Chapter 490: Snake Demon Returns

The iron-blue stars hung high, and the night sky was exceptionally clear.

Wulong clawed at the bones, tilted his furry neck to gnaw, and his wagging tail left afterimages.

Everything was silent.

The river otter family squatted by the pond, claws picking out large thorns, heads buried in gnawing fish.

Long Binglin looked at the starry sky, feeling a surge of excitement.

Liang Qu's invitation to stay was no less than a great courtesy to the Dragon-Men!

How could one sleep tonight?

Looking around at the spiritual spirit monsters by the pond, Long Binglin stripped to his waist, scooped up a wooden bucket of water from the pond in the garden, and poured it over his head.

Splash!

The cold water washed over his bulging muscles, like a stream running through mountain rocks.

The clear water flowed all the way to the bottom, squeezed into the crevices of the pond stones, flowed back into the pool, and kicked up white foam.

The night wind blew, the chill permeated, dissipating a bit of excitement.

Back yard, east wing.

Water mist was hazy, candle flames flickered.

Three wooden tubs are arranged in a "pin" shape.

Light flowed, exposing shoulders with the texture of ivory, black hair waterfalls tied high, pressed down by pure silver hair rings.

Long Eying leaned against the bathtub, her skin like crimson soft jade, her face flushed with a faint crimson, bright and moving.

Reaching out to scoop.

Water flowed through her fingers, breaking the reflected candlelight, rippling the flower petals sticking to her body.

Since moving from the clan to take refuge, it was a rare moment of comfort and worry-free.

Half a moment later.

Long Eying grabbed the edge of the bathtub, leaned toward the center, and waved for Long Yao and Long Li to come closer.

"Sister Eying?"

"Come here, ask you two something."

The three dragon maidens lean their heads toward the center of the "pin" shape, arms crossed, chins resting on their hands, chatting idly while sprawled over the tubs.

"Been here for a while, is it hard?"

"Not hard, Lord Liang is very easy to talk to."

"Usually there is very little work to do, just cleaning a few rooms, organizing the bookshelves, no different from home."

"I actually think it's more comfortable than home, like this hot bath, we can soak every day!"

"Can soak every day?"

Long Yao and Long Li nodded.

You can't soak in such a comfortable hot bath underwater.

Long Yao counted with her fingers: "Firewood for boiling water is delivered twice a month, someone is specially assigned to pull a cart and deliver it to the door. My lord doesn't care how much we use; if it's gone, we continue to buy. After washing, there is an ice platform to blow air, not hot at all. After wiping dry and lying on the bed, eh, Sister Eying will know how comfortable it is later!"

Long Li nodded: "Not only that, Auntie Zhang's cooking is especially delicious. Usually at this time there is a midnight snack, never divided into big or small tables, and when it's ready, we sit together and eat."

Long Eying was surprised: "Eat at the same table? No distinction between master and servant?"

"Well... master and servant have to be distinguished, the Master and Great-Uncle sit at the head, but Lord Liang doesn't care about table rules, it's all one table, and the Master and Great-Uncle are also especially enlightened, definitely going to be Martial Saints in the future!"

It sounded like they were eating and drinking well, worry-free.

Envy arose in Long Eying's eyes.

Since the Dragon King disappeared, the atmosphere in the Dragon-Man clan had become increasingly serious and dull.

Everyone seemed to have their own mission to achieve, busy and unable to rest for a moment.

When the Dragon King was there in the past, maybe the Dragon-Man clan lived the days Long Yao and Long Li were living now?

The Dragon King had been missing for a hundred years.

Long Binglin and Long Eying had never witnessed the prosperous appearance of the Dragon-Man clan with their own eyes.

Even what the Dragon King looked like, they could only find traces in picture books, listening to the Elders' constant influence.

"Then..."

Long Eying's eyes flowed, slightly rising from the bathtub, revealing undulating curves, and leaned into the two's ears.

The heat made the dragon maidens' ears itch, and the crimson spread to their faces along with the rising water mist.

"No, looking is looking, but it's all open and aboveboard, every time it's us who are embarrassed..."

"Sister Eying is much prettier than the two of us, a great beauty! Maybe it works!"

