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Xuan Yu quickly scooped up a large basin of oyster meat. He picked the big ones and opened them. After opening three or two oysters, the oyster meat filled up half of the basin. The cleaned oyster meat was white and clean. Du Heng cut them into pieces half the size of a palm.
After the oyster meat was cut, milky white juice flowed out. Du Heng collected all the juice carefully. The juice is the raw material for oyster sauce.
Looking at the chopped oyster meat, Du Heng was reluctant to give it up: "These oysters are too good. After being boiled in oyster sauce, the meat will become tough. Why don't we stir-fry it with green onions and ginger, and I will use smaller oysters to boil the oyster sauce."
No matter what Du Heng said, everyone would agree. Du Heng had cooked delicious fish with simple soy sauce before, and he said that if he stir-fried it with scallions and ginger, everyone would think the taste would not be bad.
Du Heng's stove was fully arranged. On the left stove, oysters were steaming, and on the right pot, soybean oil was poured. After the soybean oil began to smoke, he poured a full pot of oysters into the pot.
There is a formation on Du Heng's stove, which can heat the ingredients in the pot evenly. Even if he cooks a pot of food, the food on the edge will not be rotten while the food in the middle is not yet cooked. At this time, Du Heng adjusted the flame at the bottom of the pot to the maximum. After the oysters were put into the pot, they began to ooze juice and the meat became firm.
After stir-frying for a while, a layer of milky oyster juice appeared under the oysters. Du Heng scooped out the oyster meat and placed it in a large bowl, and he scooped out the oyster juice in the pot and placed it in another bowl.
If Du Heng had used oysters of uniform size, the fried oysters would have been distinct. However, the oysters he fried had been cut, the skin above the oysters tightened, and the soft and flexible insides slightly popped out, which did not look very nice.
But this would not affect the taste of the oyster meat. He cleaned the pot and refilled it with oil. While the oil was hot, he added seasonings to the oyster juice. The oyster juice was actually very delicious. Du Heng added two spoons of soy sauce and one spoon of white wine. In addition, he also added a spoon of pepper and a little salt.
This dish does not need to add sugar, because the oyster meat is sweet. Du Heng dipped a little sauce with the tip of his chopsticks and tasted it. The sauce tasted a little salty, but it didn't matter. He had to cook so much oyster meat, and this saltiness was just right.
He also added an appropriate amount of starch water to the oyster juice. When heated, the starch water will form a thick sauce that can better wrap the oyster meat.
After seasoning the large bowl of oyster sauce, the oil temperature in the pot also increased. Du Heng put a handful of ginger shreds in the oil, and when the ginger shreds turned slightly yellow, he pushed the oyster meat into the pot and stir-fried it. After stir-frying a few times to make sure the oyster meat was evenly heated, the scallion segments prepared earlier came in handy.
The first thing to go into the pot was the scallion segments, followed by the oyster sauce that had just been seasoned. After the oyster sauce was added, the noisy iron pot was quiet for a moment, but soon it became lively again. After the oyster sauce was boiled again, Du Heng added the scallion leaves.
After stirring evenly, a large plate of delicious and fragrant stir-fried oysters with green onion and ginger is ready.
Seeing this dish, Feng Gui was a little depressed: "Why is there no chili?" Chili was added to the small fish in soy sauce before, why is there no chili this time?
Du Heng explained: "The authentic way to cook this dish is to not add chili peppers, so that you can taste the sweetness of the oysters. Xixi, try it. If you don't like it, I'll add chili peppers for you later."
Jing Nan snorted: "Why add chili peppers? Just give him the chopped pepper sauce you made earlier. It's up to him whether he wants to eat it or not. You're still picky about food." How could they be picky about food when they were little?
Xiaoxiao picked up an oyster with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, his eyes sparkling, "Delicious! Uncle, let me tell you, this oyster is really delicious! Fresh, sweet, crispy and tender, Du Hengheng cooked it so well. Even without the chili, I can eat half a plate!"
Jing Nan picked up a piece of oyster meat from Feng Gui's bowl and comforted her, "Didn't Du Heng say that before? Spiciness is not a taste, but a feeling. You don't need to be tortured, so why do you like spicy food?"
Feng Gui reluctantly put the oyster into his mouth. He chewed it and it was just as Xiao Xiao said. It was tender, sweet and delicate. The taste of green onion and ginger covered the slight fishy smell of the oyster, but it didn't dominate. And maybe it was because the oyster was bigger, the satisfaction was stronger. Even Feng Gui had to admit that this was indeed a great dish.
