Chapter 314 - 312: How Absurd

Chapter 314: Chapter 312: How Absurd

The Sea Witch, still not understanding the situation, barked sharply:

"How dare you! Is that any way to speak to the Queen?"

Among the Sea Clan, the Mermaid Royal Family was the ultimate symbol of nobility.

This woman before him had suddenly burst in. It was one thing that she had no manners, but to hold the Princess while interrogating the Queen!

Even if she was the Princess’s mother, she had no right to speak to the Queen that way!

As the Sea Witch, he had lived for two hundred years and would never allow any land-dwelling member of the Beast Clan to challenge the dignity of their Sea Clan!

But his sharp words had barely faded.

"Who gave you permission to yell at her?"

Huang Ziyue spoke icily, and he, Mu Silin, and Bai Chaosi struck almost simultaneously.

A palm strike shot forward.

The immense power slammed directly into the Sea Witch.

The Sea Witch shuddered and swiftly slammed his scepter onto the ground.

A dazzling blue Light Shield instantly erupted before him, trying to block the blow.

But when the powers collided...

BANG!

The entire great hall of the Undersea Palace shook violently, and the surrounding seawater seemed to roil.

The Sea Witch was sent flying and crashed heavily to the ground.

He spat out a large mouthful of blood before he could barely prop himself up.

He stared with wide, horrified old eyes, looking at Huang Ziyue and the other two in disbelief. ’This power... this terrifying spiritual power...’

It was far beyond his comprehension.

’Could it be the legendary SSS Spiritual Power?’

"You... you people...?!"

He choked on another mouthful of blood. In all his long life under the sea, this was the first time he had ever encountered beings with such terrifying spiritual power!

The Queen and the Mermaid King were also stunned!

The most spiritually gifted Beastman from the land’s royal families could only reach the S+ level at best.

But the power in that single attack from these three men far surpassed the S+ Spirit Power they were familiar with...

’Could they have reached SSS+? What kind of strength is that?’

’Could it be that in just a few short years, the land’s Beast Clan has become this powerful?’

Only then did the two of them, with dawning shock, turn to look at Shen Yue, who was holding Xi Xi.

’What charm could this rumored ugly female from the Duke Mansion possibly possess to have several Beast Husbands with such heaven-defying spiritual power all at once?’

’How on earth did she do it?’

Yun Lie Ting, who had never witnessed the true strength of Huang Ziyue and the others, was also stunned.

Ever since he joined their group and traveled with them all the way to the Undersea Palace,

he had only seen these men being completely subservient to Shen Yue, serving her tea, fetching her water, and letting her order them around as she pleased.

They were as docile as loyal hounds with no temper at all, waiting on her hand and foot.

He had never understood their true strength!

But after that one strike, he was shocked. ’I can’t believe their spiritual power is this strong.’

’And I’ve only just broken through to SS Spirit Power. Doesn’t that make me the weakest among them?’

’But I’ve never heard of any royal family member’s spiritual power reaching such a terrifying level.’

’How did they do it?’

As he mulled it over, he suddenly recalled how, some days ago, his spiritual power had been damaged, and Shen Yue had beaten him up...

But when he woke up, his subordinates told him that two drops of water from Shen Yue had saved him.

His spiritual power core had been repaired, and his spiritual power had broken through its bottleneck...

His heart skipped a beat. ’Could it be... the reason these men are so powerful... is because of Shen Yue?’

Shen Yue knew that the strike from Huang Ziyue and the other two wasn’t just to vent her anger.

It was also meant to intimidate the Sea Clan people.

After all, the undersea world was the Sea Clan’s territory. To them, her group were outsiders.

For outsiders to step into their world, gain the right to speak, understand the situation, and save Xi Xi, they first had to shock everyone here into submission with a single blow!

To make them quiet down and listen.

At this moment, even the little ones who had been randomly biting the Mermaid King jumped down and ran to Shen Yue’s side.

Seeing Xi Xi in her arms, the little ones’ eyes turned red.

"Mother, how is Xi Xi?"

"Yeah, what’s wrong with our little sister?"

"Wubao wants Little Sister to wake up!"

Shen Yue held Little Qi, whose breathing was faint, and gently stroked her daughter’s cold little scales with her fingertips.

She looked up, her eyes a mixture of heartache and chilling cold, and spoke again, her words deliberate and heavy.

"Explain. What exactly happened to Xi Xi?"

The Mermaid King, who had been too intimidated to even breathe moments ago, still had the faint teeth marks from the little ones’ bites on his legs.

Ignoring the pain, he looked at his dying granddaughter in Shen Yue’s arms and sighed, his face ashen.

The Queen’s eyes were also red. She took a half step forward and, with a trembling voice, revealed everything.

It all started when Lan Cangyue recklessly brought Xi Xi back to the Undersea Palace. The Black Sea, which had been dormant for ten thousand years, suddenly began to churn and revive overnight.

The pitch-black water, like a man-eating beast, spread toward the Sea Clan’s domain at a visible speed.

Wherever it passed, coral withered, schools of fish died out, and even the strongest reefs on the seabed were swallowed by the Black Sea.

Panic spread throughout the Sea Clan. The Sea Witch traveled overnight to Sea Cliff Nu to pray, only to see the bone-chilling lines of the Divine Prophecy all manifest.

Just as the prophecy said: exchange the Princess’s soul for the prosperity and peace of the Sea Clan.

From that day on, Xi Xi began to fall into deeper and longer slumbers, to the point where she could no longer wake up.

And during these days, as Xi Xi slept, the Black Sea’s turmoil subsided somewhat.

It was as if, by some unseen design, she was the pawn fated to be pushed into the abyss.

The Sea Clan’s elders racked their brains for a solution. The Sea Witch was powerless to reverse the prophecy, and no one could awaken Xi Xi.

Although the Mermaid King and Queen were heartbroken, they were cornered, facing the life and death of the entire Sea Clan.

They could only watch helplessly as Xi Xi’s life force was drained away, bit by bit.

They watched their once pink and cherubic little granddaughter wither away day by day, becoming the dying figure she was now.

She couldn’t even open her eyes and consciously call out for her Grandpa and Grandma.

The Sea Witch pushed his injured body up from the ground, his fishtail dragging pathetically behind him. His voice was filled with helplessness and despair.

"That’s right. Did you think we wanted to sacrifice a child? But the divine oracle cannot be defied. Once the Black Sea fully erupts, all life under the sea will be annihilated."

"Perhaps even the land won’t be spared... Xi Xi... she is the first Princess born to the Undersea Royal Family in hundreds of years. The Divine Prophecy fell upon her. We... we simply can’t stop it."

As his voice fell, a dead silence descended upon the great hall.

Only the faint sound of slowly flowing water could be heard, making the atmosphere feel even heavier.

The men in the hall listened to the whole story, stunned. They never expected the Sea Clan to have such a Divine Prophecy!

’To tie the life and death of the entire Sea Clan to a single Princess?’

It was truly astonishing to them.

After listening, Shen Yue lowered her gaze to Little Qi, who was frowning and struggling in a nightmare in her arms.

It felt as if an invisible hand was squeezing her heart, the pain so intense it nearly suffocated her.

’A Divine Prophecy? A sacrifice?’

’Using my four-month-old daughter to trade for the so-called peace of the Sea Clan?’

She snapped her head up. Monstrous fury and crimson veins roiled in her eyes, and her voice was so cold it could shatter the jade stones of the seabed.

"How absurd!"

"I’d like to see just how capable this Divine Prophecy really is, to think it can steal my daughter’s soul!"