Chapter 156 155. Like a mountain, always guarding a piece of green
Alligator.

Also known as the Pig Dragon.

A water insect that looks like a lizard, has a armor like mail, and its skin is thick and hard to break with swords or weapons.

After listening to the request of Zuo Sheti Luo Yufei, Senior Brother Yinshan asked Taoist Anran to arrange for the disciples to stay.

He took several disciples of the third realm, including Xu Qing, and followed Luo Yufei to check the situation of the group of pig dragons on the river.

"This pig dragon is one of the water descendants of dragons. It can stir up storms, and its skin is as thick as armor, which is difficult to be broken by ordinary weapons. Most of its soldiers are warriors, and they can fight back and forth on the shore."

"But once they fall into the river, the pig dragons will gain the advantage of the terrain and their strength will increase greatly. The warriors in the army will not be their opponents."

"After losing several high-ranking officers, the troops stationed on the banks of the rivers no longer dare to engage in a battle with those pig dragons in the water."

"We can only wait for those pig dragons to come ashore and eat the people, and then we can seize the opportunity to intercept and kill them."

“Originally this method worked quite well.
But during this period, the pig dragons have also learned their lesson. After they come ashore and eat people, they immediately turn around and leave without delay. By the time the army arrives, it is often too late. "

"Now the people along the river are desperate and have been forced to use young boys and girls as human sacrifices, begging those pig dragons to spare their villages."

Along the way, Zuo Sheti Luo Yufei explained to Xu Qing and others the seriousness of the river alligator.

Xu Qing frowned slightly when he heard about using boys and girls as living sacrifices.

I feel uncomfortable, but with such a natural disaster happening and the imperial court unable to take care of the entire river bank, what should the villagers do?

It's better to have a few children die than to have the whole village eaten by fish.
"Where are the people from the Du Shui Qing Li Si? Isn't it their responsibility to prevent the water monsters in the rivers from coming ashore?" Senior Brother Yinshan also had an unpleasant look on his face, and asked in a stern voice.

The Du Shui Qing Li Si was a waterway office established by the Da Sheng court.

In order to manage the rivers and streams of the world, Dasheng established two official positions: "Governor of Canal Transport" and "Governor of River Channels".
Among them, the Du Shui Qing Li Si was the waterway office under the "Governor of Rivers".

The Du Shui Qing Li Si was mainly responsible for managing the river, and also had the responsibility of patrolling both sides of the river, killing the water-borne monsters that came ashore to cause chaos, and preventing the monsters from harming the people.

The river patrol censors and river management censors in the Du Shui Qing Li Si are all experienced and well-versed in water methods. When in water, they are as good as fish or shrimp.

Zhu Polong's geographical advantage is of no use in front of the Du Shui Qing Li Si.

Xu Qing had heard of this yamen, but had never dealt with it. Because there was Yuanfu Temple in Huai'an, the people from the Du Shui Qing Li Si did not frequently operate there.

"The people in the Du Shui Qing Li Si are busy sorting out and suppressing the water veins. They don't have time to care about the water monster causing trouble. Now it is the soldiers from the grain transport department who are dealing with it." Luo Yufei sighed.

Warriors only have brute force. Although there is a saying that "one force can break all laws", that requires extremely strong force, such as breaking a river with one punch.

But such warriors are extremely rare after all.

Therefore, facing the current situation, it will be difficult for the canal transport troops to do anything.

"Didn't the Du Shui Qing Li Si leave any people behind?" Senior Brother Yinshan said with a frown.

"No." Luo Yufei shook his head.

Senior Brother Yinshan’s face darkened.

Is the situation already so serious?

Is it so serious that the Du Shui Qing Li Si doesn't even care about the trouble on the river?
still is
Seeing that Senior Brother Yinshan was lost in thought, Luo Yufei shut up and led the way quietly.

It was not until Xu Qing left Jiangdu County, the provincial capital, that he truly saw the scene of a flood. Everywhere he looked, there was muddy yellow water.

The water was knee-deep and got higher as we went further.

"Yangzhou Prefecture and Huai'an are both located north of the Yangtze River in Nando. Huai'an is fine for now, but why has Yangzhou Prefecture come to this point?" said a disciple who came with him in astonishment.

Huai'an is located at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Huai River, and is adjacent to a large river. Despite these conditions, it was still safe and sound, but Yangzhou Prefecture has become a land of water? !
Xu Qing immediately thought of one thing: "Because most of the water is stored in Hongze Lake, Huai'an is safe at the moment."

After these words came out, Senior Brother Yinshan looked at Xu Qing and nodded:

"Little Master is right, but don't think that the old dragon is being kindhearted. He actually has evil intentions! If he doesn't strike, it's fine. But once he strikes, it will surely shake the world."

Xu Qing felt strange when he heard Senior Brother Yinshan call him "Junior Uncle".

However, he is of the "Jing" generation, while Senior Brother Yinshan is of the "An" generation. According to seniority, he is indeed Senior Brother Yinshan's uncle.

The front has become a swamp.

Everyone could only use hand gestures and perform the "water-walking technique" to move forward.

Since he knew that he was coming to exorcise the water monster and suppress the water veins, Xu Qing couldn't have been unprepared. He prepared a lot of water talismans, such as water suppression talismans and water avoidance talismans.

At the same time, I also learned some related techniques during this period.

This "water-walking technique" allows practitioners to walk on water as if it were flat ground. It is said that if one practices to a high level, one can even calm storms and waves with one foot.

