Chapter 416
Chapter 416
Chapter 416
According to legend, in ancient times on the earth, there was a strange beast called "Nian", with strange horns on its head and sharp teeth; its eyes were fierce and extremely ferocious.
"Nian" has lived in no one's land for many years, and only enters the world on New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and harming human life.Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in villages and villages help the old and the young to flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of "Nian".
It is said that "Nian" has a big head and a small body, with a body length of more than ten feet, eyes like copper bells, and coming and going like the wind.
Because it makes a sound similar to "Nian" when it howls, it is named Nian Beast.Over time, people gradually discovered that the Nian Beast was afraid of three things, namely red, fire and loud noises; later, when the Nian Beast was about to come, people would gather together to post red papers, hang red lanterns and set off firecrackers.
The purpose is to drive away the Nian Beast.After the beast was driven away, people would always happily say to each other: "It's been another year."
Gradually, the earth has the saying of celebrating the new year, and thus the custom of celebrating the new year.
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Douluo Continent, Wuhun Empire.
Not long ago, under the impetus of Gu Chen, the emperor of the Wuhun Empire and the co-lord of the soul beasts, the Douluo Continent entered the era of soul beast rule.
But the scene of a fight to the death between humans and beasts did not appear as expected. The inner and outer cities were opened up in the city, and humans and spirit beasts coexist peacefully. All of these are so harmonious.
This day coincides with the day before the new year, according to Gu Chen's previous life, this day is called New Year's Eve.
At this moment, the east coast of Douluo Continent.
hum~
On the sea level [-] meters away from the coast, a large black hole that can absorb all colors of light suddenly appeared above the sea water. This black hole has a diameter of nearly ten meters, and endless suction is transmitted from this black hole.
Under the terrifying suction, the blue sea water was slowly drawn up, turning into a huge current, continuously pouring into the black hole, and being swallowed by it.
And the other end of the black hole is like an endless abyss, unexplorable.
The seawater and the life in the seawater were continuously sucked by the black hole. It was not until 1 minute later that the black hole seemed to have absorbed enough energy that it stopped absorbing the seawater.
If the seawater can't flow, then it can be seen that under the black hole, seawater at least equivalent to the volume of ten high-rise buildings has disappeared.
"Near~"
A beast chant sounded, which sounded similar to the word "Nian".
At this moment, a cyan horn protruded from the black hole, followed by the body of the owner of the horn coming out of the black hole.
This is a strange creature with the body of a lion and the tail of a whale. It is covered with blue scales, and its head, back, and tail like a whale are all covered with fiery red hair.
There was a bloodthirsty look in the eyes of the strange creature. It looked very simple and unpretentious, without any fluctuation of soul power.But it seems to have infinite power in its body.
This sphinx-tailed monster leaped forward while its limbs fell to the surface of the water. Like a master of qinggong, it quickly tapped on the water and jumped towards the coast.
With the appearance of this monster, the diameter of the black hole that suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea also gradually decreased, and finally disappeared on the surface of the sea.
A quarter of an hour later, the monster finally arrived on the coast. Its footprints left small pits one after another on the beach. Looking at a thriving village not far from the coast, bloodthirsty eyes appeared in its eyes. shine.
The next moment, its body was like a tiger, and it rushed towards the small village. Not long after, the screams came from the village, and the mourning lasted for a long time.
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At the same time, the capital of the Wuhun Empire, Wuhun City.
Wuhun City is the only city in the entire Douluo Continent that does not distinguish between inner and outer cities, and the spirit beasts in the city are all fierce beasts in human form.
Wuhun City is the largest city in the entire Wuhun Empire, and it is also the most prosperous city in the Wuhun Empire. The new year is about to come, and the residents of Wuhun City are buying new clothes and things they need for the new year.
Unfortunately, since there is no custom of "Chinese New Year" in Douluo Continent, activities such as pasting red paper, hanging red lanterns, and setting off firecrackers that existed in Gu Chen's previous life did not appear.
At this moment, in the imperial garden of the Wuhun Empire's imperial palace, a grand banquet is being held.
More than a dozen huge round tables were placed in the center of the imperial garden, and each wine table could seat more than twenty people.
The host of this banquet is obviously the honorable Emperor Gu Chen of the Wuhun Empire, and the empress Gu Yuena who has not yet been formally canonized, but her name is also popular among the people.
At the big round table in the front, sat Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, Jin Zi, Ling Xiaojiu, Luo Chen, Feng Xiaoyu, Xue Youyou, Xuan Mo, Dongfang Po, Su Bai, Lu Yan, Mo Yun, Ye Wuyou, Hua Buluo, Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong and the Shrek Seven Monsters.
