Moon Emperor

Chapter 447 Ferryman on the Forgotten River

This made Zhao Yaner feel helpless, "Forget it, since you are so powerful, I will follow you for the time being until I find the people from the sect."

"By the way, you mentioned the Holy Demon just now. Are you the bodyguards of that big shot?"

The two girls nodded in unison, looking very proud, "Only the best and most loyal monsters are qualified to join this ranks."

Somehow, looking at these two girls, Zhao Yaner's mood improved a lot. She smiled and was about to say something, when she suddenly heard an old voice calling her name, "Yan'er, Yan'er. ~”

And this time the sound was very close, as if it was at the top of the mountain of swords.
  Zhao Yaner's eyes became a little confused, and she suddenly felt a pain in her wrist. When she lowered her head, she discovered that a mini ferret had emerged from her sleeve. Its small purple eyes were full of anxiety, as if to remind its owner not to pass by.

Yan'er was a little amused when she saw it, "You dare to come out now, right? You coward, if you had bitten me awake from the beginning, I wouldn't have gotten lost."

"what is this?!"

"who is it?!"

The two girls suddenly became angry.

Zhao Yan'er immediately realized that it was not good, the demon tribe didn't seem to like it. The human race subdued the demon tribe and trained them as demon pets. This was a taboo of theirs.

The ferret immediately hid in Zhao Yaner's sleeve, still trembling a little because it sensed a murderous aura.

Yan'er quickly said: "This, this, I picked it up accidentally, not caught it."

"Then put it away." The girl in the green dress said immediately.

"Yes, let it go." The girl in the red dress also said.

Zhao Yan'er had a headache, "Isn't it good to release the animals here? It's too dangerous. Let's go out and talk about it later."

The two girls looked angry again. They turned around and said, "Follow me quickly. I won't care about you until you get here."

Looking at their backs and their angry looks, Zhao Yaner, who was still a little confused, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and she suddenly looked surprised!
  Yan'er stepped forward in three steps and took the two girls into his arms, "It's you! It's you, right?!"

As she said this, she couldn't help but shed tears, "That killer abducted you back then, and it made me sad for a long time."

The two people who originally disliked Zhao Yan'er and wanted to push her away suddenly stopped. They looked at each other and just hugged their master silently. Oh no, the original master didn't say a word.

Yes, these demon sisters were the pair of exotic and vicious centipede demon pets that Zhao Yaner lost in Luoyang in the past. She thought she would never see them again in her life, but she did not expect that in this secret place of Tianyuan, the crisis They saved my life at the critical moment.

"Okay, don't cry. You can't stay in this damn place for long." The girl in the green dress coaxed.

Zhao Yaner subconsciously ran the Heavenly Demon Seal Heart Technique, but found that she had lost the perception of the two demon pets, and cried even more sadly, which made the two girls very helpless.

"Yan'er, Yan'er~" the voice sounded again.

"What's it called? It's so annoying!" Zhao Yan'er couldn't help but turned around and yelled.

The old voice paused, "Let's make a deal. I will call you here only after I find that you can hear me."

This made Yan'er, who had tears on her face, a little shocked. The other party seemed to be intelligent and able to communicate? And it doesn’t seem to be the same person as the flesh-and-blood monster I saw in Luoyang.

"What deal?" Zhao Yan'er wiped her tears and asked cautiously.

"You throw that bloody broken knife over to me. In return, I will give you a treasure, the value of which is definitely not as high as that knife." The old voice was full of temptation.

"I don't want it." After saying that, Zhao Yan'er took the hands of the two girls and walked back and forth.

The voice was still persuading, "It's really a good thing, the kind that can save lives."

"Think about it, this secret place in Tianyuan is so dangerous. People can die anytime and anywhere. Having such a life-saving talisman is like having a second life."

"Even if you don't use it yourself, you can still use it for others. For example, the Su Yan you called just now is a very important person to you, right?"

"Or you can use it for the two girls next to you. It's a good thing to save your life! After passing this village, there is no such store."

Zhao Yaner walked slower and slower, and finally stopped. She turned her head suspiciously and asked, "What if you lie to me?"

"I swear I will never lie to you! Do you know how many years I have been waiting here?"

"There are very few people with special innate souls like you. If you don't help me, I will have to wait for who knows how many more years for the next person. How dare I lie to you? If you really turn around and leave, then I will definitely regret it."

