"It liked little Meng'er very much. It even rolled up the wooden basin with its tail and sent little Meng'er ashore. The black shadow also disappeared on the river. When the villagers picked up little Meng'er and went to find you, But they couldn't find it anymore. They thought that the Dragon King only had one child, so they took little Meng'er back to the village to raise him."
Zhao Ning had already guessed such a story, and at that time she should have been rescued by Qin Keyuan, and went down the Qingmo River and entered the Nanjing Kingdom.
The rain had stopped, but the road was still slippery. The two mortals walked extremely slowly up the hillside.
The woman continued, "Little Meng'er was not born in our village. She was picked up from the mountain by the villagers. The people in the village just looked at her and took care of her, but that year the Qingmo River burst its embankment, causing a huge disaster. The water poured in, and the priest said that the Dragon King must be sacrificed in advance. The children sacrificed to the Dragon King are always under the age of one month, so Xiao Meng'er naturally became one of them, and you happened to be born in that month."
As she spoke, she secretly looked back at Zhao Ning's expression, only to see that there was no expression on Zhao Ning's face, and even his eyes did not fluctuate much.
The woman didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. "After Xiao Meng'er was rescued, he was raised in the village for ten years. During these ten years, villagers often saw the figure of the Dragon King appearing next to Xiao Meng'er. They were scared at first, but later they found that as long as Treat Xiao Meng'er well, and the Dragon King will not be angry, and everyone will feel at ease. When the tenth year came, the time to sacrifice to the Dragon King came again. The village chief had the courage to ask the Dragon King, the huge black python next to Xiao Meng'er, I asked the Dragon King if he still needed sacrifices, but the black python took little Meng'er and left the village the next day."
"With the Dragon King gone, the sacrifices naturally stopped. Everyone thought that there would never be such a thing like killing a thousand swords in the future, but they didn't expect that the next ten years would become more and more difficult for the village. In the past few years, there has been a famine. , the villagers said that there was actually a famine outside and there was nothing to eat, but it was more serious in our village than outside. A few months ago, the Qingmo River surged out of a whirlpool, and the villagers who cast nets on the river were thrown into the river, and everyone was I saw a pair of huge eyes in the whirlpool in the river."
"Only then did we know that the black python that took away Xiao Meng'er was not the Dragon King. The real Dragon King was still at the bottom of the river, and he was already very angry because he lost a sacrifice. The situation in our village in the past few years is that of the Dragon King. The village chief and the priest called on the villagers to discuss the sacrifice again. "
Speaking of this, the woman hugged the child tightly, buried her face in the swaddling clothes, and burst into tears.
The woman's husband didn't speak from the beginning to the end. He looked at the crying daughter-in-law, closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, he said in pain, "I am useless, I can't protect the child."
Zhao Ning remained silent, not knowing whether he was lost in the past story or whether he saw the tomb not far away.
Several people walked to the tomb. The rain had stopped. The woman wiped her tears and pointed at the tomb and said, "This is your mother's tomb, and the two next to it belong to your brother. Your father went hunting with the villagers in the mountains more than ten years ago. He was accidentally pushed off the cliff by a wild boar. When the villagers found him, he was no longer human and could not carry him back, so they buried him on the spot."
Zhao Ning looked at the words on the tomb. The words on the tomb were crookedly written, "The Tomb of the Xiang Liang Family", while the other two tombstones read "The Tomb of the Xiang Family Dabao (Second Treasure)", which were tombstones erected by the villagers.
She watched quietly as Qin Keyuan handed over three sticks of incense that had just been lit.
Zhao Ning took the incense and took half a step forward.
"My name is Zhao Ning. It was my uncle who got my name for me. I am grateful for your grace in life. I will come back to see you."
"Zhao Ning can't catch up with you for the last time. I only wish you a safe and smooth reincarnation and happiness."
Touch your forehead, bow down, worship three times, insert the incense stick into the ground in front of the tomb, step back and kneel down, and kowtow.
The green smoke floated into the air, sending Zhao Ning murmuring blessings across the distance of reincarnation.
After stopping in front of the tomb for a while, Zhao Ning stood up and returned to Qin Keyuan.
The woman wiped her tears and said, "Your mother will be very happy to know that you have come back and become an immortal."
Zhao Ning looked at her, raised her hand, and the light from her palm dispersed into light spots and fell on the woman and child. The soaked clothes were dried instantly, and her body felt warm.
"This...is this?"
Zhao Ning smiled lightly, "Don't be sick."
