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Chapter 24 How dare a mere fry call himself a dragon!

"Dragon King Temple..."

After paying for the wine, the young man stood up, led the horse and left the restaurant. After asking briefly, he walked towards the Dragon King Temple in Heishui Town.

This person was Zhang Wei, who received the task from his third uncle Zhang Hui.

The reason why he was so concerned was not because he really wanted to be a tribute student, but he just wanted a chance to leave Luyang and go to Yundu with a legitimate reason.

After all, Chuyun Market was near Yundu, and whether he wanted to find a weapon refining inheritance or exchange the 100,000 taels of gold in his hand for other cultivation resources, he had to go to Chuyun Market.

However, Chuyunfang City is a thousand miles away from Luyang City. Even if he, a cultivator, tries his best to travel, it will take three or four days to go back and forth. This is too troublesome and far less convenient than staying directly in Yundu.

So Zhang Hui and Zhang Xiong's arrangement turned out to be exactly what Zhang Wei wanted. And Zhang Wei didn't want to worry about his uncle and brother, so he decided to make this matter perfect.

As for why you came to this restaurant?

In the feudal era, was there any place more suitable for gathering information than a restaurant?

The result was as expected, Zhang Wei successfully got the news. Although he heard some uncomfortable insect remarks, Zhang Wei, who had lived in this world for nearly 20 years, was already accustomed to it.

After all, if you really want to count, his Zhang family is also a member of the insect camp.

But habit does not mean acceptance. Zhang Wei, who thinks that although he is no longer qualified to be a successor, has not completely lost his conscience, would definitely intervene if he could.

At least, make yourself feel better.

The Dragon King Temple was in Heishui Town, so Zhang Wei arrived at his destination in no time. Looking at the temple that had obviously been renovated recently, Zhang Wei couldn't help but curl his lips.

The spiritual consciousness spread out, and the range of a hundred feet directly included the entire Dragon King Temple. The layout of the temple was fully memorized.

"Seven people... The six little ones in the basement are probably the children who were used as sacrifices. The big one should be the Fairy Cai those three guys mentioned."

Although Cai Xiangu is called Xiangu, she does not have the demeanor of a fairy at all. She is more like a vicious woman. She is so big and strong that people would walk around her if she stood at the entrance of the village.

Zhang Wei frowned. In his perception, this Cai Xiangu was no longer an ordinary person. He could clearly feel that she had a special power.

This power does not come from her own, but is more like someone else's power is temporarily stored in her body through special methods. Once it is used up, it needs to be replenished.

His strength was not strong, it was equivalent to the initial stage of Qi Refining. But it was like an ordinary person had the ability to wrestle with martial arts masters, which was quite interesting.

But this was not enough for Zhang Wei, who was already in the late stage of Qi Refining. He didn't even use the Shadow Concealing Talisman. He directly avoided the perception of Fairy Cai and easily reached the basement.

In the basement, six clean but pale and skinny children huddled in a corner, their stomachs growling from time to time, looking so pitiful.

Zhang Wei covered his face and released a sound-proofing note. Then he walked out of the darkness and appeared in front of the six children.

As soon as Zhang Wei appeared, the six children began to tremble like frightened birds, staring at him with big, frightened eyes.

"do not be afraid."

Zhang Wei smiled kindly and took out several servings of dry food from the mustard bag and handed them to them.

"Here, eat."

The children, who had been hungry for a whole day, could not resist the temptation of food. They crawled over, scrambled for the food and stuffed it into their mouths.

It was then that Zhang Wei discovered that these children had iron chains tied around their ankles, probably to prevent them from escaping.

Zhang Wei had no doubt that if the group was not offering sacrifices to the Dragon King, but simply performing a sacrifice, they would have simply broken the limbs of these children. They didn't even bother to prepare iron chains.

Just as Zhang Wei was thinking about all sorts of things, an older boy asked while chewing a piece of biscuit: "Big brother, are we...are we going to be servants for the Dragon King?"

Zhang Wei turned around, smiled at the little boy and said, "No. I'm here to tell you that you don't have to accompany that damn Dragon King. Nothing will happen to you tomorrow. Stay here peacefully for one night, and you can go home tomorrow."

The little boy pursed his lips and said, "But, will this make the Dragon King unhappy? If the Dragon King is unhappy, there will be a flood next year, and then there will be no harvest in the town. Everyone will starve."

Zhang Wei smiled and touched the little boy's head, saying, "No, he won't be unhappy. I promise."

After the six children had eaten and drunk their fill, Zhang Wei tapped their heads one by one, stimulating their acupoints to help them fall asleep peacefully, so that they wouldn't have to continue living in fear all night.

After doing all this, Zhang Wei left the Dragon King Temple. During this time, Fairy Cai knew nothing and was still chanting some scriptures from somewhere in front of the statue of the Dragon King.

Riding north on horseback, Zhang Wei soon left the town and arrived at the bank of a river.

The river is ten feet wide, not big, but a branch of the big river flowing out of Yunmeng Lake, but it also feeds hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the river. This is the Black Water River on which Black Water Town depends for its survival.

