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Chapter V Yin-Yang Fish

one positive and two positive meridians of the Mountain Meridian

Yue Fei quickly ordered the other subordinates to dry the bodies of the two brothers. After putting on his clothes, he asked: What's the situation next?

Of the two brothers who entered the water, one was called Chen Jiao and the other was called Chen Loong. Chen Jiao seemed to be somewhat afraid. He swallowed his saliva and stuttered, "Yue Xianwu, below, below —"

Chen Loong saw that he was truly afraid, and immediately cut him off, and said to Yue Fei: "I'll say it."

Chen Jiao let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that his heart still had some lingering fear. He turned his head to look at the large hole in the ice. Fear once again appeared in his eyes.

Chen Loong then told Yue Fei everything that he had just seen in the river in detail.

It turned out that Chen Loong's hand was holding onto the long rope, with the dagger in his mouth, as he slowly slipped away.

The water was cold, and Chen Loong slowly circulated his Qi, causing the coldness on his body to lessen.

After a while, Chen Loong grabbed onto the long rope and continued downwards, reaching a depth of around twenty to thirty meters. He raised his head to look, only to see a dark object not far away from him that seemed to be located on the left side of the river.

Chen Loong then looked at Chen Jiao, Zhang Danian who was in the water. The two of them also seemed to have discovered that pitch-black object.

Chen Loong immediately swam over to Zhang Danian and Chen Jiao's side. Zhang Danian stepped on the water, his eyes looking at the thing, his expression focused. Chen Loong used his hand to poke him, causing Zhang Danian to turn around. Then, he gestured to Chen Loong and Chen Jiao to separate a little, the three of them separated by a few meters, and swam over slowly.

When he reached the thing, he realized that it was actually a four-legged cauldron.

That four legged giant tripod was as tall as two people, and as wide as twenty to thirty meters. It was his size and it was Chen Loong's first time seeing it in his entire life.

What made Chen Loong horrified was that around the giant tripod, there were a few hundred sets of bones. Some of the bones were extremely big while some were small and skinny, two of them looked more like skeletons made of horses and cows.

The skeletons were all quietly floating around the giant tripod, and as the water flowed through their bodies, the white bones remained motionless, as if they were being absorbed by the giant tripod, unable to move at all.

Chen Loong was overwhelmed with shock, he knew that the giant tripod must have a strange ability, he did not dare get too close to it and slowly went around to the side, focusing once again, only to see that the giant tripod was sealed with a cauldron lid, and that there was a circular black hole at the side of the cauldron. The hole seemed to have a huge suction force, and the moment Chen Loong reached the side of the black hole, he felt a huge suction force.

Chen Loong immediately waved his hands to indicate to Chen Jiao and Zhang Danian not to go over.

Chen Jiao raised his hand to receive it, but Zhang Danian did not seem to see Chen Loong's gesture, his body floated, and actually swam over, and then was sucked into the cauldron by the black hole.

Chen Loong was shocked, he subconsciously rushed forward, and then he felt the suction from the black hole pull him over.

Chen Loong was shocked, he anxiously tried to retreat, stepping on the water, he tried his best to swim back, but just at that moment, Chen Jiao rushed over from the side, grabbing onto the rope on Chen Loong's body, he used his strength to pull him out of the black hole.

The two of them trembled in fear, knowing that they could no longer save Zhang Danian, they pulled on the ropes in their hands and called for Yue Fei and the rest who were on the ice surface, only then were they able to pull the two of them up.

After Yue Fei heard these words, his heart couldn't help but move. "Could the giant tripod in the Yellow River be the thing that Master talked about?" When he thought about how the giant tripod in the Yellow River could very likely be one of our own sect, and how, over the past thousand years, they had painstakingly searched for that thing they had yet to find, the excitement in Yue Fei's heart immediately blossomed.

Yue Fei looked around and said to Chen Loong: "Chen Loong, pick a few brothers that are good at swimming, then bring them down and tie these ten odd ropes to the feet of the giant tripod. After that, quickly come up, I will lead my brothers to pull this giant tripod up, and see if there is anything strange about it." After pausing for a moment, Yue Fei continued: "Drag this giant tripod up here, then you can find Zhang Danian."

Chen Loong hesitated for a moment, but eventually agreed. After all, this warrior, Yue Fei, held great prestige in the hearts of the three hundred brothers. Adding on to his powerful martial arts, his strength was unparalleled, he had killed another Golden General at the Lee Zhu Du and chased away countless soldier of Kim Country.

In the hearts of these brothers, this warrior, Yue Fei, was already like a hero.

Chen Loong was naturally convinced, he immediately looked for his two brothers who knew how to swim, then called Chen Jiao along. He grabbed onto the long rope again, and slipped down.

Yue Fei and his other subordinates continued to stand on top of the ice river, and stared unblinkingly at the large, pitch-black hole.

A moment later, the four ropes began to sway. Amidst the splashing of water, Chen Loong, Chen Jiao and the other two brothers had already climbed up the rope. The four of them came out of the water and told Yue Fei, "Yue Xianwu is done."

Yue Fei nodded, then called his subordinates and untied the rope tied to the iron wedge, then ordered everyone to retreat back to the shore. Leaving 100 people to guard the side, the remaining 100 over brothers all separated, every 10 people grabbing onto a rope, everyone used their strength to pull the giant tripod up.

On the river bank, over a hundred people shouted in a low voice. The ten ropes were stretched out straight, and after that, they slowly followed everyone's footsteps and retreated. The giant tripod at the end of the ropes, also slowly floated up with everyone's cooperation.

The giant tripod rose upwards until it reached the ice layer, then was stuck there.

Yue Fei called for everyone to gather their strength once again. With a cracking sound, a crack was formed on the thick layer of ice by the giant tripod. He was stuck in the crack again.

This time, he couldn't move.

Seeing that, Yue Fei ran to the surface of the ice, and came to the crack, only to see the giant tripod stuck there. The cauldron was covered in patterns, and beside Yue Fei were two ancient words.

Yue Fei seemed to have seen the handwriting in his sect's secret scripture map.

Yue Fei circled around the giant tripod, but he did not see the black hole that Chen Loong mentioned.

The giant tripod lid seemed to have been forged together with the cauldron. On the cauldron lid, there were many decorations as well, with green spots on the cauldron's body.

As the giant tripod floated up, layers of bones around the mouth of the Ice River slowly floated up.

Under the moonlight, these bones looked extremely strange.

As expected, these bones were as Chen Loong said. Their bones were all different, and two of them were even white skeletons of horses and cows.

Yue Fei looked at the patterns on the cauldron, and under careful observation, the complicated patterns seemed to resemble words.

The two big words in the middle of the ornaments seemed to form a pattern.

The pattern was very similar to the Yin-Yang fish in the tai chi diagram.

Under Yue Fei's attentive gaze, his eyes started to blur. It was as if the yin yang fish on top of the giant tripod was slowly turning …