Chapter 1131

The Whale Emperor came to Huaijiang not out of curiosity for wonders, nor out of fondness for wandering the clouds!

It came specifically to look at the Xiandao Above the Clouds!

Lightning tore through the sea of consciousness.

Liang Qu suddenly realized.

According to the Dragon Lord, the Whale Emperor could be said to have crafted a fish persona for itself over thousands of years, a persistent disguise that no one, human or demon, in the entire East Sea or the whole world saw through!

True or false?

Also heard Old Toad mention it once: back when the Jianghuai Long Gong was completed, the Old Dragon Lord even specially banqueted the Whale Emperor; the two were bosom friends, yet it turned out to be a plastic brotherhood.

But right now it's all just the Blood Sea "Dragon Shadow's" one-sided account.

How old are you.

Believe whatever others say?

Whether the Dragon Shadow before me is the Dragon Lord is still a question mark.

Just because a dragon scale is placed here, does that mean it's the Dragon Lord's remnant soul speaking?

The Marsh Cauldron didn't even receive a dragon species aura.

Back in the Dragon Abyss Path, when removing the bloodline seal for Long Eying, that black line in her body — Liang Qu remembers it vividly to this day — unknown if it was the "lenient" Dragon Lord who deliberately set a ceiling, or if a dragon hybrid is innately deficient.

He definitely wouldn't develop hostility toward an ancient Demon Emperor just because of one sentence from a dragon he just met.

"Truly unexpected, great treachery feigning loyalty, outwardly simple but inwardly harboring cunning deceit — this East Sea Whale Emperor is guilty of monstrous crimes! Deserves ten thousand deaths!

Bamboo slips cannot record them all!" Liang Qu seethed with indignation, gnashing his teeth, clenching his fists tight, "Delaying my sudden enlightenment on the immortal island is trivial, but to actually scheme against Old Dragon Lord you! Causing my Lady's family to be ruined and scattered! Sooner or later I'll settle accounts and eat grilled fish!"

"Acting!"

"——" Liang Qu automatically ignored this "acting" word, didn't probe how the Dragon Lord was deceived, struck while the iron was hot, asked the key point, "Why did the Whale Emperor deceive you? Does it benefit it in any way? I once heard Old Turtle Peng Ze discuss the Crucible, saying the Crucible has no desires or needs because no resource in the world can help them — could that be false?"

Whether the Old Dragon Lord proves his words are true, or Liang Qu proves he doesn't disbelieve, both are meaningless self-justification.

To prove you're genuine, produce more information to build a chain of evidence, let people judge for themselves; to prove you don't disbelieve, show more sincerity.

There's no good or bad in the world, only whether there's benefit or not.

If not for Huaijiang having only one Position Fruit, only this one ascension channel, Liang Qu would have to be stuffed full to go fight a flood dragon, pointlessly throwing away a life.

Now the Old Dragon Lord is likewise stuffed full, rambling half a day just to complain to him?

Conscious activity possesses purposefulness and planning.

Even idle spacing out has the purpose of killing time.

Simple middle school politics.

"Your conversation with Old Turtle Peng Ze, I've heard it — half right, half wrong."

Really annoying.

Liang Qu scratched his scalp raw.

Calculating that ever since the first River God Sacrifice gained Huaijiang's favor, there's always been a high-dimensional "audience" tailing him, not a shred of privacy?

Besides the Nowhere Place watching his livestream, not a bit of entertainment activity?

"Where's the right? Where's the wrong?"

"The world indeed has no resource that can help Martial Immortals or Demon Emperors, because no thing can match them, yet it's not completely true that no thing matches them."

"Martial Immortals and Demon Emperors themselves?" Liang Qu blurted out.

"Correct." Above the blood sea, the dragon shadow flickered, "Your first time going to the Imperial Capital, encountering the Heaven-Earth Longevity Qi Auction, a Wu Sheng once took out a Profound Whale Pill, refined from an entire Profound Whale."

An old forgotten matter Liang Qu himself nearly forgot, yet the Old Dragon Lord dug it up from the old accounts.

Ascending to the Crucible, instead becoming a peerless great medicine, having to face schemes even more carefully?

Might as well be as carefree as the Heavenly Dragon Wu Sheng!

Be a pillar of the state, carve out a fief and declare oneself king — anyway his lifespan is long, other Martial Saints live eight hundred years, he has at least three thousand.

