Chapter 989

Above the Blue Lake, thick fog filled the air.

The treasure ship was hidden within it.

The Golden-Haired Tiger licked the fur on its body, and seeing that no one was paying attention, it secretly raised its leg to scratch, inadvertently brushing against its nose, intoxicated by the fragrant scent.

"Bai Mingzhe, Bai Chenfeng, incumbent, predecessor, children of the eighth branch..."

Liang Qu flipped through the pages, circling and sketching.

Investigating the three of them for half a year was not time wasted; they dug mines every day and chatted with the miners, and could be considered half-Hantai people.

The biggest contradiction within the Bai family naturally stemmed from the intervention of the external environment of the Great Shun imperial court, which led to the replacement of the patriarch.

Bai Mingzhe went to Nanzhili to live at the age of eight and practiced martial arts in the imperial capital at fourteen. During the stage of his worldview formation in his youth, he received the most orthodox Great Shun education. Nanzhili, as a private territory, was even more prosperous and unparalleled; it was not some grassroots entrepreneurial stage. It is said that Bai Mingzhe's first love, his "white moonlight," was also in Nanzhili.

Cross it out.

Rumors are not enough to be evidence.

Based on Liang Qu's life experience, especially his past life experience.

It is perfectly normal to feel admiration and conversion after seeing prosperity. This is also the foundation of appeasing distant people and the meaning of restraint. After a few generations, local resistance will diminish, and after a few small-cost hot wars, it will be logically incorporated into the territory.

But it is very clear that the imperial court was in a hurry to replace the former patriarch, Bai Chenfeng, for no other reason.

The two-hundred-year-old Bai Chenfeng was close to the Great Qian and the Lotus Sect. It is said that he practiced the secret arts of the Snow Mountain, and he was not familiar with the Great Shun at all; even his surrender was forced by his clansmen.

One is close, one is not, and the latter even lost the position of patriarch, so contradictions naturally arose.

However, to say that Bai Mingzhe is a dog of the Great Shun is impossible. There are no fools who have cultivated to the Grandmaster level. Inclination is inclination, but the Bai family is his own home. If things are handled too severely, they will instead develop rifts with each other. Even if Bai Mingzhe were truly a dog, the Bai family would fiercely resist internally.

"The time is too short. Another hundred years, when the older generation of Perfected Form experts die of old age and a new batch of Perfected Form experts grow up, the Hantai Prefecture will be considered stable..."

"Elder, what should we do next?" Long Binglin asked.

"No rush." Liang Qu closed the pages, "Let's go home for the New Year festival first, then go to the General Xunsheng Temple to take a look, and inquire more about the situation of the Blue Lake. Let me ponder it carefully."

Dealing with the Bai family is not the point.

He came to quell the blood sacrifice of the Great Snow Mountain. His ultimate goal is the Drought Demon fruit, and solving Jian Zhongyi is just a side task. It's just that the emperor is far away, and if he doesn't get along with the biggest local snake and have a place to stay, it will be troublesome if he is backstabbed from front and back.

Yet, according to Unlike Cha Qing's account, the entire Bai family is adopting a contraction strategy. Direct descendants are rarely seen, and those who originally had a bad reputation have all disappeared, keeping a low profile.

"Difficult to handle..."

Crackle, crackle.

Firecrackers exploded on the long street, scattering gunpowder smoke, and the strong smell of sulfur surged with the cold wind.

Xu Zishuai patted the red paper off his head, grinned as he entered the house after setting off the firecrackers. The atmosphere inside the Yang residence was harmonious, and a bombshell news item exploded at the banquet, stirring up waves.

"Cao Shixiong Yu is getting married? How come we never knew?"

"It's not a big deal."

"How did you meet? Quick, tell us."

"Nothing much to say. I'm getting on in years, so I asked the Master's wife to be a matchmaker. We met once in the autumn and felt it was good, so we had the intention of getting engaged. Taking advantage of the spring, when the wild geese fly north, I caught a few in the third month to keep for now."

"Great, great! Raise your glasses, let's toast to the Second Cao Shixiong!"

It was lively and boisterous, with faces glowing red.

Liang Qu stood up with them to toast.

Just at this moment.

The Ze Ding trembled.

【Drowning Karma dissipated】

【Drowning Karma accumulation: None】

"Drowning Karma..."

