It liked Xiao Meng'er very much, and even sent Xiao Meng'er ashore with its tail wrapped in a wooden basin. The shadow also disappeared into the river. When the people in the village picked up Xiao Meng'er and went to look for you, they couldn't find it, they thought that the dragon king only needed one child was enough. took Xiao Meng'er back to the village to raise him. ”

Zhao Ning had already guessed such a story, and at that time she should have been rescued by Qin Keyuan, went down the Qingmo River, and entered Nanjing.

The rain had stopped, but the road was still slippery, and up the hill, the two mortals walked extremely slowly.

The woman continued, "Xiao Meng'er was not born in our village, she was picked up from the mountains by the villagers. The people in the village just looked at her and took pity on her, but that year the Qingmo River burst its embankment, and the water poured in, and the priest said that he would sacrifice the dragon king in advance, and the children of the dragon king have always been children under the age of a month, and Xiao Meng'er should have become one of them, and you were born in that month. ”

She said and looked back at Zhao Ning's expression secretly, but saw that Zhao Ning had no expression on his face, and there was not much fluctuation in his eyes.

The woman didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, "After Xiao Meng'er was rescued, he raised it in the village for ten years, and in these ten years, the villagers often saw the figure of the Dragon King appear next to Xiao Meng'er, and they were all scared at first, but later found that as long as Xiao Meng'er was treated well, the Dragon King would not be angry, and they were all relieved." In the tenth year, the time to sacrifice to the Dragon King came again, and the village chief had the courage to ask the Dragon King, the huge black python beside Xiao Meng'er, and asked the Dragon King if he still needed sacrifices, but the black python left the village with Xiao Meng'er the next day. ”

"The dragon king is gone, this sacrifice has stopped as a matter of course, everyone thinks that there will be no such thing as killing a thousand knives in the future, but they don't want the village to become more and more difficult in the next ten years, and there has been a famine in the past few years, the village people say that in fact, there is a famine outside, there is nothing to eat, but our village is more serious than the outside, a few months ago, the Qingmo River gushed out of the whirlpool, and the villagers who cast nets on the river were lifted into the river, and everyone saw a pair of huge eyes in the whirlpool in the river."

"Only then did we know that the black python that took away Xiao Meng'er was not the Dragon King, the real Dragon King was still at the bottom of the river, and he was already very angry because he lost a sacrifice, and the situation in our village in the past few years is the anger of the Dragon King. Therefore, the village chief and the priest beckoned the villagers to discuss the sacrifice again. ”

At this, the woman hugged the child tightly, buried her face in swaddling clothes, and wept silently.

The woman's husband did not speak from beginning to end, he looked at the crying daughter-in-law, closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, he said bitterly, "It's that I'm useless, it's that I can't protect the child." ”

Zhao Ning was silent, and he didn't know whether he was sinking in this past story, or seeing a tomb not far away.

When the rain stopped, the woman wiped her tears and pointed to the tomb and said, "This is your mother's tomb, and the two next to it belong to your brother." Your father went up the mountain with the villagers to hunt more than ten years ago, and was accidentally arched off the cliff by a wild boar, and when the villagers found him, he was no longer human, let alone able to carry it back, so he buried him on the spot. ”

Zhao Ning looked at the words on the tomb, and the words on it were written crookedly, "The Tomb of the Xiang Liang Family", while the other two tombstones read "The Tomb of the Xiang Family Dabao (Erbao)", which was the tombstone erected by the people in the village.

She watched quietly, and Qin Keyuan handed over three freshly lit incense sticks.

Zhao Ning took the incense and took half a step forward.

"My name is Zhao Ning, and it was Uncle Shi who got the name for me, thank you for the grace of your life, and come back to see you."

"Zhao Ning can't catch up with your last face, I only wish you reincarnation, peace and smoothness, happiness and happiness."

Arrive, bow, bow three times, insert the incense into the land in front of the tomb, kneel on the ground, and bow to the head.

The green smoke was mischievous, fainting into the air, and through the reincarnation, sending Zhao Ning to murmur blessings.

After stopping in front of the tomb like this for a long time, Zhao Ning got up and returned to Qin Keyuan's side.

The woman wiped her tears, "Your mother will be very happy to know that you have come back and become an immortal." ”

Zhao Ning looked at her, raised his hand, and the light in his palm and soul fell into the woman and the child, and the soaked clothes dried in an instant, and the body was warm.

"This ...... This is? ”

Zhao Ning smiled lightly, "Mo is sick." ”

Obviously it was just a few words, but she seemed to feel that the pain on her body had disappeared, and the pale child who was tossed in her arms was also rosy.

