Chapter 1340

"Hahaha, oh, Ah Zhuang, oh, Ah Juan—you jump, I jump too, wuwuwu, so moving."

Her toes pinched the edge of the embroidered shoe, gently swaying, the embroidered shoe tapping up and down against her heel. Li Xianghan propped her calves on the bed, lying down reading, humming a tune, moved by the tear-jerking love story in the book, she unconsciously recited aloud.

On the vermilion table, the gray mouse tore two sheets of paper, overlapped them to thicken, folded into a paper boat, pressing hard on the stern with its own force to keep balance, the yellow mouse stood at the bow, arms spread, the white mouse embraced the yellow mouse's waist, facing the outside breeze through the window.

"Oh~~"

《Jianghai Louchuan Hao》

The popular love shadow-play of Dashun not only ran rampant in Dashun, but storybooks also spread to Nanjiang and Beiting; having been performed for years, its popularity has not waned.

It mainly tells of a poor laborer, Ah Zhuang, who happened to win a ticket to the North Sea, boarding the greatest tower ship of the era, the Jianghai Louchuan Hao, built by the Qingjiang Shipyard of Pingyang Prefecture, to tour the vast North Sea, where he met the rich young miss, Ah Juan.

The two developed feelings, breaking secular taboos.

Unexpectedly, at this moment—the story's climax—the Louchuan Hao mistakenly entered the North Sea Yu Qilin's territory, angering the ruler; the Yu Qilin ordered an attack, causing the ship to be destroyed and people to die. Finally, in the freezing cold, relying on a plank Ah Zhuang grabbed before his death, Ah Juan drifted ashore and survived.

"The Yu Qilin really damn bad."

"That damned Liang Qu, usually inhuman, rotten to the core—such a person could actually come up with such a tragically beautiful story; surely he plagiarized it from somewhere? Maybe relying on his prince's status, he oppresses loyal officials, steals storybooks, and acts tyrannically in his fief."

"When will I also encounter such love."

A string of three thoughts flashed, Li Xianghan's eye sockets reddened, she reached for her handkerchief.

Suddenly.

Her body jerked violently, her buttocks half-sliding down the smooth silk bedsheet; the embroidered shoe hooked on her foot slammed to the ground with a sound.

The gray mouse serving as stern counterweight on the table lost its grip, the paper boat tipped forward, the yellow and white mice rolled into a ball, truly jumping off the table.

"What's the commotion." Li Xianghan stared blankly, propped herself up on the bed to sit again, before she could figure out the situation, the whole room shook again, nearly throwing her off the bed.

An earthquake?

But why wave after wave?

Li Xianghan widened her eyes, sat at the bed edge to find her shoes, then immediately heard her grandmother shout outside.

"Xianghan, Xianghan! Are you cultivating inside? If not cultivating, hurry pack your things."

"What's the matter, Grandma?" Li Xianghan fumbled to put on shoes and open the door.

"No time to explain, hurry pack, follow me, the Yuan King of Jianghai leads a group of Donghai Yao Kings, they've come over, just crossed our place, straight to the Tusi Valley."

Li Xianghan: "?"

Li Yilin called to the mice: "Little Huang, Little Bai, why are you lying on the ground? Hurry help Xianghan pack."

The mice on the ground heard the command, jumped up violently, hopping left and right, quickly packed the gu worms, climbed onto Li Xianghan's shoulders, and followed running out; inside the house, a golden light flashed, and Awei also coiled around Li Xianghan's wrist.

In a moment, Qinggu Valley surged, crowds of thousands flowed, along the plank road into shelters, like human serpents coiling around Dashan, noisy and bustling.

In this situation, Li Xianghan inexplicably felt familiar, as if she had experienced this before, but her mind remained in chaos: "Grandma, what exactly is happening? How did they come attack? What about the Nine Villages? No resistance?"

"I'm not clear on the specifics either, the situation is very complicated." Li Yilin sighed, then lowered her voice, "Listening to the Laozu Sect say it's because the new Tusi let the black water poison obstruct Dashun's water control plan be exposed."

"!" Li Xianghan's heart skipped a beat.

"The bribed Yao King went to Jianghai, who would have thought one died."

"?" Li Xianghan's heart clenched.

"Afterwards many Yao Kings, in the Southeast Sea had some kind of realization, somehow understood the truth, the Jianghai Yuan King took the lead, all came to Nanjiang to seek explanation."

"!." Li Xianghan tried to calm herself, probing, "Many is————how many?"

"Looks like over a dozen, more than our Qinggu Valley's Laozu Sect combined, the new Tusi this time is probably finished, hasn't even been two years since taking office."

"!!!"

