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“Reincarnation?” Elder Quan was dumbfounded for a moment, and when he realized what she was saying, he couldn’t help but become angry, “That Queen of the Red Clan? It’s been hundreds of years in the past, why bring it up at this time?”

Ruyi’s voice was light but firm, “He was my brother, and I knew where his heart was.”

“Cannot be! Zhi Yuan was the titled Left Envoy of the Restoration Army, the hero of our Shark Kingdom!” The Elder was enraged and snapped, “He died fighting for the Sea Kingdom, we can’t leave him to the Kongsang people!”

“You can’t take his heart away just to make him a ‘hero of the Sea Kingdom’! Zhi Yuan told me countless times that he wanted to wait for the reincarnation of the Red Pearl Fei Li…” A bright light grew in Ruyi’s eyes, sharp as a sword, and she couldn’t help but clench her fists, “I am his only family and must guard his last wish!”

She only recently recovered from a serious injury, and when she got to the intense part of her speech, she started coughing, and a bit of red splashed out of her mouth, staining the ground. The other Elders tried to say something, but were stopped by Elder Quan with a raised hand.

The Elder of the Sea Kingdom gazed at Ruyi with an intricate expression in his eyes, as if weighing his thoughts over something, and only after a long time he sighed and replied, “Since you are so strongly opposed to this, we shall put this matter to rest. I respect your opinion, Ruyi – I hope you will recuperate well and recover soon.”

“That is to say, why should we break the peace for the sake of a deceased person?” Doctor Shen Tu, who had been pretending to be deaf and mute, did not want to get involved in the internal affairs of the Restoration Army, but when he heard such words, he rushed up to smooth things over, “Ruyi, look, you are still wounded, why are you so agitated? Why don’t you drink the medicine first?”

Ruyi glanced at the doctor with gratitude, took a few sips of the medicine from his hand and the cough quelled, before she spoke up after a while with an arduous whisper, “How did Zhi Yuan died… who killed him?”

“No one saw his death with their own eyes.” Elder Quan whispered, shaking his head, “Zhi Yuan was of noble birth and had the lineage of the Martial God Lord second only to the Sea Emperor, even the Shadow Warriors could not hurt him – if I am correct, he should have been killed by the Great Priest.”

“The Great Priest? Shi Ying?” Ruyi’s body stiffened, visibly triggered by an extremely painful memory, her face turning ashen as she snapped, “That demon! I’m going to kill him!”

She was wailing and shaking all over, while the three Elders remained watching in silence, with sorrowful eyes – this apparently soft and feeble woman with a character of steel, who had never lost her temper even after being tortured at the hands of the Great Priest, was now completely broken!

“Alas, do not cry, beautiful child. For Yuan, such a death is considered pleading for mercy, isn’t so?” On the contrary, it was Doctor Shen Tu who could not listen to this and sighed, “I have been friends with this man for decades, and I do know how he thinks. This is not to be considered a shabby ending.”

A friend of the Left Envoy for decades? Then who was this man? Jian Lin froze for a moment.

“Doctor Shen Tu is one of our people.” As if he could sense his surprise, Elder Quan spoke up to address his doubts, “For all these years, he had been secretly helping the Restoration Army in their operations in Dragon Slaying Village – this matter was so confidential that only Zhi Yuan originally knew about it; now, it is time for you to also know about it as well.”

This doctor is one of our own? But he’s not a shark, he’s a Midlander!

“What, you don’t believe it?” Seeing Jian Lin’s puzzled expression, Doctor Shen Tu coughed a few times, “I’ll tell you a secret: I’ve actually saved more sharks than I’ve slaughtered.” He cast a glance at Jian Lin and squared him from top to bottom, “Your legs are perfectly split, long and straight, and your lower limbs are as strong as a human ones – such a perfect body-breaking procedure, I might have done it with my own knife back then! Heh heh.”

“…” Jian Lin blushed, unable to reply for a moment.

Could such an executioner actually be a friend of Lord Left Envoy?

