In other words, anyone outside their sect need not dwell too much on seniority or forms of address.
A trace of dejection crossed Jiao Zhu's face. "All right. Actually, if I had legs, I'd really like to join the Azure Tide Sect."
She had expected the two of them to comfort her when they saw her like this, but who would have thought they would stand there like blocks of wood, neither picking up the thread of her conversation?
Even the socially adept Princess Jiao Zhu could not help feeling awkward this time.
Jiao Zhu ground her back teeth, then suddenly smiled again. "Still, it doesn't really matter if I don't join the Azure Tide Sect. Brother Chu will remember to visit me anyway." As she spoke, she glanced at Su Jiu.
Yet Su Jiu's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.
She had been pondering the curse script all along, so naturally she had not noticed Jiao Zhu's little gestures.
Chu Luohen, however, was already beginning to feel impatient.
In this underwater world, the merfolk had their own barter-based trading system. Like humans on land, they opened shops or set up stalls beneath the water.
Only, instead of spirit stones, they used a special kind of shell fragment as currency, though more merchants preferred to barter.
Merfolk stallholders did not shout their wares like ordinary people. Most had a laid-back, easygoing attitude, and there was little conversation between them, let alone haggling. When they saw something they wanted, they asked the price directly. If the price was reasonable, or they had whatever the other party wanted in exchange, they completed the trade on the spot.
If they felt it was not worth it, they simply turned and left.
Overall, however, this so-called merfolk city was still very quiet. At