The Snow Empress was originally quite worried that Huo Yuhao wouldn't be able to handle her 900,000-year heavenly tribulation, but in the end, she saw Xie Huanyue rushing into the thunder clouds to bathe in them.
Huo Yuhao also just learned that the cosmic laws within the thunder tribulation could help Xie Huanyue gain enlightenment.
As for the power of the thunder... Xie Huanyue directly violated the laws of electrical resistance in physics, grabbing the falling thunder containing the seven elements and throwing it back, forcefully intercepting the vast majority of the thunder.
Of course, the Snow Empress couldn't go through the whole process without touching a single bit of lightning. Appropriately experiencing the power of the seven-element thunder tribulation would have many benefits for her future attempt to break through the million-year barrier.
After experiencing the baptism of the thunder tribulation, the Snow Empress inevitably suffered some minor injuries. Plus, she needed to go into seclusion immediately to digest the enlightenment from the thunder tribulation, so naturally, she couldn't go out with Huo Yuhao.
At this time, there was less than a month left before the opening of the competition. Before going to Mingdu, Huo Yuhao had to make a trip to the Ice Sea to bring Mermaid Princess Liya to her sister.
When Huo Yuhao left the Dragon Realm with his group, Tang San had already returned to the Divine Realm with the God of Destruction due to his injuries. As for his daughter and Xu Sanshi, they were no longer in Huo Yuhao's eyes at this time.
Huo Yuhao directly used the Space Dragon Bone for spatial jumping. In just a few minutes, he returned to the sky above the Ice Sea with his group.
Breathing the scent of the sea again, the Mermaid Princess was overjoyed. She bowed deeply to Huo Yuhao who rescued her, then raised her hands. A gentle blue halo enveloped Huo Yuhao and all his companions, turning into a huge blue bubble, and then sank into the sea.
The Sea Princess lineage was worthy of being the controller of this Ice Sea. When that blue bubble landed on the sea surface, the seawater parted to the sides on its own without any sign of obstruction, taking them sinking towards the depths of the ocean. The pressure of the seawater couldn't be felt at all, and Huo Yuhao and the others could even breathe calmly.
The color of the seawater gradually became deep. The surrounding scenery could only be seen a little relying on the light emitted from the blue bubble, but not far. All sea soul beasts in the ocean would retreat on their own when sensing the aura of this bubble.
The group sank very fast. After about ten minutes, the speed began to slow down, and the bottom lit up.
Several girls looked intently, and a look of shock appeared in their beautiful eyes.
Deep on the seabed, a palace-like complex of buildings quietly appeared there. These buildings emitted blue halos, illuminating the surrounding area of tens of miles. One could clearly see mermaids swimming among them. And the buildings inside were all built with corals and various precious minerals from the ocean.
Although not like real buildings in the human world, they also had very oceanic characteristics. For example, Yu Mengdi saw a mermaid just drill out of a huge shell five meters high and swim rapidly in the seawater.
"This is the undersea world! It's simply, simply too magnificent!" Xiao Hongchen saw such a scene for the first time. If Zi Mu were here, based on his understanding of Zi Mu, he would definitely shout that he had come to heaven.
Seeing Mermaid Princess Liya return, all the swimming mermaids stopped, lowered their heads respectfully, and bowed to her.
Liya smiled and waved her hand. Only then did these mermaids swim away again, but they absolutely didn't come close. There were some particularly bold ones who looked curiously at Huo Yuhao and his companions in the bubble, with some confusion in their eyes, but more hostility.
Liya controlled the bubble to float to a building completely pieced together with corals. This building was also the largest one Huo Yuhao and the others had seen in the entire undersea world.
The bubble gradually shrank. Mermaid Princess Liya broke out of the bubble, leaving only a few oblong bubbles wrapping Huo Yuhao and his companions' bodies.
With these strange bubbles, Huo Yuhao and his companions could breathe freely and were not restricted by the pressure of the seawater.
"Distinguished guests, please come inside." Mermaid Princess Li Jing had long sensed that Huo Yuhao and the others brought her sister back, and immediately transmitted a spiritual thought. After Liya made a gesture of invitation, she swam in front to lead the way.
The scale of this coral palace project was quite large. The palace was thirty meters high and hundreds of meters wide. Even in the human world, there were rarely palaces of such scale. Moreover, in this palace, there was faintly a rich aura of soul power fluctuations coming out, showing that it itself still had certain offensive and defensive capabilities.
