Beastmaster

Chapter 127 The Queen's Test

The air seemed to be frozen, and the entire bedroom fell into silence after Jing Cangming told the story.

After a long time, Xiao Jiu hugged Jing Cangming's arms and looked at him distressedly, "Cangming~..."

Jing Cangming patted her arm and looked at her with a warm smile, "I'm fine."

After a while.

The Queen of Atlantis came back to her senses after being lost in her memories and said in a daze, "Do you want to hear what I think of your father?"

Jing Cangming turned around and nodded heavily, "I think so!"

"It was more than 20 years ago. I was just an adult at that time. Your father was younger than me, probably in his seventies."

"Wait?! More than 20 years ago? My father was only in his teens at that time! You...you are not human?!"

When Jing Cangming expressed this thought, he was frightened by himself. He looked at the Queen in surprise, waiting for her answer.

The queen nodded and said, "Yes, I am not a human, I am a merman."

After saying that, he stood up and turned around on the spot.

Jing Cangming's eyes widened, but Xiaojiu was not too shocked, after all, she had seen the mermen before.

The queen's legs had disappeared at this time, replaced by a long neon fishtail, and the high heels turned into a chain on the fishtail.

After the Queen transformed into her true form, she continued to sit in her seat, looking at Jing Cangming with a smile, "Look, I am a merman, a war beast."

Originally, Jing Cangming thought that the Queen of Atlantis was a human, and the army of fishmen outside must be ruled by his contracted beasts. But who knew that they themselves were beasts, and war beasts at that.

"Can you listen to me now?" the Queen said mischievously, and finally stuck out her tongue. At this moment, it seemed that the Queen not only no longer had any hostility towards her, but she even seemed to have a little feeling of family.

Jing Cangming nodded woodenly and said, "Okay."

"Hehe~" The Queen laughed first, then continued, "Nine-turn Hellfire Dragon, your name is Xiaojiu, right?"

Xiao Jiu nodded, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, just listen carefully to the following story, maybe it has something to do with you~".

Xiaojiu didn't say anything, just nodded and continued listening.

Jing Cangming asked, "Are you okay?"

Because Jing Cangming saw that Xiaojiu's face seemed not to be very good.

Xiaojiu smiled at him and said, "I'm fine, don't worry."

Jing Cangming said, "Please continue."

The queen nodded, then transformed into a human form, crossed her legs and said, "It's still comfortable this way. Let me continue to tell you."

Jing Cangming glanced at Xiao Jiu and thought to himself, "This guy knows my dad, so he's not a very serious person..."

"We mermaids have been a subordinate race since ancient times," the queen looked at Xiaojiu, "subordinate to..."

Before the Queen could finish, Xiao Jiu said, "Bi Hai Cang Liu Long!"

The Queen nodded.

Jing Cangming was a little surprised and asked, "Ah? Subordinate race? What does this mean?"

The Queen sighed and said, "What it means is that the mermaids must obey the Blue Sea Dragons. In the ocean, they are the undisputed masters."

The queen looked at her trembling hands and legs, "The dragon race is lustful by nature, and the women of our mermaid race are born beautiful. This is why the Blue Sea Dragon gave us an order that every year we have to pay tribute to them with female mermaids, and they will send their tribesmen to pick us up in case of accidents on the road."

"Then what will happen after they are presented as tribute?" Jing Cangming said hurriedly.

The queen said, "The dragons will play with you like toys, and when they get tired of playing with you, they will eat you." There was no murderous intent or anger in her words, but only fear and terror.

"What?!" How can they trample on life like this? ! "Jing Cangming roared.

Xiaojiu explained, "In the ocean, they are gods, and any race that dares to disobey them will suffer a catastrophic disaster."

"So, when our mermaids are about to reach adulthood, we will float to the surface and try to find a human to become their contracted beast, so that we can leave here. However, this is a deep sea area, and no human dares to come. But on that day, your father showed up."

The queen seemed to be immersed in beautiful memories, "We, the mermaid tribe, would draw lots to select the mermaids for tribute. Unfortunately, I was one of the tributes. After I reached adulthood, I would be sent to the Dragon Palace of the Bi Hai Cang Liu Long. At that time, I was only a few days away from adulthood."

"So during this period of time I spent almost the entire day on the sea, praying that I could find a beast general to take me away."

"Won't they start killing people because of this?" Jing Cangming asked.

The queen shook her head and said, "No, they won't, because they are real dragons and cannot appear in the eyes of humans, and they are reluctant to slaughter our race, so for us female mermaids who are about to become adults, finding the beast general is the only way."

