And said you're not a fairy

Chapter 126 Slaying the River Demon

boom!
Just when everyone didn't know why, the boat was hit again.

"It's the river demon!"

The scholar Luan Ruiyu seemed to have thought of something, he said with a very frightened face.

As for the other people standing at the bow, when they heard the scholar Luan Ruiyu's voice, their expressions all changed.

Because they woke up at this time, it turned out that it was not the cargo ship that hit the rocks in the river, but they encountered the river monster.

"Everyone hurried back to the cabin and stood at the bow of the boat to be careful not to be thrown into the river."

At this time, the boss of the boat, the big salamander, seemed to have thought of something, and he shouted at the people standing at the bow, reminding them.

But his reminder was already too late.

After he had just finished speaking, a stronger force hit the bottom of the boat.

The mother and daughter standing at the bow, Luan Ruiyu, Shang Xin and the two scholars, were immediately thrown away by this force, they jumped over the railing of the bow deck in the air, and all fell into the river.

As for the other people standing at the bow, after the cargo ship was tilted by this force, they finally saw what the river monster kept hitting the bottom of the ship on the river in the mist!
This is a river monster with a length of nine feet and a height of nearly eight feet. Its back is covered with ferocious barbs and it has four legs.

After hitting the bottom of the ship three times and finally knocking several people on board into the river, it stopped hitting the cargo ship and immediately jumped up from the river, opened its bloody mouth, exposed two rows of sharp teeth, aimed at the girl, and wanted to swallow the girl who fell from the bow of the ship in one gulp.

Seeing the gigantic river monster jumping up from the river, everyone rolled into a ball after falling on the bow deck, their faces were pale with fright.

Not to mention rescuing the pair of girls who fell from the bow and were about to die in the mouth of the river demon, the woman who fell into the river, and the two scholars.

On the contrary, it was the salamander, the boss of the cargo ship. Because he stayed on the ship all year round, he kept his balance and did not let himself fall when he encountered several collisions with the river monster.

Seeing that the mother, daughter and two scholars were thrown off the bow of the boat and fell into the river, especially the girl who was about to die at the mouth of the river demon, the salamander was about to jump off the boat to rescue them.

"It's not good, the wind is strong, the bottom of the boat was hit by a river monster and a big crack was opened, and the cargo ship started to leak."

At this moment, a crew member ran from the bottom cabin to the deck, saying in panic.

The salamander looked helpless, he stopped and said to the crew member:
"When the ship is broken, quickly organize people to repair it, otherwise we will all be finished if it is too late."

When he finished speaking and turned his head, he found that Chen Yuan, who was standing beside him, had disappeared.

When the river monster hit the cargo ship several times just now, everyone fell down one after another, and even some people were thrown out of the boat, the boat boss Dafeng Salamander just noticed that, except for his many years of experience in sailing, he was not knocked down by this huge force when the cargo ship tilted.

The boss of the boat, the salamander, guessed in his heart that this Daoist Qingming might be a master of Taoism who walks in the world.

When he was searching for Chen Yuan's trace, he discovered that Chen Yuan jumped down from the bow deck at some point, taking a step ahead of the river demon, grabbed the panic-stricken girl and threw her back onto the bow deck.

"Take it!"

Chen Yuan turned around and shouted to the boss of the boat, the salamander.

It was only then that the boat boss, the giant salamander, realized that the direction in which the girl was being thrown was exactly where he was standing.

The big salamander, the boss of the boat, immediately opened his hands and took the girl into his arms without any mistakes. The girl was temporarily out of danger.

As for Chen Yuan who jumped off the cargo ship, after throwing the girl back to the bow, his body lost strength and fell into the river.

After the girl was rescued by Chen Yuan, the river monster opened its bloody mouth and passed the place where the girl just fell, but it didn't bite anything.

The huge body drew a beautiful arc in front of the cargo ship, and fell directly onto the river, like a huge boulder smashed into the river, stirring up waves nearly ten feet high.

The cargo ship was hit by the waves again and almost capsized. The people who had just climbed up were shaken by the tilting force of the cargo ship again and fell to the deck.

However, what Chen Yuan did angered the river monster.

After falling into the river, it no longer hit the cargo ship, but dived into the river and began to search for traces of Chen Yuan.

The surface of the river gradually calmed down, and the cargo ship also began to stabilize after being hit by the waves just now.

Seeing that the danger was temporarily lifted, everyone stood up from the deck again. Some people resisted the fear in their hearts and stood beside the railing at the bow, holding the edge of the railing tightly with both hands, sticking their heads out of the boat to observe the situation in the river.

