Chapter 1503

"This generation of the southern border has six holy maidens, the youngest twenty-four, the oldest thirty-nine, and among them the most outstanding is Li Xianghan, who is thirty-three this year, the only one who has reached the Perfected Form Realm—My husband likes mature and plump women, so the previous generation of holy maidens would do, but most of the previous generation are already married—"

"Madam, stop testing me—I play pure love, normally that's just for fun."

Liang Qu released true Gang, lightly brushing past.

"Boom—"

The huge stone was cut at the waist, half sank into the mud, wobbled and rolled down the cliff.

The cross-section was smooth, Liang Qu stood with arms crossed, gazing at the cross-section reflecting his face, his forefinger paused.

"Whether you shiver twice or not, anyway you don't lack that bit, exchanging it for two position fruits, I think it's worth it, already the smallest cost among all costs." Long Eying said seriously, "I wasn't testing you, you can use the Ear Identification Method

to listen.

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Liang Qu sighed, he turned around, stared at Eying, stepped forward two steps.

"What are you doing————Ugh! Snivel————Hmm~~~"

Long Whale Absorbs Water!

Fragrance assailed the nose, Long Eying's cheeks flew red, mouth dry and tongue parched, soon she went limp and leaned, lying in his embrace panting heavily, she curled her pink tongue, murmuring softly: "Even if I don't become a consort, I have no problem—"

"I'm almost about to reach the realm of calamity dragon, how could it be so easy to get a holy maiden pregnant, by then I'm afraid I'd have to shiver two hundred thousand times, you just lie by the window and listen?"

Long Eying: "————"

"After two hundred thousand times with no success, then you have to do another two hundred thousand times, you listen another two hundred thousand times. Finally hitting the target with difficulty, after waiting ten years, I go out, you ask where I'm going, I say I haven't been to the southern border for years, I need to check on my child."

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"You feel stifled, saying why must I go, clearly you could let the holy maiden bring the child over, fine, the holy maiden came over, two children ran up and hugged me, saying Daddy, who is this woman beside you? I say no relation, wrong, I'm not that heartless, I should say this is your little stepmother, your big mother."

—"

Long Eying's mind was empty, bitterness surged up, she only felt her head dizzy, neck sore, as if something was worn on her head. After a while, she grabbed Liang Qu's collar, reversed the Long Whale Absorbs Water, shifted to a comfortable position lying down.

Never mind, just give up.

Liang Qu embraced Eying, held tight, re-examined the clues on the rock interface: "Besides, those few holy maidens, all misshapen melons and cracked dates. If Li Xianghan and them really came, the tusi would indeed need to compensate me two position fruits."

"Pfft————"

"Ah-choo."

Qinggu Valley, Li Xianghan rubbed her nose, looked around, brows tightly furrowed.

"Strange, this holy maiden, a grand master of the Tangtang Sect, how could I sneeze? Must be some villain doing evil, speaking ill of me. Damn it, why hasn't my innate gu returned yet! Where did it go? Huaiwang speaks nonsense! Said five years, use it then throw it away, betraying trust and abandoning righteousness!"

Three old mice nodded repeatedly, jumped out, hands on hips, loudly cursing, righteous indignation filling their chests.

"What should we do?" Long Eying worried, "You thought all day in the cave and still couldn't think of a way."

Liang Qu wondered: "How do you know I was thinking all day in the cave?"

Long Eying rolled her eyes: "Just grab the Ba Snake and you'll be fine, is the Myriad Phenomena really different? Surely you encountered difficulty, thought half a day with no solution, hid inside to delay time."

Liang Qu touched his own neck.

"Look at you, touching your neck again, whenever you think of an excuse you touch your neck, scratch your temple."

Liang Qu laughed loudly.

Long Eying didn't press further, gazed at the rock cross-section.

On the cross-section was a simple sketch: at the top a large ball, like a child's drawing of the sun hanging high in the sky. Below was a curved long line, like a river. To the left of the river was a small insect, to the right a "mountain" character, a crooked twisting line linking them together.

"What are you drawing?"

"I'm thinking of a new method. Madam still underestimates me, I never needed to shiver those two times, truly agreed, what's the difference with a courtesan? The things that stump me don't even exist."

