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Chapter 757 Did she go back to the past?
A warm breath traveled down the lips that were pressed against hers and into Yu Xia's mouth.

Yu Xia's mouth was tightly pinched by this large hand, and she could only let the sentry who rescued her blow air into her mouth.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The sentry stopped blowing on her only after she coughed, brushed aside the wet hair sticking to her face, and gently wiped the water off her face with his palm.

Upon seeing her face, the sentry paused.

Yu Xia saw the outline of a figure in front of her amidst a golden light.

She raised her hand to shield her forehead, squinting as she tried to see who the sentry was; he seemed strangely familiar.

The sentry grabbed her wrist and pulled it away from her face, staring into the girl's golden eyes with a mixture of doubt and wariness. "Where did you come from?"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Yu Xia's eyes widened, and her gaze focused on the sentry's face.

Sevi's handsome face came into her view.

"Xiwei?" Yu Xia called out his name subconsciously.

Upon hearing his name from this beautiful, unfamiliar girl, Sevi narrowed his eyes, supporting the back of her neck with his left hand and placing his right hand on her neck. "Little girl, when I finish speaking, you must say your name and the watchtower you belong to. Do not say anything else, or you will hear the sound of your thin neck snapping like a tree branch."

His threat was casual, but Yu Xia could feel his murderous intent piercing her, and the hand on her neck was holding her firmly.

She knew very well that if what she said wasn't what Sevier wanted, he would break her neck without hesitation.

He's been a complete bastard ever since I met him.

Yu Xia was unaware of her current situation; she could only glean from Xiwei's words that he no longer recognized her.

Feeling the genuine warmth from his palm and the increasingly tight grip, Yu Xia's mind raced, and the scene she had seen with Polya not long ago kept flashing through her mind. "Poti, my name is Poti, I am a sea creature."

"Liar." Sevi's hand tightened instantly, gripping her soft, delicate neck. "How could a sea creature have such golden eyes? How could a sea creature drown?"

Golden eyes?
Yu Xia was stunned. Before she could think any further, she felt her breathing becoming increasingly difficult.

Sevi stared intently at her stunningly beautiful face and murmured, "She really is an evil being; even I was almost bewitched by her."

“However,” Sevi slowly moved closer to her, his breath lingering on her lips, “it’s not a bad thing to be slightly confused before the illusion is broken.”

Yu Xia: "."

"Sevier, you bastard!" she cursed, her eyes filled with tears.

Sevier raised an eyebrow slightly, as if looking at something novel. "Bastard? Let's hear some other insults."

As he spoke, he loosened his grip.

Yu Xia just wanted to roll her eyes at him, struggled in his hands, but was easily pressed down by him.

“The illusion created by this tree is indeed targeted at people.” Sevi carefully examined her face, and he liked her more and more. He had never felt this way before. His heart was pounding with affection, and he didn’t want to break the illusion.

During his time at the border outpost, he was affected by the eerie tree, often experiencing hallucinations whether he was asleep or awake.

At this moment, the hallucination seemed to have reached its peak, and something that could truly affect him appeared.

Yu Xia knew that her strength was not enough to break free from a sentry, so she tried to use her mental power. However, she found that she could not gather even a little bit of mental power from her hand. The little bit she managed to gather disappeared from her fingertips in a short while.

Unable to concentrate or release spiritual power.

Yu Xia looked surprised. What was going on?!
She won't just get strangled to death here by Sevi, will she?
After trying for a long time, Yu Xia simply gave up. She decided to believe what Xiwei had said: this was some kind of illusion.

Adar, what are you doing?
Was it the influence of the meteorite that caused her to fall into the illusion?
Yu Xia quickly dismissed the idea, as she could perceive the difference between memories, illusions, and the real world.

This is neither a dream nor a memory, but it doesn't quite resemble the real world either.

That's strange, it's the first time she's done this.
No.

Yu Xia's mind jolted, and she immediately thought of her past experiences living on Earth.

At this moment, her perception of her surroundings was very similar to that of the Ninth Base on the Southern Continent of Earth.

It's like being able to smell the muddy, earthy scent rising from the ground before it rains, no matter where you are.

"Are they really sea people?"

As Yu Xia was contemplating this strange feeling, Xiwei released her neck.

"Cough cough cough!" She coughed again.

Sevi half-hugs her and pats her back to help her catch her breath.

