Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 131: The Martial Arts of the Human World Instills a Monster, and the Monsters Come to Recommend the Palace Master

All the river goblins and monsters in the Snake Pond emerged from the water or were buried in the mud. They all bowed their heads to the west and thanked Goddess Wangshu for her gift.
Then they began to inhale and exhale the moonlight on their own. Those who had not yet transformed into demons used the moonlight to refine their bodies and strengthen their blood.

Those who have transformed into demons will inhale and exhale the moonlight, condense demonic energy, and improve their Taoist realm.

In the wooden house on the water built with a dead old locust tree, after eating and drinking, Changsun Wuji was preparing, waiting for the river monsters to finish swallowing the moonlight so that he could continue to enlighten them.

The walls of the wooden house were hung with all kinds of weapons in the world. As instructed by Liu Qing before he left, Changsun Wuji also opened a class on the skills of weapon fighting after teaching the cultural courses.

River monsters mostly fight with their claws and fangs, supplemented by their bloodline talents, and their means of attack are too scarce. Therefore, Liu Qing had no choice but to try to let the river monsters learn human martial arts to increase their ability to save their lives.

If the demon cultivators in the world had inherited the Taoism before the monkey made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, they would have learned the Taoist magic skills in the collection after awakening their spirits.
It's a pity that the collection of demon cultivators in the world has been confiscated by the Heavenly Court, cutting off their way to advancement. This is like when the dynasty was in its heyday and invincible, there was no threat, so they confiscated all the weapons in the world and used the way of gods to castrate the blood of the people under their jurisdiction to prevent them from rebelling and overthrowing their rule.

It's just a way for the rulers to keep the people ignorant.

The monkeys' rebellion in Heaven was just a pretext, but even though it was an excuse for Heaven to attack, it also implicated the demons of the world and created boundless cause and effect.

I don’t know how the monkey should act in the future to repay this huge cause and effect.

As for why the Heavenly Court was able to cut off the collection of "skills, techniques, scriptures, and secrets" of the demon cultivators in the world, Liu Qing still didn't know. Perhaps it was because of the spies and lackeys such as the river gods, land gods, mountain gods, and city gods spread throughout the three realms.

Shaking his head, he collected his scattered thoughts, stepped onto the waves and entered the wooden house on the water to meet Changsun Wuji.
When the master returned, he saw that the teacher was diligent and wanted to show his appreciation. He immediately called out Hong Gu, and ordered Xiao Ya and Bai Sheer to prepare wine and food, and to entertain Changsun Wuji before the class time.

Of course, he also intended to introduce Hong Gu, the mistress of the Snake Pond. In fact, it was more because of Liu Qing's vanity that he wanted to show off.

Sure enough, after meeting Hong Gu, Changsun Wuji couldn't stop praising Liu Qing for being so lucky to have such a dignified, wealthy and virtuous wife, which made others envious.

The delicacies that Hong Gu brought from the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea were transformed by Xiao Ya and Bai She'er into delicious dishes with good color, aroma and taste, as well as the fine wine from the East China Sea. These immortal dishes made Chang Sun Wuji exclaim in delight.

The fairy wine from the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea contains a lot of spiritual essence, which is used to entertain Changsun Wuji. As a mortal man consumes the spiritual essence, his life span will surely be increased. It can also be regarded as a reward from the master Liu Qing to Changsun Wuji, a dedicated teacher.

Hong Gu offered a light toast with a glass of wine to express her gratitude, then said goodbye and left with Xiao Ya, while Bai Sheer stayed outside to enjoy the moonlight.

Being able to receive the thank-you gift from a seventh-rank god, Chang Sun Wuji will surely enjoy great fortune, wealth, and longevity in the future, and become famous throughout the world.

After eating and drinking, both the host and the guests were happy.

