57. Origin
Fu Feng lost the shark pearl because she was deceived by the immortals, and now she can only be trapped in the dark jungle at the bottom of the sea, but she does not feel lonely with the so-called love company. After returning to the Ling Cave, Mi Yu always longed for the beauty of the outside world, so she kept pestering her father to say that she wanted to go to the sea to take a look, and her father pinched her round face and comforted: "You are a merman, and you don't have legs, how can you get miles? Overseas dry and unusually hot, there are man-eating giant birds, and the endless flames are like purgatory, which is terrifying. ”
In fact, her father didn't know that Mi Yu had secretly seen Fu Feng, and he didn't want her to leave the South China Sea at all, so Mi Yu asked: "How can the merman get legs? If I have legs and can be like a human, then I will have to live on land for a few days." ”
The father smiled at first, but still told her some bizarre legends: "Since ancient times, we sharks have lived in this warm water, and we have never had the idea of going ashore. However, in the long years, there were still a few mermaids, who went through all kinds of hardships for curiosity and got their legs ashore, but most of them were in agony and ended miserably. First they will go to the eye of the sea, where there is a chemical well, and if they can successfully pass through it, they will be able to take human form and go out to sea. But the water in the well is extremely vicious, nine deaths and one life, if there is no strong internal force to urge the body to die, only a pair of dry bones remain, and no one dares to go for nearly a hundred years. Mi Yu, you must remember not to play near the sea eye, don't worry your parents. ”
It's just that I want to go to sea to see, and I have to pay such a big price, it's really not worth it, and I can't help but admire the ups and downs even more.
Fifty years have passed in a blink of an eye, and she is still as innocent and kind as a child for seventy years. And she somehow rekindled the idea of going to land, and secretly took advantage of the moonlit night to quietly swim to the shore, where the beach was white, the trees were mottled, and the sea breeze could be heard howling and the night gulls chirping. She sat down under a boulder, and the purple fishtail slapped against the sea, making waves like "How beautiful! It's not as terrible as my father said, look! Am I not sitting on land?"
grabbed a handful of sand and raised it to the top of her head, and the falling sand smashed Mi Yu's face, and she was stunned for a moment and then giggled, patted her face and wanted to brush the sand and stones from the corners of her eyes, but suddenly her fingers were stuck to her face. It seems that he has been out of the water for a long time, and he barely opened one eye, and he saw that the sea water was gradually receding, and now he has no strength to return to the sea, so he can only struggle on the shore, and if there is no water, he is afraid that he will die here! I really regret that I did not listen to my father. When she left her last tears with the determination to die. Bang! The snapping sea water soaked her almost dry body, it was her mother! was slapping her with a fishtail: "Mi Yu still won't go back with me?" If she was reborn and regained her strength, she took her mother's hand and returned to the South China Sea.
In the past 22 years, Mi Yu is no longer a child, she has lived in the South China Sea for 92 years, and she looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl on land, her lacquered hair is slightly curly like a waterfall like algae, fat white like jade, a fishtail is like a star, and the purple light is shining.
In about a hundred years, she will stop growing, and the spiritual power in her heart will only awaken at that time, and none of the mermaids will look more than twenty or thirty years old.
On this day, her parents called her in front of her, and her father handed her a gold bead the size of corn: "Father, what is this?"
