Chapter 117

The flames on the large fish’s body soared and surged forward, as if erecting a thick, sturdy pillar of fire.

Bulges kept appearing around the fish’s mouth, but it remained tightly shut.

Yu Xu Zi’s struggle could be said to exhaust all efforts, but the big fish’s resentment was even more boundless.

It knew its end was already predetermined, but it could choose the path of that end.

The willing one takes the bait.

This was its final decision.

As a fish, it naturally knew clearly what being hooked by a fish hook and pulled out of the water meant.

But in its eyes,

Rather than being fused with and enslaved by this fellow, it was better to invite the Dragon King to come and give itself a quick death.

That person was at least a legitimate descendant of the Liu family’s river travelers, the future Dragon King. What kind of thing were you, this stinky Taoist who killed his brother and eliminated his disciples!

Both Yu Xu Zi and his senior brother had once been admirers of that Liu family Dragon King. In fact, from another perspective, wasn’t this big fish also the same?

Perhaps it had also once regretted why, facing that terrifying woman at the beginning, it had exhausted all efforts to finally escape, suffering several Jia Zi of hardship in vain, only to end up with a body not its own.

Having hibernated and endured for three hundred years, at this moment, the big fish in its heart had only one thought:

Mutual destruction with the fish!

Li Zhui Yuan just stood there, holding a newly opened can of Jian Li Bao in his hand.

The firelight reflected on the young man’s face. He finally understood why those released small fish each had their own little thoughts; it turned out to be inherited.

This wave, it was easy, but also lucky.

The three seniors, Xue, Zeng, and Zheng, had initially arranged the array for their descendants, not only guarding against their own master but also guarding against themselves.

In the end, this time it was also thanks to Bin Bin and Meng Meng’s efforts.

Not only was the matter done, but the descendants were also brought along.

In any step, if there had been even a little problem or delay, in the end, it would have escalated into a bloody, fierce battle.

Run Sheng, Tan Wen Bin, and Yin Meng were also watching Li Zhui Yuan. The young man here was still sighing about his companions’ contributions and efforts, but as a result, his companions looked at him with gazes that were even more full of wonder.

From their perspective, ever since entering this sealed Zheng Men Village, the three of them had been muddled all the way, cooperating in acting.

As a result, after acting and acting, Yu Xu Zi himself came to the door, lying there motionless, begging to be hit.

After all the fish scales were beaten off, even his soul was burned to ashes.

Immediately afterward, having transformed into a corpse demon, he inexplicably confronted the array they had just set up himself, and as a result, he was knocked to the ground by a punch from the array that had his own bones as an ingredient.

Thinking that they had already taken enough advantage and should seriously go all out to fight, as a result, the young man said a few words, and that big fish immediately turned against the Taoist inside and swallowed him.

Looking at Li Zhui Yuan drinking a beverage there, Tan Wen Bin’s mind floated up a sentence from a high school Chinese textbook: In casual talk, the masts and oars turn to ashes.

At this moment, in a team, the leader and companions had put filters on each other, which could also be considered a win-win situation.

The big fire finally extinguished.

What was left in front was a pile of ashes like a small mountain.

Li Zhui Yuan took out the Seven Star Hook from his backpack, pulled the hook long, and began to flip and poke through the ashes.

This was his favorite part.

A Li was still waiting for him at home; he had to collect more handmade materials for her.

The harvest came quickly: a root of fish bone as clear as jade stone was pulled out.

This one could be brought back to make a “jade hairpin” for A Li.

Li Zhui Yuan continued to collect, thinking if he could get some more things, it would be best to find the materials for next year’s new bone ring together.

But soon, the tip of the hook touched something hard, and there was a force, pulling and competing with him.

Li Zhui Yuan decisively let go. If you want it, then give it to you.

What came out with it were also Run Sheng and Yin Meng.

Yin Meng waved the whip in her hand and whipped at that area. The ashes scattered, exposing Yu Xu Zi inside.

At this time, the Taoist’s appearance was very miserable. Most parts of his body were already burned and melted, only retaining the part above his chest and one single arm.