Changsun Wuji continued to prepare lessons, while Liu Qing traveled around the waters of Snake Pond, seeing the river monsters and goblins under his jurisdiction swallowing and spitting out the moonlight. If anyone didn't understand the trick, he would give them some pointers.

After the matter was completed, Liu Qing finally looked at himself. He immediately faced the west, opened his mouth and sucked, and his great-level elephant-swallowing talent was fully activated.

A huge amount of moonlight that almost covered an area of ​​several miles was swallowed up by Liu Qing. He first divided it into countless small parts and distributed them to the river goblins and monsters. Then he swallowed it into his stomach and absorbed and refined it with his elephant-swallowing talent.

[Heaven and Earth Source Qi +1]

[Heaven and Earth Source Qi +1]

With just one bite, the elephant-swallowing talent was able to obtain 2 points of heaven and earth source energy. Compared with before, the efficiency was more than increased several times.
This shows how powerful the elephant-swallowing talent is when it is fully developed.

Liu Qing regretted that he did not choose to increase the growth of his Elephant Swallowing talent first.

Afterwards, Liu Qing continued to inhale and exhale the moonlight until two or three hours later, when the Taibai star appeared and the moonlight faded, and only then did he return home satisfied.

In just this one night, the Elephant Devouring Talent extracted and purified 45 points of Heaven and Earth Source Qi from the moonlight for Liu Qing.

The moonlight faded, and the river goblins and monsters finished their training. As usual, they did not disperse, but gathered in front of the wooden house in the water, respectfully greeted the teacher, and studied with full concentration.

Another hour passed, and after the cultural lessons and numerology were over, Changsun Wuji returned to the house, carrying a machete. "Now, I'll teach you the Machete Technique. Watch carefully, I'll only demonstrate it three times, and you can figure out the rest on your own after class!"

After saying that, Changsun Wuji slowly took up his stance and launched into action, one move after another. His swordsmanship was swift and swift, with more attacks than defenses, a perfect battle formation and fighting technique.

After the first time, Zhang Sun Wuji played it twice more, but the latter time was not as slow as the first time, and the speed was increased a lot.

Although I agreed to teach you martial arts, this martial arts also requires understanding. The first time you do it, you will be treated equally. The second and third times, you will be differentiated by quality.

Those with high comprehension ability can remember all of them after three times, such as the knife loach, scar carp, and bearded carp. Those with poor comprehension ability cannot remember them even after a hundred times, such as the bearded catfish, crucian carp, and eel. They really have no talent for martial arts.

Liu Qing sighed. He had tried his best to train them, but some of them were too stupid. It was not his fault.
I hope that even if I am not good at swordsmanship today, I can improve my techniques of using other weapons such as sticks, arrows, guns, hammers, etc. in the future.

"Today's class is over. When you go back, if you have claws, you can meditate on this in your mind. For spirits like shrimps and crabs, which have claws that can serve as hands, you can try practicing with a knife."

All the river goblins bowed, thanked the Master in unison, and then dispersed.

There was still an hour before dawn, so the river goblins did not start cooking salt yet. Instead, they followed Master Changsun's instructions. Those with pliers found a rusty short knife and began to practice their moves.
Fishes like the scarred carp and snakes like the short-tailed water python have no claws, so they can only comprehend things in their hearts. Or if they are too tired to practice martial arts, they will recite short poems from ancient times silently.

Liu Qing nodded, feeling satisfied with the ambition of the goblins in the Snake Pond.

An hour later, the sky brightened and the sun rose.

After a short meal, Crab Zuoshou, the salt-cooking manager, waved his hand and led the shrimps, crabs, snakes, pythons, and eels to start the day's salt-cooking work.

Days and nights are filled with time passing by, but the tight rhythm of life remains unchanged. Whether studying or working, everything is packed.
Especially after Liu Qing paid off the wages and incense money owed to him for being away for a few days, they did not feel tired of this kind of life, but felt very fulfilled.

very nice.