Could it be that the Crucible not lightly making a move, not helping his own Wang Chao, is precisely based on this kind of balance, not wanting to expose his emotional weak points, rather than being emotionally indifferent to his descendants?

"The Whale Emperor deceived you — for the True Dragon Pill? Or for the authority over the Huaijiang Position Fruit?"

"Both and neither, or rather, I still haven't figured it out to this day—" Above the blood sea, the dragon shadow flickered violently, his words always sighing, "I constantly ponder in this Avici Hell, why it came to this. If I haven't guessed wrong, it should be the same as the Great Li Founding Emperor back then, delusionally attempting to become the Realm Master."

Realm Master?

What is this thing now?

Combining the Dream Dynasty and the literal meaning of the words, Liang Qu guessed: "Master of a Realm?"

"No wonder people praise intelligence by saying 'monkey clever, monkey clever.'" The Dragon Lord praised in admiration.

If you're praising, just praise properly.

"Do you remember what you said to the Vajra Wisdom King?"

This again.

I've said so many things to the old monk, how would I remember which sentence?

Good morning? Have you eaten?

Liang Qu grumbled inwardly.

"Can't recall, Old Sir, care to give a hint?"

"When you achieved Heaven-Man Union."

Liang Qu pondered for a long while, tried to speak: "The sixth consciousness is heaven and earth favoring you, the seventh consciousness is you making heaven and earth favor you — the eighth consciousness seed consciousness, is you favoring heaven and earth?"

"That's the sentence. Think on it carefully again."

The dragon shadow knew Liang Qu didn't trust him, so he let Liang Qu deduce the conclusion himself.

People are always unwaveringly confident in their own deductions.

Heaven and earth favor you.

You make heaven and earth look upon you with favor.

You look upon heaven and earth with favor—

Liang Qu seized the flash of inspiration.

"The Great Li Taizu not only wanted to create an immortal Dream Dynasty, but also wanted to establish a true Netherworld, become the master of a small world, and thereby ascend to Transforming Rainbow? The Whale Emperor wants to emulate the Great Li Taizu and do it all over again? Establish a second small world?"

The dragon shadow flashed: "These are merely my conjectures. In the world there is no predecessor who has achieved Transforming Rainbow, nor any path to reference. Be it Great Li or the Whale Emperor, both are crossing the river by feeling the stones."

Liang Qu was greatly shaken.

Ascend to the Crucible, grasp a complete Grand Authority.

Ascend to Transforming Rainbow, must establish a world, become the World Master?

He pressed: "Did the Great Li Taizu succeed? Furthermore, what world does the Whale Emperor want to establish, and how did the two get entangled?

》

"Entangled! Truly a good word, very much to my liking." The dragon shadow was greatly comforted. "The Great Li Taizu naturally did not succeed; otherwise how could I have fallen into this half-alive half-dead state, long since turned to dry bones. What world the Whale Emperor wants to establish, I do not know. As previously stated, I merely conjecture it must be done this way. How the two got entangled, I also do not know."

Three questions, two unknowns.

Even so, still a muddlehead.

"You want to call me a muddlehead?"

Still saying you don't have mind-reading!

"What mind-reading? I've lived thousands of years, a hundred times you. I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice. What's in that monkey head of yours isn't hard to guess."

Earth-shaking secret news!

The day before yesterday just broadened the senior brothers' horizons; today let another dragon broaden my own horizons.

Everyone is a frog.

A frog at the bottom of a well.

Liang Qu had far too many questions, now unable to sort out any thread, only a single sigh.

The Lord of Huaijiang is truly beset by calamities.

The previous-previous House Dragon was taken by the Great Li Taizu to open up a world.

The previous Dragon Lord was taken by the Whale Emperor and the Great Li Taizu together, still to open up a world.

Damn.

Opening up a world cannot do without Huaijiang, right?

Water is the origin of all things?

Feel this thing is a bit dangerous. Are there other Grand Position Fruits to choose from?

"You say you're trapped in this Boundless Place, being refined to feed back heaven and earth?"

"Yes. The Heavenly Fire Sect wants to refine me into the True Spirit of the Tongtian River, to revitalize the Netherworld's Great River. You are the backup."

"I'm the backup!?" Liang Qu cried out in alarm.

"What are you shrieking about? Don't tell me a crafty monkey like you never thought of this?"

Liang Qu fell silent.

That's right.

He had thought of it.

