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Chapter 1195

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The deep cave opened its mouth, and no one took care of it. Water algae grew in the tunnel, like messy dirty hair. Bubbles emerged between the breathing of the plants, sticking to the top wall, turning into a silver-white semicircle.

Jiang Xiao Tun took three little river otters to chase a big grass carp. With one rush and one grab, the grass carp broke into two pieces, and the wound floated blood smoke. Jiang Xiao Tun swallowed the fish head in two bites, but before finishing the fish tail, it was driven away by the river otters guarding the door.

The Dragon Man reached out and patted, and the fluorescent blue jellyfish lamps on both sides lit up one by one, illuminating the cave.

The Ghost Mother statue glowed with faint light. Liang Qu touched it, and the feedback from his fingertips was the smooth and cold texture of stone.

"Has anyone been here recently?"

"Returning to the Fourth Elder." The stationed Dragon Man replied, "People from the Great Shun imperial court have been here four times, including the River Bo Office, the Imperial Observatory, and the Ministry of War. There were as few as seven or eight, and as many as twenty-one or twenty-two. There were Wolf Smoke, Hunting Tiger, and Perfected Form. The shortest stay was three days, and the longest was one month. They said they were studying the rituals in the Ghost Mother Sect, and nothing more. I verified their identities, and there were no problems with the procedures and seals."

Liang Qu nodded.

"Well done. You go out first. If there is nothing important, don't let others come in to disturb me."

"Yes!"

The golden eyes opened.

Invisible waves flashed, 【Ze Country】 shrouded the Ghost Mother sculpture. At the same time, Liang Qu's third supernatural power wrapped around a radius of ten zhang. Under the strong infection of his own "root", the clear heaven and earth Qi machine was as clear as fire and as clear as palm patterns within these ten zhang.

Under the heaven pass and earth axis of the Ying Dragon.

The heaven and earth Qi machine flowed leisurely. The twisted Ghost Mother sculpture "faded" its intuitive appearance, leaving only dark red Qi machine, turning into a dark red tree with lush branches and leaves.

The Ghost Mother is the main trunk of the tree. The ten hands holding the conch, treasure umbrella, two-headed fish, etc., became branches. The original treasure tools became one "fetal bead" after another, like curled-up infants.

The King of Chu said that this ritual used the remains of the Wu Sheng of Qiujin, and then invited the Beima Master of the Snow Mountain Sect to prepare it.

The eight auspicious signs of the Lotus Sect are the treasure vase, treasure canopy, two fish, lotus, right-turning conch, auspicious knot, victory banner, and dharma wheel. And on this three-zhang-high, ten-meter-long Ghost Mother sculpture, the two fish were split into two, totaling nine. The top was temporarily vacant, originally the gold-thread nanmu coffin containing the Demon Queen.

Ten lives, ten deaths.

A total of twenty positions, and behind each of the ten arms, there were "shadows" overlapping.

The Long Wang Cave in the underworld has the old Dragon Lord, which is an important source of information for Liang Qu about the Whale Emperor.

If it is a true Dragon Lord, it is even more of a target for unity, and it must not be abandoned no matter what.

The Blood River World is also a treasure land.

Liang Qu has not forgotten the road he came from.

Before the Perfected Form, he relied on underwater resource differences, and the Blood River World is the same. Stepping into places where ordinary people cannot go often yields rich profits.

The only problem.

How to go back.

In the past, he could return to the underworld because Liang Qu really fell, and turned into a fish woman to travel between the two worlds. It is impossible to replicate it again. The cooling of withered wood meeting spring has a full sixty-year cycle. Committing suicide for this is completely putting the cart before the horse.

【Wind comes from the north, heaven and water spring, snake turns into fish, this is fish woman—death is resurrection.】

Awakening from hibernation, this is the only brilliance left by the Black Emperor in the Ze Tripod, but Liang Qu can vaguely feel the difference brought by his own death and resurrection.

He has an idea, a bold idea combining his own supernatural powers and talents, combined with the Ghost Mother ritual.

"Send Little Star!"

On the top wall of the cave, a dark red, inconspicuous, root-like tentacle wriggled in response.

"Separate a sub-body for me."

I don't know where Little Star learned it, but the tentacle folded ninety degrees.

For a long time.

The starfish-like tentacle cracked, separating a dark red "thread ball", with a clear core inside, deriving many branches.

Little Star devoured the remains of the net adult, and now it has begun to advance from the peak of Wolf Smoke to Hunting Tiger without the premise of essence. It is not difficult to separate a sub-body.

Staring at the ten life positions and ten death positions on the sculpture.

The death positions are full, each with a "baby" curled up, but seven positions in the life positions have been emptied, all of which are Perfected Form Grandmasters who fell in the siege of the Ghost Mother Sect.