People say that river monsters are stupid, but stupidity also has its advantages. They don't have too many thoughts and just focus on studying and working. They enjoy being exploited and are definitely the best cattle and horses.

Everything was going well at Shetan, and things were going according to plan as usual, with tense and passionate days and nights continuing.

Liu Qing was extremely satisfied and did not interfere much. He was about to return to Lingbao Dragon Palace when he heard some laughter. Xia Kexing, the rattlesnake, the hairy crab garrison, as well as the mandarin fish banshee, the silver carp monster and other water vein garrisons came together.

After Liu Qing finished the river sacrifice and returned to Shetan, the brothers with whom he had a good relationship came to visit, which was as expected. Liu Qing summoned Hong Gu again to meet the brothers. Hong Gu was very polite and did not get annoyed. She responded appropriately and behaved generously, fully adapting to her role as the mistress of Shetan.

The river monsters hurriedly returned the greetings randomly. Some said they had seen their brother's sister-in-law, and some said they had seen their sister-in-law. Only the female mandarin fish monster looked as if she had been severely hurt and was about to cry.

Hong Gu was secretly annoyed and gave Liu Qing a fierce look. "You stinky snake, maybe this is another romantic debt." Liu Qing complained bitterly. "I accepted the debt, but I really didn't have any romantic debt."

Not long after, Hong Gu excused herself to prepare some wine and food and left. Liu Qing called out and brought a group of water monsters to have a feast on the water.

Among the monsters that came, there were shrimps, crabs, snakes and pythons that could leave the water for a short time, as well as fish, turtles and eels that could not live without water.
Liu Qing was in the center of the snake pond, using the water spirit bead to control the water, gathering water tables and chairs, and ordered the white snake to bring small clams to make wine bowls and reeds to make chopsticks.
We just waited for the snail girl and the maid to prepare the wine and food before we started eating.

Xiaoya, the snail girl, is a great cook with superb cooking skills, which has been recognized by Changsun Wuji, who has been rich for generations.

After Xiao Ya and Bai Sheer arranged the wine and food, they said goodbye and left.

Unlike before, when Bai She'er stayed to pour wine and serve guests, now Xiao Ya and Bai She'er have been designated as Hong Gu's concubines, so it is not appropriate to let them accompany drinking. The people in Liu Qing's room cannot be treated badly, even if they are brothers.

So he had no choice but to call the catfish to pour wine and serve. The catfish was an expert in business and had good social skills. He was charming and smooth, so he was a good waiter.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Xia Kexing wiped his mouth, exhaled a breath of alcohol, and said, "Brother Liu Qing, the brothers came here today because we were worried about whether you were injured during the river sacrifice. Now it seems that you are fine, so we are relieved."

"Secondly, they have calculated the profits of the salt goods they are acting as agents for, and have come together today to settle the accounts with you."

"How dare you trouble me, my brothers, to come here in person for such a small gift? Wouldn't it be better to just send a little demon to deliver it?"

Indeed, the Qingming River Festival harvested tens of thousands of taels of incense silver, and some of these water veins stationed there looked down upon the profit settlement for this month.

But we cannot ignore it. After all, it is a continuous source of income.

Afterwards, the guards of the water veins divided the previous batch of incense silver into smaller amounts and handed them over one by one. Liu Qing roughly counted them.
Each family only had one or two hundred taels, or two or three hundred taels. Adding up the eight ponds, five rivers, and seventeen canals, excluding the Snake Pond and the Wuding River that was given in advance, there were still twenty-seven water veins left, with a total of about four thousand taels of incense silver.

He threw a few taels of silver to the catfish as a tip and sent it away. Then Liu Qing reached out and put the remaining incense silver into his pocket.

The river monsters gathered at the Snake Pond, probably not just to offer incense and money.

Sure enough, before long, the river monsters looked at each other secretly, and then all looked at Xia Kexing. Xia Kexing laughed and told his real purpose without hesitation.

