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"Hmm? What's this—"

Sensing their auras, Zhu Yu's expression changed. He strode to the water vat and looked down. Inside were two strange creatures, one red and one black, each about as long as his forearm. They looked like loaches, with no scales and small horns on their heads.

He studied them with a furrowed brow, then realization dawned in his eyes.

The roar just now had startled him.

He had actually thought Wei Long and Fang Cheng had gotten hold of a Flood Dragon.

They were just two loaches carrying "true Flood Dragon blood."

Wei Long sidled up to him, waggling his brows. "Well? I didn't lie to you, did I? I said we'd get you offspring of the Sea-Subduing Lord, and we did."

He rubbed his fingers together and chuckled. "Getting these two little fellows cost us quite a bit. As for the price—"

"Name it," Zhu Yu said.

The two little loaches in the vat were not Flood Dragons, but they could just about count as their offspring. With careful nurturing, they might someday grow scales and horns and transform into Flood Dragons.

At those words,

Fang Cheng's tense face thawed like ice into water. He nodded to Zhu Yu with a smile.

Wei Long was even more delighted. He clapped his hands. "Brother Gui, you're a creature of your word." After a moment's thought, he held up one hand and opened his mouth as wide as a lion's. "For the two of them, we want five million Blood Coins!"

Before Zhu Yu could speak,

Bai Jingjing, who had been watching the "loaches," bristled.

"What! Five million Blood Coins? Have you ever even seen that many Blood Coins? For two loaches? Why don't you just rob us!—"

At her outburst,

whether from anger or a guilty conscience,