Dragon Tamer
Chapter 1171 - Chapter 1171 Chapter 1175 River Girl

Chapter 1171: Chapter 1175 River Girl Chapter 1171: Chapter 1175 River Girl “Superior Immortal.” After finishing her worship of the Old Temple God of Wine, the female shop owner came over towards Zheng Yu.

Zheng Yu was examining the Jade Baton in his hand, he looked up at the Demon Girl.

“This was left with me by the Old Temple God, he told me, if anything unexpected happens to him, to hand it over to a scholar. I believe he meant you,” said the shop owner Demon Girl.

The female shop owner had a pair of emerald eyes, a typical trait of a Demon God’s Descendant – born from the union with the Human Race, resulting in half-demon half-human entities. Most of such Demon Race merged with civilians but due to their demonic lineage, they must harm humans periodically to maintain their human appearance.

Zheng Yu received a letter from the woman.

As he read the content, Zheng Yu was moved by what was written in the letter.

The Old Temple God knew his fate. He had foreseen his own death, even anticipating it would be due to some dreadful curse killing, yet the Old Temple God chose not to flee.

Zheng Yu felt profoundly conflicted inside; he knew it was he who had harmed the Old Temple God, otherwise, he would have had many more years to live.

Yet, the Old Temple God faced death serenely.

“When I was young, I committed a mistake, and for some reasons, it was not pursued. I also accidentally became the deity here, fully aware of the heaviness of my sins, I cautiously guarded the citizens as a descendant of divine beings.”

“I thought my virtue was enough to atone for my past mistakes, but heaven did not truly forgive me.”

“No matter in what way I depart, do not grieve for me, for me, any way is a release.”

This letter seemed not specifically meant for Zheng Yu, it resembled a brief message an elderly would leave for any kin, yet Zheng Yu knew it also conveyed an array of crucial information to him.

The speed of the Old Temple God’s curse killing was extremely fast, so fast that Zheng Yu had only left for a short while.

This meant, Hong Mo must have exploited the mistake made by the Old Temple God in his youth, not only stripping him of his divine form but also sentencing him to the extreme penalty of a curse!

Contract Lamp Child.

The Old Temple God’s youthful mistake was related to some contract.

“How many years have you been in Xilao City?” Zheng Yu inquired the female shop owner of the Demon Race bloodline.

“I have… been here for about ten years,” the female shop owner cautiously replied.

Ten years?

A demon who has not spilled blood for ten years, she is truly a demon woman who upholds her own principles, and she hasn’t grown out of control under the influence of Eternal Darkness.

Under the influence of Eternal Darkness, many hiding spirits in the human realm not only saw an increase in their mana but also began to wreak havoc on the innocent.

“Do you know anything about Old Li’s youth?” Zheng Yu asked.

“I know… I know a little. When he gets heavily drunk, he would suddenly break down and cry. One time, he mentioned it by the door of my pub,” the female shop owner said.

“Tell me more,” Zheng Yu said.

“When Old Li was young, he was a dam keeper. One year, there was heavy rain, and the water built up, threatening to flood Dam Village, so he had to open the sluice. But once opened, the flow was too strong to close, resulting in four households downstream being wiped out–in total seventeen lives, including a pregnant woman,” the female shop owner explained.

“How is that a natural disaster attributed to him?” Zheng Yu was confused.

“The rain was solicited,” the female shop owner said.

“Requested from whom??” Zheng Yu asked.

“Old Li sought the rain from an Evil Cultivator,” said the female shop owner.

Zheng Yu glanced at the burned ash of the blood worms on the ground and immediately had a clue.

Therefore, Old Drunkard Temple God was cursed to death because of this juvenile rain-seeking contract. As a Temple God, he had a contract with the Evil Cultivator, which gave God of Evil Wishes Hong Mo too much leeway!

“That person… that Evil Cultivator is… is my mother.” After hesitating for who knows how long, the female shopkeeper said in a mosquito-like voice.

“Is she still alive?” Zheng Yu hurriedly asked.

The female shopkeeper shook her head.

“Some contracts have a certain hereditary inheritance, if your mother has already passed away, then you should be in control of the contract, let me see your back.” Zheng Yu said to the female shopkeeper.

The female shopkeeper was dressed boldly, her back was largely exposed, Zheng Yu gently swept across it with his hand, and soon a rain pattern slowly emerged.

That was the emblem of the Rain Dragon King, a totem used by ancient tribes in reverence of the Rain Dragon King. As an earth-ranked Priest, he was quite familiar with this cultural reverence for deities.

“River Girl?” Zheng Yu looked at the female shopkeeper and finally understood her true identity.

Rumors had it that River Girl was the descendant of a Rain Master and a human, and Zheng Yu had some understanding of the demon lore.

Zheng Yu walked into the Earth Temple, randomly took out a record document of Xilao City from the mysteriously increased bookshelf, and found the records of rainfall and harvests of each year.

After quickly browsing through, Zheng Yu roughly understood the cause of the whole incident.

He turned around, carefully looked at the female shopkeeper.

“That letter wasn’t for me, it was left for you,” Zheng Yu said to the female shopkeeper.

“For me??” The shopkeeper looked confused.

“Your mother was a Rain Master. Old Li in his youth had feelings for your mother, the Rain Master. Probably due to drought and water shortage, Dam Village had no harvest that year. Old Li then followed some rumors, went into the mountains to light candles to request rain, and your mother also went with him… Your mother, being a Rain Master, naturally brought the rain. But in fact, the heavens had already arranged a late rain, and the rain summoned by the Rain Master out of affection collided with the rain that was meant to fall, which then caused the flooding.” Zheng Yu had deduced all these from those simple records.

The female shopkeeper was stunned, looking at Zheng Yu with some disbelief.

The blood worms filled the entire Old Street Temple, and the Old Drunkard Temple God was drowned alive by the blood worms, his death confirming the mistake he made back then.

Though it was an unintentional mistake, it all started because of him.

Logically, he shouldn’t have been able to become a Temple God.

“So I… I am…” The female shopkeeper still hadn’t come back to her senses.

“He didn’t like to drink; he just went to visit and care for you,” Zheng Yu continued.

The female shopkeeper was already saddened by the departure of the Old Temple God of Wine; hearing what Zheng Yu said, she couldn’t stop her tears.

She had been able to live quietly for so many years in the identity of a demon because of the kindly Old Temple God.

After understanding all these, Zheng Yu’s eyes turned cold.

He finally understood how the Old Temple God was cursed to death.

It wasn’t entirely a curse killing.

It was a threat!

Hong Mo was a Contract Lamp Child; he not only knew about that year’s rain-seeking and the Evil Fruit, he also saw through the relationship between the Old Temple God and the female shopkeeper right away.

The youthful mistake of the Old Temple God was actually the very birth of this River Girl.

In order to let the River Girl maintain her identity as the female shopkeeper and live peacefully, the Old Temple God accepted the curse himself.