112: The Dragon King has been kidnapped! The shocked Dragon King!
In Yunzhou.
Beneath the surging waters of the East River, a luxurious East River Dragon Palace sat.
On the pile of rocks at the entrance of the Dragon Palace, the White-faced Water Demon and the Black-faced Water Demon sat on the left and right.
"Glug, glug..."
The Black-faced Water Demon, White Baby Black, blew a series of bubbles, looking at the distant waters with deep eyes, his anticipation tinged with a hint of sorrow.
"I fear the Old Dragon King truly won't be coming back," said White Baby Black.
The White-faced Water Demon, Black Baby White, shook his head. "Whether he can return is one thing, but it is highly probable that his life is not in danger."
"That is true," White Baby Black nodded. "Having followed the Old Dragon King for so many years, I have faith in him; he will surely be able to seize that glimmer of hope."
Just as the two great Water Demons were chatting.
Ripples appeared in the distant waters.
A large crab, its eight legs flailing, came sprinting toward the Dragon Palace.
"What is going on?" The two Water Demons immediately flashed forward and intercepted it.
"This subordinate greets the two vanguards. I was ordered to temporarily station at the Jingyue River to monitor the movements of the mountains. At high noon, a small Yao appeared in the mountains and cast a spiritual message into the Jingyue River, saying it concerned the Dragon King. I dared not delay and escorted the spiritual message here!"
The Black and White Water Demons were vanguard generals under the East River Dragon King and held high status in the East River waters, so the small crab Yao naturally dared not hide anything from them.
Vanguard White and Vanguard Black exchanged a glance, and an identical thought emerged in their minds.
The Old Dragon King must have been defeated!
"Give it to me quickly!" Black Baby White reached out and said.
Upon hearing this, the small crab Yao spat out a glowing piece of white jade from its mouth.
Black Baby White snatched the spiritual message and waved his hand, signaling the small crab Yao to leave for now.
After it left, he and White Baby Black opened the spiritual message together.
The white jade lit up, and the information recorded within appeared.
The two Water Demons listened to the words in the spiritual message, looked at each other, and then gathered together to analyze it quietly.
"The beginning is easy to understand; the Dragon King has definitely been kidnapped. But what does the last sentence mean?"
"There is much more to this; how could Her Highness the Dragon Daughter not be worried!"
"Given that one's character, he must have set his sights on Her Highness the Dragon Daughter. Sending this spiritual message now, his goal must be Her Highness the Dragon Daughter."
"Since that is the case, then it is easy to handle."
They whispered for a moment, made up their minds, and then rushed into the Dragon Palace.
"Oh no! The Dragon King has been kidnapped by a snake Yao in the mountains!"
A shrill cry resounded through the East River Dragon Palace.
Instantly, the entire Dragon Palace was plunged into chaos.
...
Inside the mountains.
Xu Qing brought the East River Dragon King back to the Taihang Mountains.
The East River Dragon King's injuries had not yet recovered, so he had no strength to resist. He had also fainted from anger, and by the time he woke up, he had already arrived at the mountain peak.
As soon as he woke up, he noticed something unusual.
"Such dense Spiritual Qi!"
The Old Dragon King exclaimed; the Spiritual Qi in the surroundings was simply too dense!
When he was young, he traveled the world and had seen many places with dense Spiritual Qi, but those places were basically all hidden treasures.
Yet a mountain like the one before him, located on the edge of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, was truly inconceivable.
With a land of such dense Spiritual Qi, there was no reason for the Great Gan not to take it!
How could it fall into the hands of the Yao cultivators of the shallow mountains!
It was too unreasonable!
"A Great Spirit Gathering Array?" The Old Dragon King exclaimed again, then shook his head. "No, even with a Spirit Gathering Array, it couldn't possibly be this dense."
He looked around, momentarily forgetting the reason he had fainted from anger.
The commotion from the battle just now had been significant, alarming the entire mountain forest.
