Chapter 242: Boating on ginger water, the bottomless abyss (two in one)
On the nineteenth day of the winter lunar month, the leaves fall and frost falls, and the west wind kills.
The "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" formulated based on ginger medicine belongs to the winter solstice.
The abandoned Shennong Tiancheng in the Jiangshui River is extremely desolate and lonely between the water and the sky.
South of Jiangshui, a spaceship quietly emerged from the clouds and landed at the water's edge.
It's exactly ginger medicine.
Decades ago, Shennong Tiancheng was a superpower in the Western Regions alongside the Jin clan.
Shennong Tiancheng in Jiangshui is rumored to be the hometown of Emperor Shennong and the last Shennong Tiancheng built by the Jiang family.
This last Shennong Tiancheng is located on the circular island in Jiangshui River and has a history of tens of thousands of years.
It is no exaggeration to say that Shennong Tiancheng is the oldest city in Shenzhou.
It is a pity that this last Shennong Tiancheng, known as the hometown of Shennong, was destroyed.
This is the first time Jiang Yao has seen ginger water.
Jiang Shui is the largest lake in the Western Regions, with a radius of more than 100,000 miles, several times larger than the Pacific Ocean known to Jiang Yao. There are nine thousand islands in Jiang Shui, all of which were once the territory of the Jiang family's nobles.
It can be said that the entire Jiangshui and all the islands were owned by the Jiang family.
This largest lake in the Western Region is much larger than the 20 counties of Qing clan.
Legend has it that a huge spiritual vein is buried under the vast misty ginger water. Therefore, the spiritual energy and the vitality of heaven and earth in the entire ginger water are very rich. Whether it is the cultivation environment or the beauty of the scenery, it is a scenic spot in the Western Regions.
However, no one dares to occupy this unowned treasure of water.
This is because the martial clans around Jiangshui have all received warnings from the Mu family in Zhongyu and are not allowed to occupy Jiangshui.
The Jin clan, the only remaining super power in the Western Region, is located in the western border of the Western Region, more than two million miles away from Jiangshui in the eastern border of the Western Region, spanning the entire Western Region, and of course it is beyond reach.
Therefore, this ownerless treasure land of water has been desolate and inaccessible for twenty or thirty years.
The reason why it is inaccessible is because Jiangshui became a place of great evil and evil after the death of the Jiang family.
At that time, not only millions of people in Shennong Tiancheng were massacred overnight, but also the residents of the nine thousand islands were massacred overnight.
Tens of millions of dead!
It was the most horrifying massacre in the Divine Continent for thousands of years.
It is said that because tens of millions of people were massacred overnight, even the ginger water was filled with a terrible and evil aura.
The sky above Jiangshui is a forbidden area.
As long as someone flies over it, he will definitely fall into the ginger water and die.
Over the years, few survivors have entered Jiangshui. Even those who survived were so frightened that they never dared to enter again.
Some people even say that in the Western Region, Jiangshui is a more terrifying place than the Firefly Forest.
As a result, very few people now dare to enter Jiangshui to explore and experience.
To this day, the super warlords have not yet investigated who destroyed the Shennong Tiancheng in Jiangshui and massacred tens of millions of people overnight.
According to survivors' recollections, that night, the sky suddenly became as dark as ink, and the entire airspace and water areas were blocked. Then, there was overwhelming murderous intent.
A group of blue-armored masked men appeared like ghosts and started killing. Each of them was very powerful in cultivation.
Several of the auras are like gods, carrying the aura of destroying the heaven and the earth.
Shennong Tiancheng, which had several martial saints, was conquered in the blink of an eye. In the night sky, a desperate arrow shot through the sky, seeming to gather all the murderous intentions in the world.
The leader of the Jiang clan, Jiang Jiuxu, the Great Sage of the Eight Desolations who was so powerful in the Divine Continent back then, and a top powerhouse who had been famous for a long time, was unexpectedly killed by this arrow, and his soul was destroyed.
And after the arrow shot the Eight Desolate Monkey King, it sank into the extremely deep Jiangshui along with the Bahuang Monkey King.
Once the powerful Jiang Jiuxu died, Shennong Tiancheng no longer had any resistance and was quickly slaughtered.
Since then, Jiangshui, which was once prosperous and bustling, has turned into a ghost.
The color of talk about the Western Regions has changed.
