Plop, plop, one after another, two large and small water splashes splashed from the river, and the surface of the river bubbled. After a while, two large haloes crossed and spread out on the water, but the shadows of the master and the apprentice disappeared.

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The little boy was shocked. He picked up the mahogany sword and ran to the river in a few steps. He nervously scanned the surface of the river. He saw that the water surface was gradually calming down and there was no movement under the water at all. How could this happen?

Suddenly a hand stretched out from the water and grabbed the boy's ankle. The boy was startled and looked down to see a furry monkey's paw dragging his ankle into the water.

The boy struggled to lean back and fell to the ground. One of his legs was pulled into the water. He panicked and picked up the mahogany sword in his hand and slashed at that hand desperately.

As if being electrocuted, he shrank back.

The boy rolled and crawled up the river bank. Panting, he looked back and saw that nothing was chasing him.

"Master, save me! Save..." Just a few dozen meters downstream of the river, the little Taoist boy showed his head and stretched out his hands to struggle, but suddenly he seemed to be pulled down by something again.

There was a splash of water on the river in front of him, and the Taoist priest and a monster struggled out of the water.

During the scuffle, I could vaguely see that the monster had a bald, fleshy head with an extra-large catfish mouth under its two black eyes. It was covered in red hair, almost like a gorilla.

The Taoist priest raised his fists and fought with it up and down. As soon as the Taoist priest came out of the water, he would be dragged down again, and the river would churn like a boiling pot.

The little boy looked very anxious. What could he do? It seemed that both the master and the apprentice were in danger.

The Taoist Master emerged from the water again, and with a loud roar, he lifted the monster over his head with all his strength and threw it hard towards the river bank.

As soon as the monster left the water, it howled horribly, and with a bang, was thrown in front of the little boy, splashing water on his face.

He was startled and jumped back quickly.

"Hurry up and chop him with the peach wood sword!" The Taoist leader shouted in the river, and then he plopped down and swam towards the little Taoist boy downstream.

Seeing the monster in front of him squirming on the sand, the little boy was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly. The monster's limbs suddenly twitched violently, and it cried out like a killing pig.

"Cut him with the peach wood sword? The Taoist said to chop him?" The little boy held the peach wood sword and looked at the monster on the ground tremblingly, but he didn't dare to do it.

I heard a fierce fight on the water downstream, and the water splashed wildly as the little Taoist boy called for help.

Suddenly the monster on the ground raised its head and stared at the little boy with two black hole-like eyes. The little boy also looked at it nervously. He felt dizzy and suddenly lost his strength. He staggered and kept spinning in place.

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"Child, come!" In a daze, the little boy's mother appeared in front of him. She was lying on the ground, extremely weak.

"Be good! Can you take mom into the water?" His mother's voice seemed to have a huge force, making him walk over involuntarily.

The mother was smiling, smiling so gently. The little boy picked up the thin mother, so gently, and walked to the river step by step. The fighting and cries for help downstream did not attract his attention at all.

"Okay, put mom down, be good!" The little boy obediently squatted down and put his mom into the water.

Just when it was about to touch the water, the Taoist priest suddenly shouted: "Don't let it go! Throw it back to the shore!"

The little boy suddenly woke up and looked at what he was holding in his arms, which was his mother. It was clearly a monster with a monkey body and a meatball head. The little boy screamed in fright and threw it to the shore.

The monster fell to the ground and gasped, unable to move. His body seemed to have lost water and shriveled up more and more, until it finally became something like a mummy. His eyes were always looking at the little boy viciously.

"Ah! Wuwu...let me go!" The little boy looked back and saw the Taoist priest staggering up from the river. He held the unconscious Taoist boy in one hand and a fisherman in the other.

Just the same monster as before.

It kept tearing at the fish, but every time it scratched the fish, a spark flashed out, and it couldn't be torn apart. When it left the water, it cried out in pain, but the voice he made was a man's, and the one on the ground was a woman.

The little boy quickly ran over and helped the Taoist ashore. The Taoist threw the fish to the ground, slowly put down the little Taoist boy, pressed his chest to squeeze out the water from his stomach, and the little Taoist boy woke up slowly after spitting out some water.

The boy came over and the boy helped him sit up and patted his back.

"What a danger! It turned out to be two water ghosts!" The Taoist gasped.

"Fortunately you didn't let that water ghost into the water just now, otherwise Xiu Zhen and I would have died here." The Taoist priest said to the little boy.

The little boy blinked and looked at the twitching water ghost on the ground. He seemed to be looking at the Taoist priest in confusion. The Taoist priest smiled at him and said, "It's okay. They lose their power on land. Don't look at the size of this water ghost."

Although he is small, he is extremely powerful in the water, and he is good at deceiving people. At the place where Xiu Zhen was downstream just now, the water had just reached his knees, but he had no idea at all. His body was lying in the water and sinking. He must have been on the water.