For example, Yi Chen, the ancestor of Yi Zhiyu, was originally in the life position. Because life and death dissipated, but there were no believers to contribute fetal bead pills in time to let the Ghost Mother Perfected Form in the death position resurrect to the life position, so that the people in the life position could enter the death position, then this position would be forcibly "stuck" out and become empty.

Liang Qu took off the sub-body tentacles split by Little Star.

Attached it to the treasure vase, slid his fingers, and according to the ritual, the flow and law of the heaven and earth Qi machine, mixed the Qi machine of the sub-body into it, and slowly penetrated it.

Waiting until the second half of the night.

On the surface it is a treasure vase, but in the golden eyes, the treasure vase actually manifested as the appearance of Little Star's sub-body.

Success!

Liang Qu was overjoyed.

The sub-body fell into the "life" position of the Ghost Mother ritual. After that, he followed suit, continued to lead the Qi machine, and directly "pulled" the Ghost Mother Jiang Zongshi in the death position out.

He didn't raise mountain ghosts, and didn't have enough people to generate fetal bead pills. There was no way to let this unknown Jiang Zongshi return to the life position normally, only violent removal.

The "baby" seemed to feel its own destruction, kicking its legs and struggling, but Liang Qu remained unmoved, bit by bit, "it"

was rudely dragged out from the palm of the Ghost Mother.

The "baby" was born.

No waste.

Rolling it into a ball, Liang Qu also held this soul in his hand.

They are all talents, and cannot be wasted. The experts of the Ghost Mother Sect are all stock competition, one less for each one used, and the remaining living people are also squeezing the remaining value in the sky prison.

Clear out the empty space.

"Are you ready? This time it will be hard for you."

The hundreds of tentacles of Little Star's "sub-body" folded ninety degrees in unison.

"Good. You are also loyal! After going to the underworld, I will not treat you badly."

Liang Qu closed his eyes, waved his hand, and the "sub-body" dissipated, drifting with the waves.

Death position empty, life position death.

Life and death reincarnation.

The Ghost Mother sculpture rippled with water waves, and Little Star's "sub-body" slowly faded in the physical "life" position, taking its place, coming to the "death" position represented by the ghost hand behind.

"Hoo."

Liang Qu took a deep breath, always feeling that it was not thick enough, and a sense of inexplicable guilt arose.

Shaking his head, shaking off the messy thoughts, the next is the highlight.

【Spirit Descent】!

【Spirit Descent: Manifest spirit body, descend to control beasts, observe four directions, listen to eight directions】.

Consciousness soared rapidly, Liang Qu crossed thousands of miles, descended on Little Star in the center of the East Water, and under the guidance of Little Star and the perception of the heaven pass and earth axis, spread to the Ghost Mother ritual, and then with the help of the ritual, jumped to the "sub-body" in the death position of the ghost hand!

Rushing into the sculpture, the brain seemed to have gone through a violent chaotic swing, current stimulation.

Scarlet.

Liang Qu subconsciously grabbed his palm, and what appeared was not five fingers, but leisurely tentacles.

All successful!

Looking around, what he saw was not the cave where the sculpture was located, but a huge palm, like the Hanging Temple Buddha, falling into the Six Desires Heaven, like the palm of Tathagata.

The palm was dark blue, the sky was dark red, and the flowing light gathered into a huge river.

Following the heaven and earth Qi machine, Liang Qu's palm jumped, tracing the current up.

"Click, click, click—"

Blood river washed, bone spurs pierced the tentacles of Little Star's sub-body, and scales drilled out from under the skin.

The shape of the sub-body became more and more strange, more and more ferocious. Under the blood river, the five-pointed star-like body posture constantly closed, becoming streamlined, turning into a fish body, and turning out a snake tail.

The resistance of the blood river became greater and greater, simply ten thousand times more difficult than salmon tracing up to spawn, but Liang Qu, as a Wu Sheng, even if he possessed a small fish, was not comparable to ordinary people, and was not afraid, rushing up against the waterfall.

"Clatter."

The sound of water gurgled, and the appearance of heaven and earth changed greatly.

Brown soil on both banks, red flowers in full bloom.

The petals hung down one by one, wide open.

Other shore flowers!

Liang Qu's pupils dilated, looking at the sky, the earth, and the river, his heart uncontrollably surging with ecstasy.

Success!

Ghost Mother Sect, you did a good job! It wasn't in vain to struggle for so long, there really is something. This ritual of death and resurrection is probably the most precious wealth left to him by the Ghost Mother Sect!

"I don't know where I am now—"

Liang Qu looked around, didn't see the familiar scene, the familiar sect, there were no villages around, and he didn't know where in the Blood River World he had come to.

