Chapter 25 Sauce and Fermentation: Believe it or not, I'll strip you naked right now! ...
Fujian and Yue, Wuxu Mountain.
The man in black robes leaned lazily against the couch, toying with a judge's pen in his hand, his purple eyes both eerie and alluring.
A monk was kneeling directly in front of him.
If Lu Jiao and the others were there, they would definitely recognize this cultivator as the dragon who was "skinned and dismembered" by Lu Jiao.
"So, you're the one who told Jiaojiao my location?"
"Yes." The dragon's voice trembled slightly. "I didn't know you were really at the bottom of the Min River. I thought it was just a rumor."
Xian Ting has been missing for hundreds of years, and there are many rumors about his disappearance. He never expected that one of them he casually mentioned would actually be true, and he never expected that he would wake up at this critical juncture.
"Don't be afraid, I don't blame you." Xian Ting stood up from the couch. "I'm very happy that Jiao Jiao came to see me. Really, you've done a great job. I won't punish you; I'll reward you instead."
"What should I reward you with?" He seemed a little troubled, and after thinking for a while, he still couldn't come up with a reward.
Just as the dragon was about to say that he didn't need a reward, he heard his smiling voice ring out in his ear.
"How about I reward you... by leaving you with a whole corpse?" He was smiling, but his tone was icy cold, like a biting winter wind, each word piercing to the bone, sending chills down one's spine.
Before the dragon could react, the judge's pen in his hand pierced through the top of his head.
The dragon felt his skull being pierced, and his brain exploded; death was only a matter of moments.
The judge's pen was quickly pulled out, and his body, having lost its support, fell limply to the ground.
Gui Cheng, who was standing nearby, handed over a handkerchief so that Xian Ting could wipe the blood and brain matter off the judge's pen.
Xian Ting calmly wiped the blood and brain matter off the judge's pen, then casually tossed the handkerchief on the ground, which landed right over the dragon's unseeing eyes.
“A proper burial,” he said.
"Yes," Gui Cheng replied.
Soon, two cultivators came in and carried the dragon's corpse out.
"Which way did Jiaojiao go?"
“Lower reaches of the Min River.” The one who answered him was the dragon princess who had fought Lu Jiao before, named Ao Xue. Ao Xue said, “He also had several mixed-race people and a… bastard with him.”
"A mongrel?" Xian Ting was somewhat surprised. "A living mongrel?"
“Yes.” Ao Xue nodded. “She hasn’t mutated yet and looks more like a pure-blooded human, but I sensed a trace of pure-blooded sea creature aura on her, so she should be a hybrid.”
“A bastard, and Jiao Jiao didn’t kill her, but even kept her by her side. Interesting,” Xian Ting said. “Jiao Jiao really is the most interesting person in the world.”
"Are you going to find him?" Ao Xue asked.
“Of course,” Xian Ting replied without hesitation.
In fact, he left earlier to find Lu Jiao. He sensed Lu Jiao's presence and followed that direction, searching all the way to the East Sea, but he couldn't find him, so he returned.
If he had known he would come looking for him, he wouldn't have gone anywhere and would have just waited for him here.
“Take me with you,” Ao Xue said.
“Okay, but you have to be obedient,” Xian Ting said. “Disobedient children will be killed.”
"I will listen to you." Ao Xue didn't believe he would kill her, but she didn't deliberately disobey him either. She always listened to him the most, and only to him.
Lin Jianyu and the others, far away in Zhejiang, were completely unaware of what was about to happen to them.
At this moment, Lin Jianyu was washing her blood-stained clothes and pants by the stream.
Well, because she was captured by Qianli and didn't have time to put on a sanitary pad, her period came into close contact with her pants.
Zhu Liu accompanied her to the stream. Thinking that girls shouldn't touch cold water when they're on their period, he said, "How about I help you wash?"
"No need, you can't get it clean," Lin Jianyu refused.
"I haven't even washed it, how do you know I can't wash it clean?" Zhu Liu, who was always proud, retorted.
“You haven’t even washed it, how could it possibly be clean?” Lin Jianyu said.
Zhu Liu: "..."
It is well-reasoned and irrefutable.
"Aren't you sure you'll be okay washing it yourself?"
"What could possibly happen?" She was a beautiful young woman with a strong body, as robust as an ox, and besides, the water wasn't cold in this weather. If it weren't for the fact that her gender didn't allow it, she would have liked to take a bath right there.
"It's good that you're alright," Zhu Liu said. "These clothes are so torn, you still want them?"
