Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Please Ask the Clan Uncle to Take Action

Translator: 549690339

Ming River is a grand river that can be divided into the upper, middle, and lower reaches from its source.

Wuyue City is situated in the lower basin of Ming River.

At this moment, the bottom of the river at the lower reaches of Ming River is bustling with activity.

Outsiders may be unaware, but the aquatic cultivators mingling near Ming River are well-known to everyone here.

At the bottom of Ming River, eighty meters below the surface, stands a majestic ancient temple.

This imposing ancient temple is the “Ancestral Temple” referred to by Ruolin!

Three hundred meters outside the Ancestral Temple, five Foundation Establishment cultivators stand shoulder to shoulder, followed by dozens of Qi Cultivation Stage aquatic monsters a few meters behind them.

“Fellow daoists, let’s go,” Ruolin said.

Including Juya and Hun River, the other four cultivators courteously responded:

“Let’s go.”

“Please, after you.”

“Alright, let’s go together.”

The fishy group engaged in polite back-and-forth, yet nobody moved, all standing still.

The scene became very awkward for a moment.

Ruolin mustered their courage and said, “I’m really leaving this time.”

“Yes, I’m moving my legs.”

“I’m really leaving as well.”

“I’ve already left.”

Still, not a single fish moved.

“In my opinion, why don’t we ask Elder Changxi to take the lead? Among us, only he is the eldest and has the highest cultivation level.”

“No, no, no, let’s ask Brother Ruolin. He is younger and more promising, with unlimited potential.”

“Or perhaps Hun River should take the lead, he’s young and full of energy.”

“If we’re talking about energy, Elder Juya has the most.”

“I can’t, my vision is poor, and I tend to get lost easily.”

The fish pushed the responsibility back and forth amongst themselves, appearing comical but also somewhat helpless.

It’s not the most embarrassing when kids fight at school and the teacher calls the parents.

The most embarrassing is when the parents themselves have never fought before.

Even more embarrassing is for the parents to not only lack fighting experience, but also to team up together, yet fail to even force out the opponent’s big move.

They got solo killed while being full health, full mana, and with all skills ready.

If it were up to a regular person, they’d smoothly surrender, exit with a click, and uninstall the game as a backlash.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t afford to uninstall.

After much indecision, Ruolin finally stepped forward, leading the rest of the cultivators towards the Ancestral Temple’s entrance.

At the doorway of the Ancestral Temple, Ruolin whispered, “One, two, three.”

Splash!

All five Foundation Establishment cultivators knelt down in unison.

“Ancestor, the human race has blatantly broken the peace treaty set by the Immortal Sect. When we went to argue, they beat us and threw us out. Ancestor, the humans are too arrogant, they simply do not take our grand Aquatic Tribe seriously.”

“Yes, ancestor, the humans use crafty spells to only catch the most promising of our young! If we keep letting them feast on us like this, our tribe will surely face extinction!”

“Ancestor, we are truly out of options, please lend us your aid!”

“Please, ancestor, take action!”

“Please, ancestor, take action!”

“Please, ancestor, take action!”

It wasn’t just Ruolin and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators, but also the dozens of Qi Cultivation aquatic cultivators bowed down, shouting in unison.

Not only the fish tribe but also the shrimp, crabs, clams, and other members of the Aquatic Tribe, cultivators who lived underwater, came to this place as well.

In the face of life and death, all aquatic cultivators from Ming River territory reached an unprecedented level of unity!

After countless shouts from everyone, the grand doors of the Ancestral Temple finally slowly opened.

A middle-aged cultivator stepped out.

This man had a tough appearance, with fewer monster traces on his body compared to Ruolin and the others, indicating a higher cultivation level and a more complete transformation.

“Silence!”

The voice of the middle-aged cultivator thundered, instantly spreading the aura of Core Formation across hundreds of meters!

Ruolin and the others rejoiced and said, “It’s Uncle Lanye! Before his last retreat, he was already at the early stages of Core Formation, certainly stronger now than ever before!”

“Making noise outside the Ancestral Temple, disturbing the peace of the revered elders of our tribe—where is your decorum? Come and tell me what has happened, and quickly!”

Seeing this, Ruolin and the others immediately ran to Lanye to report the situation, exaggerating the details.

After listening, Lanye immediately furrowed his brow.

