Fifteen years after the purge and annihilation of demons in Red Stone village, now there are no people here.
In those years, Red Stone village went through three years without a drop of rain. Plus, Li Jing and his son were sweeping monsters day and night, and Ne Zha had the fire attribute. Either way, people also have to bear the consequences of those fires.
As for the demons in Red Stone village in those three years, only a word - apocalypse, can be used to describe. From the giant monster to the little devil, none of them could survive after that.
Even when the minor wood demon cultivated for two hundred years had not yet formed, it was cut down and burned till the roots. The most tragic is the water monsters in the river, in the sea. They were chased and killed until the fish and shrimp around did not dare to stay.
Prolonged drought, house fires continuously, people in Red Stone village, who lived by fishing from the very beginning, could not catch a single fish. If they did not die of hunger also died of fire. And all the rich men hurried to get their families out of this cursed land.
In less than three years, the once crowded fishing village turned into a dead land. Until ten years later, whether human or demon, no one dared to return to that place.
Except for a lady who is not afraid of heaven or hell, she is called Da Yu (Big fish).
To say she is brave is kind of overestimate her. She is actually just a minor demon living in the depths of the sea who has never experienced life, curious about the world on the ground.
"Da Yu, don't go too far. It's dangerous!" - Ren the mermaid, her teacher, was trying to catch her up.
Actually, Ren did not teach her magic much. But if it had not been for Ren's rescue of her that year, she would have died at the bottom of the ocean, so Da Yu voluntarily called her "master".
"Master, you are a fish, not a rabbit. Why you sooooo coward? It's much brighter up here than your den. Maybe your place is more dangerous than here!"
"Hey! I have never seen any fish that loves to come ashore like you!" - Ren is helpless against this fun-loving disciple - "I don't care about you anymore! If anyone catches you and dips you in their hot pot, don't call me!"
Then the mermaid wagged her tail and returned to the sea.
With no more annoying grumbling by her ear, Da Yu happily ran straight to the shore. She loved the feeling of heat on the soles of her feet when she ran on the long sandy beach. She also liked the wind that messed up her hair and the warm sun that made her squint every time she looked at it.
Her master often called her a "land fish", perhaps because she really preferred the ground to the murky seabed.
Above all, Da Yu liked a small house near the sea. She had noticed it for a long time, but Ren always told her not to go there. She said it was a human place, which was a dangerous place.
Ren does not like humans. She usually shows Da Yu her tail that has lost one of its scales to teach her how dangerous humans are. But Da Yu always felt that her master, despite her aggressive appearance, was indeed a coward.
Unlike Ren, Da Yu does not feel scared of humans. Or she "actually" has not seen any human since she awakened.
But because the master rambled about it from early till midnight, Da Yu unconsciously formed a defensiveness. She walked around the house and observed for a long time; it seemed that there was no one in the house. What if this was not a house but a trap to catch fish...
Da Yu thought for a long time and decided to go into the forest to find a big tree branch to protect herself. But when she looked up and saw a barren forest, she knew that even if she looked, she would find nothing.
But Da Yu's feet kept walking. Yet there was some motive, not entirely, like a voice calling her. Urged her to go deep into the forest.
She did not intend to fight back the temptation. There was a faint light in the forest that caught her attention. The closer she got to it, the more fluttering feel from the empty space to her left became.
She stopped in front of a small bush. Among the hundreds of large dead trees, it was the only green bush. When she arrived, an unknown red flower slowly bloomed on the tree trunk.
Da Yu saw the fascinating phenomenon and quickly clapped her hands in appreciation for the special magic show of the tree. If the average girl would quickly pick flowers and put them in her hair, but Da Yu thinks that it is hard to bloom a flower here, she'd better just enjoy it from afar.
But the flower seemed did not think so. It kept flickering the light that lured Da Yu as if it might scream that she should pick it up.
"Is it okay?" - Da Yu hesitated.
The flower flashed a light in response.
"If you say so..." - she cutely smiled and bent down to touch the flower.
Unexpectedly, tears fell from her eyes.
One drop, two drops, and she can not stop.
As soon as the flower touched her skin, it flew straight to her left chest and disappeared. It had been a long time since she heard this beating and this pain again. Da Yu hugged her left chest and sobbed.
She did not cry from the pain. But she did not know why all those tears kept dropping like the summer rain. A tormented feeling was tearing at her chest.
She was scared and ran to the sea to find her master to ask for help.
Something is beating in her left chest.
That thing kept beating in the place that was supposed to be empty made her uncomfortable. The more she ran, the faster it beat. She should have listened to her master and should not have wandered around.
Da Yu suddenly stopped right in front of the beach, the feeling of discomfort also naturally disappeared. She still could not figure out what was going on with her when right in front of her, a gorgeous lady dressed in a beautiful red dress walked step by step into the deep sea.
"Hey!!! What are you doing!!??" - she shouted, but the sound of the waves was too loud for the other person to hear.
Or if she heard it but pretended that she did not.
Master Ren often taught her to be a fish in the gypsy, unable to see death without saving. Da Yu ran fast as the wind on the water to the other girl and held the girl's hand.
"Let me go!"
"No!!! Life is short. Why do you have to do that?"
"If not, then how? I rather die than get married!"
"No! You can't die here!!!"
The two sides struggled for a long time. The girl was physically kinda strong. In terms of her height, she was a bit taller than Da Yu. In terms of other things, Da Yu was not her opponent at all.
The one wearing the wedding dress pushed her a bit, and she flew away
Overwhelmed so suddenly, Da Yu suddenly forgot how to breathe underwater. She struggled non-stop with the waves of the sea.
"Heyyy-... save me!"
The lady looked at her, not knowing how to show what kind of face.
"Don't... panic."
The tall girl swam up to Da Yu, put the arm around her waist, and picked her up. Finally, both of them came to the shore.
"What the heck are you doing? You can't swim but try to save people???"
Putting the little girl down on the sand, the tall lady stood in front of her, wringing her clothes dry without hesitation.
Now Da Yu have time to observe calmly; this lady's temperament is high and cold. Her face is also delicate and sophisticated. Just looking at her eyes looks like she is about to hit someone. Da Yu, who was under such influence, also felt somewhat timid on her own.
"Life is precious. You shouldn't waste it."
Although she has no memory, she is a person who has returned from the dead. Of course, she understands how precious life is.
"Yeah, I know, I know..." - she smirked. - "What's your name?"
"I'm Da Yu."
"Big fish can't swim." - the taller girl burst out laughing, making Da Yu immediately blush.
"I-I... I can swim! I-it's just... I just forgot..."
"Cute, huh?"
She smiled again.
Da Yu felt that this lady, although her face usually had a scowl, each time she laughed, she was charming.
"Princess!!!"
Suddenly, in the distance, a group of soldiers with spears and swords came running. Da Yu panicked when she saw this. This is indeed the "danger" that her master often mentioned.
While she still could not respond, the other girl grabbed her hand and ran away.
She wondered why humans had such a slow and laborious way of running. After running for a while, she was out of breath. At this rate, sooner or later, they would be caught.
Da Yu stopped and hugged the in-wedding-dress-girl, kicked to the ground, and flew away in the soldiers' surprise.
"Are you a fairy?"
Having brought her to a safe place, she looked at Da Yu unbelievable.
"And you're a princess?" - Da Yu has heard from her master Ren about the princess for a long time ago. In her mind, she thinks about the image of a pretty and lovely young woman, although this lady is not quite as in Da Yu's imagination. But when she heard the soldiers call her "princess" that caused her much excitement.
"Yeah... I'm a princess."
"So what's your name?"
"My family name is Wang."