After sending Li Jian ashore and collecting the money, the fisherman left immediately, as if he was afraid of staying on the quicksand island for a while.

Li Jian went ashore, and immediately felt an unexplained chill on the island.The island is already humid, and the air has a faint salty smell.But this kind of place, logically speaking, has enough sunlight.But here the clouds are low, and the whole island is a bit darker.

Li Jian could feel—there might be too many people who died here.

Li Jian searched and found that the island seemed depopulated and there were no decent inns, so he finally had to find a tea shop to sit down.

The tea shop was deserted, and there was no one there. Li Jian looked around and could only ask the proprietress for news.

The proprietress had a gloomy face and was wearing a dusty-colored dress. She didn't know whether the clothes were of this color or hadn't been washed for a long time.

The proprietress came up to help Li Jian pour a cup of tea that looked tasteless, the teacup was covered with mud spots, Li Jian picked up the cup, looked at it, but didn't dare to drink it.

At that moment, many fragments slid through his mind.He vaguely remembered that someone poured tea and cooked for him, the table was always clean, and the dishes were always neatly arranged. ——Is that person Qi Xiu?

Li Jian shook his head, he didn't have time to think deeply, he just looked at the proprietress, and asked, "Madam proprietress, can I ask something?"

The proprietress raised her eyes lazily, glanced at Li Jian, maybe she thought he was pretty good-looking, and she was willing to say a few more words, so she stepped forward. "What do you want to ask?"

Li Jian looked at her the same way, and decided to ask more tactfully first. "Why are there no fishing boats on the pier, and no fishermen on the way?"

After hearing this, the proprietress paused, her face seemed a little ugly.After a while, she replied: "Nothing. This sea area is cursed. Not only do people die every year on the island, but there are no fish nearby. Fishermen can't catch fish, so naturally they stop being fishermen. The village can go out to work. All the middle-aged men have gone out. Now there are only old people, women and children left on the island. By the way, what are you doing here?"

Speaking of this, the proprietress didn't wait for Li Jian to ask and answer, she smiled and said: "Brother, you came to this island, but the food is very popular. The delicate skin and tender meat are liked by the girls."

Li Jian: "..."

The proprietress looked at him again. "Look at you, you know some fairy arts, you don't come here for pearls and sharks, do you?"

"I'm for the sharks, but not for the pearls. Do you know their whereabouts?" Li Jian asked.

"Are you a friend of the Shark?" The proprietress suddenly clenched her fists after hearing this, and she looked at Li Jian with a pale face, with hostility and fear in her eyes.

Li Jian seemed puzzled by her reaction, and immediately replied: "Not a friend, nor an enemy. I just want to ask them about something. What's wrong with you? The mermaids are not evil monsters. Why do you..."

"My husband and son died at the hands of the shark!" the proprietress said angrily.

"Why?" Li Jian was surprised.

The proprietress sneered. "Who says they are not evil demons? We are abandoned here, and we are also abandoned by you so-called cultivators!"

"What happened?" Li Jian asked again.

The proprietress did not directly answer this question.Li Jianjian knew that there might be something inside this matter.

The proprietress was silent for a moment, and only said: "The owner of the island is named Feng. He executes one person every year. There is a merman stone statue on the mountain in the center of the island. The execution ceremony will be held in front of the stone statue. Three years ago, my husband was there. executed. At that time, I was still pregnant."

These things, it seems that the proprietress has been alone for too long, and she has been unable to find anyone to talk about.This time, facing a stranger like Li Jian, she acted as if she was confiding in her heart, and she couldn't help but say it all, so as to relieve her boredom. "The island owner said that one person must be executed every year and sacrificed to the sharks. Otherwise, the entire island will die. Three years ago, the island owner saw that I was pregnant with a child, so he chose my husband. What he means is, anyway We have a family."

Hearing this, Li Jian couldn't help frowning. ——If the husband knew that he made his wife pregnant, which would lead to such a situation, would he simply not have children?

"I went to see him when he was executed. Then I was overwhelmed with grief...the child lost. At that time, the child had just turned three months." The proprietress said this, and looked at Li Jian, "You said, I Do you hate the Merman, do you hate the Island Master?"

Li Jian is actually not very good at comforting people, especially women.Hearing this kind of words now, he didn't know what to say after all, he could only say: "If the mermaids are really evil, I will find a way to save you. But the question is, how to find them?"

