Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King
Chapter 43: Water Patrol
Chapter 43: Water Patrol
Liu Qing spent half an hour walking around the Dayawan Lake Market.
Liu Qing was reluctant to spend the ten taels of silver from Xia Ke Xing, intending to use it to enhance the divinity of the incense later.
Secondly, the land products that other water monsters were flocking to were easily available to Liu Qing, so he didn't waste his money.
Liu Qing returned empty-handed, but Xia Kexing's claws were full.
This brother was actually a shopping maniac. Liu Qing took a quick look and saw that one of his pincers was holding dried earthworms and dried persimmons from last autumn.
In the other pincers, there was a fish bladder full of yellow-brown gravel. Liu Qing was really confused.
Puzzled, he asked, "Brother, what did you buy?"
"Brother, you don't know, this is the best salt from a fish bladder that I stole from a buffalo monster."
Liu Qing was even more confused.
"Hey, brother, you've only been a demon for a short time. You don't know that the more we river demons transform into human forms, the more human-like they become, and the more salt they need to eat every day."
"Salt is essential for human survival. Without salt, one feels weak all over. When a river monster transforms into a human, its meridians, bones, and internal organs become more human-like. This habit makes it even more human-like. Naturally, it needs salt. Otherwise, it would feel weak all over."
Xia Kexing finally said solemnly: "Salt is a necessity for us river monsters. It is indispensable for every meal."
Liu Qing just felt that it was outrageous and had a ridiculous feeling.
This guy has turned into a monster and is even controlled by salt. Doesn't that mean that whoever controls the salt can control the people's livelihood in Shuifu?
"Brother, don't disbelieve me. You will know the importance of salt in the future. It can be said that among river monsters, salt is second only to incense silver in importance."
Liu Qing swallowed his saliva: "But brother, I have been to the human world and saw that the salt eaten by the common people seemed to be white. Even the common people ate slightly inferior salt, which was only grayish white. And these in your hand..."
At this point, Xia Kexing suddenly became angry: "It's all because of this group of hateful buffalo monsters, relying on the power of their ancestor, the Bull Demon King,
They have monopolized the salt-making process and travel between various water palaces and dragon palaces. Not only do they sell us the coarsest salt, but they also charge exorbitant prices. They're not water buffaloes at all, but blood-sucking vultures!"
"Just a handful of coarse salt from a fish bladder, and you're asking me for an ounce of incense silver!"
The unit of measurement for the Shuifu River monsters is the maw of a three-foot-long grass carp. Liu Qing estimated that one fish maw is about half a pound in the human world.
The price of salt is indeed ridiculously high, but it's good.
Because Liu Qing thought about it and it seemed that he could make salt himself.
A ripple called excitement stirs up waves of excitement in my heart.
From now on, when you set up your own stall, you must add this salt.
At this time, the star Taibai appeared in the eastern sky. The monsters who were setting up stalls in the market heard the sound of turtle shells in the water, so they packed up their stalls and dived underwater.
The lake market is only open on moonless nights and ends every time the Taibai star rises.
There is no other reason. On moonlit nights, the river monsters in the lake need to breathe in the moonlight to practice. When the Taibai star rises, the sunlight is blazing and carries the essence of the sun.
River monsters like Liu Qing have a cold and yin nature, and they must not absorb or exhale the sun essence, otherwise the demonic energy will be burned by the sun essence and their cultivation level will fall.
After the market ended, the two monsters, Xia Kexing and Liu Qing, left Dayawan Lake.
On the shore of Dayawan Lake, the two demons agreed to meet again in their spare time and were reluctant to part.
After they separated, Liu Qing went along Xiaolugou to the southwest Snake Pond, while Xia Kexing wiped his mouth, took out the turtle shell again, and while knocking it, he patrolled to the northwest.
According to Xia Ke Xing, its nest is temporarily located in the Wuding River in the northwest. The Wuding River is one of the eight pools, five rivers and seventeen channels of the Water Palace. The one stationed there is a female shrimp monster.
Liu Qing guessed that Xia Kexing and the female shrimp demon stationed at Wuding River were probably lovers. By the time Liu Qing returned to the Snake Pond, it was already daybreak.
Returning to the old place, I felt very familiar. The water of Snake Pond reflected the sunlight, and the waves were sparkling with golden color. The quacking of ducks awakened the spring, and a few precocious frogs climbed together and croaked happily.
The three intelligent carp monsters floated to the surface early, spitting out strings of bubbles and ending their hibernation in the mud.
Bits of new green emerged among the dead grass on the shore.
Liu Qing looked around with a smile in his eyes. Spring had arrived, the Snake Pond was alive, and he had truly become the master of the Snake Pond.
In a good mood, Liu Qing slid down the mud hole dug by Xia Ke Xing like a snake, and floated on the water.
Looking back, I saw that the mud hole was more than three feet above the surface of the Snake Pond. It bordered the Snake Pond to the west and the Xiaolugou to the east. Above the mud hole was the old forest.
If you want to connect the two, there are two ways. One is to expand the mud hole downwards, and the other is to wait for the water to rise in summer, so that the water will flow through the mud hole and connect to Xiaolugou.
But Liu Qing couldn't wait that long.
He planned to resolve the matter after refining the Water Report Order.
As he climbed up the crooked mulberry tree, Liu Qing's mind moved, and the Water Notice Order appeared before his eyes. He opened his mouth and spewed out a trace of demonic energy.
In an instant, the evil spirit entered the Water Report Token, and a horned boa pattern appeared on the back of the token, indicating that the Water Report Token had been initially refined.
Then, after eating and drinking, Liu Qing waited until he was full of energy, then wandered around the Snake Pond, placed the Water Reporting Order in front of him, and started the final refining mode of the Water Reporting Order.
As Liu Qingyu patrolled the border and wandered around the Snake Pond, the water-alerting order in front of him was driven by demonic energy, emitting a bright blue light and absorbing streams of water vapor.
Behind the water warning order, a water vein pattern slowly emerged.
From the valley entrance in the south to the cliff in the north, from the mountains and forests in the west to the mud cave in the east, the snake ponds within a radius of several miles have all evolved into water vein patterns and appeared behind the water warning order.
The refining to this stage is considered a success, but Liu Qing is not satisfied. He still covets Xiaolugou.
On the way back just now, Liu Qing looked at Xiaolugou carefully.
Xiaolugou runs from southwest to northeast. The river originates from the old forest east of Shetan. Although the river channel is very narrow, only two or three meters at its narrowest point, the water is shallow and silty, and there are reeds everywhere.
However, the river is very long. If we count from the old forest 20 miles east of Shetan, then pass the clan fields behind Lijiawubao, and end at the entrance of Dayan Lake,
The total length is about fifty or sixty miles.
If such a long river did not have a dry season for more than half a year every year, and if it were not filled with a lot of silt and the water was shallow, it would have been included in the water vein map by the Water Palace and occupied by a great monster.
Unfortunately, river monsters need water, and they cannot stay in shallow water. The water veins are barren and have no roots, so they can only be wild ditches at best.
These shortcomings make this small Lugou unpopular among river monsters.
However, if it weren't for this, Liu Qing wouldn't have been able to covet it.
Liu Qing was secretly delighted. He swam to the mud hole and swung the whip with all his strength, hitting it hard, trying to expand the mud hole downwards and connect Snake Pond and Xiaolugou.
As long as the connection is successful and there is water supply from the Snake Pond, Xiaolugou will no longer be rootless water.
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