[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-204":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231620,4184,"Chapter 204","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-204",204,"\u003Cp>Seeing this near-succubus effect of Long Qinghuang, Lu Xingzhou suddenly thought of a rumor that \"dragons are inherently lustful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of whether dragons are lustful or not, from a medicinal point of view, many alchemy classics have records that the dragon blood of many dragon species has aphrodisiac effects. Therefore, the body fragrance naturally emitted by her might naturally have an aphrodisiac or seductive effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Qinghuang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous golden shiny clothes might have had too good protection, shielding this effect quite a bit. This time, changing into ordinary clothes, the effect was fully displayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Lu Xingzhou who reacted first, intercepting her before Long Qinghuang made a move, and said coldly to the newcomer: \"Cold Mist Sect?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang, who was about to make a move, was stunned, and watched Lu Xingzhou's performance with interest, arms crossed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man in brocade robes who was leading the group came to his senses and shouted sharply: \"The demon woman killed my son for no reason, and is still posing here! Take her down and take her back for punishment!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the words fell, a shoe sole magnified in front of his eyes. The middle-aged man in brocade robes, who had just broken free from his sluggish state, was momentarily dazed and failed to avoid it, being kicked solidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a \"bang,\" he was kicked flying out of the shop, lying on the street vomiting a mouthful of blood, losing his combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of people immediately surrounded him: \"You are merely a fourth-rank, and you insist on being an enemy of our Cold Mist Sect for this demon woman?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou sighed secretly, I am saving you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I beat you down, maybe I can keep this star of disaster from killing people. If I really let her make a move herself, all of your ashes will be scattered, and it might even implicate innocent people nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he could only say verbally: \"My partner, if I don't protect her, should I protect outsiders?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A-Nuo stole a glance at Long Qinghuang, who was expressionless with her arms crossed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outsiders couldn't see Long Qinghuang's strength at all. How could they let Lu Xingzhou, a mere fourth-rank, act cool here? They instantly surrounded and attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang tilted her head slightly, watching Lu Xingzhou shuttle through the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the attackers were all middle-rankers, and among them, there were several who were fourth-rank like Lu Xingzhou. But this guy was very relaxed in one-on-many, like walking in a leisurely courtyard, shuttling through the crowd. Every punch hit, every foot didn't miss, and it looked very pleasing to the eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang could see that this was a very typical Daoist Taiji footwork evolving into Bagua, which should come from a very orthodox Daoist sect. The Tianyao Holy Land had similar footwork, but it was different from this person's and should not be from the same source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Muyu taught Lu Xingzhou countless combat methods, but not footwork... At that time, Lu Xingzhou was lame. This set of footwork came with the Yin-Yang Extreme Intent Technique, and its role was not just in land combat; there would be more changes in air combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for punches and kicks, they were even more from the Yin-Yang Extreme Intent Technique. Lu Xingzhou used the means taught by Yuan Muyu that tended to be sneak attacks less and less now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was becoming increasingly difficult for outsiders to see the roots of the Yama Hall from his combat performance, and even harder for her to feel the same source as the Tianyao Holy Land as she did when she first interacted with Bai Mao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, his mode of internal strength operation was very interesting... absorbing the opponent's attacks and feeding them back entirely. This was simply invincible in such group battles of the same level and lower levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Undoubtedly a super-rank technique... interesting.\" Long Qinghuang found it interesting: \"I didn't expect to run into someone so different just by chance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang bang bang!\" In just a cup of tea, everyone was kicked out of the shop door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou stepped out of the shop, and people were lying horizontally and vertically on the street, all looking at Lu Xingzhou's figure with some fear: \"Who... who are you, do you dare to leave your name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why, leave a name for you to retaliate?\" Lu Xingzhou stepped on one person's chest and said coldly: \"Do you want to live or die?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person being stepped on hurriedly said: \"O-of course I want to live, Senior, spare my life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He actually treated Lu Xingzhou as an old senior with a young appearance...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou said: \"I have some questions to ask. Whoever knows the inside story most completely will live.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior, please give your orders, the junior will definitely know everything!