"You're lucky. Tomorrow, it's the annual time...to execute people. You go and see, maybe the mermaids will come to ask for life and soul? But, I don't know which family this time... suffer."

When the proprietress said this, she smiled coldly, and her expression looked a little happy.People are like this, if they are unlucky alone, they will be unhappy, and they always hope that their neighbors will be as unlucky as themselves, so that they can feel a little more balanced in their hearts.

Seeing this, Li Jian frowned and sighed, and could only ask, "Is there any place to live on the island?"

The lady proprietress raised her eyelids, glanced at him, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile: "You can live here. There are many widows on this island, and there are some living widows, and there are quite a few real widows. I think they will all welcome you as a foreigner." As a guest. Actually, I received the news when you walked into my tea shop. It said that a handsome young man came to this island. A Hua next door told me. She welcomes you very much."

"Really." Li Jian rubbed his nose, "Then you help me thank A Hua for her kindness. But there's no need. I don't like it."

Yo, if you don't like women, is it possible that you like men?

The proprietress raised her eyebrows, but she saw Li Jian leaving with the sword.His speed was so fast that he almost disappeared out of sight.

At that moment, the proprietress' heart beat fast. ——Is this really a fairy?Is this island finally saved?

That night, Li Jian slept directly under the tree.Take the sky as the quilt and the ground as the seat.Early the next morning, Li Jian found the stone statue.

Stone statues are not hard to find.There is a mountain in the center of the island, and there is an altar on the top of the mountain, and in the middle of the altar, there is a stone statue.

The stone statue is a mermaid woman with long hair reaching to her waist to cover her upper body, while her lower body is a fish tail.The stone statue was made quite realistic, and she swung her fish tail as if she could stir up waves.

Li Jian waited by the side using the divine concealment technique.At three o'clock, the sacrifice began on time.

Master Feng Dao led a middle-aged man to the center of the altar, surrounded by several women.One of them was crying very sadly, but she was detained by the guards on the island, and she was not allowed to get close, and this woman should be the wife of a young man.

The strong man seemed to have been drugged in advance. When he was pushed onto the altar, he was held by two guards without any struggle at all.

Xiaoqing appeared in Li Jian's mind. "I think this island is weird."

"Of course." Li Jian narrowed his eyes, "I just don't know what the problem is. Have you ever heard of mermaids harming people?"

"Never heard of it." Xiaoqing shook her head.

Li Jian Yujian stood in the air, frowning and looking at the altar. The Fengdao Master took out something like a parchment scroll and read the words on it, probably asking for the protection of the sharks.

The text was lengthy, and it was estimated that it would not be over for a while. Li Jianjian watched the movement here while looking behind the altar with his sword.

This time, Li Jian saw a cemetery.

There are about 30 people in the cemetery.Li Jian took a general look. At first, he didn't notice anything unusual. The names on the tombstones were different, but at the back, there were entire people on the tombstones, all with the same surname - "Ji".

Li Jian counted, and there are as many as thirteen tombstones with the word "Ji".In other words, thirteen Ji family members died.

Could it be that the people buried in this cemetery are all people with the surname Ji?Do they all mean Wind Island Master?What is the enmity between Lord Fengdao and the Ji family?

Li Jian was thinking this way, but he heard Xiaoqing say: "'Ji' is an ancient surname. Among the Yuren clan, the most noble family is named Ji. The rest of the tombstones should be people from the island. But under the thirteen tombstones Those who were buried were not islanders, but sharks!"

"That's even more strange. Why are the mermaids buried here..." Li Jian frowned as he was talking, when he heard the sound of execution coming from the altar, he immediately flew to the altar.

The executioner took a knife and went towards the middle-aged man's heart. Li Jian shot a sword aura in the air and hit the man's wrist.

The man suffered from pain in his wrist, the knife slipped from his hand, and there was a roar on the ground.

Li Jian appeared, Yu Jian went towards the altar, but did not land.He overlooked the crowd from the sky, looking mighty and domineering, but he was naturally not trying to pretend to be aggressive, but just to put pressure on Fengdao Master to solve the problem quickly.

"You... who are you?" Island Master Feng looked at Li Jian with flustered eyes.

Li Jian narrowed his eyes, flicked his sleeves and asked coldly, "Why did you kill someone?"

"I...it's not what I want to do! It's the shark's request! They have already dispersed the fish, so that we can't rely on the sea to eat the sea, and our...our land is not suitable for growing food. Go against them again I mean, we will really be starved to death!" Master Feng Dao said, "Which Immortal Venerable do you dare to ask? Please... Please bless the Immortal Venerable!"

