Chapter 941: A Red Thread Blocks Life and Death

The rolling flames burned the Wanghai Tower, and gongs sounded urgently everywhere. The water societies in every street of Zhigu City picked up buckets, shoulder poles, hooks, water machines, and other firefighting equipment, rushing toward the fire.

Water societies are also called water bureaus, which are folk firefighting organizations!

Zhigu's commerce is prosperous, and it is the second largest city in the north.

And water and fire are ruthless, especially these two disasters, which are most capable of destroying cities and houses, burning cities and killing people, hence the Five Rivers Patrol Battalion and water societies of Dagu Port.

Almost every "street block" in Zhigu City has a water society!

A fire at Wanghai Tower, and half of the water societies in the city came.

Before they could set up their hooks and hook down the burning protruding parts of Wanghai Tower to prevent the fire from spreading, an old man, short and small, carrying a copper gong and pulling a rope, came to the left side of Wanghai Tower.

A monkey was tied to the rope behind him, squatting on his shoulder at this time.

"Hey... monkey performer, get out of the way!" The people of the water society shouted at the old man: "We're fighting a fire!"

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

A tiny monkey leaped down from the old man's shoulder and nimbly darted into the crowd of the Water Bureau.

Accompanied by a gray shadow moving up and down, screams suddenly erupted everywhere; the monkey quickly darted back to the old man's shoulder, holding a bloody 'peach' in its hand!

That 'peach' was a trembling mass of red, shaped like a broad bean, but it was a scrotum.

In the crowd, a man covered his lower back and screamed, a bloody hole opened right on his lower back.

Amidst the chaos of the water society crowd, the old man pulling the monkey, letting the fierce monkey gnaw on the scrotum in his hand, said unhurriedly: "Today my Bai Lian Sect is burning Zhigu City, you all must not meddle!"

At the city gate, a group of constables was about to rush out from inside the city.

A man in a long gown, holding a glazed goldfish bowl in his hand, smiled at the crowd: "I'll show you a trick!"

Saying that, he covered it with a red cloth, turned twice, and lifted the red cloth. A human head was spinning in the fish bowl. A group of constables looked at each other in horror, only to find that the leader's head was gone.

The trickster reached out, and the hidden golden wire silently returned to his sleeve.

Monkey performers, tricksters, eye medicine sellers, and peep-show operators—the people of all walks of life in the Tianqiao market were now blocking the various main roads of Zhigu, either suddenly applying poison, sprinkling poison powder and eye medicine, or creating chaos.

For a time, the entire Zhigu was in chaos!

By the canal, Wang Haichuan and dozens of porters forcibly held up the stone ox's head, but the iron cable blocking the iron boat was burned through; the iron boat had no more obstacles and crashed straight into the Chaoguan pontoon bridge.

The river camp soldiers on the bridge lost their footing one after another, falling down on the bridge.

Accompanied by the iron ship flowing downstream, the lotus river lanterns stopped in front of the floating bridge.

And no matter how the iron ship's fire wheel machine urged it, it could not move forward an inch.

As if frozen there...

Daoist Liu on the high platform saw this and hurriedly lowered his head, seeing the iron ship in the copper basin motionless, fixed on the water surface, no matter how the water flow behind it surged, it could not move forward anymore.

He stretched out his finger and pushed toward the iron ship...

Crack!

A figure on the high platform crashed through the railing and fell straight to the stage. Daoist Liu raised his head and spat out a mouthful of stagnant blood, tilted his head, and didn't know if he was alive or dead.

Crack!

Countless messy bloody footprints on the ground showed the embarrassment.

On the riverbank, a ground of people lay howling, all porters wearing coarse cloth and relying on strength to make a living.

The heavy sound of the stone ox landing woke Wang Haichuan. He raised his head suddenly and saw a figure holding the stone ox's head, slowly putting it down, stepping on something forward!

Wu Ponu stepped on the red thread with one foot, looking back at the red thread infinitely extending into the river.

The thin red thread sank into the canal. In the not-so-clear river water, one could only see a vague red thread crossing the canal.

