Chapter 142 Ao
Li Yuan has been a god for so many years, but this is the first time he has walked on the bottom of a river. It feels quite novel.
It would be better if there weren't so many wrecks of ships on the riverbed.
The two followed the faint scent and walked in the direction of the river flow.
Late at night, most creatures in the river fell asleep. Occasionally, there were fish and shrimps swimming around, but they were frightened by the two people walking on the riverbed and avoided them from a distance.
If fish could talk, they would probably say it was a ghost.
Linglong River is a river hundreds of feet wide, but there are very few creatures in the river, as if they are almost extinct.
As Li Yuan and the other man continued their pursuit, the evil aura became stronger and stronger.
We encountered another pile of rusty shipwreck wreckage.
Li Yuan looked at the white bones lying at the bottom of the river and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.
He approached slowly and at a glance he could still see some torn pieces of cloth remaining on the corpses.
Even more, many corpses still have their hands stretched out, as if they were still struggling at the last moment of their lives.
Li Yuan stretched out his hand and stirred up the silt in the river, intending to bury some of the corpses.
But suddenly.
A skeleton suddenly moved, opened its jaws wide, jumped out of the mud, and bit Li Yuan's hand!
The white bones stretched out their bony arms and tightly wrapped around Li Yuan's body, as if they were holding onto a life-saving straw.
Li Yuan had compassion in his eyes as he let the white bones suddenly bite and wrap around him.
"Reincarnation is a painful process, so go ahead."
Li Yuan's words were gentle and kind, like the compassionate murmur of a god.
The white bones seemed to have freed themselves from the shackles of resentment, slowly lost strength, let go of Li Yuan, were swept away by the river, and slowly fell into the mud.
Finally, it was covered by the soil raised by Li Yuan and sank under the earth.
"Although the dead are gone, their obsessions will never disappear."
Li Yuan looked at the bones scattered all over the riverbed and sighed softly.
He moved the soil and buried everything along the way.
There are countless bones in the river, some of which were washed down from upstream and some were bound by water plants.
Some are intact, but most are broken.
It almost covered the entire riverbed, how horrifying.
It can be seen that countless people have died in Linglong River over the years.
Zhang Tiansheng frowned slightly and took a deep breath.
"Let's go. If we don't solve the source, the disaster will only continue."
Now that you have encountered it, you have to do something about it.
Li Yuan nodded, and the two continued to follow the scent.
At this time, the two had already gone far away from Linglong Town and walked for more than ten miles along the riverbed.
After several hours of continuous searching, they finally found the place with the strong scent.
At this time, the sun had already shone from the sky, making the water of Linglong River look like bright glass, with shadows like scales.
Of course, the riverbed was still deep and the light had not improved much.
The two men hid their bodies and slowly approached.
But I saw a black creature as big as a house, tearing something in front of me.
Li Yuan looked closely and found that it was a giant black turtle!
It is using giant claws that are bigger than doors and windows to tear apart the bones at the bottom of the river!
This scene made the two of them frown slightly.
The person who fell into the water was already dead, leaving only his bones.
If this giant turtle was a man-eating evil monster, why would it break bones to vent its anger?
Because the two of them used magic to conceal themselves, the black turtle didn't even notice them approaching.
It just tore into pieces several corpses in this place and then swam to another place.
It's as if the purpose is very clear.
The aura that had approached the boat earlier was also emanating from the giant turtle.
In order to find out the motives of the black giant turtle, the two followed it from a distance.
The giant black turtle seemed to be the overlord of the Linglong River. Wherever it passed, all the aquatic creatures retreated and dared not provoke it.
Li Yuan and his companions even saw an iron-headed fish king that was bigger than a hundred-man ship. In front of this giant black turtle, it was as timid as a grandson.
Although it is much larger than the giant turtle, it is still afraid of it.
Such an iron-headed fish king can dominate a river in a remote place and call himself the Water Dragon King.
"This Ao is not simple."
Zhang Tiansheng's eyes flickered slightly, as if he sensed something.
Li Yuan's eyes also looked a little solemn.
"It is not the river god of this place, but it has the magical power of the river god."
The two looked at each other.
Could it be that he is a monster like Biao, who has swallowed up immortals and gods?
Unable to be sure of the situation, the two decided to continue following and see.
I saw this huge black turtle rushing around in the water, sometimes tearing up bones somewhere, and sometimes scaring the big fish in a certain river.
Sometimes, it would dive beneath the water where there were boats, raise its head, as if counting something.
Looks quite intelligent and very busy.
On the water surface, after the mortal boats went down the river, they dropped food one after another, in big bags.
Only after the ship had lost an amount of food equal to the weight of the people on board did it continue to cross the river.
The giant black turtle lay quietly at the bottom of the water, casting spells to collect all the food that fell into the river.
The giant turtle seemed to have some ability. Even though it was under water, it could know how many people were on the boat.
It weighed the food one by one, and finally found that it was lighter than the people on the boat.
The giant turtle was slightly angry and let out a low roar, shaking the water bottom and scaring away all the aquatic creatures around it.
But after looking at the water for a long time with its ferocious eyes, it still allowed the boat to cross the Linglong River smoothly.
The giant black turtle's tail swung, causing surging in the deep water area, and the giant black turtle quickly went away.
But when the giant turtle arrived at the next place, the ships on the water were not so lucky.
This boat crossed the Linglong River, but hoping for luck, it only left behind half the weight of food for the people on board.
The black giant turtle seemed to be enraged.
It dove to the bottom of the river and swung its tail violently.
The originally calm river surface suddenly began to surge.
The boat was overturned in the middle of the river in an instant, and all the people on board fell into the river.
The Linglong River is so wide, with many undercurrents. Now that the boat has capsized, hundreds of meters from the shore, the people who fell into the water are likely to be in great danger.
Sensing that 'prey' had fallen into the river, the ferocious big fish around them swam away instantly.
But he was repelled by the giant turtle's roar.
"Roar--!"
The giant black turtle is as big as a house and is extremely intimidating.
Its eyeballs are bigger than washbasins, and its ferocious eyes stare directly at the ferocious big fish until they are scared away.
Facing the struggle of the mortal who fell into the water, the black giant turtle took a deep look and swam away.
Looking at the giant black turtle swimming to another place, the two people following it from a distance were a little unsure.
"This old turtle doesn't seem to eat people?"
Li Yuan said uncertainly.
Zhang Tiansheng also had a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"It seems to be following some rules and bottom line."
“And I have my own thoughts.”
"Those with equal food and people will cross the river safely; those without equal food and people will have their boats destroyed in the river."
"It will not rescue mortals who fall into the water, but it will also not allow other creatures to attack it."
Master Tiandi admitted that he was a little curious.
What is the situation with Linglong River?
Where has the river god of this place gone?
What's the meaning of this strange rule?
What role does the giant black turtle play in this Linglong River?