"I only brought two sets of clothes. If I don't take them, I won't have any to change into next time."
"Next time I go to town to buy supplies, I'll buy you two more sets."
“I’ll go buy it myself,” Lin Jianyu said. “Next time I go to town with Senior Brother Yun Dan and the others, you stay behind as a hostage.”
“I’ll go too. Leaving Senior Brother Xuanzhan as a hostage is enough.”
“Senior Brother Xuanzhan is going too, you stay behind as a hostage.”
"You're dreaming!" He dared not be alone with Lu Jiao.
Stop imitating the way big shots talk.
"Isn't that your catchphrase?"
"Not anymore." It was stolen by Lu Jiao.
“I’m definitely not going to stay behind alone with the big boss.” After saying that, Zhu Liu caught a glimpse of Qian Li not far away out of the corner of his eye, and asked, “That little ancestor isn’t planning to come with us either, is he?”
One pure-blooded merman was already enough to make them live in fear; if another pure-blooded Kunpeng appeared, they would probably have to live with their heads on the line all the time.
"He didn't say he wanted to come along, but judging from his expression, it seems like he's not planning to leave for the time being," Lin Jianyu said, glancing at Qianli, who was eating non-stop and acting like he was part of the group not far away.
"I hope it's really just temporary," Zhu Liu said.
“It should only be temporary,” Lin Jianyu said. “After all, we are only staying in Zhijiang temporarily and will leave soon, while he has been here since the Republic of China era and should not leave easily.”
"What if?" Zhu Liu asked.
"It's okay even if it doesn't work out. He's a Kunpeng, he can be our mount, he's super fast, probably as fast as an airplane," Lin Jianyu said.
"Who gave you the audacity to use a Kunpeng as a mount?"
“Wow, that’s a big shot!” Lin Jianyu said. “We came back in his car.”
Zhu Liu: "..."
As expected of a big shot.
When Qianli had almost finished off their snacks, he was about to leave, but Yundan started making dinner.
No member of the Mountain and Sea Clan could refuse a meal prepared by Yun Dan, except for Qian Li.
As soon as the aroma of Yun Dan's cooking wafted out, he moved a small stone and sat down next to the pot to watch over it.
Seeing how much he was craving it, Lin Jianyu said to Zhu Liu, "I'm afraid he won't be able to leave anytime soon."
“It’s not scary to be unable to leave for a while; what’s scary is not leaving at all,” Zhu Liu said.
"If you're not going anywhere, then stay here and be our mount." Lin Jianyu really wanted a mount like Qianli because it was really fast and could save them a lot of time.
Unfortunately, Qianli didn't want to be their mount.
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, he turned around and said to her, "You're dreaming!"
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu could hardly bear to look at her old catchphrases anymore.
"Where did you learn that phrase?"
"The Great Demon King." When he stayed behind to observe secretly, Lu Jiao told him about her. Her expression then was exactly the same as now, which made him feel inexplicably happy, so he just used what he learned.
"Look at you, you've corrupted so many people," Yun Dan said.
"He already said he learned it from the Great Demon King, what does it have to do with me, a beautiful woman?" She was utterly innocent.
Yun Dan: "..."
Yun Dan was speechless at her description of her as a "great beauty".
I have never seen such a shameless person.
“The Great Demon… the Great Boss learned from you. Learning from the Great Boss is the same as learning from you.”
"I never taught the big shot. He learned by stealing knowledge, so it doesn't count as me teaching him," Lin Jianyu said.
Yun Dan didn't argue with her because the food was ready and he was serving it to Qianli, afraid that he would just grab it and start eating.
After eating the meal he cooked, Qianli indeed decided not to leave.
But Lin Jianyu and the others wanted to leave.
They were only staying here temporarily; if Qianli hadn't taken Lin Jianyu away, they would have left that afternoon.
"Where are you going?" Qianli asked as they packed their things to leave.
“Here,” Lin Jianyu said, pointing to a point marked on the map. “Since you’re free anyway, why don’t you transform into your original form and take us there? The sooner we get here, the sooner my senior brother Yun Dan can cook you something delicious.” Hmm, she still hadn’t given up on having him as their mount.
Although flying high in the sky made her feel very insecure, she was willing to overcome any difficulties in order to find her master as soon as possible. At worst, she would just cling to Lu Jiao's coattails again.
Qianli glanced at the point she was pointing to and realized that she couldn't understand what it was at all.
So he withdrew his gaze with little interest and said, "I'm not going to be your mount."
