Chapter 157 Going to sea
Chapter 157 Going to sea
While Liu Xuanfeng and the others were talking, Tian Lin had already left Yaoyue Sect.
He didn't know why Jiu Ming Zhenren left for urgent matters, but in order to prevent him from coming back to Yao Yue Zong to look for him, it was better for him to leave.
In addition to the Nine-Life Immortal, Tian Lin was also afraid that Zhou Shoufan would come knocking again.
In short, Yaoyue Sect is no longer a place for him to stay for long.
When Tian Lin set off, he flew directly from Yingzhou to Tonghe County in Quzhou on his sword.
There was no sign of Zhao Bei in the backyard of the Tonghe County government office, and because there were female family members inside, Tian Lin did not dare to rush in.
It was not until nightfall, when the lanterns on the streets of Tonghe County were lit one by one, that Tian Lin saw Zhao Bei returning on his sword.
Zhao Bei also noticed Tian Lin waiting at the door. He couldn't help but bowed in delight and said:
"Brother Tian, how come you have time to come here today?"
Tian Lin did not talk about his foundation building, but said:
"I came to you because I need your help and because I received the spiritual clam pearl last time, but I never gave you the spiritual stone."
Zhao Bei raised his hand and rejected the bag that Tian Lin handed over:
"Although I asked Senior Brother Xing Shanping to give you the Spiritual Clam Pearl, he confiscated a single Spiritual Stone from me. So if you want to give this Spiritual Stone, you can only give it to Senior Brother Xing."
Tian Lin knew that Zhao Bei didn't know Xing Shanping's true identity yet, so he simply didn't mention it.
He took out another bag from the storage bag: "There are only ten spirit stones here. They will be useful when your child is born in the future."
Zhao Bei was a little embarrassed when he heard this: "Senior brother, have you met my wife?"
Tian Lin shook his head: "I saw that you were not at home, so I didn't dare to disturb you rashly."
"That means I haven't met my wife yet."
After he finished speaking, he grabbed Tian Lin's hand and walked towards the backyard of the county government office.
There is a gate in the front yard of the county government office, and the back yard is where the family lives.
Zhao Bei is now a county lord, and his life is much more enjoyable than when he was a peak disciple in the sect.
When Tian Lin entered the backyard, he saw a group of maids kneeling and calling Zhao Bei "Master".
This kind of decadent life made Zhao Bei feel ashamed in front of Tian Lin.
He waved his hand awkwardly and asked, "Where's the Madam?"
At this time, a woman walked out of the inner room. She was not stunningly beautiful, but had the temperament of a lady from a noble family.
She glanced at Tian Lin, a hint of surprise flashed across her eyes, then she lowered her head. After greeting Tian Lin, she glanced at Zhao Bei and listened to Zhao Bei's introduction:
"This is the Senior Brother Tian I always told you about."
The woman on the other side hurriedly bowed to Tian Lin formally and called him "Brother Tian".
Tian Lin quickly returned the greeting, and Zhao Bei said to the girl, "Ask the kitchen to cook some food. My senior brother is a glutton. He doesn't care about anything else, but he is very particular about food."
After the woman left, Tian Lin asked him, "I see that your sister-in-law has also reached the first level of Qi Refining. I wonder if she is—"
Zhao Bei said: "She is a daughter of the Han family. After the Han family fell, she was not in Yingzhou. I happened to run into her when I was handling a case in Quzhou. It was fate."
Tian Lin smiled and said, "You are getting married, why don't you write me a letter and ask me for a glass of wedding wine?"
Zhao Bei said:
“Firstly, I know that you don’t like socializing and are only focused on cultivation, so I don’t want to disturb you.
Secondly, Quzhou was busy, I had just become the county magistrate, and there were many people to be killed in Tonghe County, and many things to be dealt with, so I didn’t hold a big banquet. "
He pulled Tian Lin into the house and then asked Tian Lin, "Brother, what do you want to talk to me about? There were so many people outside just now, so I couldn't ask too much."
Tian Lin took the wine glass he handed over, clinked glasses with him before saying, "It's nothing serious, I just wanted to buy some medicinal herbs from you."
Zhao Bei smiled and said:
"It's not difficult. I have a very good relationship with Senior Brother Zhou Shichou. He has countless medicinal herbs from the Wenxin Sect. As long as the herbs you want are not something strange, I think he can definitely gather them."
The medicinal materials that Tian Lin wanted were not actually scarce; it was just that the required quantity was relatively large.
He remembered that when he was at the first level 99, Master Zhou said that the Sawtooth Monster would not attack ships because the thousand-year-old wooden ships were coated with some medicine.
The sea monsters hate this kind of drugs the most, so they will not attack.
Tianlin now has thousand-year-old wood, enough to build a small boat.
But what he feared was not the sea of Chenxiantang, but the monsters in the sea.
