There is nothing to fear about human hands.
But in such an environment, under the dim river, you are walking alone, looking for a possible monster, and suddenly you see a hand stretching out from under the sand in front of you. No matter how bold you are, I'm afraid my heartbeat will also speed up a bit.
Shu Guan felt slightly agitated.
But he quickly calmed down, because there was a group of fish surrounding the fish, constantly eating the hand.
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Shu Guan took a few steps forward, grabbed the lifeless hand and pulled it up, and then he pulled a broken arm up from under the sand.
The nearby mud and sand rose up, and the fish that had been eating scattered and fled.
Shu Guan stared at the broken arm in his hand that had been soaked white by the river water. The broken arm had not yet shown extensive decay, indicating that it had fallen from the human body in the past two days.
There were some broken strips of cloth wrapped around the broken arm. Shu Guan took a closer look and found that the color and fabric of these strips were the same as those of the crew members' corpses he had just found on the sunken ship. They were wearing the same colors and uniforms as the crew uniforms. The fabrics are all very similar.
Therefore, it is basically certain that the owner of this broken arm should also be a crew member on that steamer.
Shu Guan carefully looked at the fracture of the severed arm, but unfortunately, the fracture had been chewed by fish and shrimps and was beyond recognition. It was difficult to see how it was severed from the human body.
Shu Guan looked back and saw that it was more than two miles away from where the shipwreck was.
Of course, this broken arm may have been washed here by the current from the sunken ship, so it is not a strange thing.
Shuguan threw the broken arm back into the sand at the bottom of the river, and then continued walking before sleeping.
Not far away, the group of fish that had fled behind him had gathered around the broken arm again and began to eat leisurely.
Shuguan decided never to eat fish and shrimp caught in the Jingcheng River again.
While moving forward, Shu Guan discovered many mutilated and broken corpses among the sand, either a hand, a leg, a head, or some people's internal organs.
These things were scattered all over the river bottom, some were buried in the sand, and some fell among the lush aquatic plants. Even if he didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to find them, let alone ordinary people like Meng Huibao. .
Therefore, Meng Huibao and the others did not recover other corpses. Perhaps it was not because these corpses were eaten by something, but just because these corpses were too broken and they did not find them?
Shu Guan is currently unable to determine.
The thin pit is very long, more than forty miles long. It almost passes through the entire Jingcheng and reaches the other side of Jingcheng.
However, at this time, the small pit disappeared.
The place where the small pit disappears is where the Dajiang River and the Han River meet. Perhaps it was because the thing slowed down after arriving here, or because it was the intersection of two rivers, the water was very fast, and there were many undercurrents at the bottom of the river, which washed away the traces of the thing's passage.
Shu looked at the Han River on the left, and then looked at the river ahead on the right, unable to determine where the thing went.
At the same time, he felt short of breath.
Because he had to maintain his water control skills under the river bottom, his spiritual power was constantly being consumed, and he was only in the Qi-entraining stage now, and his spiritual power in his body was not yet strong. After a few hours, it had already reached He's at his limit.
Shu Guan quickly rose to the surface of the river and took a deep breath. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth quickly poured into his body, nourishing his nearly dry meridians.
After recovering for a while, Shu Guan went to several other places where shipwrecks occurred according to the address Meng Huibao told him.
It's just that compared to the first place, it's more difficult to find useful clues in other places because time has passed.
But it’s not entirely without gain.
Shu Guan found a strange cave in one of the places, where Meng Huibao said that nothing happened to the ship but all the people on the ship died.
The water depth in that section of the river reaches more than 80 meters, and at the bottom of the river, on the cliff that goes deep into the bottom of the river, there is a cave about 30 meters deep and 15 or 16 meters wide. .
The walls of the cave are not smooth and neat, but there are no traces of erosion left by the years. There are no aquatic plants or algae growing in the cave, and there are some sharp and stiff lines on the rocks.
According to Shu Guan's judgment, this cave should have been opened "artificially". The "artificial" here does not mean that it is really a human being, but a kind of intelligent life.
In addition, the time when this cave was opened will never exceed a year. This can be easily judged by the traces of erosion of the rocks on the cave wall by water flow.