"You're afraid of losing face because you can't carry so many of us!" Lin Jianyu said. "It's okay. Although you're much smaller than the legendary Kunpeng, we won't look down on you. We can just fly a few more times."
"What do you mean we can't carry all of you? How many of you are there?" Qianli had never been so speechless in his life. "Do you know why I'm called Qianli?"
"Why?" Lin Jianyu asked, following his lead.
"Because I can spread my wings for thousands of miles," Qianli said. "Not flying thousands of miles, but my body can cover thousands of miles." His true form can blot out the sky and the sun.
"Really? I don't believe it." Lin Jianyu said this, but he didn't really believe it either. However, judging from the proud tone in his voice, regardless of whether he really spread his wings for thousands of miles, it was at least true that he could carry all of them.
The tactic of provocation might not work well for most people, but it's incredibly effective on a proud young cub.
“I can prove it to you.”
"I won't look," Lin Jianyu said.
Qianli: "..."
"Do you even know how to use reverse psychology?" I've never seen such a stupid person.
Lin Jianyu would certainly use reverse psychology, but she didn't expect that he would actually know she was using reverse psychology on him, which was a bit awkward.
"So, are you willing to return to your original form and send us here?" Well, what the hell?
"I don't know the way." Qianli couldn't read a map and had no idea where the little red dot she had marked on the map was.
“It’s okay if you don’t know the way, my senior brother Zhu Jin does. I’ll have him show you the way, you just need to fly,” Lin Jianyu said.
"Okay." Qianli agreed so readily, partly to prove himself, and partly because he felt that even if he didn't agree, Lu Jiao, that big devil, would force him to agree.
He agreed, and then Lin Jianyu asked Zhu Jin, "Senior Brother Zhu Jin, you should also recognize the path that leads from the heavens, right?"
Zhujin: "..."
Zhu Jin was still in shock that she had actually managed to persuade a Kunpeng to be their mount.
"Should...should I?"
"It's enough that we know each other." After Lin Jianyu finished speaking, he said to Qianli, "You can show your true form now. You don't need to become too big, just big enough to carry all of us, so that there won't be enough room here."
Upon hearing this, Qianli immediately transformed back into his original form.
When Zhu Liu saw the original form of the Kunpeng clan for the first time, he couldn't help but marvel.
Lin Jianyu, who has seen the world, said: "Besides this form, he also has a bird-man form, which is the body of a Kunpeng and the face of a human. If you have the chance, let him transform into one for you to see. I won't watch it, it's too cringeworthy."
“I can hear you.” Qianli gave her a cold glance.
"Oh, then I'll be quieter next time," Lin Jianyu said dismissively. Before he could say anything more, she immediately turned to Zhu Liu and said, "Go upstairs!"
Zhu Liu and the others dared not go up, nor did Yun Dan and the others.
Unlike the ignorant and fearless Lin Jianyu, they naturally fear powerful purebloods.
"You have experience, you go first."
“Okay.” Lin Jianyu did not refuse. She stepped forward and grabbed Qianli’s feathers to climb up. Her movements were a bit clumsy. She spent a lot of effort and almost pulled off all the feathers on Qianli’s body, but she still couldn’t climb up.
Zhu Liu and the others watched from the sidelines, all sweating for her, fearing that Qianli might get upset and turn around and drill through her skull.
In the end, Lin Jianyu didn't manage to climb up on her own. It was Lu Jiao who couldn't bear to watch and grabbed her by the back of her collar to pull her up.
"I can do it myself." After Lin Jianyu went up, instead of thanking Lu Jiao for his help, she secretly blamed him for meddling in her affairs. She felt that she was almost able to pluck Qianli's feather.
As if reading her mind, Lu Jiao said, "You can't pluck the feathers of the Kunpeng with your strength."
"You want to pluck my feathers?" Qianli belatedly realized.
Lin Jianyu's strength was so weak that it wouldn't even be enough to pluck his feathers, let alone tickle him; he wouldn't even feel a thing.
"If I said I didn't want to, would you believe me?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"I don't believe you," Qianli said. "Why did you pluck my feathers?"
Lin Jianyu did not answer his question because the truth was hard to tell and he was too lazy to make up lies.
She didn't speak, so Qianli guessed to himself: "Do you also think my feathers are beautiful?"
"Hmm." His feathers were golden, and they looked very valuable.
"Since you have such good taste, I'll give you one." As soon as Qianli finished speaking, a feather wrapped in golden light fell from his body and floated to Lin Jianyu's side.
