Fusang Sword Heart Diagram

"This is... a memory bead?"

Bai Ni picked up the two beads that had fallen to the distance. Seeing countless images intertwined inside, she crushed the beads, and a burst of light and shadow spread out.

An old man dressed in a long robe and wearing a veiled hat stood with his hands behind his back, coldly watching the cultivators as they put the merman in a cage and carried him away.

At his feet knelt several elderly merfolk.

The surrounding water rippled, blurring the scene somewhat. The collapsed pit, the shattered coral branches, and the countless dead fish floating about indicated that a major battle had just taken place here.

Not far away, there was a group of onlookers, their expressions indifferent, showing no empathy.

Snapped--

With a flick of the whip, the old merman's skin was torn and bleeding. A sinister voice rang out: "You stubborn old fool, hand over the goods and I might give you a quick death. If you remain obstinate—"

The gloomy young man looked into the distance and said, "All your descendants died because of you."

A group of young, inexperienced merman boys and girls, their faces filled with sorrow, cried out, "Grandpa, I don't want to die!"

"Hand over the things!"

The old merman, tears streaming down his face and trembling, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "My lord, I really don't know what you're looking for. Our tribe really doesn't have it!"

"Ah! My tail!" A pitiful cry came from behind. Blue blood splattered as the young man's shark tail was severed by a sharp broadsword. Cold sweat poured down his back, and his teeth chattered. "Grandpa... I'm your own grandson! Why are you so stubborn!"

The old mermaid's body was hunched over, pearls floating in the sea. She dared not turn around to look at her grandson's miserable state, only repeatedly muttering, "I don't know, I don't know, please enlighten me, sir."

The old man in the long robe couldn't see his face clearly, but he slightly raised his pale hand and said, "Kill."

A flash of cold light, and another young merman died.

After receiving a signal from the old man, the young man intimidated the crowd and said, "You are descendants of royalty, the offspring of Hou Jiang. How could you not know its whereabouts? You are not being honest with yourselves in front of the elders. Do you know the consequences?"

The scene ends here.

Ning Fusang's eyelashes fluttered slightly as she pondered, "Who is Hou Jiang?"

She looked at Bai Ni.

Bai Ni said, seemingly out of the blue, "The main purpose of that group of people coming to the Water Silk Sea wasn't to capture merfolk, but to find something?"

But in the video, everyone was speaking in cryptic language, and she had no idea what they were saying.

Bai Ni came to her senses and then said, "It's not Hou Jiang, it's the Queen... Consort Jiang!"

“Jiang Ji…” she murmured the name thoughtfully. “Jiang is a noble surname of the merfolk. I never thought that the merfolk of the Water Silk Sea would be descendants of Jiang Ji.”

Bai Ni crushed another memory bead. The scene was not very smooth, and something seemed to have happened in the middle. One of the main characters of the previous memory bead, the old merman, disappeared without a trace.

Another old merman had tears glistening in his eyes. He seemed much more sensible. "My lord, tracing back to the source, our clan does indeed have Hou Jiang's bloodline, but it is only a collateral branch, so thin that it can be almost ignored."

"Those mermaids who knew about the deeds of Empress Jiang have long since passed away. If you have any questions, sir, we will answer them without reservation. But as for that zither, we, the mermaids of the Water Silk Sea, truly do not know anything about it."

He knelt on the ground, looking old and frail, resigned to his fate.

The young man whispered a few words in the old man's ear, and judging from his lip movements, he seemed to be asking him whether the old merman's words were credible.

The old man spoke calmly: "Have you searched the entire Shuixiao tribe's territory?"

"We searched, but found nothing," the young man reported.

At this moment, a group of human cultivators flew over and bowed to the old man.

"My lord, a cave has been discovered three hundred miles away."

Upon seeing this, Bai Ni clenched her fists. Wasn't the cave three hundred miles away her own cave?
It turns out it was these bastards who searched her mansion. She left in such a hurry that she left behind a bunch of treasures.

When she returned this time, all the silk gauze, pearls, and jade pillows were gone, which made her angry just thinking about it.

"Yaoling, where are the memory beads you had?"

Bai Ni wanted to see what happened next. Ning Fusang crushed the image-recording bead, and several scenes unfolded simultaneously.

The scene depicts Bai Ni's residence. A group of cultivators are ransacking the cave like bandits, leaving no spot untouched.

Bai Ni's finger bones cracked as she pinched them.

snort!
Don't let her run into these bastards in the future!

She will take back every treasure they've taken from her, tenfold in the future.

After watching several clips of the recordings, Bai Ni's expression turned cold, and she exuded a violent aura. Chang Man didn't dare to get too close to her.

"Have you heard of that zither?" Ning Fusang's attention was focused on what the group of human cultivators were looking for.

Such a elaborate process must mean it's no ordinary item.

Moreover, this item is also related to ginger.

She had just heard Bai Ni say that Jiang Ji was a queen of the merfolk.

Bai Ni took two deep breaths to regain her composure before analyzing the information she had just received.

"The Merfolk are skilled in singing and have considerable musical talent. Therefore, there are many famous zithers in the royal court. They did not mention the name of the zither, which may be because the image on the image pearl is incomplete and that information has been lost. So I don't know which zither they are looking for."

"However, before Jiang was born, she did have two famous zithers, one named Huanpei and the other named Yuexi."

The Mirage Maiden was also extremely skilled in music. If she had known earlier that there would be Hou Jiang's zither in the Water Silk Clan's territory, she would have sneaked in to find it.

Ning Fusang shook her head, "It's not these two zithers."

"The jade pendant is in the Miaoyin Sect, and the moon ripple is in the Tianyin Pavilion. No one has been able to obtain them to this day."

Bai Ni looked at her, "You know that too?"

Isn't Yao Ling's knowledge a bit too extensive?

Ning Fusang had heard Qingyang Zhenren talk about the famous zithers of the time in her class, but she did not know that both of these zithers were made by the Merfolk.

Bai Ni stroked her chin, pondered for a long time, and then said, "Then I don't know."

“There are only these two zithers belonging to Hou Jiang.” She said, guessing, “Is it possible that the group of people took the zithers to the mainland and later arrived at the Miaoyin Sect or Tianyin Pavilion?”

"Not very likely."

Ning Fusang vaguely remembered the stories of the two zithers, but they didn't match the time when Bai Ni left Shuixiaohai.

Those two zithers were collected by someone long ago.

She smoothed her brow, pressed her temples, and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Eternal Echoes?"

Bai Ni was stunned. "The Eternal Melody, the Emperor's Bow's zither?"

What she wanted most was this zither. Immediately, Bai Ni grabbed her hand and said excitedly, "Yao Ling, do you know the whereabouts of the Eternal Echoes?"

Ning Fusang gestured for her to let go of his hand.

Bai Ni said "Oh," withdrew her hand, and didn't know what to do with it.

"What I mean is, the zither they're looking for might be the Eternal Sound. If the Emperor's zither is still in the royal court, and Jiang Ji loves the zither, how could she not want to try this famous instrument?"

"Where is the old site of the Shuixiao tribe? Let's go take a look; perhaps there are still clues left."

Bai Ni's eyes flickered. "You think that zither is in the Shuixiao tribe's territory?"

Ning Fusang said casually, "Otherwise, why would that person have left behind a memory pearl?"

(End of this chapter)