Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 343 Yu Gu Yao 15

Because they had taken in a lot of mermaids, and even the Restoration Army was unable to accommodate these mermaid children and the disabled adult mermaids, Jiang Xinxin had to step in herself and use magic to purchase a lot of land near the sea and small islands suitable for living in the sea from the Bai and Qing tribes.

Even though the mermaids have been on land for more than 7,000 years, they are still like a bunch of beautiful trash. They cannot learn how to support their families like ordinary Kongsang people. Apart from being best at weaving, they only know a little cooking, which makes Jiang Xinxin very worried.

She saved them so that they could start a new life, instead of just moving them to a new place and selling the pearls made from her tears for money.

Fortunately, the mermaids who had experienced persecution had their own resilience. No matter what Jiang Xinxin taught them, even if they could not learn it all at once, they would tell themselves to write it all down and learn it slowly. Otherwise, they would work together. If one person could not do it, a few more people would be enough.

Anyway, such a positive attitude really satisfied Jiang Xinxin, so she specially recruited some poor but kind-hearted Kongsang people and Bing people to help these mermaids do things. Slowly, the lives of these mermaids got back on track.

Then Jiang Xinxin left Kongsang and went to the Ice Clan.

The border between Kongsang and the Ice Clan is an endless stretch of towering snow-capped mountains. Of course there must be passages in the mountains for the Ice Clan to travel to Kongsang, but Jiang Xinxin has long been fearless of cold or heat, so there is naturally no need for her to look for passages below. It is also interesting to cross the mountains directly.

The climate where the Ice Clan lives is extremely harsh. Not only is it covered with ice and snow for half of the year, but in the remaining half, even when the temperature rises, the weather is changeable. One moment it may be scorching hot, and the next moment there may be thunder and heavy rain. It is not suitable for farming at all, so most of the Ice Clan people are herders, or they sneak through the passage under the snow-capped mountains to Kongsang to buy food.

The snow-capped mountains blocked the communication between Kongsang and the Ice Clan, but they were not without their benefits. At least the mountains were rich in spiritual medicines, and there were also people in the Ice Clan who made a living by collecting herbs. Jiang Xinxin appeared on the snow-capped mountains in a delicate dress with a restrained divine light, which immediately attracted the attention of the Ice Clan people who were collecting herbs in the mountains.

Most of the Ice Clan members wore simply dyed or even undyed clothes, and the materials were mostly rough. This was because the areas where they lived were not productive, and most of them spent the entire day racking their brains and doing their best to fill their stomachs, so the matter of dressing naturally took a backseat to many other things.

The Ice Clan were originally the rulers of the Kongsang land. They were the original inhabitants of this Yunhuang. But later, Emperor Xingzun and Queen Baiwei led Kongsang, which was still just a tribe, to rise up and drove them out of the fertile land. It developed into the Kongsang of today, and they lost their original name and were called the Ice Clan by the Kongsang people.

Therefore, the people of the Ice Clan hated Kongsang very much, and they also took their anger out on the mermaids who had helped Emperor Xing Zun. So they turned a blind eye to the tragic plight of the mermaids. Jiang Xinxin even felt that if the people of the Ice Clan had the chance to make a comeback, the mermaids would probably just become someone else to be oppressed.

The people of the Ice Tribe practiced witchcraft, and they mainly relied on ten witches to manage their internal affairs. There was also a wise man who was nominally or actually the leader of the Ice Tribe, who gave them advice and helped them infiltrate Kongsang. From Jiang Xinxin's point of view, the wise man's plan was indeed progressing very smoothly. They had even hooked up with Concubine Qing, who gave birth to the only second prince in the palace.

In this regard, Jiang Xinxin began to question the prophecy she heard from Shi Ying.

To be honest, the mermaids in this world are weaklings in the real sense. Only a very small number of them have the qualifications to practice, and the remaining mermaids who cannot practice are really weak and powerless. Three or five of them together may not be able to defeat an ordinary Kongsang man.

Moreover, these mermaids who have the qualifications to practice cultivation have no orthodox cultivation methods. They can only rely on crude methods such as breathing techniques and the mermaids' extraordinary lifespans to accumulate spiritual power. Therefore, their combat effectiveness is very worrying.

So, although the cause of Kongsang’s destruction was caused by the mermaids, the real culprit who actually led to the enslavement of the Kongsang people could only be the Ice Clan.

Because the Ice Clan was too xenophobic, although Jiang Xinxin was not from Kongsang, she was still considered as one by the Ice Clan. Jiang Xinxin was too lazy to continue dealing with these people, so she only stayed for about a year before returning to Kongsang.

At this time, it had been almost three years since she left the cabin outside Mount Jiuyi.

Of course, a lot of things happened during these three years. First, Shi Ying was assassinated many times by the Ice Clan. Later, there was the marriage between Zhu Yan and Qing Gang. Although the marriage failed, she was married to Prince Kirk of the Hotu tribe. Then, Shi Ying took off his divine robe and returned to the mortal world. In short, compared with Jiang Xinxin's situation, Shi Ying and Zhu Yan's life was colorful.

Jiang Xinxin didn't know that Shi Ying had been looking for her secretly. She quietly went back to check on the mermaids she had rescued. Seeing that they finally had smiles on their faces and that the mermaids were studying hard and learning skills, she quietly disappeared again. However, she didn't expect that no matter how she sent a message to Zhi Yuan, she would not receive a reply.

Because she was worried that Zhi Yuan might have an accident, Jiang Xinxin didn't care about anything else and started calculating Zhi Yuan's location. She found out that he was in Yecheng, not far from her, so she quickly flew over.

Zhiyuan rescued another group of mermaids, and one of them was called Suma Mermaid, who was the Sea King predicted to destroy Kongsang. Zhiyuan was very happy to receive Jiang Xinxin's message, but the current matter was more important. He had decided to send this group of mermaids away safely even at the cost of his own life.

Shi Ying, who rushed over to kill Zhi Yuan, saw Zhu Yan standing in front of Zhi Yuan to stop him from killing him, and suddenly remembered the guess that Jiang Xinxin had told him.

Shi Ying felt that fate was something that was hard to explain, and said self-deprecatingly, "Your Excellency said that if I died in your hands, it might be because I killed your beloved. And if I killed your beloved, it must be because I found out that he was doing some harm to Kong Sang. I watched from the sidelines for several years, and today, Your Excellency's words really came true."

Zhu Yan thought Zhi Yuan might be saved, so he quickly caught up with Shi Ying's words and explained, "Master, A Yuan is just an ordinary merman. He won't do anything to let Kong Sang down. Besides, the people of Cangliu Empire have been making frequent moves in secret. Maybe A Yuan was framed by them!"

Shi Ying had already decided that it would be better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go, but he also felt that there was some truth in Zhu Yan's words, so even if he killed Zhi Yuan, he still left him a glimmer of hope.

When Jiang Xinxin rushed over, Zhiyuan had already been taken away by the mermaid, and Shiying was stabbed with a jade bone by the grief-stricken Zhu Yan, and was already dying.