The reason why Jiang Yao dared to come was because he had the Pisces jade pendant and the power of wish technique to restrain ghosts.
At this time, Jiang Yao stood on the bank of Jiangshui, looking at the endless lake, and couldn't help but feel familiar.
It seems that he has been to this place many times.
The lake water is blue-black and looks extremely deep and scary. The waves roll up like ghosts.
Jiang Shui is said to be a lake, but to Jiang Yao it is an ocean.
Jiang Yao's mind echoed with Lin Chan'er's words, and he didn't move for a long time.
"Master, they suspect that Master is a direct descendant of the Jiang family. They asked the disciples to regularly report Master's whereabouts, thoughts, and people he has contacted."
"They want to know what secrets Master has."
Jiang Yao thought about Lin Chan'er's words, and her heart became gloomy.
He actually bribed his disciple to be an undercover agent and spy on him.
If Chan'er hadn't been loyal and clever enough, she would have become an undercover agent under their inducement.
Why don't these people just catch themselves?
Because there is no chance.
He holds a high position in the Qing clan. Not only does he hold an army in his hands, he also has the protection of the Martial Saint on his back. He is protected by the Martial Immortal and the Martial God when he goes out, and he is protected by advanced formations when he goes in.
If you are not a strong Martial Saint, it is impossible to catch yourself.
Even for the Martial Saint, it is not easy to catch him in Qinghuang City. With Zhuang Xian and 50,000 elite soldiers, it is useless to wait for the Martial Saint to arrive.
Therefore, they started with their own disciples.
This shows that the opponent's strength will not be too strong. It is definitely not the force that can destroy the Jiang family.
They must have been watching me secretly for some time.
The purpose is unknown, but it cannot be a good intention.
Jiang Yao judged based on Lin Chan'er's words that this group of people was probably hiding in Jiang Shui.
He went to Shennong Tiancheng to locate the jade pendant so that he could use the jade pendant to pass it over at any time in the future and catch the opponent off guard.
The masked Jiang Yao didn't carry a snake staff, so no one knew who he was.
He took out a wooden boat, threw it into the lake, and jumped on it.
Nowadays, for Jiang Shui, it is very dangerous to control the flying magic weapon and fly with the wind.
The infuriating energy of the magic weapon flying in the sky fluctuates. If the target is too large, it will alarm the terrifying existence in the lake. It is safest to take a boat.
Jiang Yao sat on the boat, raised the sail, and with the help of the wind from heaven and earth, attached an accelerating charm and moved quickly on the water.
In just one hour, the small sailboat traveled thousands of miles.
This speed is no slower than a Wanli horse.
The ruins of Shennong Tiancheng are located on the largest Yuanqiu Island. It is more than 50,000 miles away by water and can be reached in a few days.
The boat was driving alone on the vast sea-like ginger water, moving forward among the cold dark blue waves, which seemed a bit sad.
It seems that there is only one ship between heaven and earth.
There wasn't even a bird in the sky.
It was like a sea of death. Jiang Yao released his spiritual consciousness to detect the water, which made his hair stand on end.
Unable to find out!
Jiang Yao's spiritual consciousness is equivalent to Wuzhen's perfection, which is already thousands of miles away.
However, the bottom of the lake could not be found.
No wonder there is a legend in the Western Regions that Jiang Shui is bottomless and Xishan Mountain is high without a top.
Interestingly, the bottomless Jiangshui River and the topless Xishan Mountain are the most famous landscapes in the Western Regions, but they are very close to each other!
How close is Jiangshui to Xishan?
The north bank of Jiangshui River and the southern foot of Xishan Mountain are basically connected together. To put it bluntly, Jiangshui River and Xishan Mountain are connected by mountains and rivers.
Thinking of the bottomless water under the boat, even Jiang Yao felt a sense of horror.
At this moment, Jiang Yao suddenly felt some real energy fluctuations in the air. When he looked up, he saw that it was a spaceship.
Jiang Yao narrowed his eyes.
Using a spaceship above Jiang Shui? Either you are too brave or your cultivation level is too high.
The spacecraft was extremely fast and would disappear in the blink of an eye.
But at this moment, the lake water a hundred miles away suddenly started to spin strangely, and an ominous aura suddenly spread on the water.
Jiang Yao immediately stopped the sailboat and did not dare to move forward.
