Asking about longevity

Chapter 691 Blood Leeches

 The ink painting landed on the ground with passing steps, with a gentle posture, but the soles of the feet were slightly numb.

After settling down, Mo Hua looked up and saw that the fog at the bottom of the well was not heavy, but the blood color was more even and slowly flowing at the bottom of the well.

 In the blood mist, something seemed to be hatching.

Mo Hua was slightly frightened.

He felt that he seemed to be closer to some kind of origin.

 “Young Master?”

Gu An and the others asked softly.

 When they entered the bottom of the well, they were inexplicably out of breath and felt uneasy, so they couldn't help but look at the ink paintings.

Mo Hua looked around and saw that at the bottom of the dry well was a corridor made of stones, extending in all directions and not knowing where it extended.

Gu An pondered: "How about I go back and call people down, and join forces to kill this monster?"

Yu Dahe asked weakly: "Young Master, can you tell what kind of water monster it is?"

Mo Hua thought for a while and asked Gu An to throw a dead grouper fish into the water.

At the later stage of seven or eight foundation building stages, the Gu family can be mobilized, but the conditions are too stringent to practice water-based skills, be proficient in water properties, and be good at killing in water.

Mo Hua speculated based on his experience as a demon hunter.

"I see."

Mo Hua recalled the encounter with the dragon crossing the river again, and naturally thought of those dead fish.

He remembered that his little tiger seemed to have fallen into the water, been attacked, and instantly shattered to pieces.

Even though he is an array master, is Young Master Mo’s spiritual sense too sharp?

 He is only in the early stages of foundation building...

 The dragon crossing the river, how did he cross?

Although River Crossing Dragon is proficient in water properties, it is only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, so it is impossible for it to be an opponent of this water demon.

“Those two children may not be saved...”

“Young Master, what about this...” Yu Dahe looked at the ink painting, his eyes were painful and full of hope.

The fishing cultivators in the small fishing village are proficient in water skills, but they are not good at killing, and they don't have any late-stage foundation building.

The mastermind behind the small fishing village seems to have specially raised a monster to prevent others from discovering it, and threw it into the water to block the road.

Mo Hua shook his head.

Yu Dahe knew that the life and death of his two younger sons were all tied to this young master, so he must not make any mistakes.

The ink painting revealed its spiritual consciousness, scanning it for a moment, and then its eyes sank.

He looked at the dangerous deep pool in front of him with thoughtful eyes, and he couldn't help but think of a question.

Mo Hua nodded and said, "Follow me."

The aura of this monster is obscure and powerful, and it is difficult to detect because it is submerged in the water.

Mo Hua then asked: "What is the dead grouper fish used for?"

"No." Mo Hua shook his head, "This monster should be a late-stage second-grade water monster. It is too powerful in the water. It is estimated that it will take at least seven or eight water-based skills and late-stage foundation-building monks who are proficient in water to join forces. It’s possible to hunt it down.”

“Also,” Mo Hua continued, “If we take action here and forcibly kill this water demon, we will definitely make a big fuss, and it is very likely that we will scare the snake and allow Guojianglong and others to escape.”

After walking like this for a while, a pool of stagnant water suddenly appeared in front of us. It seemed to be a large pit dug by someone, filled with water.

Gu An Guquan was ordered by Gu Changhuai to protect the ink paintings.

 The corridors are dry and dark, and the atmosphere is dull.

Yu Dahedao: "This kind of fish is poisonous. After death, it has gray spots on its body, just like 'dead man's spots', so it is called dead fish. After eating, it will cause blood stagnation and physical paralysis, like a 'dead man', unable to move." …”

The water was so muddy that with their spiritual awareness, they didn't even notice that there were monsters hiding in the water.

Moreover, the water demon is a monster and eats people without distinguishing between friend and foe.

 Gu An and Gu both frowned.

Mo Hua sighed slightly, "Let me think about it..."

 Gu An and Gu Zong looked at each other, slightly startled.

Mo Hua suddenly felt enlightened.

Gu An walked in front of Mo Hua, Yu Dahe followed behind Mo Hua, and Gu Quan was at the back.

 From what Dahe said, this kind of fish is called "dead grouper fish".

Mo Hua’s eyes narrowed slightly.

 The three of them secretly protected the ink painting.

 The three of them, Gu An, couldn't see the blood, so they didn't know how to go.

The River Crossing Dragon and the others just feed the water demon with "dead spotted fish" to immobilize the water demon so that they can cross the river easily.

Mo Hua chose a path and walked straight inside.

 “There are monsters in the water.”