Bai Guang flashed.

Boom—

Thunderbolt from clear sky, leaden clouds instantly covered, water columns dripped from banana leaves.

Li Xianghan shuddered.

"Xianghan, why do you look so nervous? Sweating so much?"

"Ah?" Li Xianghan wiped her forehead, "Is this sweat? Haha, I thought it was rain."

Li Yilin felt pity, thinking it was from last time seeing the Bai Yuan and Jiao Long fight, locking eyes with the Bai Yuan, leaving Li Xianghan psychological trauma.

Heard that at the time many people directly lost control; she didn't dare ask back then, only heard that Li Xianghan washed her pants after returning. For a moment, Li Yilin's maternal instincts surged; she embraced Li Xianghan, pulled her into her arms to rub her head: "My poor child, don't be afraid. Grandma teaches you: one demon coming is fierce—give your all, one side must die; a group of demons coming is fine—they're just a rabble, coming with excuses to seek benefits, all pointing at Tusi Valley; they won't affect us. This time is just to be safe; no major incident will happen."

The sound of rain drowned out the noise; the noisy crowd gradually quieted, and the stillness was permeated with panic.

Branching lightning tore apart the clouds.

The earth shook again, rainwater on banana leaves shook off, gathered into a waterfall pouring down, moment, the water curtain split into droplets, soon resumed as water columns.

Following the crowd slowly forward, Li Xianghan's heart gradually drifted out a faded pale white hollow little person, clutching cheeks, wildly twisting and swaying "Ah!!!! Liezulie Sect, please don't find me!!!! All this is Huaiwang's coercion, this is all Huaiwang's plot! Please Heaven, distinguish loyalty and treachery!"

"Boom———"

Thunder burst from the mountains with an earth-shaking roar; the ground trembled like an earthquake, huge dust clouds billowed up, the earth cracked and sank, and groundwater gushed out.

The Frog King waved the dark red anchor, charging out of brown dust mist, impenetrable.

The Crow King swung his ten feet, each strike, the canyon instantly formed.

The Sword King violently whipped its tail, silver light crisscrossing.

The Haiya King casually released two divine powers in the corner, long sighs.

Twelve Yao Kings, under Bai Yuan's shout, each displayed divine powers, wherever huge buildings, none escaped ruin into rubble. Bai Zu and Shi Fang dared not face them head-on, only defended edges against some attacks, to minimize damage in Tusi Valley as much as possible.

The Yao Kings violently burst in, rampaging wildly.

Wherever the most stones in the river were, that's where they struck; no river? Then they'd beat one into existence.

Bai Yuan mixed in the ranks, also cursing and shouting: "Nanjiang Tusi, don't hide inside silently; I know you're in there. You have the ability to frame us, have the ability to come out."

"Yuan King, don't go too far!" Bai Zu blocked the Frog King's anchor, eyes blood-red, "The matter of you harming Pandong, this debt we haven't settled with you! You actually came to us first?"

"Who let Pandong stir up trouble in my closed-door cultivation spot?" Bai Yuan stretched his neck. "I was breaking through to Yao King; Pandong came out to block the road. Cutting off a person's livelihood is like killing their parents; blocking a person's path is an even greater grudge—ten generations' worth. Now he says I'm excessive? There's even more excessive! Tusi not coming out, right?"

Tusi! I knew you were useless, your realm is fake, the xuanbing in your hand is softer than an eighty-year-old man's toy, you're a wimp, soft-boned, dogtail grass, stinking gourd, you're sticking a big scallion up your pig's nose pretending to be an elephant!

Your wife eloped with the groom, your son curses you as undying, your daughter is bullied at school, your parents say you're an unfilial son, hurry up and wash your neck clean, just wait.

Brothers, avenge the Little Horse King! Smash, smash, smash, kill, kill, kill, Little Horse King, no fight no acquaintance, I'm your half-brother, you died so miserably! Today, elder brother avenges you!

"This this this————" Tusi's face turned crimson, eyes spitting fire, "Shameless beast, shameless beast! Vulgar! Vulgar!"

The ministers and elders gathered around: "Tusi, what to do, the great ones don't want to come."

"Where is Yingye? Still not caught?"

"The dragon entered the sea, basically can't be found, Tusi."

Tusi staggered.

No one supported, no one guarded, such a vast southern border, let alone eight stockades, even his own stockade is unwilling.

"Open the treasury, hurry open the treasury! Quick!"

"Ah, come die!"

Bai Yuan opened his five fingers, probed beneath, five fingers hollowly hooked, as if hooking the great dragon's spine, arms shook, heaved upward with force, in an instant, the tributaries of the Cangjiang shook heaven and moved earth, like a green dragon raising its head, booming upright.

