Author's Notes
Cang wants...
Chang Yi and A-Ji arrive...
Chang Yi needs...
The Crown Prince ends up...
A-Ji is...
Chapter 16 – Song Wu
Then, he speaks while looking at the beautiful bird, "Fly and provide me with an aerial view. Also look for evidence of that person after providing me with a view of the capital."
The bird nods and pecks affectionately at his finger before flying off his arm and into the sky, disappearing among the clouds.
Then he concentrates and conjures up a message talisman, the letters appearing in the air in golden writing.
"I found a qi user who also had a hidden pulse. Come invite the family. Considering this kingdom's policy regarding the occult pulse and what I've heard, there's a good chance the family will agree to the change. "
After sending the message, the monk returns to follow the previously planned path while praying that he could find "that person" as soon as possible.
Hundreds of kilometers away, in the sea, more precisely in the deepest area of the ocean, Chang Yi and A-Ji arrive at the place where the fourth member of the legendary demonic quartet was, with the young woman looking at the darkness of the deep abyss below them where the light could not reach.
Then, the demon master looks up and watches the prince move up, then transform into his true form, with the princess confessing that no matter how many times she watched this transformation, she would always be fascinated.
After the merman opened its immense powerful jaws, A-ji entered and hides behind one of the teeth that were enormous compared to its size, with the jiaoren undoing the chains after the young woman used her spiritual power to bring the immense pearl into his mouth which closes his teeth slightly to trap the shiny object.
Then the human holds on without using her hidden wrist because she could alarm the legendary demon of her presence while growing more and more anxious to see him in person as they submerged deeper, with the pearl being the only source of light in the room darkness that surrounded them.
Then, when they reached where the legendary demon was sleeping, the demon master was fascinated to see the outline of the monster that was immense and whose appearance was just as Chang Yi had described.
Indeed, the hull was reddish in color and had the appearance of sharp ruby-red crystals that made it stand out in the dark while providing a beautiful contrast to its emerald green body.
He lowers his head further for her to observe the entire body of the immense turtle, with the young woman trying to memorize in her mind the appearance of this demon while her fascination was immense.
The human was immensely happy to have seen wonderful things, in addition to knowing more about the jiaoren species that was considered by many to be mysterious, in addition to having had the opportunity to personally see a member of the legendary demonic quartet.
Chang Yi had given the world to the demon master while the princess couldn't think of a way to repay him and doubted she could even do it in two lifetimes.
Many might consider her thinking to be exaggerated, but it was befitting and even expected considering her life before meeting the merman. She owed him the world, practically speaking.
"Ready?"
"Yes. We can go. Thanks a lot, big-tailed fish."
Then, they walked away while the human did not take her eyes off the legendary demon and as they ascended, the glow of the ruby red hull got farther and farther away until it disappeared completely.
After moving away to stay at a safe distance, she leaves his mouth, taking the pearl after, and then watching him return to his half-man and half-fish appearance, with the object being carefully deposited on top of a rock.
When the young woman was going to say something, an explosion occurs close to where the princess was, causing some fragments to collide against her head, leaving her disoriented at the same time that he took her protectively in his arms while looking at the source of the attack.
The merman spots a sea serpent, which promptly launches another attack, targeting the human in its arms.
Knowing that he couldn't transform because she was visibly disoriented, he concentrates his powers and creates a bluish barrier that blocks the opponent's attack.
"Do not defend her, Taizi (Crown Prince)! She is a master of demons and must be eliminated for the sake of the kingdom. If you keep her involvement with her, you will either become a slave or die."
"I will take responsibility for my actions and decisions. Our empire will never be threatened. Besides, it's my decision.
The mermaid concentrates her power and launches another attack that crashes into Chang Yi's barrier, with him seeing the frustration of his enemy who then looks around. "
Then, she concentrates her powers and launches her attacks in the form of an electrical sphere throughout the place, causing massive rockfalls to fall on top of the merman.
Promptly, he makes some movements with his hands and numerous spears of ice appear that advance on the rocks, shattering them, with the fragments falling on top of her shield.
Then, the merman sees a movement out of the corner of his eye and spots the sea serpent in its half-fish and half-human form, carrying a spear in his hand whose tip was pointed at the human, with it managing to pass his barrier that was damaged by the fragments , thus opening a breach to be able to pass.
Quickly, the demon makes a blue matrix appear in front of him from which a five meter ice sword emerges, with the crown prince moving it to successfully block the spear.
The mermaid makes new moves and starts attacking him to get him away from the human.
Left with no choice, he purses his lips and lightly throws the princess to the side as smoothly as he can while deftly blocking the spear's blows.
Next, the merman creates a double spherical barrier of protection for the young human who was struggling with disorientation, with Chang Yi saying, "Stay in the barrier."
She nods as she struggles to keep her eyes open, watching the battle between them.
The mermaid concentrates her powers on the tip of her spear and in a deft turn of the tip of the spear, she aims at the human.
However, before he could attack her, Chang Yi advances with his sword against his opponent's neck, forcing her to deviate from her attacking intention in order to block the merman's blow whose impact throws her away, with the crown prince a following.
Then, the clash between them resumes and during the conflict, he feels an impact on his barrier and when he looks back, he notices a young female hammerhead shark trying to advance against the human, using land attacks to damage the shield while cursing for not having managed to break through the protection.
He tries to get back to the human, but his opponent doesn't allow the jiaoren to move away from the fight as he yells at the other mermaid, "Kill that bastard now while I'm keeping him busy!"
"I couldn't break through that damn barrier!"
