Digging up spiritual roots and seizing blood? You scumbags, wait and tremble.

Chapter 636 Phoenix Blood Jade

"We can help you set up formations up to the eighth or even ninth level, it just depends on whether you can provide the right materials."

An array formation does not necessarily require an eighth- or ninth-order array plate to be drawn in order to set up an eighth- or ninth-order array.

It can also be sixth- or seventh-order array patterns and array plates. With clever combination and arrangement, the entire array can be upgraded in rank.

Moreover, with the Eye of Illusion to help her, setting up an array is not too difficult. Back in the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, she even suppressed that giant ferocious beast.

That time, it was the result of the help of many array geniuses, but it was mostly due to the power of the Eye of Illusion.

Setting up a large formation of level eight or nine beneath the seabed is truly feasible.

It all depends on what kind of treasure the merfolk can offer to win her over.

Yi Junlan nodded slightly: "Let me discuss it with my father first. We will hold a banquet tonight to entertain you with a grand meal."

He paused for a moment before adding, "After we finish eating, I'll take you around for a walk."

After saying that, he glanced at Zhong Ran, swayed his purple tail, and headed outside.

Many merfolk were waiting outside, and they all left with him.

Zhong Ran and the other two exchanged glances and said nothing more.

Since the barrier set up by Mu Jinning couldn't stop them, let's keep quiet.

Yi Junlan left and returned to the palace to see the Mermaid Emperor.

The Mermaid Emperor is a super handsome middle-aged man. He is a deep purple mermaid with a tail that is even thicker than Yi Junlan's.

"Father, you heard what was said just now, right? What kind of materials are those for the formation?"

He doesn't even understand these things.

The Emperor did hear it, and it is because he heard it that he is still in shock.

"That girl said she was a seventh-level alchemist?"

"Ah, that's what she said."

Yi Junlan didn't understand what a seventh-order alchemist represented, but the Mermaid Emperor had gone to the land with his ancestors when he was young and had a general understanding of the scope of human geniuses.

That woman's bone age was only in her early twenties, equivalent to the cub stage, yet she was already a seventh-level alchemist.

They even know formations? Are they lying?

Or is it that a genius has emerged among humans on land, defying fate and destined to break through this world in the future?

Thinking of this, he stood up and said to Yi Junlan, "Junlan, come with your father."

With a flick of his thick tail, he vanished like lightning.

Yi Junlan also disappeared from the spot, and a moment later, they appeared together in a water-eroded cave.

The water-eroded cave contains many stalagmites, stalactites, and stone carvings, and the temperature inside is much lower.

Further inside, there was a large hall, where a palm-sized phoenix blood jade was enshrined.

Yi Junlan looked at the phoenix jade pendant with a strange expression, full of curiosity: "Father, isn't this jade pendant jade-white? How did it turn blood red?"

The Emperor looked at the blood-red jade pendant and exclaimed excitedly, "It really is that person!"

Yi Junlan didn't understand: "Father, what do you mean?"

“Junlan, that girl may be the one destined for you. Her appearance is an anomaly on the entire continent. If you stay by her side, you may be able to lead the merfolk to another glorious and prosperous era.”

Yi Junlan looked at him, puzzled: "Father, I don't understand."

"Even my father doesn't quite understand, but our ancestors once said that when this jade pendant turns red, it means that an anomaly has appeared on this continent."

"But on what basis did Father Emperor determine that it was that woman?"

"Her bone age is not high, only in her twenties, but she is already a seventh-level alchemist. She is an absolute genius among humans, an anomaly."

"Outliers are usually people who defy fate and have unlimited potential. If you follow such an outlier, your future will also be limitless."

Yi Junlan narrowed her beautiful purple eyes slightly: "Unlimited potential? Could it be that it can even ascend to immortality?"

"Whether you can ascend to immortality, I don't know, but that extraordinary individual will definitely be able to ascend."

"As the saying goes, when one person attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven; that's the principle behind it."

Yi Junlan: ...

Father, would you like to hear what you're saying?

I am, after all, the Crown Prince of the Merfolk. Chicken, dog? How dare you belittle mermaids like that?

The Emperor bowed respectfully three times, then struck the stone wall with his palm. The Phoenix Blood Jade bounced up, and he reached out to take it, rubbing it in his hand for a while before handing it to Yi Junlan.

"Junlan, you are the most talented mermaid in our mermaid clan, and also the mermaid with the greatest hope of ascension. Take this Blood Phoenix Blood Jade."

"Father will find a way to make you marry her as the Crown Princess, and then lead our mermaid clan away from this world."

Yi Junlan froze, staring blankly at him as if she didn't recognize him anymore.

"Father, you want me to marry a human woman as my Crown Princess?"

"This is just Father's plan; others may not even think much of you."

Yi Junlan: "...Father, in the entire merfolk race, is there any man more handsome than me?"

"Let's go and make arrangements for a lavish dinner tonight."

Yi Junlan turned to look at the main hall behind her and asked, "Father, she said she would only help us set up a concealment formation in exchange for the pills if we offered something in return. What do we need to offer in exchange?"

The Mermaid Emperor smiled and said, "Don't worry, I've already decided what I'll use to exchange."

Yi Junlan wanted to ask him what it was, but the Mermaid Emperor had already disappeared.

He was left alone there by the mermaid, feeling a bit eerie, and quickly left in fright.

Unbeknownst to them, the entire stone chamber began to tremble slightly after the father and son left.

However, very quietly, the two mermaids had already left and did not notice this scene.

Zhong Ran and the others walked out of the seashells and strolled around the area.

The crystal houses built by the merfolk are not ordinary crystals, but a kind of seabed crystal that contains spiritual energy and is exceptionally hard.

Although the spiritual energy inside is not as good as that of top-grade spirit stones, it is comparable to that of mid-grade spirit stones, and living inside is equivalent to a form of cultivation.

No wonder Beckham said before that it would be nice to live in seclusion here.

A group of mermaids surrounded them, watching the spectacle. They chattered in a language that was not human, but rather an unintelligible dialect.

Mermaids speak a beautiful language and have lovely voices, as melodious as a flock of nightingales singing.

Zhong Ran and the others also looked at them curiously, trying to listen carefully, but they couldn't understand what they were saying.

At this moment, a middle-aged man walked over with a blank look in his eyes, knelt down and performed a deep bow to them.

"Distinguished guests, I am here to escort you to the main hall for the banquet."

Zhong Ran and the others were dumbfounded. This was a human, and judging from the person's appearance, he must be a powerful expert at the Void Refinement Realm.

But he acted like the lowest slave, his eyes numb, and he even knelt down to perform a grand ceremony.

"Hey, what are you doing? What are you doing here?" Yun Tianyu asked curiously.

However, the middle-aged man did not react at all.