Fei Taiyu said there was no enmity between them, no conflict of interest. Liang Qu would not foolishly believe that.

Third rank, second

rank, first rank, Grand Elder, Core Elder — grandma's, the Heavenly Fire Sect's elders are divided into a full five tiers. From second rank on, all are Sixth Realm great powers! Even among third rank there are individuals!

Knowing a person's true nature is hard to erase. If it were him, the Heavenly Fire Sect would absolutely not let such a "time bomb" whose roots they know run around loose.

Everyone is "raised from childhood," clean background, good family stock. Do they lack one coming to surrender?

Although the "Ear Knowledge Technique" didn't detect any problem at the time, Liang Qu would not completely rely on a single technique.

Lying does not equal being wrong. There's also something called the Spring and Autumn brushwork.

It's just he didn't quite understand what the Great Li Heavenly Fire Sect wanted by recruiting him.

Liang Qu wanted the Heavenly Fire Sect's Blood Treasure. The Heavenly Fire Sect wanted to use the White Ape. Each taking what they needed.

"Your senior brothers can all feel that a 'person' like you with a father and mother is a born True Spirit. Those who don't know you and the White Ape are one, only knowing the White Ape, believe it even more. If refining me fails, you, this True Spirit, are the Heavenly Fire Sect's backup to revitalize the Tongtian River."

Liang Qu squeezed out a flattering smile.

"Respected, great, noble Dragon Lord Great Dragon, wonder how many more years you can hold out?"

"A few hundred years is no problem. A thousand years I can take a stab at."

"Hah!"

Liang Qu wiped cold sweat, let out a long breath.

Not bad.

Safe.

Scaring himself.

Can still muddle along in the Heavenly Fire Sect.

The blood sea calm as water.

Liang Qu thought of another key question: "Then what about the Blood Treasure? Could the source of the Blood Treasure be you?"

"I'm not too clear."

"Aren't you able to observe the Netherworld?"

"Can only observe your surroundings. Others have no attachment, cannot cast their gaze down. What I know is no more than you."

Only peeping on me alone, huh?

Wait.

Liang Qu rubbed his hands together and asked excitedly, "Does the Jiao Dragon also have a patron? Do you know where the Dragon Pearl is?"

Last time the Jiao Dragon swam upstream, he multitasked; while fleeing, he secretly sent Bai Awei to lurk in the Long Gong and gained a general understanding of its interior, but still failed to find the Dragon Pearl.

"That Fire Tree Silver Flower."

"What?"

"Isn't there a Fire Tree Silver Flower in front of the Long Gong? That is the Dragon Pearl."

"???"

Wait, no, the Dragon Pearl is just placed outside the Long Gong, on the grand plaza?

Also, shouldn't the Dragon Pearl be a pearl? How is it a tree?

The most dangerous place is the safest place?

The dragon shadow flickered: "The Dragon Pearl can be a pearl, or it can be something else; it's not entirely the Fire Tree Silver Flower either—it is its root system underground in the Long Gong. The Jiao Dragon coils there daily gnawing on the roots to refine them, and it cannot move it."

"Cannot move it?"

"You fought the Chu King and couldn't control the water around him; the Jiao Dragon naturally also cannot move the Dragon Pearl I left. It can only stay there, in the Huaijiang Long Gong, under the rules I bestowed—unless it can move the entire Huaijiang River."

"You struck the King of Chu, couldn't control the water around him, so the Flood Dragon naturally couldn't move the dragon pearl I left behind; it could only stay there,

"The Dragon Lord is mighty!"

"Don't underestimate the Jiao Dragon; it won't necessarily fail."

Liang Qu said: "What do you mean?"

"The Jiao Dragon has had dealings with the Whale Emperor in the past. At least when the Jiao Dragon came from the sea to Huaijiang, it once served as the Whale Emperor's subordinate for a period. It was the Whale Emperor who vouched for it that I let it in to take root in Huaijiang."

Liang Qu frowned.

He had heard Su Guishan speak of the Four Great Demon Kings: the Jiao Dragon and the Ironhead Fish both came from the sea, the Western Turtle came from Dongting Lake heading east, and only the Lone Frog King was a genuine local frog.

There was actually such a bizarre past?

"In a hundred years, have you not observed any contact between the Jiao Dragon and the Whale Emperor?"

"Cannot observe; it's blurred there, the work of the Whale Emperor's clan shielding it."

