The sea festival is a common custom here in Yilong Town - the people of the town rely on Yuhaiqiao Mountain for their livelihood, and in order to pray for a good harvest, people will perform songs and dances at the boundary of the coastal mountain. This custom is not so much a thanksgiving for the bountiful harvest of the Sea Dragon King, but more like a conveyance of a yearning for a better hope.

At the ceremonial celebrations, the families that are best at rituals are elected as squires, and they inherit this solemn dance year after year. Every time the mountain is warm and the fishing season is open, the squire will dance all the way to the music accompanied by the people of the town—from the town to the mountain shore, from the mountain bank to the shoal, from the shallow to the vast ocean, until one day, with the rippling of the ocean, stirring the waves in the deep sea.

"Brother, what kind of voice is coming from the sea, it doesn't seem like a call, it doesn't look like a shout, but it is a celebration of something......"

The mermaid swung her long tail and leaned on the side of the dragon's high chair, flashing her big eyes with curiosity.

"Yuzhu'er," the dragon petted his sister's hair, "this is the people of the world praying and congratulating. ”

"Congratulations on what?"

"Congratulations on the abundance of sea and the abundant harvest of fishing wood. ”

The mermaid smiled, "All things in the sea nourish and compete with each other, and there are also earth spirits in the mountains that wither and grow, so reincarnation is the way of nature." The people of the world can just enjoy the mountains and seas alone, why do they want to send such wonderful news to attract us?"

The dragon held his sister's smile, "If you're really curious, why don't you go and enjoy it?"

"Hmm. ”

The mermaid nodded, then put on her beautiful long tail and swam towards the shallow sea. Where the light of the sky can be seen, the blue waves emerge, revealing half of the jade forehead. Her pink pearl-like eyes looked at the mountain bank, and she saw a slender young man in a green shirt dancing. The posture of the young man dancing is like a fish and a gull, sometimes wandering in the blue waves, sometimes swimming in the sky, under the support of the rhythm of bells and drums and the mountains and mountains, unrestrained and free.

"It's beautiful, it's fun. ”

The mermaid Yuzhuer was immersed in the dance of the man on the mountain bank, and before she knew it, she was watching from the sunset all over the sea to the sunset. It wasn't until the young man in the green shirt put away his graceful dancing and set out on the way home that she retracted half of her body that she had leaned out of nowhere, and swung her long tail again, before returning to the deep sea.

"Brother, the guy who danced on the shore of the mountain is good. The mermaid came back and happily described to her brother what she had seen, "Yuzhu'er has never seen such a beautiful person, if only she could go to the world to see him." ”

"You and I are both beasts in the sea, how can we win the world?"

"Even though my fishtail can't go to sea, my heart has long been taken away by his dance. The pink eyes of the shark girl reflect infinite yearning - some for the world, some for the dancer, "Next time, I must also take my brother to see it." ”

The dragon still smiled—he had seen the ritual dance of the world many times. Although he could not understand why humans should celebrate the way nature grew, he did not bother. The dragon guards this mountain and sea, just so that his sister's smile can stay by his side all the time.

"So, do you long for eternity?"

Whenever the dragon has something to look forward to in his heart, this voice appears, there is no temperature, no ups and downs, no source, as if his soul is asking questions of himself.

"Eternity is invisible, unattainable......" the dragon muttered to himself, sighing softly.

"Then it's better to give up this body and chase what you want in your heart with the posture of a soul......"

The dragon stood up violently, "Who, who is bewitching me?!"

All around, however, it was quiet as usual.

It was night, on the shore of the mountain near the sea, a figure suddenly dangled out from among the rocks - a series of lonely footprints, dejected to the shallow sea.

His steps, though slow, did not stop, step by step, towards the dark and cold deep sea......

Neither the bright light of the sea nor the stars in the sky could reflect his expression, and the rising black tide soon engulfed the young man's body, and in the endless ocean, like a helpless leaf, fluttered and fell.

"Princess, come and see!" the guarded shrimp soldier swam in a hurry, but had to whirl behind the pink beaded curtain.

The mermaid got up from the shimmering mussel shell, swam to the shrimp soldier with her tail swinging, "What's going on?"

The shrimp soldier said: "Princess, a mortal was found in the sea. ”

When the mermaid heard this, she hurriedly opened the bead curtain, and the beads touched a messy string of crispness.

In the deep dark trench, the young man in the green shirt lay in front of Princess Yuzhu'er's eyes, his gray lips and pale face complaining of the stiffness of his body.

