Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 1096 Overpowering the Small with the Big, a Bright Future Awaits! (Seeking monthly votes, two votes combined)

"What's the elder doing, chattering away in the master's room so early in the morning?"

“I don’t know.” Long Yao shook her head. “When I brought the noodles in, they kept talking about whether it was empty or real, about cypress trees and teacups. I didn’t understand a single word.”

"What's the use of you!"

"Do you understand?"

Long Yao held the vermilion lacquered table in her arms, her chin resting on the protruding edge of the table, and said with great concern: "Elder, don't really get lost in the scriptures and turn around and become a monk. If that happens, the future of our dragon race will be bleak."

Snapped!
Two crisp, loud flicks on the forehead.

Long Yao and Long Li crouched down and gasped, covering the back of their heads.

"Sons criticizing their fathers, subjects criticizing their rulers! What kind of decorum is this?" A shadow grew and spread between the two men. Liang Qu stood behind them, looking down at them. "You haven't been disciplined for three days, so you've been secretly talking badly about me, haven't you? I'll fine you both three days' wages!"

"Two or three days? Is it two days or three days?" Long Li asked.

"Five days!"

Long Li stopped asking and protested, "It wasn't me who said it, so why did you hit me?"

Snapped!
Long Yao called out again, squatting from half to full, covering her head with her hands and shouting for help.

"Is this okay? She hits you twice and you hit her once, so it's even, meaning she hits you once and you don't."

Long Li was secretly delighted, but suddenly sensed a murderous aura. She avoided Long Yao's resentful gaze and looked up at the sky.

Long Eying, dressed in a silk nightgown, leaned against the door and rubbed her forehead.

Liang Qu stepped past the two girls, in a good mood. As he walked to the hall, he contacted Han Tai: "Awei, press your advantage! Go find Cha Qing, Fan Zixuan, and Kou Zhuang, and have them do what they should and can do to quickly make the debate results a hot topic!"

Kaka.

Their mouthparts collided, and Awei's golden light flashed everywhere.

……

Inside Hantai Restaurant.

Two men sat facing each other.

"Have you heard? The master lost!"

"Who can argue with that? The Lotus Sect Master suffered a crushing defeat! He was no match for the Buddhist disciple of the Hanging Temple! What a disgrace!"

Snapped!
A diner nearby put down his chopsticks, pointed at the man's nose, and shouted, "You're talking nonsense! Leaving doesn't mean you've lost. How can the Lotus Sect's affairs be considered a loss? It's just that the master doesn't want to bully the weak!"

"Indeed, Pema Dondrup Yangjin Chokyi Rinpoche is a man of noble character and integrity!"

The person speaking did not refute at all, but continued to chat with his companion: "First he was scolded, then he was hit with a teacup, and after it was all over he looked like he had been taught a lesson. I think the Lotus Sect is all talk and no action, far inferior to the Hanging Temple. They should disband as soon as possible!"

"Yes, I suggest! Why don't we find a place with good feng shui outside the city and build a temple for the little master? From now on, we don't need to give incense money to the Lotus Sect!"

"what!"

The faces of the surrounding diners were visibly flushed.

Cha Qing and Fan Zixuan exchanged a glance.

Let's eat somewhere else.

Eat the treasure fish, eat the treasure beast.

Opportunities to have all expenses fully reimbursed are rare.

"Big guy, going out alone?"

"Yes, let's go up the mountain to add incense." Kou Zhuang closed the door and wrapped it with hemp rope. "New year, new beginnings, we should go and wish for good luck."

The neighbor immediately perked up: "Which temple are you going to? I've heard that the one in the north of the city is very effective!"

Kou Zhuang scratched his head.

The neighbor was surprised: "Is it in the south of the city? It can't be in the west of the city, can it? That's quite a distance, dozens of miles! Oh, you're very strong."

Kou Zhuang and his group moved here a year ago, claiming to be doing business. They travel all over the country, speak fluent but not authentic Xueyuan dialect, and are a few bachelors without wives or children.

Everyone knows that young, strong, single men shouldn't get together; if they do, trouble is bound to happen, as they're considered unstable. Suddenly moving to the city, they don't seem like good people at all. But as time goes on, they see each other all the time and eventually get to know each other, discovering that all three of them have pretty good personalities.

Kou Zhuang patted his head again.

"It can't be outside the city, can it? That's even farther."