Liang Qu's eyes gleamed, he stepped back two steps, raised his head to stare at his own diagram, "Empty words have no proof, Dragon King's down payment plus position fruit IOU, in between we can still centralize power over the southern border, just like that the old tusi still wants to use his own grandson to pull and drag me, turning state affairs into private matters to bind me.

Now it's become two position fruits, intending to exchange them is even more impossible.

Hoping the old tusi will come up with a solution is unrealistic, his ability is limited, he only does his Daoist rites in a snail shell, the solution must come from me.

I said all that, elevated the importance of the position fruits to me, should have shaken the old tusi's mind, letting the two position fruits go from unsellable goods back to sellable goods, the key to closing the deal now is to produce a new transaction plan.

What the tusi can think of is nothing more than letting me and the Da Shun side give actual compensation, I must figure out how, using current resources, to create new resources, new chips—

Long Eying stared blankly at Liang Qu.

Every time she sees Liang Qu like this, she always seems to lose strength, her whole body goes soft, wanting to lean on him.

Always exceeds expectations, always acts for others without regard for self—

"What is this?"

Long Eying's finger pointed at the "sun" on the cross-section.

"Whale Pearl!"

Liang Qu bared his teeth.

Accumulated enough, attributes matched, the faint hope of self-nurturing position fruit.

Everything's key is likewise the item in his hand most valuable, most opportunistic, wanting to break the deadlock must revolve around this half-step furnace great medicine!

Long Eying startled, gazed at the small insect below the sun, pondered a moment, then realized: "You want to use the Whale Pearl to help the southern border Dragon King self-nurture position fruit? Exchange with the middle position fruit?"

"The Dragon King with middle position fruit, exchanging for two small position fruits, indeed matches value—

"Terrible idea! Not to mention whether His Majesty agrees, this is originally just to let the positionless Dragon King occupy the Lu Cangjiang position, such conduct violates the original grand strategy.

Furthermore, the southern border fake dragon, at most seven-eight-nine rank, letting a flood dragon swipe it open with one claw, what qualification does it have to nurture position fruit with the Whale Pearl, taking it out will only be a bamboo basket drawing water!"

"It's not a fake dragon, this small insect is—"

"Thud."

Forefinger stepped down, shattering the rock.

"Flood Dragon!"

There was thunder from heaven.

Suddenly, there was no sound in my ears.

Long Eying slightly opened her mouth, her ears ringing nonstop, completely stunned.

The raging waves and terrifying surges swept over spirit and soul, constantly washing over, simply like a plaster slapped onto the body, then someone yanking it off—painful and cold.

"Jiao—dragon?"

"Yes, jiao dragon! And also—" Liang Qu pointed at the little insect, then pointed at the character for "mountain," "Yuan General! Under heaven, only these two fellows have matching attributes and sufficient accumulation! Possibly with the aid of a whale pearl, leap the Dragon Gate, self-nurture a position fruit! Maximize utilization."

Long Eying's pupils gradually dilated.

Liang Qu's eyes showed contemplation: "Yuan General was originally my alternative; now with internal and external circulation, the foundation has reached an extremely terrifying degree, jiao dragon need not be mentioned, likewise—"

"Can Lu Cangjiang support two dragon kings?"

"I don't know." Liang Qu shook his head.

Ejiang succeeded because Ejiang itself had abundant spiritual energy, plus it was padded twice with Tianxuan Dihuang renhe qi, and also benefited from heavenly tribulation enhancement.

Conversely, Shahe had just seen the birth of a dragon king, empty as it was, Lu Cangjiang's innate capacity was insufficient, making it difficult to support two dragon kings appearing simultaneously.

"Then what about the Nanjiang dragon king?"

Liang Qu turned his head: "Why still give Lu Cangjiang a dragon king?"

Long Eying opened and closed her mouth.

Liang Qu said: "Initially trading the dragon king, it was to take the dragon king as the standard price," in order to replace a minor position fruit, if the jiao dragon or Yuan General succeeded in self-nurturing, it would be a medium position fruit, one medium position fruit, how could it not be matched with two minor position fruits?

Medium position fruits differ from minor position fruits; without refinement, they can still exert efficacy—why then need the dragon king as an garnish? Lu Cangjiang's spiritual energy deficit is not permanent, merely a hundred or two hundred years, easily compensated with other treasures! Not to mention I avoided fratricidal conflict, the Ba Snake and Wanxiang guarding dilemma, the tusi would still have to thank me.