“The Immortal Sect has always been true to their word. Why would they violate their own rules for some little fishes?”

“Uncle, we witnessed this situation with our own eyes and heard it with our own ears. If you don’t believe us, come with us to the Wu River area and listen carefully to the voices in the water to see if someone is whispering,”

In the Wu River, Uncle Lanye knitted his brows in silence.

There really were voices.

It seemed they were not talking nonsense.

“Uncle, please think of a solution quickly. If we don’t take any action, the outstanding younger members that we have accumulated over the past dozen years will all be fished away by them!”

“Yes, some of them I watched grow up.”

Lanye said, “I know the Helmsman stationed here by the Tongtian Sect, but our relationship is just so-so, and we haven’t been in contact for a long time. I don’t know if he’ll be willing to do me this favor.”

Upon hearing Lanye’s words, all the Foundation Establishment fish cultivators immediately cried out in unison, “Please, Uncle, take action! Save our tribe from this crisis!”

Lanye didn’t speak.

The fish immediately repeated their plea three times, each time louder than the last.

With the atmosphere fully charged, Lanye finally said with helplessness, “Fine. It seems I must take action. The Ming River Aquatic Tribe might be on the decline, but we are not soft persimmons to be squeezed at will. I shall go!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Lanye disappeared on the spot.

The fish, seeing the Core Formation Divine Skills, reassured one another, “With Uncle Lanye taking action, this matter is most likely to be no problem.”

“Exactly. Even if we Foundation Establishment cultivators don’t carry enough weight, Uncle Lanye is a Core Formation great cultivator. Even if the Human Race is strong, could they still refuse the favor of a Core Formation great cultivator?”

“Haha, exactly. Let those humans see just how formidable our Aquatic Tribe is.”

Wuyue Residence.

Jiang Cheng carried a bunch of vegetables and meat he bought from the supermarket and stood at the door. Liu Qing walked in front of him intuitively and took out keys from Jiang Cheng’s pocket to unlock the door for him.

After entering, Jiang Cheng began to put away the groceries he had just purchased.

He washed the vegetables and prepared the meat in a bowl for marinating.

“Eat?” Liu Qing asked.

“Are you hungry?” Jiang Cheng asked in return.

Liu Qing shook her head.

She wasn’t hungry.

Not to mention she was now a cultivator in the Mahayana Realm and didn’t need to eat.

Even if she were only in the Qi Cultivation Stage, eating just a little each day, she wouldn’t feel hungry.

If Jiang Cheng found feeding her too troublesome, she could even eat less.

In the Qi Cultivation Stage, she was already capable of absorbing spiritual energy, and even with just a small bite, she wouldn’t feel very hungry.

She was a monster that was easy to keep.

“I bought a lot, so if you’re hungry, I can cook some for you now. If not, these are to be prepared in advance and put in the fridge for you to eat tomorrow noon,” he said.

“Why?” she asked.

“Tomorrow noon is my cousin Sun Yuan’s academic advancement banquet. I have to go and eat. So I can’t be with you,” Jiang Cheng explained.

“Together,” she said.

“There will be lots of people there, and it will be noisy, even more chaotic than when we went to Huafu Hotel. You don’t like that,” Jiang Cheng pointed out.

Liu Qing thought back to the scene when she and Jiang Cheng went to Huafu Hotel. She hadn’t expected that Jiang Cheng would still remember she didn’t like the smell of Huafu.

“It’s okay,” she said to Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng was puzzled.

It was rare for Jiang Cheng not to understand what Liu Qing was saying.

But this time, he really didn’t understand her statement.

“It’s okay?”

What’s okay?

Is it okay that there will be many people, or that it will be noisy?

“Do you want to go?” Jiang Cheng asked.

Liu Qing first shook her head, then looked at Jiang Cheng and nodded.

Jiang Cheng was a bit confused, but he roughly grasped the big monster’s meaning.

She wanted to go, but she didn’t want to sit together with the messy guests.

That should be what she meant, right?

“I’ll think of something,” Jiang Cheng said.

“Okay,” she replied, nodding.

She really didn’t like many things, but she knew being willful wasn’t good and didn’t want to cause trouble for her friend.

Actually, as long as she was with Jiang Cheng, it didn’t matter where she went.

After all, she had a friend with her.