Chapter 1242: Lotus Terrace? What Lotus Terrace? (5k2, two-in-one)

Three rivers in the world produce true dragons, two dragon kings, one dragon lord.

Yellow Sand and E River produce dragon kings, Huai River produces true lords. With such a scale, the E River is naturally an important transport waterway in the Northern Court and a habitat for ten thousand creatures. The Flowing Gold Sea bred between Shuofang Terrace and Heyuan Prefecture, regardless of depth and breadth, can rank in the top three of the world's great lakes.

In mid-October, the weather was snowing, but it hadn't been cold enough for the great lake to freeze. Fishermen seized the time to go out on boats to catch fish and accumulate winter supplies. Fish at this time are especially good to sell.

Once the weather gets cold and the lake water starts to freeze, the fish will enter a semi-dormant state, reduce feeding, and no longer accumulate undigested filth in their stomachs. The fishy smell will be much lighter than in summer.

In addition, before the fish hibernate, they will eat a lot of food to accumulate fat, and the meat quality is especially delicious.

The water surface is wide, and the cold wind is biting.

More than ten fishing boats were in front, rippling water waves, following the middle-aged man at the head, sailing on the river in a mighty way.

Once the fish start to hibernate, they will selectively gather and inhabit. In this way, when looking for a place to cast a net, one person is crucial, that is, the experienced "Fish Head", just like the most experienced monkey king in the monkey group, relying on experience, can always lead the monkey group to find the forest with the sweetest fruits. The "Fish Head" can always lead the fishermen to find the "Fish Lying Place" with large fish schools.

"Hey, did you hear? We are going to fight the Great Shun again."

"Heard, why haven't I heard? The masters in the town have moved away, leaving two old gatekeepers, like migratory birds. Migratory birds fly away and it's winter, masters move and it's fighting."

"If it weren't for this, would everyone be in such a hurry to come out? If we really fight, there will be inspections everywhere we go. If it's serious, they will seal the river, and if they come, they will be thrown into prison. Where can we catch fish? The superiors don't care about life or death."

"Hey—you say it's fine, no disaster, no nothing, why go to provoke the Great Shun? What are you doing this time?"

"Oh, it seems to be burying spies in the Southern Frontier? Want to make the Great Shun and the Southern Frontier fight?"

"Stealing chicken won't lose rice! If you have the energy to run so far, can't you deal with that fish demon near the village entrance?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Another person rowed the boat up to intervene, "Didn't the village elder say the day before yesterday that it was dirty water splashed on us by the Great Shun people, can't believe it! It's all fake."

The rest of the people smiled and didn't pay attention, their palms inserted in their sleeves.

"Shh!"

The Fish Head raised his hand to stop.

The fishing boats behind stopped one after another, gathered together, the people who spoke separated, spread out and shouted to ask if they wanted to cast a net, and the fast ones next to them had already spread the fishing nets.

"Don't cast the net." The Fish Head's eyes were vigilant, staring at the water surface, confirming the ripples, and was shocked. "Surround the boats, quickly surround the boats!"

Sternly drinking, the fishermen were panicked, and they threw the ropes from the bow to the opposite boat, pulling each other, and more than ten fishing boats turned their bows and quickly gathered into a circle.

"Is there a water monster?"

"Don't talk, the big fish is coming!"

The trembling of the water surface became more and more intense, almost splashing water droplets.

The fishermen lay on the belly of the boat, feeling the vibration through the wooden boards, they were panicked, shivering, and exposed half their heads to look at the water surface.

At the intersection of water and sky, it was sparkling.

"What fish? So many fish!"

"Shut up, don't move! Don't talk!"

*Boom! *

Something scraped rapidly underwater, and the surging water waves lifted the fishing boat. The fishermen grabbed the boat boards on both sides in panic, trembling all over, kowtowing constantly, praying to the Eternal Heaven for protection.

The river water was biting cold. Not to mention letting the water beast eat it, even if it accidentally fell into the river water, it would be life-threatening if it didn't climb up quickly!

