The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 94: The Fish Leaps Over the Dragon Gate, How Can We Compare? (Request for Full Order)
Since we are discussing cooperation, it cannot be finalized with just a few words.

Li Qing sent a communication talisman to Li Hui, vaguely mentioning the matter and asking him to come over for discussion. He stayed overnight in a pavilion in Yanglong Lake that night.

There was no banquet in the evening. Sang Yuwan ordered someone to deliver the spiritual food to the pavilion and then did not bother him again.

Li Qing was happy to have some peace and quiet, so he dismissed the Sang clan members who were serving him and set up some restrictions.

The next moment, Asun, Asao, Chaoyin and Xiaolian appeared at the dining table.

Ah Sun turned his head away and didn't look at Li Qing directly. It was obvious that he was still angry about him praising Ao Lan during the day.

Li Qing smiled and pinched its horn: "I'm just being polite. Ao Lan doesn't have such a majestic horn, and his appearance is not as handsome as our Ah Sun. I don't want him at all."

Ah Sun shook her head, pulling herself free from his fingers, and said doubtfully: "Eh?" (Really?)
Li Qing said confidently: "Of course!"

Seeing that Asun's expression showed signs of softening, he struck while the iron was hot and soothed it with a few words, and finally coaxed it into compliance.

On the other side, Acao, Chaoyin and Xiaolian sat in a row, three pairs of eyes looked over curiously, which made Asun, who had come to his senses, feel quite embarrassed.

Li Qing smiled, poured each of them half a cup of dragon blood wine, and then used his fingers like swords to cut a little bit of dragon liver, dragon eggs and other spiritual food for them.

"Come, let's try the Sang family's full dragon banquet! This is a rare delicacy, and one meal costs a lot of spirit stones."

Ah Sun was quite a money-grubber, and when he heard that it was worth a lot of spirit stones, he couldn't wait to eat it. He especially loved dragon blood wine, and if it weren't for the unicorn horn getting in the way, he would have buried his head in the wine glass.

Little foodie Acao ate even more happily. After he finished enjoying the food on his own plate, he went to Asun to steal some, his eyes narrowed with happiness.

Chaoyin was not very fond of the whole dragon banquet and only tasted it briefly. But when she saw that Acao really liked it, she fed it her own portion as well.

Xiaolian was an ordinary elf insect that had not yet transformed, so her appetite was very small. Seeing this, she quietly moved the food that she had not moved in front of Azao.

Li Qing smiled as he watched their interaction, finding it very interesting, and couldn't help but feed them as well.

So after the whole dragon feast, Acao was so full that he had to circulate his spiritual fire to refine the essence of the spiritual food.

After having a good meal and a good drink, Li Qing teased the four children while concentrating on observing the temporary residence. He couldn't help but sigh: "The Yanglonghu Sang family is really a big family with a lot of wealth!"

Although both are second-level spiritual veins, the Li family's second-level spiritual cave is only enough for the clan leader and elders to live in, while the Sang family has an extra room for entertaining guests, which shows the difference in their background.

He sighed, "There's a long way to go." He then took out a white jade cushion, sat cross-legged on it, and began to practice his skills and meditate.

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The next morning, Li Hui rushed to Yanglong Lake. Li Qing accompanied him to meet the head of the Sang family, and then together with Sang Yuwan, he became a hands-off manager.

"You have come at the right time, Daoist friend. Today a group of red carps are transforming into dragons in the lake. Daoist friend, you may want to take a look."

Sang Yuwan led Li Qing to the deepest branch of Yanglong Lake.

On the water, a dark blue stone archway was suspended in the air. The archway was engraved with complicated symbols, and its color was dark red, with a strange fragrance, which seemed to be the blood of some spiritual beast.

In the water, a group of twenty-four large red carps were lining up and patrolling. This was also a spiritual fish, ranked as a first-class middle grade, and taking it could strengthen the qi and blood.

This group of big carps were much stronger than the ones Li Qing had seen before. Each one was about five feet long, and their red scales looked like ruby, reflecting the sparkling water and were extremely eye-catching.

What surprised Li Qing the most was that there was wisdom in the eyes of each red carp, as if they all understood human nature.

At the edge of the school of fish, two Sang clan members were holding a small boat. They leaned over and touched the head of the "head fish": "Are you ready?"

The leading fish floated and sank to show its affirmation, and a long string of small bubbles bulged out from its lips.