"In a hundred years, you haven't observed any contact between the Flood Dragon and the Whale Emperor?"

Talked half a day, still just targeting me alone.

Let the dragon see through me completely.

Liang Qu had already more or less understood the situation.

After the Dragon Lord was deceived by the Whale Emperor, he had fallen to such a state, also completely in the dark, until his own dramatic appearance—the second person in Huaijiang to possess deep patronage—opened a window for it to observe the world.

"Do you have any Blood Treasures on you? Take them out and let me see what's going on."

After the Dragon Lord was deceived by the Whale Emperor, he fell into such a state, completely in the dark, until his emergence, the second person in Jianghuai to possess deep favor, opened a window for him to observe the world.

Liang Qu looked around to see if there was any "Aurora" to return to the Yang Realm, but discovered this Boundless Place fundamentally had no passage between the Yin and Yang Realms, so he had to leave the Dragon King's Cave.

He took the Blood Treasure from the Yang Realm and returned; it was already three double-hours later.

Liang Qu looked around, checking if there was any 'Aurora' to return to the living world, but discovered this Avici Realm fundamentally had no passage between the Yin and Yang worlds, so he had to leave the Dragon King's Cave.

"Already very fast. I had to go back to the Yang Realm to Pingyang, then return to the Yin Realm round trip, okay? Here, a First-Rank Blood Treasure, there's even a Super-Rank one on it."

Liang Qu pinched the Blood Treasure and held it before the dragon shadow.

"Already very fast, I have to go back to the living world to Pingyang, then return to the underworld for a round trip, okay, here, a First-Rank Blood Treasure, with a Transcendent-Rank one on top of it."

Liang Qu pinched the Blood Treasure and placed it before the Dragon Shadow.

Liang Qu perked up: "What did you find?"

"Currency that maintains the Yin Realm's operation without collapse." The dragon shadow said blandly, "It should be born from humans."

Liang Qu perked up: "You've figured something out?"

"What do you feel if you eat too many?"

Liang Qu frowned: "It can help me touch the Yang Realm reality; as for cultivation advancement, it's very weak."

"Mostly so. The Yin Realm cannot bear all human departed souls; inevitably a portion are used as consumables to maintain operation, so they can be used by you to lure the Drought Demon Position Fruit, but the specifics of how it operates, I cannot see fully; you must explore yourself."

Liang Qu frowned: "Can help me touch the living world's reality, but in terms of cultivation advancement, very weak."

"Mostly so, the underworld cannot bear all the dead souls, inevitably a portion are used as consumables to maintain operation, so they can be used by you to lure the Drought Demon Position Fruit, but the specifics of how it operates, I cannot see fully, you have to explore it yourself."

The blood sea waves rise not, red clouds drift leisurely.

Key questions asked.

One person, one dragon, ran out of topics.

Suddenly knowing too much, all shocking to hear, earth-shattering; if released could change the situation—all need time to digest. Liang Qu scratched his butt: "Then let's leave it at that. If there's anything I'll come again. Leaving now."

"Mm."

Suddenly knowing too much, all of it shocking, earth-shattering, capable of changing the situation if released, all needing time to digest; Liang Qu scratched his butt: "Then let's leave it at that, if there's anything I'll come again, leaving first."

"Good."

"No need to keep me for a meal."

"No food for you to eat."

Liang Qu reluctantly glanced at the dragon corpse, sighed, made up his mind, and turned away without looking back.

"Wait."

Liang Qu's brows brightened with joy: "Is there a treasure to give? Ah, how embarrassing."

"Your karma Blood Treasure." The dragon shadow spoke blandly, making the First-Rank Blood Treasure float to the water surface.

Liang Qu's brow smoothed with delight: "Is some treasure being sent over? Ah, how embarrassing."

"Your karma blood treasure." Long Ying spoke indifferently, raising a first-rank blood treasure to the water's surface.

"Don't even think about it. In my current state, I have nothing to give you."

"Not even a little?" Liang Qu struggled one last time. "Who in Yixing Town doesn't know I repay kindness? Investing in me won't be a mistake. You've been spying on me this whole time, you definitely know!"

Silence for a long while.

Yuan De.

A cluster of human-eye-sized blood pearls emerged from the sea of blood, converging into the blood treasure in hand, glowing brilliantly.

"If you're willing to part with this drop of essence blood, you can take it back for your wife to use. It's the only thing I can do right now."