The status of these 23 people in the Spirit Empire, except Tang San's Dai Mubai and the Shrek Six Monsters, all of them are extremely noble.
And under this big round table is a small round table that can seat ten people. Sitting around this round table are ten fierce beasts including Di Tian.
On the dozen or so large round tables at the back, sat around were the high officials and dignitaries of the Spirit Empire.
At this time, there are still three hours before the start of the new year, but the banquet has already begun.
In fact, the year unit is rarely cared about in the Douluo Continent, and the usual Chinese New Year is just a hasty affair.
However, in order to celebrate the stability of the situation in Douluo Continent, and to promote the great integration of human society and spirit beast society, Gu Chen decided to hold this banquet in the imperial palace garden of Wuhun City on the day before the new year.
The royal chef of the palace was constantly cooking delicacies, and the thousands of court ladies and slaves in the palace were all mobilized, constantly going back and forth between the kitchen and the imperial garden, and serving dishes on the table.
As Gu Chen picked up the first bite of food, more than 300 people present began to enjoy the food at the same time.
Although Gu Chen and the others are not addicted to alcohol, they still got very drunk at this happy moment.
"Brother Chen, I offer you a toast!" Luo Chen drunkenly raised the wine glass in his hand, beckoning to Gu Chen.
Originally, with their strength, they could use their soul power to dissolve the alcohol in their bodies, but they didn't do so. After all, to dissolve the alcohol after drinking, how is this different from taking off your pants and farting?
With Luo Chen starting, everyone made a toast to Gu Chen, and Gu Yuena also received a toast from everyone.
Even Dai Mubai, who was somewhat dissatisfied with Gu Chen, stood up reluctantly and toasted Gu Chen.
Gu Chen didn't refuse, he drank glass after glass of wine, and he responded to everyone one by one. With his drinking capacity, he could completely drink everyone present.
Just when all the guests were having fun and Gu Chen was a little tipsy, a man in official uniform rushed in from the imperial garden regardless, even the guards at the door couldn't stop him.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" the man in official uniform shouted.
Seeing this, Gu Chen frowned, while Bibi Dong who was beside him planned to strike directly and kill this person who disturbed everyone's interest.
Gu Chen stopped Bibi Dong, then looked at the man, and asked, "What's the matter?"
The man in official uniform hurriedly reported: "Your Majesty, I am the Lord of the East China Sea City. Just now, a subordinate reported that a monster appeared on the coast of the East China Sea. Three small coastal villages were massacred. According to eyewitnesses, this monster does not have any energy, but its body is so strong that even the 10-year-old soul beast in Donghai City was unable to kill it. "
"The 10-year-old soul beast who sits in our Donghai City was severely injured by that monster after the attack, and almost failed to come back. After hearing the news, I immediately passed the teleportation array in the city and came to the martial arts world. Soul City will report to you," said the Lord of East Sea City.
The voice of the city lord of Donghai City was very urgent, as if he had seen some great horror.
Gu Chen hurriedly said: "The Lord of Donghai City, please tell me the specific characteristics of that monster."
The Lord of Donghai City replied: "That monster has the body of a lion and the tail of a whale. It is covered with blue scales, with red hair on its head, and its back and tail are also wrapped in fiery red. By the way, it also has a horn on its head. .”
The characteristics of this monster...so familiar...
Just as Gu Chen was meditating, the system's voice sounded in due course.
"Ding!"
"It has been detected that the alien creature 'Nian' has invaded the Douluo Continent, the host is requested to deal with it immediately."
"The current situation of the host is detected, and the plot selection is opened:
A. Drive away the alien creature 'Nian' and prevent it from killing the creatures in Douluo Continent.
Auxiliary: The New Year Mall of the system mall will be opened for a limited time of three hours.
B. Ignoring the alien creature 'Nian', it will leave after three hours of slaughter.
Assistance: Make all living beings within a radius of one hundred miles of the host, including the host, enter the unlucky debuff state, which lasts for one year. "
Just as Gu Chen was about to make a choice, Tang San beside him spoke solemnly.
"Nian! That's the Nian beast!" Tang San said in a deep voice.
Luo Chen was a little curious: "Nian Beast? What is that?!"
Tang San explained: "Nian Beast, also called 'Nian', is an evil beast in myths and legends. According to legend, in ancient times, every midnight at the end of the year, the Nian Beast would attack the villages, and any village occupied by the Nian Beast would suffer When it comes to brutal massacres, the horns on its head are its weapons. The Nian Beast is invincible physically, even Brother Chen, who is the Golden Dragon King, may not be able to defeat it. However, the Nian Beast is afraid of three things, red, fire and explosions. Sound, only these three things can drive away Nian Beast."
