Chapter 428

In the courtyard, the moonlight was bright.

Liang Qu peeled and ate crayfish, his thoughts drifting far away.

After all the fuss, it turns out that among the Four Demon Kings of the Huai River Great Lake, only the toad is a local demon, and three are foreign demons.

Among the foreigners, two are sea demons.

This is not just foreign; they've even gone to foreign countries.

However, one has been settled for three hundred years, and one for five hundred years, so calling them foreign is not very appropriate.

Liang Qu looked up and asked curiously: "Great-uncle, having said that, do you know the turtle of the Western Pillar..."

"I know it. Cangshou belongs to the turtle clan. Because it is a strange species, its status is quite high, so the relationship is okay."

Su Guishan drank a mouthful of milk drink and picked up two pieces of smashed cucumber to dispel the greasiness, "After the Dragon Lord disappeared, in the entire Huai River Great Lake, only the west still has irregular trade with my Great Shun. I have credit for that, so it's not strange, right? Don't you also know the toad in the south?"

Liang Qu touched the back of his head and laughed.

Su Guishan sneered.

"The multi-treasure toad in your pond has a fortune that is more than a few times stronger than Cangshou's.

As a Fortune-Luck Mysterious Turtle, Cangshou has a certain status in the turtle clan, and that old toad is only higher, not lower.

What's more, the night before yesterday, it jumped out of the underground river and insisted that the pond was its territory, wanting to drive Cangshou away. I had no choice but to give it a treasure lotus as rent.

You can even sell your own pond to it as a nest; I don't believe you and the Southern Pillar have no communication."

Liang Qu's toes curled.

The old toad and the old turtle were arguing in the pond that day, and he had anticipated this scene.

But being exposed to his face, he still felt a sense of shame at having his fig leaf torn off.

However, he hid this matter not because he was worried about being labeled as having private dealings with demons.

The imperial court even does business with the Dragon, so what?

Liang Qu was mainly worried that his unique business of making boat models would be snatched away!

He was running a small business, a wild path.

In the imperial court's shipbuilding bureau, there are as many shipbuilding masters as you want, and multi-line construction is not a problem. If they compete, he would be crushed.

Accustomed to mountain delicacies and sea treasures, would the toad look down on coarse tea and light rice?

"Alright, don't worry, lad. I came uninvited, and I won't go out and shout about what I know. I'm still counting on the old monk to leak something to me."

Su Guishan saw that Liang Qu had gained a lot of benefits using means from the frog clan, but he didn't care.

Who doesn't have their own luck?

He saved the Fortune-Luck Mysterious Turtle back then, indirectly connected with the Western Pillar of the Demon Court, and used information asymmetry to make a fortune.

What leaks through the fingers of a demon king is a big piece of fat meat!

"But I want to tell you one thing: the imperial court has always wanted to trade with the Southern Pillar and expand the share. If you have a way to facilitate it, that's a great meritorious service!"

Liang Qu nodded.

Su Guishan didn't know if Liang Qu's nod meant he knew or agreed, and didn't care.

"The Huai River Great Lake is a treasure land of spirit lakes that ranks among the best in the world.

Don't look at the fact that there is only one local demon king and three foreign demon kings right now; in the past, it was far more prosperous than it is today.

At its peak, there were six pillars in the Huai River Great Lake, including five Huai River demon kings and three local demon kings, with only one sea demon swimming upstream, but that was a long time ago."

"Six pillars? Counting the Dragon Lord?"

"Not counting the Dragon Lord."

Liang Qu clicked his tongue.

Six demon kings plus the Dragon Lord, what a powerful force that must be?

If it were really like that, the imperial court's attitude would probably be 'how can others sleep soundly on the side of the couch.'

Su Guishan sucked out the shrimp meat, threw away the shell, and leaned back in his chair.

"Lad, you asked me so much, I want to ask you, why did you suddenly ask these things?"

Liang Qu felt a chill in his heart and lowered his head to peel the shrimp.

"I was just curious."

"I don't think so."

Su Guishan savored the taste of the peanuts.

"The year the True Dragon disappeared was a time of trouble for the world, and the Great Shun and Great Qian were fighting fiercely, so no one paid attention to the Great Lake, so the time is estimated to be inaccurate, roughly eighty to one hundred years ago.

Calculating by two sixty-year cycles, the appearance of the new Dragon Lord is between twenty and forty years from now.

