Chapter 26 Using yourself as bait

Chapter 26 Using yourself as bait

Chapter 26 Using yourself as bait
Chen Shi hesitated for a moment, then told the truth, "A barren mountain suddenly appeared near our village. There was a temple on the mountain. I cultivated very quickly in the temple. But that temple was smashed by a piece of stone from outer space, so I plan to find another one."

"Practicing in an ancient temple?"

Granny Sha was surprised, looked at him deeply, and reminded him, "Xiao Shi, you no longer have a divine fetus. Do you know what it means to not have a divine fetus?"

Chen Shi smiled: "I know. Mother-in-law, I want to find a place like this that will allow me to cultivate faster, so that I can take the county exam again and become a god again. I will take the exam for the title of Juren..."

Granny Sha interrupted him: "Without the divine fetus, it means you will never be able to cultivate true qi, which means you will become a useless person!"

Chen Shi's smile was a little stiff, and he stuttered a little: "I, if I pass the imperial examination, I can get a good job, and grandpa won't have to work at his age. I..."

"It's impossible for you to become a divine fetus again!"

Granny Sha's face was serious, and she interrupted him again, "The divine fetus is given by the True God from outer space, not cultivated. A person only has one chance in his life to be blessed by the True God, and there is no second chance! Xiao Shi, stop daydreaming!"

Chen Shi's face was pale, and his body was shaking as if he couldn't stand steadily. He argued, "Mother-in-law, I can definitely rebuild the shrine! If I build it, the true gods from outer space will see how hard I work and maybe bless me again..."

Granny Sha shook her head and said coldly, "It's impossible. Give up this delusion. Xiao Shi, it's good to be an ordinary person in this life. Come home."

Chen Shi was extremely disappointed and walked out with his head down.

Granny Sha shook her head: "Silly child, you still think you can restore your divine fetus..."

She sighed. Chen Shi once amazed the world, but it was a pity that Chen Shi’s divine fetus was taken away by someone.

Today, Chen Shi is just a useless person who is unable to practice cultivation.

After a while, Grandma Sha walked out of the yard and was stunned.

Chen Shi was seen sitting on the stone steps outside her house and had not returned home.

"Xiao Shi, why don't you go back?" asked Grandma Sha.

"Grandma, I want to grow up quickly and don't want Grandpa to worry about me."

Chen Shi tilted his head and looked at the ground. "I don't want Grandpa to work hard at such an old age. I don't want him to become what he is now because of me. I just want to have some ability and take good care of Grandpa. I don't want Grandpa to be so tired at such an old age. I want Grandpa to enjoy a good life..."

When Granny Sha heard this, she couldn't bear it and said, "If you want to know about this place, that's fine, but you have to help Granny do something."

Chen Shi was greatly encouraged, and quickly wiped away his tears, saying with a smile: "Just say it, mother-in-law!"

Granny Sha smiled and said, "I lost something in the Forgotten River in my early years. This treasure is my favorite. I have been thinking about it all these years. If you help me salvage it from the Forgotten River, I will tell you where the temple is."

Chen Shi was a little hesitant.

Granny Sha sneered, "Are you scared? If you are, then go back and be an ordinary person!"

Chen Shi gritted his teeth and looked up, saying, "I did it!"

He stiffened his neck, exposing the most vulnerable part of his neck, and said, "Mother-in-law, if you kill me, I will go to the Forgotten River to get something for you! Please act quickly, I am afraid of the pain."

Granny Sha was both angry and amused, and she was also a little touched.

"I thought he was afraid, but I didn't expect that the reason he hesitated was that he felt that he had to die before he could go to the Forgotten River. There is great terror between life and death. He is willing to die in order to rebuild his divine fetus. His heart of Tao is so strong that it is rare in the world. Who knows, he can really achieve something in the future."

Granny Sha thought about this and said with a smile, "Why do you have to die to go to the Forgotten River? If you can only go to the Forgotten River after you die, wouldn't it be a disgrace to my reputation? Don't worry, you don't have to die."

Chen Shi was surprised and happy.