Immediately afterwards, the spaceship fell down.
The monks on the spaceship looked frightened, as if they wanted to fly out of the spaceship, but they couldn't fly out at all.
Jiang Yao watched helplessly as the boat flew out and sank into the lake, but it made no sound and didn't even make a splash.
Just as Jiang Yao was glad that he didn't use the spaceship, suddenly another spaceship flew over the sky and sank into the extremely deep lake again.
Then, several more spaceships were swallowed by the terrifying lake water.
No matter how stupid Jiang Yao is, he still understands this.
What just happened was not that several spaceships were actually swallowed by the lake.
It's a scene from that year.
In other words, what he saw just now was just a historical scene that happened in the past.
It's like time and space merge.
Jiang Yao stood up, looked at the vast lake like a sea, and suddenly felt the urge to go back.
This trip was not absolutely necessary for him.
It's just for positioning, it's not that important.
If the risk is too great, it's not worth the risk.
Jiang Yao turned the sailboat around and returned to the original route.
But as soon as the boat turned around, another small sailboat was discovered.
On that ship, there was a man in black wearing a mask. The man in black stood on the bow of the ship, looking extremely lonely and small under the water and sky.
Isn't this person... himself?
Jiang Yao couldn't help but wave her hand, and sure enough, she saw the other party waving like herself.
Jiang Yao was stunned at the bow of the boat.
How is this going?
Have you encountered a huge, invisible mirror?
Jiang Yao took out Ah Jiu from his sleeve, and the other party took out a snake from his sleeve in exactly the same way.
It’s also Ah Jiu.
Jiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that there is a strange illusion on the water, which can produce a mirror-like effect of replicating images.
It's nothing more than looking in the mirror.
But then, the ginger medicine felt wrong again!
Looking in the mirror, the two actions are not only the same, they are also simultaneous.
But just now, it didn’t seem to be at the same time?
Jiang Yao's heart suddenly trembled, and he waved to his shadow again.
Then he discovered that after less than half a breath, the other party also waved to him.
Although the difference is small, the actions do not occur at the same time.
Oh shit!
It’s not my own image at all!
A creepy feeling came over her, and Jiang Yao took out the Pisces Jade Pendant without even thinking about it, preparing to arouse it.
But Jiang Yao saw that the other party also offered the Pisces Jade Pendant, which inspired him.
No, is it really my own shadow, just delayed by some kind of rules?
Just like video, delayed playback?
Jiang Yao felt that she was nervous, and the feeling stopped stimulating the jade pendant, so she put away the Pisces jade pendant again.
Then, Jiang Yao steered the boat and sailed towards his own shadow.
The shadow also came towards him.
The two are getting closer and closer.
Slowly, the shadow was less than a foot away from me!
Jiang Yao just widened his eyes, emitted his consciousness and soul power, and sensed his own shadow.
There is nothing, it should really be a shadow.
But there was no mirror in front of me, so why did my own shadow appear so clearly in front of me?
Jiang Yao stretched out his palm.
Shadow also stretched out his palm.
Jiang Yao knew that if it were really a shadow, he could only touch an invisible mirror, but he could not touch his own shadow.
But the moment Jiang Yao reached out her hand, she regretted it.
What am I doing?
What's the point of doing this?
Just to prove that the opposite side is your own shadow?
So what if it turns out to be a shadow?
What's the point of taking such a risk?
But if it proves that it is not his shadow...
Jiang Yao's heart felt as if someone had stabbed him instantly, and he suddenly fainted.
Just when his palm and Shadow's palm were still two feet away from each other and were about to overlap, Jiang Yao's hand suddenly stopped and slowly retracted.
However, Shadow's palm did not retract accordingly, but continued to stretch forward, directly touching Jiang Yao's retracted palm.
This feeling is that it must stick to Jiang Yao’s hand!
Fuck!
Not a shadow!
Jiang Yao's hair was about to explode. He retreated violently, and the small sailboat suddenly started to speed up.
If that thing was really a shadow, it should be getting farther and farther in the opposite direction at this time.
But the shadow actually caught up with him in a boat.
There was only two feet away from Jiang Yao's boat!
What the hell is this!
Jiang Yao wanted to use the Pisces Jade Pendant, but he knew very well that with such a short distance, the Pisces Jade Pendant would not have time to activate.
