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

Chapter 518 The Endless Abyss Beneath the Earth

After the fat grandson killed the yellow bone fish, he threw his body, along with the "water talisman" he was carrying, into another waterway - the one where Cao Er escaped.

The soul of the yellow bone fish becomes their guide.

Xiaoyu held his hand and guided him in the right direction.

“Cao Er can tell Pushan our destination and buy us some time?
Now that Pushan has identified the specific direction, it should be easier to intercept us!" The fat grandson asked doubtfully.

"How far are we from that underground rapids?" Xiaoyu asked.

The fat grandson pondered and said, “The reason why we met Cao Er and Huang Gu is because we entered the waters of Xiaoman River.

At that time, Sai Qinglong brought his demon soldiers to help Jushi Taibao and his men besiege my foster father because my foster father led us into the Xiaoman River."

He paused and shouted loudly: "Huang Gu, tell me, how far are we from the battlefield that day?"

"If we take a shortcut, the total distance is only about 380 miles. Grandma Yu is so fast. It seems like it's only been half an hour, but she has walked almost 200 miles. Now there is only 180 miles left at most." Huang Gu said.

The fat grandson said excitedly: "Grandma, there are only more than 180 miles left."

Then he worriedly asked, “But what if I run into Pushan at the intersection?”

Xiao Yu smiled slightly and asked, "Do you know how long it would take for me to walk 180 miles along the waterway?"

“If you are in Fenghou Bay and encounter a day with high winds and rough waves, it may only take a quarter of an hour, usually no more than two quarters of an hour.

But this is an underground river, the water flows slowly, and it takes more than half an hour to walk 200 miles. Next, if we don’t take many detours, it will take at most another half an hour.” said the fat grandson.

"Now that we have the yellow bones, do we have to go around in circles?" Xiao Yu asked again.

Huang Gu is a river patrolling Yaksha, and his familiarity with underground waterways far exceeds that of Cao Er.

He never had to think when giving directions. When Xiaoyu asked how many waterways the fork in the road ahead connected to, he told her immediately.

It was exactly the same as what Xiaoyu sensed using the "Spirit Finding and Pulse Capturing" technique.

Xiaoyu asked again which path to choose, and Huang Gu immediately gave the answer.

"There's no need to take a detour. Let's just take the shortest route. Huang Gu, when you say taking a shortcut, is it really the shortest?" the fat grandson shouted.

Huang Gu said quickly: "Don't worry, Mr. Crab, the road I pointed out must be closer than Cao Er and Bisai Qinglong."

He wasn't sure if it was really recent, but he certainly didn't point the wrong way on purpose.

Because when Yu Fengxian asked him to show the way, she made a direct promise: if he met Pushan before entering the "abyss", she would kill him immediately; after entering the "abyss", she would release him immediately.

This is a matter of life and death, and he is now eager for them to enter the "abyss" as soon as possible, just as much as his fat grandson.

"Grandma, we won't take a detour, so what?" the fat grandson asked again.

Xiao Yu sighed, "Isn't it obvious? Let's not take a detour, but take the shortest way. Even if Pushan takes the shortest way, he's just competing with us in speed."

The fat grandson was anxious, "It seems that we are not as fast as her!"

"I'm not as fast as her, but I have to reach the 'Abyss' earlier than her. What else can I do except hold her back and delay her?

After Cao Er returns to Xiaoman River, he will probably find Sai Qinglong to report our affairs.

Then Sai Qinglong called Pushan.

After Pushan arrives at Xiaoman River, he will definitely interrogate Cao Er.

You had previously kept asking Souji how to reach the 'Abyss'.

How long will it take for him to repeat those words?
How long will it take for Pushan to arrange for people to guard the various underground river mouths?"

"Cao Er can at least buy us some time for a cup of tea!" Xiao Yu made the judgment in an affirmative tone.

It takes about half a quarter of an hour to drink a cup of boiling hot tea.

Of course, it is also possible that the grass carp spirit was completely scared and hid in a water hole pretending to be dead, not daring to return to Xiaoman River.

If the grass carp spirit hadn't seen Pushan, there would be no need to worry about him exposing their destination.

If the grass carp spirit saw Pushan, it could delay Pushan for a cup of tea at this critical moment when every second counts.

Xiaoyu was just gambling, betting that Cao Er's delay of Pushan for a cup of tea was more important to her and Pushan than the information he revealed to Pushan.