When Li Jian heard about it, he didn't shy away from it, he just said: "I am Li Jian, the chief seat of Qingqiong Muyun Peak."

Li Jian's name, although the island is remote, most people have indeed heard of it.The proprietress of the tea shop was also present at the moment. Hearing what Li Jian said, she thought to herself——no wonder he said he was not a good woman.The matter between him and the Holy Emperor was true and false, and there were too many reversals. As an ordinary person, she didn't know who was right and who was wrong, but in the end, Li Jian just liked men.

"It turns out to be the real person Feijing!" Fengdao Master knelt down to Li Jian, "Please the real person decide for us!"

"The shark's request, right?" Li Jian raised an eyebrow, "Okay. Tell me, how to contact the shark? I'll make the decision for you."

"Make the decision? Hmph! Right from wrong, I'll kill you first!"

Li Jian heard a rather childish female voice coming from behind.Li Jian thought to myself, what I said is just a stopgap measure, how can I take it seriously?

As soon as Li Jian thought about it, he already felt a murderous intent behind him.Li Jian moved up with his sword, avoiding the palm wind that was directly hitting the empty door behind him, and then struck out a palm of God's breath.Of course, he only used less than a fraction of his strength, because he was afraid of hurting others.

This time, he saw that the person who came was actually a little girl who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old.

"You...you are so divine? Who are you?" The girl frowned and looked at Li Jian.

And Li Jian also felt something unusual from her attack just now, and immediately asked, "Are you a mermaid?"

"Hmph!" The girl glared at Li Jian, as if she was going to run away if she couldn't beat her, she turned around and jumped, she was already a few feet away in an instant.

Finally there was a trail of the merman, Li Jian must not let her escape, so Yu Jian immediately chased after her.

Of course, Li Jian kept a clone/body in order to keep an eye on Master Feng, and don't let him kill people indiscriminately.

Li Jian didn't take much effort to catch up with the girl, and Yu Jian came in front of her and said, "Little girl, you misunderstood. I just said that casually just now. I want to investigate this matter. Besides, I have something to do with you." I want to discuss with you sharks about the important matters of the entire common people."

"I'm not young, I'm a hundred years old!" The girl looked at Li Jian, "In the mermaid tribe, although I am young, judging by the lifespan of your humans, I am an old man!"

After hearing this, Li Jian smiled helplessly, and only asked, "What's going on here?"

"I still can't believe you!" The girl turned around and ran away again.

At this time, Li Jian had chased her to the beach, and the girl jumped into the sea as soon as she ran away.

Li Jian had no choice but to go into the sea and chase after him with the technique of turning fish.But in the sea, Li Jian's water skills were not as good as that of a mermaid, and it took a lot of effort for a while to catch up with this girl.

"Who are you? Why are you chasing our princess?"

Li Jian suddenly heard such a voice.Before the words fell, the man's fish tail seemed to sweep in the water.In an instant, there was a big wave on the sea, and Li Jian could feel a strong current rushing towards her face.

Li Jian used his divine breath and clapped his palms together to beat back the surge underwater, and hurriedly said: "I don't want to offend, I'm sorry for the abruptness. I'm the head of Qingqiong Muyun Peak, and I'm here to look for the mermaid clan. There is something important to discuss."

After the man listened, he seemed to realize that Li Jian's spiritual aura was correct, so he called another wave of water.But this time the water wave didn't have any killing intent, but hit it into a water polo, wrapped Li Jian in it, and then supported him to move extremely fast under the sea.The speed of the water polo is extremely fast, and after traveling for an unknown distance, it rises up.

Then Li Jian found out that he was carried away from the sea by the water polo.He came to a well-decorated palace, and this hall seemed like a place to receive guests.

Instead, Li Jian saw two people standing in front of him, one was the girl called "Princess" just now, and the other was the person with high spiritual power who made moves to him in the water later, she was a She looks like a woman in her 30s.

It's just that for some reason, although these two are both mermaids, the princess has a human body without a fish tail, while this older woman has a human body and a fish tail.

"Princess, I didn't say you, why did you go to Liusha Island alone?" The man inevitably scolded the princess.

"Didn't I just hear about the quicksand island and go save people?" The princess glanced at Li Jian, pulled her clothes, and said, "Okay, aunt. Don't do it in front of outsiders." Teach me—”

The aunt then looked at Li Jian. "Your Excellency just said, is it from Qingqiong?"