Li Zhui Yuan felt that this was a very good image and shape, suitable for placement in the art academy’s display room.

The Taoist’s hand was still grasping the tip of the Seven Star Hook, but on his face, there was no angry or vicious expression, but a kind of blankness.

Run Sheng stepped forward with the Yellow River Shovel and cut off its remaining arm with one swing.

Just as he was preparing to strike its head, the Taoist opened his mouth: “Besides the stone tablet at the bottom of the river, I also left some notes in one place.”

Run Sheng stopped.

Logically, at this time, he shouldn’t stop to give the enemy a chance to speak. He had watched those gangster Hong Kong films, and the villains always stopped at this time, which always made him very angry.

But the problem was, the Taoist was dropping gold coins.

This feeling was just like when he lived at Li Da Ye’s house before, and Bin Bin borrowed a Little Overlord learning machine from his classmates.

The little figures inside jumped one after another, making “ding ding ding ding” sounds.

Li Zhui Yuan walked towards the Taoist.

The Taoist looked at the young man coming towards him and said, “In the room where my senior brother died, there is a study on the second floor. There are some of my array insights and perceptions inside. They are not well written; you can lightly mock them when you look at them.”

Li Zhui Yuan nodded.

The Taoist asked, “Tell me, if I hadn’t been greedy at the beginning, and suppressed this fish demon together with my senior brother, could the two of us have seen that Liu family Dragon King?

Did the two of us have a chance to worship the Dragon King?

Even if I couldn’t see her, I would continue to cultivate my Tao and bring my group of disciples with me. Wouldn’t I also leave more stories in the Jianghu?

Alas,

Now, I seem to regret it.”

Li Zhui Yuan: “You are not regretting; you just failed.”

The Taoist stared dead at Li Zhui Yuan. The viciousness on his face reappeared.

He was a dying person. He originally thought that after sending out his notes, he could get a few words of deathbed comfort from the other party. Who knew that the other party just changed the way and continued to stab at his heart.

“I also want to ask you one more thing. Can you tell me why you want to fuse this demonic thing?”

“Isn’t this obvious? Do you still need to ask me?”

Li Zhui Yuan shook his head: “I just feel that being a person is very difficult.”

The Taoist: “Please do me one more favor.”

Li Zhui Yuan silently took out a purple canvas from his pocket. The canvas was a consumable, but A Li had an unlimited supply from the ancestral hall.

After Li Zhui Yuan became Qin Liu’s disciple, he had also once thought about whether it was a bit disrespectful to use ancestor tablets to make tools, but on second thought, this perhaps also counted as assistance from his ancestors. An elder’s grant, one dares not decline.

The Taoist: “Help me take care of the descendants of my three disciples a little. I hope they can live well……”

Li Zhui Yuan: “Disgusting.”

The young man spread open the canvas and covered the Taoist’s head.

“Zizi zizi zizi……”

As if pouring a large bowl of water into a pot of boiling oil, intense white steam rose from under the canvas.

“Ah!!”

This was aimed at evil spirits, an extremely cruel torture.

The Taoist had long ago ceased to be a person.

Even now, though he had lost the ability to fight back, his vitality still showed tenacity.

Run Sheng originally felt in his heart that it was a bit of a loss for Xiao Yuan to use such a precious canvas to kill the Taoist. He could just chop him with a shovel anyway; strength was not valuable.

But as it burned and burned, wisps of white smoke actually rose from several corners in the ashes.

Run Sheng walked over and dug them open with a shovel, discovering strips of small fish being burned. They had actually hidden here earlier and, looking at the traces of ash inside, were preparing to crawl out to hide and plan to rise again.

Now, due to the canvas, they were all wiped out clean.

“Ah ah ah!”

The black canvas gradually thinned as it was consumed, exposing the embedded wood chips inside.

The Taoist in his miserable screams saw the engraved words on one of the wood chips: Liu Qing Cheng.

He thought he was hallucinating, but after seeing this name, his mind immediately recalled the painting scroll in the room where his senior brother died.

