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Author: Jimo Eel

Translator: Xiao Wentian

Editor: Kirishima Ririka

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Chapter 29: Shui Lanli

　　In the secret realm of Wenxi, there are many rivers, lakes and streams.
　　The soil is rich, many metal veins, and the fire of the earth flourishes.
　　These five elements are complementary and mutually suppressing, resulting in the formation of this precious land.
　　
　　However, while the five elements are in harmony, their amount weren’t balanced.
　　
　　Yuege chose this place as a training place not only because of its reputation, but also because of the distribution of the five elements – the entire secret realm is dominated by water spiritual energy, followed by metal spiritual energy.
　　
　　For the metal user amphibious race Asura, this environment was simply called a top configuration!
　　
　　Able to fight against a tough opponent with high attacking power, the metal aura that flourishes in the secret realm provides more home field advantage.
　　If she can’t defeat it, she could make a feint move and then disappear along the current. Asura is like a fish in the water, but it’s also felt home in land.
　　
　　How nice….
　　The double guarantee of safety and the effect of the training couldn’t be better!
　　
　　—–.
　　
　　Today, Yuege found a hot spring.
　　There were many hot springs in the secret realm, all of which were created by the fire spirit energy buried underground.
　　This kind of strange environment where water and fire were in harmony would always give birth to a lot of treasures, although Yuege didn’t need them herself, it was good to sell them for spirit crystals.
　　
　　She bent down and plucked a Fire Heart Grass, while keeping an eye out for the demon beasts waiting nearby….
　　However, there was nothing.
　　She plucked the fire heart grass very smoothly.
　　Yuege held the grass and looked at it blankly.
　　This wasn’t a fake grass, was it?
　　It’s obviously a great tonic grass for fire beasts, and it’s growing in such a conspicuous place, but not even a single beast was waiting next to it….
　　
　　It had the same shape, and similar in size with grass, yet imbued with a strong fire spirit, the Fire Heart Grass.
　　Yuege cautiously thought about it, put it inside a sealed jade box and wrapping it several times with her spiritual energy.
　　
　　If it was just a Fire Heart Grass, it would be just fine.
　　But further on, many rare water and fire treasures, all of them were wild treasures that weren’t guarded by magical beasts!
　　
　　Yuege picked some, with no danger.
　　Could it be, they were shocked by her kingly dominance, so it scattered, and they didn’t want the treasures?
　　
　　That should be possible, too….
　　
　　Things were bound to go wrong, and Yuege gave up on exploring further, turning cautiously and preparing to leave.
　　
　　Suddenly, she felt a warning sign.
　　A cultivator’s instincts were mostly very accurate.
　　
　　With her mind wandering, Yuege gritted her teeth and fell straight to the side.
　　
　　Submerged into the hot spring water, without splashing a single bit of water.
　　Restrain my breath, restrain my energy, to imagine myself as a piece of ordinary stone plunged into the water and slowly sinking….
　　
　　Yuege’s feet stroked a few times extremely fast, and his entire body sank at great speed like a dexterous sea fish.
　　
　　In the next moment, a huge overwhelming pressure came, with a strong intent to probe and deter.
　　Yuege was underwater and yet she was still suppressed until she had a pale face.
　　
　　This awe-inspiring pressure was at least at the Immortal level….
　　Shen Yan and Qian Se were also in the Immortal level, but they were very gentle and low-key as they had never let out any malicious pressure.
　　And only then did Yuege truly feel the fear of facing the Immortal.
　　
　　Instinctual Fear.
　　Really afraid.
　　Yuege sank to a protruding stone wall somewhere in the hot spring and stuck to it without moving, pretending that she was a lump of metal growing on the wall of the hot spring.
　　
　　She couldn’t sink any further, a moving stone was much more conspicuous than a stationary stone.
　　What’s more, the temperature at the bottom of the hot spring was getting hotter… real metal wasn’t afraid of fire, but she was afraid of revealing herself!
　　
　　So she stuck close and didn’t move, waiting for the big boss to leave.
　　
　　Not long after, the pressure gradually dissipated, and the powerful probing intent slowly withdrew, thinking that it hadn’t found her.
　　Yuege was motionless.
　　She didn’t know if the big boss had left….
　　
　　After waiting for about half an hour more, there was no movement.
　　Yuege relaxed a little, so she quietly looked around.
　　
　　The natural hot spring pool she was in roughly took up ten hectares of land, and was dozens of hectares deep.
　　Yuege’s eyes looked up, down, left, right, she noticed that the surface water color is lighter, the deep water color is darker.
　　As far as the eye could see, there was only clear water, shimmering shadows, not even aquatic animals.
　　
　　Everything looked all right.
　　Yuege so thought, and posted a moment, before carefully stretching the body.
　　She still restrained her breath, along the pool wall, quietly swimming up.
　　
　　Getting closer and closer to the surfacs, Yuege became more alert, her spirit tense to the extreme.
　　‘I know so many people who can do great things are defeated at the last step!’
　　‘If I’m careless, I might lose…’
　　
　　”Wow.”
　　There was a slight sound of water coming from the stone wall at the side.
　　
　　Yuege subconsciously tilted her head, and before she had time to react, she met a pair of aquamarine eyes.
　　
　　Yuege: “……..”
　　The opposite who raised an eyebrow, “…”
　　
　　On the stone wall opposite Yuege. Originally there was only a hunanoid head from the wall, and then slowly its body appeared… the lower half of her was a light blue white shaded fishtail.
　　
