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Chapter 1 Qingyang Lake Monster

Tang Xiaoxi paced around the lake, flicking his big sleeves boredly, with a dark green long sword on his back and long tassels dangling with his steps.

"Little baby, big baby~"

At this moment, Tang Xiaoxi noticed a little girl not far away, looking boredly into the water, muttering something.

"Baby, Beibei...well, Big Mao, San Mao... Where's Er Mao?"

Tang Xiaoxi thought it was very interesting, so she walked over and couldn't help laughing when she saw the little girls calling the turtles in the water one by one.

When the little girl heard the voice, she immediately turned her head to look at him. She was dressed in black and gold, which was very eye-catching in the sun, and her ponytail was tied high, so she didn't look so stiff.

The little girl glanced at him and asked him, "Who are you? Why are you laughing?"

Tang Xiaoxi smiled slightly and said, "Your baby, Beibei, do you mean the little turtle in the lake?"

Hearing what he said, the little girl turned her head and continued, "Not only Baby, Beibei, but also Da Mao, Er Mao, San Mao, and little baby, big baby!"

"Are all these babies raised by you?"

"It was raised by my father." The little girl shook her head and said, "My father raised a lot of small fish and turtles."

As he spoke, the two ponytails suddenly drooped down, and he said aggrievedly, "But Ermao is gone...well, my Ermao..."

Seeing that she was about to cry, Tang Xiaoxi thought it was funny again: "What does Ermao look like?"

After asking myself, I feel a bit idiot, what else can a turtle look like, just like a turtle.

As expected, the little girl raised her head cleverly, stared at her watery eyes and said, "Er Mao is a little turtle, it's only one month old."

"Is it a tiny turtle?"

The little girl thought for a while: "Although Ermao is a month old, he is already quite big. It should... be a big turtle."

Tang Xiaoxi pondered for a while, seeing that the little girl was still thinking about whether the little turtle or the big turtle looked cute, so she smiled and said, "Then let me help you find Ermao."

When the little girl heard this, she jumped up happily: "Okay, okay, thank you, big brother!"

Then Xiao ran over, held his hand, and said in a soft voice: "I was here last time, I saw Ermao." He pointed to a certain piece of the lake.

"Oh." Tang Xiaoxi nodded: "Did it run away?"

The little girl's twin ponytails swayed back and forth as she walked, and she seemed to be shaking her head and tail: "Daddy said Ermao was too small to let it run away, so Daddy tied a bell around its neck. Where does it go?" Everyone will know."

Tie a bell to the turtle, the little girl's father is also a strange man.

Leading Tang Xiaoxi from one side of the lake to the other, he asked doubtfully, "Where's Ermao?"

"Did you go somewhere else to play?"

The little girl nodded, turned around and said, "Brother, I'll look on the left, and you look on the right."

Tang Xiaoxi looked at the clever little ghost, but was happy to listen to her command: "Okay, then be careful."

The little girl flung her ponytail and ran away. Tang Xiaoxi looked around, then walked to the other side.

The lake is not big, but there is a very long embankment. The embankments built by the farmers themselves are all randomly built with mud. If you step on a place where no one has walked, it is a small pit.

On the mountain ten miles away from the small fishing village, there is a sacred place of immortals called Chongguang Pavilion. Inside are some immortals who practice martial arts to ascend to heaven. Although I have never heard of those who ascended to immortals, they have lived for hundreds of years. People can be seen everywhere.

So the reputation of the Chongguang Pavilion gradually increased, and when the reputation became bigger, it naturally began to recruit schools, from which suitable candidates were selected to enter the Chongguang Pavilion and become official children.

In this more and more peaceful age, Confucian scholars began to be respected slowly by people. The Chongguang Pavilion even taught a group of elite students to join the soldiers. Even if they are not for the sake of cultivating immortality, many people will come here admiringly. .

Tang Xiaoxi is an official student of Chongguang Pavilion. This time he went down the mountain because of a mission. In fact, most of them went down the mountain to relax. After all, he himself does not like that kind of elegant and elegant place.

"jingle."

After walking two steps, Tang Xiaoxi heard a slight sound of a bell.

As if responding to him again, there was another crisp "ding bell" sound from the far center of the lake.

Tang Xiaoxi stood still and looked at the center of the lake, and found that a layer of ripples gradually formed in the middle, and gradually expanded. Alarm bells sounded in his heart, and the expanding range of the ripples can confirm that the species that came must not be a small thing!

Just at this moment, there was a crash, a huge wave broke out in the water, and a huge object drilled out of the water. Upon closer inspection, it was a very huge water monster!

It has a huge body, a huge head, and a long neck raised out of the water, and it can be seen clearly from behind that it is carrying a heavy body, which looks a bit bulky.

The water monster shook its head and slowly walked towards the water's edge. Suddenly, as if it had spotted Tang Xiaoxi, when it stopped, the two dark eyes on its head stared at him firmly, and then suddenly let out a roar.

The distance from this guy is far enough, but he can still smell the rotten smell in its mouth. Tang Xiaoxi immediately held his breath and focused his attention. Looking at the appearance of the water monster with its teeth and claws, he also knew why someone would go up the mountain to say that there are fierce beasts in Qingyang Lake. At first glance, it is really good.