The shadow of the iron ship reflected down, and countless faint lights of the river lanterns were all cut off by that line.

Wu Ponu, feet not in a Ding-Ba stance, stepped on the red thread, both hands one in front and one behind, posing.

On the iron ship, the Bai Lian Saint suddenly opened her eyes. The lotus flower beneath her flew up, climbing the mast with the Bai Lian Saint, overlooking the surging river water in front of her. Her gaze condensed and she saw the red thread under the water clearly.

"A line like a pass cuts across the path, Yin soldiers cannot pass!"

"A mere red thread, actually able to block my Yin soldier iron ship... which master made a move?"

Wu Ponu retracted both hands to his chest, clasped his fists and said: "Xuanzhen Sect protector executor, Wu Ponu! Please enlighten me!"

The Bai Lian Saint's face changed, and she flew up, standing on the lotus, looking sideways at Wu Ponu: "What a Xuanzhen Sect, I just learned your sect leader's methods. Since you are a friendly sect in the north, why stop me?"

"This is the second round of the duel between my sect and the fellow Daoists of Zhigu, Ghost Ship Pulling the Towline!"

Wu Ponu said: "I have orders, not to allow you to pass this Sanchahe He Kou..."

"Good! It seems your Xuanzhen Sect wants to fight with my Bai Lian Sect!" The Bai Lian Saint said coldly: "I want to see, can a mere red thread block my Nine-eyed Fire Demon?"

"Burn!"

The Bai Lian Saint pointed downward, and the iron ship suddenly spat out raging green fire, like two fire dragons drilling under the river.

But seeing the two fire dragons enter the water, they burned a large area of ghost fire under the water. For a time, countless fish and shrimp floated up, burned red, and countless green fires burned in a Southern Canal, reflecting it like a sea of fire.

Even the two sunken ships that served as the foundation of the floating bridge were melted, and the several dragon snakes reflected in the river water were forced to coil up by the flames.

But that red thread hung in the sea of fire, no matter how the green fire dragons under the water urged it, it didn't move half a point...

Even the few water monkeys hiding in the shadows of the floating bridge were burned to death!

The corpses wrapped in water grass and burning with green fire floated up from the river, like ugly monkeys, causing the common folk on both banks of the canal to exclaim.

That red thread crossing the canal still extended from the mud before the stone ox, drilled into the river, and remained motionless.

The Bai Lian Saint's pupils shrank slightly, and she suddenly flew up, skimming across the water surface quickly.

She stretched out her three-inch golden lotus and touched the river surface seven times, each time stepping on a white lotus river lantern. Seven river lanterns, in the shape of the Big Dipper lamp array, sank into the river water, burning with eerie red light under the water surface.

The faint light penetrated the river surface, a lamp array in the shape of a ladle, intercepting the red thread.

"Seven stars light the lamps, break the method and intercept the array... Break!"

The Bai Lian Saint returned to the iron ship, pointed at the river surface, and shouted sharply.

The lamp array outlining the Big Dipper suddenly slashed toward the red thread under the river surface.

But the red thread was thin and weak, yet it only swayed slightly in the strangulation of the two rays of light under the river surface.

Lin Heier's face changed again, pointing in the direction indicated by the handle of the Dipper, and shouted: "Seven stars gather, North Star lights the lamps... Burn!"

In the direction indicated by the handle of the Dipper, a white river lantern suddenly turned red, and the candle flame inside ignited the entire river lantern, sinking into the water.

Suddenly, that line of fire burned toward the red thread in the river.

Wu Ponu just shook his head and said: "It's useless! This red thread was borrowed from the Mother of the Tianhou Palace. The red thread does not tie two ends, but two worlds. What it blocks is not the iron ship, but the Yin soldiers, life and death!"

"Lin Heier, your Yin soldier passing method has long been seen through by the sect leader..."