Lin Jianyu, who had tried for ages but couldn't pluck a single feather from him: "..."
It's true, you can search high and low and find it right under your nose... Pshaw! She didn't want his feathers at all; she wanted to hurt him.
"Doesn't it hurt?" she asked, taking the feather.
"No!" Qianli replied without hesitation.
Lin Jianyu clenched the feather in her hand.
So annoying!
"Why aren't you coming up yet?" she said to Yun Dan and the others.
She and Lu Jiao went up, and Yun Dan and the others didn't hesitate any longer. They all jumped onto Qianli's back, making her look quite pathetic, even though she had done it on purpose, as she had tried to climb up by pulling on Qianli's feathers for a long time but failed.
The unfortunate event of chasing the river for thousands of miles happened to land right next to Lin Jianyu.
Taking the opportunity, Lin Jianyu showed him the feather in her hand and asked, "Is it valuable?"
“It’s well worth it.” Zhu Jin didn’t even need to look closely before giving her an affirmative answer.
"Is it pretty?" Lin Jianyu asked again.
"It looks good," Zhu Jin said.
"What about you? Do you think these feathers are pretty?" Lin Jianyu showed the feathers in her hand to Yun Dan and the others.
Regardless of what they were thinking, Yun Dan and the others all said it looked good.
After receiving a satisfactory reply, Lin Jianyu said to Qianli, "My senior brothers also think your feathers are beautiful. Could you give each of them one as well?"
Qianli was completely captivated by their repeated exclamations of "How beautiful!" and almost without hesitation gave each of them a feather. After all, he had plenty of feathers, and they could grow back even if he plucked them.
He felt he hadn't lost out this time, while Lin Jianyu and the others felt they had made a huge profit.
As they prepared for takeoff, Lin Jianyu sat down skillfully and then hugged Lu Jiao's leg tightly.
Lu Jiao: "..."
He was tired of saying the words "let go".
So he didn't say anything, he just gave her a cold "glance".
After Lin Jianyu was chilled, she smiled ingratiatingly at him and said, "It's too fast, I'm scared."
Lu Jiao couldn't "see" how scared she was, because there wasn't a trace of fear on her face. Even her claim of being scared was just a copy of what she had said before, not at all perfunctory.
But he didn't let her let go, planning to kick her down after she flew to a high place. Even if she didn't die, he thought it would teach her a lesson.
Unaware of his malicious thoughts, Lin Jianyu saw him withdraw his gaze from her and assumed he had softened as before, so she turned and invited Yun Dan and the others to sit down as well.
Zhu Liu sat down beside her, looking at her crossed legs, hesitating whether to let her straighten them so he could hug her.
"Why are you staring at my legs? Am I being overly domineering?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"No." Zhu Liu shook his head. "It's too fast, I'm scared too. Can I hold your legs?"
“I’m sitting down, so it’s not convenient for you to hug me,” Lin Jianyu said. “Go hug the boss’s other leg.”
"Never mind." Zhu Liu didn't have her fearless spirit. "I'll carry Fifth Senior Brother." After saying that, he slowly moved towards Xuan Zhan's direction.
He left, and Lin Jianyu was left with only Lu Jiao by her side.
She leaned against Lu Jiao's legs and asked him, "At this height, can you sense which direction my master is in?"
"I don't know," Lu Jiao said.
"Then let's fly one point at a time!" Lin Jianyu originally wanted to have Qianli fly them around the Zhijiang River while it was dark, which would save more time.
Lu Jiao didn't offer any opinion; he was pondering when he could kick Lin Jianyu off the stage.
Lin Jianyu, who knew nothing about this, also fell silent for a short while after he did.
After a while, she couldn't stand the silence and started making conversation: "You told me before that when my life is threatened, my body will undergo a change in advance due to its self-preservation instinct. Why didn't my body undergo a change when you kidnapped me from afar?"
During her journey to be captured, she narrowly escaped death several times.
She fell into the air several times, lost too much blood, and was almost eaten, but her body showed no signs of any abnormality.
“I said possibly, not necessarily,” Lu Jiao said. “It’s possible that the level of danger is not enough to threaten your life, or it’s possible that you recently ate the blood beads that can suppress the mutations in your body, and the suppressive effect hasn’t completely worn off yet.”
"I see." Lin Jianyu understood.
"Do you want to undergo the transformation quickly?" Lu Jiao asked.
"It's alright, I didn't think too much about it," Lin Jianyu said honestly.
