Chapter 8: Love and Hatred (6)

At dinner, Singh, Zhuge Blade Heart, Sima Yingxuan and Paya sat together, the four of them have been getting along very well recently, and Singer often competed with Zhuge Blade Heart in swordsmanship and archery. Sima Yingxuan chatted with Paya all day. Dao Yan sat next to Paya and listened to them talk about playing in the water during the day, and Paya was very sorry that she did not participate, so Zhuge Blade Heart and Sima Yingyan invited Singh, Paya and Dao Yan to take a boat ride together to visit the scenery of Erhai Lake after sealing the demon beast.

After the meal, Master Ku Jing and Mrs. Sima gathered everyone to the meditation hall again, and as soon as Dao Yan entered the room, he saw ten huge black clay jars placed on the wall near the door, and from time to time there was a thudding sound of hitting the water, and it seemed that there were many huge swimming fish in them.

"What is this?" Singh asked curiously.

"This is a kind of Gu fish refined with the secret technique of our Zhuge family, called mackerel. This Gu fish is very ferocious, extremely powerful, and has an extremely sensitive sense of smell in the water, just like a hunting dog on land. Since the last time Brother Yun smashed the two heads of the demon beast, we have picked up some scraps of minced meat and used them to cultivate the shark salmon, which are the ten best identified among them, which can lead us to find the demon beast in the water. Zhuge also replied.

After speaking, Zhuge Yixin put five small cups on the table, took out two antique small jade bottles from his arms, poured the medicinal powder in one jade bottle into the five small cups, and melted the medicinal powder with the liquid in the other jade bottle. Each person is then given a golden needle and asked to drip their own blood into their own cup. Zhuge Yixin held a small cup dripping with Dao Yan's blood, poured the liquid in the cup into two clay jars containing the salmon, and then asked Dao Yan to put his hand into the jar. Dao Yan then rolled up his cuffs and put his hand into it, and in the clay jar, he saw a strange fish with a mouth full of fangs and a huge head staring at him with blood-red eyes, and the salmon saw someone reach in and slowly dived into the water. Dao Yan then put his hand into the water, only to feel the scorpion rub its smooth body against its arm and then dive.

"This mackerel will recognize you as the master in the future, and what I just did was to let the Gu fish and the master sign the ritual of the spirit medium." Zhuge Yixin explained.

Everyone then signed a psychic agreement with their two salmon, and then returned to their rooms to recharge for tomorrow's battle.

As soon as the boat sailed some distance from the shore, Sima Xuanhuang was worried that the boatman would be in danger, so he told the boatman to stop the boat, and the clansmen first put ten salmon with necklaces into the water, only to see the surrounding fish jumping out of the water and fleeing in all directions in panic. The five jumped out of the boat in leather suits, and as soon as they entered the water, they saw their two salmon waiting for their owners with their tails wagging, so they held the handle of the salmon necklace, and with a shake of their hands, the salmon swam forward with their masters.

After about a stick of incense, the five of them came to the vicinity of a fusiform island, and the salmon suddenly slowed down and gradually dived underwater. Zhuge Blade Heart first found the target, and saw the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' lying at the entrance of an underwater cave resting, and hurriedly made a gesture to everyone, so everyone let go of the shark salmon necklace and followed Zhuge Blade Heart to the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' slowly approaching. Dao Yan found that the two heads of the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' that had been shattered by him a few days ago had been reborn. Zhuge Yixin and Zhuge Blade Heart stood in front of one of the heads of the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' respectively, and saw Sima Xuanhuang raise his right hand, and the two began to seal at the same time, and Dao Yan grabbed the 'Tianhe Shenzhen' with both hands and struck down the other head hard. With a wail, the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' roared and woke up, only to find that their two heads had been sealed and the other had been shattered. Sima Yingxuan led the team of sharks to come, and everyone led their own sharks to quickly leave the attack range of the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts', and reorganized their formation to prepare for the second round of attacks. Seeing this formation, the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' knew that the opponent was prepared, so they used the remaining six heads to stir up the mud and sand under the water, and the water was suddenly pitch black. Dao Yan hurriedly made a gesture for everyone to retreat, and he left the 'Tianhe Shenzhen' across his chest to cover everyone at the end. The salmon suddenly stopped, and turned its head in another direction in a uniform manner, Zhuge Yixin signaled to everyone that the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' were fleeing in that direction, and everyone immediately chased after them. Dao Yan saw the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' fleeing and used three heads to bite off the two sealed and one shattered head, but a new head was immediately born at the broken point. Dao Yan thought to himself that the nine heads of the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' could be broken and resurrected, unless they were all sealed or shattered at once, even if only one was left, it would be able to be reborn immediately, how could this be good. At this time, everyone had already caught up with the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts', and the demon beast saw that it could not escape, so it viciously pounced on the four people except Dao Yan, and the other three immediately pulled the shark salmon necklace and quickly dodged it, Sima Yingyan dodged a little slowly, and was about to be devoured by the blood basin of the demon beast, Dao Yan hurriedly threw the 'Tianhe Shenzhen' in his hand towards it in a hurry. The 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' were afraid of the 'Tianhe Shenzhen', so they hurriedly took back their heads, and Dao Yan drove the shark salmon to chase in the direction of the 'Tianhe Shenzhen', but found that one of the demon beasts was attacking him, so he immediately dodged away. Just when Dao Yan thought that he had lost the 'Tianhe Divine Treasure', he saw Zhuge Blade Heart rushing towards him, and the one in his hand was the 'Tianhe Divine Treasure' that he had just thrown out by himself. After handing over the weapon to Dao Yan, Zhuge Blade hurriedly rushed to protect Sima Yingxuan. After Dao Yan regained the 'Tianhe Divine Treasure', the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' began to dodge his attacks again, and only sacrificed one to parry when it was absolutely necessary. After several attacks, Dao Yan found that the 'Nine Heads of Water Demon Beasts' always seemed to have a head that had never parried his own attacks, and always tried to keep that head away from him, so Dao Yan paid more attention to that head, and in a surprise attack, the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' actually sacrificed two heads to protect the head that Dao Yan paid special attention to. Dao Yan was even more sure that this head must be the weakness of this demon beast. After thinking about it for a while, Dao Yan showed the plan to Sima Xuanhuang and Zhuge Yixin, and the two expressed their understanding. Dao Yan first pretended to attack the other heads of the demon beast, but suddenly turned around and quickly attacked the target head, the demon beast dodged quickly, and the target head fled in reverse, originally thought that Dao Yan would rush forward, but saw Sima Xuanhuang and Zhuge Yixin two people rushing to meet each other, Dao Yan let go of the shark salmon necklace and turned around and jumped, just by the two of them to save their legs, the four sharks rushed forward quickly, the golden light flashed, only to see a stream of dirty blood gushing out, the target head shattered in response, and the remaining eight of the demon beast roared at the same time and immediately fled into the distance. Dao Yan knew that his judgment was correct, so he motioned for everyone to quickly chase after him. After that, the shattered head of the 'Nine Water Demon Beasts' was no longer reborn, and looking at the completely petrified body of the demon beast, everyone's tired faces showed expressions of joy.