From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 30: Secrets of the Water Palace
Yunmen Water Palace is a small space where incense is refined. If the blessed land is a small world, Yunmen Water Palace is just a house.

Yu Shuyang returned home, opened the sword bag and took out the bluestone. The stone was like a low wall, no more than four feet long and one and a half feet wide.

There is a mural of clouds and water painted on the stone wall, which shows that it is a typical waterside garden with a landscape constructed around several ponds.

There are two cloud patterns carved on one corner of the stone wall - Five Peaks. I guess the name of this water palace is Five Peaks. Judging from the picture, the water palace is indeed not small.

The Yunmen Water Palace was actually locked. No wonder Gui Youguang gave it away so casually. A Yunmen that cannot be opened is not a water palace, but just a painting on the wall.

This was beyond Yu Shuyang's expectations. The Yunmen Water Palace was a secret realm in the void created by incense and fire, and Yunmen was the only entrance and exit.

Historically, whoever controls Yunmen has the right to enter and exit the Yunmen Water Palace, thus achieving the goal of controlling the Water Palace.

The secret realm of the void created by incense cannot be closed. It can be confirmed that the cloud gate is not locked, but a magical ban has been added to the stone wall.

This is easy to do. All you have to do is break the ban. It’s just a matter of unlocking it from the front or destroying it from the side.

Yu Shuyang did not try to destroy it from the side. This thing had been in Bai Bie's hands for a long time, and even an eighth-grade demon cultivator couldn't break it. You can imagine how sturdy it is.

It was not difficult for him to deduce and unlock the secret. He only needed to hold the wedding candlestick, borrow the power of Xuxu Star, and cast the Zishui Talisman on the stone wall.

Half of the Black Tortoise Book, like a louse on a cow's back, lies on the forbidden area and sucks blood, trying to extract the key to unlock the forbidden area.

If it is a complete Black Tortoise Book, there is no need for such trouble. It is the key to everything. It can generate keys according to the style of the lock, and the magic ban can be opened with just one touch.

In less than half a minute, the Turtle Book deduced a Jade Sceptre Magic Ban, which was actually refined by the Spirit Turtle Scripture. It seemed that the White Turtle had found it for a reason.

The forbidden law was deduced, and the Yunmen Water Palace was opened. It was visible to the naked eye that the Yunmen seemed to come alive, and the scene on the stone wall became within reach.

This is indeed the case. In Yunmen Water Palace, one does not need to cast any spells. Just touch the murals on the stone wall and you can enter the secret realm.

He did not hesitate and directly touched the cloud gate to head towards the Water Palace.

The entrance to the water palace is a rockery with five peaks stacked on top of each other. It is in a very dilapidated state, and all the flowers and plants between the rocks are dead.

After walking around the Wufeng rockery, you will see a winding corridor with high white walls on both sides, and all the flowers and trees around it are dead.

At the end of the corridor, you can see waterside pavilions and gazebos, all built around a pond. It can be seen that the pond is also carefully built, and aquatic plants are not rare.

I don’t know what happened to the Water Palace in the past. All we can see now is the dried-up water and the dry ponds, and all the vegetation visible to the naked eye has died.

It's like deliberately planted dry branches and flowers to create a dilapidated atmosphere. The grass and vegetation are not withered, but seem to have dried up in an instant.

There are many landscapes in the front yard and many residences in the back yard. It is roughly a five-courtyard complex with a west building, a flower hall, a library, and corridors and waterside pavilions.

The furnishings in each room are very gorgeous, imitating the style of human families, and all the utensils are simple and elegant.

Yu Shuyang naturally had no intention of enjoying it. He had been looking for information about the previous owner of the Water Palace. He went to several bedrooms and study rooms but couldn't find any trace.

This ghost place is so weird everywhere, as if it has been cleaned out. There are no fish or shrimp skeletons in the dry pond, and there is no sign of life at all.