The "Fish Head" endured the fear, explored more vision, looked at the water surface under the boat, and leaned back in horror, almost falling into the water.

The daylight illuminated the dense shadows in the waves. They crossed each other, rose and fell, violently tore open the water flow, and left white air streams.

The fish school swam extremely fast, and the "Fish Head" could only see gray afterimages, but the number was very large, so many that it was terrifying. Under the fleet was a stretch of endless fish sea, he had never seen so many water beasts at once!

They were surrounded!

As long as a big fish flicked its tail, their group would die without a burial place!

Ten thousand river dolphins scraped across the water area like a hurricane.

Round Head led the charge, and the invisible domain wrapped the entire river dolphin group, and the monsters along the way bowed their heads.

Liang Qu had five great generals at the beginning.

Fat fish, "Cannot move", Fist, A-Wei, Round Head, later Mirage Insect turned into Mirage Dragon, jumped into the six great generals, and later Dragon Xian joined, but could not rank among them.

If you talk about who is the most powerful among them.

It is not the fat fish, a great demon whose realm is far ahead, nor the little lip dragon that relies on the ancestors' shade, has been nurtured for several years, and can spray nine great demon fog beasts in one breath, nor is it the fist with hard shell and sharp pincers, or A-Wei who is elusive, but Round Head, who is not showing his mountains and water and is dedicated to raising spiritual fish!

Round Head became a great demon, further strengthening his dominance, and wantonly incorporated the wild river dolphins in the Huai River, expanding into a river dolphin army of ten thousand. Under him, there are dozens of demon beasts. In terms of strength range, the six great generals are unmatched!

And except for the ones raised by the Imperial Court, wild ones cannot form such a huge scale.

No other reason.

Every river dolphin group has its own fixed habitat and needs to obtain food. If the scale is too large, catching fish every day requires walking a very long distance.

Just like the settlements between the hills and countryside, the settlement scale is too large, and the farmers living in the core of the middle have to walk several miles to their own vegetable fields every day, which is tiring, but the benefits of living together are not necessarily many.

Unless it is artificially raised and fed to solve the food problem, and then de-production cultivation, otherwise wild river dolphins are at most great monsters, two or three hundred, but the 【Vortex Escape Path】 of the Huai Lord successfully solved this pain point.

With an order, each scattered group dived into the waterway and gathered within a quarter of an hour.

Among them.

The demon beast-level river dolphins were all controlled by Liang Qu, and there were many great monster-level ones sporadically. According to the proportion, they were divided into small leaders, forming thirty-six vertical columns.

*Splash. *

Round Head raised its fish fins.

The mighty river dolphin army was forbidden.

Round Head looked to one side, the left fin scar head that followed earliest flicked its tail and stepped forward, spreading the map. Confirming the range of the group, Round Head waved its fins again, and the vertical column captains lined up, waiting for the military order.

Round Head pointed to the map, pointing to the fourth and eleventh river dolphins.

"With the 4th column, 11th column, plus two independent columns, strengthen the E River defense line; 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th five columns, plus 6th column 17th division, surround and fight the Shuofang Terrace supplies, cut off the grain; 10th column plus 1 division, on the Heishan line, block the Northern Court grain transport ship;

12th column plus 12 independent divisions, surround the left auxiliary city of Shuofang Terrace; 5th column, 6th column two divisions, monitor the Royal Court; 1st column as the general reserve, do you understand? Scar head, you repeat it."

*Splash, splash. *

Ten thousand river dolphins, right fins neatly topped their foreheads, neatly and uniformly, received the order, and scattered, like a water beast net, wrapping all the ships on the river.

Round Head personally led the 1st column, rushed to the front line, and was determined.

Under the God's command, the fat fish is greedy and gluttonous, treacherous and oily; the little lip dragon is glib and has no ambition; the fist is parrot-like and not good at words; "Cannot move" is lazy and idle, twilight; A-Wei is far away in the Southern Frontier, greedy for the beauty of insects.

But Round Head never felt that he needed to fight for anything.

No matter how high or low the realm is, it is serving the God. Can you be willful if you have strength?

