"I am not a river god."
"But it was you who claimed to be the river god and spoke to them at the beginning?"
"Yes, but I am not a river god."
"Then you are..."
"A small carp passing by."
Little carp?
The bride looked up at the red carp, which had grown to a huge size of more than seven meters, and remained silent.
She was tactful enough not to ask whether the clam monster was the river god.
No matter whether it is or not, it’s better if it is not. If it is, does she really have to marry a human-shaped clam that walks with a clam shell on its back?
…
There was no one on the river bank. The villagers had already run away and they were unlikely to come back to the river for a while.
The bride can take this opportunity to escape.
"I can't go back to the village, I don't know where to go." She lay on top of the red carp, looking down at its eyes that were bigger than her entire body.
"I grew up in the village and never went outside. The farthest place I've ever been is the market a hundred miles away."
"To go outside the village, I don't know which direction to go, downstream, upstream, or over the mountain to the west..."
"There is a grandmother named Li in the village. She is now in her seventies. She has been outside and it was amazing! She said there are a lot of people outside. The road between the houses is called a street. There are many shops on the street. A shop is a place that only sells things. It is a market that never ends. Everything is sold. She also said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets are full of lanterns of all colors with pictures painted on them, beauties, rabbits, moon cakes, all kinds of flowers... I also want to go outside and take a look."
She kept muttering to herself, but she didn't seem nervous or afraid of the huge red carp.
"I'm a fish, and fish can't leave water. I'm afraid I can't help you."
The thousand-faced mirror conveyed Luo Zheyu's meaning.
"Thank you, I know." She pressed her face against the scales on the red carp's head.
"It's good that you are willing to listen to me. The villagers never pay attention. They just tell me to be obedient and not to think about things that I shouldn't. When I'm old enough, I should find someone to have children with. I should live a peaceful and stable life in the village. I should raise my children. When they grow up, they can get married, have children and live a peaceful and stable life in the village..."
"But in the end they sacrificed me to the river god."
After a moment's silence, Luo Zheyu did not urge her and swam quietly in the river.
The bride reached out to touch the water.
The surface of the river water is heated by the sun, and when your palms pass over the water, they will be tightly wrapped by the cool and soft water.
She didn't know what she was thinking, and suddenly asked:
"Have you got a wife?"
Luo Zheyu:?
"…I am just a small carp…"
Asking a carp if it has a wife, he thought such things only happened in the cartoons his cousin watched.
"That ugly monster claims to be the river god. You are more powerful than it. If you beat it away, you are the river god, right? And the one I want to marry is also the river god. How about I be your wife?"
Luo Zheyu: ???
I don't think so.
Girl, there is something I don’t know whether I should say or not.
Did you just get flooded?
He actually tried to marry a carp.
"I'm just a small carp." He let the mirror convey the message.
“Hehehehe! Hehehehe…hehehe…”
After the Manifold Mirror finished speaking, it turned around and made a strange laugh in Luo Zheyu's mind.
"...Don't you feel uncomfortable laughing like this?"
Luo Zheyu asked indifferently.
“Hehehe… My Lord, I won’t feel bad. I’m just a small spirit. Hehehehe…”
He kept laughing, but Luo Zheyu ignored him.
After stopping laughing, Wanmianjing said, "The spirit of the instrument does not need human vocal cords to make sounds, nor does it need to breathe. I can simulate any sound, my Lord."
"For example..."
The mirror was silent, and the voice that sounded in his mind again became exactly the same as the bride's.
"I'll be your wife, okay?"
There seemed to be blue veins bulging on the red carp's head.
"Shut up."
"No, my Lord. Have you got a wife yet? I will be your wife, okay? Okay? Okay?"
Several voices rang out in my mind from all directions at the same time, all of which were the words the bride had just said, with no difference in voice or tone.
Luo Zheyu said nothing, summoned the main body of the Thousand Faceted Mirror, used his authority, and locked the noisy and courageous spirit of the Thousand Faceted Mirror into a small dark room.
Ordinary magic weapons do not have the ability to shield the weapon spirit. The weapon spirit is the magic weapon itself. But the Thousand-Faced Mirror is different. Perhaps this is related to the fact that the person who created the Thousand-Faced Mirror is a magic cultivator.
The moral standards of demon cultivators are low, and betrayal is commonplace, so anything that has intelligence will be guarded against. This ability is to prevent the spirit of the Thousand-Faced Mirror from retaliating against its master.
As long as the weapon spirit is locked in the dark room, its connection with the main body will be temporarily blocked, and it will be unable to sense and manage the omnidirectional mirror, nor can it interfere with the outside world, until it is released again or Luo Zheyu dies.
"Ah!!! No, my lord! I was wrong, I was wrong!" The spirit of the Manifold Mirror desperately used its authority to try to prevent itself from being locked up in the dark room.
Although time seemed very long to him and perhaps a thousand years would have passed when he woke up from a deep sleep, the dark room was very stuffy and he did not want to sleep for the time being.
"I didn't want to! I, I was reading a book!"
"Still making trouble?"
Luo Zheyu asked.
"I won't make trouble anymore. I won't dare to do that anymore..."
"Speak nicely."
"I was wrong."
He no longer insisted on locking the Thousand-Faced Mirror Spirit into the dark room.
"What book?"
"It's... a book that's a bit like the Dual Cultivation Technique. It's very helpful! After reading it, I feel like I have a deeper understanding of the technique."
Luo Zheyu: …
There are many grooves but no openings.
"You are a spirit, what use is that kind of thing..."
