Chapter 37: The Lion King
Like a huge underwater palace, this water house leans against a tall, steep black mountain. The main body is carved into the mountain, and the lintel and eaves are almost entirely inlaid with jade and crystal. Although the construction process is a little rough, it looks gorgeous and eye-catching.
The black mountain is covered with dark green aquatic plants and chlamydomonas, like a giant in the sea dressed in green clothes, which is not much different from the green mountains in the outside world.
There are jade pillar-like sea trees planted around the water house, almost the entire mountain is encircled, and the gorgeous water house is like a crystal palace, dazzling and amazing!
Aquaponics beasts with sharp horns like fishes and horses, white elephants with large ears, sharks and giant beasts with hideous faces, and so on. All kinds of water beasts abound, almost all of them are three or four feet in size, all around the water mansion, and they seem to be acting as guards.
The gate of the water mansion is three zhang high, and from a distance, it looks like a lion's head with a huge mouth. There was no door in the door, but there was a visible curtain of light that blocked the lake from the outside.
In front of the door, there were two fish-headed water beasts with a height of nearly one zhang and holding heavy halberds, both wearing heavy armor and having hideous faces. The high lintel is impressively engraved with three large golden characters: Lion King's Palace!
The steel fork held by the white-haired demon ape has a strange ability to avoid water, and where the tip of the fork is pointed, it separates a narrow waterway, so it travels very quickly.
But as soon as it approached the sea tree area, a shark with a shark's head and a giant's body, nearly four feet high, dragging a thick stone mallet in its hand, rushed over menacingly, and unceremoniously stopped it......
Seeing this, the white-haired demon ape hurriedly held a palm-sized token in front of him, emitting a brilliant blue light, and it was faintly visible as a fluffy blue lion head!
The shark man was illuminated by the light, and immediately put down the heavy hammer that had been raised, but did not retreat, but stopped straight in front of the white-haired demon ape, with a terrifying fierce light flashing in his eyes, making people feel like they were about to attack in the next moment.
After a short time, a monster with a fish-headed human body swam in front of the white-haired demon ape on a giant beast that looked like a carp more than three feet long.
Dressed in white armor, wearing a cyan jade crown on his head, and a silver token hanging from his waist, he was obviously a high-ranking official in the so-called Lion King's Palace.
He rolled his dark eyes, twisted the long fish whiskers under his lips, smiled at the white-haired demon ape, and actually said, "Yo! Isn't this the white ape of the Seshui Cave! Why don't you stay in your Ahuizotl and come to our Lion King's Palace?"
The white-haired demon ape laughed all his life, and said in the same mouth: "I have made a special trip to meet the king, please ask the white fish Shangguan to help introduce me! This little meaning is specially to honor you." As he spoke, he took out a ball-like leather bag from his bosom and threw it into the hands of the fish-headed monster.
After the fish-headed monster took it, he didn't open it to look at it, but casually picked it up and stuffed it into his arms. His eyes couldn't help but show a slight discoloration, he looked left and right, and said, "You can't brew a few more jars of good wine to present to the king, right? If that's the case, Brother Ape might as well give the little brother a pot or two to try!"
"If it's a wine offering, how can I not prepare two or three pots for Shangguan? But there is another important matter that needs to meet the king, and I ask Shangguan to forgive me!"
"Oh, really, as far as I know, with your token level, you can only meet the king once every ten years. In the past hundred years, which time have you not come to offer wine? Why? Are you still reluctant to give me two pots of monkey wine?" said the fish-headed monster with a somewhat unkind face.
When the ape heard this, he immediately said in a hurry: "Shangguan doesn't know, I came to meet the king this time, and it was indeed not to offer wine, but to get a treasure by chance, and I want to give it to the king!"
The fish-headed monster said suspiciously, "What baby, take it out and let me open my eyes first, right?"
"This ......"
The ape hesitated for a moment, and finally took out a pearl the size of a blue glowing dragon's eye into his arms, spread it out in his furry hand, and displayed it in front of the fish-headed monster.
The surrounding water body was slowly avoided, and with the pearl as the center, a hollow ball with a diameter of more than three feet was formed, which was very magical.
"What kind of treasure is this? Isn't it just an ordinary water-repellent bead? Doesn't it look very strong against water?"
Although the fish-headed monster was arrogant, he didn't dare to fight the idea of offering treasures at all, and at first glance, he said with a little puzzlement.
"What are Shangguan kidding, if it is an ordinary night pearl, how dare I use it to present it to the king? You must know that I have observed this thing for many days in a row, and I have not seen through it at all, it is definitely a treasure with great origins!"
When the white-haired demon ape heard this, he grinned and said: "This kind of strange treasure of unknown origin is not something I can have from the old ape, not only will it be of no benefit to keep it, but it may also attract disaster, so I decided to dedicate it to the king as soon as possible!"
"Is there such a thing?"
The fish-headed monster was momentarily interested, turned his face sideways and approached the blue pearl with one eye, and observed it carefully. After half a sound, he couldn't help but take a breath of cool air and nodded inexplicably.
