Xu Shuduan sat in the cage, "There is no need to offer incense. There is something I have to inform you in advance. You also met the female mage yesterday. She is a real Taoist master.
Just now I went to explain the funeral arrangements, mainly to consult her about matters after death.
The Master said that if I die before noon, I will be so resentful that it will be difficult for me to be reincarnated. I will definitely turn into a ghost and haunt Xiahe Village..."
As soon as these words came out, the whole place was buzzing.
Having been educated by the River Dragon King and the sacrificial activities for several years, everyone in Xiahe Village believed in the gods and ghosts.
In particular, the villagers still remember Qin Bing's demeanor of being an upright person.
The villagers dared not believe her words.
"No, we must not miss the right moment."
Yang Shunguo categorically refused.
"Village chief, don't do anything impossible. No matter what, I had to sacrifice my life to save those two children.
I am dying today, and I just want to be reincarnated. You don’t agree to such a trivial request?
In this case, I can just die here, and there is no need for you to throw me into the river."
As he spoke, Xu Shu took out the screwdriver and pressed the sharp tip against his neck.
At this time, not only Yang Shunguo panicked, but the villagers also started shouting.
"Calm down, you must be calm, if you have something to say, if you have something to say..."
Yang Shunguo was so anxious that he almost danced.
The two children had been let go. If Xu Shu really couldn't figure it out and died on the shore without a sacrifice, it would be all over.
"Okay, okay, promise you, promise you..."
Yang Shunguo stamped his feet anxiously.
Immediately, he led several of his confidants to leave, discussing how to break the situation.
We discussed and discussed, but no solution was found.
Now, the iron cage has become Xu Shu's protective umbrella. Even if he wants to suddenly attack Xu Shu through the cage, he won't be able to control him.
The situation is deadlocked, and I don’t realize that the auspicious moment has arrived.
When the cannon went silent, a huge whirlpool suddenly erupted in the middle of the river, followed by an exciting elephant roar.
When a strange phenomenon occurred in the middle of the lake, the villagers in Xiahe Village immediately dispersed, leaving only twenty or thirty die-hards staying in place, all of whom looked fearful.
Yang Shunguo came to the altar with two sides fighting, and loudly explained the reason why the sacrifice did not start immediately.
"Not only can I dream, but I can also understand people's words."
Xu Shu whispered softly.
After Yang Shunguo finished speaking, the vision in the center of the river disappeared immediately.
"Gentlemen, please stop standing like this. Sit down and chat for a while."
Xu Shu put down the screwdriver and greeted Yang Shunguo and others.
Yang Shunguo and others were so preoccupied that they were not in the mood to chat.
Xu Shu stopped persuading and thought to himself, "To be honest, I voluntarily exchanged two children this time to earn some merit for myself. The female mage said that those who sacrifice to the gods will be rewarded by the gods.
I have been very poor in this life and have no hope, but the merits I gained this time will be enough for me to live a good life in the next life. The Master also said..."
Everyone in Xiahe Village believed in the theory of ghosts and gods the most. As soon as he opened his talk box, Yang Shunguo and others were fascinated by it, and their tense nerves slowly relaxed.
Those with poor concentration still started chatting.
Time passes slowly in this "you say, I say".
"...According to what my little brother said, being sacrificed is a great thing.
If I were sacrificed, I might be a landlord in my next life, or at worst a village chief.
Village chief, if it really doesn’t work, why don’t I sacrifice it to the River Dragon King?”
A thick, scarred man whispered.
Yang Shunguo kicked him in the butt and said, "You don't even urinate and show yourself. What kind of virtues do you have, are you worthy of riding a horse?"
At this moment, the shrill sound from the center of the river came again.
Yang Shunguo rushed to the altar, took out an old chain pocket watch from his arms, and shouted to the center of the river, "It's only half an hour, please keep enduring."
The center of the river was calm again.
