Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 99: Hesitant to speak and in coma

Wuzhan held onto the armor with both hands and leaned on the huge turtle's armor. The turtle's armor was shaking violently. He was in an unstable position and could easily slide down. It would be better to climb to the highest point to save the energy of hanging in the middle. Fortunately, Zitan had trained him in climbing skills. He held onto the armor and slowly climbed up. The higher he went, the gentler the slope became, so climbing up was not very strenuous. Suddenly, the giant turtle trembled violently and almost threw him off. He quickly grabbed onto the armor and looked back at the dragon's head. Under the moonlight, he saw the dragon's head roaring and spraying water, hitting Bixia. Bixia flew a long way before she steady herself, and she seemed seriously injured. He originally thought that Bixia had already become an immortal, and was searching alone along the river, so she must have some confidence. Even if she couldn't kill the giant turtle, she would be able to escape safely. But seeing this situation, he immediately felt that something was not good. The giant turtle was extremely ferocious and could not be killed by Bixia alone. He was afraid that if Bixia made a mistake, he would not be able to escape the bad luck in the end. He thought to himself: "If I can't kill it, I will escape from here as soon as possible." He wanted to shout to remind her, but he was afraid that the giant turtle would hear him and turn around to attack him. He had to endure it and wait for Bixia to rescue him.

The turtle's shell shook violently, as if its limbs were struggling in the water, rushing towards Bixia. Its giant head swung its wings angrily and swooped down, trying to swallow it. Bixia could only fly backwards to dodge, but could not think of a way to deal with it.

Wuzhan firmly grasped the carapace pattern, steadied his body, and continued to climb upwards. Soon he reached the top of the crown. Looking around, he felt like he was lying on a lonely mountain, dozens of feet above the water. Before he could catch his breath, his whole body was lifted into the air by the giant turtle's shell. Wuzhan hurriedly looked for a concave pattern that he could hold on to. Suddenly, he found that the dozens of feet square carapace pattern below him seemed to be engraved with ancient characters. He was lying on it and didn't notice it at first. After falling down, he hurriedly grasped a deep carapace pattern. With the help of moonlight, he stared at the rugged characters around him and thought, "It's not uncommon to have ancient characters engraved on the carapace, but the person who could engrave the characters on the carapace of this giant turtle is definitely not an ordinary person. I wonder who is that person?" What does he want to explain to future generations? "Due to the long time and water erosion, the words engraved on it have become blurred, and the words are strange, Wuzhan can hardly recognize them. After thinking for a long time, he can only guess the last word, which seems to be the word "this". Wuzhan lay on the violently shaking giant shell, thinking: "Could it be something hidden in this shell?" He looked around and searched for strange places. Sure enough, he saw a large concave area on the bone ridge of the shell ten feet away. He didn't know how deep it was. Wuzhan looked back at Bixia and saw that she was being attacked by the giant turtle. He flew to dodge. He didn't know how long it would take to take him away. He thought, "Why would she care about my safety?"

Turning back, he crawled and kicked, moving quickly towards the depression. He saw that the depression was more than a foot deep and more than ten feet wide, and seemed to have been attacked, leaving a gap. He jumped into it without any obstacles, grabbed the wall of the pit, steadied his body on the violently shaking shell, and stared into the pit.

Bixia dodged the dragon's whiskers and retreated ten feet away. Her green clothes were soaked and stuck to her skin. She had no time to evaporate them. She glanced at the turtle's back and her heart trembled, "He's gone!" Although she knew Wuzhan would not choose to escape, how could his weak body be safe on the turtle's armor in the fierce battle? He might fall into the water. Now she was tired of dodging and had no chance to look for him. She felt a little regretful, "I should have left him on the shore!"

Bixia has been meditating for decades, but still can't break the seal. When she heard Wuzhan's self-report, although she knew the rumor might not be true, looking at Wuzhan's eyes, she had a glimmer of hope in her heart. Now it is urgent to break the seal and stop the Yellow River from bursting. His safety is more important than killing this monster. She carefully scanned the river surface, but still couldn't see any figure. She thought to herself: "Repel this monster in front of me as soon as possible, and then go look for him. I hope he is a good swimmer."

Seeing the fangs and the huge mouth roaring at her, green air danced wildly around her, the mist spread, her green clothes fluttered, and the long sword emitted green light. She stood proudly, not in a hurry to dodge. Seeing that the huge mouth was about to swallow her, in an instant, there was a flash of green light, and the graceful figure disappeared out of thin air. The giant fell into the water, raising dozens of long waves. At this time, the graceful figure flashed on the crest of the wave, lightly stepped on the green lotus, and the figure flashed out quickly, carrying a green light, and flew straight to the back of the neck of the dragon head that was still falling, as fast as a meteor.

The green sword danced vigorously in the air, with the inner energy surging. When it was about to fall on the dragon's neck, the sword's edge suddenly turned into a dazzling white light, like the blazing sun, illuminating the surroundings as if it were daytime. This was Taishan's unique skill, 'The Sun Soars', which consumed a huge amount of inner energy, but was unstoppable. With a 'puff' sound, the white light broke into the back of the neck that was like an iron wall, and went out from the front of the neck.

While the dragon's head was still in the water, its neck was pierced. The giant turtle felt unbearable pain and suddenly raised its dragon's head, roaring and swung its dragon's whiskers wildly at Bixia who was on the back of its neck.

Fighting with this fierce monster consumed a lot of Bixia's true energy and caused severe internal injuries. Bixia bit her thin lips, drew out her long sword, stepped lightly on the hard green scales, and flew towards the dragon's head to avoid the dragon's whiskers that whizzed by. The dragon's whiskers "snapped" twice and hit her neck, leaving two long bloody marks, and she screamed in anger.

