Protect Our Patriarch

The next day!

Just as Wang Shouzhe came quietly, he left quietly.

Except for the turmoil in Qian Xue'an's heart, he didn't leave a trace or ripple in Changning Guard.

Moreover, what Wang Shouzhe took away was thirteen spirit stones that he "picked up" for sixty Top Gold. Apart from the five given to Qian Xue'an, he had an extra eight spirit stones to take back.

It has to be admitted that although the big girl Lici eats a lot, her ability to make money is also top-notch.

After a round in the stone gambling circle, she made up for all her consumption and made a large extra income. You know, a spirit stone can normally sell for a hundred Top Gold.

It's a pity that the stone gambling market in each city is too small.

After being exploited once, this industry will inevitably continue to be depressed, and it is estimated that it will take a while to recover.

After the Liu and Zhao Clans are eliminated and the situation is relatively safe, Wang Shouzhe decided to take Wang Lici around Longzuo Commandery and the surrounding areas, and exploit each guard city in turn to fill the family treasury.

After docking at the secret crossing, Sixth Uncle Wang Dinghai had already driven a brand new boat to greet them.

Everyone got on the boat.

The new boat slowly sailed towards the river. After the sails were spread, it sailed against the wind and waves.

Ancestor Long Yan and Lici were resting in the cabin.

Wang Shouzhe was chatting with Sixth Uncle Wang Dinghai, jokingly said: "Sixth Uncle has been full of red light recently, full of vitality, it seems that you are very prosperous."

"That's right." Wang Dinghai laughed, "This is all thanks to Shouzhe's blessing. You helped me improve the fishing method. In the past two or three months, our catch has been more than ten times that of previous years, and the pure profit has been rising. And the family just happened to implement the merit value system, I have a lot of merit points."

"This month, I caught a relatively rare spirit fish, a second-order golden spirit carp, which is eight feet long, round and strong, and the scales are golden and very beautiful. When it was weighed, it was nearly four hundred catties."

Wang Dinghai was very excited, "You know, the golden spirit carp has a bit of Flood Dragon bloodline, which is more valuable than other spirit fish."

"Congratulations, Sixth Uncle." Wang Shouzhe laughed, "How about the fishing fleets of the Liu and Zhao Clans?"

"A long time ago, they began to shrink, and they were not very active." Wang Dinghai said, "Especially in the past half a month, their fleet has not been seen in action. They should have been suppressed by our Wang's Clan, and the whole clan has no morale."

Wang Dinghai didn't know that his old rivals, Liu Yongzhou and Zhao Dingtian, had already died in Wang Shouzhe's hands.

He also didn't know that his father, Wang Xiaohan, had been promoted to Ancestor Xiaohan.

"Did Sixth Uncle take the opportunity to expand the territory?" Wang Shouzhe said.

Wang Dinghai laughed: "I'm not stupid. Since our Wang's Clan is strong, we naturally have to suppress them. Haven't you seen the recent family account book? I bought more than twenty fishing boats, hired more than a hundred people from the collateral line and villagers, trained shipbuilders and fishermen, and have occupied all the river surface of more than a hundred miles! Regardless of the harvest, let's grab the territory first."

Wang Shouzhe wouldn't stare at the account book every day, let alone Sixth Uncle Wang Dinghai who is in charge of the fishing industry, and Second Brother Wang Shouyi who is in charge of the fish stall, they are all mature adults.

It's okay to remind them at critical moments, but it's purely looking for something to stare at them all day to see how they develop. And this can easily cause their dependence and reduce their initiative.

Sixth Uncle Wang Dinghai did very well in this regard. Don't be soft when you should expand, and don't back down when you should grab. Now that the Liu and Zhao Clans are declining, it is the best time for the family industry to expand.

As the saying goes, history books are written by the victors, and the territory is grabbed.

After ten or twenty years, who will remember that these waters were once the territory of the Liu and Zhao Clans? Passengers coming and going and locals will only default to this as the fishing and hunting territory of the Wang's Clan.

"Shouzhe, the trawling technology you proposed is also very powerful. There are currently two fishing boats, using a small trawl together, and when this net comes up, the catch is full." Wang Dinghai couldn't close his mouth with a smile when he thought of those catches that filled the fish cabin, "If it weren't for the Ancestor accompanying you, I would take you to see it, the scene is very grand……"

While talking.

Suddenly!

A small boat in the distance came flying fast, and a young man on the bow was jumping up and down shouting: "Master Hai, Master Hai, something bad happened. That aquatic beast is causing trouble again, it broke our trawl."

Wang Shouzhe recognized the young man, who seemed to be called Wang Goudan, a collateral member of the Wang's Clan, who had been messing around with Sixth Uncle Wang Dinghai since he was a child.

"What?"

The smile on Wang Dinghai's face froze, "Damn thing, I thought it was just passing by."

