I told Maitreya about my plans, and he thought about it for a while and agreed. With our minds decided, we found a place to rest for the day, rewrapped the wounds on our bodies, and the three of us slept from morning to dusk in one breath, full of energy. Taking advantage of the afterglow after dusk, we walked back along the same path towards the section of the river where we fought with the side gate before dawn. We were on guard against a comeback, but there was silence on the riverbank.

As long as you can dive into the whirlpool with all your strength, and after entering, you can borrow those floating bubbles to ventilate, Jin Dashao is actually very sensible, and knows that this is the secret of the Seven Gates, so let me go down with Maitreya, and he will look at the wind from above. We prepared some rocks to aggravate the dive, but before we could actually enter the water, the water seemed to be clear all of a sudden, and a faint white light was moving.

As soon as the sky was dark, the white light was very conspicuous, I immediately stopped, looked carefully, through the white light under the river, I could vaguely see the big tripod under the water drifting silently along the current, and the stone coffin was also moving with the big tripod, as if the guardian was guarding the copper tripod.

"What happened to Ding?" Maitreya hesitated beside me for a moment: "They, do they want to change places?" ”

"Perhaps, the river beach is chaotic now, and it was just harassed by people from the side gate in the early hours of this morning, and this river is no longer stable." I thought about it for a moment and said, "The sarcophagus is to protect Da Ding to a secret place." ”

"What about the things in Dading Town? They don't care? ”

Between our conversations, the shadow of Dading under the water surface has drifted out far away, I didn't think too much about it at the time, I followed with my feet, Dading and the stone coffin loomed, the speed of movement was very fast, I had to run with all my strength on the river bank to keep up, and in a blink of an eye, I ran out for four or five miles, the white light suddenly brightened, the water surface shook violently, and the water flow became extremely turbid again, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

Although the eye could not see anything, it could feel that there were violent fluctuations under the surface of the water. At least half of the important task of the seven gates is to protect the tripod, and there was a change in front of me, Maitreya and I glanced at each other, and explained to Jin Dashao, and went down the river at that time.

As soon as I entered the water, I immediately felt the fluctuations from the bottom of the water, which were very violent and gradually spread to the surface of the river. The membrane on his eyelids fell, and when he opened his eyes and looked down, he saw a bright light around the stone coffin, sinking in the very center of the river bottom, and a shadow quickly revolving around the stone coffin, as if looking for an opportunity to attack.

At that moment, my heart immediately tightened, and the flying shadow lifted up patches of mud and sand at the bottom of the river, but I could still see clearly that the shadow was the red-eyed old corpse that was driven away by the big tiger in the stone coffin at dawn.

"How did it come back!" I felt a little incomprehensible, the red-eyed old corpse went and returned, and did not directly attack Da Ding, it seemed to know that Da Ding and the stone coffin would definitely be transferred overnight, so it ambushed halfway.

Maitreya and I didn't dare to move, the stone coffin at the bottom of the water was tightly closed, no matter how powerful the red-eyed old corpse was, it couldn't break the sarcophagus left by King Yu, it shook back and forth I don't know how many circles, it turned around suddenly, moved eastward for a while, and then dived quickly, originally I thought that this place had reached the bottom of the river, but the red-eyed old corpse drilled, the mud and sand at the bottom of the water rolled, and a huge hole appeared, Da Ding slowly suspended in the mud and sand, and the Ding body exuded yellow and red light. The red-eyed old corpse ignored Da Ding and plunged into the mud and sand.

The two of us swam along the surface of the river and then quietly dived into the water again. At the bottom of the water, only the light emitted by the sarcophagus and the big ding, which was a little faint, and the mud and sand were rolling, covering everything under the big hole. I was anxious, but I didn't dare to run around at will, I surfaced back and forth and changed my breath a few times, the mud and sand in the big hole seemed to be squeezed out by some force, and the light of the copper tripod suddenly flourished, like Mount Tai pressed the top, and fell straight down. The copper tripod sank, and the light it emitted suddenly illuminated the surroundings.

"What's that!?" I could see a little clearly, but at the same time a little blurry, and under the huge hole in the bottom of the water, there were four walls and a dome rising slightly. It looks very much like the sand castle built by the wealthy families on the river beach before the liberation, also called the border building, this kind of building is impermeable on all sides, and the wall buttresses along the wall and gun holes can be repaired to prevent river bandits.

But when I look at it again, I feel that this building at the bottom of the river is only shaped like a side building, but it is definitely not. The red-eyed old corpse burrowed into the big hole, pulled out the bald tail to whisk the dust, and slammed it into a wall one by one. The wall was made of huge stones, thick and strong, but one of the bricks in the wall had been smashed and dented.