Yang Shunguo sat back by the cage and looked at Xu Shudao anxiously, "Hunter, which Taoist temple does that mage belong to? Do you think the Nine Yin Sutra she practiced can really give birth to a son?"
Xu Shu said sternly, "I heard the master say that the way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more damage..."
As Xu Shuzheng was talking, Yang Shunguo and others all looked deathly gray and their pupils dilated.
Xu Shu's heart skipped a beat, and waves of cold air hit him from the back. He slowly turned his head, and saw a python head as big as a millstone standing three meters away, with a pair of cold triangular eyes staring at him.
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Although the giant python closed its mouth tightly, there was still a fishy smell coming from the face.
The huge head blocked his sight, and he couldn't see His entire stature at all.
"This is too, too outrageous."
Although he was fully prepared mentally, at this moment, facing this terrifying monster, he was already panicking.
"Roar!"
His mouth full of mucus opened, revealing dagger-sharp fangs, and spit out a smelly "hurricane". Xu Shu was blown against the wall of the cage, and the screwdriver flew out of the cage.
He bit down on the piece of pig iron connecting the cage, turned around, and threw himself into the river.
The huge python's head was almost touching the iron cage, and its cold triangular eyes were staring at Xu Shu, as if with human emotions.
Xu Shu kept giving himself psychological hints while observing Him.
It wasn't until he entered the river that Xu Shu could clearly see His entire stature.
He is about twenty-one meters long and shaped like a bucket.
He remembered that the longest anaconda recorded in his previous life was only fifteen meters long, and its stature was far inferior to this one.
With such a body, combined with spiritual intelligence and magic, it is not much different from a dragon.
Can Duan Kuohai bear it? Am I seeking death?
Gudu, Gudu, the divergent thoughts were quickly dispersed by the river water that invaded the mouth.
He quickly closed his mouth, breathed evenly, grasped the cage wall tightly with both hands, and let him drag him through the waves in the river.
The wash of water caused Xu Shu to feel pain all over his body.
Immediately afterwards, there was burning pain in the chest again, and the eardrums also buzzed violently.
Time seemed to have passed for a year, until a vision appeared in front of Xu Shu's eyes, and his nose finally took in air again.
He opened his mouth and breathed greedily. At the same time, he opened his eyes and looked around.
"This is the Dragon King Temple. It's too simple. It's just a big broken house built on a big bluestone. Well, what is that."
Xu Shu stared at the half-meter-high concrete pillar in the middle of the house, and felt that it was very abrupt when it appeared here.
While he was meditating, He suddenly shook his head, and the iron cage flew up and hit the cement pier. Xu Shu's eyes flashed with stars after the fall.
At the same time, a pile of scrap metal was knocked away by the iron cage and fell to the ground.
Xu Shu looked intently and saw two dried corpses mixed in the pile of scrap metal. When he thought about it carefully, he could see where the scrap metal was. It was clearly a flattened sacrificial cage.
In an instant, Xu Shu figured it out, "What this evil beast wants is not a living person, but living blood. This cement block is just a simple altar."
He suppressed his panic and looked at the altar, only to see an almost regular dark brown mark that spread from the table to the ground, ending at a slightly raised spot.
He secretly screamed that it was weird. He was crushed together with the cage, and the blood was flowing out. It should be scattered. There could be no blood stains according to this rule.
"Could it be that the thing hidden in the tomb has the ability to absorb blood, which led to the creation of this rule mark?"
Only then did Xu Shu get a glimpse of the key point, and his huge tail was raised high, ready to be smashed down.
"etc!"
Xu Shu exclaimed.
He raised his huge head and hung it in the air, his blood-red triangular eyes full of contempt.
"Brother Dao, you tried so hard to let me replace the boy and girl. I know what you want. Brother Dao, you may not know what I want."
Xu Shu seemed calm, but there were thousands of drums beating in his heart.
Xu Shuqian calculated everything, but he didn't expect that this monster would end up dragging him into the water.