“I can help you,” Lu Jiao said.
"How can we help?" Lin Jianyu asked.
Lu Jiao showed her directly through his actions how he planned to help her.
Lin Jianyu was still waiting for his reply when he was suddenly kicked away.
"Lu Jiao, I'll fuck your grandpa!"
When Yun Dan and the others turned around at the sound, Lin Jianyu was no longer there, and Lu Jiao was also gone.
"Where are Junior Sister and Boss?" Zhu Liu asked.
"I don't know." Qianli was moving very fast. They had barely heard the sound when they were already a long distance away from Lin Jianyu and the others. When they turned around, they couldn't see anything.
"I think I heard from the big boss that we need to help Junior Sister undergo her transformation quickly," Zhu Liu said.
Yun Dan and the others heard what Lin Jianyu said, but they couldn't understand why Lin Jianyu was scolding Lu Jiao.
Finally, Qianli told them that Lu Jiao had kicked Lin Jianyu off his back, and only then did they understand why Lin Jianyu had cursed Lu Jiao.
If he could, Lin Jianyu would actually prefer to kill Lu Jiao.
After Lu Jiao kicked her out, she fell freely. Although she was extremely uneasy, she firmly believed that Lu Jiao would not let her fall to her death.
Lu Jiao did not let her fall to her death, but he also did not catch her.
He cast a spell to freeze her in mid-air when her body was less than five meters from the ground, and then let her free fall when she breathed a sigh of relief.
This time, he didn't freeze her, but instead let her body make direct, intimate contact with the ground.
When Lin Jianyu landed, she hit the ground face first. It didn't hurt too much; she had thick skin, and the sand and gravel couldn't pierce her skin at all. But she was quite disheveled. When she looked up, her face was covered in dirt, even her mouth was full. She really fell flat on her face.
After spitting out the dirt in her mouth, she angrily pounded the ground with her fist, saying as she did so, "Lu Jiao, you'd better not fall into my hands in this lifetime."
"What will happen if it falls into your hands?" Lu Jiao's voice rang out behind her.
"You'll die," Lin Jianyu said irritably.
"You can't kill me." She could barely hurt him, let alone kill him.
"Then I'll strip you naked, and then, like this and that, like that and that, all sorts of things..." I can't think about it anymore, it's getting a bit intoxicating.
Although Lu Jiao didn't understand what she meant by the later parts, he understood the part about stripping naked.
"Believe it or not, I'll strip you naked right now?" he said, grabbing Lin Jianyu by the back of her collar and lifting her up from the ground.
Lin Jianyu was still shocked that he was even more of a beast than she was when she suddenly felt suffocated.
"Let me go, you beast."
She told him to let go, and Lu Jiao did.
Then, she fell back to the ground, face down.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu gathered the sand and stones around him with his hands, trying to bury himself alive.
Well, this worthless life is just going to be wasted anyway, might as well not have it.
Lu Jiao was puzzled by her behavior and asked her, "What are you doing?"
Lin Jianyu ignored him and continued to gather sand and stones to bury himself alive.
Having no other choice, Lu Jiao grabbed her by the back of her collar again and lifted her up from the ground.
"Let me go, let me die." Lin Jianyu struggled.
Hearing her words, Lu Jiao seemed to understand what she had just been doing.
"So, are you planning to die from stupidity?"
"You're the stupidest one! Your whole family is stupid!" Lin Jianyu retorted. "Let go, you're suffocating."
"If I ask you to let go next time, will you let go?" Lu Jiao asked.
Lin Jianyu understood.
"So you kicked me off because I wouldn't let go of your leg. If you don't want me to hug you, just say so! It's not like I necessarily want to hug you."
"Haven't I said enough?" He had said it more than once when she first hugged his leg.
“You’ve said a lot before, but you didn’t say anything this time. If you didn’t say anything, how am I supposed to know you don’t want to be hugged?” Lin Jianyu said logically.
"So, is it unnecessary for me to let go?" Lu Jiao lifted her up a little more, so that her feet were off the ground.
Lin Jianyu, who was forced to hang himself, immediately backed down.
"Boss, I was wrong. I'll never cling to your leg again. Please put me down, or I'll really die."
“You just wanted to die, didn’t you? I’ll grant your wish,” Lu Jiao said.
"You can't kill me, you'll only make me suffer. Let go, I'm suffocating," Lin Jianyu urged as she pried at his hand.
Lu Jiao couldn't kill her, but he enjoyed watching her suffer, so he waited until she started rolling her eyes before letting go.