He didn't take out the souls of the King of Chu and others, and take them to the underworld like Jian Zhongyi.

Little Star's sub-body has almost no strength. After 【Spirit Descent】, it is not certain whether it can be counted as a Jiang Zongshi. Liang Qu is very likely unable to control the Perfected Form Jiang Zongshi of the Ghost Mother Sect.

Explore the environment first, see if he can go to the River God Sect and Shuyu Pavilion. If he can contact Lao Yingtian and others, it will be much more convenient, and it will be more convenient to go to the Long Wang Cave.

Turned into a strange fish again, half fish and half snake, this time there were more radiation-mutated tentacles on the body, growing out from under the scales. Liang Qu didn't even dare to look at what he looked like now.

"Must think of a way, can I further develop the ritual? It is most convenient to come in person. 【Spirit Descent】 is separated by a layer. If I can bring A-Fei in, it would be better. It has wisdom roots—"

Wandering in the remote small blood river, Liang Qu aimed at a direction and kept moving forward, until two or three hours, he didn't find any living things that could communicate, and felt that it should be dawn in reality, so he temporarily shelved it, and his consciousness returned to his body.

The strange fish disappeared, Little Star's sub-body returned to its original appearance, taking root on the riverbed and leisurely drifting, clouds rolling and clouds relaxing.

The next night, after reviewing the documents, Liang Qu did not go to the base camp of the Ghost Mother Sect in person again.

"River Stone" goes every day, it is easy to be noticed by the Whale Emperor. 【Spirit Descent】 doesn't care about distance. The investment of Little Star's sub-body has been completed, and it can be re-linked anytime, anywhere. Little Star, Ghost Mother sculpture, just two stepping stones.

"Clatter."

"Hey, changed back?"

Flicking his tentacles, Liang Qu found that he didn't turn into a strange appearance with snake tail, fish head, and snake body, but a simple sub-body appearance, equally grotesque, but at least it could be seen, but—

The ability to act was greatly reduced, he couldn't even swim, and 【Water Travel Thousand Miles】 couldn't be used because of the lack of Qi sea, only relying on the blood river water flow to push himself all the way forward.

For several days in a row, Liang Qu manipulated Little Star's sub-body to explore the surrounding range.

The candlelight was faint.

Long Eying steamed with white mist, wrapped in a white bath towel, combing her hair in front of the mirror, looking at Liang Qu sitting cross-legged on the bed, knowing that he was addicted to some kind of exploration, and pushed his shoulder.

"Hey, right away, right away, wait for me to find a safe place to land, wait, I feel like there are people nearby—I see people, I see people, oh my, this will take a long time, you sleep first————kiss, mwah."

Eying was helpless.

Through a series of manifestations, probing, and detours, Liang Qu finally understood his location. This place was ruled by a seventh-rank sect called the White Sand Sect. As for the River God Sect and Shuyu Pavilion, the locals had never even heard of them.

So he went to the White Sand Sect again.

The Sect Master of the White Sand Sect once again recalled the fear of being dominated by the strong. He couldn't understand why a thing like blood silk would be so strong. The entire White Sand Sect was invincible, scaring him to pee and pee, hurriedly offering a map, and giving a lot of eighth-rank blood treasures as travel expenses.

Monster in the blood river!

Confirming that in the year he left, the second-rank Great Sect River God Sect was still there, without major changes, but the distance was a bit far, a full three hundred thousand miles. Liang Qu took an eighth-rank blood treasure, carried his bundle, and set off toward the second-rank Great Sect River God Sect.

River God Sect, your Sect Master is back!

White snow fell from the sky, the river bank was bare, leaving only withered stalks.

Time passed, sunlight changed, tracing up the blood river all the way, River God Sect and Shuyu Pavilion were getting closer and closer, and he was one step closer to knowing what medicine was in the Whale Emperor's gourd.

"New Year is coming soon, how do you plan to spend it this year?"

"Go to the Long Gong to spend it. Just say the White Ape is in seclusion. Uncle has always wanted to go to the Long Gong to see. We will decorate with lanterns and colored streamers, and spend a harvest year with the Dragon Men, Dragon Sturgeons, water beasts, Frog clan, and the House Master. This is our first time back to the Long Gong, it has commemorative significance, and must be held grandly to boost the morale of the Jianghuai water beasts."

"By the way, after the New Year, we will officially open tourism. The first line is Jiangchuan Jiaoren County, Huaiyin Martial Hall, Pingyang Animal Mountain, Jianghuai one-day tour, and at the same time launch waterway transport of people and goods, Imperial Capital listing, wait until the New Year, we will get married next year!"