"Why is he?" the mermaid stared blankly, the person who was still dancing before the sun went down was now like this......

"Yuzhu'er, mortals are different from us, their lifespans are usually short. When Long heard the news, he rushed over, held his sister's trembling shoulders, and whispered comfort.

"Brother, can you bring him back to life...... "Moist pearls fell from my sister's pink eyes, and the pearls fell into the mud in the sea, smashing my brother's sensitive heart.

"Yuzhu'er, good sister," the dragon frowned, "mortals' birth, old age, sickness and death are all natural reincarnations, and neither you nor I have the ability to interfere." ”

"But brother, he shouldn't have died......"

"Yuzhu'er, you are Ruiling in the sea, pay attention to your words when you speak. The dragon reproached his sister and said, "The life and death of all things, including you and me, are all controlled by the star officials of the heavenly realm, how can you judge the life of a mortal whether it should be or not?"

"If the Celestial Star Officer could see such an elegant dance, he would definitely not think that he was a person who had run out of life. Yuzhu'er argued with her brother on the basis of reason.

The dragon stared at his sister for a while, and finally sighed, "This person's soul has passed away, if you want to be resurrected...... Unless it's soul for soul!"

Her brother's words were accompanied by a cold current flowing past Yuzhu'er, and she was stunned to stay at the person who sank to the bottom of the sea, not knowing what to do.

The dragon turned back to his abode, only to find a messenger wearing a black wood mask and white robes waiting for him.

"Sure enough, you longed for eternity. ”

The dragon groaned, "Yuzhu'er likes that mortal's dance, but I can't let him bring her heart to the world. ”

"The mortal body is too fragile, I wanted him to dance for Jade Pearls in the sea, but unfortunately ......" The dragon shook his head as he opened his palm, a blue bead in his palm, "I can't drive his soul. ”

The masked messenger said, "The source of strength is faith, and only by believing in eternity will it give you power." ”

"How to believe in eternity?"

"Lay down your visible body, and sacrifice your soul. Strip away all shackles in the name of good intentions, and just tell the truest obsession in your heart, if it is pure enough, eternity will come to you. ”

"Here...... Where?"

"Here, of course. ”

The masked messenger pointed to the dragon's heart with a closed fan.

With his palms clasped together, Long Yong recited the thought that had been hidden deep in his heart because he had once regarded him as unbearable.

"May the currents in the sea turn into my affectionate shackles and imprison my sister Yuzhu'er's restless heart. I dedicate the immortality of my soul to eternity, and may my sister be with my obsession!"

The dragon reopened his folded hands with the sound of his prayer, and the green bead floated in the palm of his hand, and began to gradually reveal a layer of black mist.

"Everything in the world is born of the spirit, and because of the wisdom is the demon, only you believe in the eternal heart that can drive it to ......"

The masked messenger stood behind the lord of the sea, and with a string of ancient incantations, a blazing light and shadow were stripped from the dragon's humanoid body—the dragon's spirit.

"Now, answer me, do you believe in eternity?"

"What's wrong with you, brother?!"

The girl with the long tail of the scales witnessed this scene, and she screamed in horror, but she did not dare to approach rashly.

The dragon, who had been stripped of his spirit, turned his head with difficulty and looked at his sister, "Yuzhu'er, I will definitely be able to find the real ...... you in the eternal world."

As soon as the words fell, the dragon's spirit condensed into a reef with withered yellow seaweed, and his humanoid body scattered into a miasma, enveloping the green beads attached to the black mist!

The black and blue bead floated and eventually returned to the masked messenger.

"You...... What did you do to my brother?!You return my brother!!"

The angry mermaid flipped her wrist and opened her palm, striking two bundles of sea blades!

And the strange messenger in the white robe and mask resisted these two dangerous bundles with only an open fan.

"Ahh

"Your brother is lost, and only by eating the polluted soul can you save him back.....

Before she fell unconscious, Yuzhu'er only remembered this, and when she woke up, she was already on the shore of the mountain. A young man in a green shirt kneeling next to him seemed to finally wait until the beautiful girl opened her eyes.

"Are you awake?" said a reassuring smile on his pale face, and the squire's cheeks flushed faintly.

Yuzhu'er's pink eyes only looked at her long tail with colorful scales in a daze, turning into the slender legs and feet of a girl in a double room.

"I'm sorry, I seem to have forgotten what happened before I woke up, but I only remember that I was separated from my brother...... Can you tell me where this is?"

The corners of the young man's mouth were slightly raised, there was a looming black miasma between his eyebrows, and a dragon tail swayed behind him......