In the painting scroll, a woman in a green robe was facing the fish demon in the river.

Liu Qing Cheng, this was her name.

Senior brother, I saw her……

Subsequently, he completely fell into darkness.

The reaction ended. Li Zhui Yuan took off the black canvas. The Taoist had already turned pitch black.

Run Sheng lightly poked the Taoist with a shovel, raising a piece of Yu Xu Zi.

“Run Sheng bro, help me go to the bottom of the river and collect all the stone tablets; Bin Bin bro, you go take rubbings of the contents of the stone tablets. Meng Meng, you accompany me to the second floor.”

Yin Meng’s mouth curved up. This seemed to be the first time Xiao Yuan had called her with a reduplicated surname.

Once again entering that courtyard, looking at the bones of the yellow-robed Taoist and his crowd of disciples, Li Zhui Yuan paused for a while, then entered the house upstairs.

There was indeed a room on the second floor with signs of use. The desk was at the window, and sitting at the desk, turning his head slightly, he could see the courtyard.

He thought that for so many days and nights, Yu Xu Zi must have sat here often, writing while looking at the senior brother he had killed below.

Yin Meng also noticed this point. She frowned: “I really don’t understand what kind of thinking this kind of person has.”

Li Zhui Yuan said while flipping through the booklets on the desk: “Understanding them is a waste of time.”

“Xiao Yuan bro, Jia Yi is quite nice. Can I continue to make appointments with her to play together after returning to Jin Ling?”

“It’s up to you who you make friends with; you don’t need my permission.”

“I’m worried……”

“No need to worry.”

“Okay.”

“But, please pay a little attention to whether Zheng Jia Yi will have any changes after this incident, such as in personality or habits. Help me pay attention and tell me after a while.”

“Um, understood.”

“Okay, you find something to pack these booklets into and take them away.”

“Good, I’ll put them in my bag.”

Yin Meng tidied up her backpack. The task was completed, and the next step was the return journey. The supplies inside could be thrown out to make space for more precious books.

“Xiao Yuan bro, do you want to pack the books on the shelf as well?”

“No need. Those books have no value.”

“Then…… can they be sold for money?”

“They barely count as antiques.”

“Then I’ll take them all. After returning to Jin Ling, I’ll find a place to sell them and buy a pickup truck.”

Run Sheng’s salvage and Tan Wen Bin’s rubbings were highly efficient.

The two came back from the riverbank, and also took some door boards from the village, made a wooden bed, tied the six still in a coma university students on top, and dragged them back with a rope by Run Sheng.

The ground was bumpy and uneven, and they were inevitably bumped around, but it was already good to be able to save them. Just don’t expect any comfortable treatment.

They originally wanted to find a cart, but after so many years, the wheels of the carts had already rotted off.

Li Zhui Yuan personally arranged a new array. As the array activated, distortion appeared at the boundary ahead. The crowd passed through and came outside.

The offerings placed on the stone altar when they entered were already scattered on the ground.

After all, the altar had been separated earlier, and the corpses inside had also come out once.

“Bin Bin bro, tidy up the offerings again; Meng Meng, wipe that stone tablet again.”

The altar was tidied up again, and the stone tablet was wiped clean, revealing its luster and texture.

People are multi-faceted.

This sentence was literally realized on Yu Xu Zi’s body.

His bones didn’t recognize him, and his disciples didn’t recognize him either.

So this altar and stone tablet were not set up for him, nor did they commemorate him. He had just shamelessly and deliberately taken the same name as them.

Li Zhui Yuan looked around. Yu Xu Zi said that the Liu family Dragon King had once searched and looked here.

This was also the reason why he had arranged the sealing array so sturdily.

But that Dragon King,

Did she really come?

“You all came out?”

Zheng Jia Yi drilled out from beside a big stone, holding a bag of biscuits in her hand.

Yin Meng asked: “Where’s Zeng Yin Yin?”

Zheng Jia Yi pointed backward: “She’s in the back.” Zeng Yin Yin was still tied tightly.

