Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 101: Rains fall heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the Heavenly Slave carries the decree to cut off the Wei River

It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the people traveling on land are heartbroken.

It's 'on land', not on the road.

The spring rain is like silk, cutting through the sky and tearing the spring into pieces, just like the heart that misses loved ones, broken into pieces.

The willows sway in the wind, dancing wetly in the wind and rain to "call souls", and the pear trees are white-topped, mourning for their deceased parents.

On both sides of the Jing River, which stretches for thousands of miles, countless people, both powerful and poor, brought their wives and children, some holding oil-paper umbrellas, some wearing straw raincoats.

Holding incense, candles and paper money in his hands, with red eyes, he looked at the eternal flow of the Jing River, missing his relatives who had passed away.

In front of the ancestral tombs on the shore, candles and incense sticks were lit, paper money was scattered in the air, and gold ingots were floating in the rain.
The head of a clan stretched his neck and yelled: "I bow down to the gentle spring breeze and rain, and I pay my respects to my ancestors and offer a humble tribute. I pray for the protection of the ancestors, the harmony of the family, and the health of the young and the elders. Alas, please enjoy the feast!——"

The tribesmen all knelt in the mud and shouted at the top of their lungs: "Alas, may we enjoy our feast!——"

The patriarchs of other surnames also called on their ancestors to pay homage afterwards.

Incense candles ignited a Yin fire, and the incense sticks emitted green smoke. The smoke in the Yin fire swirled, mixed with the wind and rain, and flowed away with the muddy water on the ground.
From west to east, from top to bottom, they finally converge into the vast Jing River, carrying the blessings of the ancestors back to each family along the Yin Road in the water.
If you walk through the water or the underworld, you have to pay a toll, and the money is paper money, gold ingots, candles, and incense sticks.

The Jing River is surging, and the water chestnuts are uneven.

Beneath the surface of the Jing River, on top of the uneven water chestnuts, stood countless fish, shrimps, turtles, crabs, snakes, pythons, snails, and clams.

Liu Qing followed the Mansion Master Yuan Datou, Madam Yu, General Tuo, Eel Eunuch and other great monsters, and occupied a large patch of water chestnuts in the shallow water on the north bank of the Jing River.
Adjacent to it, on the east side are the river monsters led by the Lord of Shilang Lake, and on the west side are the Lord of Fulong Lake and the river monsters under his jurisdiction.
Across from them are the two water palaces of Nanshan Lake and Ankang Lake, where the big and small river monsters come to participate in the Qingming River Festival of Jinghe River.

The outer areas, Malian River, Liupan River, Hong River, Heihe River, fish, shrimp, turtle, crab, snake, python, snail, clams and other water monsters, occupy the four corners.
The inner circle of the Five Lakes and Four Rivers is composed of the seven local forces of Jinghe River, namely the Chang family of snakes and pythons, the Dou family of fighting fish, the Wang family of king cobras, the Jin family of goldfish, the Yuan family of water apes, the Bai family of silver carp, and the Ling family of grass carp!
Liu Qing looked carefully and saw the positions of the seven families from five lakes and four rivers. He could vaguely judge the strength of each party.

Among them, the Four Rivers Water Houses squeezed to the four corners of the periphery were slightly weaker, followed by the Five Lakes Water Houses, while the seven local forces of the Jing River were the strongest.
However, there are signs of an alliance among the Five Lakes and Four Rivers. It is difficult to determine who will be stronger with the Nine Water Palaces fighting against the Seven Local Forces of Jinghe.

The lord of Shilang Lake is a giant green fish monster. Judging from the completeness of its transformation into a human form, it is likely that it has also reached the level of Lianxu Hedao, and its level of cultivation is not much different from that of the lord of the lake, Yuan Datou.
It is said that the master of Fulong Lake is a giant eel monster, who is also at the realm of Lianxu Hedao. He is just an arrogant monster, otherwise he would not risk his life to call himself "Floating Dragon".

Ankang Lake and Nanshan Lake, according to the eel man's introduction, the main species are grass carp and croaker respectively, and croaker is also known as yellow croaker.

As for the other four rivers, the lord of the Malian River is a lotus monster, the lord of the Liupan River is an old loach, the lord of the Hong River is a red minnow, and the lord of the Hei River is a ferocious black fish.

