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Chapter 374 Broken River Reincarnation
Xu Yuan saw it: a deep and distant golden river, drifting at the end of another world.

The golden water in the river was murky and lacked any luster, nor did it convey any sense of nobility or splendor.

The flowing, churning water only evoked a feeling of "heaviness and foulness".

The lakeside in Qidou Village was abuzz with excitement.

In this long river of gold, various pavilions, towers, cloud bridges and palaces also surged up from the water. On them stood gods, all of them golden, but they exuded only dark emotions such as strong dissatisfaction, disgust, and hatred.

However, based on their general appearance, these deities can still be identified as some of the celestial gods from the ancient legends of the Ming Dynasty!
Why did it turn out like this?

Xu Yuan was surprised.

Their entire bodies, from their divine forms to their robes, magical artifacts, and everything else, were dyed the same color and soaked into the same state by that golden water!
It's like... the corruption of living people by evil spirits in the mortal world!
The palaces of those gods also continuously sprouted various golden thorny branches from the eaves, pillars, doors and windows!

Some look like deer antlers, some like coral, and some like tentacles...

Despite its luxurious appearance, it is filled with prejudice and ugliness!

Despite his reverence, he was filled with misanthropy.

This golden river is neither in the mortal world, nor in the underworld, nor in the turbid realm.

Xu Yuan had no idea what kind of world it was.

This palace and these divine beings seemed to have been sleeping in the long river of gold, but were suddenly awakened.

For some reason, they were able to hear the sounds coming from the void around Qidou Village.

Among those divine beings, there was one high above who uttered a harsh, disgusting sound.

Then he opened a birdcage next to him.

The cage originally contained either a parrot or a canary, but what was released now was a terrifying and bizarre creature that defies description!

The whole body is filled with all sorts of frightening, heart-pounding, and nauseating elements.

After this thing flew out, it grabbed at the space of Qidou Village—Xu Yuan couldn't even tell whether it extended claws, tentacles, whiskers, pincers, wings, deformities, or fissures...

Rongrong and Uncle Li's group were all captured by it, which crossed the void and brought them to the Golden Water River.

Then it sank into the river and never made a sound again.

Everything finally quieted down again.

However, the mighty Jinshui River, flowing on and on, encountered an invisible barrier somewhere.

The entire Jinshui River was blocked.

The river surged with enormous waves, submerging the palace and the gods.

Then the entire Jinshui River flowed backwards, returning to its original position.

This strange world seems to have completed a cycle of reincarnation.

It became deathly silent again.

In Xu Yuan's right eye, it gradually blurred and faded, as if the whole world was beginning to drift away and disappear into the vast sea of ​​void.

Xu Yuan suddenly realized that once the palaces and deities in the golden river were "awakened," they would have to go through the pain of the river turning back again.

So once they were awakened, they felt immense disgust and hatred towards everything that had made the noise.

They were all wiped out without hesitation.

This golden river seems to be... the river of time.

Those gods and palaces were trapped in this period of time.

His magnificent aura was completely devoid of divine light, leaving only intense malice and hatred.

The repeated reversals eventually caused them to completely collapse and transform!
Those familiar faces... might really be the true gods from the ancient legends of the Ming Dynasty.

Countless ancient and dark secrets were buried in that murky, viscous golden river.

These days, the world is full of strange occurrences, even though "door gods" can still protect believers at night.

But it still raises the question: has Shintoism collapsed?

But if they really are those "true gods", how could they be so easily trapped in a period of time?

Many true gods should have the ability to travel freely through the river of time.

Xu Yuan suddenly thought of another possibility: they had been ambushed.

They were ambushed along with this stretch of time. Not only were they trapped, but that stretch of time itself was also severed and imprisoned.

For a moment, Xu Yuan didn't even dare to take the leather dragon back.

Some were even confused: shouldn't Pilong have been taken away too?

Pilong was also one of the criminals who disturbed these divine beings.

Pilong slowly sank to the bottom of the lake.

Xu Yuan couldn't quite understand it.

If those things in the golden river only react to living things—why was the entire Qidou Village dug up by a single claw in the first place?

There are many dead things in the village.

Xu Yuan felt extremely fortunate that they didn't arrest Pi Long.

It doesn't matter if I can't figure out the reason.

The leather dragon is precious. Although Xu Yuan was prepared to lose this treasure from the beginning, it would be better to keep it.

That space had already disappeared into the distance, and Xu Yuan could no longer see it using only the "Yin-Yang Guillotine".

After the golden river reversed course, the palace and the gods sank, and peace was restored.

But suddenly, several strings of bubbles rose up from the river.

It seems like something is talking or discussing something underwater.

……

Gao Guanzi fled in a sorry state to the agreed location.

He rushed into the woods and ran for his life.

Using the cover of the woods, they ran for several miles in one breath.

A large pool of blood was left behind him.

The mysterious entity in the lake seemed uninterested in him.

They simply caught the culprit, Rongrong, and took them away in one go.

Even after the lake returned to calm, Gao Guanzi dared not linger and ran for his life.

When he arrived at the place he had arranged to meet Lord Xu, he was already extremely weak.

His wounds hadn't been bandaged in time, and he had lost a lot of blood, leaving him in a semi-comatose state.

After collapsing headfirst, he slowly exhaled, realizing he was probably done for...

In a daze, I suddenly saw Lord Xu's figure appear before me.

Lord Xu fed him a medicinal pill.

He felt a little better, but the wound on his neck was still gushing blood.

Tian Jing glanced at it and said, "Just bear with it."

Then, extremely fine roots burrowed into his neck, stitching up and wrapping the wound.

Gao Guanzi was in so much pain that he fainted.

Tian Jing didn't think his method was too rough; instead, he said, "It's better if she faints."

Tian Jing's methods were at least very effective.

The bleeding has stopped.

The wound on Gao Guanzi's forehead was not a serious injury, and he had already stopped the bleeding.

While stitching up Gao Guanzi's wound, Tian Jing secretly "checked" the guy's body structure.

The skull doesn't contain a brain, but rather organs that assist the ears and a large number of blood vessels.

The brain is likely located somewhere in the chest.

Tian Jing's mind raced. This body structure seemed somewhat similar to some kind of evil spirit in the mountains...

Tian Jing understood the principle of "seeing through things but not saying them," and kept the matter to himself.

(End of this chapter)