Chapter 956

Dou Dou Dou Xiayan-Eye had cured his eyes, but he didn't leave; instead, he circled the corpse of the Deep One, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"Tsk tsk... it's your loss that you could find the corpse of this thing. I thought the mermen had all been killed off by the Qin Qin Shi Huang!"

"Rumor has it that there is a merman race in the East Sea, resembling both fish and human, immortal and undying. The females are beautiful in every way, while the males are incomparably ugly. Eating their flesh prevents aging, and their fat burns forever without extinguishing. In the past, the Qin Qin Shi Huang went to sea to seek the Immortal-Life Medicine. It is rumored that the mermen are immortal because there is Immortal-Life Medicine within their race, so the Qin Qin Shi Huang ordered people to kill them, hunting countless numbers to use their fat for eternal palace lamps..."

Physician Hua frowned: "Don't you think there is something wrong with this statement?"

"Since eating merman flesh prevents aging, why didn't the Qin Qin Shi Huang just eat merman flesh instead of looking for some Immortal-Life Medicine?"

Dou Dou Dou Xiayan-Eye laughed happily: "There are differences even among the immortal. Look, can't this thing in front of you also live forever? Do you envy it?"

Physician Hua snorted coldly, then suddenly realized something.

"Are you saying that the reason eating merman flesh prevents aging is because once you eat merman flesh, you become a merman?"

Physician Hua pointed at the corpse, his expression ugly.

Dou Dabiebao slapped his thigh: "Finally, you have a bit of intelligence. The Qin Qin Shi Huang was such a proud figure; how could he possibly turn into a merman? Moreover, mermen are dependents of evil gods, which is why they are immortal. This is a completely different pursuit from the Immortal-Living Holy Realm that we seek to attain through the Dao!"

"Moreover, this thing doesn't even count as a corpse."

Dou Dabiebao glanced at the Deep One with his single eye and said with heartache: "Its Merman Pearl is my eye. This thing's internal organs are abnormal and contain infinite vitality; the Profound Truth Sect is using it to nourish my eye! Having obtained my eye and completed the Merman Pearl, it is afraid it will soon gain power and wake up from its dormancy."

Crow inserted a needle into the Tanzhong acupoint on the Deep One's chest. The silver needle vibrated, transmitting invisible fluctuations to the Deep One's nervous system, and she said: "It will not wake up!"

Dou Dabiebao chuckled and said: "If you don't let it wake up, naturally it won't wake up."

"But this merman is a small matter; the thing behind it that created it is the truly remarkable one. This creature must be a great demon from the deep sea, possessing the bloodline of the Sea Dragon Lord."

Drummond's eyes flickered: "Sea Dragon Lord? Among the natives of the East Extreme Island, it is called Dagon, and in the 'Trinity Bible,' it is the sea god worshipped by the Philistines, Dagon!"

Dou Dabiebao trembled all over upon hearing this and raised his head: "You captured the Sea Dragon Lord?"

He gave a thumbs-up: "Hey! Remarkable. In our Central Lands, it is the god worshipped by the Hui people, also known as the Canghai Lord. Your foreign devils' great ships run rampant on the sea; it is indeed remarkable that you captured even this god of fish and dragons in the sea."

The head of the Three Emperors Society, Physician Hua, turned pale and stared fixedly at the dormant Deep One, saying to Dou Dabiebao: "Stop gloating! This person was a sailor on their ship; he only turned into a merman in the last few days."

"So the thing that transformed him is not in the West; I'm afraid it's right outside our Tianjingang!"

Dou Dabiebao couldn't laugh anymore!

"The ship carrying the Canghai Lord is docked at Tianjingang? Why don't you drive them away... That's right! Damn the imperial court; for the sake of that dog emperor's Immortal-Life Medicine, they have truly gone insane. You foreign devils want to feed us Zhigu people to the fish and shrimp!"

