The day of fortune-telling for the dragon

Hua Jue's heart skipped a beat, and she wanted to chase after that black shadow, but it only took a moment for the Jiang Wu brought by the torrential rain to envelop him gently, without leaving any traces, as if she had just been "seen" That glance was just an illusion.The mist had an abnormal yellow color and a faint pungent smell. When Hua Jue was about to cover her mouth and nose with her sleeve, she saw that Hua Dabao had already jumped onto his shoulders, wrapping his tail around half of his face while shaking his fur. , not letting him breathe.

Hua Jue took the cat's tail away, stuffed the fat cat into her sleeve, covered her nose and mouth, and slowly climbed up the bridge, but was stunned when she climbed halfway - at some point, those Taoist priests were about to go down the river. Tan's wooden door was locked, and the expressions of the people behind were indifferent. The knife hadn't been sheathed yet, but the meaning couldn't be more obvious—if Hua Jue passed by, he would definitely be greeted by a butcher knife.

With that look in his eyes, it seemed that he was already a dead thing.

Hua Jue's scalp went numb, and a basin of warm blood poured down the top of his head unexpectedly, drenching him all over.Thick blood and rain mixed together and slowly dripped down the steps. Hua Jue raised her head and saw the fairy-like old man standing on the bridge turned his back. She seemed to shake her head regretfully. to see him.The younger Taoist priest just looked at the sky, raised his hand and shouted: "Go - go -" the command stopped suddenly, sharp and hoarse.

Following this sharp voice, the people around became restless, and the eyes that fell on Hua Jue gradually changed, with surprise and expectation, as if a pack of wolves were watching a lamb besieged by them.

"Mr. Hua Xiao, goodbye." A person above the head said, "We should take over the title of Jiangling God's Fortune. I didn't want to trouble you so early, but who told you that you can't be idle and insist on breaking in? "

Hua Jue's breath was full of bloody smell, and he understood their eyes for a moment, and felt a chill - he really shouldn't have come here, these people saw him coming down, and immediately made him a bait!

The blood that was splashed on him might be cow's blood, or chicken's blood, but the most likely thing was to lure something into the bait with the smell of blood.

What are you trying to catch?He stared at the river, trying to get a glimpse of it, but the yellow fog on the river didn't seem to want to disperse at all.Hua Jue smelled it, it was realgar smoke.

snake?

He had indeed heard that some people in the industry caught snakes or big fish that had grown for hundreds of years and turned them into pills to improve their cultivation, but he didn't know if it was true or not.Now the owner of Jiangshan is obsessed with cultivating immortals, and the hundred-year-old Wang Bajing found out that they are all dedicated to the emperor; but this group of Taoist priests is obviously not imperial envoys. If they are sent by the emperor, they must be greeted by the city lord of Jiangling in person, and there is no need for the Taoists themselves. People go out to make such a big battle.

Hua Jue thought silently, then looked up at the people above, convinced that these people were indeed planning to push him into the tiger's mouth, so she gave up the idea of ​​asking for help, touched a dark brown stone instead, and rubbed around hard Carved a circle of charms on the ground.He was drenched and his fingers were shaking in the early spring cold, but he felt that freezing to death was better than being bitten alive by a snake or a big fish.

At this time, he didn't have time to deal with the group of wolves above, he just wanted to carve the characters faster and faster.It was the Yannei True Mantra for life protection, but the most worrying thing was that the mantra had more than 180 characters, even if Hua Jue had eight hands, it was impossible for her to write it quickly under such circumstances.

Above everyone's heads, a gap in the clouds suddenly broke, and a swimming light fell into people's eyes, which was fleeting.Everyone immediately caught the movement, and the young man on the bridge then chanted loudly: "Catastrophe breaks from west to east, and crape myrtle does not move. Evil obstacles are born, four ways of injustice. Unrighteousness will not be punished - I ask God to help! I ask God to help!" I ask God to help!"

Every time the young man recited "I ask God to help", a bolt of thunder and fire struck down, and it was draped in an imperceptible place in the river. The fog became thicker, and a huge fire suddenly appeared on the surface of the river, and the huge waves rose again. Earth shook.

Hua Jue was slapped aside by the water waves again, and she firmly pressed against the icy section of the river embankment, feeling that she was about to be crushed by the suffocating water pressure.This battle no longer looked like they were going to fish for something, but it was like a war. Hua Jue's ears hurt, and it took a long time for her to recover. She wiped the drops of water from her eyelashes and looked at the river.

The yellow mist had been pushed into the water by the surging waves, and the surface of the river was clear and peaceful, as if nothing had happened just now.But soon, Hua Jue noticed something different: the river water was glowing with a light red color, which slowly spread to the entire river surface, getting deeper and deeper.The water level dropped a few inches in a short while, revealing those extremely bent barbed wire, and the charms were densely entangled on it, shaking gently in the water.

The people on the shore were staggering, and the few who were able to stand still cheered: "We caught it! That thing was caught!"

With that said, they opened the gate and were about to rush down in a hurry.Hua Jue took a sip of water, coughed a few times, and tried to stand up while leaning on the wall. Before she could walk steadily, a huge black shadow suddenly rose in the middle of the river, passed by these people, and slammed into them fiercely. In the hard bluestone barrier of the river embankment!

