Chapter 264 Demanding
As soon as they dispersed, Qi San hurriedly returned. He took out eight storage rings and presented them to Ji Rong with his paws, saying, "Lord Ji, we left our breath at Long Yan, the head of Guiyuan."
The dragons love money; we implore you to make a trip for us and bring us all here.
Ji Rong accepted the storage rings and nodded, saying, "Don't worry, as long as you guard this teleportation array and don't let a single unrelated insect into the Jade Void Palace, I will take care of you."
Qi Sa immediately bowed and said, "Thank you, sir!"
Upon hearing the repeated calls of "My Lord," Ji Rong felt refreshed and overjoyed. She immediately raised her head and laughed heartily for a while before heading towards the teleportation array.
Upon entering the teleportation array, Ji Rong noticed that the dense, overlapping divine runes above gradually faded as she moved forward.
Ji Rong thought to herself, "There really is a problem over there."
Ji Rong landed precariously on the teleportation array on the Kunlun side, only to see that the divine runes within the array had become as faint as air, clearly unable to support her return.
As soon as Ji Rong stepped out of the teleportation array, she saw claw marks and pits all over the ground. Outside the teleportation array, huge array bases covered with inscriptions had been dug out and gnawed through, with large holes extending from the surface of the ground into the interior.
Ji Rong straightened the Xuanhuan wooden plaque on his chest, transformed into his celestial form, and quickly looked inside. He saw that there were many small cultivators mining down there. There were a lot of them, digging here and there, randomly cutting off the energy supply of the spirit crystal vein.
As a result, this spirit crystal vein could no longer supply power to the divine runes on the teleportation array.
Ji Rong had something on her mind and naturally wouldn't care about that. She flapped her wings and quickly ran towards the Immortal Spring along the path she remembered.
Actually, there was no need to remember the route, because wherever the Queen Mother of the West's carriage passed, it was paved with thick blood. Even after half a month, the ground still smelled strongly of blood, making Ji Rong sneeze.
Ji Rong galloped on without being stopped by any cultivator. When she arrived at the Immortal Spring, she suddenly saw a fox cultivator waving his tail and shouting, "Who are you, you scoundrel, daring to cause trouble in the Great Sage Wangyue's place!"
Ji Rong looked up and saw that it was Hu Yao. She immediately smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist, it's me. I want to soak in the immortal spring. Let's go over there and talk."
Now that Hu Yao is extremely wealthy, and the spiritual energy in that immortal spring is becoming increasingly scarce, she would never take on such business again.
Youhu Yao turned and walked towards the cave, then turned back to Ji Rong and said righteously, "Fellow Daoist, please go back. Yao will not open the pool again from now on."
"How can this be!" Ji Rong looked around and saw that there were no cultivators nearby. She thought to herself, "If you want to stop me, then don't blame me."
Ji Rong immediately focused her mind on her spiritual platform, transforming into a tree body and a celestial being.
Her thick tree roots danced wildly in the air, and in less than two breaths, they had entangled Youhu Yao, whose face was filled with shock and infatuation.
That day, she forcibly fed Youhu Yao a sleeping pill specially made by Shan Zhongfeng, which had the effect of causing amnesia.
Then, Ji Rong buried Youhu Yao, who was sleeping like a dead dog, into the wall, leaving only her mouth and nose exposed.
Without any disturbances, Ji Rong strode into Wang Yue's cave. She pushed open the small door, went into the inner room, and deftly broke through some of the crude array set up by Hu Yao. With a "plop," she jumped into the pool.
She separated the tree trunk and searched it carefully, leaving the bird body outside to keep watch.
A day passed, and Ji Rong's roots easily found the pipe that had no restrictions whatsoever and was full of source water. She refilled her spiritual lake with source water, but she did not find the mountain water.
"I'll have to come back another time." Ji Rong, who was satisfied with absorbing the source flow, plucked a hair and walked out.
With the important business done, the next step is to take the opportunity to bring over the cultivators from the unloading workshop and the teleportation array.
