Chapter 263: True and False Hebo
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Cangmingbo is living water, and Peach Blossom Village has lived here for generations, relying on this river.
The river is rarely turbulent or gentle, and in the memories of the Taohua villagers, the river seems to have been flowing quietly from ancient times to the present, and there are hardly so many abnormalities.
The first time it was unusual was a hundred years ago, when there was a big flood in the rainy season.
The flood roared, and everyone who crossed the bridge was washed away, and many villages along the coast were washed away.
Later, the villagers dreamed of a hideous black-faced evil ghost, claiming to be the river's uncle, who cruised here and found that the villagers were disrespectful, so they became angry.
The villagers hurriedly asked what could be done to calm their anger.
Then the evil spirit said, "Every ten years, three pairs of boys and girls must come, and they must be sent on the third day of the seventh month."
As a result, this one became the Hebo Festival.
Children are the meat of their parents' hearts, and they have the willingness, but they have to take it out, and in the past hundred years, nearly 30 pairs of boys and girls have been thrown into the river. The villagers could only struggle and watch as the children struggled to drown and disappear.
Strange to say, since then, whether it is plowing the fields and doing some other things, Peach Blossom Village has always been much smoother, anyway, the six animals are thriving, and the population of the entire village has increased again and again, and it has reached the scale that it is today. As a result, this river sacrifice has become a habit.
The second anomaly is that now, the basin-sized blisters in the river are popping up one after another.
From under the piers, it spreads to the rivers on both sides. Soon, the whole river was like boiling water, and it was boiling with hula and hula. The blisters were endless, and the river became turbulent and bubbled outward, as if it would not be long before the water in the middle of the river would come ashore.
"He, Hebo is angry!" The old man in the village was anxious, angry and frightened, he glared at Gongsun Changyao, and pointed sharply: "You, you little girl dare to speak disrespectfully to Hebo! You want to kill the three hundred and eighty-six people in our village! Bastard! Bastard! You, you throw the child in your hand." conAd1(); Otherwise, our whole village will be finished!
How could Gongsun Changyao ever see such a situation?
The width of this berth is about 20 zhang, and you can't see the head or the tail. The blue water of the river has been flat.
But at this moment, it's all white, and it's all bubbles!
The river rushed out, and several times it swooped down on her feet.
"No!" looked at the six children behind them, and there was a strong desire to win in their eyes. They also want to live, they are human beings, if this is how it ...... Then there's nothing left! Push it down yourself, wouldn't you be a murderer?!
Gongsun Changyao asked himself, he couldn't do it.
"Okay......" The old man was so angry that he trembled all over, looked left and right, and shouted: "Come on! Push her down for me!"
Ten big men walked out of a group of villagers, all of whom were like bears.
Gongsun Changyao was in a hurry. I only have the cultivation of two turns of qi, and it is okay to deal with two or three ordinary mortals, but I have to deal with so many at once. Fear...... Today is coming to an end.
She really wanted to shout for help, but she forgot about it at the moment.
Such a tense atmosphere had made those children feel extremely frightened, and at this moment, the approach of ten big men made the children even more frightened, and they all cried out at once. Suddenly, the scene became a pot of porridge, and it couldn't be stopped.
"Are you still human!!" Gongsun Changyao was very scared.
"You were children. You have small children in your family......" she said over and over again, and finally the conversation changed: "A group of big men only dare to do anything to children and women, what is it!"
Gongsun Changyao never thought that one day, his eloquence was so good that he could scare a group of big men. conAd2();
"This ......" A group of big men, you look at me, I look at you.
At this moment, the old man suddenly shouted: "Ahhh......h
Hebo?
Everyone looked back, including Gongsun Changyao, only to feel a cold wind behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that the river behind him rolled into a white column of water, surging into the air, and a strange-looking person was standing on it.
The man was holding a harpoon in his hand, stooping, wearing yellow and white plate armor on his chest, as if he was carrying a black pot on his back, his green face was dark blue, his small eyes were full of ferocity, and his mouth full of fangs was looking at the people on the shore below.
"The time has come, why is the sacrifice coming?" the one who came was not angry and self-threatening, and his voice came down, full of evil and unkindness.
When the villagers heard this, they knew that the person who came must be Hebo.
Hebo!
The old man in the village who had seen the accident immediately pulled a group of people to kneel, his face was bitter and hateful, and he was extremely wronged and aggrieved: "Lord Hebo, you can't blame the little old man, you see that the little old man has prepared the tribute, and it is all this girl who is making trouble!
Following the old man's point, this "Hebo" looked at Gongsun Changyao and the children.
Then he snorted coldly and turned his head and said, "You old thing, don't want to scold me!"
"No, no, no......" The old man was so frightened by this drink that he almost lost his soul.
"But if you've been following the rules on time every time you've been doing it for decades, that's okay this time. The old man hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, and "Hebo" changed his words: "But if there is a next time, be careful that I eat all of you in the village!" The old man praised again and again, and "Hebo" was extremely satisfied at this time. conAd3();
"Well, I'll take this girl with these six tributes. ”
When the words fell, "Hebo" stared at Gongsun Changyao with blazing eyes, and licked his lips with his bright red tongue, but he showed no interest in the six fresher children on the side.