At the end of the courtyard, there is a screen wall with a white jade wall embedded in it, engraved with a picture of a spirit turtle celebrating a birthday, and a poem about the turtle's longevity written on the back.

Behind the screen wall is the last room, on which there is a plaque with two words written in Shuidaozhenwen - Bai Gui. There is no title or signature, only a dragon seal.

He also recognized the characters on the dragon seal: just four dragon characters—Taiping Longbo. This was the Dragon Noble of Taiping Lake Longbo, a third-class Heavenly Noble within the dragon clan. As the name suggests, Heavenly Noble is bestowed by heaven and earth. The well-known East China Sea Dragon King's Dragon Noble was a first-class Heavenly Noble.

What Yu Shuyang didn't expect was that this Yunmen Water Palace was actually related to Long Bo of Taiping Lake. He didn't know what secrets were hidden behind it.

Entering the room, there is a huge ancestral hall. The three sides of the altar are densely packed with seats. At the top of the main seat, there is a tortoise shell as big as a human head.

The names on the rankings are all written in the spirit turtle script, and they are all turtle monsters with the surname Bai. Judging from the scene, there are no less than 5,000 turtle monsters, which should be a large clan.

Finally, he found a piece of useful information, a genealogy of the Bai family's spirit turtles.

It turns out that the owner of this water palace is called Bai Dan, the Turtle Prime Minister of the Taiping Lake Dragon Palace, who is responsible for taking care of the Dragon Prince's Dragon Shop business.

Their bloodline is inherited from the Baigui family, a prominent clan among turtles. They are the best at business and commerce, and are as famous as Prime Minister Long of the East China Sea.

The ancestor Bai Gui is a first-class demon fairy and a giant in the entire turtle clan. His family status is even more powerful than that of the Xiyu clan.

Bai Dan and his bloodline were hired by the Taiping Lake Dragon Palace as planners. They have always assisted the Dragon Prince and looked after the Dragon House business.

This generation of Taiping Lake Dragon Lord is causing trouble by not appointing a crown prince, which has led to endless fighting among the dragon palace's sons. The illegitimate dragon son, the Blood Dragon, is even more aggressive.

After repeated attempts, Bai Dan discovered that Long Bo was deliberately instigating discord among the dragon sons. The struggle was gradually escalating and bloodshed was frequent.

So he resigned from his position as Prime Minister and moved back to his hometown in the north with all his family. There is no further content here.

After all, this is a family tree, not a diary. The reason for the above content is that Bai Dan’s fifth-generation grandson was born on the day of the relocation.

Yu Shuyang seemed to know a shocking secret. He had a hunch that Bai Dan's branch was probably wiped out.

Otherwise, the ancestral temple would not be abandoned here, and the birth of the fifth generation grandson would be recorded. It would be impossible not to attach importance to this.

The answer is obvious. Taiping Longbo killed the entire Baidan clan.

This also explains why the Dragon Palace did not interfere when the white turtle made its nest in Shibalipu before. But after the news of finding the Yunmen Water Palace spread, the Dragon Palace came to the door and asked for 100,000 talisman coins.

Now that I think about it, besides the fact that killing the auspicious white turtle is unlucky, it is probably also a way to cover up the truth and create a false impression to the outside world.

At that time, if Bai Bie could not pay the landing fee of 100,000 talisman coins, his entire family would take it away, and he would also take away Yunmen Water Palace.

No outsider could possibly guess the truth.

If all of Bai Dan's clan were killed by Long Bo, then this would be a blood feud, and there would definitely be a battle between the first-rank demon fairy Bai Gui and Long Bo of Taiping Lake.

Thinking of this, Yu Shuyang was so scared that his hair stood on end. He was in a very dangerous situation.

Recalling the scenes along the way, I didn't encounter the water monster. The only breakthrough was the white turtle with light.

As long as he is not caught by the Dragon Palace and the matter of Yunmen Water Palace is not exposed, he will be safe.

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(End of this chapter)