Yin Meng: “I’ll go untie her legs and feet and let her walk herself.”

Passing by Li Zhui Yuan, Yin Meng heard the young man’s instruction “loosen a little,” and Yin Meng nodded.

The crowd came to the riverbank. The fog on the river surface was still dense.

This was the result of the array’s influence. Ordinary people going in arbitrarily would fall into confusion.

Because there were still six university students in a coma, besides Li Zhui Yuan, everyone went nearby to find some branches and grass bundles to add some buoyancy to the board.

Just at this time, Zeng Yin Yin suddenly broke free from the ropes on her body and rushed towards the river without hesitation.

Li Zhui Yuan just sat there, watching Zeng Yin Yin run past him and jump into the river.

At first, as she waded in the river, she occasionally looked back to see if anyone was chasing.

Gradually, the fog blocked her line of sight behind her. When she looked forward again, she couldn’t see the opposite bank either.

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She began to rely on her previous sense of direction to continue forward, but she didn’t know how long she had walked. Around her was still water. The water was not deep, only up to her chest, but the riverbank seemed to become remotely unattainable.

She began to shout: “Silly one, silly one, silly one!”

No one responded, no one appeared.

Probably,

Only the silly one would continue to pay attention to her.

“Ah, she ran away!”

Zeng Yin Yin’s escape only caused one person, Zheng Jia Yi, to exclaim.

But after she exclaimed, she found that everyone was doing their own thing, and no one had any reaction.

After the simple raft was made, Li Zhui Yuan took out his compass, preparing to lead the team himself.

But just as he entered the water, he saw the figure of the silly one appear in the fog.

The silly one happily waved his hand and jumped in the water, splashing water.

Li Zhui Yuan put away his compass and said, “Let’s go. The silly one will lead the way.”

They crossed the river and returned.

Walking and walking, Li Zhui Yuan found that this was not the way they had come.

But looking at the silly one running and picking wild flowers along the roadside to wear on his head, Li Zhui Yuan didn’t say anything and continued to follow him.

The mountain road was difficult to walk. There were stones everywhere and slopes everywhere. The six university students being dragged on the board now all had bruised noses and swollen faces.

Putting aside other minor external injuries, from time to time someone’s nose hit the board or hit the back of a classmate’s head, causing a nosebleed. Tan Wen Bin still had to stop the bleeding for them.

Bin Bin rubbed paper balls and said impatiently: “Okay, listen, next time, go to the park to explore. Don’t come out running wild.”

After stopping the bleeding, Tan Wen Bin couldn’t help but sigh: “The physical quality of university students now is really not good ah.”

Yu Xu Zi, in order to highlight his “kindness,” had untied their control early, and the small fish had also left their bodies, but up to now, the six people were still in a coma.

This made Bin Bin, who was used to sending Run Sheng and Lin Shu You to the infirmary, feel very unadapted.

Ahead, three small hills appeared side by side.

Zheng Jia Yi pointed excitedly and said: “My family’s ancestral grave is right there, the leftmost hill!”

Li Zhui Yuan asked: “Whose are the other two?”

Zheng Jia Yi thought for a while and replied: “The middle one is the Xue family’s, and the right one is the Zeng family’s.”

Li Zhui Yuan nodded. It seemed that with the complete demise of the big fish and Yu Xu Zi, the array in Min An Town had also stopped operating and restored to normal.

The silly one, wearing a flower crown on his head, pointed and pointed in front of Li Zhui Yuan.

Li Zhui Yuan understood his meaning, but the young man still waved at him.

The silly one obediently bent down and brought his face to the young man.

Li Zhui Yuan looked at his eyes and asked very curiously: “Who exactly are you?”

The silly one straightened up and gesticulated, saying: “I am a corpse fisher, a corpse fisher, a corpse fisher!”

Li Zhui Yuan shook his head: “You are not.”

The silly one was stunned for a moment, then jumped on the spot and shouted: “I am the village guard, the village guard, the village guard!”

