Sometimes, life really was as dramatic as a play.
For instance, the Merfolk King had actually relinquished his Cultivation Level and withdrawn to a little village, all to save his daughter.
Or how the Merfolk King had long known that human cultivators fell into this place every ten years, and had deliberately settled in this little village to wait for them.
Later, Su Jiu also asked him why he insisted on sending human cultivators.
After hearing his answer, Su Jiu felt that this merfolk father was both pitiful and detestable.
As it turned out, the Merfolk King had been the only one who hated the Black Dragon Tribe all along. During a great battle ten thousand years ago, the Black Dragon King had devoured the Merfolk Queen alive on the battlefield. From then on, the Merfolk King had hated him to the bone. He trained his daughter to be as brave and skilled in battle as he was, and on the day before she came of age, he gave her a trial: destroy the Teleportation Array under the Black Dragon King's control.
His daughter went without the slightest suspicion. But however formidable she was, she was only a Merfolk Princess who had lived for less than a thousand years. How could she possibly escape the clutches of a Black Dragon King who had lived for tens of thousands of years?
In the end, his daughter bore the full brunt of the Black Dragon King's wrath. He locked the princess of the Merfolk Tribe in the sunless Black Dragon Prison, where she remained for ten thousand years.
For the first thousand years, the Merfolk King sent his own soldiers to rescue her. But no matter how many he sent, none returned. Eventually, one soldier fled back with grievous injuries and told