Seven days later, the old mermaid king, supported by the high priest, went to the place where the empress was sacrificed. Since being defeated by Ye Yan, the king of Qi, three years ago, the mermaid king, who was already old and weak, was already dying, just barely surviving. Looking at the eldest princess Han and the third princess Na standing on the altar, the two of them were holy and pure, and the mermaid king said with a relieved face: "They are very good, very obedient, really good, let's start the sacrifice, let us feel the divine grace of the ancestors together." ”

"Please sacrifice first. The high priest said aloud.

The eldest princess indifferently placed the tribute into the altar and saluted reverently to the statue of the empress behind the altar. However, at this time, the high priest pretended to say, "What's the matter, why didn't the ancestors respond, is the altar broken, shouldn't it?" ”

Tuo, who was installed by the third princess, took the opportunity to say: "Maybe Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has not been approved by the ancestors. ”

Hearing this, the mermaids were boiling, the prince could not get the approval of the ancestors, this was the first time they had seen it, although it had happened before, but it was hundreds of years ago, the eldest princess already knew that the high priest and the third princess had colluded at this time, but she had no evidence, and it was useless to say it, but the guards on the side scolded: "What kind of ghost sacrifice, will you, how can Your Highness not get the approval of the ancestors, you are mistaken." ”

The high priest saw that a little guard actually dared to contradict him, and hurriedly reprimanded: "Shut up, no one, better than me, sacrifice, you little guard dare to talk nonsense, get out." ”

"I heard that you colluded with the third princess and deliberately said that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess could not be recognized by the ancestors. The other guard stared at the High Priest viciously.

"Fake news, you get out of me too. The high priest commanded the soldiers to throw the guards out.

Seeing that the Mermaid King didn't say anything, the High Priest hurriedly said: "According to the ancestral system, if the prince is not recognized by the ancestors, he needs to choose the prince again, as long as anyone among the inheritors can defeat the prince in the game to prove his strength, he can become the new prince." ”

The mermaid king on the side dragged a hoarse voice and said, "Since that's the case, let's compete." "The mermaid king doesn't care whether the eldest princess has been recognized by the ancestors, after all, he also did not get the approval of the so-called ancestors when he ascended the throne, but he had a good relationship with the high priest at that time, so the so-called recognition of the ancestors is just a formality.

"The competition is divided into three sessions. In the first session, the king gave an exam question. In the second game, each side sings a song, because the song is the long-standing culture of our mermaid tribe, and it cannot be wasted, and in the third game, the two sides have a martial arts competition, and a squire can be invited to participate in the battle. The high priest said to the two princesses, and then asked the mermaid king, "Great king, is this kind of competition feasible?"

The Mermaid King nodded and did not speak, apparently agreeing.

"The competition begins, please ask the two highnesses to stand on both sides of the altar, and now ask the king to ask the question. The High Priest continued.

Looking at the third daughter with a smile on her face and the eldest daughter with an indifferent face, the mermaid king said with difficulty in a hoarse voice: "Enemy country." ”

The high priest and the mermaids were confused, just two words, how to answer this kind of question. The third princess also had a solemn face, of course she understood what the word enemy country meant, but it was impossible for her father to just let himself answer the meaning of the word enemy country, there must be some inner meaning, when the third princess was still thinking about it, the Terran Daoji cultivator on the side reminded in a low voice: "The word enemy country comes from the human emperor Taoist national fortune chapter, the former human emperor asked Yu Taiqing and said, the old enemy country was prosperous and self-reliant, why is it dangerous for the enemy country to die now." Taiqing said that born in adversity and died in peace, so the country will decline if there is no permanent enemy. ”

Hearing this, the three princesses were beautiful, and then looked at the eldest princess who was still thinking, and the third princess was secretly happy in her heart: Sister, you will be defeated today, the position of the prince is mine, and only I can become the next mermaid king.

Then the third princess saluted to the high priest and the mermaid king: "The ancient sages of the human race said, born in sorrow and died in peace, the country has no permanent enemy and declines, the great Zhou of the Middle-earth human race is because the country has no permanent enemy that the king is more and more mediocre from generation to generation, so that the current human race is falling apart and civil strife is not stopped, so if my mermaid clan wants to be strong for a long time, we must always look for enemies for ourselves, and now the human race is in civil strife, which is most suitable as the enemy of our race." ”

Hearing this answer, the mermaid king nodded and was very pleased, although the mermaid clan has repeatedly bullied the mermaid clan, but it is precisely because the mermaid clan is oppressed by the mermaid clan that the mermaid clan should learn the knowledge of the human race, knowing that the other side can win all battles.