"Yes." Li Jian took out the lightsaber.The light step sword is owned by Li Jian, and this sword is still somewhat famous.

This aunt has experience, so she naturally recognized it, and said immediately: "What's the matter with you?"

"The common people are in trouble, so we need to borrow the nobleman's Soul-fixing Orb." Li Jian said.

After hearing this, my aunt frowned and asked, "I heard about the resurrection of Jiuhua and Fuji. Is it related to this?"

"Indeed." Li Jian said.

"I can't decide this matter. In this way, you can rest here first. I will report to the king."

"Well. I also hope to discuss such a major matter with the noble commander. Then I will trouble you. This matter should be done sooner rather than later." Li Jian said seriously.

"I understand. The demon world has invaded the human world, and we, the mermaids, can't stand alone. I'll go right away." Auntie said, turning around to leave.

"Wait, aunt, is this immortal... really a good person?" The princess looked at her.

Aunt sighed. "You--!"

The princess only said: "You don't worry about me, so you can rest assured about the ability of the immortal. My father is in Penglai. You come and go, at least it will take a day. I will borrow the immortal for a day to deal with the matter of Liusha Island. How did it work out?"

"This...how can you let you do whatever you want? It also depends on what the Immortal Master wants." Auntie looked at Li Jian.

Li Jianjian said: "So many people died on the island for no reason, since I'm here, I don't have the gift of sitting idly by."

"That's your fault, Immortal Venerable. We didn't know about the island's affairs." The aunt sighed, "My princess...is a little bit arrogant, and she acts quite casually. When the time comes, I will take her to Liusha Island and look at the immortals." Please take care of me."

"Auntie, I'm already a hundred years old, you...you always tear me down!" The princess was annoyed.

Li Jian coughed lightly. "Do not worry."

"That's good. I'll go first." The aunt turned around and jumped into the sea, disappearing. The tail of the fish swept across the water, leaving long-lasting ripples on the sea surface.

Li Jian withdrew his gaze, looked at the princess, and said politely, "Your Highness, what happened to Liusha Island?"

The princess glanced at Li Jian, and then said: "My surname is Ji, and my name is Shuyi. You can call me Shuyi."

"Surnamed Ji?" Li Jian frowned, "I saw many graves of people surnamed Ji on that altar."

"That's right." Ji Shuyi looked a little angry, "It's all caused by the people on that island! Come with me!"

Ji Shuyi led Li Jian into the sea again.Like what her aunt did just now, Ji Shuyi gave Li Jian a water polo to help him move faster in the water.

After a while, the two returned to Quicksand Island.

Li Jian first went to the altar on the top of the mountain with Ji Shuyi.Li Jian looked from a distance, and found that the crowd had dispersed, and his avatar was still at the altar with the man who was supposed to be sacrificed.

The man remained unconscious, while his wife sat by and wept.

Li Jian withdrew her avatar, walked up to the man, and felt his pulse.Then he looked at the woman. "Don't worry, he was just fed something like cartilage powder, and he will be fine at night."

The woman raised her head, saw that it was Li Jian, and kowtowed to him repeatedly. "Thank you Immortal Venerable!"

"You don't have to. Get up quickly." Li Jian looked at the woman's face and felt that something was wrong, so she said immediately, "You stretch out your hand, and I'll help you feel the pulse."

After exploring, Li Jian discovered that this woman was also pregnant.It seems that her situation is the same as that of the tea shop proprietress. Because she was pregnant and had offspring, her husband was arrested and sacrificed.

But now, the woman's fetal gas was also moved due to excessive sadness. Li Jian checked and found that her condition was already very dangerous.

So Li Jian hurriedly said: "You have moved your fetus. I will give you a few injections to help you get better. Don't be sad anymore, or it will be bad for the fetus. Don't worry, your husband will be fine. I will also help you find out."

"Thank you so much!" The woman wept excitedly.

Li Jian said: "I am overjoyed and saddened, too much emotional ups and downs is not good. I will give you acupuncture now, and you try to calm down."

If so, Li Jianjian gave the woman an injection, and then helped her bring her husband home, and then the matter was temporarily settled.

After finishing all this, Li Jian walked out from the woman's house.

Outside, Ji Shuyi smiled and looked at him.

"What's wrong?" Li Jian raised her eyebrows.

"You are really a good person." Ji Shuyi said with a smile.

"What do you want to show me by bringing me here?" Li Jian just asked.

