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The fire phoenix gradually dissipated, and the burning sea pigs quickly sank and disappeared from everyone's sight. Feng Gui's gorgeous attack made the mermaids present a little dazed - is this really the bottom of the sea? They have never seen a cultivator who can be so powerful in the sea. Even if the cultivators on the shore took the blue wave grass, they would still wilt in the sea.
Feng Gui sheathed his sword and said, "Let's go pick up the pigs?"
Yan Lingyuan's head was full of black lines: "Pick... pick up a pig..." The sea beast was indeed called a sea pig, and its meat was indeed plump and delicious, but in order to catch a sea pig, the mermaids needed to work together in unity.
Yan Lingyuan was certain of one thing, that is, the few cultivators who were not showing off beside the Dragon King were not easy to mess with. He hesitantly asked Feng Gui: "May I know the name of this Taoist friend?"
Feng Gui said calmly, "Xi Feng." Feng Daxianer had no intention of exposing himself. He added, "I am the accountant among our group."
Xuan Yu smiled and said to Yan Lingyuan: "Let's go. If we go too late, the sea pig will be picked up by other monsters."
The Kanglong Abyss was more than a hundred feet deep. The lower they went, the lower the temperature and the thicker the resentment. A layer of frost formed on the mermaids' tails, slowing their movements. Yan Lingyuan said, "We are almost at the bottom."
Not long after he finished speaking, everyone saw the bottom of Kanglong Abyss. The bottom of Kanglong Abyss was full of dark blue icicles, and the ground was bumpy. The sea pigs that were swept down by Feng Gui just now fell to the ground, their upper parts were still smoking, but their lower parts were covered with frost.
Du Heng rubbed his shoulders: "It's a bit cold..."
Yan Lingyuan said: "There is a black ice formation nearby that protects the mermaids. The coldness you feel is coming from there." Following the direction of Yan Lingyuan's finger, everyone saw an ice-blue formation emitting cold air not far ahead.
Xuan Yu said: "After the mermaid road was blown up, the black ice formation should have been affected as well." The three mermaid roads on Kanglongyuan were all built with glaciers. Each mermaid road was supported by four black ice formations, two of which were on the shore and two underwater.
Xuan Yu couldn't tell who built the Xuanbing Formation underwater. He only knew that after he became the Dragon King, he would come to reinforce the Xuanbing Formation every two thousand years. The last time he came to reinforce the Xuanbing Formation, it was not like this.
At that time, the mysterious ice formation was ablaze with a ten-foot diameter ice column that shot straight up to the Kanglong Abyss. The monks continued to extend ice blocks on the ice column, and finally formed a mermaid path that could walk people.
Now, the area where the black ice formation was shining brightly was less than five feet, and the edges of the formation had been covered by ice and snow, and it was no longer recognizable in its former appearance.
Yan Lingyuan sighed, "It's my fault for being impulsive that day. If I had been patient for a while, I wouldn't have fallen into Wen Chi's trap." Xuan Yu comforted him, "Don't blame you. If his plan fails, he will come up with another one. You may have escaped once, but it doesn't mean you can escape it again and again."
While Xuan Yu and the others were talking about business, Xiao Xiao and the others had already picked up the nearest sea pig. The sea pig was still hot, and the black scales on its body had been burned into a layer of shell. With just a slight touch, the shell would peel off to reveal the tender white fat inside. Feng Gui's Phoenix Spirit Fire was too overbearing, and the sea pigs were roasted to a crispy outside and tender inside.
Xiaoxiao wanted to take a bite while it was still hot, but he was wrapped in a barrier and the pork couldn't break through it. He was so anxious that he kept calling his uncle: "Uncle, can you set up a barrier?"
Feng Gui ignored him, but Jing Nan raised his hand. A sphere with a diameter of ten feet appeared around Xiao Xiao and them, isolating the sea water and illuminating the surroundings. Xiao Xiao cut the fat meat without hesitation. He liked to eat the kind of meat that was half fat and half lean. But after he cut it open, he scratched his head in confusion: "Huh? Where's the lean meat?"
There was no red lean meat on the cut surface, only a pinkish-white piece. Even though he could see the bones, he still couldn't see any lean meat. Xiaoxiao couldn't help but wonder if he had cut in the wrong place. He sliced several more places, but under the white meat, he couldn't see the red lean meat that he usually ate.
Xiaoxiao remained silent facing the sea pig. After a while, he asked Xuanyu aggrievedly: "Long Jun, you said this is delicious?"
