A giant dragon with azure scales soared into the air once again.
Flying in the sky.
Ao Qing suddenly felt a headache.
He realized that he had been very busy these past few days.
First, it was the Five-Passage Deity, then Bai Ling and Hei Feng, and now it was the Pear-Planting Daoist.
If he remembered correctly, there might be the Black Mountain Demon, the Compassionate Navigator, and other demons in the future.
“Tsk, unless that Nie Xiaoqian looks like Wang Zuxian or Liu Yifei, whoever wants to fight the Black Mountain Demon can go ahead and do it.”
Ao Qing flew and muttered to himself, soon seeing his destination.
After Hua Yun’s reminder.
Ao Qing realized a pressing problem.
As a Dragon King, Ao Qing had no one under him.
Currently, the guards and maids in the Dragon King's palace were all people brought from Dongting Lake by Hua Yun.
Ao Qing only had the temple steward, Yan Shi, under him.
Before, with the help of Hua Yun's aquatic forces, the shortage of manpower wasn't obvious.
But now, going ashore to find people, the aquatic forces were useless, and the problem of insufficient manpower was instantly exposed.
Therefore, Ao Qing thought of a place.
A story was recorded in the "Strange Tales" (Zhi Yi).
In Yishui County, Lu, there was a scholar named Wang Sheng.
Wang Sheng's family was poor, so he married the daughter of a wealthy neighbor, the Lan family.
Lan Shi was fierce and domineering, often beating, scolding, and humiliating Wang Sheng, mistreating him.
Over time, Wang Sheng couldn't bear the humiliation and wanted to go into the mountains, find a good place to hang himself.
In the mountains, Wang Sheng encountered a woman dressed as a maid, he thought it was a ghost, and wanted to follow the maid.
The maid had no choice, she first coaxed Wang Sheng to wait until night, then informed her lady, changed Lan Shi's personality, trying to make Wang Sheng change his mind and not seek death.
But Wang Sheng had made up his mind, he was determined to die.
Finally, with no other choice, the maid, Chun Yan, could only lead Wang Sheng into a mansion in the mountains.
The mansion was called "Give Gu Yuan," a place to accommodate unowned wronged souls.
And the owner of this Give Gu Yuan was the person Ao Qing was looking for today.
Pressing down on the clouds, Ao Qing arrived in the mountains near Yishui County.
Ao Qing only remembered that Give Gu Yuan was located in a deep valley, but he didn't know the specific location, so he simply sat on the mountaintop and spread out his divine sense to search.
He sat on the mountaintop for a whole day.
There was no movement in the mountains.
Ao Qing was prepared for this.
The owner of Give Gu Yuan was named Jin Se, a celestial maiden who had committed errors in the heavens and descended to earth to build Give Gu Yuan to atone for her sins.
A mansion built by a heavenly celestial being, if it weren't for a coincidental story, Wang Sheng wouldn't have found it in ten lifetimes.
This also included the Heavenly Demon Tribulation that Give Gu Yuan would later encounter.
All of this was a destined coincidence.
However, if Jin Se didn't show up, Ao Qing had a way.
He transformed into a rainbow and landed in a graveyard in Yishui County, looking around.
In this era, various demons lurked in the countryside, and there were many people who died unexpectedly.
When someone died unexpectedly, their families didn't dare to bury them in their ancestral graves, they could only ask someone to conduct a soul-calming ritual for them and have them buried in a graveyard.
This resulted in many lingering souls in the graveyard.
As the moon gradually rose, one ghost after another began to appear.
Ao Qing waved his hand, packing all the ghosts in the entire graveyard, holding them in his hand, and flying towards the mountains.
Ao Qing didn't go down while flying in the air, he threw a ghost down every so often.
Soon, the mountains were filled with ghosts.
Most of these ghosts had lost their minds, wandering aimlessly, waiting to dissipate.
Ao Qing flew in the sky, waiting quietly.
Sure enough, not long after, a thick fog suddenly began to fill a deep valley.
A mansion with a tall gate appeared on the earth cliff.
This mansion had black tiles and white walls, dark and solemn, exuding an extremely terrifying aura.
Through the open gate.
A strong smell of sulfur rushed towards the face, mixed with water vapor, drifting far away.
As the black mist flowed.
A neat line of people walked out of the mansion, beginning to collect the ghosts in the mountains.
Seeing the mansion appear, Ao Qing immediately pressed down on the clouds and landed in front of the gate.
His appearance startled the maid guarding the door.
The little maid had apricot-like eyes and willow-like eyebrows, she was extremely beautiful. Upon seeing Ao Qing, she trembled, her face visibly turning white.
“You, who are you?”
Ao Qing looked up at the plaque above the mansion's gate, but it had no words on it, only two pale lanterns hanging.
He was about to take a closer look inside the mansion, but the little maid beside him didn't like it.
The maid, with her beautiful eyebrows and eyes, pushed against Ao Qing's chest, angrily saying:
“You’re so rude, how can you trespass on someone else's home?”
Ao Qing rooted himself to the ground, the little maid couldn't push him anymore.
She flushed red, her whole body pressed against Ao Qing.
Ao Qing could easily reach out and completely hug the little maid, but he wasn’t close enough to her to do that yet, so he just let her continue to push.
Clearing his throat.
Ao Qing looked towards the depths of the mansion, solemnly saying:
“This one is Ao Qing, Dragon King of West Lake, coming to pay a visit to Celestial Maiden Jin Se!”
A moment later.
An ethereal and pleasant voice came from the mansion.
“Chun Yan, invite the Dragon King in.”
The little maid, who was forcefully pushing Ao Qing, slipped, nearly falling to the ground. Fortunately, Ao Qing reacted quickly and hugged her.
The little maid blushed, wanting Ao Qing to let go of her, but also feeling that she should say thank you first, she didn't know what to do for a moment, and her face flushed even redder.
Ao Qing chuckled and touched the little maid’s head.
“No need to thank me, lead the way.”
Chun Yan quickly shook her head, not wanting to be touched by Ao Qing, but Ao Qing moved too quickly, she couldn’t dodge.
So, under the guidance of Chun Yan, who had a puffed-up face, Ao Qing walked into Jin Se’s mansion.
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