Pipa County is in the center of Nanzhou, the palace of the former Jiangnan Dynasty was built here, after the death of Jiangnan, the palace was not demolished, but as a residence for the private visit of the current Shengchang Tianzi Weifu, has been quietly taken care of by local officials.

In the eyes of the local people, the palace is now just a gorgeous spectacle that can be seen from afar.

Those generals who once held halberds in their hands could no longer appear from the palace gates, let alone walk in the crowded streets and chat with the people again.

Everything came to naught six or seven years ago, and disappeared with the rolling wolf smoke.

After rushing for a few hours, Hua Wenxiang and his party finally saw the river with a slightly reddish water color, this river is extremely peculiar, the water color is red and clear, the whole river is wide and narrow, and there are no rules at all.

Everyone walked up the Red River along the Red River, which was praised as "strange shape" by the people of Jiangnan, and Luo Bei, who had not drunk all the way, walked side by side with the ragged old man in front to lead the way.

When he was a child, several guests in the house often took the young Luo Bei to play around Nanzhou, and occasionally flipped through some geographical atlases, Luo Bei thought that he had a certain understanding of the general topography of Nanzhou.

Soon, a few people who walked along the river came to the capital of the Jiangnan Dynasty, Yi'an City, Luo Bei went to visit the elder Du Huan alone, the old man and the young man who was the lord of a county said a lot of past things, most of them were about him and Shan Xiongxin, and then the old man wanted to leave the helpless Luo Bei in Pipa County, which was considered to do something for his old friend, but was politely rejected by Luo Bei, who wanted to go to Jianshan to learn swords.

In the prosperous and huge city of Yi'an, because the Red River runs through the whole city, it feeds a lot of boatmen, this Red River is extremely long, extending in all directions to a small half of Nanzhou, and finally joins the magnificent Tianxiang River, flowing to the East China Sea.

Ships of all sizes on the river, small boats and large boats, come and go, staggered and staggered.

Generally speaking, the big ships are cross-county ferries, and they carry a lot of people and cargo, so business has always been prosperous.

And those small boats and rafts can only carry tourists around in Yi'an City for sightseeing and earn a little money.

Hua Wenxiang and his party walked on the shore, a little embarrassed, not knowing which ferry to choose to go to Yunzhong County.

Under a relatively tall arch bridge, there is a flat boat with no passengers slowly rowing out, and there is an old man on the boat who is dressed in a hat, and his face is unhappy.

He came to the shore, hung the boat on a stake beside him, sat down on the ground, and then looked at the calm river, sighed heavily, and felt even worse.

The inexplicable ripples on the gradually bright red water surface became more and more intense, and the boats and boats began to shake uncontrollably violently, and the people on board panicked and shouted.

Suddenly, a huge column of water rose in the center of the spreading ripples, reaching a height of more than ten zhang, and the surrounding boats were scattered and torn apart at once, and the people in the boats fell into the river, frantically beating the water.

Countless fragments of ships scattered by the water column suddenly floated on the bright red water, coupled with the chaotic crowd that kept swimming to the shore, at this moment, it was like a river of hellish blood frantically devouring everything around it, terrifying and infiltrating.

The people on the shore didn't have time to pay attention to the strange scene in front of them, and hurriedly shouted to save people, and everyone handed them to the people in the water with long things such as flat poles and oars.

In the sky, a huge column of water exploded, splashing countless water droplets, and it was like a short rain of blood on the side of the arch bridge.

The water column disappeared, and a fierce beast like a scarlet dragon hung in the air, looking down at the beings in front of it.

Not far away, except for the ragged old man's face as usual, Hua Wenxiang, who was looking for the boat family, was all shocked and vigilant.

Those Li people were even more dumbfounded, and they actually stopped the rescue at hand, and everyone knelt down and bowed.

The body of the dragon beast is huge, more than ten zhang long, hovering in the air, covering the sky and the sun, but under a closer look, if there is no ugly and hideous appearance and violent and wanton atmosphere, it does have a bit of a real dragon posture.

At this time, two huge waterspouts suddenly rose from the water of the Red River, flying to both sides of the river, sweeping away the people of Li who were kneeling on the ground.

Seeing the waterspout coming towards them mercilessly, the people who stayed in place realized their ignorance, and when the disaster came, they flew separately, and everyone hurriedly got up and fled, not caring about the life and death of the person who fell into the water.

On this side of the arch bridge, chickens and dogs jumped for a while, and it was a mess.

Hua Wenxiang and Luo Bei were bloody, running towards the crowd who were desperately fleeing.

At the last moment, Hua Wenxiang rescued a little girl who ran away from her family and stood in place crying.

On the arch bridge, Luo Bei quickly retreated after Luo Bei picked up and fell.

Tu Yuelian ran to safety with the black ball, and the ragged old man walked leisurely, following behind.

In the air, the huge dragon beast roared and roared, as if shouting out the resentment of countless years.

In the distance, there were soldiers in armor who kept hearing the sound and rushed to organize the people to flee the riverbank, and the county guard Du Huan also drove to personally order his generals to fight the evil dragon.

However, many people in the water and on the shore who could not escape died on the spot.

Everyone drowns.

The two giant waterspouts were still chasing the crowd wantonly, and the dragon beast shook its body, approaching the more eye-catching Hua Wenxiang and Luo Bei in the crowd.

