Building a sect from scratch

"M...Male fish?"

Bai Chenxue looked at Shen Yun blankly, then turned to look at the coral blankly.

Exquisite facial features, waist-length hair, androgynous voice, coupled with the name "Coral", it doesn't look like a man! ?

"Coral, you, are you a man?"

"It is now," Coral smiled, and without waiting for Bai Chenxue to ask, he explained: "Our Quan ancestors are hermaphrodites. If necessary, we can slowly change gender over several years. Just like me, I am also a bisexual. He just became a male a few years ago.”

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Bai Chenxue's eyes almost shook as she murmured to herself: "Hermaphroditism... such a niche term..."

Shen Yun whispered to Bai Chenxue: "It seems that there are indeed many underwater creatures that can switch genders freely!"

Bai Chenxue asked again: "Then when you get married...well, you just want to find a partner, so you don't have to consider gender?"

Although Coral didn't understand some of the strange words spoken by Bai Chenxue and Shen Yun, he could still understand the general meaning. He was very confused by the reasons in the conversation between the two: "Why do you want to have children when you are looking for a partner?"

Coral's tone was so natural that it shocked Bai Chenxue and Shen Yun.

"Uh... that seems to be the truth... forget it! Who cares!" Bai Chenxue said: "I think what you said makes sense! There is really no need to consider gender!"

Shen Yun couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "Why do I feel that their Quan ancestors are far ahead in mental state..."

"Well... you humans seem to have a saying, 'it's inappropriate to come back without reciprocating', so I'll give you something as well!"

Coral didn't know that Bai Chenxue and Shen Yun were thinking about Xiao Jiujiu. While the two were shocked, he took out a large handful of colorful pearls from nowhere, roughly evened them out, and put them in two clam shells. , gave it to the two of them, and said: "This is the sea spirit pearl raised by our ancestor Quan clan. It has the function of repelling water and dust. It seems that you humans like it quite a lot. You call it 'pearl' and I will give it back to you!" "

"Thank you, um..." Bai Chenxue held the pearl and asked sheepishly: "Actually, we are very interested in your Quan clan's shark roux. I wonder if we can buy some..."

"Squid? Are you talking about...Yuehua Satin? Or Sanyang Brocade?"

Bai Chenxue was stunned: "Huh?"

Shen Yun also asked: "Are these two types of fabrics with any special effects?"

"You can tell just by the name! They are all woven with the essence of the sun and the moon. The Yuehua Satin is the moon, and the Sanyang Brocade is the sun."

Shen Yun asked again: "Then what's the difference between them?"

Coral said: "I feel... there isn't much difference. It's just that Yuehua Satin is relatively plain, while Sanyang Brocade is more colorful."

Shen Yun said: "Then can we buy some from you? If you want to sell, we can buy as much as you want!"

"Huh? What do you need so much fabric for?"

"Making clothes! Our Taiyin Sect is particularly short of fabrics! That's why we say we can buy as much as we have!"

Coral thought for a moment and said, "I do have some moonflower satin weaved by myself, but not much, just a few feet long. My sister has saved a lot. I can help you ask her if she can sell it, but she lives there. It’s a bit far from here... By the way! What are you going to buy for it?”

"Eat? Huh? The food we eat on land seems to taste bad if it enters the sea water, right? What else is there? Spiritual grass and spiritual plants? Spiritual talismans? Pills?"

Bai Chenxue opened her hands and counted them.

Shen Yun asked bluntly: "What do you want? As long as we can get it, we can try it!"

"Knife! Or gold and silver jewelry!"

Coral shook its huge tail excitedly and said: "It is difficult to smelt gold, silver and various ores in the sea, so these are in short supply! Especially knives! It is really inconvenient to pick out bones by hand!"

Then, he stretched out his hand. You could almost see the blood vessels in his bony hand, but there were long and thin claws at the fingertips. They shone in the cold light under the moonlight, like some kind of magical weapon, and looked terrifying.

Seeing such a "hand", Bai Chenxue turned pale with fright. Fortunately, the sky was so dark that it was almost invisible, and neither Shen Yun nor Hu Hua noticed it.

Shen Yun's eyes lit up when he heard Coral's request: "What kind of knife do you want? I happen to be a weapon refiner, so I can customize it according to your requirements!"

"Big knife, medium knife, small knife," Coral pondered for a moment, and then said: "It needs to be very sharp, preferably very hard, which can cut corals and remove fish bones!"

Shen Yun patted his chest and said, "No problem! I can bring you the drawings later! You can choose whatever you want!"

"That would be great! You can blow this when you come, and I will come over if I hear it!"

Coral said, giving Shen Yun a huge conch.

The conch is as long as a forearm, and the big head is wider than a palm. The milky white conch has brown patterns, evenly distributed in circles, very beautiful.

With something new in hand, Bai Chenxue forgot about the terrifying "hands" just now, and instead carefully touched the big conch and exclaimed: "What a big conch!"

Shen Yun also touched the rough conch shell back and forth, feeling it was extremely fresh, and asked, "Can I blow it off and try it?"

Although Coral didn't quite understand why the two of them looked at this thing as if they were seeing some rare treasure, she still nodded in agreement: "Of course!"

"Woo--Woo--"

The melodious and long conch horn sounded on the coast, and the waves beat against the reefs, accompanying it. The primitive, wild, free and natural breath burst out in the conch horn sound, and the world seemed to be particularly vast at this moment.

"What a beautiful sound!"

Bai Chenxue admired, and suddenly remembered something and asked: "By the way, Coral, do you live nearby?"

Coral nodded: "Yes, it's nearby, so I come here to practice every night when the tide is high."

Hearing Coral say this, the two realized that the tide, which was originally far away, had approached the reef where Coral was, and the nearest wave even rushed to Bai Chenxue a few meters away.

Bai Chenxue asked in confusion: "Then, how did you get here? Isn't it not yet high tide?"

Coral replied as a matter of course: "I walked here!"

"Walk!?"

Not only Bai Chenxue, but also Shen Yun was shocked.

Seeing the two of them looking confused, Shanhu smiled and gently swung his beautiful fish tail. Then, a colorful cloud of smoke swirled around his tail, and with a whoosh, the tail turned into two... hairy legs...

"?"

A question mark appeared on Bai Chenxue's forehead, and her voice suddenly rose: "You mermaids... ah no, you Quanxian tribe, why do you have to create leg hair at the same time as you create two legs!?"