After getting help from the soldiers of the Qi family and the water ghosts, the originally fatal encounter was able to be overcome safely.
The two souls did not stay here for long. After ensuring the safety of Zhang Tao and other Tianshi Mansion disciples, they left. Everyone on the boat was still frightened and could not come back to their senses. Zhang Tao stared at the simple message on his phone, feeling in his heart.
The waves are rough.
"Junior brother, what's wrong?"
"You're not injured."
A Taoist priest was a little worried when he saw Zhang Tao motionless.
Zhang Tao took a breath, shook his head, and said reluctantly: "Nothing, thank you for your concern, senior brother."
Seeing that he didn't want to say more, the Taoist priest didn't ask any questions. He just thought of the scene he just saw and couldn't help but sigh: "It took us a long time to escape death. If it hadn't been for the help of the two guardian gods, we would have been killed."
The Huai River is flooded, but I don’t know which senior’s trick it is.”
"Those two guardian generals are almost as magnanimous as the legendary Yin generals."
"Old Liu, are you okay?"
This time the elder Taoist turned around and saw the boatman still collapsed on the ground with a pale face. He helped him up and comforted him: "Don't worry, things are safe for the time being. Don't be afraid."
The old boatman's face was unspeakable. He glanced at the gradually calming water and his face became paler. However, several Taoist priests on the boat were all injured and did not notice this subtle change in expression. Zhang Tao glanced at his mobile phone and looked at
He said to his senior brother:
"Senior brother, is there any way to control the underworld in modern times?"
The Taoist thought for a while and said: "Yes, but in this current age, we still need to be extremely high-minded."
"Generally speaking, you have to perform a ritual ceremony, and it takes a long time to attract the evil spirit and make it do its bidding. It's very troublesome."
Zhang Tao said silently: "What if it's less than ten minutes?"
The Taoist was surprised and immediately laughed and said: "How is that possible?"
He just thought that his junior brother was confused and replied casually:
"Unless the humaneness of the spell caster is so high that just by raising a talisman, the Yin soldiers and gods can obey the orders. Haha, where can such a person exist? If this is the case, wouldn't it be the legendary Dao Zang who has already been there?
The state of leaving names and official positions in heaven?”
"That's right, he's a god."
"immortal……"
Zhang Tao stared at the phone for a short time and was speechless.
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Due to this encounter, several Taoist priests from the Tianshi Mansion were slightly injured, and the boatman who was sailing the boat was too frightened, and his face turned pale. Everyone no longer had the idea of continuing to move forward on the Huai River, but hurriedly headed towards the Huai River.
After rushing back, and because the boatman was afraid, he spent a few hours returning to the village.
He lives in a village along the Huai River.
Residents depend on the water for water and occasionally carry tourists across the river. It is located in a remote area and has only recently been connected to electricity and internet.
After going back, I found that there was another person in the village. He was a young man with an ordinary face. He said that he was planning to go on a trip along the Huai River, so he came here to rent a boat. It had already been discussed, but when the boatman went to the village chief
My family talked about it for a while and then regretted it.
He said that at least for the next few days, he would not be able to leave the ship, or else he would have to wait and see.
The young tourist was easy to talk to and agreed directly. After discussion with everyone in the Tianshi Mansion, since the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain has been notified, the uncles will naturally handle the matter. However, the villagers followed them and bumped into the water ghost.
, I don’t know if there will be any remaining danger, so I might as well stay in this village for a few days.
Zhang Tao was still distracted by the short message on his mobile phone. When he went out, he bumped into the tourist who was said to have arrived in the village a while before them. He greeted him and said politely: "I don't know what to call him yet..."
The young man looked at him and replied:
"My surname is Wu."
Zhang Tao was surprised that this surname was relatively rare, but he didn't think much about it and nodded.
The man who claimed to be surnamed Wu stood at the entrance of the village and looked into the distance. In his ears, the soldiers of the Qi Army and the water ghosts reported what had just happened. It was Wei Yuan who had arrived from Quan City. Human vision relies on reflected light and the water curtain.
The influence of light can easily change how others see him.
He did not show up directly, but came ashore from another place and arrived at the village before Zhang Tao and others.
The boatman had seen the water ghost carrying the sedan chair defeated before, and he was even more frightened. He must know something.
Only seven pairs of boys and girls carrying the sedan were unable to meet Wei Yuan's goal, and they were worried that Wu Zhiqi's power would appear and frighten the evil creature behind him into running away, so he had to resort to this strategy. Wei Yuan stared at the distance for a while.
The beautiful scenery made the water ghosts and the souls of the soldiers of the Qi family pay attention to hiding and keep an eye on this village.
He walked around casually like an ordinary tourist.
The Huai River, at least in this section of the basin, was quiet for a while after the water ghost carrying the sedan was killed, and then became more and more turbulent. It seemed that there was something lurking under the water system, and it was so angry that it sometimes surged.
The waves were almost as big as the hills, and seemed to submerge all the villages on both sides.
Zhang Tao and other disciples from the Tianshi Mansion went to take a look, but their expressions were ugly.
There is obviously some kind of existence at work.
I just don’t know how much water it has disturbed and how powerful it can be.
But in any case, this kind of performance can be called a land of water gods. It is not a problem that little Taoists like them can solve. That night, everyone in the village went to worship the river god. Zhang Tao planned to dissuade them.
But I don't know how to speak.
Just when they wanted to get closer, the villagers stared at them with great resentment, and one of the women even cursed fiercely:
"What are you doing here?!"
