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Li Guang's expression remained calm, as if everything was under her control.

"So you harbor resentment towards the Merfolk. Which Merfolk elder was your mother?"

"Haha, how can I not resent it? Do you know how difficult it has been for me since I was a child? My mother was a member of the Merfolk Royal Guard."

She's always been proud of her status as the Empress's personal guard. Why should she abandon me and return to the Merfolk to protect the Empress as she grows up, all at the Empress's command? She left me to grow up alone and miserable! But do you think the Empress will still care about you?

Li Guang didn't want to know about Shen Ci's experiences. Shen Ci's obsessive appearance suggested that he might have seen something in the illusion, and he seemed to be filled with resentment.

However, she learned a lot from Shen Ci. This black shark was clearly the kind that couldn't forget the shark clan. Without love, how could there be resentment?

"Otherwise, why would she leave me the key? She hopes that I will accept the inheritance and return to the East China Sea as soon as possible."

"Haha, you're really naive. Everyone knows that when the Mermaid Queen first came out to travel, she was deceived by a cultivator and almost lost her Mermaid Pearl. Out of love turned to hate, she even abandoned her daughter who was still in the Mermaid Egg."

The moment I saw you, my magical artifact started heating up like crazy. It told me that you are of royal blood. But there are no such coincidences in this world. In the last fifty years, there have only been two people of royal blood: the little mermaid born to the Empress and Princess Shu Yun, the red mermaid born to the Empress's cousin.

The Empress's cousin died unexpectedly, so the Empress adopted Princess Shuyun. If the Empress truly loves you, she will take you back to the East Sea. You may not know this, but a few months ago, the East Sea Merfolk already had a new heir—the Empress's adopted daughter, Princess Shuyun. Even if you wanted to return to the East Sea, you can't!

During the time Shen Ci was speaking, Li Guang was subjected to constant attacks on her soul and sonic illusions. Shen Ci was trying to disrupt her thoughts and make her reveal a weakness.

She dodged Shen Ci's attack once again. Honestly, if you're going to talk, just talk. Why resort to sneak attacks?

After a long while, Shen Ci said solemnly, "You really don't seem like a Qi Refining stage cultivator. Your spells are too smooth. If you had this level of skill during the Loose Cultivator Competition, you would have won first place long ago."

"And your soul magic even affected me, causing me to unknowingly reveal many secrets! Tell me, who are you, old monster? How dare you possess my merfolk!"

"This is ridiculous! If you want to fight, then fight! As a member of the Merfolk, I know illusion magic and soul magic. Isn't that my innate talent?"

"Damn it! Are you belittling my talent?"

This person suddenly went berserk again. After a series of attacks, Li Guang really couldn't understand what this person was thinking. Was it so easy to break through his defenses?

Finally, she got fed up and cut her palm, dripping blood onto the key. After a flash of white light, she disappeared from the hall.

Shen Ci watched as the person disappeared, and was so angry that he wanted to smash the main hall. Unfortunately, with his current Qi Refining stage cultivation, he didn't have the ability to destroy the main hall, which was made of special materials.

Finally, he decided not to waste any more time and headed to the back of the main hall, hoping to find an opportunity.

After being sent to the inheritance area, Li Guang did not immediately accept the inheritance. Instead, after undergoing a series of tests, she appeared in a sorry state in a passage paved with bones.

The stone walls on both sides are covered with murals.

Mermaids, clad in armor, fight alongside cultivators of various races; a blonde merman woman, wielding a scepter, sets up a massive array under the starry sky; the final image shows her perishing alongside countless enemies, her scepter shattering and transforming into a sky full of stars.

“The True Immortal of Pearl Sleeping…” Li Guang murmured softly. The golden-haired woman in the mural, with her compassion and determination in her eyes, filled her with admiration.

At the end of the passage was a huge palace. On a stone platform in the center of the palace, a fragment of a scepter that was exactly the same as the one in the mural floated. Next to the fragment was a golden ancient book.

As Li Guang stepped forward, her fingertips just touching the scepter fragment, a massive flow of information flooded into her mind—it was the legacy of the True Immortal Zhu Mian, including the cultivation methods of the Merfolk royal family, the supreme mysteries of water control, and a memory of an ancient war.

It turns out that the war a million years ago was not a simple conflict of interests, but a fight against the "Erosion Clan" invading from beyond the realm.

Spiritual energy and immortal energy are both fundamental to the survival of cultivators, so a great battle between the two sides would naturally break out.

In order to seal the entrance to the lower realm for the Spirit Devouring Clan, the True Immortal Zhumian did not hesitate to shatter his own immortal bones, using himself as the core of the formation to transform the battlefield fragments into a secret realm, which would be suppressed for eternity.

Li Guang also vaguely understood that the group of old monsters who had possessed bodies in the center of the secret realm were probably the Soul Erosion Clan.