Useless Old Fellow

The entire underwater world was still, like a cocoon of spring pupae, hanging on the tips of leaves with only the sound of the wind.

"Gurgle."

He tapped his head with his Fist, spit out a few bubbles, and floated upwards, wobbling.

"So you can talk?!"

Liang Qu pounded the Giant Clam shell with force, making a loud banging sound, and the resulting water flow stirred up the aquatic plants.

So far, Liang Qu has only learned from the Fat Catfish that the Great Demon Toad can speak and communicate in the same way as ordinary people.

But that's Great Demon, on par with Perfected Elephant Grandmaster, or even one of the top beings among Great Demon. It would be strange if such beings couldn't communicate with each other.

How can such a tiny Giant Clam have the ability to speak?

But after those two sentences, Giant Clam fell into a deathly silence, refusing to speak no matter how Liang Qu asked.

"Hey, stop playing dead!"

Liang Qu found a stone on the ground and smashed it against the Giant Clam shell.

There was no damage whatsoever, but the sound and vibration from the impact were enormous.

The Fist picked up a huge rock and came up to help. The Fat Catfish and the Cannot Move fish searched around for rocks, using their heads to push them. The man and the beast smashed the rocks and then replaced them with new ones.

After knocking for a while, the Giant Clam still didn't react.

Liang Qu threw away the pebbles in his hand.

"If you can speak, I'll tell you. The two Martial Master I know are both Hunting Tiger Martial Master. They could easily smash your shell!"

"Even Hunting Tiger cannot break my shell!"

Wow!

They're incredibly capable.

Liang Qu didn't know if the Giant Clam was exaggerating, but the hardness of its Giant Clam did seem somewhat believable.

"You're not afraid of Hunting Tiger, but aren't you afraid of the tremors? If you're not afraid of the tremors, aren't you afraid of being roasted by fire? If even Hunting Tiger Great Martial Master can't open it, we'll move you ashore, build a bonfire, and roast you over a fire, right? If one day isn't enough, we'll do it for two days, if two days aren't enough, we'll do it for three days. I'll pour cold water on you after each round of roasting, and then I'll keep roasting you. Do you know what this method is? It's the method of opening mountains!"

Using this method, an ordinary person could level a mountain thousands of feet high. I'll use Profound Fire and pour ice water on it for you..."

The Giant Clam trembled violently again.

"Utterly shameless!"

"You call me shameless, doesn't that prove my method works?"

Liang Qu laughed heartily.

Can a person really hold their pee? Don't underestimate the Giant Clam just because it's less than ten meters long; it's probably heavier than many Demon Beast that are tens of meters long.

I really want to open it, but there's only one difficulty in transporting it.

After laughing, Liang Qu leaned against the Giant Clam, embracing the large shell. "If you have intelligence, then we can communicate, and we don't need to fight to the death."

You think if I really wanted to do that, I wouldn't have told you, right?

The Giant Clam remains silent.

The method of roasting with fire is despicable and shameless, yet it still has its own audacity.

The Giant Clam species is not good at moving, but it has a natural ability to increase its weight and is inextricably linked to the earth; it is the earth, and the earth is it.

If you want to move things, you need to be able to move things all around the land.

The human Hunting Tiger Martial Master wanted to move it out.

Difficult! "Stubborn as a mule."

Liang Qu shook his head, his four fingers undulating as he tapped the shell of the Giant Clam.

"Actually, it's not just the two Hunting Tiger Great Martial Master. I also know a Perfected Elephant Grandmaster. The key is that he's an Old Monk. A monk is someone who believes in Buddhism. The 《Lotus Sutra》 Sutra says that Buddhism has seven treasures."

Gold, silver, amber, coral, glass, agate...

Liang Qu stretched out his fingers and counted them one by one, putting down one finger after each count. He stopped when he reached the sixth finger.

"Hmm, what was the last one again? Monks love to make beads out of that thing to ward off evil and bring peace. I think it's called something like tridacna..."

The Giant Clam couldn't hold on any longer.

"What exactly do you want?"

"Haha, simple. I'll just ask you a few questions. Why can you speak? And why are you speaking in classical Chinese?"

Logically speaking, classical Chinese is rarely used in daily life, except in written language. It takes a lot of effort and requires you to think twice.