Physician Huo comforted them: "The day before yesterday, a great fire at the canal mouth swept through Zhigu City. Legend has it that the Fire God, Third Prince Nezha, used his Wind-Fire Wheels to collect all the demon fire and saved Zhigu City."

"If there is another flood in Zhigu City, I estimate Third Prince Nezha hasn't left yet! If there is another 'Nezha Stirs the Sea,' he will peel the dragon tendons of that Canghai Lord alive..."

Crow's expression shifted slightly, but in the end, she did not speak.

Dou Dabiebao sighed, slid down from the stool, and said: "You guys just keep making trouble! The south mouth of the canal is still suppressing that Nine-Eyed Fire Demon! And now another Canghai Dragon Lord has come outside Tianjingang. In the last few days, there have been unusual movements in the old course of the Yellow River. If that Yellow River water demon is summoned, and something else comes from the north, I don't think the Heavenly Empress Palace can suppress it anymore! By then, those four peerless demons will gather together, and the Sancha River mouth will have plenty of trouble!"

He was stunned for a moment as he said this, then suddenly started cursing: "I was wondering why that Daoist Cui had time to pass by my door; he was tricking me into coming out to face the tribulation!"

He slapped himself twice: "A word becomes a prophecy; I, old Dou, have no gatekeeper for this mouth of mine. I'm afraid one day there will truly be four earth-shaking demons causing trouble in Zhigu Port."

At this moment, an old man dressed in old-fashioned clothes, hunched over, walked leisurely into the Medicine King Temple with his hands behind his back. Seeing the old man, Dou Dabiebao stood up first, rising to lead his donkey toward the back.

The old man raised his head and shouted at him: "Dou Dou Dou Xiayan-Eye, don't run. Today I didn't come to ask you for money."

Only then did Dou Dou Dou Xiayan-Eye put down the rope leading the big green donkey, grinned, and said: "Insect King, why did you come today?"

"Everyone says you, Dou Dou Dou Xiayan-Eye, have a pair of divine eyes, but what do I, the Insect King, rely on to be the Insect King of Zhigu?" The Insect King scanned the crowd and answered his own question: "What I rely on is this pair of ears."

"I am not like you, Dou Dou Dou Xiayan-Eye, the Great Treasure-Seeker! Using dragon marrow to dot divine eyes, using heavenly eyes to appraise all treasures—so flashy! In this Zhigu Stronghold, who doesn't know that you, Dou Dabiebao, can see through any heavenly treasure at a glance. Back then, you caught that Purple-Eyed Great General on the yellow mud road, which was a rare Nine-Li Insect King. You thought you could dominate the insect market, invincible! Yet you were defeated by my Tooth-Gap Dull Overlord."

"At that time, I was calculating that you would want to win back your losses. Dou Dabiebao is such a proud person! How could he lose face to a waste like me who loves playing with trinkets!"

"I also had the intention to calculate against you at that time. I spent the nine thousand ocean dollars I won in the first round in three days, just to provoke you into taking the bait. Later, I had someone reveal to you that there was a sound of clashing gold in the Earth Temple outside the city. With your ability, Dou Dabiebao, you should have been able to guess that it was a one-in-ten-thousand exotic insect, the Insect King 'Gold-Plated and Colorful' that had become a heavenly treasure."

Dou Dabiebao couldn't sit still when he heard this. He stood up, looked at the Insect King for a long time with his only remaining eye, and then said: "Stop talking!"

"I, Dou Dabiebao, only thought I was remarkable, using a live lamb to catch that 'Gold-Plated and Colorful' Insect King, yet I lost to your master's Bone Bodhisattva... I am willing to admit defeat, and I lost that exotic treasure for raising insects—the thumb-sized gourd—to you."

"Later, I fell on hard times. To treat my illness, I gambled on insects with you again, finding the Eight-Defeat Exotic Insect to win a round against you, but I didn't expect that the Bone Bodhisattva was an evil insect that could use dead insects to fight live ones. Originally, I had lost my last bottom-line to you, but I didn't expect you, old brother, to be righteous and lend me that Angelica Medicine King!"