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did the matter of the dragon bone fragments in the Frozen Moon Cold River spread from Cold Mist City?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile appeared on the corner of Long Qinghuang's mouth that was almost imperceptible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person actually remembered that everyone went to Cold Mist City not just to change clothes, but to inquire about things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person being stepped on was stunned for a moment, but another person on the side answered quickly: \"I know this matter the most clearly, I ate this melon from beginning to end!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou picked up the person and shouted to Long Qinghuang and A-Nuo: \"Let's go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he disappeared like a flash of lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang looked at the Cold Mist Sect members groaning on the ground and finally laughed out loud: \"A set of flowing movements, wanting me to follow along and forget to kill. Little sister, your brother is very interesting. I heard that Chunshan Pavilion is a well-known righteous path, and it is indeed so.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm afraid Master wouldn't have thought half a year ago that one day he would be treated as a righteous path... A-Nuo put her hands together, hoping that Chunshan Pavilion would be fine in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was the first time someone treated Master as her brother, and this feeling was quite novel. A-Nuo didn't refute. After all, bringing a little apprentice had become Lu Xingzhou's trademark, and saying it was an apprentice seemed to easily expose Lu Xingzhou's identity...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang picked up A-Nuo with a smile: \"Forget it, seeing him perform so hard, I'll give him some face. I'll spare these people's lives for now, let's go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice was still there, but the person was gone. No one on the whole long street even saw how this woman disappeared. Only the lingering fragrance proved her existence, like a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small hill more than ten miles outside the city, the grass and trees were all frosted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou put the person down and sighed: \"Whatever my partner asks you later, just answer. Don't try to prevaricate. Once she is unhappy, even gods can't save you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man smiled: \"Know, know, I will definitely satisfy your wife.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou: \"?\" Before he could say anything, Long Qinghuang appeared with A-Nuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was sweating profusely, not knowing if Long Qinghuang heard this sentence or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I said a lone man and woman with a child would affect reputation, I didn't warn you, don't blame me...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang actually heard it, but didn't care. She looked around, there was no place to sit, so Long Qinghuang waved her hand, cut off the top of a rock on the side like tofu, and sat on it leisurely: \"Tell me, what's the situation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man looked at the cut of the rock as if he had seen a ghost. It was easy to cut a rock, many people could do it, but he had never seen anyone do it as easily and casually as wiping tofu in his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, seeing Lu Xingzhou's strength, he thought this family of three was headed by the man. Now looking at it, it turned out to be a man eating soft rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The dragon bone fragment was picked up by an outsider cultivator exploring the Frozen Moon Cold River. He took it to a medicinal shop in the city for appraisal, and it was appraised as a dragon bone by alchemists. Dragon bone is rare, even ordinary dragon bone is worth auctioning, so the man took it to the auction house. As a result, the bidders who knew the goods at the auction house called out prices more and more outrageously, attracting attention. Only then did they know that the dragon bone still had vitality. Under the exposure of the public, it immediately spread, and it couldn't be covered even if they wanted to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then? Who auctioned the dragon bone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest, the auction house was originally owned by our Cold Mist Sect. The winner was an outsider no one had ever seen. After knowing that this dragon bone was special, we originally wanted to swallow it and not give it to the outsider, but God knows that the outsider was so strong, he grabbed it and left, and even injured several people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou: \"...Did you investigate who that outsider was?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... In the end, we only found the original owner and let him take us to the place where the dragon bone was picked up. As a result, we couldn't find anything after going there. The Sect Master suspected that the owner was deceiving, so he simply searched his soul... As a result, the owner really didn't deceive, he was just lucky to pick it up, and he didn't know where it came from. This soul search instead made the person stupid, and there were no other clues. The Sect Master took people to search for several days, found nothing, and in the end, could only return resentfully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou turned to look at Long Qinghuang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the process was so simple, then there was really nothing to ask about this matter, he could only go to the scene to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang frowned and pondered for a long time before saying: \"He didn't lie, the process should be so ordinary.