unnaturally turned his face away, hiding various emotions in his eyes.
And Shen Qing also keenly noticed that when Chenxi asked Li Xian to look for another natal sword, he stiffened for a moment.