Tang Xiaoxi mobilized his inner strength, and slowly pulled out the dark green long sword from his back. As his movements expanded, the long sword was gradually revealed clearly.

The whole body of this sword is dark green, it is obviously a sword, but it has the feeling of bottomless lake water, which makes people shudder when they look at it.

The hilt of the sword is very small, there is no barrier at all, but a spiral pattern is polished along the column at the place where the hilt should be, to hold the sword.An eerie and cold sword, but with a very eye-catching tassel tied to the hilt, it swayed with Tang Xiaoxi's movements, adding a touch of red.

Tang Xiaoxi held her own sword, and had injected spiritual power into the blade. The long sword gradually emitted a faint green light, making it look even colder!

"jingle."

At this time, the clear ringing of the bell suddenly came back, Tang Xiaoxi was taken aback suddenly, and saw a small bell tied to the thick neck of the water monster.

The bell seemed to be made of special metal. The red wires had rotted and turned black, but the bell was still abnormally smooth, without any corrosion at all.

"This..." Tang Xiaoxi couldn't help but start to be undecided. Could this be the 'two hairs' that the little girl said just now?

But how could such monsters be kept as pets? !

"jingle."

With the crisp ringtone, the water monster took another step closer. The closer it got to the shore, the more Tang Xiaoxi realized that the heavy shell behind it was like a turtle shell!

"...Ermao?" Tang Xiaoxi shouted in surprise.

As if responding to his words, Er Mao stopped slowly, and gradually put away his fierce look. He glanced at him faintly, as if confirming something, then shook his head, and walked along the shore opened.

Naturally, Tang Xiaoxi would not let him leave, so he strode up to Er Mao, and a dark green long sword blocked his way.

"The flood in Qingyang Lake was all caused by you?

After finishing speaking, Tang Xiaoxi wanted to slap himself hard. How could a turtle answer what he said?It would be embarrassing if the fellow disciples knew about it.

Er Mao yelled at him, seeing that he wouldn't let him go, he turned his head impatiently and dived into the water, insisting on letting him go.

Tang Xiaoxi suddenly felt funny, this turtle is actually quite smart?

Although Ermao is very huge, according to the little girl, it is only a little over a month old, and it is as tall as a tree in a little over a month. When it really grows up, I am afraid that Qingyang Lake will be completely destroyed by it. destroy it.

Thinking of this matter, Tang Xiaoxi felt that he couldn't just let it go back like this, he had to make a stop.

Thinking of this, the dark green long sword in his hand began to glow again, holding the sword Tang Xiaoxi walked towards Er Mao who was walking slowly.

Ermao didn't know if he wasn't worried, or he didn't notice at all, and he walked slowly towards the direction the little girl pointed him at.

"jingle."

Ermao, who doesn't bark, every time he takes a step, the bell on his neck starts to ring, which is crisp and cheerful.

At this moment, seeing the little girl running towards the shore from a distance, Tang Xiaoxi couldn't help but keep silent, and secretly withdrew her internal energy, flipping the long sword into a flower and stuffing it back into the scabbard behind her.

"Ermao!" The little girl started running and shouting at a distance of eight zhang, and Ermao yelled in response to her, then sped up her pace a little.

Tang Xiaoxi suddenly thought of his master, that person was also like this, he had a good longing for simple happiness, which made him not want to break this tranquility for a while.

Later, the little girl brought fish cakes and fed a few pieces to Ermao, who also swallowed them indiscriminately, and then went to the water to stay in the water as if he was full.

Tang Xiaoxi looked at Er Mao and asked her, "Do you... know what Er Mao is?"

The little girl nodded: "My father said that Ermao is a very big turtle."

"But it's too big. Qingyang Lake can accommodate it now, but it won't be able to accommodate it in the future."

"I know, my father told me so."

After hearing this, Tang Xiaoxi felt that the little girl's father was a very unusual person: "Your father told you, what will Er Mao do when he grows up?"

"My father said, when Er Mao can catch fish to eat by himself, he will take Er Mao along Qingyang Lake and go to the sea. It is very big there, and Er Mao will find relatives and friends."

Tang Xiaoxi touched her head, the little girl looked up at him, and said doubtfully, "Big brother, why do you look in a bad mood?"

"...Don't you feel sad?" Tang Xiaoxi couldn't help asking in doubt.

The little girl still kept the same catchphrase: "My father said that Ermao came here after being separated from his family. When he grows up, he will go back. Going back to find his parents is a good thing. Why should you feel sad?"

"And ah~" the little girl said, shaking her head and shaking her head: "I will go to the Chongguang Pavilion to study as a teacher in the future. At that time, I can live to be hundreds of years old~ I can go to see Ermao whenever I want~ "

"Chongguang Pavilion?" Tang Xiaoxi looked at her suspiciously: "Do you want to ascend to the immortal level?"

The little girl frowned cutely and said, "Don't say those polite words, I don't understand."

He pouted complainingly as he spoke.

Seeing her playful and cute appearance made Tang Xiaoxi feel happy, and said to her with a smile, "I am from Chongguang Pavilion. If you want to go to the mountains to study, I can take you there."

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