After sixteen hours, Zhang Xuezhou appeared in Miaofa Palace again.
The palace was deserted, no one came to take care of Zhang Xuezhou, and no one came to trouble Zhang Xuezhou.
Zhang Xuezhou took a deep breath.
He touched his empty belly and quickly recalled the relevant content in his mind.
When he remembered what the Golden Crow Emperor said, Zhang Xuezhou jumped off the bed.
There is a lotus pond in the center of Miaofa Palace, and the lotus pods growing in the lotus pond are the food he quenched his hunger in this secret place.
"Can eating lotus seeds really help you survive three days of hunger?"
The area of the lotus pond is not small, covering an area of more than 300 square meters, but the number of lotuses in the lotus pond is not large.
Zhang Xuezhou turned around and only saw twelve lotus pods.
According to the explanation provided by the Golden Crow Emperor, these lotus pods can normally keep him fed for about a month.
Zhang Xuezhou thought about the date and his current situation, and felt that he was right to eat more.
In this current life where it is difficult to wake up regularly and there is no one to take care of him, Zhang Xuezhou can effectively prevent himself from starving to death by eating more.
Moreover, he also wants to ask the emperor for help, which may be unexpected.
Having enough food was the first prerequisite at the moment. Zhang Xuezhou looked at the direction of the lotus pods, took off his clothes and jumped down.
The lotus leaves, lotus flowers, and lotus pods in the lotus pond are the same size as normal lotuses. The lotus in the lotus pond does not grow lushly, and there are only a hundred plants in total.
Zhang Xuezhou paddled in the water and picked the lotus pods, then threw them to the shore.
When he picked the sixth lotus pod, Zhang Xuezhou saw that the water in the lotus pond began to rotate in a whirlpool, as if he had triggered some formation, which made Zhang Xuezhou speed up unavoidably.
He stretched out his hand to fish it out, broke off the three lotus pods he could reach, and swam quickly to the shore.
Before he could reach the shore, Zhang Xuezhou felt a stream of water spurting out from under his body, directly pushing him up from the lotus pond.
Zhang Xuezhou glanced around and saw a monster that looked like a dragon, but not a dragon, or a snake, hovering in the lotus pond. The water spraying from its mouth lifted his body directly up.
The opponent's body is two feet long, with scales and no armor, extremely smooth skin, beards but no horns, sharp teeth and a gill-shaped mouth. Four small claws that look like deformities are constantly paddling in the water, and the tail supports the huge body.
"Where did the monster come from?"
Zhang Xuezhou stretched out his hand and his body had already flown high when the feathers appeared.
He drank, causing the monster's claws to dangle and its head to shake.
"Little demon Shali has met the king!"
Seeing Zhang Xuezhou flying high, the monster stopped the water spraying from its mouth, waited until it brought its mouth back and forth several times, then bent down and saluted there, and the human words coming out of its mouth were very different from Zhang Xuezhou's.
"Sha Li? Your Majesty?"
Zhang Xuezhou folded his wings and landed lightly. He looked at the huge monster and felt that this little monster's tail was enough to slap him to death.
This made him pick up the lotus pods and take more than ten steps back after landing, maintaining a relatively safe distance.
"The Golden Crow Emperor told me that no one lives in the Miaofa Palace. How did you get here?"
Seeing that the monster did not attack him, Zhang Xuezhou relaxed a little. He shouted and asked, which immediately made the monster panic.
"Maybe... maybe it's because Sha Li couldn't transform into a human form before, so he can't be considered a demon!"
"Uh, now you have become a demon?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, please look, change! I change! I change!"
Zhang Xuezhou was startled, and saw the monster began to slap its body with its claws when it made a sound, and continued to transform into a human form.
After just a few seconds, the monster's fluffy black hair appeared, followed by an ugly cyan face, fist-sized eyes flashing red, and two fangs in its mouth.
Except for being two feet tall, his body is still quite normal, but his head is obviously extremely ugly.
