Chapter 67: Of Course You Have to Dip Seafood in Wasabi
Nan Zishi was covered from head to toe in diatom mud, even her face.
She was also wearing the beautiful outfit made of shells and Jue Sha that Chuchen had insisted she change into.
The whole look was both beautiful and bizarre.
Nan Zishi said to Lanxing, "Lanxing, Lanxing, look at me, look at me! Don’t I look hideous?"
The three-hundred-year-old merman’s face suddenly flushed red, and he started to stammer.
"N-Not... not hideous... It’s... it’s quite... quite beautiful..."
Nan Zishi was speechless.
’Did I really shock him into a stutter with my ugliness?’
"Lanxing, it looks like we can’t live in your old palace anymore," Nan Zishi asked. "Where are we going next?"
Lanxing was still stammering. "It’s... it’s fine. I... I have several... palaces."
!
’Wow, her merman actually owned this much property?’
The area around the volcanic eruption was definitely uninhabitable now.
Lanxing led Nan Zishi, Little Fu, and his subjects in a migration.
It took Lanxing’s school of merfolk two days to migrate. During that time, he also communicated with the whales under his jurisdiction.
The whales were actually migrating along with Lanxing.
’So, wherever the mermaids are, the whales are too. Is that what it means?’
Nan Zishi found it fascinating. At the same time, she was awestruck by the close bond between the Mermaid Clan and the Whale Clan.
She swam, glancing back at the whales from time to time.
The whales liked her a lot and would even spout water for her as a performance.
Lanxing swam over and asked Nan Zishi, "Do you like the whales?"
Nan Zishi nodded like a pecking chicken. "I love them!"
Before she transmigrated, she had been a Beast Doctor who had never treated a whale.
But she had seen the movie "Big Fish," listened to Phoenix Legend’s "Under the Sea," and had read many, many different kinds of stories about whales.
She had liked whales for a long time.
’Besides, rumor had it that whales liked humans, found them cute, and had a very favorable impression of them.’
’The way the whales were looking at her now, their eyes were smiling. Maybe they were thinking, ’What a little mermaid sweetheart!’’
’How could she not love such large animals that were so fond of humans?’
During the migration, Lanxing’s gaze would always sneak toward Nan Zishi.
He couldn’t help but recall the moment when they were trapped, how she had held his face, leaned in just like that, and planted a kiss on him.
Those lips...
They were unbelievably soft.
The merman’s face turned red once again.
If so many other mermaids weren’t around, he really would have thrown his dignity to the wind and rolled around everywhere.
After migrating for two days, the school of mermaids finally saw a massive Crystal Palace!
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Deep red Jue Sha completely enveloped the merman, making his face unrecognizable to the Beastman.
The mermaid came out of the great sea. After his fishtail transformed into two legs, he pulled on a Land Beastman’s Beast Skin Skirt.
Unaccustomed to walking on land, the mermaid’s steps were slow. He crossed the beach, headed for the forest, and finally met up with the Wandering Lizard Beastman and other Wandering Beastmen by a large river.
Walking on land for so long inevitably caused him discomfort.
The mermaid walked to the river’s edge and splashed some of its water on himself.
His voice was icy. "I handed the Mermaid Princess over to you. She’s only five years old, still just a female cub. And you actually let her escape? Are the Wandering Beastmen really this incompetent? To think that not a single one of Xuan Jin’s subordinates is worth a damn."
The Wandering Lizard’s eyes narrowed dangerously in an instant. "Yu Chen, if you’re just looking to pick a fight with me, feel free. But if you’re trying to drag Lord Xuan Jin into this, you’re not worthy."
The Wandering Lizard Beastman flicked his tongue, hissing. "Besides, you never told us she had a superpower when you handed the Little Mermaid over. So, this isn’t exactly our mistake."
Yu Chen’s pupils constricted.
’Lanxing’s bloodline is that potent? Little Fu is only five, and she’s already awakened her superpower?’
