Please control me, my divine being!

Chapter 96 The Dragon King Turns Over and Engages in Fierce Battle on the Water

The covered boat moved slowly through the underground waterway.

The boatman poled his bamboo pole, parting the water and creating ripples.

The waterway was deep and dark, with a complex network of paths, and other awning boats could emerge from any fork in the road at any time.

The only source of light was the lantern at the bow of the ship, which emitted an orange glow.

Gu Qinghan leaned against the edge of the boat. Her zombie body didn't make her dislike the darkness. On the contrary, her vision wasn't greatly affected in the darkness, and she felt like a fish in water.

This was a pleasant surprise she discovered after sleeping in the coffin: the zombie had some night vision.

"Manager Gu, what kind of place is Guolinggang?" Jin Buhuan was a little worried about the place they were going to: "I've been in Jiang'an for so many years and I'm quite familiar with the place, but I've never heard of it before."

"Just like this Hexiafang."

Gu Qinghan replied once and then stopped responding.

She also discovered this place in the previous shop owner's ledger. When the owner went to purchase goods, 80% of the materials for raising and refining corpses, as well as fresh corpses, came from here. It should be a gathering place for corpse raisers.

After a brief conversation, the river fell silent again, with only the sound of oars cutting through the water.

But they hadn't gone far.

The boatman standing at the bow of the awning boat paused, put down the oars, picked up the lantern, stared at the rippling river surface, and blurted out, "Be careful, it looks like the Dragon King is about to turn over; we need to get out of here quickly."

Gu Qinghan was not from Jiang'an and didn't even know why she was in Jiang'an, so she naturally didn't understand what the other person meant by "the dragon king turning over".

As for Jin Buhuan, he only knew that Jiang'an had a tradition of worshipping the Dragon King, and that every household would pay a sum of money for Dragon King incense every year, but he had never heard of the saying "the Dragon King turns over".

He was not a cultivator and could not understand the meaning behind it.

The boatman didn't have time to explain further; he quickly took out lamp oil from his pocket and poured it into the lantern.

In an instant, a blazing flame erupted inside its lampshade.

The orange flames that were once there have quickly turned into a ghostly green, cold and chilling.

"It's high-quality corpse oil." Gu Qinghan smelled the lamp oil in the boatman's hand and became more vigilant. The boatman didn't seem to care and continued sailing towards the exit.

Gradually.

Gu Qinghan, on the boat, noticed that the waves on the river were becoming increasingly violent.

Something seemed to be wriggling in the riverbed.

The next moment, a wet arm suddenly stretched out of the river and rested on the edge of the boat.

But the moment it came into contact with the cold light, the arm covered in black spots instantly retracted and splashed waves against the edge of the boat.

Jin Buhuan did not notice anything unusual, at most he sensed some strange movements, and he dared not open his eyes.

Gu Qinghan's vision was far broader than that of ordinary people. She could see that on the long river ahead, there was not just one arm, but countless arms, densely packed together, like a lotus root field.

The ship pushed its way through these arms in this environment.

Under the eerie green light, these arms tried to climb onto the boat, but were quickly forced back and retracted.

This wasn't the first time the boatman had faced this situation, but he was visibly tense, staring intently at the water below, fearing something even stranger might emerge.

The awning boat moved forward amidst the rolling waves, its surface shimmering with an eerie light, and these strange arms were unstoppable.

But they stopped after a short while.

Gu Qinghan frowned, his gaze fixed on the distance ahead.

The piercing sound of swords clashing echoed through the narrow, cramped river channel.

The two sides fighting on the river were the two brothers from the Crying Bones Society and the group of government officials.

Furthermore, the officials were already at a disadvantage.

Several people were knocked into the water, grabbed by those arms, and sank deeper and deeper without any chance to resist.

[Underground waterway.

Xu Mofan, commander of the Zhenfu Division, has been fighting with the Crying Bone Society for a long time.

This is clearly a rare opportunity.

If we can seize the opportunity to eliminate these two Crying Bone Society cultivators, we won't have to worry about being hunted down by the Crying Bone Society for a long time to come.

We'll be luckier.

Perhaps we can even learn information about the Gu family and the Crying Bones Society from them.

Zhou Qing's heart stirred.

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The Crying Bones Society's attacks were constantly displayed in the status bar, and the frequency of the attacks was increasing, which had been giving him a headache.

This is indeed a good opportunity, but given the current circumstances, it's not something we can act on lightly.

The covered boat stopped briefly before being pushed forward by the surging waves.

Even though the boatman was trying his best to stop it, he was helpless in the turbulent river.

We are getting closer and closer to the battlefield.

You find that the river ahead is blocked, and three covered boats have collided.

Chen Yilong blew the bone flute, and the soldiers' bones went weak and their legs went limp. They stood on the swaying water, staggering from side to side.

Chen Yihu, with dead man makeup on his face, turned his head and gave you a cold smile.

In a short time.

You feel as if your mind has been struck a heavy blow, and you've fallen into the water with a splash!

On Zhou Qing's interface, a check request popped up instantly.

[He suffered a mental attack from the mortician, causing his body to become unbalanced.]

The river environment is abnormal!

Triggering an anomaly check: The Dragon King's whisper. The Dragon King of Jiang'an, at the confluence of three rivers in Jiang'an City, seems to be making some kind of sound.

Testing requirements: Failure to pass requires 20 in spiritual awareness, 20 in mental discipline, and 15 in depravity!

Whispers drifted from the distant, deep waters, their strange syllables leaving you utterly bewildered.

Initiate escape check!

