Ji Yuan believed that if there really was another person involved in the forced abdication of the Dragon Girl, then even if the other party was not aware of the relationship between Ji Yuan and the Ying family before, he would definitely have known about it after this move, and it would be impossible for him not to expect to meet Ji Yuan at the Dragon Transformation Banquet.
But after waiting for such a long time, no one has come to find Ji Yuan. Is it because this place is too sensitive and they are afraid of being discovered
This doesn't seem to be right. Now Ji Yuan will not be too self-deprecating. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are not many opportunities to see Ji Yuan. Sometimes if you meet him but don't seize it, the opportunity will be gone in a flash.
If the other party is smart enough, he should seize every opportunity to meet. If the person who is holding the key comes in person, Ji Yuan believes that the other party has enough confidence. If he does not come in person, it does not matter if he takes some risks.
Moreover, Ji Yuan had already been to Yanjiang Banquet and Dragon Palace before. If the other party was mixed in there, he should have contacted him long ago. Could it be the person who had issued a ban to stop him before
Not really!
"Am I overthinking this? Is this really just a coincidence?"
Ji Yuan narrowed his eyes and fiddled with the magic money on the table. Actually, he was just playing around with it. But no one who saw this scene would believe that Mr. Ji was just playing around. Even if they could not sense any spellcasting aura, it was just that they were unable to see the master's methods.
This accounting relationship can be regarded as something that I can empathize with for some people who used to over-think things about him or her.
While Ji Yuan was lost in thought, the fish ladies who were cleaning up the cups, plates and other things had already cleaned up nearby. While they were cleaning up the leftovers of food and wine nearby, most of them were stealing glances at Ji Yuan with curiosity in their eyes. They even exchanged glances with each other, but no one dared to clean up too close to Ji Yuan.
Even when Ji Yuan was around, the fish ladies didn't dare to cast spells to clean the table. They just tidied it up bit by bit by themselves. At most, they wiped the table with a layer of clean water on their hands.
Seeing that other places in the hall had been cleaned up, only the tables near Ji Yuan were left. Although Mr. Ji didn't eat or drink, none of the fish ladies outside dared to come forward.
"Sister, you go." "No, you go."
"I dare not. This sister goes."
"I don't dare..."
Hearing the fish ladies whispering excuses, Ji Yuan sighed and folded up the magic coins one by one. Now two of the fish ladies finally braved the courage to come closer and saw Ji Yuan packing up the copper coins.
"Mr. Ji, have you figured it out?"
Ji Yuan looked up at the two nervous fish ladies, smiled and nodded, picked up a wine jug on the table and stood up. Although this jug of wine was not ambergris, it was a rare good wine and could not be wasted.
"You guys clean it up."
Just as Ji Yuan stood up, several fishmongers behind him also came over and bent down to clean the table. Seeing that Mr. Ji was so easy-going, they became bolder.
"Mr. Ji? I heard that your cultivation has reached the pinnacle, the pinnacle of the world, right?"
A fish lady asked this question and Ji Yuan shook his head.
"There is no limit to cultivation? How can there be a peak? Even for me, I still don't know where the end of cultivation is? I am just a little better than ordinary people."
Another fish lady also interjected.
"Mr. Ji is so powerful. We can't imagine your level. Maybe you can even poke a hole in the sky."
As soon as the fish lady finished speaking, another fish lady put down the plate in her hand and slapped her.
"Pah, pah, pah... How dare you disrespect heaven and earth, girl? How could there be a hole in the sky? Besides? No one can touch the sky? Oh... Mr. Ji? With your skills, maybe you can really touch the edge of the sky?"
Yu Niang stuck out her tongue and said jokingly in a playful manner. Ji Yuan's heart was moved when he heard the words. He paused in his steps as he was about to walk out with the wine jug in his hand. He turned around and looked at Yu Niang behind him. He was not only looking at the two who were talking, but also the other busy ones.
After being looked at by Ji Yuan, the fish ladies who were originally joking with each other slowed down their movements. They seemed a little nervous, afraid that they might have said something wrong and offended Mr. Ji.
The words of these fish ladies seemed to have a hidden meaning, but they were expressed too naturally. Ji Yuan looked them up and down with his magical eyes, but couldn't tell whether they were chess pieces or not.
'Try it!'
At this moment, Ji Yuan's mind was racing and he had already come up with a plan. He maintained a critical look on his face for a while, then he restrained his expression, shook his head and smiled.
"Just now when you rashly mentioned touching the heaven and earth, my heart skipped a beat. In fact, since I started practicing, I have increasingly felt that although the heaven and earth are vast, they are also..."
Ji Yuan smiled and shook his head when he said this, then turned around and left with the wine jug, as if he felt that there was no point in talking about this with a few fish ladies.
"Mr. Ji, does this world really have a limit? But you just said that cultivation is endless. Doesn't that mean the world is like a cage, holding you down all the time?"
As soon as Yu Niang finished her joking words, Ji Yuan stopped again. The moment Ji Yuan turned around, he took a step forward and instantly came in front of Yu Niang who was speaking, facing her only one foot away.
"Where did you hear that just now?"