The old Insect King laughed: "So, don't look at your divine eyes as remarkable; my pair of ears, the South Insect King's, are not bad either!"

He tapped his cane and said sternly: "This pair of ears of mine—are not bad either!"

At this moment, the crowd suddenly realized that the old Insect King was able to catch so many exotic insects, likely relying on that pair of ears.

"The Bone Bodhisattva is completely white!"

"The 'Insect Manual' records that insects are divided into five colors: 'Red, Yellow, Brown, Green, White.' The first four have black as a base, hanging brown or hanging green; the further back, the more powerful. Those hanging green can already be called Insect Kings; those hanging white are rare to see in a hundred years, let alone completely white?"

"You ask how I caught this insect. I was fighting insects with someone at the Earth Temple south of the city, and that Ghost-Faced Great General collapsed upon hearing a single insect chirp! At that time, I knew this must be an exotic Insect King. I heard that chirp clearly and followed the path all the way to the Bone Tower west of the city. I waited for a whole night in front of a skull on the second floor of the tower before I waited for this insect to come out."

"This insect doesn't like to chirp; it only chirps once a year! It has to be raised in bones and fed phosphorus fire..."

At this moment, Dou Dabiebao truly lost his color. Not to mention how far the Earth Temple south of the city was from the Bone Tower west of the city, this was a city of a million people, bustling with countless shouts, cries, and liveliness.

The Insect King could find it just by the sound of a single chirp; this pair of ears could be called divine!

Moreover, the Insect King didn't show off like him. Having a pair of divine ears, no one had known his background for so many years, only thinking he was proficient in insect classics and good at appraising exotic insects, which was why he could make such a great name for himself in the Zhigu insect market.

And he only relied on gambling on insects to make a living.

This strange person both displayed his reputation and hid his abilities.

The Insect King, however, looked straight at his lips and pointed to his own ears: "But now, these ears of mine are deaf! The day before yesterday, on the Bone Tower west of the city, I heard another insect chirp. It was exactly the same as that Bone Bodhisattva. Common saying goes that crickets are divine insects, and there have never been two identical ones. I was truly possessed; I searched all the way to the Bone Tower in the middle of the night, and in that same skull on the second floor, I saw a Bone Bodhisattva!"

"Its feelers, legs, wings, and body were all bone-white, and on its back was a skull; connected to the wings, it was a Bone Bodhisattva sitting on a lotus pedestal."

"I was stunned at that time. This insect was exactly the same as mine; could there really be two identical insects in the world?"

"I saw that Bone Bodhisattva jump up. With one jump from the skull, it jumped into my ear. It wasn't until it drilled into my ear canal that I knew this was another exotic insect, the 'Thread-Pulling Play'! This kind of cricket is incomparably small, yet its personality is fierce, feeding on its own kind. It bites open the cricket's belly from under its abdomen, chews up the meat inside, and then wears the insect shell, manipulating it as if it were alive. Moreover, it is good at imitating sounds to attract its own kind to eat!"

"It is a top-tier evil insect!"

"That Bone Bodhisattva was my own; its corpse was stolen, and the Thread-Pulling Play hid inside it to plot against me."

"The Thread-Pulling Play bit through my eardrum, scraped off the tiny mercury on its legs inside, and deafened this pair of divine ears of mine..."

The entire Medicine King Temple was silent...

At this moment, another old woman walked into the Medicine King Temple. Seeing the crowd, she stuck out her tongue and pointed to her white tongue coating.

Dou Dabiebao felt a chill down his spine and said: "Fairy Bei of the Juxia Tower!"

At this moment, the Insect King laughed loudly, as if possessed.

The physicians of the Three Emperors Society and the foreign devils all turned their gazes toward the Profound Truth Sect, only to see Crow standing motionless, her expression calm.