Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

Li Xuan was not curious at all. He reached out and picked up the beating heart. His Golden Crow divine eyes saw through its essence.

"So that's how it is." After a few seconds, Li Xuan showed a look of understanding. The Sun Sutra started to operate, and golden flames wrapped around the heart.

At the same time, he explained to Erza and Irene, "This is a rare treasure, similar to the thing recorded on the parchment scroll above. The heart is just a disguise, and this is its true appearance."

After Li Xuan finished speaking, the disguised heart in his hand, which was wrapped in the Sun God Fire and melted, revealed its true appearance.

"Tangerine?" When Erza saw what Li Xuan was holding in his hand, she instantly thought of her favorite fruit.

Li Xuan tossed the tangerine in his hand that was emitting a faint blue light, and then handed it to Erza and the other person.

"This tangerine contains rich water element internal energy seeds. People who eat this can strengthen their water element internal energy. The water element power inside is very rich. It is not a problem for people to survive in the ocean. This should be the origin of the fisherman's power. Through subsequent practice, stronger abilities should be awakened," Li Xuan evaluated the value of this tangerine.

He thought of something related to the ocean, the fruit in the Rubber Boy's world, where abilities were also manifested through fruit.

After Li Xuan's explanation, Erza and Irene also understood the matter of the tangerine. However, both of them were already powerful inner energy masters in the True Person Realm, and their attributes were much higher than the water element, so they did not need the tangerine. However, they still knew the value of the tangerine.

Erza handed the tangerine back to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan was a little surprised and a little expected. The quality of the woman he chose was beyond doubt.

He waved his hand to put away the tangerines and looked around the cave again, especially the stone statues.

Just now, after Li Xuan used the Sun God Fire to melt the disguise of Shatangju, he noticed that the stone sculpture's eyes seemed to move, but now it seemed that they had not moved. However, Li Xuan did not think that he had seen it wrong. A golden light flashed in his eyes, and the Golden Crow's divine eyes penetrated the stone statue and saw the entire picture of the interior of the statue.

"There are still some hidden things, let's go down first." Pulling Erza and the other person to land at the entrance of the cave, Li Xuan's eyes were filled with golden-red light, and the Golden Crow Divine Fire was activated.

In an instant, the head of the stone sculpture was wrapped in golden-red flames and quickly turned into ashes. The fire spread and covered the entire stone sculpture.

After the surface of the stone sculpture turned into ashes, Erza and Irene also saw what Li Xuan said was hidden.

A blue sea beast made of internal energy, the blue light emitting from its body is exactly the same as the tangerine that Li Xuan had just collected.

"Eh? What is this?" Erza was curious again.

"The glowing person on the wall of the passage, or it can be said that it is the source of the fisherman's power," Li Xuan pointed at the sea beast that was looking at him warily.

This sea beast is also intelligent, "Human, we have no grudges against each other, and you have also obtained the sea fruit, why are you still attacking me?"

"Wow, it can talk. It's a pity that it's so ugly. It would be great if it were as cute as Little White Flower and I could catch it and keep it as a pet," Erza said with a look of surprise and regret.

Xiaobai and Xiaohua are two fighting wolf cubs that Li Xuan bought from Alu during the Totsuki opening school competition ceremony. They are now being raised in a villa in Rizhao City. The fighting wolf cubs are very good-looking, and they are still young, so they are not as majestic as they will be when they grow up. Instead, they are very cute. Asuna and the others like these two little guys very much.

Hearing that Erza actually called him a pet, the sea beast showed an angry look on his face, but when he felt the vast aura on Li Xuan and the way he had just cooked the poisonous sea beast in the lake, the sea beast became angry.

He suppressed his anger and continued, "Human, there are no treasures here anymore. If you want money, you may be disappointed. There is nothing like that here. Leave, this is my habitat."

As soon as the sea beast finished speaking, it turned around and dived into the lake, but when it was almost reaching the surface of the lake, it was stopped by a huge hand. If it had not dodged, it would have been caught.

"Human, what do you mean?" The sea beast's eyes were now filled with anger.

Li Xuan didn't care. The anger of an ant could only burn himself.

"Don't be impatient. I am quite interested in you. How about being my lackey for a few days? I will let you go free after I finish my job," Li Xuan said as he controlled his internal energy and covered the sea beast with his big hand.

"Damn it, don't treat me as a soft persimmon." Seeing that persuasion was futile, the sea beast immediately began to fight back. Its body was made up of internal energy and it used a trick similar to elementalization. Its body dispersed and it barely avoided Li Xuan's big hand. Then it sucked into the lake, and the lake water was sucked up in a tornado shape, rushing towards Li Xuan and the other two.