"I understand now, all thanks to the Sky-Splitting Beast God," Jing Cangming muttered.

The Queen said, "What did you say? Who are you wronging?"

Jing Cangming told the Queen the story of the ascension of the Bi Hai Cangliu divine dragon.

The Queen's face was very interesting, as if she had suddenly realized something. "I was wondering how the Sky-Splitting Beast God could still care about the affairs of this world after he ascended to heaven. It turns out there is such a story." The Queen seemed to have instantly become a fan of the Sky-Splitting Beast God and admired him very much.

"Go on, what happened next?"

"Later, I never waited for the beast to arrive. After I grew up, I was locked in a cage, watching four people from the Bi Hai Cang Liu Long clan escorting me around, ready to die. On the way to the Dragon Palace, my heart seemed to have died, and only a body was left. I stared blankly at the scene around me that kept running backwards, and at the beasts who were watching the excitement around me. Later, I closed my eyes, waiting for the nightmare to come."

The queen stood up, strolled in the room, and suddenly turned around to look at Jing Cangming, "Just at this moment, I heard the sounds of running and wandering around, heard screams, heard the sound of fighting, and heard a man's voice. I opened my eyes and looked at the scene in front of me. I saw a man in a black robe, holding a long knife in his hand, just floating in the sea. There was still blood on the knife that had not been washed clean by the sea water, and there was no living creature around except him and me."

"That's my dad?!" Jing Cangming became more and more excited as he listened.

"Yes, that man is Jing Kai. He was like a god of war who had heard my prayers and was sent to save me. He had a handsome face, a tall stature, and a sword in his hand. He looked so mighty. However, the four blue sea dragons that escorted me were now only left with broken limbs."

"Aren't dragons very strong? Could it be that my father was strong enough to kill a real dragon?!"

"I don't know what level your father was at that time, and he never told me, but what I do know is that the four dragons were all above level 90!" the Queen said excitedly.

"Ninety...above level ninety..." Jing Cangming began to reshape the image of his father in his mind. This was simply incredible. His father, who was always known for being sloppy and unserious, actually killed four real dragons above level ninety in an instant!

"What happened next? What happened next?!" Jing Cangming urged hurriedly.

"Later he said his name was Jing Kai. His boat accidentally hit a reef and broke into pieces while he was sleeping, so he wandered in this deep sea area. He happened to meet me, so he helped me."

"What happened next?"

"Later, we lived together for a while. I originally wanted to become his war beast, but he didn't have any extra marine war beasts, so I gave up. Later, he accompanied me back to the tribe, but what I didn't expect was that some beasts and the Blue Sea Dragon reported this matter, resulting in the killing of the tribe leader and my parents before I came back as a warning to others. I was also regarded as an ominous thing and was expelled from the tribe. Then, your father wanted to find them to avenge my parents and the tribe leader, but I stopped him."

"If you had let him go at that time, I might not be here. After all, they still have a divine dragon," Jing Cangming murmured.

"Alas, later on, I had nowhere to go and he couldn't take me away, so he came here and helped me build the royal city of Atlantis. He also gave me his treasure, the Tide-Listening Pearl, and I gave him a small boat from my tribe as a thank you."

"This Tingchaozhu should be the secret treasure you said I stole, right?" Jing Cangming said.

The queen nodded and said, "However, Tingchaozhu was not stolen by anyone. It was me who made you get Tingchaozhu and come here."

"Ah?! You did it? But I got the Tingchao Pearl from a stone that fell from the sky. Why did you do this?" Jing Cangming said in disbelief.

"To be honest, we fishmen are good at illusion, mind control and hiding, so I have spies all over the Beastmaster Continent. For all these years, I have been trying to find Jing Kai, hoping to make a contract with his descendants as a reward," the Queen said lightly.

"So, you've known this since I went out to sea?"

"Yes, my people informed me of the news when you appeared at the port with this ship. I didn't show up because I wanted to know how powerful Jing Kai's descendants are and whether they are worthy of my reward in the form of a contract."

"So, all the situations I encountered after I went out to sea were planned by you to test me?!" Jing Cangming seemed a little angry.

Xiao Jiu spoke out Jing Cangming's anger at this time, "Do you know how many lives have been lost because of your planning and your postgraduate entrance examination?!"

The Queen said with some guilt, "These are indeed things I did not expect. I did not expect that they would die at your hands, nor did I expect that you would be so powerful at this age."