Li Zhui Yuan didn’t continue asking, but instructed:

“Meng Meng, you and Zheng Jia Yi go to her family’s ancestral grave;

Bin Bin bro, Run Sheng bro, you two go to the Zeng family’s ancestral grave.

Everyone bring incense and paper and pay respects once.”

The four people took their things separately and walked to the two hills.

Li Zhui Yuan then prepared to walk to the middle one, which was the Xue family’s ancestral grave.

The silly one bounced and followed.

Li Zhui Yuan stopped, turned back to look at him, and then pointed to the wooden board with the six university students still in a coma.

“You stay here and watch them.”

The silly one showed grievance.

Then he quickly ran to the front of the board, tip-toed to the middle of the six people, pursed his butt:

“Pu~~~~!”

Li Zhui Yuan, standing far away, saw the hair of those six university students all blown up.

What’s the use of farting.

The six people unexpectedly all opened their eyes and slowly sat up, one by one, looking around with clear but bewildered eyes.

Li Zhui Yuan turned and walked to the hillside. The silly one also followed.

Because Xue Pa had just been to the grave not long ago, the weeds here had all been cleared.

The ancestral graves, from high to low, were arranged according to seniority, very much like the arrangement of the altar.

Generally speaking, later generations only needed to pay respects at the lowest one.

Li Zhui Yuan passed through other graves and kept going up until he reached the grave tablet at the very top.

The grave tablet was old, obviously with history, but the words on the grave tablet should have been redrawn with paint by descendants every few decades.

The disciples of the three surnames followed their master here, and later, they even hid their names and buried themselves here to suppress the demon.

So, their own ancestral graves were started by them.

Liang Liang bro’s ancestor was named…… Xue Er Wu.

Recalling what Yu Xu Zi said, he specially selected three of the most stupid disciples with the most mediocre aptitude to bring over.

Indeed, this name sounds like it gives a feeling of not being too smart.

Li Zhui Yuan lit the incense and inserted it into the ground. When lighting the yellow paper, the silly one clapped his hands excitedly, eager to try, so he simply handed it to him and let him burn it at the head of the grave to play with.

Subsequently, Li Zhui Yuan stepped back two steps and stood beside Xue Er Wu’s grave tablet.

He formally performed the Liu family gate ritual to it.

As he was walking the Jiang now, the karma around him was complex. If he directly worshipped, perhaps the deceased person inside wouldn’t mind, but the living people left in the world might not be able to bear it.

The ritual was done.

“Ka cha!”

The grave tablet cracked open a seam in the middle.

Li Zhui Yuan was involuntarily a little surprised: Was he so fast now?

But soon, Li Zhui Yuan discovered that the problem was not just the grave tablet. The earth square behind the grave tablet directly collapsed, revealing a pit.

He walked to the edge of the pit. Inside was a completely faded coffin. The lid of the coffin was cracked open in the middle and slid to both sides.

In the coffin lay the body of an old man.

Except for some dehydration, the facial features of the corpse were basically well preserved.

This was not strange. A basic requirement of Feng Shui seeking acupuncture points was that the corpse buried here could not be damp or rushed, and could get the best preservation.

They were people of Xuan Men, skilled in arrays, and this place was also an auspicious acupuncture point. If even a corpse could not be preserved well, that would be strange.

The old man’s hands were stacked on his lower abdomen, and a thin book was placed on his chest.

Besides that, there were no other burial items inside the coffin, which appeared very neat and simple.

Li Zhui Yuan jumped into the pit, came to the side of the coffin, and reached out to take out that book.

There was nothing awkward about this. This was Xue family ancestor manifesting spirit and actively showing it to him.

Li Zhui Yuan was also curious about the content of the book that made Xue Er Wu not hesitate to crack open his own coffin and display it to him.

The book was very thin. Although it had a cover, the actual content was only a few pages.

It was not a secret manual, a cultivation method, or an array diagram, but rather more like a memoir.

Bringing only this to burial explained that the experience recorded in the article was the most glorious and precious thing in his life.

After reading it, Li Zhui Yuan’s mouth curved into a smile. He found it very interesting.

