Chapter 21: The Monster in the Water
Sima Luming waded into a shallower place, and the waterline was just clear and bottomed out beyond his calves. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but the actual river is very wide, and there are no trees on the bank to shade it, looking at it, I only feel that I can't even estimate the approximate width.
The further you go to the center of the river, the more dark green the river color is unfathomable, and the sun shines on it, and it can only show the sparkling surface of the river, and you can no longer find what is hidden underneath. Changsheng only thought that fortunately, the bead fell on the river, and if it fell in the middle of the river, it was estimated that it would not be easy to take.
Sima Luming stared at the beads in his hand, the beads were crystal clear and had a faint blue vein, and the first bead he had just gotten from the tree, because he was in a hurry to repel the attacks of those flocks of birds, he didn't take a closer look, but just glanced at it hurriedly, the first bead was pale green, that is, when the spring was in full swing, the leaves grew out of a vibrant pale green.
Now I held the two beads in my hand, and I found that I couldn't guess the material of the beads, which seemed to be jade and not jade. Both beads are different in color.
Jiang Qu said, "This Kunlun Mountain is really an immortal mountain, and everything you see is a treasure that has never been seen in the mortal world. If you get it to the pawnshop, you can at least exchange it for tens of thousands of taels. ”
Changsheng has no concept of this kind of bead, don't blame her for her shallow knowledge, but she has been nesting in a remote village, and she is indeed short-sighted, when she heard Jiang Qu say that she could get so much silver, her eyes were wide-eyed. "Is this bead so valuable?"
Jiang Qu smiled, "I can't grasp it either, after all, I've never seen it." But it looks very much like the algae jade described in ancient books, which is an ancient thing, dedicated to worshipping gods. If so, it's not just priceless, you think it's a gift to the gods, and a bad thing can be given. ”
When Changsheng heard this, his eyes stared straight at the beads in Sima Luming's hand, and he wanted to see what was different between the things that were given to the gods and those that people kept for themselves.
Sima Luming handed over the beads, Changsheng was dumbfounded for a while, and then he was worried that he would be wrong, Jiang Qu had already unceremoniously brought the beads over to appreciate them.
"It's really a good thing, but it's a pity that it's too old, and the description of the algae jade in the ancient books is only a few one-sided sentences, and I don't know the use. If it's really not a mortal thing, I don't know if grinding it into powder and eating it in the stomach can increase my strength and so on. ”
He guessed the purpose of the misuse, and only sighed that he couldn't take one of these things away as a souvenir and take it back for study. It is estimated that they will have to be handed back when they go out in a while.
Sima Luming poured cold water, "If this bead really has that effect, everyone on Kunlun Mountain would have already ascended." ”
Jiang Qu smiled, "Yes." ”
Although the Jade Void Sect was built on this Kunlun Immortal Mountain to occupy the right time and place, everyone cultivates immortals and cultivates the Tao, but they have not heard of anyone who can successfully cultivate into immortals.
It can be seen that if you want to take off the flesh and bones of mortal fetuses, you don't have to cultivate hard. Although it is said that you have to go through this trial to worship the beginner, in fact, the real test is also to see if you have this opportunity, and this opportunity is only the opportunity to learn from a teacher, but you can not pack a ticket to see if you can cultivate into an immortal.
Jiang Qu returned the beads to Sima Luming, here is the best foundation for his cultivation, and it is wisest to give him the beads for safekeeping.
Chu Ban came over and tugged at the hem of his long-sleeved shirt. Jiang Qu saw that Qian Ruyue had already bandaged the wound, but the person still hadn't woken up, Jiang Qu sighed, and could only carry the girl away, but I don't know if the road ahead is full of dangers, carrying an unconscious person on his back, but it is too burdensome.
Sima Lu said, "I'll just carry her on my back." ”
Jiang Qu said, "Now we are all in the same boat, you are the best kung fu among us, and you also have the foundation of spells." If there's something really going on, I'm a little embarrassed to say that, but I really can only block it from your front, and if you carry her on your back, I'm afraid that you won't be able to do it. I'll carry her. ”
Sima Luming thought for a while and was about to speak.