　　Yuege took a deep breath, she looked calm on the surface, and was still able to smoothly twirl YuGe beads on her wrist, aiming at the owner of the blue eyes.
　　However inside her, she turned into a screaming chicken.
　　
　　–Mermaid aaaaahhhhh!!!!
　　The kind with the pretty fish tails….
　　The kind where the face is beautiful but I don’t know if the voice is pleasant….
　　By the way, why do mermaids take hot springs….
　　
　　No, the point is… Why is there a mermaid pop out of the wall!?
　　
　　—–.
　　
　　In fact, Yuege had a secret, and that was that she…didn’t like living fish.
　　This secret was known only to Yue Wu and her grandfather.
　　
　　As a child, when she wasn’t good at hiding her emotions, she was often scared – no, so angry that she cried – by the koi fish wagging their tails in the koi tank.
　　
　　When she saw the fish… especially the ones with big, energetic tails, swimming around in the water, Yuege felt unhappy.
　　
　　She wanted to make them into song shu yu – squirrel fish (flipped deboned deep fried fish with sweet and sour sauce), tang cu yu – deep fried sweet and sour whole fish, qing zheng – steamed whole fish, cu liu yu – sweet and sour fish fillet, hong shao yu wei – shimmer-fried fish tail, qin dun yutou – stewed fish head, tofu soup….
　　
　　And now, Yuege was already older, she only felt indifferent when she looked at it.
　　Thus, she didn’t have any appearance of a screaming chicken on the surface when she saw the big fish tail.
　　And she quickly reacted….
　　Isn’t she… A Mermaid?
　　
　　—–.
　　
　　A moment later.
　　
　　Yuege stood on the shore, her clothes were soaked, her hair was down, dripping wet.
　　So describe the wretched, but the smile is genial and gentle, the posture is easy and comfortable….
　　
　　After all, against the enemy, must not damage a clan’s young master’s temperament.
　　
　　Behind her, Shen Yan and Qian Se stood side by side, holding their arms, and it was rare occasion that they didn’t take snacks to feed each other.
　　
　　Across from them, in the foggy, steaming pool of water, were two mermaid women.
　　
　　The mermaid in front, she looked playful.
　　The mermaid behind, a follower, has a heavy expression.
　　Her silky blue hair are damply draped over their shoulders, wearing Mermaid robes. Her waist was above the water surface, and below, under water, translucent white as a gauze cascade of fish tails were faintly visible.
　　
　　The scene was as beautiful as a painting.
　　…Yet the atmosphere was rattled.
　　
　　”Trespassing on my clan’s princess’ playground and disturbing her – what is the intention of your Asura clan, do you want to provoke a clan war?” The mermaid who was a little further back was the first to speak, and said icily.
　　
　　”Yo, why do I see two big white fish?” Qian Se didn’t answer, she just smirked and acted surprised. “Or hot spring fish, isn’t it downright tasty, just boil it on the spot!”
　　
　　…Naturally, the Asura clan wouldn’t have the concept of “boiling”, Qian Se was learning the human cooking terminology and she learnt it quite quickly.
　　
　　”In front of the princess of my clan, you’re already offending if you don’t bow, how dare you speak so loudly?!” The mermaid further back was furious at the news and crossed her eyebrows.
　　
　　”Isn’t it ridiculous for us who live in the sea to talk about human’s red tape?” Qian Se sneered at her. “Even if you want to talk about rituals, it’s us who should be asking – what’s your idea of spoiling our Young Master’s fun diving, are you trying to start a clan war?”
　　
　　”You-“
　　
　　As Yuege listened, she could not help but feel helpless.
　　It turned out that the mighty pressure before came from the mermaid bodyguard, the personal escort of the mermaid clan’s Princess, Shui Lanli.
　　Naturally, the blue-eyed mermaid in front is Shui Lanli.
　　
　　She… was also the mermaid that “pop out of the stone wall” before.
　　
　　
　　Although each wall looks independent, in fact, there is a narrow stone cave between the underwater stone wall, connecting to each other.
　　
　　Shui Lanli was relying on the nimbleness of the Mermaid’s body, swimming through the interconnected stone wall.
　　
　　Yuege silently covered her face in her heart.
　　Luckily no one knew that she has misunderstood, otherwise, wouldn’t it be a loss of her image and lineage?
　　
　　As she thought about this, she saw Shui Lanli’s playful gaze looked at her.
　　”Oh, I remember,” she said thoughtfully, picking up the corners of her ardent lips. “You’re… the little Asura girl who can’t stop fighting with me, right?”
　　
　　”What, don’t you remember me?”
　　Shui Lanli smiled freely, bending her eyes, the happiness on her eyes becoming more and more obvious.
　　
　　…So this is, meeting an old acquaintance of the previous body’s owner.
　　
　　The more you think about it, the more you think about it, the more you think about it.
　　It looks a little more inscrutable.
　　
　　Qian Se snorted heavily behind her, “How nice, a teenage mermaid running off to bully a nine-year-old Asura girl, and saying she can’t stop fighting her?”
　　
　　Shui Lanli averted her eyes and spread her hands innocently.
　　”She’s the one who swam to me to fight me, isn’t it hard for me to refuse?” Shui Lanli’s smile deepened. “Isn’t that an insult to your Asura’s martial fighting spirit…?”
　　
　　Qian Se was indignant, so she mocked back, and argued with Shui Lanli one word at a time.
　　
　　Yuege listened with ears perked up.
　　The amount of information seems a bit large, eh….
　　
　　It sounded like the magical story of Asura clan’s Young Prince who for some reason was always looking for a fight with Mermaid clan’s Young Princess, who was several years older than her, so Asura Young Prince lost every time and then ran back crying….
　　
　　Listening to it, Yuege finally understood….
　　No wonder Qian Se sometimes to spoke bluntly, “I don’t listen to you”, and then there was “useless and can’t endure hardship”, extremely venomous mockery of her ability.
　　
　　She wasn’t sure why, but it’s because the previous body owner was so persistent in her challenge that she couldn’t defeat her enemy, and was shaming the Asura tribe.
　

