Chapter 49 Water God

I stared at Shui Linglong for a long time, unable to speak.

Unexpectedly, Shui Linglong laughed and said, "Yueying said you blush when girls joke with you. I didn't think it was true!"

Shui Linglong composed herself. "Alright, no more jokes. Do you have a water bottle? I can just hide inside it."

After I emptied my water bottle, I filled it halfway with water from the pool, and Shui Linglong slipped inside.

What are these two new ghosts and gods I've encountered into?

One likes squeezing into small spaces, and the other likes playing with water.

After Shui Linglong entered the water bottle, the gate beneath the Water God Temple automatically closed, and the water rushing out of the cave gradually stopped.

I walked out while asking, "Shui Linglong, did you build the temple in this cave?"

"No!" Shui Linglong said, "The temple was already here when I arrived."

"I also asked the older ghosts and gods, and they said that they also discovered these temples later."

"When they were first exiled here, they didn't know there were temples."

"It wasn't until they each claimed a mountain as their own that they gradually discovered these things."

"These?" I asked curiously, "Do you mean there's more than one temple?"

"There are probably five or six!" Shui Linglong replied, "Those temples are all in the territories of various ghost kings. I didn't look at them closely to avoid conflicts."

"Five or six!" I mused, taking out my map. "Where are the specific locations of the temples?"

Shui Linglong came out of the water bottle, took the marker I handed her, and marked five locations in succession. "Around these places!"

"They're all blocking our path!" I said thoughtfully, "Five temples, five ghosts and gods?"

Ye Yang said this was a place to slay the dragon, and the dragon vein runs through five temples!

What's going on here?

I couldn't figure it out for the moment, so I had to put these questions aside and walked out of the cave.

When I stood at the entrance and waved at the warship, two ballistae were aimed at me simultaneously.

I heard someone shout, "That's a monster in disguise! Fire!"

"Fi..." Before I could finish cursing, I saw someone swinging a hammer at the ballistae.

In the nick of time, Feng Ruoxing's short blade flew out of his hand, and the Dragon Spine Blade instantly snapped the bowstring.

The crossbow bolt flew out a few meters under the remaining force of the bowstring and spiraled into the water.

Ye Yang and Feng Ruoxing rushed to the edge of the boat at the same time. "Everyone, don't move!"

Jin Tanzi said anxiously, "Grandmaster, you've seen tombs before! When people enter a tomb and wave at the door, nine times out of ten they're ghosts!"

"We can't be careless!"

"Shut up!" Ye Yang said coldly, "My brother is fine!"

Wang Xiaohuan clapped his palms together, and the white lanterns in the air formed a line, stretching from the side of the ship all the way to the entrance of the cave.

I leaped into the air, stepping on the white lanterns to quickly approach the ship. Suddenly, Lietian Jingang reached out and said, "Wait a minute. For safety's sake, we need to verify whether you're alive or dead."

Without a word, I slapped Lietian Jingang across the face. He took the blow squarely, completely unprepared.

As he got up to fight me, I slipped back to the side. "Didn't you want to verify whether I'm alive or dead?"

"Was that slap enough? If not, how about I give you two more?"

Lietian Jingang's eyes turned blood red as he was about to rush at me, but Zhu Xiaoyu gently blocked him with a palm.

Lietian Jingang's hard qigong cultivation had reached perfection, and his momentum in his rage was unstoppable.

However, Zhu Xiaoyu was able to use softness to overcome strength in an instant, neutralizing his power and pushing him back to his original position. Her cultivation was truly remarkable.

I had a feeling that Zhu Xiaoyu's cultivation was even higher than Zhu Zining's.

Zhu Xiaoyu said with a slightly cold expression, "Hall Master Li, I came to cooperate with sincerity. However, your subordinates have repeatedly provoked me."

"Shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

I sneered, "Zhu Xiaoyu, you don't need to play dumb."

"I can forgive what happened before we cooperated."

"But after we cooperated, you sent Ghost Puppet to assassinate me. What's that all about?"

"If you don't give me an explanation today, let's settle this on the ship!"

Before Zhu Xiaoyu could speak, Shi Fei Daoren said, "That's impossible, right? Ye Yang clearly chopped Ghost Puppet into pieces with a sword and knocked him into the water."

I sneered, "Old Taoist, you can't be so naive as to think that a puppeteer can be easily erased, right?"

"If you don't believe me, jump into the water now and see if there's a Ghost Puppet by the entrance of the cave."

Lietian Jingang said coldly, "There are water ghosts everywhere. You want us to go into the water to investigate?"

"You clearly think it's impossible to prove anything and want to frame us."

I said coldly, "I'll go down with your people. If we can't find the puppet, I'll pay with my life."

I was sure that Ghost Puppet's puppet was underwater because Shui Linglong had already found its exact location through the water ghosts.

While Zhu Xiaoyu was still hesitating, I suddenly heard Shui Linglong's voice in my ear, "That Ghost Puppet isn't dead!"