My lungs were choked with water and my upper jaw was bleeding from the fishhook, which made me tremble all over, but it was far less shocking than the endless fear.
I never thought that I would become the old man's big fish underwater. He kept pulling the fishing rod left and right, causing me to get closer and closer to the water.
"No!" I yelled in terror, struggling downward with all my strength, trying to fall to the bottom of the water and escape the grasp of the fishhook.
But this caused more blood to flow from my upper jaw, and it was so painful that I couldn't use any strength, so I could only passively be pulled upward by the old man.
"The big fish has taken the bait. Haha, it has taken the bait. She is fine..." The old man smiled happily and pulled the fishing rod hard.
"Ahhhh." I roared in pain, my body getting closer and closer to the water, because he was moving up and down me.
Through the clear river water, I finally saw the old man's eyes under the straw hat. Those eyes were blood red, like a monster's blood red, staring at me with a strange red light, and the corners of his mouth were strangely raised, "Haha, I'm hooked. "
"No!!!" I yelled in my heart, grabbing the fishing line with my left hand and the fishhook with my right hand, trying to take it out of my mouth.
But in an instant, he was shocked to find that his hands were stuck to the fishing line and hook, and the vitality in his mind surged upward along the fishing line, and finally entered the old man's body.
He is actually devouring my vitality.
A tide-like feeling of weakness permeated my whole body, causing me to lose the strength to struggle and my body rose rapidly.
"No, Zen, Xianjia, save me!" I shouted in my heart, wondering why Zen and Xianjia were not with me at this critical moment.
I don’t know whether this was a meditative environment or a dream, but the strong sense of crisis feedback from the depths of my soul made me conclude that if I was really pulled out of the water by the old man, I would really die!
Seeing that I was only two meters away from the water, I was heartbroken. Suddenly I thought of my grandma’s words telling me not to come to Hualian City. Although I was wary at the time, I didn’t really take it to heart.
But I didn't expect that at this moment, I actually encountered a life and death crisis, and it was an irreversible and irresistible life and death crisis.
An emotion called regret flooded into my heart.
"Cough cough cough..." I made an uncomfortable sound from my throat, blood stained the surrounding river water, and I muttered vaguely to myself, "Cough cough, grandma, grandma, I'm sorry, I..."
I regretted not listening to my grandma's words. My eyes gradually dimmed. She would have been so heartbroken if she knew I was dead.
Could it be that he died like this? Who is the mysterious and terrifying old man? Why did he want to kill me?
However, I will never have the chance to know all this.
But just when I was resigned to my fate and about to be pulled out of the water, I suddenly felt my chest sinking, as if a hard object appeared in my arms.
A freezing cold air came out of the hard object and penetrated into my body. Then I was shocked to find that my hand was no longer stuck to the fishing line and could move.
At this moment, my mind was shaking, and I knew what was in my arms.
Netherworld Trident!
I was so ecstatic that I quickly took out the wooden box in my arms, opened the lid, took out the trident inside, and without saying a word, threw it towards the old man on the shore of the water.
Whoosh.
The Netherworld Trident turned into a black light and headed straight for the old man, as fast as lightning.
"Eh?" The old man exclaimed, "There is such a treasure? But...it's useless."
After finishing speaking, the old man stretched out his right hand and just caught the dim light, and suddenly exclaimed, "This, good boy, this is actually a low-grade Taoist weapon. You are worthy of it... However, even if it is a low-grade Taoist weapon, there is nothing you can do." I must not."
"Drink!" The old man suddenly shouted, and a majestic and terrifying aura suddenly erupted from his body. The surrounding mountains, rocks, sky and other environment turned into a long river of illusory energy and poured into the old man's body.
And the ghost light caught by him actually transformed into the appearance of the netherworld trident, and it was even more dark, as if it had been surrendered.
"Wha, what?" I was shocked and frustrated at the same time.
Who is this old man? His strength is so terrifying that even Taoist weapons can't do anything to him.
"Haha, this low-grade Taoist weapon is mine. Unfortunately, the spirit of the weapon inside has not yet grown up, but you can take it back and refine it...what, this is impossible!"
The old man was just halfway through his words when he suddenly exclaimed in shock, and then something happened suddenly.
I saw the Netherworld Trident suddenly glowing brightly, spreading rapidly, and bursting out with a force that destroyed the world.
Finally, the trident exploded with a bang, and the surrounding environment was shattered with it, including the river water around me and the fishhook that penetrated my upper jaw.
When I escaped from the trap, the surrounding environment suddenly became as dark as ink, as if I was swallowed by the black light erupted from the trident, and everything above, below, left and right was as black as ink.
"Ah ah ah, no, what the hell is this? How is it possible, no!!!" The old man's scream suddenly came from the front.
