Chapter 7: Qiantang River Mystery
Feng Tianning quickly made hand gestures with his fingers, and a golden light shot towards Xuan Gou Chen and Cang Yao.
The gray in their eyes slowly faded away, and gradually they regained clarity.
"ah!"
Looking at the rope around his neck, Xuan Gou Chen realized that he was already on the edge of the White Bone Mountain. If he took another step forward, even the Golden Immortal might not be able to save him.
Cang Yao's already pale face became even uglier, and he sat on the ground and started coughing violently.
"Tian Ning, what is going on?" Xuan Gou Chen helped Cang Yao up and walked to the center of Baigu Mountain.
"This is a strange territory, your spiritual sense has been affected."
"Strange Domain!" Xuan Gou Chen's voice suddenly became louder.
Although she came from an ancient martial arts family, she only moved around in the family's secret realm and had never been to the strange realm.
The elders in the family said that when an evil spirit’s resentment reaches its peak, a strange area will form at the place where he died.
There is no way out of the strange domain. Once you are pulled into the strange domain, the only way out is to beat the evil spirits to pieces.
Most of the evil spirits that can form strange domains have extremely high cultivation levels, and can be said to be invincible within the strange domain.
It is almost impossible to kill evil spirits in the strange domain.
Xuan Gou Chen's face turned pale and he took out a talisman from a storage bag.
This was drawn by a powerful person in her family, and it was activated by human blood. It could instantly let the family members know that they were in danger.
This blood talisman is extremely difficult to make, and she will not use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
Xuan Gou Chen cut his palm, and the blood soaked into the blood talisman and slowly disappeared.
"I have already asked for help. We just need to hold on until they arrive." Xuan Gou Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Feng Tianning frowned, feeling that something was trying to invade her consciousness, but it was quickly swallowed up by her.
“No, this strange realm will continue to erode our spirits.
"As long as you're here for a moment, you'll be eroded for a moment." Cang Yao, who had been silent until then, suddenly spoke.
Xuan Gou Chen also realized that something was wrong, and his brain seemed to be becoming more and more chaotic.
“Repeat with me:
The Supreme Star, constantly responding to changes. Exorcising evil spirits and binding demons, protecting life and body. Wisdom is clear, mind is at peace. The three souls are eternal, and the spirit is not lost.
Feng Tianning's cold voice reached their ears, and Xuan Gou Chen and Cang Yao's brains became a little clearer.
Feng Tianning's voice seemed to have magic, making people obey unconsciously, and they also recited it aloud subconsciously.
Two golden lights quietly penetrated into their eyebrows. After Xuan Gou Chen finished reading, he suddenly felt that his mind had never been so clear, and his eyes seemed to see more clearly.
The range of her spiritual awareness also seemed to expand.
This is the Taoist "Purifying Heart Mantra", which can reduce the influence of evil spirits on people. If ordinary people recite it every day, their mental strength will become stronger.
"Officers, do you have any way out?"
Cang Yao, who had regained some of his composure, spoke up. He was not a fool and naturally realized that the identities of these two girls were not simple.
Xuan Gou Chen shook his head:
"There is only one way to get out of the strange realm, and that is to kill the evil spirits."
"I guess this evil spirit is most likely the so-called River Spirit. The people guarding the river are the evil spirit's minions, throwing tourists here for the River Spirit to feed on."
Cang Yao looked at the mountain of bones beneath his feet. There were all kinds of bones in the mountain, except for human skulls.
Headless ghost!
Feng Tianning thought of the scene he saw before he took off the blindfold, and he was afraid that those headless ghosts were the white bones under his feet.
"So we are at the bottom of the lake now." Cang Yao said lightly.
Feng Tianning looked at him in surprise. He didn't expect this man to react so quickly and deduce their situation based on the little information he had.
“My brother disappeared here a few days ago and I just saw him on the boat.
It was headless and was grabbing my feet and trying to drag me to the bottom of the lake.
The body beneath us also happens to be headless, so I guess we're at the bottom of the lake now."
Cang Yao's voice was emotionless, as if the missing person was just a stranger.
Feng Tianning nodded and agreed with him.
"Ah Chen, the evil spirit here is probably not Jiang Ling."
Xuan Gou Chen looked at Feng Tianning in confusion and motioned her to continue.
"The Records of the Netherworld: Water Section records that there was an old man who ferried passengers across the Qiantang River at night, and passengers had to be blindfolded while riding the boat.
A scholar peeped in and saw a boat sailing among the mirages made of skeletons. The boat was crossing the river to collect its life span.
There were marks on the old man's neck from water plants that had been left behind by someone who had drowned. He was a water ghost, filled with resentment after being murdered."
Xuan Gou Chen and Cang Yao understood the rest without having to say anything. The person guarding the river was a water ghost, probably the "River Spirit" that people passed down from mouth to mouth.
He took advantage of his position and brought tourists to the center of the Qiantang River during high tide. As long as the tourists took off their blindfolds, the river guards could absorb their lifespan.
The river guards then used seaweed to strangle the tourists' necks, turning them into headless ghosts, and lured the tourists to take off their blindfolds.
No wonder the people guarding the river have youthful faces and white hair during the day, but seem to age by dozens of years at night.
A gust of cold wind blew, and the white bones under their feet seemed to come alive, forming their own bodies and grasping their feet stiffly.
"I never thought there would be someone in this world who could tell me my origins."
The person who spoke was none other than the River Guardian, but his appearance now was nothing like that of a human.
The skin was swollen and white, algae clung to the wounds, black water oozed from the hollow eye sockets, the fingertips were rotten to the bone, and the hair was scattered like seaweed.
His body was covered with fish scales, and his hands and feet had become webbed.
Feng Tianning saw a black light flash over the head of the river guard. The next moment, several large characters appeared above his head:
[Hundred-year-old water ghost, merit -300]
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