The fortune telling was so accurate that I accidentally accumulated a huge amount of merit!

Chapter 766 He who takes a bribe is bound to be indebted (2nd update)
Before coming here, Xuan Chu already knew the general terrain of Wuhuang Mountain by heart. There was an open-air campsite downstream of this stream.

At the current rate of water flow, the open-air campsite below will soon be in danger.

Xuan Chu shouted directly in the direction of the water, "Dragon Spirit, come out!"

Long Ling originally intended to leave this place by following the current, but unexpectedly, she heard Xuan Chu's voice.

He popped his head out of the water. Anyone with a weak heart would be terrified if they saw this.

The dragon spirit had been swimming in the deep pool for so long, and now that it had just come out, it still hadn't quite figured out what was going on.

"There are many people camping downstream of this stream, so we need to quickly block the water here."

Xuan Chu didn't waste any words. He instructed Long Ling to quickly fix the breach while he himself headed towards the gap.

Dragon Spirit: ...

Can he say that he really didn't do it on purpose?

Immediately afterwards, Long Ling swam upstream and soon reached the direction of the gap.

The water in this underground pool was like ice water; as soon as Xuan Chu entered the water, he felt a chill run through his entire body.

Xuan Chu was about to form a hand seal, intending to first block the water and then repair the breach.

As a result, his hands and feet suddenly became somewhat out of control, as if thousands of needles were piercing his bones.

"This water..."

Xuan Chu was about to ask if there was something wrong with the water when Xuan Kong suddenly pulled him to the shore.

The dragon spirit had already swum over and used its body to block the opening from which the water was flowing.

The stream that had become a ditch has returned to its original state.

Xuan Chu stared at the icy, bone-chilling water that drained his strength, his eyes filled with shock as he looked at Long Ling.

"Have you been soaking in this kind of water all this time?"

If that's the case, then he can understand why Long Ling laughed so arrogantly and unrestrainedly before.

Escaping from such a place is indeed something to laugh about.

"Of course! I've been soaking in the water here for a very long time!"

Long Ling took out her phone, which was supposed to be waterproof, but it still had some problems because it had been submerged for too long.

This made Long Ling extremely angry. Something worth tens of thousands of yuan was just ruined like that. Who wouldn't be angry!
Although he could easily find something in the sea that would be worth more than a cell phone, Long Ling was still very unhappy.

Xuan Kong carefully examined his little apprentice's appearance, and then looked at Long Ling, who was using his body to block the gap.

"There's something wrong with this water!"

Long Ling naturally recognized Xuan Kong, and upon hearing this, she felt that everything he said was nonsense.

"Of course there's a problem. Otherwise, how could they have trapped me for so long? With one swipe of my dragon claw, I could have destroyed this entire mountain!"

Xuan Chu sat down and regulated his breathing for a while before dispelling the chill in his body.

Those strange things that seemed to be wrapped around his bones, making him unable to exert any strength, were also completely removed.

"Hurry up and find me some stones. I'm blocking this gap, and I don't have the extra strength to do anything else."

Upon contact with this deep pool of water, the dragon spirit is unable to use its innate abilities.

Xuan Kong looked around and soon spotted a huge rock, weighing at least a ton.

He stuck a talisman on the stone, then easily lifted it up with his hand.

"Be careful, I've pushed the rock over here."

Long Ling also saw the talisman on the stone, and he shook his head with a sigh.

"This water is incredibly strange; it can easily dissipate the power of the Xuanmen, and of course, the power of other living beings." Thinking of something, Long Ling's eyes lit up.

I started looking for my old treasures and finally found a bronze jar that looked very old and had some corrosion on the surface.

He turned around and flipped the bronze jar upside down over the opening, causing the water from the pool to flow directly into the jar.

The jar didn't look big, but it could hold a lot.

A considerable amount of time had passed, yet the jar continued to diligently collect the water flowing from the pool.

"Xuan Chu, hurry up and help push the stone over here!"

At this moment, Long Ling felt that Xuan Chu really had no sense of propriety at all.

I don't know how Yunran could tolerate such a 'stupid' person before.

It's just that he's a free spirit by nature; otherwise, if he stayed by Yun Ran's side, he would have crushed Xuan Chu into dust.

Xuan Chu was unaware that Long Ling was currently putting him down.

Having regained some strength, and knowing the strangeness of the groundwater, he stepped forward and peeled off the talisman paper from the large rock.

Then he took on the main responsibility of pushing the stone, letting the gap where the dragon spirit was pushing it.

Just as the stone was about to be pushed over, Long Ling cooperated and removed the bronze jar blocking the opening the moment it hit the ground.

The gap was blocked, but not completely; some trickles of water still flowed out from it.

Xuan Chu, panting, glanced at the bronze jar in Long Ling's hand.

"Your bronze jar can hold quite a lot. Where did you get it?"

He knew that the dragon spirit was born and raised by nature, and already knew many secrets. Now, it had even inherited some of the dragon clan's legacy.

In other words, since they are now quite familiar with each other, Xuan Chu's question was really just a casual inquiry, not an attempt to investigate anything.

Long Ling glanced at Xuan Chu, then pulled out another bronze jar from somewhere, clearly made of the same material.

The only difference is that the two bronze artifacts look slightly different.

"You like it? I'll give you one!"

Xuan Chu: ...

They say you're obligated to take a bribe, so if he accepts it, he'll find it hard to accept Yun Ran's complaints about Long Ling in the future.

"What, you don't want it? Fine, then don't!"

In Long Ling's mind, good things are meant to be snatched. If he takes something out, and no one else takes it within a second, then he's bound to be greedy.

That means the other party doesn't really want that thing.

As for why he had this perception, it was naturally because Yunran taught him well.

If you pretend to be polite or aloof in front of Yun Ran, you'll only end up being taken advantage of.

Long Ling was about to take the bronzeware back, since he didn't really want to give it away anyway.

The moment Long Ling stopped, Xuan Chu swiftly snatched the item away.

"There's no reason to take back something that's been given away. Thank you so much!"

Long Ling glanced at Xuan Chu speechlessly, only wanting to say one thing: Stop pretending!

These bronze artifacts were the ones Yun Ran secretly hid when he was busy destroying the ascension passage.

Could a bronze artifact placed in the main position of the Ascension Passage Formation be a cheap item?

(End of this chapter)