“Alright, enough about that.” Elder Quan interrupted their conversation and spoke with some anxiety, “Quickly tell me how is the child doing?”

A child? Jian Lin froze for a moment and only then noticed that on the leather mattress behind Ruyi, there was indeed an unconscious child lying!

It was a small, skinny shark child, apparently only six or seven years old, with an amazingly beautiful face. However, his body was like a broken rag doll: his skinny, bony little body was scarred with the marks of years of ill-treatment, and his abdomen had been cut open, a huge wound that was still oozing blood.

After just one glance, Jian Lin’s face turned pale and he gave Doctor Shen Tu a fierce glare – who could have done this to a child? Was it this slaughterer?

“Alas, it’s the first time I’ve encountered such a difficult patient!” Doctor Shen Tu was near exhaustion after days and nights of rescuing people, and the silver needle in his hand was shaking, “I’ve used all my abilities: I’ve sealed the acupuncture points, administered internal and external medicine, and used the maximum quantity possible of herbal pills, but I still can’t suppress the degradation inside his body. Alas, this little child… is possessed by an evil spirit!”

Elder Quan faltered, “Didn’t you say that when you saw this child a few days ago, he was in good health? Why did he suddenly become so ill?”

“Probably because of an unexpected emergency operation in the battlefield.” Doctor Shen Tu sighed, “After learning in the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion that this child was at the Red King’s Residence, Lord Zhi Yuan asked me to bring him back, no matter the cost. As the battle in Yecheng was beginning to rage, he was afraid that I would be dragged into it, so he asked me to leave Dragon Slaying Village first to look for this child, and then try to bring him back to the Mirror Lake Encampment to hand him over to the Elders…”

After a pause, he said, “But by the time I found him, the child was being carried on the back of the Princess Zhu Yan, his whole body was burning and he was already on the verge of death – I had to take the decision in the heat of the moment and cut him out right there in the middle of the battlefield.”

Cut him? Jian Lin took a quick glance at the unconscious little shark and found that there was indeed an extremely large wound on his abdomen, which was still seeping blood even though it was tightly wrapped.

“An impromptu operation on the battlefield added with encountering such a demonic fetus, was a matter of no survival at all,” Doctor Shen Tu touched his forehead, revealing an expression of desperation, “fortunately, at that time, Princess Zhu Yan was still carrying on her body an ancient jade with Dragon Blood, which worked at the last moment… Otherwise the child would have died long ago.”

Ancient Jade of Dragon Blood? Wasn’t that a divine weapon that had been passed down from ancient times in our clan? How could it be in the possession of that Princess Zhu Yan? Jian Lin was secretly surprised, yet Elder Quan’s face remained unchanged, as if he already knew that it was Zhi Yuan who had personally gifted the divine artifact to a member of another clan, and only frowned as he asked, “Then it was really God’s will – what kind of illness does this child suffer from? Why is it so bizarre?”

“Ever seen anything like this?” Doctor Shen Tu took out an item from the side of the bed and revealed it to the Elders, “This is a ‘mirror twin’ that can only be seen once in a million!”

Jian Lin was stunned and had a closer look. In that moment, he couldn’t help but exclaim out loud!

In that bundle, surprisingly, was a fetus!

Only slightly larger than the size of a palm, with a tiny face scrunched up into a ball and a pair of tiny fists the size of a human thumb, clenched tightly together – eerily, the face of this tiny fetus was identical to that of the unconscious child on the mattress! Incredibly beautiful, it looked almost like a sophisticated delicate doll; Only that the doll was broken and had been slashed several times.

As the three Elders looked at the tiny fleshy fetus, their expressions became extremely serious, as if they had seen something extremely ominous and unfathomable.

“You all are aware of the evil of this thing, aren’t you?” Doctor Shen Tu murmured, “Though dissected out, that dark power still lingers in this little fellow’s body, eating away into his flesh and blood.”

Elder Quan frowned and murmured, “This unborn flesh has been cut out, how can it still be so malicious?”

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