Chapter 29: So Many Beastmen Have Come

So many Beastmen have come.

"Have you heard?"

"What?"

"That outsider Mermaid can actually purify the Black Filth in the Mental Sea."

"Really?"

"Isn't that just her talking nonsense? If she really had that ability, would she still be exiled here?"

The Red-spotted Salmon female laughed smugly and hurriedly told her little sister the news she had just received, "Of course!"

"I heard she saved a Beastman from the Black Butterfly Tribe. At the time, that Beastman was severely injured and nearly dead; who would have thought she could save him!"

"Is that really true?" The Basking Shark female blinked, full of disbelief. She spat out the fish bone in her mouth and said, still wanting more, "If that's the case, then that news is true too!"

"What news?"

"What is it this time?"

A flash of awe crossed the Basking Shark female's face, and she said with lingering fear, "I heard that Fifth-tier Beastman from the Jingju Tribe was poisoned by Shelan Grass..."

"Shelan Grass? That poison is so fierce!"

"And yet, he was actually saved by that Mermaid."

"I didn't believe it at first, heh..." The Basking Shark female gasped, pondering carefully, "But the Jingju Tribe wouldn't bother lying about this, and besides, hearing you say that, she also saved a Black Butterfly Shell Beastman."

"So she really has the ability to save people?"

The Spanish Mackerel female, however, was indifferent, her face full of hesitation, "Is that criminal female really as amazing as you say?"

"And she saved a Beastman poisoned by Shelan Grass? Can such a lie even be told?"

"Not a single Beastman poisoned by Shelan Grass has ever survived; she could save him too?"

The Red-spotted Salmon female touched her pomegranate-red hair, a hint of calculation flashing in her eyes, "I think it wouldn't be bad for me to go and befriend this female."

"For one, I can probe her bottom line, and for another, if she truly has this ability, befriending her will only benefit us and do no harm."

"Besides..." The Red-spotted Salmon female touched her chin meaningfully and said with great interest, "Even if all these things about her are lies, so what?"

"She should be a female with a Sixth-tier Ability now; who in the entire Polar Sea can beat her?"

The Red-spotted Salmon female guessed that since the Mermaid had already married those two Beast Husbands, it was unheard of for a female who had married not to immediately mate and gain ability, so she naturally inferred that she now had Sixth-tier strength.

The Spanish Mackerel female rolled her eyes in disdain, "Honglianlian, why are you so snobbish?"

"That Mermaid just seduced two high-tier Beastmen, and you're already in such a rush to suck up to her?"

"Heh!" Honglianlian gave a cold laugh, "You're just envious that I can go and suck up to her, but you can't."

"You Blue Sharks rely on licking the Whale Shark Tribe to survive; if Clan Leader Xizhi finds out you're currying favor with that Mermaid, she'll tear you apart!"

"You..." Masha's breathing stalled from anger, and she looked at Honglianlian with a face full of fury.

"Oh! Alright!" Muyi looked at these two Sea Beastmen in distress, wondering why they were arguing again, "Stop fighting!"

"Hmph!"

"Hmph!"

Masha and Honglianlian turned their backs in unison and snorted coldly, temporarily calling a truce.

The news that the criminal Mermaid could really save Beastmen spread quickly.

Overnight, the news spread rapidly throughout the Polar Sea.

Many Sea Beastmen scrambled to swim toward that remote and harsh Ice Cave, wishing they could let this Mermaid help them/their Beast Husbands clear their Mental Seas.

The little Mermaid was sleeping groggily when she was interrupted by these Beastmen.

Some were in human form, wearing simple and plain beast-hide clothes that barely covered their private parts.

Others were in their original forms; some were as big as a mountain, and others were as small as the cod that Chaosheng often ate.

They all stood in the water, waiting eagerly just outside the cave entrance.

"Hey, where is that Mermaid? She wouldn't be out, would she?"

"Why don't you go in and see?"

"I'm not going, you go."

The Sea Beastman rolled his eyes; he wasn't a fool. If he went in and ran into that little tyrant from the Jingju Tribe, he'd barely keep his life, so he didn't want to!

The noise of the Sea Beastmen talking was incessant, and it soon woke Chaosheng up.

After Chaosheng woke up, she looked through the light at the cave entrance in a daze and saw so many Sea Beasts that she was completely stunned.

She swallowed in shock and reached out a slender, soft hand to push Baini, who was still sleeping beside the shell, "Baini, many Beastmen have come to find us."

Baini had been sleeping exceptionally soundly, as he had consumed too much physical strength yesterday and definitely needed to make up for it with sleep. Feeling the shaking on his arm, he said groggily, "What's wrong? Was there an undersea earthquake??"

Chaosheng's consciousness finally cleared, and remembering that Baini was still poisoned, she let go in annoyance, "Never mind, you keep sleeping."

Yinxu walked over slowly from the cave entrance, "Sheng, you're awake?"

"Yinxu!" Chaosheng's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked him, "What's going on outside?"

"Why have so many Beastmen come?"

Yinxu smiled lightly, his gaze soft, "They are all here for you."

Chaosheng pointed at herself in surprise, her face full of disbelief, "For me? What do they want with me?"

"I don't know them."

Yinxu nodded, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes, "They are indeed here for you."

"They heard you can really clear the Mental Sea, so now they've all come to find you."

"Ah?" Chaosheng widened her eyes in surprise, her amethyst-like eyes looking dazed, and she asked stammeringly, "This... so many Beastmen?"

"Mm." Yinxu blinked his eyes slightly, the corners of his mouth curling up with an ambiguous meaning, "Yes."

"I heard that after the Treasure Hunt, there were far more Beastmen going to the Whale Shark Tribe to trade for Sea Spirit Ginseng than this."

"A Mental Sea Riot used to be a dead end, with no medicine to cure it."

"Now that there is a chance to cleanse the filth in the Mental Sea, how could those Beastmen not be tempted?"

After listening, Chaosheng fell silent, biting her crimson lips in a conflicted manner.

She had said that everyone could come to her if they had a need.

However, the experience of saving the Black Butterfly Shell Beastman last time was not good, and her interest in saving Beastmen had faded.

With so many Beastmen suddenly arriving for her help, she truly did not know what to do.

"Ha!" Baini rubbed his sleep-tousled black hair, looking at them with bleary eyes, "What are you talking about!"

Chaosheng tilted her chin toward the cave entrance, "Look! So many Beastmen have come to ask me for help in cleansing their Mental Sea."

Baini frowned, a hint of ferocity surfacing between his handsome brows, "Do you find them noisy? Shall I go and drive them away?"

Having said that, he was about to walk toward the cave entrance.

"No, no!" Chaosheng stopped him in time; her hesitation vanished, and she finally made up her mind, "It's not that I don't want to save them."

"But I don't have any herbs right now, and I can't help so many Beastmen all at once; I just don't know what to do."

"Oh." The ferocity on Baini's face faded, replaced by a touch of weariness, "That's simple."

"I'll just tell them to come back in a few days, won't that work?"

Chaosheng nodded, feeling that this was the only way. As if thinking of something, she added, "How about this, you go and pick a few Beastmen who have good relations with the Jingju Tribe, and tell them to come find me in three days."

"Those who are close to the Whale Shark Tribe won't do."

"Baini, you are more familiar with these relationships, so you go and pick them."

Then she turned her head to look at the silent Yinxu and said, "Yinxu, you go with Baini."

The residual poison in Baini's body had not yet cleared, and she was a bit worried.