Although it was just a few words, she seemed to feel that all the pain in her body disappeared, and the pale child in her arms became rosy.
This is a blessing from the immortals.
She suddenly knelt on the ground. Her husband beside her knelt down before she could figure out the situation.
Before she could say thank you, the two people in front of her had already disappeared. She heard the voice of the Immortal left in her ears, "We will help you solve the problem of the Dragon King's request for sacrifice. Don't let them sacrifice lives in the future." .”
"The Immortal has great kindness, and the Immortal will enjoy immortal blessings forever." The woman kowtowed heavily, telling the earth and the sky her sincerity.
At night, outside Jiangyue Village, in the middle of Qingmo River.
Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan stood on the boat.
"Back then, the only monster here was the black python, and there were no other monsters."
"Could it be a monster that has been born in the past few years? However, mortal spiritual energy is scarce. How could a monster with the power to overwhelm the river be born within ten years? This strength is at least in the foundation building stage."
"Do you still remember the feeling you had when you were drawing ancient cloud patterns on the boat?"
Zhao Ning nodded, remembering that time, she felt like there was something hidden here.
"I'm afraid it's an ancient thing."
The water surface was turbulent, and spiritual consciousness could not directly find the monster when it penetrated it. However, when the whirlpool appeared, Qin Keyuan sealed the area, making it impossible for it to escape.
Two sword lights passed through the air, and then the sword lights seemed to form a barrier, gradually spreading around, until an invisible barrier covered a hundred feet in radius, completely covering the area of Qingmo River. Unless the strength is in Jin Above the pill, otherwise no one would know what will happen in Qingmojiang tonight.
Seeing this, Zhao Ning stretched out her left hand. The Ghost Crying Vine climbed and grew along her arm until it weaved itself into a long dark purple whip.
She struck the river with a whip, but surprisingly, there was no ripple on the surface of the river, but there was only a roar below.
Zhao Ning did not stop, just whipping the surface of the river with whip after whip. Undercurrents surged under the river surface, and countless whip shadows were woven into a network. The moment they touched, the skin and flesh would be ripped open and blood would flow freely.
Suddenly, a huge shadow rushed out of the river.
coming.
The body is huge, covered with scales, the long mouth is half a foot long, the legs and feet are unusually short, and the tail is like a wolf fang whip, more than ten feet long. This is... the demon crocodile!
The demon crocodile was so excited by Zhao Ning that he made a big fuss in the Qingmo River and finally rushed out of the river. He roared and rushed towards Zhao Ning, who turned back.
Qin Keyuan suddenly appeared in front of the demon crocodile, and only stared at the demon crocodile coldly. The next moment, the demon crocodile began to condense into ice from its long snout, but the demon crocodile was not an ordinary demon beast. His hard scales withstood the cold poison. erosion, roaring, fangs opened, and the frost on the surface began to crack.
He rushed towards Qin Keyuan, but he didn't expect a sword without an edge to stand in front of him. The sword was bright and dimmed by the moonlight.
The demon crocodile is spiritual. As soon as he sensed the power of the sword light, he curled up and tried to block it with his hard scales. As a result, he faced the sword light and was instantly knocked away to the bottom of the Qingmo River. He hissed loudly in the river, then flicked his tail and was about to slip away into the river.
"Want to leave!"
Zhao Ning let out a roar, and the Ghost Crying Vine was made of whips and clung to the river surface. It penetrated into the river, and tied up the demon crocodile and dragged it out of the river.
Zhao Ning stared at it, and with one movement of her palm, the spiritual light turned into a sword. If she moved it again, the demon crocodile would be split into two halves on the spot.
"Fairy, spare your life!"
At this moment, the monster actually made a sound. It was an unpleasant and hoarse sound. You couldn't even distinguish between male and female. It was like a sound imitated by vibrations in the abdominal cavity.
Zhao Ning paused slightly and looked at it coldly.
"Fairy, I have never eaten people. I just ate some cattle and sheep. Really, I want to cultivate a great path, and I will not eat people."
This monster is terrifying, its eyes are dark green vertical pupils, full of cunning.
Zhao Ning only asked, "Sacrificing the Dragon King for hundreds of years is not your fault."
"It's really not me, it's not me. I saw them sending human dolls today, and I was also scared. Fortunately, the fairy appeared and sent the dolls back, otherwise all my efforts in practice would have been wasted." The demon crocodile floated on the river, pitifully He said, "This century-old sacrifice to the Dragon King in Jiangyue Village really has nothing to do with me. I only became aware of it ten years ago."
Zhao Ning stared at it, seemingly believing it, and slowly stopped her attack.
