"Mom!"
The old Taoist priest was so surprised that he forgot that he was still underwater.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he took several mouthfuls of water and struggled wildly under the water.
Seeing the old Taoist priest choked by the water, Jin An didn't have time to think about the Water Goddess's intentions. After hurriedly collecting a few things floating in the water, he dragged the old Taoist priest to the surface with Xiejian.
Ahem...
Cough cough cough…
After everyone landed on the shore, they were all coughing violently and breathing fresh air. They all lay facelessly on the shore, exhausted and without the strength to move a finger.
All that was left was his chest rising and falling violently.
The narrow escape from death along the way exhausted everyone's energy. They really didn't have the energy to move anymore. They just wanted to lie on the shore and have a good sleep. Even if the sky fell, they didn't want to move.
It was not until the body completely relaxed that everyone noticed that their whole body was sore and that many parts of their body were bruised and bruised. These were all caused by the impact in the underground river.
"Cough...cough cough...cough cough cough cough..."
The old Taoist priest coughed for a long time, and after coughing up all the water that had choked his lungs, the first thing he said was to pour out the bitter water to Jin'an: "People always say that there are three major hardships in life: punting, blacksmithing, and selling tofu. Because you have to get up early and stay late every day to make a living. As a veteran, I think it should be added to the hardship. It is not easy for tomb robbers to rob a tomb. Not only do you get up early and stay late, but you also have to be chased by dead people and choked by water."
"Little brother, I feel like I'm full right now, and my stomach is full like I've been pregnant for six months."
"Okay, stop being such a mouthful. I looked at the moonlight above my head. It's going to be dawn soon. Let's quickly confirm where we are now so that we can rush back to the Dragon King Terrace to join the others."
Jin An's words reminded everyone that the large cavalry guards who had experienced a series of narrow escapes and collapsed on the shore from exhaustion had already stood up and lined up in a serious manner without the orders of General Duwei.
These cavalry guards are indeed the soldiers personally trained by General Duwei, and each of them is the best among the best.
At this time, everyone saw clearly that there was a flat lake in front of them, and they had just swam out from the bottom of the lake.
Although the mountains after night all have pitch-black outlines and they all look the same, this does not bother the Feng Shui masters and old Taoist priests who know Feng Shui and can look up at the sky and observe the geography.
After briefly identifying the star position, they quickly located where they were at this time.
They were a bit different from Longwangtai. They had to follow the river in the mountains, find the mouth of the river, and walk back more than ten kilometers before returning to Longwangtai.
Everyone was worried about the long nights and many dreams. They didn't care about their tired bodies and hungry stomachs, so they rushed all night to keep up their spirits. Along the way, they could only eat bread that was soaked in water, white and swollen in dry food bags to satisfy their hunger.
"Mr. Jin'an, why do I think the Water Goddess is very familiar with you? After she saw you, Mr. Jin'an, she didn't kill us. Instead, she gave you gifts, Mr. Jin'an?"
On the way, the wailers brothers struggled to finish chewing the dough, which was swollen by blisters and looked like wax. After running all night, their hungry stomachs finally had something to rest on, and everyone had time to think. The wailers asked Jin An curiously. road.
As a result, before Jin An answered, the old Taoist priest who had recovered from the shadow of choking on the water had already winked and said: "You can also see it, hey, old Taoist, I have already seen my little brother when I was in the Hanging Coffin Burial Canyon. We must be old acquaintances with the Water Goddess."
Then the old Taoist priest told everyone how Jin An met the Water Goddess on the first day he came to Fucheng.
Of course, the old Taoist priest is not stupid enough to reveal that Jin An once injured Xiao Hanba when he was walking in the underworld. It is enough that people in the Five Zang Taoist Temple know about it.
After hearing what the old Taoist priest said, everyone looked at Jin An in surprise.
That look of admiration and awe was just short of giving a thumbs up and praising Taoist Jin An, you are really awesome.
Jin An glared at the talkative old Taoist priest and said, "Actually, it's not as complicated as everyone thinks. The Water Goddess is probably just repaying kindness."