He had an intuition that his shadow was very dangerous and he must not be allowed to get close to him.
And if he attacks the shadow, he will be hurt! This terrible feeling is so real that Jiang Yao doesn't dare to take action except running away.
The shadow behind him kept the same movements as Jiang Yao, chasing after him.
They are really inseparable.
The entire water area in front suddenly turned scarlet, like a churning sea of blood.
In the blink of an eye, the sea of blood disappeared, and the blue-black lake appeared again.
Jiang Yao suddenly saw a woman wearing a dark green dress standing on the back of a huge kun fish, holding a baby girl in her arms. The baby girl kept crying and howling.
She is extremely beautiful and has very strong cultivation. She is definitely a martial saint, and definitely not an ordinary martial saint.
But she was running away now.
Then, an arrow shot through the air.
This arrow seemed to absorb the murderous intention of the entire world and locked the vitality of the beautiful woman.
It's like, even a god must be willing to die under this arrow.
Because once this arrow is released, it can only bring death and destruction.
The woman looked extremely desperate.
She suddenly pulled out a teleportation talisman and attached it to the baby girl. The next moment, the baby girl was taken away by the teleportation talisman.
Almost at the same time, the gray arrow shot into the woman's chest.
The woman looked in the direction of Zhongyu, shed two lines of tears, stretched out her hand, and there seemed to be a thousand words in her eyes.
Then, she lost all hope and fell headlong into the vast waves.
Although his cultivation level is so strong, he cannot block this arrow.
Then, within sight, there was another blue-black lake.
The scene just now was a historical episode that happened before.
Jiang Yao stared blankly at the space between the water and the sky, shedding tears at some point.
"Mother?"
Unknowingly, an unfamiliar word came to Jiang Yao's mind.
He turned around in shock and found that the strange shadow had disappeared.
Where is the shadow?
Jiang Yao stood upright on the bow of the boat and looked around. Where was that shadow?
It was as if everything just now was an illusion.
But ginger medicine is definitely not an illusion.
That arrow gave him the feeling that it was a deadly arrow.
Then, the bow that shoots the strong woman must be the ultimate bow.
However, the ultimate bow is now in Jiang Yao's hands, obtained from Zhao Di's ring.
Could it be that the archer back then was Zhao Di?
Absolutely impossible!
Zhao Di was only a perfect martial arts god, but the gap between his cultivation level and that of this woman was so great that it was as bad as clouds of clay. Even if he had the ultimate bow, he would never be able to kill the powerful woman who was suspected of being his mother.
This shows that back then, the master of the Heavenly Death Bow was equally powerful and not much worse than the woman suspected of being Mu Cangyue.
Only in this way can he use the ultimate bow to kill the top expert who is suspected to be Mu Cangyue with one arrow.
Then here comes the problem.
Since that man is also very powerful, how could his heaven-killing bow fall into the hands of Zhao Di?
Where did Zhao Di get the Heavenly Killing Bow?
Will the master of the heavenly bow also die?
It's a pity that Zhao Di has been killed by himself and will not tell him the answer.
Could this body of water be the place where the woman died? So her body is under the water?
Thinking of this, Jiang Yao suddenly felt a glitch in her heart.
He saw his "shadow" again!
This time, the shadow is in the water.
Jiang Yao looked at the lake and found two shadows on the lake. He moved, and the two shadows also moved. One of the movements was slightly delayed by half a breath.
This shadow cannot be perceived by the spiritual consciousness.
Not a human being, not a ghost.
Of course it's not a real shadow either.
I don't know what it is.
It's like another self has dived into the water.
Jiang Yao observed for a while and slowly discovered that the shadow emerged from the water.
It grabbed the bow of the boat and climbed out.
But there is no moisture on it at all.
The shadow just pushed towards Jiang Yao.
"Stop, don't come over..." Jiang Yao stepped back with a pale face, "Fuck! What kind of monster are you, don't come over!"
At this time, this strange shadow-like thing no longer pretended to imitate Jiang Yao's movements.
It just slowly and firmly sticks to the ginger medicine, just like the soul is returning to the body.
However, it is not a soul at all, not even a ghost.
Seeing this shadow approaching, Jiang Yao had no time to use the Pisces Jade Pendant, so he could only point it out.
Saha finger!
boom!