From ordinary beast to monster, from monster to demon, from demon to great demon, how high is high?

To forge iron, you must be hard yourself. A group of water beasts, the ideological awareness needs to be improved!

Start with the merchant ships in front!

On the banks of the E River, ice edges collided.

Learn from mistakes, the Shuofang Terrace soldiers are also prepared, training water troops, feeding water beasts, these water beasts are shaped like fish, and the back has tiger patterns.

River cod!

Commonly known as mountain fish!

The Great Shun feeds river dolphins, the Great Qian feeds golden-horned sharks and silver-horned sharks, the Northern Court has the E River, and there was a complete Flowing Gold Sea in the past, so it is no exception. Feeding water beasts to ensure water safety is a national policy. Before the great battle of the Flowing Gold Sea, the water beasts of each other came and went, which was very lively.

River cod are not as united as river dolphins, mostly alone, winning in individual ferocity, and simple breeding.

On the wide river surface, river dolphins are deployed, fighting river cod!

Outside the army legion, special elites fat fish and old toad went upstream, crossed Shuofang Terrace, the climate not only did not continue to drop, but gradually warmed up.

The old toad looked around at the map, several red circles were prominently marked, no other reason, it was the Wu Sheng fief!

The Northern Court Wu Sheng came to Shuofang Terrace to support, naturally the home was empty, the door was wide open, a great opportunity for a sneak attack!

Long Qi?

Collect!

Treasure?

Collect!

It wants everything!

The old toad pulled the long whiskers, stood on the fish, and pointed north with the map in his hand: "Listen to this public's order, legless frog, go north! Charge!"

Wind and snow fluttered, Northern Court soldiers wore armor and held sharp weapons, surrounded a lotus terrace, protecting the monks of the Great Snow Mountain to carry out the layout.

The lotus terrace is wide in the middle, narrow in the middle, and flat at the bottom, shaped like an hourglass, as if a person kneeling and holding a tray.

Coincidentally, there is also a human face at the narrow mouth in the middle, biting something, spitting it out ferociously.

The leading Sunar rubbed the human face, watching with fear, suspecting that it was cast by a living person, and asked the monk: "Master, is this lotus terrace really useful?"

"Naturally useful, the Southern Frontier has the Black Cicada ritual, within tens of thousands of miles, danger will ring, ours in the Great Snow Mountain is not so sensitive, but it wins in a wider range and lower consumption."

The monk took out a skull, placed it in the center of the lotus terrace, and an invisible ripple spread out. The lotus terraces every three thousand miles resonated.

"Okay, next, any Perfected Form or even Hunting Tiger-level expert breakthrough will be warned, branded, the general remembers to distribute the pass order, protect the lotus terrace, and it must not be damaged by more than 60%—"

*Splash. *

Before the words fell.

The waves surged, spread to the shore, and flooded the grass.

The monk and the soldiers turned their heads together, only to see the water waves surging in the distance, half a black tail flicking, as if some giant object was swimming in the water.

Sunar pointed to the water waves, dumbfounded: "Master, this, just now—"

Such a huge black fish, its strength is definitely not bad.

Doesn't the lotus terrace react?

The monk looked at the lotus terrace, full of confidence.

"No problem! The world is big, there are all kinds of wonders, there are not no weak and huge things in the world, just like the big whale in the East China Sea, the ray in the water. The lotus terrace has no reaction, the one that just passed by is nothing more than a big fish in the water, don't pay attention to it, if it is really an enemy beast, the strength is at most a great monster, and it still can't make waves."

Sunar was confused, and finally didn't say much, respectfully saluted: "Master's words are reasonable, thank you Master!

Quick, send the Master back, and the rest guard the lotus terrace!"

"Obey!"

The "giant mouth" surrounding Shuofang Terrace was already open, swallowing wantonly.

River dolphins are distributed in the middle reaches of the E River and several major tributaries, carrying out all-round strikes.

Fat fish and old toad attacked, bypassed, and attacked high-value items.

In the spiritual link, the fat fish was riding alone, deep into the hinterland, the river dolphins reported good news, constantly capturing supplies.

