"So, tell us—how did you wake up this time?"
"Every time I die, I come back to life by absorbing the sexual energy from human lovemaking!" declared the Eternal Wishfish. "How do you think I woke up?"
"Wow! You really are a perv!"
"Reproduction—the Dao of love—is one of the Three Thousand Great Daos, you know nothing!" The Eternal Wishfish snapped, clearly annoyed.
It was all her fault for causing such a commotion—not only did it fail its mission, but most of its power got drained away.
"So, what exactly were the nine wishes Mabel Ames Xiao made with you?" Lily Bai pressed.
"Her first wish was to get pregnant with a boy so she could marry into the royal family and wed Nathan Xiao."
"Oh... That boy must be Kieran Xiao, right?"
"Correct."
"What about the second wish?"
Her second wish was for Nathan Xiao to love only her for his entire life.
"Mm..." Lily Bai nodded. "Makes sense. What about the third?"
"For her third wish, she asked what kind of fish I was and where I came from. I told her I was a divine being from the Divine Realm. She immediately said she wanted to go there."
Lily Bai: "So, you helped her find this Portal Array?"
"Exactly! I asked if the Divine Realm was good enough, she said yes. So I found the entrance for her. But if she couldn't get in herself, that's not my problem."
"So her fourth wish was for you to find the Spell Stones?"
"Yep! She told me to find them, so I did. But after I found them, I couldn't use them myself—not my problem again." The Eternal Wishfish sounded totally irresponsible.
"Alright... So what was her fifth wish?"
Fish: "Since she couldn't get into the Divine Realm, she said she wanted to cultivate and become immortal."
Bai Xiaoyu: "So?"
Fish: "So, I taught her a cultivation method and told her she needed spirit power to train. She asked where to get it, so I said her sister-in-law had spirit jade."
Lily Bai: "So, her sixth wish was for you to take my sister-in-law's spirit jade and give it to her?"
Fish: "That's right. I told her Lauren Lan had two pieces: one supreme-grade spirit jade and one mid-grade spirit jade. Which one did she want?"
She said she wanted the supreme-grade spirit jade.
I told her, honestly, she was just a mortal—mid-grade spirit jade would have been enough.
Lauren Lan was already pregnant. If the supreme-grade spirit jade was taken away, she would turn into a tree and never return.
But she insisted on the supreme-grade spirit jade anyway."
Lily Bai glanced coldly at Mabel Ames Xiao's corpse. "So you took the supreme-grade spirit jade?"
Fish: "That's right."
Lily Bai: "So, with spirit power and a cultivation method, why does she have no cultivation at all?"
"I guess... maybe she didn't have a Spirit Root," said the fish.
"You're just a task-scamming trickster fish!" Lily Bai couldn't help but say.
"I didn't do it on purpose!" said the fish. "These days, there's no Spirit Testing Orb—how was I supposed to know if she had a Spirit Root?"
"...Alright, then what happened?" asked Lily Bai.
"Afterward, although Lauren Lan turned into a tree, her spirit remnant kept chasing after the supreme-grade spirit jade everywhere. Mabel Ames Xiao then came up with a scheme to have Nathan Xiao cut down that tree."
"Go on."
Unable to cultivate, she hung the spirit jade on her disabled son, hoping it would ward off evil and strengthen his body. Unexpectedly, Kieran Xiao had a Rune-Master talent, and under the influence of the spirit jade, he gradually awakened prophetic abilities.