If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 512: Enemies Behind
Xiaoyu was slurping noodles at the Heilong River Wharf in Yingxiang Prefecture because there were two "abysses" and several ordinary "underground waterway entrances" hidden next to the wharf.

The sword box she "picked up" from Zhou Lang's body was also the spoils she looted and forced out of other strange people.

For example, the hundred-year-old red fruit and thousand-year-old human ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum in the private secret library of "Brother Zhang" (Zhang Renjie).

Pack everything up, let the fat grandson carry it, and hide it in the underground sewer in advance.

She stayed on the shore alone to eat noodles. One reason was that she was indeed a little hungry. Another was that all her enemies had been destroyed and she was in a good mood. She wanted to show off her happiness before leaving.

She had just killed so many people in Yingxiang Mansion, and even killed a Buddhist monk, but she was leisurely eating noodles at the dock.
How could the common people of Western Shu have ever seen such a scene? The vendors, workers, diners, ship owners, and merchants on the dock were all shocked and stared at her slurping noodles calmly.

When Zeng Wendao appeared on the stage, the atmosphere reached a climax.

Xiao Yu's act was very successful and became the most classic scene in "The Legend of Xiao Fengxian", not even the first one.

Poor Xiao Zeng, whose reputation spanned a hundred years, was reduced to a stepping stone for Xiao Yu. For countless years to come, whenever people in Western Shu told this story, Zeng Wendao would appear as a supporting role to set the mood and elevate the protagonist's status.

But Xiaoyu’s main purpose is to wait for the “Avengers” to come.

The demon cicada died. How would Jin Chanzi or the Buddhists react?
Li Rongji died. What was the Li family’s reaction?
When Guan Chenghuang dies, how will his friends and the ghosts and gods in the underworld react?
In any case, Guan Chenghuang is the "supernatural official" of the underworld, which is equivalent to the "prefect" (county magistrate) of the human court. His status is not low. By the way, there was also a city god named Hong from Tongzhou Prefecture who died in Tianbaoju.

Two city gods died in one night. Even if they deserved to die, wouldn't the underworld ask her for an explanation?
Xiaoyu wants to find out who her enemies are and how eager each of them is to kill her.

According to her original plan, if a True Immortal-level enemy came, she would run away immediately without fighting.

She didn't know what secret techniques or killing moves this unfamiliar True Immortal possessed, and if she rashly tried to test him, she might be killed instantly.

For example, the battle with the cicada.

It should have been very simple. As long as the demon cicada looked at her, she would release the "foreign object" and it would be over.

But Yaochan acted decisively and used his great magical powers to suppress her, leaving her no chance to attack.

After Zeng Wendao came to her, she did not run away immediately. There were three reasons: first, Zeng Wendao was not the person she was really waiting for.

She had already known about Zeng Dao's relationship with Guan Cheng Huang. It was not surprising for her that he wanted to avenge Guan Cheng Huang.

She was waiting for an unknown enemy.

I didn’t know it before, but now I’ve seen it. From now on, I’ll know who to watch out for and wait until my goal is achieved.

Whether Zeng Wendao showed up that night or not, she would be wary of Zeng Wendao.

Secondly, Zeng Wendao did not attack directly, did not launch a sneak attack, and did not shout for killing in anger, so the sword energy on his body was relatively "pure".

Xiao Yu made a judgment while slurping noodles: Zeng Wendao would kill her with a sword, his swordsmanship was upright and he was a "decent man".

Finally, Zeng Dao said that he only had a hundred years to attain enlightenment.

Combining the last two points, she came to the conclusion: perhaps she could take this opportunity to feel the power of a true immortal.

She chose the battlefield on the Black Dragon River to take advantage of the geographical location.

Xiaoyu won, and she felt very happy and in a good mood.

The nun Pushan came and killed them as soon as they met; Xuanyin and Li Jingyu also came, but hid aside, hesitating.

Xiaoyu felt better: Now she understood what the Li family and Jin Chanzi were thinking.

Jin Chanzi is eager to kill her. Pushan is the new "demon cicada", just like the "new Eight Immortals of the West".

The earthly immortals of Wuzhuang Temple will not avenge the Li family.

If the Li family alone wanted to avenge Li Rongji, it would not be a big deal and is not worth worrying about.

After finding out the enemy's identity and attitude, Xiaoyu did not run away immediately, but stayed in the river, waiting for Pushan to drain the water. Was she pretending to be a "loach" in the mud pit?

In fact, when your goal is achieved, you should run; when you are pretending to be cool, you should run; and when you meet an invincible enemy, you should turn around and run.

The three of them came together, and Xiaoyu didn't hesitate at all.

As soon as the nun Pushan swung her whisk and dropped the first barrier of Buddha's light to cut off the Black Dragon River, she had already dived into the "abyss" and was walking on the waves at a very fast speed.

When the nun Pushan drained the river and couldn't find anyone, she also hid in the underground water cave. Xiaoyu escaped more than thirty miles away.