While Tang San was explaining to everyone, Gu Chen had silently completed the choice.
"System, I choose option A."
"Ding!"
"The selection is successful, the Spring Festival Mall has been opened, please check the host."
Gu Chen opened the system's so-called New Year Mall, and saw a fiery red interface appearing in front of Gu Chen, but there were only a few products on it.
"Ding!"
"New Year Mall:
Chinese New Year blessing character (raised to drive away the Nian beast and keep it away from oneself): 10 system points/card.
Earth Red (can be used to drive away Nian Beast and cause damage to Nian Beast): 1 system point/piece.
Two kicks (can be used to drive away the Nian beast and cause damage to the Nian beast): 1 system point/piece.
Sky-Switching Monkey (can be used to drive away Nian Beast and cause damage to Nian Beast): 1 system point per piece.
Cannon (can be used to drive away Nian Beast and cause damage to Nian Beast): 1 system point per piece.
Throwing cannons (can be used to drive away Nian beasts and cause damage to Nian beasts): 1 system point per piece. "
Gu Chen was stunned, aren't these the fireworks from the previous life?These things can be used to drive away Nian Beast!
Suddenly, the corners of Gu Chen's mouth rose slightly. It seemed that after a long absence of more than 20 years, he was finally able to celebrate the Spring Festival again!
"System, buy 23 lucky characters for the new year, [-] copies each of Da Di Hong, Er Ti Jiao, Chang Tian Monkey, Da Pao and Shu Pao." Gu Chen said silently.
"Ding!"
“已扣除宿主11730系统积分,新春福字*23、大地红*2300、二踢脚*2300、窜天猴*2300、划炮*2300、摔炮*2300已放入系统背包,请宿主查收。”
After Gu Chen finished buying these things, Tang San also finished talking to everyone about the Nian Beast.
Gu Chen took out all the things he bought from the system mall just now, and said to Tang San: "Tang San, these should be enough to drive away the Nian beast, right?"
I saw that on the top were 23 pieces of square red paper with an upside-down "Fu" written on it, while the ones below were more than 1 fireworks and firecrackers.
Tang San knew about the square red paper with the word "Fu" written on it, but Tang San was a little baffled by those fireworks and firecrackers.
After all, Tang San's previous life was in Xishu, and those so-called firecrackers were just burning bamboo to make it burst and make sound.And because of the "cracking" sound made by burning bamboo, it is called firecrackers.
Tang San pointed to Dadihong, Sky-Crossing Monkey, Erkijiao, Swipe Cannon and Drop Cannon, and asked in a bewildered expression: "Brother Chen, what is this?"
"Excuse me." Gu Chen didn't answer Tang San directly, he kissed Gu Yuena's forehead, and then said softly.
Gu Yuena nodded with a blushing face, a bright flame appeared in her palm.
Gu Chen used the flame in Gu Yuena's hand to set off one of these five kinds of fireworks and firecrackers respectively, and demonstrated it to Tang San.
Seeing this beautiful fireworks made Tang San amazed.
"It's not too late, let's go quickly." Gu Chen taught the crowd how to operate these fireworks, and gave each of the remaining 22 people a piece of red paper with the word "Fu" and one hundred pieces of each kind of firecrackers .
Human life is at stake, Tang San and the others nodded, and quickly followed Gu Chen to the Shadow Guard headquarters in Wuhun City.The teleportation array leading to Donghai City was set up in the shadow guard headquarters at this time.
The 23 people passed through the six-pointed star teleportation array one by one and came to Donghai City.
The teleportation array of Donghai City is set up on the gate of the east gate of Donghai City, which is very convenient for the people. As soon as they leave the teleportation array, everyone will feel a gust of sea breeze blowing towards their faces.
However, following the salty sea breeze, came the pungent smell of blood.
Everyone's eyes were fixed, and they looked down at the city gate at the same time.
I saw the Nian beast that Tang San was talking about, a lion body and a whale tail, now staring at everyone on the city wall.
And that bloody smell came from the bloody mouth of the Nian Beast. Its sharp teeth still carried a little blood of humans and spirit beasts.
"Damn beast!" Qian Renxue yelled, she soared into the air, releasing endless killing intent, and the angelic costume covered her body, "Master, servant, go and test whether this Nian beast is really a flesh body!" Invincible!"
As Qian Renxue said, she unleashed her holy angelic sword, and slashed towards Nian Beast with one stroke of the holy angelic sword.