At this time, Li Xingmeng also whispered to remind the eldest princess: "The word enemy country not only has the national fortune chapter, but also the vertical and horizontal chapters, and the human emperor road is recorded in the vertical and horizontal chapters, the wind wants to destroy it, and the wood destroys it, but the weeds are prosperous, the strong die and the weak survive, so the enemy country is prosperous and there is no fear of decline and no light." ”

The eldest princess cast a grateful look at Li Xingmeng, but she didn't have time to thank her, and hurriedly saluted the mermaid king, but did not salute the high priest, and the eldest princess spoke slowly: "In the past, the various ethnic groups in Hexi in Middle Earth declined, so the human emperor fought in Hexi, and then the enemy was defeated and defeated, and the human emperor retreated to Luoshui to meet the prince, and the human emperor said sadly, the old fox was prosperous and lonely won, and now the three ethnic groups in Hexi are declining, and the lonely why is defeated." The prince said that the wind wants to destroy it, and the wood destroys it, but the wild grass is prosperous, the strong die and the weak survive, so the enemy country is prosperous and there is no fear of decline and no light. Therefore, although the human race is in decline and turmoil, but we must not underestimate the enemy, our race should make friends with all races, divide the human race, step by step, and must not be the enemy now, otherwise there will be a great disaster. ”

Hearing this, the mermaid king's heart throbbed, three years ago, he was beaten by Ye Yan, the king of Qi, because he was too light on the enemy, and he was called a minister and a tribute, if it weren't for Su Ling'er, the queen of Qi, who killed the king and the fall of the Qi country, originally according to the covenant of the minister, the two princesses would be sent to the palace of the king of Qi to be the favorite concubines of Ye Yan, the king of Qi. Seeing the mermaid king, who was still reminiscing about the past, the high priest reminded lightly: "King, please decide which is better or worse between the eldest princess's answer and the third princess's answer." ”

"Although Na'er's words are reasonable, but in today's situation, Han'er's words are more in line with the development of our race. "The mermaid king, who was scared by King Ye Yan of Qi, did not hesitate to favor the eldest princess.

The Mermaid King's words were undoubtedly announcing the victory of the eldest princess, but the third princess was very unconvinced, and she secretly complained to the Daoji cultivators of the human race: "Obviously, the vertical and horizontal chapters in the Dao Sutra of the Human Emperor are better, why do you want to tell our country the fortune chapter, now it's okay, I lost the first game, are you satisfied." ”

The cultivators of the Terran Dao Foundation were a little speechless, there is no superiority or inferiority in all the chapters of the Human Emperor Dao Sutra, but when talking about the same thing, different chapters should be applied, there is no superiority or disadvantage between the national fortune chapter and the vertical and horizontal chapters, but for the mermaid clan today, the vertical and horizontal chapters may be more suitable.

"Don't worry, there are two more. The Terran Dao Ji cultivator comforted.

"At the beginning of the second scene, please ask the third princess to perform first. The High Priest announced the start of the second game.

The second scene is undoubtedly the weakness of the eldest princess, and the third princess played a traditional song of the mermaid clan to everyone------ "The Empress's Heart Tears" , The song tells the story of before ancient times, when the mermaid empress was just a girl and the Qingqiu Fox Emperor of Qingqiu Mountain fell in love with the lily, and later the Qingqiu Fox Emperor in order to strengthen the fox clan and the Jinwu tribe had a bad relationship, at that time the Jinwu tribe and the mermaid clan were allied, and the mermaid empress and the Qingqiu Fox Emperor also broke down because of this, when they separated, the empress could not forget the time when she and the Qingqiu Fox Emperor, and after returning to the mermaid clan, she shed tears, and the tears gathered to form the story of the empress's tears.

