13 Linzi (VI)
◎He can’t swim...◎
"Let me lend you my wine jug." Li Jintang was still in shock. He saw that he was concentrating on thinking and didn't want to disturb him, so he wanted to talk to him later. However, he almost got hurt by mistake.
Without waiting for his consent, she tilted the pot, suppressed her fear, and splashed it towards a snake demon that was coming at her with great force.
The next moment, the snake demon suddenly fell down. Because the amount of water was too small, it struggled on the ground for a while, and then attacked them again in a crooked manner.
Xie Changyan raised his sword and it immediately lost its breath.
"They're afraid of water," Li Jintang said with a sudden delight. He quickly looked at the map and said, "There's a river nearby. Let's go there quickly."
"How do I get there?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the young man's faint voice came from above his head.
There are snakes everywhere now, and it is not easy to get out.
Li Jintang was stunned, and looked back at him, suddenly remembering the day in the coffin room. She tightly grasped the scabbard he handed her and flew away in front of the monsters in front of the door.
But right now...
She still held the wine jug in her hand, her fingers clenching tighter and tighter.
"Atang——"
Suddenly, she heard someone calling her from behind. Qiu Yan raised her sword, fended off the two snakes blocking her way, and ran to her: "I'll take you out."
Li Jintang's face lit up with joy when she heard this. She looked at the person behind her and said, "Do you know where to go?"
Xie Changyan lowered his eyes to look at her, and nodded after a long while.
Then she put her arm around Qiuyan and flew out with her.
Several people arrived one after another. Fortunately, the snakes had not yet caught up with them. However, the river in front of them was very turbulent. If they swam across, even if they could avoid the snakes' pursuit, they would probably die in it.
Li Jintang thought that escaping from the siege of the snakes was the best thing that could happen. She looked at the fortune book and asked for help: "Can you transform into a boat?"
The fortune book startled her. Naturally, it couldn't conjure a boat, but she didn't want to admit she couldn't do it, so she scolded him, "You kid, why do you always rely on me for everything? Humph, figure it out for yourself this time!"
She couldn't think of a solution for a moment, but when she thought about how much trouble she had caused it during this period of time, she felt sorry for it and stopped talking.
"Forget it," the Fate Book seemed to sense her disappointment and said, "Come here, child, and give me some spiritual power. Only when I have enough spiritual power can I transform."
"Junior sister, you and Jintang should find a way to leave together," Qu Lingfei said. He then looked at Nangong Xiu and said with a smile, "I'll have to trouble Brother Xie and Brother Nangong to help hold them back with me."
Nangong Xiu snorted, didn't waste any words with him, drew his sword and stabbed at the hissing snakes not far away.
"Hey..." Qiuyan only had time to call out before the three of them were submerged in the snake swarm. She turned back to look at Li Jintang and sighed, "Atang, do you have any ideas?"
"I'm..." Li Jintang was about to explain, but suddenly remembered that he couldn't reveal the existence of the fortune book, so he stopped talking quickly, pulled her sleeve, and said something nonsense.
Then, she saw Qiu Yan's eyes gradually become complicated, and finally she squatted down and together with her, transferred spiritual power to the stone that turned into the book of fate after it appeared.
It didn't take long before a wooden boat was formed. Although it was not luxurious or exquisite, it was more than enough to carry five people.
"Brother Xie, don't hesitate to fight, come up quickly!"
Xie Changyan blocked the last snake demon that was rushing towards him, turned around, and with the help of Qu Lingfei's outstretched hand, he jumped onto the wooden boat.
The oars stirred the surface of the river, creating ripples. The snakes gathered on the shore. Occasionally one or two of them fell into the river, then immediately became motionless, and the hissing sound gradually faded from the ears.
"Junior sisters, you two are truly amazing," Qu Lingfei turned around and gave them a thumbs-up with a broad smile on his face. "In just a short while, you actually created a wooden boat."
Li Jintang's face flushed, and he quickly turned his head to look at the water's surface a little further back. Suddenly, someone pressed against his arm. Qiuyan lowered her voice and asked, "Atang, where did you pick up such a magical stone? It can even turn into a wooden boat. Can you show it to me?"
She uttered an "Ah!" and then, realizing that only she could see the book once it had returned to its physical form, she gradually relaxed. She looked out at the vast lake and stammered, "I... threw it away."
"Throw it away?" Qiu Yan's eyes widened, as if she suspected she had misheard. She hurriedly tugged at her sleeve and said, "How could you throw away such a good thing?"
Li Jintang was stunned. She hadn't expected such a strong reaction from the other party. She thought quickly and evaded the question, "It can only be used once. Once used, it can't be used again."
She didn't look like someone who would lie, so when Qiu Yan said this, she believed her without much doubt.
Li Jintang carefully brushed off the dirt on the fortune book and listened to it cursing at her. After it was clean, she raised her head and was caught off guard by the boy's dim eyes.
He lowered his eyes, his gaze resting on her, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Perhaps because he had just told a lie, Li Jintang's heart tightened and he quickly turned his face away and stopped looking at him.
The wooden boat continued to move forward, and fog rose up on the river bank for no reason. Looking up, I saw a hazy blue. The river water was no longer as turbulent as before, but much calmer.
Fortunately, this fog was not like the one in the forest that caused hallucinations. I couldn't see the end of it at a glance, and I didn't know how far it was from the river bank.
"The number of fights I've had in the past few days is almost as many as I've had since I became your disciple." Qu Lingfei pressed his finger on the bleeding spot where he was bitten by a snake, and let out a hiss. Fortunately, the snake was not poisonous.