"She fell into the water and drowned. She was married back to the Dragon Palace by the Dragon King and became the Water Goddess. She was killed by the Dragon King. I killed the Dragon King today. It is normal for her to repay her kindness."
The younger brother who had the most problems among the mourners nodded after hearing what Jin An said: "But I just think that Elder Jin An is awesome."
Jin An: "?"
After all, Jin An almost killed Xiao Hanba, the son of the Water Goddess. He felt a little guilty and did not want to talk more about this topic, so he changed the topic: "This time I went to the Yinyi River to pacify the Dragon King, and it was thanks to the Water Goddess that I He helped us many times, including taking away the human flesh figurines in the hanging coffin burial canyon, leading us to break the Qimen Dunjia situation, and finally helping us eliminate the corpse-carrying craftsman."
"As the saying goes, when you drink water, don't forget the well digger. When we eat the water drawn by the Water Goddess, we must not forget the Water Goddess."
"I propose again that we come together to wish the Water Goddess and her family an early reunion of mother and son, find a cemetery for them, and bury them together in a coffin. The most important thing for a family is to be neat."
"As a human being, you must not be ungrateful."
The old events in Jin'an were brought up again.
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Everyone thinks Jin An's words are reasonable, but they always feel that there is something wrong with Jin An's words? You can't tell what's wrong?
"By the way, speaking of the tomb, the Lord of Teng Kingdom was nailed to death under the Yinyi River by four dry bone stakes from the Dragon King Platform. How did he escape from being burned in the catastrophe of wind and fire and find us for revenge?" The captain general at the front said with a thoughtful look.
Mr. Feng Shui thought and nodded: "The reason why the Lord of Teng Kingdom was able to escape from the drought bone pile and be burned in the wind and fire disaster should have something to do with the underworld ferryman monkey, which finally detonated the corpse elixir and caused the collapse of the main tomb... As for what happened specifically Those changes are not known to us outsiders, I am afraid only the dead Lord of Teng Kingdom knows about them."
"What is the flesh and blood pearl that the Lord of Teng Kingdom spit out from his mouth at the last moment? Is it also a corpse pill?" General Duwei was curious.
Mr. Feng Shui pondered for a while and replied: "The kings and emperors of the past dynasties would ask for medicine in their old age, eager to take elixirs and live forever. The king of Teng Kingdom must have collected many precious herbs from famous mountains and rivers. He took a lot of miraculous medicines, otherwise it would not have been possible to refine so many poisonous medicine residues and hide them in the corpses of his nine sons..."
"Those are not real corpse elixirs. At most, they are the residue left after Taoist priests made elixirs. They are hidden in corpses through mechanisms to guard against tomb robbers."
"The leader of the Teng Kingdom kept the best elixirs to himself, which is in line with his selfish and monopolistic character. Because there are amber stones, corpse-suppressing tablets, and soul-nurturing trees to nourish his body and mind. The divine soul ensures that the body will not decay for thousands of years, and the pill he took into his stomach may have been infected by the corpse energy for thousands of years, and finally transformed into a real corpse pill."
Even if the mountain road is rugged.
The Feng Shui master was walking and talking, but his heart was still not beating, his breath was not panting, and his breathing was steady. This showed that a master who usually pays attention to cultivating Qi has successfully cultivated Qi.
On the other hand, although the old Taoist priest also practiced Qi, he was not so calm and relaxed. He was out of breath along the way and had to stop from time to time to dig out the mud from the mountain with the soles of his shoes that weighed several kilograms.
The old Taoist priests feel more like ordinary people.
He is just an ordinary wandering old Taoist priest who knows more Taoism than ordinary people.
"It's a pity. Even if we crushed the Dragon King to ashes, we still couldn't see the Dragon King's true appearance in the end. Is he a sole face?"
"Before I went to the tomb, I was always curious about what the dragon king in folklore looked like, and I always wanted to see his true appearance."
The old Taoist priest took off his shoes, leaned on the big tree to pick out the mud with branches, and patted the mud that fell into his shoes on the tree trunk. After that, the old Taoist priest put his shoes back on and continued to catch up with everyone.