"The Tianhou Mother manages Yin and Yang and the birth of women! Their Yin-Yang path is just a path for humans and ghosts. Humans and ghosts are on different paths; how can the ghost path be walked by humans? But this red thread symbolizes the umbilical cord that connects us to the mother at the beginning of life. Tying the doll, tying the doll... what connects mother and child is that umbilical cord!"

"The beginning of man, there is this umbilical cord connecting us and the mother. If this umbilical cord is not broken, mother and child are one. Its birth is also the old body!"

"Yin-Yang path, Yin-Yang path... what is behind this red thread is the Gate of Xuanpin, the path of Yin and Yang!"

"To pass this path is like reincarnation. Yin soldiers can pass through the rivers and lakes, can pass through the world, but they cannot pass my red thread, cannot pass this path!"

Wu Ponu completely understood Qian Chen's intention of asking him to go to the Tianhou Palace to tie the doll.

He clasped his fists at the Bai Lian Sect leader on the iron ship and slowly shook his head: "Yin soldiers are a taboo, and the Nine-eyed Fire Demon is a supreme evil. But precisely because of this, they cannot pass the Mother's red thread, because humans and ghosts are on different paths! Lin Heier, you lost this round!"

The Bai Lian Saint shook her head slowly: "No! If he wanted me to lose, he shouldn't have handed the Black Tai Sui to me!"

"Because this thing is the only hope for the Nine-eyed Fire Demon to come alive. If it crosses the red thread and passes the Sancha He Kou, it is equivalent to letting the Fire Demon cut the umbilical cord and be born again!"

The Bai Lian Saint stood high on the mast, looking at this large river estuary where three rivers converged...

That triangular river estuary, where two river channels from the north and south converged, flowing downward, was the Hai River.

It was clearly the shape of a womb...

"Holy Grail!"

Drummond, who was squeezed with a group of foreigners under the Wanghai Tower, said solemnly.

"Holy Mother?"

The Bai Lian Saint's hands also trembled, and she suddenly raised her head, shouting: "Xuanzhen Sect leader? What is your intention in laying out this situation? Do you really want to seize my Bai Lian Sect's Nine-eyed Fire Demon?"

"Blocking me with a red thread shows that the timing you calculated has not yet arrived! A red thread blocks, a floating bridge locks, the Sanchahe He Kou is the Holy Mother's Cup. You want to stop me from taking the cup? Hmph... you don't let me pass at this time, I will force my way through!"

Lin Heier flew down from the mast, and both hands pressed on the Yin-Yang fish eye in the center of the Bagua on the ship's deck.

"Nine Nether Green Fire burns the three heavens, iron ship fire wheel crosses the River of Forgetfulness! A mere fire wheel machine, it can't stop me... Move!"

Lin Heier injected the nine fire eyes into the steamship's fire wheel machine one by one, and even injected the demon blood of the Nine-eyed Fire Demon into the steam engine.

At that moment, she combined the Bai Lian Sect's secret demon method and Western mysterious mechanics, completely activating the entire fire ship and turning it into a carrier for the Nine-eyed Fire Demon.

The Bai Lian Saint and the Tenth Demoness, the terrifying achievement of the combination of East and West in mysterious studies, was finally displayed!

At that moment, she combined the Bai Lian Sect's secret demonic arts with Western mysterious mechanics to completely animate the entire fire boat, turning it into a carrier for the Nine-Eyed Fire Demon.

Under Wu Ponu's feet, a bloody path spread, and bloody hands climbed onto him bit by bit.

It was the backlash of the huge half-corpse after the Yin-Yang path secret ritual was broken. When Wu Ponu continued the secret ritual and usurped its path, it took the opportunity to backlash.

One side was the red thread tightening, and the other side was the blood path swallowing him bit by bit. Wu Ponu had also fallen into a desperate situation at this moment. ===== CHAPTER 942 =====

It was the half-corpse, having suffered a massive backlash after the Yin-Yang Path ritual was broken, taking the opportunity to retaliate when Wu Ponu continued the ritual and usurped its path.

On one side, the red thread was taut; on the other, the blood path was devouring itself bit by bit; Wu Ponu had also fallen into a desperate situation at this moment.