Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Legacy

"Have you seen the statue in the middle of the lotus pond?" Ning Guang asked lightly. The lotus pond is huge, but the statue is only life-sized. Amy only noticed after being reminded like this—that white jade statue is not a mermaid, but a human woman on land! Wearing gorgeous Kongsang-style clothes, the long skirt is embroidered with the coat of arms of white myrtle flowers.At her feet, there are also countless snow-white roses blooming—they are flowers carved from white jade and ice crystals, and they have bloomed quietly for thousands of years on the bottom of the sea thousands of feet deep.

"Hey, what's going on here?" The girl with evidence addiction bent down, looked carefully for a long time, then raised her head in wonder, "This should be from the Bai tribe..." How could the female statues of the Kongsangbai tribe appear in the royal garden of Haiguo? "This is Queen Xueqiang of our sea country." Looking at the beautiful statue, he looked back lightly: "Before the destruction of the sea kingdom, the last and second sea emperor 'Lengquan Emperor' in history once fell in love with the princess of the Libai clan of the Yunhuang Kongsang Dynasty. "

"What?" Having never heard of Hai Guo's marriage to Kong Sang, Amy's eyes widened in surprise. She sat down on a flat coral reef and began to listen to this obliterated history. "At that time, this was opposed by the whole country: the mermaids have always followed the ancient system of monogamy. If the Emperor of the Sea marries the Kongsang people, then the purity of the royal blood cannot be maintained—this is what the elders do not want to see. "In the deserted seabed garden, the sea witch narrated quietly, looking at the stone statue with a pale face. Her story is calm and long. The young dream weaver leaned on her elbows among the flowers and listened attentively.

Among the ninety-nine kings in the history of Haiguo, Emperor Lengquan is mediocre.He is romantic and addicted to fantasy, soft and introverted, lacks determination and assertiveness, and has little to recommend in governing the country. The only difference left in his life was his rare stubbornness in choosing marriage at that time. He used Pishuizhu as a dowry, and regardless of opposition from the government and the public, he married a human princess on the land of Yunhuang, and he was doted on in every possible way.In order to make her not miss her homeland, this luxurious garden imitating the land scenery was built for her.

However, due to the secret spells cast by the elders, they have been together for many years without giving birth to a child. Therefore, rumors gradually spread in Haiguo, saying that it was because those innocent souls who died at the hands of the Kongsang people did not want to see the blood of the royal family be stained, so they hindered the pregnancy of the queen of the foreign race-after all, Haiguo was long-term by land and air. The enslavement of the San people and the people's hatred for the people on land have never dissipated for hundreds of years. Compared with the thousand-year lifespan of mermaids, human life is fragile—only after ten years, Emperor Lengquan still maintains a handsome appearance like a god, but the queen is gradually getting old and sick, and is no longer the same as before. beauty.

However, Neptune still loves her very much, and doesn't care about her appearance.Facing the critically ill queen on the bed, Emperor Lengquan issued an edict to inform the world that in order to pray for the queen, he would become a priest in the temple.The elders were terrified. Seeing the empress getting weaker and weaker, fearing that the Sea Emperor's blood that had been passed down for thousands of years would be extinct, they finally secretly stopped the vicious spell that made the empress infertile. The queen's condition gradually improved, and she gave birth to three children in five years.

Those three children were exceptionally intelligent and beautiful when they were born, and possessed the superior bloodlines of both the Kongsangbai and the Haiwang family. Even the Merman who hated the Kongsang people the most could not be cruel to these three children.But no matter how Emperor Lengquan tried to prolong his wife's life, Empress Xueqiang finally reached the end of human life when her children were seventy years old, she passed away and was buried in this seabed garden. "It's such a blessing..." Before dying, the princess of the Bai nationality who married far away held her husband's hand tightly and smiled, "Being with you...children...such a life...I...I...thank you."

