Chapter 407

Thunder rolled, and the heavy rain turned into fog when it hit the ground.

The river water was turbid, carrying stones, broken wood, and all kinds of debris, creating giant waves that hit the shore, making a huge roar.

Baokang County faced the Ju River and the Man River. Originally, it was backed by mountains and relied on water, with a jade belt circling it, but now it had completely suffered.

The city wall had been washed away, and the flood poured into the city.

Most of the areas in the city had been submerged, and only the tops of some higher houses were exposed, with all kinds of fragments and wreckage floating in the water.

Strangely, only a few commoners were squatting on the roof, and after seeing them, they immediately cried and waved their arms.

"Get closer, don't hit the ship!"

Li Yan gave a warning, and Wu Ba immediately turned the rudder.

This kid had also made progress. He used to be terrified of water, but after running around with them and sailing several times, he had already adapted.

By now, steering the ship was no longer a problem.

The giant ship slowly approached the county town. Li Yan immediately pulled out the Jia Ma, performed the Northern Emperor's Divine Walking Technique, stepped on the waves, and jumped onto the city wall.

"Immortal!"

"Immortal, save me!"

Seeing Li Yan walking on the water, the commoners thought they had met an immortal, so they didn't care about panic and knelt down one after another.

"Stop stop stop!"

Li Yan hurriedly stopped them. "I am not any immortal. Get on the ship first, don't be afraid!"

Afraid of what?

A commoner was about to ask, but saw Li Yan grab his belt, his dark energy exploded, his steps crossed, and he turned his body and threw the person out.

Their large ship had no sails and could only rely on the rudder to turn and drift with the waves. There was no time to talk nonsense here.

"Ah——!"

Accompanied by miserable screams, the person flew out.

Lu San had already taken over the rudder, and Wu Ba ran to the deck, reached out and caught the commoner steadily.

With this kind of strength, only he could catch it on the ship.

Li Yan couldn't care about talking nonsense, threw all the people on the city wall out, and seeing that the giant ship had moved away from the city wall, he used the divine walking technique again, stepped on the waves, and jumped onto the ship.

"What about the other commoners in the city?"

"The county magistrate notified them, and they have already gone up the mountain to take refuge in advance..."

"Why didn't you leave?"

"Sigh~ the old man is a woodblock print craftsman. I got drunk yesterday and slept in the carriage shop, and no one paid attention to me..."

"The little one is a fisherman from a nearby village. I was taking my family to escape by boat, who knew I hit a floating log, woo woo~"

"Came back to get things, didn't expect the water to come early..."

The reasons were strange, but they were all unlucky ghosts.

Sha Sha Li Fei tutted. "Fortunately, the county magistrate is not a fool and knows to notify people to go up the mountain in advance."

Li Yan looked at the surging tide and shook his head. "The county town was notified, but those mountain villages, I'm afraid many died..."

Before he finished speaking, the ship bumped.

Lu San's ears moved, and he immediately said in a deep voice: "Careful, there's something in the water! Everyone hold on tight."

Thud!

The ship shook violently again.

Soon, a huge black shadow flashed through the waves in the turbid water, and the visible water line lingered, rushing towards them again.

Sha Sha Li Fei hurriedly picked up the musket and exclaimed, "Is it that black flood dragon?"

"It's an ordinary water demon, wait for me!"

Li Yan didn't talk nonsense, hurriedly pinched the formula and chanted: "Nuogao! Heavenly Truth Supreme, essence of Ren and Gui. Responding to the kidney storage inside, responding to the water star above..."

In the eyes of the people around, he was quickly wrapped in water mist, and then jumped into the rolling sewage with a splash.

Soon, waves and blood surged in the water.

In just a few breaths, Li Yan climbed onto the deck again, and in the flood behind him, a huge black fish had already turned its belly up.

"Good fellow!"

Sha Sha Li Fei looked up and said, "Legend has it that when a flood disaster appears, there must be evil spirits at work. It's true."

"It's not that simple."

Li Yan was already soaked, and threw something on the ground. It was a brick made of bronze, wrapped in red cloth, permeating Yin Sha Qi.

As soon as it landed, white frost permeated around.

"It's the Yansheng Technique."

Wang Wang Daoxuan said in a deep voice, "It doesn't look like it was made temporarily. Someone wants to make trouble while the flood dragon leaves!"

During the conversation, the giant ship traveled several more miles.

At this place, the strong wind and heavy rain became more violent, and thunder roared continuously, and giant waves surged into the sky.

"Help! Help!"

In the heavy rain, several small fishing boats were tossing up and down.

Seeing them arrive, the commoners on the boat begged for help one after another.

However, before Li Yan could take action, a giant soft-shelled turtle the size of a round table drilled out of the flood and directly smashed a fishing boat.

Not only that, there was also a section of gloomy giant wood in the flood, which had obviously been repaired and used for beams, but had been submerged in the water for unknown how many years.

