The dark cloud was no bigger than a square inch, covering only a hundred meters of the official road.
As the carriage below traveled on, fine rain fell with a rustling patter, splashing up tiny sprays of water.
Twenty eel demons escorted it at the sides, all with the cultivation of awakened intelligence. Their scales gleamed blue-black, their human bodies and snake tails dragging through the mud, their slick skin shining with an oily sheen.
Behind the carriage were over a hundred people, but they were not ordinary mortals.
Fine fish gills grew at their necks, opening and closing faintly with each breath. They were clearly half-demons.
But the half-demons were generally only seven or eight years old, their expressions vacant, knowing only to follow the carriage stiffly.
Old Eel Demon led at the front, his hair and beard all white, his back hunched. In his youth, he had once successfully taken human form, but now he was aged and frail, long since fallen back to awakened intelligence.
"Lord Huang."
An eel demon licked the corner of his mouth. "Water Mouth City should be close, right? The brothers are a little hungry. Why don't we grab a few half-demons to stave off the boredom?"
The troop broke into a round of jeering, their eyes burning as they looked at the half-demons.
Lord Huang swept them with a cold face. "Young Master Jiao will be arriving at Water Mouth City in the next few days. The half-demons are all to be used to build his traveling palace. If any of you dare delay the young master's lodging, I'll twist off your head first and eat it with my rice!!"
The eel demon shut his mouth in embarrassment. Thinking of how their young master had only taken second place at Clear River