Chapter 893

"Ahahaha, so it was the Boss's new divine ability. Just now in my dream, I dreamt that the Boss was in danger, and I fought to the death to turn the tide. I didn't react in time."

The little Xiao Shenlong scratched its head and laughed awkwardly three times.

Bai Awei opened and closed its mouthparts, not believing a word.

Splash, splash.

Two black shadows swam quickly from overhead; Tatta Kai and the Great Da He Li paddled freely.

The little Xiao Shenlong was immediately attracted to the Vortex Palace, wandering east and west, greatly surprised.

A secret base!

"Wuhu! So much sense of security!"

The little Xiao Shenlong trailed behind the Great Da He Li, two furs and one scale lined up like a long snake, swimming together in the Vortex Palace.

In the pond.

Liang Qu stretched out his hand, which was densely covered with stones, not affecting his movements at all.

Brother Quan Tou's 【Golden Rock Crab King】, manipulating the earth and rock, manifested a giant crab.

Stepping on the earth, a flash of light, his physical fitness increased slightly.

【Rigid Body Hegemon】, absorbing the hardness of the earth, greatly strengthened his outer shell, but he could not leave the earth.

Perhaps because he didn't have an outer shell, Liang Qu didn't experience a "great" increase, only less than ten percent.

He opened his mouth and spat.

The little Xiao Shenlong in the Vortex Palace suddenly felt that something was missing from its body, as if what it had eaten had been dug out by someone else. It identified it carefully.

"Ah, where is my Shen Tiger? Why did it disappear?"

In the pond.

A pure white Shen Tiger walked on the water and knelt on the ground.

Liang Qu opened his mouth and inhaled, sucking the Shen Tiger into his mouth. Afterward, with a bang, a fake body that was exactly the same and radiated his own aura was left in place.

【Playing Dead】.

He even felt that he could spit out mist to create dreams himself and head to the Immortal Island above the clouds.

Good news.

The innate abilities of several major water beasts could all be used freely, and the wonderful and numerous skills that emerged made Liang Qu unable to use them in coordination for a while.

Bad news.

They couldn't be overlapped or coordinated.

When using Brother Quan Tou's Hegemon Body, the golden light of the peach blossom in Liang Qu's body faded slightly. Fortunately, it had already bloomed and hadn't turned back into a copper sphere.

At most one water beast at a time, or even one ability of one water beast as the main one, with the others as auxiliary. He couldn't maintain Brother Quan Tou's 【Rigid Body Hegemon】 while using the little Xiao Shenlong's 【Playing Dead】.

Liang Qu suspected it was because he wasn't proficient in using them himself and because the 【Vortex Palace】 had just been formed.

If he used 【Dew Seed】 to nourish it more in the future, perhaps he could break the shackles.

Thinking of 【Dew Seed】...

He came out of seclusion in the summer and went through an entire autumn, but there was no extra share of 【Dew Seed】 for autumn. However, it was different after entering winter; Liang Qu faintly felt that something was brewing in his sea of clouds.

"I hope it's 【Dew Seed】."

Dew Seed could nourish divine abilities, divine ability seeds, and prolong life; it was definitely a good treasure.

It would be a pity to lose it.

Even if it wasn't, Liang Qu was mentally prepared.

The essence of the water marsh could always be accumulated over time. Not to mention the Refined Ze Ling brought by the 【Vortex Palace】, in the future, when the water beasts transformed into Great Demons and possessed divine abilities, this blessing would be even more terrifying!

In addition.

The spatial characteristics of the 【Vortex Palace】 that could not be ignored...

When the 【Vortex Palace】 opened and closed and the Vortex Water spread, the places covered by the clear water could not take the small fish, shrimp, and stones in the pond into it.

Direct storage only worked for the beasts under his command.

Liang Qu didn't give up and waved his hand.

The Vortex Water spread, and a giant crocodile poked its head out!

Without using Size Ruyi to change size, "Cannot Move," as a super giant crocodile with a body length of tens of meters, had a mouthpart so large it was terrifying. Opening its mouth to bite off half a house was definitely not a problem.

Following the spiritual link, Liang Qu made "Cannot Move" smaller. It didn't come out completely, only revealing half its head, letting it swallow the sea butterflies in the pond without swallowing them.

The sharp teeth closed.

Splash.

Cannot Move fell back into the Water Palace and opened its big mouth.

The fluorescent blue sea butterflies swam out of its mouth, fluttering and floating, bringing a trace of color to the gray Water Palace.

Successfully brought in!

After many attempts, Liang Qu discovered that whether dead or living things entered or exited, they all had to be coordinated by the beasts under his command.

Time in the Vortex Palace would pass normally, no different from the outside world. The water beasts would get hungry, and living things that couldn't breathe underwater couldn't enter.

A mutated version of "Sleeve Universe"—"Mouth Universe"!

"It would be more convenient if Afei were here."

