My feet were almost frozen in the water on the ground, and it was difficult to move an inch, and the inner pills of the demons were united to drain all my yang fire and burn it. I was alone, there was really no way, as soon as I stood up, a thunderbolt came out of my head, and in such a closed environment, the thunder roared, scattering all the inner pills that were knotted above. Most of the monsters are afraid of thunder, and the demons were suddenly shocked back by the thunder, along with two black stones, all of them retreated far away, I seized this opportunity, broke free from the predicament, rushed over with weapons, and knocked over a few big fish that escaped messily around them.

I didn't give them any chance again, and there was a burst of fierce killing, and the remnants of the thunder were still swirling around, and the monsters didn't dare to approach. In the two jet-black stones, a snowy knife light suddenly flashed, and the steel bar in my hand was cut in half. The stone made a sound that it was about to crack, and it may be that the Jiuli battle spirit dormant inside was about to break out of its shell. I clutched the remaining half of the steel bar in my hand and glanced left and right, and it was bound to be another bloody battle.

At this moment, from the door that had been pushed open the gap, there was a faint chirp, the cry was very ethereal, ethereal and somewhat distorted, but the chirp suddenly filled this dark space, with an irresistible pressure. The demons who had been forced back by the thunder light trembled, and involuntarily began to retreat, and the two black stones that were about to shatter immediately stopped the momentum of cracking, and rolled along the ground towards the way they came.

For a moment, I also seemed to be greatly affected, and I felt overwhelmed by the sound of chirping. The voice sounded unfamiliar, but when you could distinguish it carefully, it felt familiar. I clearly remember that when the treasure body of the Xuanhuang Ancestral Bird came out of the river, it made such a chirp that shook the river.

Crash

The demons did not dare to linger any longer, and like the surging tide when they came, they retreated, and I immediately ran to the door that had been pushed open by a crack, and behind this door, there must be someone or something I wanted to see. The door had been pushed open, but when I wanted to push it bigger with all my might, there was an invisible force faintly coming from inside, resisting to open it, the force was not too big, but it was winding around the door like a silk, and the two doors were pushed open a little, closed a little, back and forth several times. I was in a hurry, and I suddenly pushed harder.

Bang

The gate was pushed open a gap large enough for people to pass through, and as the light cast through the crack in the door, I saw a silver moon-like light shining a dozen or twenty meters behind the gate. This silver moon-like light suddenly became the only thing in the space behind the door, I didn't dare to go so fast, lest there would be any unforeseen dangers, but I felt that it was easier to have an accident if I procrastinated, I hesitated, the footsteps did not stop, and the distance of one or twenty meters was instantaneous, and when I was very close to the silver moonlight, I saw that it seemed to be a complete crystal-like thing.

Huge crystals are almost transparent, very rare, and only a little light is needed to refract them with a brilliant silver light. When I saw this crystal, I saw that there seemed to be a vague shadow hidden in the crystal. The shadow was definitely not human, mutilated, gray with a scorched black.

At that moment, my eyes suddenly condensed on the shadow in the crystal, although it looked a little blurry, I still quickly distinguished, it seemed to be a piece of the remnants left by the Xuanhuang Ancestral Bird after it turned into flying ashes, and the golden light of the bird was taken away by the black evil spirit, and the divinity was completely lost, and the remnants fell into the river, and they had already disappeared without a trace. But at this moment, it was in this coffin-like crystal.

My mind is constantly turning, King Yu asked for the treasure body of the Xuanhuang Ancestral Bird from the Natural Heavenly Palace to suppress the river, this crystal coffin is obviously from Kunlun, it is the coffin of the Xuanhuang Ancestral Bird after the fall. But before, it had to crush the river and could not be buried.

But after the Xuanhuang Ancestral Bird turned into a gray and black body, who buried it here?

My eyes immediately moved, and the blood all over my body seemed to roll into my skull in an instant, because I saw a small shadow sitting quietly on top of this crystal coffin.

"Lingling" I blurted out and shouted, I can't be mistaken, that little shadow is the Lingling I have been looking for. No wonder I couldn't find her, I searched for hundreds of miles without any news, and she didn't know when she began hiding in this unknown place, accompanying her father, who had been dead for a thousand years.

My shouts echoed behind the gate, but the spirit on the crystal coffin didn't react, didn't even look at me, I couldn't contain my emotions, and rushed to the coffin, which was nearly a man high, and looked up. When I looked at the spirit, my heart was clenched.

Her originally fair and chubby little face was now thin and gray, leaving only a layer of skin wrapped in bones, sitting crookedly on top of the crystal coffin, pitiful and heartbreaking. I don't know if it's the tears that are running down my eyes, or if the water vapor is hazy with my eyes, I always feel that the corners of my eyes are all wet.

