mermaid

"My lord priest, my lord priest, hurry up, hurry up, Xi is about to give birth, Xi is about to give birth!"

Panicked footsteps, noisy voices, Wang Zheng is critically ill, and the queen is about to give birth...

In the end, a human-shaped baby was held in both hands and stood in front of the crowd.

"Ah, it's a 'nothing'..."

"Although it's not a male, 'none' is also considered good... right..."

"Don't be kidding, Priest You is still very young. It doesn't make any sense to be born at this time. What we need is a male!"

"It's not good, it's not good, the king--the king--the king is dead!!!"

"What!!!" Everyone was shocked when they heard the news.

It was another hundred years without male births. The mermaid clan who once ruled the deep sea had a lower and lower male birth rate. In the past 300 years, no male mermaid was born. Not only that, but the lifespan of mermaids is also gradually decreasing. There are fewer and fewer people who can pass the age of one hundred.

Mermaids who used to be no more than fifty were considered adults, but now they have become as short-lived as those tailless beasts on land, and they are about to start giving birth in their teens and twenties.But there was no increase in strong males.

Sacrifice You looked at the king who sank into the holy land and instantly turned into a huge skeleton, full of worry.This is the last male mermaid of the mermaid clan, just over 50 years old, and has only married one wife in his life.Since there were signs, the mermaid clan practiced polygamy for reproduction. For nearly a hundred years, even the females of the whole clan were allowed to be selected by the king.But this one continued the tradition of mermaid devotion, loving only Queen Xi until death.It should be an enviable thing, but at the moment of life and death of the mermaid group, devotion has become a sickle of death instead.This king gave birth to only one "nothing" for the ethnic group in his life, and then returned to the ancestors.

"Wu" means no tail. Mermaid children are born with tails, and male and female can be distinguished under the tail. When they grow up, their tails turn into two feet and can walk on land. If they are born without tails and sexless, they are candidates for sacrifices and can survive for a short time. Water, but more often can only live on land, lost the ocean but gained the power to communicate with the ancestors of the gods.

You returned to the residence just in time to meet Xi who came to look for him, and Xi was still holding Wu, who was just born a few days ago, in Xi's arms.

"You should have a good rest." You brought her a plate of pastries and tea.

"I can't take a good rest right now," Xi pushed away the tea, smiled wryly and shook her head.

You didn't know how to comfort her, all the females in the clan were blaming her, blaming her for taking over the king, and blaming her for not giving birth to a male.

"I have two things to do today. The first is that I want you to give him a name." Xi looked down at the baby in her arms. Although she was only a few days old, she was fat and cute, with round eyes. He looked at his mother for a while and looked at you for a while.

"Oh~ There's actually a small mole of tears~" You took the child, and a tiny stream of spiritual power flowed in, this is really a natural sacrifice.

"Let's call it Ran," he said while tapping the little tear mole under the child's right eyelid.

Xi nodded, "The second thing is that I hope you can hold a conversion ceremony for me."

These words froze You's smile on his face.

"You want to hold a conversion ceremony?" You asked incredulously: "You just gave birth, you know this ceremony—"

"I know, but this is the only thing I can do for the group." Xi's eyes fell on the child, "If I succeed, it will be good for the whole group. If I fail, I believe you will treat me well." Ran."

"Switching isn't something that can be accomplished with just will—"

"But firm will can indeed increase the success rate, can't it." Xi held You's hand, "I have nothing to lose, and now the ethnic group is waiting for the candidate you made."

Indeed, Xi is the closest person to Wang, and she is most likely to succeed.

"You, I hope to succeed, I will work hard and not waste your spiritual power."

"It's not a matter of wasting spiritual energy...well..."

As the name suggests, the conversion ceremony means that the priest communicates with the heavens and the earth through spiritual power to obtain unparalleled power and forcibly pours it into the mermaid body to change the sex. In the past, when the mermaid clan was strong, the male would choose the strongest man to be the king through battle. The priest reported to the ancestors of the gods during the coronation ceremony The ancestors of the gods poured gifts on the king to make him stronger and braver.But as the male mermaids withered, although the priests could still pray for abundant gifts, the infused kings could not give birth to males, and even their life spans became shorter and shorter.

When You was an apprentice priest, he searched through the notes of previous priests and created this conversion method. At that time, he was severely reprimanded by his teacher, the former priest, but when the ethnic group was dying, the previous priests finally adopted him. With this method, one female was successfully converted, and Xi's husband was the second converted by the former priest.

Perhaps this method is too heaven-defying, and every conversion will consume a huge amount of spiritual power of the priest.Because of this supplementary measure, the ethnic group is still lingering.

You's conversion theory is actually very simple. The closer the converted candidate is to a male, the more successful they will be. The so-called closeness is mainly due to willpower and physique, and the proportion of willpower is higher. After all, there is not much difference in the physique of female mermaids.

Even though he created the theory and succeeded twice through the teacher's practical operation, You knew that every conversion might fail, and the spiritual power consumed could be recuperated, but the time shortage of the group was getting less and less.

