Volume 2 Plane Battle, Chapter 161: Treasure Hunting, Water Spirit Strange Talk
The journey was very peaceful, and the river spirits were ordered not to disturb the journey of the immortals! Violators would be severely punished. But the river is not as unrestrained as the outside sky, and the nine bends and eighteen bends are not legends!
Yang Zhuochao and the others could only walk patiently and slowly, and they hurried for several hours in a row! Murong Feixue asked the water ghost kappa: Where is this, and how long will it take to reach the "Eternal Night Underworld"?
The water ghost kappa replied respectfully: "If you go back to the girl, you haven't been able to completely leave the range of the "Dark Hell" yet! To reach the sphere of influence of the "Eternal Night Underworld", it is estimated that it will take at least three or four days according to the current speed.
Murong Feixue said: This ..... It's too far! It's better to go out and fly in the air faster.
Yang Zhuochao secretly thought: At the speed that everyone is currently experiencing, it is indeed nothing to be placed on this "large plane of space"! But if it is placed on the earth of the universe today, it can already be regarded as a speed that the scientific community has never dreamed of..... This can also be seen from the side that this "large plane of space" is vast.
In this vast "universe", the earth is really as small as a grain of sand or dust.
Yang Zhuochao once thought of using "chasing boots" to increase speed, but he quickly vetoed it! The reason is that this river is really complicated and weird, and there seems to be an open water surface in front of it, but there are actually several particularly dangerous sharp bends hidden in the near distance.....
If you forcibly use "chasing boots" to increase your speed, it may have the opposite effect! Let's honestly move slowly along with the terrain, anyway, it's not so anxious for the time being.
In the evening of the next day, at the mouth of the dark river embankment, they found something very strange! it looked like a huge spar, but when it approached it looked like a living creature in the form of a human. It's changing over and over again!
Just when everyone was confused, the water ghost kappa said, "You immortals have never seen this thing, right?" There are very few of these things, you can say that it is alive, you can say that it is a dead thing! In short, this thing can be born or die, and it is difficult to find it in the world.....
Yang Zhuochao asked curiously: What is this? Why is there always something strange under this "netherworld"?
The water ghost kappa said: The immortals don't know, this thing is called "water spirit". It also belongs to the category of mountain spirits and wild monsters, but this water spirit is actually the most difficult spirit to cultivate!
At this time, the four ghosts interjected and said: Shangxian, you don't know something. In fact, there are some folklore legends of this thing on the earth of the universe! We also migrated from there, and we are both mountain spirits and wild monsters, so naturally we know some insider information.
Yang Zhuochao said in surprise: It turns out that you are also from the earth! Come and come, it just happens that this journey is long, so you can tell us something about this aspect of the news, which can be regarded as a relief from boredom.
One of the four ghosts said: Then I'll tell you what I have seen! Some people think that it is some folk mountain and wild strange tales, or strange stories. But what I'm talking about is definitely what we have seen ourselves, or know some insider deeds!
We just know about this "water spirit"! And it happened to happen on the earth. It is said that in the first year of Tang Dezongzhen, there was a scholar named Zhou Han, who was bold and open-minded and made a wide range of friends.
First, Zhou Han saw a Yi man leading a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy to sell in the market, so he stepped forward to ask. The Yi people said that the young man has excellent water, treading the waves and walking on the flat ground, diving into the water for a day without surfacing for breath, Sichuan's rivers, lakes, deep pools have been dived all over by him, only because of the death of his parents, the family is poor, this is reduced to a slave.
Zhou Han didn't say a word, so he bought the boy and named him Shuijing. Zhou Han likes to travel, buys a boat to travel, arrives in Jiangling, passes through Qutang Gorge, crosses the mound, and makes the water spirit dive into the bottom of the water to see. After a while, the water spirit surfaced and handed over all the gold, silver and jewelry he touched to Zhou Han.
Going down the river, arriving at Jiangdu, passing through Niu Zhuji, Zhou Han said to the water spirit: "This is the place where the legendary Jin people Wen Qiao rhino horn shines on the demon, you go down and have a look!"
The water spirit dived under the water, touched a piece of precious jade, and said: "There is really a water monster under the water, and the water monster looks strange, its eyes are shining like copper bells, and its arms are like halberds, and I was almost caught." Since then, the water spirit has become a magic weapon for Zhou Han to make a fortune, and he has always been loyal.
A few years later, Zhou Han's friend Wang Ze took office as the county magistrate of Xiangzhou, Zhou Han went to visit, Wang Ze was very happy, the two played around, and feasted excessively.
First, Wang Ze took Zhou Han to the octagonal well in the north of the county. During the day, the wellhead is transpired with clouds and mist, diffusing more than 100 steps away; At night, the wellhead glows red, and the radius is as bright as day. According to legend, there is a golden dragon lurking in the well, as long as there is a drought, the villagers come here to worship and ask for rain, and all of them will rain down.
Wang Ze's prodigal son came out, touched the edge of the well for a long time, and said: "There must be a treasure under this well, but it can't be made, it's a pity!" Zhou Han smiled: "This is easy." "Call back the water spirit and let him dive to the bottom of the well to see if there are any treasures.
The water spirit jumped down and surfaced in an instant, saying that there was a yellow dragon at the bottom of the well, sleeping with a few night pearls. The water spirit asked Zhou Han to get the sword, and he went down to kill Huanglong and get back the Night Pearl. Zhou Han and Wang Ze were overjoyed, and Wang Ze ordered his entourage to take the sword and hand it to the water spirit. After drinking a pot of wine to strengthen his courage, the water spirit clenched his sword and plunged into the well again.
When they heard about this, the people who were watching the disturbance came one after another, and surrounded the mouth of the well. There was no movement for a long time, and Zhou Han was not worried. Suddenly, the water in the well surged, and the onlookers retreated in amazement! The water spirit screamed and jumped out of the water hundreds of paces, and waved the sword in his hand, looking frightened, and then a dragon's claw flew out, grabbed the water spirit like lightning, and put it into the well.
The well water immediately returned to calm. The people were in a mess and didn't dare to step forward, Zhou Han was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, knowing that the water spirit's life was not guaranteed, and he was annoyed. Wang Ze regretted that he shouldn't have lent him the sword, and lay on the edge of the well to check it out without heart or lungs. But there was still no movement underwater.
And after a long time, the people were scattered. An old man came calmly, wearing a brown leather coat, with a simple appearance, and a fairy style, stepped forward and said, "I am the god of the land." Your county order is so unreliable, you don't even care about the lives of the people. This golden dragon is a messenger from heaven, and the pearl of the night is a treasure that moistens the side, what are you going to do?
The golden dragon is furious and flies into the sky, and it will shake the heavens, shake the earth's axis, smash the mountains, and knead the hills. How can mortals get the supreme treasure of the upper realm? Even if you are lucky enough to get it, your shallowness of virtue will surely lead to disaster!"
Zhou Han and Wang Ze were so ashamed that they just wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and hurriedly sent people to rectify the tribute, held a grand and pious sacrifice ceremony, and prayed for Huanglong's forgiveness. The matter was finally settled, but unfortunately the water spirit never came back.....!