After the death of the empress, Emperor Lengquan seemed to have lost his interest in life. He carved a statue of his wife in the garden with his own hands, and he only talked to himself or was in a daze in front of the statue every day. He neglected government affairs and ignored the three children who lost their mothers.One morning, when the first ray of sunlight hit the underwater garden, the attendants found that Emperor Lengquan had died amid countless blooming white myrtle flowers. The three young children who lost the protection of their parents grew up in an extremely complicated political situation, endured all kinds of temptations and exploits, and were ignorantly drawn in by various forces.Obviously, he also encountered the temptation of the younger generation of the powerful and nobles.

——No one knows how and when everything happened, but one day, the three children quietly completed the process of "transformation", and they all emerged into three beautiful princesses ! The elders were like a thunderbolt—this way, the lineage of the Haiwang family was extinct, and there was no more son who could inherit the throne! Seeing that there is no hope of recovery, the situation in Haiguo gradually becomes delicate. On the one hand, calls for revising the ancestral rules and allowing the queen to ascend the throne began to appear; on the other hand, those nobles who had coveted the throne and were dissatisfied with the sea emperor marrying the Kongsang people began to move around again.

In order to save the domestic turmoil, witches and priests prayed to the Dragon God day and night. The dragon god took pity on them, and in order to make up for the lack of an heir to the throne, he gave them an extra gift, allowing their daughters to choose a husband at will.The dragon god gave three chances, and each princess could choose one. After the nobles learned that they would have the opportunity to become the king's husband and inherit the country, they temporarily suppressed their rebellious thoughts and quietly waited for the three princesses to grow up.For a while, the situation in Haiguo calmed down.

