Chapter 077: Fighting for the Bamboo Shoots and Water Beasts
Going down the southern foot of Yunwu Mountain, near the foot of the mountain, I finally saw a river with strong water, which was the Liuzhu River in the second pass of Jingxiang Palace.
It is rumored that the formation in this Liuzhu River was transformed by the Jingxiang royal family's invitation to a formation master of the Spirit Realm, who invested 100,000 manpower and took several years to transform.
From the upper section of the Liuzhu River to the waterfall, up to ten miles, are the areas that the palace test is allowed to cross, but the upstream water is turbulent, the whirlpool is thick, the water beasts are rampant, the power of the formation is strong, but it is the river section that extends more than 100 meters above the waterfall, the water flow is gentle, the river surface is quiet, and it is recognized as the safest river crossing area.
The so-called blessing and misfortune depend on each other, although this river basin is calm, but there is a waterfall with a hundred feet of fall, if you accidentally fall the waterfall palace tester, it is basically a dead end! Not to mention that the river section here is the most crowded, and it is also the place with the most right and wrong.
Wang Ruoli and a few people came to the river along the waterfall, only to see that at this time, in the river of Baizhang, there was already a group of palace testers who crossed the river, and the scene was noisy.
Although the palace examiners should not rely on external forces to cross the river, within the scope of the rules, the palace examiners still have a lot of ideas and rely on their abilities: although some of them are immersed in the water, they rely on the speed of their bodies to swim fast; some hear that the deeper the river goes, the weaker the erosion of the qi will become, so they plunge into the water and dive from the bottom of the river; some wear water-repellent suits and rely on the gentle flow of the water to slowly pass it; some hold water shields in their hands, which not only reduces the erosion of the river water, but also prevents the attack of water beasts......
Seeing that in the Liuzhu River, a group of people was in full swing, and the children of the Wang family went down to the river in turn, taking care of each other.
"Leaving my brother, the water of this bamboo shoot river is actually a layer of earthy yellow, bottomless, and I look quite terrible. Ruan Jinglun looked at the flowing bamboo shoot river in front of him and frowned.
"Intentionally!" Wang Ruoli said cautiously, "This river is not simple, everyone be careful." ”
"Uh-huh, understood!" Yu Duqiu and the others replied casually.
As he spoke, there was a commotion on the river not far away, with cursing, shouting, and shouting.
Wang Ruoli looked at it, it turned out that the team of the children of the Sima family was crossing the river, but the way they crossed the river made people angry and hateful. At this time, there were many people who swam across the river to cross the palace test, and the children of the Sima family used the speed of their body to step on the heads of other palace testers who were crossing the river to emerge from the water, as if they were stepping on a wooden stake, and they rushed over the water.
Wang Ruoli shook his head, and didn't bother to pay attention to how the dispute surging over there would end, and only sighed in his heart, only Sima Yue had the courage and ability to dare to act like this! This kind of behavior, on the one hand, although it preserved the success of the Sima family's children in crossing the river to the greatest extent, on the other hand, it offended many palace examiners, and it was difficult to say which one would gain and which would lose.
Wang Ruoli couldn't help but look back at the children of the Wang family who were fighting to cross the river at the moment, this Jingxiang Palace test, there were not many descendants of the Wang family, but there were a lot of outstanding children from the side branches, except for Wang Xu, Wang Chen, and Wang Du, who were closer to Wang Ruoxi, and there were two people who attracted Wang Ruoli's attention.
One is Wang Yingshan, who is calm and calm, always giving people a sense of tenacity and strength, and he shined at the clan competition conference before, especially the tough guy fight with Wang Dan, which impressed Wang Ruoli even more.
There is also a dark horse who is only in Wang Chonghuan at the clan competition, Wang Luoying of the branch of Xialan Town. Wang Ruoli felt a little strange, this Wang Luoying has an outstanding appearance, although he was born in a side branch, but with his qualifications, it is only a matter of time before he is promoted to the Wang family, why come to Jingxiang Palace to try, to test the danger, although women self-study palace graduation, not a way to join the army, can also become a female official, inner palace guard, noble escort, etc., but for a woman, it seems that it is not the best choice. However, everyone has their own ambitions, and although Wang Ruoli has doubts, it is inconvenient for him to ask.
The people on the Liuzhu River were noisy and quarrels were frequent, and many palace testers could not bear the erosion of the river and the threat of water beasts, so they had no choice but to withdraw.
"Let's go into the water!" Wang Ruoli took Ruan Jinglun and stepped out first, and Yu Duqiu and a few others also went into the water.
Wang Ruoli entered the water, feeling the erosive force of the river all over his body, as if he wanted to pull all the energy in his body out through the surface of his body.
Wang Ruoli had already been mentally prepared, and while swimming, he secretly used the Red Maple Heart Sutra to fight against it, but the speed of qi recovery was far from keeping up with the speed of loss, and with the passage of time, the speed of dissipation of this qi force gradually intensified.
Wang Ruo was secretly surprised, he had heard earlier that the inhibition effect of the flowing bamboo shoot river on the cultivators of the three paths of the Jitian was much stronger than that of the cultivators of the third stage of Qi training, but he didn't expect this suppressive formation to be so strong? Or was it because of the Red Maple Heart Sutra? Seeing this moment, Li Dazhu, who was only in the Qi training period, was like a normal swimmer, without any obstacles, swimming fast, and he rushed to the front alone, while Wang Ruoli was slow to move and fell last.
Wang Ruo was unwilling to centrifugal, stopped his body, gathered his strength, and unfolded the operation of the Red Maple Heart Sutra, but the situation was getting worse, and the loss of strength was like flying. At this moment, the barrier of the heart field was lost to the extreme with the loss of energy, and it actually cracked a crack in the wall again, and the surrounding river water, as if containing strong pressure, began to flow back, gradually healing the barrier, and refining the base field again.