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't matter if the process was ordinary, as long as he didn't lie, at least it could prove that the dragon bone with vitality really existed and was not a smoke bomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang thought for a while and asked another question: \"So why do you conclude that it is an ancient dragon bone, and not frozen within these few thousand years?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was dumbfounded: \"Ah? Aren't there no dragons now? Naturally, it can only be ancient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou found it funny. Ordinary people really didn't know what the Demon Emperor's body was. After all, the level difference was a bit far, and he had only heard Mr. Ye say it a while ago. Before, when he saw the dragon and tiger bones in the Danxia Secret Realm, he also thought that this thing didn't exist now. The intersection between Tianshuang Kingdom and the demon race was less than that of the Great Qian, and the relevant information was more missing than his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that he knew the Demon Emperor was a dragon, it was highly probable that there were other dragons in the world, and there might even be dragons that the Demon Emperor didn't know about. It was not strange at all that dragons died here within a few thousand years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So although the dragon bone existed, whether it was \"ancient\" was doubtful, just what the ignorant thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because Long Qinghuang grabbed him to identify the age. In other words, going to Cold Mist City to change clothes and ask for information, a set of operations was fierce, but it actually had no effect. What should be done originally was still what should be done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was beneficial to delay time and wait for Mr. Ye to come and save his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang pondered for a long time and asked again: \"Since the matter of the dragon bone has spread, why hasn't the number of people coming here increased significantly recently?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man shook his head: \"Actually, there are, but everyone has self-knowledge. Those who are interested in this thing are all top powerhouses, and those who have no ability should not go to die. So most of those who come are first-rank powerhouses or even super-rank. How many can there be? The Frozen Moon Cold River is so big, a small number of powerhouses entering is like a drop in the ocean, and no increase can be seen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, he looked at the \"family of three,\" meaning that you guys with your family should forget it, the man is still a fourth-rank, eating soft rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was expressionless, Long Qinghuang laughed dumbly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou saved face: \"You haven't seen it, how do you know there are?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man said: \"Just half a day before you came to ask, a masked man came. The ghost qi was extremely terrifying, I thought I was going to die... As a result, he thought my answer was very complete and rewarded me with a spirit stone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou's heart stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost qi was deep, powerful, but generous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that Ji Wenchuan came?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang obviously didn't care about any ghost-masked man, and threw out a jade slip: \"This is the map of the Frozen Moon Cold River. You mark the place where the owner picked up the dragon bone, and you can roll.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man hurriedly marked a circle, nodded and bowed to retreat: \"I wish the three of you success.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this person run away like flying, Lu Xingzhou waited for a long time before slowly saying: \"I thought you would silence him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang said lightly: \"It makes no sense. Even if this person tells others that a man and a woman with a child came to ask him, who can know that it is me from such highly different information? On the contrary, the information about the ghost-masked man is very clear, it sounds like one of the five ghost emperors of the Yama Hall, and he didn't silence him, it was the benevolence of a woman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was Old Ji, it was not the benevolence of a woman, but Old Ji's personality was rough and casual, and he wouldn't dwell on too much. Lu Xingzhou had wiped his ass countless times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was this sentence that made Lu Xingzhou change his view of Long Qinghuang a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought demons were cruel, let alone the Demon Emperor... but after contact, he found that as long as you didn't provoke her, she really wouldn't kill people casually, and she even talked about whether it made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as long as you provoked her, no matter how lightly you offended her, it was estimated that you would have to pay with your life. The majesty of the Dragon Emperor could not be provoked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was thinking this, he heard Long Qinghuang say: \"Now it's time to talk about our problems.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou subconsciously retreated half a step: \"What problems do we have?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Qinghuang said leisurely: \"Originally there wouldn't be the reputation problem you mentioned... but you acted like you were fighting for your woman, what does that mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2562,"2026-06-18T01:46:10.354Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","286ec7e912d0d93039cf484e3845535c349073e4b3a853ea4f6b4a310fa303a2","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-205","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-203",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]