Xia Kexing has the closest relationship with Liu Qing and has done Liu Qing a favor. The other river monsters don't know why, but they unanimously recommend Xia Kexing to state his purpose, which makes Liu Qing somewhat unable to guess.

"Brother Liu, I heard that you snatched the first incense stick for the Mansion Master?"

"It is only thanks to the trust of the Lord that I have been able to fulfill my mission."

"Master, the mansion master is extremely lucky. With this first incense silver, he will surely achieve the position of a seventh-rank incense god as he wishes. We would like to congratulate Master, the mansion master, on his long life."

Liu Qing spoke in a loud voice, and all the river monsters faced the east and bowed in greeting.

At this point, Liu Qing had actually almost guessed the real intention of these guys' visit.

"Brother Liu, there's news from the Water Palace: the Palace Master's God-making Day will be held on April 1st."

Liu Qing interrupted, "Then we'll go together and witness the master's ascension to godhood!"

Xia Kexing felt a little embarrassed, as if he realized that Liu Qing didn't want him to continue speaking, so he glanced at the other river monsters with an apologetic look in his eyes.

Seeing that Xia Kexing was unwilling to explain, the other river monsters had no choice but to look at the rattlesnake monster. It was originally the mandarin fish monster's turn.

But Liu Qing already has a Taoist partner, and the mandarin fish demon may no longer hold any weight in Liu Qing's heart. Therefore, he had to introduce the rattlesnake demon, which is also a snake or python.

The rattlesnake demon gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Liu Qing, after the Palace Master became a god, he left behind a huge water palace. I wonder if Brother Liu is interested in the position of Palace Master?"

"If Brother Liu has this intention, we are here today to nominate Brother Liu to take over as the Palace Master!"

Liu Qing was touched, but did not show it.

When they were at the Rock Pond, the Mansion Master and Madam Yu had almost made it clear that after they left, he would take over as the Mansion Master.
But who would have thought that before this was made clear, Xia Kexing, Rattlesnake and others came to the door and wanted to nominate Liu Qing as the master of the house.

While Liu Qing was moved, he couldn't ignore the mansion lord Yuan Datou.

The Palace Master has not yet become a god, and has not yet left, but he and others have secretly colluded with each other and coveted the position of Palace Master. What does the Palace Master think?

The tea is already cold before the person leaves?
"Liu Qing knows the kindness of all the brothers and is very grateful, but the Palace Master is still here, and we dare not collude privately and cause him displeasure."

Liu Qing spoke in a serious tone. After being reminded by this, the river monsters all looked ashamed. Some of them were more sensitive and guessed Liu Qing's intention. Suddenly, they understood.
Brother Liu Qing only said that the Palace Master had not left yet and that no private contact was allowed, but he did not say that he was not tempted by the Palace Master's position.

A few foolish ones, who had not yet understood, tried to persuade Liu Qing and Xia Ke Xing, but Rattlesnake pulled them away and said goodbye with a smile.

Watching Xia Ke Xing and Rattlesnake leave, Liu Qing smiled slightly. It was nothing more than learning how to stand in line in the court and invest in advance.
They wanted to have a good life here, thinking that they would be reused in the future. Unfortunately, it was unnecessary for them to do so, as the Palace Master Yuan Datou had already secretly agreed that Liu Qing would take over.

Shaking his head, Liu Qing smiled silently.

No matter human beings or monsters, when faced with interests and power, they are like hawks smelling bad smells, eager to pounce on them and fight for them.

They claim to be seeking the truth and to be free, but in the end they cannot see through interests and power. Even the God of Heaven, who is high in the sky, is no exception.

Of course, Liu Qing felt that he couldn't figure it out, nor did he need to.

With a wave of his hand, the water in the pond dispersed, and leftovers fell into the pond, attracting the unawakened fish and shrimps to scramble for food. Liu Qing watched for a while, then turned and went to Lingbao Dragon Palace.

(End of this chapter)