Only after a long while did Bei Yu come to his senses and slowly turn around.
All the Shell Demons watched Bei Yu nervously, desperate to know whether the inheritance was genuine.
Bei Yu opened his eyes and declared loudly, "I received the inheritance!"
The Shell Demons cheered in unison, their shells opening and closing ceaselessly. The seawater churned, and great streams of bubbles surged upward.
"Our Shell Clan will surely rebuild its ancient glory!"
The Shell Demons cried out again.
Shark Lantern chuckled and said, "You might as well save your breath. Even the Dragon Race only has the Four Seas Dragon Palaces left, with no Dragon Court, yet your Shell Clan wants to rebuild its ancient glory? A single Literary Star Dragon Noble could plunge you beyond all hope of recovery."
That bucket of cold water crashed down like an iceberg, taking all the fight out of the Shell Clan.
Fang Yun put the River-Drinking Shell into the Sea-Swallowing Shell and said, "Does your Shell Clan have any inexpensive River-Drinking Shells or Lake-Containing Shells? I'd like to buy a batch."
"We do!" Bei Yu answered immediately.
"I have a batch of Sacred Blood Jade here. It's useful to all members of the Demon Race and extremely rare throughout the Myriad Worlds. Just give me a suitable number of sea shells." As Fang Yun spoke, he took out the ordinary Sacred Blood Jade he had dug up in the Dragon-Pattern Rice Field. The vitally important sacred heart blood jade remained inside the River-Drinking Shell; he could use it to grow dragon-pattern rice in the future.
"Good stuff. You don't see this very often!" the Black Shark King said.
"Indeed. Even in ancient times, this was rare, reserved exclusively for the Dragon Race. Lake-Containing Shells and River-Drinking Shells, on the