Chapter 1218

If you can't beat them, of course you can only talk.

If he could win, Su Yang wouldn't waste his breath.

"Once we reach your gathering place, would it be possible to let me have a talk with your mother?"

"Probably not!"

"Why?"

"My relationship with that woman is... not good!"

That woman — the one being referred to was surely Little Fish's mother.

"Why?" After Su Yang asked, he noticed Little Fish lowering her head without speaking. Su Yang went on, "Is there something you can't say?"

Sovereign Jiazi also looked at Little Fish; clearly, she didn't know this information either.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Jin Lin the Mermaid is Sovereign Jiazi's beast-companion — even toward Sovereign Jiazi, she still holds things back.

Not every high-level beast-companion is a hundred percent honest with its master.

When some beast-tamers ask their companions about private matters and find the companion unwilling to answer, they may also choose to change the subject.

Who gave beast-companions the right to rebel?

"It's not that there's anything hard to say!" The mermaid forced a smile and said, "That woman is the leader of the gathering place, commanding a number of Blue-Scale and Red-Scale Mermaids. I also have a twin sister whose talent is better than mine... but my relationship with that woman is bad. To be precise, I was exiled."

"Exiled? Did you do something wrong?"

"Mm!" The mermaid nodded. "I did make one little mistake, indeed!"

Su Yang smiled meaningfully. "I'm afraid it was more than just a little mistake, wasn't it?"

The Mermaid clan is extremely powerful in the ocean.

The Blue-Scale Mermaids' racial potential is King-tier, and the Red-Scale Mermaids' is Emperor-tier — that in itself is a terrifying force!

If the mermaid's words are true, and her mother is an Emperor-tier fierce beast commanding many powerful mermaids, then her status must be extremely high.

If, as the mermaid says, she only made one little mistake, how could her mother have so easily banished Little Fish from the gathering place and exiled her outright?

After all, her mother only has two offspring.

Su Yang figured that only solitary fierce beasts would normally drive away their own offspring!

If a beast has subordinates, has a gathering place, it would surely be better to keep all its offspring and form a force together.

Su Yang smiled and said, "Little Fish, it seems you're keeping something from me!"

The mermaid fell silent.

She gazed toward the boundless sea to the west, saying nothing.

Sovereign Jiazi said from the side, "I asked Little Fish about this before too — she doesn't want to talk about the past..."

Before Sovereign Jiazi could finish, the mermaid said softly, "If General Su wants to know, I can tell you."

"..."

Sovereign Jiazi froze for a moment, lowering her beautiful head.

She suddenly felt an urge to leap from the Storm Eagle's talons and plunge headfirst into the deep sea!

So awkward!

Sovereign Jiazi felt the mermaid was more like Su Yang's beast-companion.

The cute, clingy kind, at that!

Su Yang sat leaning against the Storm Eagle's thigh-bone, saying with some curiosity, "I'd quite like to know."

"Mm!"

The mermaid walked up to Su Yang, crawled into his arms, rested her head against his chest, and gently swayed her golden fish tail.

"That woman cultivated a Sea Pearl in the forbidden grounds."

"A Sea Pearl? What's that?"

"An extremely precious treasure. Consuming it can boost a water-attribute fierce beast's potential and talent... Legend has it that, with luck, it might even let an Emperor-tier fierce beast break through to God-tier!" Little Fish smiled and said, "Of course, that's only legend. That woman also said that the Sea Pearls cultivated by the Jin Lin Mermaid clan have never let anyone break through to God-tier."

"And then?"

"I have a younger sister whose talent is stronger than mine. From childhood on, everything she did, she did better than me!"

Su Yang said, "That would indeed be vexing."

"Right!" Little Fish said softly, "That woman said that whichever of me and my sister proved more outstanding would be given the Sea Pearl."

Su Yang narrowed his eyes.

If Little Fish and her sister were in competition...

Then the relationship between the two mermaids was probably not great at all.

"What did you do?"

"I secretly snuck into the forbidden grounds, trying to steal the Sea Pearl. I didn't want to spend my whole life as a weakling."

An Emperor-tier fierce beast counts as a weakling...

Sovereign Jiazi beside them was already too drained to complain.

"You didn't succeed?"

"No!" Little Fish said softly, "Back then, if I hadn't dodged fast, that woman would have killed me on the spot!"

As she spoke, she took Su Yang's hand and slipped it into a gap in the shell.

There, Su Yang could feel Little Fish's beating heart.

The heart's beating frequency was far slower than an ordinary person's!

"Did you feel it?"

"Uh, I felt it..."

"I mean the wound — it's a bit more to the left!"

"Oh!"

Su Yang quickly found the wound.

Even now, there was still a sunken hollow right over the heart.

The mermaid said slowly, "Back then, my heart had split open…"

Perhaps remembering that moment, her body trembled in Su Yang's arms.

Su Yang stroked her long, aquamarine hair and asked:

"Then how did you survive?"

Little Fish scoffed, "It was my younger sister who pleaded for me!"

"You two sisters seem to get along pretty well!"

"Get along? From childhood till now, she's always been nothing but a hypocrite!" Little Fish said with contempt.

"What do you mean?"

"If she truly cared for me, she should have given me that Pearl of the Ocean!"