Yu Xia's anger was not appeased at all; on the contrary, she became even angrier.

She slapped Sevi hard across the face.

It hit her so hard her palm hurt.

A few moments of silence followed. Sevi chuckled softly, took her reddened hand in his hand, looked at it, and then kneaded it a couple of times. "It is indeed real."

After saying that, his gaze fell on her legs.

Yu Xia followed his gaze and saw a fish tail with shimmering scales.

Her legs had somehow turned into a fishtail, and only then did Sevi believe her.

“Poti,” Sevi chewed on her name, saying, “It sounds like a name a sea creature would choose.”

Yu Xia snorted softly and pushed him, trying to get away from him.

If there's no push, it'll just move itself outwards.

Sevi chuckled at the little mermaid's antics. "You're a sea creature, how could you drown? And how did you end up here? There's no clean ocean here, it's a hundred and eight thousand miles away."

Yu Xia was almost strangled to death by him, and she didn't want to pay any attention to him. She sat on the ground and looked around at her surroundings.

She was on a small island, with a not-too-large golden tree behind her.

Upon seeing the towering, gray-black watchtower in the distance, Yu Xia knew where she was.

She was at the Snake family's border outpost.

Yu Xia stared at the watchtower, vaguely hearing Adar's strange words echoing in her ears.

The Golden Bloodline can be linked to the past, and the anchor point is any Golden Clan member at any point in the past.

After thinking it over, Yu Xia looked up at the golden tree.

This golden tree is much larger than the one I saw not long ago.

The golden tree, which was originally only about the size of one person's embrace, is now more than two or three times its original size.

So, she went back in time?
Yu Xia held her hand up to her eyes to examine it closely, then picked up a strand of hair that was hanging down in front of her chest to look at it.

It is silver-gold.

After thinking for a moment, she moved to the water's edge and looked at her reflection.

Her face was reflected in the fairly clear water, unchanged, but her eyes were clearly gold.

Her eyes rarely appear golden; they only briefly turn golden when the Holy City's energy is at its peak due to the golden energy. Most of the time, they are blue.

At this moment, she radiated a faint golden light, looking more like a member of the Golden Clan than ever before.

No wonder Sevi didn't believe her when she said she was a sea creature. If someone with such obvious golden features stood in front of her and claimed to be a sea creature, she wouldn't quite believe it either. She looked at her fishtail again, feeling somewhat puzzled.

She has almost no mental energy and cannot release a spiritual body, but she can transform into a mermaid form.

In the past, her forms were all due to the excessive use of mental power and subsequent alienation. Later, as her abilities improved and she had more contact with the sea creatures, and with the support of Selius's energy, she was able to freely change forms.

Yu Xia looked at her tail for a while, then, as if remembering something, she raised her hand and moved her fingers in the air.

At that moment, Sevier moved closer to her and asked, "What are you looking at?"

He looked at the water and saw her reflection, then laughed, "Looking in the mirror?"

With such a puzzled and serious expression, could it be that this is the first time he has seen himself like this?

Sevi was extremely curious about the origins of the unbelievably beautiful little mermaid in front of her, but she still couldn't let her guard down.

After all, she appeared out of thin air, and she appeared right around this mutated golden tree.

This is a border outpost belonging exclusively to the Serpent Clan. It is surrounded by contaminated areas and serves as both an exile ground for Serpent Clan members who have erred and a sphere of influence for the Serpent Clan. They are responsible for cleaning up the surrounding contaminated areas and can also obtain energy ores and containment materials from them, which are considered resources of the Serpent Clan. They have basically no connection with other factions or factions.

It has absolutely no connection with sea creatures.

Sevi appeared relaxed on the surface, but a hint of gloom crept into his eyes as he looked at Yu Xia.

"Stop making noise." Yu Xia's attention was interrupted by Xiwei. She frowned slightly, closed her eyes, and wanted to use her water-based superpower.

The air remained quiet for a long while.

Yu Xia patiently held her breath and focused, and Xi Wei didn't interrupt her either, wanting to see what she was going to do.

After a long while, Yu Xia finally sensed the power of water.

But it was very faint.

Sweat beaded on her forehead before she could draw a tiny drop of water from the lake's surface.

When Sevi saw the tiny water droplet slowly rising from the surface of the water, his eyes lit up, and he looked at the little mermaid with great interest.