Corpse transformation five, corruption five, spirit ten – please roll the numbers.

There's no need to even try the first test. Even if Zhou Qing uses his own fate dice, Li Qinghe's fate dice, and Gu Qinghan's fate dice, and the three of them are tied together, they still won't be able to pass.

On the contrary, escaping the check is much easier.

"Brother, this guy is too weak, he doesn't seem like that tomb keeper!" Chen Yihu frowned as he realized that a casual, mundane technique had swept the other party off the boat.

The creature, completely shrouded in robes, had a strong odor emanating from it.

It is the aura of the sacred objects of the Weeping Bones Society.

And this thing has always existed on Gu Qinghan, the escaped member of the Gu family.

Because of the sacred object's influence, even her blood would carry this scent, and Chen Yihu would never mistake it.

But this was just a tentative attack, and the result greatly surprised him.

"It should be a corpse refinement," Chen Yilong replied haltingly, blowing his bone flute. "A swift and decisive battle is needed."

The two brothers were originally bound by the Soul-Binding Rope of the Zhenfu Division, but they happened to encounter a strange change in the river and the Dragon King turned over. The team of officials were caught off guard and their mistakes were exposed.

The two then launched a fierce attack, knocking several officials into the water one after another, and at this point they had firmly gained the upper hand.

Once you fall into the water, you will be tightly bound by those ghostly hands and will never be able to float back up.

The two brothers had never seen such a scene before.

However, their experience of fighting other cultivators in the wild for many years allowed them to quickly adapt to the environment. On the other hand, the remaining officers had already retreated to another awning boat.

Several skilled men had died, and Xu Mofan's eyes blazed with fury, but he did not lose his composure. Instead, he ordered an attempt to start the ship.

The situation is currently unfavorable.

It's not too late to come and get these two after the unusual activity on the river has subsided.

"Chief Xu, we can't move the boats!" After discovering that the three covered boats were stuck together, the officers said anxiously, "It's too dark in this underground sewer; we can't see anything at all."

"Don't panic. Form a defensive formation and hold your ground until this special period passes." Xu Mofan reassured everyone, his hands forming a hand seal, his eyes turning bloodshot, and his whole body enveloped in a sharp, malevolent aura.

Unlike the corpse aura on a zombie.

This malevolent aura comes from the bloodshed, battles, torture, and punishment.

Once activated, the other officers around him also formed similar hand seals, their eyes no longer showing anxiety or fear, and their bodies emanating the same murderous aura, swirling around each other.

The entire awning boat was enveloped in malevolent energy.

The attacks from the two brothers of the Crying Bone Society vanished without a trace amidst the baleful aura.

Chen Yilong's pupils flickered slightly, and from his slightly parted lips, a corpse beetle crawled out from under his tongue, flapping its wings and flying towards Xu Mofan.

In the pitch-black darkness, this tiny insect was extremely well hidden.

The malevolent aura emanating from the other party had no effect on this specially refined corpse beetle.

All that could be heard was Xu Mofan's cry of pain.

A bloody hole was bitten into her forearm; the corpse beetle had burrowed under her skin, tearing and moving about, spreading its corpse poison wantonly.

Suddenly, her right hand fell limply to the ground, the hand seal dissipated, and the malevolent energy surrounding the ship froze.

Chen Yihu, who had been preparing for a long time, let out a strange laugh. With his face painted with the makeup of a dead man, he took off his robe, revealing a white shroud underneath, on which were wrapped in layers of blood.

Protected by the paper shroud, he rushed into the awning boat shrouded in malevolent energy.

Then, with lightning speed, he removed the blood-stained threads binding his body, and his body floated through the crowd like a willow catkin, instantly stitching the three officials together.

There was no pain or wound.

Their skin and flesh seemed to have grown together since childhood, inseparable.

The mortician's mundane skill is sewing the corpse with embalming thread.

Seeing that the evil formation was about to be broken, Xu Mofan gritted his teeth, stretched out his left hand, and slapped the waist token of the commander of the Zhenfu Division hanging at his waist. The sound of tiger roaring and dragon howling resounded out.

"Dragon and Tiger Aura!"

Chen Yihu let out a strange cry.

Although he had never seen it before, he guessed it instantly.

Because of the impact of this invisible force, all his mundane skills became ineffective, his burial makeup fell off, and the paper shroud on his body immediately backfired, making it hard for him to breathe. The surrounding evil energy continued to surge into his body.

Only those high-ranking officials who had been granted titles by the Wu Dynasty and wore crimson and purple robes possessed the aura of a powerful dynasty, capable of such a world-changing effect.

just.

How could a commander of a thousand men, especially one on a mission like this, possibly possess such a strong aura of dragon and tiger?

Based on Chen Yihu's past experience dealing with these officials, he never thought that the other party would have dragon and tiger aura, so he did not take any precautions.

Of course, even with precautions, it is still extremely difficult to deal with.

This thing was the key to Wu Chao's ability to suppress the world and sweep across all directions.

With all his skills rendered useless and his mundane weapon backfiring, Chen Yihu tried to escape, but Xu Mofan drew his long sword and, enduring the excruciating pain of being bitten by the corpse beetle, slashed down on him from behind.

Chen Yilong, on another awning boat, planned to offer assistance.

But suddenly, a figure rushed out from the deep, dark water.

It was Gu Qinghan who had fallen into the water earlier.

At that moment, her eyes shone brightly, moving with lightning speed.

The darkness, combined with the stealth advantage, made them almost completely silent.

The people fighting fiercely on the water's surface were unaware of the commotion underwater, which allowed her to strike at the perfect moment!