"Mr. Xuan, don't attack yet, let me do it." When Erza saw the fight, she immediately excitedly took out a long sword that was shining with cold light from her necklace. This was a gift that Li Xuan got for her.

Erza's hobbies are a little different from Asuna and the others. In addition to the normal hobbies of girls, Erza also likes to wield swords and guns, so Li Xuan often exercises with her, Katsura Kotonoha, Saionji Sekai and the others.

The sea beast's strength was around the True Person Realm, but it had rich combat experience. It dodged Erza's sword attacks, kept its distance, and continuously used long-range water element attacks.

Erza was very unhappy when she saw that her strength was higher than that of the sea beast, but she had been able to dodge its attacks using its elemental moves.

After once again shattering the water arrows attacking her with one sword, Erza held the sword with both hands, moved forward from behind, and activated the power of space.

Space cutting.

When the sea beast faced Erza's slash, its heart frantically sent out danger warnings, and its body instantly entered an elemental state. Unfortunately, this elemental state did not produce any effect.

"Puff", blue blood spurted out, and the elemental body of the sea beast regrouped, and a wound that almost split it in two appeared on its waist.

Chapter 225 Undersea Pyramid

The severely injured sea beast fell towards the lake. Irene stretched out her hand, and her internal energy covered the surface of the lake, making it airtight. The sea beast's body hit the lake surface, making a loud noise. Li Xuan inhaled the internal energy, and the sea beast was sucked to the entrance of the cave, in front of the three of them.

Although the body composed of water elemental energy suffered severe damage, it recovered quickly. What really made the sea beast weak was that Erza's space cutting also cut off its core.

A flaming spear pierced through its body, and the tip went straight into the ground beneath it. The body of the sea beast was destroyed by Li Xuan again.

"Submit or die," Li Xuan said calmly.

A thick breath of death enveloped him. The sea beast had lived for hundreds of years and its brain was still very sharp. No matter how he looked at it, he had no chance of winning. It was recorded in human books that a man who knew the times was a hero.

The sea monster was very obedient and surrendered very easily.

The spear turned into a golden flame and remained in the sea beast's mind. The life and death of the sea beast depended on Li Xuan's thought.

Without the suppression of Li Xuan and the other two, the sea beast's body quickly recovered, but its expression was still very listless, and the core damage could not be fully restored so quickly.

Seeing that the sea beast's body had recovered, Li Xuan also asked about its origins.

The sea beast is a naturally formed elf species in the ocean of West Africa. It has improved its intelligence after observing humans for a long time. The glowing person in the mural is its original appearance. It formed a bond with the original chief of the fishing tribe, and has been sleeping in the stone sculpture of this trial site since then. It will only take a look when a new fishing chief comes in for trial.

Of course, sometimes it will stroll outside along the waterways of the lake.

"Do you know anything about the Flame Horse?" Li Xuan was not surprised by the naturally born elves like sea beasts. Irene and Erza had never seen it before and might be surprised, but now that they were by Li Xuan's side, with the help of internal energy, a mysterious corner of them was also revealed, so they were just a little curious.

The sea beast thought for a while about what Li Xuan asked him, and then he remembered something similar, "Flame Horse? Is it the rumor about Apollo's treasure?"

Seeing Li Xuan nodded, the sea beast continued speaking.

The treasure of Apollo is a legend that has been circulating in West Africa. The earliest legend records that Apollo's treasure contains the power to conquer the world. After hundreds of years of continuous modification, it has become the current legend of the flaming horse.

But this isn't wrong information either, just incomplete.

"The Flame Horse is the horse that Apollo rides on and pulls his chariot. Apollo's treasure appears every day, but only in the first ten minutes of sunrise, the Flame Horse will fly out from Crete's territory in the sunlight."

"Crete is the name of the sea god of the West African continent, and here it refers to the ocean"

The sea monster told all the information he knew about Apollo's treasure.

After getting the accurate information, Li Xuan, his two companions and the sea beast returned along the same route. After exiting the passage, the altar automatically returned to its place.

The three of them returned to the yacht. Li Xuan had just gone onto the deck when he suddenly remembered something. As the thought came to his mind, the sea beasts that had just returned to the sea were unable to resist and swam over again.

Li Xuan took out the tangerine and looked at the sea beast, "Where did you get this?"

As for why Li Xuan knew that the sugar orange was not created by the sea beast, it was very simple. In his Golden Crow Divine Eyes, although the source of power of the sea beast was very similar to that of the sugar orange, the direction was different. The source of power of the sea beast itself was a mature path, while the sugar orange was just born.

"It was found in a pyramid on the seabed," the sea monster responded truthfully.

"Underwater pyramid!?" Erza's eyes lit up instantly when she heard this. It was the first time she heard of a pyramid under the sea.

