Chapter 369 The “customs” of the dragon clan?
"May I ask if you are a disciple of Taiyin Sect? Could you please give me some advice?"
Although the huge dragon head could hardly hide his fatigue, he still asked politely.
Zhao Qing hurriedly tried to establish a relationship with him, "Daoyou Kui Huairen! You should be the god of Wuyue River now? Or the Dragon King of Wuyue? I am Zhu Tumengjin! Do you still remember me?"
"I dare not call myself Dragon King! Daoist friend, just call me Huairen!" Huairen was a little surprised. He still remembered the Taiyin Sect disciple who had been transferred to Baili Shuang's puppet body, but he didn't understand why the other party came to find him: "I still remember you, but I don't know what advice you have for me, friend?"
Zhao Qing explained: "No, no, I just heard from my senior sister... um, Baili Shuang, that you were injured and had lost a lot of your cultivation, so I came to see if there was anything I could do to help! After all, you suppressed this place, and it is also a favor to our Taiyin Sect. We can't just ignore everything!"
“Why are you so polite, fellow Daoist!” Huairen was stunned for a moment, then he exhaled a few times from his nostrils with some emotion, lowered his voice, and said a little embarrassedly: “Besides, I filled this rift valley with water to form a river and suppressed this place out of selfish motives. Taiyin Sect doesn’t blame me, so how can I still say it’s a favor!”
"Oh, you're welcome! Practicing is so hard. No matter why you spend your energy to suppress this place, it will benefit our Taiyin Sect in the end. Hmm... let me think about it..."
Zhao Qing pondered for a while, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. She began to take out the Taiyin essence from her Qiankun bag: "This, this! This must be good for your cultivation, right? I saw that other people used this to heal their wounds and the effect was very good! If you can use it, I'll get you some more!"
"Is this... Taiyin Pearl?"
Huairen recognized this thing at a glance.
The essence of Taiyin is not rare, but it is difficult to find it naturally. If it is "artificially made", it requires a formation to condense it, and it often takes several years to produce a batch, so its value is not low.
Of course, as the son of Taishui Dragon King, he is not only a second-generation cultivator, but also a second-generation rich. He and the Dragon Girl eat this thing as a snack all year round. After all, if they buy it with spirit stones, it is only a few hundred spirit stones each, which is not expensive.
Precisely because it was not precious to him, he did not carry it with him. Ever since he suppressed the Wu Yue River, he had no time to go back to Taishui to look for elixirs and supplements. Zhao Qing's attentive gift made him reluctant to refuse - he really needed this thing!
"My fellow Daoist, I will respectfully obey your order. The Taiyin Pearl is indeed very useful to me now!"
Huairen also saw that Zhao Qing really wanted to make friends with him. Although he didn't know why the other party was so eager, he didn't hit the smiling person after all, and he helped a lot temporarily. So, he opened his mouth and sucked several Taiyin essences into his mouth, chewed them a few times like chewing candy beans, and swallowed them into his stomach. Then, while absorbing the Taiyin essence in his stomach, he asked in a kind manner: "But I don't accept rewards without merit. I don't know what you want, but you can say it!"
"Hey! I have no idea!"
Zhao Qing scratched his head uncomfortably.
What she wanted was quite straightforward. She wanted to improve the favorability of the son of the Taishui Dragon King, the future Wuyue Dragon King. Furthermore, maybe she could come up with some "diplomatic strategy" like establishing diplomatic relations between Chang'an City and Wuyue Dragon Palace in the future! But she couldn't just say it out loud, right? Besides, this wasn't a game at all, and the so-called "favorability" couldn't be quantified!
"Well, if this is useful, I'll send you some more later..." Zhao Qing said, and became conflicted again. She thought in her heart that if she really gave it to him, would it make them seem cheap? It would be better to have a give-and-take relationship to show that they are sincere friends. So she tried to test him: "But if you think it's inappropriate, how about this? There are no dragons in the world where we Taiyin disciples live. If you really count it, you are the first dragon I have ever seen! So do you have any shed scales or something like that? Give me one as a souvenir?"
Zhao Qing said this, but was afraid that the other party might misunderstand her, so she added: "If you dragons don't shed your skin during cultivation, and there are no scales that fall off naturally, or if this requirement is particularly offensive to you, then forget it! I don't know your cultural customs! I just said it casually, just said it casually, haha..."
"It won't offend..."
Maybe it was Zhao Qing's illusion, but Huairen's dragon face seemed to show embarrassment. He only heard him say, "Because the dragon's scales, bones, and even blood are considered excellent spiritual materials among humans, many of our young people who are short of money secretly sell their dragon scales and blood..."
Zhao Qing was startled and asked worriedly, "Ah! Then won't you be hunted down by some greedy monks?"
Could it be that there is still hatred between the dragon race and the human race?
She suddenly became worried.
If there really is friction between the two tribes, it will be extremely disadvantageous for Chang'an's future diplomacy!
"This... there shouldn't be a human cultivator who is so arrogant... Even if it's a young dragon that's not very powerful yet, its cultivation is equivalent to the human Jindan, not to mention that a young dragon won't appear alone. If it's an adult dragon, no matter how poor its cultivation is, it can at least be equivalent to the human cultivator's Yuanying. For example, if we really talk about cultivation, I'm afraid I've already reached the level of a spirit. My sister is only one step away from achieving an immortal body, which is what you humans often call an immortal body!"
Huairen expressed his point of view tactfully, and also introduced the market prices that surprised Zhao Qing even more: "Besides, the prices of these things are not high in the market. Even the most precious dragon bones are only a few hundred spirit stones per pound. It is not necessary for human cultivators to risk their lives to fight against the dragons head-on..."
"Several hundred spirit stones per pound!?"
Zhao Qing was so shocked by the price that she almost bit her tongue!
Who sells spiritual materials by the pound?
"But, but, if you really count this dragon bone, isn't it the...um...corpse of your dragon clan? Aren't you angry that it's being sold as a spiritual material?"
“Why are you angry?” Huairen looked puzzled as he calmly spoke of the “dragon customs” that made Zhao Qing even more horrified: “When we dragons are buried after death, we bury dragon balls. As for dragon bones… we use dragon bones to refine our own spiritual tools and magic weapons… In fact, we use not only dragon bones, but bones from all races. My father had a magic weapon made from a human skull a long time ago, but he later gave it to my mother. Moreover, that magic weapon was too brittle and was broken several times! Human bones are just not as strong as dragon bones…”
Huairen said this and even shook the huge dragon head in disdain.
Zhao Qing sucked in a breath of spiritual energy: "Hiss... You dragons are so... so wild..."
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