Of course, if two portions could be provided, that would be best; then later create a positionless fruit dragon king, because the nurturing subject differs, false dragons cannot match innate true spirits, but with the aid of position fruits, they can be used like arms and fingers, one against ten, still maintaining strategic direction!"

"Is that letting Yuan General come?" Long Eying asked excitedly.

"No." Liang Qu shook his head, "Old Yuan this old dragon turtle, I initially indeed listed it as an alternative, but now involving position fruits, he will absolutely not agree; he would not, for the sake of becoming a dragon king, willingly abandon the medium position fruit he nurtured—this fellow, his inner aspirations are actually vast, his ambition great."

"Is it the jiao dragon? But how to trick the jiao dragon into giving its life?" Long Eying frowned tightly, "The jiao dragon is protected by the whale king, the whale pearl is also compensation from the whale king for this matter, husband doing this would first defy the whale king, second break the promise—"

Liang Qu gazed at Long Eying, grinning widely, countering: "Why must I deceive"? Wouldn't it be fine if I just didn't defy?"

Long Eying was dazed.

"Let's change our approach, use the plan against itself, meet with sincerity!"

Done!

The fat fish gritted its teeth, stamped its foot, flicked its long whiskers backward, and bit it into its mouth.

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So-called humerus bone, loyal and capable general, must be able to do what fish cannot!

External relatives have ancestral shade protection: internal servants have position fruits to display might: "Cannot move" plantation yields year after year, often able to appear; round-headed fish are numerous, farmed treasure fish; fist situation flexible—

The essence of heaven and earth stuffed into a yellow skin bag, tied at the waist, the fat fish gulped a mouthful of water, mighty momentum surged toward the East Sea, found the contact demon beast, waved its double whiskers.

The demon beast presented it to the great demon Black.

Black Viper looked it over.

"?"

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, Black Great Fish said exactly this, solemnly sworn, even wants to recite a poem on the spot."

Black Viper suspected gods and ghosts, although disliking this same-surname great fish, yet did not dare neglect, again presented it to Scale Great Snake.

Scale Great Snake looked it over.

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"Are you sure?"

"Yes." Black Viper nodded, "Supposedly that heaven-and-earth essence is not ordinary, is a treasure fallen from the body of the Great Taizu of Da Li, rare in the world, eating it can extend life by hundreds of years, and the body feels doubled in strength, extremely formidable.

At that time, the Huai King rebelled against the netherworld, gained over ten portions, three given to the Jianghai State Preceptor, the Jianghai State Preceptor gave one portion to the Frog King, one used to hold a martial arts grand tournament, that black rascal, cough, that Black Great Fish seized the championship, obtained the reward."

Scale Great Snake's tail twitched, only feeling this great treasure too heavy to hold firmly.

So willing to lay down capital.

Could it be that Black Great Fish truly leans toward the jiao dragon, rather than being two-faced, hedging bets?

In the past two years, they have maintained stable contact frequency, delivering treasure fish to Black Great Fish, simultaneously exchanging news of the Jianghai Great Marsh, but never truly trusted, only regarded as spending money to buy uncertain dragon palace movements, Network Adult suspected of betrayal, Jianghai difficult to enter, having it is worse than not having it.

Now—

Scale Great Snake felt it had been rash.

Could it be that Black Great Fish truly possesses the bearing of a literary fish, indeed changed dynasties and laid down the brush?

"I will go tell the Jiao Dragon King!"

Scale Great Snake hastily flicked its tail.

After a while.

Jiao Dragon: "?"

In the Diligent Governance Hall, the Holy Emperor held a booklet, brows furrowed; Lu Cangjiang, the old tusi tossed and turned, sat desolately at the desk, disheveled hair visible to the naked eye, evident exhaustion.

Xie Hongyu was anxious yet unable to act.

Temporary residence.

Liang Qu sat on the stool, gazing at the simple sketch, silently contemplating.

Long Eying brewed a pot of tea, moved lightly and placed it down, supported her chin, quietly gazed at Liang Qu, eyes lustrous, heart and eyes full of admiration.

Today afternoon's words brought her the most shocking impact.

A divinely inspired stroke.

The whale pearl is not something just anyone can give, nor is it something just anyone can use the whale pearl to nurture a position fruit; no matter who it is given to, whatever greater benefit is obtained in exchange, in the end one must face the doubts and suspicions from the whale emperor.