Wang Ruoli was overjoyed, his whole body was like a whirlpool of strength, frantically and greedily absorbing the strength coming from all sides, especially the faint absorption of the strength from the bottom of the river, which was even more pure and strong.
Wang Ruoli was afraid of attracting the attention of the surroundings, so he hurriedly sank his body completely into the water, and shifted his position from time to time.
On a veranda on the other side of the Liuzhu River, a general wearing a silver helmet and a red robe was originally casually watching the people of the River Palace crossing the river, but suddenly frowned, and said to himself: "Strange, the water flow of the Jieshi River section of the Waterfall has always been gentle, and it has even bred a whirlpool of qi? Could it be that the formation in the river has malfunctioned? Or has the water beast advanced as the year grows? Or some other accident has happened?"
"Captain He, Captain Zhou, the two of you quickly go to the Jieshi River section of the Waterfall to inspect and strictly prevent the small night from causing riots. The Silver Helmet General thought about it, but still commanded. The voice is crisp, it turned out to be a female voice, it turns out that this silver helmet general is Lin Caixiu, the Xiuwei general who sits in the first pass of the Liuzhu River, and is also the only woman among the titled generals of Jingxiangguo.
"Humble and ordered!" The two lieutenants behind him stepped out when they heard the voice.
Wang Ruoli left the potential water, felt the strength from more to nothing again and again, and then from nothing to full, and so on five times, breaking the wall and rebuilding, and finally felt that his base field, on a limited basis, was no longer repairable. After thinking about it, ordinary cultivators probably wouldn't think of tamping the foundation field, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to reclose the heart wall, let alone rebuild it nine times like Wang Ruoli, it seems that the old man in white slapped him on the shoulder that day, it was not simple!
This can't help but arouse Wang Ruoli's curiosity, what kind of character is that old man in white?
Suddenly, the bottom of the river churned, and the stones rolled, like a dragon turning over.
Wang Ruoli only felt a few undercurrents rushing towards him, and sprayed himself directly to the surface of the river, and then a huge fishtail pattern broke out of the water, and slapped on the surface of the river, splashing a large splash. The river is even more undercurrent, the waves are fast, and several ups and downs have pushed hundreds of palace examiners to the edge of the waterfall. Wang Ruoli suddenly encountered an accident, hurriedly rushed out of the waves, and swam to the shore.
"Blue Water Beast!" "The two lieutenants of He Zhou, who had just walked the waterfall river section, exclaimed when they saw this.
The Blue Water Beast, although it is only a low-level water beast, but the adult Blue Water Beast is huge, only nearly thirty zhang long, and now it is drumming water waves in the area of the waterfall, which is almost a disaster for the palace examiner.
The majestic body of the blue water beast rolled in the water again, surging a large wave of water, directly pushing the palace testers far away on both sides.
"Ah...... Don't...... Help......" The voice was terrible, and it fell straight down, but it was more than a dozen palace testers, who couldn't withstand the sweep of the water waves, and fell down the waterfall with the rolled splash.
Wang Ruoli was carried by the rolling waves, rushing towards the direction of the waterfall, at this time, a wave next to him hit and pressed a delicate figure into the water.
"Xiang'er, are you okay?" In the turbulent water, a young man shouted anxiously and swam over.
"No......" The woman just put her head out of the water, and before she finished her reply, she was slapped by the wave carried by the tail of the water beast, and sank straight to the bottom of the river.
"Xiang'er!" the young man shouted anxiously, got into the water, rushed to the woman's side, and grabbed the woman's sinking body with one hand.
Wang Ruoli was quick with his hands and feet, and took advantage of the gap in the waves to quickly climb the stone above the waterfall, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
The young man finally snatched the woman out of the water, and the woman coughed heavily, and finally relieved herself, and was pulled by the young man hand and foot to move closer to the side of the stone.
Approaching the Jieshi, the young man worked hard to push the woman's body up the Jieshi.
Wang Ruoli saw that the two of them were struggling, so he reached out and pulled the woman up to the stone. But seeing that this woman was beautiful, bright and delicate, but at this time, her nose and eye sockets were choked red by water.
The woman covered her mouth and coughed a few more times, and her hands and feet collapsed on the rock.
At this time, a surging wave crashed in, and the surrounding palace testers who had nowhere to dodge, together with the young man who had no time to climb the rock, were swept away by the waves in an instant, and the waves rolled straight to the waterfall.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of lives were broken under the waterfall.
"Chen Gongzi ......" The woman on the stone lost her voice and watched as the young man was swept away by the waves and disappeared from view.
On the shore, He Zhou's two lieutenants led the troops to sit in the town, but there was no chaos, and the blue water beast tossed for more than half an hour before finally reluctantly diving back to the bottom of the river.
"Chen Gongzi, your deep affection for Xiang'er, Xiang'er is toothless and unforgettable!" The woman raised her eyes and looked at the direction of the young man's death, and after a while, she turned to look at Wang Ruoli and thanked her coquettishly, "Thank you Gongzi for helping!" I saw that the woman's apricot eyes were like autumn water, which was pitiful.
"Raise your hands!" Wang Ruo's head tightened slightly, originally thinking that she was a long-term lover! At the moment, he did not want to have more branches, so he took advantage of the fact that the river was a little flat, so he took his leave and got up and re-entered the water.
Faintly sneaking, he seemed to see the woman on the stone, and a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth.
Wang Ruoli safely crossed the Liuzhu River and joined Ruan Jinglun and Yu Duqiu, who were waiting on the riverbank.
After successfully passing the second level of the Jingxiang Palace test, there were only twenty-one children left in the Wang family, and two of them were buried under the waterfall.