The giant wood was shrouded in Yin Qi, and a vague shadow could be seen, which seemed to be an old man wearing a burial suit, slowly turning his head, his face pale, with a strange smile.

Boom!

The gloomy wood smashed another fishing boat.

Before they could react, the commoners on the boat were swallowed by the flood, and they didn't know where they were swept away.

Turtle demon!

Old wood spirit in the water!

Li Yan and Wang Wang Daoxuan looked at each other, their expressions solemn.

Their guess was correct, indeed someone organized monsters to make trouble in the chaos, needless to say, it must be related to the Lord Tian Sheng Sect.

"Water ghost! Water ghost!"

The commoners on the ship were also terrified.

Sha Sha Li Fei's face turned pale, and he swallowed his saliva. "Daoist, I remember you said that ordinary people can only see Yin spirits if they are dying or extremely unlucky?"

Wang Wang Daoxuan's expression was solemn, and he took out a compass from his arms to check.

Li Yan hurriedly asked, "What place is ahead?"

"Back to the gentleman."

A fisherman cupped his hands and said, "Ahead is the confluence of three rivers in Baokang. Going south is the Ju River, and going west is the Man River, leading directly to the Han River."

"Because accidents often happened before, a Yang Si General Temple was built on the sandbar since the Daxiang years to suppress it..."

Li Yan wanted to ask in detail, but suddenly felt a stir in his heart, and turned to look at the flood, his eyes full of suspicion.

He could feel a sharp energy whistling from under the water. Even standing on the ship, he felt like he was being pricked by needles.

In the water ahead, waves surged, and whether it was the turtle demon or the old wood spirit, they all revealed their figures, panicked and wanting to escape.

However, in just an instant, the demon and the spirit had already had their souls flown away and scattered, and their physical bodies were swept away by the flood.

Everyone on the ship felt this feeling.

"What is that?"

Lu San's expression was solemn, and he asked in a deep voice.

He had always been taciturn, but now he also took the initiative to ask.

The reason was very simple: the thing that flashed past just now made his hair stand on end and felt a huge threat.

"It's the ritual of beheading the dragon and water monster."

Wang Wang Daoxuan was still knowledgeable and saw it.

"This kind of ritual is specifically for dealing with flood dragons and water monsters. Both the Mystic Sect and some Dharma lineages have it. Looking at the situation, it is the Zhenwu Palace taking action, and they used a powerful Dharma artifact..."

"I understand!"

Wang Wang Daoxuan suddenly realized, "Performing the ritual of beheading the dragon and water monster will issue an edict in advance, asking the river gods, city gods, and land temples along the river to take action and trap the flood dragon."

"That black flood dragon was probably blocked by the Yang Si General Temple, and other water monsters brought Yansheng items to destroy the temple!"

"The flood dragon is in front!"

Sha Sha Li Fei heard this and felt a bit terrified. "That thing cannot be dealt with, why don't we stay away first?"

Li Yan shook his head. "No way, this ship can't stop."

Sha Sha Li Fei looked at the surrounding flood and felt bitter. Rumble!

The closer they got to the front, the more fierce the thunder became.

"Ang——!"

Suddenly, a miserable roar sounded.

Everyone stood at the bow of the ship and saw a strange scene:

In front was a fork in the river, one going west and one going south. A half-high hill separated the waterway.

And on the hill, there was an old temple, which had experienced wind and rain, was ancient, and was filled with blue smoke.

More than a dozen people in black robes stood outside the temple. The offering table was about to be overturned by the strong wind. Everyone was soaked by the rain, and their faces were full of fear.

However, they did not retreat, but all beat wooden fish in the wind and rain, chanting loudly: "Innate cultivation, enlightened in youth, water kingdom of the cave abyss, calming wind and waves to benefit boats and vehicles, in the three-day gate, issuing talismans to drive away plague and evil..."

"It's the Yang Si General's Precious Proclamation!"

Wang Wang Daoxuan heard it immediately.

I saw the flood surging, forming giant waves one after another, frantically hitting the high ground of the hill, as if to wash away the Yang Si General Temple.

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In the water around the hill, black shadows flashed from time to time, including fish, turtles, and water snakes, all of which were huge, obviously river monsters making trouble.

But they were not the point.

In the center of this flood, a huge whirlpool was also formed. A black flood dragon, as thick as a water vat and more than ten meters long, rolled up and down in the whirlpool.

At this point, Li Yan finally saw the appearance of this thing clearly.

Saying it is a flood dragon, it is more like a snake. The scales on the top of its head became long, like inverted halberds forming a forest, and there was a single horn in the center of its head.

It only had a pair of front claws, small and tender, as if they were underdeveloped.

And on its lower jaw, a precious sword was stuck.

"Ang——!"

The black flood dragon was extremely painful, roaring frantically, wanting to use its underdeveloped claws to pull off the precious sword, but it couldn't do it at all.

Not only that, there were also bolts of thunder falling from the sky, and the black flood dragon had to dive into the water frequently to avoid them, looking extremely embarrassed, and its body was already covered in scars.