The leisurely fish in the water suddenly swam away, Sima Luming looked back at the river, the river was originally different shades, limited by the naked eye, they could only see the shallow part. Jiang Qu also seemed to sense something, and stood in front of him to look at the water.
If it weren't for Sima Luming's previous bewilderment by the river, Changsheng would probably have been impressed by this bright and beautiful landscape, and felt that the scenery here was really worthy of the word fairyland.
Jiang Qu said, "I just think this place is really ominous, since the beads are in hand, let's slip away, don't stop." He had to bend over and carry Qian Ruyue on his back.
Something slender suddenly stretched out from the river, and the movement was so fast that people couldn't see clearly, so Jiang Qu's feet were circled. It reminds Changsheng of the rope noose set up in the village when catching prey in the past, and when an animal passes by, it will tie its feet and hang it.
Jiang Qu didn't know what grabbed his foot, and looked down to see what looked like some kind of animal's long beard. Sima Luming was about to draw his sword and cut it off. Jiang Qu was weightless under his feet, dragged out by external forces, and sank into the river all of a sudden, disappearing.
"Stay away from the river." After Sima Luming finished speaking, he put down the beads and went into the water.
Chu Ban couldn't move Qian Ruyue alone, so he dragged Qian Ruyue's two arms forward, and Changsheng carried Qian Ruyue's feet to move her farther away.
I thought that I could relax when I was dozens of meters away from the river, but another long beard came out of the water, this time it was to encircle Changsheng's ankle drag, and the gravel by the river was uneven, which made her back hurt.
Her baggage dissipated the moment she entered the water, and everything in it fell out, and she wondered how it could have become heavier, because it was stuffed with a lot of silver. Thinking about it, it was Xi Zi's hypocrisy, if it weren't for the discomfort in the water, she really wanted to smile movingly.
Even if the silver was just put in by Xi Zixuan for a while, it proved that he had thought about her for a moment. The life on the mountain was pure-hearted, and it may not have helped her to give her the silver, but he still gave her the silver in case of emergency.
She watched the silver sink into the water, not because she didn't want to catch it, but the most important thing to her in the burden was the flute that her father-in-law left for her as a souvenir. She stretched out her fingers and barely grasped the flute, and the resistance in the water made it impossible for her to struggle even with the strength of the milk.
The long beard could easily drag her like a hollow ball so far on the shore, and she had a lot of strength. The light that could reach the surface of the water was already very thin, and she guessed that it must have been dragged far away.
She knows how to swim, and when she was a child, her father-in-law often took her to the small river in the village to learn to swim, and many boys frolicked there to catch fish. Uncle Xiang said to his father-in-law that it is okay for girls to know the craft of embroidery, and there is no need to learn this, although they are young, after all, it is not good for girls to be naked and shirtless.
But her father-in-law still took her to swim in the river for a while every summer, saying that she should learn something else, and maybe it would help in the future. So she can hold her breath for a long time in the water.
The long beard grabbed her feet as if she was playing with her as some novelty, and she collided with Jiang Qu hard, and she felt like her bones were about to crack, but fortunately, some of the impact was subtracted in the water. She gritted her teeth and could still withstand it, but poor Jiang Qu didn't understand water, and he was dizzy, and he had to endure the discomfort of being choked into the water in his nose and mouth, so it was better to faint to death directly.
She couldn't see what the living thing in front of her was, but she felt that it should be huge. I swam over and completely covered up the faint light.
Sima Luming drew his sword and slashed at the behemoth's body, but it felt as hard as slashing on the iron sheet, and he tried several more times, but found that he couldn't cut it. I couldn't think of a way to deal with it for a while, so I swam forward and thought about breaking the things that were wrapped around Changsheng and Jiang Qu's feet first.
Although the behemoth had a hard body, it was fortunate that the long beard was not invulnerable, and it was broken with a sword, otherwise they would have been buried in the river today. Changsheng didn't need help, he swam to Jiang Qu, who was struggling with his hands and feet, and while holding him with his hands, he floated upwards with a few strokes of his hands.
