Chapter Fifty-Four: The Dragon Appears Again

  The icy stinking water instantly submerged me and the white wolf. The water in this dead pond didn't know how many years it hadn't flowed, and after close contact, I only felt extremely smelly.

  The moment I fell into the water, I let go of Bai Lang. Dogs can swim, so I wasn't worried about its safety. What I was more concerned about was what was hidden underwater.

  I struggled to stick my head out of the water, the foul smell on the surface almost made me faint, and White Wolf was still floating in front of me without leaving.

  "Be careful, hold on." Jin Gang had already started taking off his boots on the shore. His action was correct because once a person falls into the water and their boots get soaked, they become very heavy, greatly hindering movement.

  "It's okay, you don't have to come down." I said, quickly swimming towards the shore, White Wolf swimming on my right side, alertly looking back and forth.

  I'm not quite sure how deep the stagnant water was, but I knew that after falling in, I didn't hit the sandy bottom, so it couldn't be too shallow. The distance of over ten meters wasn't far, and after a few struggles, I reached the shore. Just as my right hand grasped a large rock on the shore to pull myself up, I suddenly felt my right foot sink, and a massive force from beneath the dark water instantly pulled me back in.

  "Old Yu!" Jin Gang Pao shouted loudly as he jumped down from the gun, barely grabbing onto my hand.

  In a critical moment, the training I had received in the past played a role. At this moment, although I was in danger, I did not panic. The saying that water gathers yin and yang is true, but I have never heard of an invisible soul being able to harm people in the water, so the only possibility is that there is some kind of creature hiding underwater.

  "Sword, give it to me! You go up!" In the midst of crisis, I saw the dry general in Jin Gang's hand, grabbed it with one hand and loosened Jin Gang's cannon.

  "Old upon..." The golden cannon wanted to say something else, but I couldn't hear it anymore. The pulling force from my right foot instantly pulled me into the deep water.

  I held my breath, and the dry halberd in my hand swung down to the right foot. Due to water resistance, the momentum of this sword was not swift, but I still felt that the halberd had cut something, and my right foot suddenly relaxed, and my body could move again.

  I shook my hands and quickly floated to the surface, took a few deep breaths, saw Jin Gang cannon still searching anxiously around, gave him a hand gesture and the two of us quickly swam towards the shore.

  "What about Bai Lang?" The two of us climbed ashore, drenched from head to toe, without finding any trace of Bai Lang. I hastily asked Jin Gang Cannon.

  "There it is!" The cannon pointed at a black dot on the distant water surface.

  "White Wolf, come back!" I stood up and anxiously shouted at White Wolf.

  "Old man, it's terrible! Your dog doesn't have a head!" Jin Gang Pao exclaimed in shock after taking a look.

  "Ah?" I hastily pinched my fingers and looked over, only to see that what was exposed on the surface of the water was actually the lower half of a white wave's body and tail.

  "My grass!" My eyes instantly turned red, the white wolf's fate was miserable, abandoned at birth, barely survived, and lived alone in a mountain cave for many years. It can be said that it was loyal to me, but I didn't expect it to end up like this.

  I stood up, took off the military boots on my feet, and the boot on my right foot had already been bitten open by some sharp teeth. If it weren't for the steel plate in the military boots, I'm afraid my foot would have been crippled now.

  I threw away my boots and grabbed the dry clothes, then jumped back into the water. No matter what you are, today I will make you pay for your blood debt! Jin Gang Cannon saw me getting in the water but didn't stop me, turned around and pulled out his turtle cannon from his backpack, loading bullets with a series of clicks!

  "Whoosh!" I had just swum a short distance when the calm dead water suddenly churned up a giant wave several meters high, and a huge serpent-like creature shot out of the water with a loud hiss.

  I was pushed back several meters by a sudden huge wave, and when the wave fell, I finally saw the creature in front of me clearly with a glance, and couldn't help but shout out loud "San Yin Bi Shui!"

  The snake-like creature in front of me is actually "Three Yins Concealing Water"!

  "Lao Yu, hurry back, your dog has transformed!" Jin Gang Pao's voice was filled with excitement.

  I turned around and swam to the shore, where Jin Gang Cannon pulled me up. "Old Yu, your dog has become a dragon! Now we're done for, nothing can beat it!"

  I didn't bother with the Golden Cannon, and instead looked at the "Three Yin Water" that was rolling on the surface of the stagnant water in confusion. Logically speaking, although I had sealed the soul of the Three Yin Water into the body of the White Wolf, it shouldn't be able to transform its physical form either. Unfortunately, the distance was too far and I couldn't see it clearly.

