"Little boy, this is not the place to talk, go, take a step to speak!" The old man glanced at the surroundings of the lake vigilantly, took Qin Jiuyan's hand and walked more than two hundred steps eastward, until he left the shore and did not stop.

"Uncle, what's going on, why do you seem to be so scared! I don't have to worry about my senior brother with you!" Luo Yan followed Qin Jiuyan closely and said indifferently.

"Little boy, don't you know, this fish monster is very well-informed, once the news leaks out, our small fishing village will be unlucky!" The old man looked at Luo Yan's casual appearance and emphasized, "And this fish monster eats young and beautiful women!"

"Eat beautiful women, hehe, okay! That aunt and grandmother still want to see what kind of monster dares to be so cowardly! If he is caught by his aunt, he will definitely be stripped of his skin!" Luo Yan said with a gloomy face.

"Senior Sister Falling Flame, don't make trouble! Glancing at the falling flames, Qin Jiuyan looked at the old man and asked anxiously.

Falling Flame gave a strange look in his eyes, and then said no more.

"Speaking of this calamity, we have to start from ten years ago, the Sunset Empire is a medium-sized country in the east of the Chu Yuan Continent, and the province of Urgan is located in the west of this country, and our small fishing village is a small village in this province. ”

Glancing at the azure lake, the old man sighed and continued: "The Sunset Empire is at war with the Tianxing Empire in the southeast region all the year round, and at the same time, there is also the invasion of the snake clan demonic beasts. ”

"Suddenly, one day, a young man wearing a hat and a black scarf came to the village chief and said that he could help the village pray for rain and bless the people, and his only request was that the people must present 100 pieces of "black rock spar" every year!

The masked young man tried to open the altar, and sure enough, a heavy rain came as scheduled, and the villagers resumed farming, and life gradually improved. ”

"That masked man can be regarded as a good thing, isn't this a good ending?" Rolling his eyes, Luo Yanjiao asked with a smile.

Unbeknownst to the girl, it is said that the village chief agreed to marry his daughter to him in gratitude to the masked man for his great prayer for rain. But on the night of the marriage, the village chief accidentally discovered that this man turned out to be a merman born of humans and the shark tribe!

So, the village chief locked his daughter in the stone room, and invited the Heavenly Mandate Master to arrest the merman together. Who knew that the merman hid on the shore of this Weiming Lake and became a fish monster! Most of the Heavenly Destiny Masters invited by the village were killed by him!

Since then, the masked man has often threatened the village with Weiming Lake as his nest, demanding that in addition to offering 500 pieces of "black rock spar" every year, he also needs to offer a young and beautiful woman as an offering, so that he is willing to pray for rain to bless the local people, otherwise there will be continuous droughts and floods for many years! Alas~"

Speaking of this, the old man paused, looked at Qin Jiuyan with complicated eyes and said: "This merman is not bad in nature, it is said that the appearance is acceptable, and the daughter of the village chief can be said to be a talented and beautiful pair, and the daughter of the village chief is also very admiring of the talent of the merman." After that incident, the village chief strictly forbade his daughter to go out, and forced her daughter to hang herself!"

Sighing regretfully, the old man continued: "Maybe the merman is out of revenge, maybe it's out of destruction! Anyway, five hundred 'black rock crystals' and a girl like flowers and jade every year are necessary offerings, otherwise the village will suffer!"

"Alas~ It's forgivable to do evil in the sky, and you can't live for your own sin!" Glancing at the old boatman, Luo Yan sighed and said, "Senior Brother Jiuyan, go, this kind of thing is their own fault, don't worry about it anymore!"

Hearing this, the old man hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out his withered arm, wanting to stop the two: "Oh, little boy, I know that you are a kind person, you can't ignore it!"

Looking at the old man's complaining expression, Qin Jiuyan rubbed his chin and asked, "Uncle, what's more, do you have something else to hide from us?"

"What's more, three days later is the day of the sacrifice, and the young woman who is enshrined this time is the youngest daughter of the family!" The old man at this time had muddy tears in his deep sunken eyes, and he choked up and said, "The old man has three of the five Xun this year, and the old woman has only such a baby daughter with the wife of the dregs!

At this time, looking at the old man who was suddenly a few years old, Qin Jiuyan thought of his father and tried his best to escort himself to the Demon Flame Valley, if he was faced with such a choice, he would definitely not ignore it!

"Please also ask the two young heroes to save my daughter! The great kindness of the two is that the old man can't repay it, even if he lets the old man be a cow or a horse. As he spoke, the old man choked up and bowed down in front of Qin Jiuyan again.

"Uncle, please hurry up, let's talk about it if you have something to say!" Qin Jiuyan couldn't help but be moved by the old man's behavior of sacrificing his life to save his daughter.

"Did the young man agree?" the old man looked at Qin Jiuyan's kind face with joy.

Seeing that the old man had been kneeling on the ground, with an expectant look in his eyes, Qin Jiuyan really couldn't bear to refuse, so he casually agreed: "Yes, the kid promised you!"

Luo Yan glanced at Qin Jiuyan with slanted eyes, and pursed his mouth, but he didn't say anything.

"Those two benefactors, please come into the Zhuangzi with the old man! ”

Without saying a word all the way, Qin Jiuyan and Luo Yan followed the old man all the way through the reeds and birch forests to a small village.

At the entrance of the village stands a Qingtai boulder, on which are engraved several large characters in ancient characters - small fishing village.

The streets of the small fishing village are very neat and clean, although they are not as prosperous as the towns, but there are still so many stalls selling spirit stones, pills and weapon practice books on the streets on both sides.

There are also many street vendors selling food, vegetables, and meat.

"Uncle Xu, hello! Recently, you have been going to the ferry again?" a middle-aged vendor selling alcohol on the street shouted to the boatman.

"Yes, Boss Chen, if you don't ferry, where can you have money to support your family!" replied helplessly.

Not long after the three of them walked by, there was a chatter of street vendors.

"I heard that in the past year, Xu Bo has gone to the ferry every day, as long as he sees the officials and nobles, he will ask for help from the woman. Compared to this time, I also have a request for these two young ladies and young men!"

"Alas, what a pitiful, who let him give birth to a lovely and beautiful daughter in his family! How good it is for my wife to give birth to two belts!

"Alas, I heard that Uncle Xu's family has a daughter, right?"

"Oh, it's not! This is to ask the white-haired man to send the black-haired man!"