Faced with such a breathtaking scene, neither of them had the heart to disturb her.
The Merfolk Princess seemed to have been well protected and had suffered little hardship. Although she was imprisoned, neither her wrists nor her ankles were shackled.
Su Jiu moved closer to the prison and suddenly realized why the princess had not been put in chains.
The entire prison had been forged from the same material as those chains, so adding shackles would have been completely unnecessary.
Su Jiu sighed. "Jiao Yue, wake up."
The Merfolk King had told her this name before she left. The Merfolk Princess had been born with a crescent moon on her forehead, so Jiao Chen had named her Jiao Yue.
As if she had heard Su Jiu's call, her golden eyelashes trembled before she opened her azure eyes, which seemed to hold the light of countless stars.
Jiao Yue rubbed her eyes. Perhaps because she had only just woken, a trace of innocent confusion still lingered on her face.
Had Su Jiu not known she was over ten thousand years old, she would have wondered whether this really was a young girl.
The girl looked at Su Jiu with a hint of wariness.
"Were you sent by the Black Dragon King to take my blood too?" Fully awake, Jiao Yue seemed like an entirely different person from when she was asleep. If the sleeping Jiao Yue had been a quiet angel, the Jiao Yue before them now carried herself more like a cultivator.
Then, without waiting for Su Jiu or her companion to speak, she murmured to herself, "But shouldn't it be happening in the next two days? What does he still need my blood for?"
Soon, however, something seemed to occur to Jiao Yue. She counted on her fingers,