Finally, the eldest princess reached the age of marriage.She is very much like a mother, beautiful and warm, with a desperate courage.In the eyes of all the nobles, the husband she chose for herself was beyond everyone's expectations.At the coming-of-age ceremony, the eldest princess in full costume pointed to the temple and announced in a tone of disdain for the heavens: "I want the most powerful god in the world, the king of the four seas and nine states: Dragon God - to be my husband." !" All the elders and nobles were shocked and trembled at the whims of this blasphemer. But there was no sound in the temple, nor thunderbolts that heralded the wrath of the gods. As if a deep dragon chant came from a different time and space, the doors of the temple suddenly opened silently layer by layer, and a stream of water rushed to nowhere, and swept away the daring eldest princess in an instant-it turned out that the dragon god couldn't help it either. To break the promise he once made, he could only take away the first girl in the world who dared to ask to be his wife. But in this way, not only the ownership of the throne could not be established, even the eldest princess disappeared. So, just continue to wait. Ten years later, the second princess became an adult.She is not as outgoing and brave as her sister, but closer to her father's softness and quietness. Every day, she just stays in this garden and talks to the passing fish, occasionally surfacing, sitting on a floating iceberg and looking at the sky.Everyone is very relieved of her, thinking that such a quiet doll will become the best puppet. The noble children from various families have long been fighting each other, trying to please her with new tricks.However, the strange thing is that the second princess doesn't like any of them.Being entangled in a hurry, he hid in the garden alone, or simply floated to the surface of the water—no one knew that under the seemingly peaceful surface, there was another kind of fierceness and determination. She chose a result that was second only to her sister and also horrified the whole clan. At the much-anticipated ceremony, she told the temple the name she wanted to marry: Changkong. Sky——that's a name unique to the Yunfuyi clan!That person is the owner of the legendary sky city, the most gentle and charming man in the whole world, with a pair of snow-white wings, he can soar freely between the sky and the earth. Everyone finally knows why she chose to become a woman in the first place, but no one knows how the two of them met—maybe because of her occasional peeking out of the water, or because of his occasional stall and wandering, there is such a thing. An encounter beyond sea and sky. The elders tried every means to persuade the second princess, hoping that she would put the overall situation first.However, nothing can stop her from speaking her true wish to the temple. In an instant, the dragon god fulfilled her wish. With her fish tail removed and her white wings spread out behind her, she rose from the deep sea like foam and disappeared into the sky. The two ominous marriages shrouded Haiguo like a shadow, and the forces of all parties began to move around again.However, under the worried stares of the elders, the youngest princess resolutely advanced the wedding date, and before the ceremony time came, she took the initiative to announce that she was married to the high-ranking Marquis of Xihai at that time. This marriage settled the turbulent and ambiguous situation in Haiguo, and established the inheritance of the throne. Everyone praised the little princess for being smart and sensible, but no one knew what she had given up because of it.All I know is that she quickly became haggard after marriage, and within five years, without leaving a single child, the little princess became seriously ill. When the young princess was about to die, the sadness in her husband's eyes was bottomless. The Emperor of the Sea, once named Marquis of the West Sea, was more than a hundred years older than his wife.Handsome, funny, and well-born, he naturally became one of the most prestigious playboys in the sea country.He is also happy to enjoy everything that a noble dude has: wine, beauty, power, constantly changing female companions, from one pair of arms, wandering to another pair of arms. However, that day, he was shocked by the girl in front of the temple who reached out to him asking for marriage. Having held power for many years, he was dissatisfied with Emperor Lengquan's softness and incompetence after he became full-fledged. He had secretly coveted the throne for a long time.Originally, he was ready to seek rebellion and seize power, but unexpectedly, the little princess made such an accurate judgment—before he raised the rebellious flag, she handed him the hand and presented the crown. What shocked him at that moment was not the crown that fell from the sky, but the sacrificial eyes of the girl in front of him. At that time, she was less than one hundred and fifty years old.Totally a child. He looked at the pale little man, and faintly felt some kind of pity that penetrated into the bottom of his heart - at that moment, he realized that he had never really loved before.While holding the little princess's slightly trembling cold hands, he also secretly made a wish to the temple, to make her a real queen of the sea country, happier than Queen Xueqiang. After marriage, he became the king who ruled the country as a matter of course, and also the last emperor of the sea in the history of the sea country: Emperor Cangming.Contrary to everyone's expectations, after ascending to the peak of power, this playboy cut off all contacts with his previous lovers, and truly abided by the only criterion of marriage loyalty in the clan. However, she has always resisted, and never even allowed him to enter the bedroom. He finally remembered her silent transformation back then, and guessed what kind of shadow she kept in her heart. "My sisters took the chance to be free first—only I was left, and I had to sacrifice my life for the sea country." She murmured as she was dying, her eyes were not without resentment and regret, " In fact... if I can express my wish before them, I will also evade my responsibility." "A hundred years ago, when I floated on the surface of the sea with my second sister, the first person to see the sky was actually... me." The little princess stared blankly at the direction of the temple, and murmured repeatedly before she died. : "It's actually me..." She was the one who saw him first, and she fell in love with him first, but she was delayed by only one sentence! The underage little princess swallowed her last breath on the gorgeous marriage bed, but her eyes kept looking at the ray of sky above the vast blue sky, and she refused