As Zhao Haiqing was still in shock, the white dragon swooped straight down and plunged into the sea, while the man hovered in the air, several meters above the ground.

Just moments later, the white dragon emerged from the water again and flew toward the fishing boat.

Zhao Haiqing trembled with fright and retreated repeatedly, but then a look of joy appeared on his face.

He saw the white dragon's claws gripping his father, with a fish demon in its mouth.

This is clearly a rescue operation!

The people on the boat exchanged glances, both surprised and delighted.

The white dragon swept across the fishing boat, tossed Zhao Qun onto the boat, then turned and flew into the sky, carrying the figure towards the horizon.

Zhao Qun choked on several mouthfuls of seawater, but other than that, he was not injured, just a little dazed.

He was rescued before he could figure out what was happening.

“Dad, he’s a professional charlatan. I’ve met him before. He’s the one who saved you.”

Zhao Haiqing watched the figure gradually disappear into the distance, his eyes filled with longing.

Zhao Qun was stunned for a moment, then stood up and kicked his son to the ground, saying, "I will never take you out to sea again."

Xia Tianqiong was riding on the White Dragon King, holding the fish demon by the neck with one hand and examining it closely.

This thing is a monstrous creature, and it is indeed beautiful.

Blue eyes also have a certain allure; a few glances can easily make a man lose his mind.

"Young man, please don't kill me, I'm willing to serve you."

The fish demon's face looked like that of a girl in her early twenties. She spoke timidly, which made people feel sorry for her.

Xia Tianqiong ignored it and instead instructed the White Dragon King, "These strange creatures are quite interesting to watch. Catch all of them when you encounter them. We can build a large fish tank and keep them as ornamental fish."

The White Dragon King glanced back and asked with a half-smile, "These fish demons can be male or female. Do you want both, or only the females?"

"I want both, but only handsome men and beautiful women."

As they talked, the fish demon trembled with fear, sensing that this human was not quite normal.

Xia Tianqiong then asked it to sign a human-master contract, and it didn't dare to object.

The White Dragon King flew back and forth along the coastline, searching for eerie scenes.

In the previous life, the entrance to the eerie scene appeared by the sea, but its exact location was not fixed and, like the Wujian Restaurant, it moved around.

After flying around twice, we only saw many fishing boats and made no other discoveries.

The strange scenes that occurred back then didn't appear in the human world until five years after the strange events began. Now that the strange events have begun much earlier, they should also appear earlier.

However, Xia Tianqiong couldn't guess exactly how much earlier.

It may have already appeared, or it may not have.

He took out the orange cat and tried it, but couldn't find it either.

After thinking it over and over, an idea suddenly popped into my head.

Why not take over Taohai City, just like Lin'an City, and arrange for a contracted ghost to take over the city, control all the people, and train them into soldiers? Then, they can guard this place for him, searching for strange occurrences.

That way, he only needs to come back occasionally.

Thinking it over and acting on it, Xia Tianqiong immediately changed direction and flew to the center of Taohai City.

At this moment in Lin'an City, the Sky Island Orchard silently floats a hundred meters in the air. Because its invisibility function is always active, the city's residents are unaware of the Sky Island's existence.

On the floating island, a little boy who is only a little over a meter tall is directing a dozen or so novice monsters to do their work.

It was none other than the human form of the Infant Tree Demon.

Over the past two years, its level has not improved; it remains a malevolent entity, but it has gained the ability to transform into human form.

This is a step that most plant-shaped and animal-shaped monsters must go through. Only after transforming into human form will their cultivation speed increase several times over.

"Hurry up, all of you, get the hell out of here, stop whining like women."

The Infant Tree Ghost stood by the Ghost Transformation Pool, hands on its hips.

She's clearly very cute, looking like a porcelain doll, but her voice sounds incredibly awkward.

Like the foreman on the construction site, he has absolutely no manners.

Under its command, a dozen or so novice monsters scooped out a thick, red liquid from the Monster Pool in wooden buckets before heading to the Netherworld Spring.

They added some spring water containing the power of the underworld and used it to water the hundreds of fruit trees on the island.

This is part of my daily work.

In addition to watering, we also need to prune dead branches, clear weeds, pick spirit fruits, pick flower petals, and so on.

The Infant Tree Ghost doesn't always just give orders without doing any work. When brewing various spirit wines, it doesn't trust other ghosts and always does it itself, even forbidding other ghosts from approaching its brewing workshop.

These days passed by one by one, each one fulfilling.

Ying Shugui really enjoys this kind of life.

After a long day's work, it finally came to the peach tree. With its little hands, it dug up the soil around the roots, took out a gold ingot, and buried it.

"This was saved from my food rations. Remember to pay me back when you have money in the future!"

It was unusual for it not to refer to itself as Laozi, and it spoke much more gently.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a clear, melodious girl's voice came from inside the peach tree trunk, "Thank you, brother. If I had money, I would definitely repay you double! But how can I earn that money?"

"No rush. You're just a little wild monster now. Once you can transform into human form, you can work for the boss and then you'll naturally get paid."

This peach tree had already developed sentience half a year ago, directly becoming a wild-level monster.

After discovering the Infant Tree Ghost, it didn't tell the Delivery Ghost; it wanted to tell Xia Tianqiong the good news in person.

Unfortunately, on the day Xia Tianqiong came out of seclusion, it ate a meal and left. It was busy brewing wine and didn't have time to tell Xia Tianqiong.

As a result, he didn't return for several days after leaving.

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