He had indeed gone through a great psychological struggle just now before deciding to die in the Lethe River, but he didn't expect that he could enter the Lethe River alive!

Grandma Sha came into the house, took out an iron chain weighing more than 30 kilograms, and tied it to Chen Shi.

Chen Shi has been getting stronger and stronger over this period of time, and his strength has also increased, so he doesn't feel the weight.

"It's not easy to go to the Wangchuan River. This river is the river of the dead in the underworld. After a person dies, the underworld messengers will come to the living world, capture the ghosts who linger in the living world, and row boats through the Wangchuan River into the underworld."

Granny Sha brought another bundle of hemp rope, which was several dozen feet long and very tough. At the other end of the rope was a large hook, very large and sharp at the tip, like a fish hook, but it probably weighed more than ten pounds.

Chen Shi had fished before and had seen fish hooks of all sizes, but he had never seen such a big one. He wondered, "How big a fish is my mother-in-law going to catch with such a big hook? And with such a big hook, the bait must be big too, right?"

Granny Sha carried the fishing hook and hemp rope on her back and walked out of the village. Chen Shi hurriedly followed.

Although the little old woman was very old, her steps were light and Chen Shi had to use all his strength to keep up with her.

The two walked for more than ten miles and came to the mouth of the Yudai River, where the Yudai River merges into the Dejiang River. The water of the Dejiang River is surging and the current is fast. They go smoothly along this river and reach the estuary in only two hundred miles.

"All the flowing rivers in the world are connected to the Forgotten River, so you can enter the Forgotten River through these rivers."

Granny Sha chose a big tree by the river, tied a rope to the tree, and said, "It's easy to let ghosts enter the Wangchuan River, but it takes some tricks to let living people enter the Wangchuan River."

She grabbed the hook, her dim eyes flashing with cunning, and she smiled, "There is a big fish in this river that can swim between the Yin and Yang worlds. It's called Gun. Gun likes to eat people. When Gun eats people, he swallows the hook. The hook hurts Gun, so he will escape to the underworld and enter the Wangchuan River."

Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat: "Mother-in-law, did the fishhook go in through my mouth and come out through my chin?"

He knew he was the bait.

Granny Sha shook her head.

Chen Shi's face turned pale: "It came out from the stomach?"

Granny Sha came up behind him, passed the ridiculously large fishhook through the iron chain, and said with a smile: "Do you think I'm going to pass you through like a worm? If I did that, wouldn't your grandfather kill me?"

Chen Shi was relieved and asked, "What did Grandma throw into the Forgetful River?" Grandma Sha's eyes flickered, "It was a copper lamp with a handle. The light was not very bright, but you could see it from a distance."

Chen Shi asked in confusion: "When did mother-in-law get lost?"

"Nine years."

"The bronze lamp that was lost nine years ago? Why didn't you look for it before?"

Chen Shi became more and more confused and asked, "Where did you lose it? Can we find the lamp if we go into the water from here?"

Granny Sha looked away and shouted, "What are you talking about? Are you going or not?"

"Go! Of course!"

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment, then asked, "After I am eaten by the big fish, how can I get out of the fish's mouth?"

"How should I know? I've never been eaten."

Granny Sha became more and more guilty, and said, "You will know when you go down. Don't worry, if you find the lamp, just pull the hemp rope hard. I will be holding the hemp rope on the shore and will be able to sense your movement. Just pull back the hemp rope and you can return to the world of the living. Nothing will happen to you!"

Chen Shi asked, "I have another question. Has mother-in-law tried this treasure hunting method before?"

"Of course I tried!"

Granny Sha smiled and urged, "Go quickly and come back soon, so your grandpa won't worry!"

Chen Shi went into the water cautiously. It was not because he was timid, but he always felt that using himself as bait to catch a big fish that could go to the Wangchuan River in the underworld, and then go to the river to look for treasure, was a little unreliable.

The water in Dejiang River was rushing fast, and it felt like a dozen people were pushing him, making it difficult for him to stand.

Chen Shi looked towards the river, and saw whirlpools of varying sizes moving downward along the surface of the water. It was obvious that the water was more violent in deeper waters!

