Madam General, please run slower.

At this time, Ayu is an adult. Her tail is like the softest silk ribbon in the sea, swaying gently. Each scale is like a carefully carved work of art, emitting a charming luster. The color of the tail is different shades of blue, from light sky blue to deep ocean blue, like a gradient painting.

But she was holding a bleeding wooden box in her hands, which completely tore apart this beautiful picture.

Ah Yu wandered around the scarlet palace, not caring about the stains on her body. After the wooden box in her hand was safely placed on the throne on the high platform, she turned around to clean up the mess in the palace. While cleaning up the debris, she kept mumbling as usual:

"I messed up this beautiful palace so badly. I really owe you something in my previous life."

"I'm living well in the sea, why do you want to mess with me?"

"You said we wanted to be friends right when we met. How could I know what a friend is? I should have bitten you to death right then."

"You said human food was delicious, but you didn't even bring me a bite."

"You said you would take me to the land to watch the sunrise, but you broke your promise again."

"And now you have the audacity to ask me to build you a statue. Ugh!"

"I won't build it for you, you liar...liar..."

A Yu didn't stop moving her hands, but her voice became smaller and smaller. Tears flowed down her cheeks and turned into crystal pearls when they fell to the ground.

The usually bustling palace disappeared at the bottom of the sea today, leaving only a lonely little mermaid, and no one could tease her helplessly as a "silly fish". Everything disappeared like a mirage, as if this period of time was just a fantasy she had imagined because she had been alone at the bottom of the sea for too long.

Li watched the mermaid cry and wail, and then finally remained silent. She wiped every blood stain in the palace with her own hands, one by one, and took the trouble to wipe it off. It took her three days to do something that could be solved with a few cleaning spells.

In the end, the hard-mouthed but soft-hearted little stupid fish used up all her spiritual power to build a statue for her "liar friend" in the center of the palace, and she chose to sleep in the arms of the statue, as if she were still alive.

The picture freezes here.

Li looked at the small wooden box in the statue's hand and asked, "After reading it, what next?"

The consciousness covering the wooden box seemed to be choked by these words. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "Take good care of her for me."

"Whoever commits sin must pay for it himself." Li didn't buy it at all. Doesn't she look like a big villain?

Li really didn't hate this little mermaid, and if she wanted to leave, she was willing to take her out to see the world. But this was also based on the premise that there was no conflict of interest between her and the fish, and whether to take care of it or not depended on her mood.

And you are "taking care of her". Who are you? Do we know each other?

Divine consciousness: ...

"Okay, stop talking nonsense." As Li finished her words, the wooden box containing the foot bones was tightly wrapped by the dark spiritual power. This time, Li was able to touch the foot bones in the box easily. That trace of spiritual consciousness seemed to really recognize her and did not release coldness to attack her again.

Li quickly concentrated her mind and energy, using her mental power to wrap the bones of her feet fiercely. The refining process was extremely painful, as if countless steel needles were piercing the soles of her feet, and every piercing pain made her tremble uncontrollably.

Li closed his eyes tightly, focusing all his attention on his body, using his willpower to conquer the pain in his body. Time seemed to be extremely long at this moment, and every second was extremely painful for Li. The dark spiritual power gradually grew stronger, and it fiercely attacked the stubborn pair who tried to resist without knowing what was good for them.

In the air, there was an almost transparent figure floating, looking at the people below with satisfaction.

When she realized that she was about to dissipate, the woman slowly spoke:

"Please give me a message."

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"Thank you, and I'm sorry."

Li repeated the man's words expressionlessly, but Ayu still cried bitterly. She had been waiting for these words for hundreds of years.

After Li finished speaking, she went to the side to regulate her breathing, not caring whether others were crying or not. The foot bone was perfectly integrated into her body, but the divine power on the foot bone was enough for her to digest for a long time.

After howling for a while but not getting any comfort, A-Yu suddenly felt it was meaningless. "Get out as soon as you finish carving the teleportation array. Your body is still floating outside. If you die, you will just be a ghost cultivator."

"Okay." Li Qing responded, and spiritual power passed through his fingertips, smoothly laying out a teleportation array on the ground.

"Your formation?" Ah Yu had just cried, and her voice was hoarse. "Why is it different from the teleportation formation I remembered?"

"I made some slight improvements myself." Li's body was full of spiritual energy at this time, and he had drawn the formation in just a few seconds.

Ah Yu looked at the completed formation on the ground in amazement. He looked left and right and found it very strange. "Are you a formation master?"

"I just researched it blindly. It can't compare to the ancient formation at the entrance of your forbidden area."

Li waved her hand indifferently. This formation she used was improved from that old guy in the cold palace forbidden area. After all, that thing had teleported her several times, and she had seen it all.

Ah Yu suddenly stopped talking. How old is she? If she continued to study the quality of this teleportation formation on the ground, a thousand years later, her formation might be called an ancient formation by future generations.

"You don't have any objection?" Li raised his eyebrows lightly with a smile on his lips.

"What are you refutating?" A Yu tilted his head with a puzzled look on his face.

"Ancient formation." Li tapped its fish head. "I used the term 'your forbidden areas', so the maze in the capital and your illusion formation were both created by the same person."

"I guess there should be more than just these two places. Then why did he come to the Savage Continent to set up multiple ancient formations? Is he trying to hide something? The person who set up the formations... couldn't he be your 'liar friend'?"

"No, it's not like that." A Yu denied hurriedly.

"Your hasty denial proves that I was right."

A Yu was almost crying with anxiety. She finally understood why the old man wanted to throw the person to her. Didn’t he know that she was too stupid to think straight?

"Don't cry, don't cry." Li would never do such a tasteless thing as making a girl cry.

Li gently rubbed its curly hair and changed the subject, "I can take you outside. Do you want to go out and take a look?"

"Ah?" Ayu's tears were about to fall. When she heard that Li was going to take her out, her eyes brightened a little, but she became depressed again in a moment, "I can't go out now."

Li didn't say anything else and mobilized his spiritual power to activate the formation.

A Yu curled her lips. She shouldn't have expected her to comfort herself. But the next moment, the person in the formation spoke. The familiar nickname and the familiar promise made A Yu think she was hallucinating.

"Little silly fish, I will take you out to watch the sunrise in the future. Keep your word."

A Yu looked up and saw Li looking at her with a chuckle, then disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.

The poor little fish started dropping pearls again.