Chapter 167: The Lone Black Fish Formation

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu spent a great deal of effort, yet she still could not use her sword to split the shrimp-shell armor.

She became increasingly interested in this "shrimp-shell inner armor."

After cutting off half of the shrimp's internal organs, which were still attached to the excrement-filled intestine, she said: "When you go to find the Old Turtle Blacksmith, do not bring the shrimp shell with you at first.

Quietly find the Old Turtle, give him some gifts, secretly ask for his help, and promise him a generous reward once the task is completed."

Not to mention the combat strength of the Shrimp Warrior himself, his chest carapace was something that many Human Immortals might not even be able to break through.

If it were made into inner armor and worn on her body, whether facing Heavenly Soldiers and Generals like Ge Qing and Zhu Tong, or future Human Immortal assassins, it would greatly increase her chances of survival.

Black Jin Gang said in a tangled manner: "Mother, your son is just a poor river patrol, I haven't set up any businesses, my family is poor!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked curiously: "Are silver and gold from the human world useful to you?"

Black Jin Gang said strangely: "Not to mention us, even for the Underworld ghost messengers and the gods in heaven, gold, silver, and jewelry are good things, how could they be useless?

I heard that even the Black Flood Dragon Demon King has to distribute silver to his subordinate demon soldiers and generals.

We serve Grandfather River God, and have an annual salary of two taels of silver (ps).

My eighty-eight adopted sons each have an annual military pay of two strings of large coins."

He lowered his voice, a proud smile appearing on his black face, "I actually have a quota for one hundred demon soldiers under my command, and I am currently still collecting empty pay for 12 demon soldiers, hehehe, this is what the Shrimp Warrior taught me!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's mouth twitched, and she said: "Do you need money for your daily life?"

"If we don't use money to buy them, will the villagers on the shore give us fat pigs, fat sheep, fine wine, and brocade... for nothing?

We don't usually spend money on a daily basis.

It's not that we don't like spending money, it's just that there is no money to use; we have to find food and daily necessities ourselves, which is bitter and tiring," Black Jin Gang said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said: "Brocade, fat pigs, fine wine, how do you find them yourselves?"

"In the middle of the night, we quietly sneak into the villagers' homes to find them. If the Heavens bless us and we encounter a flood that submerges the village, we can also pick them up in the river, like my previous fifteen wives."

Thinking of his wives who were now nowhere to be found, Black Jin Gang's tone and face revealed a sense of resentment again.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was speechless.

"How much family property have you saved up now?"

Black Jin Gang hummed and hawed: "Mother, it's not that I don't want to be filial to you, it's just that I really haven't saved much private money."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sneered: "Mother has quite a lot of family assets; when I close my eyes and kick my legs, I will surely leave behind a vast fortune, where would I need you to be filial?"

Black Jin Gang's eyes lit up: "Mother, when you close your eyes and kick your legs, after you kick the bucket, will the vast fortune you leave behind all belong to your child?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said: "That's right, while I am alive, you be filial to me; when I die, the inheritance will all be left to you."

Black Jin Gang gritted his teeth and said: "I have saved forty or fifty taels of silver over these years; if Mother needs it, your son is willing to offer it with both hands!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked suspiciously: "Child, you are the dignified master of the two-hundred-li Wind Roar Bay, why are you so poor and sour? Could it be that all River Gods are this 'incorruptible'?"

"Wind Roar Bay has high winds and rough waves, and both banks are barren mountains. There are no merchant ships passing by, no temples for sacrifices, and no income, so of course we are poor!

Other River Gods are different.

For example, the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng; he has been making a fortune recently, and he has ten thousand taels of gold coming in every day!" Black Jin Gang said with a face full of envy.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked curiously: "Does the Liushahe have merchant ships? Why does the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng earn ten thousand gold a day?"

The gap between his entire net worth of forty or fifty taels of silver and a daily income of ten thousand taels of gold was too large.

"The Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng wishes he could go to the opposite Jiangzhou City every day to pick up noble guests from the upper state to cross the river. Do you think he works for nothing and doesn't take money?

