My Immortal Brother-in-law

Chapter 34 Old Loach

"Master, is this stone okay?"

Deng Jiugong picked up a piece of five-colored stone with great interest and showed it to Zhong Su.

"No."

Zhong Su shook his head mercilessly.

But only for a moment.

"Master, how about this one? Is it okay?"

"Or not."

Zhong Su denied Deng Jiugong's picked-up items without hesitation.

"You can't read the Five Qi Movements, and you can't see through the Five Light Stones, so just play by yourself and don't bother me."

Zhong Su, who was harassed in every way, waved to Hu Jiao in the distance. Hu Jiao immediately rushed over, picked up Deng Jiugong and sent him to the water in the distance.

However, after seeing Deng Jiugong off, Hu Jiao moved closer to Zhong Su again and looked behind him curiously.

"Master, did you see that big fish? It seems to be a catfish."

"It's a loach, just a little bigger and fatter."

Zhong Suli responded without even turning his head, and his hands did not stop moving, still searching for the five-color stone.

And the big loach behind Zhong Suli.

Hearing Zhong Su and Hu Jiao talking about him, he glanced at Hu Jiao carefully, then tried to calm himself down, struggled against the fear brought by the white tiger, and poked his head out of the water.

"Uh...oh...ah..."

It seemed that this loach had not spoken for a long time, or it was too nervous, so that after a long time of speaking, it could only make "oh oh" and "ah ah".

Seeing the funny look of the loach, Hu Jiao opened his tiger mouth and smiled, then leaned forward and used his beard to tease the loach.

The loach was frightened by the tiger. Who in the family could understand why the huge tiger head was so close to him?
So the loach was shocked and finally said his first words.

"Don't come over!!!"

The voice was full of fear and despair, which made Zhong Su stand up and look towards the loach.

Seeing that Hu Jiao seemed to still want to use her claws to grab the frightened loach, Zhong Su raised his hand and grabbed Hu Jiao in his hand.

The several-meter-long tiger dragon suddenly turned into a silver-colored dragon the size of a teacup and was thrown onto Zhong Su's shoulder. This is one of the uses of the Big and Small Ruyi.

Big or small Ruyi can not only benefit yourself, but also others.

Because of this, the power of the Big and Small Ruyi is far beyond the imagination of most people.

When this supernatural power works on oneself, it is like controlling the heavens and the earth, and when it works on others, it can also be like controlling the world in one's sleeves.

As long as the opponent and the space around him continue to shrink, the opponent will not be able to touch Zhong Su's sleeve no matter how he uses escape techniques.

Just like Hu Jiao at this moment who has turned into a teacup cat in an instant, even though she is confused, she can't grow big again, and can only stay on Zhong Su's shoulder and watch the fun.

After calming Hu Jiao down, Zhong Su nodded to the shivering loach and asked.

"I am Master Zhongshan, do you want to ask me something, Brother Loach?"

"Old Loach has met Lord Zhongshan. Lord Zhongshan will be forever blessed with immortality and a long life!"

Upon learning Zhong Sulu's Taoist name, the old loach respectfully saluted Zhong Sulu by slapping his head hard on the water.

With splashes of water, the loach raised its slippery fat head and continued to ask Zhong Su cautiously.

“The old loach has no name and has always lived in this river.

Just now, the old loach saw that the tiger had an immortal aura and was interested in the colorful stones in the river, so the old loach wanted to take the tiger to a place.

These colorful stones come from the mountains and make dozens of turns along the water flow. Most of them sink to the bottom in a few of the turns, and only a few can flow here along the river.

If you trust me, Old Loach, I will take you to a deep pond. The fluorite there is a hundred times more than here. I will definitely make you satisfied."

At this point, the old loach's nervous body began to tremble, and while shivering, he anxiously waited for Zhong Su's response.

Looking at the nervous loach, Zhong Su thought for a moment and then nodded.

"Thank you very much, Brother Loach."

"Haha, okay, follow me, I'll take you there right away!"

The loach was so happy that he immediately turned around and ran along the water. The old loach was very fast, but Zhong Su didn't take it seriously. With every step he took with Jiu Gong, the ground under his feet shrank rapidly. With just one step, he could easily catch up with the loach.