Bixia had reached the back of the dragon head, she leaped up, the sword flashed again, and she swooped down, wanting to stab the sword into the back of the giant turtle's head. At this time, the giant turtle had already sensed her position, and its huge head swung angrily, suddenly dodging the stabbing sword, and its long tongue swept out, sweeping towards the beautiful figure. Bixia did not expect the giant turtle to react so quickly, and she cried out inwardly that it was not good. She hurriedly changed her moves and used "Dai Shi Gan Dang" to block in front of her. The green air had just condensed when it was hit by the thick red tongue, and the green air burst out, with a fishy smell.

Bixia was immediately blown away, her meridians were broken in many places, her true energy was blocked, and she spurted out a mouthful of blood, like a meteor, falling far away into the river. The cold river water rushed over her face and poured into her mouth and nose. She felt dizzy and could no longer hold on. She passed out. After a while, she floated to the surface and floated on her back in the river.

The giant turtle was pierced through the neck by Bixia, and blood gushed out. Although it was not a fatal wound, it was extremely painful. After roaring a few times, it could not find Bixia and thought that Bixia was dead, so it slowly retracted the giant into its giant shell. The mountain-like shell slowly sank to the bottom of the water and finally disappeared from the surface of the river.

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An unknown amount of time had passed before Bixia slowly opened her eyes. She saw the bright moon setting in the west, the night sky was dark blue, and she was still in the cold river water. Only her back felt a hint of warmth. The water rippled outward, and the sound of the water was crisp. The man under her back was breathing rapidly, and could be said to be very weak. "Who can find me, carry me in the water, and swim to the river bank?" No one had ever been so close to her, so close that she could feel his heartbeat. That heartbeat was very tired, but very warm. Her whole body was still in severe pain, and the bones in her arms were broken. "Why would he choose to save me instead of taking the opportunity to leave? Did I misjudge him?" She wanted to ask, but felt there was no point in asking.

She had been practicing for sixty years and had never suffered such a serious injury. She nearly lost her life. She wanted to ask the monster where it had gone, but then she thought it was useless to ask. She was now a disabled person and if she met the monster again, she would only wait for death.

She slowly turned her head and frowned as she looked in the direction he was swimming. The river bank did not appear under the night sky and he seemed exhausted. She wanted to untie the cloth belt around his waist and let him swim alone. But then she thought, he couldn't die yet as the seal still needed to be broken by him and the breach still needed to be blocked. She was secretly worried about him and hoped that he could persist in swimming to the river bank.

She had always been calm, but she didn't know when her heart became so confused. She kept repeating things over and over again. She just stayed silent, hoping, worried, doubting, confused, and then fell asleep again.

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When Bixia was knocked into the water, Wuzhan, who had just stood up, saw her from afar. He kept staring at Bixia until she floated out of the water and went far away. When the giant turtle sank into the water, the river water submerged him all around. He swam hard towards the direction where Bixia was going. He swam a long way before he found Bixia. Seeing that Bixia was seriously injured and unconscious, he tore off his clothes, carried Bixia on his back, tied her to his back, and swam towards the south bank.

Wuzhan could choose to leave alone and not care about Bixia's life or death, but he felt that Bixia was pure and innocent, and cared about the people's livelihood, so it would be a pity for her to die. What's more, he wanted to try the seal, and the cloak on her body was very warm.

Wuzhan had been swimming with Bixia on his back for half an hour. He coughed up blood many times and his whole body was already sore and stiff. He had no strength left and could barely keep his head above water. He swam slowly. He had never swum so far before. In Cangyan Mountain, he only got tired after swimming a few feet in a pool of water occasionally. There was still no shore in sight ahead. If he continued like this, he would have to sink to the bottom of the water with Bixia on his back. Just as he was getting worried, he saw a half-foot-long rotten wood floating on the river. He gritted his teeth and swam towards the broken wood as if he was grabbing his own life back. He grabbed the broken wood and pressed it under his body, which just made him float. He immediately felt a lot more relaxed. After catching his breath for a long time, he continued to swim towards the river bank.

The sky was already turning pale in the east, and the river bank was clearly visible, a sandy beach. When he could finally step on the bottom of the water with his feet, he breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately felt his body become heavy again. He dragged Bixia, staggered out of the shallows, untied the cloth belt, and fell on his back on the beach, almost fainting.

The sun rose slowly, illuminating the river with golden light and the beach with red color. Wuzhan's breathing became calmer, but he immediately realized that his stomach was empty as he had not eaten for a day. He sat up with difficulty and looked around for food to fill his stomach. The mountain behind him was too far away, and there might not be any wild fruits. Although there were fish in the river, he could not catch them without fishing gear. Suddenly, he found many river crabs crawling ashore on the beach. He was delighted and stood up. He picked up the dead branches and leaves on the beach, took out the fire starter from the Qiankun Jade, ignited the branches, caught more than 20 palm-sized river crabs, and threw them into the fire. When he was catching the crabs, his hands were pinched by the angry crabs. It didn't take long for the crabs to be burned red. Wuzhan was impatient, so he broke open the hot crab shells and started to eat them.

"Thank you!"

Wuzhan was eating attentively when he heard a gentle thank you. He turned around and saw Bixia had woken up and sat up, looking at him. Her eyes were like clear spring water containing black jade, her eyebrows were like willow leaves, her lips were thin and her teeth were white, her skin was as smooth as white jade. She didn't look like the sixty-year-old Taishan Master at all, but a beautiful young girl. Wuzhan thought to himself, "Yang Yingjie is not exaggerating." He turned around and said lightly, "Do you eat river crabs?"

"I'm not hungry!" But the rumbling sound in her stomach refuted what she had just said. Wuzhan had heard it, and Bixia's cheeks turned red instantly.

(End of this chapter)