Using the mouth to carry things, Bai Awei and the little Xiao Shenlong definitely wouldn't work; they were small and had small mouths. Brother Quan Tou's were larger, but its mouthparts were unique. Yuan Tou and Cannot Move were large and had large mouths, so they could indeed carry things, but their snouts were both narrow and long, still having limitations.

Only the fat catfish, with its large, round mouth and large oral cavity, had the highest efficiency for transportation.

This could be seen from the capture of treasure fish at the Huangzhou Great Hunting Meeting in the past.

After studying it for a long time.

Liang Qu released all the water beasts and took out a stack of silver banknotes, counting out three thousand taels in total.

"Tatta Kai, you take the otter boat to the Qingjiang Shipyard next door and pull back a batch of treasure wood and materials that don't rot in water. Calculate it according to the market price."

"Chief Engineer Li, your one-year vacation is over. You and Tatta Kai pick whatever materials you need. When you're done, tidy up your tools and prepare to build a small house in the Vortex Palace."

The two beasts took their orders and jumped into the pond.

Noon.

Tatta Kai pulled the wood through the underground river into the pond, and the cut wooden blocks collided and piled up.

Boom!

The white flow collapsed.

The crocodile mouth came out of the water and opened wide, swallowing all the wood. The Great Da He Li led its whole family and plunged into the 【Vortex Palace】 to build the house.

The water beasts each performed their own duties.

Afternoon.

Tianbo Chamber of Commerce.

People came and went.

Liang Qu pinched the silver banknotes in his bosom, pretended to stroll around casually, returned to the original spot, looked up at the signboard twice, pretended to be unintentional, and while facing the crowd, reached out and tapped the table lightly.

"Cough!"

The shopkeeper had long noticed Liang Qu wandering at the door and stepped forward quickly: "Lord Liang!"

"Shh! Why are you shouting so loudly?" Liang Qu hurriedly turned his head, looked around vigilantly, and emphasized, "There is no Lord Liang here!"

The shopkeeper understood and stepped aside: "This guest, please enter the small room!"

There was no one around.

Liang Qu pulled his collar and quickly drilled into the curtain.

With his vision blocked by the curtain, the pressure and embarrassment in his heart disappeared a lot.

The shopkeeper asked with a smile: "The guest from out of town has an extraordinary bearing. Your visit to our small shop makes it shine. I wonder what you need, my lord?"

After struggling for a while, Liang Qu threw the question back: "What does the shopkeeper have?"

"Is this the guest's first time?"

"Cough."

The shopkeeper said sternly: "I heard long ago that Lord Liang got married in the Imperial Capital. It was indeed unexpected."

"Why do you care so much about what we cultivators need? Also, I said there is no Lord Liang!" Liang Qu frowned.

The shopkeeper wasn't annoyed.

It was the first time, so it was normal to be embarrassed.

Precisely because of this, the things he wanted wouldn't be too flashy. Many martial artists were keen on making progress and had no heart for family.

He climbed the ladder to take the box.

"With Lord Liang's status, you wouldn't care for those cheap things. This item is the skin of a fish-toad, thin as a cicada's wing, sticking without falling, as if it were nothing..."

Liang Qu glanced at it twice, really too embarrassed to ask for other comparisons.

He just wanted to take the things and leave immediately.

"Just this!"

"How many does the lord need? There are this many in one box, one hundred taels per box."

"Give me three boxes first, no, five boxes."

"Alright." The shopkeeper collected the money neatly. At the end, he handed over a small box. When opened, it was a snow-white paste, crystal clear, emitting a fragrance, "Lord Liang, snow pig oil, do you need it?"

"Pig oil, what do I need this for?"

"The lord misunderstands, it's not pig oil. It has the word 'snow' in it; it's actually a small treasure beast from the Northern Court, covered in brown fur, fat as a small pig. It's best to catch them when the snow pigs hibernate. After catching and killing them, dissect the abdomen to take out the fat, mix it with medicinal herbs, and put it into their stomach bag, then hang it up to air-dry. That becomes snow pig oil.

Externally, it can nourish the skin and treat numbness, burns, scalds, and frostbite. Internally, it has the effect of resolving stasis and stopping bleeding, and it also has excellent curative effects on diseases such as blood deficiency and pulmonary tuberculosis."

"This... isn't it a medicinal herb?"

"Not at all." The shopkeeper shook his head, "Ten or so taels per box; for others, it's a medicinal herb, but for you, it's different."

"How is it different?"

"Apply it!"

"Apply it?"

The shopkeeper reached out and grabbed a handful of snow pig oil, rubbed it in his palm, and "applied" it to his arms and chest and back.

"Moisturize!"

"Cough, cough." Liang Qu's face felt hot, he looked around, and lowered his voice, "Give... give me two boxes."

"Alright, I'll wrap it up for you!"

(End of chapter)