Chapter 1663

Fang Yuan walks the merman Sacred City in Chu Ying’s appearance. His aura is completely concealed, so he seems a mortal. He sees a mermaid accept a jade eye pearl from a rank two male Gu Master and put it in her mouth, which means she accepts his proposal. In this paradise, merman and human may love and have children freely, while in the five regions it is forbidden and the children are ostracized or even killed. The sight brings back memories of his five hundred years of previous life, and he recalls the day Investigator Wu De came. ^{ch. 1663}

Wu De, a jade-scaled merman, had arrived with a group to say that many clansmen reported an affair between the current saintess Xie Han Mo and the human Gu Master Gu Yue Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan had helped her investigate the gambling den and found a lot of corruption evidence, and the other party, unwilling to wait, spread vicious rumors that she was impure. The rumors were merely made up, yet an investigator had actually come. Fang Yuan told her he feared a higher-up was involved beyond Frost Tide tribe leader. ^{ch. 1663}

Xie Han Mo asked whether Wu De held the elder assembly’s token, and he showed only an information path Gu worm. It could not let him investigate the saintess, but he said Fang Yuan, a human Gu Master, needed no token. Wu De was not lying, since Fang Yuan had no background and Eastern Sea’s Merman Sacred Court was a super force. The guards stood in front of Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan offered to go with Wu De, because a clash was what the enemy wanted and the true target was the saintess. The guards refused, warning of a fate worse than death, but he said he would repay a life saved earlier, and they hesitated. Xie Han Mo told Wu De to go back, saying she would not hand Fang Yuan over, and Wu De left smiling as if his scheme had succeeded. ^{ch. 1663}

Fang Yuan was anxious, but for the first time Xie Han Mo interrupted him. She said he was a good person who did not fear death, with deep fatigue hidden in his eyes, and that she, a good person herself, could not sacrifice another. She winked, and he was a little dazed to see such lively expressions from her for the first time. The two guards were very worried about the rumors Wu De would invent, but she said to let them. ^{ch. 1663}

Several days later the Sea God Ceremony starts, with mermen singing and dancing in Sacred City while human Gu Masters watch from outside. Nine mermaid girls emerge as contestants for the saintess competition, and not all have white scales, so mermaids of other scale colors can also compete in this paradise. Among them, Su Yi is the most dazzling. ^{ch. 1663}