"It is indeed arrogant to skip the discussion, or even to omit the notification." Qi Huan shook his head helplessly, "No wonder the merman is so angry." Presumably, a hundred years ago, the dragons didn't have a good conversation with them face to face. ”

"Not really, they did have a dialogue on an equal footing. Naturally, there are outstanding people among the mermaids, who have entered the eyes of the dragon clan, otherwise the dragon clan would not have entrusted them with the orb back then. At that time, the dragon clan thought that it would not matter if the merman held the dragon ball. But now it is different, they feel that the mermaids are not as good as they used to be, and they are no longer as respectable as they used to be. ”

"Why? Sure enough, there was some misunderstanding. But...... Shi Long said before, what we heard was only one side? ”

"Definitely. They give the mermaids a chance to communicate, but—"

"They refused?"

"That's nature."

"Yes...... Because he was refused, he took it by force, which is no different from robbing it openly from the beginning. ”

"Salute first, then soldier." Frost Moon Jun smiled, "I said that the dragons are very arrogant. Of course, so are the mermaids. ”

Qi Huan was puzzled: "Why did the treasure bead ......?"

"Well...... this"

Frost Moon Jun turned his head to look at the bulky stone dragon. Shi Long looked at Qi Huan, and the two bright lights in his eyes suddenly danced, as if two small light dragons suddenly came out. They intertwined with each other, and then quickly moved in front of Qi Huan, separated again, and suddenly poured into Qi Huan's eyes.

At that moment, there was a kind of photophobic sting in his eyes, but just for a moment, it was a different scene in front of him.

He saw a very special fish...... No, it's a merman. But her tail was so eye-catching that he overlooked the humanoid part at first glance. The tail was shining with gold, like a mine of gold, like a cloud on the horizon. But there's more to it than just one color. In the swaying water, her tail scales trembled slightly, reflecting a variety of colors. Whether it's the bright red of the grouper, the tender green of the fresh seaweed, the warm yellow of the sand that shines through the waves, the blue of the sea, or the rest of the colorful and brilliant colors like corals, they are all perfectly blended into the layers of golden scales. It's so dazzling, as if all-encompassing, and no other craft in the world can match it.

Connected to the gorgeous fishtail, the body is a wizened old man.

The old man was wearing a thin layer of white silk - it was dragon silk. Compared to the almost transparent colored cloth on their bodies, the kind of white is impenetrable, and the sturdy white is not known whether it is linen or silk. But when it drifts with the current of water and the movement of people, a shallow, colorful light will pass over it.

This silk robe was obviously modeled after the people on land, but it was very old, and Qi Huan remembered seeing it in his hometown. Even if you see it in your hometown, it is a collection from hundreds of years ago, and it is said that it is the burial object of a dignitary. Although the one is very old and will break when you scratch it, the style of the neckline and the pattern of the cuffs are exactly the same as the one on the old merman.

Her thin, withered body was wrapped in the shroud-like dragon silk to make her appear less abrupt on the long, moving tail. She was dry and thin, and her green eyes were cloudy, like emeralds dotted on dead wood covered with cotton wool. The brightly colored fins on her wrists and ears don't compliment her complexion, but only make the strange discrepancy even more obvious. But those are admittedly part of her, there's no denying it.

Her hair was too—it was long, silvery-white hair that complemented the dragon silk. The long hair curled slightly, fluffy and soft, like a large sheet of dense sea foam, reminded him of the hair of Miss Izumi. It's just that the old man's grayer may have something to do with her age. She sits on a floating "chair" with her back leaning back to fit it. The front of the chair looks as smooth as the inside of an oyster, and the back side is as rough as the outside of an oyster.

Could it be that she is......

He froze, and suddenly realized that she was facing a behemoth.

That's one side...... Mirror? No, that should be a human figure. But what is that? Somewhat smooth, but with subtle curvatures. It is black, like a neatly polished obsidian surface. The old man reflected the golden silhouette on it.

It closed suddenly, then slowly opened.

That's one eye of a dragon!

Qi Huan felt himself trembling all over. The dragon was too big for him to see in its entirety, except that he had black eyes and a face like a reef wall. Looking around, it was the color of its face in all directions, covered in dark green velvety seaweed, and soft, flesh-colored anemones swaying in the wind. Shrimp and crabs crawled past the short corals that covered them, and starfish slowly moved over the jagged barnacles.

A giant dragon, a huge dragon with no friends, entrenched here, stacking its body on top of each other, revealing a large space. The only source of light here was a horn peeking out of the dragon's forehead. It actively emits a soft white light.

The old man was calm.

They are negotiating, they are negotiating, they are negotiating.

Eventually, the old man shook his head.

The old man, representing the entire population of the mermen, refused the dragons' request to take the orb. Three k

The dragon left without the slightest hesitation. It pulled its head out of its overlapping bodies, and the scene was plunged into darkness. Immediately afterward, although Qi Huan was still in place, he could still feel a powerful current disturbing everything in an instant. The dragon disassembled its folded body and left in a certain direction. Compared to this bulky body, it swam very fast and disappeared without a trace in an instant. As it pulled out of its body, it formed a huge whirlpool, and the waterspouts swept everything in place like crazy, with no signs of life around it.