Xuan Yu said, "It's really delicious. If you don't believe me, just look." Xiao Xiao followed Xuan Yu's instructions and looked outside the barrier. She saw that outside the barrier, the mermaids surrounded a sea pig in groups of three or five. They cracked the black shell of the sea pig, and then used their sharp nails to scrape the meat from the sea pig and eat it.
Although the meat looked bland, they ate it with great devotion.
Xuan Yu explained: "Although the sea pig is called a pig, it is actually a sea beast. Its meat is this color, and it tastes great whether it is eaten raw or roasted." If the sea pigs usually fought alone, their race would have been eaten to extinction by various fish and demon cultivators in the sea. It is precisely because they like to act in groups that ordinary cultivators will only be eaten by them when they encounter them.
Yan Lingyuan covered his face: "You guys..." He felt that he was almost humiliated. This group of people were really not shy in front of Long Jun.
Xuan Yu bowed to Yan Lingyuan and said, "Thank you, Chief Yan, for seeing us off. Now that we have reached the bottom of Kanglongyuan, to avoid any more accidents, please take the people away quickly."
Du Heng quickly added: "If possible, take more sea pigs with you. It's a waste to leave them here." There were hundreds of sea pigs on the ground. If the mermaids liked them, what would be wrong with letting them take them away?
Yan Lingyuan wanted to refuse, but when he looked at the sparkling eyes of his tribesmen, he could only bow in shame and said, "Thank you, fellow Taoists."
When the mermaids left, they were dragging a large net behind them, in which were placed sea pigs that were more than ten times larger than themselves. Looking at their excited backs, Du Heng felt that this should be the first time that this group of mermaids had gained so much in Kanglongyuan.
Yan Lingyuan's voice echoed above: "I wish Long Jun and all the fellow Taoists a safe journey." The mermaids' chanting sounded: "Bon voyage!"
After a while, the mermaids completely disappeared from sight, and the thick black and red resentment covered the water surface above their heads again.
In the underwater barrier, Du Heng and his team were counting the sea pigs they had harvested. Even though the mermaids had taken away so many sea pigs, Du Heng and his team still managed to pick up more than a hundred sea pigs. After shaking off the hard shells on the sea pigs, Du Heng and Xuan Yu stuffed most of the sea pigs into their storage bags.
Cut the remaining sea pig into thick slices while it’s still hot and dip it in the barbecue dip or sweet and sour sauce prepared by Du Heng. After taking a bite, a milky aroma bursts in your mouth.
Du Heng finally understood what the tender meat with milky aroma that he had eaten at the mermaid's welcoming banquet was. It turned out to be sea pork!
Xuan Yu was right. The taste of sea pigs was much better than that of pigs on the shore. They had no fishy smell, and the meat was thick and delicate, with a crunchy texture when chewed. Apart from their scary appearance, Du Heng felt that sea pigs were treasures from head to toe.
The burnt scales on their bodies can be used as medicine, their internal organs are much less than those of the pigs on the shore, and their fins can be made into top-quality shark fins after a little processing...
The crowd used a formation to suspend the sea pig in the air. They each held a plate in their hands and sliced a few pieces of meat from the sea pig and stuffed them into their mouths as they walked. Du Heng felt that the buffet in the past was simply weak, and the buffet in the cultivation world was the real buffet.
Not long after they walked, they saw the Xuanbing Formation. Xuan Yu looked at the Xuanbing Formation and said, "I'll go and fix the formation."
Zhou Xiyue was puzzled: "Lord Long, are you going to repair the Mysterious Ice Formation and leave through the Mermaid Road?"
Xuan Yu said: "No, the Jiao Ren Dao has four formations. If one formation is broken, the Jiao Ren Dao will not be able to support it. After we deal with Wen Chi and resume normal communication with the Jiao Ren Clan, the Jiao Ren Dao will have to be opened again."
Feng Gui smiled and said, "You will be the one to repair it sooner or later anyway, so why not repair it this time?" Xuan Yu nodded, "Yes, that's the truth."
Everyone stood a hundred feet outside the Xuanbing Formation, while Xuan Yu stood in the center of the Xuanbing Formation. Du Heng looked at the flying spiritual light in Xuan Yu's hands, and he exclaimed: "Every time I see Xiao Yu repairing the formation, I find it magical."
Jing Nan and Feng Gui smiled without saying anything. Xuan Yu was not born with the ability to set up formations. If it were not for finding Qing Heng's reincarnation and for that glimmer of hope, Xuan Yu would not have become the formation master he is today.
