Chapter 273: Suppression Under the Pagoda

The snake demon Liu Ruyan was summoned by the City God, her soul dragged from the Water Mansion.

He announced the verdict on the spot: "Liu Ruyan, you are of the demon kind, having illicit intercourse with a human, revealing your true form and frightening him to death, which violates the Underworld laws. Do you know your crime?"

Liu Ruyan's soul cried out: "I am a True Transmission Disciple of the Lishan Sect, you cannot kill me!"

"I did not intend to frighten him to death; I was plotted against. He learned the Combat and Replenishment Method, and I am the one who was harmed!"

"Ha! Do not speak of being a True Transmission Disciple of the Lishan Sect; this is Yushan, what can you do? Even for the supreme rulers of the human world, when they arrive at the Yin Division Yamen, there is no time for favoritism or breaking the law."

He spoke these words righteously and impressively, while inwardly feeling a thrill: "So this is how refreshing it feels to use righteousness to suppress others. It is only a pity that one must enforce the law strictly, have a sufficiently powerful backer, and possess sufficiently high means. If it were before, without that Lingbao Heavenly Master, I would have been nothing but an ordinary Ghost God, allowing that snake demon to remain in the city for years..."

Liu Ruyan struggled further, but a Startling Wood was struck: "Bring in the victim, Chen Liuxian!"

Liu Ruyan stopped struggling instantly, looking on with longing eyes: "Chen Liuxian is my husband; his foundation of several lifetimes is that of a banished Immortal from Shangjie..."

Chen Liuxian arrived at this place and saw his wife, who had also been captured. The Judge and the City God were impartial and incorruptible.

He said loudly: "Wrongfully dead soul Chen Liuxian, do you recognize her?"

Chen Liuxian said repeatedly: "I recognize her, I recognize her. This is my wedded wife of three years, we are deeply in love."

"Heh, I fear you have forgotten how you died?"

The Judge waved a hand, and the Wicked Mirror began to replay, starting from Chen Liuxian swearing an oath and being bitten to death by stray dogs, followed immediately by his two-hour battle with Liu Ruyan.

Two hours was too long; the Judge did not enjoy the details and clicked fast-forward until one minute before Chen Liuxian died, which was exactly when Liu Ruyan, unable to control herself, begged for mercy and transformed into her true form, a white giant python several zhang long.

Chen Liuxian was instantly frightened out of his wits, his three souls and seven spirits lost, and he collapsed straight down like a zombie.

Liu Ruyan then left the boat and swam into the water.

Everything was recalled; even if he could not recall it, there were others to help him remember.

Liu Ruyan's face turned pale. In the previous two lifetimes, Chen Liuxian was a practitioner of the Dao and did not mind that she was a snake demon, but now... he was a mortal, and it was Liu Ruyan who had always obstructed his cultivation, even wanting to seize his foundation from past lives to prevent him from re-entering the Dao.

This was one link after another, one retribution after another.

Chen Liuxian's head buzzed instantly, and a voice like a thunderbolt rang out: "Your wife Liu Ruyan is a monster!"

Shopkeeper Li of the pharmacy hinted sideways: "Liuxian, although your wife is beautiful, her arrival is suspicious. Why have no maternal relatives come to look for her? Why does she disappear for a while every Dragon Boat Festival... Have you noticed that although our pharmacy does not keep cats, there are no mice to be seen..."

Chen Liuxian's expression shifted, but he recalled the bits and pieces of the past. In the end, he still loved her, and she loved him too. If she truly wanted to harm him, why not eat him at the first opportunity instead of being a loving couple for three years?

He said: "I do not blame her. She must have had her own hidden difficulties that she could not tell me. If she had told me earlier, I would have been prepared. This was the first time I was frightened; it will not happen a second time. No matter what, we are wedded spouses who have bowed to heaven and earth."

"If I must blame someone, I can only blame myself. I should have discovered it sooner."

Liu Ruyan had been prepared to be exposed and cursed, but now she was filled with disbelief. Her love had long since worn away; her companionship over three lifetimes had long since become an obsession.

But every lifetime was a new one for Chen Liuxian, including love. From the first lifetime, the one he loved was Liu Ruyan, that pure and innocent Liu Ruyan.

In the second lifetime, the one he loved was Liu Ruyan, that passionate and intense Liu Ruyan.