At this time, the two demon centipedes also noticed something was wrong. Who on earth was the owner talking to?
  "Let's go back." The girl in the red dress dragged Zhao Yan'er's hand forward with terrifying strength.

"Wait, wait." Yan'er was dragged and staggered, "Let's go to the peak first and have a look. If there is danger, it's not too late to retreat."

Of course the two girls didn't agree, but Zhao Yan'er held them in her arms and talked with them, even going through all the hard work of raising them.

They couldn't win over this stubborn master, and they were worried that she would be in danger alone, so they had to reluctantly agree to her.

Despite this, the two of them were guarding Zhao Yan'er one after another, and both parties agreed that they would leave immediately if they encountered danger without looking back.

At the top of the peak, there was nothing here. It seemed that the two monks from before went down the mountain in disappointment after searching and finding nothing.

"Where are you?" Zhao Yan'er asked cautiously.

"Within this mountain peak, please step back." The old voice sounded impatient.

When Yan'er and the others retreated to the edge, they saw the dark brown land suddenly split from it! Immediately, a strong smell of blood, rotting corpses, and old rust wafted out, making people almost nauseous when they smelled it.

At the same time, several people heard the howling wind and the roar of the waves. They looked intently at the big crack and saw a river of blood rushing through the inside of the knife mountain. They didn't know where it came from or where it was going.

There were countless corpses and ghosts floating in the river, crying and howling. They stretched their hands out of the river, as if they were trying to drag all three living creatures above them into the water.

The two girls were quite frightened when they saw this, and were about to force Zhao Yan'er to leave, when they saw an old man with white hair and white beard, dressed as a boatman and wearing a bamboo hat, emerging from the water.

He stretched out his hands and shouted, "Don't go, don't go, Miss Yan'er, the person who called you over is the old man."

This old man looked completely different from other muddle-headed evil spirits. Although he was covered in blood and could not escape the restraints of the blood river, he was sane and clear. The ghosts next to him seemed to be afraid of him and kept a foot away from him.

This time, even the girls could hear his words. It was no longer like before, only Yan'er could hear him. Zhao Yaner looked at him warily, "Who are you?"

The old man sighed, "I used to be a ferryman on the Wangchuan River. I picked up and dropped off passers-by in the underworld and earned a lot of hard money. Unfortunately, my years were unlucky and I hunted geese all day long. I was blinded by the geese pecking me."

"Many years ago, I was dragged into the water by a ghost king in the Wangchuan River and became its scapegoat. From then on, I became one of these countless ghosts."

"If I don't want to sink into the blood river and never be reincarnated forever, I can only find another person to be my scapegoat."

"Shut up!" the two girls shouted in unison.

The girl in the green skirt said: "Old man, do you think we can't tell what kind of evil idea you have?"

The girl in the red dress said: "That's right, you deserve to die!"

The old ferryman smiled bitterly and cupped his hands, "Two, two, listen to me first."

"Actually, the last time the Tianyuan Secret Land was opened, I had already dragged one person into the water. However, this person had some tricks. At the last moment, he actually let his soul out of his body. Even though I tried my best to capture him, I only managed to capture two of his souls. Of the six souls, one soul was still escaped by him."

"That soul lost its intelligence and was confused, so it got into the magic weapon that was born in life, and turned the magic weapon into an ominous and vicious thing. It would kill any living thing on sight."

"That's right, it's the bloody broken knife that you all subdued before."

Zhao Yan'er was secretly shocked when she heard this. A person who can leave the body of his soul is at least a strong man in the seventh realm. In front of this old ghost, he can only escape with one soul and one body. This shows how terrifying this ghost is. at.

She couldn't help but take two steps back again, for fear that the other party would be dragged down.

The ferryman continued, "Miss Yan'er, all you need to do is throw down the bloody broken knife, and the old man will be able to reincarnate me. Please show your kindness, and I will definitely fulfill my promise and give you what you want." .”

"Even if I step back ten thousand steps and my words don't count, then you have only lost a ferocious magic weapon, and you are completely unharmed."

"Old thief! What if we are thrown down and your skills increase greatly, and you come out and drag us down?" The girl in the green skirt still spoke very rudely.

The old man on the ferry waved his hand quickly, "Absolutely impossible, absolutely impossible. I can break away from the shackles of the blood river and have been reincarnated long ago. What's the use of eating you? It will only increase the sins, and maybe it will affect the old man's good fortune in the next life. .”

