Chapter 10: Wujiang River

Tianfeng Year 29.

September 10th.

On the waterway from Jiangzhou to Bozhou, there was a famous mountain called "Mount Luojia," and at the foot of the mountain was a branch river called "Wujiang River."

A lonely boat was sailing against the wind on the river.

There was no boatman rowing on the boat, only Lv Fang and Li Yu sitting side by side in the cabin, one writing "Dream of the Red Chamber," and one quietly grinding ink.

After traveling for nearly two days by carriage, Lv Fang's body was almost shaken apart, but fortunately, they had switched to the waterway.

"Chapter Six is finally finished."

Lv Fang just put down his brush, and the paper with ink that hadn't dried yet was taken away by Li Yu, who couldn't wait to read it.

When Lin Daiyu appeared for the first time, Li Yu fell in love with this character, and seeing that Lin Daiyu's appearance was relatively small, she even earnestly asked Lv Fang to add more scenes for her.

In the early stages of "Dream of the Red Chamber," Lin Daiyu's scenes were indeed not many.

Adding scenes was definitely impossible. Lv Fang was now a bit worried; if Li Yu saw Lin Daiyu die later, would she find him for a real-life PK?

"What are you doing? Keep writing!"

Li Yu saw Lv Fang get up and urged him hurriedly.

"Even hanging oneself needs to let people catch their breath, right? You read ten lines at a glance; even if you tire me to death, I can't keep up with your speed."

Lv Fang yawned and walked out of the cabin, stretching his waist greatly, looking into the distance at the landscape like a painting.

Mount Luojia, which could not be seen to the end, had steep mountains reaching straight into the clouds, and the thick fog between the mountains did not disperse, as if it had put on a mysterious veil.

The "Green Pool" branch river rippled, and there were one or two pairs of wild ducks in the distance, and birds were flapping their wings and flying in the water grass.

"Looking at this sky, there is going to be a heavy rain."

Lv Fang looked up at the sky. The sky was covered with dark clouds, pitch black, as if it were about to collapse. The wild grass and branches on the shore were silent, without a bit of wind, looking very much like the scene before a storm.

Patter, patter, patter...

Bean-sized raindrops fell, hitting the water surface and bubbling up. Pop! The bubbles broke, rippling on the water surface.

A cold, violent wind rose, blowing waves on the calm water surface, pushing the light boat to sway left and right.

At the narrow flow ahead, a surging water vortex appeared, stirring the river water strangely to a height of several zhang.

In the blink of an eye, the river water gathered into a transparent "water fox" running on the water surface. The water fox, several zhang tall, opened its giant mouth full of fangs and swallowed the light boat in one gulp.

"Holy cow!"

Lv Fang had initially thought it was Li Yu's prank, but as soon as he perceived the demon energy contained in the "water fox," he had already been swallowed into its belly.

In an instant, he felt as if he were submerged in water.

A strong sense of suffocation struck, and he choked on a few mouthfuls of water as soon as he opened his mouth.

Fortunately, Lv Fang and the Book Spirit were connected in heart and mind. Yan Chixia appeared, and the Fluorescent Moon Small Sword "whooshed" and slashed open the water flow all around.

When the water fox dissipated into water and fell back into the river water.

Lv Fang took advantage of the momentum to leap out, his feet stepping on the water surface to stabilize his figure. In his haste, he caught a glimpse of the light boat having been shattered, and not far away, Li Yu, standing on the water surface, looked up at the sky with an ugly expression.

He followed her gaze and saw two demon types standing in mid-air!

One was a scholar in cyan clothes with a pair of strange "fox eyes."

One was a god-like eagle demon, with white horns on its head, wings on its back, and a powerful pressure radiating from the "demon wheel" behind its head, all of which highlighted its power and extraordinariness.

The Bai Bai Jiaoying King crossed its arms over its chest. After glancing at Lv Fang and Yan Chixia, it looked at Li Yu with an arrogant face and said in a deep voice:

"You are Li Maotong's daughter Li Yu?"

Before Li Yu could answer, the Green-Eyed Wise Fox Hu Wei said firmly: "It won't be wrong; it's her in the portrait."