But the water of the Blackwater River is not black, and I don’t know how it got its name. Anyway, when Zhang Wei came here, he found the scenery here pretty good.

But Zhang Wei was not in the mood to appreciate the scenery at the moment.

He tied the horse in the nearby woods, then found a deserted spot, cast a water-avoiding spell, and went into the water.

Using the Water Repellent Spell to go underwater feels like diving in the previous life, except that it is more convenient. However, one still needs to withstand the water pressure from all directions. Therefore, the deeper one dives, the more it tests the cultivation of the immortal cultivator.

Fortunately, the Blackwater River is not very deep, and Zhang Wei can easily dive to the bottom of the river.

Following his memory, Zhang Wei came to the river section where the last ritual was held in Heishui Town, and cast a spell again.

"Qi-seeking Technique!"

Zhang Wei's vision suddenly changed. Strands of different energy entangled together in the river, turning his entire vision into a ball of twine.

But in this ball of hemp rope, there is one that is particularly thick and long, and has a faint scarlet color, which is very conspicuous.

"Sure enough, it's a monster..." Zhang Wei thought to himself.

When Zhang Wei read the contents of the letter from his uncle Zhang Hui, he had some guesses. Blackwater Town had been peaceful for so long, and there had been no floods in the past decade or so. It was not normal to suddenly hold a living sacrifice.

This was not simply an obscene sacrifice, but was planned by someone behind the scenes who wanted to deceive the villagers and extort their money and blood.

Judging from the current situation, the person behind the scenes is most likely the so-called Fairy Cai and the demon creature that signed a contract with her and became her god of worship.

"Sign a contract with the monster and then gain its power. This method should be inherited from the Jishan Sect. So, it should be a lucky person who got a similar method from the Jishan Sect by chance?" Zhang Wei speculated based on the known information.

He did not suspect the Jishan Sect, because the Jishan Sect was tens of thousands of miles away from the Linglong Domain. As one of the five great sects, how could the Jishan Sect have so much free time as to place a chess piece that could be easily exposed in the unknown Heishui Town?
Then Zhang Wei swam upstream of the Black Water River following the monster's aura. After swimming about seven or eight miles, he found that the monster's aura was everywhere in the surrounding waters.

Especially among the lush aquatic plants below, traces of Qi are crisscrossed, indicating that the other party is hiding there at this moment!

"That beast's hiding place should be here. As for the strength of this monster..."

Zhang Wei opened his spiritual sense, and all signs of life within a hundred feet were taken in by Zhang Wei.

At this moment, the monster was quietly sleeping in the lush water plants. Its gray-black skin blended perfectly with the water plants. It could not be seen with the naked eye, but in Zhang Wei's eyes, it was as eye-catching as a firefly in the dark night!

"Late stage of Qi training."

Zhang Wei was a little surprised, not because the opponent was weak, but because the opponent was too strong.

In the Yun Kingdom, a land controlled by the Yunshang Sect and several foundation-building families, a monster actually cultivated safely to the late stage of Qi Refining, and it was extremely rare that it had not been killed by immortal cultivators during this period!
But unfortunately, the other party met me today.

"Lord Dragon, huh? Get out here!"

Zhang Wei shouted angrily, then waved his hand, took out a talisman and threw it into the water plants below.

Click, click, click...

Instantly, the sound of countless plants breaking could be heard, and countless hideous and twisted wood thorns emerged from the talisman and rushed into the water plants, completely disturbing the peaceful riverbed!
"Roar!!!!!"

A roar of pain suddenly came from the turbulent riverbed, and then a huge shadow rushed out. It used its body to crush the countless wooden thorns that stabbed at it, but its body was also pierced by these wooden thorns, leaving hideous bloody holes.

Seeing the real owner appear, Zhang Wei also observed the other party with interest. After all, this was the first monster he encountered.

However, after seeing the true face of the monster, he couldn't help but let out a disdainful sneer.

"I thought it was something else, but it turns out to be just a spirited loach. How dare it call itself the Dragon King?"

It turns out that this so-called Dragon King is not even close to the dragon clan, and is not even a crocodile. It is just a loach that has been magnified hundreds of times.

If that slender body were to hide underwater and stir up trouble, it would be easy for uninformed people to mistake it for the Dragon King.

"Roar!!!!!"

As if it understood that Zhang Wei was mocking it, the black loach monster suddenly let out a roar, then its body popped out like a spring and rushed straight to Zhang Wei's head to bite it.

Zhang Wei raised his eyebrows, took out a golden melon hammer magic weapon and threw it at the head of the black loach monster that was rushing towards him.

Boom!
A muffled sound was heard under the water, and the head of the black loach monster suddenly sank. In pain, its huge and slender body twisted wildly under the water, stirring up countless mud and sand on the riverbed.

However, in Zhang Wei's spiritual consciousness, he discovered that the beast was actually swimming secretly towards the bottom of the Black Water River under the cover of mud and sand.