Considering that this palace was deep in the ocean, its safety was unquestionable.
Under Liya's lead, Huo Yuhao and his companions floated inwards, clicking their tongues in wonder along the way.
Liya took Huo Yuhao and his companions all the way to the innermost part of the palace and stopped in front of a room completely made of pure white coral.
The coral door opened by itself, and Huo Yuhao and the others saw the scene inside.
This specially made room was very large, filled with various decorations. Pearls the size of human heads, crystal clear shells like crystal, beautiful seven-colored corals, all were priceless treasures in the human world.
In the center of the room, there was a bed. The color of the bed was also pure white, looking a bit like jade, emitting a faint chill. The Hongchen siblings had never seen this thing. Huo Yuhao only knew it was a kind of jade, and it was Cold Jade.
Mermaid Princess Li Jing, whom they hadn't seen for a day, was half-lying on this bed, exuding amazing beauty.
However, her face was pale at this time, even carrying a bit of grayish defeat color, looking like her life aura was about to reach the end.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Liya exclaimed and immediately swam over. Pearl tears flowed uncontrollably from Liya's eyes, floating in the seawater, emitting a faint white light.
"It's the Sea God. The Sea God issued an order to exterminate my mermaid lineage." Li Jing smiled miserably. After their mother passed away, the mermaid lineage began to decline. As the only remaining king of the Sea Princess clan, she had encountered attacks from other sea soul beast races quite often in this half day.
"Sea God... How could Lord Sea God do this,呜呜..." Liya hugged her sister and cried bitterly. Before coming back, although Huo Yuhao didn't say it explicitly, she already felt that her mother might have met with misfortune.
And the culprit was actually the Sea God they had always believed in.
"You can tell her slowly about the Sea God Island matter." Huo Yuhao was about to leave with his companions. He could see that although Mermaid Princess Li Jing suffered serious injuries, her life origin was not endangered. With the speed of mermaids in the ocean, they wouldn't go extinct.
Even if Tang San issued a kill order, unless he took action personally, the mermaid clan could still survive lingeringly, only it would be difficult to return to the peak moment when the Sea Princess was alive.
He believed that after this calamity, the mermaid lineage would completely cut off their faith in the Sea God, and could also influence several surrounding races friendly with the Sea Princess clan.
He, Huo Yuhao, could indeed help the Sea Princess clan. His girl also needed a suitable symbiotic soul spirit. But negotiation is an art, and Huo Yuhao was waiting for them to speak.
Huo Yuhao waited with a few companions outside the palace for only a short while before the Mermaid Princess sisters invited him again.
Only this time, the invitation was for him alone.
Huo Yuhao gave his partners a reassuring look, then slowly floated towards their bedroom.
When seeing the mermaid sisters again, their eyes were red and swollen, obviously crying very sadly because of their mother's death.
Li Jing and Liya looked at each other, then looked at Huo Yuhao together. It was Li Jing, the current Mermaid King, who spoke.
"Huo Yuhao, I want to ask you to help our mermaid clan, okay?"
"Your Sea God hates me to death now. I can hardly protect myself. How can I help you?" Huo Yuhao instantly felt ridiculous. He never did business without benefits, even if the other party was a beauty.
Hearing this, Mermaid Princess Li Jing gritted her teeth, then looked at her sister with a complicated gaze, seeming to have made up her mind. She got up and slowly swam towards Huo Yuhao, removing the shells on her chest.
"We have no chips worth exchanging, but I can give myself to you. You uncovered my shells that day. According to the custom of our Sea Princess clan, I am naturally your woman."
Huo Yuhao opened his mouth, not expecting this Mermaid Princess to be so bold, and didn't know how to reply for a moment.
Seeing him hesitate, Liya beside her also had a desolate look in her eyes. Following behind her sister, she also removed the shells on her chest.
"If my sister is not enough, there is also me."
Seeing this scene, Huo Yuhao was instantly dumbfounded. These sister flowers were obviously rushing to give away points!
To cut off the Sea God's faith in the human world, the sea soul beasts in the ocean are the largest suppliers of the power of faith. A thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an ant nest. With one mermaid clan, there will naturally be other races. Believing in gods is inherently ridiculous. After all, the ocean is the freest.