Fifty-two, the ferryman of the Heishui River
The man went down the hill to the Blackwater River, the ferryman stood up, the man leaped into the boat, and the boat went all the way along the island.
Winding around the back of the island, the boat approached the island's cliff, on which grew an old tree with a crooked neck, and the body of the tree was crisscrossed by cracks.
The branches stretched out like the arms of a man struggling in pain in the air of the Blackwater River, and the branches broke and fell misiably to the trunk of the tree with its bark.
The man motioned for the ferryman to hold the boat close to the cliff, and reached out to open a hole in the thick tree, which was covered with dead grass.
The man went into the hole, which was damp and oppressive, the ground was waterlogged, and the smell of rotten wood filled the cave.
The man walked deeper into the cave and came to a place where the roots of a tree were intertwined in the innermost part, and the roots were tightly embedded in the stone wall.
The man bent down and picked open the roots of the tree, revealing an old man in sackcloth tightly entangled in the roots.
The old man's sackcloth was tattered, his face was shriveled and fleshless, his eyes were closed, and his long beard was entwined around the roots of the tree.
I leaned on the man's shoulder and looked at the old man, and it always felt so familiar.
The man looked down at the old man and said, "Are you okay here?"
The old man didn't react like a piece of wood.
"Master Xishan, after so many years, you are lonely here?" I was suddenly shocked, and my heart couldn't help but speed up, shocked, surprised, and sad.
I didn't expect to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to find them, and the people of Xishan, who I was worried about every day, were tortured like this in the hole of this old dead tree, and the people of Xishan, who were once round and chubby like peaches, were tortured like this, and I couldn't help crying.
The man raised his hand to wipe the water droplets on his head, and looked up at the top of his head: "This dead wood is in disrepair and leaking rain?"
I hurriedly suppressed the tears in my eyes and looked carefully at the emaciated people on Xishan.
The people on Xishan seemed to be dripped by my tears and opened their eyes.
He looked at the man, and suddenly his eyes blinked vigorously at me, and I looked at the "Man of Xishan" with tears in my eyes.
The people on Mount Xi stared at me and suddenly laughed, their laughing beards shaking at the roots of the trees.
"What are you laughing at?" the man asked the man with a frown.
"I suddenly saw the sea. Hahaha!" the people on Xishan laughed very happily.
"What sea?" the man asked the man from Xi Mountain.
"The sea that goes out is much bigger than your blackwater river. "The Master of Xishan" said to the man with a hippie smile, but his eyes looked at me with a look of relief.
The man frowned, and suddenly became angry: "Don't say so mysterious, do you know that there is a newcomer in your cave?"
When the master of Xishan heard this, he raised his eyes and looked at the man: "Tiger poison still doesn't eat children, not to mention that she is your daughter-in-law." ”
"Hmph, what about my daughter, all the people in this world are people who are used by me, otherwise he should not exist in this world. The man snorted coldly and said coldly. ”
"Daughter? Does this man have a daughter? and he is also caught in this hole?" I looked around at the hole, and found that there was also a cage of intertwined roots in the deep corner of the hole.
I crept over and looked away from the roots of the tree to see a woman in the cave with her long hair scattered and blood oozing from the corners of her mouth, sitting dying against the stone wall.
I stretched out my hand to brush away the hair on the woman's face and found that it was Chunjiao.
I was stunned, this man was Chunjiao's father, and this father actually did this to Chunjiao.
"You are the incorruptible body of Vajra, I can't help you, but I want you to watch the fate of your disciples and grandchildren, and know what it's like to be in pain. As he spoke, the man raised his hand and turned into a bright light in the air, and a void dojo appeared in the light.
In the dojo, the senior brothers and disciples dressed in the robes of the Immortal Library sat in an empty clearing, a group of hellish beasts surrounded them, and a group of evil ghosts stared at them from outside the evil beasts, holding swords, halberds, knives and forks in their hands.
"You run to the cliff in front of you, climb out of the cliff and you will live, and if you can't run you will die. A demon leader said to the senior brothers and disciples in Taoist robes.
A few young Taoist priests were afraid to get up from the ground and run towards the cliff in a hurry, and several evil ghosts standing in front of the evil beasts immediately jumped on the evil beasts with swords, halberds, knives and forks and chased after the young Taoist priests, and the evil beasts ran very fast, and the Taoist ghosts who caught up threw knives and forks or swords and bayonets at him, but after a while, these young Taoist priests were killed completely.
These demons and beasts are playing a game of hunting.
The man on Xishan closed his eyes tightly, unwilling to look at it again.
The man seemed to be very pleased with the atmosphere and laughed when he saw it.
I was so angry that I heard a "boom" cry.
The man looked over to me, and he walked over.
He came to Chunjiao's front and looked at Chunjiao: "Are you scared? You don't look like your mother at all, your courage is really small." ”
Chunjiao trembled and sobbed.
The man frowned, got up and took the Void Dojo, turned around and walked towards the Venerable Man of Xi Mountain.
"You just need to tell me where the 'Prismatic Moon Knife' and the box containing the 'Flying Feather Cloak' sealed by the Hundred Flowers Fairy are that the Nine-Tailed Xuanhu Saye left at the beginning, and I will let you out and release your disciples and grandchildren. The man said to the man on the mountain.
