Not only Su Jiu, but Yun Huanling and Yun Chao were stunned as well.
Su Jiu's gaze sharpened as she turned toward the owner of the Magic Staff.
"Jiao Chen, what is the meaning of this!"
Jiao Chen did not answer Su Jiu immediately. Instead, he enclosed Jiao Lin in a blue water Barrier.
"I'm sorry. He cannot die yet!"
Su Jiu narrowed her eyes, then gave a mocking smile. "Because of your great-grandson's lifeline?"
Jiao Chen said nothing, tacitly admitting it.
At Su Jiu's reminder, the utterly bewildered Jiao Lin immediately regained some of his wits. Wild delight filled his face as he pounded desperately on the water Barrier Jiao Chen had released. "Let me out, or I'll detonate my demon core and make your great-grandson die with me!"
Wasn't this precisely how he had kept Jiao Chen under his thumb back when Jiao Chen still had his Cultivation Level?
In an instant, Jiao Lin's vile true colors were laid bare.
Su Jiu swept a cold glance over Jiao Lin, then turned to Jiao Chen and said icily, "I helped you recover your spiritual qi so you could help me kill Jiao Lin at the crucial moment, not save him!"
A flicker of shame crossed Jiao Chen's face. "I never intended to save him."
As they spoke, the tide had already receded, leaving the Merfolk Village in ruins. The villagers who had hidden themselves began poking their heads out.
What they had witnessed today had all but overturned everything they had known throughout their lives as merfolk. Even after the tide passed, some had yet to shed their fish tails. They merely lay inside their shells, peering cautiously through narrow cracks at the situation outside.
Why had their village chief turned into something so disgusting? The merfolk who had