vstars Chapter 177 The Ferocious Crocodile
Chapter 177 The Ferocious Crocodile
"Alright! It's time!" Shen Xu turned to look at the calm lake surface.
The three women walked to Shen Xu's side, and saw that the originally calm and mirror-like blue lake water began to tremble slightly. Large and small blue ripples spread across the lake surface, as if something was about to emerge from it.
As the ripples grew larger, a group of dark shadows began to slowly approach the surface from the depths of the lake. At first, these shadows were only faintly visible, but soon they became clearer and clearer.
Suddenly, five huge and ferocious blue crocodile heads emerged from the lake, their sharp fangs gleaming coldly, sending chills down one's spine.
At the same time, their massive bodies stirred up huge splashes of water, sweeping outwards like raging waves.
Immediately afterwards, the magnificent bodies of five blue crocodiles, as large as small mountains, slowly emerged from the water.
Each crocodile was covered in hard scales that shone brightly in the sunlight. Their strong, powerful limbs supported their bodies as they slowly approached the shore.
The entire lake surface near the shore was thrown into violent turmoil by the appearance of these five giant beasts.
As the five giant beasts appeared, enormous figures gradually emerged from the lake, closely following the five blue crocodiles as they marched majestically toward the shore.
"This... how did you get there?" Guan Bi looked at Shen Xu with shock upon seeing this.
"You're not going to say that these are what you made us wait for, are you?!" Wen Han looked at me with a "you're joking with me" expression.
Bai Lu stared blankly at the five demonic beasts that she saw as having no desire to fight, and couldn't help but sigh, "If we really try to force our way through, the Tianhe Society will probably suffer heavy losses."
Shen Xu looked at the five largest blue-snouted crocodiles, one of which was the one that had carried him before. However, it now had many wounds that had not yet fully healed, and it no longer had the vigorous spirit it had when it first broke through. It seemed that its path to becoming the leader was not so easy.
"Can we talk about how we should get there now?" Bai Lu asked Shen Xu.
"Wait!" Shen Xu leaped over the bushes and then used the mist to conceal his figure as he slowly walked towards the crocodile group.
"Is he out of his mind?" The three women had the same thought when they saw Shen Xu's actions.
Because his mist can conceal his scent, ordinary blue-snout crocodiles have difficulty detecting him. As long as he doesn't get too close to the five Qi Condensation Realm blue-snout crocodiles, he can basically move freely among the crocodile group.
When Shen Xu felt he was far enough away from the blue-snouted crocodile, he controlled the mist to move towards the crocodile's head.
The giant blue-snouted crocodile, which was sunbathing, saw the familiar mist drifting towards it and a hint of doubt flashed in its eyes, but it did not resist.
When he saw the familiar scene appear before his eyes once again, he was overjoyed.
after a while.
"What did you do to that blue-snouted crocodile that had condensed its qi?" Bai Lu couldn't help but ask.
"You'll find out soon enough," Shen Xu replied with a smile.
"We still have to wait!" Wen Han said, somewhat impatiently.
"Waiting is a virtue; only by waiting can you gain something!" Shen Xu said slowly.
"We've waited this long, what's a little longer?" Guanbi comforted her.
As the sun gradually set, the crocodiles began to return to the water one by one. Only when they saw the five enormous figures slowly submerge did Shen Xu speak, "It's time, let's go!"
After saying that, he ignored the three women and went straight to the old place where he had agreed to meet the blue-snouted crocodile.
"Stay away from me for now. I'll come find you after I've dealt with this!" Shen Xu said to the three women after they arrived at their destination.
Although the three women didn't know what Shen Xu was up to, they still obediently left him at a considerable distance.
Before long, the three women were shocked to see a huge blue-snouted crocodile slowly emerge from the water in front of Shen Xu. Moreover, it looked exactly like the Qi Condensation Realm blue-snouted crocodile that Shen Xu had encountered that afternoon.
Upon seeing Shen Xu, the blue-snout crocodile was overjoyed and immediately lay down, even placing its head in front of Shen Xu.
Seeing the crocodiles basking in the sun during the day, Shen Xu understood the predicament of this blue-snouted crocodile: it had few followers and was not strong enough, so it needed to lie low!
