Chapter 45: The Taoist Sword
Not to mention the feelings of idle people on the pier and colleagues, the boats walked on the river and walked against the current. The more they walked forward, the fewer ships on the river gradually became much smaller, and even the fields on both sides began to converge and turned into steep cliffs.
This place was originally a dangerous place, with nine turns and eighteen twists and eighteen turns, and the water flowed rapidly, which was originally a dangerous way to enter Shu.
Not only that, there are many water villages in this continuous area of hundreds of miles.
That water village is not a good person who farms, fishermen and woodcutters. Many of them are blood-licking people. They are busy with farming and are short of money. They rely on their water nature to rob the passing ships because of their rising and falling water by the river.
Some people who are righteous will only rob money and not hurt people, and will even leave you some capital.
Some are much more fierce, including people, ships, goods, and property. He swallows them all, and there is no bone residue left.
These water bandits were originally a major disaster on the Yangtze River waterway, and they were all preserved in peace and prosperity, not to mention that this chaotic world where warlords were rampant and did not belong to each other, they were extremely arrogant.
However, these water villages are also from the martial arts world. When Mao Chuotou opened up the waterway, he had already opened the road.
This road is open, so don’t worry about a big village, just sign up for a name.
I am afraid of the thief who just got into the water. These people do not follow the rules and rely on the word "horizontal". So every time I take a boat, Mao Pingli will follow me just to deal with this matter at any time.
The little carpenter heard the people talking on the dock so amazingly that he was a little worried, so he kept looking at the bow of the boat.
The fat orange cat was a heartless person. After meowing twice, he licked his paws and fell asleep again.
Sometimes the little carpenter suspects that this is not a cat.
How can cats be so lazy?
I'm afraid it's the pig that gave birth to the wrong birth?
Compared to the little carpenter and the sectarians who were facing great enemies, the Taoist priest seemed much more relaxed. He slept until the evening before he woke up, yawned, washed his face briefly, came over and asked, then left and returned to the cabin.
He is a big-hearted person.
Although the little carpenter didn't believe that he came from the South China Sea, he also felt that this person was really capable and might not be afraid.
In fact, after standing for a day, the little carpenter was also a little tired, so he found a seat on the boat gang and meditated cross-legged.
After three weeks of his journey, he opened his eyes and felt that the aura he had gathered in the past few days was much stronger than when he was standing and stance and squeezing in the past.
Not only did he become much more powerful, he also had a sharp ear and eye, developed five senses, and seemed to have much stronger response to the surrounding environment.
This is the effect of practice?
The little carpenter became more and more excited the more he thought about it. He felt that he had lost his luck. Perhaps he could really make a name for himself, unlike Qu Menghu and Luo Fugui, which was different from mortals.
At this time, footsteps came from the side. Then, Taoist Mo came to the little carpenter again. After looking at him for a while, he suddenly asked: "I have looked at you seriously in the past two days and found that you are not a talented person with excellent roots and bones. You are as old as you, but you can feel the 'qi', and you are not comprehension. However, someone left seeds in your body and saved you - can you tell me, who is that person?"
When the little carpenter heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that the reason why he could feel Qi was because of a heat flow above his head.
When he was desperate and unable to comprehend, this hot current appeared and completed the first Zhoutian guidance in his life.
Is that heat flow the "seed" that Taoist priests call it?
Who planted it?
The little carpenter recalled and was shocked to find that it was not someone else who did this, but the stone statue that came alive in the Luban Temple.
And that stone statue is most likely Xu Sansui, the ancestor of Honglian.
The little carpenter thought of all kinds and felt that things were a little weirder. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to talk to the Taoist priest in front of him.
The other party is a meticulous and open-minded person. If he lies, the other party will definitely be able to see it. This matter is related to his master's secrets, and it is always not good to know it with others.
The Taoist saw that the little carpenter wanted to speak but stopped, and knew his concerns. He smiled and said, "If it is inconvenient, there is no need to say much."
He said to the little carpenter: "The reason I talked about this to you is because of this."
He pointed to the little carpenter's right shoulder and signaled him to take it off a little.
The little carpenter did not know what he meant and pulled down his clothes and found a small black stain the size of a copper coin on his right shoulder blade.
This was not before. The little carpenter thought it had rubbed Hui'er, so he reached out to pat it and wanted to dust it off, but he never thought that the stain seemed to grow on it. The little carpenter could not rub it off even though he reached out to rub it.
He had no taboos, and he vomited a little saliva on his palm, rubbed it again, and found that the black stain could not be rubbed off.
The little carpenter was a little confused and asked, "What is this?"
The Taoist priest looked at it and even came forward. The tip of his nose almost came close to him. He sniffed it for a while before he raised his head and said, "I have lived in the South China Sea for many years. I don't know much about the magic and Taoist techniques in the north. I can only feel that there is a strong sense of death in it, which may be detrimental to you."
The little carpenter was surprised when he heard this, saying that he was dead?