In fact, he secretly colludes with wealthy merchant families in Heaven's Gate Town and Jiangzhou City on weekdays.

Transporting goods from Heaven's Gate Town to Jiangzhou City, and then bringing goods from Jiangzhou City back to Heaven's Gate Town on the way; one round trip is hundreds of taels of gold, easily.

Now he doesn't deliver goods anymore, he delivers people instead.

Every noble guest who crosses the river has almost had their savings squeezed dry by him. If they don't give money, he throws them into the Liushahe halfway."

"The Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng is actually in logistics..." Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was stunned, then said with a strange expression: "So that's how it is, the noble young masters from the upper state are just like donkey dung balls, shiny on the outside? Are they all a bunch of poor ghosts?"

"I don't know. If I had the chance to extort them, I would definitely not leave them a single copper coin," Black Jin Gang said with regret.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu left the dimensions and style for the inner armor she needed, and urged Black Jin Gang not to be stingy with silver when bribing the Old Turtle Blacksmith, then she left Wind Roar Bay carrying the shrimp organs.

"Woof woof woof~ woof woof woof~~~"

The next morning, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was practicing her sword in the courtyard when Xiao Qiang, who was lying under the eaves to cool off, suddenly stood up and barked wildly at the courtyard gate.

"Wow, Miss Yu, this old dog of yours has a very tough life! Not only has it recovered from being terminally ill in just a few days, but it has recovered so well, and its bark is so loud!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu stopped her movements and turned to look, only to see Veterinarian Deng, led by Granny Xie, walking into the courtyard from outside. He was staring at Xiao Qiang and clicking his tongue in wonder, his old face showing both amazement and regret.

"Old Uncle Deng, what are you here for today..."

Veterinarian Deng smiled apologetically: "I came to visit the old dog at Miss Yu's house. Didn't you promise before that you would give it to me when it died..."

He had waited at home for several days, but never saw anyone come to call him to go to Howling Shanzhuang to collect the dead dog. He was anxious in his heart, so he came over himself.

Before coming, he was worried that the dog had already died and Miss Yu found it troublesome and just threw it away!

"Woof woof woof~~~" Xiao Qiang bared its teeth and brandished its claws at him.

Veterinarian Deng was not afraid at all, and nodded repeatedly: "Good dog, what a strong physique."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said: "Well, I originally intended to notify Old Uncle Deng immediately once it died.

I didn't expect that its life was not meant to end, and it inexplicably came back to life."

Veterinarian Deng said: "Let it lie down and let me check it again; it might also be a flash in the pan."

"Xiao Qiang, lie down!"

Xiao Qiang refused, so Seeing Xiao Yu Yu pressed its head down hard to let Veterinarian Deng examine it.

Veterinarian Deng still had some integrity and did not insist that the dog was "truly a flash in the pan."

"This dog has actually come back to life; its heartbeat is strong and rhythmic, it's not a flash in the pan."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu smiled and said: "Perhaps there is still some root of the illness remaining, why don't you prescribe a dose of medicine for it, Old Uncle."

"No need, no need, it is very healthy, drinking medicine casually will cause problems instead."

Veterinarian Deng stroked the dog's head for a while longer, then left decisively.

"Master, are there any more of the shrimp organs you fed me last night? I really feel that the root of the illness hasn't fully healed," Xiao Qiang asked, leaning close to her with its dog face.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu glanced at it and said lightly: "How about I call Veterinarian Deng back and let him prescribe a dose of medicine for you?"

"No, no need." Xiao Qiang shrank back into its kennel sheepishly.

Since Xiao Qiang ate half a hanging of shrimp organs and its dog treasure was fully repaired, Howling Shanzhuang became completely peaceful.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu practiced her sword in the morning and recited Daoist scriptures in the afternoon, especially liking to write the "Golden Book of the Jade Pendant and Golden Dang Taiji."

She divided her attention, reciting Daoist scriptures while writing the secret records of the Golden Book on paper with a brush, and annotating her own insights and experiences beside every character and every key point.