This time, Lin Jianyu didn't collapse to the ground, but he didn't stand either; instead, he knelt on the ground and coughed desperately.
This is what Yun Dan and the others saw when they arrived.
"What are you doing? Are you repenting?" Zhu Liu asked.
"Cough, repent, cough cough cough..." Lin Jianyu coughed as she tried to refute him, but then her coughing got worse.
Seeing that she was coughing so hard that tears were streaming down her face, Zhu Liu kindly said, "Cough first, and we'll talk after you're done."
After coughing, Lin Jianyu didn't want to talk anymore and lay on Qianli's back like a dead dog. Yun Dan was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he covered her with a blanket.
The speed of Qianli was very fast. What would normally take Lin Jianyu a day to travel with the speed-up talisman, he flew there in just over half an hour. This was only because he was delayed by Lin Jianyu and the others along the way and because he deliberately slowed down.
Normally, it would only take it a few minutes to fly that distance on its own.
Lin Jianyu's emotions came and went quickly. By the time they subsided, she was fully recovered and had temporarily forgotten her feud with Lu Jiao.
There was nothing she could do; she needed Lu Jiao's help!
Lu Jiao was asked to sense which direction Lin Jinshui was in. Lu Jiao said no. It was impossible for her to turn her back on him on the spot. At most, she would ignore him and plan to fly to the next point.
At Qianli's speed, flying to more than a dozen points tonight would be no problem at all. That was her plan. But plans can't keep up with changes. After flying to only one point, Qianli gave up.
He said he would ask Yun Dan to cook him something delicious, otherwise he wouldn't fly.
Lin Jianyu didn't want to spoil him and wanted to force him to fly, but the five of them combined couldn't beat him. Those who could beat him didn't care and stayed out of it. She couldn't stop spoiling him, so she could only ask Yun Dan to cook him a bowl of instant noodles.
Her original intention was just to cook something casually, but Yun Dan had his own unique obsession with food. Even if it was just a simple bowl of instant noodles, he would cook it to be delicious and visually appealing.
She was so tempted by the smell that she and Qianli each ate a bowl.
"After you finish this bowl of instant noodles, you have to take us to at least ten destinations tonight."
"You're dreaming!" Qianli said. "This bowl of instant noodles is only enough for me to fly to one destination. If I want to fly to the next destination, you'll have to make me more food."
"How long does it take you to fly one point? Aren't you afraid of overeating?"
"I am Kunpeng, I can eat several tons of food in one meal, this is nothing, it's not even enough to fill my teeth," Qianli said proudly.
“Let’s split up when we get to the next stop!” Lin Jianyu said. “We can’t afford to feed a mount as big as you.”
When they arrived at the next destination, they did not separate because Qianli refused to leave. Lin Jianyu took the opportunity to manipulate him and made him fly them to a few more destinations for free.
The whole night was incredibly efficient, but it was ineffective because Lu Jiao still couldn't sense the direction Lin Jinshui was in.
“I told you long ago that the person you’re looking for isn’t in my territory, but you didn’t believe me.”
"Is this all the territory you own?" Lin Jianyu asked.
“Of course not,” Qianli said. “The entire Zhejiang province is my territory.”
"Then wait until we've traveled all over Zhejiang before you say that." They'd only visited a few points; it was still a long way off before they'd covered all the points she'd circled.
“I don’t know what kind of people live in Zhijiang, but I know exactly what kind of mountain and sea tribes they are. No mountain and sea tribe can escape the eyes of our Kunpeng tribe. As long as they enter Zhijiang territory, I can sense their presence.”
"Bullshit!" Lin Jianyu didn't believe it. "Did you even know when the big boss entered Zhijiang territory?"
“I know,” Qianli said. “Otherwise, why do you think I would be here with you?” He had only captured her because he sensed a powerful pure-blooded sea creature entering the territory of Zhijiang and went to investigate.
Of course, capturing her wasn't a mistake for mistaking her for a pure-blooded sea creature; it was because they sensed a trace of pure-blooded sea creature aura on her.
"I know you're still not afraid." He was clearly only afraid after seeing Lu Jiao. Before, when she told him that her boss was a merman, he shamelessly said that mermen were food for their Kunpeng clan.
"I didn't know he was the Great Demon King Lu Jiao." Before meeting Lu Jiao, he only knew that the other party was a pure-blooded merman, and among pure-blooded mermen, he was not afraid of anyone except Lu Jiao.