But Nian Beast just glanced at Qian Renxue disdainfully, and slapped Qian Renxue, who was a first-level god, with a claw.
Qian Renxue stabilized her figure in the air, she said: "This year's beast... really is physically invincible!" As she spoke, a hint of red appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Gu Chen said: "Accord to the plan."
Everyone nodded.
The bodies of 23 people flew up at the same time, and flew to 23 different directions of Nian Beast and landed.
Seeing Gu Chen and the others falling near him and tending to surround him, Nian Beast grinned, and chose Luo Chen, who was the weakest among them, and flew away.
But Luo Chen didn't panic at all. With his right hand, he wiped the space soul guide from the belt around his waist, and a red square paper appeared in his hand, and on this square paper was written an upside-down "Fu" Character.
"read!!"
Seeing the red paper, Nian Beast seemed to have seen some great horror, turned around and was about to run away.
Nian Beast ran towards Luo Chen's opposite direction, that is, the direction of Feng Xiaoyu who was opposite Luo Chen, and slapped Feng Xiaoyu with its claws, trying to kill her, and then escaped.
But Feng Xiaoyu just smiled slightly, and then took out the red paper with the word "Fu" exactly the same as Luo Chen.
Nian Beast was taken aback and changed direction again.
The Nian Beast kept changing directions, but in each direction, someone took out the red paper with the word "Fu", forcing it to retreat.
Moreover, the crowd continued to shrink the encirclement, and finally trapped Nian Beast within a radius of ten meters.
"Do it!" Gu Chen yelled, holding the red paper with the word "Fu" in his left hand, and took out an earth red in his right hand, lit it and threw it towards the Nian Beast.
The earth red made a "cracking" sound in the air, and the red light was everywhere. Amid the roar of the earth red, the Nian beast seemed to have become a little depressed.
"Hey, there are very strong energy fluctuations in the beast's body this year!" Gu Yuena suddenly let out a soft "Hey".
Tang San's eyes turned purple, he took a closer look, and then said affirmatively: "Well, it seems that the physical body of the Nian Beast this year is completely composed of energy bodies! It's just that this energy has been condensed into a substance, That is the appearance of the Nian Beast now, which is why we did not discover it."
Qian Renxue was a little surprised and said: "That is to say, are our firecrackers weakening the energy of Nian Beast?"
Tang San nodded affirmatively.
Everyone seemed to have been given a reassuring shot. They really couldn't do it if they were to kill Nian Beast with their strength, but if they could kill it with fireworks, then killing Nian Beast would be nothing to them. Not a problem anymore.
The 23 people took out the earth red continuously and threw it at Nian Beast after lighting it up.
At this time, Nian Beast no longer had the ferocious appearance it had before. It looked like a wronged child, holding its head in its paws, and moaning "Nian" from its mouth.
And the majestic energy on it seems to be constantly becoming thinner.
Soon, a total of [-] earth reds were consumed, but Nian Beast still had three quarters of its energy.
Nian Beast felt the loss of energy in its body, and its face became terrified. It wanted to run away, but it was deterred by the red paper with the word "Fu" in the hands of Gu Chen and others, so it could only stay in this circle with a radius of ten meters. leave.
After running out of earth red, Gu Chen and the others took out the cannon and the cannon.
The sound of explosions sounded continuously on Nian Beast, and the energy in Nian Beast's body became increasingly scarce.
A quarter of an hour later, a total of [-] throwing cannons and slashing cannons were exhausted, and only a quarter of the energy in Nian Beast's body was left at this time.
Without hesitation, Gu Chen and the others took out the next kind of firecracker from their space soul guide - Er Tijiao.
One hundred shots per person, a total of [-] shots and two kicks down, almost completely annihilating the Nian Beast.
At this time, Nian Beast's body was no longer a solid entity, its body was vaguely transparent, and the aura it emitted became weaker and weaker.
Now the energy contained in Nian Beast's body is less than one-thousandth of the original energy!
But what makes one's scalp tingle is that the aura emitted by the Nian beast at this time is of the limit Douluo level!
In other words, one-thousandth of the Nian Beast is equivalent to a Limit Douluo, which shows how powerful its main body is!
While exuding the aura of Ultimate Douluo, the aura emitted by Nian Beast also contained endless evil thoughts, as if this evil thoughts were the source of this energy.
Just like Gu Yuena judged that there is energy in Nian Beast before, only when the energy is thin enough to a certain extent, can everyone discover the essence of this energy.
"This Nian beast should be composed of human nightmares. It absorbs people's evil thoughts, and after thousands of years, it will hurt people in this world. And our actions are undoubtedly eliminating these people's nightmares. Getting rid of the Nian Beasts, people on the mainland can live happily and healthily for a whole year." Gu Chen said.
