Anyway, it is the last straw. If it works, they will cheer. If it doesn't, there is nothing they can do. This is the place where they have lived for generations, and their fields, houses and relatives are all here. They can't give these up easily.
"In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it seems that Xue Cheng has been quietly spreading stories about the underworld, and the effect seems to be quite good."
Zhang Mingtu sensed that the area was not too far from where he was, so under the moonlight, he just pointed his toes and took a few leaps to reach the river.
Xiaoqing stood on Zhang Mingtu's shoulder and yawned. The water from the river naturally came to guide Zhang Mingtu and Xiaoqing. Then the two of them flowed silently into the river and rushed towards that area quickly.
The speed is extremely fast. When a demon saint controls the power of water, it really cannot be faster.
Xiaoqing rolled her eyes the whole way: "Why are you freezing in the middle of the night? I haven't even gotten my beauty sleep yet!"
Zhang Mingtu just smiled and said nothing. He had gotten used to it these days. Xiaoqing was just complaining out of habit.
He just smiled and pretended not to hear. No matter how much Xiaoqing complained, she still had to do the work for him.
With Xiaoqing's control, it didn't take long for Zhang Mingtu to reach the vicinity of the village.
It is on a tributary of the Yangtze River and can quickly control the water power to reach this place.
Just as she arrived here, the originally lazy Xiaoqing frowned: "There is a demonic aura!"
Without Xiaoqing's reminder, Zhang Mingtu also felt the evil spirit hidden in this place.
However, he did not act immediately. Instead, he carefully sensed the situation, walked around the village twice, and then walked around the river several times. He found that there was no evil aura here.
This made Zhang Mingtu frown. The most common prayer for the power of incense was to eliminate the water ghosts in this place.
But he thought there was something evil here, but after searching for several times he didn't find much.
Well, the underworld now just has a false name. There are no endless ghost soldiers, nor the so-called ten ghost generals. Now there are only five of the ten ghost generals, and they have only received code names, and their strength is very weak.
Therefore, if one wants to respond to the prayers of the many people here, one cannot rely on the illusory gods of the underworld. Zhang Mingtu must come in person to set an example.
Zhang Mingtu didn't think there was anything wrong with doing this. After all, when Penguin was first established, that little pony had played a female character to attract netizens online.
The behavior of Zhang Mingtu, the Lord of the Underworld, fighting monsters online is not too outrageous. It is very reasonable. During the start-up phase, the boss must of course pay more.
It’s just that the boss failed the first time he showed up, which is very uncomfortable.
After thinking about it, Zhang Mingtu used the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra to its maximum power and searched the area within a radius of dozens or hundreds of miles, collecting all the unnecessary evil spirits, but he did not find the so-called water ghost.
Then Zhang Mingtu felt something was wrong. He carefully distinguished the prayers of many characters and found that these characters, their fathers, husbands, children or wives were in the water when they died. Suddenly they sank to the bottom of the water or were dragged into the water by some giant creature.
"This... doesn't look like an evil spirit, but more like a demon."
Zhang Mingtu scratched his head, thinking that he must have been wrong. Many villagers and ordinary people in the village did not have much knowledge. When they saw people dead in the water, they would of course think they were water ghosts.
But what he was going to deal with was not actually the so-called water ghost, but a monster.
After being speechless for a moment, Zhang Mingtu patted Xiaoqing on the shoulder and said, "Find me the monster under the water. I want to take a look."
“Ah~”
Xiaoqing yawned loudly, then turned over and jumped into the water.
The water surface rippled for a while, and Zhang Mingtu thought he had caught it easily. However, after waiting for a while, Xiaoqing used one claw to drag out a loach more than ten feet long from the water.
The loach was as thick as an ordinary person's thigh, its mouth was full of sharp teeth, and its body was covered with scales.
What’s more important is that as soon as it came out, Zhang Mingtu felt the unique bloody smell from this waist-shaped monster.
The demonic energy was mixed with human blood, and the demon beast's eyes were flashing with intelligence, which clearly showed its wisdom, and its intelligence was not low. These were characteristics that would only appear after eating humans.
However, to be on the safe side, Zhang Mingtu moved his finger and tapped the monster's forehead.
Suddenly, some methods from the Sutra of the Original Vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Miraculous Sutra of the Three Lives of the Most High were used, and part of the scene was seen through the monster's unformed soul.
Among them was this monster, which bit the fisherman when he went into the water to drag the net, then dragged the fisherman into the ground and buried him in the mud.
There are also scenes where it actively grows bigger, swallows the child in one gulp, and then dives into the water.
Many images flashed by, and Zhang Mingtu nodded and confirmed that this was the "water ghost" that many villagers were looking for.
After confirming, Zhang Mingtu pointed his finger, and the monster's body suddenly twisted wildly and uncontrollably, but it could not escape Xiaoqing's dragon claws at all.
A moment later, a stream of pure blood essence flowed out from the monster and fell into Zhang Mingtu's hand.
Zhang Mingtu thought about it and threw the loach, which was covered with scales and had withered flesh and blood, to the shore. It flew next to an ancestral hall at the edge of the village and stopped motionless under the seat of one of the ancestors.
When Zhang Mingtu was searching everywhere before, he found a trace of obsession here. It came from the ancestral hall of this family. It should have been left behind after the death of one of their ancestors. The obsession was very shallow, with only the idea of protecting the family and the village.
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