Chapter 167: Taking Another Underling

Liang Qu sits with his five hearts facing the sky, calming his spirit.

Rolling blood and Qi travel through his limbs and bones, his ten thousand eight thousand pores open and close, turning into an invisible and intangible raging fire, forging his muscles, bones, and flesh.

The surrounding river water is like the heat wave of midsummer, steaming his upright figure, gradually blurring.

Only the majestic great ape behind him illuminates all things, its aura illuminating the square area.

It is just a phantom, but the cold white hair all over its body is truly like being submerged in water, moving with the water, its eyes fierce like torches!

Within a hundred zhang, small fish flee in panic, shrimp and crabs shrink into their shells, rolling and fleeing to the distance.

The giant clam closes its double shells tightly, its heart like a tsunami.

It truly suspects whether Liang Qu is human or demon.

That is the wildness and dominance from the origin of life, making it feel both fear and unable to resist.

It is simply a heaven-born god!

Are there ancient demons in the water that look like this?

The giant clam can't figure it out. When it came out of the clan, it was just a little thing.

A thousand years have passed, and many things are not remembered clearly. It doesn't know if it has forgotten, or if it has never seen it, having no impression at all.

Muscles and bones forged, increasingly vigorous and heavy, the stone slab Liang Qu was carrying could no longer withstand it and suddenly broke.

A stream of water lifts Liang Qu, his figure not falling half a point, floating in the water.

Half an hour passes.

Liang Qu feels hungry in his stomach, and only then does he wake up. As he moves, sweat pours out like rain, flowing away with the water flow and disappearing.

Stronger again.

Inside and outside the flesh shell, it is a perfect whole, smooth and free.

Liang Qu doesn't put on any stance and throws a punch.

The rolling water flow "bangs" and explodes, stirring up more than ten meters away, like a great spear stabbing straight out.

Refreshing!

Liang Qu's eyes are bright like morning stars, his body seems to be hiding endless blood and energy, hearty and excited.

He communicates with the Ze Ding, and the tripod body flashes a rainbow light.

【Tripod Master: Liang Qu】

【Refined Ze Ling: Ze Rong (Cyan) (Fusion Degree: 118‰)】

【Ze Ling Favor: Martial Arts Divine First Layer (River Lord Emperor); Ying Dragon Pattern: First Layer】

【Innate Skills: Water Leap, Water Breathing, Water Prison, Riding Waves】

【Water Essence: 8672】

【River Favorability: 0.0101】

【Controlled Water Beasts: Horned Wood Crocodile, Majestic Tiger Catfish, Rock Crab King, Twin-Winged Sky Water Centipede, Finless Porpoise】

【Evaluation: Ze Rong Ze Ling originates from the great Lord of Huai Vortex, low stimulation, a little person with a promising future】

After eating the dragon tendon, the fusion degree rose to over eighty.

Afterwards, eating sturgeon meat and spirit monster meat every day, plus three cockscomb fruits every day, he could obtain considerable water essence. Added to the one thousand points at this time, the fusion degree has reached 118.

Self-enhancement, plus the increase in fusion degree, in perception, the water flow Liang Qu can control is approaching the four-hundred-ton mark.

Only one thousand water essence points have such an effect; if the remaining eight thousand plus are all added...

Liang Qu estimates he will immediately break through the viscera barrier and open the lower Dantian aperture on the spot, achieving a Galloping Horse martial artist.

It's just that he didn't do so, not because of any unstable foundation, but because the progress is too fast.

He has only been in the blood barrier for two days, and hasn't even familiarized himself with it, yet he is continuing to progress; in the eyes of others, it is inevitably shocking.

Furthermore, there is something special about the viscera barrier to the Galloping Horse aperture; the eight thousand plus water essence points can play a more significant role...

Plan big things, don't rush for a moment.

Liang Qu stretches his muscles and bones, his gaze cast on the giant clam.

The giant clam trembles violently, wishing it could find a crack in the ground to hide itself.

Liang Qu goes up and pats the giant clam's big shell: "How about it, you saw it just now, do you want to mix with me?"

The giant clam is silent.

Liang Qu is not in a hurry. He looks around and points to the water surface more than a hundred meters away.

"You are about thirty-six zhang from the water surface here. It's not deep water, and it's not shallow water; it's just an edge position.

Fishermen don't dare to come over, great demons won't appear, spirit monsters have low intelligence and give up after finding they can't bite you, so you won't attract trouble. What a good position."

Liang Qu sighs with emotion, then suddenly changes the subject.

"But besides being easier to survive, there's no other advantage, right?

On our shore, fishermen catch fish for food. Once food is satisfied, they want to eat meat; after eating meat, they want to drink. If they can drink and eat meat every day, can they be satisfied?

No, they won't. They will think that catching fish every day is tiring and unstable, so they go buy two more boats and rent them to others. In this way, they don't have to be exposed to wind and rain every day to live.

If they are lucky and have more and more wealth, they will change to big houses, let their children go to school, learn martial arts, get ahead, and hire people.

But this is not enough. They have money, but money can be taken away by powerful people at any time, so they want power again. After becoming an official with money, they will find that small power is suppressed by big power, so they want big power...

People are like this, demons are even more so. People have order, demons don't. Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp. There will be no small fish that eats shrimp and has a fish jump out to preside over justice.

I used to live in a small broken house, unable to stretch my hands or take steps. The hooligans in the same village treated me as fish, and the brothers in the gang treated me as a fat sheep, but later I apprenticed to a master, and no one dared to bully me again.

So... mix with me.

Is it really not uncomfortable to survive in this tiny crack?"

Water grass dances.

The giant clam is like a dead rock, blending into the surrounding environment.

For the sake of dozens of water essence points every day, Liang Qu doesn't mind wasting his breath.

A proposal that is beneficial to both.

A giant clam that is hard to move, if seen by an ordinary person, could bring fatal risks.

Humans covet the giant clam's pearls, and demon beasts covet the giant clam's juicy meat.

Liang Qu is different; he only wants water essence.

He hasn't figured out what water essence is until now.

He only knows that water essence is free in the water, and water beasts will unconsciously enrich it in their bodies, but they don't know how to use it, and can't even perceive it.

For a treasure fish, Liang Qu can get double the harvest.

Fish meat essence plus water essence—this itself explains a lot.

If water beasts could really use it, there should be some display in strength; at the very least, it should be a "hidden energy source in the back," but there is no performance at all.

That's right, if there were performance, shouldn't land beasts have earth vein essence?

If there isn't, what are they doing on land?

The giant clam is silent.

Liang Qu waits for the giant clam's answer, playing with the fist-sized giant clam pearl in his hand.

It is perfectly round, without the rainbow film of clam pearls, but has the flawless whiteness of ivory, heavy in the palm.

Ordinary giant clams have no spiritual wisdom, and the pearls they conceive are all misshapen. If you have to describe it, it's like a piece of beef jerky chewed by someone.

This pearl, although it is the smallest one in the giant clam's body, is still a rare boutique.

Sending it to the master's wife should be good.

First time out on a mission, earning so much money, just like Xu Yuelong said, he should bring some gifts for his master and master's wife, and the several senior brothers can't be left out...

A series of bubbles float up, and the giant clam opens its double shells slightly.

"I am willing to serve by your side."

Liang Qu catches the pearl he threw up.

It's done! ===== CHAPTER 168 =====