It was still at least half an hour away from the three hours Jing Cheng said, but the evil beast in front of him could kill him in just an instant.
Without waiting for his reaction, Xu Shu quickly answered, "Brother Taoist, do you know why I had to wait until noon before letting them throw me into the river?
Brother Tao, do you know why I agreed to take the place of those two children? Is there anyone in the world who is not afraid of death?
Brother Tao, do you know why you can't invade my dream?
Brother Tao, the opportunity has arrived, don’t miss it.”
After a set of combos, his scarlet eyes showed confusion for the first time.
Suddenly, a streak of black air burst out from a tumor on the top of its head and headed straight for Xu Shu.
The black energy hit Xu Shu, and it quickly retreated, almost collapsing.
Xu Shu remembered something, took out the apricot-yellow charm given by Qin Bing and threw it on the ground.
The black energy rushed over again, and Xu Shu had a thought in his mind, "Who are you?"
It chose Xu Shu precisely because his invincible secret method of entrusting dreams failed to work on Xu Shu, so it suspected that Xu Shu was a legendary spirit body.
"We are both seeking Taoism, so why should Taoist brother get to the bottom of it?"
"Aren't you from the government?"
"I am determined to study the Tao, so how can I be willing to degenerate and become a hawk of the government? I just heard about the existence of Taoist brothers, so I hung out with them. Besides, how can a hawk of the government sacrifice himself to save others?
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"what do you want to say in the end?"
"Brother Dao, don't be impatient, just listen to me slowly.
I insisted on offering sacrifices at noon because I actually wanted to force the Taoist brother to show up and see if he was afraid of the scorching sun at noon, so as to test the Taoist brother's strength.
Now it seems that Brother Dao's strength is quite good, which makes me satisfied.
I am willing to sacrifice myself, not to save others, but just to be with my Taoist brother for a while.
I have crossed mountains and seas, and also crossed mountains and seas of people, just to search for existences like Dao Brother.
As for why Brother Tao cannot invade my dream, this is my secret technique and I cannot tell Brother Tao.
In short, if I don’t even have this ability, I’m not worthy of coming to see Brother Tao to discuss this business.”
"Business?"
He had no idea what kind of medicine Xu Shu was selling in his gourd, but he felt that Xu Shu's words made sense, which made him involuntarily have the desire to investigate.
"Let me tell you a story, Brother Tao..."
"Give you a minute."
Xu Shu was secretly worried, the delaying method was about to fail, "Brother Tao, why should you be anxious? If my story doesn't satisfy Brother Tao, Brother Tao will just take my life."
What's more, the Pu River is very close and Brother Tao can move forward and retreat freely, so what's there to worry about?"
"Forget it, I'll give you time to see what tricks you play."
"Three years ago, I visited a country where there were iron dragons that could carry thousands of people thousands of miles away overnight, and there were iron birds that could carry hundreds of people across the sky thousands of miles overnight..."
Xu Shu was describing what he had seen and heard on Earth. He had a good literary talent and He listened with rapt attention.
After laying out his knowledge about the earth for nearly five minutes, he became impatient, and Xu Shu quickly changed to the main topic: "...There is a demon monk on Jiange Mountain who has been practicing for many years and is stuck in a bottleneck. He has to steal virgin Xuanyin frequently in order to succeed.
For this reason, the demon monk did not hesitate to take risks and frequently broke into houses to collect incense and steal jade. As a result, he was seriously injured by the government's eagle dog. Fortunately, I saved him...
After my instruction, he turned into a magician, traveled among wealthy families, and gained great fame. A wealthy man donated money to build a temple on Jiange Mountain.
The demon monk showed off his tricks and captured countless believers. The temple became more popular and the number of believers increased.
At that time, the demon monk no longer needs to steal Xuanyin, and there are many demon girls and girls who are willing to practice joyful meditation with him.
In order to thank me, the demon monk taught me a set of secret techniques, but Taoist brother cannot enter my dream. This is the reason."