If she had awakened her superpower, then it would indeed make sense that she could escape from a few unprepared Wandering Beastmen.
The Wandering Lizard Beastman sized up the male Mermaid Beastman before him, who was wrapped up so tightly that not a sliver of skin was showing.
The females of the Mermaid Clan were beautiful and exceedingly rare. On top of that, most of the Mermaid Clan were simple and kind-hearted.
Never before had a member of the Mermaid Clan sent out one of their own females.
This particular mermaid clearly had some kind of personal grudge.
The Wandering Lizard Beastman suddenly laughed. "You look pretty pathetic. Did you get caught doing something you shouldn’t have?"
"If you end up a Wandering Beastman like us, you might as well just join us. Lord Xuan Jin accepts all pitiful, homeless Beastmen."
"That won’t be necessary." Yu Chen’s dark eyes glanced at the Wandering Lizard Beastman. "I will bring the Mermaid Princess out again. Your job is just to sell her as a Beast Slave."
With that, Yu Chen jumped into the large river with a SPLASH, transformed back into his merman form, and swam away.
The Wandering Lizard Beastman’s long tongue licked around the corner of his mouth.
Who would have thought that a seemingly harmless mermaid could harbor such a vicious desire to sell a noble princess of the Mermaid Royal Family as a Beast Slave.
...
Five years ago, after something went wrong at his coming-of-age ceremony, Lanxing returned to the sea from the land. He transformed from the once lively and cheerful Mermaid Prince into a sullen and melancholy one.
He moved from his beautiful Crystal Palace to the desolate edge of a volcano.
The Mermaid Clan People who followed him were once full of complaints. After all, the area around the new palace wasn’t pretty, and finding food had become difficult.
They weren’t as capable as Prince Lanxing. Who would want to swim for an hour just to find fish every time they wanted to eat?
But a single volcanic eruption completely destroyed that desolate palace.
Now, they had returned to the Crystal Palace. The surrounding area was full of beautiful coral and small fish, and you could find sea urchins just by scooping around.
If you wanted to eat seafood, you could probably just open your mouth and a small fish would swim right in.
The mermaids who had narrowly escaped disaster were all overjoyed!
"Princess, what are you making now?" the beautiful mermaids asked Nan Zishi.
After learning how to blow bubbles from the mermaids, Nan Zishi had become especially fond of it.
She would blow a few bubbles for fun whenever she had a free moment.
Right now, she had blown two bubbles in front of her.
The first bubble held seafood sauce, and the second held wasabi.
’When Lanxing made her sashimi earlier, her mind had been so preoccupied that she’d completely forgotten about condiments!’
’When having a raw seafood feast, you absolutely have to have the most classic flavors!’
"These are condiments." Nan Zishi tapped an oyster a Little Mermaid had handed her, pried it open happily, dipped it in the wasabi, and tossed it into her mouth. "Dipping seafood in this makes it delicious."
Mmm, that flavor went straight to her head. What a rush!
Little Fu was very curious. She also grabbed a small fish, broke it in half, dipped it in the wasabi, and took a bite.
What a rush!
She shot straight into the sky, spiraling!
She even choked out two little pearls.
Nan Zishi quickly collected the small golden pearls before pulling Little Fu back and asking with a laugh, "Was it good?"
Little Fu’s big eyes filled with tears. "M-Mommy, it went BOOM BOOM on Fufu."
Little Fu’s reaction made Nan Zishi burst out laughing.
"Little Fu is too young. She probably shouldn’t eat such a strong condiment."
Hearing Little Fu’s review, the other mermaids became very curious and also took pieces of fish to dip in Nan Zishi’s wasabi bubble.
Then, one by one, the mermaids put on a performance of spiraling into the sky while tears streamed down their faces!
A Little Mermaid was in charge of collecting everyone’s pearl tears, putting them in a glass bottle, and giving it to Nan Zishi.
In no time, Nan Zishi had a large bottle full of pearls!