radicalducati Chapter 1 The Female Ghost! Water Source Book
Chapter 1 The Female Ghost! Water Source Book
The rain, drizzling down, washed over Canghe City.
The city's neon lights were scattered by the rain, their reflections appearing and disappearing on the wet streets.
boom!!!
A thunderous roar erupted.
The dim environment suddenly brightened, and in the rain, a white figure trembled as the thunder rumbled, its lifeless eyes instantly waking up.
"Where am I?"
Mu Yuan looked around in confusion, especially when he looked down and saw that he was suspended thousands of meters in the air, he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul.
However, when he came to his senses, he discovered that his lower body was in the form of mist, with no physical form at all.
It looks like... a ghost.
In a daze, the last memory finally flooded my mind.
he died.
The Qiantang River, the waves, and two children who have fallen into the water.
He pushed the child ashore, but he himself was dragged to the bottom of the river by the surging waves. Exhausted, he never came back up.
does it worth?
worth it.
But where is this place?
Mu Yuan looked bewildered, his gaze inadvertently glancing downwards—
His body suddenly froze.
In the old town on the edge of the city, on a tributary of the moat, the water was murky and black, with rotting leaves and small pieces of garbage floating on the surface, and a chilling, fishy smell permeated the air.
The most eerie thing is that beneath the rotting leaves lies a dark, white figure.
"A water ghost?"
Mu Yuan swallowed hard.
He was a staunch materialist in his lifetime, but now, he is seeing it with his own eyes as a soul!
Something really was hidden in that dark stream.
If he hadn't become a spirit, he wouldn't have been able to detect it even if you killed him.
Just as Mu Yuan became alert, a pregnant woman with her hair tied up and a large belly was carrying trash towards a roadside trash can on the path by the stream.
She dumped the trash in, turned around to leave, but suddenly stopped.
His gaze inadvertently drifted to the dark stream in front of him, and his brows furrowed slightly.
In recent years, there have been rumors that at least seventeen people have drowned in this ditch, their remains never recovered, and no one knows why.
Some say that man-eating water ghosts lurk beneath it.
She stared at the dark water for two seconds, just about to look away...
But then she discovered that, without her noticing, something resembling a strand of hair was emerging from the sewage in the dark shadows, silently coiling around her ankle like a snake.
The pregnant woman looked down.
A scream exploded.
She struggled desperately, but the black hair around her ankles was like an iron chain, unmoving. Her heavily pregnant body lost its balance and fell heavily to the ground, only able to watch helplessly as her body was dragged little by little towards the dark water.
In mid-air, Mu Yuan desperately plunged downwards.
However, when he was less than a hundred meters from the stream, he suddenly sensed a faint life force emanating from the pregnant woman's womb deep in his consciousness.
That was a life about to be born.
"Is this... letting me in?"
Mu Yuan was taken aback.
The legendary reincarnation?
But this feeling is completely different from what I remembered.
In a daze, his gaze seemed to penetrate the pregnant woman's skin!
The fetus in her womb has fully developed.
This is not reincarnation.
This is possession.
ridiculous.
He died saving someone in his past life, and even if he became a wandering ghost, he would never take over the body of an unborn child.
What about his decision to jump into the Qiantang River back then?
With a cold laugh in his heart, Mu Yuan unleashed an invisible force, instantly traversing a hundred meters and plunging directly into the stream!
A pair of transparent hands gripped the black hair that was wrapped around the pregnant woman's ankles tightly.
At the bottom of the water, deep in the silt.
Pitch black, deathly silent.
Mu Yuan saw it.
In the very center of the silt, where the water swirled wildly, a woman's figure, soaking wet, with pale skin, empty eyes, and black blood flowing from her seven orifices, slowly floated up from the water.
Her limbs were stiff, her long hair was soaked and wrapped around her neck, and her whole body exuded a dense, almost tangible, Yin energy.
A pair of eyes filled with extreme resentment stared intently at Mu Yuan.
ghost.
It really is a ghost.
Mu Yuan lived in a peaceful era and was not actually very brave. At this moment, he was staring at a female ghost at close range, and his entire soul froze.
Black mist mixed with jet-black hair surged towards him like a tidal wave.
At that very moment.
Deep within my consciousness, a book radiating golden light suddenly appeared.
[Water Source Book]
The three words struck Mu Yuan's mind like a thunderbolt.
The supreme treasure that governs all the waters of the world—the Book of Water Sources!
It actually woke up deep within its own consciousness!
[An unclaimed stream has been detected. Is it under someone else's jurisdiction?]
Without time to think it through, Mu Yuan had only one thought.
Yes!
boom--
An invisible force exploded from the golden book, causing Mu Yuan's soul to tremble violently.
The black hair that was wrapped around its body broke off instantly and fell off, frantically retreating to the bottom of the water as if it had encountered a natural enemy.
[Congratulations, host, you have obtained: Water Spirit Body]
[Water Spirit: Can materialize within its own jurisdiction, based on water; as long as the water does not dry up, the spirit will not die]
A clear, cold voice echoed in his mind, and Mu Yuan felt an inexplicable connection being established between himself and the stream.
It turned out to be the case.
He became the god of this ditch.
Although it's only the lowest level—
[Cleric Rank: First Tier - Stream Spirit (Deity Not Ranked in Flowing Waters)]
[Jurisdiction over waters: artificial tributaries of the Canghe River in the old city area]
[Merit: 300]
[Status: Awakened by the Spring Equinox, soul body is weak, water spirit body is in the process of condensation, can only slightly affect shallow water areas]
[Passive: Water Manipulation: Manipulate the water flow in the water area for attack and defense]
[Passive: Water Purification: The waters of a region nurture its inhabitants. Purify the waters under your jurisdiction, dispel calamities, purify negative energy, and protect the peace of the region!]
This passive and sustainable protection extends to the people living near the waters; the more people protected, the more merit is gained.
[Congratulations, host, you have obtained: Protective Aura: A skill exclusive to the clerical profession. It can gather spiritual energy to protect the body and has a strong suppressive effect on evil spirits. It can exorcise evil and bestow blessings.]
[Congratulations, host, you have obtained: Absolute Mastery of Water Areas: Within water areas, you can achieve absolute control. Except for the host themselves, other beings can suppress your strength by up to 30%! Your own strength is increased by 50%!]
[Congratulations, host, you have acquired the exclusive skill of a deity: Severing the Source - Returning to the Void]
The originally illusory soul gradually solidified under the golden light.
The dark, murky river water trembled slightly, and countless tiny water droplets gathered and clung to his invisible body.
A faint yet undeniably real power of authority is firmly rooted in this body of water.
He is God.
In this body of water, he's the one who calls the shots.
Although it is only the lowest-ranking stream spirit, its status as a legitimate water deity is incomparable to that of a wandering ghost.
In this body of water, he calls the shots.
With a thought, the surrounding water instantly compressed and solidified, transforming into a chilling water blade!
laugh!
The black hair connecting the shore and the female ghost was forcibly cut off.
The strand of black hair that was dragging the pregnant woman vanished instantly, and the pregnant woman's body suddenly relaxed, collapsing limply on the shore, unable to move any further.
A thick, black liquid seeped from the broken ends of the hair, mixing into the sewage.
Mu Yuan's gaze turned cold as he looked down into the water.
The pale female ghost figure slowly rose from the mud, black blood flowing from her seven orifices spreading in the water, her venomous gaze piercing through the water and fixed on him.
That stab just now clearly provoked it.
The streams throughout the old town began to stir, with abnormal ripples spreading across the surface. A chilly atmosphere seeped from the riverbed, and even the rain seemed to grow colder.