It stirred the whirlpool and danced up and down in the water.

In an instant, dense white thread-like worms emerged from its body and drilled into the bodies of other monsters around it.

The monsters controlled by the dragon Gu seemed to be possessed by demons, no longer attacking the Yang Si General Temple, but jumping out of the water one after another.

Boom!

Thunder fell, and a big fish was struck into charcoal.

Boom!

Another water snake was broken into pieces.

In order to save its life, this Black Scale Young Master actually controlled other water monsters that came to help to block the disaster for itself.

But obviously, what was really fatal was not the heavenly thunder, but the precious sword stuck in its lower jaw.

And Li Yan and the others were not having a good time either.

The giant ship drifted with the waves and soon was affected by the huge whirlpool in front, changing direction and heading towards the flood dragon.

"Turn the rudder, turn the rudder quickly!"

Sha Sha Li Fei was sweating profusely, and Wu Ba was even more swollen with muscles, turning the rudder hard.

However, it didn't work at all.

Crack!

The rudder even broke at the sound.

Boom!

A double-headed water snake rushed up from the side, and at the same time attracted thunder strikes. Although it was directly struck to death, it also sparked electric light, affecting the giant ship.

"Everyone get out of the way!"

Li Yan roared and stood in front of everyone.

He raised his hands, and the Soul-Hooking Rope whistled out, absorbing the falling thunder light.

Seeming to be attracted, another thunder light fell, but it did not strike those water monsters, but fell directly on the Soul-Hooking Rope.

Li Yan didn't care.

Although this Soul-Hooking Rope is a supernatural power, it mutated in the Thunder Fire Refining Hall and has become an existence similar to a Dharma artifact, capable of storing heavenly thunder.

Even without this matter, he would have drawn thunder to store it.

It just so happened to take this opportunity to fill it up and use it as a trump card.

However, a sudden change occurred.

After another heavenly thunder struck, Li Yan suddenly felt his brain go blank, and the scene before his eyes changed.

Everyone on the ship had disappeared.

On the hill opposite, sat a divine general, wearing precious armor, a golden helmet, holding an axe in his right hand, and a precious scroll in his left hand, with fair skin and a handsome appearance.

It was exactly the appearance of General Yang Si.

He raised the precious scroll in his left hand, seeming to be issuing an edict to the black flood dragon not to cross the boundary, and his right hand held the axe high, as if ready to strike at any time.

And in the flood, black energy formed a whirlpool, and a strange scholar wearing a black robe and covered in scales stood in the whirlpool, with a precious sword stuck in his throat, howling in pain.

This is the Divine Control Technique!

Li Yan instantly understood what had happened.

Why did the Divine Control Technique suddenly appear?

This is not a good thing. The soul is extremely fragile. If discovered by that black flood dragon, I am afraid it will be doomed.

Boom!

Just at this moment, another thunderbolt struck down.

Li Yan was surprised to find that the thunder light spread along the Soul-Hooking Rope, electric light flickering, like an immortal's ribbon, floating on both sides of his shoulders.

As if he were an immortal, he actually floated up...

"Brother Li Yan!"

Sha Sha Li Fei exclaimed.

In their eyes, Li Yan suddenly tilted his neck after being struck by the thunderbolt, fell to the ground, and was surrounded by electric light.

Everyone wanted to step forward, but they were all trembling from the electricity.

"Daoist, think of a way quickly!"

Sha Sha Li Fei was suddenly anxious and lost his head.

Wang Wang Daoxuan was also panicked in his heart, but didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, Li Yan turned over, as if asleep, snoring in the wind and rain with his eyes closed.

Seeing this, everyone looked at each other.

And in the Divine Control Technique illusion, Li Yan suddenly looked at his waist, and the Gou Die was gradually getting hot.

He hurriedly picked it up, his eyes lost focus, and then instantly regained clarity, his face full of confusion.

Just a moment ago, the Yin Si issued a mission again: behead the flood dragon!

Li Yan was a bit puzzled. He was only responsible for hooking souls. When did the Yin Si have to intervene in things like beheading flood dragons?

Although he didn't know the reason, he looked at the black flood dragon.

Just with a thought, the Soul-Hooking Thunder Rope whistled out and instantly arrived in front of the black-robed scholar.

Li Yan was full of questions, but he wouldn't miss the opportunity, grabbed the hilt of the precious sword, pushed it hard, and turned it again.

Immediately after, everything went black, and he slowly opened his eyes.

Boom!

Above the sky, a thunderbolt as thick as a water vat fell with a bang, directly striking the black flood dragon's head, actually splitting it in two.

The huge dragon head flew high and fell into the water.

And the charred corpse also stopped moving, rolled by the flood, and disappeared without a trace.

With the beheading of the black flood dragon, the flood immediately became calm, and the strong wind and heavy rain became smaller and smaller.

"This long worm is finally dead!"

Sha Sha Li Fei breathed a sigh of relief and laughed loudly.