Chapter Ninety-Three: The Pillar of the Sea (1)
In the evening, in the Dragon King Temple, five people sat around listening to Mao Hu talk about his plan.
"Didn't the old fisherman say that as long as there is a red line floating on the pillar, you can go to sea. It's the rainy season now, and I'm afraid the water level won't necessarily drop for the next month. In that case, let's let the red line float out in advance!"
Mo Erha scratched his head: "It's easy to say, the pillar of the sea is deeply embedded in the silt, and it doesn't move in the face of such a big wave, how can it be pulled out with our strength alone?
Mao Hu stretched out his index finger and shook it left and right: "The pillar is dead, but the person is alive, if you can't pull the pillar, we can't pull the red line." I have inquired today, and the so-called red line is actually a red hemp rope tied to the sea post. It is not uncommon for people to get soaked in the sea throughout the year, and it is often replaced by people. So it's not difficult to move the rope up a bit. ”
"It's true that the red line has drifted up, but it's still a little inappropriate. Tuchen said: "The old fisherman has been fishing in the harbor for a day or two, and the direction of the red rope and the water level on the coast must be nine times out of ten. Although this operation can make the red line float out of the water, he must be able to see through it at a glance. ”
Mao Hu was confident: "Of course it is not enough to do such a trick and foot, why does the old man have to wait until the red line floats out of the water before he is willing to go to sea? Because he is superstitious, because he is afraid of the dragon king." Since he is afraid of the Dragon King, why don't we let the Dragon King come and consult with him personally, and does he dare to say a 'no'?"
Zi Ning raised her head slightly: "What do you mean...... With illusion?"
Mao Hu patted his thigh: "It's still Miss Zining who is smart, that's exactly what it means." Let's let the red line out of the water first, the old man must be suspicious when he sees this, and then use a little trick. Even if we don't go to sea, he will beg us to go to sea in turn!"
The little fox pouted and whispered softly: "Hmph, what else do you say that you do things openly, don't you use illusions now......"
"You ......" Mao Hu's eyes widened, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to take a deep breath: "I'm ...... I am a 'white lie', understandable...... Understandable ......"
After thinking for a while, Tuchen felt that the plan Mao Hu said could be tried, so he nodded and began to assign tasks: "Brother Mao and I will go tonight to adjust the position of the red line on the sea pillar, and Erha and Zi Ning will find a way to get a grass dragon over." Early tomorrow morning, when the old man sees the red line coming out of the water and is suspicious, the little fox will cast an illusion and let him take us out to sea!"
The little fox nodded with a smile on his face, and hugged Tuchen's arm again: "Okay, okay, Brother Tuchen, don't worry, I promise to complete the task!"
Mao Hu grinned and shuddered when he heard this: "No wonder the nine-tailed fox can confuse the king of Xu, your fox clan was born with this potential......"
When night completely fell, several people acted separately according to the plan, Mo Erha and Zi Ning went to collect grass branches to make the Grass Dragon King, and Tuchen and Mao Hu went to the Dragon King Harbor to raise the red line on the sea pillar. The little fox naturally wouldn't stay alone in the Dragon King Temple, so he followed Tuchen to the Dragon King Harbor.
The weather was fine that night, with no clouds and a bright moon in the sky, and the moonlight reflected on the water, making the whole sea look sparkling, revealing a cold beauty.
The three of them came to Longwang Harbor and quickly found the location of the sea pillar. Mao Hu stood on the shore, took out a piece of yellow rune paper from his arms, and said a few words in pain, and a row of red characters immediately appeared on the rune paper. Then he grabbed the rune paper between his two fingers and pointed forward quickly, and the rune paper immediately burst into flames and turned into a fireball the size of an apple and slammed into the water.
The fireball did not go out when it entered the water, but burned more and more vigorously, becoming bigger and bigger.
As the size of the fireball grew, so did its brightness, and soon the nearby coast was illuminated with a clear picture of the underwater situation. The whole of the sea column and the red hemp rope on the pillar are completely revealed.
It was only at this time that the three discovered that the so-called pillar out of the sea was actually not an artificially carved pillar, but an aquatic plant that grew in the sea. It is an aquatic plant called 'sea bamboo', so named because it resembles a giant bamboo. This kind of sea bamboo generally grows in deep seas, and this one does not know why it grows on the coast, so it is called the sea pillar by people tied with hemp rope.
Mao Hu looked at the bottom of the water and snorted softly: "I said how can this sea pillar be so strong, no matter how big the waves are, it doesn't move a bit, it turns out that it is an object in the sea." Tie a rope for such a trivial matter, you two don't have to make a move, just watch from the side, and in the blink of an eye, Grandpa Mao will be back!"
Tuchen and the little fox squatted on the shore and looked down, only to see Mao Hu holding his breath and diving directly four or five meters to the location of the red rope, and untied the rope in three or two clicks, and then turned around and began to float.
Everything seems to be going very well, as Mao Hu said, it is something that can be done in the blink of an eye.
Just when Tuchen was thinking about tomorrow's plan in his heart, the little fox suddenly patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Tuchen, look at Uncle Mao, it seems to be ...... Something doesn't seem right......"
Hearing this, Tuchen put away his thoughts, looked at the water intently, and found that Mao Hu was swimming to the surface of the water with his hands and feet. His movements were very violent, but the effect was almost none, and he was still five or six meters underwater for half a day, and there was nothing to surface at all.
From the time Mao Hu dived into the water to now, nearly three minutes have passed, and even if his lung capacity is hit again, he should be close to the limit and cannot continue to stay underwater. Thinking of this, Tuchen also became nervous, and shouted loudly: "Brother Mao, are you okay?"
At the same time as Tuchen opened his mouth to ask, Mao Hu suddenly stopped struggling, took out another piece of rune paper in his arms, drew it a few times in an extremely chaotic manner, and then threw it to his feet. But because it was in water, the rune paper, which was supposed to burn to take effect, had no effect at all. And just when Mao Hu bent down to throw the rune paper, Tuchen also saw the situation under him, and his heart suddenly chuckled!
I saw that under the hairy beard, there were two arms with a dark blue glow tightly grasping his ankles, those two arms were unusually thin and the nails were extremely long, and at a glance you knew that they were not ordinary hands!
Although Mao Hu has extraordinary skills as an exorcist, he is on the verge of lack of oxygen when he is in the water at this time, and he cannot use his great ability. Tuchen no longer hesitated, and immediately held his breath and jumped down, came to Mao Hu's side, and drove the internal force to gather qi into a blade and slash at the two light blue arms.
However, just as the air blade touched those two arms, Tu Chen's whole person suddenly shifted, and the qi blade slashed close to his arm and slashed into the air! At the same time, more arms stretched out from the mud, grabbed Du Chen's hands, feet, and body, and firmly fixed him to the bottom of the water!