It is one of the 72 Earthly Evil Techniques of Taoism.

The crowd walked forward a distance.

There used to be several villages here, but now they have been submerged by floods, and only a few roofs can be seen above the water.

Senior Brother Yinshan released his spiritual consciousness and dived into the water, muttering:

"The iron bull that controls the water in this section of the river has disappeared, and the water-controlling magic array on both sides of the river has also been shattered."

"Where on earth are the people from the Metropolitan Waterworks Department combing through the water veins? The river here is already in such a mess, yet they choose to just ignore it?"

"Could there be something wrong with the levee?"

"Look! There's someone there!"

A disciple who was giving the ordination suddenly pointed to the distance. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a child with goat horns tied on his head lying on a driftwood.
Below the child, a man was paddling and pushing a piece of driftwood towards the roof that was exposed above the water. As everyone prepared to go and rescue the man, Xu Qing's eyes flashed, and his sight penetrated the smooth mirror-like water surface and looked down at the bottom of the water.

"There's something under the water!"

As the words were about to fall, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared under the water below the man and the child.

Rough estimate.

The black shadow was at least ten feet long!

When the black shadow appeared under the water, the water surface was as calm as ever, without even a ripple, but the man pushing the driftwood seemed to sense some kind of great crisis.

His feet swung violently, pushing the driftwood faster and faster.

But no matter how fast it was, it couldn't be faster than the speed of the black shadow rising from the bottom of the water.

next moment.

The calm surface of the water shattered like a broken mirror.

The waves surged forward, and a huge mouth with jagged teeth broke through the water surface like a guillotine, covering the man and the child in its mouth with a strong fishy smell.

Xu Qing saw a look of despair on the face of the man pushing the driftwood.

If this "guillotine" were allowed to close, even if a cultivator with great supernatural powers came, he might not be able to save the two people, the big and the small.

At the critical moment of life and death, the man pushed the driftwood out with all his strength.

"Beast!"

When Xu Qing was about to attack, Senior Brother Yinshan opened his eyes and shouted angrily.

He quickly made some hand gestures, and the "Taishang Zhengyi Hetu Life-saving Scroll" bestowed in his body radiated light.

The water flow around the pig dragon that was supposed to be driven by it suddenly broke free from its control and turned into water ropes that bound its huge mouth, preventing it from closing.

"Ho ho ho"

A dull roar like thunder came from the belly of the pig dragon, but the water flow around it remained motionless, completely out of its control.

The amber vertical pupils that revealed indifference finally showed a hint of fear.

At this time, Senior Brother Yinshan's seal changed, and the water that bound the giant mouth began to rotate at high speed, like a chain of blades, cutting through the body of the pig dragon.

The man who pushed the driftwood away had just closed his eyes and waited for death, but the tragic ending he expected did not come.

When I opened my eyes again,
But then it started to rain, and blood mixed with white flesh dripped onto him and the child.

The man looked dull.

I could smell the strong fishy smell, but my mind went blank. Until I saw several figures flying down, tears involuntarily seeped out from the corners of my eyes.

saved!
Senior Brother Yinshan stomped his feet, turning the water surface beneath his feet into solid "ground", and pulled the two people, one big and one small, out of the water.

With another wave of his hand, the Yuan Qi vibrated, and the water vapor on the two people's bodies quickly evaporated, and the evil spirit that had invaded their bodies was also dispelled at the same time.

The man trembled as he stepped on the water. When he realized he would not fall, he knelt down with a plop and kowtowed to Xu Qing and the others.

"Thank you, Immortal Master! Thank you, Immortal Master!"

"Get up." Senior Brother Yinshan waved his hand, and the Yuan Qi that seemed to be real lifted the man up, "We will take you and your daughter back to the city later."

"Stay with us for now, don't run around."

"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master. We will stay quiet and will not cause any trouble for you."

The man responded hastily, then hesitated and mustered up the courage to tell the truth: "It's just that this child is not my daughter."

"Not your daughter?"

Another disciple named "Ning Fang" raised his eyebrows. This was not his own child, but at the moment of death he wanted to push the child away from the mouth of the pig woman Longlong.

"Yes." The man said repeatedly, "I was washed away by the flood. When I was floating along the current holding on to this piece of driftwood, I met a couple trapped on the body of a big fish."

"The corpse of the big fish is floating on the water, and the blood is spreading along the current. It will definitely attract other aquatic monsters."

"But apart from that place, there was endless river water all around, so the couple begged me to take the child away."

Xu Qing looked at the child, who was about five or six years old, and looked dazed and sluggish, as if he was frightened.

I couldn't help but think of the little girl in Zhangjia Village, Ningyang Town, whose father died in a tiger disaster. My heart was inexplicably ached.

"How long have you been away? In which direction are her parents roughly?" Xu Qing asked suddenly.

The reason why the man mentioned the girl's parents was actually because he wanted the immortal master to save the couple. He quickly said:
"Not long after, about half a cup of tea to a cup of tea, it floated in the direction we came from."

Xu Qing nodded and took the girl's hand.

Senior Brother Yinshan looked over at this time, met Xu Qing's determined eyes, and a genuine smile appeared on his face:

"Let's go."

Xu Qing stimulated the Yuan Qi in his body, and the Yuan Qi lifted him and the little girl up into the air.

Mountain people,
Free as a cloud,

Can also be like a mountain,

Keep the land stable!
(End of this chapter)