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When the Jade Bone descended from the sky and struck through the water illusion like a bolt of lightning, the three elders gathered around the well platform shocked and involuntarily staggered backwards one step simultaneously, spitting out a mouthful of blood with a gasp!

“Oh no, has the spell been broken?” Not caring about his injuries, Elder Quan hastily climbed to the opening of the well and looked down – the pool of clear water from the ancient well had turned cloudy and become the consistency of the blood!

Fortunately, the child was still curled up under the water like a fetus, convulsing violently all over, without opening his eyes. The pouch around his neck emitted a radiance that constrained his soul, and the talisman on the well platform wrapped around in circles, continuing to trap the child in the fabricated illusion.

“Fortunately…” Elder Quan breathed a sigh of relief, “the Big Dream spell has not yet been broken.”

The other two Elders coughed heavily and struggled up from the ground, shocked: “What just… happened earlier? Was it someone who broke into the Big Dream spell and shattered our incantation?”

Elder Quan coughed: “Yes, it was that woman.”

“What?” Elder Qing and Elder Jian faltered in unison, “Could it be that Kongsang girl…?”

Elder Quan quickly raised his index finger and glanced at the child at the bottom of the well. The other two elders also immediately silenced themselves and lowered their voices, “How did she… break in? That little Kongsang princess, shouldn’t know that we are in possession of this child, right?”

“It was probably because her earthly spirit was too vibrant and drifted out in her sleep, unintentionally piercing through the two colorless realms and breaking into our illusionary world.” Elder Quan whispered, and sighed, “The will of Heaven… is perhaps because of the eagerness in her heart, she is still haunted by this matter in her dreams and her soul in the daytime is desperately trying to find this child.”

The other two elders were silent, and after a long time, Elder Jian sighed, “Alas, she does care about this child very much.”

“But to break into the ‘Big Dream Spell’ requires very powerful spiritual power,” Elder Qing murmured, still incredulous, “She’s so young, with merely a dozen years of cultivation, how can she…”

Elder Quan laughed coldly, “Don’t you know that she is a direct disciple of the Great Divine Priest of Jiuyi Mountain?”

“…” Elder Qing and Elder Jian simultaneously gasped and stopped speaking.

Over the years, the Great Divine Priests of the Jiuyi Temple, Shi Ying, had been painstakingly pursuing for clues about the Sea Emperor’s resurrection, and had even come close to finding out the truth a number of times – this little princess had such a close relationship with Sumo, and if he learned about Sumo’s existence through Zhu Yan, elder Quan was afraid that the Sea Kingdom’s greatest secret would become compromised!

“Those Kongsang people are only one step away from our biggest secret!” Elder Quan whispered, and his face was grave, “We have to hurry to finish the rest of the steps – if we ever alert Shi Ying, the Sea Emperor will face great danger!”

“Yes.” The other two elders stood up in response and returned to the ancient well.

“Where did the boy go in his dream?” Elder Quan whispered, and pointed his finger to the well platform, and the runes instantly glowed with a dazzling light, like flowing thunderbolts, swishing and projecting into the water, enveloping the skinny child – the water was calming down again, rippling slightly, reflecting the moonlight and interweaving a new illusion.

Looking down from the mouth of the well was like looking down on another life.

What appeared inside those flowing waves was a vivid image of the Imperial City of Jialan. And the child had just emerged exhausted from the mirror lake, his hair dripping with water, standing barefoot at the gates of the city, looking thin, lonely and disoriented.

Yes, he was still searching for his sister in the illusion and had not yet given up.

“You must know that the bloodline of the Sea Emperor is so powerful that even with the strongest of spells, it may not be possible to completely seal this child’s memory,” Elder Quan sighed and looked at Sumo, who was sinking at the bottom of the well, and whispered, “Unless he is willing to forget, to sever it from the inside in order to put an end to it forever.”

“Willing?” Elder Qing smiled bitterly, “This child is so stubborn, how can he be willing?”

“There is always a way.” Elder Quan looked at the child in the illusion and asked in a low voice, “About that Kongsang Red Clan princess, where does this child’s memory of her stop in reality?”

“At the Dragon Slaying Village over there.” The other two elders replied, “According to Doctor Shentu’s description, that Kongsang princess assisted him with the operation, and after removing the parasitic fetus from Sumo’s body, she ran off to the battlefield. Doctor Shentu then took Sumo to the Mirror Lake camp – they never saw each other again after that.”

“Hmm. So, it seems that this child’s last memory about that Kongsang princess was very painful?” Elder Quan murmured, a look of delight actually appearing in his eyes, “Great… we just need to amplify that pain to find a potential path to start a flaw.”

“A start a flaw?” The other two elders were a little confused.

“We are going to break this child’s heart, implanting a thought into his subconscious that will be used to counteract the attachment that the Kongsang woman left in his heart.” Elder Quan closed his hand and a faint light began to flow from his fingertips, “We have to make him remember deeply – that his so-called sister was actually the one who caused him pain.”

“Come… from now on, his memory, shall be ours to weave.”

“We must bring the heart of the Ocean Emperor, back to his people!”

Sumo was not sure for how long he had been swimming from the ancient well in the western city of Yecheng to the capital of the Jialan Empire – a disorienting journey, submerged entirely under the deep blue water, not even able to distinguish the shifting of day and night above his head. It was only when the lofty city in the heart of the lake was close at hand that he surfaced exhausted.

Just a moment after exiting the water, the child suddenly saw a magnificent and imposing caravan on the shore, with gold-armored scouts galloping back and forth in front of it to clear the way, the carriages extending as far as the eye could see.

“Who is that? How dare they steer the horses on the royal road?”

“It’s the only daughter of the Red King, today is following her father into the palace to see the emperor about an alliance wedding. The emperor has granted her permission to enter the forbidden city on a carriage as a sign of favor – a splendid sight!”

“Amazing, amazing… A powerful marriage, a royal alliance!”

Hearing the whispers of the onlookers on the shore, the child shivered. In that moment, everything that happened in Yecheng’s palace resurfaced in his mind.

“We didn’t lie to you, go out and ask, the entire world knows that the White Clan and the Red Clan are going to join in marriage!”

“Don’t dream… She’s about to marry the Governor of Yecheng and become the future White King’s Consort, how could she bother with a little brat like you?”

“She already stopped wanting you a long time ago!”

At that time, the maids in the palace said so, and even Auntie Ru said so.

The mouths of the people were full of words. But he just didn’t trust them. Yes, he told to himself, he wouldn’t believe what they said until he saw it with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears!

And now, at last, he was witnessing it with his own eyes.

Sumo climbed from the water and stumbled into the crowd – a golden carriage was passing in front of him, the wind faintly blowing the gold-embroidered curtains, the golden hooks swung revealing a beautiful maiden in a gorgeous dress inside.

The lingering moon was still hanging in the sky, and in the faint light before dawn, the bright and cheerful Princess of the Red Clan was as beautiful as if she was unreal, shrouded in the embroidered golden cape.

It was her! It was really her!

“Sister!” In that moment, the child could no longer hold back himself from shouting out loud, “Sister! I’m here!”

He called out as loudly as he could, but he was small and weak, and his voice was drowned out by the noise of the joyous music, and the huge caravan did not stop for him, but continued to race through. Reluctantly, the boy staggered after the caravan, trying to catch up with the magnificent carriage in which she was travelling.

The guards immediately pushed him back into the crowd and scolded, “Little brat, how dare you try to ram the caravan? Why don’t you get lost?”

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