"You may be tough, but you want to escape? You're dreaming!"

Zhang Wei snorted coldly, swung the golden hammer again, and with the help of his spiritual consciousness, he accurately hit the black loach monster that was escaping downstream.

boom!
"Roar!"

The black loach monster roared in pain, turned around and grinned at Zhang Wei.

But he was also clear that the human in front of him was not the children he had eaten before, but a ruthless man who could really take his life. So he didn't even have the heart to continue fighting, and simply twisted his body, trying to drill into the mud at the bottom of the river and escape.

Of course, Zhang Wei would not do as he wished. When the black loach monster just made a move, he raised his hand and released a ray of lightning towards the torso of the black loach monster.

Five Thunder Sword Curse!

boom----

Thunder exploded, and the torso of the black loach monster was instantly blown in half. Scarlet blood gushed out, dyeing a large area of ​​the river red.

The remaining body twisted wildly in the ravages of thunder and lightning, which further accelerated the loss of blood.

Not long after, this black loach monster, which was in the late Qi Refining stage, died.

Standing at the bottom of the water, looking at the three-meter-long corpse of the black loach monster under his feet, Zhang Wei's expression looked awkward.

Is this a win?

We won, and it was an easy win.

There is no thrill of battle at all.

It can't be said that he was suppressing the opponent throughout the whole process. He was almost killed by accident.

Because Zhang Wei didn't expect that his Five Thunder Sword move would actually take the loach's life.

I still have many tricks that I haven’t used yet!

"Forget it, who cares? As long as I win, it's fine."

Zhang Wei couldn't understand why the other party died so casually, so he simply stopped thinking about it. He put the corpse of the black loach monster and the hidden money into a mustard bag and left the waters.

Once this worry is resolved, you can get down to business without any worries!
The next day, just after daybreak, Heishui Town came alive. Several strong men carried a large sedan chair and walked towards the Heishui River. In front of them were the patriarchs of the three major families in Heishui Town and the witch of the Dragon King Temple known as Cai Xiangu.

Behind them were hundreds of townspeople with pious looks on their faces who came from Blackwater Town to participate in the sacrifice.

On the sedan chair were six sleeping children, perhaps they had fainted from hunger. However, no townspeople woke them up.

After all, as a sacrifice, being able to end one's life in one's sleep is a kind of happiness.

However, even this last happiness, there are still people who want to take it away.

"Wake them up! We are about to meet the Dragon King! How dare you still sleep?!"

Cai Xiangu shouted in a shrill voice, and the sound was like the scraping of a dagger on bone, giving people goose bumps.

The patriarchs of the three major families nearby also shouted sternly upon hearing this: "What are you still standing there for! Didn't you hear what the fairy said! Hurry up and wake up these little bastards!"

The townspeople did not dare to disobey the three major families, let alone Fairy Cai, and they hurriedly called the six children.

When the six children rubbed their sleepy eyes and got up, they saw pairs of eyes staring at them. The emotions in those eyes made them shrink back.

There were also children looking around outside, as if trying to find the person who gave them food yesterday when they were extremely hungry.

But unfortunately there were too many people around and they were too short to notice anything. Even their parents didn't see it.

Disappointment emerged in their eyes, and finally they sat in the sedan chair stupidly, as if they had accepted their fate.

"Xu He, are all the tributes to the Dragon King ready?" At this time, Cai Xiangu spoke directly to Xu He.

"It's ready, it's ready."

Xu He wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke humbly, then waved his hand, and the servants who had been prepared immediately ran over carrying three large boxes.

Cai Xiangu opened a box and frowned when she saw what was inside. She looked at Xu He and the other two and asked, "Why are there only small change?"

“These are all contributed by the villagers!”

Xu He explained quickly. At the same time, he thought, what nonsense, how much money do those peasants have at home? It's good enough to have small change. If you didn't insist on silver, I would have stuffed those copper coins into the box.

"Humph!"

Cai Xiangu snorted coldly. She knew without hesitation that Xu He and the other two were using her name to plunder people, but she had no intention of arguing with them now.

Ever since the county lieutenant brought his men here that day, Cai Xiangu knew that she could not stay in Heishui Town for long. If she continued, she would be exposed by the time the governor of Luyang County reacted.

The right thing to do is to take the money and run away.

"The auspicious time has arrived, send the sacrifice down the river!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the servants hurriedly moved the money boxes and the tributes to the boat that had been prepared long ago. The townspeople also took the six children in chains out of the sedan chair.

While the townspeople were carrying the offerings, Fairy Cai's hand hidden in her sleeve was secretly shaking a black bell, and a silent wave was released.

This is her way of communicating with her baby.

"Come on, my little darling! Eat these little bastards so you can go one step further!"

Cai Xiangu looked at the six children without any pity in her eyes, only the indifference as if she were looking at pigs, sheep and other livestock on the chopping board.

However, just as the townspeople were about to reel in the ropes and push the tribute boat into the Blackwater River, a sudden voice was heard from the crowd of onlookers.

"Wait a minute!"

(End of this chapter)