Chapter 675

The pendant continued to emit red light, and the flame at its center burned ever brighter.

The chieftain tried many times to seize the pendant but failed, while the Earth Fetus Spiritual Qi she had drawn from me kept flowing back along the countless points of light that connected us.

I had thought that once this Earth Fetus Spiritual Power returned to my body, it would still gather in my lower abdomen, causing my belly to gradually swell.

But it didn't.

Moreover, during this process the chieftain kept trying to find a way to sever the bond between us, but she simply couldn't.

Because that Earth Fetus Spiritual Power was being sucked back by the pendant, not because of me.

The Earth Fetus Spiritual Power flowed through my body, continuously condensing into the pendant, which grew ever redder, finally becoming nearly transparent, presenting a beautiful, clear red.

Clearly, this is Jin Wuya and Xiao Jiu Zhanggui helping me.

How exactly did they manage it?

But I couldn't dwell on that now, for it was obvious the chieftain could not maintain the situation with her own power; she no longer obsessed over seizing the pendant, stepped back a few paces, and in the next moment Shi Yin suddenly appeared behind her.

The chieftain waved her hand at me.

Though she said nothing, I understood her meaning; she was signaling Shi Yin that I could not stay.

As she said, I am her most perfect creation, and as long as she could still control me, she would not bear to destroy me.

Yet now, the Earth Fetus Spiritual Qi she had drawn from my body was being sucked into the pendant at several times the speed she had previously absorbed it, and she feared this power that had come out of nowhere.

Unable to obtain it, she would rather destroy it.

Shi Yin had been summoned alone; his Red Armor Army and Black Armor Army did not appear, and I have reason to believe those forces were being held back by Xiao Jiu Zhanggui's people.

So what I must do is stall for time, awaiting rescue.

Thinking this, I shouted toward the approaching Shi Yin: "Shi Yin, the Shi Family has treated you well, and Grandfather regarded you as his own confidant, trusting you implicitly until his last breath— is this how you repay his kindness? Does your conscience not ache?"

Shi Yin's expression did not change.

As a death warrior, and moreover the chieftain's most capable death warrior, Shi Yin's disposition is beyond that of ordinary people; he will not be shaken by my few words.

He drew his soft sword from his waist without hesitation and thrust it straight at my face.

Clang.

A sudden copper bell rang out in the deep sea, and Shi Yin paused in his motion.

"Ah..."

I let out a loud cry, my eyes widening.

I was not frightened by Shi Yin's attack, but I saw infants surrounding the chieftain's body behind him.

Some of those infants had just formed but their organs were not fully developed, looking like aliens; others were already formed, even their gender discernible.

They appeared with the copper bell's sound, incessantly swarming the chieftain, and soon her body was covered in bloody, muddy little infants— some riding her neck, some sitting on her shoulders, some clutching her calves, wailing "Mama," "Mama"...

The chieftain was also stunned by this sight, shaking her body and shouting: "Wicked spawn! I am not your mother, get out! Get out!"

The chieftain struggled and rolled in the water, trying to shake off the infant spirits.

The copper bell rang again, and those infant spirits clung to her even more frenziedly, some already biting, incessantly tearing at her flesh.

Shi Yin, who had been about to finish me, now had no time for anything else; he turned and lunged at the chieftain, his soft sword waving, and each infant spirit vanished in smoke under his blade.

Only then did I notice a white figure slowly descending in the deep sea not far away.

She held an ancient copper bell in her hand, making hand seals and chanting a spell.

Her sudden appearance disrupted everything; she summoned the infant spirits slain by the chieftain with the copper bell's sound, throwing off her layout and additionally restraining Shi Yin— truly killing several birds with one stone.

I know her.

She is the lover of the current Dragon King of the Linghai Dragon Clan, named Zhong Sutsu.

At the same time, she is a close friend of Xiao Jiu Zhanggui.

This is the deep sea within the deep sea, once a habitat of the merfolk; under normal circumstances, no creature could reach this depth without diving gear.

But Zhong Sutsu can.

She herself possesses white dragon bloodline and has awakened the mana of her father, who served as strategist for the Linghai Dragon Clan; she is versed in spells.

I do not know how long she has been here, nor whether she heard the chieftain's words.

She must have heard some of them.

Otherwise, how would she know of the existence of these infant spirits?

I marvel at the orderly layout of the Wufu Town Pawnshop when facing major events, and equally at the breadth of its network.

No wonder Grandfather had me secretly observe the Wufu Town Pawnshop and strive to maintain good relations with it; otherwise, in a crisis, Zhong Sutsu could not have appeared.

"Get out! Get out!"

"You shameless, profit‑losing trash! Lowly breed!"

"After killing you so many times, you dare to reincarnate into my belly— your miserable death is deserved! This is your own doing, it has nothing to do with me!"

"..."

Just as the chieftain's emotions were collapsing and Shi Yin kept slaying infant spirits, several phantoms appeared around them.

Those phantoms had human bodies and fish tails, all male, circling the chieftain and continually swaying their fish tails to strike her.

Shi Yin's hand gripping his long sword trembled; he clearly had not imagined things would come to this.

The souls of the male merfolk who had long been maimed by the chieftain and her father, their merfolk pearls gouged out, actually appeared as well.

For a moment, Shi Yin and the chieftain were completely surrounded, utterly unable to resist.

At this time, Zhong Sutsu had already come before me.

She said nothing, merely pinching her sword‑finger with her right hand, making hand seals and chanting a spell; she pointed her sword‑finger at the pendant, and the Earth Fetus Spiritual Power absorbed into the pendant split into several strands, which instantly entered the souls of those male merfolk along with her movements.

I heard the male merfolk's shouting.

This is their moment of hunting to avenge themselves and their entire clan.

And I, however, had already been taken by Zhong Susu, swimming upward.

I turned my head several times to look, and saw that they were surrounded like trapped beasts, only the chieftain who was getting beaten and Shi Yin remained; watching their attacks grow increasingly passive, I felt an indescribable satisfaction.

Only after Zhong Susu had taken me far away did I look back and find that I could see nothing at all.

As soon as Zhong Susu brought me bursting out of the water, I immediately smelled the salty seawater mixed with a strong stench of blood.

I looked around and saw many corpses strewn haphazardly along the shore; without exception, they were all wearing the specially made uniforms of the Red Armor Army and the Black Armor Army.

No wonder Shi Yin went into the water alone—his people had already been wiped out on the shore……