After full preparation, You personally performed the transformation ceremony for the first time, but the result was that Xi's body collapsed in front of his eyes, blood donation splashed all over his body, and the remains fell to the bottom of the lake and turned into bones.

You couldn't believe everything in front of him, obviously everything was going well, huge spiritual power poured from the sky through his body into Xi's body, Xi's bones began to become thicker and stronger, and the scales of the fish tail's furious scales gradually turned light golden, only a short distance away. A little bit can be completely perverted, but at the last moment, donated blood spurted out of her mouth, and the scales on her body turned into sharp knives to cut through the flesh.

How could it fail...You fell weakly on the ground, obviously the teacher succeeded, but twice, why did he suddenly fail when he was the creator of the theory?

This sudden failure silenced the entire clan and filled the air with despair.If even the conversion fails, these people will be the last generation of mermaids.

You, this method goes against the sky and is not the right way.The demise of the mermaid clan was God's will. The ocean was receding, and the priests lost their fish tails and turned into legs. God did not choose mermaids.If there is still no change by your successor priest, you should not use this method again—you suddenly remembered the words of the previous priest, but why, it is not a pity to lose the fish tail, because you have gained spiritual power, but the mermaid The family did nothing wrong, so why did God do this?Generation after generation withered, feeling death slowly, if God really can't tolerate the mermaid, it can be killed by a thunderbolt.

You lowered your head, your eyes became hatred, I don't, since all the previous successes, there is no reason for me, the creator, to fail, I will definitely transform into the strongest king, and lead the mermaid family out of the predicament!

For the next 20 years, You and Xiao Ran continued to study while silently bearing the censure of their clansmen.Then one day, when he saw Ran Qingsong, who had grown into a handsome young man, healed the wound of a mermaid with spiritual power, a flash of spiritual light split the fog in his mind, and the spiritual light flashed.

If it is too difficult for a male and female to change into a male, what about changing to "none"? "Wu" possesses spiritual power and is born to communicate with the gods. Ran's spiritual power plus his own, double prayer... The more I think about it, the more feasible it becomes.But when You expressed this idea, Ran rejected it.

Ran, who has always been friendly and patient with his tribe, did not hear the slightest excitement of being able to save his tribe, but instead stared at Priest You with a stern face.

"Master Ji, haven't you given up yet? Haven't you figured it out in the past 20 years?"

Ran's words made You shudder, what an exhortation that seemed familiar.

"Let the surviving clansmen peacefully return to the arms of their god ancestors is what we should do. Switching gender is against the heavens. This world is no longer suitable for the mermaid clan!"

"nonsense!"

"Do you know how painful it is to switch parties every time, and how much 'self' you have to give up to become a king?" Ran's eyes were burning, "Xi's failure is the first time, but it won't be the last time. Didn't your teacher already warn you? Is it over?"

With a stick of "Boom", You's mind went blank.

If you are born to know it, and know the past life, then you must also know the future.Ran saw the future that he couldn't see...the future of the extinction of the clan...

Ran sighed, leaving You alone to think.When he was a baby, he could remember the scene of his mother's failure to transform and die. As he grew up, he could often hear the thoughts of previous priests. Ran thought that this time he could persuade his teacher, but the reality was that when he emerged from the chaos with a splitting headache When he woke up, he was lying on the altar weakly, and his teacher, You You, who raised him, was praying earnestly and sincerely with his eyes closed.The spiritual power in his body gradually overflowed with You's murmur, merged with the spiritual power of You's body and rushed to the sky, entangled with the huge spiritual power descending from the sky, and poured it back decisively.

"Ah!!!!" In an instant, the internal organs melted, the bones were shattered, the eyes were blood red, and the quiet figure twisted into a strange shape as if looking across the water.The skin peeled off bit by bit, and the legs turned into dust bit by bit until the waist, and from the waist down, the spiritual light entangled and turned into an illusory fishtail.

Ran stretched his body like a fish out of water, opened his mouth wide and exhaled desperately.The tyrannical spiritual power in the body roamed around to transform the meridians and flesh, Ran's claws scratched out bloodstains randomly on his chest, and he could only let out a dull "ho ho" from his throat.

As time went by, Ran's body began to grow taller and stronger, with long hair around his waist, small hills bulging out of his arms, and the fish tail of his lower body sweeping away several pieces of gravel.

However, it was not close.

The color of the fish tail is light gold, the blood-colored meridians are still floating on the surface, and the male genitals have not grown yet.

Cold sweat and a sense of exhaustion swept over the whole body, You looked at the extremely beautiful body of the male mermaid in front of her, and gritted her teeth.

"I'm right!!! I said, I want to create the strongest king, and the mermaid clan will not perish!!!" You looked up to the sky with determination in his eyes.He changed his prayers, bent and knelt down, and then resolutely jumped off the holy lake.

Priests can't turn themselves into bones and keep them in the holy lake. The last thing Ran saw was that his teacher's body turned into white light and flew into the sky the moment he fell into the water, and then injected into his body with the spiritual light.