Free Web NovelCompared to the anxiety and excitement they felt when they arrived, everyone was eager to return home.
No one mentioned the young lives that would forever remain on the Creation Fruit.
At 2 PM, the Taicang successfully returned to the space station.
Before dinner, the Tide High School group safely returned to Han Ning City.
Meanwhile, news reports related to the Global Martial Exam were already fermenting online.
#Most Powerful Martial Arts Champion#
#This Year's Martial Arts Champion Breaks Historical Record with Over 2000 Points#
#Shocking! A Candidate Actually Did Such an Unreasonable Thing in the Martial Exam Hall#
#Mingxi Global Martial Exam#
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As soon as she got off the plane, Mingxi's personal terminal popped up with 99+ message notifications.
Jian Li'an: "Ming Shen, the internet says you're this year's Martial Arts Champion for the college entrance exam, is that true?"
Fu Sushu: "Xiao Xi, you're not going to graduate earlier than me, are you?"
Fu Yifan: "Boss, if you get rich, don't forget me."
Shao Dingding: "Xiao Xi, are you hurt? Are Golden Yuanbao and the others okay?"
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Mingxi smiled as she replied to everyone's messages, feeling relaxed.
Upon returning home, she, as usual, affectionately greeted her Grandma and introduced Emerald Green to her.
Ruan Qinghe had already well accepted her granddaughter's defying the heavens.
Some things, you get used to them after being shocked enough times.
She wasn't curious at all why her granddaughter, after going out to participate in the college entrance exam, had actually contracted another pet.
Looking at Emerald Green, who had a special aura and was enveloped in an aloof and indifferent demeanor.
"Is it called Emerald Green? What a beautiful name. Welcome, this will be your home from now on. Although Xiao Xi is kind-hearted, she has many bad habits. If she bullies you, just come to Grandma, and Grandma will stand up for you."
Emerald Green: "..."
Mingxi: "..."
Should she tell Grandma that Emerald Green was actually older than her?
Forget it, what's there to compare between humans and Transcendent creatures?
As long as Grandma was happy.
Time Realm.
Mingxi directly led Gold, Silver, and Blue into the storage room, standing before the mermaid amber, which was the Po Ling Stone.
She had the molten saliva incense.
It was time to open this 'coffin lid' and get the Little Mermaid out.
Emerald Green was seeing the mermaid amber for the first time and heard about the Little Mermaid from Golden Yuanbao.
Even it found it somewhat incomprehensible.
A Mermaid that had been dead for over a thousand years could still conceive new life in its belly, which was already outrageous enough.
She didn't expect there to be something even more outrageous: the Little Mermaid in the Mermaid's belly could actually save itself and had even actively signed an Oath Contract with the Little Human.
It felt for the first time that its own act of intercepting that creation core and contracting with the Little Human seemed a bit childish.
No wonder that Angel Dragon called it 'Old Five'.
"How do we do it?"
Mingxi placed the molten saliva incense in front of the amber and asked Guangguang.
"Master, you just need to gently brush a layer of molten saliva incense on the surface of the amber with a soft brush, and the amber will begin to melt. When it stops melting, you brush another layer until the body of the Youhai Mermaid is exposed.
However, Master, you must be prepared.
After this Ghost Sea Merman died, the remaining divine energy and physical energy should have been used to nourish the child in its belly.
The reason its corpse remained intact is because of this layer of amber. Once the amber dissolves, the Youhai Mermaid's body is very likely to rot immediately, or even oxidize into dust.
Therefore, you must, at the moment its body is exposed, summon the Little Mermaid back into the Pet Space, otherwise, a phenomenon of inertial following may occur."
The so-called inertial following phenomenon is when one creature has stayed with another creature for a long time, and when the situation of the other creature undergoes a significant change, {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} the former creature will habitually follow that change.
Given the relationship between the Little Mermaid and its mother, the probability of inertial following occurring is over 90%.
Therefore, all connections between them must be severed before the inertial following phenomenon occurs.
Previously, Mingxi couldn't summon the Little Mermaid back into the Pet Space because the resin amber formed by the Ten Thousand Hope Ground Pine had the effect of sealing space.
"I understand."
Mingxi began to carefully brush the molten saliva incense, layer after layer, intently observing the amber's dissolution.
Little Silver Flower, curious to help, was also refused by her.
It concerned the Little Mermaid's life, so it was safer for her to do it herself.
Ten catties of molten saliva incense gradually diminished.
Finally, Mingxi noticed the first scale of the Ghost Sea Merman was exposed.
In an instant, large swathes of deep blue seemed to ripple outwards, as if they were currently in the middle of the ocean.
But a drop of thick ink suddenly fell.
Mingxi immediately activated the power of the contract, sending the small life she sensed into the Pet Space.
"Phew—"
She let out a long breath.
"Success!"
The Little Mermaid, or accurately, the pet egg, was already in the Pet Space.
And the Ghost Sea Merman, now completely exposed before them, rapidly decayed, just as Guangguang had said.
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a pile of black ashes.
Not even a skeleton remained.
Both were divine Transcendent creatures; the Bei Shan Turtle Whale's corpse remained for a long time, transforming into a quiet isolated island.
Yet this Youhai Mermaid was reduced to nothing but a pile of ashes.
Because it had given its all to its child.
Alas.
Mingxi sighed and collected the pile of ashes into a ceramic jar.
After all, it was the Little Mermaid's mother; she would find a good pet cemetery with good feng shui to bury it later.
After completing the cleanup of the amber, Mingxi then summoned the pet egg.
This was a pet egg only thirty centimeters tall, one size smaller than Little Silver Flower before it hatched.
The eggshell surface was pure black, even darker than Mingxi's hair.
But the bottom had circles of blue wavy patterns, looking like real ocean waves.
"Luo Luo?"
Little Silver Flower flew into the air and gently poked the eggshell with its claw.
Why was the fourth sibling so small?
It wasn't even as big as its fist.
Mingxi was also worried, "It is a bit miniature. Is it malnourished?" freewebnovёl.ƈom
Without Guangguang's reminder, Mingxi hugged the pet egg and ran towards the testing room.
She took out the long-unused incubator.
She carefully placed the pet egg inside.
The display lit up:
【Hatching progress 95.8%】
Huh?
Why was the progress so high?
Guangguang: "If it wasn't close to hatching, how could it release skills? How could it sign an Oath Contract with you?"
Mingxi understood.
It could be understood that this was also the Little Mermaid's self-preservation.
"Then will it be okay?"
"The specific situation will only be known after it hatches, but there will definitely be problems. A normal Ghost Sea Merman egg would never be this small, and it also underwent an Oath Contract in this state, the loss is immeasurable, so you must be mentally prepared."
Mingxi sighed.
"Saving its life is the most important thing; we'll slowly figure out other issues."
The hatching progress had already exceeded 95%, and Mingxi estimated that she wouldn't need to spend additional reward time; once today's training time was used up, the Little Mermaid would be able to hatch.
She hadn't misjudged.
The Little Mermaid broke out of its shell 13 hours and 08 minutes after entering the incubator.