As a result, except for the dark green river water and the surrounding fog, nothing was seen. The huge river monster just now seemed to have disappeared.

From the surface of the river, you can only see the somewhat swaying water surface, plus the large and small eddies that constantly appear around the cargo ship.

All this shows that the bottom of the river is not calm, and it seems that a fierce battle is going on.

"Boss Chuan, this Daoist Chen Yuan..."

After everyone looked at it for a while, Amren turned his eyes to the side, and was comforting the captain Salamander who was crying the pear blossom and raining girl after she escaped from danger.

"We were lucky, and met a Taoist expert with profound Taoism."

After calming down the girl, the boat boss salamander spoke kindly to Amu.

"Brother Chuan, in your opinion, is this Taoist priest the opponent of the river demon?"

At this time, Sun Dan, a scholar, also asked about Chuanlao Dao.

Fortunately for him, the other two scholars who were traveling with him just now were all thrown into the river because the river monster hit the cargo ship, causing the cargo ship to shake and tilt.

Only he clung to the guardrail tightly and avoided the end of falling into the water.

"I don't know, but we'd better pray that the Taoist leader can defeat the river monster, otherwise we will all die today."

The big salamander, the boss of the boat, shook his head solemnly and said.

If the Taoist priest can't beat the river demon, after the river demon has dealt with the Taoist priest, the next target must be the people on the cargo ship.

call out!
Just as they were talking, everyone heard a sound of swords coming from the cabin.

Then I saw a silver sword light flying out of a certain room in the cabin, and everyone looked carefully, only to find that it turned out to be an iron sword.

After the iron sword flew out of the cabin, it made a turn on the cargo ship, and then plunged into the river without a trace.

"That is?"

Everyone was horrified.

"It should be the saber in Daoist Qingming's sword box. An expert with a sword has a spirit. When he sensed that Daoist Qingming was in danger, he unsheathed himself to help the master."

The boat boss Dafeng salamander said.

He remembered that when Chen Yuan got on the boat, he carried a sword box like a piano box on his back, but he never saw Chen Yuan open it.

The sword box should contain this sword.

And after the iron sword flew into the river, it didn't take long for the eddies of various sizes to emerge out of the river, but they gradually disappeared.

Just when everyone on the boat was guessing whether the priest had already dealt with the river monster.

The river parted suddenly, and a gigantic black shadow nearly two feet long flew out, like a hill, and fell to the bow of the deck.

Everyone was taken aback and quickly dodged the huge monster.

Boom!

After a loud noise, many fence boards were smashed on the bow deck, and everyone on board took a closer look and found that the thing that fell on the bow deck turned out to be a head.

This head is strip-shaped, with two rows of sharp teeth in the mouth, a few fangs are exposed and criss-crossed, the skin surface has snake-like lines, and metallic-colored scales. At this time, the opponent's bowl-sized eyes are wide open, and there seems to be unwillingness in the eyes before death.

In addition, everyone noticed that the fracture at the end of the head was neat and bleeding, as if it had been cut off with a sword.

At this moment, a young Taoist, holding a blood-stained iron sword in one hand and soaked clothes in the other, with his eyes closed, not knowing the woman's life or death, but without any water stains on his body, jumped out of the river and landed on the bow of the deck.

This person is Chen Yuan.

"The priest is back!"

Seeing that Chen Yuan had successfully killed the river monster, the boat boss Big Salamander said happily.

This means that everyone can survive today.

"Ok!"

Chen Yuan nodded calmly.

He walked up to the big salamander, the captain of the ship, and put the unconscious woman with the other hand on the deck.

"Master, is she alright?"

Seeing that Chen Yuan succeeded in rescuing the woman, the boss of the boat seemed to be relieved, and he asked Chen Yuandao.

"She's fine, she just drank some river water and passed out."

Chen Yuan said.

"Let her spit out the water in her stomach and rest for a while, and she should be able to wake up."

Chen Yuan then said again.

"Thank you Daoist for your help. Just now, Xiao Ling'er was begging me to help her mother, but I'm just a bow with low skills. Fortunately, I met Daoist. You not only saved Xiaoling'er's mother, but also everyone on board."

The big salamander, the boss of the boat, saluted Chen Yuan solemnly and thanked him.

"You don't need to thank me, it's just a matter of raising your hands. The poor Taoist is also on this boat. If the ship sinks, the poor Taoist will give you all the money, so you can't walk to Jianghuai City."

Chen Yuan smiled.

"Master Daoist, please ignore the past and save Brother Luan and Brother Shang."