The ginger curly crown hat had fallen off, and his long wet hair was against his cheeks, and the first thing he did when he came out of the water was to take a big breath. Then he choked a few times, spit out the water, and grumbled, "I'm going to take back my original words, how easy is this." ”
I also thought that those people who had attained the Tao on the mountain would not be too embarrassed for them, but it turned out that where was this trial, it was a game of life, and they hadn't really worshiped the door, so there were three disasters and nine difficulties.
Sima Lu shouted, "Hurry up to the riverbank." ”
They paddled the water and hurried to the shore. The water war is definitely not good for them, Jiang Qu is "down-to-earth" and fashionable and can still have some self-protection ability, but if he falls into the water, he is worse than Gu Changsheng, who doesn't know any martial arts, but he wants Gu Changsheng to come to the rescue.
The calm water suddenly churned, and there was no wind and waves, and the water splashed several meters high, and a huge fish jumped out of the water, and a flicking tail volleyed into the air to cover the sun above them, and when they looked up, they could only see the white belly of the fish dangling overhead.
The kind of fish that Changsheng had ever seen in the river was the kind that could be grilled and served, and there was a world of difference in size. No matter how fat the one is on the table, it can eat two or three meals, and the one you see in front of you, if it is cooked, it is estimated that it will be enough for her to eat for several years.
In fact, entering this void fairyland, it seems that many living creatures have subverted her conventional understanding. It turns out that there are such fierce birds and such big fish.
The fish had wings on both sides, black lines on its scales, and its head was silvery-white, shining silver in the sun, as if the whole head was covered with silver flakes.
The big fish fell back into the water, and a huge wave hit them, and they were swept farther away from the shore, and the hard work they had just swam was in vain.
Gu Changsheng said in fear, "Will it eat people?" "She has committed murder against its kind, she has eaten fish, and Xi Zixu has made fish soup for Xi Zixu, fried fish, grilled fish, boiled fish...... I don't know if it will be annoyed and embarrassed to help its kind take revenge.
Jiang Qu said, "I don't know if it eats people or not, I only know that if it stays in the water all the time, it will drown sooner or later." "There is always a time when the physical strength is exhausted, and I don't know if I can survive until the time of the exam passes, if I can't go ashore all the time, I will become a water ghost even if I don't die in the belly of the fish.
Sima Lu was silent, floating on the water and feeling the movement under the water. The big fish would not have allowed them to come ashore so easily and easily, and it would have attacked again. Although he couldn't see the depths, he could feel the movement of the water, whether it was slow or fast.
Jiang Qu wiped the water on his face and guessed, "I've heard that the trials of the Jade Void Sect are not easy to pass, but I haven't heard that there are dead people among them, if they don't deliberately hide it, or someone watched it during the trial to be sure." Why don't you give it a try and shout a few times to see if anyone can help. ”
Sima Luming said coldly, "Since it is said to be a trial, even if someone really looks at it, it will not be easy to make a move, maybe you will give up as soon as you shout." You don't want to continue, it's okay, but now that you and I are on the same team, if you want to change your mind and go down the mountain, you have to wait for me to break through. ”
"If I continue to play, I'm afraid I'll lose my life, you still have a lot of money, why can't you think about it at such a young age."
Gu Changsheng sneezed and kept soaking in the water, feeling cold even if there was sunlight. She really didn't want to soak anymore, like a cabbage pickled in a jar.
Jiang Qu finally had a very reasonable-sounding reason to retreat, "You see that such a little girl has suffered so much with us, don't you have a little pity for the jade?" Let's try to call someone to get us out of this damn predicament and think about it in the long run. ”
Sima Luming said stubbornly, "I have to pass this trial and apprenticeship, and no one should think about changing my mind." ”
Jiang Qu continued to persuade, "If you continue to work like this, you won't be able to pass the test when the time comes." Admitting defeat early and admitting defeat late is not the same as admitting defeat, don't say if you suffer less, the hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, and he can advance and retreat as a hero. ”
There was a sudden rise of water under their feet, Jiang Qu and Sima Luming both felt it, although they knew to avoid it, but their movements were not as fast as the big fish that moved freely, and it was really unavoidable. The big fish jumped up again and lifted them up.
