Chapter 449 Guilty (1)
Ji Rong completely withdrew his imposing aura before looking at the giant eel in the Fusion Realm before him, and said gently, "How did you know you were guilty?"
The eel spoke, "I knew this when I was still an egg, receiving the inheritance."
Seeing that he could answer, Ji Rong shook her head and said, "That's not right, you're not guilty."
Because I never saw any statements of guilt regarding the Great Dao Order back then, and besides, no other cultivators in other parts of Kyushu claimed to be guilty either.
"My lord," the eel-like cultivator said with a bitter face, "only those born in the Li River region are guilty; other places are not."
"Oh?" Ji Rongqi said, "Then according to you, your Lishui River is a river of sin."
"yes."
"Haha!" Ji Rong couldn't help but spread her wings and said confidently, "That's easy. I will personally move you to a sacred body of water. All the cultivators there have already attained enlightenment and left, leaving only a river with spiritual veins. That will be a good deal for you."
Upon hearing this, a strong desire flashed in the eel's eyes. As this desire spread from its eyes, several thin, vein-like lines suddenly appeared on the eel's head.
As the line appeared, the eel suddenly shook its head wildly and shouted, "I am guilty, I am guilty!"
I must atone for my sins! If I do not atone for them on the Li River, our path to liberation is hopeless, and we will never find release.
Seeing that communication was not going well, Ji Rong couldn't help but ask Gu Qingqing with some anger, "Why is this Shan Xiu acting like a madman? He was perfectly normal just now."
Gu Qingqing waved her claws to close the formation, and said expressionlessly, "Arong, he has already calculated it. At least he can still say a few words."
After saying that, she continued to lead Ji Rong to the second small pool called "Shiquan Pool". She knocked on the stone hanging in the air and saw many tiny Ming demons swimming up from the pool.
The reason they are described as miniature is that these demons all have a mature appearance, but are only about two feet long. When they heard the sound of the rocks, they swam up from the water one after another, each of them opening their mouths wide like cubs.
The tiny pool was completely covered by a dense array of mouths. Gu Qingqing pointed at them and said, "These are the pets that Yongquan Blessed Land has raised for Xiaoxiu."
"To be a pet?" Ji Rong asked doubtfully. "Many cultivators these days can't even get enough to eat, why would they spend money to buy this?"
Gu Qingqing said, "It is sold to those cultivators who have become rich overnight but are curious about the world."
"If we sell just five of these from a pond like this, Yongquan Fudi will make a huge profit, and the remaining chicks can be disposed of."
Ji Rong glanced at the several pools behind her that were separated by magic arrays and exclaimed in surprise, "Are those in the back too?"
Gu Qingqing nodded and said, "They are all here. I intercepted 752 creatures from Yongquan Cave. Thirteen of them died of fright on the way, and fifteen suffocated. There are 724 left, and they are all here. Do you want to see the rest?"
Ji Rong watched as Gu Qingqing closed the magic circle again and sighed, "See? After you've seen it, we'll go outside and talk."
One by one, the magic arrays were opened. Ji Rong looked at the more than seven hundred water beasts and got a sense of their strength. The cultivation levels of these water creatures were basically at or below the mortal demon realm. Most of them had little intelligence, and only a few could say a few words to the eel cultivator from the beginning.
Without exception, among the more than seven hundred minor repairs, those beings who still retained their sanity all believed they were guilty.
According to their recollections, when they were still eggs attached to a spiritual herb waiting to hatch, they learned of their sins from the so-called "thread of inheritance." However, if you asked them what specific sins they had committed, they could not give a concrete answer, only saying that they would die on the Li River.
Above the Li River, surrounding the blessed land of Yongquan, there are hundreds of magic arrays that separate the intelligent creatures kept inside, making it a breeding ground for aquatic life.
Generally speaking, cultivators who engage in the trade of flesh and blood do not sell the flesh and blood of their own kind.
But Yongquan Blessed Land is different. They also cultivate mentally challenged and insane long spearfish cultivators, and the male and female brethren they use come from those disobedient cultivators in their own clan, without having to capture them from outside.
After Gu Qingqing closed the last magic array, Ji Rong sighed as she walked out, "Sister Qingqing, this is not like you. You have three hundred armored soldiers who need to eat and drink. Why didn't you use this kind of flesh and blood as food on the spot? Why did you bring it all back?"
Gu Qingqing said, "If we eat them, we won't know what methods they used to turn these minor cultivators into this state. Besides, when I wrote to you, I thought some of them could still be saved."
Ji Rong looked at her and asked, "Did you take over the Yongquan Cave?"
"No basis for their claims; they just say they have connections."
"Has a foot?"
Gu Qingqing nodded and said, "That's right. The foot they're talking about is connected to you and Senior Wanfa. Do you think I can take it?"
"Me and my senior brother?" Ji Rong was startled upon hearing this, and immediately frowned and said angrily, "Who dares to do evil here in our name!"
Gu Qingqing squinted and smiled sinisterly, "That Xiong Xiu doesn't know my relationship with you, he only thinks I'm a servant of a fallen god."
He said that his name was Suiye, that he came from the Puppet Valley of the Jade Void Palace, and that he was your junior disciple. He came to the Western Continent to solve the problem of food for all living beings.
He said that we became friends after a fight, and that the batch I intercepted would be given to me as food.
He also said that although you and him are nominally uncle and nephew, your eldest disciple was originally his disciple, and that you are the most protective of your own.
He told me that since I had accepted his gift, I shouldn't concern myself with his affairs anymore.
"To avoid making a scene and embarrassing Juejun."
After leaving the Hundred Caves Pool, Ji Rong sat down at the table in the main cave. While waiting for the berry spirit food to be served, she was still unable to calm down. She looked up and said, "Since Sui Ye knows that I am protective of my own, why can't he remember what path I cultivate?"
A lazy fox-like voice came from the desk. She said, "Perhaps he forgot."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong nodded and said, "That makes sense."
As they spoke, a group of bird-like attendants, their eyes narrowed and chests puffed out, carried fruits up. Ji Rong looked at the birds' familiar postures and couldn't help but say, "Sister Gu, did you bring the attendant birds from the Dragon and Phoenix Palace here too?"
Upon seeing the food served, Gu Qingqing's previous gloom vanished, and she happily scratched her head with her leg, saying, "How could that be? This is what I retrained after Ji Zhuang was recruited in Xizhou."
After eating and drinking their fill, Ji Rong and Gu Qingqing sat down together and quietly listened to all the information about Yongquan Cave that was being reported from below.
After the servants had all left the cave, Ji Rong grinned, revealing a set of fine, white teeth, and asked in a high-pitched voice, "Sister Gu, what do you think of my teeth?"
Gu Qingqing looked at Ji Rong's wide-open mouth and ferocious expression, and her hind legs trembled involuntarily. She tucked her ears back and tucked her tail between her legs and said, "Arong, don't be like that. Even if you want to destroy Yongquan Cave, you don't have to eat it all by yourself. You'll overeat."
"Please calm down, I'm scared."
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