As for the cave being a bit weird, it’s because although there is no grass inside the cave, the water plants within a hundred meters outside the cave are extremely lush, and each water plant is much thicker and longer than the normal watercolors on the bottom of the river. This phenomenon It's obvious the closer you get to the cave.
The aquatic plants growing at the entrance of the cave have leaves as green as jade, crystal clear and as if they have a life of their own.
Shuguan squatted beside the water plants and felt it silently.
Then he definitely felt some extremely weak spiritual power.
These spiritual powers do not come from the water plants themselves, but are the remnants of other things.
This is also the reason why aquatic plants grow particularly lush near this cave, because they have been in an environment with particularly abundant spiritual energy for a long time.
Just like the flowers, plants, trees, and small animals inside the Good Self Observation, they are much more spiritual than outside.
However, the formation time of this cave will not exceed one year. One year can cause these water plants to change so much, which means that the "thing" that once stayed in this cave has extremely strong spiritual power. .
Shu Guan estimated that it might be more powerful than the combined spiritual power of all of Shan Ji Guan.
So what will be the power level of that "thing"?
Nascent Soul?
This guess made Shu Guan slightly frightened.
Another weird thing about this cave is that through the water plants outside the cave, it can be determined that there must be some kind of spiritually powerful "thing" staying here, and the stay time is not short.
But the problem is that there are no traces of life in this cave.
Shu Guan searched carefully several times, but found nothing like scales, hair, or other things he expected, nor excrement such as feces. There were no traces that would have been left by any life living here, only the bare rocks on the cave wall. .
This situation left Shu Guan puzzled.
But no matter what, it is basically certain that a "big thing" appeared in the river near Jingcheng, and it was an extremely powerful "big thing".
It's just that Shu Guan has been searching the bottom of the river for almost a day, but still hasn't found the "big thing". He can only confirm its existence with some traces.
And he couldn't stay at the bottom of the river and try his luck until the "thing" appeared.
Whether it was a matter of time or his own spiritual power, he could not stay under the river for a long time.
But Shu Guan quickly thought of a way.
So I returned to Shanjiguan, and first reported to Li Zhixia that a powerful demon clan might have appeared in the river.
Li Zhixia was also extremely surprised.
Because he didn't notice anything wrong in Jiang Zhong before.
Logically speaking, if there is such a demon clan in Dajiang that is likely to be in the Yuanying realm, then some strange phenomena must be revealed. However, except for several strange shipwrecks that were noticed by Shu Guan this time, Dajiang But he is as calm as ever, which is very unreasonable.
However, Li Zhixia still asked Shu Guan to continue to pay attention to this matter, but specifically told him to be careful. Once something is discovered, he should report it first and not act alone.
And late at night, Shu Guan left Shanji Guan again. After arriving at the riverside, he raised his hand and gently lifted it into the air beside him, and an invisibility talisman appeared in his hand.
At the same time, a huge figure slowly emerged beside him.
Shu Guan directly brought the four-legged snake.
Then he squatted down, touched the huge head of the four-legged snake, stared at the golden upright legs of the four-legged snake, and said with a smile:
"Now I want to ask you a favor."
Shu Guan was very sure that the Four-legged Snake could understand his words. Since the elder brother left, the Four-legged Snake's spirituality seemed to have suddenly improved a lot. He didn't know if the elder brother had done something to it before he left. Now the Four-legged Snake In addition to being unable to speak human language, the snake's other intelligence is no different from that of ordinary people.
For example, right now, after Shu Guan finished speaking, the four-legged snake nodded a few times.
"That means there is a very powerful guy in this river now. I don't know what it is. It may be a creature similar to you, or it may be something else."
So Shu Guan continued:
"You stay in the river during this period and help me find that thing, but don't take the initiative to provoke it. As long as you find its whereabouts, just come back and tell me right away!"
The four-legged snake, who was originally very happy and agreed to help, suddenly showed hesitation in his golden eyes when he heard Shu Guan say that the things in the river seemed to be very powerful.
It stared at Shuguan, and its eyes clearly conveyed emotions such as "I don't want to go" and "I want to go back to Guanli" to Shuguan.
