"?"

The Mountain God stared at his aunt's hand, his expression of grief suddenly shifting to one of astonishment. He exclaimed in surprise, "Is this human nature? I'm in such a miserable state right now, and you're still trying to steal from me?"

"It's not me who's going to suffer. Anyway, just tell me if you'll hand over 200,000 catties of spirit stones right now or not! If you don't, I'll immediately summon a flood to submerge your west bank," Auntie said with a sneer.

"I don't have that many spirit stones in cash." The Crimson Mountain God clutched his storage ring tightly, retreating repeatedly as he hurriedly refused his aunt's request.

"Little fox! Come and teach him a lesson!" Auntie sneered as she saw the Red Earth Mountain God flee, then turned to look at her beloved lucky fox nephew.

"Sister Ao Jin! Don't let that local tyrant get away! He knows everything that's going on on land."

Su Yan raised his hand and pointed at the Crimson Mountain God, who was leaping up as if preparing to escape using a teleportation technique, so that Ao Jin and the other dragon clan colleagues could intercept him.

"what!"

The moment the Red Earth Mountain God transformed into mist, Ao Bulao, who resembled a girl next door, opened her small mouth and uttered syllables that created an invisible impact, causing the mist that the Red Earth Mountain God had transformed into to suddenly explode, directly interrupting his escape and revealing his true form.

"That old mountain god runs pretty fast."

Chaofeng smiled, raised his arms and suddenly pulled in the air in front of him. All the water in the near-sea city area condensed into a layer of water film. Through Chaofeng's pulling, it instantly turned into a high-speed rotating water tornado, which swept the Red Earth Mountain God into the center of the tornado and made hundreds of rotations in a single breath.

"what--"

The Crimson Mountain God crashed to the ground, creating a large crater. Still shaken, he quickly scrambled to his feet, removed his storage ring, and shouted:

"Heroes, spare my life! This old man was unaware that you dragon lords were so fierce. I still have 250,000 spirit stones and some herbs in my storage ring, which I offered to you heroes for your enjoyment of wine and food."

Although the Mountain God of the Red Lands has recently been distributing wealth to ward off disasters, he still actually has over 200,000 catties of spirit stones in his storage ring.

That's why he reacted so strongly when his aunt asked him for 200,000 catties of spirit stones.

"Why are you all fighting here?"

Just as Ao Jin was about to draw his sword and cripple the limbs of the Crimson Mountain God, a humanoid figure over four meters tall, completely shrouded in a black robe that obstructed detection, descended from the entrance of the near-sea city into the city and arrived at the teleportation array plaza next to the city lord's mansion. His laughter broke the tense atmosphere of the plaza.

"A true gourmand!"

When the aunt saw the visitor, she raised her hand and gave a brief greeting to her old classmate.

"Old classmates, what are you doing here?" the old glutton asked as he landed on the teleportation plaza.

"This guy said he's reformed, but we don't believe him, so we wanted to test him." Auntie glanced at the Red Earth Mountain God and briefly explained what had happened.

Also, take this opportunity to deliver the West Sea Dragon King's orders.

"I see."

The old glutton nodded with a look of sudden realization, and looked at the dragon envoys, saying, "However, you are all a little late. The Red Earth Mountain God did not lie."

"Because of my physical limitations, I didn't manage the western coast and coastal areas much, which led to the Nightmare Town's followers causing trouble and destroying the coastal city under my jurisdiction."

"Anyway, I figured since we're all up, I'd tie up all the thugs on the west coast and in the near seas, pin them to the ground, and give them a good beating. Those sea bullies and mountain tyrants were beaten so badly they were more obedient than grandsons."

The old glutton chuckled as he recounted how, during the time his aunt and the others had been away in the Far Sea City for a feast, he had transformed the environment around the Near Sea City, and how all the disobedient had been turned into refining materials and sold to the Weapon Sect.

The sea tyrants and mountain tyrants who remained on the west coast were all somewhat perceptive. They had been cursed by the gluttonous old man, making their lives and deaths tied to the west coast.

Red Earth was a key target for his attention. He not only needed to ensure that the land had favorable weather, but also needed to help the people who had been oppressed by him.

"You confiscated all those mountain tyrants' houses? What about their property and land?" Auntie asked the gluttonous man with a look of surprise.

"family property?"

The glutton was taken aback upon hearing this, and said, "The land they seized was all handed over to the abbot of the Dragon King Temple in the name of the Dragon Mother, and distributed to poor families. As for the property of the mountain and sea tyrants..."

"I took eighty percent of their money. Part of it was used to purchase crops from surrounding areas, and the rest was used to buy high-quality seeds and farming tools from the Xia Yu Dynasty, as well as to import a large number of spirit beasts and tools for production."