Nangong Xiu sneered, his voice long and disdainful, "That's because you've seen too little. Humph, stay in the demon world for a while longer, and I guarantee your martial arts will improve faster than your master ever could."
Qu Lingfei knew he was mocking his master and was immediately displeased. He retorted, "Nangong Xiu, I don't agree with you. You've been stuck in that swamp for decades. What good things have you seen more than I have?"
Nangong Xiu glared and immediately said, "The year after the commander left, I was guarding the border alone, but unexpectedly, someone led a large group of demon soldiers to rob us..."
He said so much on a whim, then as if he had thought of something, he immediately stopped talking.
"So Brother Nangong not only single-handedly defeated several demon soldiers, but also saved those treasures?" Qu Lingfei's eyes were filled with admiration when he said this. He smiled and said, "I wonder if Brother Nangong has ever heard that there was a man who broke into our immortal sect alone and killed..."
"Senior Brother." Qiu Yan was startled and quickly nudged him with her elbow, then shook her head, signaling him not to say anything more.
Qu Lingfei also realized that he had said too much, so he stopped talking and smiled happily.
The young man leaned against the guardrail with his eyes closed. He opened his eyes slightly when he heard the words and glanced at them indifferently.
Then his gaze shifted to the girl sitting quietly beside him.
Li Jintang sat upright on the boat with her hands on her knees, calmly watching the river water rise and fall, finally flooding the boat and soaking the hem of her skirt.
It was as if nothing anyone said had anything to do with her.
She saw several faces vaguely reflected in the water.
Her parents and elder sister smiled kindly and waved at her gently. Li Jintang paused, stretched out her hand hesitantly, and as soon as her fingertips touched the cold river surface, she immediately retracted it.
No, you can’t…
It will break them.
She bent down slightly and looked at the scene in the water greedily, but she felt that the face on the water surface was getting closer and closer, almost coming to her face.
Li Jintang straightened up and looked again. There was no reflection on the water anymore. Instead, the water level had risen much higher than before.
etc……
She leaned back, supporting herself on the wood, and quickly reached out to grab Xie Changyan, who was closest to her, and said in a hurried voice, "The boat is about to collapse..."
However, he only had time to say this before his body suddenly sank as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
At that moment, all that could be heard was Mingshu's anxious cry: "Ouch, the spiritual power just now was not enough, the wooden boat that was conjured up was not strong enough..."
Li Jintang immediately closed her eyes, held her breath, and slapped the water with her hands. Soon, she floated easily. She wiped the water from her eyes and looked around. She saw that the wood had already fallen apart, leaking water. She called out hurriedly, "Sister Qiuyan, are you all okay?"
Bubbles appeared not far away, it must be them.
Li Jintang was about to swim towards them when her ankle suddenly tightened. She hurriedly turned back, thinking that she would be in trouble if she got entangled by something in the sea. The next moment, she saw a few splashes on the water surface, and then they quickly retreated away. It was obvious that someone was calling for help.
Were there other people crossing the river besides them? We had never seen them along the way.
She was stunned for a moment and looked in the direction of Qiu Yan and the others. In the end, she couldn't just stand by and watch them die. She adjusted her breathing and swam towards the person behind her.
The man seemed to be losing his strength. Li Jintang swam to his side and, struggling to grab his sinking arm, lifted him up. After seeing his face clearly, she exclaimed in surprise, "Xie An?"
The young man seemed to be still conscious, and he didn't react at all when she spoke. Li Jintang immediately pulled out a ribbon from his sleeve and neatly tied their wrists together. He then applied some spiritual power to his mouth and nose to prevent him from choking on the water.
In order to prevent him from suffocating in the water, she swam towards the shore with all her strength. By the time one of her hands touched the ground, she was exhausted.
"Qu, Brother Qu," Li Jintang supported himself on the bank with both hands, barely raising his body and poking his head out of the water. He spoke a little unsteadily: "Xie An is behind me, please carry him up."
Qu Lingfei was shocked when he heard this, and he and Nangong Xiu jumped into the water and swam behind her.
After swimming for so long, the belt around her wrist had been soaked for so long that it had already loosened. Li Jintang held Qiuyan's body and struggled to climb ashore. She half-knelt on the ground, her hair dripping with water, streaks of it running down her face.
Qiuyan looked at her lovingly, wondering how a little girl could pull another person out of the water. "Atang, why didn't you call us to help?"
Li Jintang coughed for a while, raised his hand to push away the wet hair stuck to his forehead, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist: "I, I'm fine. I learned to swim with my father since I was a child. A river like this can't drown me."
She wanted to say, "I called you, but you were too far away and couldn't hear me." But she was afraid that this would make Qiuyan blame herself, so she changed her words when they were on the tip of her tongue.
By then, Qu Lingfei and Nangong Xiu had already carried the man ashore and gently placed him beside her. The young man's eyes were tightly closed, his lips were pale, and water was still dripping from between his fingers.
Li Jintang stretched out his hand to touch under his nose, and was glad that he had just used his spiritual power to seal his blood circulation. He was just unconscious and was not seriously injured.
A faint light slowly emerged from her fingertips, reaching into the boy's body and forcing out the river water he had absorbed.
Suddenly, someone grabbed her wrist without warning. She was startled for a moment, then lowered her eyes to see that the other person had woken up, his eyelashes curved into two crescents. "Xie An, are you awake?"
【Author’s words】
Is there really someone watching? (Careful)
Why is no one speaking? [burst into tears]
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