Bai Mao and the ten directions' faces turned horrified, furious: "Ape King!"

Heavenly light shone, ripples surged, as if river water flowed across, flowing on the mountain.

"Turtle grandson, what are you calling your grandfather for?"

Bai Yuan responded with his mouth, motion uninterrupted, he seized the river dragon, lifted it overhead, soles stepped down, took several steps, hands front and back lifted a hundred li tributary, roared to heaven, muscles bulged, like delivering a siege hammer, twisted waist and stepped, the entire tributary, booming sent forth!

The dragon's head tore the air, exploding into conical shockwaves.

The long river flew across the sky.

The flying flow plunged straight down three thousand zhang, as if the Milky Way fell from the nine heavens!

Bai Mao and the ten directions' pupils dilated, trying to block, but they all lacked water control ability.

The highest good is like water.

The swinging blade gang chopped down, splitting the river dragon in two, one great dragon became two.

The Heavenly Gang giant reached out to block, the river water scattered, fell to ground, heaven shook and earth moved, water dragon turned serpent, surged back, still rushing toward the valley's interior.

The vast flood spread through the forest, broke trees, countless beasts panicked and fled, forming a beast tide.

The beast tide surged ahead, the flood tide chased behind.

The ground was in utter disarray.

"Bai Mao! You're good at blocking, right! Did you also go pull wild dung?"

Bai Mao's big hand grabbed, Bai Mao's hairs stood on end, panicked dodge.

Tusi's eyes nearly split.

"Beast, beast ah!"

Seeing the obstruction couldn't be stopped, Bai Mao rolled and ran out, turned back and roared: "Ape King, what exactly do you want?"

"I want nothing, just Tusi's life! Let him————" Bai Yuan inhaled, roared to the heavens, "Get out!!!!"

The sound wave exploded, Bai Mao and the ten directions' ears buzzed.

Bai Mao's face turned deathly pale.

Compared to several years ago, Bai Yuan's strength has increased again!

"The ruler's trouble lies in trusting people, trusting people leads to being controlled by people, Tusi is my southern border's lord, how can he apologize to the Jianghuai lord? Ape King, we and the Great Shu contend, involve the Eastern Sea kings, it's my virtue lacking, I apologize to all kings on Tusi's behalf.

Rest assured, today's matter will have an explanation, the instigator has been caught, unfortunately half a step slow, letting him escape, already wanted, though he cannot pay with his life, but has other demands, speak freely, whatever can be agreed, I will agree to all."

Shouts came from the horizon.

An old man in black-blue robes stepped through the void, landed on the mountain peak, faced the thirteen demon kings one by one, waved his hand, several large wooden boxes fell out, rich medicinal qi spread out.

The Whale King immediately withdrew his hand, sensed something wrong.

This old man, very strong!

He is already the Eastern Sea hegemon, able to make it feel threatened————

"You old thing, who are you again?" Bai Yuan fearlessly raised his hand and pointed.

Without the old man answering, Bai Mao and the ten directions already gave the answer.

"Old Tusi?!"

The old man nodded: "Old man Xie Tingliao, Tusi is already a thing of the past, now he is just an ordinary great elder of the southern border, can be said to have a word or two."

"What use is Old Tusi? A fallen phoenix is worse than a chicken, a plucked bare-ass chicken." Bai Yuan's heart startled, regardless, stubborn: "I just want to cut the current Tusi's head, if you dare block, my brothers won't let you off!"

All demon kings leaned in together.

"Bold." Bai Mao shouted, "How dare you disrespect Old Tusi!"

"Presumptuous, do you have the right to speak?"

Bai Yuan shouted loudly.

Seeing the medicinal herbs in the box, the Whale King knew today's purpose was achieved, hurried out to play the white face, stopped Bai Yuan: "Ape King, spare where you can, demon death cannot be reborn, the living should live for the dead, we must consider the Great Horse King."

"Yes! Ape King!"

The Wu King and Horned Shark King again grabbed Bai Yuan.

"You? You just compromised like this? Were you bribed by the medicinal herbs?" Bai Yuan stared wide-eyed, full of shock, "Let go! I want to avenge the Little Horse King! That's a living beast life, can it be measured by the Great Creation Grand Medicinal? Is my path measurable by the Great Creation Grand Medicinal?"

Among the demon kings, the Little Horse King twitched the corner of his mouth, not knowing if he truly thought he died in Jianghu at Old Tusi's hand.

Bai Yuan was firmly held by the demon kings, unable to break free.