Even though the effect of cultivating internal qi underwater was excellent, she never gave up studying the "Taiji Golden Book."

She had no Immortal Root and no Immortal Fortune, and her accumulated Dao qi was not enough to interpret the Taiji Golden Book, so it was originally difficult to get started with this Immortal Method secret record.

However, she first worshipped the "Divine Nun Old Mother," and had the assistance of the "Method of Killing Ge Qing," so now she gradually had her own insights into the Taiji Golden Book.

And her insights into the Taiji Golden Book became the big data for deducing the "Divine Nun's Method of Extermination" and the "Method of Killing Ge Qing."

In this virtuous cycle, her understanding and comprehension of the life-and-death connection method of the Taiyi Profound Gate (Daoism) were increasing rapidly every day.

After eating early in the evening, she would jump into Wind Roar Bay behind the mountain.

After becoming familiar with "borrowing the power of water," she now entered Wind Roar Bay mainly to deduce the "Flowing Sand Sword Intent," and to perfect and improve her "Mighty Xiong Xiong Long Gong" based on the new "Profound Gate Dao Method" insights she obtained during the day... In fact, the current "Mighty Xiong Xiong Long Gong" had become the "Taiji Eternal Spring Skill," which was significantly different from the original "Mighty Xiong Xiong Long Gong."

Granny Xie, Li Bao, Li Hu, and the Duty Merit Officer of the City God Temple were already accustomed to her daily behavior.

At first, Xiao Qiang also wanted to follow Seeing Xiao Yu Yu to dive.

When it was in Apricot Blossom Village, it had once swum in the river.

But the water conditions in Wind Roar Bay were not comparable to an inland river at all.

A giant wave hit, and it became dizzy, drank a belly full of water, and almost became a dead dog.

In Wind Roar Bay, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu not only cultivated herself, but also began to try to let the river demons form a "Demon Formation."

Black Jin Gang was just a river patrol and knew nothing about the way of military formations.

The River God didn't expect him to understand, didn't train him, and didn't send him any military books.

Who would expect a government office runner from a county office to be proficient in the way of battle formations?

It was Seeing Xiao Yu Yu who was teaching them hand-in-hand how to form military formations.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu didn't know much about the way of military formations originally either.

But first, she had once joined the Three Thousand Fire Crow Army and had personal feelings; second, the Purple Mansion was deducing the "Method of Killing the Military Formation Leader Ge Qing."

The method of breaking the formation deduced, combined with Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's own experience in the Three Thousand Fire Crow Army formation, gradually gave her her own insights into the "Way of Soldiers."

Now, half a month later.

"Lone Black Fish Formation!"

At the bottom of Wind Roar Bay, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu stood on a giant rock, waving the blood-colored command flag in her hand.

"Lone Black Fish Formation!"

The Black Fish Demon shouted, waving his shrimp-pincer double blades very skillfully and comfortably, black demon power erupting from his body.

"Heh ha!!"

88 river demons quickly swam behind him, lining up in four columns, four people in a group back-to-back, one facing left, one facing right, one facing up, one facing down, a total of 22 sections.

Black Jin Gang was the fish head, and the 22 sections were the fish's torso, the gray-black demon power connecting into one piece, turning into a giant black fish nearly two hundred meters long.

The appearance of the giant black fish looked a bit rough.

It was far from being as lifelike as the Fire Dragon and Three-Legged Golden Crow of the Marquis of Lieyang in the Battle of Flying Immortal Ferry.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu reached out and pointed to the mountain rock on the side, "Wrath of the Lone One!"

"Roar~~" The giant black fish opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, like a torpedo, extremely fast, stirring up intense waves and foam in the water, and bit down on a rock larger than a double bed.

"Crack, clatter!" The giant rock was actually bitten into pieces.

"Very good, another move, 'Black Fish in the Frying Pan'," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu shouted.