"Good!" Long Eying pretended to be serious, "After the Heaven Water Morning Dew matter is over, I will petition Elder Long. At least I am a Great Martial Artist, I should be able to be a first-class maid!

By then, I will specially manage you two third-class maids, teach you to sweep the courtyard ten times a day! Tidy the study ten times! Warm ten big beds!"

"Ah, Sister Eying has such a vicious heart!"

The next day.

The sky was overcast, and a drizzling rain began at the Mao hour.

Rain washed the tiles, flowing into silver water chains between the tile ridges.

It was the Yellow Plum season.

Liang Qu sat under the eaves, reaching out to catch the rain.

The stone bricks of the entire courtyard were washed into a black-gray color, and several bubbles drilled out of the soil in the tree pool filled with velvet grass.

Long Binglin and Long Eying finished breakfast and stepped forward to bid farewell.

"Go, after this matter is finished, I will host a banquet for you again."

"Thank you, my lord!"

Long Binglin and Long Eying cupped their hands and left.

Liang Qu passed through the hall and came to the second courtyard.

Facing the east and west wings, after some thought, he stepped to the left.

"You ask about this?" Su Guishan was flipping through a book, heard the words, clipped a leaf, closed the book,

"That day I told him, since you want to break and then stand, why not break thoroughly?

Pure rules and commandments, five precepts and ten virtues, you have kept them for half your life; if you can follow and break them, that is the true breaking and standing.

Later, he probably listened..."

So that was it.

Liang Qu suddenly realized, scratching his temples, always feeling that doing so was a bit dangerous.

It is easy to go from frugal to luxurious, but difficult to go from luxurious to frugal.

Going from luxurious to frugal, and then from frugal to luxurious, is even more difficult.

"With the Master acting like this, will he be able to pull back in the future?"

Su Guishan picked up the palm-sized purple clay teapot and tasted a sip of fragrant tea.

"Human lifespan is determined by heaven; chickens live six, dogs eight, cats ten years, Martial Saints live eight hundred, how can it be so easy?

Four passes and seven paths, from Jiang Zongshi downwards, just follow the rules; the paths that should be taken have all been walked by ancestors and predecessors, walked through.

However, from Jiang Zongshi upwards, the path is more rugged; one must scrape against thorns, grind out bloodstains, and walk out of one's own path. Among them, one must inevitably try and fail.

But, if you don't try, how do you know you're wrong? If you are afraid of making mistakes, then don't come to cultivate, just be a rich man for a lifetime, wouldn't that be wonderful?"

No wonder you, an old River Patrol Inspector, have to squeeze into my small courtyard.

First watch how others walk, right...

Liang Qu was speechless for a moment.

He didn't feel it was inappropriate.

The old monk, a hundred-year-old man, had his own opinions, and his realm was higher than Su Guishan's, so how could he be easily bluffed?

He must have had his own ideas in his heart, and it wasn't his turn as a young man to talk about it.

However.

What Su Guishan said really made some sense.

Breaking and standing, understanding rebirth.

Hope the Master can succeed.

If the Master becomes a Wu Sheng, don't know if he will also come to feed the world?

Famous all over the world in one fell swoop.

In the future, when Liang Qu's golden body flashes, the enemies will be scared out of their wits and bow down...

Cough, cough.

Liang Qu gathered his thoughts and returned to the pond for his daily morning exercise.

Afternoon.

The purple-scaled snake demon led several large spirit monsters to raid for thousands of miles, bypassed the Frog clan's territory in a big circle, and finally arrived near Pingyang Prefecture.

However, everything was seen by the Dragon-Men patrolling on the road.

The snake demons also discovered the Dragon-Men's tracks, slightly puzzled, not knowing why the Dragon-Men would appear here, but thinking of Lord Jiaolong's instructions, they didn't dare to stop for a moment and hurriedly approached the shore.

The Dragon-Men looked at the snake demons' backs and hurriedly found the finless porpoise at the nearest node to report the situation.

In the pond, Liang Qu, who was meditating in the water, moved at the sound, dove into the vortex waterway, and disappeared.

Afterwards, Cannot-Move, the fat catfish, and Fist followed in succession. ===== CHAPTER 491 =====