Chapter 43: Farewell Old Fish Ancestor

  The old fish ancestor in the water swam towards the crowd, saw Kirksey flying in the air, suddenly jumped up like a football player's header, opened his bloody big mouth and bit at Kirksey.

  Liu Yi saw the situation, his foot paused for a moment, his arm exerted force, and with a swift motion, he pulled Kexi over to him, narrowly avoiding the old man's bite in a thrilling and dangerous move.

  The big fish saw that one bite was ineffective and suddenly became angry and humiliated, rushing towards the golden statue of the Sun Mother...

  We've mentioned before that the ancestor of this old fish had a head as big as a millstone and was incredibly hard. When Liu Yi threw a hand grenade at it in the underground dark river, it only managed to flip it over, knocking it into the wall of the cave, causing a slight concussion, but without leaving a single scratch, truly formidable beyond compare.

  With this crash, the statue of the Virgin Mary shook violently, and the crowd held tightly onto the neck of the Virgin and refused to let go...

  Lu Zonghan was unlucky, when the big fish came crashing in, he was riding on the arm of the Virgin Mary, carefully observing the holy water bottle in her palm. Due to the narrow landing area and the huge shockwave, he almost fell into the water, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and grabbed the holy water bottle in the Virgin Mary's hand with both hands just in time.

  The big fish is jumping, the water level is rising...

  The big fish continued to rise with the rising water level...

  At this rate, it won't be long before the big fish and the crowd can engage in a face-to-face showdown.

  Not only that, but also the old men with small horns swarmed around, sticking their heads up in a grinning manner around the statue of the Sun Mother.

  Malacca fired a shot at the old turtle's head, but apart from the loud noise, it didn't cause any harm to the latter. At this critical moment, Liu Yi, who couldn't swim, handed Kexi over to Professor Zhou Tao beside him and shouted: "The Holy Mother must have a mechanism, hurry up and find it!"

  After saying this, he bit the obsidian sword in his mouth and flew down, falling squarely on the old fish's ancestor's back. However, the strange fish's tail was as black and shiny as a tadpole, and also as smooth as a tadpole. Although Liu Yi landed on its body, his feet slipped, and with a "gurgling" sound, he fell into the water, tumbling over.

  Why is Liu Yi so arrogant when he can't even swim?

  That's because he saw that the water in the great hall wasn't very deep, probably only about 1.5 or 1.6 meters, and Liu Yi could stand up with his head exposed, and there were many stone pillars and carvings inside the great hall, so it was easy to grab onto one and survive, so he prepared to go down and fight the big fish, he was confident that his skills would keep him safe, no problem, after fighting for a while, he could leave some time for Professor Zhou Tao and the others to find a way out, he firmly believed that the mechanism must be on the Holy Mother's body, it couldn't not appear again and again, otherwise this Holy Mother was too stupid.

  There's another thing, in the underground dark river, he saw this strange fish busy escaping with its life, not daring to fight it head-on, feeling regretful. On the road, he had thought about ways to deal with this guy, thinking that all things arise from nature and conform to the principles of yin and yang. Since the fish's head is hard, its body must have a soft spot. Just like how the navel is the weak point for someone who has practiced the Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt. As long as he finds it, he estimates that killing it will be no problem at all, which is why he has the confidence to go and fight it again.

  That big fish was happily bumping against the statue of the Virgin Mary, as if giving itself a head massage. Liu Yi flew down, and this guy looked at him with his pair of "upward-facing eyes" that saw everything clearly. Suddenly, he turned around and attacked Liu Yi.

  "Damn it!" Ma Liucao cursed loudly, holding a dagger and leaping down to join the battle!

  Liu Yi fell into the water and as soon as he poked his head out, he saw a big mouth waiting for him in front of him. Suddenly, cold sweat broke out all over his body. Just as he was about to dodge, the big fish took a bite down. If he got bitten, Liu Yi would definitely end up being cut into two pieces from the middle.

  He was shocked in his heart, and before he could think more, his body lay flat, his feet kicked the Kunlun jade stone pillar behind him, and he slipped into the big fish's mouth with a swish. At the same time, the big fish's mouth also closed down, but it bit empty, making a huge "Da... Da..." sound.

  The big fish took a sip of water and made a gulping sound.

  "Liu Wei!" Behind him, Ma Liu Jia shouted and dived into the water, holding a dagger and swimming stealthily to the bottom of the big fish, stabbing its black belly with one knife.

  The old fish's head was incredibly hard, but unexpectedly its abdomen was as soft as tofu. It was pierced by Ma Liuji's single knife, and fresh blood immediately flowed out. The big fish felt pain, frantically swinging its tail, striking the bloody water droplets on its body, and knocked Ma Liuji against the stone pillar.

  Everyone on the Sun Mother statue was stunned, and Liu Yi was actually swallowed into her belly...

  Especially Lu Zonghan, with both hands hanging on the holy water bottle, forgot to climb up and his dangling body attracted the curiosity of the old fish in the small pond, who jumped out of the water to bite his feet.

  But as there was still a distance, these fish couldn't bite Lu Zonghan at once. Seeing that they didn't give up, they jumped up one after another. Suddenly, a small old fish with excellent jumping ability flew up and bit his shoe.