The three princesses' singing skills are speechless, at this time she relied on the results of her own strength, the mermaids listened to this song and wept sadly, hated to incarnate themselves as the empress to find the Qingqiu Fox Emperor to reconcile and fall in love again, above the sea, the seabirds were also attracted by this beautiful singing voice, hovering over the mermaid land for a long time and reluctant to leave, even the mermaid king on the side was moist at the corner of her eyes, this song reminded her of her love with that person when she was a girl when she was a mermaid princess, but in the end because that person was a son of a human race, the prince of the family was forced by the family to marry the most promiscious and ugly daughter of Emperor Zhou Yi, and then became a concubine, that person's family looked down on the weak mermaid clan at that time, and then he had mixed into the mermaid clan and went to Luoyang to pay tribute to the Great Zhou envoy team to Luoyang to find the whereabouts of the prince, but heard that the prince of the family couldn't stand his wife, that is, the princess of the Great Zhou, in front of him to raise many little white faces to cuckold himself, so he killed the princess in a fit of rage, and then he himself was executed by the emperor. Since then, the Mermaid King has never been to Middle-earth except for the time when he fought with Ye Yan, the king of Qi, for Donglai County.

Afterwards, the third princess saluted everyone and said, "My song is finished. ”

The mermaids who were still immersed in the song in the mermaid group were stunned for a moment, and then cheered loudly: "Your Royal Highness the Third Princess, your song is simply wonderful, even the Immortal Hunting Order of the East China Sea that has been widely circulated by the human race over the years is not as good as the song you sang." ”

"Thank you. The third princess smiled and saluted everyone again.

"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, it's your turn, please perform. The high priest said to the eldest princess Han.

The eldest princess Han performed another traditional song of the mermaid clan to everyone------ "Praise the King and Song" , This song is about the ancient period, when the mermaid king united with the red cow clan on the land to declare war on the human race, wanting to stop the expansion of the human race that became stronger and stronger after defeating the fox clan, but during the critical period, the daughter of the mermaid king, the mermaid princess at that time thought that the human race dominated the world is the general trend, and the stubborn resistance will only end up in the same miserable situation as other races that were exterminated by the human race, so he launched a coup d'état, killed the mermaid king, and then ascended to the new king, and surrendered to the human race, and cooperated with the human race to fight the red cow tribe, the tribute required by the mermaid clan is also relatively small among the ten thousand tribes. At that time, the mermaids of the mermaid clan were glad that the mermaid king had surrendered to the human emperor, otherwise the mermaid would have been miserable, so the mermaid wrote this song to praise the mermaid king's peaceful act of returning in time to avoid war.

However, after the eldest princess played this song, which was very popular that year, she was not moved by the mermaids, but many mermaids were very angry with the eldest princess. Time has passed, the reason why this song was popular back then was because the mermaid clan was too weak, the terran was too strong, if the mermaid king did not return to obedience, the mermaid clan would not be much better than the red cow clan, so the mermaid clan at that time was very fortunate that they could survive under the rule of the powerful terran, but now, the civil strife of the terran is declining, and the racial mood of the new generation of mermaids is high, and they can't wait to start a war against the terran now and wash away the shame of the year, and they are naturally very angry when they hear this song of the mermaid king's surrender.

Therefore, even if the eldest princess's singing voice is not worse than that of the third princess, the mermaids can't listen to it at all, and the mermaid king, who was regarded as the mermaid savior back then, is now regarded as a traitor and a shame by many mermaids of the new generation.

There is no doubt that in the song performance, the eldest princess was defeated, and now both sides have won one each, so the high priest said: "In the second competition, Her Royal Highness the third princess wins, and now the third competition is held, and the two sides are engaged in martial arts, and one attendant can be invited to participate in the battle, and the two highnesses are invited to let their attendants play." ”

The third princess undoubtedly chose to let the Dao Ji cultivator of the Terran fight together, but it was difficult for the eldest princess to do it, although Li Xingmeng also learned the cultivation of the Dao Ji, but the eldest princess knew that Li Xingmeng was lazy by nature and did not practice hard at all, and the eldest princess was not clear about what Li Xingmeng's Dao Ji ability was, and as for calling other people to fight together, they didn't even have a Dao Ji, and they were not the opponent of the Dao Ji cultivator of the Terran at all.

"Sister Princess, please trust me. The eldest princess was ready to consider admitting defeat, she would rather not be the prince than let Li Xingmeng be injured or even lose her life in the competition, but at this time, Li Xingmeng, the little girl, clenched her fists and gritted her teeth and said firmly to the eldest princess Han.

Looking at Xiao Meng'er, whose face was resolute, the eldest princess sighed: "If you can't hold on and admit defeat, don't be reckless." ”

"I know, don't worry, sister. Li Xingmeng replied with a smile showing his cute little tiger teeth.