In the third lifetime, he still loved Liu Ruyan. Love can be discovering the beauty of the other, or it can be tolerating all her shortcomings.

Liu Ruyan looked dazed, overlapping Chen Liuxian with the previous two lifetimes.

"I, the humble Daoist Zhang Lingfu, a disciple under the thirty-second generation Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, greet Miss Ruyan."

"I, the humble scholar Ge Zeru, a True Transmission Disciple of the Dante Sect of Ge Immortal Mountain, greet Miss Ruyan."

It is a pity there is no background music here, or one could sing "Unchanged in This Life."

Liu Ruyan said sadly: "I am sorry, Liuxian, I lied to you."

"It cannot be called lying," Chen Liuxian smiled. "You had your own difficulties, did you not?"

Chen Liuxian knelt down and begged the Judge and the City God: "Judge, this matter has nothing to do with my wife Ruyan. It was I who listened to the bewitchment of a wicked person and learned a Combat and Replenishment Method, which caused my wife to reveal her true form. In the final analysis, it is my fault."

The City God tapped the Startling Wood: "Right and wrong are distinct. If everything were up to you to decide, what would the Underworld be for?"

He also had a headache. He originally wanted to complete his task, to have Chen Liuxian see Liu Ruyan clearly and then break through his Love Tribulation...

But this Love Tribulation was never meant to have Liu Ruyan as the protagonist; her rank simply did not reach that level.

The protagonist was always Chen Liuxian. He is of the Nine Palaces Immortal Rank, destined to experience three hundred Kalpas in the mortal world to break through, then ascend back to Shangjie, and perhaps even advance from the Nine Palaces Immortal Rank to the Taiqing Immortal Rank.

In the end, Chen Liuxian is not Liu Ruyan's obsession; Liu Ruyan is Chen Liuxian's obsession.

It is simply a case of being love-struck.

It is not so easy to resolve, to break through.

Even if Liu Ruyan were not a snake demon, but an octopus or a mantis shrimp, Chen Liuxian would still choose to love, choose to forgive.

The Judge said: "Liu Ruyan, do you have anything to say?"

Although it was a trial, self-defense was still permitted.

Liu Ruyan said: "I am an obsession of three lifetimes, but he does not know. I want the Wicked Mirror to replay the Love Tribulation of our three lifetimes..."

"Wait until you are reincarnated and pass the Three Lives Stone to see it yourself." The City God would not provide such a service; if it were to stir up Chen Liuxian's memories of the previous two lifetimes, it would be even harder to handle.

Seeing it was not allowed, Liu Ruyan said: "None of this is his fault. He is only a mortal. I beg the Judge to order his return to soul. I have checked; his Yang Lifespan is not yet exhausted, he has eighty years left to live..."

"Let me take on everything." Liu Ruyan looked at Chen Liuxian blankly, tears streaming down: "Liuxian, actually, the one I loved was never you. You are just a substitute. He is you, yet he is not you..."

Xu Jia's Primordial Spirit had long been observing how the trial was conducted here, and hearing this, he only felt it was like a Qiong Yao script.

"I don't care about any of that. I only recognize you, Ruyan. No matter if you take me for Zhang San or Li Si, I do not believe in these past or future lives. This lifetime is me. Even if I die now, the three years we spent together are the happiest three years of my life."

"Enough!" The City God did not want to eat their romantic dog food anymore.

He pronounced the sentence directly: "Liu Ruyan, your love-sins of three lifetimes and your Calamity are difficult to erase. Judging by heart and by deeds, you had the intention to harm others through combat and replenishment, which cannot be faked. However, the victim Chen Liuxian has issued a pardon, which can exempt you from the punishment of dismemberment, but not from the punishment of Hell. You are to be cast into the Thorny Hell for thirty years."

He then looked at Chen Liuxian: "Considering your feelings move heaven and earth, I sentence you to return to soul. If you cultivate merit, thirty years later, you and your wife shall naturally be reunited."

He thought of a delaying tactic; thirty years was enough for many things to happen, as long as the two were kept apart.

"No, I will also go to the Thorny Hell, I will not return to soul!" Chen Liuxian shook his head.

The City God was furious, but had no choice. Chen Liuxian was of the Nine Palaces Immortal Rank, and he could not afford to offend him. What if he woke up in the future and made things difficult for him? He had to seek help from Xu Jia, sending a voice transmission: "Heavenly Master, how should I judge this?"

