Chapter 158: The Dao Sect Migrates North

Chapter 158: The Dao Sect Migrates North

Chapter 158: The Dao Sect Migrates North

Tian Lin was looking at the boats on the opposite bank, and the big ship on the opposite bank also discovered Tian Lin.

On a large ship, a harpoon came from far away and stabbed towards Tian Lin's chest in an instant with true energy.

The harpoon came quickly, but Tian Lin's reaction was not slow either.

He raised his hand and grabbed the harpoon that was thrown at him, then looked towards the big ship on the opposite bank.

As the ship approached, they saw a dozen Qi-refining practitioners standing in a row on the deck, with a man wrapped in a square scarf at the head.

The harpoon just now was thrown at Tian Lin by this man. With his cultivation level at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, he should be the leader of these people.

He was seen standing on the bow of the boat, looking down at Tian Lin and saying, "Who are you, sir? Do you have the order to go to sea from the Tong family?"

Tian Lin shook the harpoon in his hand. The harpoon was slightly heavy in his hand. The front tines and the back handle were both made of thousand-year-old wood.

The tines of the fork were sharpened to an extremely sharp point, no weaker than a harpoon made of ordinary iron.

"Tong family?"

Tian Lin didn't know whether the Tong family the man was talking about was the Tong Yao family. He stood on the small Zhou and looked at the man with the square scarf and said, "What if there is a sea-going order? What if there is no sea-going order?"

The man with the square scarf did not speak. A young man behind him stood up and said:
"You can only go fishing if you have a sea-going order. If you don't have a sea-going order, you will have to pay as much spiritual stones as the weight of fish you catch."

Tian Lin remembered that when he was in the illusion, although there were people fishing on thousand-year-old trees in this coastal area, they did not ask for any order to go out to sea.

But the current situation is obviously inconsistent with the situation in the illusion.

However, what happened in the illusion happened thousands of years ago. Now that time has jumped a thousand years, the situation is probably very different from what it was in the illusion.

"I didn't go out to sea with the Tong family, but I was just sailing on the sea, and never went fishing. Friends, you won't ask me to compensate you with spirit stones, right?"

"Without the order to go out to sea, you can't even go boating on the sea, you..."

The young man wanted to speak, but was stopped by the man in the square scarf.

The man with the square scarf smiled at Tian Lin and said, "Since my friend doesn't know the rules of our sea, it's not rude."

After the man finished speaking, he waved his hand and said to the fishing boats surrounding him: "All boats, disperse and make way for this friend."

The words of the man with the square scarf aroused the dissatisfaction of the young man behind him. The young man could not help but lean over to his ear and whispered: "Second brother, we haven't caught any fish for a long time. This guy is obviously a cultivator--"

The man in the square scarf looked at the boat going away, turned around and glared at the young man and said:

"I used all my strength in that fork just now, but he caught it easily. It shows that his cultivation is far superior to ours."

The young man argued, "He is so young, he can't be a foundation-building cultivator, right? Even if he is, we have the support of the Tong family, how dare he be rude to us?"

"The Tong family is the Tong family, and we are us. The Tong family's Golden Core Patriarch is not our Golden Core Patriarch."

While they were talking, Tian Lin had already reached the shore by supporting himself on a thousand-year-old tree.

Although he had been to the coast of Cangzhou several times in his fantasy, when he stepped ashore now, he felt that the world had changed dramatically.

The Cangzhou coast in my memory did not have so many anchored ships.

There are even fewer inns and teahouses along the coast.

Tian Lin wanted to find out about the situation in Cangzhou, so he was not in a hurry to set off, but went to a teahouse and sat down.

As soon as he sat down, several barefoot children ran over with broken bowls.

Before Tian Lin could say anything, a man with a knife in the tea shop suddenly grabbed a handful of copper coins and sprinkled them outside.

The copper coins fell to the ground, making a pleasant "ding-dang-dang" sound on the stones outside the tea shop.

The children who were originally running towards the fields and forests immediately turned around and pounced on the copper coins on the ground outside the tea shop.

"Little guys, take the money and leave quickly. If we start fighting here, we won't care about your innocence."

Although the man was talking to the children outside the tea shop, his eyes were looking at Tian Lin.

Tian Lin bowed to the man and said, "Brother, are you reminding me to leave quickly?"

Tian Lin saw that the man was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and thought that a fight between Qi Refining cultivators would not endanger himself.

He glanced around and saw that there were many Qi cultivators on the coast, but most of them looked solemn or murderous, and they didn't seem easy to talk to.

But the man in front of him, although he looks strong, is willing to spend money to consider the safety of those children, which is somewhat commendable.

"Are you also a Qi Refiner?"

After saying this, the man reached out to the knife on the table and asked Tian Lin, "Are you invited by the Sanhe Gang to help?"