 The dead grouper fish fell into the water. Within a moment, the water surface surged, revealing the head of a huge, ugly water demon, which swallowed the dead grouper fish in one mouthful.

 The pupils in the ink painting are slightly shrunk.

 Gu An and the other three also looked horrified.

The breed of this water monster is unknown, but it has a huge body, as long as five or six people, a deformed head, a mouth as big as a basin of blood, thick blood, and a skin covered with scales, making it indestructible.

Protruding eyes, black and yellow in color, cold and cruel.

 This is a second-grade peak water monster that has lived for an unknown amount of time.

After swallowing the dead grouper fish, this water monster's pupils were a little dilated, and its body was involuntarily paralyzed for a while, but within ten breaths, it returned to its original state.

Mo Hua was startled for a moment, and then took a slight breath of cold air.

 It's not just about feeding the fish and paralyzing the water demon, and then you can pass by safely.

 This water demon's blood is too strong.

Eating a dead grouper can only paralyze it for ten breaths. If you want to cross the river, you must swim to the other side within these ten breaths, otherwise the water monster that wakes up will still swallow the person crossing the river.

 The three of them, Gu An, obviously understood, and their faces turned a little pale.

Mo Hua looked at Gu An and the other two people without saying a word, but there was some inquiry in his eyes.

Yu Dahe looked resolute and gritted his teeth and said, "I am going to save my son. Even if I die, I will not complain."

 Gu An and Gu Quan nodded slightly when they heard the words.

Gu An then said: "Young master, don't worry about us."

On the other hand, Gu Quan glanced at Mo Hua with some concern, "Young Master, you'd better not take any risks."

"It's okay." Mo Hua said, "I'm not slow in swimming."

When he was fine before, he had probably learned the Bailang movement technique of Dragon Crossing the River. Although he was not very proficient in it, he could still use it with ease.

Mo Hua thought for a while and said:

"There are also three dead grouper fish. We will feed them to the water monster together later, and then we will swim to the other side immediately."

"We fed them together?" Gu Quan was startled, "What about when we come back?"

 “You don’t have to worry when you come back.”

 The ink painting is casual.

　　When you come back, you are not afraid of alerting the enemy. A water monster trapped in stagnant water is a living target. You have a hundred ways to send it to heaven.

Gu An and Gu Quan didn't know Mo Hua's plan, but after passing the Bishan Devil's Cave and his party, the two of them had gradually gotten used to it and followed Mo Hua's instructions.

The water demon finished eating a fish and slowly sank into the water.

 It seems to know nothing about things on the shore, but it is only sensitive to prey in the water.

 The three of them discussed it and decided to cross the river.

　　Gu An, Gu Quan and Yu Dahe each picked up a fish and threw it into the water far away at the same time.

As soon as the dead grouper fish fell into the water, the water demon immediately showed its head and swallowed two of them in one gulp. Then, as before, its pupils were blank and somewhat paralyzed.

"Walk!"

 The moment the water demon ate the fish, Mo Hua said decisively.

 Then several people jumped into the water together and swam hard to the other side.

He is a fisherman in a big river. The water quality is very good, so he can swim very fast.

Although Mo Hua is not a fisherman, the water-passing step is originally a water-based body technique. He also practiced the white wave body technique. He is like a nimble little fish in the water, and his speed is not slow.

 Gu An and Gu Shenfa are a little behind, but they have deep cultivation, so they can keep up.

However, the two of them still deliberately slowed down and protected Mo Hua behind him.

The second-level peak fish demon swallowed two dead grouper fish and was only paralyzed for about fifteen breaths. His black and yellow pupils began to blink.

Mo Hua sensed the danger and immediately said: "Hurry up!" Then he pushed his body skills to the extreme, using his hands and feet together, and started paddling desperately.

 The shore is within easy reach.

Gu An and the three of them also began to try their best to get closer to the shore.

At this time, the fish demon has completely woken up from the paralysis state, its bulging eyes are turning, and the tip of its ugly nose can also smell the breath of a living person.

 It abandoned the other dead grouper and gradually sank into the water.

The figure of the fish demon sank to the bottom of the water, but at the same time, an undercurrent of ripples appeared on the water, rippling towards Mo Hua and the others at an extremely fast speed.

The people in Mo Hua were startled and swam desperately.

In the end, Yu Dahe, who was proficient in water properties, was the first to step ashore. After landing, he immediately turned around and reached out to pull up the ink painting from the bottom of the river.

 Gu An and Gu Quan also arrived at the shore.

But before they could land, there was a "rumbling" sound from the water, and an ugly water demon's head floated up, opened its **** mouth, and swallowed Gu An and Gu Quan.