“Miss Potty, are you a high-ranking sea creature?” Sevi asked.

There are no other sea creatures here besides her.

He had a fairly good understanding of the sea people; in such a harsh environment, lower-ranking sea people were unable to use their special abilities.

Now he trusted Boti's sea creature identity even more.

Yu Xia opened her eyes upon hearing Xiwei's words. As soon as she relaxed, the tiny water droplet that had been painstakingly condensed fell into the lake, making a soft sound and creating barely perceptible ripples.

She collapsed to the ground, exhausted.

He sighed repeatedly as he looked at the golden tree overhead.

Without mental strength, I can barely use my water-based abilities. Adar, did you leave me here to train my mentality?
Yu Xia called out to Polya in her mind, but received no response. Instead, a certain sentry kept chattering in her ear.

"Don't bother. Here, not only are the sea creatures limited, but even our strength is greatly restricted."

Xiwei peered over Yu Xia's head and spoke.

Yu Xia stared at his face, which hadn't changed much from the one where Xivi was trapped in the shattered mental landscape. But now, his eyes were more spirited, and even here, he maintained a vigor and vitality that other sentinels didn't have.

As she looked at him, she touched Sevi's face.

Sevier glanced down at her hand, a slight smile playing on his lips. "What? Knowing your situation, you want to seek my protection?"

Yu Xia remained silent, making a final attempt to gain spiritual power.

She concentrated her almost imperceptible, rare spiritual energy—as scarce as a grain of sand—on the fingertips that caressed him, and let it seep into his body.

A moment later, she felt a faint electric current flash through her fingertips.

Then--

Gone.

It's gone?
"Did you feel anything?" she asked.

Sevi smiled, took her wrist and said, "What do you want me to feel? Your sudden burst of affection? Then you'd better act it out."

Yu Xia: "."

"Not this one!" What is that bastard thinking about all day?

Just as Sevi was about to reply, he sensed someone approaching. He composed himself, picked up Yu Xia, and said, "Little mermaid, take your time if you want to express your love to me. I need to hide you away first."

Yu Xia also sensed the approaching presence of an unfamiliar sentinel. With nowhere else to go and still unsure of the situation, Xivi was the only person she could trust at the moment, so she could only nod.

Perhaps she could go and look for the meteorite and the golden snake.

"Quite well-behaved."

Seeing the little mermaid nestled obediently in his arms, Sevi tightened his grip and said, "I'm going to take you into the water. I didn't bring the boat here, and if you can't breathe underwater..."

Yu Xia: "?"

Sevi pouted at her.

Yu Xia couldn't help but raise her hand and slap him again, but this time the force was much lighter.

Despite being slapped, Sevi felt even better.

He gently carried her into the water, a strange sense of anticipation rising within him.

Unfortunately, the little mermaid was more agile in the water than he was, making his drowning seem like an accident.

Yu Xia quickly swam to the shore, and just as she was about to surface, Xiwei pulled her back.

He pointed to the water, made a throat-slitting gesture towards her, and then pulled her down into the water.

Yu Xia understood his meaning and also sensed a powerful fluctuation of the guide's spiritual power.

She looked up at the water with a serious expression.

She was so suppressed here that she could barely use her mental energy, but this guide was still able to radiate such powerful mental energy.

At this moment, this spiritual force seemed to be patrolling its own territory, searching for any potential intruders.

Yu Xia's heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, she couldn't use her mental power, but it still formed a strong protective barrier around her as before.

That spiritual energy swept across her surface and lingered on the golden tree in the center of the lake.

"Lord Geffens, that power just now..."

The hooded guide asked Geffens hesitantly, as if he wanted to say something.

Geffens stared intently at the golden tree, his gray eyes coldly sweeping across the lake. He glanced at a certain spot on the lake, then turned and said, "Time to feed the sacred serpent."

"Lord Geffens," the guide in a grey-green robe followed closely behind, "the red crystal ore is running low. The Holy Serpent's appetite has been growing ever larger lately, and the contaminated area is showing frequent unusual activity; the contamination has escalated again. We can no longer venture deeper into the contaminated area."

Before she could finish speaking, Geffens abruptly stopped, glanced at her and the other guides dressed in grey-green robes, and said coldly, "If you don't have red crystals to feed the Holy Serpent, then you will be the ones to feed it."

The guides felt a chill run down their spines when they heard his words.