"Go deeper into the water!" Granny Sha urged from the shore.

Chen Shi said loudly: "Granny, if I can't find it, you must tell me where the temple is!"

Granny Sha agreed repeatedly.

Chen Shi continued to walk into the deep water, dragging dozens of kilograms of iron chains and fish hooks on his body, making him worry that he would not be able to swim. If he drowned in the river...

"My mother-in-law will also summon my soul. I won't die anyway!"

Chen Shi became bolder and went deeper and deeper.

When Granny Sha saw him enter the water, she couldn't help but feel nervous, muttering to herself, "Ancient books say this is the method, using people to catch the Gun fish that travels between the Yin and Yang worlds, but the books don't say how people can get out of the fish's mouth."

She was very nervous, as Gun traveled between the Yin and Yang worlds, and it was the first time for her to use humans as bait to catch Gun.

She was not sure whether she could succeed.

Suddenly, Chen Shi missed a step and sank into the water, which made Grandma Sha feel nervous!
But the next moment, Chen Shi surfaced from the water again.

After this period of training, his body is much stronger than before. If he had tied dozens of kilograms of weight to his body before, he would have been dragged to the bottom of the water and unable to move. But now he can actually swim out of the water, and do it with ease.

Grandma Sha breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, a loud splash was heard in the river. The river water raised a wave two or three feet high. A huge tail flashed through the water in the wave. The blue-black scales reflected the sunlight and had a texture like gold and iron!

That tail looks much bigger than the fishing boats in the river!
"So big?" Granny Sha was stunned.

Chen Shi also heard the sound and looked up hurriedly, but could only see the white surface of the water, but could not see what was flipping on the surface of the river.

He was a little panicked when he heard Granny Sha's voice coming from the river bank: "I saw a big gun! Swim deeper and lure it to eat you!"

Chen Shi shouted, "Mother-in-law, where is Gun? I can't see him!"

Granny Sha looked into the river and saw the turbulent water waves rising up, as if some huge monster was moving fast underwater. She vaguely saw a head bigger than a house under the water, with its mouth wide open, revealing two rows of sharp steel teeth.

Grandma Sha's heart skipped a beat again. This Gun was too big, beyond her expectations!

Moreover, looking at the teeth of this fish, Chen Shi was afraid that he would be chewed into pieces before he could be eaten!

"I'm afraid the hemp rope in my hand can't fight against this big fish. It will be torn apart by the slightest pull of the big fish! Even if the big fish can't tear it apart, I can cut it with my teeth!"

When she thought of this, she immediately grabbed the hemp rope with both hands, pulled the rope alternately with her left and right hands, and dragged Chen Shi from the water to the shore.

Chen Shi also noticed that there was a huge monster approaching him rapidly under the water. He was frightened and immediately swam towards the shore along the hemp rope.

"Crack!"

A loud noise like thunder came from the surface of the river. Chen Shi looked back and couldn't help but widen his eyes. He saw a huge blue-black fish as big as a hill leaping out of the water. Its shadow covered the two suns, and it opened its mouth as big as the abyss and bit towards him!

"Oh!"

The big gun hit the water surface, and Grandma Sha felt the hemp rope in her hand suddenly pulled hard, and it actually dragged her body into the river!
The next moment, the big tree tied with the hemp rope was shaken by the huge force, and the trunk of the tree fell to the riverside!
Granny Sha pulled the hemp rope with all her strength, but before she could stand firmly, there was a sudden snap and the rope broke and flew out of the water and hit the shore!
Granny Sha had a dazed look on her face. She saw a big fish swimming rapidly in the water. Suddenly, a blue light burst out from underwater and the big fish disappeared!

"It's over, it's over..."

Granny Sha's forehead was covered with cold sweat and her body was shaking. She tremblingly pulled back the remaining hemp rope, only to see that the broken part of the hemp rope was very flat, which must have been cut by Dayun's teeth.

"Xiao Shi was probably bitten to pieces by Da Gun. Even if I know how to summon his spirit, I can't bring him back to life... How should I explain this to Old Chen?"

(End of this chapter)