Quick Transmigration: After Fake Death, All the Protagonists I Flirted With Went Crazy

The sudden return of the king of the mermaid clan, who had been out of contact for a hundred years, caused a shock throughout the entire clan.

If the ocean hadn't been calm, people would have really thought their king had died out there.

Gu Yao gently brushed aside Ryan's hair and placed a kiss on his forehead.

The mark on his shoulder had been severed, and after living with this person for a hundred years, he had no idea when he had figured out how to remove the mark.

Gu Yao sighed softly and swam towards the ancestral land of the mermaid race, where the priest was already waiting for him.

His silver-gray eyes, tinged with a deathly stillness, gazed silently at the most powerful, and also the most irresponsible, king in the history of their mermaid race.

Gu Yao nodded to him and was about to swim into the ancestral land when the priest held his staff horizontally in front of Gu Yao, his lifeless eyes fixed on him, his voice devoid of any emotion, "Your Majesty, do you really intend to bury a human in our ancestral land?"

This is a precedent that no one has ever set before.

This also violates the ancestral teachings of the mermaids.

Gu Yao stopped and turned his head to look at the priest who had lived for countless years.

He sighed softly, "Priest, you should have known. You should have sensed it before I returned last time. I can hide the power of the Mermaid Curse from everyone else, but I can't hide it from you."

The priest lowered his eyes and confronted the king, who was so serene he didn't seem like a mermaid, for a long time. In the end, he was defeated. He put down his staff and led the two mermaids who had just come of age to the side.

Looking at the king before her, whose silver-gray eyes were meant to lead the merfolk to prosperity, she felt a sense of helplessness. "Your Majesty, you should think about this more."

Think more about the current situation of the mermaid race.

Gu Yao pursed his lips and hugged the person in his arms a little tighter. "I know."

He knew he was still the king of the merfolk, their leader, and that the merfolk should be his priority.

He had made all the necessary plans, but the person in his arms took it upon himself to disrupt them.

But it doesn't matter, the final result will be the same anyway.

Gu Yao reached out and brushed aside Ryan's hair, straightened his collar, flicked his tail fin, and swam towards the depths of the ancestral land.

That is the place where the leaders of the merfolk throughout the ages are buried.

The two little mermaids, who had always been with the priest and had never seen the king before, looked curiously at Gu Yao's back, then looked up at the priest who had raised them, their faces full of confusion. "Priest, why does the king look so sad?"

The priest looked towards the ancestral land, his voice distant, "Perhaps it's because of the eternal loss of a loved one."

The two mermaids, who had never left the priest's side, nodded as if they understood.

He gently placed the person on the table and examined the person in front of him. This was the first time he had seen this person look old.

No matter how hard you try to care for someone or how much effort you put into making them live longer, you can't defy the laws of this world.

Human beings go through cycles of birth, aging, sickness, and death every hundred years; these are all part of the natural order and destiny.

But... I'm still sad.

Watching your loved one leave, while you have no idea how much longer you have to live, is such a torturous thing.

He no longer dared to imagine how this person had lived through his previous lives.

The proud and powerful mermaid, in a secluded place, revealed her vulnerability for the first time.

He grasped the hand, its veins bulging and its surface dark with spots; it was not pretty, even somewhat frightening, and carried an aura of decay. Yet, his soft lips trembled as he pressed them against the back of the hand.

"fox……"

"Does it hurt?"

"I hurt."

The king's voice trembled as he watched the white pearls fall into the deep sea, countless times.

……

Once outside the ancestral land, Gu Yao reverted to his lofty and omnipotent status as king, as if his earlier vulnerability was merely an illusion.

Looking at the merman who had composed himself, the priest finally asked the question that had been lingering in his heart for a hundred years, with a hint of accusation, "Your Majesty, you should also know the current situation of the merman race, right? Then why did you make a pact with a short-lived human in the first place?"

Live and die together.

Mermaids often live for thousands of years, and there are even precedents of them living for tens of thousands of years. Compared to humans who live for only a hundred years, they shouldn't have developed feelings for each other.

The one who lives longer is destined to suffer heartbreak.

Just like the king now.

The moment he lost contact with Salsis, he knew that his mermaid clan had produced a second negative example of falling in love with a human.

She was even more love-struck, entrusting her life to that human.

Gu Yao lowered his head, looked at the priest in front of him who seemed calm but was actually suppressing his anger, pursed his lips, and took a deep breath, "This time, I just want to put him first."

His azure eyes stared directly at the priest before him, piercing through his skin and striking his very soul.

He believed the priest would understand him.

Just as he hadn't stopped him from leaving a century ago, he should have realized it long ago.

The priest choked, gripping his staff tightly, his throat constricted. "Then you should also cherish your own life."

The most powerful king in the history of the mermaid race.