But Xiaoyu still made a big mistake.

She underestimated Pushan's determination and ability.

Pushan was determined to kill her, and he really had the ability to take her life!

"Grandma, you are so amazing! We have also heard of Heyang Zhenxian and White Dragon King in Fenghou Bay. They are both legendary gods and immortals.

I still remember that three years ago, when the White Dragon King celebrated his 850th birthday, Huangsha Xiaosheng brought his adoptive father to celebrate his birthday.

Even the little saint Huangsha has to call him 'Uncle Bailong'.

My godfather can only call me 'Grandpa Bailong', and I am not even qualified to accompany him to Bailong Water Palace.

Hehehe, today he was beaten like a grandson by his grandmother. "

The fat grandson was held in Xiaoyu's hand, and tiny and dense bubbles came out of his mouth, and the faint sound floated into Xiaoyu's ears.

Even though it was a fairy and spoke with fairy power, it did not completely obey the physical rules of sound propagation, so the sound was still unclear and a little distorted.

After Xiaoyu drilled into the underground water vein, he did not stop at all. He used the copycat sleeves of Qiankun (Kongda Tuntian magical power) to put a bunch of sundries such as the "Seven Star Sword Box" into his sleeves, and immediately stepped on the water with his feet, using the power of the undercurrent to quickly rush to the south.

The speed was too fast, like a torpedo that was launched. The sound waves had not yet reached my ears but had already fallen behind me.

"Don't talk nonsense, you have a heavy task to do, you have to show me the way." Circles of invisible and intangible "sound waves" spread from Xiaoyu's mouth. They could be heard but not perceived.

Unlike her fat grandson who spoke with demonic power, the ripples she stimulated with her internal force actually came from Kunpeng's bloodline.

It was the sound of the sword bone breaking, an ability that he had slowly figured out after his Kunpeng bloodline awakened. The sound was not affected by high-speed movement, and it was clearly heard by the fat grandson.

"Grandma, didn't you practice 'Searching for Spirits and Catching Pulses'?" The fat grandson also learned it, but in just two days, he was unable to fully understand the content of the magical power.

"If I want to 'take the pulse', I also need to find the direction and target. You have to at least give me the approximate direction." Xiaoyu said.

The "road" of underground water veins is very irregular.

The entrance to the "abyss" found near the Heilong River wharf was initially only a thumb-thick hole and was covered by mud and sand. It was almost impossible to find it simply by looking with the naked eye.

"Searching for the spirit and catching the pulse" is not about searching for the water flow, but the spiritual energy in the water flow.

The water inlet exposed outside is only as thick as a thumb, but the water spirit emerging from the water is very different from that in the Black Dragon River.

Just like the concentration of heaven and earth vital energy is different in different regions.

Famous mountains, rivers and Futian Cave are rich in spiritual energy, while the vitality in the cities at the foot of the mountains is relatively thin.

The water aura in different water veins is also different.

Although mortals cannot detect it, the true dragon's "seeking spirits and catching pulses" can capture the most subtle changes in water spirit.

Therefore, the location and direction of the waterway can be determined from the spiritual energy in the water flow.

After digging open the thumb-thick hole, Xiaoyu entered a winding "tunnel" that was barely big enough for her. She drilled seven or eight miles in the "tunnel", digging up a lot of soil and drilling in like a loach. Finally, she saw a clear view and entered an underground river.

The underground river is sometimes very wide, hundreds of meters wide, like an underground lake, and sometimes it is extremely narrow, and Xiaoyu has to use a little "bone shrinking skill" to get in.

From beginning to end, she was moving very fast and did not need to slowly grope her way in the unfamiliar waterway.

As long as the water was flowing, she could go fast with it.

Even loaches are definitely not as slippery as her.

It’s just that the “road conditions” were bad and she never had a clear goal.

The Kun version of the spirit-finding and pulse-catching technique is very rough, and can capture water spirit energy at a distance of up to a hundred miles.

That is to say, within the spherical underground water vein environment of fifty kilometers with herself as the center, she would never get lost, take the wrong path, or enter a dead end.

The problem is that Black Kong is thousands of miles away. If we go in the wrong direction now, even a slight mistake will lead to a huge error.

"Grandma, my godfather is in the south. You should go south along the Black Dragon River." said the fat grandson.

“Not only did I memorize the Western Shu geomancy map, I also looked up the geography of the Black Dragon River Basin.

The Heilong River has countless tributaries, connecting countless small rivers and lakes.

Most of them are more than a hundred miles away from the main channel of Heilong River.

Your godfather is not under the Black Dragon River, but in the underground abyss of a tributary.

If you only follow the Black Dragon River, you will definitely miss your foster father." Xiao Yu said.

In fact, Lianghe River is also a tributary of the Heilong River, a bit like the Han River to the Yangtze River in the previous life.