As he was talking, the garlic oysters on the grill were already cooked. Du Heng called out to the generals, "Come and eat oysters!"
The generals rushed to the grill with chopsticks in hand, poking left and right, and the oyster meat on the grill was eaten up by everyone. The garlic oysters have a strong taste, and Du Heng did not put vermicelli or anything like that next to the oyster meat.
Fortunately, the oysters were of good quality and everyone enjoyed them very much. They even drank up all the juice in the shells.
The generals brought back a lot of oysters. After eating some steamed, charcoal-grilled, and scallion and ginger oysters, everyone started to wash the oysters.
Xiaoxiao didn't understand why they had to brush the shells of the oysters: "Du Hengheng, we are eating the meat of the oysters, why do we have to brush the shells?"
Du Heng said: "If we take the oyster meat directly, we don't need to wash the oysters, but we still have to steam and grill them, so it's inevitable that we have to touch the oyster shells. Don't you want to get your hands full of mud and your mouth full of sand?"
Xiaoxiao lowered her head and began to wash the oysters carefully: "I also want to eat steamed oysters."
At this time, Xuan Yu had already taken out a large bowl of oyster meat for Du Heng. This time, the oysters he took were of uniform size. "Can these be boiled into oyster sauce?"
Du Heng smiled and said, "Actually, I just need to get the oyster juice."
Oysters can release oyster juice as long as they are heated. If you need to extract the oyster juice, the cooking time will be longer. Oysters that have been drained of oyster juice will taste older, and many people will not like that taste. However, if you bake them into dried oysters, they will still taste delicious when cooked in the future.
Du Heng put the cleaned oysters into a clean large pot and stir-fried them for a while until the oysters began to ooze out oyster juice. After stewing for two cups of tea, he fished out the oysters, which had shrunk by two circles.
At this time, a pot of milky white oyster sauce appeared in the pot. In fact, when Du Heng was making stir-fried oysters with green onions and ginger, he had already prepared a simple oyster sauce. Just add sugar, soy sauce, a small amount of salt and starch water to the oyster sauce and boil it until the oyster sauce is thick. The finished product is oyster sauce.
Making oyster sauce sounds simple, but it requires constant stirring. After boiling half a pot of oyster sauce, Du Heng only got two large bowls of brown oyster sauce.
He took out a ceramic jar and filled it with oyster sauce so that he could use it to stir-fry vegetarian dishes in the future!
He originally planned to put the oyster meat in the oven to make dried oysters, but when he turned around, he found that the generals had already eaten most of it for him.
Chonghua chewed the oyster meat and smiled, "This oyster meat tastes good, unlike the soft steamed ones before. I like this taste."
Chonghua also learned how to take out the dipping sauce for steamed oysters and eat it with the oyster meat. Watching him eat the oyster meat, Du Heng always felt that he was eating tofu.
After everyone had a delicious meal, the ground was covered with oyster shells. The piled up oyster shells formed a small mountain, and the volume thrown out of the frame was larger than the car.
Looking at the oyster shells, Du Heng wiped the sweat from his head. Fortunately, the oysters were cooked quickly. If he were left to handle it alone, he would have no idea when he would be able to eat the meal.
Next they had to find the path to the top. Perhaps after eating, everyone was full and energetic. Soon they saw the target they were looking for not far away.
Du Heng thought it was an iron chain hanging from the top of Kanglongyuan. Du Heng had seen the same iron chain before when he went down Kanglongyuan. The chain became steeper as it went down, and only near the exit could you see the slightly inclined steps.
The main purpose of this chain is to allow everyone to move vertically upward along it, otherwise everyone will be trapped in resentment and lose their way.
Xuan Yu felt a little regretful: "I thought I could go directly to the other side of the Mermaid Road." He only repaired half of the Xuanbing Formation. After the passage is restored in the future, he will still have to sneak into Kanglongyuan to repair the formation.
Jing Nan smiled and said, "It's good enough that we can find the instructions to go up smoothly. Don't dawdle, let's go."
As soon as the words fell, the generals suddenly rushed upwards, holding the black iron chains in their hands, and their speed was astonishingly fast even though they were surrounded by resentment.
When they rushed out of the encirclement of resentment, the pressure on everyone suddenly eased. They were like a group of fish suspended in the water, with the dark Kanglong Abyss below them and a huge Dragon Temple facing them.