About a minute later, the loach led Zhong Su into a narrow tributary which was only one meter wide. At this point, it was difficult for the loach to move forward.

I saw him shaking his body desperately to move forward, rushing along a small tributary for more than 800 meters, turning around countless ancient trees and pines, and crossing many rugged rocks, before he finally reached the destination.

Although the tributary is small, there is a huge deep pool with a diameter of more than 600 meters at the end of the tributary. Zhong Su used the Ruyi whisk to probe the deep pool and found that the water was more than 300 meters deep.

It was really unexpected.

It was not until this time that Old Loach spoke to Zhong Su in shame.

“Don’t be afraid of being laughed at by the True Lord. I was born in the river and grew up in ignorance. I ate a lot without realizing it and became stronger. My mind also became clearer.

After my spiritual wisdom gradually developed, I instinctively prepared a place for myself to practice in peace.

This deep pond is one of the results of my forty years of transportation. In addition, I like colorful stones very much, so after the deep pond was built, I brought more stones here.

Nowadays, Lao Niu has become the place with the most stones..."

After he finished speaking, the old loach shyly dived into the deep pool.

After a moment, he was seen shaking his body to disperse the mud at the bottom of the pond, finally allowing the precious light that shot up into the sky to shine through.

No one knows how long this old loach has been accumulating the five-colored stones. Looking at this deep pool, Zhong Su feels that even if he digs dozens of caves, the five-colored stones he digs out will not be as many as those in the deep pool.

So after the old loach floated to the surface of the water, Zhong Su bowed to the loach in gratitude.

"The five-color stones here must be enough. Thank you very much for the gift.

But I don’t know what you want, if you have any, please tell me.”

"This...thank you very much, Master!"

There is no such thing as inexplicable help in the world. If there is nothing to ask for, why would the loach find itself and give away the things it has accumulated for countless years?

Now that Zhong Suli spoke so frankly, Lao Niu finally felt relieved and bowed to Zhong Suli again and again.

I don't know how many times he bowed seriously. Until he was out of breath, he finally stopped and turned to speak to Zhong Su.

"Please allow me to report to you, Master. I have been practicing till now... I am afraid I have been practicing for more than 600 years.

I, a loach, do not know how to distinguish the years and months, so I can only observe the alternation of day and night and make a rough calculation. If there is any deviation, I hope you will not blame me.

When I awakened my true spirit in the past, some of the heritage of water creatures appeared in my mind. That heritage taught me to swallow the wind and drink the moon, and also advised me to practice Taoism diligently in order to climb the Dragon Gate.

only……"

At this point, the old loach paused, and tears suddenly rolled out of his eyes.

While crying, the old loach continued speaking with a vicissitudes of life.

"But, maybe it's because I'm not talented, or maybe it's because I was too lazy in the past. Not only can I not see the dragon gate, but even my life span...

To be honest with you, I have already seen it. When the sun and the moon rise and set another 622 times, my soul will return to the vastness and my body will turn into mud and stone.

I am about to die, Master..."

As Loach spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at Zhong Suli earnestly and with tears in his eyes.

Facing Loach's gaze, Zhong Su remained expressionless and only asked softly.

"Is that so? Then, Brother Loach, do you want to live longer?
Or does Brother Loach intend to go one step further and transform into a real dragon?"

Having said that, Zhong Su looked at Loach with a more scrutinizing look.

Facing Zhong Su's question, Old Loach shook his head desperately.

While shaking his head, he pleaded with Zhong Su.

“Whether it’s immortality or turning into a dragon, it’s so simple in the words of the True Lord.

But the old loach doesn’t want those things, those are not the loach’s destiny, and the loach has already missed them.

Now, Loach just wants... just wants to see the sea with his own eyes!

My inheritance tells me that once I turn into a dragon, I can see the sea, and dragons are all in the sea.

The old loach has been waiting and guessing for hundreds of years what the sea looks like.

True Lord, please have mercy on me and take me to see the sea!"

(End of this chapter)