Gongsun Changyao had never seen Hebo, and the so-called monsters had only been heard from books.
I really saw it at this moment, and I felt that this monster was terrifying, and it could control the water in the river to become its own foothold, and it could also speak, isn't this what the master said about the monster in the mortal realm?
It's like, it's like...... At least it's a metamorphosis!
Gongsun Changyao was scared to death. His face was pale, but he bit his lip tightly. I don't know where I got the strength, and I opened my hands like a little hen to protect the child behind me. Keep an eye on the monster and not give an inch.
Die and die!
She didn't regret not listening to her master's words, but she felt that if she listened, these six lives would definitely suffer, and how could she live in her heart?
"But...... What if I come? It seems like I've got an extra life. ”
Gongsun Changyao smiled bitterly in his heart, no wonder Shizun often said that there is only enough strength. Only then can I protect myself and be able to walk Kyushu. Looking at the scenery all over the world, it turns out that this is the case, and you can encounter such a thing when you walk to a small village casually. I really regret not listening to my master. You should practice diligently.
She felt as if she couldn't even see the last face of her master before she died.
Alas, if the master was here, she would definitely have to say something like "I was scared like this because I didn't have a chance to be scared like this", because she was scared like this when she met a wild dog in the mountains along the way.
"It's not promising, it's scared like this. A gentle voice rang in my ears.
Gongsun Changyao's body trembled, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and his beautiful eyes glared at the boss. Slowly turned his head, and when he saw the master standing beside him in black, he was so excited that he hugged Ao Yan.
"Who are you......
The youkai on the water column were furious. Jumping up and shouting, as soon as the word "human" came out, Ao Yan grabbed it with one palm in the air, and the water column under its feet suddenly dispersed, and at the same time, a big hand stretched out from the river. Choke the monster.
"You, you...... Do you know who I am?! Let me go! or ......."
Ao Yan shook his hand.
Boom!
The monster landed on the shore and smashed into the mud. Cangmingbo was restored to its original state at this time.
As for the group of villagers, they were so frightened that they didn't understand anything, so they saw "Hebo" fall and fled one by one, but they didn't dare to run too far, they only dared to watch carefully from a distance.
"The little soft-shelled turtle essence also dares to be presumptuous. ”
Ao Yan had been observing the situation before, Xin Shi Changming was about to make a move, but he stopped him, some of them can be solved openly, and it is better to hide their strength and not show their strength.
"I'll tell you ......"
The soft-shelled turtle spirit crawled out of the pit and was about to shout, when Ao Yan's heart moved, and a water palm suddenly flew out of the river and fell.
Boom!
A five-fingered puddle of large palm prints was shot on the ground, and the soft-shelled turtle essence was completely bombarded in it.
This scene made the villagers stunned.
Feeling that his chest was a little wet, Ao Yan looked down at Gongsun Changyao, who was holding him or being hugged by him with one arm, and comforted: "Okay, don't cry, tell you to be less nosy and practice more, don't listen, now you don't have the ability to deal with trouble by yourself, I regret it, if you follow the usual habits of being a teacher, you will definitely deserve to be scolded, but today ......"
Gongsun Changyao actually stopped crying for a long time, and at this time he was still crying, because he was afraid that the master would be strange.
Listening to Shizun's tone, Gongsun Changyao was overjoyed, touched his tears and raised his head, and met Shizun's indifferent face.
"Well deserved. From now on, it is necessary to practice sword stabbing and slashing and other sword skills every morning, meditate and practice for three hours in the afternoon, and meditate before going to bed at night and before waking up in the morning, you must meditate...... There is no food to eat. Not negotiable. ”
"Woo......" Gongsun Changyao's face turned across, and he felt that the sky had fallen.
Ao Yan didn't care about this disobedient and playful apprentice, her qualifications were only a little worse than Xu Xun, but Xu Xun was able to reach the eleventh turn of qi refining in so many days, and she only practiced qi for the second turn, which was obviously lazy to a certain extent.
On the other hand, being lazy can achieve the second turn of qi training in such a short period of more than a month, and in fact, the qualifications are already very strong.
In order to be able to cultivate an apprentice, Ao Yan even personally modified the Dragon and Tiger Rejuvenation Qi some time ago, modifying it to a level suitable for women's cultivation.
For Ao Yan, who has always loved to be the shopkeeper, it is not easy to do such a thing.
Boom!
Drain the water and kick the soft-shelled turtle essence out, but the monster is very cunning, and it has become a two-meter-long big soft-shelled turtle with its head and tail, but it doesn't come out.
Ao Yan stomped on the corner of its vest, and the soft-shelled turtle spirit was squeezed out of its limbs and head on the spot.
"You...... Hurry up and let me go!, or Lord Hebo won't let you go!" said the soft-shelled turtle spirit angrily.
"Hebo? Hmm? So you're not the master. Ao Yan's eyes narrowed, things seemed to be a bit big, to be able to take a mortal mid-grade monster as his subordinate, the strength of the main master must not be simple.
...... (To be continued)
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