It is called the Dragon God Temple, but in fact there is no temple here, only the statue of Xuan Yu in his original form. The huge blue dragon is hovering with its head held high. Just by looking at this statue, one can feel the inviolable majesty of the Dragon God.
Look at the dragon statue, and then look at Xuan Yu who is among the crowd. Jing Nan said quietly: "Look at Xiaoyu's life-size statue, it's so majestic."
Feng Gui said depressedly: "The Feather Tribe has never erected a statue for me..."
These two are actually jealous!
Xuan Yu said calmly: "If the Beast Tribe and the Feather Tribe gave you two statues and used your statues to suppress evil spirits, would you be happy?"
Feng Gui thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. Even if it's my statue, I don't want to see anything that makes me unhappy."
Jing Nan also came to his senses: "That's right, we only erect statues for you when we need something from you, and when we don't need you, your statues will suffer innocently. So it's meaningless."
Xuan Yu smiled slightly: "Yes."
Du Heng stared at the Dragon God statue for a while, and he saw at a glance that something was missing from the Dragon God: "Why didn't they make Xiaoyu's wings?" The Xuan Yu on the Dragon God statue was just an ordinary green dragon, with no wings on its back at all.
Xuan Yu smiled and said, "Because I have never revealed my complete self in front of them."
Jing Nan and Feng Gui smiled at each other: "Because Xiaoyu had no hair on her wings at that time!"
Xuan Yu:......
Everyone: ...I can’t take it anymore. It’s so hard to hold back my laughter.
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The land behind the dragon statue was not flat, and one could see many undulating sea ridges. Du Heng had previously thought that there were no roads underwater, but after seeing the dragon's territory, he changed his mind.
They saw a winding road in front of them, which led to the sea ridge ahead. The road was paved with some fine sand and gravel, which sparkled with tiny glimmers under the light.
Jing Nan bent down, picked up the sand and gravel on the road and took a look: "This looks like broken shells?" No matter what the shells look like on the outside, their insides are smooth and warm. One side of the sand and gravel in Jing Nan's hand reflected a warm, pearl-like luster.
Xuan Yu nodded: "Yes."
Feng Gui chuckled and said, "The dragon clan is really interesting." They can obviously swim in the water and fly in the sky, but they insist on building inappropriate roads in the dragon clan's territory. Isn't this a waste of time?
Xuan Yu said: "These roads were not built for the dragon race, but for the monsters of other races in the sea to practice."
Jing Nan was puzzled: "How can you say that... May I ask which species in the sea cannot swim and need to walk?"
Just as Jing Nan finished speaking, a fish passed by on the road in front of him. The fish had a flat face and a small lantern hanging on its forehead. It also had four short legs, and when it walked, its four legs left afterimages.
Hearing Jing Nan's words, the fish turned its head and looked at Jing Nan with lifeless eyes. It let out a strange cry, then swung its tail and ran away along the road. The sand and stones on the ground were swept up by the water flow under the feet of the strange fish. It was quite beautiful.
Jing Nan: ...
Xuan Yu said slowly: "Even if there is no such strange fish, there are other races. After entering the dragon territory, only those in the Flying Dragon Territory can move forward by flying water. Other tribesmen will still keep the habit of walking on the shore."
Feng Gui thought for a moment and said, "Well... it's better to walk gracefully, otherwise it won't look good if we swim in the water one by one."
Everyone almost laughed to death, Feng Gui's focus was truly magical.
The seabed is not dark, there are many light sources. The sea ridges as far as the eye can see are all lit up, that is the dragon balls of the deceased members of the dragon clan shining.
The dragon tribe believed that the dragon ball could protect the tribe members. When a dragon died, the dragon tribe would take out its dragon ball and place it in a suitable place. Over billions of years, countless shining lighthouses appeared on the sea ridges on the dragon tribe's side.
There is a lighthouse closest to Du Heng. The lighthouse is three feet high, transparent and cylindrical. In the center of the cylinder there is a demon pill with a diameter of five inches.
I don't know how long this magic pill has been here, the light it emits has become a little dim. But the faint light it emits can still illuminate the road for several miles around.
There were some colorful schools of fish slowly circling under the lighthouse. Although it was a dynamic picture, Du Heng felt an incomparable tranquility.
When it comes to the dragon race, everyone thinks that the dragon race is powerful, noble and arrogant, and is an arrogant race. However, when Du Heng saw these shining lighthouses, he felt that the dragon race was no different from other races.