to close her eyes—the most proud daughter of the sea returned as a virgin. In that piece of blue. At that moment, Emperor Cangming, who had been guarding in front of the sick bed, shed tears.This ambitious and conceited man finally bowed his head before the unpredictable and powerful fate, not daring to look up.There was nothing he could do... He regretted her fate and her loneliness, but he was still unable to bring her any warmth. He violated the customs of the sharks and cremated his wife's body.When the strong wind blows up the sea, let the light smoke take her soul to the sky—the place that she has buried deep in her heart all her life, but can never reach. The long narration finally came to an end. Among the coral bushes, the dream weaver who was listening lowered his eyes and let out a sigh. "She's so pitiful." After a pause, he added: "That Neptune is too." "Emperor Cangming's life is indeed not lucky." Standing in the red lotus, the sea witch sighed softly, "He had great ambitions when he was young, but after ascending to the throne, he suffered a series of blows— —The empress died early, and the bloodline of the Sea Emperor was permanently suspended. Many dignitaries took the opportunity to attack him, accusing him of not being qualified to continue to rule the sea kingdom, and civil strife ensued." "However, at that moment, the disaster of extinction suddenly came!" When he said this, Ningguang suddenly trembled. The catastrophe a thousand years ago obviously left an indelible and terrifying memory in his heart, and fear appeared in the eyes of the witches who had been reincarnated several times.She subconsciously stretched out her pale and slender hand to block her eyes, as if resisting the flames falling from the sky, her voice trembling: "Heavenly fire... that is the heavenly fire that destroys everything! The clouds are sinking, the sea is being exposed, and everything is over. " The sea witch hugged her shoulders back, and gave a low hoarse wry smile: "In an instant, an era was erased - so easily, like traces smeared on the beach! This kind of prehistoric power, even Gods beyond the human world are irresistible." Amy was in a daze when she heard that, thinking of the destruction of Yunhuang she saw in her "dream", she felt chills all over her body. In such an overwhelming disaster, even the gods were helpless, only sister Xiao Yin had the courage to reach out and save those souls——she suddenly understood what Taotie said about "you are too far behind" Meaning. "It's a pity that Emperor Cangming didn't enjoy the glory for a few days, and he had to face such a catastrophe that has never happened in a thousand years." The sea witch Ningguang sighed softly, lowered her head, full of admiration, "At that time, the Chinese talents I know that the little princess did not choose the wrong person back then—when the nobles fled on their own, Emperor Cangming did not leave by himself, but instead showed the courage that a king should have, and worked with the Dragon God to save the people with all his strength." "While the Dragon God blocked the gap in the earth with his body to prevent the flames from gushing out, Emperor Cangming opened a path in the sea of ​​flames with the Ruyi Pearl in his hand, and led the surviving clansmen to escape into the deep sea. Then, he exhausted his last bit of strength , Enclose all the people in the purple river car, let them avoid the harsh years of the bottom of the sea in their deep sleep. "And he himself finally fell in front of the temple due to the exhaustion of his strength." Amy listened, but her mind was running at high speed, recording what she saw and heard one by one. "I understand..." Amy finally let out a breath, stood up, and pointed to the temple in the distance, "The current Sea Emperor is actually not an orthodox royal descendant at all, so there is no such thing as relying on blood inheritance." He doesn't have enough power to revive the Dragon God, or even revive his people, does he?" The young Dreamweaver tilted his head in a daze, and came to a conclusion: "So you want me to help wake up this sleeping sea country, don't you?" The sea maiden tightened the hem of her robe, and nodded silently. "Hey, that's not right... The Dragon God and the Sea Emperor sacrificed for the sea country, but where did the eldest princess and the second princess go?" The meticulous thinking refused to let go of a detail, and the dream weaver couldn't help asking, "What happened to the motherland?" Difficult, don't they care?" "They are traitors. They have abandoned their responsibilities, their clansmen and the country. Even if they are blessed by the gods, they cannot obtain happiness." Ning Guang sneered, with a trace of indescribable disgust and remorse, "They will suffer retribution." Such a cold, curse-like tone made Amy shudder. "It's such a magical legend... Don't worry, I will definitely record all the stories you told me, and let everyone in the world know—just like "The Lost Continent"!" After listening to such a long story, Amy sighed contentedly, stood on tiptoe in the garden, looked at the tall five-star altar at the end of the avenue, and said eagerly, "I want to see your king, and sister Xiao Yin! Take me there quickly." The sea maiden nodded and led the way silently, quickly walking through the garden full of flowers. "Huh," Amy trotted after her and asked suddenly, "How do you know these things?" Ning Guang suddenly stopped in her tracks, turned her head and smiled at her. There was indescribable sadness and despair in that smile, which made Amy's heart so tight that she couldn't breathe. The sea maiden took off her robe silently, revealing her pale back.On the thin back, there were two terrible wounds running vertically below the shoulder blades, and the bones were visible in the depths—as if a sharp knife had cut through her body and severed something abruptly. "This, this is..." The young dream weaver was speechless for a moment, pointing to the terrible wound. "The notch of the broken wing." The sea witch lowered her head and stroked her back. "It is the eternal punishment left when I cut off my wings from the city of the sky and fell to my hometown, which is generally sea water and half flame. .” Amy suddenly had shortness of breath, and stretched out her hand as if wanting to touch the two scars, but finally held back. The young Dreamweaver looked at her with the excitement and embarrassment of facing history for the first time, and stammered: "You...you are, the second princess who flew to Yunfu Kingdom?" "You... are you back?" Amy looked at her in surprise, unable to speak for a long time - but she was just silent. How to tell this dream weaver? Even though she wanted to leave behind this dusty past, she still didn't want to review everything in Sky City.