It had been three days since he traveled back from Hantai, and the Drowning Karma had naturally dissipated and disappeared. Liang Qu stared intently at the Ze Ding information, and a flash of inspiration crossed his mind. He suddenly thought of a special method.

Could he trigger a little more 【Drowning Karma】 and let 【Drowning Karma】 handle things?

If there is one accumulation, there will be a second.

Disaster Qi, Calamity Qi...

One is a small misfortune that doesn't hinder life, but what about two, three, four, or even ten, dozens, or higher Drowning Karma!

Being mocked wherever he goes, provoked by ignorant second-generation heirs wherever he goes, suffering all the cold shoulders, encountering all the cold receptions, even dogs would lift their legs to pee on his shoes if they saw him, and having someone try to bully him out of his seat while eating at a restaurant—isn't this the top-tier misfortune?

Enjoying the "protagonist treatment"?

Thinking about it, it's actually quite exciting.

Liang Qu rubbed his hands, eager to try.

The bell must be untied by the person who tied it. The matter of the Great Snow Mountain must be solved by the Great Snow Mountain, and he still has to cross the Blue Lake. But how to trigger more 【Drowning Karma】?

"Ashui, what are you thinking about? Your mouth is stretched wide, are you brewing something bad?"

"Thinking of something happy."

"What happy thing? We're family, tell us about it!" Xiang Zhangsong egged him on.

"Can't say, if I say it, it won't come true."

"Blowhard!"

"Fine, it's a happy thing, I wish everyone a Happy New Year, may everyone have happy things!" Xu Zishuai raised his glass high and looked at the head of the long table, "Master, have you thought of the toast yet! We've been waiting for half a quarter of an hour!"

"It's hard for your Master to think of something new every year, he's already out of words." Lady Xu teased.

Yang Dongxiong stroked his beard and laughed: "Even in three hundred years, I will still have words. Come, raise your glasses! May everything be auspicious and everything go as you wish after the New Year!"

"Great! May everything be auspicious and everything go as you wish after the New Year!"

Bang!

The cups clinked together.

Laughter and cheers.

Early in the second month.

Lu Gang delivered a set of brand-new spiritual weapons to "Cannot Move." Apart from the armor, the most important part was a thick-backed serrated machete called Gluttony.

It was made entirely of giant tooth shark teeth; it could be closed and could also be extended into a chain, connected by electric eel tendons, and could discharge electricity to attack. It was almost entirely made of biological materials.

Therefore, Gluttony is different from ordinary spiritual weapons. Ordinary spiritual weapons need to find materials of the same root and origin to self-repair, slowly absorbing them to fill the cracks. Gluttony doesn't need that; it transforms into a python and swallows the prey to grow on its own, becoming even more powerful.

At the same time.

Long Eying brought the "Maha Karma Sea Observation" back to the tribe, and together with the sturgeon tribe's cultivation techniques, they exchanged what they had. Several Perfected Form experts pooled their wisdom and successfully adapted a cultivation technique suitable for Round Head.

After twists and turns, they returned to the Great Snow Mountain.

Huai Kong held an iron bowl in his hand and drew the third set of formations on the deck.

Liang Qu stood on the forehead of "Cannot Move" and exhorted: "Remember to change to be shorter and thicker, and balance the tail. This way, when you use Ruyi to shrink or expand, your body size won't be easily noticed. About two zhang is fine."

Round Head waved its fins and saluted with the side of its forehead.

"Good, very spirited! Huai Kong, I'll trouble you to be busy first, I'll go up the mountain to take a look."

"Very good."

Midnight.

Liang Qu changed into a set of simple clothes he bought temporarily and traveled to the General Xunsheng Temple under Bingjing Mountain.

Hantai Prefecture is extremely vast. Many places look like nothing but snow-capped mountains and grasslands, and beyond that, there is the vast blue lake. There are no roads or markers at all, and they are unfamiliar with the place, so it is not easy to travel. After searching for a long time, the few of them finally identified the direction.

Perhaps because it was only a few days after the New Year, the area in front of the General Xunsheng Temple was full of people praying for blessings, with the queue stretching for hundreds of meters.

"Gulu gulu."

Under Long Eying's speechless gaze, Liang Qu drank a whole pot of water in one breath, shook his stomach, held back the urge to urinate that he had had since the morning, and found a deserted path to sneak up the mountain.

"Don't know if it will work or not."