Zhao Yaner hesitated, "What is that life-saving thing you mentioned? Take it out first and have a look."

The old man nodded, and then broke off the little finger of his right hand. Strangely enough, the broken little finger was still flesh and blood when it was in his hand, but after breaking it off, it turned into a pale finger bone.

"This is it, the scapegoat's old bones, which are thousands of years old. Old man, all the essence of my body is here. If I didn't get the chance to reincarnate, I wouldn't be willing to give it to you."

The two girls frowned when they saw this, and Zhao Yaner also looked worried, "Can this kind of ghost really save your life?"

The old man on the ferry nodded fiercely, "It's absolutely true! I dare to swear in the name of Yama of the Ten Palaces and the Great Emperor of Beiyin Fengdu."

Zhao Yan'er hesitated. She pulled the two girls back to the mountain path and muttered for a while. The old man walked back and forth anxiously below, not daring to push him for fear of scaring him away.

Finally Yan'er finally showed up, "You throw up the bone first, and then we throw the broken knife to you."

The old man shook his head quickly, "No, no, no, without this old bone, I will lose all my magic power and will be torn to pieces by other evil spirits at any time. They are the ones who have taken my pennies all year round. They hate me so much. It's so hard." I wish I could be torn apart and eaten into my belly.”

Zhao Yaner looked suspicious, "Then if we give you the broken knife, can you safely reincarnate?"

"Okay, okay, the underworld has its own rules and regulations."

Zhao Yaner gritted her teeth and finally took out the bloody broken knife. It seemed that the two girls still couldn't defeat her.

"I'm warning you, if you dare to break your promise, even if you are reincarnated, I will find you and chop you into pieces!"

The old man looked up eagerly and just nodded.

"Go on!" Zhao Yaner suddenly threw the broken knife down, and the two girls nervously grabbed her arms from left to right, ready to lead them to escape at any time.

As soon as the broken knife fell, countless lonely ghosts in the river wailed and rushed to fight for it, but the old man cursed and threw his pole to smash it into pieces and fly it away, and finally caught the broken knife with one hand.

As soon as the knife was obtained, the ferryman let out a piercing laugh! "Hahaha! Finally free!"

I saw him inserting the broken knife into his chest, and his body shape changed, turning into a confused middle-aged man in blood-clothed clothes.

The boatman's attire, bamboo hat, bamboo pennant, and finger bones separated from the man's body out of thin air, and transformed into an old man whose whole body was wrapped in a faint golden luster.

Apparently he was the ferryman who had been liberated.

He stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Go on!" He threw the pale finger bone into the sky. Zhao Yaner did not dare to reach out to catch it, for fear of being deceived.

The two girls released the golden collar again and took it back. After confirming that there was no danger, they handed it over to the owner.

"Okay, that's it. I'll go too, old man~"

Seeing that the old man was about to leave, and there seemed to be no traps hidden, Zhao Yaner couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable. She quickly shouted: "Wait! How do you use this ghost thing??"

The old man grinned and revealed a strange smile. For some reason, this smile seemed a bit weird and sinister in the eyes of the two girls. Even the golden sheen couldn't suppress the cold and bone-deep feeling.

Then he opened his mouth to say something, but the two girls couldn't hear his voice, let alone read his lips.

Apparently only Zhao Yan'er heard these words. As she listened, her face suddenly turned pale, and her right hand that held the phalanx became a little tighter.

The girl in the red dress couldn't help but said angrily: "Old man! You really lied to me, right?"

The old man shook his head, "The old man didn't lie. Okay, I told you how to use it. It's up to you whether you use it or not. The old man can go as well~"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ferryman turned around and dived into the river. During this period, countless ghosts wanted to pounce on him, but they were afraid of coming close because of the golden light. Only the man in blood-clothed clothes was shocked and seemed to have realized something. He roared and chased after him. go.

The two drilled deeper and deeper, gradually disappearing without a trace, and the large crack on the Knife Mountain slowly closed until nothing unusual could be seen anymore.
  The two girls were silent for a moment when they saw this, and immediately took Zhao Yan'er's hand, "Let's go, you don't want that ghost thing."

Zhao Yan'er shook her head repeatedly. She clutched the pale phalanges in her hands, looking very precious. After putting it into the space magic weapon, Yan'er took a deep breath and said, "Let's go, let's go back."

(End of this chapter)