Chapter 267 The Delicacy of Fish

Seeing that the treasure had already been taken out, the gazes of the many great demons present, as well as the small gods in the mountains and rivers, subconsciously fell there. The fish demon's eyes lit up, and he repeatedly cheered. He was about to stand up and reach out to take it, but just as he stretched out his hand, it was pressed down by the fan of the young master in a light golden long shirt.

A violent collision of magical power.

The fish demon was displeased, raised his eyes and swept over, and said, "What do you mean?"

The demon who looked like a young master smiled and said, "Brother Yu is too rude. This is the residence of the two ladies, the Xiang River waters. I propose that we send the gifts to the two ladies. Whoever the ladies are satisfied with will be qualified to try the treasure."

"Otherwise, wouldn't it be devaluing the treasure if anyone could try it? Of course, if the two ladies want to reject us, they must have sufficient reasons to convince us."

He originally intended to squeeze the fish demon.

Unexpectedly, the fish demon readily agreed and said, "What's so difficult about that?"

"Then what if I agree?"

"You two go first."

The other two great demons were surprised. Seeing the fish demon's confident appearance, they couldn't help but feel suspicious. However, they naturally couldn't shrink back like this. The young master tapped his palm with his folding fan and said, "Then, let me be the first to present a gift."

He took out an object from his sleeve, and the temperature of the entire palace suddenly dropped.

Only to see strands of white, radiant sharpness spreading within.

The man calmly said, "This object was originally kunshan jade. After falling into the human world, it was sealed in the snow mountain spiritual veins for a thousand years. Now it has been blessed by nature and has become a rare piece of cold jade. Whether it is used for suppressing inner demons with its material properties or for refining magic weapons, it is the best choice."

"What do you think?"

He sent the piece of cold jade up.

It was indeed a good treasure.

Wei Yuan sighed.

If the Yin Shang ancestral veins were not of a cold, icy nature, then this piece of cold jade would be suitable as a good material for carving the imperial jade seal.

However, Ehuang looked at the cold jade and shook her head indifferently, saying, "No."

The great demon's expression slightly condensed, and he said, "Why?"

"This is already a top treasure in the human world."

Nuying raised her eyebrows slightly and said unceremoniously, "However, when we married Shun, the Queen Mother of the West sent a divine general to deliver even more superior kun jade. Your piece is just an ordinary stone on Kunlun Mountain and is not qualified to be called jade at all. How dare you use this thing to fool me?!"

The demon who looked like a young master's expression froze.

He never expected that his preparation would backfire.

For a moment, he couldn't advance or retreat.

The fish demon laughed loudly and said, "What, is this all you have? Why don't you hurry down and stay there to embarrass yourself?"

The golden-clad young master had no choice but to retreat.

The second to stand up was a dragon-species great demon dressed in simple clothes, with a dragon horn protruding from the middle of his forehead and vertical pupils, revealing a coldness. He held a gift box in his hands and said respectfully, "Two ladies, the gift I am presenting is a dragon blood grass, which can cleanse the body and make the flesh like a dragon."

Flesh like a dragon was naturally an exaggeration.

Ehuang glanced at it and also shook her head gently.

The dragon-species calmly sat down.

Finally, it was the fish demon's turn. Everyone felt that even the dragon-species with the bloodline of the dragon race, and the refined shrimp general, had failed to please the two Xiang consorts with their treasures. In the end, this vulgar-looking fish demon would definitely have no hope.

The fish demon stood up triumphantly, clapped his hands, and said, "Come up."

A group of demons who had not yet fully transformed filed in from outside.

There was also a sound of low sobbing.

Four teams of eight children around ten years old were restrained with ropes like cattle and sheep.

The fish demon pointed to the children and said:

"This is my gift."

"Two ladies, will you accept it or not?"

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The atmosphere in the entire water palace became stagnant.

Ehuang's face was livid.

Nuying clenched her hands, trembling with anger.

The fish demon turned his eyes, clapped his hands, and said, "It seems that the two ladies are not satisfied, but it doesn't matter. I just happened to see that there are no good dishes here. Modern people like to eat and drink well, and their skin is the most delicate and tender. Come on, cook these people into several delicacies for the ladies."

In an instant, demons such as fish and shrimp filed out.

They held thick-backed bone-chopping knives, all exuding a murderous aura.

"Stop!"

Ehuang's voice was filled with suppressed anger, and she said, "I agree..."