The old Taoist priest said this.
Regret actually arose in everyone's heart.
When they first met the leader of the Teng Kingdom, the leader of the Teng Kingdom was completely covered with dragon scale jade armor.
When Jin An broke the amber stone, the leader of Teng Kingdom was immediately burned in the fire and turned into a bloody corpse with no skin on his body.
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The more than ten kilometers of mountain road was not easy to walk. Even though Jin'an and the others worked hard, until the first white fish belly appeared at the end of the sky, the sun rose in the east, and when dawn fell, there was still a hilltop away from the Dragon King Terrace.
suddenly.
Rumbling, the earth shook, and the heaven and earth roared.
"what sound?"
The line stopped.
But not long after, everyone's expressions changed. The deafening sound of the river broke the silence of dawn, and the turbid waves rushed forward like a yellow turbid dragon entering the river. The vibration made the earth tremble and roar.
The water level of Yinyi River, which had stopped flowing, rose again.
When he saw the surging river rushing past his eyes, the captain's expression changed.
"Master Fu Yin made an appointment with me. If we don't come out of Thousand Corpses Cave and go ashore, we will never let the tide of Yinyi River rise! No! Something happened at Dragon King Terrace!"
The captain's face darkened, and everyone did not dare to delay on the road any longer. Jin An carried the old Taoist priest on his back, and with a flick of his body, he jumped out like a leopard in the dense forest, and his back could not be seen for an instant.
The rest of the people also followed up at full speed.
When they arrived at the Dragon King's Terrace, they saw that it was in a mess. There were many wounded soldiers lying on the shore, wailing and screaming. The Dragon King's Temple and four bone piles had all been destroyed.
Jin An and the others appeared at Dragon King Terrace with so many people, and there was a lot of commotion, which immediately attracted the attention of the guards at Dragon King Terrace.
"Captain...Captain?"
"Captain, are you still alive?"
"Captain, are you a human or a ghost now? Wasn't the Cave of Thousand Corpses flooded by the Yinyi River?"
When the guards saw the captain, the three monks of Bailong Temple, the Taoist priests of Wuzang Taoist Temple, and the cavalry guards who had returned alive, their faces looked pale with shock and they were not sure.
"explain!"
"What the hell is going on here?"
"Why did the water in the Yinyi River rise again before we returned to the Dragon King Temple? Is the little Hanbao lost?"
The captain looked at the devastation and wounded soldiers in front of him, his eyes were so angry that he wanted to spit out fire. At this moment, the captain's face was terrifyingly gloomy.
These are all elite soldiers he brought out with his own hands.
He just went to the Cave of Thousand Corpses and killed and injured so many elite brothers. How could he not be angry? His eyes seemed to be bursting with anger.
The captain's face is gloomy now, but he has not lost his reason and calmness. He has already maintained a good temper. His ten fingers hidden in his sleeves and robes are clenching tightly, and the phalanges are cracking. He is trying his best to suppress the burning heat in his chest, which is like lava. of anger.
Seeing the wounded soldiers lying around, the old Taoist priest and the three monks from Bailong Temple also changed their expressions. Then they took out the golden sore medicine, started to set bones, stop bleeding, and cooperated with the doctors to treat the wounded.
The old Taoist priest and the three monks of Bailong Temple were no weaker than the doctors of the medical clinic in terms of breaking bones and healing injuries.
It was not until this moment that the guards were finally convinced that the captain in front of them was a living person and not a dead person who was drowned in the Cave of Thousands of Corpses. The shocked iron-blooded soldiers immediately turned red in their eyes and began to cry loudly. General Duwei must avenge his brothers.
Why.
Jin An, who was originally a little complacent about pacifying the Dragon King, looked at the miserable situation in front of him and sighed with depression.
Soon, everyone learned what happened.
It turns out that the reason why the group of antique dealers did not all go to the ancient tomb this time was because their goal from the beginning was not just to seize the water-sharing beads.