Xu Jia thought of the Legend of the White Snake from his previous life; that white snake was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda.

Although this county has no Leifeng Pagoda, it has a Jinshan Temple. In the temple, there is a Relic Pagoda, which is a place for enshrining relics, and the temple is now filled with nuns practicing in purity.

Then he gave instructions: "Lock her in the Relic Pagoda of Jin Shan Temple and suppress her in the Underground Palace. That place is a nunnery; even if Chen Liuxian becomes a monk, he won't be able to enter."

The City God naturally followed the flow of good advice and amended the judgment as follows: "This matter is all caused by your unextinguished Desire Thoughts, romantic love debts, and karmic entanglements from past lives. Liu Ruyan, this official gives you two choices: first, both husband and wife go down to the Hell of Thorns together, and after serving your sentences, go to be reincarnated; second, I permit you to Return to Soul, but Liu Ruyan, you are after all a monster, so you must cleanse your body of monster Qi and completely become a human before you can continue to be with Chen Liuxian. You must accompany the green lamp and ancient Buddha for a long time and take an oath: if you do not cultivate into a human body, you shall never see each other again in life or death."

"Are you a bit selfish, wanting to continue repeating the tragedy of reincarnation and come for a fourth Love Tribulation, or will you experience the tribulation of bitter cultivation in this life, so that when Merit is complete, you will have sweetness after bitterness?"

Liu Ruyan knew this was a trap, but she could not let Chen Liuxian go to Hell with her, so she said: "This little monster is willing to accompany the green lamp and ancient Buddha until I cultivate into a human form and shed my monster body."

Chen Liuxian, however, said: "No, I don't want to be separated from you!"

But he was directly silenced by the City God.

Afterwards, he judged Ling Yun, who had come to steal the soul; this person was purely disgusting, but her crimes did not warrant death, so the City God sentenced her to exile—a direct exile of the Soul, an exile of three thousand li. As for whether she could return to her physical body within seven days, that would depend on her own fortune.

After the judgment was finished, it was executed immediately.

Soon, Chen Liuxian was kicked, and the next moment he returned to his physical body.

Seeing that Chen Liuxian had woken up but his own senior fellow apprentice Ling Yun had not, Yilei Daoist asked anxiously.

Little did he know that tears were streaming from the corners of Chen Liuxian's eyes: "Ruyan! Don't!"

Unable to care about anything else, he stumbled, acting mad and crazy, and ran out the door.

On the other side, the City God also made a personal trip to communicate with Elder Xianhuan at Jin Shan Temple.

Elder Xianhuan agreed: "The Relic Pagoda is a place for enshrining the relics of ancestors; it is not suitable for her to cultivate there. However, we have a special tower for our own seclusion, and this tower also has an Underground Palace on one level. We can let her cultivate inside there."

She sighed: "Love Tribulation, we Biquni know it best; how many women who became nuns were wounded by love before they entered the empty gate."

Once she agreed, the Water Mansion directly sent Liu Ruyan's physical body over, moved it out through a Well, sent it into the Underground Palace in the tower, set up a seal, and put on a heavy lock, only then sending the Soul back.

After Liu Ruyan returned to her soul, she also wanted to escape, but she could not escape at all.

The Buddhist Daochang is the Dharma Realm Glazed Pure Land. Elder Xianhuan is not like those nuns at Dizang An before; she is a practitioner of pure cultivation who does not engage in those vain reputations and floating profits. Except for the vegetables grown by themselves, all the temple's farmland was distributed. The daily staple food relied on the alms of the common people, and if it was not enough, they would go out to beg for alms.

Even if she recovered her Dharma Power, she could not escape, and furthermore, there was the Underworld forbidden law personally set by the City God, plus her own oath.

Seeing that she really could not get out, Liu Ruyan washed her face with tears every day.

From then on, the sound of a woman crying often came from Jin Shan Temple.

Chen Liuxian ran madly to Jin Shan Temple and knocked on the door frantically: "Ruyan, I have come to save you! Ruyan!"

But no one opened the door, and only a voice came: "Benefactor, Jin Shan Temple is a solemn place of cultivation, please do not make noise. This temple only opens for two days on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month; on ordinary days, the mountain gate is not opened, and we do not accept Incense Fire. There is no Ruyan here, please return, Benefactor."