"You are asking for sacrifices from Jiangyue Village today."
The demon crocodile paused, "I, I didn't mean it, I was just greedy. That day I heard a guy dressed strangely by the river saying that he wanted to offer sacrifices, so I thought it must be similar to the sacrifices in other villages. , he showed up quietly, just wanting to get some sacrifices, but I really didn’t expect that the sacrifices would be human children.”
Qin Keyuan asked again, "It is unusual to be able to transform from an ordinary crocodile with no intelligence to a demon crocodile in just a few decades, and even reach the second level."
The demon crocodile is very smart and knows that if he doesn't explain clearly, he will definitely be trapped and die here.
So it humbly said, "Actually, I don't know, but I know there is a river under the river, and there are magical things in it."
Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan looked at each other, and as expected, this was probably what the ancient cloud pattern had sensed.
Zhao Ning stared at it and said, "Take us to see it."
"Okay, okay." The demon crocodile responded. The ghost crying vines wrapped around its body made it extremely uncomfortable. It looked at Zhao Ning longingly, "Fairy, can you relax a little, so that I can lead the way for you."
But it only received Zhao Ning's half-smiling look.
The demon crocodile immediately became nervous and did not dare to say anything more. He just immersed himself in the water.
Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan blessed their bodies with a water-avoiding spell, and then entered the water. The surrounding water rushed to both sides under the action of the water-avoiding spell, leaving them without any moisture on their bodies.
The demon crocodile led them all the way down. The Qingmo River seemed to be an ordinary river, but the height in the center of the river was unusually high, dozens of feet high.
Until they reached an underwater cave at the bottom of the river, the demon crocodile glanced at Qin Keyuan. He moved directly and the blockade was released.
The demon crocodile got in, followed closely by Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan.
The underwater cave continued downward, and was extremely dark. There were no fish or aquatic creatures inside, until it took nearly an incense stick to swim in the darkness.
A new piece of open water came into view. This water was extremely clear and very bright. They followed the light and saw that there seemed to be a crystal clear palace in the distance.
And the monster pointed in that direction.
"That's the place. It's particularly magical there. As long as I sleep nearby for a while, I can feel that the demon's power has grown a lot."
A hint of aura from the vast ancient times came vaguely.
Zhao Ning looked at Qin Keyuan, only to see Qin Keyuan's eyes fixed on the palace.
"What's wrong, uncle?"
"There is a sound of dragon roaring."
After that, he walked towards the Crystal Palace.
Zhao Ning was extremely vigilant and followed closely. As he got closer and closer, he could see coral clusters all around, underwater fluorescent creatures like stars, and green water plants swaying leisurely, which made the Crystal Palace look unusually soft.
But before they could observe the Crystal Palace on their own, a huge shadow suddenly appeared from the front.
Qin Keyuan was faster, a sword light flashed by, and the rushing shadow immediately showed its huge body, which was a huge green turtle. Then, at this moment, many water monsters rushed out from all directions.
They surrounded Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan in the center, staring eagerly. The weakest of these monsters were in the Qi refining stage, and the strongest were already at the peak of foundation building.
They have no intelligence at all, and their attacks are irregular. Zhao Ning is entangled by the ghost crying vine and barely avoids a few monsters.
The sword light at Qin Keyuan's fingertips was so fast that he directly cut these guys to the ground.
Zhao Ning turned around suddenly and shot out the Ghostly Crying Vine from his hand, entangling the sneaking demon crocodile and dragging it back.
Zhao Ning said coldly, "Plot against us?"
"No, no." The monster crocodile quibbled, "I rarely come here. I didn't know there were so many monsters gathered here, really."
"You thought we would trust you again."
Zhao Ning said coldly, and with a shake of his arm, the Ghostly Crying Vine completely wrapped itself around him. He was no longer in control. As he screamed and struggled, it gradually became the Ghost Crying Vine's food.
Qin Keyuan made no additional moves. He landed in front of the Crystal Palace and looked at the plaque on the door.
Zhao Ning finished cleaning up the demon crocodile and walked to Qin Keyuan. She also saw the writing on the plaque, which was two big demon scripts. Zhao Ning looked through the words in the big demon script in his memory and simply compared the words. meaning.
"Dragon Palace." She said in surprise.
Zhao Ning looked at Qin Keyuan in surprise, "Maybe I saw it wrong."
"That's right." Qin Keyuan confirmed her identification, "It's the Dragon Palace, and it's the Dragon Palace from the ancient era."
"Why does Dragon Palace appear here?"