The fish demon laughed wildly, cupped his fists around, and finally said triumphantly, "The ladies are really a pity. I endured it to leave these four pairs of virgin boys and girls for you two. They are extremely tender and must be tasted, haha..."

Wei Yuan raised his hand and touched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

However, a pair of pincers suddenly stretched out from the side. Wei Yuan's palm naturally shook with magical power, causing the owner of the pincers to grin. He turned his head and saw that it was the burly man transformed from a crab, squatting there, aggrieved, and said, "My lord, please bear with it..."

The crab demon was worried about the Qin halberd-wielding warrior. He came over to take a look, and good heavens, he almost drew his sword on the spot. He quickly leaned over and pleaded bitterly, "My lord, the ladies naturally have ways to deal with it. Don't overturn the table here. If you make a move, what will happen to those two great demons and the surrounding demons?"

Wei Yuan swept over the menacing demons in the water palace and seemed to be persuaded.

He slowly moved his hand away and picked up the wine cup to drink slowly.

The wine entered his heroic intestines.

The sword energy was brewing in the scabbard.

……………………

It was said that the fish demon, triumphantly went forward, staring greedily at the treasure emitting a flowing light, his breath sank, and he used twelve percent of his magical power to reach out to catch the thing. Ehuang asked Nuying to send the eight children to a safe place behind the water palace, and cast a spell to make them forget this painful experience, and fell into a deep sleep.

When she returned, she saw that the fish demon's body was full of magical power, and his palm had already penetrated into the jade light.

The fish demon roared, and blue veins bulged around his eyes.

He took a step forward and actually grasped the treasure.

The demon in the form of a young master tapped his palm heavily with his folding fan, looking at the scene in disbelief. The fish demon's eyes were congested, but he laughed loudly, and was about to reach out to take out the treasure, but suddenly an extremely ancient aura emanated from the treasure, the fish demon's face changed, he spat out blood, and was directly and heavily defeated and flew back.

He crashed into a thick beam and fell to the ground.

The treasure returned to its original appearance.

Only the ancient aura became more intense.

After a long time, the fish demon stood up clutching his chest, gnashing his teeth: "No, this is impossible..." He staggered, his steps gradually quickening, but he was stopped by the other two great demons. Perhaps they would be frustrated when they failed, but when they saw that their opponents had also failed, a sense of pleasure would emerge.

The fish demon's face was livid, and he sat in the middle position.

The young master-like demon and the dragon-species both took a deep look at the treasure emitting an ancient aura and said, "It seems that no one can take this treasure away today, what a pity, what a pity..." But they couldn't help but think of what the fish demon had done, and other ideas emerged.

Before the sound could be recorded, another voice sounded, saying:

"I also have a gift to give to the two ladies."

The atmosphere in the water palace stagnated, and they turned their heads to look, and saw a young man putting down his wine glass, hiccuping, and smiling, saying:

"Of course, it's just a token of my heart. Whether I can try it or not depends on the opinions of the two ladies."

The three great demons had made the suggestion earlier, and they couldn't stop it now.

But they didn't believe that this young-looking man could give any good gifts.

Wei Yuan picked up a pot of wine and got up, pacing forward, walked to the front of a large table, gently swept the table with his fingers, and looked at whether there was dust on his fingers. This demeanor made the fish demon, who was already bold in character and had failed to obtain the treasure, extremely unhappy, and said, "Stop dawdling, take out what you have, and get out if you don't!"

Wei Yuan said, "Naturally, there is something, and it is definitely a good thing."

"It is a delicacy, which in ancient times, only emperors and nobles could eat."

The fish demon was suspicious and said, "What delicacy is better than human flesh?"

Wei Yuan said, "Naturally, there is."

"If you are interested, you might as well come and have a taste. It's just that this thing is relatively precious. After it is taken out, the taste will deteriorate every second. The faster you eat it, the better. If you want to eat it, come closer."

The fish demon was quite moved by Wei Yuan's description. He thought about it and, relying on his high cultivation, walked forward.

The lobster was also a little curious, but out of self-esteem, he did not go over. He turned his head and saw that the dragon-species had not moved either, but for some reason, his body seemed to be a little stiff. Not only did he not move, he was almost motionless. His vertical pupils were just staring at the ordinary-looking young man, and his Adam's apple trembled up and down.

Wei Yuan invited the fish demon to sit down.

Then he walked towards the little demons that the fish demon had just summoned and took a knife from them.

He weighed it, and the weight was okay.

