Please control me, my divine being!

The moonlight was bright and clear.

On the official road outside Lianshan City, a large sedan chair with a road bell attached slowly moved forward.

Eight sedan chair bearers of similar build carried four red-lacquered sedan chair poles, humming a song as they creaked and groaned:

The sky is bright and clear, while the ground is full of puddles.

The footprints on the stone slab road are shallow, and the wind blows the paper sedan chair~ yiya yiya~ like crying and trembling.

Lushan Mountain lies submerged in the heart of the river, opening only once every hundred years.

Who's sitting in the sedan chair? It's the water-dwelling Taoist fairy, Chen Xiangu!

The singing was light and easy, and the sedan chair carriers hummed it with perfect pronunciation, even the spacing between each word was exactly the same.

Pedestrians hurried along the official road.

The pillars of fire that shot into the sky within Lianshan City could be seen from a great distance.

Those who had not yet entered the city, or those who still had the ability to escape from the city, were now carrying their travel expenses and valuables, and were quickly leaving this place of trouble on the official road.

The large sedan chair moved against the flow of people, constantly approaching Lianshan City. The surrounding pedestrians did not notice the unusual and strange scene, as if the sedan chair had become invisible and no one else could see it.

Even before entering Lianshan City, black mist began to roll in the dark sky outside the city.

These rolling mists descended from the deep and distant sky, emerged from the stone peaks and from the cracks in the earth, and enveloped the paper sedan chair.

Ring ring.

The bells on the sedan chair rang incessantly.

From within the deep and dense black fog, there was a piercing low weeping sound, like that of a ghost or god.

"Gentlemen of the Demon Extermination Army, as the leader of Yuyang, I cannot stand idly by while the situation in Lianshan City is unfolding. The City God, the Earth God, and the Kitchen God have all been taken by Zhuotian. If the last divine tablet also falls into the hands of the Huang family, we will lose seven cities this time."

A languid female voice came from inside the sedan chair, whispering towards the black mist outside: "We should at least hold onto half of Yuyang County, shouldn't we?"

The black mist lingered and did not dissipate, and that mournful, low sobbing sound rose again.

Not long after, the woman's voice rang out again from inside the sedan chair: "So that's how this religious sect came about."

I was wondering how the Liu Ren divination sect, which had been so secretive in recent years that it had almost disappeared, could suddenly start causing trouble in the north again.

Since a distinguished person is looking after this place, I will not overstep my bounds and do not presume to do so.

but,

This city cannot be taken by the North again; this is Lushan's bottom line.

The bells jingled again, and the sedan chair gradually disappeared into the distance amidst the songs of the sedan chair bearers. The lingering black mist in the sky also slowly vanished.

……

Jiang'an, the Prince Ning's Mansion.

The candlelight flickered, and a warm breeze blew gently.

Zhou Qing stared intently at the drastically changed game interface before him.

After the girl went into the water, a breathing bar quickly appeared, indicating how long she could move around underwater.

Because of his strong physique, the breathing bar didn't decrease quickly; instead, the sanity bar in the adjacent status bar decreased much faster.

Beneath the rapidly decreasing sanity bar are several strikingly bright red special negative statuses.

[Status Intimidation], [Beset by Resentment], [Twisted Power]...

Clicking on the effect of the negative status "Rank Intimidation" reveals a more detailed explanation:

Manifesting the divine power of the vast and turbid river lord.

He was appointed by the Dragon King of the Turbid River as the Water God of the Mountain and River Temple.

Worshipped by incense offerings from both sides of the strait, and listed in the pantheon of deities and enshrined in the altar, it has the power to intimidate all mortal things. When facing the River God, one's rationality decreases every second.

The remaining negative states all have roughly the same effect.

Either weaken the body's various attributes, or cause its condition to decline rapidly.

If you were to confront this thing head-on, it would be impossible to win. Fortunately, the opponent was in very poor condition. After being tortured by the Huang family and the Fajiao, this Manifestation of the Holy Tongze Guangyuan Zhuohe Jun was on the verge of collapse.

Zhou Qing looked at the game text.

You are swept away by the endless current, sinking deeper and deeper until you reach the bottom of the river.

In the deep darkness.

Two large, round eyes shone with a hazy light.

You sense a colossal being in the darkness, connected to the entire body of water, omnipresent, with every stream of water seeming like its tentacles, and every movement like its breath.

Fortunately, He no longer had the strength to move, and even maintaining His last breath required all His might.

You continue diving down to find the vanished Pang Ziyue.

More and more corpses appeared, most of them dressed in the black robes of the Fa Church.

These bodies did not sink to the bottom of the river, nor did they float on the surface. They floated in the water like water plants, swaying with the flowing waves.

They were held together as if by an invisible umbilical cord, neither swept away by the current nor sinking too high or too low.

Beneath the dark water, you can only see a small area around you; the rest is obscured, and you have no idea what lies beyond.

Because of your excellent intuition and spirit, you can vaguely sense that there is a more turbulent fluctuation in the lower left area.

You choose...

[Search], [Attack], [Wait]

There are only three options.

Zhou Qing immediately chose to attack, but there was no response whatsoever.

[You have not found a target to attack!]

What the hell?

Does the River God not have a physical form?

However, according to the game's text, the River God is clearly underwater, and the player is extremely close.

You can even see that all those who came from the riverbanks to offer sacrifices were dragged to the bottom of this river by the River God.

Zhou Qing refused to believe it and selected "Attack" again, and the same prompt appeared.

Okay, it really can't be selected!

How the hell do you play this?

"The River God cannot choose, but Pang Ziyue can. I can only find Pang Ziyue's location first."

Zhou Qing selected the search option.

[You are currently searching. The dim river surface greatly affects visibility.]

Spiritual awareness test failed!

The mental health assessment failed!

You did not find Pang Ziyue!

Zhou Qing frowned and immediately took out the Destiny Dice Cup from his prop table.

Splash!

The screen showed the sound of the dice cup shaking, and the final score was four. However, even with the addition of the Fate Dice, the check still failed.

Left with no other choice, Zhou Qing added his own dice.

This fate die, which belongs to him, already has a terrifying number from 1 to 9, but it will turn gray for a period of time after each use, like a "murmur" function.

The situation is complicated right now. I was thinking of cutting back, but it seems I can't cut back now.

The result of this draw was 3+6. Combined with Li Qinghe's own attributes, the plot text finally showed some changes.

Inspection successful!

You sensed Pang Ziyue's location in the dark underwater world.

She swayed with the waves like the other corpses, but the only difference was that she had a long umbilical cord made of water plants, scraps of cloth, dead fish and shrimp, and flowing water.

She is merging with the River God through this umbilical cord.

Just like a baby returning to its mother's arms.

Finding Pang Ziyue makes things much easier.

Zhou Qing's eyes flickered, he selected the attack, and then his hand quickly tapped the edge of the interface, popping up a huge scroll.