Seeing the opportunity already… the Whale King stepped forward to salute: "Old Tusi, my Bai Yuan brother is hot-tempered, this time truly————ah————"

The Great Horse King also came to comfort Bai Yuan, Bai Yuan had just been glaring angrily at Old Tusi.

White face and red face, such a simple trick, Old Tusi couldn't fail to see: "This matter is my southern border's fault, compensating the Great Horse King, should be, here we have ten portions of medium-grade Creation Grand Medicinal, one hundred portions of grand medicinal————"

"What, all together only ten portions? Let the South Sea and North Sea demon kings see and think we can't afford it! Ten portions per beast! Ten portions per beast! And still the great medicine? Give it to me, take it, take it!" Bai Yuan exploded again, breaking free from his bonds in one grab, stepping forward and kicking the medicine chest over with one foot, "Brothers, this old thing isn't sincere at all, just sending off beggars?"

He ruined my demon king corps' prestige, blocked my path, frightened Hai Fangzhu, caused the Little Horse King's death, and turned the North Water King Palace and Horse Clan lands into ruins——

So many things, cannot be allowed! Take revenge and settle grudges! Chop off the heads of whatever that Ying Ye and the Tusi are————"

"Tusi, Xie Daguan has passed away!"

"I saw it!"

In the rear of the Tusi Valley, Tusi's face lit up with joy.

He no longer cared how much prestige this act would bring the old Tusi.

Today, the Tusi position cannot be held; as long as someone comes to deal with this mess, just don't let him become a sinner of the South.

Dashun and Beiting both noticed the collision of stones in the river.

This is the prolonged tug-of-war and negotiation.

"Unbind me! Those who can be bought by precious medicine are not my brothers!"

"Great Horse King! The Little Horse King followed you, truly blind!"

"Kill! Chop heads! Chop heads! Chop heads!"

Whenever dissatisfied, Bai Yuan would break free from his bonds, shouting about chopping heads to wipe his butt.

Xie Tingliao sighed, needle-like threats spreading out, that aura of authority growing stronger.

"What you all actually want is too much: ten portions of superior fortune, twenty portions of medium, one hundred portions of inferior—that's already all I can give; even so you still demand three days' extension, any more and rather than compensation leading to disintegration, it's better today that fish die and nets break."

"Break it!" Bai Yuan leapt out, "Chirping and squawking, we won't waste words with him"

"Good!" Seeing no more could be obtained, threats increasing, the Whale King readily agreed, "Then three days from now."

"Whale King!" Bai Yuan glared wide-eyed, "You bastard, you actually traded brothers' lives for precious medicine to eat? What do you regard life as?

Pah, I look down on you!"

"Ape King!" the Great Horse King wept, "Beasts die and cannot be revived, our third brother just broke through, if the second brother is in heaven's spirit."

"Yes." the Little Horse King followed up, "I thought breaking through to demon king would let me share joy with second brother, who knew it would——would——be yin and yang separated."

"Brother, my brother, could it be that your death has exchanged for————"

For a moment, Bai Yuan seemed to have all his essence and spirit drained, staggering and falling headfirst.

"Ape King! Ape King!"

The demon kings all shouted.

The Crow King went up to test his breath, shocked: "Bad, the Ape King grieved too much, fainted dead away!"

This monkey——

The Whale King felt he couldn't keep up with Bai Yuan's thoughts and emotions, several times failing to catch on), hurried forward to show concern, then told the old Tusi that in three days they would come for the great medicine, the demon kings hoisting Bai Yuan and drifting downstream.

Seeing the demon kings disappear, the old Tusi looked up to the sky.

"Ah——"

All the way leaving Fu Cangjiang, sworn to reach the South Sea.

Bai Yuan flipped over and woke in shock: "Where is this, my brothers, brothers!"

"Ape King, everything is settled, we can get it in three days." Wu Wang delighted.

"Settled?" Bai Yuan looked at the Whale King.

The Whale King nodded: "Settled."

Bai Yuan immediately leapt up, swimming away, the demon kings surprised: "Ape King, where are you going? Things arrive in three days, still coming back to divide the precious medicine?" "Of course I'm coming back, I'll send word!"

Send word?

Send to whom?

Bai Yuan flickered, a wisp of smoke vanishing from sight. The demon kings bewildered, hurriedly observed Bai Yuan's river stones, discovering he had gone straight north all the way to Yan Shahe, overlapping with Huai Wang's river stones, then immediately, Huai Wang's river stones left Yan Shahe, heading straight for the capital.

"This——" the Whale King's pupils trembled, suddenly understanding what Bai Yuan had gone back to do.

Less than half an hour.

Several river stones, simultaneously departing from the capital, South Zhili, and the border passes, moving in unison southward!