Therefore, Tian Lin had already "asked" Master Zhou for the formula of medicinal materials used to "drive the fish" in the illusion.
"Then I'll trouble you, Junior Brother Zhao, to take care of this matter. By the way, I see that you are still running around outside so late at night. Have you encountered any difficulties?
I will stay in Tonghe County for a few days. If you have any trouble, please tell me."
Zhao Bei shook his head: "I am from the Yaoyue Sect. There is nothing in Quzhou that the Yaoyue Sect cannot accomplish. The reason why I came back late just now was that Sect Master Xing was leaving the Taoist temple to return to Yingzhou, so he asked us to come over and tell us something."
Tian Lin narrowed his eyes and asked, "Master Xing, what do you want to do when you return to Yaoyue Sect?"
"Maybe it's because of Xing Shanping's matter - the relationship between them, father and son, seems strange."
Tian Lin heard this and said to Zhao Bei, "I hope you, Junior Brother Zhao, won't tell anyone about my visit to Tonghe County."
Although Zhao Bei had doubts, he did not ask any more questions.
Not long after, his wife came in with a group of maids carrying dishes.
Tian Lin had a simple meal and chatted with the couple for a while. He did not stay in the backyard of the county government office, but went out of the county government office and found an inn to stay in.
For the next three days, Tian Lin stayed in the Tonghe County Inn.
During this period, he contacted Elder Xiao once and learned that Xing Tongtian went to Yaoyue Sect to find Xing Shanping.
But Zhou Shoufan had already left, so how could Xing Tongtian find Xing Shanping?
In addition, Liu Xuanfeng took Elder He and Shang Yu away from Yingzhou and no one knew where they went.
Tian Lin asked about the Nine-Life Immortal again, and Elder Xiao said that he had not seen the woman in white appear again.
Tian Lin once asked Elder Xiao if he wanted to go to sea with him, but was rejected by Elder Xiao.
Four days later, Tian Lin made a small boat out of the thousand-year-old wood.
The boat is not big and can accommodate two people.
Tian Lin had already soaked the boat with medicine, and only said to Zhao Bei just before departure:
"I am going to Cangzhou this time. Junior Brother Zhao, my boat can accommodate one more person. Are you interested in going with me to Cangzhou to seek immortality?"
Zhao Bei was startled and asked Tian Lin, "Where did you find the thousand-year-old wood?"
"I'm looking for the thousand-year-old tree on Wendao Mountain."
Tian Lin casually explained, and Zhao Bei asked him again: "Brother, what is your current cultivation level?"
Only then did Tian Lin say: "My cultivation has reached the foundation-building stage."
Zhao Bei laughed after a while: "If I remember correctly, you have been practicing the Five Elements Foundation Building Method.
I'm afraid your senior brother is the only one who has been able to use the Five Elements Foundation Building Method to cultivate to the Foundation Building Stage in the past thousand years."
Tian Lin is not at all arrogant, he knows that he is a special case.
In terms of talent and efforts in cultivation, there are countless people who are no worse than me.
"I'm actually very happy to stay with you, but now I have a family, so I can only wish you a safe journey." Tian Lin smiled and said:
"That's fine. I'm from Huahualang, and I know leaving my hometown is a last resort. Besides, I'm not sure about crossing Chenxiantang this time."
Zhao Bei felt a little sad, and he insisted on sending Tian Lin to Chenxiantang.
Watching Tian Lin's boat fall into the sea, Zhao Bei watched Tian Lin get on the boat.
On the boat, Tian Lin raised the sail and bowed to Zhao Bei.
When he paddled the boat several feet away, Zhao Bei couldn't help but ask, "Brother Tian, after you leave, will you come back to Yulong Continent?"
"Of course I will come back - I will go to the top of the Taoist mountain to see the old man on the mountain, see the Taoist bell, and then I will come to see you."
Tian Lin's voice floated over the sea, but he had gone far away, and the sea was covered with fog, so Zhao Bei could no longer see Tian Lin's figure.
At this moment, several rays of light appeared.
Xing Tongtian's face was gloomy, and he asked Zhao Bei, "Where is the one with the surname Tian?"
Before Zhao Bei could say anything, Liu Xuanfeng laughed heartily and said, "Didn't you see that the person has already gone far away? You can't catch up with him."
Xing Tongtian turned to look at Liu Xuanfeng and asked him, "What do you want to do, you lunatic?"
He didn't understand why Liu Xuanfeng let Tian Lin leave since he knew that Tian Lin had a way to go out to the sea.
If Liu Xuanfeng hadn't been bothering him these past two days, he would have already stopped Tian Lin.
"What should I do? You will know what I will do in the future. I don't know if we can live to see that time."
Behind Liu Xuanfeng, Elder Xiao stood on the shore, looking at the direction where Tian Lin was going away, and sighed.
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Tian Lin had never been on a long sea voyage, and his only experience of taking a boat was in the ninety-nine-level illusion in the first section of Mount Wenda.
