While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

"No, there's more than one. Another one is rushing towards us from directly in front."

"Damn it, what are these white devils trying to do?" First Mate Huo cursed.

"400 meters to go."

"It could also be a submarine belonging to the Wang family."

Yang Ding quickly entered the drainage chamber, closed the door, opened the void rift, and prepared to go out and take a look.

The Jinglong was frozen and unable to move; its large size made it difficult to escape quickly.

Then let's get rid of their submarine.

Zhou Ruoxi was a step behind and didn't go in; she pounded on the cabin door.

"Yang Ding, take me with you."

"It's too late."

Yang Dingdun went outside the submarine and found an icicle as thick as a wrist clinging tightly to the submarine's belly.

The other end of the icicle extends into the depths of the sea.

With just this one thing, they were able to firmly control the nuclear-powered submarine, which shows how powerful their mental strength is.

Yang Ding tried to use his mental energy to melt the ice pillar, but the ice pillar remained motionless.

If it were Wang Hongxiang from before, the difference in their mental strength would be more than tenfold, making it completely impossible to defeat him.

Just then, Yang Ding could vaguely see the lights of two submarines, probably less than two hundred meters away.

Wang Hongxiang followed the icicle.

It really was this guy.

He looked up at Yang Ding. The submarine's emergency lights provided illumination in the seawater, but he couldn't see clearly, and he couldn't speak underwater.

But Yang Ding could sense the guy's ferocious rage.

Wang Hongxiang conjured three ice spikes and shot Yang Ding from the left, center, and right.

Yang Ding was not afraid at all. He pointed out three void rifts and sent the ice cones back, shooting Wang Hongxiang from the top, middle and bottom.

The ice spike vanished just before it reached Wang Hongxiang.

Wang Hongxiang stared intently at Yang Ding as if he had seen a ghost, while also glancing around.

He felt unwell, overwhelmed by intense fear and unease.

It's unbelievable that someone can possess both spatial and water-based abilities at the same time. Could this guy have already consumed the Mermaid Beast Crystal?

So the beast crystal worth nearly 100 million was also stolen by this guy.

Wang Hongxiang unleashed his powerful water-based abilities, rushing towards Yangding at lightning speed.

Just then, a powerful energy wave spread out from around the submarine, instantly melting the ice pillars that were restraining it.

Wang Hongxiang seemed to have bumped into something, covering his nose and kicking his legs painfully in the water.

The two submarines in front and below seemed to have crashed into a glass dome, and were shaken back, their red warning lights flashing incessantly.

Wang Hongxiang touched the glass cover in front of him and seemed to see a huge mermaid tail emerging from the top of the Jinglong submarine.

Yang Ding saw it too.

The mermaid was lying on the side of the submarine, seemingly deliberately hiding from him so that his upper body was not visible, only revealing a silver-blue fish tail.

Yang Ding activated his water-based abilities and darted above the submarine.

The mermaid slipped and hid in the belly of the submarine.

Long, golden hair, over three meters long, floated outside.

Yang Ding stood on the submarine and did not continue the pursuit.

Submarines outside the ice cover began frantically launching armor-piercing torpedoes, attempting to blast it open.

A huge head, 1.5 meters long and 1 meter wide, carefully emerged from the bottom of the submarine.

With its sapphire blue eyes, over 30 centimeters wide, it blinked a few times and lay there silently gazing at Yang Ding.

The distance between the two was less than 15 meters.

Yang Ding didn't know if all merfolk had golden hair, nor could he be sure if it was the same one from last time.

But after staring at him for a few seconds, the mermaid turned and disappeared into a void portal.

Yang Ding was quite close, and he thought he could see a building on the other side of the crack.

It might be hidden somewhere in the underwater city.

With the mermaid beast gone, Yang Ding knew the ice shield would soon break. He rushed to the front of the submarine, opened a huge void gate, and sent the Jinglong directly to an island outside the First Military Region.

When the submarine passed by, Yang Ding swam over and closed the void rift.

Wang Hongxiang finally broke through the ice barrier and rushed over in a fit of rage, only to find himself in a dead end.

As Yang Ding emerged from the drainage tank, Zhou Ruoxi quickly asked, "Is it Wang Hongxiang and the others?"

Yang Ding took the towel Ye Rou handed him and dried his hair.

"Yes."

"Then how did you escape from him?"

"The mermaids have come to help again; they really can teleport."

"Did the merman beast save you again?"

Yang Ding nodded.

Mu Lan adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses. "Strange, do they know your identity?"

"Or perhaps they would save every single human?" Yang Ding asked.

"Impossible. Countless people die in the East China Sea every year. Mermaids and beasts almost never appear. At most, they won't attack humans, but they're not stupid enough to save humans who hunt them."

Ye Rou took the towel Yang Ding handed her, scratched her head, and asked, "Is it possible that the mermaid beast thinks my husband is more handsome?"

Mu Lan, Fang Jing, Zhou Ruoxi, and Yao Guang all looked at her as if she were a fool.

"Big sister, the mermaid beast is ten meters long. When it opens its mouth, it can swallow your husband whole. What good is your husband being handsome?"

"Besides, your husband isn't that handsome, okay?"

Only Yang Ding chuckled and said, "My first wife is just so confident."

Zhou Ruoxi also thought this girl's imagination was outrageous. "Sister Rou, different ethnic groups are segregated."

"Xi Mei, Lan Mei, you've got the wrong idea. Can't the mermaid beast see my husband as a righteous man, and feel a sense of kinship?"

Mu Lan's eyes widened. "Who are you calling 'sister'?"

Only Fang Jing and Zhou Ruoxi knew who Ye Rou called "sister" and who would eventually marry Yang Ding as his concubine.

Yang Ding and his three wives went to the captain's office to change clothes.

Zhou Ruoxi dried their wet clothes and handed them to Ye Rou to hang up, while Fang Jing handed clothes to Yang Ding.

Yang Ding remained silent, the image of the sapphire eyes of the mermaid beast occasionally flashing through his mind.

Perhaps because they were in the sea, their eyes were deep and calm, as mysterious as the vast universe, as if they had endless stories to tell them.

"Honey, what are you thinking about?" Fang Jing asked.

"I'm thinking about mermaids. These things are large, but they are full of intelligence."

Zhou Ruoxi looked at him and asked, "Honey, if they always come to your rescue whenever you're in danger, does that mean that all you have to do to see them is get into trouble?"

Yang Ding nodded, "That's a good idea. We can try it next time, provided it's safe."

Ye Rou and Fang Jing were very envious; they also wanted to see the mermaid beast, but unfortunately, they couldn't go into the water.

The universe contains countless planets and countless forms of life. It would be a lie to say that you're not curious about an alien creature that looks like a human.

The group returned to the villa. Yang Ding stayed up with Ye Rou and Fang Jing to sleep, while Zhou Ruoxi had to work overtime all night to absorb the beast crystal.