"Is Lu Jiao, the Great Demon King, really that scary?" Lin Jianyu's voice was noticeably softer when she asked this question, even though she knew it was pointless.
“He is the most terrifying person in the entire Shan Hai Realm,” Qianli said.
"What about Xian Ting?" Lin Jianyu asked. "Is he more frightening, or is Lu Jiao more frightening?"
"You know Xian Ting?" Qianli asked, somewhat surprised.
"I don't recognize it," Lin Jianyu said. "Lu Jiao mentioned it, saying it was a bedbug."
"The Flood Dragon Clan was almost wiped out by Lu Jiao, but rose again under Xian Ting's leadership. Tell me, who is more terrifying?"
Whether it's nearly wiping out a race or leading a nearly wiped-out race to rise again, neither is an easy task. But if Lin Jianyu had to choose one, she would definitely choose Lu Jiao without hesitation.
Because she felt that destruction was far more terrifying than rise.
She just hadn't expected that Lu Jiao, who hadn't killed a single chicken since waking up, was actually a dragon-slaying youth in ancient times? Old man? Or a youth! He didn't look old at all.
"What about strength? Who's stronger?"
"Lu Jiao the Great Demon King".
"Are you so sure?" She thought Xian Ting and Lu Jiao were evenly matched.
"Lu Jiao, the Great Demon King, is very strong; even my mother can't beat him."
"You mean, your mother can beat Xianting?"
"I don't know, I've never fought him," Qianli said. "When Xianting rose to power, my mother was already tens of thousands of years old. To her, Xianting was just a cub, and the proud Kunpeng clan would never bully a cub."
After hearing his words, Lin Jianyu suddenly no longer found Xian Ting scary.
Because in her mind, Xian Ting's image suddenly became that of a cub like him, maybe a little older, three years old, or no older than four.
"How could you bully a cub!" She said this to Lu Jiao, her tone full of accusation.
Lu Jiao ignored her completely.
Lin Jianyu was already used to his indifference towards her and didn't care much. At most, she would fantasize in her heart that one day he would be unable to reach her. Now, his ignoring her was a kind of protection for her.
Over the next few days, they flew several times a day, which was efficient, but still ineffective.
After flying over all the points she had marked, Qianli was finally able to say, "I told you long ago that the person you're looking for isn't in my territory, but you didn't believe me."
Lin Jianyu had no choice but to believe it this time.
"We're going to Suzhou next, would you like to come with us?"
“It’s fine to go together, but I can’t be your mount anymore,” Qianli said.
"Then forget it, farewell, goodbye forever." Lin Jianyu said, clasping his hands in a gesture of parting.
Qianli: "..."
Why do I have this inexplicable feeling of being used and then abandoned?
“A very powerful sea creature has recently appeared in Suzhou. Like me, it likes to fly in the sky. Since we also fly, it is easy for air traffic accidents to occur.”
"Gusu is not the territory of Gouqu Mountain, so how come there are still ghosts causing trouble?" Gouqu Mountain is the most skilled of the seven major sects of Taoism in dealing with ghosts, and it is also the only sect that can capture ghosts "alive". Its stubbornness is almost on par with Wuxu Mountain. It is said that so far no ghost has been able to escape from their grasp.
“Who says Suzhou is the territory of Gouqu Mountain? Suzhou is the territory of the dead,” Qianli said. “Suzhou is full of the dead.” Therefore, he generally doesn’t go to Suzhou.
"Are you afraid of the dead?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"How could that be? I'm not afraid of anything."
"Then why don't you dare to fly in the skies above Suzhou?"
"Because I can't beat that undead." Qianli said the truth. "Undead are all uncivilized. If you fall into their hands, you really will die." Although he likes to court death, it doesn't mean he really wants to die.
"Could that sea creature undead also be a Kunpeng?" It likes to fly in the sky, has strong combat capabilities, and is a sea creature. The only one Lin Jianyu could think of was the Kunpeng.
“No,” Qianli said. “She’s Wenyao, I think her name is Kong?”
"A rational sea creature undead?" Yun Dan grasped the key point in his words.
“Yes.” Qianli nodded. “Very strong.”
Lin Jianyu knew about the flying fish, which liked to fly in the sky, so it didn't seem strange.
She knew about Wen Yao because Yun Dan and the others had told her that their grandmaster was Wen Yao.
"Is Wen Yao very strong? Then wouldn't our grandmaster be very strong too?"
“The Wenyao is not a powerful race, but there are some very strong ones,” Yun Dan said. “Grandmaster’s strength is quite strong, above Second Uncle.”