This is a question worth pondering, just like the martial arts collected in the Wanmianjing, each and every one of them is a dual cultivation method, or is related to dual cultivation, and there is no other martial arts method in sight.
"It can not only cultivate, but also create life!"
Wanmianjing muttered, "This is the preference of my first master. He likes to practice, improve his cultivation, and also wants a child. However, it is a thousand times more difficult for a cultivator to conceive a life than for an ordinary person. The higher the cultivation, the more difficult it is to give birth to a child. Until I was beaten and fell into a deep sleep, he was unable to give birth to a baby with the female cultivator..."
Luo Zheyu didn't know that Wanmianjing was still hiding such an old gossip in his heart, and he didn't know what to say.
…
Thoughts turn thousands of times, but reality only passes by in a moment.
"Haha, don't take it seriously, I was just joking. Thank you so much for saving my life!"
A soft and cheerful female voice sounded from above her head, and she stroked the fish scales gently with her hand.
"I have little experience. This is my first time seeing a monster. I thought it was interesting so I said more. Please don't bother me."
The bride's name was Mi Shen. She had no relatives at home, otherwise she would not have been easily chosen as a tribute to the river god.
It can be seen that the villagers did not think that being sacrificed as a tribute was a good thing.
Not daring to go back to the village, she went ashore and walked upstream along the river.
From now on, I will be alone, with nothing and no one to rely on.
The red carp hides under the river, quietly accompanying you.
He couldn't walk on the shore, but he could be escorted along the waterway.
Luo Zheyu had no idea what the world outside was like. Mi Xin was unarmed and didn't even have a piece of extra cloth on her body. He didn't know how many hardships she would experience along the way.
…
Click...
"hiss……"
After taking a bite of the half-green and half-red wild fruit, Mi Xin's face wrinkled because of the sourness.
She hesitated to spit it out, but when she thought about the wild fruits in her hand, which she had picked by climbing a three-meter-high tree and taking a quarter of an hour to do so, she closed her eyes and swallowed them whole.
The flesh is not only sour but also rough.
Apart from the sour taste that makes people drool, there is no other taste.
With a bitter face, he crushed the remaining fruit pulp, stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it without chewing.
Puff...crash...
The sound of water echoed on the shore.
A fish was thrown onto the shore and bounced on the ground.
Mi Xin ran over, held down the struggling fish, and when she looked into the river, she only had time to see a flash of golden-red fish tail sinking into the water and disappearing in an instant.
"Thank you, Mr. Carp!"
She said with a smile, found a stone from the ground, hit the fish with two or three stones until it could not move, and used the sharp horns to cut open the fish's belly.
After washing it with river water, Mi Xin held the raw fish and started to eat it.
"etc."
A voice came from the river.
Immediately afterwards, something the size of a palm was thrown ashore and landed in the grass.
"Open it and a flame will appear."
After a pause, the voice in the river said again: "Don't eat raw food."
The fish in the river are not suitable for eating raw because they are full of parasites.
Mi Xin studied for more than half an hour before using a lighter to light the dry grass and firewood collected from the surroundings and roasted the fish over the fire.
In her eyes, the lighter that Luo Zheyu threw out from his sleeve was almost a fairy item. She used it with great care, fearing that it would be damaged or scratched.
The fish roasted over the fire soon gave off a fragrant aroma.
Then, the fragrance turned into a burnt smell.
The fire was too big, the food was flipped too slowly, and one side was accidentally burnt.
After it was cooked through, the slightly mushy fish was free of salt or any seasoning, and Mi Xin ate it with gusto.
The sky gradually darkened, the trees not far away were dim, and the only sounds in the silent night were the chirping of insects and flowing water.
The nights are colder than the days.
Fortunately, it is summer now and she is wearing a long gown, so she doesn't have to worry about the cold. It is enough for her to rest by the fire.
On the other side, underwater.
"My Lord, it can keep out water for a short period of time, provide oxygen to the wearer... and also has some whitening and beauty benefits."
What the thousand-faced mirror was talking about was a pearl as big as a pigeon egg. This pearl was spit out from the clam shell by the river clam monster after it was beaten.
The whole body is round, lustrous and slightly shiny, like a gentle beauty with round pearls and smooth jade.
The quality is excellent, and its function is worthy of being dropped from a monster.
Luo Zheyu had no use for the pearl, so he put it away for the time being.
He carefully sensed the difference in his body.
A river clam can become a demon and cultivate a semi-finished human form. A carp this big should also be able to cultivate.
However, after carefully sensing for a while, he only found a tiny trace of demonic power that seemed like it would dissipate at any time.
Not to mention supporting the transformation or releasing this demonic power, even driving it and using it flexibly for one's own benefit is difficult.
"My Lord, do you want to practice? This plane is rich in spiritual energy, so it is not a problem to supply it for practice! As long as you practice the skills, you can defeat the clam monster in a minute!"
The Wanmianjing asked quietly, his tone very mysterious, like someone opening his coat to sell stolen goods at a train station.
Feeling that Luo Zheyu was a little moved and after a moment of hesitation, Wanmianjing couldn't wait to move out his stock again.
It was his bunch of dual cultivation techniques again.
"Five Elements Yin and Yang Jue"
"Two Qis Connect to Life"
Yin and Yang
…
Luo Zheyu was silent.
Sometimes, silence means the same thing as rejection.
“My Lord, would you like to give it a try? The owner of this technique is a great master in the Mahayana stage, who is only one step away from transcending the tribulation and ascending to heaven. Although this great master focuses on dual cultivation, this technique actually has another way of practicing…”
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