It might be because the previous Xuanbing formation was strengthened by Xuan Yu, so this time the repair of the formation went smoothly. Before an incense stick of time had passed, Du Heng and the others only felt a spiritual light rising from fifty feet outside the Xuanbing formation.
The spiritual light formed a hemispherical air mass that enveloped the formation, and the spiritual energy in the formation surged like a tide. The ice-blue spiritual light was sometimes strong and sometimes gentle, and it looked like it had life.
He thought of a crystal ball he had seen in his hometown. There were small sequins in the crystal ball. As long as someone outside shook the crystal ball slightly, the sequins in the crystal ball would surge up and down without stopping. Today's Xuanbing Formation looked like a huge crystal ball, which contained terrible power.
After the black ice formation was repaired, the coldness around it gradually dissipated, and some ice pillars that were corroded by water began to slowly melt.
Xuan Yu continued to slice the sea pig meat. He dipped it in some barbecue sauce, then rolled it with lettuce and stuffed it into Du Heng's mouth: "After it is repaired, you can activate the Xuanbing Formation as long as you stand on the shore in the future."
Du Heng chewed the meat and squinted his eyes: "Xiaoyu is really amazing."
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Stop being so sweet, the two of you. I have something to ask you. Which way should we go?"
There were two forks in the road before them. The bottom of Kanglongyuan was uneven, and there were many such forks. They could choose to swim over the forks, but they might run into the current of Kanglongyuan. According to Xuan Yu, even a person of Zhou Lianhua's size would be easily swept away by the current.
They can also choose to take the fork in the road, but if they take the wrong one, they may take a detour or even encounter monsters waiting in the fork in the road.
Jing Nan and the others chose to take a detour without saying anything. There was nothing else to do. If sea pigs were so delicious, other sea beasts would be no worse! If they were swept away by the current, it would not be fun to be lost in the sea.
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Xuan Yu looked around and picked a road at random: "This way." Jing Nan and the others did not suspect him. They ate sea pork and moved towards the fork in the road. The further they went inside, the more terrifyingly quiet they felt the surroundings were.
Tai Shuhong hesitated and asked, "Um... do you think it's too quiet here?"
Xuan Yu said calmly: "Because we are heading towards a large sea beast." As soon as he finished speaking, all the generals looked at Xuan Yu, only Jing Nan, Feng Gui and the others looked calm.
Mao Buyan burst into tears: "Lord Dragon! Why are you so depressed? Why did you jump into the sea beast's mouth?"
Xuan Yu said: "Sea beasts have levels just like cultivators. Just like you don't dare to enter the territory of a big monster casually, those small sea beasts don't dare to enter the territory of a big sea beast casually. Rather than taking another path and being consumed by small sea beasts, it is better to go straight to the big sea beast."
Xuan Yu patted Feng Gui and Jing Nan on the shoulders and said, "Besides, I discovered something when I was walking in Kanglongyuan before." Jing Nan glanced at him: "Hmm? What is it?"
Xuan Yu said: "Sea beasts are the same as cultivators. Their cultivation proves that they have spiritual roots. Most of the monsters in the sea have water spiritual roots, and it is rare to see sea beasts with the other four spiritual roots. Sea beasts stay in Kanglongyuan for a long time, and they are afraid of light and fire. And we have several big fire monsters here, and ordinary sea beasts will not be our opponents."
Feng Gui raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't tell me, you used this method to get out of Kanglongyuan?"
Xuan Yu said slowly: "You can say that." Back then, he used the corpse of the monster as a stepping stone to walk out of Kanglongyuan. In addition to this, he also relied on his powerful strength.
It's called a fork in the road, but in fact, the road is very wide, and the narrowest part of the fork is 70 to 80 feet wide. And such forks are everywhere in Kanglongyuan. Du Heng originally thought that Kanglongyuan should not be wide, and it would be amazing if it was more than 100 feet wide. Now it seems that he thought too much.
Du Heng asked: "How far are the east and west sides of Kanglongyuan? I have always wanted to ask, why don't we swim over Kanglongyuan? We can avoid going through the Mermaid Road."
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Because the resentment in Kanglongyuan is very deep, it affects the nearby ocean currents. If we pass through the water, we will be swept away by the ocean currents."
Zhou Xiyue said, "Mr. Du, you don't know that the area above Kanglong Abyss has always been a restricted area for the sea clan. Even the strongest cultivators of our clan dare not walk on Kanglong Abyss." Previously, a master of their clan wanted to challenge himself, so he rushed into the ocean current above Kanglong Abyss. As a result, the surging tide knocked the big Kunpeng unconscious in a short while. The Kunpeng fell into Kanglong Abyss, and not even his bones could be fished out.
