ALL NOVEL Chapter 159.2
“It’s beautiful,” Cheng Qi said, his eyes widening. He couldn’t help but get closer and reached out to touch the shining silver scales. He fell in love with them.
Li Tianyan watched him move his hands up and down and could only shake his head with a smile. It wasn’t until Cheng Qi’s hand was about to touch somewhere that he became so surprised that he grabbed his restless hand.
“What’s wrong?” Cheng Qi discovered that there was a scale on the fish’s tail that was sticking up, and something seemed to be hidden inside. He was curious and wanted to open it up to take a look but was caught by Li Tianyan, who he couldn’t help but look up at with an inexplicable expression.
“Cough.” Li Tianyan coughed a few times with a dry mouth. Although they had done everything, the cross-species behaviour of the mermaid seemed a bit inappropriate.
Cheng Qi looked puzzled at first but suddenly understood something when he noticed Li Tianyan’s red ears. His pupils widened, and his face gradually turned red.
In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Li Tianyan wandered around in the spacious cave.
Cheng Qi chased after him like a follower. When he saw Li Tianyan stop in front of a stone wall, he moved forward and asked, “Young master, what are you looking at?”
“Here are the writings left by that person,” Li Tianyan said, pointing to the words carved on the wall.
After Cheng Qi arrived there, he had been busy healing Li Tianyan’s injuries and hadn’t even taken a good look at the cave. He only noticed it when Li Tianyan mentioned it.
After reading the writing on the wall, Cheng Qi understood that this man’s lifespan had expired, and he relied on the shark’s essence to maintain his life.
At one time, the shark might have been in trouble when he went out, and he didn’t come back for a long time. Without the essence to support him, the man’s vitality greatly diminished, and he was about to die, so he left a last message to the shark, hoping that it could return to its own tribe and live a good life.
“Young master, why did the shark man leave the tribe and live here? Don’t shark like to live in groups?” Cheng Qi asked as he glanced at the shark, who tightly locked his partner in his arms, even as his breath faded.
Cheng Qi remembered that the fortress where the sharks lived should be in a mysterious sea area that humans could not explore. But the place they were in now was not considered deep sea and was very close to the coast of the South China Sea.
“Maybe he ran away because of this man,” Li Tianyan guessed.
“Isn’t there already a Sea Heart Stone? They should be able stay together in the tribe?” Cheng Qi thought that this Sea Heart Stone must have been prepared by the sharks for their lovers.
“The shark race is xenophobic, and it is difficult for them to accept humans, especially the sharks with noble blood. It is even more impossible for him to stay with a man forever,” Li Tianyan said, looking at the shark in the cave.
Putting aside the issue of reproduction, there was a difference between the lifespans of humans and sharks. If a shark in the cave used its energy to feed others, its lifespan would also shorten.
Looking at this shark with blue hair and a blue tail, its status in the clan should have been high, but it still preferred a mortal. Naturally, the shark clan would not agree.
“Then how did this shark die in the end?” Cheng Qi wondered. “He doesn’t look injured. Why didn’t he listen to the man’s words and return to the clan?”
“The essence of life is exhausted. Maybe when he came back and saw his partner dead, he wanted to use the essence to revive him. However, the essence could keep someone alive, but it was impossible to bring them back the dead.” Li Tianyan explained, rubbing Cheng Qi’s head.
“However, it was precisely because the shark gave all its essence to the other person that this person would always keep his body incorruptible.” Li Tianyan looked at the auras of these two beings; they must have been dead for several years.
“How could this be?” After hearing this, Cheng Qi suddenly felt a little depressed.
Seeing Cheng Qi’s mood darken, Li Tianyan smiled and said to him, “How could the shark not know that he couldn’t save his lover? He just didn’t want to be left alone in this world. This may not be the end for the two of them. If they are really destined, they will be reunited.”
Wasn’t this what Li Tianyan thought about himself and Cheng Qi? In his previous life, he had accidentally seen the little beast transforming into the Tao. Perhaps from that moment on, their fate was sealed.
Thinking like this, Li Tianyan took off the necklace from his neck and handed it to Cheng Qi, saying, “This Sea Heart Stone should be a token of love, so let it stay here.”
It was borrowed out of desperation because he had almost died. Now that he had recovered, he should return it to them.
Cheng Qi saw that Li Tianyan’s legs had returned to normal. Although he felt reluctant to give it up, he obeyed his instructions and put the necklace back on the man’s body.
Without the Sea Heart Stone, Li Tianyan could only take the water-avoiding pill, and he immediately felt the difference. The water-avoiding pill only allowed him to barely breathe underwater, but it didn’t feel like he was a fish in water at all.
Although there was no Sea Heart Stone, the two of them also found the Water Spirit Pearl and the shark’s silk in the reef cave. Li Tianyan sensed that the Water Spirit Pearls contained extremely pure water spirit energy. The half box of Water Spirit Pearls here might be enough for him to advance.