Chapter 18: Water Beasts
Wu Lu has a good water nature, but he can't stand being forced in the water by Wan Yan Long'er and a few people.
Every time Wu Lu's head came out of the water to breathe, fireballs and golden blades followed like shadows. If this continues, Wu Lu's ending is not to be drowned, but also to be attacked by Wanyan Long'er's spell and die in the pool.
Fortunately, Tianchi was big enough, Wu Lu desperately swam to the center of Tianchi, and finally escaped from the attack range of Yan Long'er and others.
With the strength of Yan Long'er's divine sense, the fireball technique could attack at most fifty zhang away, and no matter how far it went, it would already exceed the area where the divine consciousness extended in a straight line.
When Wu Lu swam seventy or eighty zhang away from the shore, he was finally sure that he could avoid the attack of Yan Long'er and the others. He was in the cold and biting water, his frozen lips were white, his whole body was trembling, looking at the angry appearance of Yan Long'er on the shore, he wanted to laugh but couldn't.
Wanyan Long'er accepted the spell and discussed with the other three whether to go into the water to hunt down Wu Lu. Wanyan Long'er and Zhu Lanqige are daughters after all, and there is no reason to go into the water. And Zhang Zhining is injured after all, and it is incompatible to go into the water. So the eyes of the three of them were focused on Sauron, Sauron's face turned pale, and he was going to be courteous in front of Wanyan Long'er, but looking at the cold and biting lake, he thought that his body was still important, so he hurriedly refused, saying that he didn't know how to water and was a famous landlubber.
Yan Long's childish willow eyebrows were upside down, and he stomped his feet and scolded: "It's all a bunch of waste." ”
Looking at Wu Lu, who looked leisurely in the middle of Tianchi, but he could only watch from the shore, and it was still a pity that he couldn't pull his muscles and pick up his skin.
"Look! What is that?" Zhu Lanqige's eyes suddenly widened, and he stretched out his hand and pointed to a place in the Tianchi and exclaimed, "There are living creatures in the Tianchi!"
Everyone stared at it, but it wasn't it, they saw that a hundred and ten zhang away from Wu Lu, there was a large shadow in the water that was slowly swimming towards Wu Lu.
The eyes of the four people met, and a name that was rarely mentioned by the mountain people around Changbai Mountain blurted out in unison.
"Water Beast!"
I don't know when the hunters of the mountains around Changbai Mountain have seen unknown water beasts suddenly emerge from the pond on the shore of Tianchi. According to the hunter's description, the water beast has a golden body, a large head like a basin, a square top with horns, and many long whiskers, just like the legendary dragon, so Tianchi is also called Longtan.
Wan Yan Long'er carefully observed the shadows in the water, and there were really a few similarities with the legendary water beasts.
Wu Lu in the water of Tianchi didn't notice that there were monsters in the water approaching him, and at this time, he was freezing in the water and began to feel dizzy, and he was thinking about whether to continue to dive into the water and swim to the shore on the other side, and sneak ashore while Yan Long'er and the four of them were not paying attention.
"Brother Wu!" I only heard a girl's exclamation on the shore of Tianchi opposite, Wu Lu looked for prestige, but saw that it was Zhou Luowei and Gao Tianbao.
Zhou Luowei stretched out her hand and pointed behind Wu Lu from a distance, wanting to shout but didn't know what to shout, so she could only be anxious on the shore. And Gao Tianbao was even more unbearable, the whole person was stunned, already stunned by the scene in front of him.
Wu Lu turned his head in a sense, and just stared at a pair of black fist-sized eyes.
Behind him was a giant beast with an elephant-like body, a pair of antlers on its head as big as a millstone, a long red whisker evenly distributed under the large mouth of the blood basin, covered with golden scales from the cheeks to the neck and the whole body, and a mist of water when the long tail behind him was raised and slapped on the surface of the water.
Wu Lu's frightened limbs lost their movement and sank straight into the water of Tianchi, and strings of bubbles came out of his mouth and nose. The water of Tianchi was clear, and in the water, Wu Lu opened his eyes and saw that the giant beast had four pillar-like hooves and legs.
Wu Lu, who was constantly sinking, had already lost the desire to live, and he really didn't expect that he would die in the mouth of this monster not long after he had just reached the first level of the Qi cultivation period.
The water beast looked at the six people on the shore with wide eyes, and finally its huge head plunged into the water, hitting a huge splash, rippling layers of ripples on the calm heavenly pool, and sinking into the depths with Wu Lu.
