White mist filled the river.
Xia Zhichan subconsciously went to the sleeve robe on her right to take out the cinnabar yellow talisman, but when she stretched out her hand, she remembered that she was not wearing a black and white robe at all.
If you are careless, even if you can really draw the monster out, you won't be able to subdue it.
He turned his gaze to Jiang Qin who was sitting cross-legged beside him, looked up and down, and then looked away while shaking his head secretly.
Jiang Qin was a little unhappy because Xia Zhichan's eyes made her a little annoyed for no reason. He could only frown and put his hand on the sword between his knees:
"What do you want me to do?"
"Uh... a monster may come later. Please defeat it."
Xia Zhichan scratched her cheek and didn't know what to say, so she only said something ambiguous.
This sentence sounds simple, but it depends on the situation.
To give an inappropriate analogy, it's like taking a piece of tofu and making it into a dish. This can be divided into home-style stewed tofu and Wensi tofu with excellent knife skills.
Generally speaking, they are all tofu, and they are all tofu dishes.
But the difficulty can be said to be worlds apart.
Xia Zhichan is very clear about Jiang Qin's strength. If it were a fish spirit that had just become a spirit or had just started to become a spirit, she would probably win. But what is coming is someone at the entry-level peak level, and she will definitely not be able to beat him.
Not only Jiang Qin, but everyone in the Taoist sect can only play with the wind and use their cultivation to crush the opponent. And once the opponent has rich experience and is as strong as himself, he will almost certainly lose.
After all, people practice Taoism to survive calamities and live forever, not to conquer demons.
Xia Zhichan could only reluctantly instill some experience into Jiang Qin, but the other party should not be able to absorb much in a short period of time.
"Okay, I get it now."
Jiang Qin didn't speak anymore, but looked down at the writing on his left palm again, and then gently tapped the scabbard of his sword with his right hand.
The fog is getting thicker and thicker.
Xia Zhichan's eyes gradually became serious. He stared at the place where he had set up the formation for a moment. If the monster would appear, it must be there.
Plop——
It was the sound of the waves hitting the river bank, but generally the sound would not be so loud or clear.
This can only mean that something came ashore through the waves.
"Jiang Qin..."
Xia Zhichan whispered her name and ran out in two steps, plunging into the white mist that had spread to the shore.
The woman raised her hand with understanding and struck out with a sword.
The rapid and strong sword energy rushed forward, splitting the invisible white mist into a small gap, just enough for Xia Zhichan to break in.
Bang!
Because Jiang Qin opened the way, Xia Zhichan could run straight to the place where he set up the formation in the fog where he could not see the direction.
Then he saw a huge fish head.
Well, it's a jet-black catfish head, with two soft yellow tentacles filled with mucus on both sides of its mouth.
Golden whisker catfish...that's probably it.
But this golden-whiskered catfish was not as powerful as rumored. Instead, like a fool, it gnawed hard at the place where Xia Zhichan set up the formation.
Bang Chi, Bang Chi.
Catfish also have teeth. Their huge teeth crush all the vegetation and stones on the river bank, and then swallow them indiscriminately.
After a while, a deep pit similar to the one after Linjiang Pavilion disappeared appeared on the ground. It seemed that it was also the monster that did evil in Linjiang Pavilion.
Bang Chi, Bang Chi.
As if the catfish didn't feel Xia Zhichan's arrival, it continued to eat the land. It wasn't until it had eaten all the surrounding places that it was ready to retreat into the river.
Haha, I'm afraid you can come but you can't go!
As soon as Xia Zhichan pinched the magic formula, she immediately stretched out a series of transparent Qi threads from the formation she had set up a long time ago, and then weaved a dragnet around the catfish spirit.
Roar--
The catfish spirit squirmed its huge body a few times, and when she found that she couldn't break away from the invisible threads, she raised her head and let out a roar.
That roar made Xia Zhichan take several steps back.
Bang!
The yellow paper that was originally pressed under the stone suddenly burned, starting from the bottom edge and spreading upward little by little.
That means that this formation has reached its limit, and the formation will naturally disintegrate after the yellow paper is burned out.
The catfish spirit's four yellow tentacles were waving vigorously on both sides. The giant tentacles, which were three-thirds larger than an adult's fist, crushed all the surrounding stones into powder with just one simple movement.
If this was hit, it would probably turn the person into a puddle of mud.
Although not as scary as the huge tentacle when he first saw the old turtle, Xia Zhichan could be said to be fully armed, but now he has nothing but courage.
Buzz!
There was a sword cry, and Jiang Qin easily passed through the white mist and stood next to Xia Zhichan.
She stood with her sword horizontally, staring cautiously at the giant catfish spirit that was still struggling in the formation. If she hadn't been worried that her sword energy would destroy the formation that Xia Zhichan had worked so hard to set up, she would have struck with her sword energy when she flew over just now.
"Something's not right..."
