Chapter 451 Guilty (3)
Pillow Lamp's suspicions about Suiye are quite reasonable, as there are only a few unfamiliar faces in Yongquan Blessed Land.
This is because Sui Ye is different from Shi Ming. Although Sui Ye has cultivated the left-hand technique of puppetry and wants to prove his Dao with living puppets, his master and disciples are all still alive and well. Therefore, Sui Ye has a way out and also has the most abundant magical techniques and resources in the world.
If he only uses Yongquan Blessed Land as a temporary training ground and discards it afterward, Pillow Lamp thinks it is quite possible. If he has that status, he might even call on his fellow practitioners from the original Jade Void Palace to poison and modify the formation before discarding it, so as to improve their skills together.
However, if Suiye wants to kill fish and unload the cargo, it should be after I have found a cultivator above the Profound Spirit Realm for him and helped him attain enlightenment.
Since the high-level living puppet has not yet been completed, after much deliberation, Zhen Deng felt that it should not be Sui Ye.
Yongquan Blessed Land is actually a stone palace in the water, with a small island on top. The island is used to house a small number of foreign beast cultivators and bird cultivators.
Deep within the stone palace lies a sacred spring, covering an area that is both deep and vast, which is the territory of the Longgunfish tribe.
One hundred and thirty-two magic arrays were placed around their stone palace. These arrays relied on the array commands in the mouth of the pillow lamp. When they were combined, they could form a land bridge, and when they were separated, they could open a waterway. They were very good at checking the amount of blood food and also good for daily delivery.
With a belly full of questions, Zhen Deng decided to close the island first and then hold a small banquet to sound out Sui Ye's opinion.
So, holding the array command, he divided the 136 outer arrays into eight groups, so that they were neither in rows nor in lines, but rather surrounded the island like the Bagua (Eight Trigrams).
Then he sent his people out to buy meat and other meat.
But the clansmen sent out by Pillow Lamp returned in a hurry not long after they left. As soon as they entered the stone palace, they anxiously cried out to Pillow Lamp, "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! A powerful being has blocked all our waterways and air routes! We are like fish in a cage, unable to get out!"
"Such a thing is true?!" Pillow Lamp was shocked and suspicious. He immediately put on his armor and swam out.
Upon going outside, they saw that the 136 magic arrays that Yongquan Cave Heaven had once been so proud of had all become immovable dead objects for some unknown reason.
No matter how he manipulated the arrays, they remained completely still, and the waterways between the arrays, meant for entry and exit, were blocked by upward-flowing walls of golden water.
Pillow Lamp poked its tail at the water wall, only to find that it couldn't pass through it either. Enraged, it immediately transformed into a magic fish and, with its clansmen, raised the bone spears on its head and rammed into the water wall. But the water wall seemed to come alive, lifting it up and sending it soaring into the clouds above the water.
"Who! Who's playing tricks on my blessed land of Yongquan!"
While shouting sternly, Zhen Deng displayed his imperial aura; then he immediately turned around in the waves and dived straight into the water below.
After finally managing to burrow three feet down, the pillow lamp heard a dragon's roar.
Amidst the dragon's roar, the water waves that were entangling him quickly transformed into silvery-white water dragons, binding him tightly like chains. These water dragons lifted him out of the water and sent him flying into the sky.
The lamp in my pillow seemed to be a bad sign, and a sudden urge to retreat arose in my heart.
He immediately changed into celestial form, intending to escape in the air, but suddenly a huge bird beak emerged from the clouds above. The beak opened wide and pecked at the pillow lamp that was bound by the water dragon, rolling it into the clouds.
Before Zhen Deng could dodge, Ji Rong pecked him and held him in her mouth. He once again secretly channeled his spiritual power to shrink his body, and thrust the spear on his head into Ji Rong's mouth, trying to escape through the gap between her teeth that were not yet closed.
Unexpectedly, the bird had many sharp teeth in its beak, and the spear of the pillow lamp was stuck between the bird's teeth and could not go in or out.
Then, the strange bird pulled him out and pecked into his forehead with a few beaks, removing the flesh and blood protecting his Dao Pill. Then it put him in its mouth and bit into the thick skin that he was usually so proud of.
After a while, Ji Rong spat out the blood-soaked pillow lamp, grabbed it under his toes, and said triumphantly to the water column below, "Little Bai, you and I, one in charge of the sky and the other in charge of the water, are invincible in this water and sky."
With a cheerful expression, Little White emerged from the water column in the form of a white dragon. It repeatedly flicked its tail and nodded at Ji Rong, then sank back into the water along with the rising waves, continuing to stare at the water prison it had created.
When Pillow Lamp was captured, Long Spearfish Xiuxin, who had come out with him, realized something was wrong. They all turned around in panic and swam back to Yongquan Cave.
Actually, even if they didn't run away, Xiaobai had no intention of wasting his source energy to catch them.
Then, chaos erupted in Yongquan Cave Heaven. While it remained enclosed outside, a struggle began inside for the top spot among the blessed lands.
All twenty-one kings of the Longgunfish Cultivator ascended the stone platform to fight. For a time, the water surged continuously. However, before they could finish fighting, they discovered that the spiritual energy in the water was insufficient.
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In the sky, the Pillow Lamp, unable to close its eyes, spat out a mouthful of blood. Looking at the ordinary yet dazzling Emperor Cai Luan before it, it said in disbelief, "Fellow Daoist, my Yongquan Cave has no grudge against you. Why do you forcibly seal off my clan's Daoist temple?"
"Our current sovereign is merciful. If you continue like this, our clan will surely appeal to the Dragon and Phoenix Palace!"
Ji Rong looked at the pillow lamp and sneered, "Sinful Fish, you are a scum among fish, you have no right to call me fellow Daoist."
Since you know that the sovereign is merciful, then tell me what race she is, how she attained enlightenment, what level of cultivation she possesses, and what kind of business you are currently engaged in.”
The scent of an ordinary bird, the appearance of a colorful phoenix,
A powerful aura, combat strength far exceeding that of a royal realm cultivator;
Looking at Ji Rong's appearance, Zhen Deng concluded that this bird was no ordinary emperor-level cultivator, and he cried out in his heart that his life was over.
He felt as if he had been caught in a carefully laid fishing net, and before he could even see the fisherman's face, he was unjustly arrested.
Seeing the dehydrated fish head looking lifeless, Ji Rong pointed to the frozen magic array pool below and said, "Tell me, since you have spiritual veins, why do you keep doing business selling aquatic creatures?"
And why do you not even spare your own people, keeping them all among yourselves?
I'm very curious why those cultivators you keep in captivity would think they are guilty. If you are willing to answer honestly, I might consider mitigating your punishment.
But if you dare to say anything out of line, I'll eat you up.
Ji Rong's words rekindled Zhen Deng's hope, and his desire to live led him to immediately decide to shift all the blame onto Sui Ye and Shi Ming. With his mind made up, he nodded and said, "I will tell you whatever you want to ask."
This business of selling aquatic creatures has been passed down from our ancestors. Although we live in a blessed land and have no shortage of spiritual energy, everyone in our clan needs to eat and drink. So we collect flesh and blood from the dealers, sell them together, and earn a little profit to make a living.
Back then, after the Golden Mother Goddess passed away, all her attendants ran out, and some of us came too..."
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