Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 75: Green Scale Demon General
The sky is cloudy, the sun is not visible, and the climate is cool.

On a river, a small boat was moving forward slowly.

Lu Zheng stood on the boat, slowly holding the bamboo pole, glancing around from time to time, looking for the big crocodiles that the boatman mentioned.

At this time, they were not far from Bailuze.

Above the sky, you can vaguely see some white egrets soaring in groups.

After walking for a while, we entered a wide lake with dense reeds growing in many places.

Lu Zheng stopped the boat and poured the fish intestines he had cleaned earlier into the water.

The strong smell of blood soon attracted some large carnivorous fish.

Lu Zheng stabbed a black fish nearly two feet long with his long sword and caught it on the boat.

Then, Lu Zheng tied the black fish with a rope and hung it on the side of the boat, letting the blood drip into the water.

Seeing this, An Jing said, "You want to lure that crocodile?"

Lu Zheng nodded slightly and said, "Many people make a living by fishing and sailing. Now that we know there are crocodiles eating people here, we can't just ignore it."

The reason why he insisted on taking the water route was to resolve the issue so that the boatmen would no longer be in panic.

In order to move more easily, Lu Zheng took off his coat and rolled up his trouser legs.

He touched his chest, several vital parts of his body, and Wen Bao for self-defense.

Now that the cultural treasure is complete, it cannot be invaded by ordinary water or fire. Even if a fight breaks out in the water, it won’t be a problem.

Then, Lu Zheng and An Jing waited slowly on the boat.

After an unknown amount of time, An Jing looked towards a spot in the water and whispered, "It seems to be coming..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Zheng followed the direction of his gaze and discovered that under the water not far away, there was a shadow swimming and getting closer and closer.

"It feels a little small." Lu Zheng muttered softly.

Lu Zheng estimated the size of the black shadow, which was somewhat different from what the boatmen had described.

After a while, the black shadow slowly floated to the surface of the water, revealing a small part of its body.

It was a black crocodile that was more than ten feet long. It did look ferocious, but it was not yet a demon.

However, crocodiles of this size do pose certain dangers.

Lu Zheng pondered: "It shouldn't be this one."

Lu Zheng felt that based on what the boatmen had seen and heard, some of them were not even afraid of ordinary ghosts in the water, so they would not be scared by such a crocodile.

Seeing the crocodile approaching the boat, An Jing raised his hand and swung the whip.

With a sound of breaking through the air, the long whip was as powerful as thunder and instantly hit the crocodile's neck.

Suddenly, blood and flesh flew everywhere. The crocodile flapped its wings a few times and turned over on the spot. The bright red blood spread in the water.

An Jing said calmly, "It's just an ordinary crocodile, not the one they're talking about."

Suddenly, the two of them moved their eyes at the same time.

I saw more black shadows swimming over from the water not far away, they were all water crocodiles.

Judging from their number, there are as many as ten.

Moreover, the size of each one was several times larger than the crocodile that An Jing had just killed.

The giant crocodile in the center was more than two meters long, with a faint trace of bloody aura flowing around it.

Lu Zheng's eyes flickered. Has he finally found the real culprit?

He weighed the sword in his hand and was eager to try, but he didn't know how to fight underwater. With so many big crocodiles, he might not be able to fight in the water. He could only wait for the other party to come over.

An Jing said softly, "Mr. Lu is not comfortable with his weapon, so let me do it."

"It's okay, I'll give it a try." Lu Zheng said with a smile.

He raised his sword and cut off a section of the bamboo pole, then hurled the foot-long bamboo stick forward. The sharpened end of the bamboo stick sliced through the air and instantly pierced a crocodile, causing blood to gush out immediately.

An Jing also raised his hand and swung the whip. With each swing of the long whip, several big crocodiles were killed on the spot, without any power to resist at all.

Seeing this, the largest crocodile slowly sank into the depths of the water.

Lu Zheng didn't hesitate at all. He took a step and leaped forward. Then he stepped on the crocodile's body and dived into the water.

He stared down into the water and could vaguely see the crocodile emitting an evil aura.

Next to him, several crocodiles swam towards him.

Lu Zheng tried to swing the sword, but felt it was a bit strenuous, so he put away the sword and faced a crocodile with his bare hands.

He punched the opponent's eye socket hard, then used both hands to pry open the crocodile's mouth, pulling hard and breaking the crocodile's upper and lower jaws directly.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Zheng swam towards other crocodiles.

An Jing stood on the boat and saw the water not far away churning and big crocodiles floating upside down.

In the deep water, the crocodile saw Lu Zheng was so fierce and quickly swam away.

Lu Zheng has a strong physique, so he can swim quite fast.

Soon, Lu Zheng caught up with the crocodile and grabbed its tail with both hands.

Afterwards, a righteous spirit was released again.

The crocodile with bloody evil spirit felt a burning sensation all over its body. It couldn't help but slow down, and its body twitched in the water.

Lu Zheng pulled along and swam to the bottom of the crocodile. He raised his hand, took out his sword and stabbed it hard.

The sharp sword pierced the crocodile's tough skin, and blood gushed out.

Lu Zheng continued to increase his strength, directly cutting a two-foot-long wound in the crocodile's abdomen, and some of its internal organs were cut open and fell out.

In just a few breaths, the crocodile died.

[You eliminated a group of ferocious crocodiles and protected the local environment. Your Wen Qi +5!]

Lu Zheng swam to the surface, took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down.

An Jing rowed his boat closer.

Lu Zheng held on to the corpse of a crocodile and gently jumped onto the boat.

Before Lu Zhengduo could rest for a while, half a figure emerged from the water not far away.

"Who dares to kill my beloved?"

Lu Zheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the other person's body was covered with blue-black fish scales, his head was like that of a human and a fish, and his appearance was extremely ugly, barely resembling a human.

"Green scales?"

Lu Zheng recalled the information from the nightmare. Bai Jin had a demon general under his command, named Qinglin, who was a green fish that had become a spirit.

The monster in front of me is similar to the green-scaled monster described.

Qinglin heard this, his eyes flickered like dead fish, "Do you recognize me?"

Lu Zheng said calmly, "I heard that Bai Jin has a demon general named Qing Lin. It seems that he is you."

"Yes, it's me!" Qing Lin said, "Why did you, human, kill these pets of mine?"

Lu Zheng looked at the crocodile corpses and said calmly, "I heard that there were big crocodiles here that hurt people, so I came here to get rid of them. But I don't know why you raise crocodiles to harm people."

He thought these crocodiles were wild, but it turned out that they were captives of this monster.

Qing Lin heard this and said, "My king said that this lake will be under our jurisdiction from now on. Those ordinary people are very annoying and often come here. I just chase them away."

An Jing responded coldly, "Under heaven, all land belongs to the king! A bunch of little wild monsters dare to claim the land as king? You really don't know how high the heaven is and how deep the earth is!"

(End of this chapter)