I can't be a demon.

Chapter 112: The Great Tide of Bibotan

Shen Lian withdrew his gaze and sighed helplessly.

The underground river stretches for thousands of miles, and no one knows where the entrance and exit of Bibotan is. You might get lost before you even find the cave.

Shen Lian had read many books of the Jinwu Guard, but there was no mention of Bibotan at all.

It is most likely an unborn cave.

"Let's digest the harvest from Gao Laozhuang first."

"Even if Bi Bo Lake is nearby, it would be difficult for me to protect myself with my strength."

Unlike Gao Village, Bibotan is a cave inhabited by monsters. Shen Lian is in great danger as he lacks the protection of his wise eye.

"Hey."

"What a pity! It would be better if the job to advance to the fourth level was changed to the giant glutton."

If Shen Lian possessed the fourth-level food-replenishing ability, not only would his martial arts progress greatly increase, but his bone blade would also become more magical.

"Ah~ idiot~"

The mynah bird stood on the branch of the banyan tree, its eyes full of contempt.

"Go! Go! Go."

Shen Lian took a sip of the medicinal wine in the ghost gourd, and immediately a sweetness burst out between his lips and teeth.

There are more than a dozen elixirs soaked in the storage space of the ghost gourd. The one with the strongest medicinal power is the flesh of the Tianpeng fruit. After only a few days of brewing, more than a hundred kilograms of medicinal wine have been produced.

A little medicinal wine goes down the throat and turns into a large amount of nutrients that act on the blood, flesh and bones.

The Hunyuan Inner Elixir tirelessly absorbs nutrients, promoting the growth of cultivation while also feeding back to the body and soul through the circulation of the meridians.

With the help of the water from the Milky Way, the medicinal power was quickly exhausted.

"good."

Shen Lian shook the ghost gourd, which attracted the attention of the starlings. The silly birds chattered around the courtyard until they tasted the medicinal wine.

The starling flapped its wings and looked drunk.

"Ah~ The tide is coming in~"

Shen Lian frowned slightly. The mynah bird had been repeating similar words recently. It was very likely that it had noticed something strange about Bibotan.

"Eighth Master, you..."

The starling disappeared into the alley in the blink of an eye.

"Forget it. If something bad happens, the Jinwu Guards will come to inform you."

Shen Lian suppressed his distracting thoughts. No matter what, he could go to Gao Village to avoid the limelight at any time. The right thing to do was to focus on practicing martial arts.

He scanned the career panel and noticed that the concurrent practice of桩法 had reached perfection.

[Do you want to consume 3 points to synthesize the Yin-Yang Qi Pile and the Thick Earth Pile?]

[Whether to consume 3 points to combine Yin Yang Qi Pile and Jia Yang Pile]

.........

There are four types of stances, which consume a total of 12 points.

Although the synthesis by the pile method is not as significant as that by the inner alchemy, it still has some effect. As a result, two pieces of scales grow on the surface of the Hunyuan inner elixir.

Shen Lian smiled and said, "The opportunity to break through the bottleneck will come soon."

He drank medicinal wine continuously, and the nutrients washed away the Hunyuan Inner Pill.

The volume of the Hunyuan Inner Pill expanded slightly, and mysterious patterns appeared faintly. The medicinal wine produced by the ghost gourd contained almost no impurities.

Shen Lian closed his eyes, and the Hunyuan Inner Pill made a crisp "click" sound.

The total amount of Yin and Yang energy increased by 30%, and the spiritual consciousness also benefited greatly. The soul began to ignore the weight of the fifteen drops of Tianhe water.

【Yuan Dan (Shi Dan Stage)】

Shen Lian secretly consolidated his cultivation, and entering the third level of Yuandan was smoother than he had imagined.

Even the five senses are subtly enhanced.

Shen Lian stabilized his strength and half a day later he heard Fugui walk into the courtyard.

"Young Master, Ma Yi wants to see you for something."

