Chapter 161 Dragon

After the two of us sank Nie Xiaochun into the water, the surface gradually returned to calm.

Excessive silence can make people feel danger.

I twitched the fishing line a few times, signaling to Nie Xiaochun: Is everything okay underwater?

Nie Xiaochun's voice quickly came over: "If you shake it again, I'll jump back."

Fortunately, Nie Xiaochun was smart and used telepathy to talk to me; otherwise, the water ghost would have been scared away long ago.

After a while, there was no reaction in the water.

Qin Xin whispered, "Is your method useless? Why isn't there any reaction in the water?"

I responded, "I think the bait is probably not enough. Why don't you go down too? Two baits should be enough."

Qin Xin angrily kicked me: "Why don't you go down, and Xiaochun, Ye Yang, and I will fish from above?"

As we were talking, I saw a ripple in the water from afar, as if something was rapidly moving not far below the surface.

"It's coming!" I whispered to Ye Yang, but the latter suddenly stood up: "The Jiao Dragon is here!"

Before I could understand what Ye Yang meant, I saw a wave more than a meter high rolling up in the waterway, rushing madly towards us.

I yanked the fishing line upwards, and the cloth bag containing Nie Xiaochun flew towards me.

The fishing line used by sorcerers to hang water ghosts is specially treated, not only difficult to break with swords but also able to be used as a whip to strike people when necessary; otherwise, let alone water ghosts, even a slightly larger fish couldn't be caught.

So, I just gently yanked upwards, and the bag containing Nie Xiaochun quickly bounced towards me.

As I raised my hands to catch the bag, a dragon head half a person tall broke out of the water behind the bag and lunged straight at me.

The Jiao Dragon's pursuit of Nie Xiaochun was so close and its momentum so rapid that it was impossible for me to avoid it.

In a critical moment, I raised my hand and slapped the bag containing Nie Xiaochun away. I leaned back, and the Jiao Dragon swept past my head.

As I watched the Jiao Dragon's abdominal scales flash before my eyes, I suddenly heard a deafening roar in the distance, and the Jiao Dragon's body suddenly stopped, pressing down on me.

Ye Yang suddenly swept his leg and kicked me two meters away from the spot. As I slid away from the original position, the Jiao Dragon crashed to the ground, instantly scattering stone chips.

If Ye Yang had been any later, I would have been seriously injured even if I hadn't died.

I clutched my hip and got up from the ground: "Couldn't you just pull me?"

"Pulling would be too slow!" Ye Yang replied, then walked forward along the Jiao Dragon's body.

Only then did I see that the Jiao Dragon that came out of the water had actually shattered the Dragon Locking Stone with its impact, and it had also shattered its head and died on the spot.

Qin Xin said blankly, "Did we just break the Dragon Locking Stone like that?"

"Looks like it!" I responded to Qin Xin and walked into the tomb over the Jiao Dragon's corpse.

The underground dark lake on the lowest level of the tomb actually gave me the illusion of facing an ocean.

From our perspective, there were only continuous waves and floating yin energy. In the depths of the water, we could vaguely see a coffin floating on the surface.

Ye Yang pinched a spirit talisman between his fingers and reached forward. Before his arm was fully extended, the talisman burst into flames.

That cluster of fire was like some kind of signal. In an instant, clusters of green fire floated on the water surface, illuminating the endless lake half-bright and half-dark, making this lifeless dark lake even more eerie and strange.

"Someone is simulating the Underworld Sea!" Ye Yang frowned and said, "The coffin on the lake probably contains the corpse of Ying Gou."

As my mind raced, I understood many things: "Can we get that coffin out?"

Ye Yang whispered, "Although gods and ghosts cannot enter the Underworld Sea, a mortal body cannot withstand the yin energy in the Underworld Sea. Our two half-ghost bodies might be able to try."

"And then there's that Jiao Dragon."

Ye Yang looked at the Jiao Dragon with regret: "This Jiao Dragon is not a tomb-guarding beast, but a spirit beast specifically used to pull the coffin. Now that the Jiao Dragon is dead, I'm afraid we won't be able to get the coffin out."

I turned around and said, "Then let's not get it! It's just Ying Gou's corpse; we don't need it. Let's go!"

"But..." Qin Xin only said two words, and then couldn't continue.

She knew that I was right.

The purpose of our coming to Da Meng Village was to borrow the Da Meng Stone from the Old Ancestor of Forgetfulness. Ying Gou's corpse was of no use to us!

We didn't need to risk going into the water to move Ying Gou's coffin.

As I turned to leave, Qin Xin suddenly said, "Didn't we get tainted with corpse energy from the water when we came in? Will you and Ye Yang become like those dead people outside? Don't you want to find Ying Gou's corpse to dissolve the corpse energy in your bodies?"

I waved my hand dismissively and said, "The Four Great Zombies? It's not like we don't have them in the Liangjie Hall. At worst, we'll have Hei Ye Xiao suck out the corpse energy. Besides being a little disgusting, there's no problem! Let's go!"

Just as I was about to step out, I heard someone say, "Are you just leaving like this?"