"I can't eat it?"

"It doesn't contain the so-called essence you need. Eating it wouldn't be of high value."

Dejection was written all over Liang Qu's face.

Just in time.

The Inside Inside Ze Ding trembled.

【Absorbed three strands of Dragon Species Qi】

【Consume six strands of Dragon Species Qi to generate one Yinglong Pattern.】

【Dragon Species Qi: Eight】

Hiss!

It's out, it's out!

A turn for the better.

Not bad, made a little profit, didn't lose out!

What's going on? There wasn't any just now, now there is?

The dragon shadow flickered: "Are you able to get some benefit from Dragon Species?"

"Haha, how could that be—"

"You went to the Beiting Flowing Gold Sea, specifically asked your Senior Brother and the Sea Lord for the locations of Dragon Species Great Yaos, didn't meet them, just watched from afar, went back into seclusion, gained a divine ability, and also the many times before, I've roughly calculated. The sturgeon yaos rise, basically it's one, two,

three, this seclusion interval, only once was it not high, that time in the middle there was a Peng Ze Dragon Turtle mixed in, and the number of Dragon Species Great Yaos you've seen differs by one, how can the tally be off by one?"

"......

6

Peeping dog!

"Dragon

Greetings Dragon Lord, Long Live the Dragon Lord, Goodbye Dragon Lord!"

Clutching the Grade One Blood Treasure containing the Dragon Lord's essence blood, Liang Qu jumped into the black "water pipe," climbing all the way up, transformed into a fish wife to return to the Blood River, then returned to the Yang World.

On the Huai River, the fleet had already gone far.

Liang Qu looked around suspiciously; even the root of his "Eye Identification Technique" couldn't sense the Dragon Lord's gaze.

Suppressing the urge to flip the bird at the sky, he didn't immediately chase after the Heposuo fleet. Instead, he internally called for Awei and Afei, having Awei bring his own physical body to quietly find him. After putting on the flesh kasaya, he forced out a thread of essence blood from the Grade One Blood Treasure. Afei was already carrying the Old Clam, using the Old Clam as a transfer point, heading to Peng Ze to find General Yuan.

One person, one frog, crouched on the fat catfish's head.

The Old Clam scratched its claws, slapped hard, suppressing the urge to pull at Liang Qu's waistband.

"Liang Qing, what are you carrying in your pocket?"

Liang Qu was startled.

Bad.

Forgot the Old Clam's trait.

What tier of treasure is the Dragon Lord's essence blood on my body?

Sigh.

What kind of people am I dealing with day in, day out?

Treasure-greedy Old Clam.

Treacherous Old Wang Ba.

Voyeur maniac Old Dragon Lord.

Not a single normal yao.

"Nothing, Frog Lord. It's an illusion General Yuan gave you. It must be hiding something good again! Extremely attractive to you. 'Is that so?' The Old Toad was dubious.

"Absolutely!" Liang Qu spoke with conviction.

The Old Clam's claws itched unbearably: "Then we have to find a chance to properly fleece it!"

"As it should be. When I have time, I'll think of a way."

A simple maneuver of diverting trouble eastward, Shou Mountain was right before their eyes.

The fat catfish charged through the thin mist.

"Zhiwa zhiwa!"

The monkey troop cheered and leaped for joy.

The worm-catcher shrieked sharply, dropped the cooking, and fled into the cave in a puff of smoke.

The fat catfish swam to the foot of Shou Mountain, extended its whiskers to point, opened its large mouth, and tossed the fruits it brought to the monkey troop one by one.

Crunch crunch.

"It's you again!" The Old Turtle saw Liang Qu riding a big fish over, nostrils flaring. "The White Ape is dead, turned into a flood dragon and took a dump. You wouldn't still want to find a piece of high-grade flood dragon shit from me, would you? I'm not doing it. The previous Shou Worm blood cocoon won't be returned to you either."

"Business may fail, but goodwill remains. The Shou Worm blood cocoon was a gift. There's no reason to take it back."

The Old Turtle's eyes narrowed: "Then your Yi Wood Chang Qi—"

"Back then, even if the Old General just made a trip, for the sake of righteousness, I would have presented the Yi Wood Chang Qi with both hands today. But now,

"Pah! Let a turtle go to die for me? I heard from Tie Mu Shan that you told the Turtle King and Frog King to stand still

business!"

"But I didn't tell the old general to stand still."

