Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

As dawn broke, Gao Laozhuang was still shrouded in morning mist.

Lu Ze gently pushed open the guest room door and paused for a moment at the threshold.

He didn't alert anyone.

Xing and Huohua were already waiting for him outside the courtyard wall. The three figures silently met and quickly left along the path outside the manor, disappearing into the thin mist before dawn.

Lu Ze thought this was fine.

Zhu Ganglie has made his own choice, and Gao Cuilan has gotten the ending she wanted.

To meet by chance and leave without a trace after the matter is settled is the best ending.

The flying sword Xiao'e carried the three of them westward, crossing mountains and fields, and arrived at the second stop of their journey at noon.

Liusha River.

Lu Ze had seen this name countless times in TV dramas, but when he saw it in person, he was still momentarily shocked by the sight before him.

The wide river, stretching for eight hundred li, lies across the land, its turbid waves churning and its current so swift it resembles a pot of boiling yellow soup.

There were no boats or birds on the river, and even the vegetation on the banks had withered and died, leaving only a gray-yellow wasteland.

Scattered on the barren beach are bones of all sizes, washed ashore by the river. Some are blackened by the river water, while others are pale white from the scorching sun, piled haphazardly among the gravel.

The air was filled with a strong, pungent stench, mixed with the putrid smell of mud, which was nauseating.

Xing jumped off the flying sword, her feet landing on the soft sand. She looked around, her brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

Her gaze finally settled on the mountain of skulls piled up on the shore. After a long silence, she coldly uttered a single sentence.

"No need for further explanation, let's get started."

Lu Ze did not refute, he nodded and agreed with Xing's statement.

He looked at those white bones and understood perfectly well.

The honest, hardworking, and dutiful Sha Wujing in the TV series is ultimately just an adapted version of the character.

The real Sha Wujing, after being banished to the mortal realm and falling into the Flowing Sand River, had long since become a demon who lived by eating people.

The nine skulls hanging around his neck are said to be the skulls of the nine pilgrims who preceded Tang Sanzang on their journey to the West. They attempted to cross the Flowing Sand River but all perished there, and the skulls became the ornaments around the monster's neck.

A once-divine being has fallen so low as to live by eating people, and even strung together the heads of his victims into a necklace to flaunt.

Such a person does not deserve sympathy.

"I also feel there's nothing more to say." Lu Ze withdrew his gaze, his tone calm, but his eyes had turned cold.

Xing slung the baseball bat over his shoulder, stretched his neck, and made two soft cracking sounds.

"Lu Ze, quickly create a clone for me, watch me blast him!" Xing was clearly impatient.

Spark took a few steps back and consciously found a safe place to stand.

"You guys fight, I'll watch."

Lu Ze glanced at her.

"Aren't you going to help?"

"I'm just a weak woman, how could I possibly defeat a man-eating monster?" After saying that, Hanabi rolled up her sleeves to show Lu Ze her fair and slender arms.

"Look at my skinny arms and legs."

The newly arrived Guardian Star didn't waste any words; she knew, of course, that Spark was talking nonsense.

I took a deep breath, and the sand beneath my feet suddenly cracked.

A scorching aura erupted from her body, and golden light condensed in her palm, transforming into a flaming spear burning with intense flames.

The power of her destiny surged within her, and she raised the flaming spear high before hurling it!

The flaming spear traced a dazzling arc, like a falling meteor, and plunged heavily into the riverbank of the Flowing Sand River!

boom--!!!