"Sixth Uncle, what happened?" Wang Shouzhe asked.

Wang Dinghai said with a serious expression: "It happened about three days ago. One of our fixed harps was netting a third-order crocodile flood dragon at night. It naturally tore the net piece easily. According to the rules, our partners immediately abandoned the net and fled, so there were no casualties."

"Third-order Crocodile Flood Dragon? Has it appeared before?" Wang Shouzhe immediately searched for this beast from the memory of the beast atlas.

This beast looks a bit like a crocodile on Earth.

```This creature has a tough skin and meat, and it's a fierce beast that can live both on land and in water, making it very difficult to deal with. It is said that when the Ancestor Zhou Xuan was developing the Peace Town, he had killed two third-level crocodile dragons, which was quite strenuous.

"This crocodile dragon has appeared before," Wang Dinghai explained with a grim face, "It wanders up and down the An River every year, covering a range of hundreds of miles of water. No matter whose fishing fleet encounters it, they are all terrified and try to avoid it as much as possible. Occasionally, there would be casualties of people and livestock along the shore."

"Hmm? Hasn't any clan tried to deal with it?" Wang Shouzhe frowned.

"Of course they have, but all have failed," Wang Dinghai said, "That creature is very cunning and extremely difficult to deal with in the water. Even figures at the Ancestor level dare not jump into the An River to fight it. Moreover, it has a bad temper. If anyone dares to provoke it, it will make a fuss and disrupt your fishing business."

Indeed, a third-level fierce beast is different. Whether in terms of combat power or intelligence, it is incomparable to the second level.

Although the crocodile dragon is not as smart as terrestrial fierce beasts like tigers, it is more troublesome than ordinary aquatic fierce beasts and particularly holds grudges.

This is simply a plague god.

As for asking a Heavenly Human Realm to deal with it, that's even more impossible. In the entire Changning Guard, there are only three cultivators in the Heavenly Human Realm.

Two of them are the old ancestors of the Heavenly Human Clan, and the other is the city lord of the capital, all of whom are people of extraordinary status and position.

If you ask them to go into the water to deal with a third-level crocodile dragon, not to mention whether there is any danger, the crocodile dragon is very cunning and can completely play guerrilla warfare with you underwater.

You come, I go, you go, I'll come back in a month or two.

Therefore, aquatic fierce beasts, especially those that hold grudges, are the most difficult to provoke.

"We're in big trouble," Wang Dinghai said with a worried face, "Now is the end of the fishing season, and I was planning to take advantage of this period to accumulate some resources for the clan. If we are targeted by that plague god, we can forget about having a good time for at least the next half year."

Wang Shouzhe also had a headache.

In recent times, the clan's consumption has increased dramatically, and Top Gold and various resources are being burned rapidly.

The situation was already somewhat unsustainable, and if the fishing team and fish stall, the two main pillars of the clan's cash flow, were to stop operating, it would be a fatal blow to the clan's rise and development.

The two old ancestors need to consume, right? We can't just let them maintain their lives with the lowest resources, can we?

The several young people in the family with extraordinary potential, as well as a group of young people, are all at the most critical moment of growth. Cutting off anyone's resources at this time is burying his future.

As the first in line, Wang Shouzhe naturally consumes a lot, but he can't stop his own resources, can he?

If he misses this most critical period of growth, who knows when he will cultivate to the Spirit Platform Realm.

"Can Sixth Uncle guarantee that if we lie low for half a year, it won't come back next year?" There was already some fierceness in Wang Shouzhe's eyes.

"Of course I can't guarantee that," Wang Dinghai said helplessly, "Besides, even if it leaves, it might come back any day. I guess this several hundred miles of the An River is its territory."

"That's really a plague god," Wang Shouzhe thought for a moment and finally made up his mind, "We must eliminate it, otherwise the momentum of our family's rise will be ended by it."

Eliminate?

Wang Dinghai was dumbfounded.

When did our Wang's Clan become so powerful?

Even a third-level aquatic fierce beast, the crocodile dragon, can be eliminated just by saying so?

"Sixth Uncle, you and your brothers be careful these days," Wang Shouzhe instructed, "In a few days, I will find a way to eliminate it."

Although he didn't understand why, Wang Dinghai still chose to believe in his nephew who had repeatedly created miracles.

……

A few days later, in the An River.

A third-level Water Spirit Turtle was swimming freely in the wide and turbulent An River, seemingly enjoying the feeling of a dragon returning to the sea.

Such a large water surface is much better than the small Zhuwei Lake.

It surfaced, spouting water, extremely content.

"Play if you want, but don't forget to do your job." On the boat, Wang Shouzhe, with his hands behind his back, looked at the Water Spirit Turtle and said lightly, "You have merged with my bloodline, and a strand of your soul is in my hands. With just a thought, I can make you perish."