The man on Mount Xi closed his eyes and did not answer.
The man snorted coldly: "Although Chunjiao is not one of your beloved disciples, she is taught under your seat after all, what will happen if I turn her into a 'human puppet' and stay in this hole with you all day long?"
Chunjiao trembled and panicked when she heard this.
The people on Mount Xi meditated cross-legged without moving.
I looked at this man-like man, and my heart was filled with resentment and disgust.
The man stopped talking and turned triumphantly and walked in the direction of the outside of the cave, and I was about to attach it to his shoulder, and I heard the man on the mountain sigh softly.
The man smiled smugly, and walked more briskly.
I looked back at the man on Xishan, only to see him staring at me, and I hurriedly flew over and squatted in front of the man on Xishan.
The man on Xishan stretched out a kind of hand, and the golden light flashed in his hand, and a few words flashed one after another.
The man from Xishan waved me to hurry up.
I was defeated three times in front of the people on Xi Mountain, and flew to catch up with the man.
The man was about to get into the ferryman's boat.
At this time, a shout came from the sky: "Guosu, return my daughter quickly!"
"Is that you?" the man looked up at the clouds.
I saw the Peerless Immortal Gu appear in the clouds and shouted to the man: "Guosu, even if you don't remember the relationship between husband and wife in our past, but also because she is your biological flesh and blood after all, you can let her go." ”
"Let her go? You were so ruthless when you took her away from me, and now you tell me to let her go? You now know that she is my daughter? It is true that she has my blood and bones in her body, but am I afraid that I will have no blood and bones after I have achieved great things?"
"You can have your blood and bones, but I only have Chunjiao, please let her go, not to mention that she also helped you poison the tea of the Master of Xishan, so that you can catch the Master of Xishan, and you can control the Immortal Book in the palm of your hand.
"She's done a great job in subduing the Immortal Library this time, but she shouldn't have come and stole my things while I'm napping.
"She's not stealing from you, she's just hearing me say that you wrote me a lot of letters when you were courting me, and she just wanted to get them back and see how you treated me in the first place, and want to know what your tender side looks like. Jiang Jue suddenly burst into tears.
The man Guosu seemed to be moved by what Jiang Jue said and fell silent.
After a while, the man Guosu suddenly burst out laughing: "The past is over, there is no need to mention it again." You and I have long since broken off the relationship between husband and wife, and she will no longer be my daughter from now on, you should no longer use the past as a rhetoric to bind my mind, I will achieve my great cause and prevent me from dying. ”
Jiang was so angry that he trembled all over, and tears broke down in his voice: "Are you really so ruthless to me? Don't you have any more feelings for me, don't you know that I have been expelled from the immortal ...... for you?"
"Don't be verbose, the past is gone, you and I are strangers from now on, the world is for my use, you are just a chess piece for me to complete the great cause. Guosu interrupted Jiang Qiu's cry impatiently.
"Okay, since you say so, I won't say more, I just ask you to return Chunjiao to me, and you and I will have nothing to do with it in the future. Jiang Jue wiped the tears from his face with his hand.
"I won't return you, Chunjiao's body is my blood and bones, I won't let her be left out. Guosu said coldly to Jiang Jue.
"Since you know that she is your blood and blood and your daughter, why do you still lock her up in this 'withered cave'?
"Even if she has my blood in her body, she will be punished for breaking my rules. She can't give it to you, I have to practice the 'Bone Transformation Dafa' now, and then I need Chunjiao to exchange blood for me." After Guosu finished speaking, he didn't want to be entangled with Jiang Jue anymore, and urged the ferryman to row the boat quickly.
With a desperate look on his face, he threw out the dust and hit Guosu, who flew away and landed on the bow of the boat.
The ferryman on the boat suddenly called Jiang Jue with Artemisia, and Jiang Jue used all his strength to pull the dust to the ferryman with his life.
The ferryman dodged left and right, and the artemisia in his hand also made him superb, but he couldn't resist the fierce attack.
After half a pillar of incense, the dust was thrown out at the ferryman, and the dust turned into a silver needle to pierce the ferryman, and the ferryman could not dodge the silver needle pierced his arm, and the ferryman covered his arm and quickly retreated to the boat.
Jiang absolutely chased after him, chased to the bow of the boat in the air to the ferryman out of the killer, and when the dust fell, it became a steel knife to slash at the ferryman, and the ferryman was about to be in a different place.
The fruit on the bow of the ship immediately made a move, and knocked over Jiang Jue with one palm, and when Jiang Jue fell from the bow of the ship, he suddenly struggled to take off into the air and retreated to the clouds at great speed.
The ferryman threw down the artemisia in his hand, pulled out the belt on his waist and threw it at Jiang Jue, and the belt immediately wrapped around Jiang Jue's body and tied Jiang Jue firmly.
The ferryman's hand shook and he was about to pull Jiang Jue to the boat, Jiang Jue opened his mouth and suddenly spit out a peacock feather, and the peacock feather immediately turned into a sharp knife in the air.
Jiang Jue spun around and flew to the sharp knife, rolled and cut the belt of the ferryman who was bound to his body, put away the peacock feathers and fled.