The whirlpool subsided, and a large group of mermaids appeared out of nowhere, and they all flocked to the old man's side like crazy. In the chaotic crowd, Qi Huan seemed to see the familiar, orange-tailed female mermaid, who was middle-aged.

Although he didn't hear anything, Qi Huan had clearly known what was going on.

The merman's orb is "alive".

Stripped of the nacre frost shell, the core of the orb is the dragon ball of the legendary little dragon. Dragon Ball is the condensation of dragon life and mana, as important as the brain or heart. Although the dragon will not lose its life immediately after leaving the Dragon Ball, for the dragon clan, thousands of years of cultivation and spiritual power have almost come to naught. Losing it is like a warrior losing his armor on the battlefield - like a human being stripped of a layer of skin. After delivering the Dragon Ball to the little girl, the little dragon disappears. He was still alive, he was almost dead, and the dragon silk on his body could still keep him in the form of a shark, but it could not make him return to the dragon body, to the powerful and arrogant world of dragons.

Compared to its kind, it is nothing more than an immature fool who has precipitated too many unnecessary feelings. The biggest difference between the dragons and the mermen lies in their views on their own people. The merman has a strong family concept, as long as you are a merman with a human body and a fishtail, you are their relative. In their conception, there is no such thing as a "surname". Surnames are just a product of human beings distinguishing family bloodlines. Although the dragons do not have the same competition for resources such as territory, money, and population between human cities and countries, and there is no strict class system, for dragons, strength is everything - not only brute force, of course, but also other spontaneous things such as spells and wisdom. Their concepts are similar to those of youkai, but they are not on the same level as youkai.

Dragons are an older, deeper race. In the eyes of human beings, they are the creatures that are born closest to God.

Dragon Ball, the quintessence of dragon life, is an unattainable treasure.

The little dragon is alive and alive today. However, over time, it has undergone changes beyond human comprehension, even beyond the understanding of dragons. It exists in a special way, in a way that probably the merman cannot understand, and Qi Huan has no way of knowing in this phantom. But that way of survival and existence has obviously attracted the attention of the dragon clan. It must have had a powerful and absolute influence to some extent that gave the Dragons the idea of reclaiming the Dragon Balls.

That orb will give birth to new life—a new soul, a soul that cannot be deciphered in a way of being.

The dragons need it, and the dragons have the ability to hatch it.

But the merman was unwilling to hand it over.

If the orb is handed over, there will be no way for the merman to become a human and leave the ocean. Like the little girl in the legend, cut the fish's tail with a shuttle? Who's going to try?

Perhaps the merman's "selfishness" to leave the orb is fundamentally the same as the dragon's self-care desire to get back what was given away. Qi Huan couldn't comment on whether this was a selfish choice. He was just a human, neither a merman nor a dragon. He just...... A mere member of a group of human beings.

So the so-called misunderstanding deepened. The dragon clan omitted the next part of communication and exchange, and directly made its own judgment - to increase support for the dragon palace and meet all the conditions required by the orb. Among them, there is what it wants, away from the disturbances of the outside world, including the merman. Therefore, getting fake dragon balls from those dragons, as well as other special magic weapons, are all inevitable conditions for awakening the stone dragon. Besides, it can be regarded as the dragon clan recognized the strength of the comer's dialogue. ”

"The merman didn't tell us about the negotiations." Qi Huan frowned and looked at Frost Moon Jun, "They deceived us. ”

"It's just a cover-up, and it's an insignificant part." Frost Moon Jun commented.

"How can it be insignificant?"

"You don't even count." Frost Moon Jun shrugged indifferently, "It's your Bai Shaoxia who is ready to take advantage of your people, and it has nothing to do with the dispute between the two clans. ”

"Bai, Bai ......" Qi Huan suddenly stepped forward, swept past Frost Moon Jun and quickly approached Shi Long, "What about Bai Ya?" The guy just now! Where did he go? Is it some entrance guarding behind you? Also, there is Liu Shenghan next door, there is a woman, she ......"

"Oh, I am deeply touched by your affection."

It's another voice, it doesn't belong to Qi Huan, it doesn't belong to Bai Ya, and it doesn't belong to this stone dragon.

Thoughts can't distinguish the voice, but Qi Huan knows that its owner must be a woman. A woman who is always so calm, a little deep, and a little gloomy.

Liu Shenghan sat on top of the stone dragon's head at some point, shaking his legs. She looked unharmed, not even a trace of blood on her body. It's just that the layers of green silk clothes that were originally piled up under his feet were torn, and they looked short and broken.

Qi Huan was so excited that he almost fainted.

"When—"

"That's why I'm here." She jumped down from the dragon's head, still hovering nearby, floating high above Qi Huan, "From ...... Below, back from a deeper place. It was an endless place, and I left it without touching the bottom of it. But I guess Bai Shaoxia will inevitably face an unspeakable situation. We...... Gotta go find him. I'll talk about the details on the road. ”

Ignoring the thousand words in Qi Huan's heart, Liu Shenghan suddenly took a pen and left an ink on each of the dragon's two eye sockets.

This is the finishing touch.