When Cui Jiuyang passed a coral reef, some lesser demons saw him hurrying along and plucked up the courage to question him.
At the time, he had transformed into a dull gray, unremarkable sea snail, so the lesser demons called out, "Sea snail, sea snail, you were born without feet. Did you cultivate a pair of fast legs just to run through the sea?"
Cui Jiuyang could only offer a casual answer. "I did it so I could become a general at the Dragon Palace someday!"
The lesser demons laughed. "Can running fast make you a general?"
But Cui Jiuyang had already run off into the distance.
He also encountered a demon living in seclusion who happened to be a crab, though a hermit crab.
This hermit crab's cultivation was already extremely high, almost on par with Cui Jiuyang's. His body was as large as a mountain. In fact... he lived inside a mountain.
He had hollowed out an undersea mountain himself and stuffed his body inside, using the entire mountain as his shell.
When Cui Jiuyang passed before him, he had transformed into a clownfish.
The place where this hermit crab lived in seclusion was utterly desolate. Cui Jiuyang had traveled for a long time without seeing another member of the demon race and was feeling a little bored, so he took the initiative to greet the hermit crab. "Hi, brother, my name's Nemo!"
The hermit crab had seen something of the world and had heard this kind of greeting before.
In recent years, when foreigners' iron ships passed across the surface, those yellow-haired, blue-eyed foreigners greeted one another with "hi."
So the hermit crab replied, "Hi, my name's Ji Bochang. Where are you off to, Nemo?"
Cui Jiuyang did not answer his question and dashed past, leaving his