Chapter 36: Physician

Physician

"Unless what?"

Xizhi covered her mangled face, her expression full of hatred.

Green medicinal juice applied to the wound barely stanched the blood, and the ghastly white bone was vaguely visible.

Damn that crazy female and the mermaid!

The physician paused with a feigned air of profundity and stated his guess: "Perhaps there are some inside details that even that female does not know!"

"Only that mermaid knows."

"How exactly this flower should be used to purify the Mental Sea."

"What did you say?" Xizhi stared at him with wide eyes, her gaze falling upon his scarred face; she turned her eyes away in disgust, her tone gloomy, "Are you saying the Holy Flower can only be used by that mermaid?!"

She curled her lips, her once cold and glamorous face now hideously distorted: "Damn it!"

"What right does she have?!"

"By the right of me knowing how to use the Yusheng Flower."

A cold, ethereal voice drifted slowly through the seawater, and a stunning mermaid appeared amidst the seaweed behind the coral.

Two-meter-tall seaweed brushed gently against fair, lustrous skin as Chaosheng's gaze landed on the witch doctor holding the Yusheng Flower.

The witch doctor was a lean Male Beastman, his face crisscrossed with scars; because he was in human form, it was impossible to tell his species, and his entire body was wrapped tightly in black-gray beast-hide clothing, yet some bruises could still be seen on the skin that was slightly exposed.

Xizhi looked at Chaosheng in surprise, her tone icy, "How dare you come here?"

Chaosheng ignored her, still looking straight at the witch doctor, feeling that there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity about him.

She felt it was strange; her heart began to beat abnormally, her breathing lost its rhythm, he...

Seeing that she was being ignored, Xizhi became even angrier; she controlled the seashells on the seabed to fly toward Chaosheng.

This was the ability of one of her seashell Beast Husbands, only Second Rank, and she did not usually use it often.

Chaosheng's pupils constricted slightly; she waved her hand, and the seaweed behind her instantly blocked the flying shells.

"Outsider mermaid, how exactly do you use the Holy Flower to purify the Mental Sea?"

Chaosheng no longer looked at the strange witch doctor; she blinked lightly, her crimson lips curving slightly, "I naturally have my own methods."

She swept a faint glance over the wound on Xizhi's face, revealing a trace of mockery, "Oh, why is Clan Chief Xizhi in such a sorry state today?"

Why in such a sorry state? What else could it be for?

Isn't it all because of you?

Xizhi looked at the culprit behind all this with a cold, grim gaze, her brain exceptionally clear at this moment.

In a flash, she remembered that Rusui had once told her this outsider mermaid had a strange ability, perhaps an ability, or perhaps something else.

Rutong had died because of this.

Xizhi's gaze froze; a strange ability?

When she fought Baipei that day, her heart had hurt strangely, and she had been forced to concede and leave in a sorry state.

Xizhi narrowed her eyes, walking toward Chaosheng step by step, her eyes flashing with a strange light, "Is it you?"

"It's you, isn't it?"

Chaosheng blinked and said uncomprehendingly: "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Ha! It is you." Xizhi's face, half cold and glamorous and half terrifying, was exceptionally calm, her eyes lost in a trance, "What secret do you have?"

Chaosheng looked at her coldly, her expression indifferent, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Die!"

Xizhi spoke abruptly, as if announcing a verdict for Chaosheng.

She was her mother's child born in her later years, spoiled and willful from birth; after her mother died, she killed all her brothers and sisters except Xichong to ascend to the throne of Clan Chief.

Afterward, she became the most dazzling female in the Polar Sea.

A powerful Tribe and a beautiful appearance were her invincible weapons.

Her smooth-sailing life began to suffer setbacks and go downhill after meeting this outsider mermaid.

She could no longer bear for this mermaid to live in the world for another moment!

Xizhi's arms suddenly bulged, her eyes fixed on the female mermaid's neck, which was so slender it seemed fragile; kill her!