“I remember now,” Qianli suddenly said. “Her name is Changkong.”
"What's your name?" Yun Dan and Zhu Jin asked almost in unison.
"Why are they suddenly so agitated?" Lin Jianyu asked Zhuliu, puzzled.
"Guess what our grandmaster's name is?" Zhu Liu asked instead of answering.
This is hard to guess, unless the answer is right there in the riddle itself.
"Could it also be called Changkong?"
"Yes," Zhu Liu said.
"So, Grandmaster became a sea creature undead? Or a rational sea creature undead?" Lin Jianyu remembered her master telling her that rational undead were very powerful and extremely difficult to deal with.
"It might just be a coincidence of names." Before meeting the other person, they couldn't be sure that the other person was their grandmaster.
"Same name, and both are Wen Yao, is it really such a coincidence?" Lin Jianyu didn't believe it was such a coincidence.
"It is a bit of a coincidence." Having the same name is not a coincidence, after all, Changkong is not a rare name, but having the same name, and both being Wenyao, is a bit of a coincidence.
"Have you fought that sea creature undead?" Yun Dan asked.
"We've fought." Having never fought, the proud Kunpeng cub would never admit he couldn't defeat his opponent.
"Just how strong is he? Is he stronger than the big shots?" Yun Dan asked again.
“No.” Qianli shook his head. “My mother said that in the entire Mountain and Sea Realm, there is no demon beast that can rival the Great Demon King Lu Jiao. He is the strongest.”
"Are you really that strong?" Lin Jianyu looked at Lu Jiao in disbelief.
Although Lu Jiao's previous performance showed that he was indeed very strong, being very strong and being the strongest in the entire Shan Hai Realm are not the same thing at all.
"No," Lu Jiao said.
If he said yes, Lin Jianyu would definitely not believe him, but if he said no, Lin Jianyu would think he was being modest.
So, people are really damn despicable!
"I'm counting on you to protect me from now on."
"You're dreaming!"
"You, a big shot in the Mountain and Sea Realm, are always imitating me, a little bastard, and saying such vulgar things. Don't you feel ashamed of your high status?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"I don't think so," Lu Jiao said.
"Hopeless." Lin Jianyu shook her head at him, then ignored him and turned to Qianli, saying, "With Lu Jiao, the Great Demon King, around, what are you afraid of about a plane crash? Do you understand the concept of 'borrowing the tiger's might'? If not, I can teach you."
"I understand." Qianli is a master at using someone else's power to intimidate others; otherwise, he wouldn't be constantly talking about his mother.
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and pack your bags and come with us to meet that sea monster spirit," Lin Jianyu urged.
"What if that sea creature spirit really is our master? Will the big boss let our master go?" Zhu Liu asked timidly.
Lin Jianyu didn't know either, so she looked at Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao said, "No."
Undead, like mongrels, should not exist.
"Should we still go and meet that sea creature spirit?" Lin Jianyu asked Yun Dan and the others.
When she entered the sect, Chang Kong was already gone. She had no feelings for him, but he was still her master's master. Even if she had no feelings for him, she would respect him as her master respected him.
Although she secretly laughed loudly to herself when she first learned of his passing.
"Let's not go!" Yun Dan said.
Xuanzhan, Zhujin, and Zhuliu had no other opinions.
Lin Jianyu thought the same thing after learning that Lu Jiao would not let the sea creatures go.
"We won't take the empty road anymore. You can stay in Zhijiang. Goodbye forever."
"Who said goodbye forever?" Qianli slung his small bundle over his shoulder, which was full of snacks. "I'm off, it'll get dark soon if I don't go now."
"Who told you to use my blanket as a bundle to carry snacks!" Lin Jianyu grabbed the bundle on his back and lifted him up, bundle and all.
Qianli didn't struggle when she was lifted up; she simply conjured wings and fanned Lin Jianyu away.
When Lin Jianyu flew out, she was still holding her blanket in her hand. The snacks wrapped in the blanket couldn't keep up with her speed and fell to the ground. The blanket, however, followed her and crashed into the tree trunk with her, then fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.
The moment she landed, she suddenly felt her heart clench.
She was all too familiar with this feeling; it was a harbinger of a change in her body.
She instinctively reached for the small porcelain bottle hidden in her pocket, but after touching it, she remembered that Lu Jiao had said he would help her undergo the transformation. So, she withdrew her hand and shouted in Lu Jiao's direction, "Big boss, help! I'm about to undergo the transformation!"
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