"I only stood still because the Turtle King and Frog King stood still!"

"Hai Fangzhu made a move!"

The old general had nothing to say, let out a cold snort.

"Old general, don't panic. Today I brought you something good, I have no use for it, let's exchange." Liang Qu took out a thread of fine congealed blood from his fingertip.

Just in case.

First test the old general to see if it's poisonous.

Long Jun's essence blood is the size of a human eyeball; this drop is half the size of a mung bean, almost able to float in the air like suspended dust, yet firmly attracting the gaze of the old toad and the old general.

"Give it to me!"

The old general suddenly lunged with his claw.

Liang Qu used 【Water Travels a Thousand Miles】, vanished without a trace.

The old general flew into a rage: "Come back quickly! How do you want to exchange?"

Desire.

Liang Qu reappeared, hands clasped behind his back: "Frog Lord? How to exchange?"

"Three portions of top-grade medicine!" The old toad jumped up and down.

The old general already knew the old toad's abilities; though it pained him, he couldn't be bothered to argue, and simply agreed decisively: "Deal!"

Three portions of medicine fell, Liang Qu and the Frog Lord each took half.

After confirming the essence blood was in hand, the old general eagerly swallowed it into his belly, and a surge of urgency arose: "You brat, where did you get Long Jun's essence blood?"

"Refined from the dragon blood fruit of the dragonfolk."

"Nonsense! Could dragon blood fruit be this pure?"

"Otherwise?"

The old general froze.

Yeah.

Otherwise?

Since he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation, the old general scratched his head in frustration, nearly furious.

"Eat eat eat, what are you eating, all you know is to eat."

With a flick of his claw, a whirlwind blew away the monkey troop, rolling like a gourd on the ground, squealing wildly.

Liang Qu flicked his hand, similarly creating a clean breeze, catching the monkeys neatly, and said disdainfully: "How old a turtle are you, with such a bad temper?"

"I'm just a turtle, it's not your turn to teach me!" The old general snorted through his nose, focusing on refining.

The fat catfish gazed at the scattered fruits on the ground, lamenting sadly.

He patted the approaching monkey king's head for refuge, Liang Qu stared at the old general after consuming the essence blood.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"It's been days, I've missed you."

"You gave me essence blood with a problem?" The old general flew into a rage.

"I didn't tamper with it." Liang Qu raised both hands, "I swear to heaven, if I tampered with the essence blood, my cultivation will never advance an inch, I'll be an ox and horse for you, Old Yuan."

The old turtle was suspicious.

After waiting half a day and confirming nothing was wrong, Liang Qu turned around and withdrew from Peng Ze.

He arrived at Jianghuai.

Liang Qu divided a grain of dust-sized essence blood and swallowed it into his belly.

The Inside Inside Ze Ding showed no reaction.

At the same time, there was no essence.

This is unreasonable.

Does the dragon blood really have no essence?

Liang Qu narrowed his eyes; there must be some unknown method in between.

Using the essence of the marsh to this day, it's not that there have been no guesses; he doesn't believe Long Jun has a way to use this thing to know of its existence, and that answer is a hundred percent obtained by peeping at him.

Including when he first saw the dragon's body, the initial scoop had no dragon seed aura, and the essence blood only appeared then, revealing itself.

Does the furnace master some kind of conceptually contracting method?

Forcing the dragon blood out from his belly.

Liang Qu temporarily scooped, not wanting to become a dragonfolk, born as a human, he should exalt his own kind's faith, numbers great is the most awesome, or leave it all for E Ying to use.

He caught up with the Heposuo fleet, controlled the water traces, and quietly flipped aboard.

"Beep beep, beep beep, the king covers the ground tiger!"

A sound came from outside the window.

Long Eying was helpless.

She truly didn't know why Liang Qu always liked to communicate this way, like otter otter opening, or rather, otter otter opening was learned from Liang Qu.

Stepping barefoot on the goatskin rug to the window, she pulled the wooden bolt.

Splash.

The wind brushed past her face.

A fist flashed into her vision, blocking her view.

"The password!"

Long Eying felt an inexplicable shame, her mouth opening: "The pagoda suppresses the river demon———"

"Wrong, it's chicken stewed with mushrooms!"

Liang Qu grinned.

His wrist flipped, his palm spread open.

A bright red karma blood bead leaped out, utterly undisguised.

"Here, a gift!"