How could Chen Liuxian agree? He guarded the temple gate like this, waiting for others to come looking, and refused to leave even if he died.

But eventually, he would get thirsty and hungry.

Ling Yun's soul did not return, so Yilei found connections and learned of the verdict: she had been exiled. An exiled soul cannot return to the local area, so she took Ling Yun's physical body, left Yushan, went to another place, and held a Soul Summoning ceremony, only then summoning Ling Yun's soul back. The two fellow apprentices had been arrogant and domineering when they arrived, but they left with their tails between their legs, looking crestfallen.

The two felt they had no face, having lost all the dignity of their sect, but they could not help asking how Chen Liuxian was doing.

"Ruyan was sentenced by the City God to be suppressed in Jin Shan Temple; she cannot come out until she sheds her monster body. He misses her deeply and is guarding outside the temple, already somewhat mad and crazy."

The two of them had also had a night of romance, and at this moment they sighed: "He is indeed a seed of infatuation, but it's a pity that infatuation is useless."

How many daughters cannot meet such a good man?

The two of them then returned to outside Jin Shan Temple and advised Chen Liuxian: "Although our Lishan Sect does not accept male outsiders, we have some thin face. If you are willing, we can recommend you to cultivate in another sect, but you must know who caused you to be like this."

"This is all the evil path of Yushan!" they said with hatred, urging him to leave this place with them.

But how could Chen Liuxian be willing to leave? He just shook his head!

"What is the use of your cowardly appearance, just having a bit of infatuation? It is said that poor couples have a hundred sorrows. Isn't your current situation because you have no power and no ability? If Ruyan and you were both Earth Immortals, who would care if you are human or monster? It would only be a beautiful story, a pair of God Immortals!"

"I will not leave. I want to keep guarding here. I heard it, I heard Ruyan talking to me."

The two were both angry and heartbroken, so they had to rent a civilian house nearby to live in, intending to continue persuading him.

It just so happened that the Wind Thunder Dao Lord sent a reply and was rushing here, so the two of them had even less choice to leave, attempting to reform Chen Liuxian.

They brought him food, wiped his face with a clean towel, and bought him clean clothes to change into.

The human heart is the hardest to change, yet also the easiest to change. They had such a romantic affair, and Chen Liuxian's attitude was a bit like a scumbag; he was infatuated with one person, but he also had a good impression of Ling Yun and Yilei, only he often fell into self-reproach and regret, neither taking initiative nor refusing.

It was just that his attitude was much softer; he no longer wasted time, took medical books and started reading, intending to set up a stall outside the temple to do good deeds and accumulate blessings.

Xu Jia naturally knew about this situation, but he did not go down the mountain to take any more disciples. This time, if they wanted to apprentice, it should be their turn to beg him.

Now that the news of widely accepting disciples had spread, not only Yushan and Dexing, but people in many places had heard of it and were rushing here.

It is estimated that when it really comes to selecting people, one or two thousand people participating would not be the limit.

As for the so-called Nine Palaces Immortal, Xu Jia was really not in a hurry.

Where was Xu Jia at this time? He was at the Dexing Smelting Works.

Dexing produces copper mines, iron mines, gold mines, and silver mines; there are all kinds of ores, but copper is especially abundant.

The smelting technology here is already considered top-tier for the same era. After all, it is the location of the Great Ning Dynasty's Salt and Iron Bureau, a government monopoly, and they even dispatched eunuchs to supervise here, just like the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau; they are all places where the government makes money.

The people here had all died before, but the inheritance of the artisan households is generational, with fathers dying and sons replacing them. These artisan households soon secretly worshipped the Immortal, becoming Xu Jia's Outer Disciples and Miscellaneous School cultivators.

One could see them modifying the original smelting furnace, adding a tall chimney and a squeeze-type cowhide bellows.

Besides that, they also set up water-powered forging hammers. Smelting itself requires being close to a water source; they had previously set up water-powered rice pounding to remove husks, and now it could also assist in forging and crushing ore.

This was personally designed by Xu Jia and modified together with the artisan households.

The land of Yushan Dexing was already completely under control. Even the County Magistrate officials and the newly dispatched eunuchs could be ignored by Xu Jia, because the energy of his disciples and grand-disciples was already great enough; in all trades and industries, there were Xu Jia's people.

