Chapter 4: The water recedes like a tide

The night is quiet, with the sound of the howling wind, so that the light sleep of the tide toss and turn. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this season when the sacred lake enters the season of ups and downs, especially when the water has just passed and the water will dry up at any time, the villagers of the entire Changyan Village will have people take turns to keep vigil, once they find that the water is starting to drop, they will ring the alarm.

And in Changyan Village, it is a perennial enshrinement of the center stone of the holy lake, which is worshiped as a holy relic, and it is hoped that one day the holy lake can be calm.

Although it is rumored that the stored water will mysteriously disappear after every time the water dries up, the villagers still store the water early in the reincarnation of once in a hundred years.

I wanted to get a good night's sleep, after all, I had been watting in the desert since I had trekked out of the abyss, and I had not slept for many days. But the worried mood in the village constantly affects Shixi.

It seems that if the problem of this holy lake is not solved, she will not be able to sleep at ease.

After a short rest with his eyes closed, Shi Xi turned around and got up, silently heading towards the direction of the holy lake.

Since the villagers were worried that the stored water would disappear for no reason, and they didn't know when the water would dry up, it was better for her to store some of the water in the Yuan Dharma Ring earlier.

Anyway, she needs to pass through Changyan Village and walk out of this desert next, and she also needs to replenish her water source.

A large open space was opened up in the boundless space of the Yuan Law Ring, and the water of the holy lake was continuously introduced into it, fortunately, there were not many people in Changyan Village, otherwise she would have to fit most of the water of this holy lake.

Speaking of which, she used to prepare a lot of commonly used things in the Yuan Dharma Vows, but the amount was not very large, like water, and even less than wine. But it is impossible to replace such a thing as bathing with wine.

Calling Gollum out and releasing the Demon Shadow, he began to look for a breakthrough around the Holy Lake.

"If you want to know what's down there, just dive in. Gollum lay on a huge poplar tree on the edge of the sacred lake, looking down at the quiet surface of the lake, reflecting the faint moonlight.

"Then you're going to the front to explore the way?" Shi Xi rolled her eyes, in the past, she would unceremoniously throw Gollum out to explore the way, but after the abyss, Meditation Cultivator said that when the two of them were there, Gollum basically had a chance to survive no matter how big the danger was. But now she's the only one, so don't let that unreliable kid be tempted.

Since Gollum doesn't need to dive into the bottom of the lake to find out, the first soldier is naturally the shadow of the demon.

It's a pity that the shadow of the demon also knows that the world at the bottom of the lake can't be easily approached, so he shook his head and retreated, and the void body made Shi Xi unable to kick it down, and finally opened his mouth, revealing his white teeth, and chewed twice at the shadow of the demon, so frightened that the black ink mass of the image of the demon sank into the holy lake like a shadow.

The invisible shadow of the demon disappeared beneath the surface of the lake, without even setting off the slightest ripple.

Shixi and Gollum both sat on the crooked trunk of the poplar tree, holding an unbait fishing rod in their hands, fishing for fish that the entire sacred lake did not know existed or not.

The silver moon disk moved to the center of the night sky little by little, Shi Xi bit his lip and looked at Gollum suspiciously: "It's been the middle of the night, not a single fish has been caught, and the shadow of the demon has not returned, shouldn't something happen?"

"Can't die. Gollum put away the fishing rod and threw it to Shixi.

"I guess he can't die, so I'm worried that he will tripped over something and won't come to the bottom of the lake. ”

With the ability of the Demon Shadow, there are very few existences in this world that can quietly kill it, not to mention that now it has devoured the two wisps of pure demonic energy given by the Meditation Cultivation, and its illusory body is thinking about the real Demon Transformation.

Suddenly, Shi Xi touched a wilted poplar branch and fell into the water, floating with the barely flowing current.

"Hey, look, the water is falling!"

Shi Xi's eyes moved away from the dead branch, and suddenly found that the water level of the entire holy lake had dropped a lot, and even the fishing line she had put down was mostly exposed.

The speed at which the water recedes is a little too terrifying.

A shocking alarm had already sounded in Changyan Village, and the whistle sounded one after another, and the light of the fire could even reflect the expression on the cheeks of Shi Xi, who was far away on the edge of the holy lake.

"You go and tell those villagers not to worry, when the water recedes, let's go and see what monsters are at the bottom of this lake, and see where the shadow of the demon has gone." ”

These pets around me are all unreliable masters, and the last time the abyss let Gollum test it, but it turned out to be gone. This time, let the shadow of the demon go out to test, and it still never returns.

The speed at which the water recedes is so fast that it recedes at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

Before Gollum could return to the village to appease the villagers, Shi Xi had already seen that the sacred lake had dried up so much that there was not even a drop of water left.

Jumping from the poplar tree, he used a hanging technique to let his feet lightly step on the still wet soil at the bottom of the lake.

The water receded cleanly enough, at first it receded in a large area, and then even the water in the silent sediment at the bottom of the lake disappeared completely, and it was like the rhythm of turning from a lake to a desert overnight.

Shi Xi couldn't help but wonder if Lanze City had encountered such a strange thing back then, so that it would be buried by the wind and sand overnight from the ice-encased city, and the bones turned into sand.

By the time Gollum arrived at the edge of the sacred lake, if he hadn't seen Shi Xi standing in the middle of the huge pit, he would have thought that he had gone to the wrong place.

The water is literally disappearing in a frenzied state.

"Where did the water disappear from?"

In general, if the water is to disappear, there must be a drainage point that diverts all the water away. For example, if a section of the underground river suddenly collapses, causing the underground river to be diverted, it is likely to cause a change in the flow of water above the lake.

But Shi Xi stood on the edge of the lake and watched the whole process of the disappearance of the entire holy lake. Moreover, because she is a monk, in addition to seeing with her eyes, her divine sense is also observing. But even so, she couldn't see where the lake disappeared from or why.

"I can't see it, the only strange thing is the spot in the middle of the lake. ”

When Gollum arrived, the water contained in the mud at the bottom of the lake was about to disappear, and there was not a drop of water left in front of him for this short time of talking.

Shi Xi hurriedly looked at the water stored in the Yuan Law Ring, and put it in that space. In the distance, villagers can already be heard shouting that the water is gone.

It seems that the stored water is disappearing a little faster than the legend suggests.

"Let's go, let's go to the very center, I feel like the shadow of the demon is just below that pit. Shi Xi waved his hand and motioned for the villagers of Changyan Village on the shore to go back, and began to take Gollum towards the most central position in the middle of the lake. (To be continued.) )