Child of Mist had been delighted these past few days.
Although he had lost most of his physical body, and his strength had shrunk to the limit, leaving him only barely clinging to life—
He had finally met people who could talk to him!
It turned out that ever since the Sea God had joined the Immortal Alliance, the Sea God language had become one of the Myriad Dharma Sect's research subjects, and had even been included among the Dark Department's "foreign language electives."
The language Child of Mist had worked out on his own differed from the Sea God language by about... the difference between a Shanxi dialect and a Minnan dialect—at most, it just had more loanwords from the Hillfolk language.
With some effort put into studying it, they could still understand it.
Before bringing Child of Mist over, the Immortal Alliance had specifically found several Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators who studied the Sea God language to communicate with him.
Child of Mist had been so happy that even the jar containing him swayed back and forth.
Child of Mist's greatest problem was that there were simply too few creatures on that planet who could converse with him. If he used his own spiritual power wave language to speak with those Hillfolk, the effect would not differ much from brainwashing—only weaker than methods like the True Flame God's "Eternal Touch," which were specifically used for brainwashing and assimilation.
Even Qingchao Zong had been unwilling to speak to him that way, so he had taught him how to use mana to vibrate the air and speak in the Hillfolk language.
This language felt somewhat awkward to Child of Mist.
And now, he had encountered a whole group of people who could "speak normally" with him. How could he not