I quickly looked up, my heart beating wildly, and I saw the old man rising slowly into the sky as if bound by an invisible force. His body struggled violently but to no avail.
The eyes turned into holes as dark as ink, as if they were assimilated by the black light erupting from the trident, and a steady stream of black smoke poured out of the mouth, ears, and nose.
Even the pores all over his body are gradually exuding black energy.
"Ah ah ah, no no no... what the hell is this!! Boy, you have to die!" the old man howled miserably, obviously suffering from unknown pain.
Just when the pores on the old man's body seemed to be exuding a lot of black energy, he looked at me and shouted bitterly, "Just wait for me, I will kill you in this life!"
Immediately afterwards, a burst of dazzling red light suddenly erupted from the old man's body, slowly pushing away the darkness surrounding him, and then fled away into the distance at high speed, letting out a shrill scream.
Click, a loud bang.
The dark environment around me was fragmented. My body sank suddenly, and I suddenly woke up. I found myself sitting on the bed, with the cold moonlight filling the room.
"This is it!" I quickly looked around in fear, and the familiar scene in the bedroom came into view. I breathed a sigh of relief, and my whole body was already dripping with sweat.
Whoosh.
Suddenly a burst of white light flashed, and endless figures of Hu Huang Chang Python surrounded me.
"Xiao An, you're back, you scared me to death. It's great that you're okay." Zen suddenly said anxiously, with a lingering fear on his expression.
Hu Tiangang and many immortals also looked at me with great worry, as if they knew what happened to me.
"What the hell is going on?" I looked at Chan and Hu Tiangang with fear, "Who was that old man just now? Isn't he a dream?"
"No." Zen said with a solemn expression: "The old man is a powerful man with a terrifying level of cultivation, but what comes to you is only his soul."
"It's the soul of a powerful person who has reached the heavens to come to me?" I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and asked with lingering fear.
"That's right, the old man used the method of leaving the body to kill you." Hu Tiangang's expression was more solemn than ever before, "But I really can't understand why such a rare big shot would come to kill you, and you have been in recent years. I haven’t offended any powerful enemies.”
Hearing this, I was also very puzzled. I am an honest person. I have been taking care of things at home for so many years and I have not offended anyone.
Even if you are trying to show someone something to subdue a kid, you should be polite first and then use force. If it doesn't work, you will teach them a lesson, but those sneaky guys are just minor characters.
Why did such a scary old man suddenly come to my door today? Why did he want to kill me? Who did I offend?
"It's really strange. I haven't offended anyone. How could someone suddenly come to kill me?" I asked Zen again with lingering fear, "Can you notice how powerful that old man is? Also, I was in deep danger before. Why didn't you show up?"
This makes me very depressed.
"The old man's strength is too terrifying. The moment he found you, he separated us from your body, and used magic to create an illusionary space to trap you in it. Although we can see your figure, But I can't enter it to save you." Hu Tiangang finished speaking in one breath, then looked at Zen: "As for the old man's strength, I can't feel it, but it must be terrifying!"
"That's right!" Zen said solemnly at this time: "Although I can't feel the specific strength of the old man, I can make some guesses based on the terrifying fluctuations in his Taoist skills."
Zen took a deep breath and said again: "That old man, at worst, is a powerful person who has reached the realm of refining gods and returning them to the void. He may even have reached the level of Yang Shen to leave the body!"
"What?" I exclaimed when I heard this. My heart almost burst in shock, and I even took a breath.
The cultivation system of Buddha Men's disciples is from the first to the fourth Zen heaven. When you reach the fourth Zen heaven, you can condense the Buddha's bone relics and the Dharma body outside the body. We don't know the higher realm for the time being.
The Taoist cultivation system is to refine the essence into qi, refine the qi into spirit, and refine the spirit into emptiness. A powerful person who has reached the third stage is already as powerful as a rare being.
He was truly a giant, even the leader of a religion. His soul could go to heaven and earth, and enter and exit the body at will.
And above the level of refining the gods and returning them to the void, there is the realm of Yang Shen leaving the body. When you reach this terrifying state, you can cultivate a body outside the body, and your cultivation level is equivalent to the existence of a great god in the way of heaven and humanity.
That really can no longer be described with the word horror, but fear. Yes, it is the fear that is powerful enough to make anyone feel.
But I just don’t understand. How can I, a small character in the Second Zen Heaven realm, offend such a powerful and terrifying existence?
Hu Tiangang's face looked gloomy and uncertain, but I said: "The old man, the Yang Shen has not yet reached the state of leaving the body, but it should be soon, maybe in the late stage of refining the spirit and returning to the void or the stage of Dzogchen."
I didn't feel the slightest relief when I heard this. Whether it's the God of Refining who is still empty or the God of Yang who leaves the body, if you want to kill me, it's just a snap of your fingers.
