Chapter 563
Chapter 563: Besieging The Water Mansion
Translator: StackThatCoin Editor: Hitesh_
Among the mountains there was a wetland with plenty of pools .
The wetland was more than ten thousand miles in circumference, and in its center was a great, deep pool, surrounded by many smaller pools and ponds, which were interconnected by numerous streams . The place was rich in water and grass . The cool and wet environment had produced a myriad of spirit herbs, as well as a host of snake and crocodiles and the likes . Poisonous insects were crawling everywhere, and many spirit beasts could be seen as well .
It was a remote and uninhabited place situated between a few major provinces . Because of the strong moisture and miasma that filled the air, there were few people who ever visited this place . Although a few small energy veins were passing through under the ground, they only gave off a meager amount of natural energy, too insignificant for any cultivators or Immortals to create their cave abodes here . Therefore, since the ancient times, this wetland had become a small isolated world, and unexpectedly, a group of demons who had gained intelligence had made it their home .
Under the deep pool in the center of the wetland, there stood a simple and crude palace with an archway looming before its door . A plaque made of crystal was set upon its lintel, and someone, whose handwriting seemed like chicken scratches, had put a row of large characters on it– 'Qianzhang Dragon King Mansion' .
Several little aquatic demons, whose appearances were so crooked and misshapen that no one could tell what their true forms were, were pacing proudly under the archway with spears in their hands . Their cultivation bases were probably in the realm of Gold Core, and they were only halfway into their transformation . Although they had the rough appearance of humans, their strange look of demons could easily be revealed with a careful glance .
The palace occupied no more than one acre of land, and only had two courtyards in total . At the moment, a little old man with a one-horned head of a flood dragon, a body of a human, and thick, black, fish scales over his skin, was gingerly carrying a bowl of sticky blue decoction into the principal room of the second courtyard .
Inside the room, Princess Zhang Le sat on a jade bed with black smoke rising from her head . The divine ray of five-colors shrouded her as it flickered from time to time, but there was a faint black mist in it . The mystic techniques and divine abilities of the Ancient God were extremely powerful; they could be used to kill anyone in the dark, but each of them had strong side effects . If someone with insufficient overall strength tried to use them, he or she would have to suffer a great backlash, just like Princess Zhang Le .
Had Princess Zhang Le not been cultivating her innate fleshly body and formed her innate divine soul, she would have been dead after exercising the powerful divine technique in such a rash way . Fortunately, her foundation was extremely solid . Therefore, although she was badly wounded, she could still stabilize the condition by meditating .
Lord Xiansheng and the others stood in front of the jade bed, all looking anxiously at Princess Zhang Le, who was wrapped in a flickering light . Gold Horn and Silver Horn were lying feebly on the ground, grumpily cursing the thighs of all of Li Qinghua's ancestors . The brothers swore under their breath that they would nibble all of Li Qinghua's seniors' thighs if given the chance .
The dragon-headed old man brought the decoction into the room with great care . As he entered, he bowed respectfully to Lord Xiansheng and said, "My Lord, I've collected three thousand Cold Green Spirit Grasses and boiled them into a bowl of decoction, which could replenish the lost energy of a lady . This Fairy seems to have her essence wounded . Taking this should help . "
Lord Xiansheng nodded and looked at Princess Zhang Le .
Princess Zhang Le opened her eyes slightly, then nodded and said with a smile, "Cold Green Spirit Grass, really? You must have worked really hard to find all three thousand of them . I promise you that when I get away from this calamity, I will definitely help you to become a real dragon . " As she opened her mouth, the decoction in the old man's hand turned into a thin stream and disappeared into her mouth . A faint fragrance emitted from her body as a mass of blue mist that was visible to the naked eye sprayed out from the end of her hair . Suddenly, the color returned to her pale face .
Nodding gladly, Princess Zhang Le smiled at the old man and said, "It really works! I deeply appreciate your kindness, Old Dragon King!"
The old man cracked his big mouth and laughed, then shook his head in humility and said, "No, no, how shall I claim myself as a dragon king in front of my Lord? Hehe, it is only a form of address which my witless children gave me . I dare not to pose as a dragon king in front of my Lord and all the Immortals here!"
This dragon-headed old man, who regarded himself as Qianzhang Dragon King[1], was the leader of the many demons who lived in this ten thousand square miles of wetland . His true form was a Stripped Black Blood Eel . By absorbing the essence of stars and moon, he had gained his intelligence, and had found half of a cultivation technique left by the flood dragon clan by chance . After cultivating hard for tens of thousands of years, he finally got rid of the eel body and transformed into a flood dragon .
However, as his true form was a lowborn eel, although he had become a flood dragon through cultivating, he was only a single-horned flood dragon, the lowest rank flood dragon in the entire flood dragon clan . He only had three claws on each leg, and a single horn on his dragon head . The scales covering his body were not even dragon scales, but more like fish scales . To be exact, Qianzhang Dragon King was a demon between a big fish and flood dragon . He was too far away from being considered a real dragon .
A few days ago, Lord Xiansheng fled to this place with Princess Zhang Le and the rest of the group . They had depleted all of their energy, and while Princess Zhang Le was suffering a serious injury from the backlash of the divine technique, they could flee no further . It was at that moment Qianzhang Dragon King, who was raising winds and waves on the pool with a group of little demons, saw Lord Xiansheng . He immediately welcomed them into his dragon palace and treated them as distinguished guests .
With the dragon palace where they could rest, and the decoction boiled with various spirit herbs collected by thousands of little demons under Qianzhang Dragon King's command, Lord Xiansheng and the others were able to restore their energy, and Princess Zhang Le's condition was stabilized .
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