Shen Lian opened his eyes. "Pickled fish? Just ask Mr. Wang to pay Ma Yi the money."

"Young Master, he said it's a live fish, so we need to negotiate the price."

"alright."

The corners of Shen Lian's mouth twitched, the stench of the fish monster's corpse was still vivid in his mind.

Ma Yi came to the courtyard cautiously, holding a sack in his hand, which seemed to contain a long snake similar to a river eel, which was constantly twisting.

"Meet the young master."

Ma Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"This strange fish has been growing bigger all the way. It must be a demon. It was only the thickness of a finger. Old Ma won't bother you. Just name your price."

"It's really a monster."

Shen Lian took the sack and controlled the strange fish without even exerting any strength.

The strange fish has a faint demonic aura, and after about a year, it is enough to threaten mortals.

He was not sure whether what Ma Yi said was true or not.

Before eating blood, the demonic energy of a monster grows very slowly. It may take two to three years of practice to achieve one year's cultivation. It is impossible to achieve everything in one go.

Shen Lian loosened the sack and let the strange fish come out.

"Young Master, don't!"

Ma Yi's face changed drastically and he took several steps back.

Shen Lian raised his eyebrows and looked at the strange fish that broke free from its restraints.

It has a fish-like body and a snake-like face, with a human-like face and two useless shrunken heads growing at seven inches, which look a bit like bird heads.

What made people feel extremely uncomfortable was that the strange fish was mumbling unclear human words in its mouth.

Shen Lian could clearly see that the strange fish was transformed from a fish monster from the Bibotan Lake.

The strange fish crawled awkwardly on the ground, as if it was born with a deformity, and could only roll over continuously by twisting its spine. The deformation of its bones even caused its scales to fall off and bleed.

The strange fish made threatening sounds and tried to get close to Shen Lian.

As it moved, the flesh, blood and bones of the strange fish slowly grew, and its power increased bit by bit.

Shen Lian secretly used his wisdom eye.

【Big Blue Dragon Fish】

[Growing in Bibotan Lake, it has been one year old. When alive, its meat is tender and delicious. After death, it is highly poisonous and cannot be eaten.] "Transform into a dragon!"

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes. Sure enough, the abnormality in the rainy season came from Bibotan. However, why was the so-called dragon transformation so deformed and useless?

"Old Ma, is ten taels enough?"

"Enough is enough."

Ma Yi was breathing rapidly. Ten taels of silver was definitely a huge sum of money for him.

He was about to reach out to take the money, but Shen Lian closed his palms again, "Old Ma, tell me the origin of the strange fish in detail, otherwise I will report it to the police."

Ma Yi's legs went limp.

"Young Master, please don't report it to the police. At worst...at worst you can just take it for free."

"You said."

"For some reason, a few days ago, the villagers saw a strange figure wandering in Yuquan. Well, Yuquan is a tributary of Bibotan where we fish..."

Ma Yi shuddered, and at that time there were creepy whispers all around Yu Quan.

The villagers were in panic.

He simply took the opportunity of selling mineral salt to report the incident to the government, and as a result, a large number of yamen runners rushed to Yuquan.

"The leader should be the Jinwu Guards. From what they call him, he is Lord Wang Xin."

The yamen runners said that a monster had appeared in Yuquan and the area was sealed off for more than three days. After the monster was eliminated, Wang Xin asked some villagers to help deal with the monster's corpse.

"Young Master, the corpse also has several heads, and it looks even more horrible. When you open its stomach, it is full of fish eggs."

"So, Ma Yi, you took a few fish eggs?"

"Hey, five pills."

Ma Yi smiled and added: "I thought of you first, Young Master, but unfortunately all the fish hatched from the four eggs were drowned."

"Drown?"

"They were fish, so I kept them in a jar. But they all turned upside down, and the only remaining fish was lying on top of the corpses and staying alive."

Shen Lian threw the silver and money to Ma Yi, who smiled brightly.