They also have tribes, the deceased dragons are still protecting their own tribes in their own way, and the living dragons are also commemorating the departed in their own way. They have flesh and blood, expectations and hopes. In addition to being powerful, they are also creatures with flesh and blood.
Xuan Yu introduced: "The location of the dragon clan is in the basin more than 100 miles east of the Dragon God Statue." Du Heng responded: "Well, let's walk over there slowly."
However, they had not walked a few miles when a row of flashing lanterns appeared on the road ahead, as if a team was approaching quickly.
The team walked very fast. After walking for dozens of miles on the mountain road, they arrived in front of Xuan Yu and his team in just a moment. There were a total of 19 people in the team, 18 of whom were wearing silver-gray armor. They were so imposing that Du Heng felt that they were looking down on him.
The eighteen people held a silver lantern with dragon patterns painted on it. Even without looking at the lantern, Du Heng and the others knew that these people were from the dragon clan.
The leader was a man with black hair. He had a sinister face and a mustache, and his smile was cold. But when he saw Xuan Yu, he bent down and bowed respectfully to Xuan Yu: "Welcome, Lord Dragon."
Xuan Yu nodded: "Yeah."
Du Heng sent a message to Xuan Yu: "Is he Wen Chi?" Xuan Yu sent a message back: "No, he is an elder of the Dragon Clan, named Yan Chuan."
Yan Chuan stood up straight and said to Xuan Yu, "Why didn't you inform the tribe when the Dragon Lord returned? If you neglect the Dragon Lord, the tribe will blame Yan Chuan for not doing his job well."
Xuan Yu said calmly: "It's okay."
Yan Chuan stepped aside to make way for Xuan Yu: "Please come in, Lord Dragon!" The eighteen people behind Yan Chuan split into two sides of the road, and the dragon breath emanating from them became stronger.
Xiaoxiao felt uncomfortable after sensing the dragon's breath. He hugged Du Heng's waist listlessly: "Du Hengheng, I feel uncomfortable." Du Heng touched Xiaoxiao's hair: "Be good."
In addition to Xiaoxiao, Tai Shuhong's face also turned slightly pale. The dragon breath emitted by these dragons was too domineering. Rather than saying that they were accepting Xuan Yu's inspection, it was better to say that they were showing off their power to Xuan Yu.
Xuan Yu looked at Yan Chuan calmly: "Have the guards been replaced?" Yan Chuan bowed: "The previous guards were useless, so they were replaced. Long Jun, are they okay?"
Xuan Yu was very frugal with his words: "Hmm." After saying this word, he undisguised his dragon breath and suddenly swept towards the guards. The guards turned pale and unsteady, and soon they all knelt on the ground. The dragon breath that made Xiaoxiao uncomfortable disappeared without a trace.
Xuan Yu said slowly: "Yes." Yan Chuan's face suddenly became embarrassed: "Long Jun's cultivation is getting stronger and stronger."
Xuan Yu didn't even glance at Yan Chuan. He said calmly, "Teach them some rules when you have time." Yan Chuan's face froze. He bowed respectfully, "Yes."
Xuan Yu led everyone along the path towards the sea ridge, followed by eighteen listless guards and Yan Chuan, who looked uneasy.
Xuan Yu introduced to Du Heng and the others: "This is the west of the Dragon Clan. The ridge facing us is close to Kanglongyuan, so it is named Kanglong Ridge. After passing Kanglong Ridge, you can see the Dragon Palace where the Dragon Clan lives."
Xiaoxiao became excited: "Lord Dragon, is the Dragon Palace sparkling?" Xiaoxiao had seen the crystal palace among the mermaids, and he had already imagined the sparkling Dragon Palace in his mind.
Xuan Yu pondered and said, "It is sparkling, but it's probably not the sparkling you think." Xiao Xiao was even more excited: "I haven't seen the Dragon Palace yet!"
Yan Chuan always felt that he was being ignored. Although he knew that Xuan Yu was a serious person, as an elder of the clan, he felt that he had to do a good job in welcoming the Dragon King. So he said to Xuan Yu: "The last time the Dragon King returned to the Dragon Clan was a thousand years ago."
Xuan Yu responded: "Yeah."
For thousands of years, whenever the dragon clan had any problems, they would just send someone to the demon clan's forbidden area to inform Xuan Yu. This time Xuan Yu came back without a word, and Yan Chuan felt frightened.