While walking over, he smiled and said, "Speaking of which, this dish has a lot of allusions. Not only do nobles and emperors like it, but literati and poets also like it, leaving behind a lot of poems. By the way, Your Majesty, do you know what the word is in the human world that describes delicious taste?"

The fish demon was at a loss and said, "What?"

The young master smiled and said, "Naturally, it is *xian*, the *xian* of deliciousness."

Wei Yuan said, "That's right, does this one know how many ways there are to write this *xian*?"

The young master was stunned, and the fish demon was even more puzzled. Wei Yuan stopped halfway through his words, as if he was going to take something for the fish demon to see. The fish demon widened his eyes, but suddenly saw a cold light burst out from the palace, directly entering the fish demon's heart, straight to the hilt. The demons were stunned for a moment. The fish demon froze, then struggled violently, but the young man raised his hand and pressed down on his head.

The five fingers were white, but extremely heavy. The Mountain God Seal appeared directly.

The fish demon's head was heavily pressed on the table, as if it was pressed on a cutting board.

He struggled with difficulty, vaguely seeing the young man overlooking him coldly, his figure as high as a mountain, his pupils unfamiliar, but at the edges, a brilliant golden color was brewing. In the blink of an eye, the knife in Wei Yuan's hand turned like flying, blooming in layers like a cold lotus flower, and a coldness fell.

The fish demon even saw pieces of snow-white meat flying off his body.

The last knife cut off his head before he could breathe his last breath. A fishy and bloody smell surged out, stimulating the aura of the place to become cold and chilling. Wei Yuan casually threw down the shattered knife and replied casually, "There are not many ways to write it. In the end, the right side is mutton, and the left side is fish. They are the most delicious things from the north and south."

"One should never tire of refined food, nor of finely cut meat."

The young man's wine energy came up, he cupped his hands and smiled, opened his mouth and exhaled a mouthful of wine, and said casually:

"Wei Yuan of Quanzhou, a fish sashimi as a courtesy."

The room was silent.

………………

The crab's face was blue and white for a while.

Ehuang didn't seem to have recovered yet, but Nuying's eyes lit up and said, "Good!"

She immediately said with a slightly unkind intention:

"Do you want to try it too?"

"This treasure."

This was to make Wei Yuan suffer some, as a way to repay some of the grudges from back then. Ehuang glared at her sister, about to explain the origin of this treasure, but Wei Yuan had already nodded in agreement and walked to the front of the ball of treasure light. Layers of jade light rippled out. Because the power inside had just been activated, that extremely ancient aura was very obvious.

Ehuang said, "This was handed over to me by an old friend. Only he and his old friend can touch it."

Wei Yuan looked at the treasure light and sighed, "I see."

Ehuang only thought that he was retreating in the face of difficulty.

But she saw the young man in a daze for a while, then raised his hand, and the ball of treasure light suddenly disappeared. A jade light directly broke through the flowing light and landed directly in Wei Yuan's palm. That ancient charm, like thousands of years of buried history, was blown away by the wind and turned into dust, surrounding the area.

It was a broken jade book.

Wei Yuan saw the familiar and unfamiliar words on it.

*Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas) · Central Mountain Classic—

Within Dongting, the two daughters of the Emperor reside, often traveling in the Jiangyuan… their entrances and exits are always accompanied by violent winds and rain.

So that's how it is…

The source of Dongting Lake is the Xiang River.

This is the origin of the Xiang Jun legend, the vitality left by Yu. However, thinking about it now, Ehuang and Nuying are the two daughters of Emperor Yao, but they are also the imperial consorts of Emperor Shun. Yu only said that they were the two daughters of the Emperor. It seems that he still had dissatisfaction with Emperor Shun. This kind of thing would be remembered in his heart, and he would secretly express his displeasure, but he would be upright on major issues.

As expected, it's still you, Yu…

His expression softened unconsciously, and the ancient aura surrounded him, incredibly fitting, like an old friend crossing the years to arrive. Ehuang widened her eyes and couldn't help but stand up and say, "It's you…"

Nuying remembered it a step later than her.

Wei Yuan raised his eyes, holding the fragment of the jade book, and said:

"I was unable to meet you last time."

"If I calculate carefully, it has been more than five thousand years since we last met…"

His voice paused, and he finally sighed and smiled frankly:

"Two ladies, how have you been recently?"

ps: Second update today……… Four thousand words. Thank you, Broken Years, and the Sad Narration for the 20,000 reward, thank you~ There are two more events at the end of this month, and it seems that there are fifty fan titles, you can go to the comments section to take a look~