News of Ancestor Yuxiao

At the entrance to Gray Water Pool's crisscrossing waterways, before the grand palace at the center of the monochrome city, a squad of aquatic soldiers carried buckets of cool river water.

They swayed their way to the palace steps and splashed the water over the palace guards, who had already been thoroughly baked by the heat. The guards immediately erupted in cheers, excitedly wriggling their armored bodies as they shouted.

"Mind yourselves! Don't let the slime on your bodies dirty the divine hall!"

A shrimp soldier who looked like a general rode over on clouds. He was far more imposing than the other aquatic soldiers, thanks to the silver metal armor covering his entire body.

No sooner had his rebuke fallen than another squad of bucket-carrying soldiers arrived and washed away the mucus secreted by the palace guards on the steps. The filthy water flowed down both sides of the stairs to purification formations beside the waterways, before finally entering the nearby clean channels.

It was worth mentioning that the city's waterways did not permit the direct disposal of filth. Anyone wishing to relieve themselves had to go near designated purification formations. For this purpose, the city had even established ten patrol squads specifically to arrest aquatic creatures who broke the rules. Anyone caught in the act would be punished with a whipping.

By custom, the guards stationed before the palace remained on duty until a quarter past noon. Then another squad of aquatic soldiers would crawl up from the nearby waterways to relieve them.

Today was naturally no exception. When the new squad of aquatic soldiers dragged their dripping bodies ashore, the palace guards, who had long been smoking under the sun, rushed into the nearby waterways the instant they finished their handover.

Amid their cheers, several figures descended