  "My spirit is clear and bright, my heroic soul is concentrated and refined. Open my Dharma eye to observe the original form." The Great Supreme Taoist Master hastily said like a law: "Quickly! Quickly!" In urgent situation, I grasped the key and recited the true words of observing Qi and concentrating the spirit.

  At a glance, the hairs on his body stood upright. He grabbed the divine turtle cannon from the hand of the golden strongman and fired a burst of steel needles at the three water gates floating on the nearby water surface.

  "Lao Yu, why did you hit it?" Jin Gang Pao looked at me in confusion.

  "It doesn't have the three golden stars on its forehead, it's not the White Wolf's disguise at all! My White Wolf is still biting its tail!" After using the Concentrated Spirit Incantation, I realized that this "Three Yin Concealing Water" was not the one from the Wind Path. This one was much smaller in build, and most importantly, there were no three golden yellow spots on its forehead. And the White Wolf was currently biting its tail tightly, sometimes falling into the water, sometimes floating to the surface. No wonder I only saw a dog's butt earlier!

  The "three-yin-bi-water" on the water surface was shot by a steel needle and let out a hiss, its tail swished once and it wanted to dive into the dark water.

  "Bailong, let go!" I took a look at the situation and shouted loudly, commanding Bailong to release its grip. At the same time, I quickly ran several steps to the water's edge. With a wave of my right hand, I cast the "Yiqi Yishan Jue" spell, and a blue energy burst out from my body, rushing towards the white wolf that was grabbing onto the tail of the San Yin Bi Shui.

  "Hah!" Jin Gang Cannon saw that my breath couldn't reach Bai Lang's side, so he roared and grabbed my wrist, sending out his own spiritual energy. As soon as the spiritual energy arrived, the air column in front of me suddenly grew another zhang or more, barely catching the white wolf that was just about to open "Three Yin Concealing Water". I let out another angry shout, controlling my breath to pull the distant white wolf back to the shore.

  "Aaaaooo!" The white wolf let out a sudden howl after landing, and turned around to charge back into the water.

  "Ruff, ruff, ruff!" I didn't have time to catch my breath, loudly scolding the white wolf as I stepped forward and hugged it tightly.

  "Aaaaooo!" The white wolf in my arms let out another angry howl, its nostrils flaring open and shut, its expression ferocious, as if ready to pounce.

  "Alright, alright, White Wolf, alright." I gently patted the shoulder area of White Wolf, stabilizing its emotions. At this moment, White Wolf was obviously extremely angry, almost to the point of madness. I hugged it tightly. It seemed that the sealed Three Yin Bitter Water divine consciousness within its body still had some influence on its emotions; otherwise, the normally gentle White Wolf wouldn't have become so ferocious and disobedient to my commands. I kept comforting it, and after a long while, White Wolf's fierce expression finally returned to normal, and it wagged its tail at me.

  "White Wolf, bark!" I pointed at the water surface to stop it from rushing in again. At this moment, although it has the divine consciousness of three yin and bi water, it only has the body of a dog, and it is fundamentally impossible for it to be an enemy with its own kind hidden in the dead water.

  "Haha, I finally know why that stone sank." Jin Gang Cannon took out a cigarette case to smoke, but the cigarette case flowed with water. He was so angry that he threw it far away, opened his backpack, unwrapped one, lit it up and handed me one.

  "It didn't swallow you when it had the chance to step on your head, you're lucky enough." I quickly loaded bullets into the Divine Turtle Cannon. It turned out that the stone in the middle of the water earlier was not a stone at all, but the huge head of the "Three Yīn Water"!

  "What was that just now? It's like the one in the ancient tomb." Jin Gang Cannon froze, teeth chattering.

  "It should also be a three-yin secluded water, and the one with Cheng Feng Dao Ren is of the same kind." I pinched the cigarette with my fingertips and took a few fierce puffs, trying to dispel the chill.

  "Wow, Lao Yu, when did your artifact skills become so powerful?" Jin Gang's words were filled with envy.

  "When the true essence of Qi Gong is practiced to its extreme, it's not just a matter of grabbing a dog from ten meters away." Today, being able to grab the white wolf back at the critical moment of life and death indeed has a large element of luck.

  "Fortunately, this thing is really useful." Jin Gang patted the divine turtle cannon in my hand, and then put on his boots. Although he was soaked all over, he still had a pair of dry boots to wear.

  I loaded two shells into the shotgun and handed one to him, bowing my head to start putting on boots "Let's go, it's almost eleven o'clock, we have to leave here quickly."

  "Old... old age, walking... can't... can't... can't... go on."