"Young Master, take it easy on yourself. When I'm on the road, if the strange fish makes a fuss, just throw it into the water and let it soak for a while."

No wonder he, an old man with no strength at all, could capture the monster alive.

Shen Lian glanced at Ma Yi's waist and saw another burlap bag full of coarse salt.

Obviously, Ma Yi had two plans. If the strange fish died accidentally, he would make it into pickled fish and send it over. In any case, he didn't want to make a wasted trip.

"Don't get close to Yuquan in your village recently. This thing is really a demon."

"I know, Young Master. More than a dozen people in the village have moved to the mines. They will live in the mountains for the next six months to mine salt."

There must be a reason why Ma Yi and others have been able to rely on Yuquan for generations. They are more cautious than ordinary people when facing demons.

"I'll leave first, young master."

Shen Lian watched Ma Yi leave, his expression becoming uncertain.

Whoosh.

A bony spine emerged from its back and it burrowed into the well.

Shen Lian's consciousness attached to the white bone spine and sensed the dense roots of the banyan tree, but he was not surprised and continued to look for traces.

"There is."

The bony spine retracted, with a few pieces of torn fish skin wrapped around the end.

【Big blue dragon fish skin】

[The large blue dragon fish from the tributary of Bibotan is highly poisonous and cannot be eaten. ]

"That is to say."

"For more than half a month, the fish monsters in the underground river turned into dragons one after another. Later, because the underground river was closed, all the fish monsters drowned and became extinct."

"No wonder there are no fish fruits."

Shen Lian kicked the strange fish unconscious, then took out a few books and started reading them.

"I remember seeing similar records before, but the situation seems a little different."

Shen Lian turned to one of the pages and his expression became extremely solemn.

"Is it... [Great Tide Shedding]?"

The so-called great tidal transformation, in simple terms, is a strange phenomenon that occurs when a certain type of cave is opened, and it involves the legendary Dragon Kings of the Four Seas.

Shen Lian twisted the strange fish into a twist shape and tied it tightly as a belt. Then he hurriedly left the pawn shop and went straight to the Tide Martial Arts School.

The Tide Martial Arts School is very lively.

Bai Haibo no longer faced the dilemma of not being able to recruit disciples. After all, some gangs vaguely knew of Shen Lian's identity, and they sent their descendants to learn martial arts intentionally or unintentionally.

No matter what, it's never wrong to use the title of Junior Brother Zhong Kui.

There were at least twenty or thirty disciples practicing martial arts in the martial arts hall.

Among them were many martial artists of ordinary backgrounds, which shows that after Bai Haibo became wealthy, he secretly sponsored poor people with outstanding talents to learn martial arts.

Shen Lian's arrival did not cause any ripples.

He scanned the courtyard, focusing his consciousness on Bai Jinbao in the crowd.

After not seeing him for a while, Bai Jinbao's special features worsened, but the appearance was not obvious, except for a few more scales on his neck.

But at least he is not as weak as before and has completed most of the four stages of foundation building.

It won’t even take long before Bai Jinbao can be promoted to a warrior.

"Ah Lian, how come you have time to come to the martial arts gym?"

After Bai Haibo noticed Shen Lian, the two went to the martial arts hall lobby to chat.

Shen Lian saw that Bai Haibo was worried, so he asked, "Master Bai, Junior Brother Jinbao seems to have already stepped into the martial arts apprenticeship."

Bai Haibo smiled bitterly and replied: "Jinbao has indeed made significant progress recently. He has even refined his bones without taking any powerful medicine."

"In the last half month?"

"kindness."

Bai Haibo hesitated and added: "Perhaps it is the instability caused by his natural peculiarity. Jinbao's peculiarity has indeed slightly intensified. Fortunately, it is not serious enough to affect his intelligence..."

“It has nothing to do with being born special.”

"Master Bai, you should have heard of the Sea People's [Great Tide Shedding], right?"

(End of this chapter)