In the palace hall, the Dragon Girl had lost her usual holy and dignified look and became a little surprised and pale. Although her heart knot had been mostly relieved after Ji Yuan’s advice at the birthday banquet that year, she was still very excited to hear the news about her mother.
"Uncle Ji, where did you meet him? Why didn't he come with you?"
The dragon girl spoke several times faster than usual.
Ji Yuan did not hide anything and answered directly.
"The other party is a giant whale, calling himself the Giant Whale General, saying that it was a title bestowed by the Lord's Mother. He is waiting for Mo Rong on the coast of the East China Sea somewhere in Zuyue. It seems that he knows that Mo Rong goes out to sea every year. I was able to find him because he has a huge appetite and eats so much that there are no fish left along the coast. The fishermen asked someone to exorcise the evil spirit..."
Ji Yuan told the Dragon Girl everything that happened, and finally said.
"This whale is too big to enter ordinary rivers, and it seems to only know Mo Rong. As for whether your mother sent him, I don't know yet. I need the Goddess of the River to go with me to find out clearly."
"Um!"
The dragon girl clasped her hands together, walked a few steps to the left and right, and her long skirt swung out in the shape of flowers.
At this time, the Yaksha behind hurried over, looked at the Dragon Girl and then looked at Ji Yuan, bowed and said.
"Mrs. Jiangshen, Mr. Ji, the Dragon King is fast asleep and has no intention of waking up."
"What? This is Uncle Ji's invitation!"
The dragon girl cried out in surprise.
Yaksha looked at Ji Yuan carefully, then clasped his fists and bowed to the Dragon Girl.
"To reply to Goddess Jiang, the Dragon King is indeed not awake yet, and I dare not disturb him any further!"
The Dragon Girl frowned, looked at Yaksha, then turned to Ji Yuan and said.
"Uncle Ji, please wait here. I'll go call my dad!"
After saying that, the Dragon Girl strode away, leaving only Ji Yuan and the Yaksha there.
Ji Yuan smiled and nodded at the Yaksha, who quickly smiled as well.
“Mr. Ji, let me show you the tea!”
"Okay, thank you. Hot tea please."
"yes!"
Yaksha felt as if he had been pardoned and left quickly. He felt that Mr. Ji and Lord Long were two completely different kinds of "pressure". Yes, pressure, no matter which kind it was, made him feel extremely stressed, especially in this situation at this moment. He clearly felt that Mr. Ji had seen through his lies but just didn't say it out loud.
At this moment, the Dragon Girl hurriedly walked towards the depths of the palace, and soon came to the cave at the entrance of the Dragon Pond. Two Yakshas stretched out their hands to stop her.
"Lady Jiangshen, the Dragon King is sleeping. It is not appropriate to enter at this moment."
The dragon girl didn't say anything, just glanced at them, and the two Yakshas looked at each other and withdrew their hands, and the former stepped directly inside.
After only two steps in, the dragon girl felt that she could not go any further. She reached out her hand to touch the front and found the water was extremely thick. She put her hand into the water in front and found that the resistance increased the further she went. She could not move forward any further after only half a palm's length.
"Forbidden method!"
"Dad! Dad, please let me in! Uncle Ji is here to see you. Didn't you complain last year that Uncle Ji was missing again? Weren't you curious after hearing about the Samadhi True Fire? Uncle Ji is here in person! Dad—"
The dragon girl was yelling from outside towards the inside, and the two yakshas beside her were in a very difficult situation and begged for mercy in an earnest voice.
"Mrs. Jiangshen, please keep your voice down. The Dragon King is resting!"
"Yes, Goddess Jiang, if you keep shouting like this, our lives will be in danger!"
Ying Ruoli frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then yelled again.
"Dad, this time it might be Mom's side..."
She paused in the middle of her words. Ying Ruoli turned her head and found a hand on her shoulder. The Yaksha and his ilk didn't dare to touch her. She turned around and saw that it was Ji Yuan.
"Uncle Ji..."
Ji Yuan shook his head and whispered in a low voice that only the Dragon Girl could hear.
"You can't wake up a person pretending to sleep, well, you should say a dragon pretending to sleep. It's the same if you and I go together to see the giant whale general."
After saying that, Ji Yuan withdrew his hand and bowed in the direction of Longtan.
"Ji Yuan will take his leave first. I won't disturb Mr. Ying's rest!"
After saying this, Ji Yuan glanced at the Dragon Girl and turned to walk in the direction he came from. The latter hesitated for a moment, looked at the entrance of the Dragon Pond, and finally gave up and turned to chase Ji Yuan.
Not long after, two figures left the water palace, swam diagonally toward the surface, and finally broke through the water in an uninhabited section of the river, then rose into the sky on the clouds.