With the whistling of the wind, all those people were overturned and fell into the river without exception. The thing hissed like a thunder, and it knocked down a corner of the embankment, and then circled upwards, swooping down like an eagle pouncing on its prey. Facing the ground, the places where they passed were filled with mourning, and the Taoist priests on the shore were dead or wounded, rolling on the ground, screaming in pain.

Hua Jue opened her eyes wide and saw clearly what it was——

dragon!

A pitch-black giant leaped up from the river, with viscous blood flowing on its body, spewing and splashing, but it seemed to feel no pain at all. At first, it seemed to be unable to find its way, and it seemed to be angry. Generally, it crushed the crumbling river embankment and stone bridge mercilessly.Hua Jue saw its eyes, which were cold, sharp and without any emotion.The Taoist priests were like dust particles under its rampage, regardless of life or death, they were all thrown into the river like dumplings.

The rain became heavier, Hua Jue lowered her head and picked up a piece of bloody dragon scale.

Now he knew what Hua Dabao brought home, it was dragon scales.The reason why the fat cat went back and forth seemed to be to get in touch with the thing in the water, or to try to fight... But he failed to get in touch, and instead brought himself in.

Hua Jue watched helplessly as the dragon crushed everyone into the water in an instant, the whole ground shook, and it seemed that the sound of the bridge breaking and the long embankment collapsing could be heard.I don't know why this dragon is not interested in him, probably because those people poured the wrong blood, it is the smell it doesn't like.Slowly, he discovered that something was wrong—the dragon didn't stop after sweeping across the field, but was twisting and screaming more and more crazily, the gravel rolled down, and the long dragon tail squirted some blood , as if the school of fish routinely struggled after landing.The storm was raging, Hua Jue held on to the wall firmly, feeling like she was about to be blown down.

Looking at the tumbling dragon, he shouted for some reason: "Go back quickly."

His voice was drowned in the rolling thunder.Hua Jue glanced casually, picked up a long knife dropped by a Taoist priest, took out a piece of wet talisman paper from his bosom, and nailed it to the edge of the blade.Hua Jue's whole body was pale from the cold, and he bit his finger hard to let the wound see blood. He dripped the blood on the talisman paper, and threw the long knife out.The long knife fell to the ground, and there was a crisp "ding" sound, which was very small, but the dragon suddenly became quiet as if it heard it, and turned back to look at him.

Immediately afterwards, the strong wind picked up again, and the black dragon rushed towards him like the wind, scaring Hua Jue to close her eyes tightly.He started tinnitus again, the cold rain seemed to penetrate his soul, there was nothing but cold except cold.But he waited for a long time without any movement, so he slowly opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the half-written protective spell under his feet, the handwriting carved on the stone faded under the influence of some force up.

Half a foot away, the black dragon stared at him quietly.

Being so close, Hua Juefang found that the dragon's eyes were already blind: the two white jade egg-like eyes glowed like white bones, and nothing on its body was intact. Blood oozes deeply.Hua Jue's hair and skirt were blown up in the strong wind, and Hua Dabao trembled in his sleeve.He hugged his fat cat tightly, gently held the life-protecting jade hanging around his neck, and forced himself to look at it calmly.For some reason, Hua Jue felt that it could see, and because of this, he could vaguely read some of its anger and indifference before.

—except at this moment.

Hua Jue's whole body tensed up. He knew that he couldn't show the slightest cowardice when facing the beast, otherwise he would die easily. The spell was useless. He was unarmed, so he could only stare back, hoping that the crazy dragon could return to the river. Follow the river into the sea, and never get involved in the world.

The dragon seemed to be stunned, and sniffed at him. The scent was not intended to kill him or scare him away, but rather like... an old friend reunited.

Hua Jue felt that the sound of the wind stopped, his tinnitus also stopped, the dragon let out a menacing, deep grunt, then leaned forward...and kissed his lips gently.

It was probably inaccurate to say it was a kiss, the huge dragon's head was pressed close to him, making his cheeks feel cold.Hua Jue was full of shock, before she could react, she saw the eyes like white jade eggs disappear in front of her, the scales scattered one after another, and the black dragon that shook the world disappeared, as if it was scattered in the wind.

He opened his eyes wide, and suddenly found himself embraced by a cold embrace. The black-haired man in black was covered in blood, his bloody lips brushed against his lips, and he leaned tiredly on his shoulder.

"Take me away."

The man said in a low voice.Hua Jue looked at him in disbelief, but saw the man leaning back unbearably, pulling him into the icy river with him.Hua Jue thought he was numb from the cold, but at this moment, he experienced the pain of being cut by an ice knife again. The turbid and blue river water poured into his chest and lungs, bringing a severe tearing sensation. He couldn't swim. After thumping a few times, his body was no longer under his control, and he slowly fell into the darkness together with his consciousness.

It was boundless cold...but there was something warm, maybe it was the warmth brought by Hua Dabao desperately clutching his collar, or maybe it was the warmth of a stranger who hugged him tightly to prevent him from falling embrace.