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"Kneel? "Hmph, if he is doing this for the good of the people, I can kneel to him, but he is a unconscious official. What's the use of kneeling to him?" Zhang Nan snorted coldly as he raised his head, not the slightest bit afraid.

"Hmm?" When Wang Kailiang heard this, his brows furrowed, "You are just a friendly person, how dare you be so arrogant?"

"A person who requests for orders for the people!" Zhang Nan replied.

"What do you want?" Wang Kailiang gritted his teeth.

"I heard that Taoist Huikun, who was invited by the magistrate, chased away the water monster last night. That Taoist Huikun must have had a profound cultivation base, and since we managed to gather enough resources to catch the demon today, why not invite Taoist Huikun to the riverside and do something about it? If we can capture the water monster in front of everyone, there's nothing left for us to say."

Before Zhang Nan could finish his sentence, the rest of the people said, "Master, I ask that Taoist Hui Kun display his skills in catching the water monsters."

Seeing this scene, Wang Kailiang frowned. After a long while, he nodded. "Fine, since that's the case, then I'll ask Taoist Hui Kun to use his skills to capture the water monster in public."

"Milord, I, milord, I …" When Taoist Huikun heard this, his face paled and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead.

However, he had no other choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward.

In a short while, a lot of people had gathered by the river. The entire Jing Prefecture City, from top to bottom, was filled with commoners who were all out of the city to watch Daoist Huikun capture the Water Monster.

"Huikun is a fake Taoist. He can't catch the water monster. What do we do later?" Song Yang asked as they arrived at the river bank.

"Hmph, isn't that simple? Let's just watch him make a fool out of himself." Pu Feier snickered, "If the water monster comes up, we can take it in and make a fool of the magistrate. If the water monster doesn't come out, then even if Hui Kun knows, the magistrate will still make a fool of himself."

Hearing this, Zhang Nan gave Pu Feier a big thumbs up.

The magistrate went back to look after the situation personally, and the soldiers guarding the city sent out three hundred people, each of them nocked and ready to fight. The truth was that they were looking for guilt later on, so they sent the soldiers to protect themselves.

Taoist Huikun summoned up his courage and walked to the side of the river to set up an incense table. He placed the head of the pig-head on the table and inserted three joss sticks into it before taking out an iron sword and twirling it around the table three times. He chanted, "The spirits of the heavens and the earth, Old Lord Taishang quickly appears, the spirits of the heavens and the earth, Old Lord Taishang, quickly appears …"

Daoist Hui Kun recited it over and over again. In less than half an incense's time, there was actually a thick layer of fog on the surface of the river, exactly the same as last night's fog.

"He really has some ability?" Seeing that, Zhu Liu's eyes widened.

"What ability? Isn't it just luck? Let's see how he will catch that water monster later." Pu Feier slapped Zhu Liu's head.

"Hey, are you guys pretending? He wasn't injured by the bailiff?" But just at that moment, a young man pointed at Zhu Liu and asked suspiciously.

"Shh, be quiet." Pu Feier said anxiously: "We are doing this for everyone's benefit. Tell me, the magistrate is always asking everyone to pay for the water monster, but did everyone see them capturing the water monster?"

Hearing this, the young man thoughtfully nodded and loudly said, "I understand. I understand. You can rest assured that I will not tell them."

With his loud voice, many people turned their heads to look at him. pulled Zhu Liu away anxiously: "Really, is this guy an idiot?"

On the surface of the river, the fog was getting bigger and bigger. In addition, it was getting closer to the shore. Taoist Huikun was shaking his bell. As the fog got closer, he got more and more scared and his legs started shaking more and more.

"Liu Bao, is the demon really coming out?" When Wang Kailiang saw this, he tilted his head and asked the lead bailiff beside him.

"Eh? Milord, this, this, why don't you hide for a moment?" Liu Bao was also a bit unsure. He understood that Wang Kaihao's order to capture the water monster was just for the crowd to see. They had sealed their mouths, but they didn't expect such a coincidence. The water monster had actually appeared.

"Dodge? How can I avoid it? So many people are staring at me. I'm afraid they'll have to eat breakfast the moment they leave. " Wang Kaihao had a bitter look on his face. "Hurry up and think of a way, think of a way."

Liu Bao was only a minor yamen runner. He was fine bullying commoners, but he didn't have the ability to think of how to catch Water Monsters.

"Why don't the soldiers shoot him in his room?" Liu Bao rubbed his hands.

"Nonsense, if it's like this then it's fine, why did we invite demon catcher here?" Wang Kailiang cursed as he slapped Liu Bao on the head.

"This guy is going to lose his act soon." Song Yang looked at Daoist Hui Kun who was still ringing his bell and laughed mockingly.

"We have to be careful later, with so many people watching, if the carp essence really comes ashore, we have to stop it, we can't let it hurt the residents here, it would be best to keep it in the river." Zhang Nan said.

"Is there any way to stop him in the river?" Fox Fairy looked at Song Yang and asked.

"Blocked in the river?" Song Yang frowned, before he could finish speaking, the mist suddenly spread out, covering the entire surface of the river, and started pouncing towards the shore.

"Don't, don't come over, don't come over!" Seeing this scene, Taoist Huikun's legs went weak and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"Not good, the water monster went ashore. That Taoist is fake, he can't catch the water monster." Seeing this, the spectators started to stir up a commotion and ran into the city with their lives on the line.

"Liu Bao, get someone to shoot an arrow and have them move into the room." Wang Kailiang saw the fog coming at him quickly, turned pale with fright, turned around and ran.

"Release the arrows! Everyone listen to me! Release the arrows!" Liu Bao drew his sword. Hundreds of soldiers, upon hearing the order, shot wildly at the fog.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot …" Seeing the arrows flying over, Daoist Hui Kun turned pale with fright and quickly crawled back.

However, just as the arrowheads flew into the mist, they suddenly turned back. Seeing the dense cluster of arrowheads, Lu Bao's eyes widened. "Run, run!"

A group of soldiers turned around and ran. Just as they ran a few steps, the rain of arrows whistled past. More than half of the 300 soldiers were killed in an instant.

Taoist Huikun tried to run back, but a few more arrowheads were fired at him from the mist, and he screamed and died in an instant.

"Retreat. Those arrows were unable to harm it. Instead, they became its weapon. He is invincible on the surface of the river." With that said, Fox Fairy escorted Zhang Nan and the rest back to the city.

From time to time, a few arrowheads and three hundred soldiers would fly out from the fog. In the blink of an eye, not a single one was left alive. Corpses littered the ground.

With so many people suddenly dead, the entire Jing Prefecture City was in a state of panic, afraid that the water monster would slaughter its way into the city. At that time, the number of people who would die would not be just one or two.

"What do we do now?" Pu Feier asked Zhang Nan: "It's all my fault. I had such a bad idea and caused so many people to die …"