The reason for this bet is that after killing two big shrimps and approaching the "abyss area", the waterway network has become more simple in structure and has fewer branches.

It is common to have an underground river that runs for dozens of miles without any branches.

This is the stage where it is easiest to catch up: going upstream, the water network is dense, there are many forks in the road, and the river channel is complex and changeable; going downstream, once entering the rapids under the "abyss", she can use the power of the rapids to increase her speed.

It is at this moment that the "middle area" from top to bottom is the most embarrassing and dangerous.

Xiaoyu felt a sense of crisis: Pushan was behind him, not far away.

Even if Cao Er didn't tell Pushan her destination, Pushan would quickly catch up with her.

If Cao Er told Pushan the target location, it would disrupt Pushan's current pursuit rhythm.

Judging from Pushan’s reaction at this time, Xiaoyu at least won the bet in the first half.

Pushan has suspended the pursuit and went to Xiaoman River to ask Cao Er, and summoned all the river gods and river monsters within hundreds of miles to deploy defenses near the "entrance to the abyss" where Black King Kong escaped that day.

Now we only have to look at the second half, whether Pushan will set up the defensive net first, or Xiaoyu will rush into the "abyss" one step ahead.

In this Pangu world with gods, Buddhas, immortals and monsters, as long as a well can be dug on the ground, there must be an underground river underneath.

A well can nourish the spirits; it is not just an isolated puddle.

The authentic "Well Dragon King" canonized by the Heavenly Court can even enter any well in the area under his jurisdiction through underground rivers.

If "water" is the source of life, underground rivers are like the arteries of the earth.

Wherever there is life, there must be underground rivers deep in the earth.

The prosperity of underground rivers varies in different regions.

Obviously, the density of underground rivers under the arid desert is definitely not as high as that in the basins of large rivers.

If Xiaoyu had entered the underground river in the desert, he would have been caught up by Pushan long ago.

An underground river in the desert may have only one straight channel, a very simple waterway, stretching for hundreds of miles with few branches.

She was swimming in front and Pushan was chasing behind. It was difficult for her to use the detour to delay time, so the two of them were competing completely in speed.

The reason why Xiaoyu was able to escape for several days and nights, forcing the real dragon to be helpless and ask for external help, was because she was in the Black Dragon River basin.

The Heilong River has a huge flow, numerous tributaries, and connects countless lakes.

There are many water flows above and the underground rivers below also have many tributaries. The river channels are complex and the water flow is large.

But when Xiaoyu went deep into the underground river that was thousands of feet deep, the depth, width and length of the underground river began to increase rapidly, and the number of branches began to decrease.

There are few forks in the road, which means that there are fewer underground rivers that can lead to this "abyss rapids". It is easy to miss the "abyss" if you run around.

It was after meeting Cao Er that Xiao Yu roughly determined the location of the "Abyss Rapids".

After catching the yellow bone, the route was clear and they reached the target without hesitation.

When they got close to the "Abyss Rapids" which was a hundred miles away in a straight line, Xiaoyu simply abandoned the "Yellow Bone Navigator".

Because the "Abyss Rapids" has been found by "Searching for Spirits and Catching Pulses".

She found the real "nearest river channel".

"Boom!"

For the first time, she began to use the Quicksand Sword Intent unscrupulously.

The Quicksand Sword Intent created huge waves around her, and her legs, using the power of the waves, suddenly doubled her speed!
It's like the racing car has turned on the "nitrogen acceleration".

In less than two quarters of an hour, the last 150 miles were completed!

The straight-line distance is less than 100 miles, and taking the waterway requires a detour, so the total distance is about 150 miles.

Xiaoyu emerged from a "narrow" waterway that was no more than three meters wide and high, and entered a dark ocean.

Three meters wide and high, it is definitely not narrow in the waterway that Xiaoyu passed through.

She even waded through muddy waterways as thick as bowls.

It was too narrow and she had to dig into the mud like a real loach.

As a real dragon, Pushan is definitely not only ten feet long and as thick as a bowl. A real dragon can be big or small, and she deliberately reduced her size to adapt to the harsh environment of the underground waterway.

The reason why three meters wide and high is considered "narrow" is because the "rapid abyss" below is too large.

Xiaoyu felt like he was sinking into an underground ocean. He could roughly sense the "spirits and pulses" of the waterways within a hundred miles, but he could not find the source and end of the "turbulent abyss".

But it is indeed not an "underground sea" because its flow rate is too fast.