He estimated that after he had traveled about a mile, more fish appeared in the sea.
These fish seem to be affected by the Shenxian Pond and cannot jump out of the water.
But whether out of curiosity or wanting to attack Tian Lin, they not only stayed there, but even circled around Tian Lin's boat in groups, stirring up whirlpools in the sea surface.
Fortunately, the thousand-year-old wood was reliable, and Tian Lin's cultivation was not low, so they could barely hold on.
He stood firmly on the hull, letting the boat sway from side to side.
He was seen using his hands to continuously point out the Shining Sun Fingers, and streams of flaming Qi smashed the swimming fishes to the ground.
Tian Lin discovered that these sea fish had thick skin and tough flesh, and his Yaoyang Finger could do nothing to them.
Similarly, the sea fish found that Tian Lin on the boat was as steady as a turtle, but the small boat under Tian Lin's feet gave off an aura of disgust and fear that prevented them from getting close.
The two sides were at a stalemate, like a pair of weak chickens fighting each other, and the fight lasted until day and night, and then they "called off the battle".
At nightfall, the sky was covered with dark clouds, accompanied by lightning and thunder, and the sea breeze nearly capsized Tian Lin's boat several times.
As the sea breeze blew, waves hit Tian Lin's boat several times.
If it were anyone else, how could they withstand the erosion of the sea water?
But Tian Lin was not afraid of the toxins in the water and was still able to barely hold on and continue sailing.
He discovered that the rain falling from the sky would not merge with the water in Chenxiantang after hitting the sea, but would sink to the bottom of the sea, and then gather into an undercurrent on the seabed and flow westward.
Tian Lin always looked at the Si Nan he made himself and did not dare to be careless at all.
He had just entered the foundation-building stage, and was considered an "ancestor" level figure in the Yulong Continent.
But at the foundation-building stage, one will only feel insignificant in the face of such a boundless ocean.
Before going out to sea, Tian Lin was well prepared for a fierce battle. When he was thirsty, he drank sea water that others dared not drink. When he was hungry, he ate sea fish from Chenxiantang that others dared not eat.
He continued doing this for another half a month. Apart from being mentally exhausted, his Qi became more powerful and his body became stronger.
It was a calm day and Tian Linben was meditating at the bow of the boat when he suddenly heard a deep sound like a horn.
He seemed to have heard this voice at least once or twice in the past few days, but this time he heard it particularly clearly.
"There will be people in Shenxiantang?"
Tian Lin was puzzled, but he was not someone who would take risks out of curiosity.
He discovered that after the horn sounded, all the fish in Chenxian Pond seemed to have disappeared.
Tian Lin didn't understand the reason at first, but now he has some guesses.
He guessed that the sound of the horn attracted all the fish, so that no sea fish appeared on his route.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tian Lin sailed safely on the sea for several days.
But over the next period of time, he noticed that the disappeared fish began to reappear.
However, most of the fish that reappeared had wounds on their bodies, as if they had experienced a great battle.
Tian Lin was overjoyed, as this time it was his turn to take the initiative to attack.
Most of these sea fish cannot increase one’s cultivation level, but are more like auxiliary elixirs for certain kinds of martial arts.
But even if I don't use it to increase my cultivation, and I don't have the practice method for that technique, it will still be of some help to my body.
Tian Lin's Yaoyang Finger popped out, but it was still difficult to break the defense of these sea fish.
But they can also take advantage of opportunities. When they see a seriously injured sea fish that is dying, they will kill it and then row the boat over to pick up the fish.
Over the next month, Tian Lin heard the sound of the horn four or five times.
Those sea fish would disappear after the horn sounded, and within a few days, they would return with injuries all over their bodies.
These sea fish have lost interest in Tian Lin and even try to avoid him.
They seemed to have been asked to do too much and now just wanted to be a salted fish. How could they have the mood to deal with Tian Lin?
Tian Lin drifted on the boat for several months. Finally, the horn sounded no more, but there were many more floating corpses on the sea.
[Water-controlling dragon, wind wave technique assists spirit flesh, contains water spirit energy, edible]
Looking at one of the floating corpses, Tian Lin was stunned.
He found a human corpse, but the entry displayed was similar to that of a fish monster he had eaten before.
Tian Lin understood it in an instant. Rather than a human, the corpse was more like a fish monster that had transformed into a human form.
Looking at the mountain of naked corpses coming towards him with the waves, Tian Lin had no intention of taking advantage of the situation and increased the speed of rowing.
He didn't know what had happened in the past half month, but he knew that this sea area was definitely not safe.
Moreover, so many corpses will inevitably attract more powerful fish monsters to come and grab food.
If I run a little slower, I will probably be besieged by those powerful fish monsters.
After that, Tian Lin rowed for another year and finally saw what seemed to be a ship in the distance on the sea.
He knew that he was not far from Cangzhou.
(End of this chapter)