"I'm not in a hurry, there are places to spend money everywhere now, why not wait two years—"

"I'm in a hurry, and isn't it said that you can collect gift money? You won't lose much money." Liang Qu settled the sub-body, his consciousness withdrew from the Blood River World, jumped off the bed and put on his boots, "By the way, did the Whale Emperor confirm the time of the East Sea Great Hunt?"

Long Eying shook her head: "No Cloud Giant came to pass the message."

Liang Qu fell into deep thought: "It seems the time is very generous—"

"Not good! Not good! Brother-in-law! Something big happened!" Long Yanrui broke into the Yang Mansion, shouting in a panic.

Wulong and Heichi pricked up their ears, and all the servants in the Yang Mansion were alarmed.

Liang Qu walked out quickly, held down Long Yanrui's shoulder, grabbed his arm: "What's wrong Yanrui? So panicked? Don't worry, it's not like the Jiaolong attacked—."

"It's the National Teacher!" Long Yanrui panted because of nervousness.

"National Teacher? Frog Duke? What happened to Frog Duke?"

"Frog Duke is not going to make it!"

"What?" Liang Qu was shocked, no less than the Jiaolong attacking Jianghuai, and asked urgently, "How can it suddenly not make it?"

"I don't know either, anyway, it's not going to make it, brother-in-law, you go quickly."

"Where is Frog Duke now?"

"Frog clan territory!"

"What's going on, who had an accident?" Xu Shi walked out of the corridor.

"Frog Duke of the Frog clan, I don't know what happened yet." Liang Qu put on his coat, "Mother, I'll go over and see first!"

"I'll go with you." Long Eying followed closely.

"Be careful on the road, ask clearly first, don't go to the door and cry for a funeral." Xu Shi shouted.

"Know."

Plop! Plop!

Long Eying and Long Yanrui took the vortex escape path. Liang Qu didn't expose 【Water Travel Thousand Miles】, stepped into the air, and galloped to the Frog clan territory at the speed of a Wu Sheng.

The lotus was green and gloomy, piled with a layer of thin snow, and no big frog was seen.

While notifying the fat catfish, Liang Qu sank to the riverbed.

Depressed, quiet.

The entire Frog clan territory was dead silent.

All frogs were no longer in the water, all hugging the big anchor, gathered under the lotus stalks, occasionally hearing the low sobbing of the big frog. The clan leader of the neighboring Ice Jade Toad clan, Frost Glass, also rushed over.

How could it suddenly not make it?

Two days ago, it was still full of spirit riding Ao Miyun, catching treasure fish in the Great Marsh, saying it wanted to start construction and plant three thousand miles of lotus flowers.

Liang Qu's heart was heavy, full of doubts, quietly passing through the gaps between the big frogs, and saw the old toad leaning against the lotus stalk, curled into a ball, and the disappointed Frog King.

The old toad was gray and defeated, like an old photo that had faded and turned yellow: "Cough, cough, Great King, don't be sad. My treasure-rich clan is born and raised by heaven, at most a big spirit monster, the limit is one hundred and twenty years of life. This old minister is the first demon, two hundred and six years old this year, already perfect."

Is it natural life exhaustion?

Liang Qu's heart sank again.

Vaguely remember that the old toad and Wu Cangshou, old butterfly compared ages in the pond, fighting to be the boss. At that time, it said it was more than one hundred and ninety, the youngest one, which led to the old toad leaving in a gray way that day, so that his subconscious always felt that the old toad was very young...

Yes.

Hunting Tiger Great Martial Master is only one hundred and twenty.

The Frog clan is not a long-lived species of turtle or shellfish. Big Fat felt sad from the middle: "I told the elder to go to the Ice Jade Toad clan territory less, you didn't listen, now you've fallen down—"

Two Fat raised his frog head: "Sex is a bone-scraping steel knife!"

"You two! Talking nonsense! Talking nonsense! This elder is self-respecting, self-respecting!" I don't know if it was the return of the light, the old toad was furious, patted the ground and stood up, showing a completely different dragon spirit and tiger spirit, pounced on the faces of the two frogs, violently pulled Big Fat's face, and kicked his legs hard.

Big Fat opened his frog mouth, vaguely: "Elder, you don't look like you're going to fall, is it because you've been going out to find treasure for the past two months, your body is too tired, and you thought about it blindly?"

The Frog King's eyes were full of expectation.

However, the old toad quickly decayed, grabbed his chest, and wrinkled into a ball: "No, it's just that the deadline is approaching, it won't be wrong, Liang Qing!"

Liang Qu immediately stepped forward and grabbed the frog web: "Frog Duke!"

"I'm afraid I can't be competent as this National Teacher—"

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