He touched the black patch and found that there was nothing strange about it except a black dot that could not be erased.
The Taoist priest asked: "Have you been to some foul air recently, or have you bumped into something evil, or have you messed with someone you shouldn't mess with?"
Where is the foul air?
Crazy evil?
The little carpenter couldn't help but think of the curse of Luban Temple, and the reason why his master died, and immediately took a breath.
He asked the Taoist priest, right, maybe it is - is there a solution?
The Taoist priest said that I said earlier that I don’t know much about this matter. If my junior brother was there, it might be possible.
He saw that the little carpenter was a little scared, and couldn't help but smile and said, "We practitioners are born with strong essence, blood and energy. In fact, they are naturally restrained by death. You are just a little bit contaminated, and it won't take long to think about it. Even if it doesn't work, you can find a professional person to do it, it's time to..."
His comfort made the little carpenter feel more at ease, and at this time, Mao Pingli's shout came from the bow of the boat: "Be careful, you have arrived at the rapids."
As soon as they finished speaking, the head boat they were on suddenly swiftly, and then the river became rushing.
The little carpenter wanted to ask the Taoist priest a few more words, but he returned to the cabin, and he had to hold on to the boat gang, maintain balance, and then walk towards the place where the tiger-skinned fat cat sleeps.
He was afraid that the little beast would fall into the river. After all, after seeing this in the past few days, that guy was afraid of water.
Once you fall into the water, you will probably have to drown.
Sure enough, the little carpenter was worried, and when the waves were rushing here, the boat became swaying, and the fierce fat orange cat turned into a soft-legged shrimp. Its front paws held the horizontal railing of the cabin, and called out "meow, meow", as if it had killed its life.
The little carpenter went over and hugged the fat cat that was trembling in fear, but heard a roar on the bow of the boat, and several people were shouting.
Something happened?
He walked forward with a fat tiger cat in his arms. When he reached the middle, he saw a boatman in the platoon waved at him and shouted loudly: "That evil spirit is really here."
When the little carpenter heard this, his heart suddenly jumped.
Before he could react, he felt the boat board under his feet suddenly tremble. If he had not had his basic skills and stable horse stance, he would have almost fallen out.
But he stopped here, and the boatman who was shouting at him did not stop, his body soared into the air and fell out of the boat.
The boatman fell into the water and was seen. He shouted loudly. The little carpenter saw Mao Pingli rushing over, grabbed a thick rope, threw it at the man, and shouted loudly: "Hurry, hurry, hurry..."
Mao Pingli was not usually dressed as a boatman, but was wearing a cloak, covered with feathers, and a cow skull on his head, which was very strange.
Obviously, he was just ahead and was already jumping up Wusau, trying to drive away the evil spirit in the water.
At the same time, drums sounded from the head and tail boats.
This is a means to eliminate evil spirits by eliminating the teachings.
Mao Pingli threw down the rope. Several boatmen around him were holding wooden handles and iron forks in their hands. Looking down at the water, the boatman who fell into the water floated on the surface and reached out to grab the rope. He was about to take advantage of the force to get on the boat, but he saw that the faces of the people on the boat became particularly ugly.
He subconsciously looked down, but saw a huge black shadow appearing under him.
ah……
He screamed in panic, and was suddenly pulled out of the water by the black shadow.
When Mao Pingli saw that, he didn't care too much, snatched an iron fork from the boatman next to him, and jumped directly into the water.
He was also very skilled and brave. He plunged in. The little carpenter was so nervous that he lay down to the side of the boat and looked down. He saw the river water turbid and it was difficult to see the situation under the clear water. However, bright red blood came out, and then the bubbles rolled, which was very terrifying.
After more than ten seconds, the boatman who had fallen into the water floated up. Several men from the platoon next to him picked him up and asked, "What's wrong with the head of the family?"
The man ate a stomach of water, vomited and cried, but did not speak.
He was frightened.
Everyone thinks that Mao Pingli is hopeless.
At this moment, suddenly, a man sneered in the cabin: "A villain!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow leaped onto the water. It was the Taoist priest named Mo. Then, under the astonished eyes of everyone, the sword on the Taoist priest was unsheathed.
The sword was unsheathed, and it was like a striking wave. It brushed twice in the Taoist hand, but it turned into a tangible sword energy and fell into the water.
A few seconds later, a giant iron-scale crocodile with two feet long appeared on the river surface, and its aura was gone.
The Taoist priest stood above his head, holding a sword in his right hand and holding the injured bow Mao Pingli in his left hand.
Everyone present was surprised, and the little carpenter saw it and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
There are so many strange people in this world.
The Taoist priest killed the demon crocodile in the water, cut off the jaw, took out a string of round beads, crushed two, and applied them to Mao Pingli and the ship's wounds. Then he took the others, bowed to everyone on the boat, and then rose up.
He crossed the river more than ten feet away and floated away, leaving only a ship of people with a surprised expression, and...
The corpse of a giant crocodile floating on the river surface.
Chapter completed!