 The two of them were swimming in the water, unable to dodge.

With quick eyes and quick hands, Mo Hua clicked his fingers together and immediately condensed several fireballs, which hit the water demon's protruding eyes and hindered the water demon for a moment.

 At this moment, Gu An and Gu Quan drew their swords at the same time, activated their sword energy, and struck the water demon on the lower jaw.

However, the water demon has rough skin and thick flesh, so these two cuts did not go deep and only barely broke some of the skin. Yu Dahe immediately took out a harpoon quenched with poisonous algae juice from his storage bag, threw it out, and pierced the water monster's mouthpiece.

This is a method that fishermen usually use to deal with aquatic monsters when fishing.

The harpoon pierced the mouth of the water demon, and poisonous algae seeped into its throat. The water demon was in severe pain, rolled over and sank into the water.

Taking advantage of this interval, Gu An and Gu Quan went ashore together.

 Several people evacuated immediately.

 But within a moment, the water demon emerged again.

The entire harpoon was swallowed into its belly with hatred, and the water demon was extremely angry, but the breath of several living people in the water was gone, so it could only roar wildly at the shore.

 The roar is low, but the fishy wind is strong.

The ink painting was carried by the fishy wind, staggered a few times, and fell to the ground with a "plop", looking a little embarrassed.

Gu An immediately helped Mo Hua up and said, "Young Master, are you okay?"

"fine."

Mo Hua rubbed his forehead, turned around, glanced at the water demon angrily, and said silently in his heart:

"Ugly monster, wait until I come back and see how I deal with you."

The water demon's ugly and ferocious eyes are still staring at the ink painting, completely unaware that he has been "blacklisted" by the ink painting.

Once on the shore and out of the water, the water monster is powerless.

 Everyone was temporarily safe and began to move forward.

I don’t know how long I walked before I found a cave entrance with a slight light in front of me.

After passing the entrance of the cave, the eyes suddenly opened up. It was no longer the narrow bottom of the well, but a gray sky and earth.

There was a slight drizzle in the sky, and there was a dirt road paved with stones under my feet.

 Light, yellowish mist, floating in the air.

 In the eyes of Gu An and others, the color of the fog is slightly yellow.

 But in the eyes of ink painting, the color of these fogs is deeper blood red.

Not far away, there was a faint outline of a fishing village, blending with the blood mist, revealing a dead silence and strangeness.

Gu An secretly cursed: "For some reason, traffickers like Guojiang Long found such a dark place to hide."

Yu Dahe also nodded, looking confused:

“I’ve never heard of such a place nearby... Is this a fishing village? Why does it look like there’s no one there?”

 “Let’s go and take a look first.” Mo Hua sighed.

 He knew clearly that there were more than just human traffickers in this fishing village.

 Everyone walked along the dirt road under their feet to the fishing village in the distance.

But after walking a few steps, Mo Hua grabbed Gu An and said suddenly:

 “Stop!”

Gu An was startled and looked around, looking at the ink paintings with some confusion, not knowing what was going on.

 There is obviously nothing around.

The ink painting shows a slight tremor in the pupils.

He discovered that there was a blood mist in front of Gu An, and in the blood mist, there was a squirming evil thing like a blood leech.

 This blood leech was red, dirty and bloody, floating in the air with the blood mist.

It was swimming right in front of Gu An's eyes.

Gu An couldn’t see it at all.

 Had he taken one step forward just now, he would have directly come into contact with these blood leeches.

Mo Hua still doesn’t know what will happen after encountering blood leeches.

But based on his experience, he guessed that these blood leeches are most likely the evil spirit of the evil god. Once they encounter a living person with divine consciousness, they are likely to get into his sea of ​​consciousness and carry out pollution and parasitism.

 “There is danger.” Mo Hua said in a deep voice.

Gu An and the others looked at the thick fog around them, and their hearts trembled.

 “Follow me, don’t move around!”

Mo Hua warned with a solemn expression.

Since I brought three people into the bottom of the well, I must try my best to protect their safety.

Yu Dahe is a hard-working fisherman, and his life is not easy.

 Gu An and Gu Quan are acquaintances sent by Uncle Gu to protect him, and he cannot let anything happen to them.

Gu An and the other three nodded.

Mo Hua started to walk in front, leading the three of them, avoiding the blood leeches and walking forward cautiously.

 After walking for a while, the blood mist in front of me was thick, and the blood leeches were also much denser.

Mo Hua could avoid it on his own, but even if Gu An and the other two followed him, they would probably be parasitized by the blood leeches that swam behind him.

