Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 68 Qingming River Festival
Dayuan Lake Water Palace, eight ponds, five rivers and seventeen canals.

The Eight Ponds are Old Turtle Pond, Rock Pond, Sounding Water Pond, Hairy Crab Pond, Water Jade Pond, Fairy Pond, Half Moon Pond, and Snake Pond.

Among them, the Old Turtle Pond is where the lord of the mansion was born. It is the first of the eight ponds and is ten feet deep. There are many turtles and old tortoises in the pond. The one guarding its water vein is also an old turtle in the realm of refining qi and transforming into a spirit.

There are many rocks in the Rock Pool, and the water is not deep, but the water surface is extremely steep. It is located in the southeast of Dayawan Lake and is connected to Dayawan Lake by a waterway. The southernmost part merges into the Jing River, which is an important road of the Water Palace. Therefore, the person stationed here is the son of General Cai, one of the three giants of the Water Palace. He has profound Taoism and extraordinary combat power.

The three ponds, Xiangshuitan, Xiannvtan and Half Moontan, are located in the northeast to northwest line of Dawan Lake. The water is not deep and the surface is not wide. They are located in the middle of the eight ponds. The garrisons there are rattlesnake monster, minnow monster and moon loach respectively.

The three monsters' cultivation was not high, they were of the middle level, all of them were in the late stage of refining essence into qi, not much different from Liu Qing.

As for the Hairy Crab Pond, the garrison there is a Hairy Crab, who has reached the level of Qi Refining and Spiritual Transformation. I think he is a close relative of Brother Zuoshou.
The Water Jade Pond is the richest of the eight ponds, as it is rich in water jade, which in turn contains many river treasures.

Therefore, among the Eight Ponds, it was the main place for the supply of money, grain and taxes for the Water Palace. It was guarded by the sister of the Palace Master’s wife, Lady Mandarin Fish, and was the most formidable place.

If Liu Qing's Snake Pond forms an alliance with the various water veins during this trip, it will surely replace Shuiyu Pond and become the most important place for supplying money, grain and taxes to Dayawan Lake.

The five rivers are Wuding River, Hunjia River, Shuijia River, Sanliu River and Siduan River.
Among them, the one stationed at Wuding River is Xia Qianqian, needless to say, while the one stationed at Hunjia River is the big monster Grass Carp, which is also commonly known as "Cao Hunzi" among the people, so it is called Hunjia River.

The water of Shuijia River is turbid, black, and smelly, with few fish and shrimps, but it is the favorite habitat of water beetles (water turtles).
The river is full of water beetles, so it is called the Water Beetle River. The water vein is guarded by a water beetle monster that has refined its energy and become a spirit. It looks ugly and you can't look at it for too long.

The origin of the Sanliu River comes from three willow trees in the upper reaches of the river. These three willow trees often grow in water, and their aerial roots sway with the water. They get the essence of the sun and the moon, and are nourished by the energy of the water veins. They transform into monsters together.
It is difficult for the water willow to transform into a monster. After hundreds of years, it is only in the late stage of refining essence into qi. However, the three willow trees transformed into monsters together. They have been practicing together until now. They are familiar with each other. The three monsters are like one and are good at joint attacks. Therefore, after the master of the mansion, the combat power of the three willow monsters is second only to General Turtle.

If the garrisons at Sanliu River were three willow tree monsters, Liu Qing could still accept it, but the garrisons at Siduan River were...
It was the transformation of a short and small man, which really overturned Liu Qing's cognition.

Four short men were often carved on the eaves of the houses of the wealthy in the mortal world to ward off evil spirits. The lord's underwater palace was also built to imitate the architecture of the wealthy in the mortal world, so four short men were also carved on it.
Over the years, with the nourishment of the water veins, the four short men in charge of suppressing evil in the palace of the mansion master turned into monsters.
The Lord of the Water Palace was surprised and thought it was a blessing from heaven, so he let these four short men guard a river and named it "Four Short Rivers", which was considered a major anomaly in the Water Palace.

These four short men were originally human-shaped generals carved from clay. After being fired into glass, they were nourished by the energy of water veins and transformed into monsters.

Therefore, once they transform into monsters, they take on human form, but their hands, feet and limbs are short, like an adult shrunk countless times, so they are called the Four Short Men.