"Grandma, this is it!" The fat grandson swam out from his sleeves and turned into a tall and strong man. He pointed down and shouted, "Last time we were chased by the giant stone guard with hundreds of river monsters. We had no choice but to retreat back here. Look at the rapids below, how terrifying it is.

Without the Quicksand Sword Intent, the Single Black Fish Formation would have been directly dispersed.

Even though the guardian of Liusha River has experienced many storms, the river monsters under his command cannot withstand it.

A single Taibao can't defeat my foster father's bachelor black fish formation, so he can only seal it upstream--"

Before the fat grandson finished speaking, five mighty and majestic river monsters wearing helmets and armor, holding shiny steel forks and machetes, rushed over.

"Who are you - ah, Yu Fengxian, this is Yu Fengxian, and Crab Twenty-Eight!"

Before they got close, the leading "coral-headed" river monster started to cry out.

His head was red and covered with tumors as big as fingers, making it look like a pot of coral.

The fat grandson was shocked. "Oh no! We are still a step behind Pushan. She brought people here so quickly, and just in time—"

Xiao Yu interrupted him and said, "They are not Pushan's people. The aura on them is obviously different from other river monsters. They are probably from the Liusha River.

Only the river monsters of the Liusha River can move freely in such a deep underground river.

Moreover, they directly call you 'Crab 28'.

If you weren't the river monster from the Quicksand River, how could you be so familiar with me?"

The fat grandson is called "Pang Tiegu", a name given by Grandma Yu. But before he met his grandmother, he was the 28th among the 88 adopted sons of Black King Kong, and he had no name or surname. Black King Kong actually had no name or surname either.

As soon as Xiao Yu finished speaking, the "Coral Head" that was already ten feet away suddenly braked and turned around to run back, shouting as he ran: "I'm confused, that's Yu Fengxian!
Children, retreat~~ Yu Fengxian is fierce and brutal, don't get entangled with her, hurry back to find Tuoshan Taibao!"

The boss ran away, and the other four river monsters naturally followed in a hurry.

"So it really is those bastards from Liusha River. Grandma, let's go over and kill them!" the fat grandson shouted excitedly.

"My sworn brother is actually nearby," Xiaoyu said hesitantly.

There is absolutely no need to hunt down the monster in the Quicksand River.

The key is to track or intimidate them and find Black Kong as soon as possible.

But now she is being hunted by Pushan, and the most sensible thing to do is to go alone, which is more flexible and faster.

Finding Black King Kong and his group of godchildren at this time would only add to the burden and encumbrance.

But if we leave Black King Kong alone, once Pushan leads the river gods and monsters into this "abyss rapids" area, they will sooner or later run into the guards of the Liusha River.

Upon learning that Black King Kong was her godson, Pushan would probably be able to guess the purpose of her visit immediately.

With Pushan's strength, it was easy for him to capture Black King Kong.

By then, Xiaoyu will probably be in a desperate situation: all the Black Kong family members will die, leaving only a fat grandson.

"You are slow, hide in my sleeve first."

Xiaoyu raised her right hand.

The cuffs, swaying in the rapids, suddenly opened into a round mouth and sucked at the fat grandson.

The fat grandson took the initiative to transform from a "real exoskeleton" man into a small crab and put it into his sleeves.

Putting away his fat grandson, Xiaoyu stepped on the water with his feet repeatedly, and a series of small bubbles appeared around his body.

"Whoosh!" The speed definitely exceeded one hundred meters per second.

"What a torrent, what a powerful force, what a thrill!"

The water flow in the underground river was relatively slow, so she could only borrow some strength. To maintain her high speed, she had to push her legs hard.

At this time, Xiaoyu borrowed more power from the rapids, and his legs slowed down, and he felt much more relaxed.

"I've come to the right place." She lowered her head and looked into the bottomless abyss below, where the water flowed faster.

I don't know if a real dragon can borrow the power of waves.

If Pushan slowed down in the upstream, maybe she could just shake him off?

In the blink of an eye, Xiaoyu had already arrived behind several river monsters.

"Swish, swish~~~" His body spun rapidly, and the sword in his hand also turned into a big windmill.

The five river monsters barely had time to let out a scream before they were broken into several pieces. Their remains were quickly washed away by the rapid current and disappeared.

Xiao Yu swung his sword repeatedly, extinguishing the souls of the four demon soldiers and letting them dissipate in the rapids, only catching "Coral Head" who had turned into a water ghost.

"Where is my son Black Kong?"

(End of this chapter)