Gu Changsheng hurriedly grabbed the fins erected on the back of the fish, and the big fish continued to dive and jump, and seemed to feel that someone was on its back, trying to shake them off.
As soon as the big fish dived, it dived into the middle of the river to a depth of dozens of meters, and finally got out of the water, thinking that it could finally breathe the air without suffocating itself to death, so it was only after a few mouthfuls that the big fish had to be taken into the depths of the water to exercise the ability to hold its breath.
After a few back and forth, even Changsheng was a little unbearable, not to mention that Jiang Qu was almost about to roll his eyes, wanting to sink into the water and let the fish eat it.
Sima Luming held the head of the fish, and observed that there was a layer of scales distributed on the body of the fish, as if it was wearing extremely hard armor, although he thought that all things in heaven and earth always had weaknesses, but he could not find them for a while. I was wondering if I would try it again and cut it again from the body to the head.
I saw that the gills of the fish were exposed to the water, and they closed one by one to reveal pale pink flesh.
Jiang Qu obviously saw it too, and shouted loudly, "Take a look at the gills or eyes of the fish." ”
The fish wanted to close the gills, Sima Luming's eyes were quick, and his right hand was hard to resist the gills that were to be closed, but the fish was too strong, and he tried his best to barely hold on, but he also had the momentum of tending to be downwind. The knee was bent down, and he couldn't spare any more effort.
Sima Luming looked at Gu Changsheng, who was closest to him, Gu Changsheng's mind suddenly became clear, and he knew very well about their current situation, that is, if they didn't defeat the big fish, they couldn't do without this river. She put the flute on her belt, then grabbed the fins of the fish, stepped on the scales of the big fish, and moved forward inch by inch.
The scales of the big fish are like natural pedals, and Changsheng climbed to the head of the fish, trying to lower his body and lower his center of gravity, against the back of the big fish. Sima Luming gritted his teeth, the gills had pressed his body extremely hard, he tried to let go of a hand, feeling that his strength was running out, and reluctantly handed the sword over.
A close-fitting weapon like this is generally not touched by others at will, and Sima Luming is willing to give her the sword, which can be regarded as identifying with her companionship, and may have some trust in her. But it can also be a last resort.
Gu Changsheng pursed his lips and grabbed the hilt of the sword, she took a lot of kitchen knives, but the sword was the first time, the sword body was extremely heavy, she had to use both hands to lift the sword, Changsheng had to take a risk, his shoes hooked into the fish scales, and then raised his sword and stabbed the pink fish flesh in the gills.
Only a strong fishy smell was smelled, and the body of the fish writhed even more violently, and the three of them had already exhausted their strength, and they were all thrown away and fell back into the water with a few thuds.
The river was stained red with blood, and the big fish couldn't care about them anymore when they were injured, but fortunately it didn't entangle anymore, otherwise they would have no strength to resist, and they could only try to shout for help as Jiang Qu said, to see if God was merciful, and he could call the disciples of the Yuxu Sect to come and save their lives.
They relied on a will not to die, and they managed to squeeze out a little strength to swim back to the shore, Gu Changsheng didn't know how he had overdrawn his strength first, and he was able to bring Sima Luming's sinking sword ashore. Sima Luming dragged Jiang Qu, and the three of them had just stepped on the ground, and they had reached the limit and invariably turned their backs to the sky, and their chests were on the ground.
Jiang Qu said weakly to Gu Changsheng and Sima Lu, "I owe you a great favor, and I will always know the kindness when I have the opportunity one day." ”
Sima Luming staggered as if he wanted to stand up, Jiang Qu was surprised, "You won't give up." "This person is not only cold, but also has a stubborn temper. My tired legs were weak, and I didn't even have the strength to straighten my legs, and I was still thinking about rushing to the next place. "At least you should rest and rest first, you are not afraid of exhausting yourself like this."
