Bai Qi

With that being's help, the missing scales around Si Jinyan's heart grew back, and the symptoms of losing control caused by the vanished scales were completely cured.

Si Jinyan learned many things, including Bai Qi's identity.

Bai Qi was a descendant of the Mermaid Priesthood, the only clan whose members retained the power of foresight as they grew older.

In the final battle, Bai Qi took Yao Di away.

When Si Jinyan found Bai Qi again, Bai Qi was in a hot spring at a mountain estate Yao He, the late emperor before the previous one, had often visited in life.

Half-human and half-fish, Bai Qi rested his upper body against the edge of the pool, idly toying with chess pieces in his hand. Si Jinyan's arrival did not stir the slightest emotion on his face.

A conspicuous scar marked his tail. The tip of the tail that had undergone Divine Punishment had been cut off, and the regrown portion could no longer produce scales or fins. All that remained was an ugly, fleshy point shaped like a snake's tail.

On the chessboard, the black king had already occupied the white king's square. An electronic voice identical to Yao He's sounded. "Xiao Qi, you're getting better and better at chess."

Bai Qi murmured, "This time, I didn't cheat."

"Yao He" seemed both pleased and helpless. "Yes. Xiao Qi has grown up. You don't throw tantrums anymore."

Bai Qi stared blankly at the black piece and the king's square beneath it. "I took back what belonged to you."

"But why haven't you come back yet?"

"Yao He" said, "Xiao Qi, I've always been here."

Day after day, no matter how much the voice resembled Yao He's, it could only respond to Bai Qi in that mechanical way.

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