"The remaining amount was donated to the Dragon King Temple and used to help the poor in the name of the Dragon Mother Goddess."

The glutton not only robbed the mountain and sea tyrants, but also scattered all his and his mother's wealth, burying it in the land on the west bank to maintain the soil's fertility with those spiritual stones.

Of course, all the cleanup work he did was done in the name of the West Sea Dragon Mother.

Are you preparing to resign?

Ao Jin looked at the tall, imposing old glutton and asked with a furrowed brow.

The glutton's actions were far too pure; no normal cultivator would do such a thing.

Without knowing the background, the reason that Ao Jin could guess was that the city lord of the coastal city, Lao Tao, was probably preparing to resign so that he could manage everything in an orderly manner in a short period of time, making it easier for the next city lord to take over.

"Correct!"

The old glutton nodded and said, "The destruction of Nearshore City is ultimately due to my inaction, which allowed the Nightmare Town Cult to wreak havoc here. I have no face to stay in Nearshore City and eat for free. I have already spoken to the Dragon King about my resignation, and someone should be able to take my place in a while."

The gourmand spoke logically and methodically, as if there were no problems with his speech.

But Su Yan knew that the glutton in front of him was just an external avatar, and once the spiritual power in his body was exhausted, he would completely dissipate into nothingness.

He is currently handling his own affairs, cleaning up the mess left by his mother, and then taking himself and the body of the Holy Mother Xuantong to find a secluded and desolate place in the universe to seal the body of the Holy Mother Xuantong.

Although the Holy Mother Xuan Tong fell in the Nightmare Suppression Deadly Trap, she had indeed stepped into the Celestial Realm. If the Nightmare Suppression disciples were to find her body, which was beginning to possess the wonders of Celestial Realm, it would likely unleash a great disaster that would affect millions of lives.

........................

"Let's not talk about my dereliction of duty anymore; it's truly shameful. Let me take you on a tour of the west bank now!"

The old glutton, his head shrouded in a black robe, shook his head and let out a long sigh. Then, he smiled and invited the dragon envoys to stroll around the newly renovated West Bank.

After saying that, the gourmand looked at his aunt and said:

"By the way, old classmate, you've come all this way and I don't have any gifts for you. I'll go and get the remaining 20% ​​for you later as a gift."

"Hahahaha. As you know, I'm a gluttonous old man, just as my name suggests. I spend all my monthly salary and under-the-table income on food."

The gourmand smiled and led the way for everyone.

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I'll take a break today with one update. I wrote three updates yesterday, and after finishing, I couldn't sleep until early this morning. I don't know what happened, I just tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep. As a result, I've been feeling groggy all day and can't sleep even when I want to. My head is throbbing now. I'm going to sleep now.

I'll update more after I wake up, and I'll try to write more in the last three or four days.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 447 Parting Admonitions

Led by the old gourmand, the group arrived at the arched bridge connecting the docks through the high-altitude entrance of the near-sea city, gazing at the west coast that had regained its green vitality in the distance.

"That fish's face looks strange."

Standing on the stone arch bridge, Su Yan immediately saw a giant octopus with a head a hundred meters tall moving rapidly along the edge of the shallow sea near the dock close to the land. Its eight tentacles seemed to be rummaging through something on the seabed.

What surprised Su Yan the most was that the cheeks of this Heluo fish were completely white, whereas the cheeks of ordinary Heluo fish are usually covered with many holes and are rough.

Su Yan already had the octopus tentacles of the Nascent Soul stage He Luo fish in his storage ring, so he sensed something was amiss when he saw this He Luo fish.

"You mean Doro?"

The old glutton said calmly, "Let him stay in the near sea as a sea-guarding beast for a hundred years, and I will forgive his past despicable deeds. He was not very willing, so I removed the mucous membrane from Doro's body."

The old glutton, lacking the affinity for water, looked at his old classmate and gestured for his aunt to help summon a navigable watership. He then led Su Yan and the dragon envoys to a spot two miles in front of the He Luo fish and began to introduce his work to the envoys.

The tentacles of the Heluo fish are on the seabed, and what it is groping for is not anything else, but some shellfish.

The old Taoist priest, Doruo, picked up the shellfish, sorted them, and then pasted them all onto the stone piers of the dock. He used his identity as the demon king to coerce the shellfish into sticking them all to the stone piers, using their shells to reinforce the dozen or so pier-like wooden blocks.

The method of using the sticky properties of shellfish in their daily lives to reinforce underwater structures is a unique feature that originated from human territory and spread to the west coast. In this way, the once swaying dock bridge can be stabilized, and shellfish can also be cultivated as an economic crop.

Seafood is not cheap in the cultivation world. If a cultivator wants to go out to sea for fishing, they need to hire a Nascent Soul stage expert to protect them.