Zhang Xuezhou can be considered a person who has seen the world, but after thinking for a long time, he realized that there are not many people who are as ugly as Sha Li.
"You are indeed a monster!"
He did not anger the water demon, but just nodded in agreement, which made Sha Li very happy, and he opened his mouth in joy.
"Your Majesty, I have turned into a demon now, can I go out to fight?" Sha Li said happily.
"Go out to fight? Why do you want to go out to fight?" Zhang Xuezhou asked curiously.
"When you fight, you have something to eat," Sha Li said excitedly: "Jin Dasheng often told us that in the outside world, as long as you can fight, you will have endless good food to eat!"
"Who is Jin Dasheng?"
"He is a great king who has achieved enlightenment and transformed into a human form. I heard that he is very popular outside, so he should have become the Great Demon Emperor!"
Sha Li mentioned the only great demon he knew with excitement, and Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to agree.
He nodded while peeling off the lotus pods and eating them.
Zhang Xuezhou had met several people in this secret place, but he didn't know much about them at all. He had the right to listen to them now.
But Sha Li's knowledge seemed to be extremely limited. When Zhang Xuezhou peeled off the second lotus pod, the water demon had nothing to say and began to beg Zhang Xuezhou to take him out to fight.
"If you want to go out and fight, just go by yourself, no one will stop you!"
Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand, indicating that he would not do such a thing as fighting. If Shali wanted to go to war, he would go and fight.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your permission!"
Sha Li looked excited.
He reached out and picked a lotus leaf and covered his lower body to hide his shame. Then he stepped on it and jumped from the water of the lotus pond to the shore.
"Your Majesty, where should I go?" Sha Li asked excitedly.
"That's where you'll find Miaofa Palace. Ask the others after you go out!"
Zhang Xuezhou thought for a moment about the direction in which the Golden Crow Emperor would lead him through the door, then stretched out his hand to point the direction to Sha Li, who immediately made the water demon hum and sing a strange tune and run out happily.
"How can fighting be so exciting?"
Zhang Xuezhou shook his head, having difficulty figuring out this monster's brain circuit.
He peeled off the lotus seeds from the lotus pods and was about to stuff them into his mouth. He felt that the slightly sweet lotus seeds were like chewing wax in his mouth and he couldn't swallow them.
"It's strange. The Golden Crow Emperor clearly said that eating three lotus pods can ward off hunger for three days, but I can't even eat the second lotus pod!"
Zhang Xuezhou touched the lotus pods, and then quickly touched his belly. He felt that his previously dry belly had become hard, as if what he had eaten in his stomach was not lotus seeds, but stones.
The color on his belly also began to gradually turn white, forming a fish-belly white area, which was obviously different from the color of other skin.
"Eating lotus seeds will not kill anyone. I am proficient in pharmacology. This lotus seed has been tested and is obviously not poisonous... How can it make my stomach feel hard if it is not poisonous? But if it is no different from ordinary lotus seeds, how can it keep me from being hungry for three days?"
After admonishing himself several times, Zhang Xuezhou finally felt that such self-comforting words could not calm him down.
In this secret place, the emperors, empresses, and the Golden Crow Emperor he saw were all neurotic and behaved strangely. In addition, Sha Li who emerged from the lotus pond was also neurotic. Zhang Xuezhou felt that he was neurotic.
The ingredients in Xixi’s secret place may also be abnormal.
For example, the peach he had eaten before.
Maybe it also involves the lotus seeds he just ate.
This was all due to his alchemy skills and he judged that it could be eaten normally, but accidents occurred after actually eating it.
Just thinking about the bad consequences he might have to face, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't sit still.
He felt that he couldn't stay in this kind of place, and he couldn't live normally. He needed a slightly normal place to settle down.
As long as the emperor can help him solve his physical problems and restore him to his previous state, Zhang Xuezhou feels that he has the need to go down the mountain.