"How is it?" Xu Jia asked the artisan households.

The leading artisan replied: "The furnace temperature has indeed increased a lot, but as for the specific effect, it depends on the quality after the copper juice flows out."

This was smelting a furnace of copper ore. Besides modifying the smelting furnace, they also crushed the copper ore as much as possible and mixed it with charcoal and lime.

Although Xu Jia could call Xun Taizi to blow wind and the little drought demon Sheng Ying to release fire to improve smelting efficiency, this was only suitable for refining equipment individually and could not be placed here; he had to build a place for alchemy and weapon refining on the mountain to exert their roles.

After waiting for a while, the impurities turned into something like magma and flowed out from the slag outlet.

Several strong men used their feet to step on the bellows; this was much easier than using hands to blow.

The oxygen in the air entered fully, increasing the furnace temperature while fully reacting with the impurities.

The tall chimney made the smelting no longer billow with thick smoke, because the oxygen was sufficient, and the smoke also became a combustible material, turning into a fire light that shot into the sky.

The several Household Officials who practiced the Zhurong Fire Qi Curse collected the scattered Fire Qi, their faces turning bright red as if they were holding their breath.

From nearby came the sound of clanging and banging; it was another group of people forging.

After waiting for the impurities to stop flowing out, they continued to smelt with a large fire, adding charcoal, and even splashing water.

The flames did not go out, but instead grew larger.

After waiting for the furnace temperature to continue rising, the Household Officials opened the copper outlet, and immediately, molten copper flowed out.

Once this molten copper came out, it was poured into molds and turned into copper bricks.

Only, after cooling, it was not a shiny gold or purple, but rather had a blackened appearance.

However, the Household Official was already very Joyous, and he judged: "This contains at least over eighty percent copper. This is just raw copper; it still contains some other things inside, such as lead, iron, or something else, so it still needs to be refined further."

Xu Jia asked: "How does it compare to before?"

"The yield has increased by about twenty percent, and it has saved a lot of trouble. Previously, after the slag came out, we had to take out the lumps inside; that stuff only had three to five percent copper."

"This furnace's copper smelting effect definitely cannot reach the effect of iron smelting. If it were iron smelting, once the molten iron came out, it would definitely be very pure, at least over ninety percent."

This furnace is not perfectly ideal; it was modified. Building a new furnace might be more efficient.

Compared to using iron to make firearms, copper actually has better ductility, which will greatly reduce the difficulty of manual crafting, but there are also disadvantages: copper is very expensive and also very heavy. The advantage lies in that it does not rust easily if maintained properly.

Xu Jia took out the blueprint for the Three-Eyed Fire Musket and asked: "How long until it can be built?"

"We can try within ten days." The Household Official did not dare to guarantee it. They were all strictly selected from the nine clans; this thing looks simple, but it is actually very difficult.

Xu Jia nodded and took out the designs for hydraulic stamping and hydraulic grinding wheels. The grinding wheel can grind ductility into copper sheets, or turn iron into iron sheets; a grinding wheel plus a grinding millstone can crush ore... while stamping can stamp out certain things at once, whether it be coins or plate armor.

These are all good things. This place is Xu Jia's arsenal, or rather, the "place where the Industrial Revolution begins."

But to develop industry, it is necessary to have centralized agricultural production. Small-scale peasant economies waste too much, including labor and the time of the labor itself.

Through wealth, Golden Toad annexed much of the land in Dexing, and a large number of ordinary farmers became his tenant farmers, so Golden Toad is qualified to start transferring part of the agricultural population into the industrial sector.

"In the agricultural sector, there is Ao Jin; he ensures favorable weather, but the yield of intensive farming in this era cannot be called high, so it is still necessary to bring in high-yield crops from overseas: corn, Sweet Potato, potatoes..."

Starting the chemical industry is also not bad. By gathering a large number of alchemy Daoists, one can open chemical plants. The chemical industry can manufacture chemical fertilizers and also explosives.

But taking too large a step makes it easy to pull a muscle.

The two counties of Yushan and Dexing do not have many people, both being at the hundred-thousand level. Xu Jia feels that at least reaching twenty thousand, or about forty thousand people, can be considered a healthy population situation, where one can simultaneously vigorously develop agriculture, industry... and even pull out a non-productive army of about ten thousand people.