......
Soon after, the fish-headed monster drove away the shark-man giant beast, led the white-haired demon ape into the gate of the water mansion, and walked through the hanging corridor on the cliff. Then he turned three times and two times, and went deep into the real water house in the mountain.
In a magnificent hall surrounded by water, jade trees are pillars, coral is shaken, flowers are clustered, and strange fragrances are wafting, just like the inner garden of the palace in the world.
Some merfolk with their upper bodies and lower bodies as fish swim in the hall, acting as maids, making the hall look like a fairy palace inhabited by aquatic immortals.
Although the white-haired demon ape had a maid to watch the seat and serve tea, it did not dare to sit down in a grand manner, and stood nervously waiting under the hall.
After a long time, a big man with a big waist and a round waist and a height of nine feet was accompanied by the fish-man maid, staggering and stretching into the hall.
I saw that he was wearing a yellow silk robe, and although his body was a human body, his head was in the shape of an extremely hideous beast. His face is indigo, his eyes are scarlet like blood, and his fangs are exposed, like a lion. The back of his face is covered with thick blue hair, which is very vicious. The bare face is faintly covered with incomparably fine scales, like a dragon,
He sat on a jade seat covered with golden shark skin, supported his forehead with one hand, and actually leaned on the back of the chair and took a nap. The wide sleeves slipped down, and it could be seen that its arms were also covered with blue scales, and its hands and feet were the size of a fan, and its nails were extremely sharp, like the edge of a sword, obviously some unusual water surname demon beast.
"The king, a few days ago, I got a strange treasure and made a special trip to dedicate it to the king!"
The white-haired demon ape hesitated for a moment, then walked up to the lion-faced man, bent over, and said respectfully.
"What baby?" asked the lion-faced casually, without lifting his eyelids.
"Ahem, back to the king, I don't know what this baby is, but it's not an ordinary water-repellent bead. Because with the eyesight of his subordinates, he can't see through the appearance of this orb at all, and there seems to be something remarkable in it!" the white-haired demon ape held the blue pearl in front of him, and said solemnly, his eyes full of expectation.
After it finished speaking, it suddenly felt a light in its hand, and when it looked up, it saw that the lion had already taken the pearl in his hand, and played with it casually and observed it.
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"Where did you get this baby?"
After looking at it for a moment, the lion-faced man's expression couldn't help but reveal irrepressible joy, waved his sleeves and retreated from the fish-man waiting on the left and right, raised his eyes to look at the white ape, remained silent, and asked.
"Hui Dawang was accidentally obtained by one of his grandchildren in a shallow mud. According to him, there were traces of a fight between humans and monsters...... "The white-haired demon ape hurriedly replied.
"Humans?"
The Lion-Faced man's eyes narrowed, and then asked, "Have you ever found a human corpse?"
"There are no human corpses, but the corpses of a black carp. The white-haired demon ape replied with certainty.
"Have you ever shown this bead?" asked the Sphinface, nodding thoughtfully.
"Of course not, when the subordinates saw this orb, they knew that it was a rare treasure, so they immediately brought it to the king to worship it, and they didn't let others see it!" replied without hesitation.
"Okay, you're doing a great job, say, what reward do you want?" said the Lion-Faced with a few laughs.
When the white-haired demon ape heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed to the ground, and said excitedly: "The subordinate cultivation has been stuck on the bottleneck for nearly a hundred years, if the king can give his subordinates a splash, the subordinates will be satisfied!"
"Splash of the Tree?"
The lion-faced man was slightly taken aback, but he didn't immediately agree, and seemed to hesitate.
The demon ape raised his eyes and looked at the lion's expression, and for a while he was a little hesitant, and he didn't dare to say more, so he knelt on the ground and waited quietly.
"Okay! I'll give you a splash of water. The lion-faced man jumped and said with obvious pain.
......
Half an hour later, the demon ape carefully received a cyan jade box into the leather bag on his waist, and happily walked out of the palace gate of the Lion King's Palace.
"Shi Kuang, you immediately go find some demon beasts, and solve all the apes and all the Ahuizotl in the Seshui Cave for me! Remember, your hands and feet must be clean, you can't let go of one, and don't leave any handles!"
The Lionface suppressed the ecstasy in his eyes and said to a monster beside him who had the same face but a sharp horn on its head.
When the one-horned lion-faced man Shi Kuang heard this, he was taken aback, and asked with a puzzled expression: "Father, Ape Yang has always been loyal to our Lion King Palace, and has never stopped paying tribute to monkey wine for hundreds of years. This time, he has made a meritorious contribution to the treasure, and his father has already rewarded him, so why should he exterminate the entire Sesui Cave? If he does this, I am afraid that it will have a bad effect!"
"If you want to go, you'll go!!, where did you get all this nonsense?" said the lion-faced, his face sank.
"Yes!
Shi Kuang was startled, answered, and hurried out.