At this moment, great Yaos were arriving one after another to investigate.
A giant hawk appeared in the high sky, its wings nearly a hundred zhang long, the golden feathers on its head shimmering with light. It came from afar, and in the blink of an eye, it arrived before them.
"King, this subordinate heard movement here," said the great Yao from the Wind Chasing Ridge.
Because the feathers on its head were golden, Xu Qing named it Golden Tripod.
As a great Yao of the Eagle race, Golden Tripod was born with the ability to fly and had sharp eyesight, making it very suitable for patrolling the border territories.
It was, like Six Liang, considered one of Xu Qing's key subjects for cultivation.
It was also the first great Yao to notice the commotion and arrive at the scene.
"It's nothing, I was just stretching my muscles. Go back," Xu Qing tossed out two Spirit Pills.
"Many thanks for the reward, King!" Golden Tripod was quite excited and hurriedly accepted the Spirit Pills.
It stood up, preparing to fly away, when it suddenly remembered something. It turned its head and said, "King, two days ago, when I passed by the Three Spirits Valley, I met Fat Ball and Skinny Egg. They asked me to bring a message, saying they know they were wrong and request to reduce the time they spend working for Six Liang."
"The next time they beg you, add another month to their time, and tell them it was my order," said Xu Qing.
"As you command!"
Golden Tripod nodded, spread its wings, and vanished into the clouds.
Subsequently, several more great Yaos appeared one after another to investigate the situation.
Xu Qing dismissed them one by one and rewarded each of them with Spirit Pills.
The East River Dragon King had not spoken the entire time.
In fact, he had been in a state of shock since Golden Tripod appeared.
The area where Xu Qing was located was the outer periphery of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where basically ordinary Yao Races lived.
Most had ordinary Bloodlines, average Aptitude, and limited future achievements.
But in a sense, this mountain forest was much more brutal than the Demon Spirit Realm in the deep mountains.
There, Upper Three Ranks Yao Kings presided, and there was basic order.
But the outer periphery of the mountains was different; it was filled with more bloody slaughter!
Those who could survive here and cultivate to this point were all the elite among their respective races.
Therefore, great Yaos like Golden Tripod and Six Liang actually had decent Aptitude.
Once they had the corresponding resource supply, their strength would usher in a period of explosion!
Originally, various parts of the Taihang Mountains were ruled by different great Yaos; resources like Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Plants were not shared, and Alchemy was a technical skill that ordinary Yao cultivators simply did not possess.
Xu Qing's appearance solved these problems.
With his formidable strength, he suppressed nine regions, including the Taihang Mountains, and mastered Divine Abilities such as the Earthly Fiend Techniques, enabling him to refine Spirit Pills of excellent quality.
With the help of these Spirit Pills.
The Cultivation Level of the great Yaos had mostly broken through two thousand years, advancing side-by-side toward the three-thousand-year Cultivation Level milestone!
In the East River Dragon Palace, Black Baby White and White Baby Black, with over two thousand years of Cultivation Level, could become vanguard generals of the Dragon Palace.
The East River Dragon King did not have many subordinates of this caliber in total.
But now, in just the time it takes to burn an incense stick, he had seen nearly ten!
The aura of these great Yaos was fiercer than the last, filled with baleful energy; one look and it was clear they were not ordinary characters.
In contrast, the two Black and White vanguards in the Dragon Palace... were slick and oily, with fifty percent of their power spent on flattery.
Since when were there so many great Yaos in the outermost region of the mountains?
Such important intelligence, and the two Black and White vanguards actually failed to bring it back!
Thinking of the great Yaos that had appeared just now, acting decisively and swiftly, with such might and dominance, and then thinking of those two Water Demons in his own Dragon Palace.
The Old Dragon King had an urge to strangle them to death.
He turned his head to look at the calm-faced Xu Qing, his gaze shifting repeatedly, and he suddenly felt that the guy before him was becoming increasingly mysterious.