At this moment, I suddenly realized that Da Ding and the stone coffin didn't seem to be going to transfer places, and the red-eyed old corpse was not intercepted halfway here. Obviously, the red-eyed old corpse wanted to smash this wall, and the sarcophagus and Da Ding rushed to stop it. Until now, I don't know what the origin of the red-eyed old corpse is, but it has always been against Dading and the sarcophagus, and this sandcastle-like building under the water is tightly sealed, and the red-eyed old corpse wants to smash it open, obviously with bad intentions.

I think there must be something on the façade of this building that has been sealed and pressed to the bottom of the river, and the red-eyed old corpse wants to crash through the wall and release the contents inside?

In a short period of time, the movements of the red-eyed old corpse were extremely fast, and with heavy blows again and again, the already sunken wall brick on the wall gradually shattered. As I imagined, in addition to the fluctuations of the red-eyed corpse hitting the wall, there was an indescribable aura from the sealed building, which continued to spread. The smell was formless and substantial, but it was terrifying, and I felt that my hands and feet had begun to feel cold.

With the beating of the red-eyed old corpse, one huge bubble after another floated out of the hole, I took the opportunity to change my breath, knowing that something was wrong, but I didn't have the ability to stop it, only a huge character like that could fight with the red-eyed old corpse, I couldn't do it at all. The red-eyed old corpse was smashing the wall with all his might, my mind was spinning rapidly, and countless thoughts flashed through my mind for a while, but none of them were practical, and I watched the depression in the wall get deeper and deeper.

Bang

Suddenly, a strong wave came from the side of the wall, the wave made the water surge into a frenzy, throwing me and Maitreya out heavily, the situation was critical, but we couldn't leave, the two of us rolled on the water surface for a while, and plunged into the water, in this short gap, I saw that the tightly fitting wall had been smashed out of a big hole, the building seemed to be guarded by some force, although the wall was broken, but the surrounding boiling water could not seep into a drop.

As the walls broke, the terrifying aura suddenly became thicker, and the back of the hole was black, but it seemed like something deadly would suddenly burst out at any moment.

airplanes

Da Ding, who had been hovering above the sand castle, finally moved, and fell down heavily, knocking the red-eyed old corpse by the wall open, and the red-eyed old corpse rolled over, trying to continue rushing over, but the stone coffin silently slipped into the big hole at the bottom of the river, forcing the red-eyed old corpse aside. The lid of the coffin began to loosen, clicking non-stop, and the red-eyed old corpse seemed to be very taboo about the dragon-bearded tiger in the coffin. At this time, Maitreya pulled me hard, and he could feel the terrifying aura projected from the sandcastle, reminding me to retreat and avoid it first.

rumble

A wave of air poured out of the sand castle at once, the red-eyed old corpse was entangled in the stone coffin, the big tripod staggered, and slammed into the big hole in the wall, and the tripod body was stuck in the middle of the big hole, obviously, the big ding was to plug this hole, block the things that were going to emerge from the middle of the sand castle. The copper tripod is about the same size as the hole in the wall, and it is basically tightly blocked, leaving only a few narrow gaps around it.

Immediately, the big ding blocked in the hole was hit hard, and something inside was constantly hitting the ding body, and the sound was almost inaudible in the water, but the vibration of the dong dong could be detected one by one. Maitreya and I don't know exactly what happened, but we don't have to think much to understand that as long as Dading can't plug this hole, there will be a catastrophe.

Whoosh

The red-eyed old corpse was forced very tightly by the sarcophagus, and gradually couldn't stay still, and the stone coffin floated out of the big hole at the bottom of the river one after the other, and it was inseparable from the water flow. The fluctuations of the hole in the wall came one after another, and every time it hit hard, the big tripod embedded in the hole would tremble and shake, and I don't know how many times before and after, a string of blood droplets had flowed out of the surface of the copper tripod.

I wanted to help, but I didn't know how to help, Dading was crumbling from the impact, but he was persevering to re-plug the hole in the sandcastle. I just felt that Da Ding seemed to be unable to hold on, and when I looked at it, the stone coffin didn't know where the red-eyed old corpse had been forced. At this moment, a strong impact wave came out along the big ding, and the big ding shook violently, and in the blink of an eye, a tail poked out from between the holes in the sandcastle wall.

The furry tail looked shocking at the moment, just as I imagined, there was indeed something in the sand castle at the bottom of the river, and the red-eyed old corpse might not have an advantage in fighting the dragon beard tiger in the stone coffin face to face, it just wanted to release these things, create chaos, and then wait for the opportunity to move.

When that tail came out of the gap, I gritted my teeth, feeling that I could no longer sit back and watch like this, it would not be of much help, and it would be good to ease the situation. At that time, as soon as he stood up, he held the stone in his hand and dived quickly, burrowing into the big hole at the bottom of the river from the chaotic mud and sand flow, and without saying a word, he smashed the tail between the gaps.