Chapter 66: The Farmer's Story (Five Watches Seeking Collection)

  "Boom!"

  A deafening loud noise made all four of them jump at the same time.

  His eyes went dark and he was most afraid in his heart. He hastily grabbed Shen Dou's arm and asked urgently, "What happened?"

  "It's okay!" Shen Du hugged Yan Muo's thin shoulders again, softly comforting him: "Don't worry, I'm here."

  At this time, I saw two awkward lines of poetry floating on the sheer wall in front of me.

  "The soul is broken but the will remains unbroken, nine bends and nine turns, yet still unable to rest."

  "What does this sentence mean." Beryl murmured those two sentences a few times, asking with a puzzled face.

  "The soul is broken at the residual bridge, what place does the residual bridge refer to?" Shendu also completely didn't understand.

  Xiao Qing thought for a moment before speaking: "I remember my father telling me a story. Thousands of years ago, outside the Jiuyou City, there was no Snow Mountain, but rather a group of mountains with all sorts of rare flowers and grasses. The mountain ranges were filled with spiritual energy, and countless spirit birds lived happily among them. However, one day, a farmer went to the mountains to chop wood, and when he returned home, he found that his wife and children had died suddenly and inexplicably. He was driven mad and slaughtered all the chickens, ducks, cows, and horses in his household, then set fire to the wooden house. But something strange happened - after the house burned down, a hidden underground river was revealed, and a strange fish in the river spoke human language, telling the farmer that there were monsters in Jiuyou City who had killed his family. The farmer vowed to take revenge but found it difficult to become a demon-slaying hero overnight, as he was only skilled with an axe. He went to Jiuyou City to find a master, but the city was full of swordsmen with exceptional skills, and no one was willing to accept him as a disciple due to his lowly background and lack of wealth. Everyone looked down on him, and some even sent people to drive him out of the city, humiliating him by saying that someone like him, who was poor and worthless, didn't deserve to stay in such a noble place."

  Xiao Qing made a mysterious face and swept her eyes across everyone's faces, asking in a low voice: "Guess what happened next."

  "Did he die on the Broken Bridge outside the city?" Bi Luo answered first. First time update

  "Yes, he indeed died on the bridge outside the city, but his soul never left Jiuyou City. He still lingered in this world because there was still hatred in his heart. Even though he had lost his body, he still vowed to avenge his wife and children. So he sat alone at the desolate bridgehead, staring blankly into the sky as if mesmerized, and ended up sitting there for three years."

  "Three years, won't his soul ascend to heaven or be taken away by the underworld?" Shen Dou asked with a surprised face.

  "No, absolutely not, as if his existence had been forgotten by everyone, even the underworld had abandoned him, but he felt fortunate for this. Finally, after three years, he got up and walked back to that home which he himself had burned down, only to find everything in the house was intact, his wife and children were alive and well, standing right in front of him, and he burst into tears."

  "What's going on here? Did his wife and children not die after all?" Bi Luo asked.

  "His wife and child did not die after all, because the so-called demon was actually his wife."

  "This way I don't understand it, his wife is a demon, why did she pretend to be killed and make that farmer desperate, then die in the world?" Bi Luo said.

  "Of course, this has to go back to before the farmer was born. His father was also a farmer and had once hunted and killed a pregnant snake on the mountain. The fetus survived but the snake itself died."

  "I understand, the farmer's wife was transformed from that snake." Bi Luo nodded and said.

  "His wife was the transformed snake, but you wouldn't have guessed that his children were actually the snakes that had been killed by their father." As she said this, a hint of fear also appeared on Xiao Qing's face. "Do you know what happened afterwards?"

  "Could it be that he killed those two snakes?" Bi Luo said with some disbelief.

  "The truth is that he used his own soul to attach himself to the body of his wife from his previous life, and then swallowed his own child!" Just thinking about it made Xiao Qing, who was also a snake, feel a little terrified.

  "But what does this have to do with these two lines of poetry?" Shen Dou finally asked again after hearing Xiao Qing finish the story.

  "The soul is broken, the bridge remains unbroken, nine bends and nine turns, but it's hard to be at peace. By now, you should be able to guess who our enemy will be on the second floor. First update." Xiao Qing said lightly, and with a wave of her hand, she casually erased the fourteen-character poem.

  It was at this moment that the ground shook and a crack opened up in front of him, revealing an opening just wide enough for one person.

  Xiao Qing didn't say much either and led the way in.

  Inside, a white snake with three heads was quietly coiled on the ground. The middle head was that of a handsome young man, the left head was that of a beautiful and elegant woman, while the right head was that of a boy full of childishness. More chapters please visit.

  "A snake with a human head!" Shen Du had never seen such a strange snake before, but he only felt an unprecedented sense of disgust in his heart.

  But the more disgusting it is, the harder it is to look away.

  The white snake's abdomen was constantly writhing, as if there was a living creature inside struggling to get out.

  "Is this the family from that story you told?" Beryl was a personification of ice and snow, and didn't find such forms frightening.

  "That's right." Xiao Qing was a snake-type, so she wouldn't be too afraid of this thing.

  The white snake emitted a huge stench, making people want to vomit upon smelling it, but when it saw Xiao Qing, its pupils constricted slightly, seemingly fearful.

  "What kind of people are you and why have you come here?" The middle one with a cold face asked.

  Shen Zhen couldn't bear to look anymore and turned his head away, but the hand grasping the long sword remained vigilant at all times.

  "It doesn't matter who we are, and as for the purpose, I think it's quite obvious. Do we need to explain anything?" Xiao Qing said with an equally cold expression, a flash of green light shooting out from her brown eyes, but she didn't make a move towards White Snake.

  The white snake felt a wave of fear all over its body, "It's actually the Snake King, in that case, we won't disturb you." After finishing speaking, the white snake surprisingly crawled out of their sight without saying another word.

  Xiao Qing saw this and let out a long sigh.

  "Alas!"

  "If it weren't for this family, Jiuyou City wouldn't be so vibrant and colorful."

  No one understood what Xiao Qing meant by these words, but no one was willing to delve deeper into this story either.

  Especially Shen Du, even thinking about the terrifying appearance of that white snake would only make him feel extremely uneasy all over his body.

  But fortunately, new difficulties have appeared in front of them, which has shifted his attention.

  The third layer, what would it be...

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