I didn't have time to wipe the moisture off my eyes, and I stretched out my hand to pull her off the crystal coffin, but before my fingers could touch the spirit, the huge crystal coffin suddenly moved, slid out with a bang, and knocked me to the ground. The power of the crystal coffin was so powerful that it knocked me dizzy in one fell swoop. As I fell to the ground, the crystal coffin slid quickly in the direction of the gate.

I rolled over and got up and chased, but the spirit sitting on the crystal coffin didn't even look back. I know she has a grudge in her heart, because before I opened this door, she asked me if I would let her open the door if I turned back time. I did what I had to say, but it stabbed her so deeply that she might never want to see me again.

At that time, I didn't know what it meant to really give up, I just wanted to catch up with her and explain it to her. The crystal coffin slid very fast, and with a bang, the heavy door was smashed, and I took advantage of this fleeting opportunity to rush over with all my might, holding the corner of the coffin tightly with both hands.

"Lingling!"

But instead of stopping, the coffin grew faster, gradually an inch or two above the ground, as if floating in the air. I clung to the coffin, unable to free my hands at all, so I could only passively follow it through this space. I don't know how long it took, but the crystal coffin broke through a thick layer of sand and sank into the water. Sneaking rapidly underwater, I gritted my teeth and persevered, all the way against the current, the force of the impact of the water flow became greater and greater, and my hands could no longer hold the smooth crystal coffin, and I slid off.

The speed of this crystal coffin was indescribable, and as soon as I got out of my hands, I could no longer catch up with it, and watched it drive the turbulent water and disappear quickly at the bottom of the river. Lingling's skinny face kept flashing in my mind, her life was completely shattered, this world is so big, but there is no place to stand, I can only be at the bottom of the cold river, silently accompanying the dead Xuanhuang Ancestral Bird.

I slowly surfaced, drifting far with the waves, physically and mentally exhausted, it felt like I couldn't get up anymore, my mind was completely lazy, no matter where the current took me.

I kept asking myself if I had a chance to do it all over again, would I change that choice?

Maybe not, I can't express my feelings, for 5,000 years, it is precisely because there are so many people who would rather win the world and lose her that the Chinese Taoist system continues.

If I do it all over again, I still have no regrets, even though my heart is like a knife, I have no regrets.

I don't know how long I drifted down the river, but I climbed the riverbank, and since I had lost her, I wanted to make her loss meaningful. The fatigue and slackness in my heart gradually disappeared, I walked along the river bank back to the place where I had gone into the water before, the people in the sand gang were still waiting hard, I explained to the person in charge, and asked him to say hello to Han Cheng. Leaving here, I found Maitreya and them who were moving around and hiding. The Broken Luck Fetus on my body is always a lead that may reveal my whereabouts, and I want to be separated from them for the time being.

After doing these explanations, I rushed back to Songshuling, and Zhang Longhu tried his best to cover the qi of the unlucky fetus. This is a very secluded place, I stay at ease, there is nothing else to do, I am trying my best to hone the Thirteen Pagoda Technique, as well as the Little Five Elements Technique.

Being in the mountains, I don't know how long the years are, I just feel for a moment, but three or four months have passed. The weather turned hotter, and in the summer, I occasionally walked out of the cave to look at the lush vegetation around me, and suddenly remembered that I had been adrift alone on the big river beach for two whole years. Two years have passed, but it seems like two long centuries, and I can't forget the stone coffin and old ghost I encountered when I went down the river with my grandfather two years ago

"Are you going down the mountain?"

"It's going down." I look at Zhang Longhu, he has been dormant in Pine Ridge for so long, almost isolated from the world, this is the only peaceful day in two years, but it flies, Miao Zun Holy Lord is recuperating from his injuries, in the past few months, I don't know what is going on outside, I have to go out for a walk.

When I left Pine Ridge, my first thought was to meet Maitreya and them, ask about the current situation of the Qimen people, and then ask about the current situation on the river beach. The river beach in summer is the most busy season, but because of the big river, the river beach is still very sparsely populated, I don't know where Maitreya and they are now, all the way to find the secret mark of the seven gates.

After about a week or so, I arrived at Kidnapping Bay, which used to be a place where watermelons were abundant on the river beach, but now that many of the melon fields were deserted, I found a shack on the edge of an abandoned melon field and planned to spend the night. However, not long after settling down, I saw a group of people on the path near the melon field from a distance.

The group was obviously a funeral party, about twenty of them, carrying a large, somewhat frightening coffin.