Unexpectedly, the Giant Clam didn't answer but instead asked a question.

How can you hear my words?

"I'm asking you, not the other way around."

Liang Qu tapped the Giant Clam shell to let it know its place.

The Giant Clam was speechless; it was even more perplexed than Liang Qu himself, and it took some thought to organize its words.

"Since Water Beast have reached the so-called Demon Realm, they can communicate with each other through thought. Since we cannot communicate through thought, how can you hear my words?"

Liang Qu suddenly realized, so it really was his problem? He could directly steal encrypted calls?

After much thought, he concluded that it was either due to the power of the Marsh Ape or the favor of the Water Marsh.

"Then why do you speak in ancient times?"

"Throughout my thousand years of life, I have followed this path!"

The Giant Clam was almost driven mad; it had lived for a thousand years and always spoke like this.

It doesn't matter whether it's ancient or modern; it's always been the same.

"A thousand years?"

Liang Qu was taken aback. He knew that Giant Clam were long-lived, with some living for hundreds of years. He never expected that this huge creature in front of him was actually a thousand years old!

This is the advantage of species. Martial Artist need to reach the Martial Saint to extend their lifespan by eight hundred years, but some species are born with longevity.

Liang Qu's eyes shone brightly.

"Having lived so long, you must know a lot of secrets, right? Do you know what treasures are in the Jiang Huai River? Do you know where there are Treasure Plant that are millions of years old?"

Giant Clam: "..."

"I am not good at relocation, and I know very little about it."

"Turns out he's just a useless old man."

Giant Clam: "..."

If it could move quickly, it would have run away long ago, instead of staying here to be bullied by this brat.

I really want to crush this person to death.

It's a pity our ancestors didn't give it a pair of legs!

[Marsh Essence +0.1]

Liang Qu's eyes flashed. "Have you ever heard of something called Marsh Essence?"

Giant Clam pondered for a moment.

"I have never heard of it."

Never heard of it before...

Liang Qu pondered, it seemed the Giant Clam was unaware that it had the ability to help him absorb the Marsh Essence.

"Where did you come from, and why are you here?"

"I was born in the Eastern Sea. Later, my clan suffered a sudden upheaval. I was still young at the time, about two feet tall, and my memories are still unclear. I drifted here with the waves and have nothing to do with it since."

"Do you know about the Demon Court at the Jiang Huai River? Have you ever heard of a Great Demon that looks like Toad?"

"At the bottom of the river is Dragon Palace, with the Dragon King at its head, and the greatest demons are arranged at the four corners, which are the four palaces of the Demon Court."

I have never heard of any Toad Demon. I often swim in shallow waters and have never come into contact with Demon Court, so I know very little about the various demons.

"Is there Dragon King at the Jiang Huai River?"

"The Dragon King is dead, and only one Flood Dragon has taken over the nest."

"How did the Dragon King die?"

"I don't know."

So there really are Flood Dragon.

Liang Qu received a positive answer once, but the rest, including those in books, were ambiguous legends.

Therefore, the so-called Demon Court is a Demon Beast social organization under the rule of the Dragon Palace.

The Dragon Palace.

I wonder if the Dragon Palace at the Jiang Huai River is truly as magnificent and resplendent as depicted in stories and tales, filled with countless gold and silver treasures.

Will I have the opportunity to live there in the future?

Liang Qu's thoughts drifted a little further away. He looked back at the Giant Clam in front of him and asked again.

"What kind of strength do you actually possess?"

"Those of our race who are born taller than three zhang are all what humans call the Perfected Elephant Great Demon."

?

Liang Qu looked it over and saw that the Giant Clam in front of him was at least nine meters tall, nearly three zhang (approximately 6.6 meters).

Is this Great Demon are close to the True Image level are at?

It seemed that he had noticed Liang Qu's disdain.

"Our race excels in defense and longevity. No one in the same realm can break through our outer shell, and our lifespan is even more difficult to match. The rest are... weaker."

I've maxed out defense and lifespan.

Liang Qu could roughly understand that people's classification of so-called Demon Beast was mostly based on their own strength system.

The real world is so vast that any kind of Demon Beast could appear, which is not surprising.

"One last question, you have pearls on you, don't you?"