Du Heng pondered again and said, "Then... floating on the surface and passing over it, or flying through the sky, is that feasible?"
Jing Nan smiled and said, "The nearby sea surface is always shrouded in miasma. You will get lost if you go in. Unless you fly very high, but then you will be discovered by Wen Chi's spies."
Du Heng sighed, "So we can only go down. Then let me ask, why can we walk inside Kanglongyuan without being affected by the resentment?"
Xuan Yu said: "It will also be affected. We just chose a path with the least risk."
Du Heng's mouth twitched. The so-called path with the least risk, is it the path with the sea beast crouching in front? Before Du Heng finished thinking, there was a sudden dust in front of him, and the water flow rolled up the sand and rocks towards him, hitting the barrier with a bang. In an instant, the sky was dark, and ghosts and wolves were howling all around.
There was a strong spiritual energy hidden in the dust, and a mountain-like black shadow could be vaguely seen approaching. The spiritual energy overflowing from the black shadow made Mao Buyan and the others pale. Mao Buyan said with difficulty: "This cultivation... is stronger than that of a cultivator in the late stage of out-of-body state!"
Everyone stayed in the barrier, looking at the sand and stones outside through the barrier. If there were any Jindan-stage cultivators present, they would be crushed by the sand and stones once they left the barrier!
Du Heng was shocked: "What a terrifying force." Looking at the speed of the sand and gravel flowing outside, he thought of the sandblasting machine in his hometown. No matter how much rust there is on the iron, it will be shiny after coming out of the sandblasting machine.
The ground began to shake, and the shadow was slowly approaching. A huge black pincer suddenly stretched out from the sand and stone, and clamped the barrier set by Jing Nan. The barrier suddenly twisted and began to deform. Jing Nan chuckled and said, "It's alive."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Nan's nine tails were fully opened, and the pure white nine tail hairs spread out and swam along his endless barrier. The barrier that was twisting and deforming returned to its original state, and the big pliers clamped on the barrier a few times, making a dull sound. Jing Nan looked up at the big pliers: "What are you two still standing there for? Do you want to see how beautiful my tail is?"
Feng Gui smiled and said, "I haven't seen you like this for many years. I was stunned for a moment." Jing Nan smiled and said, "The place covered by the nine-tailed beast will form the safest barrier in the world. Leave Du Heng and the others to me, and you two can deal with the thing outside."
Du Heng held the sword: "I'll go help too!" However, Xuan Yu and Feng Gui smiled and patted his shoulders: "It will be handled soon."
As they spoke, the two figures suddenly disappeared from the barrier, and the generals tensed their bodies, ready to rush out of the barrier at any time to help their lord. However, Jing Nan smiled calmly and said, "Don't be so nervous. Xiaoyu and Xixi have joined forces. The one who should cry is the guy on the opposite side."
Before he finished speaking, a golden light flashed in the sand and rocks, and the scorching temperature could be felt even through the barrier. After the light flashed, the surging sand and rocks slowed down. A red hill appeared in the muddy yellow water, and everyone was stunned when they looked closely.
That's not a hill! It's a giant roasted lobster!
In front of everyone's astonished eyes, the lobster's uncooked grayish-yellow claws fell off its body and landed on the ground in front of them. The huge lobster claws smashed the sand and rocks below.
Although the lobster's body was roasted red, it did not fall down. Du Heng carefully observed the big lobster. It had barbs all over its body and looked like the rock lobsters in his hometown. However, it was much bigger than the rock lobsters, and the rock lobsters in his hometown did not have large claws, while the two claws of this lobster were as long as three people.
Once something is magnified, it will seem particularly terrifying. Especially now that they are in front of the lobster, looking at the lobster's tentacles and head, Du Heng's hair stands on end.
Xuan Yu and Feng Gui jumped down from the lobster's head. Xuan Yu said regretfully, "There is no storage bag big enough to hold it. Let's eat it here before leaving."
Du Heng swallowed his saliva. Is Xiaoyu serious? He actually wants to eat such a big lobster? ! By the way, can such a big lobster be eaten? Will it be poisonous if eaten?
The lobsters had made a nest deep in the fork, and the group set up a barrier at the entrance of the nest to drain the water out. A light lit up in the middle of the nest, and under the orange-yellow night pearl, Du Heng and his group set up a stove and were busy.
Outside the nest, the big red lobster was still standing upright, it was missing a claw and a leg. Its legs were dragged into the nest by everyone, and soon it would become everyone's delicacy!