He waved his golden tail: "This is the sacred relic of our merman clan, the fire bead." ”
Mi Yu fiddled with the inconspicuous bead in her hand suspiciously: "It's so small, how can it be a holy relic?" If you accidentally lose it one day, you won't notice it!" The mother took her in her arms and stroked her long hair: "You are still young, you don't know its wonders, but you must remember that it is the most important holy relic of our clan." ”
Mi Yu stared at her mother and blinked: "Then I'll just take it for a long time, can you tell me its origin?" The mother told the story with a smile: "This is a long time ago, there was a year on the birthday of the Queen Mother of the Three Wests, there was a peach banquet in the Yao Pond, and our merman tribe sent the most beautiful and largest golden pearl in the South China Sea to congratulate the Queen Mother of the West on her birthday, and the ancestors of our mermen were sent, who were the first to enter the metamorphosis pool to get the human form. When Kunlun Mountain sent the blue bird to pick up, and when they sent a congratulatory gift and were ready to turn back, a sudden gust of evil wind suddenly rolled up from nowhere, and at this time the Queen Mother of the West was carefully looking at the most of the South China Sea, and wanted to find someone to inlay the beads on their own sword scabbard, accidentally blinded by the strange wind, it happened that a tear fell on the gold bead, the Queen Mother of the West was angry, sent someone to strangle the monster of the wind, and then returned the South China Sea gold bead to the messenger, just because their tears were mixed with the dust and sand from the monster, and it was not worthy of being embedded in the sword. And after bringing back, this bead scatters the light and does not extinguish, and then can avoid the three fires of heaven and earth, so it becomes a sacred object of our clan, and then whenever there is a phantom-tailed merman, it will be given and kept with it, and there will always be only one phantom merman in the entire South China Sea, but somehow, there are two in the South China Sea today. One is you, the other is your father.
We've discussed, and now that you're older, you'll be in your custody. When it encounters fire, it can change size, even if it doesn't make a mantra. After speaking, the mother took the corn-sized fire bead from Mi Yu's hand and embedded it in his ear.
However, after a few days, Mi Yu had the heart to go to land again, this time she swam farther, four hundred miles east of where they lived, and she didn't know that at this moment there was an immortal family driving the clouds to the South China Sea. The immortal with a white face, based on a shore in the South China Sea, because he didn't want to stain his clothes, so he urged the Liuguang barrier to enter the South China Sea and avoid the sea water.
The vast South China Sea is only where he goes, and the sea water is circumambulated. The inner sea is surging, the immortals came to the crystal palace and forced the dragon king to ask about the whereabouts of the fire beads, the dragon king was afraid of his temperament, and said that there is a Ling cave five hundred miles south of the crystal palace, and there are sharks living in it, and those who see the phantom gold can get the fire beads.
The immortal walked south on the sea and clouds, and saw a crowd of sharks in a quarter of an hour, so he stepped forward and called out the woman in green and blue clothes: "Be sure to ask about the whereabouts of the fire beads." The beautiful woman flew out of the obstacle, and saw the merman stirring the sea water with a soft whip, and suddenly the sea water was like a leak, stirring and carrying aquatic plants, corals, shrimps and crabs, and the power was very great. The other mermaids grabbed stones, held pillars, and were stirred up. In short, none of them had the strength to resist, and Qingying looked for a golden-tailed merman with a soft whip around his neck: "Quickly hand over the fire beads." The merman couldn't move, so he could only stare at his big eyes and shake his head: "I don't have any fire beads, and I don't know who has ......." With a snort, the merman was covered in fire, and in the blink of an eye, he was burned to the merman: "Useless people don't stay." ”
With an order, the two of her killed all the unarmed mermen, and the sea was dyed scarlet.
The immortals went straight to the south again, they didn't see that there was a juvenile little mermaid hidden in the boulder cave in the trench, she was Mi Yu's friend, and Xia Shu, who was about to be frightened, poked his head out of the stone cave and looked around, seeing that they were far away before swimming out of the boulder to the east to find Mi Yu.
On the other side, the immortals arrived outside the Ling Cave and were stopped by the merman: "Who are you waiting for? ”
Dare to stop me? The green girl threw her long whip and stabbed the merman's heart, and walked into the Ling Cave leisurely. And when Xia Shu just swam fifty miles, he saw Mi Yu swimming back, and hurriedly grabbed her with both hands and dragged her near the Ling Cave with all his strength, and found a place where water and grass were abundant to hide.
Mi Yu asked cautiously, "What happened so much?"
Xia Shu didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at her, and said with a crying voice: "Just now an immortal came to look for the fire bead, and now he is going to the Ling Cave, that immortal has no good thoughts, and has already killed all his companions in the trench, you go and hand over the fire bead to him, otherwise your parents' lives will be in danger!"
"What......?"
Mi Yu was shocked and dumbfounded, and swam towards the Ling Cave.