Ji Yuan's tone was calm and his expression was not serious, but he could not hide the surprise on his face. He looked at Yu Niang with scrutiny, as if he was shocked that this little water monster could say such words.
"I, I, Mr. Ji, I was just talking nonsense... I just heard what you said earlier, and I... Please forgive me, Mr. Ji!"
"Please forgive me, Mr. Ji!"
The other fish ladies also looked as frightened as the one in front of Ji Yuan. They all bowed and saluted nervously.
Ji Yuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the fish ladies who were so frightened and terrified, and smiled at himself.
"Hey, Ji was too radical. Don't make such remarks easily in the future."
After saying this, Ji Yuan turned around again. This time, his speed was much faster than before. The fish ladies seemed to have not reacted yet. When they raised their heads, Ji Yuan had disappeared into the hall.
The fish ladies in the hall looked at each other, waited at the door for a long time, then continued to clean up the last bit of leftovers, and then left the hall one by one.
Ji Yuan, who was hiding with the Taixu Jade Talisman and his own concealment method, was in the distance, watching the fish ladies go away indifferently. All their reactions before were very natural, except for the sentence just now, which seemed to be some kind of misunderstanding and coincidence, but Ji Yuan knew that the other party definitely did it on purpose.
The fact that he could say such words might not necessarily be related to the other chess player, but it was definitely related to some transcendent existence from ancient times. The fact that the Dragon Girl was forced to abdicate was probably related to this.
After leaving the main hall, these fish ladies returned together to the place where the Dragon Palace maids rested. It seemed that more than 20 people were living in the same palace.
When Ji Yuan was looking at the palace thoughtfully, the Yaksha commander of the Dragon Palace came hurriedly with his men. The leading commander had disheveled hair and a terrifying face, with a very strong water spirit aura on his body. He held a token in his hand and looked at it from time to time. Finally, he led his troops to stop outside the door of the twenty or so fish ladies.
"It's right here, open the door for me!"
The Yakshas nearby didn't even knock on the door. Two of them just walked forward, stretched out their feet and kicked the door hard.
"Bang~"
The door was kicked open.
The Yaksha commander squinted his eyes and looked at the room. There was no one inside. But the next moment, he suddenly turned around, and his long hair suddenly flew in all directions at the same time, like thin ropes, wrapping around various places outside the palace door, and his speed was faster than flying.
“Where are you going!”
Brush, brush, brush…
In the void, there were many women with graceful figures and fish tails entangled by their long hair, and were dragged out from their invisible state.
“Ah…” “Uh ah!”
"Get started!"
The fish ladies who were dragged out directly took out their weapons and attacked the Yaksha leader, while the Yakshas beside them also held steel spears to meet the enemy.
Obviously, these fish girls were not originally from the Dragon Palace, and they triggered a certain early warning mechanism of the Dragon Palace, which led to their being discovered by the Dragon Palace Yakshas, who came to arrest them.
The Yaksha leader ignored the fight around him, and with a shake of his head, threw the seven or eight fish maidens who were tied up with their hair to the ground. The fallen hair turned into black ropes that tied them up. The other fish maidens were no match for ordinary Yakshas, and their defeat was only a matter of time.
"You guys catch them here, I'll go after the one that got away!"
The Yaksha commander stepped forward and turned into a beam of water light and chased after the palace.
Ji Yuan took a look at the battle in front of the palace. The Yakshas were basically in a one-sided situation, so it was no problem for them to deal with the remaining fish girls.
Obviously, the Yaksha Commander did not want to alarm too many guests. He thought it would be best to resolve the matter quietly, so he was relatively restrained. Seeing that the one who escaped seemed to have some skills, he did not press too hard when chasing him. It seemed that he wanted to wait until there were fewer people before taking action.
The Dragon Palace also has front and back doors. The Yaksha commander could hardly see the opponent's escape light, but he just followed the scent in front and went directly to the outer restriction at the back. The Yaksha guarding the gate seemed to be unaware of it, but the fish girl should have escaped.
"Humph, a bunch of trash!"
The Yaksha leader cursed, and the speed of pursuit suddenly increased. In an instant, he passed through the forbidden gate and rushed out of the Dragon Palace, swimming quickly at the bottom of the Tongtian River, chasing for dozens of miles in the waterway and then suddenly upwards.
"boom… "
A wave exploded on the surface of the river. The Yaksha Commander rose into the sky on the waves and looked around with a serious look.
"You evil creature, show yourself now! Your aura has been locked in my token. Even if you can transform into a thousand different forms, you can't escape!"
The Yaksha Commander was about to curse again when he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. A creepy feeling ran up his spine to the top of his head. His pupils shrank and he saw a red light reaching his forehead. For a moment, he seemed to smell the breath of death.
At the critical moment, a white hand suddenly appeared in front of him and pinched the red light with two fingers. It turned out to be a small red sword, struggling in Ji Yuan's left hand.
Ji Yuan looked at the small sword in his hand with astonishment. The sword energy and sword meaning on it were extremely pure, and the immortal spirit was strong. It could only be cultivated by an immortal sword cultivator.
"Sword Immortal?"