However, where do gamblers always lose, where do children cry every day, the water beasts in the Northern Court are not vegetarian, river cod are also fierce, cooperating with ships on the river, often there are situations where they can't beat.

The number of river dolphins is ultimately not much, just the ones detected, the river cod dispatched by the Northern Court, a full seven great monsters led the team, twelve thousand elites!

In times of danger, urgently dispatch nearby river dolphins to support?

No.

Liang Qu directly 【Spirit Descent】!

The river water was biting cold, river dolphins and river cod killed each other, surging.

River cod charged with floods, and there were Northern Court soldiers on the ship firing ship crossbows. The leading river dolphin demon beast retreated steadily, splashing fish blood. Just as the leading river cod was about to take advantage of the victory, hit the opposite river dolphin to death, and tear the meat.

The leading river dolphin's momentum suddenly changed, becoming unfathomable. In front of everyone, it raised its right fin, easily blocked the river cod's charge, and pressed the river cod's head!

The river cod's head hurt, bit in pain, but was firmly pinched by a fin.

The warship on the water saw that the situation was not good, True Gang attached to the ship crossbow, and shot out.

*Splash! *

The river dolphin raised its left fin and easily held the zhang-long crossbow.

*Boom! *

The big spear exploded, a vacuum, the general on the ship cheered, cursed the beast is ultimately a beast, don't know that the ship crossbow will explode, that is the real power!

Didn't expect it didn't last long.

The water flow rolled back, and the white bubbles gradually floated and dissipated.

The river cod turned its white belly and sank to the bottom of the river.

The leading demon beast river dolphin actually swam out unscathed!

"How is it possible?"

The captain was shocked.

The situation is not right, it is too late to retreat.

The leading river dolphin long-whistled, led the clan dolphins to launch a dive, Gang wind reached a hundred zhang, under the confrontation, the protective True Gang of the whole big ship was fragmented, exploding into fragments all over the river!

This side finished fighting the fire, the other side reported danger again, Liang Qu left the river dolphins to collect supplies.

【Spirit Descent】!

【Spirit Descent】!

Still 【Spirit Descent】!

Don't need river dolphins to be how powerful, don't need them to evolve.

Just keep swimming, keep looking.

Even if the luck is not good, encounter Perfected Form, then summon A-Wei again, jump out from the Marsh Kingdom!

One box after another was fished out of the water, continuously extracted from the Northern Court, and filled into Heyuan Prefecture.

Good sheepskin, mutton, ore—

The water beast expedition just happened, the news and results have not yet fermented, the Northern Court simply did not realize the seriousness of the matter.

Liang Qu withdrew his attention.

The delegation before him was spitting with rage, and E Qirui swore vehemently, accusing the Northern Court of going back on their word. He claimed they had agreed that if he brought a hundred strands of Long Qi to defect, he would be treated with the status of a "Kheshig," but he never expected the hundred strands of Long Qi to be embezzled, and that they would even attempt to silence him. Fortunately, he had gu-insects for eavesdropping, which prevented the Northern Court from getting their way, leading him to defect to Great Shun instead.

"Slander, who talked to you? Who promised you? What evidence?"

"Your Northern Court has wolfish ambitions, provoking the peace between our Great Shun and the Southern Frontier. If you can't give a reasonable compensation, don't blame our Great Shun for sending troops! Expedition to the Northern Court!" E Qirui said "my Great Shun" one by one, and it seemed that he integrated very well.

"No evidence, empty words, no compensation! If you send troops, our Northern Court's curved knives have not been unfavorable!" The envoy pulled out his saber, the knife light flashed, and cut off the corner of the table.

The envoy secretly observed Liang Qu, the Great Shun Prince Huai closed his eyes and rested, confirmed no reaction, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He Ningyuan was dragging according to the plan, and the Northern Court was also pushing and pulling, firmly not carrying the pot.

Everyone was running toward their own goals.

No one noticed Liang Qu had just left.

Midnight.

Retreat.

"Just like this? Nothing else?"

