River Tuluo Xian

Chapter 289 Soul Fish
At some point, a black-covered boat came by Jiangling's side.

Just floating on the ice-blue Styx.

There was an old man sitting in the bow, wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, with a fishing rod in his hand.

But it took a bright red flower as bait and fell into the water.

The human-faced fish will swim to bite the hook when it smells it.

The old man stabbed the fish with his rod, but the timing was wrong, the fish with a human face swung its tail away, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared without a trace.

Jiang Ling is well versed in this way, so he couldn't help but say at this moment: "If you raise the fishing rod further up, if you lift it a little slower, you may hit it."

The old man raised his head suddenly, his face was obviously raised, but it was always indistinct, as if surrounded by a cloud of mist.

"It's the first time for the younger generation to come here?"

The accent is a bit weird, but the words are still understandable.

Jiang Ling nodded: "May I ask where this is?"

The old man was surprised: "You came here, but you still don't know where this place is?"

Jiang Ling: "I know it's in the underworld, but the underworld is too big, and I've never been here before."

The fishing rod in the old man's hand pointed to the snowy river in the distance, "Can you see that snow-white mountain?"

Jiang Ling nodded.

The old man said: "That is [Wangchuan]."

Jiang Ling: "Wangchuan? Then isn't this river..."

Old man: "That's right, Wang Chuanhe."

Jiang Ling: "Senior, who are you?"

This old man is different from those primordial spirits, and he has no anger on his body. It doesn't look like he came from the world anyway.

The old man: "I am the corpse collector in the Wangchuan River."

Corpse hunter?
Jiang Ling: "There are corpses in this river?"

The old man smiled: "Why not? Didn't one run away just now? There are still more than ten more?"

There are more than ten?
Jiang Ling looked ahead, it was clearly more than a dozen souls walking along the river bank, so where are the corpses?
However, just when he had this doubt, three of the more than ten primordial spirits suddenly fell from the river bank.

It's strange to say that the primordial spirit, which was clearly a living creature, immediately turned into a strange fish with a human face as soon as it fell into the Wangchuan River.

The strange fish did not panic when it entered the water, but was peaceful and at ease.

wander around.

At this time, the old man hung a flower on his fishhook again.

That flower is probably the flower of the other shore, also called Manzhushahua.

A human-faced fish came to bite the hook again. This time, the old man made a good stab, caught the fish, and threw it into his basket.

Jiang Ling was very surprised and asked him: "Old man, what is the use of you fishing this fish?"

This is transformed by other people's primordial spirit.

But the old man said: "Give it to Granny Meng, it's all used to make soup."

"Use someone else's soul to make soup?"

"Wrong, if you turn into a dead soul fish, then it's not a primordial spirit."

"Dead soul fish?"

"Young boy, how old are you?"

"Not yet crowned."

The old man also showed a strange look: "You have cultivated into a primordial spirit at such a young age. You are indeed a formidable future generation. In this way, you should be different from them."

Jiangling: "Why did they walk along the river bank?"

The old man smiled: "Wangchuan River, the closer you get, the more blurred your consciousness will be. If you walk along the bank, you will naturally fall into the water sooner or later."

"But why are they like this?"

"Probably I want to find a substitute, and I want to live a second life."

"Looking for a substitute?"

The old man said leisurely: "You cultivators are far older than ordinary people, but if you can't take that immortal leap, you will eventually be trapped in a mortal body. It can be nine Jiazi at most, or two ancient at least, and you will eventually die. , To fall into the field of reincarnation.

Those who are unwilling will want to jump out of reincarnation and find a shortcut.Then he entered the underworld and followed the Wangchuan River.Find that soul fish, if you get a living soul fish, you can replace it and live by life. "

"What is a living soul fish? What is a dead soul fish?"

"This soul fish is a soul. Those who stray into the underworld, those who pretend to be dead, will fall into the Wangchuan River after getting lost in the underworld. In the first three days, they will become soul fish; Become a dead soul fish.

Once you become a dead soul fish, you can no longer return to the underworld. "

While speaking, a certain primordial spirit in front of him suddenly issued a chain from his body, and it plunged into the Wangchuan River, trapping a soul fish.Pulling it outside.

Seeing this, the old man smiled slightly: "Look, someone caught a fish."

The primordial spirit pulled hard, and a soul fish was brought out of the water.

The primordial spirit laughed loudly, swallowed the soul fish in one gulp, then turned into a streamer, and disappeared from here.

Jiang Ling: "Don't you care?"

The old man: "Why do you want to take care of it? The old man is just a corpse collector. He only cares about the affairs in the river, and he can't take care of the things on the shore."

Jiang Ling: "Cultivated into a primordial spirit, they can already use their bodies to live. Why did they come here to take risks and seek this opportunity?"

The old man: "If you are looking for normal people to seize the house in the world, you must get involved in cause and effect."

"Then here, there is no cause and effect?"

The old man smiled: "That's right, chances fished out of this river have no karma."

"The Dao Primordial Spirit just now, after he left here, can he use his body to live?"

"Yes."

Jiang Ling rubbed his chin, thinking, if it is said so.Couldn't Nie Qian also use her body to live?

Grab a living soul fish from here, then swallow it, and in its name, use its body in the underworld to live a new life.

"It's too easy. Does the underworld allow this to happen?"

"Easy? Maybe not?"

The old man smiled.

Just as he was laughing, three of the primordial spirits in front fell into the Wangchuan River.

The old man threw out the fishing rod and caught two more.

Once caught, it will be regarded as death, and this life will come to an end.

"You know, why did they leave together?"

"Why?"

"Because this Wangchuan River is also called the Cannibal River. The souls of living people walking on the bank will be swallowed easily. However, if they walk together, some people will still be swallowed, but others will be exempted if they are lucky. .”

This is like taking food from a tiger's mouth. If one person goes there, he will undoubtedly die.If many people go there, seven or eight people will die, and there will always be a few who will succeed.

"Why is this?"

"When you're about to die, maybe you'll figure it out."

"Why did the old man tell me this?"

"Everyone who is curious, the old man will tell him. Including the people in front, I have heard the old man tell."

The old man rowed up and followed the primordial spirits.

Jiang Ling watched him leave, and suddenly he thought about it.

The reason why the old man would tell this to everyone who came here was actually for himself.

If these people don't come to take risks, then he won't have such a good soul fish to catch.

'These soul fish...'

It looks good, but who knows what kind of body the living soul fish has in Yangjian?

It was Li Tieguai, one of the Eight Immortals, who strayed into the body of a cripple when he was reborn from the house, and became a cripple in the end.

'This method is still quite flawed. '

Nie Qian has meat and mushrooms as her body, so she doesn't care about using this method to be reborn.

Jiang Ling walked a few more steps along the river bank, and suddenly he saw fish in groups in the river, the living soul fish had white spots on their bodies, and the dead soul fish had black spots.

Whether it is white spots or black spots, there are hundreds of them in the river, and the amount is staggering.

'It turns out that every day, so many people stray into the underworld by mistake! '

No wonder these primordial spirits took such a big risk to catch fish here.If you are lucky and catch a good fish, you can replace everything about it.

"It's no wonder that after some people get sick or suffer a catastrophe, they completely change their nature and look like two people. But in fact, the body is still the same body, and the soul inside is still the original soul. It's hard to say. .”

(End of this chapter)