Seeing the three people's eyes waiting for explanation, the sea beast continued to introduce.

At the junction of the West African continent and the North African continent, there is a blue pyramid that appears every full moon. The sea beast discovered it when it was wandering around out of boredom. Out of curiosity, it entered the pyramid and saw that there was an urban settlement inside that looked a little different from today's humans.

The sea beast saw many bizarre technologies in it that were different from those in the human world, including the technology that created the ability of the sugar orange in Li Xuan's hand.

According to the sea beast's observation, the people in the pyramid offered sacrifices to a temple statue, and then the statue ate the sacrifices and finally spit out various fruits, which had various strange powers.

The sea monster tried it once out of curiosity and got the tangerine fruit, but when it wanted to try again, it was discovered by the temple guards. Then it was chased madly by the temple guards. In the end, it could only leave the underwater pyramid with the tangerine fruit, and then it met the chief of the fisherman tribe.

According to the sea beast, every time the chief of the fisherman tribe passes the trial, he will eat the tangerine fruit and gain the power of the fisherman, but after death, the fruit will reappear in the hands of the stone sculpture.

This stone sculpture was imitated by a sea monster based on the statue in the underwater pyramid temple. Although it does not have the ability to produce fruit by eating tributes, it can re-condense tangerine fruits. The sea monster can also accelerate its evolution by attaching itself to the stone sculpture.

The sea beast's words aroused Li Xuan's curiosity. Undersea pyramid? Is it Atlantis? A statue that can produce the fruit of power is not a common item. The itinerary is arranged.

But at the moment, finding Apollo's treasure is the top priority. After all, he, Erza, Irene and the others are staying here for this.

The sea beasts knew the time when the Flame Horse would appear. It was night time now, so they had to wait until sunrise.

Waving his hand to tell the sea beasts to come over when the time was up, Li Xuan took Erza and Irene into the yacht.

After a busy night, after dinner, Li Xuan and the other two returned to their room to rest.

In the room, Erza and her sister Irene each held Li Xuan's left and right hands, lying on Li Xuan's chest, whispering to each other, and after giving each other a goodnight kiss, the three of them fell asleep in each other's arms.

...

Before the night had completely faded, Li Xuan felt the sea beast outside calling him through the flames in its mind.

The time is coming.

The evil hand was activated, Erza and Irene were woken up, and after washing up, the three of them came to the position of Class A. The sea beast was already waiting in the water next to them.

"Let's go," Li Xuan said, holding the two women who had gotten up but were still snuggling in his arms with their eyes half open. His internal energy formed a protective shield that prevented the cool sea breeze from coming in.

"Yes, master." The sea beast's body began to change, turning into a giant turtle, carrying Li Xuan and the other two and quickly heading towards the sky in the distance where a faint yellow light had begun to appear.

Chapter 226 The Giant Guarding the Gate

Although the sea beast changes into the shape of a turtle, it is only for the purpose of carrying people, and in fact its speed is very fast.

Soon it arrived at a familiar position. After the sea beast stopped, it told Li Xuan that the Flame Horse was about to come out. At that time, Li Xuan would need to catch it from the light so that it could lead the way to the treasure gate of Apollo.

A few minutes later, Li Xuan heard a faint but clear chirping sound.

"Master, it's out." As the sea beast's voice fell, the night began to disappear, and a soft and warm light began to rise. In Li Xuan's golden crow eyes, he clearly saw a horse with all four hooves on fire running out from the reflection of the light.

The flaming horse appeared.

"Swish", the golden internal energy transformed from Li Xuan's hand into a thick rope of fire, which quickly caught up with the body of the Fiery Horse that was about to enter the sunlight, and tied it up tightly in its astonished eyes.

Pulling back, the flaming horse was instantly pulled out of the light and shadow and came in front of Li Xuan.

However, the Flame Horse did not have the ability to speak like the sea beasts. Its little eyes were full of confusion. It did not understand why it was tied up with a flaming rope.

"Take me to your master's location," Li Xuan said to the flaming horse that was looking at him.

Now the Flame Horse knew what was going on and began to struggle violently, but soon stopped.

A flaming spear stopped at its heart and it had no choice but to surrender. It was just guarding a door, why risk its life?

Seeing the submissive look of the Flame Horse, Li Xuan dispersed the flaming spear, and the flaming rope turned into a saddle and reins. The body of the Flame Horse was very broad, worthy of being used to pull the Sun Chariot. Li Xuan, Erza, and Irene did not feel crowded when sitting on it.

The sea beast under his feet was waiting in place, and the flaming horse was running in the void with its hooves spread out.

Soon, they collided in the golden sunlight and brought Li Xuan and the other two to a completely new place.

A mountain range surrounded by clouds.