Yan Chuan said: "I wonder why Lord Long is returning to the tribe this time?"
Before Xuan Yu could say anything, Feng Gui laughed: "Funny. It is natural for the Dragon King to return to the Dragon Clan. Is it necessary to explain it to you?" When Feng Gui returned to the Phoenix Clan, he always came and went as he pleased. Who dared to stop him?
Yan Chuan knew he had said something wrong, so he smiled and said, "Your words are wrong, fellow Taoist. Our Dragon King has always lived in seclusion and seldom went out."
Xuan Yu took out something from his sleeve and placed it in Yan Chuan's hand: "I came here for this matter."
When everyone looked closely, they saw that what Yan Chuan held in his hand was the black letter that the Zhou brothers had sent that day.
Someone from the Dragon Clan challenges Xuan Yu to a fight. Is there anything wrong with Xuan Yu accepting the challenge?
Yan Chuan smiled when he saw the black letter: "So that's how it is. It's unfortunate that the Dragon Lord came back. The head of the Wen Chi Dai tribe was injured recently..."
Xuan Yu pointed at Jing Nan and said, "I brought a doctor with me." Jing Nan smiled and said, "My medical skills are not bad. As long as Chief Wen Chi is still alive, I can try to treat him."
Yan Chuan smiled widely: "Lord Long is indeed very thoughtful."
After passing Kanglong Ridge, the gathering place of the dragon clan appeared in front of everyone. The dragon clan lived in a basin that was several times larger than the basin of the mermaid clan. Above the basin was a light golden barrier. Under the barrier, the palaces of the dragon clan were neatly arranged.
The dragon clan's palace was built in a similar way to the palace on the shore, except that it was made of pure gold. It was so golden that it almost blinded Du Heng's eyes.
Xiaoxiao exclaimed: "It is indeed sparkling!"
From the moment he entered the dragon clan's barrier, Du Heng felt a familiar, vague pressure hovering around him. His reaction was relatively mild, while Yun Zheng's face turned slightly pale, as he reacted more severely.
Xuan Yu said to Yan Chuan, "The Taoist friends around me are all from the shore. The dragon clan's barrier has a big impact on them." Yan Chuan bowed and said, "I will immediately arrange for them to prepare the barrier-clearing pills."
Xuan Yu had said before that the dragon race had thick skin and flesh, and now the cultivators understood firsthand what this meant. The dragon race barrier carried a powerful pressure, and the dragons who had lived in the barrier for many years had inadvertently developed a body of iron and steel. Even if they were facing Xuan Yu, they would not be affected by Xuan Yu's domineering aura.
Soon someone brought the Clearing Pill, which was only the size of a thumb, dark in color, and smelled like a faint sandalwood.
Jing Nan held the Clearing Pill in his hand and looked at and smelled it: "Oh, this is the Clearing Pill. Interesting."
Xuan Yu said: "This is a medicine that is not available on the shore. It can help people overcome the influence of the dragon clan's barrier. You can study it more." Jing Nan agreed with a smile.
After taking the Clearing Pill, everyone felt a little better. Yan Chuan walked in front and led Xuan Yu to the Dragon Palace in the middle: "Dragon Lord, please come this way."
The dragons who saw Xuan Yu would stop by the roadside and bow to him respectfully. It seemed that Xuan Yu's prestige in the dragon clan was still there, at least no one dared to rush up to him and disrespect him.
The Dragon Palace where the Dragon King lives is naturally the tallest and most magnificent in the entire dragon clan. If there was no red-haired young man standing in front of the Dragon Palace, Du Heng would like this Dragon Palace even more.
The red-haired young man was tall and slender, dressed in red, standing in front of the Dragon Palace like a ball of fire. He had a handsome face and smiled before he spoke, and people who didn't know him would think he was easy to get along with.
But when Du Heng saw the young man for the first time, he shuddered involuntarily. Mao Buyan was so frightened that he didn't know which leg to move. An inexplicable fear lingered in everyone's heart. Jing Nan and Feng Gui frowned and looked at the young man. They had already guessed the identity of this person. This person was the acting patriarch of the Dragon Clan who had turned the Taixu Realm upside down - Wen Chi.
Wen Chi bowed deeply to Xuan Yu and said, "Welcome Lord Long back to the tribe!" Xuan Yu nodded, "Nice to meet you."
It was just a simple greeting, but Du Heng actually felt a tense atmosphere. He was getting nervous now, what should he do?
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