Chapter 1359: Lanbao The Mermaid

Chapter 1359: Lanbao The MermaidThis was the first time the mermaid artifact spirit was seeing a human and the only reason she even reorganized it was because she had faint memories from the time when people still lived here.

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Even if her spirit body hadn't formed back the, she still had a level of consciousness. This consciousness accumulated the words and voices of the people that lived in the city, taking it as nourishment.

Only when it had all reached a certain level, would it form its own 'being'.

In some ways, it could be said that the Artifact spirit of the city was a culmination of every inhabitants memories and energies.

"So who are you?" Lin Mu asked the mermaid again.

"Me? I'm Lanbao and I'm Eighty thousand, six hundred and twenty years old." She introduced herself.

"Lanbao..." Lin Mu muttered, finding it similar to the city's name Deep Sapphire.[1]

Elder Niji looked at the mermaid, wondering if she knew anything about his ancestors.

"You said you've been here for over eighty thousand years. Does that mean you never say any Haima before?" Elder Niji questioned.

"No... when I was born, I was all alone. The voices I heard when I didn't have a form were all gone..." Lanbao said in a sad voice.

"So no one was here?" Lin Mu asked again, finding it a bit weird.

"No... no one." Lanbao shook her head.

'How's that possible? Without anyone here, how can the artifact spirit be nurtured?' Lin Mu wondered.

"It doesn't necessarily have to be like that. The artifact might have already gained enough from the earlier presence of the Haima people. That is also why she knows of their existence and can speak. Its primitive form of consciousness had absorbed it all.

"The last memory of hers was of about 113,000 years ago." Elder Niji said after comparing the time line.

"Are you sure?" Lin Mu asked doubtfully.

"Yes. Lanbao entering a slumber also coincides with the great suppression of the empires. The array they used restrained the very oceans themselves, which might have had an effect on the city as well." Elder Niji replied.

"I see... that's why she doesn't have a proper memory of them leaving." Lin Mu muttered.

"Ah yes! Lanbao almost forgot!" The mermaid suddenly spoke loudly. "The ceremony! The ceremony needs to be done!" she said.

"Ceremony? What ceremony?" Lin Mu asked.

"The Ceremony to transfer ownership, of course." Lanbao replied. "The city can only be owned by someone of the Haima tribe. Unless the ceremony is done, the city will not fully open." She explained further.

"She means the branding. Have Elder Niji put a brand on the core of the city, only then will they be able to fully utilize the city." Xukong suggested.

Lin Mu nodded his head and looked at Elder Niji.

"You'll need to do this, elder Niji. Let the Deep Sapphire Island return to its true owners." Lin Mu spoke.

"Of course. It has been too long." Elder Niji agreed.

"Lanbao, take us to the core of the city." Lin Mu requested.

"Sure! Come with me!" Lanbao replied with a smile, her tears having disappeared.

Since she was a spirit, her tears had been illusory since the start.

[1] Lanbao means sapphire in chinese.