Yuege: I don’t like fish.
Baby Eel: ….
Yuege: I want to make braised fish, squirrel fish, sweet and sour fish chowder….
Baby Eel: ….
Yuege: It’s hate, not fear. Who’s afraid of fish?
Baby Eel: Yes it is!
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Zhu Yu: Last chapter, what I have said has come true.
Zhu Yu: Here comes another one, soaking in the hot springs together.
Zhu Yu: Also, apparently they are childhood sweetheart?
Zhu Yu: Heh.
Baby Eel solemnly affirms: Not soaking hot springs together, this is, its forced by the situation, this is the rival, not childhood sweetheart, this is enemies on a narrow road- an inevitable clash between opposing factions, this is meeting face to face on a narrow path – rivals meet face to face!
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Also, I’ve talked to the editor, and this story will be on V this ch 31, and there will be a long, thick chapter that will be on V!
Thank you little darlings for your support [take a bow]!
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As well as…so touching! Yesterday, many little cuties filled with nutrient solution to thaw out the frozen eel, and the baby eel that didn’t become frozen felt the love from the little cuties.
Fried fun!
Love you guys so much ahhhhhhh!
XWT: HEEEEYY this is one month late. Sorry. I’ll try to update stuff everyday again~~~ And yeah, Shui Lanli is Yuege’s… Childhood rival? If they even counted as friend lol. Soon Yuege vs Shui Lanli in ch 31! Also next chapter in two days, ch 31 next week since… It’s 10k words long… (Seriously)

Ririka: TL is back from busy with irl stuff, yay! Thank you lilms for the ko-fi, the update on this website now back to normal~

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