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A few days later, a pale cyan shuttle flew up from Meizhou Island, flew upstream along the Mingjiang River, hundreds of miles later, the shuttle descended and flew close to the river, and finally stopped, and a young monk wearing a black robe appeared, tall and strong, with a rough face, it was Hong Jun. ◎ Literature Museum www.◎

Hong Jun hung above the surface of the river, using the Spiritual Eye Qi Technique to probe the underwater situation.

The Mingjiang River stretches for more than 100,000 miles, and Meizhou Island is in the middle reaches of the Mingjiang River, the terrain is gentle, the water surface is wide for more than 10,000 miles, the deepest part is nearly ten miles, the underwater terrain is complex, and there are many fish aquariums living there, among which there are many powerful monsters. One of them is the sword-spine sturgeon, which dives at the bottom of the river all year round and likes to eat silver ore and iron sand, so if you want to hunt the sword-spine silver sturgeon, you must go to the metal-rich section of the river, rather than blindly looking for it.

Before setting out, Hong Jun collected some records about the sword-ridged silver sturgeon, along with the metal-rich sections of the river within 10,000 miles before and after Meizhou Island.

Now where Hong Jun is located, there is a refined iron mine under the river, but the content is very low, and a monk has once encountered the sword-spine silver sturgeon here.

took out a plain white talisman, and with a stroke of Hong Jun's magic trick, the talisman turned into a stream of water and poured onto himself, forming a layer of faint bubbles, encapsulating his whole person in it.

This is a water amulet, and it is necessary for monks to act underwater.

Hong Jun had made a few water amulets before, but he was afraid that it would not be enough, and one water repelling talisman could only last for three hours, and he drew hundreds of them in one go before leaving Meizhou Island, in case of emergency. In addition to the water repellent, the monk also has many methods that can be used underwater, such as the shuttle. Its appearance is similar to that of fish, and it does not leak, which is very suitable for diving underwater, but the resistance in the water is dozens of times greater than that of air, and the mana consumption also increases, and it is not conducive to concealment, which is far less convenient than the water repellent.

Although the sword-spine silver sturgeon is a fourth- or fifth-order demon beast, it is very sensitive and timid, and if it relies on a shuttle to swim underwater, it may not have seen any trace of the sword-spine silver sturgeon. Just scared it away.

But when it comes to crunch time. The shuttle is very useful whether it is running away or chasing enemies.

Hong Jun blessed himself with a water repellent, plunged into the water, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Sink into the water. The water repellent has an immediate effect. The river is kept out. I didn't get a drop of water on my body, but I could breathe smoothly. Acting underwater, the speed is much less than in the sky. And the line of sight is blocked, and the vision is blurry from more than ten zhang away, but fortunately, Hong Jun has just broken through to the third layer of qi refining, and his senses have improved, even if he doesn't use the naked eye, he can sense the direction of the water flow within a hundred zhang of his body.

The sword-spine silver sturgeon only haunts the deepest river bottom, Hong Jun used a thousand jin spell to increase his self-esteem, and quickly sank to the bottom of the water like a stone, the light above his head became dimmer and dimmer, and the pressure on his body became more and more intense, and the bubbles formed by the water spell were slightly reduced, but they could still hold on.

Soon after, Hong Jun's feet touched the ground, stirring up a piece of silt, and there happened to be a long and unknown fish not far away.

Looking around, Hong Jun estimated that it was seven or eight miles deep to the surface of the river, dark and deep, and silent, as if he had entered another world.

He tried to walk a few steps, as if he was weighed on a thousand pounds of burden, and his movement was very difficult. However, with his threefold cultivation of refining the body, this pressure can still be eaten, and his speed has decreased slightly, and he will not be completely unable to walk. Silent Yun is too void and easy to form, completely constricting his own breath, and then using an invisibility talisman, Hong Jun's whole person disappeared under the water, leaving only a layer of faint invisible bubbles, if you don't lean within a zhang to look closely, it is extremely difficult to find.

Controlling the water amulet, Hong Jun swam in the water, silently, and at the same time used his spiritual eye to look at the qi technique, searching the past inch by inch, and everywhere he passed, all the movements within five hundred zhang of his body were now displayed in his mind, whether it was the squid under the potential mud, or the crab and shrimp hiding in the cracks of the stones, they could not escape his perception.

Four or five days later, Hong Jun had thoroughly searched the section of the river within a radius of three hundred miles, and found more than a dozen demon beasts, most of them were low-level demon beasts of the first or second order, but there was no trace of the sword-spine silver sturgeon.

During this period, Hong Jun also met some monks who were also hunting demon beasts in the river, but he sneaked through them secretly and did not show up. Most of these monks travel in groups, rarely act alone, occasionally encounter one or two lone monks, the cultivation is not weak, cautious between actions, and I don't know whether they are guarding against demon beasts or other monks.

"There is too little iron here, and it is too close to Meizhou Island, even if there is a sword-spine silver sturgeon, it will be hunted and killed by other monks. ”

Hong Jun decisively gave up the search, flew out of the river, and continued to fly upstream.