There was some difficulty with the ink painting, and then I was suddenly startled.

 He thought of another question.

 I can see the blood leeches, so I can recognize the way.

The dragon crossing the river couldn't see the blood leeches, so how could he avoid the blood leeches and find his way into the village?

There must be something fishy here.

Mo Hua released his spiritual consciousness and peered around for a moment. Suddenly his eyes lit up. He squatted on the ground and picked up the earth and rocks at his feet.

Gu An and the others looked at it inexplicably, but they knew how to behave and did not disturb Mo Hua.

 After a while, Mo Hua finally pulled something out from the ground beneath his feet.

 This is a formation stone!

On the stone slab, there are obscure and profound formation patterns carved on it.

Although I have never seen these formations in ink paintings, they look very familiar. Their formation style is exactly the same as the formations drawn by Dragon Crossing the River at the mouth of the well.

 “Shinto formation!”

Mo Hua felt happy.

 He quickly wrote down all these formation patterns one by one.

The Shinto formation on the stone slab is incomplete. Just a few formations cannot form a complete formation structure, and the meaning of the formations cannot be understood.

Mo Hua took a few steps forward and squatted on the ground again.

After a while, another stone slab was pulled out.

 The stone slab is still an incomplete Shinto formation, with some old and new formations.

The ink drawings were compared with each other, and the new formation patterns were written down, and then they continued to flip through several stone tablets, and recorded a total of five new Shinto formation patterns.

Then Mo Hua took out a piece of paper and continued to simulate, combine and piece together these five formation patterns on the paper.

Through dozens of attempts, Mo Hua finally successfully pieced together these five formation patterns, forming a simple, but the power of spiritual thoughts can be recycled to form a closed prototype of the Shinto formation!

This prototype is still very crude, similar to the five-element formations that only consisted of a few formations when Mo Hua first started learning formations.

 But it is indeed a complete, entry-level Shinto formation.

 Hishhua compared this formation with the formation drawn by Dragon Crossing the River at the mouth of the well, and found some clues.

Strictly speaking, the formation patterns painted by Crossing the River Dragon are not considered Shinto formations.

His formation patterns are a clever way to temporarily cut off the flow of the formation power of the Shinto formation through the formation barrier, achieving the effect of temporarily "unblocking" and opening the seal at the bottom of the well.

  In other words, the "unsealing" formations painted by Guojianglong are based on a complete set of Shinto formations.

This complete set of Shinto formations is drawn in the **** dry well.

or…

Ink painting looks far away, looking at the fishing village shrouded in the gloomy blood mist in the distance.

This entire fishing village that was contaminated by evil gods and disappeared was built on this "Shinto formation".

Whether it is the wellhead formation or the stone slab formation, they are only a small part of the extension of this Shinto formation.

Mo Hua was shocked, but at the same time, he also had more doubts.

 Where did this Shinto formation come from?

Who built this formation in this fishing village?

What is the purpose?

 What are the specific applications of Shinto formations?

Mo Hua frowned.

“It seems like we have to take a look deep into the fishing village. The core of the Shinto formation is probably hidden inside…”

There should be some Shinto formation stone slabs buried under the feet, but time is limited and there is no time to lift up the ink paintings and read them one by one.

 After the evil god's matter is resolved, we can go back and turn over the land again.

Mo Hua nodded.

At this time, Mo Hua also figured out the role of the formation on the stone slab.

These formations are used to isolate the blood mist, especially to drive away those "blood leech" evil spirits in the blood mist.

These formations were connected in sequence, opening a safe path out of the blood mist.

The Dragon Crossing the River must have passed through this road, so that it could not be contaminated by evil spirits or parasitized by blood leeches, and thus enter the fishing village smoothly.

 The ink painting gave a preliminary glimpse into the Shinto formation.

Now this winding "Shinto" path was clearly presented in his eyes.

 There is a road, which is always safer.

Mo Hua himself could see the blood leeches, and it didn't matter whether there was a road or not, but the situation was different for Gu An and the others.

They cannot see the danger, and even if they follow them, they will be dangerous every step of the way.

"Follow me, follow my footsteps, don't go wrong, and don't look around," Mo Hua said.

 Gu An and the other three knew the pros and cons and nodded one after another.

Then Mo Hua took the lead and walked in front. Gu An and the other three also remembered Mo Hua's instructions and followed closely, not daring to make a mistake.

Just like that, step by step, for an unknown amount of time, the four of them finally passed through the blood leech infestation and set foot on the land of the disappeared fishing village.

 This is a land soaked in blood.

 (End of this chapter)