Wu Lu, who was drowning, watched the giant beast get closer and closer, but he was powerless to struggle. Just as the giant beast swam towards the bottom of the pool close to Wu Lu, Wu Lu only felt a tightness in his waist, and it turned out that the tail of the giant beast like an ox's tail wrapped around Wu Lu's waist and swam towards an area in the water with him.
In a daze, Wu Lu only felt that a blue light suddenly lit up at the bottom of the water, and the monster took Wu Lu and swam towards the blue light area.
When approaching the underwater mountain rock in the blue light area, Wu Lu only felt that there was an ancient hexagonal pattern in front of him that he had never seen before, just like the formation in the ancient heavenly book, every stroke, every trace, exuded a faint blue light.
And the unknown monster went straight towards the pattern, and just before Wu Lu fell unconscious, the sound of golden thunder and drums sounded in his ears.
"Kirin!"
This is Wu Lu's name flashing in his mind before he was completely unconscious, and he only then reacted, isn't that monster the legendary Qilin?
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"That means that Wu Lu was taken away by the water beasts in the Tianchi and lost his life?"
In the Fox Fairy Cave, Hu Xiaoling sat cross-legged on a futon, thinking about something gloomily. And the six people in front of them were in shock, and they told Hu Xiaoling everything that had just happened.
When the emotions of the six people calmed down, Hu Xiaoling frowned and said, "Except for the six of you who witnessed this, does anyone else know about this?"
"It's back to the master, it's gone. As soon as Wu Lu was taken away by the water beast, the disciples hurried back to tell the master and beg the master to decide. Wan Yan Long'er said hurriedly.
"You and that Wu Lu don't practice well near the Fox Immortal Cave, what are you doing near the Tiantian Pool?" Hu Xiaoling reproached dissatisfiedly.
"Back to Master... Be... It was Senior Sister Wanyan who was chasing and killing Brother Wu, forcing him to jump into the water of Tianchi, and then he would be taken away by the monster!" Zhou Luowei's eyes were red and swollen, obviously Wu Lu's accidental death made her very sad, after all, when she came to this unfamiliar place, Wu Lu was the most familiar with her, and she was also the most chattered.
After hearing this, Yan Long'er immediately scolded: "Zhou Luowei, don't talk nonsense, it's obvious that the person surnamed Wu jumped into the Tianchi by himself, what's the matter with us? If the master doesn't believe it, you can ask Zoro and the three of them, it is indeed Wu Lu who jumped into the Tianchi by himself!"
"You're talking nonsense! If it weren't for your hard work, how could Brother Wu fall into the Tianchi?"
"Zhou Luowei, can you witness us forcing the surnamed Wu into Tianchi..."
"Okay!" Hu Xiaoling couldn't stand the chatter of this group of disciples, and couldn't bear to scold suddenly: "You all shut up for me!"
"Wanyan Long'er, the four of you will step back first, but remember that what happened today must not be talked about with outsiders, once I know that one more person knows about today's events, then don't blame the master for implementing the new rules!"
Hu Xiaoling waved her hand impatiently to let the four of them retreat first, and then looked at Zhou Luowei and Gao Tianbao who were left behind, and changed their faces with pleasant faces and said: "The two of you have just come to this Changbai Mountain not long ago, and you must not understand the various taboos of Changbai Mountain. Ordinary people must not enter the water of the Tianchi Pond, otherwise it will anger the mountain god of Changbai Mountain, the water beast in the pond that day must be the divine beast under the seat of the mountain god, Wu Lu died under the mouth of the divine beast is also self-inflicted, you two don't blame yourself. ”
"But is there really a mountain god in this world?" Zhou Luowei heard Hu Xiaoling's perfunctory words, and retorted with a look of disbelief: "If there is really a mountain god, is it because Pei Shangxian has great mana, or is it because the mountain god has great mana? I have to wait for Pei Shangxian to come back and tell the truth, maybe I can save Brother Wu's life!"
"Presumptuous!" Hu Xiaoling's face turned to the side, and she scolded: "Don't forget, Pei Shangxian has already made an agreement, she doesn't accept apprentices, I am your master, do you talk to the master like this?"
Zhou Luowei gritted her teeth, and it took a long time before she relented and said, "The master forgives the sin, it was the disciple who was reckless." ”
Seeing that Zhou Luowei was no longer guilty, Hu Xiaoling began to say with a pleasant face again: "It's not that the master underestimated Pei Shangxian, but that after all, the master and I have been in Changbai Mountain for more than 30 years, and I know far more things than Pei Shangxian." Let's just say that the water beast that appeared in Tianchi today is said to be the dragon son and grandson of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and it is also said to be the horizontal and wide beast recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and it is said to be the ancient strange beast Water Qilin... But the teacher still believes that it is a divine beast under the divine seat of Changbai Mountain. ”