After listening to the delegation's messenger coming back to report the negotiation content, Batu Mengke asked three times, confused, and turned over the record manual.

The envoy was stunned: "Yes, what was said in the conversation is all listed in the book, General, is there anything wrong?"

"Nothing, you go down."

The horse-faced mastiff raised its head.

Shuofang Terrace Great General Batu Mengke tapped the table with his index finger.

*Tuk, tuk, tuk—*

"Come! Pass the order, let the Eight Beasts patrol diligently! Where is Sunar? Call him over."

The next day, the third day, the fourth day, it was still the same, the negotiation made no progress, just pulling skin, only the news of merchant ships sinking frequently came from the river.

After that, it was the fifth day, the sixth day—

"Want to use an excuse to drag it?" 【124

Batu Mengke speculated.

He was not unhappy; on the contrary, with the Great Hunting Assembly imminent and the Southern Frontier once again mired in internal chaos and unable to provide a distraction, the Northern Court's desire for internal war was extremely low. If they could block Great Shun's offensive with low intensity and alleviate this wave of attacks, it would undoubtedly be a good thing.

But—

Why would Great Shun want to drag this out?

One drum beat raises the spirit, the second exhausts it, and the third drains it.

For Great Shun, having resolved the Southern Frontier and secured their territory, they should have used the pretext to immediately turn their spears around and finish the campaign in one battle.

They, the Northern Court, were the side that needed to delay and exhaust the opponent's combat morale.

He did not understand.

Could He Ningyuan be a fool? No, He Ningyuan was absolutely not. How many years had the two sides been at war? Or perhaps it was the consistently aggressive Prince Huai, who, having suffered a setback in the Southern Frontier, realized that life is fleeting and that the Heavenly Dragon would likewise encounter some setback, causing him to become conservative?

Confusion shrouded the sky like dark clouds.

"What, not a single victory?"

The world spun, and his head swam with dizziness.

A torrential downpour began under the shrouding dark clouds. Batu Mengke's vision went black as he flipped through the battle reports, barely able to breathe smoothly.

Mastiffs paced around him.

The generals below were as silent as cicadas in winter.

"Their Great Shun's river porpoises are demon beasts, and our Northern Court's river cod are also demon beasts. Who can tell me how the entire army could be wiped out?!"

Batu Mengke's anger burned, and the battle report in his hand shattered into fly ash. He swept the entire desktop of registers off, still carrying a powerful gale that sent the generals rolling like gourds on the ground.

Seven days.

Seven whole days!

In every battle on the water, there was not a single victory!

Countless warships were damaged, and merchant ships were unwilling to travel!

When had the two countries ever fought on the water like this?

"Someone tell me, has Great Shun's technology for cultivating river porpoises advanced by leaps and bounds? Can great spirit monsters rival demon beasts, and demon beasts rival great demons?"

No one could answer; there were only scouts reporting news.

"Grand General, Grand General, it's bad! The treasure vault of Taichi City of the Iron Spine King has been stolen!

Two strands of Long Qi are missing, and five portions of great medicine have vanished without a trace! The remaining elixirs—"

The inner river of Heyuan Prefecture.

A-Fei shook its head and wagged its tail, spitting out the treasure chest.

Long Binglin tallied the supplies: "Two strands of Long Qi, four portions of great medicine, elixirs—A-Fei, is everything here?

"

A-Fei nodded vigorously.

Confirmed.

Water columns dripped from the corner of the box.

The Great Shun soldiers were busy to the point of exhaustion, moving supplies crate by crate. He Ningyuan was overjoyed, rubbing his palms together as he looked at the old toad, who was standing with arms crossed and posing proudly. A doubt arose in his heart: "Elder Frog, I heard that the Northern Court Grand General set up a Lotus Terrace defense line stretching hundreds of thousands of miles. Any Perfected Form who doesn't have a token on them cannot pass without being detected, or even marked. How did you bypass it—"

"Ha?" The old toad scratched its butt. "Lotus Terrace? What Lotus Terrace? This Duke doesn't know about it, didn't see it. It's all deceptive stuff; you were bluffed by the Northern Court people!"