More than two months later, Hong Jun has searched many sections of the river, but still found nothing. Finally, Hong Jun came to a remote section of the river, nearly 10,000 miles away from Meizhou Island, where there is a small silver placer mine under the river, only a hundred miles in range, but the underwater environment is very complex, a large area of reef phosphorite stretches for dozens of miles, the undercurrent surges, there are countless caves, and the river is deeper than other places, the deepest depth is nearly 20 miles.

It is very difficult to find a demon beast under such complex water, and even if the sword-spine silver sturgeon is found, with their speed, the probability of catching it is very low.

Hong Jun came here because of the situation, and he finally knew how difficult it was to find the sword-spine silver sturgeon, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

This was the last section of the river to be rich in metal, and if he couldn't find the sword-ridged sturgeon, he would have to go back down the river and search the section of the river again.

Diving to the bottom of the river, Hong Jun searched for a moment, and his brows furrowed.

The underwater environment here is far more complex than he expected, reefs, algae, caves, large areas are mixed together, and the river water is more turbid, which greatly affects the sensing range, like a huge underwater labyrinth, meandering, the speed of swimming is limited, and the search efficiency is very low.

Hong Jun sighed secretly, but he could only be patient, searching the past place by place.

For five days in a row, Hong Jun had searched more than half of the waters, fifteen miles deep into the bottom of the river, and encountered many demon beasts, but still did not find the sword-spine silver sturgeon.

On this day, Hong Jun turned on the Qi Hope Technique as usual to sense the water flow around him, and just when he was bored, a silver thread suddenly passed by the edge of the sensing range!

"What's that?"

Hong Jun had a thrill in his head, and vaguely felt that he had found what he was looking for. He hurriedly swam in the direction where the silver line had appeared, and soon reached the water where the silver line had appeared, but found nothing unusual. The speed of the silver thread was so fast that it almost flashed away, and Hong Jun didn't see it clearly at all, but he had a light brain, recorded all the things he had seen, and replayed the memory in his brain, freezing it at the moment when the silver thread appeared.

Because the distance is too far, the silver line is only brushed from the edge of perception, and the image recorded by the light brain is not clear enough, only a vague figure, looking at the shape must be a fish, like a spinning, the body is huge, at least three zhang long, but it can reflect a faint silver light under the dark water, and it is by no means an ordinary demon beast.

"This must be the sword-spine silver sturgeon!"

Hong Jun was in good spirits and very excited, he searched for several months, and finally found the trace of the sword-spine silver sturgeon.

The hardest step in hunting a sword-spine is spotting them, and knowing that there is activity in the vicinity makes the next step much easier.

Because the speed of the sword-spine silver sturgeon is too fast under the water, the monk's movement in the water is blocked, and the monks below the qi refining period have no chance to catch up with it, if they chase it with dead strength, it will only be in vain, so it is best to trap it in a narrow place so that it cannot exert its speed.

The most common method used by monks is to set a trap to lure the sword-spine sturgeon into hooking.

The sword-spine silver sturgeon likes to eat all kinds of metal ores, especially those that are silver-colored, and the more aura it contains, the larger the quantity, the easier it is to succeed.

Hong Jun didn't have anything else, but he wanted as many other heavenly treasures as he wanted, and before he came out, he used the Qinglian Treasure to transform a large piece of Gangfeng Silver as bait. This piece of Gangfeng silver weighs three or four catties, which is rare, if it appears in the cultivation realm, it will definitely cause a sensation, and the attraction of those sword cultivators who want to refine their own flying swords is probably greater than that of the sword spine silver sturgeon, if they knew that Hong Jun had this thing in his hand, they would definitely kill him directly.

"Find a place to set a trap...... Hong Jun didn't continue the search, took a turn around the neighborhood, and quickly chose an excellent place to set a trap.

This is a huge grotto, hidden deep in the water, the whole is like a porcelain bottle, the mouth is small and the belly is big, the entrance of the cave is just enough to accommodate the sword-spine silver sturgeon to come in, it is covered by a large area of aquatic plants more than one person high, only a few corners are exposed, very secret. The space inside the cave is very spacious, more than seven or eight zhang in length and width, the four walls are thick rocks, and even the ground is a hard stone, once you enter here, you can see it at a glance, and there is no place to hide at all.

Hong Jun took a closer look inside the grotto, and after making sure that there were no other problems, he began to set up traps.

A day later, the trap was completed, and Hong Jun threw the piece of Gangfeng Silver the size of a human head into the depths of the grotto, and the Gangfeng Silver flashed with a faint silver light in the dark water, and it was difficult to look away as long as he saw it at a glance.

Hong Jun left the grotto, thought for a while, and took out a few pieces of lapis lazuli scattered outside the cave entrance, lapis lazuli is a metallic spirit stone, and it is also one of the favorite foods of the sword-spine silver sturgeon. The sword-spine silver sturgeon is very sensitive to changes in aura, and with the amount of aura contained in lapis lazuli, it can be hooked from afar, and then find the Gangfeng silver in the grotto.

This bait is very shallow, and it can even be said that it is placed naked in front of it, even if the demon beast is not intelligent, it can detect that something is wrong, but the sword-spine silver sturgeon simply cannot resist the huge temptation of metal ore to it, so this trick has been tried and tested repeatedly, and it rarely misses.

After doing all this, Hong Jun hid in the dark outside the grotto, hid his figure, restrained his breath, and waited for the sword-spine silver sturgeon to take the bait.