"Come out quickly, come back with me, how can you be disobedient?" The guardian girl's hand was placed next to Ye Fan's neck, so anxious that she was about to cry.

But the little blue crystal still hid under Ye Fan's collar, even burrowing near Ye Fan's neck, defying the guardian girl's words.

The guardian girl stretched her finger, gently touched the blue crystal, her finger inadvertently brushed against Ye Fan's neck, but she quickly withdrew her finger, looking at Ye Fan with a slightly apologetic gaze, only to find Ye Fan staring at her intently.

"Why... why are you staring at me?" The guardian girl became a little shy instead, her head slightly bowed, her face showing some unnaturalness.

Ye Fan smiled and said, "Miss, just a moment ago we were opponents fighting on the battlefield, and now you stand beside me, ready to take my life; can I not look at you?"

The guardian girl shook her head and replied, "You let me come over, you trust me; how could I harm you? Can't you help me? It won't come out, and I want to take it back to the mother crystal."

"Alright, I'll give it a try, though I can't guarantee it'll help you."

Ye Fan also placed his hand on his neck, his hand proving more effective than the guardian girl's. The small blue crystal emerged from his collar, happily leaping onto his finger. Ye Fan moved his hand to his front, and the crystal cheerfully rolled over on his hand. But when the girl reached for it, the crystal shivered in fright and darted into Ye Fan's sleeve, peeking out to the girl, as if saying, don't touch me, I'm not going with you.

"Miss, it seems I can't help you much; it's clinging to me." Ye Fan spread his hands.

The girl felt aggrieved, biting her lip, looking pitifully at Min Shang beside her who spoke up, "Young lady, we were deceived to come here, and those two are still nearby. Could we open the Earth's crust and talk carefully back at the surface?"

"No, I can't leave it; my duty is to guard it." The girl turned to look at that large blue crystal, but suddenly she let out a startled cry.

At that moment, the large blue crystal mother seemed to be melting away, dispersing into countless small blue rings, spreading out and disappearing into the ocean. The girl quickly swam over, trying to stop the mother crystal from dissolving, but to no avail. The mother crystal rapidly dissolved, turning into blue powder, then into a beam of light, completely vanishing in the seawater.

"How could this happen? Boo-hoo... it's gone." The girl cried at the spot where the blue crystal left its remnants, but there was nothing left.

Min Shang, Ye Fan, Li Zhaojun and Wu Ding swam over as well. Though they didn't know why the blue crystal's mother body was melting, they guessed it was related to the small crystal leaving the mother body. Perhaps the small blue crystal was the "mother body", as it already had its own consciousness.

"Miss, don't be sad, it's not completely gone, is it?" Ye Fan spoke, as the blue crystal again emerged from his sleeve, standing on his hand, looking at the spot where the mother body had disappeared, appearing just as puzzled about the disappearance as the little fellow.

The girl then remembered the crystal wasn't completely gone, with a small part still with Ye Fan.

Her face was bathed in tears of bright beads; each tear was like an ice crystal. She turned around, gazing forlornly at the small crystal, then looking up at Ye Fan, as if to say, "Please give it back to me."

"Miss, I think we don't belong here, we don't want to cause human casualties, so let's not violently break open the crust. If you have a way, could you open up a rift in the crust so we can return to the sea surface?" Ye Fan asked.

The girl shook her head and said, "I've never left here, it's just... I open the guarding door every few months to let seawater in... Can you leave it behind, it... it's mine."

Ye Fan smiled wryly and said, "I'd like to leave it with you, but it doesn't seem to listen to me either."

The blue small crystal seemed so attached to Ye Fan, even if the mother body had disappeared, it joyfully danced around Ye Fan, sometimes perched on Ye Fan's hand, sometimes jumping onto Ye Fan's shoulder, and sometimes hopping onto Ye Fan's nose, like a mischievous and playful little blue elf.

"I've guarded you for so long, why won't you come with me?" The girl sounded somewhat angry, but even as she questioned the blue crystal, her tone remained gentle.

"Hee hee hee..." The blue crystal produced sounds, seemingly laughing.

Ye Fan said, "Miss, please help us to open the guarding door; when we leave, we'll return it to the ocean. I think it'll swim back on its own."

This time, Ye Fan didn't care about anything else. Since the small crystal refused to leave him, he had to persuade the girl to open the rift, allowing them to return to the surface and then consider further plans.

The girl asked, "You… you won't deceive me, will you?"

Ye Fan spread his hands and said, "How could I deceive you?"

"Hmm, I trust you." The girl seemed very confident in Ye Fan since Ye Fan had just shown friendliness to her.

The girl closed her eyes, seemingly muttering some kind of incantation. The seabed's crust suddenly opened again with a "rumbling", revealing a rift. Wu Ding checked it quickly and said, "It's possible to go out!"

After saying that, Wu Ding directly formed a "net" with spiritual energy, trapping the Song family uncle and nephew within, dragging them toward the rift in the Earth's crust.

Ye Fan, Li Zhaojun, and Min Shang followed towards the rift, while the girl looked back lost at the spot where the mother crystal had vanished, then swam up as well.

A few minutes later, the group finally reappeared on the sea surface. Wu Ding was nervously keeping watch, saying, "Senior! Junior! Are you alright? Why did it take so long? Who is she?"

Wu Ding angrily dragged Song Zhao and Song Xian onto the sea working platform, still encased in large ice blocks. Ye Fan came up too. Under the sunlight, the girl's face seemed bright, but the blue substance on her body appeared cumbersome, as if it were a layer of fish scales growing outside her skin.

"You... give it back to me." The girl did not rise out of the water, only extending her head out, sorrowful.

Ye Fan said, "Come on up, let's talk inside."

The girl extended her head above the water, suddenly feeling the dryness of the air, having been accustomed to the moistness of the seawater.

Li Zhaojun leapt onto the yacht first, turned around, and said, "Miss, come on up, we mean you no harm. If you find the air too dry, there's sunscreen and moisturizer inside, but you need to go in and change into some clothes first."

"What are clothes?" the girl asked curiously.

"They're what we're wearing on our bodies, what is that blue... stuff on you?" Li Zhaojun asked.

The girl glanced down at the blue substance covering her body and said, "It's used to cover the body, and with clothes... wouldn't it be easy for people to see through?"

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