On the Avenue

Granny Sha's face was uncertain. Even if Chen Shi was not bitten to death by the big gun, he would be lost in the Wangchuan River and unable to return. She also could not explain it to Chen Yindu!

"Without the hemp rope, he will not be able to return from the Wangchuan River... This is all my fault for being greedy. I actually wanted to use this child to go to the Wangchuan River to find the treasure, and ended up harming him! If I had known this, I would have told him directly about the treasure That’s where the ancient temple is.”

She was filled with regret, but things had already happened, and feeling sorry for herself would not help. What she had to do now was to check whether Chen Shi was really dead.

If it is not dead, then make amends.

If he died...

"Then I can only apologize to Old Chentou with death!"

Grandma Sha bit off her right index finger and drew a talisman in the air with her own blood. What she drew was the soul-calling talisman.

Strangely enough, her blood actually floated in the air with no tendency to fall, as if it was bound by a strange force.

As Grandma Sha moved her fingers, a talisman that was three feet long and only two inches wide was written by her.

The top is the edict of the Three Pure Ones, and the bottom is the text of the Three Souls and Seven Souls. The form is simple.

Drawing talismans out of thin air is an astonishing achievement, and it is the dream of a talisman master. However, Granny Sha seems to be an ordinary old lady, with nothing special about her.

The soul-calling power burst out from this soul-calling talisman is so powerful that it crosses the two realms of Yin and Yang in an instant and reaches the underworld!

Grandma Sha knew that she had made a big mistake, so unlike the usual soul-calling spells, the soul-calling talisman she drew this time used her own heart and blood.

The essence and blood in the heart are very strong and yang, the quantity is very small, it is only enough to draw a talisman, but the power is extraordinary.

If Chen Shi is really dead, even if he is caught in the Yama Palace, with this talisman alone, she can take Chen Shi's soul back from the hands of the King of Hell!

However, the talisman burned out, and Granny Sha failed to summon Chen Shi's soul.

"It's good that you're not dead, it's good that you're not dead!"

Granny Sha breathed a sigh of relief, and then she paused and saw the shadow of the little old woman suddenly growing in all directions on the ground like branches. From the shadow grew five green-faced and fanged ghost kings, standing in the air, folding their hands and obeying orders.

Granny Sha's thoughts moved slightly, and the five ghosts roared away.

After a while, countless bricks and stones flew in, and in just a short time, an altar was built on the bank of the Dejiang River, with a length of 36 feet, a width of 3 feet, and a height of 12 feet.

Five ghost kings hold big flags and stand on the five corners of the altar, occupying the five elements.

Granny Sha took out Wenwang Drum.

This drum is a strange instrument that looks like a drum but not a drum, and looks like a gong but not a gong. It is covered with only one side, but the other side is empty. There are ropes crossing the drum, which can be grasped by hand.

The rustling drum beat that Chen Shi heard last time in the underworld was the sound made by this instrument.

Granny Sha played the Wenwang drum, and suddenly there was a gloomy wind. In an instant, the surface of the Dejiang River seemed to have entered darkness, and even the sun's rays could not shine into the darkness.

"I have summoned countless ghosts from the underworld in my life, and I have offended too many evil ghost kings. If I take action this time, I am afraid that I will attract the attention of many old enemies and take the opportunity to seek revenge! But I can't care about so many!"

Granny Sha screamed, the drums rang, and in the darkness a bluestone road was paved from the altar to the river.

This little old woman actually used her own magic power to open up a road connecting the Yin and Yang worlds, trying to bring Chen Shi from the Wangchuan River in the underworld!

"Xiao Shi!"

Her voice reached the underworld, "Follow the sound of my drum, and I will lead you back to the underworld!"

Speaking of Big Gun's mouth, Chen Shi firmly grasped the fishhook, and the fishhook was deeply embedded in the soft flesh next to the throat bone of the big fish.

The throat bone is the back molar of this big fish. When crushed up and down, it is like two pieces of iron weighing 10,000 kilograms. Every time it is crushed, the two huge pieces of iron are smashed together, causing fire to scatter and shake Chen Shi's arms. Numb!