Ji Shuyi's smile fell immediately, and he flew up, "Follow me."

Then Li Jian stood up with the sword, followed Ji Shuyi across the altar and the tomb, and then arrived at a hidden cave on the hillside of the back mountain.

The hole appears to be sealed.Ji Shuyi cast a spell, broke the seal, and led Li Jian in.

Walking along the long corridor, Li Jian used spells to light up the light, and then he saw that there were many wooden stakes in the cave, and these wooden stakes were about as tall as a person.There are worn-out ropes on the stakes and on the ground, bloodstains on the ropes, and some faintly shiny disc-shaped things.It's just that too much time has passed, and the light of these discs has dimmed.

In addition, the entire cave has a great smell of sea and blood, mixed together, making people feel sick.

Following Li Jian's gaze, Ji Shuyi saw those disc-shaped things, and said solemnly: "These things are scales. These smells are also caused by the mixing of scales and blood in the cave."

"What? Could it be the scales on the mermaid's body? These wooden stakes are used to bind the mermaid?" Li Jian was surprised.

"Yes." Ji Shuyi clenched his fists, "Twenty years ago, they somehow mastered the method of catching sharks and brought my people here. As far as we know, they caught 20 of them."

"Why?" Li Jian couldn't help asking.

"You know about the shark weeping beads, right? Our tears can turn into pearls. The more noble the shark's blood, the pearls formed by tears are the rarest and most expensive. That is our Ji family."

Ji Shuyi said, "Back then, they set up a trap to arrest thirteen members of my tribe and tied them here. Mermaids are afraid of fire, so they roasted them with fire and beat them with whips. What they did was to make them suffer. Mermaids When people weep in pain, they will have expensive pearls and make a fortune from then on. However, the tears of sharks are limited, and when the tears run dry, people die. So..."

At this moment, while Li Jian was deeply shocked, he also understood why the fisherman who brought him here said that the people on this island once became rich once.

"So, you asked them to die one person every year just for revenge?" Li Jian asked.

"My royal father was very angry at the time, and he threatened that one life would pay for one life, that thirteen people would die on this island. However, he had already killed all the villagers who set up this trick and participated in flogging the sharks on the spot. He killed almost ten of them, which is regarded as revenge. Later, father and king left Liusha Island and never took care of this matter again. We just heard that Feng Island Master did these things."

Ji Shuyi looked at Li Jian, "So, I came here today to prevent Fengdao Master from continuing to kill people, and to find out the reason. He acted in the name of us mermaids, which not only insulted the reputation of our mermaids, but also killed innocent people indiscriminately. "

In other words, Ji Shuyi's father, outraged by the murder of his tribe, told the people on the island that he would kill people for revenge.But in fact he didn't do that.That Wind Island Master borrowed his words to harm people.

The most terrifying thing in the world is always the human heart.

While Li Jian was deeply chilled, he also felt that he seemed to have experienced a similar scene.

It seems that in a certain village, the villagers captured some kind of creature for their own selfishness.That kind of creature is not a mermaid, what is it?At that time... there seemed to be a young man by my side.That boy... who is he?

But Li Jian didn't dare to think deeply.Just thinking about it gave him a headache.

"What's wrong with you? You don't look very good." Ji Shuyi asked.

"It's okay. I just... lost part of my memory." Li Jian frowned.

"Lost memory?" Ji Shuyi looked at him, "Then you don't have to worry. The Soul-fixing orb can restore everything in this world, including memory. When you get it, the memory can be restored to its original state."

The author has something to say: 1. The princess and the soul-fixing beads are all assists;

2. The story of Quicksand Island should be the last branch copy of the main text.In this article, I try my best to write the side stories at a faster pace, because I feel that everyone should still want to read the main story quickly?However, the side story also contains a lot of my imagination O(∩_∩)O, I think it is quite interesting.If you still want to see a small copy, you can think about it~

3. Finally, recommend two songs.When I was writing the chapter on Jiuhua and Qianxun yesterday, I kept listening to a song "The Love of My Life", and I felt very touched. "The lover will never come back after leaving. From the past until now, love is still there. You who are far away are drifting, outside the white clouds."

Then today, Netease Cloud recommended a song to me. I feel that the lyrics are also very suitable for Jiuhua. I recommend it. , that play is staged again "keep secret", whether it is also called an old friend.Fengyue owes the most infatuated person, leaving only time to be tender with me.I am trekking on the edge of the wind and waves of long-term love, guarding the depth of love one more point.

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