Only the flood dragon!

The flood dragon is the sole exception among all things in the world.

Because the whale emperor's excuse is compensation, compensating for the past obstruction of the white ape's pursuit of the flood dragon, using the whale pearl as recompense for the white ape's loss, and the flood dragon happens to be the other party dragon in this matter; if so, then let's go along with the plan, turning weapons into jade and silk!

Not only does it exchange for greater benefit on the surface, with logical consistency, but it can also show the whale emperor that one truly has let go of "resentment," let go of the past, and is willing to share in the flood dragon's success!

The flood dragon is originally the whale emperor's trump card; if the whale pearl contains a trump card, used to feed the flood dragon, two opposing forces canceling each other out, even if the whale emperor produces another pillar, there is mutual advancement.

Liang Qu sipped a mouthful of tea, silently studying the diagram, perfecting the plan.

The flood dragon is the only one who accepts the whale pearl and can belong to normal interaction, but this is merely one consideration factor in his plan.

Since the whale emperor is watching, let it watch.

With Ge Zu and Zhang Longxiang, even if I need to break the dragon-subduing sacrifice, there is absolutely no need to truly kill the flood dragon at this time.

And once the dragon-subduing sacrifice is broken successfully, I may very well become the twentieth-layer Chuanjun Emperor, truly exchanging for a third self-nurtured position fruit, achieving my goal, completing my argument!

The whale emperor and the Great Li, these two furnaces, are aware of the so-called lineage existence; three self-nurtured rainbows, the old tusi will worry, will be anxious, but the whale emperor will not!

Perhaps the whale emperor will instead be delighted, delighted that I have another great position fruit harvest.

As for the flood dragon, it is exchanging a position fruit it originally did not have for further growth in strength, while becoming a dragon king not restricted by territory!

As long as safety can be guaranteed, from the flood dragon's perspective, it is entirely a matter of a pie falling from the sky.

There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.

In between, no lies are needed, no deception, any lies and expectations will make the direction unpredictable.

Of course, because the dragon people clan, Liang Qu and the flood dragon are absolute enemies, merely no need to settle accounts now.

In this interval, there are only two problems.

One, how much does the flood dragon know about the whale emperor? How much does the whale emperor care about the flood dragon?

Two, how to make the flood dragon believe that I truly have no ill intent, can die and be reborn, and that cooperation benefits both?

If the flood dragon knows the whale emperor extremely well, knows all of the whale emperor's plans, and the purpose of letting myself become the Jianghuai Water Lord, then this plan is very hard to succeed, because the flood dragon has better options.

But——

Given the behavior and character of the Old Yin Whale, those several demon kings of the same Cloud Whale lineage may not necessarily know either; Liang Qu speculates that the flood dragon may not know, it may only know that it needs to become the water lord, nothing more.

Now, with little hope of entering the Jianghuai, if the flood dragon feels abandoned, it may not lack the will to let oneself advance further, to regain favor.

At the same time, does the current whale emperor have abandoned the flood dragon, willing to take the risk to remind?

Liang Qu feels——

Also not very likely.

The flood dragon now has no chance of winning no matter what; the white ape is a better choice.

Originally perhaps it was pinning his and the white ape's identities, preparing for the great hunt where all eyes would watch, relying on the fact that I cannot transform to expose myself to lurk. But now, he does not transform, relying solely on his human form can press the flood dragon into a caterpillar.

The first concern may be possible, but the possibility is small, leaving only the second——

"The flood dragon's belief may be very small——" Liang Qu furrowed his brow.

Now everyone is completely like water and fire, he himself represents the white ape. Perhaps the flood dragon knows even further, knows that he is the white ape, even if truly harboring sincerity——

Originally the time for refining the giant spirit was already very tight, the appearance of the Ba snake as an accident, not allowing——

"Even if all succeeds, to prevent the flood dragon from nurturing some matching position fruit, one needs to inform other immortals, just in case——the remainder is gaining the flood dragon's trust——how to gain trust is a problem."

While pondering, the spiritual link suddenly jumped.

"Ah Fei?"

Liang Qu connected the link.

After a while.

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"Does the Huai King have a new idea?" the old tusi exclaimed in surprise.

"Tusi——" Liang Qu sighed, "Why such trouble, I have no intention of coercion, merely unable to produce sufficient items for exchange at present."