Li Yu furrowed her brows and shouted loudly: "It is not permitted for demon kings above Ninth Rank to appear in the Great Zhou Dynasty; those who violate this will be executed. Don't you know?"

Upon hearing this, Lv Fang felt terrified. A demon king above Ninth Rank?

Why did he have to be so unlucky!

Looking at it, the demon king wasn't coming for him; it was coming for Li Yu. What kind of "dog shit" luck was this.

The Bai Bai Jiaoying King laughed up at the sky as if it had heard a great joke: "How ridiculous! Today I have not only come, but I will also abuse and kill the daughter of a great scholar. Who can do anything to me?"

The heavy rain poured down from the sky, accompanied by lightning and thunder, setting off the Bai Bai Jiaoying King as if it were a demon god.

Surging demon energy poured out from its body, rushing straight into the sky.

Without even seeing the Bai Bai Jiaoying King make any move, a small strand of demon energy turned into "black feathers" and shot out. The target wasn't Li Yu, but Lv Fang.

Clearly, the Bai Bai Jiaoying King intended to kill Lv Fang, who had a Book Spirit, first, and then slowly abuse and kill the great scholar's daughter.

"Be careful!"

Li Yu turned into a cyan stream of light and appeared in front of Lv Fang.

Haoran Zhengqi suddenly appeared, blocking the attack of numerous "black feathers," and the huge impact force sent the two flying more than ten zhang away.

"Wind Sudden, Speed!"

Taking advantage of the force of flying backward, the Haoran Zhengqi on Li Yu's body turned into a violent wind, wrapping her and Lv Fang as they fled into the distance.

"Still want to escape?"

The Bai Bai Jiaoying King's face was ferocious, its figure swayed, and it disappeared from its original spot, as if it had instantly moved to the front of Li Yu's escape route.

The gap between the two sides was truly too large!

Li Yu stopped her figure abruptly and couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Just now, she had blocked the Bai Bai Jiaoying King's casual blow and was injured, and then she forcibly exerted her full Haoran Zhengqi, adding injury to injury!

"Are you okay?"

Lv Fang asked worriedly.

She could have ignored him and fled for her life alone, but she didn't. This touched his heart inexplicably.

Li Yu wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with her sleeve and shook her head:

"I just have some regrets; I didn't finish reading the 'Dream of the Red Chamber' you wrote. Such a good story should have been brought into the world."

Lv Fang smiled bitterly: "Living people will always have regrets. Next life, next life I will definitely finish writing 'Dream of the Red Chamber' for you to read."

Li Yu smiled and said: "Are you afraid of death?"

Lv Fang nodded: "Afraid!"

Li Yu didn't react and said: "I'm not afraid either; it's just death..."

Li Yu, who was about to say some heroic words, paused and looked at Lv Fang speechlessly: "You should have said you're not afraid!"

Lv Fang smiled bitterly: "But I really am afraid!"

The scene fell into silence.

The Bai Bai Jiaoying King snorted coldly: "Death is at hand and you're still flirting here. Rest assured, I will make you two unable to seek life and unable to seek death!"

"Go to your grandfather!"

Lv Fang pointed at the Bai Bai Jiaoying King and cursed: "You bird-man, what are you babbling about? If you have the ability, come and catch this young master!"

"Strange Gate Flying Armor!"

A golden light shot out from the Book Spirit Yan Chixia's body, and in an instant, it turned into mysterious armor and attached itself to Lv Fang. Without any hesitation, he turned and ran.

Wearing the mysterious armor, he was fast, turning into a golden light in the blink of an eye, actually a few points faster than Li Yu, who had just been injured and was carrying someone.

Lv Fang's "little abacus" was to provoke and lure the Bai Bai Jiaoying King away, giving Li Yu a chance to escape.

Regarding self-sacrifice for others, he used to be dismissive. If someone advised him to do this, he would definitely curse the other person as a fool.

But he did it "inexplicably" today!

It wasn't that he wasn't afraid of death, but that this was the only way that wasn't a way at present. ===== CHAPTER 11 =====