Chu Ban walked over and took out the pill from his pocket again, and gave one to them. Jiang Qu somewhat guessed the efficacy of the medicine, and swallowed the pill with his mouth open. When Changsheng saw that they had eaten it, he also swallowed the medicine, and immediately felt as if there was a faint warm air rising in his stomach. My hands and feet don't seem to be sore.
But despite this, she still didn't want to get up from the ground.
This series of vicious fights was more exhausting than her sleepless cleaning of the temple inside and outside for days and nights, and she really wanted to lie down and sleep well, even if she could only squint for a quarter of an hour to recuperate before leaving.
Sima Luming picked up the sword on the ground, "Help me take care of Ruyue." ”
Changsheng said, "Do you really want to go by yourself, it's too dangerous." ”
Jiang Qu said, "If it weren't for Changsheng to help you just now, you would definitely not be able to cope with it alone, and I don't know if there are still the difficult flowers, birds, fish and insects in front of you, so don't hold on to it." ”
Sima Luming still said the same sentence, repeating the purpose of his trip is really unswerving, "I am here to apprentice, no matter how many disasters and difficulties the future is, I will not change my mind." ”
Jiang Qu shook his head and sighed, "It's really hopeless." That's it, if you want to go, you can go, and I won't stop you, but I also made up my mind whether to leave or not, it's so hard before I have apprenticed, isn't it even more bitter to worship the teacher. I'd rather go back and follow my dad to show people feng shui, and have a good time. ”
Jiang Qu closed his eyes, as if he was going to sleep like this, and waited until the people from the Jade Void Sect came to find him, and brought him out of this place where the word Wonderland was in his name, but it was no different from the pit people, and he didn't need to be driven by the people of the Jade Void Sect, he automatically went down the mountain.
Changsheng was still thinking about opening his mouth to persuade again, but in the blink of an eye, he saw that a cloud of purple qi suddenly appeared behind Qian Ruyue, and that mass of purple qi gradually clearly appeared as a figure, it was the male disciple who had told them the rules in the Taoist temple just now.
Jiang Qu said, "Is the time?" ”
Gu Changsheng raised his neck and looked at the sun hanging high in the sky, how could he feel that the sun was not moving westward.
There were no timekeeping tools in this place, and how long they had been in could only feel like an hour had passed. I don't know if it's located on Kunlun Mountain or in a blessed place far away from the red dust, I've heard of the mountains for thousands of years in the world, and I don't know if the time here is the same as outside.
The male disciple spoke quite profoundly, "The so-called chance also varies from person to person. It is said that you will come out when the water in the leaky pot is finished, but it does not mean that you must be allowed to come out when the time is up. ”
Changsheng thought to himself, it wouldn't be that the disciples of the Jade Void Sect had the ability to listen to Jiang Qu's words, and came over in advance to take them out to cancel their apprenticeship qualifications.
Jiang Qu stood up from the ground, grabbed his wet clothes and twisted them vigorously. The male disciple glanced at Jiang Qu and saw that a man in Jiang Qu was dripping with water like a hibiscus out of the water, which was extremely unpleasant to the eye. Stretching out his hand towards Jiang Qu, his palm seemed to faintly glow red.
Jiang Qu instantly felt as warm as if he was bringing the sun in the sky closer and baking clothes for him. The wet clothes dried out in a flash.
Jiang Qu said with a smile, "In addition to slaying demons and destroying demons, the spells of the Jade Void Sect are so useful. No matter how wet your clothes are in the future, you won't be afraid that you won't be able to find firewood to live and bake your clothes. ”
The male disciple used a spell to dry the clothes on Changsheng and Sima Luming's bodies, and said seriously, "This is just the most basic spell in the sect, if you can worship the door, soar through the clouds, pass through the wall, and turn stones into gold, even if you only get a glimpse of one or two spells in this sect, it is a few points stronger than the disciples of other sects." ”
Jiang Qu whispered and smiled with Gu Changsheng, "This Jade Void Sect disciple is quite angry. can really turn stones into gold, aren't the disciples on the mountain all rich? I'm afraid that there is a suspicion of exaggeration. ”
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