But his muscles and bones are extremely hard. In terms of defense alone, among all the monsters in the Water Palace, I am afraid that no one can match him except the Palace Master who is born as a grass tortoise with a tortoise shell.

The rest are the canal guards. Dawan Lake Water Palace has a total of seventeen canals, which were dug by humans and assigned by the Palace Master.

The names of the canals were also given by river engineers, which are very vulgar, mostly "Shilipu Canal", "Ershilipu Canal", "Sanshilipu Canal", or "Lijia Canal", "Liujia Canal", "Yangjia Canal" and so on.
The canals are long and narrow, with a limited surface area. Most of them flow through fields and villages. In the past, they were noisy and restless.

Therefore, the ones stationed at the Seventeen Channels were all river monsters within the Water Palace, those not allowed to be approached by the Palace Master. Their cultivation levels were not high, most at the mid-to-late stage of Refining Essence into Qi, with only a few reaching the stage of Refining Qi into Spirit. Xia Kexing introduced them one by one, and Liu Qing saluted each one. Soon, he had become familiar with all twenty-nine garrisons of the Eight Pools, Five Rivers, and Seventeen Channels, excluding himself.

After getting acquainted, the river monsters and Liu Qing met for the first time. They were originally resentful that the master of the mansion gave such a lucrative job as guarding the Snake Pond to a newly transformed snake python.

I thought Liu Qing was good at flattery, but when Liu Qing transformed into a human form and showed his level of Taoism,
They couldn't help but be secretly shocked. It had only been a few months since they transformed into monsters, but their cultivation had soared all the way to the late stage of refining essence into qi.

Such a talent and understanding is also very outstanding in the entire Water Palace. No wonder the Palace Master looked at him with special eyes and gave him the important task of guarding Yitan.

After figuring this out, the garrisons put away their contempt. Later, seeing that Liu Qing's words and actions all highlighted his demonic nature, they completely accepted Liu Qing's position as the garrison commander of the Snake Pond.

When Liu Qing spoke up and brought up the Salt and Goods Alliance, he promised that his own Shetan would be responsible for supplying salt and mountain goods, and each garrison would be free to set its own price for the sale.
Liu Qing only took half of the profits and left the rest to the garrisons of each branch. Suddenly, all the garrisoned river monsters,

While they were shocked, they were all delighted. They kept praising Liu Qing for his generosity and cleverness, and called him "brother" all the time. They only regretted that they met Liu Qing too late and earned less money from incense offerings.

You should know that the incense silver is related to the incense gods of the river monsters. The more incense silver you have, the more incense you will have. When you refine your spirit and return to the void to give birth to a Yin spirit, you can also use the Yin spirit to steal a god position and enjoy immortality.

Like Liu Qing, the river monsters stationed there all had some ways to earn money from offerings in private. Otherwise, they would just wait for the annual winter tribute. The lord of the mansion would order the incense envoys to distribute the money according to the amount of tribute.

Or perhaps he could adjust the wind and rain according to the four seasons, and respond to the will of the people by resolving difficulties and helping the people? Too slow, too slow. Even if he worked hard for hundreds of years, it would be difficult to gather the incense required for the position of a ninth-rank river god.

Now, Liu Qing gave up the huge profits from salt and mountain products and shared the profits with them, so that they could also quickly accumulate incense silver.

This is not giving money for incense offerings, it is clearly giving incense offerings for divine office!

At this moment, they looked at Liu Qing as if they saw their long-lost brothers, especially the rattlesnake demon stationed at Xiangshui Pond, who insisted that Liu Qing was his full brother.

Although the demons cursed the rattlesnake demon for being shameless, they secretly thought about it in their hearts. They searched among their own clans to find out if there was a beautiful new demon girl who could be a concubine for Brother Liu Qing.

Of course, the one with the most direct thoughts was the mandarin fish banshee stationed at Shuiyutan. Her pair of fish eyes blinked and sent sparks towards Liu Qing.

Seeing that the mandarin fish demon stationed at Shuiyutan was bold and direct, the other garrisons were afraid that she would steal the initiative, so they all started talking about recent events in the Water Palace to interrupt her from continuing to flirt.

"Ahem, Brother Liu, have you heard that the Lord of the Mansion is worried about the Qingming River Festival these days?"

(End of this chapter)