While Gu Chen was talking, the last kind of firecracker appeared in his hand.
Gu Chen ignited the sky-crossing monkey in his hand, and the sky-crossing monkey flew into the sky with a "swoosh" sound, and then exploded.
And Nian Beast's body also seemed to become a bit more transparent.
Everyone set off Sky-Changing Monkeys one after another, but they were not as nervous as they used to be. Facing the almost harmless Nian Beast, everyone ignored it, but raised their heads one after another and looked at the sky. fireworks.
Eventually, Nian disappeared completely.
Its body turned into a ray of red light, rose into the sky ten thousand meters, and then turned into thousands of light spots, falling towards all parts of the Douluo Continent.
Gu Chen said: "This red light is the energy that brings luck and happiness to people!" What Gu Chen said was what the system told him.
"Ding!"
"Congratulations to the host for successfully eradicating the alien creature 'Year', hereby reward: super large fireworks*1, congratulations to the host for a happy new year!"
The sound of the system spread, and Gu Chen felt a huge box with a side length of ten meters and a height of half a meter suddenly appeared in his system backpack.
Gu Chen smiled knowingly, and then said to everyone: "Since the Nian Beast is gone, why don't we go back to Wuhun City and continue to enjoy the banquet. If it's too late, the food will be cold!"
Everyone laughed loudly, then jumped onto the east wall, passed through the teleportation array, and returned to Wuhun City.
Gu Yuena released the power of space and brought everyone back to the imperial garden.
At this time, there are only 10 minutes left before the arrival of the new year.
Gu Chen called all the people who participated in the banquet, and came to the back hill of the imperial garden.
The imperial garden of the Wuhun Empire is very large, and it actually contains a naturally formed hill, and the height of the top of the back mountain is no less than the top of the Wuhun Empire's palace.
With a move of Gu Chen's right hand, a ten-meter-long square box appeared in front of everyone.
He found the fuse and set it on fire.
Gu Chen took a few steps back, then turned around, and said with a smile to everyone: "Everyone, please enjoy tonight's joy to the fullest!"
With Gu Chen's voice down, the New Year's bell is ringing!
At the same time, firework burst into the sky from the square box, flew to a height of tens of meters, and then exploded, turning into that beautiful firework.
A series of fireworks exploded in the air, outlining various beautiful shapes. This box of fireworks continued to go off for a quarter of an hour without stopping. You must know that this box of fireworks contained a total of [-] fireworks!
Gu Chen sat on the soil on the top of the mountain, hugging Gu Yuena's delicate body in his arms, looking at Gu Yuena's slightly flushed face, Gu Chen kissed her pink lips.
At the same time, behind the immortal couple Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, there were two other couples spreading dog food.
Feng Xiaoyu and Luo Chen leaned on each other, you and me, Luo Chen took Feng Xiaoyu's little hand, looked at the fireworks constantly blooming in the starry sky, his face was full of intoxication.
Jin Zi held Ling Xiaojiu's waist with his right hand, and sat on a big rock. Ling Xiaojiu's small head leaned on Jin Zi's shoulder, and while admiring the beautiful fireworks, he showed a look of happiness.
Soon, half an hour passed.
The fireworks are about to burn to an end.
Swish!
With the sound of an explosion, a hundred rays of light burst out from the huge box at the same time, and these hundred rays of light are also all the fireworks left in the huge box.
These one hundred rays of light are red and yellow, forming four big characters in the air, shining dazzlingly.
new!year!quick!happy!
The appearance of the four big characters brought everyone's mood to a happy climax, the fireworks finally ended, and in everyone's hearts, only the joy and happiness of the New Year remained.
"Brother Chen, thank you!" On the way back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Gu Yuena leaned on Gu Chen's shoulder, blushing, and said softly.
Gu Chen looked at the person in his arms, with only endless tenderness and love in his eyes, and he slowly said in a magnetic voice: "Look, how beautiful are the thousands of galaxies in the sky. Na Son, do you know? You are my thousand stars!"
Hearing this, Gu Yuena's pretty face turned red to her ears, she closed her eyes and stopped talking.
The road from the Royal Garden to the Hall of Mental Cultivation is very short, and just the effort of the two of them talking is enough for them to return to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
After a brief wash, they entered the bed.
Lying on the soft pillow, looking at the alluring Gu Yuena who has fallen asleep in his arms, Gu Chen couldn't help kissing her lightly on the head, and then said in his heart.
Good night, Gu Yuena!
happy New Year!
(End of this chapter)
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