Xuan Yu and Feng Gui split the thick lobster shell. The shell of this lobster was very thick, three feet thick. The split shell shone with a metallic luster. Feng Gui wiped the sweat off his forehead and felt scared: "Fortunately, I used the Phoenix True Fire right from the start. If I had fought this guy head-on, I'm afraid my sword would have rolled over and it would still be safe."
Jing Nan and the others put the chopped shrimp shells into small pieces into the storage bag. Shrimp shells of this strength are hard to come by for refining magical instruments.
Because the shrimp shell was too thick, after the shell was cut open, only the edges of the meat were cooked, while the meat inside was still raw. The Phoenix True Fire can burn many things, but it can only burn this shrimp to death. This shows how powerful it is!
Xuan Yu took out pieces of crab leg meat and placed them on a large plate. Du Heng had already put soaked vermicelli on the plate. The large pieces of lobster meat were slightly transparent, and placed on the vermicelli, the amount of vermicelli looked pitifully small.
Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyu had already eaten the lobster sashimi. Xiaoxiao did not forget to put a piece of lobster meat into Du Heng's mouth: "Du Hengheng, what are you going to cook?"
Du Heng said, "Xiao Yu said that lobsters cannot be taken away. I plan to make steamed lobster meat with vermicelli in garlic sauce, stir-fried lobster meat, braised shrimp meat..." Xiao Xiao asked, "Can you make shrimp meat in soy sauce?"
Du Heng chewed the tender lobster meat in his mouth and nodded: "I'll try."
The water in the pot was already boiling. Du Heng placed the garlic lobster on the steamer. He poured a sauce mixed with garlic, soy sauce and cooking wine on the lobster meat. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but when he poured the sauce on it, he felt that the lobster meat was still shaking.
He used the largest steamer, but still couldn't steam a small piece of lobster leg meat. But it didn't matter, he was ready, the generals were going to eat as much as they wanted today, and he would make sure everyone enjoyed it!
Du Heng closed the steamer and said, "Just steam it for one stick of incense."
Feng Gui finally gave up. He stuffed the long sword in his hand into the scabbard and said, "I won't sharpen it anymore. It's so annoying!" If he continued sharpening, the blade of his spiritual sword would be bent!
Xuan Yu looked at the leg in front of Feng Gui: "This... is just the smallest leg." Feng Gui said calmly: "So what? This is my natal spirit sword, not a kitchen knife."
Xuan Yu looked at Lao Dao and Yun Zheng. Lao Dao and the others were still fighting with the biggest crab claw. The two men were swinging their axes and chopping at the claws again and again, causing sparks to fly and the shells on the claws to splash everywhere... It seemed that these two men could not be asked for help.
Xuan Yu looked at Jing Nan again. Jing Daxian spread his hands and said, "Don't look at me. I always rely on my intelligence to win." Don't let him do strenuous work.
Xuan Yu looked at Chonghua and Mao Buyan again. He just glanced at them and then looked away. Chonghua and the others were immediately furious, but they dared not say anything.
Xuan Yu sighed, "There's nothing else I can do. I can only use my ultimate move."
After hearing what Xuan Yu said, everyone looked at him, especially Du Heng, who really wanted to know what Xuan Yu's special move was!
A green aura emanated from Xuan Yu's body, and a green dragon appeared in the aura. Xuan Yu's body coiled up to be about the same size as a lobster, and his body was about the same thickness as a lobster's leg. Xuan Yu swam out of the cave, and he hugged a lobster leg with barbs on it.
With a snap, Xuan Yu broke off one of the lobster's legs. He set up a barrier for the lobster to prevent seawater from entering the lobster's body and affecting the meat. Then he dragged the lobster's leg and swam into the cave.
In everyone's shocked eyes, he cut the lobster leg into three parts at the joint. Two of the lobster legs fell beside Xuan Yu, and Xuan Yu held the longest leg in his claws.
Xuan Yu opened his mouth and bit one side of the leg joint. After a few crisp sounds, a lot of shrimp shells fell from between his teeth. He bit the other side of the leg in the same way. The heavy shrimp leg was turned around in his hand, which looked very cute.
As everyone was about to collapse from trying to hold back their laughter, Xuan Yu shook his claws, grabbed one end of the shrimp leg and pulled it. A whole leg of meat was pulled out!
Everyone burst into laughter. Xuan Yu was so cute! Xuan Yu looked at everyone innocently: "What's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
Du Heng wiped his tears and gave Xuan Yu a thumbs up: "Great!"
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