".I see. This world has no name."
"A world? What is a world? Isn't it just this ocean?"
The fishman uncle before them had trouble understanding. Wasn't it simply this sea and this sky?
"Oh, I meant this land and this ocean."
"This is Cui Xing Sea. Swim north for ten days and you'll reach Moon Star Sea. Legend says that's where the moon fell."
The fishmen here were quite talkative, especially after learning that Lu PingAn and his "little wife" had come from afar in search of a good place to settle.
A skilled hunter and a seemingly delicate Witch Doctor who could treat illnesses—no village could turn away talents like those.
So, after resupplying in this fishman village for two days, Lu PingAn became one of them.
Honestly, after seeing enough fishmen, they started to look rather pleasant. Ahem, perhaps this was one manifestation of the body influencing the mind. Lu PingAn only hoped it was not permanent.
The fishmen and fish heads that had filled Lu PingAn's mind before now seemed like perfectly ordinary uncles and Old Women.
"It's fine. Once we switch back, we'll be normal again in a couple days." Big Cat—Big Fish Chris—took it rather well.
She often changed into all kinds of creatures and was used to the body making such adjustments.
She said outright that this sort of "self-perception correction" might be permanent for other beings, but it was nothing to Life-type beings at Rule-level or above.
High-level Life-types were "sterile," but in essence, as manipulators of life, they had already achieved "independent evolution." They were the only beings that "rejected normal change."
That was also the prerequisite for Nüwa's Lake to create avatars: one had to be a Rule-level Life-type. Anything below that level would truly be gone once it merged