The night was deep.

Chen Hao and his companions came to the edge of the ancient well once again.

"Huang Yue, Huang Yue!" Xie Xiaofeng called out into the bottom of the well, "We're back!"

Immediately, ripples disturbed the water in the well, and Huang Yue's head emerged from within. She then asked, "How did it go? Did you see that man? Did you apply the mermaid's tears to his eyes? What was his reaction?"

"Uh, come up, and I'll show you something that will explain everything!"

Huang Yue nodded and then climbed up the well's wall to the rim.

Seeing a real mermaid appear before her, Tang Jing was so stunned that it took her a long time to regain her composure.

"Look at this!" Xie Xiaofeng handed a cellphone to Huang Yue, whose screen was playing the video Chen Hao had just recorded at the nursing home.

Ten minutes later, the video had finished playing, and by that time, Huang Yue's face was covered with blue, transparent tears.

Without being able to help himself, Xie Xiaofeng reached out to catch a tear and then rubbed it across his own eyes. Seeing this, Chen Hao also wanted to do the same, but fearing Ye Yuqiao would get angry, he had to give up on the idea.

"Why can't I see anything?" Xie Xiaofeng said, disappointed.

Huang Yue's tears turned to laughter, her voice hoarse as she said, "I haven't sealed any memories in my tears, so of course, you can't see anything."

"Then seal your likeness in a tear and give it to me, so I can rub it on whenever I miss you," Xie Xiaofeng said with a goofy smile.

Huang Yue's eyes widened, and then she looked seriously at Xie Xiaofeng and asked, "Would you really miss me?"

Xie Xiaofeng nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course!"

"Then I'll give you a tear of the mermaid when we part."

"I want one too!" Tang Jing suddenly said.

Huang Yue nodded cheerfully in agreement.

Chen Hao also wanted a mermaid's tear, but still, because he was worried about upsetting Ye Yuqiao, he let the thought go. He leaned close to Ye Yuqiao and whispered, "Your Majesty, the Queen, do you have something like the Nether King's Heart to give me?"

"Yes!" Ye Yuqiao said with a stern face, looking at Chen Hao, "But you used to make me cry so much that I've run dry!"

Chen Hao gave a helpless, wry smile.

Suddenly, Ye Yuqiao raised her hand and smacked Chen Hao's chest hard, frowning angrily, "I even gave you the Nether King's Heart, does it really compare to someone else's tear?"

"Don't be angry, Your Majesty, of course, I wouldn't think that," Chen Hao said in a panic.

"Every time you have to make me angry, bad boyfriend!"

Chen Hao said nothing more, but instead embraced Ye Yuqiao tightly.

"Oh right," Chen Hao suddenly remembered something important, looking at Xie Xiaofeng and asking, "Mermaid, you said years ago your kin got scattered. Did you ever find out any news about your people?"

Seeing Chen Hao looking at him but addressing Huang Yue, Xie Xiaofeng was somewhat bewildered, wondering if Chen Hao was cross-eyed.

Huang Yue furrowed her brows, her face filled with wariness as she asked coldly, "Why do you ask? Do you have an ulterior motive?"

"Ah! Don't misunderstand!" Chen Hao hurriedly said to Xie Xiaofeng, "I'm asking this because I have a friend who possesses the Fishman's Heart, yet he doesn't know where it came from, so I wanted to inquire on his behalf."

The friend Chen Hao mentioned was naturally Ye Fei, who had recently fought alongside them.

"You're saying someone has the Fishman's Heart!" Huang Yue exclaimed, "Without the Fishman's Heart, our people would die."

Chen Hao uttered a soft "Hmm," having heard about this from Ye Yuqiao before. After pausing, he continued, "However, the Fishman's Heart within my friend is different from yours; the luminescence of the fishman power on him is rather faded, leaning towards pale blue, almost whitish."

"What did you say!" Huang Yue cried out in astonishment, her delicate face twitching violently, looking extremely panicked.

"Huang Yue, what's wrong?" Xie Xiaofeng asked with concern.

A few seconds later, the shocked Huang Yue finally blinked her eyes and her complexion turned ashen, speaking in a much lower tone, "Are you serious? The color of the Fishman's Heart he has is pure blue?"

"Yes!" Chen Hao's tone was very affirmative.

"In our fishman tribe, the lighter the blue of the Fishman's Heart, the more powerful the fishman power. Right now, there are only two with pale blue Fishman's Hearts: one is our fishman leader, and the other is the leader's daughter, the mermaid princess."

Hearing Huang Yue's explanation, Chen Hao and the others were greatly surprised.

"This implies that the Fishman's Heart inside Ye Fei came from either the fishman leader or the mermaid princess. Why would he be completely unaware of this?" Chen Hao frowned and pondered.

Just then, suddenly.

"Hahaha!" A man's hearty laughter erupted nearby.

"Who?" Chen Hao immediately asked loudly, turning his head and scanning the bamboo forest.

"Boyfriend, that person is to the northeast." Ye Yuqiao whispered in Chen Hao's ear; she had felt a familiar power, "He's no ordinary person; he also possesses fishman power."

Chen Hao, in disbelief, muttered, "Someone like Ye Fei?"

"It's fishman power!" Huang Yue exclaimed, confirming Ye Yuqiao's statement.

Then, under the watchful gaze of the group, a brawny silhouette emerged, gradually looming larger until a man in his thirties with a grim face became clearly visible in the moonlight. Surrounding him was a sky-blue fishman power.

From this color, Chen Hao deduced his fishman power was far weaker than Ye Fei's but stronger than Huang Yue's.

"I was planning to catch that mermaid after you folks had left," the man sneered, his eyes filled with cold confidence, "but I changed my mind after hearing you talk about seeing a pale blue Fishman's Heart."

"It's all because you angered me," Ye Yuqiao suddenly complained softly in Chen Hao's ear, "otherwise, I would have noticed him nearby sooner."

Chen Hao gently patted Ye Yuqiao's slight back then stepped forward two paces, leaving her side, and asked, "Do you want us to tell you the whereabouts of that pale blue Fishman's Heart?"

"Exactly!"

"What good will knowing do you?" Chen Hao said scornfully, "You can't defeat him anyway."

The man's lips curled into a smirk as he replied coldly, "Don't underestimate the fishman power within me. It's the fusion of twenty-two Fishman's Hearts combined. In terms of quality, I can't compete, but in quantity, I can make up for my disadvantage."

"Twenty-two Fishman's Hearts!" Chen Hao was astonished, "How do you possess so many Fishman's Hearts?"

"It's simple: kill twenty-two fishmen, and you'll get them. And very soon, I will have my twenty-third!"

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