  But then, the fish's tail was frantically waving back and forth, its head shaking violently as it tugged at Lu Zonghan's shoe with great force, seemingly trying to pull him down. Lu Zonghan cursed loudly: "You damned thing, watch me not kick you to death!"

  He cursed and kicked, his hands making a vigorous pull-up.

  "Bang!" The old fish finally fell into the water under Lu Zonghan's continuous kicks. At this time, the water level had risen a lot and overflowed the legs of the Golden Statue of the Sun Mother.

  Lu Zonghan temporarily escaped from danger, thinking of climbing onto the Virgin's arm, then grabbing a weapon, jumping into the water to help Malacca, rescuing Liu Yi. Judging from the situation, Liu Yi was only swallowed by a big fish. If rescued in time, he might not have died.

  He pulled down hard with his hand, and at this time the holy bottle seemed to be unable to bear his strength. It suddenly dropped down, and then only saw that the statue of the Virgin Mary quickly sank downwards.

  The Holy Vessel is actually the mechanism for entering the next level!

  As the statue of the Virgin sank rapidly, cracks suddenly appeared on the ground, and in an instant this place became a whirlpool.

  Lu Zonghan, Professor Zhou Tao and Ke Kexi thought that standing high would be the safest, but they didn't expect that standing high would be the most dangerous. In the midst of screams, as the statue of the Virgin sank into the ground, they were overwhelmed by the rushing water and saw the floodwaters inside the temple, along with fish swimming towards them in a frenzy.

  The Malacca in the water and that old fish ancestor also followed the waves, under the whirlpool's suction, spinning and escaping into the underground.

  ……

  The statue of the Sun Mother fell halfway, and surprisingly withstood the pressure of the water flow and bounced back up, returning to its original position, blocking the rushing water. Underneath was a stone chamber that was roughly wider at the top than at the bottom, with an irregular shape. The walls emitted a faint reddish glow, and on the walls were objects resembling water pipes, dripping red water drop by drop.

  The ground is all water, red water... like blood water...

  Blood water flowed out of a small hole at the bottom of the stone chamber and accelerated towards the other side.

  Lu Zonghan and Professor Zhou Tao fell into the stone room, grabbed the protruding water pipes on the wall, and hung themselves on the stone wall.

  The Malacca and the big fish then fell into the water below.

  Bang...

  A loud and massive explosion sounded, similar to the sound of a balloon bursting, but slightly duller.

  After the explosion, a blood-soaked person emerged from the old fish's neck, and it was Liu Yi who had been swallowed by the big fish.

  He only saw him drill out afterwards, turn over and hug the big fish, with the black knife in his hand inserted into the fish's neck, quickly sliding down, circling around, and then riding on the big fish's neck again. Then he made an effort to sit down, this sitting force mixed with Liu Yi's great anger, not only a hundred kilograms, the big fish's tail was powerless, plus being ring-cut once, suddenly separated from the old man fish ancestor's head, fresh blood gushing out, waving and splashing, getting Liu Yi wet all over.

  That old man's enormous skull, which had belonged to his fish ancestors, slowly turned around, with an expression of incredulity in his eyes, yet he was already dead.

  Liu Yi stepped on its tail and jumped onto the old fish ancestor's skull, after being bathed in blood, Liu Yi's whole body emitted a mysterious aura of slaughter!

  The small fish swimming in the water, as if they had smelled the murderous aura on Liu Yi's body, all fled far away. This phenomenon is just like a piglet seeing someone who kills pigs every year will inexplicably produce fear.

  In the eyes of Lao Tou Yu's ancestors, that old man was a god-like existence, but this guy in front of him had disembowelled and beheaded him, how could he not be afraid?

  Malacca saw Liu Yi safe and sound, and immediately happily swam to the old turtle's ancestor's head, crawling up.

  Malacca stood on the giant fish's skull, jumping up and down twice, shouting: "Strange, strange!", this skull under their two weights, unexpectedly did not sink, also was strange to the extreme.

  Lu Zonghan and the others also jumped down, standing on the fish head. The fish head then floated away with the current to the other side. Those small old fish made way, none of them dared to come again to attack.

  Liu Yi sneered: "If this is your ancient Qiang tribe's water training ground, it's nothing but this!"

  Korksi looked at Liu Yi, who was covered in blood like a battle god, and clasped his fists, saying: "You are a brave warrior! Perhaps this fish has degenerated over the thousands of years, if it were thousands of years ago, it would not be so easy to deal with!"

  If it's true what Korky said, we can make an inference that several thousand years ago, the entire body of this old fish should be as hard as its current head. If that's the case, even hand grenades wouldn't be able to blow them up, and getting rid of them would be a real headache. I wonder if the ancient Qiang people had some secret technique to deal with them.

  Kokxy finished speaking, and began to hum a low, distant tune with an ancient signal mixed in. Liu Yi felt strange and asked: "What are you doing?"

  Korksi smiled mysteriously and said: "I found a long-lost spell in the Temple of Shibei, but it's just a fragment, what a pity..."

  After saying this sentence, he no longer paid attention to Liu Yi and others, and repeated the recitation by himself, as if he was afraid of forgetting.