The glutton's move was to have Doraku open up a brand new path to wealth for the people of the west coast. After becoming familiar with the marine life in the area, they could use the dock as a starting point to open more aquaculture farms.

"Although this method has just been implemented, aquaculture has already become a large-scale industry in the Xia Dynasty. The people on the west bank can also use this as an example to gradually acquire wealth through shellfish farming along the coast."

The old glutton smiled as he explained to the dragon envoys the aquaculture techniques he had introduced from the Xia Dynasty. Then he led the group to the next location, a mountain forest behind the near-shore market, where a giant fish, over 300 meters tall and using a cane, was digging into the mountainside.

The big fish limped along, digging into the mountain, occasionally taking out its crutch to measure the slope of the mountain, pressing the excess soil onto the shore, so that the soil it had just transported would be permanently fixed to the shore.

"The original Dragon King Temple was rather old and dilapidated. It was built with donations from the people, so it wasn't exactly beautiful or exquisite. I'm now having the evil old Taoist priest renovate this place into a Dragon King Temple, so that the Dragon Mother will have a place to stay when she goes to the West Bank to enjoy the scenery in the future." The old glutton explained the plan to everyone.

The Dragon King Temple was just the first phase of the project, and the foundation was also laid to solidify the groundwork for the second phase, the seaside manor.

This is the manor given to the Dragon Mother of the West Sea. From here, you can see the lush greenery of the mountains and forests, and also have an unobstructed view of the sunset over the horizon. As the sun sets, it gilds the azure sea with a golden hue.

After introducing himself to everyone, the glutton raised his hand, just like he had done with the Taoist priest earlier, and reached out to the wicked old Taoist priest who was working with a look of distress, confiscating 20% ​​of his family's wealth that he had stored in his storage ring.

"Why should I? I already agreed to be the sea-guarding beast, protecting the west coast for a hundred years."

"For no reason what?"

Faced with the evil old Taoist's attempt to resist, the glutton didn't say anything. He raised his arm, which was covered with fine white phosphorus, as if to lift his hood. Instantly, the evil old Taoist was so frightened that he threw his storage ring to the ground and hid behind the mountain ridge that was being renovated.

Although Lao Tao is a kind person, his cultivation level as a ferocious beast at the Void Refinement stage is genuine.

Even with the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox, Su Yan couldn't break through Lao Tao's defenses. It took Xi'er's personal intervention to kill Lao Tao's avatar.

Therefore, when the evil old Taoist saw that the glutton was about to lift his hood and do something to him, he was so frightened that he threw his cane and storage ring to the overseer, the glutton.

She was terrified that he would kill her and then sell her body to the Weapon Sect in exchange for spirit stones.

The glutton bent down to pick up the storage ring, and while doing so, grabbed the corner of the giant tree cane and smashed it on the evil old Taoist's head, signaling him to quickly prepare the land to be offered to the goddess.

"There's nothing else to see." The old glutton tossed the storage ring to his aunt, shook his head, and led everyone to the gathering place of the people on the west bank.

Upon meeting the Yellow Demon mentioned by the Red Earth Mountain God, it was revealed that he was originally a desert serpent living by the sea. However, after being attacked by the Taotie's energy breath, he obediently changed into the Master's clothes and began providing general education to the children of the West Coast in the Dragon King Temple Charity Hall.

The Green-Faced Demon's true form is a jellyfish, and one with a very unique three-layered umbrella-shaped structure. She can spew out a deadly poison that corrodes flesh and blood. However, after being strongly persuaded by the glutton, she came to the Dragon King Temple and honestly prepared agricultural medicines for the people.

Before setting off for the cosmos, the gourmand did his best to find a way out for the people on the west coast.

Although it wasn't perfect and didn't find a suitable demon king-level doctor for the people of the West Coast, it did solve some of their livelihood problems and allowed Huang Laoyao, who had studied in Deep Sea City, to educate the people.

While this cannot undo the damage, and there is nothing the glutton can do for the departed, he can only try to compensate the families affected by the loss of life with money.

"Are you really going to resign? That's such a shame."

After strolling around the west bank and witnessing the local glutton's management of the area, his efforts to attract merchants to the people, and his personal contributions to providing agricultural tools, Ao Jin couldn't help but express his regret and try to persuade him to stay.

The old glutton's management skills are truly top-notch, and he also possesses the cultivation level of the Void Refinement stage, enough to suppress any unexpected events in the West Coast and the coastal city.

"No, no, I'm not that thick-skinned. I simply can't face the people of the West Bank."

The old glutton quickly waved his hand in refusal, saying, "Being ashamed to face the people is only one aspect; another is that my cultivation bottleneck has slightly loosened, and I want to seek my own opportunity."

"Gourmet"

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