At this time, Sun Dan, who was walking with Luan Ruiyu, Shang Xin and others, saw that Chen Yuan rescued the woman alone, but failed to save his two friends, so he begged Chen Yuan sincerely.

"The two of them made the right friends."

Chen Yuan looked at the scholar Sun Dandao after hearing the words.

Ordinarily, Luan Ruiyu and Shang Xinhe had offended him once.

Whether he can save these two scholars is only in his mind.

Although he is not a person who avenges public and private revenge, he is not a person who repays grievances directly.

"Forget it, for your sake, Pindao took action to save their lives."

Chen Yuan agreed.

From the beginning, he originally wanted to make the other party suffer, improve his memory, and then save the two scholars.

Calculating the time, the suffering of the two of them is almost the same.

While speaking, he threw the rusty sword in his hand towards the direction of the cabin, and immediately the rusty sword turned into beams of sword light in the air, and flew back to the sword case that Chen Yuan placed on the bow of the small room.

Chen Yuan jumped off the bow of the deck again and disappeared into the mist.

This time, because the river demon had been eliminated, the moment Chen Yuan jumped off the bow, everyone came to the fence beside the boat, just in the looming mist, they saw the scene of Chen Yuan jumping into the river.

I saw that the moment Chen Yuan jumped off the bow and touched the river, the surrounding river seemed to be avoiding Chen Yuan, and separated from Chen Yuan.

However, as Chen Yuan's body continued to fall, the river water flowed over his head, blocking everyone's sight, and they could no longer see the situation in the river clearly.

Only then did everyone realize that at some point, on the river surface around the cargo ship, there was a five or six zhang long corpse with a white belly and a huge body.

At this time, the river water within ten feet around the cargo ship was also dyed blood red. It should be the blood that flowed from the half of the river monster's corpse on the river surface.

"I think this Daoist Qingming is probably a fairy?"

The scholar Sun Dan's eyes were filled with surprise, he turned around and said.

But the big salamander, the ship's boss, couldn't directly press the woman's chest because of the defense between men and women. He could only turn the unconscious woman's body upside down, put her head on the bow of the deck, put her legs and feet on a pile of thick anchor ropes piled up more than a foot high, and slowly pour out the river water in her abdomen.

"I don't know if it's a fairy or not. I only know that this Daoist priest has treated us with grace this time and saved the lives of everyone on board."

The big salamander, the boss of the boat, finished all this work, stood up and said.

While they were talking, Chen Yuan jumped up from the river again. In his left and right hands, each held a full stomach of water. The two scholars, Luan Ruiyu and Monk Xinhe, who had swollen bellies, threw them in front of the scholar Sun Dan.

"Although the two of them are a little more serious, they are not too serious. You can help press their chests and abdomen, let them spit out the water they just drank in their stomachs, and rest for a while."

Chen Yuan said to Sun Dan, a scholar.

"Thank you, Daoist, for your kindness in saving me."

Hearing Chen Yuan's words, Sun Dan said gratefully.

After thanking Chen Yuan, he immediately squatted down, pressed the chest and abdomen of his two friends, and squeezed out all the river water they had just drank from their stomachs.

Anyway, they are all men, and there is no defense between men and women. It is much easier for them to spit out the water they just drank in their stomachs.

"The wind is strong, the cracks at the bottom of the cabin have been repaired, and the next step is to drain the water from the bottom of the cabin."

Then another crew member ran up from the bottom cabin to report to the boss of the ship, the big salamander.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Hearing that the cracks at the bottom of the cabin had been mended, the boss of the ship, Big Salamander, was relieved.

In such a dangerous situation, even if there is an expert like Chen Yuan on board to get rid of the river monster, if the crack is not repaired, he is ready to send the other guests on the boat to the shore and unload the goods on the shore, so as to avoid the loss from expanding.

Now that the cracks in the bottom of the cabin have been mended, there is no such thing at all.

The cargo ships they run are usually on board, and some wooden boards and nails are prepared, so as not to prevent the cargo ship from sinking immediately when the ship hits a submerged reef and encounters an accidental water leak, so that there is time to react.

"Unfortunately."

said the crew member.

After reporting the situation to the boss of the ship, the big salamander, the crew member turned around and left, and went back to the bottom warehouse. The crew still had a lot of things to do.

Although the cracks are repaired, if the river water at the bottom of the cabin cannot be drained in time, the cargo ship is still at risk of sinking.

"I didn't expect to meet Daoist Chen Yuan here!"

At this moment, everyone heard an unexpected and joyful voice from the middle of the river.

Everyone looked into the river, their eyes widened suddenly, and they saw a scene that they will never forget in their lives.

(End of this chapter)