A sacred power struck Jiang Yao, making him feel as if he had been struck by lightning.
The sailboat capsized immediately, Jiang Yao was hit by his own Saha finger, and sank into the terrifying lake with messy breath.
If he had issued this finger himself, he would have been crippled.
And the shadow also sank into the lake.
Jiang Yao was still conscious at this time, but he was already surrounded by huge fear. He couldn't imagine why his Saha finger still hurt him.
It's almost like committing suicide.
This was simply beyond his cognition.
He wanted to rush out of the water, but found that the lake was like a huge black hole with sucking power, sucking everything into the deep lake bottom.
Even though he was burning his essence and blood, he was just enveloped in the lake water like a living creature and couldn't get out at all.
Jiang Yao didn't even dare to sacrifice the Pisces Jade Pendant.
He suspected that if he sacrificed the Pisces Jade Pendant, something might snatch the Pisces Jade Pendant away.
Jiang Yao suddenly became extremely calm.
He suddenly restrained his breath, took out a long knife, grabbed Ah Jiu with one hand, and let the lake water rage.
Carefully release his spiritual consciousness, cast the Water Avoidance Technique, and sink into the extremely deep world under the lake.
My spiritual consciousness cannot detect the bottom of the lake at all.
At least a thousand miles deep.
Jiang Yao's courage suddenly grew. His body followed the undercurrent of the lake and fell quickly, sinking for more than a hundred miles in the blink of an eye!
The strange thing is that not even a fish can be seen.
There are no water ghosts.
There is only weird lake water. Maybe it would be safer to plunge into the lake water.
This lake water carries a strong Yin evil spirit. If it were another monk, he would not be able to withstand it. But Jiang Yao has the power of will to stay with him, and the Yin evil spirit will not do much harm to him.
At this time, the water was as dark as ink. But Jiang Yao had spiritual consciousness and soul power, so he could still perceive clearly.
A huge kun fish was suspended in the cold lake water.
There was no life left and he had been dead for many years.
Like a scrapped submarine sinking into the depths of the ocean.
It turned out to be the Kun fish that the woman once rode on. Could it be that this Kun fish was her pet?
Jiang Yao approached the Kun fish, which was dozens of feet long, and found that there was a terrifying ring-shaped blood hole in the Kun fish's body.
This blood hole leads diagonally from the belly of the fish to the heart, as if some huge tube has been inserted into it.
It's not like the damage caused by weapons.
As soon as Jiang Yao's consciousness sensed it, he immediately discovered that Kun Yu's blood had long been swallowed up.
And inside the huge fish body, there are actually a kind of blood-colored flesh worms, densely packed, all with mosquito-like needle mouthparts.
Jiang Yao felt an extremely dangerous aura that suddenly locked onto him.
In an instant, his hair exploded.
Before he could react, a huge strange insect popped out from a group of water plants at an unbelievable speed.
It's like a ghost, floating in the sky and even the consciousness can't catch it.
Jiang Yao only saw a huge scarlet needle-like mouthpart stabbing him.
His reaction was extremely fast, but before he could strike out, the huge needle-like scarlet mouthpiece suddenly retracted like lightning.
Immediately afterwards, the terrifying monster in the water let out a sickening scream, and its ugly and disgusting belly floated up.
The huge flesh-colored insect body began to be wrapped in death energy.
It turned out that just at that moment, it was bitten by Ah Jiu and was killed by snake venom.
Peng!
The huge kun fish suddenly exploded in the water, and countless flesh-colored monster insects rushed out screaming, all pounced on the giant monster insect, sucking the flesh and blood melted by the snake venom.
Immediately afterwards, they all turned on their bellies and were poisoned by snake venom.
Jiang Yao felt very happy looking at the densely packed strange insects that had been poisoned.
This scene immediately shocked the deeper beings.
A huge black snake with a triangular head swam up from the depths extremely ferociously, carrying a strong poisonous gas.
However, when the extremely arrogant black snake saw Ah Jiu, he was suddenly frightened and twisted into a ball, like an iron lump, and sank directly to the bottom of the lake.
The way it ran away in fear saved its life.
Jiang Yao snorted coldly and simply performed a Water Escape Technique, sinking faster.
Now that we're here, we might as well venture down to the bottom of the lake to see what's weird!
If he cannot figure out what the shadow is, his Taoist mind will be affected.
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