At night, the moon and stars were scarce.

On the bank of the peaceful ‘Goddess Lake’, a young woman was wearing a sarong that reached her ankles, walking towards the lake from the fine sand.

While walking, she threw the clearly defined black and white chess pieces behind her. Looking from the top, there was an arc array with a mysterious pattern.

The young man sitting in the car in the distance and looking out of the car window tried his best to widen his eyes:

“Boss, do you think there is a ‘spiritual creatures’ in ‘Goddess Lake’?”

Gi Liaochan in the back row said: “Since Sangsang said there is, there must be.”

Immediately, the team members of several branches looked yearning and excited: “Well, if it weren’t for the fact that Director Gu said that the ‘spiritual creature’ has been away from the world all year round, and too many people appearing would probably offend it, I would have wanted to go over and watch.”

“Who says no? I have never seen an animal that has become a spirit or can take human shape in my life, let alone a ‘spiritual creature’…”

Just as several members of the Special Spiritual Department were chatting away, a loud sound suddenly erupted on the lake in the distance, which immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

It was as if a grenade had been dropped into the originally very calm ‘Goddess Lake’. The water waves were undulating, causing the skirts of the slender woman on the shore to fly.

“What the hell?! Did the ‘spiritual creature’ appear?”

“Where is it? Why didn’t I see anything?!”

According to the information collected by members of the Special Spiritual Department such as Gi Liaochan, those fishermen who had witnessed the “River Goddess” in the water said that it was very large.

Some say it was a huge fish-shaped creature that can ride the wind and waves;

Some also say that the ‘River Goddess’ is a giant snake more than twenty meters long, and will soon become a dragon.

In short, it was a mysterious creature.

Although Gu Zhisang was suspicious of these exaggerated folk rumors, she still put up a blindfold on the lake before launching the ritual.

Under the cover of blindness, no matter what happened on the “Goddess Lake” or how big the movement was, the people on the shore and in the tall buildings in the distance could not notice it.

She just set it up casually, but she didn’t expect it to come in handy.

At this time, Gu Zhisang stood in the center of the formation, with a strange expression on her face, looking at the ‘spiritual creature’ that had been summoned from the water and made such a big fuss.

Silver-blue scales wrap around the curved body, and the scales sparkle like water waves in the moonlight.

With a small body and long tail. The ‘spiritual creature’ at first sight was indeed full of mystery and holiness——

The premise was that people should ignore that it reaches a height above Gu Zhisang’s knees.

Because it was so short, its series of stunning golden double pupils and gorgeous tail fins were not as eye-catching as its slightly short and round body.

“The Classic of Mountains and Seas” once recorded that the auspicious animal in the water was the stingray, which has a voice like the cry of an oriole and has colorful fins and wings.

The spiritual creature summoned by Gu Zhisang in front of her has a shadow of the auspicious animal.

After being summoned, the ‘spiritual creature’ raised its head and made a clear sound.

The formations laid out by Gu Zhisang were recorded during the ancient Xuanmen period.

In that era when human beings and immortals still existed, and all creatures were thriving, the array master took into consideration the different species when creating the summoning array, and built-in semantic conversion, which was very considerate.

However, with the decline of Heavenly Dao and the decline of Xuanmen, the ‘spiritual creatures’ in heaven and earth disappeared.

First, it was not necessary, and second, the ancient formation was too difficult, so modern formation masters have changed the summoning spell again and again, making it more and more concise.

The summoning arrays currently circulating in the metaphysical world can only summon ghosts and spirits.

The ‘spiritual creature’ in the formation raised its eyes: “Who are you? A mere mortal dares to disturb me.”

Gu Zhisang slightly raised an eyebrow.

Regardless of its size, it was still a ‘spiritual creature’.

Little did she know that it was this ‘spiritual creature’ that felt the surge of energy from this summoning array, and at the same time, it felt the residual aura of the afternoon thunder remaining on the body of the person setting up the array.

It can’t help but make him curious, how come there were such mysterious masters with such powerful methods in the world today?

If not, it wouldn’t show up at all due to its arrogance.

Gu Zhisang tactfully described the matter of the corpse in the water. Before she could finish, the silver-blue scaled and double golden eyes, slapped the sand with its tail fin angrily and said in a bad tone:

“I know that corpse, it’s extremely smelly and ferocious. It has disturbed my habitat and caused chaos and evil spirits running around. My food is so smelly and rotten that it is hard to swallow. It is simply too much!”

It looked at Gu Zhisang: “Are you and that dead thing in the same group?”

“No, please don’t get me wrong.”

Gu Zhisang told Liu Mouxin’s tragic experience and said sincerely:

“It was not her original intention to be trapped in the ‘Goddess Lake’. She was murdered by gangsters and suffered heart-piercing pain day and night without being able to get rid of it. Now, she has realized her mistakes and has taken the initiative to restrain her yin energy and resentment. All she wants is to leave the bottom of the lake.”

“I wonder if I could ask you to help me get it out of the water?”

After listening to her explanation, and then thinking that the fish and shrimp in the lake had indeed become less fishy in the past two days, the spiritual creature’s anger calmed down a little.

But when Gu Zhisang asked him to touch the dirty and smelly corpse at the bottom of the lake, he was a little disgusted and reluctant.

Just when the ‘spiritual creature’ was hesitating between refusing to touch the carrion and sending away the guy who occupied the magpie’s nest as soon as possible, Gu Zhisang suddenly said:

“I see that your tail fin has old injuries, and there is also some rotten air and indigestible filth in your body. How about I help you get rid of these things first.”

Without waiting for the ‘spiritual creature’ to refuse, she squatted down and put her delicate white palms directly on the smooth, silver, and sparkling back of the ‘spiritual creature’.

The scales of the auspicious beast that has been around for nearly a thousand years feel very good to the touch and are smoother than the finest jade.

Its already large golden eyes still widened, with an angry and disbelieving look: “You mortals, how dare, how dare…”

After his fin scales were smoothed twice, the spiritual creature’s eyes narrowed and his arrogance suddenly dropped.

What kind of terrible trick was this?

This person’s abilities were truly astonishing and bottomless!

After two gentle strokes, she can make the ‘spiritual creature’ become silent and find it difficult to resist?!

Slowly, the long body of the soft ‘spiritual creature’ completely relaxed. Its short claws spread, opened, and closed comfortably like a cat.

It allowed Gu Zhisang to stroke its beautiful and shining tail fin, and occasionally made a couple of whining sounds.

Gu Zhisang glanced at the ‘spiritual creature’ exposing its body. Her eyes fell on its complicated and gorgeous tail fin.

There was a long scar in the flesh and a winding wire could be vaguely seen growing together with the tail fin and flesh of the ‘spiritual creature’.

In just a few minutes, Gu Zhisang had figured out the details of this lake spirit.

Looking from another point of view, apart from blessing the ‘Goddess Lake’ with abundant aquatic products, his actual abilities were average.

Its scales appear to be hard, but its skin can be easily broken by fishing boat hooks. It was a fragile ‘spiritual creature’ that could not heal itself after being injured by human fishing gear.

Of course, it was also related to the fact that its claws were too short and could not reach the wound on the tail.

“Bear with it.”

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