They are stunned as they hear Chang Yi's guttural snarl at the same time as his eyes darken, as he makes a violent move that fiercely throws his opponent backwards, causing her to crash violently against a rock.
Then, he sticks the sword and concentrating his demonic powers, kills the finger and makes a circle of blood that does not spread in the water.
The jiaoren are horrified to see the appearance of thousands of ice spears in all directions, not allowing any escape route, then the deadly projectiles advance against the mermaids in the blink of an eye.
Both use their powers and create shields while using their respective elements to destroy the spears, with them managing to block some while destroying others in the process.
However, the effort is futile due to the absurdly huge amount and under their scream of terror, they are violently pierced by hundreds of spears and in the blink of an eye, both become sea foam, then gradually fade into the ocean.
After killing his opponents, Chang Yi's eyes returned to normal, with him canceling the ice spears as he swam to be with the human, dedicating a brief icy look in the direction of where the mermaids were before turning to sea mist at the same time when their power returned to the ocean.
Then, the crown prince cancels his double spherical barrier while breathing a sigh of relief to see that she is fine, with the young woman still finding herself disoriented despite being able to partially see the battle.
Then, the demon master spoke weakly with her voice steeped in sadness, "Please don't kill your people."
"I had no choice. They weren't going to stop until they died."
A-ji feels deeply sad and guilty as she witnesses two more jiaoren being killed for daring to attack her and worse, they died because she wanted to see the legendary demon sleeping in the depths.
After all, in the princess's view, if she hadn't wanted to see Song Wu, they wouldn't have been there and consequently, the mermaids would still be alive.
The young woman confessed that she couldn't stand to see the crown prince killing members of his own species just to save her and what made everything worse was the fact that they only attacked her in order to protect the prince and the kingdom due to the fact that she was a master of demons.
Furthermore, the girl was fascinated by the jiaoren and felt a lot of sadness to see their death along with the fact that Chang Yi was the crown prince and in her view, it was not fair for him to murder his people even if he acted defensively and then, in the counter- attack. It didn't change the fact that he was killing his own kind for a human.
All this made her more convinced to return to solid ground despite the torments that awaited her.
At the same time that the princess was taken by guilt, the merman was reflecting on what she said earlier and after making his decision, the prince feels a great sadness when he imagines being away from her because, unconsciously, he had chosen her as a companion and even by not marking her as his mate, the jiaoren felt bound to the human, making him act protective towards her.
However, he was aware that the young woman would be safer on land when remembering what happened moments before and with a broken heart, he takes her in his strong arms and swims quickly from there, towards the beach because she was unable to swim by herself even as he ignored her plea to let her swim to shore.
After a few minutes, the merman spots the beach and swims as fast as possible to leave it on the sand while A-ji remains disoriented despite the confusion gradually disappearing.
He deposits it gently and as he moves away from the bank, he hears voices and screams that alarm him.
Then, suddenly, the demon saw several golden symbols surrounding him.
Promptly, the prince of oceans tries to head back to the sea, but before he can successfully get away from land a barrier appears in front of him and with no choice, he turns and prepares to fight, condensing his demonic energy.
With his powers, the triton manages to defeat several enemies by generating cutting winds such as razors and ice spears, in addition to boiling water attacks, and then prepares to return to the ocean.
However, a man appears who is not intimidated by his demonic power and promptly manages to create five golden matrices above the merman, starting to suck him into the air as if he were fished while in the distance, others were helping him and that there were men wearing white robes and others in black.
Chang Yi still tries to fight, but golden chains appear that bind him and begin to weaken him for being of spiritual origin. Even so, the demon continues to struggle until he spots a strange, large black box in a corner that contains seals and seals as well as a golden symbol.
In addition, bolts of lightning appear that electrocute him when being conjured through arrays above and beside him.
However, even weakened, he continues to fight until they launch black chains that surround him as if they were serpents, with the demon feeling that his powers were being reduced even more quickly while the black chains tightened his tail even more, weakening him at the same time lightning lashed at her skin and scales, her skin being more vulnerable than her tail, knowing that the previous fight against the two mermaids had taken some of her power.
A-Ji, who was disoriented until a few minutes ago, fully recovers only to widen her eyes as she was desperate to see what they were doing to the jiaoren, knowing that the black chains could suppress any power just like the golden ones, with the latter being spiritual currents.
She begins to focus her powers to conjure something by making specific movements with her hands and arms in order to help it.
However, someone stops her by pulling her back, preventing her from continuing to invoke the technique with her hands.
Then, simultaneously, all the currents pull him violently together with the lightning and golden arrows that appear from other matrices to lash him, causing him to end up sucked into the container, with the five matrices from before helping in the process of throwing him. it into the box after emitting an intense golden blast that helped hurl it inside.
With a mixture of despair and horror, she watches the merman being sealed in the transport box that was used to transport demons when the lid closes automatically at the same time that new fudas and seals appear.
Even with the fudas and seals, in addition to the fact that the box was made of the same material as the chains that effectively suppressed one's powers, it was visible his struggle to free himself despite his attempts being futile, especially when a new set of black chains appears and gold ones that firmly surround the container, making their fights not have any effect to the point of the box being stopped when ceasing the movements inside it.
While the celebration for the capture was taking place, dark clouds appeared abruptly in the sky, followed by thunder that vibrated violently while the sea was revolted as if it were furious at the same time in which violent winds suddenly appeared, lashing the skin to the point of causing damage, with A-ji, stupefied, sees a triple barrier appear in front of her and that was not conjured by her, who finally looks back, being surprised to see those responsible for stopping her movement and then creating the triple protective barrier.