Chapter 1666

The final test begins, with merman warriors in seashell armor holding up a huge white shell shield while mermen dance and sing around Xie Han Mo and Dong Lei. A huge shell floats up and opens into a natural stage. It was left behind by the desolate beast giant music shell and holds a vast number of sound path dao marks, so even a mortal inside is heard far and wide. Dong Lei ascends first, and Bu Su Lian asks Frost Tide tribe’s leader whether he is so confident in Dong Lei, since the first performer has a natural disadvantage. Dong Lei sings, and through the shell her singing carries a thousand li and suppresses even the torrential tides. Mermen are born singers, thanks to abundant water path dao marks in their bodies and a throat cartilage full of sound path dao marks. Humans once slaughtered them for that cartilage. ^{ch. 1666}

Fang Yuan and the rest are furious that Dong Lei is singing the song they prepared. Fang Yuan declares that a spy informed the enemy, and since only the four of them know the songs, the traitor must be one of the two guards. The guards deny it, yet the traitor could be Fang Yuan too. Xie Han Mo says there might be no spy and the enemy might have used special information path methods. Frost Tide tribe’s leader laughs and tells Bu Su Lian that he planted a spy near Xie Han Mo, at a huge price. The final round’s three songs, each needing sound path Gu worms and practice, must calm the waves, draw living beings and repel sea beasts. Dong Lei has stolen the first song, and Xie Han Mo’s other two cannot take its place. ^{ch. 1666}

The red scaled guard wants to expose the scheme, but Fang Yuan says there is no proof and they would accuse the red scaled guard instead. Xie Han Mo sighs deeply, says to forget it and tells her followers to leave at once. She will lose the saintess position and face the attack of Dong Lei and Frost Tide tribe’s leader, so to avoid implicating her three followers, she wants to fight for some time. Bu Su Lian sighs deeply that Xie Han Mo is finished, and Frost Tide tribe’s leader vows to torture her afterwards. Dong Lei steps down, saying she has calmed the sea by five feet. She awaits Xie Han Mo’s performance. ^{ch. 1666}