After passing through the chaotic and bloody passageway, Ji Rong arrived at the Treasure Pavilion. In a short time, the pavilion had been renamed and was now called "Blood Dragon Pavilion".
Ji Rong walked in. The scaled walls and bone pillars in the hall were still there, but the blood phoenix that had been perched on the coral was gone, replaced by a majestic blood dragon that dominated the four directions.
As soon as Ji Rong entered, the blood dragon quickly turned its head to one side.
Ji Rong shouted at the blood dragon, "Tu Li, I have arrived, why are you still hiding and refusing to come out and meet me?"
Then the blood dragon descended from the coral, its dark vermilion lantern-shaped eyes wide open, and said, "Don't think that just because Qingpingzi is protecting you, I really won't dare to kill you!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong immediately raised her neck, spread her wings, and said, "I've come to deliver a good thing to you, so what's wrong with speaking a little louder!"
Tu Li brought the blood-dripping dragon head closer and spat a mouthful of foul-smelling blood at Ji Rong, saying, "Someone like you, what good can you do for me? You'd be better off being a food gutter for me."
Ji Rong looked at him and said, "How many cultivators have you killed? Did you wipe out all the Master Slayers?"
Tu Li glanced at her and said, "Scared now? They are my precious blood slaves, how can I kill them? The blood on my skin is due to my cultivation technique. Before long, I will refine the best blood technique in the world!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong shook her head and said, "The best blood techniques are not like yours; Jade Void Palace has them."
Upon hearing this, Tu Li immediately transformed into an old man in a blood-red robe. He pressed down on Ji Rong with his claws and asked, "Is what you're saying true? Do you have a better blood technique?"
Ji Rong frowned and immediately transformed into a small celestial being, slipping out from between his claws and saying, "It is true, why would I lie to you? I admire your cultivation throughout your life. If you are willing to come to my Jade Void Palace as a henchman, I will have my senior brother teach you that method."
Tu Li remained silent upon hearing this, his eyes filled with suspicion as he looked at Ji Rong.
Upon seeing this, Ji Rong immediately fluttered her feathers, then spread her wings over her body and said, "What kind of look is that? I just heard that you blood magic practitioners all like to plant seals, and I wanted to trade the method with you for those butchers. If you don't want the method, I'll just pay you to trade it."
Upon hearing this, Tu Li thought to himself that she was lying to him, and that he would not lose anything if he did not remove the blood seal, so he said, "I will go with you."
Seeing that the old butcher had agreed, Ji Rong said, "You go to Yuxu Palace first, I still need to go to Guiyuan to exchange some cultivators."
Tu Li would never go alone; he immediately grinned, revealing his blood-red mouth, and said, "I'll go with you!"
They passed the Delights Pavilion and arrived at the dilapidated Jade Pool Outer Garden. On the jade brick ground of the outer garden, the mottled bloodstains, both old and new, looked as if they had been poured with wave after wave of fresh blood.
Ji Rong looked up and saw that the desks and tables were in disarray, and the chairs and stools were overturned. On the jade pavilion by the lake, there were no birds or beasts left. Most of the spirit crystals embedded in the walls had been removed, and three of the large jade pillars that supported the pavilion were missing. When the wind blew, tiles fell off the jade pavilion.
Passing through the outer garden of Yaochi, Tu Li led Ji Rong along the Kunlun Avenue, which was drenched in blood and gore. The trees on both sides of the avenue were all fallen, and many low-level cultivators were dragging corpses ahead. When they saw Tu Li and Ji Rong coming from afar, they were so frightened that they abandoned the meat they had picked up and carelessly threw it on the road.
Stepping into the rotten flesh and blood that resembled mud, Ji Rong felt extremely bad. Fortunately, not long after, the two of them arrived at the gate of Guiyuan. As soon as they reached the steps, Ji Rong used her rain magic to wash herself clean.
Tu Li asked in surprise, "You can actually make rain?"
Ji Rong raised her head and glanced at the old butcher, saying, "Is that so strange? I've already told you that my Jade Void Palace has plenty of methods."
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