The actual two sixty-year cycles are a full estimate; most of the recorded ones don't take one hundred and twenty years, basically one hundred and ten, one hundred and fifteen or so, taking the middle ninety years, which is twenty-five years or so.

Twenty-five years is not long, and not short.

From walking from Wolf Smoke to Grandmaster, it only took me fourteen years.

In an ordinary family, it is enough for a newborn child to grow into the pillar of the family.

Zhang Longxiang, known as the number one Wu Sheng of the Great Shun, started practicing at fifteen and entered the Wu Sheng realm at forty-eight, taking only thirty-three years from beginning to end..."

Su Guishan was thirsty and drank all the milk drink at hand.

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Liang Qu got up to pour another bowl.

Su Guishan continued.

"At every critical time, capable people and demons emerge. It's not hard to imagine what kind of undercurrents are surging underwater, and how many great demons are eyeing opportunities, longing to transform into dragons.

Whether it's fighting to be the Dragon Lord or following the dragon, it's a great meritorious service.

Among them, those with the greatest opportunity are naturally those natural strange species.

Strange species, that is, anomalies.

The ape should have been a land beast, but it is a water beast...

Your friend, the white ape, is probably one of them, right?"

Liang Qu sucked the crayfish in his mouth and used his little finger to scratch his temple.

He finally understood what Su Guishan meant by chattering so much.

The old great-uncle has a very rich imagination.

Ah, yes, yes, yes.

The white ape asked me to ask.

Liang Qu's silence made Su Guishan think he had guessed right.

He laughed three times, buried his head in peeling shrimp, and while eating, suggested.

"That white ape of yours should have natural divine strength and be a human-like creature with sound limbs, so it's quite easy to deal with snake demons.

But it hasn't entered the Great Demon realm, so it will be tough to fight for that position in the next twenty-five years.

However, it's not that there's no chance at all; it's just that it's better to keep a low profile until the critical moment, so as not to let the Dragon see the clues and deliberately target it.

If the white ape really has a chance to compete with the Dragon in the future and look forward to the Dragon Lord's throne, with this relationship you have, the imperial court will definitely favor it."

If nothing unexpected happens, the Dragon has already seen the clues.

Liang Qu sighed in his heart, but on the surface, he still looked solemn, looking like he was listening to advice.

"Good advice is hard to hear; the old great-uncle is right. I will definitely tell it later."

"Heh, I shook out a lot of things for you tonight. Even if you are promoted to River Balance Envoy, many things are not what you should know."

Liang Qu said seriously: "It's all the great-uncle's love for his nephew-grandson."

Su Guishan was in a good mood: "Don't think you can get away with two nice words; there is no free lunch in the world."

"Then what do you say, Great-uncle?"

"I won't give you the water plant. Since you've heard so many things, there must be a price, and it just so happens to save me from having to take it."

"Ah?"

"Ah what? If you really want it, you can find another opportunity next time, right?"

Liang Qu understood.

The moonlight shone on the blue tiles on the sloping ridge of the courtyard, and the refreshing night breeze blew through the courtyard.

Dragon Turtle lay on the ground, finding a chicken bone and crunching it.

The table was a mess.

"Mother Zhang, go back and rest quickly; we'll clean up tomorrow morning."

Mother Zhang, who was halfway through cleaning, put away the rag, looked at the moonlight, and didn't insist.

"Good!"

Liang Qu nodded, returned to the quiet room alone, took out paper and pen, and summarized the information he had gained today.

The water-attribute treasure plant flew away, but the value of the information he got in exchange was much higher.

He circled and drew on the paper.

"Dragon, True Dragon... natural true spirit... not in the sea, water vein transformation?"

"Why does leading the people's sacrifice give favorability? Incense?"

Liang Qu wrote the two words "incense" and thought about it.

Put a cross on it.

Wrong.

After the favorability was obtained, there had never been any ups or downs or fluctuations.

If it were really so-called incense, it shouldn't be so stable, but should be linked to the people.

Looking at it this way, favorability obviously wouldn't be this kind of binding relationship.

Liang Qu himself doesn't like this kind of binding relationship.

He is willing to do good deeds.

Forcing me.

No way.

"Is sacrifice a ritual process? After obtaining it through the ritual process, does the ownership of the obtained thing belong to oneself and no longer change?"

"Is water walking a kind of recognition ritual for rivers and lakes, one of the conditions for the transformation of a true spirit?"

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