The fog enveloped the man and the beast. Shen Xu showed it how to charge for passenger transport, and how to use the Nourishing Essence Pill to train its underlings and enhance its own strength. As for how much it could understand, that depended on how high its intelligence was.
After the demonstration, Shen Xu took out the Nourishing Essence Pills he had just won and casually tossed a few into the Blue-snouted Crocodile's mouth. The Blue-snouted Crocodile was immediately captivated by the abundant vital energy within the pills, its eyes burning as it stared intently at the porcelain bottle in Shen Xu's hand.
Shen Xu pointed to the island in the lake, then to the three women in the distance, and then shook the porcelain bottle in his hand.
The blue-snouted crocodile quickly understood Shen Xu's meaning and began to float to the surface, waiting to enter and walk onto its back.
Seeing this, Shen Xu smiled and waved to the three women in the distance.
Although they didn't understand what had happened, the result was that the Qi Condensation Realm Blue-Snout Crocodile willingly became Shen Xu's mount.
The three of them arrived in front of Shen Xu, and looking at the huge figure floating in the lake, they still couldn't quite believe their eyes.
Shen Xu was the first to climb onto the back of the blue-snouted crocodile, then urged the three women who were still hesitating, "Come on up! It has a bad temper."
As if to confirm what Shen Xu had said, the blue-snouted crocodile beneath him let out a muffled roar.
Hearing the roar, the three women helped each other up onto the blue-snouted crocodile's broad back. Sensing that all four were on its back, the crocodile began to swim rapidly towards the island in the center of the lake.
"I still can't quite believe what I've been through!" Wen Han bent down and touched the blue crocodile's cold scales, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Bai Lu looked at the blue-snouted crocodile at her feet and asked, puzzled, "Have you ever received a beast-taming inheritance?"
"I wonder if the animal world counts as a beast-taming inheritance." Thinking of this, Shen Xu couldn't help but chuckle twice.
Upon hearing Shen Xu's laughter and seeing the ferocious expression on his demon mask, the three women couldn't help but shrink back and huddle together.
Seeing the three women's reactions, Shen Xu smiled and said, "Don't overthink it. I just seized what it wanted and used it, so I can't teach you anything."
"Moreover, it won't take you there for free. It costs one hundred Nourishing Yuan Pills each time. After I leave, the three of you will be the ones trading with him."
The same procedure applies: greet it with mist while it's sunbathing, then come and wait here. Don't bring too many people at once; greed is the original sin that destroys friendship.
"Then how do we get back?" Bai Lu asked.
“When I’m there, it will wait for us near the island. When I’m not there, you can only wait for it to see you. There seems to be some kind of restriction on the island, so it doesn’t dare to go ashore.”
I communicated with it using illusions created by water mist. If any of you know such illusions, you can also try to communicate with it and explain your needs.
This blue-snouted crocodile is highly intelligent and can understand simple images.
By the way, one hundred Nourishing Essence Pills is the price I set for you. I think this price is reasonable. If you think it's too expensive, you can reduce it a bit.
But as I said before, don't be too greedy. After all, once you fall out with it, you'll have no choice but to force your way in.
"No need! One hundred pills it is. The Heavenly River Society isn't so stingy as to not even have a few Nourishing Essence Pills to spare," Bai Lu said generously.
Guan Bi also expressed his gratitude, saying, "Compared to what we have obtained, this amount of Nourishing Essence Pills is nothing. It is Tianhe Society's good fortune that we can trade with you."
"Haha, when I get back, I'm going to be like you, the evil ghost, and announce the answer at the last minute, so they'll be surprised too." With the strong wind blowing in her face, Wen Han stood on the back of the blue-snout crocodile with her hands on her hips and said with great spirit.
"You guys are really rich! Actually, I played rock-paper-scissors with you just to pay for your travel expenses," Shen Xu said with a touch of emotion.
"You're really generous of you to use our money to pay for our travel expenses!" Upon hearing the words "rock-paper-scissors," Bai Lu's face instantly darkened.
"That's what it's like to be broke!" Shen Xu said helplessly.