Xia Zhichan stood in an extremely dangerous place, but he still calmly analyzed some strange monsters in front of him. Although he said it was strange, he couldn't tell what was strange for a while.
The yellow paper is already half burned.
Swish——
A tentacle swept over and landed right in front of Xia Zhichan.
It seemed that the other party was not coming towards him on purpose, but those yellow tentacles just happened to fall in front of Xia Zhichan when they were swinging randomly.
After all, he was standing right in front of the catfish spirit, not far away.
Buzz!
The sound of swords echoed everywhere.
Jiang Qin took half a step forward and slashed forward with the long sword in his hand.
The half-moon-shaped white sword energy collided with the tentacle, and then with a loud bang, the sword energy was broken in half by the tentacle.
It's so amazing, even if it collides with the pure sword energy of the Taoist sect, I can't feel the demonic energy surging in the catfish spirit. But if you say it's a relatively large catfish monster, then what's going on with its body that can withstand sword energy?
Roar!
The catfish spirit roared again, and the fins on both sides of its body waved vigorously on the soil. The land on the river bank seemed to have been plowed over and over again.
The yellow paper is going to burn to the end.
Those threads composed of true energy gradually began to collapse, and the originally constructed dragnet gradually began to disintegrate.
Perhaps because it felt the restraints were weakening, the catfish spirit struggled harder and harder. Its flat fish tail was still hanging in the river water, constantly flapping and stirring up layers of waves.
"I can't hold it any longer..."
Xia Zhichan took one last look at the struggling catfish spirit, then pulled Jiang Qin away from the place wrapped in white mist.
The yellow paper finally burned out, and at the same time, the zhenqi threads instantly dissipated in the air.
Roar!
The catfish spirit roared, not sure if he was celebrating his new life, but it was a roar that was much louder than before.
It's like someone holding a big drum and hitting it hard in your ear.
My whole ear hurts.
Xia Zhichan pulled Jiang Qin and ran out without looking back. Even a huge roar from behind could not make him look back.
It wasn't until I hid in a forest in the distance that I dared to look back at the scene on the river bank.
The white mist obscured everything, but even if nothing could be seen, it was still useful information.
After a while, the fog by the river gradually dispersed.
Xia Zhichan stared at the big hole left on the shore. The degree of depression in the ground and all the signs of mess were exactly the same as those of Linjiang Pavilion.
"It's not the mastermind behind Jiangcheng..."
He first stated the conclusion directly, and then explained bit by bit under Jiang Qin’s somewhat puzzled eyes:
"It's not weak, but it feels like it's just opened up its intelligence, like an ordinary animal that comes out to look for food."
Xia Zhichan pointed at herself and Jiang Qin and continued:
"You and I should not be any threat in front of it. But all the actions it made were to avoid and escape. Even if it was caught, it did not attack us."
If a monster with advanced cultivation is caught and unable to escape, he will definitely fight to the death, or negotiate terms, or even if it doesn't work, he will find a way to delay time.
And this fish spirit behaves like an ordinary catfish caught in a fishing net. It can only struggle desperately, and finally breaks the fishing net and escapes.
"Why is this?"
No matter how little knowledge Jiang Qin has about monsters, he still knows that the cultivation of these monsters increases together with their spiritual intelligence, so the higher the cultivation level, the smarter the monsters.
But the catfish's behavior just now didn't look like it was intelligent.
"Even Zen Master Fu Kong couldn't resist the sword I just struck with his physical body. Even if the opponent is a monster, at least a monster above the level of the emperor can block the sword with his tyrannical body."
Jiang Qin's sword strike just now was interrupted by the other party using tentacles that were not infused with true energy. This meant that the other party's physical cultivation was much higher than Jiang Qin's.
Just like the Qingxiao Sword that Xia Zhichan held back then, if it had not been instilled with zhenqi, it would have been severed by Nan Er's sword. But after being instilled with true energy, you can barely fight against Nan Er. This is the role of true energy, and the same is true for demonic energy.
"So I have a bold guess... the other party is actually an ordinary catfish with a peak body."
Xia Zhichan said something that might be a bit convoluted. He knew Jiang Qin couldn't understand, so he continued to explain:
"In other words, the catfish spirit from a hundred years ago died during the tribulation, and its soul was destroyed by the thunder tribulation, but its body remained by chance..."
"Then, after a hundred years, a new soul was born in the body of this half-step-knowing catfish, a soul that is no different from an ordinary catfish."
This is really not nonsense that Xia Zhichan said. Similar things have been recorded in the ancient books on Quelong Mountain. Because of the physical strength of the demon clan, there have been many examples of people who clearly did not survive the thunder tribulation but still survived.
"Then why does it eat people?"
Ordinary catfish will not eat people, but this huge catfish spirit has begun to try every means to eat people, not only the pedestrians gathered on the shore, but also the merchant ships passing by on the river.
"because……"
Xia Zhichan paused and looked towards the river:
"It's hungry."