“It’s in the east of the city,” Kou Zhuang answered honestly.

"Is there a temple in the east of the city?"

"They say they're building a temple." Kou Zhuang said somewhat embarrassedly in a low voice, "I heard it's for the young monk from the Central Plains, the one who won the debate yesterday! I'll go take a look."

The neighbor's expression changed: "You can't say things like that!"

Kou Zhuang didn't say much. He smiled, turned around and left, leaving his neighbor alone to ponder.

Humans have a tendency to conform and are less likely to readily embrace new things.

When the beliefs that one's ancestors have held for generations are refuted, one's first reaction is to reject, resist, and be angry, trying to nip the source of the cholera outbreak in the bud and maintain the status quo. But when they return home and sit alone in their empty houses, after calming down, they see a different scene.

First he was scolded, then his teacup was smashed, and he didn't utter a word...

At least that's how it is in Hantai Prefecture.

Adjacent to Blue Lake, the Lotus Sect has many followers, but compared to the local herdsmen of the Great Snow Mountain Region, they are far from being truly convinced.

"Why don't we go take a look? Should we split this year's butter money into two portions?"

Small households are careful with their money.

"Add an extra portion of the ghee this year and send it to the east of the city."

Wealthy families share the benefits equally.

more than this.

"Master, please invite the master's disciple to perform the virginity test for Miss..."

"Fool! Even the Lotus Sect's masters are no match for that little monk. If anyone should be invited, it should be that little monk!"

Huai Kong, who was taking Liang Qu's money and wandering around Hantai Mansion, looking for places to build temples, was invited to go and perform a ritual.

"Kaihong? What is Kaihong?" Huai Kong asked, puzzled. "Is this what Hantai Prefecture calls the New Year's ritual?"

Red, meaning prosperous and thriving.

A successful start, a great beginning?

It's quite interesting.

He harbored empty thoughts.

“It’s not a religious ceremony,” the hired worker arranged by the Bai family replied. “It’s just sleeping with an unmarried woman. This is called ‘opening the red.’ Only after the master opens the red can you go home and get married. However, few people in Hantai Prefecture do this. The laws of Da Shun do not allow it. If you are truly devout, you do it secretly.”

"?"

During debates, Huai Kong remained calm and composed, even smashing cups and throwing things at people. When surrounded by Sangjie's disciples, Huai Kong remained calm and collected. But now, he touched his bald head, looking utterly bewildered.

The servants of the Bai family, thinking Huai Kong was worried that she was an ugly woman, kindly reminded her, "I heard she's a beauty."

Huai Kong's face darkened.

"Don't go!"

Outside, public opinion was like a stormy sea, with dark waves rising and falling endlessly. Inside the house, Sangjie was in seclusion, and his disciples were arguing fiercely about who would win or lose, vying to find excuses for their master.

The common people couldn't understand the content of the debates, but they did.

The master, who was over 20 years old, actually learned a lesson from a young monk!
It will still be within two rounds.

What a shame!
Now things are really messed up. Not only has the Lotus Sect's mission of spreading its teachings not been completed, but it even owes three bushels of grain! Once the news spreads for a month or two, won't the whole of Hantai know about it?
"It must be that Master is not in good condition. This is the first time in three years that he has come down from the snow mountain. He is suffering from acclimatization problems and needs to make tactical adjustments!"

Master Zhenxiang suffered from acclimatization problems.

reasonable.

"I've seen it. It was the Bai family who cheated. That little monk's debating platform is half an inch higher than my master's! Moreover, he sits facing south, while my master sits facing north. That's bad feng shui!"

Excuses came one after another, each one more plausible than the last.

"kill him!"

The atmosphere became quiet.

"Eldest brother?"

Everyone looked at the head of the table, not the oldest, but the eldest disciple who had joined the sect the earliest, and couldn't believe their ears.

The eldest disciple's face twisted slightly as he looked around at his fellow disciples. With a swift movement, he brought his knife down: "On the fifteenth of the first lunar month, we'll be holding a Water and Land Dharma Assembly. Before that, kill that monk from the Central Plains!"

"Senior brother, this... isn't a good idea?" the junior brother hesitated. "If we act now, wouldn't that be..."

The eldest disciple interrupted, "Important matters are secondary. Once that little monk dies, who cares about winning or losing the debate?" The other disciples were taken aback.