"Ha hey!" The demons who combined into the black fish's body immediately shouted, their knives, spears, swords, and halberds stabbing forward chaotically, and pieces of "fish scales" like knife blades exploded on the surface of the giant black fish, like a drill bit, rotating at high speed at the bottom of the water.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Wherever the giant black fish's body rolled over, whether it was a protruding river channel or a reef at the bottom of the river, it was immediately leveled.

Some hard rocks even sparked when they collided with the black fish's "scales."

Afterwards, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu tested the "Black Fish Battering Ram" — high-speed impact, "Divine Dragon Tail Whip" — black fish tail whipping, "Lone One Roaring at the Sky" — imitating the Tiger Roaring Saber, using demon power to condense into momentum to suppress the enemy...

It wasn't until Black Jin Gang started panting that she announced the dissolution of the "Lone Black Fish Formation."

"Mother, you are truly amazing! The Lone Black Fish Formation is so strong, I suddenly feel that the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng is nothing more than this," Black Jin Gang shouted excitedly.

The other river demons were also very excited, surrounding their grandmother with various praises and flattery.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said lightly: "You have only initially mastered the power of the military formation, don't be arrogant and complacent; the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng is one of the Ninety-Nine Protectors, and he must also be proficient in the way of military formations."

Black Jin Gang shook his head and said: "No, the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng doesn't understand the way of military formations, I am very sure. In the past, when he took us, this group of river patrol yakshas, out to grab territory, he would just draw his blade and rush and slash, never forming a formation."

"Maybe he is an old schemer, deliberately hiding his trump card..." Seeing Xiao Yu Yu didn't even believe this herself.

The way of military formations puts the word "diligence" first.

Only through diligent practice can the general know the soldiers, and the soldiers be familiar with the spirit and rules of the military formation.

The higher the proficiency, the more one can do as one wishes, and the stronger the combat power of the military formation.

If the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng understood the way of military formations, he would definitely gather his subordinates for training frequently.

"You also have to be an old schemer, treat the Lone Black Fish Formation as a trump card, and don't let outsiders know."

Regardless of the situation of the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu hoped that Black Jin Gang could be honest and not be reckless.

Black Jin Gang himself had no talent for the "Way of Soldiers," the one with talent was Seeing Xiao Yu Yu!

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu observed the demons underwater with the wisdom of the Kunpeng, took the spirit and charm of the demons, condensed the spirit (intent) of the Demon God, and then focused on simulating the Black Fish Demon.

In the end, she practiced a set of Black Fish Sword Techniques, using the Demon God's spirit to control the Black Fish Sword Intent.

But she didn't create the "Black Fish Sword Technique" for herself.

After having a deep understanding of the black fish and the "Water Demon God" (Immortal Martial Main God) that surpassed the black fish, she specially customized a set of "Lone Black Fish Formation" for Black Jin Gang.

Black Jin Gang was originally a black fish demon, and Seeing Xiao Yu Yu also specially observed him to comprehend the "Black Fish Spirit and Charm."

The so-called "Lone Black Fish Formation" was to paint the skin, bones, and soul of Black Jin Gang, so even if he himself had no talent for military formations, he could instinctively build this military formation... In fact, it could be simply understood as Seeing Xiao Yu Yu helping her black-skinned son create a unique "Military Way · Military Formation Supernatural Power."

(ps: In Journey to the West, gold and silver are attractive to gods and Buddhas, for example, when Tang Seng went to get the scriptures, Ananda and Kasyapa demanded human affairs.

For example, Zhu Bajie secretly saved private money.

So, does this book deny turning stones into gold?

It does not; in the subsequent plot, many strange people who know the art of turning stones into gold will appear.

At that time, I will explain the difference between gold and silver created by techniques and gold and silver mined naturally... In fact, everyone should be able to think of the difference easily.

Any technique has a day when it dissipates.

As for changing the atomic structure... The Dao is born from nothingness into one qi, one qi divides into yin and yang, and yin and yang form the four images. The foundation of the world of gods and Buddhas is not atoms, but qi.

It's not that matter doesn't have atomic and molecular structures, but that atoms and protons can continue to be divided into finer details, and the essence at the end is qi.) ===== CHAPTER 168 =====