Guarding the River of Time-Chapter 328 - 319: Iron-Eating Beast, Legendary Divine Beast, Taiyi Sword Technique

Chapter 328: Chapter 319: Iron-Eating Beast, Legendary Divine Beast, Taiyi Sword Technique

Walking into the bushes by the riverbank, the snoring sound stopped.

Looking closely, he found a small mound of dirt in front of him, and that low snoring sound just came from this small mound.

After approaching, he took out a shovel and began to dig the earth.

As he dug, he uncovered dry grass. After using his hands to clear away all the dry grass that was covering it, he finally saw what was buried inside.

"Bear... Panda?"

Inside the small mound, a small panda lay buried.

To be precise, it was a stone sculpture in the shape of a panda.

Semi-reclining on the ground, in a lazy pose, as if it were leisurely lying down to eat bamboo. Unlike the typical panda image in Su Mu’s memory, this panda had two long, sharp fangs protruding out, exuding a hint of ferocity amidst its cute, clumsy appearance.

This little panda statue was one meter tall, half-reclining on the ground, 1.5 meters long. Upon touching the statue with its right hand, it felt very cold, with no sign of life from within.

Yet, the snoring sound just now clearly came from this mound.

Then, Su Mu continued digging down and confirmed after a while that there was no other creature under the mound.

In other words, that snoring sound really did come from this lifeless panda statue??

As darkness was approaching, Su Mu waved his hand and took the little panda statue away, planning to study it slowly back home.

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After returning home, he found that Nannan had already prepared dinner.

After dinner, Su Mu called Nannan over and said, "Nannan, follow me."

Just like that, Su Mu brought Nannan to his water cellar.

He squatted down, opened the wooden cover on top of the water cellar, and pointed to the various excellent-quality Treasure Fish inside, saying, "Starting tomorrow, you’ll catch a fish from the cellar as the ingredient for dinner."

Upon hearing this, Nannan asked puzzledly, "Daddy, aren’t the fish in here your treasures?"

This water cellar was indeed Su Mu’s treasure cellar. Over the years, any Treasure Fish of excellent quality would be kept in this cellar. Unlike ordinary Treasure Fish, these are filled with immense energy, each one equivalent to a piece of Great Medicine.

Over the years, the large Treasure Fish in this water cellar numbered several thousand, and the small ones that hadn’t grown up yet were over ten thousand.

Su Mu had two places to keep Treasure Fish, one being the large water tank in the backyard. The fish for daily consumption were caught from the water tank, while the water cellar fish were only occasionally eaten and usually kept for breeding.

"They’re kept for eating,"

"There are lots of fierce fish in there; you can’t just grab them with your hands," Su Mu advised.

"Daddy, then how do I catch them?" Nannan cocked her head and asked.

"Wait a moment."

Saying so, Su Mu took out many materials from his Space Ring.

In roughly an hour, Su Mu set up an automatic fishing machine beside the water cellar.

Using the principle of roller mechanics, it was akin to anchoring a sea fishing rod to the ground and sinking special hooks into the water.

Simply turning the roller above would reel in the fish.

The type of fish they would eat each day depended on which fish took the bait.

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"You just need to turn this to reel in the fish," Su Mu demonstrated once.

"That’s amazing!" Nannan exclaimed with joy, clapping her hands.

In fact, Nannan maintained a great interest in these novel things.

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Su Mu arrived under the tree, took out the panda statue he found today, and began to observe it closely.

He inspected it inside and out, finding nothing unusual except for the peculiar material of the statue.

However, he distinctly remembered hearing a sound similar to sleeping snores coming from this statue; was he hearing things?

Oh well, let it be a mascot at the door.

Thus, Su Mu placed this statue at the entrance of his small courtyard as a guardian deity.

At this time, Nannan came over, confused, and said, "Huh? Iron-Eating Beast?"

Upon hearing this, Su Mu didn’t catch it at once and asked again, "Nannan, what did you say?"

"Iron-Eating Beast, this looks just like an Iron-Eating Beast in the book." Nannan replied.

"Daddy, wait a moment."

Saying so, Nannan fetched a thick ancient text from inside, quickly turned to a page, and pointed to the illustration above, saying, "Look, Daddy, doesn’t it look similar?"

Su Mu looked carefully and indeed, it did.

Iron-Eating Beasts, born in the ages of Primordial Chaos, have quite the background and are legendary Divine Beasts?!

It seems this panda is a national treasure back home, but in this Mystical World, it’s turned into a Divine Beast!

In the introduction about Iron-Eating Beasts, there was one last line – "There are no concrete historical cases, and its existence needs further verification."

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Since it’s a Divine Beast statue, it’s even more fitting to serve as a guardian deity.

Then, Su Mu placed this Iron-Eating Beast statue on the left side of the gate, and truth be told, it looked quite fitting.

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"Nannan, today I will teach you a new cultivation technique."

With that, Su Mu transmitted the cultivation text of the "Taiyi Sword Technique" into Nannan’s mind.

This sword technique was obtained a year ago from a Cross River Man but hadn’t been practiced yet.

Then last night, by adding points, he spent a total of ten thousand Favor Points to cultivate this "Taiyi Sword Technique" to the eighth layer - there are nine layers in total.

"This is a swordsmanship," he said.

Afterward, Su Mu stood up, took a dagger, cut a branch from the Golden Silk Nanmu Tree, carved a Wooden Sword, and handed it to Nannan, saying, "Practice with this Wooden Sword."

"Okay!"

Nannan took the Wooden Sword and ran to the open space next to the willow tree to start practicing.

Su Mu also began his meditation cultivation, consolidating his recently improved realm.

Over the following week, Su Mu’s luck gradually improved, going from making eight hundred a day to three thousand yesterday, with the situation getting better and better.

On this day,

Nannan came to Su Mu and said, "Daddy, I’ve finished practicing."

Surprised, Su Mu asked, "Finished practicing?"

For the past week, Nannan had been practicing swordsmanship on her own, and Su Mu hadn’t asked much.

Given the difficulty of the Taiyi Sword Technique, no matter how talented Nannan was, it would take at least ten days to half a month to reach the first layer, maybe the second at most.

Because swordsmanship, unlike other cultivation techniques, requires a lot of practice, tirelessly wielding the sword day and night.

Some Sword Dao Grandmasters spend a hundred years perfecting a single sword draw.

The Sword Dao is not something that can be mastered overnight.

"Finished the first layer?" Su Mu asked smilingly.

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ps: There will be another Chapter later.