Yu Xu Zi said that the Liu family Dragon King came, and he was not wrong; that Liu family Dragon King did indeed come.

When she came, Yu Xu Zi’s three disciples were just kneeling outside the array, mourning their master and weeping bitterly towards the altar and stone tablet.

The Dragon King was not a god; she could not be omniscient.

When Li Zhui Yuan first saw this array, he only felt that the only flaw of this array was “only suppress but not grind.” If he hadn’t discovered after entering that Yu Xu Zi’s array attainment was very high, he wouldn’t have realized that the original intention of this array had problems.

The same was true for that Liu family Dragon King. She couldn’t see the problem. After all, the three disciples were so stupid, so it was also very reasonable for the master to arrange such a clumsy array.

Moreover, this Liu family Dragon King didn’t seem skilled in arrays.

In short, she came, and then, moved by Yu Xu Zi’s “great fearless sacrifice,” she actually wanted to take the three of them as registered disciples.

This was what their three masters had dreamed of!

But they, with the inheritance of their master and the reason that their master had just sacrificed himself to protect the righteous way, refused this huge opportunity.

It must be said that these three disciples were indeed upright and simple by nature.

From this, it can also be seen that Yu Xu Zi had a problem with his thinking when choosing people. If you had chosen a few smart and flexible-minded people, they might have guarded you for two or three years, felt enough affection, gotten bored, annoyed, and then slipped away.

But you chose three of the most stupid and wholeheartedly dedicated people. They strictly followed their master’s orders and obediently listened, not only guarding for a lifetime themselves, but also making arrangements for their descendants to continue guarding the greatest master.

Although they refused to be accepted as disciples, the Liu family Dragon King was not angry. Instead, she took them in as subordinates, which was actually equivalent to servants.

During the prosperous period of the Liu family Dragon King, there were many people who voluntarily came as subordinates, either personally or bringing their family sects, due to their needs for secret manuals, cultivation methods, favors, and so on.

Here, it was a kind of flexible accommodation to avoid formalities.

This kind of subordinate could be sent to handle affairs and also taught things, but outside, they could not claim to be Liu family members, nor could they reveal that they had learned Liu family’s things.

The Liu family Dragon King imparted the three 《Liu Shi Wang Qi Jue》 and gave them several sets of Liu family’s array secret codices.

From this, it can be seen that that Liu family Dragon King was indeed not skilled in arrays, otherwise she wouldn’t have only given “textbooks” when teaching disciples.

It can only be said that oranges born in Hua Nan are oranges, and those born in Hua Bei are trifoliate oranges.

These three disciples were stupid logs under Yu Xu Zi, but relying on the Liu family heart method and secret codices, even if the three of them just studied behind closed doors, they all achieved great results.

No wonder Yu Xu Zi was sealed inside for so many years and could never deal with his disciples. Their levels were already different.

Moreover, forty years after their master died, the three disciples suddenly spread news again, probably already detecting that their master had changed and gradually tasting their master’s true intention.

But they did not choose to cooperate, but instead continued to arrange to permanently suppress their master.

One reason was that in their hearts, their “master” was already the image on the stone tablet;

The second was that perhaps the changed master was instead more pleasing to them. This way, they could, in their inner hearts, affirm their identity as Liu family people even more.

Look, they even had to bring this experience, or this identity, into the coffin when they died. This inner tendency was simply obvious to the extreme.

Li Zhui Yuan shook the booklet in his hand and smiled at the elderly corpse lying in the coffin:

“Okay, okay, I know. You and I are the same; we are both Liu family people.”

“Buzz!”

Smoke rose from the three ancestral graves on the three hills.

This time it was not green mist, because the mist light was too fast and did not have time to show.

Green smoke curled up. Although there was no wind blowing, it formed winding patterns when it rose to mid-air.

And, the directions of the winding distortions were all towards the direction where Li Zhui Yuan was currently standing.

In the dark,

Three vague old voices seemed to come from his ears:

“Liu Shi’s subordinates Xue (Zeng, Zheng),

Pay respects to the Dragon King!”

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