"If you hadn't killed Jiang Shen Huaidu's envoy, how could you have made Huaidu so angry and disrespectful to the gods!"
When it comes to scolding, how can several Taoist priests be her opponents?
Everyone retreated in panic.
The woman who was extremely fierce when cursing others was extremely pious when praying to the River God.
But it was obvious that the Jiang Shen and Huaidu Lord they spoke of did not appreciate it.
On the first day, the white glutinous rice from the big altar and the extremely high alcohol content of white wine were poured into the river. The part of the river bank where it was poured was filled with a strong aroma of wine that could not be ignored.
But the river became more and more turbulent.
Before they got up on the second day, the Taoist priests heard the sounds of animals. They rushed out to take a look and saw that the local residents had obtained live cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens from nowhere. They gathered five animals together.
They bowed down in front of the river and killed these animals on the spot.
In ancient times, this was almost a standard for worshiping heaven and gods.
Blood poured into the river, and the Huai River was turbulent, but it still did not converge at all.
That night, several Taoist priests discussed with each other how to stop the river and repel the evil gods in the river. In another place, at the village chief's house, there was one person from every household in the village.
Everyone remained silent. The village chief looked around and said hoarsely: "You all know the situation."
"Now those outsiders have harmed Lord Huaidu's envoys, and now Lord Huaidu is angry. All the sacrifices that were effective in the past are no longer possible. When Lord Huaidu gets involved, none of us will be able to escape.
"
A young man said: "Then you can't run away?"
The village chief sneered: "Run?"
"You don't know what happened to those who ran away in the past few years?"
Everyone was silent now. I had indeed heard that someone ran away a few years ago. It was said that he went to a big city and lived a good life. He even gave birth to a pair of children. However, after only a year or two, the village
The local people set up a net to catch fish in the Huai River, but the corpses of a whole family came up on the net, which frightened the fisherman at that time.
Everyone then gave up all thoughts of leaving the village.
In addition, when floods occurred in the past, only glutinous rice and liquor could be used to deal with it. Occasionally, people would die in the river, and they relied on the river water to make a living. People often died in the past, and I always felt that it would not fall on me, but who knows, not now
Just the glutinous rice liquor is useless, even the five animal sacrifices are useless.
The shadow of death hangs over everyone.
After a long silence, the village chief looked around at everyone and said, "There is only one way."
He said: "Life sacrifice."
Everyone's expressions changed. The last life sacrifice was decades ago. Some of them were still young and had no memory of it, and some were not born at all. They just regarded it as a so-called tradition that was lost in ignorance. But when
When the usually gentle and generous village chief said these two words, he was shocked to realize that this tradition had not been lost at all.
A woman said: "Since you said so, village chief, then why don't you just come from your family? I remember that your grandson is just six years old, which fits the bill perfectly."
The village chief's expression changed, and he said angrily: "What did you say!"
The woman was startled and held on, "Why, you are the village chief. How could you not lead by example when you succeed? Besides, your grandson is at the right time."
The village chief said: "Humph, isn't your grandson the same age? There are five children in the old Liu family. Isn't it just right to give up two of them to keep the big ones safe?!"
"Village Chief, you two are arguing, why are you dragging me into this?"
"Why, you..."
A group of people immediately started to quarrel, yelling and insulting each other, and the quarrel was getting louder.
Suddenly a deep voice said: "...Let's draw lots."
"No one can escape."
Everyone paused and stopped talking.
They looked at each other, and once again fell into the previous mentality of staying in this village: some people will be unlucky, but most people will be safe, and they always thought that they would be safe, so they found the white paper, tore it into strips, and grabbed it.
A man's legs and feet became weak and he sat down on the ground.
Her daughter was chosen.
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In order to prevent the disciples of Tianshi Mansion from getting involved.
The villagers planned to quietly complete the most important sacrifice. They brought cloth bags with their eyes open and covered their faces. Then they held torches and went to the woman's house. The man who was extremely pious to Jiang God did not come.
He had been knocked unconscious.
The moment he hit his daughter, he frantically tried to push these people away, trying to protect his daughter, but was hit hard on the back of the head, completely knocking him unconscious.
In the dark night, a group of people broke open the door and knocked the woman inside unconscious.
The latter didn't even see who had done it.
She only saw figures without faces, without fear or shame, stretched out under the torches, with swaying black shadows on their faces, like monsters lurking in the dark night.
It seems that after wearing a mask, there is no need to worry about retaliation or psychological burden.
But at this moment, there was a noisy sound, and everyone turned around and saw the young tourist wearing simple clothes. He looked at those people and the little girl with tears streaming down his face, and said: "What are you going to do?!
"
No one answered, everyone with their faces covered by black bags stood indifferently.
They picked up torches and shovels, changed their previous appearance, and approached the visitor step by step.
The young tourist paused and said, "Let that child go."
"No matter what, the child is innocent."
"If anything happens, I will take her place."
Everyone paused and subconsciously looked at the lowest figure in the crowd, that was the village chief. The latter looked silently at the young man who spoke, and looked at the latter's healthy and young body, thinking that if a life sacrifice was not enough,
There could be a second one, so he nodded slowly.
Someone tied the young man's hands, pressed him and the little girl away.
This young man will be a sacrifice to Lord Huaishui.
Such a sacrifice of health and youth.
Thinking about it, Suijun must be satisfied.
PS: Buffer Chapter~
It’s hard to smoothly enter the part you want to write_(:з」∠)_