The abandoned cannon fodder girl's path to immortality

Chapter 187 Water Snake of Yulian City

Three days later, at Shen time (3-5 PM).

"The mountain range ahead should be the one where Yulian City is located."

Chen Jinshu sat on the back of the Yinshan Sparrow, looking at the steep mountains all around him, and quickly compared the scroll in his hand.

The scroll describes the Yulian Mountains as resembling a fish from afar and a fish skeleton up close, with steep peaks, sparse vegetation, and abundant medicinal herbs.

"Up close, this mountain range really does look a bit like a fish skeleton. No wonder it's called the Yulian Mountain Range."

Yulian City is a city where immortals and mortals coexist, but the number of cultivators in it is extremely small, and the vast majority are rogue cultivators with poor aptitude.

I came to this mountain range to soak up some of the low-level spiritual veins here.

The mountain range to the west is rich in spiritual veins, but they are all low-level spiritual veins, mostly first-level spiritual veins.

For these independent cultivators, this was a rare celestial abode.

The river that flows through Yulian is called Qingling River.

This is because the area near the outlet of the Qingling River is only surrounded by verdant mountain peaks and ridges.

The Qingling River is also used to raise a lot of fish, which is how the people of Yulian City make a living.

However, ever since the appearance of man-eating water snakes in the Qingling River, the people have never dared to approach the river again.

The mother river, which was originally used to sustain life, has become a lair for monsters and a place of death.

I heard that this water snake arrived here in recent years and seems to have developed considerable intelligence, finding this spiritually rich river by relying on the innate intuition of a demon beast.

After observing his surroundings for a while, Chen Jinshu arrived at the summit. He saw a relatively large city about two or three hundred miles ahead, with a large blue river flowing by.

"The townspeople all depend on these rivers for their livelihood. Now that they have lost their means of survival, it's no wonder they are seeking help from immortal masters everywhere."

The reason why the Xuanming Sect issued these tasks was mainly because the common people or immortal cities had demands, and they had spent some effort and paid some price in exchange for the sect's intervention.

The sect gained fame, trained its disciples, and acquired considerable resources—truly a win-win-win situation.

The price that the people of Yulian City and many cultivators paid for the Xuanming Sect's intervention seemed to be a small mineral vein, a turquoise mine.

It is a material used to refine water-attribute magical artifacts or water-attribute buildings. It is not considered an absorption material, but it is still a good mineral vein with a wide range of uses.

"Let's go into the city first and investigate. Let's see how the water snake the people talk about really works."

After a moment's thought, Chen Jinshu jumped onto the back of the Yinshan Sparrow and flew quickly forward.

A moment later, when she was about ten miles from Yulian City, she decided to walk there, which would help her avoid a lot of trouble.

Soon, he arrived at the city entrance and saw many people coming and going, but none of them had a smile on their face, as if they had been hurt by something.

As she observed the people's conditions, she walked towards the city, where the streets and alleys were bustling with people.

There are quite a few shops selling things at stalls.

Without fish to make a living, setting up a stall has become their only way to survive.

Chen Jinshu quickly looked around the stalls and soon found someone suitable to ask.

She came to a sachet stall that hardly anyone visited.

The old woman selling sachets looked worried. She wanted to call out her wares, but there were too many other people selling sachets around her.

"Auntie, did you embroider all these sachets?" Chen Jinshu asked casually, seizing the opportunity to make a conversation.

"Young lady, you have excellent taste. These are all hand-embroidered by me, stitch by stitch. They're beautiful and inexpensive." The old woman smiled when she saw Chen Jinshu come to the stall to inquire.

"I'll take all of these. I'm going to use them to store some spices when I get back," Chen Jinshu said, her fingers quickly tracing over several well-embroidered sachets.

"Alright. Five coins each, ten here, so I'll just charge you forty-five coins." After handing the money to the woman, Chen Jinshu asked softly, "Why did you decide to set up a stall, aunt? There are so many embroiderers here, it must be hard to make a living."

She spoke with a hint of sympathy, glancing around with a puzzled look.

"It's not the Dragon King of Qingling River. Anyone who gets close to the riverbank will be swallowed by the river. Many people have already died. How dare we go there?"

"Lord Dragon King?" Chen Jinshu asked in confusion.

How did this water snake become the Dragon King in the mouths of these mortals?
"It's definitely the Dragon King. He has a pair of dragon horns on his head, and his mouth is wide open. It can swallow five or six people."

"Every time the Dragon King emerges from the river, he stirs up a fierce wind and a light rain."

"That doesn't warrant the title of Dragon King. At most, it's just a snake demon that has transformed into a dragon."

"Young lady, please don't say that outside. Someone will report you to the Dragon King. Then the Dragon King will come to take your life." The auntie quickly stopped Chen Jinshu from speaking, feeling a bit scared.

Chen Jinshu was surprised, not expecting that the water snake was both worshipped and feared by the people of Yulian City.

After all, these mortals might not even know that there are cultivators in the city.

The desire to eliminate the water snakes was initiated by the cultivators themselves, and had little to do with these mortals.

If she hadn't fully understood the situation before killing the snake demon, although she would have eliminated the threat, she might have faced condemnation from these mortals.

She wouldn't care about these things, but it was unpleasant and unpleasant to hear them.

"We need to plan this carefully before taking action against the snake demon."

She then got up and left the stall, wandering around to another stall.

Finally, they asked the people at many of the stalls.

The information we finally got was similar to what the old lady had said before: the people here both loved and hated the snake demon.

Love brings storms, which are good for crops, while hate deprives them of their fishing livelihood and makes life slightly harder.

Chen Jinshu then went to the city lord's mansion and requested an audience with the city lord.

The city lord of Yulian City is no ordinary person; he is also a cultivator, but his aptitude is lacking, and he is currently only at the early stage of Qi Refining.

"Greetings, senior of the Xuanming Sect!" the city lord said with a warm and respectful tone.

"Enough with the nonsense. I'm here to eliminate the snake demon. Tell me about its methods," Chen Jinshu said, giving him a cold glance.

"Please take a seat, senior!"

"We don't know exactly when this snake demon arrived. But the first incident in the river was eight years ago. At that time, a sudden storm arose. Huge whirlpools surged across the river, and the snake demon emerged with its head held high..."

As the city lord spoke, the shock in his eyes grew even stronger. Every time he recalled that day, he was still deeply moved.

Ultimately, it was because his level of spiritual cultivation was too low and his knowledge too shallow.

After listening for a moment, Chen Jinshu immediately interrupted and told him to pick out the key points.

In the end, she did learn some of the snake demon's weaknesses and methods.

This snake demon possesses the power to summon wind and rain, and its body is strong and majestic. Although it has not grown claws, it is still quite powerful.

This snake demon has never left the river surface. Besides hiding its form to cultivate, another possibility is that there is treasure at the bottom of the river.

The snake demon's weakness is quite simple: it is afraid of dryness.

Once out of the water, the scales will immediately dry and harden, and will only return to their original state when they return to the water.

There was only one update. I had a gastroscopy and colonoscopy, and I felt extremely weak and sleepy.