The old tusi felt embarrassed, secretly glanced at the bronze mirror beside, discovered that as a dignified flood dragon, just one night without sleep actually produced dark circles, spirit and energy worn down to this extent.

After sipping tea and calming the mind, the old tusi asked: "I don't know if the Huai King has any new idea, could it be a change of heart? I, the Southern Border Saintess, may freely choose, no, not only Southern Border, all unmarried women, can!"

"Cannot those who are married?"

The old tusi was stunned, immediately brainstorming, thinking again of the Long Eying's plump figure and age, could it be that Liang Qu just likes——he gritted his teeth and stamped his foot: "Those who are married, also acceptable! I myself will go to persuade separation!"

"Hahaha!" Liang Qu laughed loudly, "Just joking, just joking."

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After this commotion, the atmosphere became much more relaxed.

The old tusi sighed: "Huai King, don't joke anymore, what exactly is the idea?"

"I and the imperial court truly cannot produce more position fruits for exchange." Liang Qu spread his hands, not waiting for the tusi to become anxious, immediately turned, "But! Without conditions, conditions can be created, I have an item, not, should say the ape king has an item, like this, like this——"

The old tusi's pupils widened: "Does the flood dragon walk in water? To exchange using the flood dragon's position fruit?"

"Exactly!"

"Is my mountain dragon unacceptable?" the old tusi exclaimed excitedly.

The true dragon king!

The middle-position-fruit dragon king!

With this dragon king, fear nothing of the Great Shun advancing southward!?

"No!" Liang Qu shook his head, "The mountain dragon's accumulation is far inferior to the flood dragon's. In attributes, never having become a dragon king, nor fully matching. Tusi you know this point, consuming the whale pearl, the mountain dragon has a great possibility of returning fruitless, even if the flood dragon's accumulation is sufficient, it is also not complete, merely superimposed as a means to become a dragon king, I only have a one or two tenths chance of success."

"This—" the old tusi was speechless.

Xie Hongyu's expression shifted; he felt this was indeed the most perfect solution.

Setting aside everything, two stable refined minor fruits exchanged for one medium fruit—whether it's a loss or gain depends on perspective.

If self-nurtured, the flood dragon knowing how to refine would mean profit!

Huai Wang, an honest man.

"Will the flood dragon agree?"

"Whether the flood dragon agrees or not, after you, the tusi, decide—if you don't agree, what reason do I have to spend effort persuading the flood dragon?"

A long while.

The old tusi asked: "If it fails, what then?"

"If it fails, we'll just think of another way—can a living person be held to death by urine?" Liang Qu poured himself tea, "Tusi, don't rush; the road is under your feet, you'll always find a way out."

The old tusi's expression shifted as he gazed at Liang Qu, sighing inwardly.

He finally understood why the Grand Shun Emperor so favored him.

May 8th.

Qinzheng Hall.

The Sacred Emperor hesitated: "Three self-nurtured position fruits, hoping to transform into a rainbow—is this real or fake?"

Liang Qu rubbed his hands, laughing hehe.

Sacred Emperor:

East Sea.

The fat fish and black crawfish meet.

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"Where are the goods?" the black viper urged.

The fat fish looked left and right, opened its big mouth, and reluctantly licked its lips.

"Eh—"

The black viper stared at the saliva-covered essence of heaven and earth, shivered, its disgust almost making its scales explode, it waved and flushed the water flow again and again before finally taking it.

The fat fish rubbed its fins.

The black viper gritted its teeth, producing a large bag of treasure fish: "The flood dragon king is very pleased, very optimistic about you—here are two creation treasure fish—"

The fat fish happily accepted it, and as the black viper prepared to leave, the fat fish grabbed it.

The black viper was impatient yet dared not show it; it didn't understand what use this red light had, but after the great black fish made its offering, the great black fish's status seemed to have risen above it—

"What, you still have news? Information about Huai Wang?"

The fat fish nodded repeatedly, waving its double whiskers.

Like this, like that.

The black viper was greatly shocked.

By the Lu Cang Riverbank, Liang Qu stood on the cliff, watching the green waters flow east; within the link, round head, fat fish, fist, otter otter opened—eight-directional information continuously gathered.

"Hoo—"

He closed his eyes.

The northern Huai River waters, bubbles faintly. Azure ankle-foot spirits nimbly flipped, catching the gold-eyed little fish.

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