Ambush on the Road

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of dishes, Lu Chuan suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh, right, Dragon King. I heard that beneath this East Sea Dragon Palace there is a Sea-Stabilizing Divine Needle, an object left behind when Great Yu of my Human Race controlled the floods. I wonder if that is true or false?"

In this present world, even the Eastern Continent did not exist yet, let alone where that Monkey was right now.

However, as for the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Needle—that is, the legendary As-You-Will Golden Cudgel—Lu Chuan still wanted to see it for himself.

"There is. It was originally a piece of Divine Treasure Iron from the bottom of the Heavenly River. It can lengthen or shorten at will. Later, when Great Yu of your race controlled the floods, the Heavenly Venerable Moral bestowed this item to serve as a gauge for measuring the depth of rivers and seas."

Ao Guang nodded in acknowledgment and said, "Once placed in rivers, lakes, and seas, the depth would be revealed at once. Later, after the flood disasters were pacified, Great Yu left it in the sea to be used to suppress the sea, hence the name Sea-Stabilizing Divine Treasure. What are you asking about it for?"

He sized Lu Chuan up suspiciously. This fellow had stated right away that it was an object of their Human Race—could it be that he wanted to take it back?

They were both divine treasures, but one was "treasure" and the other was "needle"; the meanings of the two were as far apart as heaven and earth.

What Ao Guang had in mind was an object that suppressed the sea, but what Lu Chuan called it was a weapon.

Lu Chuan smiled. "It's nothing much. I only wish to reminisce