Finally, there is no need to say much about the seven local forces of Jinghe. Their masters are also the kings of the tribe. Just by listening to the tribe's surnames, you can know their true identity.

These palace lords and great demons are all at the Lianxu Hedao realm, and the Yin spirits in their bodies have transformed into Yang spirits.
By combining the Yang God with the incense, one can become an incense god. If one has not much incense silver accumulated, only ten thousand taels, one can become a ninth-grade follower god. If one has one hundred thousand taels, one can become an eighth-grade follower god.

But what Liu Qing saw was that these palace masters all emitted a faint black evil aura, without any scent of incense.
I think they are just like their own master Yuan Datou, holding their breath, wanting to save up a million incense silver and achieve the position of seventh-grade god in one fell swoop.
After all, they looked down upon the ninth and eighth grade subordinate gods. They were usually the masters of a prefecture and were used to being in a high position. How could they be angry at being scolded and driven around by others?

If one is unlucky and becomes a subordinate god, and happens to be assigned to serve under his former opponent, and that opponent is a seventh-rank true god, then he will not be able to survive.

Therefore, it seems that the masters of these sixteen water palaces have put in all their efforts this year, determined to grab enough incense silver worth one million during the Qingming River Festival and become seventh-grade gods in one fell swoop.

Everyone is at the realm of Lianxu Hedao. As long as they can collect enough incense silver of one million, they can become a seventh-grade god. Otherwise, they can only be an eighth- or ninth-grade servant god, driven by others.

The starting point is the same, and whether you will eventually become a seventh-grade god or an eighth- or ninth-grade subordinate god depends on how much incense money you raise.

Therefore, when people on the shore offer sacrifices during the Qingming Festival, the ancestral spirits leave behind paper money, gold ingots, candles, and incense sticks for their ancestors to go to the underworld.

Their eyes were wide open, their nostrils were flaring, and their chests were heaving.

"Brothers, when we open the river later, you must grab the first stick of incense for this lord. One stick of incense is worth exactly 100,000 taels, which is enough for me, Yuan Datou, to collect a million taels of incense silver and become a seventh-rank god!"

"In addition to the rewards I promised you earlier, if that person gets the first chance to incense, I, Yuan Datou, swear on the Dao path that when I become a true god in the future, I will definitely raise that person as a subordinate god!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the river monsters from the Dawan Lake Water Mansion who had been selected to participate in the river sacrifice and grab incense became excited.
Especially General Turtle and Grandpa Eel, who had reached the level of refining the spirit and returning to the void, and gave birth to the Yin spirit, their eyes turned red.

They didn't dare to think about collecting a million taels of incense silver to become a seventh-grade god, but they were sure to collect ten thousand or one hundred thousand taels.
In addition, the Palace Master promised that with his support and care, after becoming a subordinate god in the future, he would be assigned to the old Palace Master's command, and he would not have to worry about being like other subordinate gods, being arbitrarily driven around by the righteous gods and suffering from humiliation.

Therefore, General Turtle and Grandpa Eel were extremely excited about the upcoming fight for incense.

"Hey, in previous years, the Weihe River Dragon King, who presided over the river sacrifice, would have arrived long ago. Why hasn't he come this year?"

"Yes, if the Weihe River Dragon King doesn't come and there's no one to preside over it, how can we open the river and grab the incense?"

Liu Qing heard it for the first time and couldn't help but stretch his ears. Just as he was about to listen carefully, suddenly,
A muffled thunder rumbled from the sky, and the next moment, a man appeared under the water of the Jing River, in front of the monsters.
This person wore a double-winged ear-protecting gauze crown on his head, a black round-necked brocade robe, cloud-stepping shoes on his feet, a black jade belt around his waist, a dustpan in his left hand, and a bright yellow imperial edict in his right hand.

"The Supreme and Most High Jade Emperor of Haotian Jinque, the Wonderful and Natural Miro Supreme Jade Emperor, decrees: The Weihe River Dragon King interferes with the passage of living beings through the Three Gates and transforms into a demon, disrupting the order of heaven and earth. His crime is unforgivable and he shall be executed!——"

(End of this chapter)