The Water Spirit Turtle, which had advanced to the third level and had greatly increased in size, shivered at Wang Shouzhe's words.

This young man was too much. Even though it had agreed to become the spirit beast of the Wang's Clan, he had taken its essence blood and refined it with an ancient evil technique. The evil technique that could make it perish with just a thought was too terrifying.

Immediately, the Water Spirit Turtle showed a pleasing smile to Wang Shouzhe, indicating that as long as the clan leader gave the order, it, the turtle, no, the little turtle, would go through fire and water.

"Follow under the boat, hide your figure," Wang Shouzhe ordered, "Be ready to ambush the third-level crocodile dragon at any time."

The Water Spirit Turtle obediently dived down and hid in the shadow of the boat.

In Wang Shouzhe's view, the best choice to deal with aquatic fierce beasts is aquatic fierce beasts.

The Water Spirit Turtle naturally became his biggest helper. However, a second-level top Water Spirit Turtle could never be a match for a third-level crocodile dragon. Forcing it to fight would be like sending food.

Therefore, Wang Shouzhe had the idea of using the last Heavenly Spirit Pill.

This Heavenly Spirit Pill was an extra gain, accumulated over the decades after the Zhao's Clan had stolen the foundation of the Wang's Clan.

Wang Shouzhe had also thought about and calculated it.

If it were to lie dormant for many years, waiting for him to cultivate to the peak of the Qi Refining Realm before using it, wouldn't this resource worth tens of thousands of Top Gold be wasted? But if it were sold, it might lose some value.

After all, people have regular channels to buy Heavenly Spirit Pills, why take the risk to buy yours at the same price?

He had also thought about giving it to the second-level top Water Spirit Turtle.However, the Water Elemental Turtle was still not fully tamed, and its relationship with the family was not close. If it was hastily promoted to the third rank, there was a certain probability that it would either run away or betray.

But now, the third-rank Crocodile Jiao plague had forced Wang Shouzhe to place his bets on the Water Elemental Turtle.

Therefore, before taking action, Wang Shouzhe first used the ancient secret technique "Blood Sacrifice Pact" with the Water Elemental Turtle.

If you ask where Wang Shouzhe got this secret technique of the Blood Sacrifice Pact, it was naturally made up by him.

Anyway, he had read a lot of fantasy in his previous life, so he randomly created a ritual process. He also poisoned it a bit to make it suffer, making it look quite convincing, as if it was the real deal.

Whether others believed it or not, the Water Elemental Turtle believed it.

It now revered Wang Shouzhe as a god, fearing that if it upset him, it would turn into ashes.

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On the boat, the fishermen were casting their nets in a professional manner, as if they were continuing their fishing operations. All other fishing methods were temporarily stopped, and only this boat was still fishing in the hundred-mile river.

Two days later.

Just when everyone thought that the third-rank Crocodile Jiao had left.

Suddenly, Wang Lici whispered, "Fourth Uncle, Fourth Uncle, I feel something delicious coming, about twenty or thirty feet to the left."

She could sense the beasts and actually considered them as delicious...

Even Long Yan, the Ancestor, couldn't understand what kind of bloodline talent this was.

Wang Shouzhe made a gesture, and many fishermen became alert. As Wang Lici continued to report the distance, until it was about to reach the side of the boat, Wang Shouzhe waved his hand.

Suddenly, seven or eight fishing nets were cast out in the shape of an inverted sea bowl, falling towards the water. With so many nets, there might be one that would hit the target. They couldn't guarantee to catch it all, but at least some part of it could be entangled.

"I got it, I got it."

Wang Goudan shouted in surprise and joy, then he fastened the specially thickened wrist rope to the bottom of the mast. The other two fishermen also hit part of the Crocodile Jiao's body and did the same as Wang Goudan.

Then, Wang Xiaohan, Wang Dinghai, and Wang Shouzhe all threw their fishing spears towards the direction where the rope was taut.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The fishing spears plunged into the water. Wang Xiaohan, with his Spirit Platform Realm strength, hit the Crocodile Jiao that was caught in the net. The long rope tightened, and the water underneath churned, a stream of red blood surged up.

If they relied on this alone, they wouldn't be able to hold the Crocodile Jiao. It could tear the net and break the rope in a few moves, then escape and wait for a chance to retaliate.

However, there was also a third-rank Water Elemental Turtle hidden under the boat.

Before Wang Shouzhe could command it, it rushed up and bit the Crocodile Jiao, net and all, entangling with it for a moment before dragging it towards the surface with all its might.

By the time they were about to emerge from the water, Long Yan, the Ancestor, had already leapt into the air, plunging towards the water.

At the same time.

Long Yan's sword emitted a soul-stirring hum.

Wang Shouzhe was certain, that third-rank Crocodile Jiao was doomed.

He thanked it for contributing a fortune to the family.

As for Wang Lici, who acted as a human radar, she had already started to drool.

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