But he didn't dare to let go, because he would be in the big fish's mouth, and the other two rows of teeth of the big fish were clicking and biting, trying to bite him and throw him out.

If he lets go, he will be cut into countless pieces immediately!

At the moment when Da Gun pounced down, he jumped suddenly in the water and jumped into Da Gun's mouth, thus avoiding the fate of being bitten off at the waist.

However, his situation is also extremely bad now. If the fishhook falls off, I'm afraid he will still be bitten to pieces!

Suddenly, Chen Shi saw a flash of blue light, and all the flesh and blood on the big fish disappeared, leaving only the huge fish bones swimming in the water.

Chen Shi raised his hand and saw that all the flesh and blood on his arm had disappeared and turned into white bones.

He looked over and saw that his body was also completely devoid of flesh and blood and turned into a skeleton of white bones!

"Did I enter the Lethe River?"

Chen Shi was surprised.

The big fishhook was originally hooked on the flesh and blood of the big gun. At this moment, the big gun turned into a fish bone and the fishhook fell off. Chen Shi grabbed the fishhook and his heart sank.

The hemp rope was broken.

"How should I go back... Granny Sha's methods are amazing, she will definitely find a way. Now, it's important to find the bronze lamp that Granny Sha lost first!"

Chen Shi took off the iron chain on his body, tied the heavy fishhook to the chain, hung the hook on the big gun's throat bone, cheered up, and swam out from between the big gun's gill bones.

This big fish has no flesh and blood and cannot trap him.

What's even weirder is that Da Gun has no interest in Chen Shi, who is also in a skeletal state. He swims past him without swallowing him in one bite.

"Since Gun can swim from the Yang world to the underworld, he must also be able to swim back from the underworld to the Yang world."

Chen Shi said sincerely, "If Granny Sha can't find me, I will catch this big fish and let it swim back to the world with me. But I don't know when this big fish will go back."

Da Gun swam aimlessly, showing no sign of being in a hurry to go back.

Chen Shi also felt relieved and searched in the Wangchuan River.

The river was shimmering with blue light, and there were passing ships on the river, like wooden boats, casting mottled shadows from above.

There are strange corals, jagged rocks, and huge shells growing on the bottom of the river, which are very thick. There are also bone fish swimming around, which are probably the juvenile form of the giant gun.

These Guns are small in size. The reason why they live in the Wangchuan River in the underworld instead of going to the upper world is that there are no predators in the Wangchuan River.

Chen Shi looked around for a long time and found that there were no other skeletons except himself. He thought there were no humans in the river.

"This kind of shell can also travel between the Yin and Yang realms?"

Chen Shi opened a huge shell, but there was no shell meat inside. There was a panic-looking little boy in his teens. He hurriedly made a silencing gesture towards him, grabbed the shell and covered it back.

Chen Shi was surprised. He was in a skeleton state, but this little boy was actually flesh and blood!

"However, it should be the other way around in the Wangchuan River. Da Gun and I are of flesh and blood, but when we reach the river, we turn into white bones. This little boy should be a white skeleton, but in the river, we become flesh and blood."

Chen Shi had something to ask, so he opened the shell again. The little boy was curled up and lying between the two shells. He panicked when he saw this, raised his finger and pointed at it, and wanted to cover it with the shell again.

Chen Shi smiled and said, "What's on it?"

Suddenly, a green light shone down from above and swept across the river bottom. The little boy didn't care much, grabbed Chen Shi's arm, pulled him into the shell, and hurriedly covered it with the shell.

The green light swept across the bottom of the river with a buzzing sound, and the light returned to the surface of the river. Chen Shi looked up along the cracks in the shells and saw that the green light came from a passing wooden boat.

There was a tall and thin figure standing on the canoe, and the green light shot out from his eyes!

Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat. He thought it was the tall and thin figure on the canoe who noticed the movement under the water and opened his eyes to look!

His gaze is so terrifying, if he is caught by his gaze, he will be in danger!

Chen Shi was about to thank the little boy when he was suddenly kicked by the little boy in the shell and kicked him out of the shell.

Chen Shi planned to go back to him to thank him, but the little boy had already closed the shell and hid inside, refusing to show up.