The two of them, one red and one yellow, fled separately, but to no avail, the evil dragon's big claws swooped down on Luo Bei, who was holding the spirit sword, and the big tail threw directly at Hua Wenxiang behind him.

Because the disparity in strength was too great, the two couldn't resist it at all, so they flew out and spit out a mouthful of thick blood.

Hua Wenxiang, who fell to the ground, found that there was an old man in a hat and a hat sitting on the opposite shore, looking at everything calmly, and shouted anxiously: "Old man, run for your life." ”

The old man in the cloth looked at the flowers and smiled: "I can't move my legs and feet." ”

Hua Wenxiang, who endured the pain, jumped into the water and swam directly to the opposite bank, and without saying a word, he picked up the old man on his back and ran away.

The old man in the cloth was full of smiles, but he said with disgust: "Put me down quickly, you have wet my clothes, my boat is still in the river, how can I live without him." ”

Hua Wenxiang ignored the old man, and after putting him far away, she continued to come back to assist Luo Bei, who was fighting hard.

Du Huan ordered his subordinates to continue to mobilize men and horses, and then asked people to hurry to support Luo Bei and Hua Wenxiang, who were fighting.

Tu Yuelian, who had run away, handed the black ball to the ragged old man and returned with the red dagger in her sleeve.

The evil dragon was entangled in the aura of martial green, and after the big tail flew Luobei, it suddenly burrowed into the water, and then the entire Red River rolled and rioted, rising wildly.

Hua Wenxiang reacted quickly and shouted, "It's not good, this beast is going to flood Yi'an City." ”

When the surrounding soldiers saw this, they heard this again, and they didn't know what to do, how could they resist the evil dragon of the Wulu Realm.

Du Heng, who had been looking embarrassed, finally shouted loudly: "Everyone hurry up and retreat." ”

If we continue to consume like this, we will only make more unnecessary sacrifices, and there are enough corpses on the ground and in the water.

The water-based flower Wen Xiang didn't care about the consequences, and jumped directly into the water to find the evil dragon.

The old man in the cloth came to the river bank again, and said with a smile: "The little insect has a lot of grievances, and it has already grown scales, thinking that flooding Yi'an City will make the people of the city increase your cultivation for you, if you succeed, how will I row a boat to carry passengers and buy wine in the future?"

After that, the old man took off the hat and threw it into the river, and the water surface that had overflowed the shore suddenly stopped rising, and then the hat floated upside down on the water, and there was a small scarlet snake with four legs in the hat pit that kept struggling, as if trying to jump out of the hat pit and escape back to the Red River, but the simple hat was like a solid cage, trapping the scarlet snake.

The waters of the Red River began to sink slowly, and upon closer inspection, only the old man in the cloth was intact, and the rest was full of corpses and ship fragments.

Luo Bei witnessed all the movements of the old man in the cloth just now, and now he only hopes that this old man is not an enemy.

When Tu Yuelian arrived, the battle was already over, but there was no trace of Hua Wenxiang.

Luo Bei coughed up a mouthful of blood again, supported the ground with his sword, and said weakly: "Xiaohua seems to have jumped into the water." ”

With that, Luo Bei walked towards the riverbank.

Tu Yuelian stopped Luo Bei, who was seriously injured, "I'll just go." ”

The girl who didn't say a word jumped directly into the water, but she couldn't see anything clearly in the muddy water, and after several air changes, Tu Yuelian still didn't find Hua Wenxiang.

The old man in the cloth smiled and said, "That kid is fine, little girl, come up quickly, don't let this sewage stain your body." ”

Tu Yuelian didn't listen to the words of the old man in the cloth, and continued to ventilate and go into the water.

Luo Bei heard the old man's words of concern, and saw the old man smiling at himself, his vigilance was reduced a little, and he no longer held on, dispersed his Xuanhuang qi, and tried to meditate to recover.

The next moment, Hua Wenxiang, who had not been ventilated, finally swam to the surface of the water to breathe, and saw that everything around her had become calm, and looked at Luo Bei on the shore, and the latter said that the evil dragon had been removed.

The next moment, Tu Yuelian also swam to the water, the two of them with soaked clothes and messy hair looked at each other directly, Hua Wenxiang's expression smirked, Tu Yuelian breathed a sigh of relief, ignored the big-hearted guy, and swam directly to the shore.

The old man shook his head and smiled.

Luo Bei on the shore stretched out his hand to pull Hua Wenxiang to the shore.

Above the Red River, the bright red water has faded.

Behind the weeping willows not far away, the cautious black ball looked east and west, and made sure that there was no danger, so he slowly came to the side of the riverbank, and walked to the side of Tu Yuelian, who squatted down and brought his ears closer.

Hei Qiu'er asked in a low voice, "What about the evil dragon?"

Tu Yuelian snorted, "What about the old man who walked with us?"

Hei Qiu'er smiled: "That old madman said that there are some things, you have to go first, and the bad thing is that you will come to us in the future." ”

Luo Bei knew about this, and he drank with the ragged old man a few days ago, so he said that he would leave for a while in the past few days and go to Zhong He to do some things.

Hua Wenxiang couldn't understand the strange old man who wanted to take her as an apprentice, but her intuition told him that the old man was not bad, so there was no need to be more serious about this matter.

The old man in the cloth on the other side sat cross-legged next to his boat, looking at the black ball who was whispering to the girl who fell into the water, his eyes were complicated, as if he recalled the past, and he was distracted for a long time.

(End of chapter)