The Household Officials received the blueprints as if they had obtained a treasure. Understanding the blueprints is a basic skill. Even if some Household Officials are illiterate, upon seeing the blueprints, they can study them for a while to know what they are for. Moreover, Household Officials are generally literate; the strict selection of the nine clans makes them engrave their names on even a single brick they burn.

Xu Jia left Sheng Ying and Xun Taizi here. Xu Jia had already personally set up the hall. Sheng Ying and Xun Taizi are the "Dharma Lords" of these Household Officials; they can use this to start practicing the Wind Method and Fire Method to improve their smelting and forging capabilities.

Sheng Ying likes fire, and Xun Taizi likes wind. This place happens to have enough fire and wind.

"Qingfeng Pavilion is a wind-gathering spot; perhaps a wind-powered forging village can be built there. I remember the Sword Casting Villa from Jin Yong's martial arts novels is also in the Jiangnan West Circuit, right! Forget it, wind power is not as good as water power. There are many hills here, and the drop is sufficient. If it really doesn't work, building a dam is enough to use water power to flush and form a vortex to drive the forging."

Xu Jia left this place and summoned Ao Jin: "This Rao Pearl of yours can make a hundred miles of land fertile. Added to favorable weather, about how much can production increase?"

"Master, the Rao Pearl itself can increase production by about ten percent, and favorable weather is just a necessary condition to maintain normalcy; it cannot increase production much. However, when we were in Shangjie, we heard that among the Innate Divine Dao, Earth Deities can perform divine arts. At the three critical times of sowing, flowering, and fruiting, they perform blessing arts to achieve increased production, which can increase the harvest by up to fifty percent."

"Or the Agricultural Gods; they cultivate seeds, such as the Hundred Fruit Fairy, the Hundred Grain Fairy, and the like. If one can obtain their Immortal seeds, even if they fall to the mortal world and degenerate into mortal seeds, they still have extraordinary potential compared to ordinary seeds."

Xu Jia also knows that by continuously cross-breeding, one can cultivate excellent rice seeds with stable traits. In fact, for thousands of years, farmers have done this intentionally or unintentionally, and they have their own set of methods for selecting seeds.

But this is not common knowledge. Xu Jia at least needs a professional agricultural official to work diligently for more than ten years in the two rice seasons of the year, and perhaps then the increase in production can be completed.

But this requires mobilizing too many resources, and the time cost is also high.

Rather than that, it is better to have a "comprador mindset": first develop trade, then buy grain from outside, while developing one's own slowly.

Seeing Xu Jia in deep thought, Ao Jin said: "After the child condensed the first Water Virtue Dragon Scale, he made contact with his father."

Xu Jia was surprised: "So fast?"

"After all, he is already considered an Earth Immortal, and Father also needs my help." Ao Jin said: "Father said he is currently practicing at the Sea Eye in the South Sea. He decided to start changing from Water Qi. As long as there is more primordial Qi in the water, it can turn into rainwater and spread to the whole world, achieving the goal of the recovery of primordial Qi."

Divine Path governance of the world is like this: hoping to drive one's own promotion through the promotion of the world.

The heavens of the Desire Realm are all small worlds, and it is relatively easy to promote them, but it also requires spending more than a hundred, or even a thousand years.

But if calculated according to one day in heaven being one year on earth, this actually does not count as a long time.

Three years in the lower realm to promote the world, gain one's own promotion, and then return to the Heavenly Court to receive a promotion in rank and obtain the Incense Fire faith of a world—this is actually very worthwhile.

Including the Yellow Heaven Sect, they thought this way, only they failed.

By comparison, the dragon's idea is simpler; they only want to control the world through water, and change the world through water. After all, no life can exist without water.

This is also the reason why Ao Jin practices Water Virtue. Compared to Earth Virtue, Water Virtue has fluidity and also "moistens things silently." It does not need revolution; one only needs to be a homebody and focus on doing one thing well to achieve the accomplishment of changing the world.

Xu Jia rubbed his chin: "Is your father easy to get along with?"

"I am not very familiar with him." Ao Jin scratched his head.

Xu Jia said: "If I want to go see the old Flood Dragon of Poyang, can I hire your father to be my protector Walker?"

"I don't know."

(End of this chapter)