After hearing what Zhang Zhiwei said, the boatman laughed sinisterly.
The laughter was strange, like a crow howling at a grave.
After laughing for a while, the boatman grinned and said:
"Young man, you're joking. Don't you think I haven't heard of 'Water Margin'? The story I'm telling is a true story, but your story is just from a book."
The boatman hadn't finished speaking yet.
“Clang!”
A whistling sound burst out.
Then, a golden light suddenly appeared, tearing through the white mist like cutting through a veil, and shot past like lightning.
Suddenly, a huge human head flew up and flipped back and forth in the air.
As for the remaining headless body, no blood was gushing out, but extremely smelly mud was flowing out of it.
Zhang Zhiwei leaned against the bow with a grim expression, a golden light shimmering on his fingertips.
"I asked you if you wanted 'Ban Dao Noodles' or 'Wonton Noodles', and you said my story was a lie?!"
"thump!"
The head fell into the water, splashing water.
at the same time.
"ah!"
A hair-raising scream rang out, and a sinister ghostly aura rushed out from the headless body.
Zhang Zhiwei stretched out his hand, and the ghost energy was instantly captured, turning into a struggling and crying ghost in his hand.
"...Please spare me...I died so unjustly...I just wanted revenge, what did I do wrong..."
But then, the sound suddenly stopped.
"Whether it's right or wrong, you should talk to the King of Hell!"
Zhang Zhiwei's hands were surrounded by lightning, and the ghost shadow just now was crushed into ashes by his claws.
After crushing the evil ghost to death, Zhang Zhiwei looked at his master Zhang Jingqing.
Zhang Jingqing continued to meditate, as if he saw nothing.
Seeing this, Zhang Zhiwei walked to the bow of the boat and gently pushed the boatman's headless body.
“Crash!”
Water splashed everywhere.
The headless body sank after entering the water, and after about a few seconds, it floated up on its back.
"There's a black aura lingering in the water, and there's a giant creature there too. Didn't they say they like to eat people thrown overboard? Why hasn't they taken the bait? Could it be that the people I threw out aren't fresh anymore?"
Zhang Zhiwei stared at the river surface and muttered to himself, wondering whether he should be protected by the golden light, rush into the river, and kill the monster that the boatman mentioned.
But just as he was thinking, the headless corpse floated on the surface of the river for a while. Suddenly, an undercurrent surged in the water, and the corpse seemed to be dragged by something and disappeared from the water in an instant.
Zhang Zhiwei smiled. The sound of the corpse falling into the river was the same as the sound of the boatman feeding the fish. The fish was hooked!
Sure enough, the water surface, which was calm just now, suddenly turned upside down, rolling up waves more than one meter high, and becoming more and more intense.
The river was full of waves, and the boat was swaying in the river.
Zhang Jingqing sat cross-legged on the boat as if rooted, his body standing still as the boat rose and fell.
Zhang Zhiwei stood at the bow of the boat, radiating energy from his body. The waves that came towards him collapsed under the pressure of his fierce energy before they even got close to the boat.
Under the water, a huge black shadow was approaching, and with a "splash", the fish tail poked out of the water and slapped it hard.
"boom!"
Another wave came, more than one meter high and more violent than the previous one, and the boat was about to capsize.
But at this moment...
"Sizzle, sizzle"
Zhang Zhiwei made a move, slapping out with one palm. Lightning flashed in his palm and shot out like a ray of lightning. Wherever the thunder passed, the surface of the river was like wheat waves facing the wind, completely defeated.
Yang Wulei was in a state of mind-monkey state, extremely powerful, but he could only launch an attack without retracting it. The power of this attack was extremely terrifying, it directly penetrated the huge waves, broke through the water surface, and hit the person under the water.
“Boom!”
An explosion sounded immediately, and a water column several meters high rose from the water surface, mixed with some charred scales.
As the charred scales fell, the waves on the river stopped, and the turbulent undercurrent also stopped. Only the boat continued to spin on the water due to inertia.
On the surface of the water, blood-colored bubbles kept emerging, and a large amount of blood dyed the surface of the river red.
“It’s quite big!”
Zhang Zhiwei stretched out his hand towards the water surface where blood bubbles were appearing. Golden light burst out from his palm and turned into a giant hand, reaching into the water.
“Clatter…”
A strange fish that was nearly ten meters long and had a tiger face and a fish body was pulled up and floated in the blood-stained water.
"Master, is this a demon?" Zhang Zhiwei asked Zhang Jingqing.
Zhang Jingqing opened his eyes, looked at the strange fish, and said, "Not really, but it has begun to transform into a demon. I'm afraid it has eaten quite a few people. However, it was fed by ghosts after all, not from self-cultivation of Qi, so it has no spiritual intelligence, only brute force..."
After saying that, he raised his hand and cast a fire talisman.
The fire talisman hit the fish monster and exploded. The flames produced were like igniting a barrel of gasoline, instantly enveloping the entire fish monster and burning fiercely.
“Zizizizi…”
The burning body of the fish monster made a sound like burning hot oil, and a large amount of black smoke rose up.
The black smoke was extremely smelly and nauseating, just like burning a stinking old corpse.
Zhang Jingqing frowned slightly after smelling it, and waved his hand, causing a gust of wind to blow away the black air and the fog that covered the river surface covered by drizzle.
Under the burning of Zhang Jingqing's fire talisman, the fish monster's body quickly turned into ashes.
When everything was over, Zhang Zhiwei raised his hand and hit the water surface. The Qi energy surged and the boat was pushed forward.
Soon, the boat reached the other side.
There is a reed marsh ahead. Walking out of the reed marsh, not far away are abandoned farmlands and a dilapidated, deserted village.
The ghost boatman wanted to take revenge, but there was no one left in the village. In the end, it was his obsession that took over.
Noticing that Zhang Zhiwei was looking at the deserted village not far away, Zhang Jingqing asked, "If that village still existed, and the person who harmed Lu Ren was still alive, what would you do?"
Zhang Zhiwei pondered for a moment and said, "I can't say for sure if I'm not in that kind of environment, but I have always believed in slaying demons and monsters, following my heart, and not meddling in other people's business!"
Zhang Jingqing asked again: "What is a demon? What is a devil? What is one's true heart? What is idleness?"
Zhang Zhiwei thought for a moment and said, "Those who do evil are demons, those who cause chaos are monsters. What you want to do is your true nature, and what you don't want to do is idleness!"
Zhang Jingqing said, "Those who do evil are demons, those who cause chaos are monsters. They can't be categorized simply by species. Haha, you're not a blockhead. But in this world, there are so many things that are beyond our control. People always lose their original intentions as they go along!"
Zhang Zhiwei said: "People say that we have no control over our bodies, but my feet are on my body. Whether I walk or not, which road I take, what kind of road I take, whether I become a human being or not, what kind of person I become, the same is true."
"Really?" Zhang Jingqing asked, "Then what should I do if the path I want to take is not easy to walk, and the person I want to be is not easy to become?"
Zhang Zhiwei said: "If the road you want to take is difficult to walk, then it means that this is not the road you want to take. If the person you want to be is difficult to be, then it means that this is not the person you want to be."
Zhang Jingqing laughed heartily upon hearing this, "Well said! They say we can't control our bodies, but that's nonsense. If we can't control our minds, how can we control our bodies?"
Zhang Jingqing added, "Zhiwei, following your heart is a good thing, but you must remember to be cautious. A gentleman never stands under a dangerous wall. You must be vigilant in everything you do. Remember, people's hearts are full of ingratitude and there are many people in this world who repay kindness with enmity and are ungrateful!"