"Hello, my name is Chen Shi. I'm not trying to rob your house. I'm looking for a copper lamp that fell into the Wangchuan River nine years ago. Do you know where that lamp is?" Chen Shi asked politely. road.

An arm stretched out from the shell and pointed in the distance.

"Thanks."

Chen Shi followed the direction pointed by the little boy. Along the way, he saw many shells quietly opening, hiding children, both male and female, secretly poking their heads and looking at him curiously.

Occasionally there are a few adult men and women, even old people, but the number is relatively small.

But whenever a canoe passed by on the water, they would hurriedly close their shells, as if they were afraid of the tall and thin figure on the canoe.

"Buzz!"

Another light shone down, and it was the gaze of the tall and thin figure on the wooden boat. It penetrated the Wangchuan River and reached the river bed, shining on a boy who could not escape.

The boy couldn't help but fly up in the beam of light, flew out of the river, and was caught by the tall and thin figure.

Chen Shi looked up and saw that the tall and thin figure actually opened his mouth wide. The mouth almost separated the head from the center line. It was so huge that he swallowed the boy whole.

The tall and thin figure moved his chin up and down, as if he still had something to say.

Chen Shi couldn't help but shudder, and found an ownerless shell. Holding it with both hands, he walked underwater. When a wooden boat passed by, he squatted down and covered himself under the shell.

"Who are the people on the canoe? Who are these children hiding under the shells?" He was quite curious.

At this time, he suddenly stopped and looked at the children in the shells, and a thought flashed in his mind.

"I know! I know why they are hiding in the shells! They are the drowned children of Tokueori!"

The Yudai River, a tributary of the Dejiang River, drowns several children who go swimming in the river every year, and I am afraid that more children drown in the Dejiang River.

These drowned children turned into ghosts and wandered into the Wangchuan River. They were afraid of the people on the boat, so they hid in these shells!

As for the number of adult men, women and elderly people, the reason why there are so few is because relatively few adults drowned!

Chen Shi looked at the large and small shells on the river bed and murmured: "How could there be so many people..."

He calmed down and continued moving forward, and finally saw a ray of light.

The light is indeed not very bright, but the strange thing is that the light is very penetrating, and the light can be seen from a long distance away.

Chen Shi walked forward, only to feel the pressure around him getting stronger and stronger, causing his bones to crack and his two leg bones to sink into the soil.

The further he walked, the greater the pressure, and soon the soil was up to his knees, making every step difficult.

Chen Shi looked up and finally saw the light clearly.

I saw that the source of the light was indeed a copper lamp. The copper lamp had a handle. Below it was a fat sheep with short limbs. The handles were horns. There was a person sitting on the sheep's back. The lamp flame came from the head of the doll. The sky spirit appeared on the cover, thinking that there was lamp oil in the doll.

This kind of lamp is very strange, especially the fact that it can still burn and emit light in the river water, which makes this copper lamp more extraordinary.

However, the copper lamp is now held in a large white bone hand.

There is no trace of flesh and blood on the white bone palm, which is four or five times the size of an ordinary person, with slender knuckles.

Chen Shi looked along the white bone palm and saw a rather huge skeleton sitting on the riverbed. Even when sitting, it was two or three times as tall as Chen Shi.

What's even more strange is the skull of the skeleton, which doesn't look like a human bone at all!

It is a huge head, long, like a bird's head, but without a beak, a long mouth, and fangs.

The eye sockets of the skull are very large, and can fit an adult's fist.

The nostrils of the skull are also very large.

Seeing this scene, Chen Shi couldn't help but think of the tall and thin figure on the wooden boat.

"This is a fallen tall and thin figure!"

Just when he thought of this, Granny Sha's voice suddenly came: "Xiao Shi! Follow the sound of my drum, I will take you back to the world of the living!"

Hearing this, Chen Shi was greatly encouraged: "Granny is here to pick me up!"

Without saying anything, he reached out to grab the bronze lamp.

As soon as his palm touched the sheep horn handle of the bronze lamp, the tall and thin white bones suddenly shook, shaking off the dust accumulated on his body.