The two tribesmen took a deep breath, stood up, and threw a handful of pills into the water.

A red carp couldn't hold back, it leaped up, swung its tail, held a pill in its mouth, and then red flames burst out all over its body.

It used all its strength and the whole fish catapulted towards the stone door in mid-air.

"Could this be an imitation of the carp leaping over the dragon gate?" Li Qing asked casually, staring at the scene intently.

Sang Yuwan nodded slightly: "That's right."

The next moment, the red carp rushed into the stone gate, and the talisman on the door was activated, turning into a blood-red light curtain, "trapping" it in it.

"Hoo——" Li Qing seemed to hear the red carp breathing with all its might. At the same moment, the red carp expanded and then exploded into a misty blood mist.

The blood mist condensed into blood beads and fell on the lake surface with a "plop".

Another red carp swallowed the pill and leaped high into the sky. Unfortunately, its aim was a little off, and it didn't enter the light curtain, but instead crashed into the left pillar of the stone gate.

The talisman suddenly lit up, blasting it into pieces that fell back into the lake.

Then came the third, fourth, fifth... a total of sixteen red carps failed to jump over the Dragon Gate.

After the seventeenth red carp swallowed the pill, it jumped into the air, but suddenly it was obviously suspended in the air, and then it fell back into the lake with a "pop".

Then the red carp twitched, and the wisdom in its eyes quickly disappeared, and soon it became an ordinary spirit fish.

Li Qing was a little surprised: "Daoyou, what is this?"

Sang Yuwan sighed: "It is said that there is no regret after success. There is no regret medicine for this fish leaping over the dragon gate. If you fail, you will die. If you give up, you will also be punished."

As he spoke, a member of the Sang clan bent down and scooped the red carp onto the boat: "Alas, it is better to run into it head-on than to fall into the hands of the chef."

Another tribesman retorted: "There is great fear between life and death. This is especially true for humans, let alone fish."

It seemed that it was leading the way, and four more red carps followed suit. At the last moment, they chose to give up and lost their intelligence.

Until finally, only the first fish was left that had not yet jumped over the Dragon Gate.

It looked up at the stone gate, then turned its head to look at the two people and five fish on the boat, and resolutely swallowed the last pill.

At the moment when it soared into the sky, there were obvious splashes of water, but Li Qing clearly saw two lines of tears sliding down the corners of his eyes.

"Fellow Daoist, I don't quite understand." Li Qing was a little puzzled. "Why did your two clansmen take the five fish up in front of him? Wouldn't it disturb him?"

Sang Yuwan did not answer, and watched the head fish run towards the stone gate. The blood-colored symbol lit up again, turning into a blood curtain that "netted" the head fish.

The next moment, Li Qing seemed to hear a dragon's roar.

The red carp struggled in the light curtain, and the scales all over its body exploded, splashing out drops of blood.

Then, the red carp's body quickly stretched and flattened until it looked like a loach. A small bump rose on the top of its head, and then its skin and flesh burst open.

Li Qing took a closer look and found that it was actually a small pink deer antler with two forks, which was not proportional to its huge body.

"Roar——" Finally, accompanied by a loud dragon roar, the red carp broke free from the blood-colored light curtain, and fine scales grew all over its body again.

It tumbled in the air for a while, and then three clouds of fire covered it, flashing red light, which was very beautiful.

"The wind comes from the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon, has the transformation into a dragon been successful?" Li Qing whispered.

Sang Yuwan laughed heartily: "Very good! Today my Sang family has one more dragon seed."

After saying that, he pointed his finger, and the five red carps on the boat that had lost their wisdom fell back into the water.

"You look like a loach or a carp, with dragon horns on your head, so you should be called the Red-horned Dragon Loach. Also, you can be named Ao Qiu?"

"Roar~" Ao Qiu nodded to Sang Yuwan and sank into the water. Without looking at the two people on the boat, he swam out of the lake with five of his fellow creatures who had lost their wisdom, and went towards the depths of Yanglong Lake.

The stone door flashed, then turned into a red light, fell into the lake, and disappeared.

"Becoming a dragon is a hurdle. If you get scared midway, you will die. If you get scared after seeing this, you will have no way to survive."

"Only this fish has the determination to shoulder the lives of its own kind and forge ahead with hope amid despair. Only then does it have a glimmer of hope."

Sang Yuwan sighed and said, "How can people like you and me compare to this red carp?"

Li Qing looked at the red-horned loach going away in silence.

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