This is a blessing from the immortals.

She fell to her knees, and her husband, who was beside her, knelt down before he could figure out the situation.

Before she could thank her, the two people in front of her had already disappeared, and she heard the voice of the immortal in her ear, "We will help you solve the matter of the dragon king's sacrifice, and in the future, don't let them sacrifice with living beings." ”

"The great grace of the immortals, the blessings of the immortals will be enjoyed forever." The woman prostrated heavily, and her sincerity told the earth and the heavens.

At night, outside Jiangyue Village, in the middle of the Qingmo River.

Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan stood on the flat boat.

"Back then, the only demon beast here was the black python, and there were no other demon beasts."

"Could it be a newborn demon beast in the past few years? However, the mundane aura is scarce, and in more than ten years, how can there be a new demon beast with the power to cross the river, and this strength is at least in the foundation building period. ”

"Do you remember the feeling you had when you drew the primeval moire pattern on the boat?"

Zhao Ning nodded, remembering that at that time, she felt as if there was something hidden here.

"I'm afraid it's an ancient thing."

The water surface was turbulent, and the divine sense infiltrated into it and could not directly find the location of the demon beast, but when the whirlpool appeared, Qin Keyuan blocked this area, and it was impossible for it to escape.

Two sword lights crossed out of thin air, and then the sword lights seemed to form a circle of barriers, gradually fading around, until an invisible barrier covered a hundred zhang in a radius, completely enveloping the area of Qingmo River, unless the strength was above Jindan, no one would know what would happen to Qingmo River tonight.

Seeing this, Zhao Ning stretched out her left hand, and the Devil Cry vine followed her arm, climbing, growing, until it formed a dark purple whip on its own.

She slashed at the river with her whip, but to her surprise, there was no ripple on the river, and there was a roar beneath the river.

Zhao Ning did not stop, just whip and whip down the river, the undercurrent under the river surface surged, countless whip shadows weaved into a net, the moment it touched, the skin would be opened, and the blood flowed sideways.

Suddenly, a huge shadow rushed out of the river.

Here it comes.

The body is huge, covered with scale armor, the long beak is half a zhang long, the legs and feet are unusually short, and the tail is like a wolf's tooth whip, which is more than a foot long, which is ...... Demon crocodile!

The demon crocodile was made a big fuss by Zhao Ning, and Qing Mo Jiang finally rushed out of the river, he roared and rushed towards Zhao Ning, and Zhao Ning retreated.

Qin Keyuan suddenly appeared in front of the demon crocodile, only staring coldly at the demon crocodile, and the next moment, the demon crocodile began to condense into ice from the long kiss, but the demon crocodile was not an ordinary demon beast, his hard scale armor resisted the erosion of the cold poison, and in the roar, the fangs were opened, and the frost on the surface began to crack.

He pounced on Qin Keyuan, but he didn't want a bladeless sword to block in front of him, the sword was bright, and the moonlight was faint.

The demon crocodile is spiritual, as soon as he sensed the power of this sword light, his body curled up, and he wanted to block it with his hard scale armor, but he was forced to face the sword light, and was knocked down to the Qingmo River in an instant, it hissed in the middle of the river, and then flicked its tail, and was about to slip into the river.

"I want to go!"

Zhao Ning sighed, and the whip made of the ghost crying vine was overwhelmingly attached to the river, probed into the river, and dragged the demon crocodile out of the river.

Zhao Ning stared at it, and with a movement of her palm, the aura turned into a sword, and if she moved, the demon crocodile would be split in half on the spot.

"Fairy spare your life!"

At this moment, the demon beast actually made a sound, it was an ugly and hoarse voice, and it was not even possible to hear the male and female, as if it was imitated by vibrating from the abdominal cavity.

Zhao Ning paused slightly, and looked at it coldly.

"Fairy, I haven't eaten people, I just ate some cattle and sheep, really, I want to build the Great Road, I won't eat people."

This monster is terrifying, its eyes are dark green and vertical, and it is full of cunning.

Zhao Ning only asked, "Sacrificing to the Dragon King for a hundred years, you can't do evil." ”

"It's really not me, it's not me, today I saw them send human dolls, and I was scared too. Fortunately, the fairy appeared and the doll was sent back, otherwise my practice would have been wasted. The demon crocodile floated on the surface of the river and said pitifully, "This Jiangyue Village's hundred-year-old sacrifice to the Dragon King really has nothing to do with me, I was born ten years ago. ”

Zhao Ning stared at it, seemed to believe it, and slowly closed the attack.

"You're begging for a sacrifice from Jiangyue Village today."