Only about half a quarter of an hour later, waves began to stir again on the surface of the Tongtian River in another place. Small streams of water splashed apart on both sides, and a vague dragon-shaped aura that was invisible to the naked eye rose into the sky from it.
After another day and a half, Ji Yuan and Long Nu had approached the coastal area of Zu Yue Kingdom. Long Nu had been in deep thought all the way and was a little anxious when she arrived here.
"Uncle Ji, where is the giant whale?"
The Dragon Girl carefully looked at the sea below, but could not see anything except the surging waves. She even revealed her true form and went into the sea to look for it.
"I'm not sure. He may be hiding. After all, he may not trust me..."
Ji Yuan said this and smiled at the Dragon Girl.
"But it's not a problem. I did something to it last time. A trace of sword energy shot into its spine. I won't have any trouble finding it."
“Buzz~~~”
As soon as Ji Yuan finished speaking, the Qingteng sword behind him made a slight sound and flew in front of Ji Yuan.
"Go, get him out."
“Buzz~~~”
After the Qingteng Sword made a slight sound, the sword body flashed and disappeared. Almost at the same moment, a ten-foot-long gully appeared on the sea surface below, and the figure of the Qingteng Sword flashed through it. The rolling sea water was broken by the sharp edge of the fairy sword, forming a brief waterless trace where the fairy sword passed.
"Let's go, we'll follow."
After saying this, Ji Yuan and Long Nu flew into the air again, following the Qingteng Sword from a distance.
"Hey, my dad is really something, why doesn't he come!"
Ying Ruoli was still a little depressed at this time. Ji Yuan flew while glancing at the sky and sea, his eyes moving as he spoke softly.
“That doesn’t mean he didn’t come.”
This is not because Ji Yuan really sensed the existence of the old dragon, but rather a psychological inference. If you put yourself in his shoes, if you were in his shoes, you might quietly follow and take a look.
In the distant clouds, a dragon mist carefully shrank into the clouds.
"Ji Yuan is too perceptive! I used the mirage technique to split my spirit and came here, but he seemed to have sensed it! ? "
About a quarter of an hour later, in the sight of Ji Yuan and Ying Ruoli, there was a sudden "bang" sound on the sea in the distance, and large waves exploded into the sky.
"Don't kill me... Immortal, don't kill me——"
A giant whale actually jumped out of the water, leaped more than ten feet high into the air, and then fell again.
"Boom~~~" With a loud bang, the sea surface seemed like a huge bomb was dropped.
A huge wave was stirred up and overturned in all directions. It was like a heavy rain falling on the side. The Qingteng Sword flashed in the "rain" and returned directly behind Ji Yuan.
"I told you to wait patiently, why did you hide?"
In the low clouds, Ji Yuan said calmly. He didn't want to listen to the giant whale's explanation and led it directly to his side.
"You should know this person, right? As for Mr. Ying, he is sleeping soundly and can't get up."
Ji Yuan deliberately prolonged the second half of the sentence and glanced around casually.
However, the giant whale obviously didn't care about this. In fact, his attention was completely focused on Ying Ruoli.
"You, you are really Empress Ruoli, you look like Jun's mother..."
The giant whale seemed to have some special way. Even though it was the first time they met, he could immediately recognize that this was the real dragon girl. The level of respect and sincerity he showed to Ji Yuan was even higher.
Ying Ruoli had now returned to her usual goddess appearance, cold and holy, as she looked at the giant whale and said.
"You are the Giant Whale General that my mother appointed? Did my mother send you?"
The giant whale turned in a circle on the water and answered truthfully.
"It wasn't Jun's mother who sent me here. How could Jun's mother possibly bring up this matter? I came to see Master Mo secretly on my own. I didn't dare to disobey Jun's mother's orders. I didn't intend to alarm Long Jun and the two princes. I just didn't expect Master Mo to..."
Ying Ruoli's eyes dimmed for a moment. It turned out that he was not sent by her mother, but she still asked another question.
"Then why did you come here?"
The giant whale will not hide anything this time.
"A hundred years ago, aquatic monsters frequently came from the desolate sea. About twenty or thirty years ago, a powerful evil dragon came and harassed Jun Mu endlessly... Jun Mu was so annoyed that she hid under Longyan Island for more than ten years and never went out. I felt really aggrieved, so I wanted to ask Master Mo for help to teach that guy a lesson... This immortal knows everything that happened afterwards!"
"What!? There's such a thing! He doesn't want to live anymore!"
Ying Ruoli couldn't help herself when she heard it. Her brows were solemn, and because of the rising dragon power, her long hair fluttered in all directions, as if waves of invisible air were spreading out from her to the surroundings.