Shu Guan sighed, and then said to the four-legged snake very seriously:
"Remember, you are actually a dragon!"
"Even if your strength has not yet been restored, you still cannot deny the nobility of your bloodline. You are the king of the water tribe. Are you actually afraid of returning to the river now?"
"Your goal should be the vast sea, not the small lake in the temple!"
"Don't forget that in a few months, I will accompany you on the river! How long it is to walk from here to the East China Sea? Now I just want you to get familiar with this river first."
"The most important thing is, if you really want to turn back into a dragon, if you can't find the courage and pride of the dragon clan, then no matter how strong you become, you will never be able to turn into a dragon!"
Following Shu Guan's words, the four-legged snake's body began to tremble slowly, and a flame-like light rose from its golden eyes, which may be described as excitement, excitement, belief, fighting spirit, etc. mood.
And when Shu Guan finished speaking, the four-legged snake suddenly raised its head and howled to the sky several times, the sound was like a broken gong.
The next moment, it turned over without hesitation and jumped into the river, causing a huge wave of waves.
The huge body of the four-legged snake quickly disappeared in the waves.
Shu Guan let out a long sigh of relief and stood up.
...Although he seems to be a lot smarter, he is still easy to fool...
Shu Guan thought like this and stood by the river for a while before turning around and returning to Shan Si Guan.
I hope the four-legged snake can really find that "thing" in the river.
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Time passed day by day, and more than a month passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the past month, Jingcheng has been peaceful.
The calmness feels a bit suffocating.
Shuguan's life is also very peaceful.
He had been paying attention to the woman from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun named Sakurako Nakata, but that woman stayed in the consulate almost all day long, literally staying at home.
Shu Guan secretly observed her several times. Nakata Yingzi spent every day making tea, admiring flowers, painting, or doing some handicrafts in her courtyard, which was very much like the life of a noble lady from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
If Shu Guan hadn't seen the safe in her bedroom, and if he hadn't known the meaning of the cherry blossom badge she wore, he might have mistaken her for an ordinary lady from a famous family in the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
However, Shu Guan knew her true identity, so the more relaxed this woman acted, the more uneasy she became.
In addition, Shu Guan also went to the river several times to look for four-legged snakes.
Every time the four-legged snake emerged from the river, it shook its head directly at him.
The four-legged snake still didn't find the "thing" in the river, but when Shu Guan asked it again if it thought there was "something" in the river, the four-legged snake nodded vigorously one after another.
It seems that it also noticed something strange in the river.
So Shu Guan could only tell the four-legged snake to be careful.
However, looking at the four-legged snake's expression every time it appears, it seems to be very happy. It seems that the big river is indeed more suitable for it than the small lake in Shan Si Guan.
The peaceful life made Shu Guan more focused on his cultivation.
Therefore, the date for his perfect Zhou Tian Gong was many days earlier than originally expected.
In the evening of that day, Shu Guan first went to No. 8 Tongxingli and asked Rong Miao to go for a walk by the river for an hour. Then he sent Rong Miao home and stayed at Rong Miao's home for a while. Rong Miao told him Her father should come to Jingcheng this month, and then she will arrange for Shu Guan to meet her father.
After coming out of Rong Miao's home, Shu Guan went to the riverside to summon the four-legged snake and asked it if it had found anything. After receiving a negative answer, Shu Guan finally returned to Shan Si Guan and then began to perform the exercises unshakably every day. .
First there are thirty-six small weeks, and then there are sixteen big weeks.
Before this day, this was the limit of what Shu Guan could do in one breath.
However, that night, after Shu Guan completed sixteen small weeks, the breath still did not dissipate, and was still circulating lively in his meridians.
Shu Guanfu reached his soul, and immediately continued to use the Nine Turns of Pure Yang Kung Fu to promote the spiritual power of the whole body to start the cycle of the seventeenth great cycle.
After the seventeenth Great Zhoutian cycle ended, Shu Guan thought that he would finally have another breakthrough in his cultivation today, but he might still have to wait for some time for the perfection of Zhoutian Gong.
In fact, his tone at that time was about to dissipate.
Then at this moment, something unexpected happened in Shu Guan's body.
