Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 1126 An Irresistible Condition

Knew it……

Looking at the figure before him, whose face was obscured by azure light, the mermaid statue paused for a moment before not immediately responding to the suggestion, but instead asking directly:

"The Four Supreme Gods? The Blue King? The Celestial Cicada of All Things?"

"?"

Upon hearing the mermaid statue's question, the blue-clad figure paused slightly, then politely bowed before opening all its eyes and gazing intently at the figure.

"You've heard of us?"

"I know a little bit about it."

The damaged fishtail swayed slightly, rippling with a primordial light that blocked the prying eyes of the Celestial Cicada. The mermaid statue then spoke, offering a warning:

"Your truth is not bad, but it is far from reaching the root of the matter. Don't do such meaningless things."

"That's what you said."

Faced with the mermaid statue's "lesson," the All-Encompassing Cicada responded dismissively, then proactively closed its five eyes, smiling gently with its eyes shut:

"I didn't mean to offend you. I was just curious why you knew me, so I wanted to take a look at your past. Since you don't allow it, then forget it."

Your Majesty, let's get back to the main topic. My previous suggestion..."

"Not interested~"

After shifting its position and lying on its back on the reef, the mermaid statue closed its eyes again, its expression somewhat languid, and said:
"Hey, the Underworld is the new name you guys gave my Abyss Realm after I died, right? A world of only death and abyss, it sounds quite fitting."

"Thanks for the compliment."

Upon hearing this, Wanwu Tianchan smiled and then bowed slightly again.

"I decided on this new name; I'm glad you like it."

"Ah."

In response to the slightly barbed reply from the Heavenly Cicada, the mermaid statue raised its eyelids, then said with a displeased expression:
"You're not leaving even after being rejected? And you even went so far as to provoke me with the new name of the Abyss Realm? It seems you think you hold a deal I can't refuse?"

"Yes."

After surveying the surrounding collapsed ruins, the Myriad Things Celestial Cicada smiled and nodded, saying:
"Faced with the opportunity to revive the destroyed Abyss Realm and regain the dominion of the source, I believe you have no reason to refuse."

"But I have already rejected you."

The mermaid statue pouted:
"You don't think I rejected you just to try and raise the price, do you?"

"You won't."

"It's good to know!"

The mermaid statue hummed, recalling Leon's last question as he left:

"I am dead, and the Abyss Realm is dead!"
"Reclaiming the Roots, reviving the Abyss Realm, and regaining dominance might mean something to other dominators, but it holds absolutely no appeal for me. You should get lost!"

"Reviving the Abyss Realm is meaningless. What if I could help you revive more than just the Abyss Realm?" "?!"

Upon hearing the words of the Heavenly Cicada, the mermaid statue paused slightly, then seemed to understand something and instinctively looked up.

"What do you want to say?"

What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't refuse my request.

Waving towards the entrance of the ruins, and beckoning over the nearest mermaid skeleton, the Myriad Things Celestial Cicada stretched out its hand, still retaining some traces of its origin, and gently rubbed it against the skeleton's chest.

Upon touching the few drops of Origin remaining in his palm, the two pairs of missing ribs of the mermaid skeleton were quickly repaired, and all the cracks and damage on them disappeared without a trace. A large number of bright red muscle bundles spread out to both sides from the spine as the center, vaguely outlining the shape of a mermaid.

Immediately afterwards, pinkish-white blood vessels and pale yellow nerve tissue spread out like a fishing net, and a slightly pulsating deep red heart grew out of nothing from within the chest cavity of the skeleton, connecting with a dense network of blood vessels, and began to beat powerfully.

"You know her?"

He bent down and helped the newly resurrected female mermaid to her feet. After glancing at her with his third eye between his brows, the All-Encompassing Cicada looked at the silent mermaid statue before him and smiled:
"So she is the last surviving member of your tribe... Let me see. Her mother was your last priestess. She was born under your watchful gaze, died under your watchful gaze, and lived her entire life under your watchful gaze. She was almost like your child."

Despite her considerable talent and the opportunity to escape this doomed world, she chose not to leave but instead remained in the place where she was born, personally carving a monument for you and your world, recording the history of the entire Abyss Realm from its glory to its end.

"Hmm, she was a good believer worthy of special treatment. It's just a pity that when she died, although your consciousness was still intact, your remaining life force had been completely exhausted. You couldn't even collect her body, and could only watch her bones crumble away outside the ruins... Hmm..."

The cold, bright light flashed and disappeared in an instant. The Myriad Things Celestial Cicada, whose vertical eye had been eroded with a small hole, took a few steps back, clutching his forehead in pain. But he quickly smiled again, looking up at the mermaid statue whose expression was faintly angry, and said with a smile:

"It seems your affection for your people is deeper than it appears... So, are you now willing to consider my proposal?"

"I told you! I'm not interested!"

The mermaid statue, leaning against its rocky base, tried to rise, but was firmly pinned down by the trident at its heart. It could only stop struggling, look at the myriad cicadas in the sky, and grit its teeth in refusal:

"I am dead! The Abyss Realm is dead! My people are dead! I have accepted this fate!"

"Yes."

The all-encompassing cicada nodded and smiled.

"Just as you said, you are not without regrets, but you have chosen to accept them."

"..."

"To be honest, before I came here, I wasn't very confident that I could persuade you."

Looking at the silent mermaid statue before him, the All Things Celestial Cicada spoke softly:
"After all, we true gods can be considered your enemies. If I were you, I might not be willing to cooperate with my enemies. But it's different after we came here. I am now very sure that you will not refuse my proposal."

At this point, the Celestial Cicada paused slightly, then, after glancing around at the surrounding ruins, grinned and said:
"Lord of the Abyss, after that great man defeated you, he didn't actually take everything from you. Instead, out of consideration for your kin, he left you some resources to sustain your existence, right?"

"..."

"In my opinion, that lord is quite merciful. Based on the amount of roots he preserved for you, even if you could never become the ruler again, you wouldn't be in such a sorry state now if you were willing to abandon this world."

But it seems you didn't accept your status as a loser and leave this world destined for destruction, as that person had hoped; instead, you chose a different path.

Gazing at the broken trident at the heart of the mermaid statue, the Myriad Things Celestial Cicada softly inquired:
"You taught those mermaids how to extract the source, and then you personally nailed yourself to this place closest to the sea, slowly dissipating the source that the great man left you to save your life, and forcibly prolonging this world for several hundred years... Am I right?"

(End of this chapter)