……

Huai Kong was to handle matters concerning the snow mountain, and Awei was to maintain constant contact.

Liang Qu was not too worried that anything would happen to the Buddhist disciples at the Hanging Temple.

At the age of thirty, with dual True Qi, Huai Kong, who is at the Upper Realm of Hunting Tiger and possesses the Medicine Buddha, is undoubtedly the most outstanding Hunting Tiger Grandmaster among the younger generation in the world. He is not afraid of being surrounded and attacked, and if he cannot win, he can run away, unless someone uses dirty tricks against him. But Awei is not to be trifled with either.

His six generals are guaranteed to be at least at the peak of the demon beast realm.

Liang Qu has always played high-level games, which has made Awei's presence less prominent. But if he were released, he could dominate a region!

Not to mention that Awei also possesses the top-tier detoxification and healing talent, Dettol.

A human and a demon, running rampant without restraint!

After contacting Awei, I contacted Afei.

The reason why there is always conflict between the central and local governments is precisely because there are no trusted confidants in the local areas!

Liang Qu had no such worries; all the aquatic beasts were his "hands and feet" and "eyes and ears" scattered throughout the Jianghuai marshes!
From the Yangtze and Huai River regions, observe the lines on your palm!
Before the New Year, the Black Serpent was ambushed by the Little Mirage Dragon, who stole a big piece of melon and stripped it of its position. It was sent to the canyon to work as a miner, where it had no cultivation resources other than basic fish food and could only watch other serpents eat the treasure fish.

Like the fat catfish, it couldn't escape punishment. After all, it was its snake's doing, and it was suspected of concealing the truth and taking the spoils for itself. It got a small share of the spoils along with the black snake and had three months' salary deducted. Fortunately, it wasn't a big deal. It could make up for the shortfall by contributing a couple more poems and accepting some more bribes.

"Have you infiltrated Jiaolong's kitchen?"

"What? The dragon doesn't eat?"

A fat catfish swam through the canyon, letting out a mournful sigh.

It also wanted to infiltrate the dragon's kitchen, but it lacked the necessary conditions; the dragon simply didn't eat!

The fat catfish, having failed to complete the task entrusted to it by the gods and feeling ashamed of its upbringing, banged its head on the ground.

"Alas, it was clearly the Black Serpent's fault that General Black was implicated." The porcupine tribe saw the fat catfish crash into the rock and assumed it was saddened by the long breath, and they were all indignant on behalf of their leader.

"We must work hard to help General Hei gain more influence in the Huai Army!"

"General Hei said I've done a good job and I'm expected to be promoted to a permanent position and start receiving a salary this year!"

The pufferfish is giving itself a pep talk.

Liang Qu sighed, "That's a pity."

Communicate with Zeding.

[Over the course of days and seasons, the essence of three thousand waters can be consumed, condensing into dew.]

[Water Essence: 2,712,000]

Seeds of Creation: Part Three

[Dew Seed: Ten]

After the New Year, the dew condenses in the autumn and winter, bringing the number of seeds to ten.

If it can be mixed into the food, it can be fed to the dragon.

[Divine Might]: All who receive the gift of essence will feel the divine power and become weak and numb, unable to resist!
At least half the battle is won!
The former Octopus King was caught off guard and his tentacles were unable to exert any force when facing Liang Qu. Otherwise, even the pursuit of a single tentacle would have been something he could not have resisted at that time.

Three Phoenix Pills, one waxing and the other waning; Octopus Clan Characteristics: Strength greatly reduced during reproduction; Octopus Clan Gender Characteristics: Males are weaker than females; Octopus King's strength is unbalanced and it survives by splitting itself; Old Toad provides remote assistance; [Divine Might] trait...

Looking back on the past.

The reason they were able to defeat Octopus King back then was because of perfect timing, favorable location, and favorable circumstances. They had all sorts of negative influences on him, making the situation extremely dangerous.

Liang Qu's strength has increased dramatically, but Jiaolong is no pushover like Bazhua Wang.

It couldn't be stuffed into the food so the dragon would swallow it...

Think for a long time.

Liang Qu shuddered, his hands clenching and unclenching repeatedly, until finally he hardened his heart.

“Fatty, if you can’t get into the kitchen, find an opportunity to spread a rumor that White Ape…”

The fat catfish was greatly alarmed, waving its two whiskers and shouting, "A son of a wealthy family should not sit under a dangerous roof; he must never risk his life!"