The demon crocodile paused, "I, I didn't mean it, I'm just greedy." That day, I heard a strangely dressed guy talking by the river, saying that he wanted to sacrifice, and I thought that it must be similar to the sacrifice in other villages, so I quietly appeared, just to rub some sacrifices, I really didn't expect that the sacrifice would be a human child. ”

Qin Keyuan asked again, "In just a few decades, it is unusual to be able to go from an ordinary crocodile without spiritual intelligence to a demon crocodile, and to cultivate to the second order. ”

The demon crocodile is very smart, and knows that if he doesn't explain clearly, he will definitely be trapped and die here.

So it said humbly, "Actually, I don't know, but I know that there is a river under the river, and there are magical things in it." ”

Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan glanced at each other, not surprisingly, this is probably what the ancient moire perceived.

Zhao Ning stared at it, "Take us to see." ”

"Good, good." The demon crocodile responded, and the ghost crying vine wrapped around its body made it extremely uncomfortable, and it looked at Zhao Ning with a blank eye, "Can the fairy loosen up, I can lead the way for you." ”

But it only received a look of contemplation.

The demon crocodile's heart tightened, and he didn't dare to say anything more, so he buried his head in the water.

Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan blessed a water avoidance spell around their bodies, and then entered the water, and the surrounding water rushed to both sides under the effect of the water avoidance spell, so that there was not a trace of wetness on their bodies.

The demon crocodile led them all the way down, this Qingmo River seems to be an ordinary river, but the height of the center of this river is unusually high, dozens of zhang.

It wasn't until he arrived at an underwater cave at the bottom of the river that the demon crocodile glanced at Qin Keyuan, and as soon as he moved directly, the blockade was lifted.

The demon crocodile got in, followed by Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan.

The underwater cavern continued downward and was so dark that there were not even fish or aquatic creatures in it, until it had been swimming in the darkness for nearly a stick of incense.

A new open water came into view, this water was unusually clear and very bright, and they followed the light to see that there seemed to be a crystal clear palace in the distance.

And the demon beast pointed to that side.

"That's it. It's so magical that as long as I sleep nearby for a while, I can feel the demonic power grow a lot. ”

A hint of the breath from the reckless ancient came ethereally.

Zhao Ning looked at Qin Keyuan, but saw that Qin Keyuan's eyes had been staring at the palace all the time.

"What's wrong with Uncle Shi?"

"There's a dragon moaning."

After saying that, he walked towards the Crystal Palace.

Zhao Ning raised his vigilance, followed closely, and got closer and closer, and he could see the surrounding corals, underwater fluorescent creatures like stars, and the aquatic plants were green and swaying, lining the crystal palace with extraordinary softness.

But before they could observe the Crystal Palace for themselves, suddenly a huge shadow came from ahead.

Qin Keyuan's speed was even faster, a sword light flashed, and the rushing shadow suddenly revealed a huge body, which was a huge green turtle, and then, at this moment, many water demon beasts also rushed out from all directions.

They surrounded Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan in the center, staring at them fiercely, the weakest of these demon beasts was in the Qi refining period, and the strongest was already at the peak of foundation building.

They didn't have any intelligence at all, and their attacks were irregular, and they were entangled in the ghost crying vines, barely avoiding a few demon beasts.

The sword light on Qin Keyuan's fingertips flew fast, directly slashing these guys to the ground.

Zhao Ning turned his head suddenly, and the ghost crying vine in his hand shot out, winding and dragging back the demon crocodile that was sneaking away.

Zhao Ning said coldly, "Plotting against us? ”

"No, no." The demon crocodile quibbled, "I rarely come here, I didn't know that there were so many demon beasts gathered here, really." ”

"You think we'll believe you again."

Zhao Ning let out a voice indifferently, his arm shook, and the Ghost Cry Vine was completely entangled, no longer controlled at all, and in his screaming and struggling, it gradually became the food for the Ghost Cry Vine.

Qin Keyuan didn't make any additional moves, he landed in front of the Crystal Palace and looked at the plaque on the door.

Zhao Ning finished cleaning up the demon crocodile, walked to Qin Keyuan's side, and also saw the writing on the plaque, which were two big demon texts, Zhao Ning checked the text of the big demon text in his memory, but simply compared the meaning of the words.

"Ryugu." She was stunned.

Zhao Ning looked at Qin Keyuan in surprise, "It's not that I read it wrong. ”

"That's right." Qin Keyuan affirmed her identification, "It's the Dragon Palace, and it's the Dragon Palace of the Ancient Era." ”

"Why is Ryugu here?"