The way of ghosts."

"Ahem... Master, but I feel that the water is not deep enough to reach the bottom? This... damn water ghost almost killed me." The little Taoist boy said, staring at the two water ghosts fiercely.

At this time, the two water ghosts on the ground were as shriveled as two mummies, about the size of a baby.

"Why can it look like my mother?" the little boy asked innocently.

The Taoist priest stood up and took out a bamboo tube from his bag while saying: "That is the most sincere feeling deep in your heart. Ghosts often use this to confuse you to achieve their goals. When facing ghosts, you

You must be firm in your heart, otherwise you will be defeated by your own heart first."

The little boy looked at the Taoist Priest, feeling an inexplicable admiration in his heart, and he suddenly yearned for this kind of ghost hunting.

But the little Taoist boy said contemptuously: "If you tell him, he won't understand, just look at his clumsiness!"

"Xiuzhen! Help the master to open the fishing gate." The Taoist priest was slightly angry.

"Shall I help you?" the little boy said and was about to help.

The little Taoist boy pushed him away and glared at him with disgust.

The little boy's face remained calm, without any hint of displeasure.

These Taoist priests all saw it.

The fish was opened, and the two mummies were tied together, shaking constantly. The Taoist priest inserted the bamboo tube on the ground, sat down cross-legged and recited a spell.

The little Taoist boy was obviously impatient. He pouted and said, "Master, just burn it on fire. Why do you have to go to all that trouble!"

When the two mummies heard this, they were extremely frightened. They struggled and shouted, "Taoist Master, please be merciful. Taoist Master, please have mercy. Please don't burn us. There is nothing we can do."

"Yes, yes, Taoist Priest! For thousands of years, we drowned ghosts have relied on catching substitutes to reincarnate. We don't want to harm anyone, but we have been waiting for decades and no one has accidentally drowned here. We really

We couldn't wait any longer. Today we saw the two children were dying, so we took action. But the girl we were about to catch was also rescued by you. Taoist priest, you are so compassionate and pitiful towards us, and gave us some instructions.

Road, right?"

The two mummies could not move, but they kept shouting.

Tong was full of anger and kicked him a few times: "Don't pretend to be pitiful! You almost drowned me just now. Evil ghosts like you should be burned in a fire so that you will never be reincarnated, huh!"

"Taoist Priest, I beg you, I'll do whatever you want. Can you let my brother go? He already had a substitute and should have been reincarnated. He didn't leave because of me." said the female water ghost.

"Ah? If you have a substitute, why don't you reincarnate yourself and end up harming people and getting addicted?" Xiao Daotong frowned angrily.

"Xiu Zhen! Let her finish what she said." The Taoist Master said while sitting where he was.

"Taoist Priest, I beg you to let my sister go. In fact, she is my substitute." The male water ghost cried.

"You heartless person! You deserve to be damned if you catch your sister as a substitute!" Xiu Zhen went up and kicked her again.

"Don't, don't hit my brother, I did it voluntarily, he didn't catch me." The female water ghost cried and told her experience.

It turned out that these two were also miserable ghosts. They were siblings. One year when the farming season was busy, both parents went to work in the fields, so they asked the younger sister to play with their younger brother. As a result, the younger brother accidentally slipped and fell into the water while playing by the water.

The little sister panicked and called for help, but when someone came, her brother had already drowned.

The parents were very sad. Although they did not blame the elder sister, the little girl always blamed herself. She felt that she had killed her younger brother.

Once she heard someone say that a drowned person needs a substitute to be reincarnated. That night, she took advantage of the silence of the night to sneak to the river and plunged into the deep water.

The family found her shoes on the river bank the next day.

At this point, the siblings burst into tears.

"Taoist Master, let them go!" the little boy said calmly with tears in his eyes.

The Taoist priest began to look at the little boy with a new look.

The little Taoist boy said disapprovingly: "You're stupid! They were the ones who killed your sister. If Master and I were a step too late, your sister's soul would have been captured. You can really pretend to be kind!"

The little boy ignored him and looked at the Taoist priest intently. The Taoist priest nodded.

"Master! What's the use of keeping them? Shouldn't we as Taoists kill demons and bring benefits to the world? I swear that I will kill all the demons and ghosts in this world in the future!" the little Taoist boy said with confidence.

The Taoist priest gave a bitter smile and said: "Cultivator, do you know how many monsters and monsters there are in this world? Can you kill them all?"

The little Taoist boy blinked and looked at the master, and the Taoist priest continued: "Between heaven and earth, from immortals to saints, to humans and ghosts, they are all living beings in the three realms, and are controlled by heaven and earth. Demons, ghosts, and monsters are the same as humans, with emotions and kindness.
Chapter completed!