Her life would then return to the right track, and she would always be the proud and arrogant Whale Shark Clan Chief.

She stretched out her arms, which had grown several times larger, wanting to forcefully push through the seaweed protecting the mermaid.

But those seaweed only blocked her for a moment before being torn to shreds by her mutated arms.

A flash of surprise crossed Xizhi's eyes; wasn't Yinxu a Sixth-tier Wood Element Ability user?

How could she break through so easily?

She looked at the calm mermaid female before her, a flash of wild laughter in her eyes, "Haha, you actually didn't mate with Yinxu?"

"You don't have a Sixth-tier Ability, you only have a Third-tier Ability!"

Xizhi said with certainty; knowing this fact, she became even more emboldened.

A Third-tier female, no matter how different, was nothing in front of her; the gap between the Third Rank and the Fifth Rank was like a chasm!

Chaosheng did not refute, nor was she surprised that Xizhi could guess it.

After all, she had never relied on this ability she had obtained by accident.

She secretly accumulated her Witch Power, wanting to strike back when Xizhi pounced over.

"Wait!"

The witch doctor suddenly spoke; he looked at Chaosheng with great interest, his eyes flashing with a different kind of fanaticism: "How did you use the Holy Flower to purify the Mental Sea?"

"Can you tell me??"

"I am very interested."

Chaosheng froze for an instant, her consciousness echoing back to that painful day long ago, so much so that she did not even notice Xizhi taking the opportunity to choke her by the neck.

"Wait!"

"Let me draw an array formation, lest this Witch break free and run away while being burned by the fire!"

A black array totem glowed with a strange light beneath her feet; she was trapped on the pyre, unable to move at all, as layers of firewood were piled up, and the scorching flames devoured every inch of her skin.

Looking at the physician's familiar silhouette, Chaosheng finally recalled that this was like the priest who had identified her as a Witch.

She blinked her eyes lightly; her neck was being gripped fiercely by Xizhi, and she could no longer breathe.

The intense fire burned her eyes dizzy; at that time, she tried hard to accumulate her supernatural ability, but she was shackled by the array formation and could not use it at all.

But this time it was different!

Immense purple Witch Power burst forth from the tips of her fingers, and the Witch Power reached behind Xizhi, transforming into a purple phantom sword that stabbed fiercely into her body.

"Ah!"

Accompanied by Xizhi's wail, the force on her neck instantly loosened.

Chaosheng clutched her swollen and deformed neck, gasping fiercely; she had no heart to look at Xizhi, who was lying on the seabed wailing in pain.

She walked blankly toward the physician who was watching the show from the side, her neck twisted at an odd angle; she tilted her head and cast her gaze upon the somewhat withered white flower, her voice hoarse, "It is not called a Holy Flower."

"It is called a Yusheng Flower."

"Yusheng Flower, what a truly wonderful name..." The physician looked at the Yusheng Flower in his hand and exclaimed in appreciation.

He acted as if he completely failed to see the clan leader lying on the ground struggling in pain and nearing death; he was as happy as if he had found a like-minded friend, communicating joyfully with Chaosheng.

He had lost his previous memories, but he remembered that he loved studying medicinal herbs, and it was rare to find a Beastman who understood knowledge in this area.

He was now extremely interested in this mysterious Mermaid.

"Yes..." Chaosheng lowered her eyes, and a strange light burst forth from her crystal-like eyes.

Her mind was now a blank, and she could not remember anything at all.

Almost instinctively, she stared at him, and a swift wind vortex surrounded the physician, isolating a massive waterless space within the sea.

Chaosheng lowered her eyes, a bewitching smile curling slightly upon her stunningly beautiful face, and she parted her lips in a daze: "I shall tell you how to use the Yusheng Flower right now."

As soon as the words fell, a scorching bright yellow light ignited from within the wind vortex, and immediately after, the physician's shocked and terrified scream rang out—

"Ah! What is this?"