One day, Shen Luo was practicing in the cave when a knock on the door came from outside the cave.
He stood up and opened the door. The man who came in was handsome, wearing golden scale armor and had short horns on his head.
"Brother Ao, are you done with your work?" Shen Luo asked with a smile.
"Not yet. My father asked me to come here today to invite Brother Shen over for a chat." Ao Hong said with curiosity in his eyes.
The Dragon King of the East Sea suddenly found him today and asked him to bring Shen Luo to meet him. This surprised him very much, because he had never mentioned Shen Luo to the Dragon King of the East Sea.
"Since the Dragon King of the East China Sea has invited me, I will naturally go. Shall we set off now?" Shen Luo raised his eyebrows and nodded without hesitation.
"Well, the carriage is ready outside. Fellow Daoist Shen, please follow me." When Ao Hong saw Shen Luo's expression, he became more and more certain that he had had contact with the Dragon King of the East China Sea. However, he didn't like to pry into other people's secrets, so he didn't ask since Shen Luo didn't say anything.
The two of them soon arrived outside the villa, where a chariot pulled by six seahorses was parked, and the driver was the Patrolling Sea Yaksha.
As soon as the two got on the chariot, the Sea Patrolling Yaksha immediately urged the chariot to drive towards the depths of the Dragon Palace.
The chariot soon arrived at a huge crystal palace, but did not go in. Instead, it bypassed the palace and stopped in front of a side hall at the back.
Shen Luo and Ao Hong got off the car and as soon as they entered the hall, they saw the Dragon King of the East China Sea sitting alone behind a crystal jade table, holding a scroll made of shark skin and studying it intently.
"Father, I have brought Fellow Daoist Shen here." Ao Hong said.
Upon hearing this, the Dragon King put away the scroll and nodded to the two of them with a smile.
"Junior greets the Dragon King." Shen Luo immediately clasped his fists and said.
"Don't be so formal, just sit down." Dragon King Ao Guang said with a smile.
Shen Luo agreed and sat down opposite as instructed.
As he sat down, he took a quick look at the Dragon King of the East China Sea in front of him, and saw that his complexion was getting worse and worse, and his complexion was much worse than two days ago.
"Could it be that the nine-petal fire lotus failed to work?" Shen Luo thought to himself, glancing at the scroll in Ao Guang's hand. There were dense lines drawn on it, which looked like some kind of rune pattern.
"I wonder if my uncle has summoned me. Does he have any instructions?" He calmed himself down and asked.
"Young Master Shen is a distinguished guest of my East China Sea Dragon Palace. There is no need for any instructions. I invited you here today to express my gratitude to the Nine-petal Fire Lotus, and also to ask for a favor." Ao Guang said with a smile.
Ao Hong, who was standing by, heard the conversation between the two and thought to himself that Ao Guang and Shen Luo had indeed met before.
Shen Luo said modestly, "I don't know what uncle needs my help for. As long as I am able, I will not refuse."
"Young friend Shen is very powerful. He should be able to see that I am suffering from a hidden illness, right?" Ao Guang first nodded to Shen Luo, expressed his gratitude, and then spoke.
"Uncle's health does not look good. Did you go to Zhurong Basin to look for the Nine-petal Fire Lotus for this matter? But the Fire Lotus had no effect?" Shen Luo looked at Ao Guang's face and asked.
"If the Nine-petal Fire Lotus can heal my injury, there would be no need to trouble you to make this trip." Ao Guang said with a slight wry smile.
Shen Luo listened quietly without responding.
"To talk about my hidden injury, I have to start from the time when the demon calamity was not resolved. At that time, the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas had been attacked by the demons. In a fierce battle at that time, I was seriously injured by a master of the demon clan who practiced fire-attributed exercises. The fire poison invaded my body and penetrated deep into my blood. I have been regulating my breathing and recuperating over the years, but I have never been able to get rid of the fire poison that is like a maggot attached to my bones. As a result, my cultivation is declining day by day, and my health is getting worse and worse..." Ao Guang said, and he felt that it was a bit difficult to continue.