We should lead the mermaid race to prosperity.

Gu Yao gently curled the corners of his lips, looked at the person in front of him, and said without any hesitation, "The ancestral land is lacking energy, and the number of mermaids born is decreasing each time. Are you worried about the extinction of the mermaid race?"

The two little ones next to them tried their best to minimize their presence.

They certainly didn't expect to hear such a shocking secret.

The priest's face darkened. He hadn't expected Gu Yao to so casually reveal the current predicament of the merfolk.

Gu Yao observed the serious-looking high priest's dark face, which slightly dispelled the heavy feeling in his heart. After all, he still didn't like people reminding him that the little madman was just a "short-lived" human.

He's in a bad mood.

A smile appeared on the beautiful mermaid's face, but the smile did not reach her eyes. She continued, "Then I should die even more. As the mermaid king with the most powerful magic in the past ten thousand years, placing my corpse in the ancestral land should solve this problem, right?"

The young man spoke calmly, a pleasant smile on his lips. He appeared to be a paragon of virtue, yet he was utterly insane.

The priest looked at Gu Yao with eyes full of unfamiliarity.

Is this all there is to Salsis?

The priest recalled the time he blessed the little mermaid. Although her magic was incredibly powerful, her soul was incomplete. Yet, despite her incompleteness, she still overpowered all the other mermaids and became the new king.

From that moment on, he knew that Salsis was beyond his comprehension.

This speculation reached its peak when he saw Sarsis again.

His soul is basically complete, although there are still gaps, it is largely whole.

From that moment on, he could no longer see through the king he had watched grow up.

Seeing the priest's ashen face, Gu Yao's expression relaxed, and he waved his hand, "I won't do that now, I have a better way."

With a flick of his tail fin, Gu Yao was in front of the two little ones. Before the priest could react, he grabbed one in each hand and dragged them away.

"Priest, you are too kind. These two have clearly never been beaten. How can they possibly withstand the merfolk? I'll just do you a favor and discipline them."

Gu Yao, who had already decided to leave, simply let loose, figuring that with him around, the two of them wouldn't die.

If you won't die, train like crazy.

Gu Yao smiled slightly, thinking to himself.

The priest could only watch as Gu Yao left with the two newly grown mermaids.

The two merfolk who later became kings recalled this experience and gave their evaluation of the previous king who had taken them away from their ancestral land only two words: devil!

They had never seen such a devilish mermaid.

They've attracted some of the most ferocious and powerful races in the ocean.

They provoke you and then run away.

I also left them with this message: "When I became an adult, I was already invincible across the ocean by myself. You guys have to keep up the good work!"

Then, they were chased by that ferocious orca king for three days.

……

Gu Yao looked at the two lifeless mermaids, their wounds still bleeding, and a hint of satisfaction appeared in his azure eyes.

Magic flowed through his fingertips, healing the wounds on the two little ones.

He reached out to pat the two little ones' heads, and looking at the two who had now grown up completely, he actually felt a bit like an elder.

A sentence flashed through my mind—I used to hold you when you were little.

Gu Yao was amazed by the sheer size of his imagination. He lowered his hand and flicked his tail fin.

"Let's go, it's time to go back."

The two little ones quickly followed.

If you can't keep up with the speed of this devil in front of you, you'll be in for special training.

Fight them personally.

They can't beat them.

The night Gu Yao decided to go to the ancestral land, he looked at the two little ones in front of him with red eyes and rested his chin on his hand with interest. "What's wrong? Are you crying from being moved?"

Are you really going to the ancestral land?

They all knew perfectly well what it meant for the living mermaids to go to their ancestral land.

Gu Yao smiled, tilted his head, and reached out to pat their heads. "You have your missions, and I have my promises."

What I'm teaching you is to remember what it feels like to have your life in someone else's hands, and to protect the mermaid race with this attitude towards the enemy.

I'm sorry, I'm not a qualified king.

The two children, who had just been crowned, wept uncontrollably in front of Gu Yao.

There was no grand farewell ceremony; only priests and the two new kings came to see them off.

Gu Yao looked at the three people in front of him who looked as if they had lost their parents, smiled helplessly, handed the sacred artifact of the mermaid clan to the priest, and waved his hand, "I'm leaving."

That fearless posture was like that of a free-spirited knight-errant.

There was no dramatic farewell; with a flick of his tail fin, he swam deep into his ancestral land.

The priest silently gripped the sacred artifact in his hand, feeling the abundant magic within it, and slightly turned his head away.

As Gu Yao entered, the ancestral land's magic array was also triggered, and the depleted energy reached its peak in an instant, nourishing the entire ocean in the process.

The overflowing glow is the aurora borealis of the deep sea.

In the vast ocean, all creatures worship towards the same place.

All spirits mourned, for they were bidding farewell to their king.