"Don't worry, I have a way."

Hang up the fat catfish.

The matter at Daxueshan has been successfully completed and is now concluded.

With the old monk present, this debate episode was a trivial matter.

Simple and neat!

Liang Qu walked out of the Ice Crystal Palace and onto the ice surface.

A cold wind was blowing, and white clouds were scattered everywhere.

After the Whale King arrived in Jianghuai, he was no longer able to observe the progress of the Immortal Island, so his Qi Sea level remained at 821 times the normal level.

The feeling of rapidly increasing strength is intoxicating.

"Can not be done."

Time waits for no one; several days have already been wasted, and the fairy island will be completed soon.

What's the point of watching then?

You can't see any yarn at all!

Think of it and do it.

Jumping down the more than one-mile-long slide, Liang Qu slid all the way into the Ice Crystal Palace and found Su Guishan: "Uncle, there's an opportunity you can't miss!"

"Observe the Immortal Island and experience the enlightenment of evolution?" Su Guishan, having finished his eel noodles, was lying on a recliner, watching Jiang Chuan's new "cloth shadows" to aid digestion. Hearing this, he glanced sideways and asked, "Have you already been there?"

Liang Qu remained expressionless: "I was just exploring the path for everyone and summarizing the experience."

"What conclusions were drawn?"

"It's good for the growth of Qi Hai! One day can be equivalent to three months!"

"Really?" Su Guishan asked in surprise.

In the cultivation of the True Manifestation Realm, the size of the Qi Sea is of paramount importance, as it not only relates to the power of supernatural abilities but is also closely related to the cultivation realm.

Compared to Liang Qu, who has reached the second realm and is about to reach the third realm, after decades of cultivation, he has barely surpassed the first line by more than eighty times!

"really!"

Liang Qu's Qi Sea grew rapidly because his cultivation method was based on the Dragon Court Immortal Island, which was in harmony with the island. However, he felt that others could also do it, but the effect would not be as good as his.

The heavenly palaces of others are also situated above the sea of ​​qi, with the sea of ​​qi rippling and condensing to form the bricks and stones of the heavenly palaces.

However, if he wanted to go to the Immortal Island again and talk to the Whale King alone, he would most likely become a thorn in the side!
One's own reputation is useful in Jianghuai and Dashun, but it's worthless to the Whale King.

To comfortably enjoy the beautiful scenery, why does someone have to sit inside, disrupting the harmony, like an extra ant in rice?
Why let a beautiful image ruin your scenic experience?
joke!

In the past, when I went with Eying to Mount Taicang to see the epiphyllum, the people who were brewing tea around the stove in the pavilion knew to leave.

When there are many people, the situation is completely different. If you bring them all in, it becomes a matter for several government departments, and if it becomes a matter for the Great Shun Dynasty, then it's no problem to give them some face.

"You are now the Marquis of Xingyi, a Grand Commandant of the third rank, with an official seal. Xu Yuelong and Wei Lin must all obey your orders. You can represent the court even without me, right?"

“Uncle, you are a high-ranking official. If you weren’t here, things would be easier to handle, and we would have to get things done quickly. But now that you are here, I can’t overstep my bounds in this area of ​​Huaidong. Besides, even if I were to handle it, I would still remember the source of my success, so I should let you know, shouldn’t I?”

"Hey." Su Guishan sat up.

Everything has a beginning, but few things have an end.

Of all things, the most difficult thing is to remain consistent from beginning to end.

"Alright, I'll go find the Whale King."

"Thank you very much, Uncle!" Liang Qu's eyebrows lifted. "You don't need to trouble yourself with this matter. I'll just let you know, and your agreement is all that's needed."

Su Guishan shook his head, pointed at Liang Qu, then at himself: "You and I are different."

"How?"

Liang Qu didn't understand.

There was no problem with him representing the court to negotiate. Although he was one rank lower than Su Guishan, he was already a high-ranking official of the third rank and had a marquis title, making him more suitable in some ways.

"The face was given to the imperial court, but the feeling of being disturbed was given to the person in charge."

My conversation with the Whale King may only happen once in my life, so it's not a big deal. But it's different for you; you might have frequent dealings with the Whale King in the future.”

Liang Qu suppressed his smile and bowed to Su Guishan.

"Thank you, Uncle!"

(End of this chapter)