The Lianghe River Basin alone affects thousands of miles of land in eastern and southern Shu, not to mention the Heilong River.

"Grandma, let's go south first. When I feel the feeling, I will remind you." said the fat grandson.

"Feeling." Xiaoyu was helpless.

The fat grandson left the Black King Kong Brigade and got lost for eight or nine days.

The entire journey took more than a month before we arrived at Xiaojingxuan.

According to Xiao Yu's own definition of underground water veins, a hundred feet (three or four hundred meters) away from the ground surface is the "well water area", where most river monsters and river gods are active; ten thousand meters away from the ground surface is the abyss area; more than one hundred thousand meters away from the ground surface is a restricted area.

Black Kong is trapped in the Abyss Zone.

Is she going to stay in the dark, cold underground water for more than a month?
Will water plants grow on her?

"Grandma, I definitely can't lead you to find your foster father just by feeling, but if we walk through the underground river by feeling, we will definitely encounter the water monster.

Then we can eavesdrop on their conversations, lock on to our target, and follow them." The fat grandson said again.

"The efficiency is too low. Never mind. This is all we can do for now." Xiaoyu sighed.

"Grandma, wasn't this your plan before? Why did you become anxious after getting into the water?" the fat grandson asked puzzledly.

"Before going into the water, I didn't know the underground water environment was so bad. It's dark, cold, and the roads are narrow. It's very depressing and far less enjoyable than swimming in a river." Xiaoyu said.

The river cruise is also underwater, but the light is not dark, and the unique river scenery is very beautiful. If you feel bored, you can still come out to feel the sun and wind.

Even so, if she had to soak in the river every day, her body could bear it, but her heart couldn't.

The environment of underground water veins is thousands of times worse than that of rivers, lakes and reservoirs.

“Grandma is right. Not to mention humans like Grandma, even river monsters like us don’t like to enter underground water veins.

We never delve into the depths of the abyss of Howling Wind Bay.

But there is nothing we can do, our foster father is waiting for us." said the fat grandson.

Xiao Yu put aside all distracting thoughts and said, "Give me a few days to get used to it, then I should be able to - Hey, someone is chasing me."

Her face changed and she turned her body 180 degrees, changing into a backstroke position. Her legs were still treading water quickly, but when she raised her head she could see behind her.

"Such a strong water spirit power, and such a fast speed - oh no, the opponent is faster than me!"

She is not afraid of being chased, but she is afraid that the person chasing her is faster than her.

Being faster than her means that as long as the direction is right, you will catch up with her sooner or later.

"Grandma, who is chasing us? Where is he?" Fatty Sun asked nervously.

"It should be the nun Pushan. She has such strong water spiritual power. Could that guy be a water monster in human skin?" Xiaoyu began to speed up her treading water.

The faster the water flows around her, the more leverage she gets.

While on the road, she could not use the "Quicksand Sword Intention" to create rapids on a large scale, so she could only speed up her treading water.

The rate of Qi consumption began to increase.

Half an hour later, Xiao Yu's expression changed again, "I can't shake him off. That guy is not only fast, but also has a strong sense of underground water veins."

There are many underground water veins and tributaries, some of which are dead ends, while others are like surface rivers, winding and flowing.

The direction of the waterway is uncertain and there are many forks.

Xiaoyu wanted to go south, so it was naturally impossible for him to just walk along a waterway.

During this period, she changed the sewer pipes many times.

Sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes east, sometimes west. With the Kun version of searching for spirits and catching pulses, she could capture the general situation of the waterways within a radius of 300 miles. No matter which direction the fork she chose at first turned, the overall effect was that she was moving south, and the average depth from the ground was feet, about a kilometer.

She can enter deeper waterways or enter the "well water layer". There are two reasons why she maintains a depth of 300 feet.

First of all, this depth avoids the well water layer (hundreds of feet deep) where river gods and river monsters are active.

Secondly, whether the underground waterway is too deep or too shallow from the surface, the number of branches in the waterway will be reduced.

If it is too shallow, there will be few forks in the waterway and the waterway will be narrow, so you will need to drill through the mud; if it is too deep, the waterway will be relatively simple and there will often be no forks for dozens of miles.

If the route is single, it is easy to become "blocked at both ends": after swimming for a long time, you find that there is a dead end in front, and Pushan behind you is chasing you.

The current depth of three hundred feet is a relatively advantageous terrain for the escaping party.

More than half an hour had passed. Xiaoyu had changed directions many times and the opponent had been left behind many times, but until now, the opponent was still lagging behind.

She can change direction, and Pushan can quickly find the correct waterway.

“How did Pushan find the right path so quickly? Did I leave traces along the way without knowing it?
But I didn't even use the energy of heaven and earth, I just stepped on the water with my feet, 'pure physical water escape'!"

"Gurgle~~" Just as she was racking her brains to think, Xiaoyu was troubled by the second problem: her stomach was rumbling. After swimming for half a day, she was hungry.

(End of this chapter)