These antique merchants were divided into two groups and infiltrated into their ranks. They used their hands to break through the layers of mechanisms in the main tomb, waiting for an opportunity to snatch the Tengguo artifact, the water-dividing drop, from the body of the Tengguo leader.
On the other hand, not long ago, a group of people suddenly attacked and besieged the Dragon King Temple, as well as the mysterious Taoist master who was responsible for suppressing and controlling Xiaohanba Duanjiang in the Yinyi River.
In terms of time, it was almost the time when Jin An broke the amber stone of the Lord of Teng, when the Lord of Teng was caught in the catastrophe and burned, and when the monkeys snatched away the water drops from the body of the Lord of Teng.
Now it all makes sense.
Why did he kill the monkey but failed to find the water droplet on the monkey? At that time, there was another person in the tomb with the water droplet and successfully escaped.
After the man escaped from the ancient tomb, the antique dealer who was ambushing outside joined his accomplices and immediately launched a sneak attack on the imperial guards.
Although the mysterious Taoist master who could control the small Hanban was very powerful, he was besieged by several people, especially the antique merchants who took advantage of their sympathy for ordinary people and massacred ordinary soldiers. They took the opportunity to besieged and injured the mysterious person. The master Taoist priest robbed the coffin containing Xiao Hanbao.
In other words, the Tengguo artifact, the Water-Dividing Bead, as well as the Xiaohan Demon, have all been acquired by that group of antique dealers.
Just now, everyone was immersed in the joy of annihilating the antique dealers in the lower tomb, but now it was gone. Although Jin An and the others killed many masters of the opponent, the antique dealers also got what they wanted.
As the guards talked, they couldn't help crying again.
They thought that even the captain and the others were dead in the tomb, and that all the masters on their side were dead.
"These people really don't want to die!"
After hearing the cause and effect, the captain finally could no longer suppress the hot anger in his heart.
"These thieves actually dare to attack and kill the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and openly defy the imperial court! Investigate it for me, seal off the entire Wuzhou Prefecture, and investigate every city for me! Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must dig out these thieves. A hiding place!”
"Wang Guang, you lead a group of troops and rush to Fucheng to see if Master Fuyin is okay. Use my military talisman to mobilize the remaining cavalry guards in the barracks to protect Master Fuyin! I'm worried that since those thieves dare If they take action against us, they will also take action against Mr. Fu Yin. Only by disturbing the muddy waters of Wuzhou Prefecture will they have a chance to escape!"
General Duwei issued military orders one after another.
The soldiers present, whose morale was low and had lost their backbone, suddenly regained their morale and found their backbone. Everyone shouted and began to take action vigorously and resolutely.
"Taoist Priest Jin'an, abbot, and all of you, I'm sorry. I'm afraid this celebration banquet for pacifying the Dragon King case won't be finished in a short time. After I pacify the Wuzhou Prefecture rebellion, I'll have a feast one by one another day. I’ll pay you a visit and thank you.”
"Don't worry, everyone, the imperial court will never break its promise."
General Duwei clasped his hands and faced Jin'an and the abbot of Bailong Temple, apologizing to them one by one.
…
Who would have thought.
After they landed, they faced so many changes one after another.
Jin An and the others all understood the captain's heavy mood at this time. After staying to treat all the wounded, everyone said goodbye to each other, and then left the Dragon King Terrace dragging their exhausted bodies.
Mr. Feng Shui left together with Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Xi Jian. After all, the Five Zang Taoist Temple was all male, and it was not suitable for the goddess to stay overnight. The goddess went back to her own residence first.
Walking on the road, when only the four of them were left, Mr. Feng Shui made a surprising statement: "Taoist Master Jin'an, I was in the tomb before. Because there were so many people talking, I couldn't say more."
"Actually, my wife has already guessed why those people are so deliberately planning to seize the Teng Kingdom's sacred artifact, the Water Bead..."
"They should be eyeing the Cave Heaven Paradise that is about to open!"
"The Cave Heaven Paradise that will be opened this time is somewhat special. My wife happens to know a little bit about it. Before going to the tomb this time, my wife once said that the Cave Heaven Paradise has appeared in this world, and the age of great struggle is about to come."