Tian Lin asked him back, "What is the Sanhe Gang?"

Before the man opposite could answer, someone walked into the teahouse and said to the man, "Seventh Brother, the people from the Sanhe Gang are here."

The man put down the tea bowl, stood up, took out a dime and put it on the table, and said to the tea doctor, "I'll buy you some tea."

After he finished speaking, he clasped his fists with Tian Lin, then took his knife and left the shop, heading for the returning thousand-year-old boat in the distance. As the man left the tea shop, there were nearly forty Qi-refining practitioners following behind him or walking in front of him, standing in a large crowd on the coast, quietly waiting for the returning fishermen to disembark.

At this point, Tian Lin understood that the so-called Sanhe Gang were the fishermen like the man with the square scarf whom he met at sea.

Tian Lin turned around and said to Dr. Cha, "I heard that the Sanhe Gang had the Tong family's order to go to sea, so I guess it must be someone from the Tong family. Why did that hero just now seem to want to go against the Tong family?"

Doctor Cha explained to Tian Lin: "The people who make their living along the coast are all from the Tong family, and they all have orders to go out to sea. In previous years, there were many fish monsters in the sea, and it seemed that they could never be defeated.

But in recent years, there are only a few fish monsters to catch along the coast, and the catch is not enough for the families to share. In order to get a chance to go out to sea to fish, the families would hold such a fight every year.

The Tong family doesn't care whether they fight to the death, as long as these gangs pay a lot of tribute every year, it doesn't matter who goes out to sea to fish."

"The Tong family, is it the Tong family in Pingyang County?"

Tian Lin asked, and the tea doctor saw that there was no one in the tea shop, so he said to Tian Lin: "It's the Tiannan Tong family, don't make a mistake."

Tian Lin was puzzled, and Dr. Tea said:
"How many years ago did the Tong family of Pingyang come into being? Today, the Tong family has an ancestor who is in the late Jindan stage and is also an elder of the Shuiyun Sect. How can the small city of Pingyang accommodate this big Buddha of the Tong family?"

After hearing this, Tian Lin was already certain that this 'Tiannan Tong Family' was the Tong family that Zhou Qing had almost married into in the illusion.

I just don’t know whether the Tong family’s late Jindan ancestor is Tong Yao.

While he was lost in thought, a gambling fight had already begun over there.

Obviously, the two gangs were aggressive, but they controlled their emotions and did not want to cause any loss of life.

The gambling fight between the two parties is more about finding a few people to compete in Taoism.

As for the rest, they were mostly brought in to boost morale.

Tian Lin only glanced at it twice and then lost interest.

He took out a tael of silver from his clothes and said to the tea doctor with a smile: "Thank you for talking to me for so long, this is my tea money."

Dr. Tea immediately waved his hand: "Master, you forgot that Master Qi has already paid for you."

Tian Lin said, "I have no relationship with him. Please help me pay him back for the tea later."

At this point, Tian Lin paused and asked Dr. Cha, "I want to go to the Dao Sect. I wonder if there is a teleportation array nearby that can take me directly to Tianbei County?"

Cangzhou is called a province, but it is much larger than the entire Yulong Continent.

In the illusion, Tian Lin once used the identity of Patriarch Yaoyue to inquire about the distance from Pingyang County to Tianbei County.

Just to travel from Tiannan County to Tianbei County would take him a year or two based on his foundation-building skills.

When we invited Ancestor Yue to go to Tianbei County, we used the teleportation array.

Using the teleportation array, one can travel thousands of miles in an instant, which is much more convenient and safer than taking risks by traveling by flying sword.

“After the Tong family became prosperous, Pingyang City did have a teleportation array built at the county government office.

But the Dao Sect is in the northern wilderness, which is more than tens of millions of miles away.
"Master, if you want to take the teleportation array, I'm afraid you won't be able to get it without dozens of high-quality spirit stones."

Tian Lin nodded, then frowned and said, "As far as I know, isn't the Wendao Sect in Tianbei County?"

The tea doctor looked at Tian Lin strangely and said, "That's an old almanac from many years ago?

Ever since the Dao bell of the Daoist sect was stolen overnight a thousand years ago, the Daoist sect has been relocated to the Northern Wasteland for nearly a thousand years—"

After saying this, Dr. Tea couldn't help but ask, "Sir, you are not from Cangzhou, right?"

Tian Lin smiled, and just didn't know how to find an excuse to cover it up.

Doctor Tea added, "I don't care where you are from, but the imperial court is very strict with monks now. It's no longer like in the past when you can travel around the world without a pass."

Tian Lin was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Even if you are a disciple of a fairy sect, you still need a pass?"

Dr. Tea smiled upon hearing this, and his attitude became more respectful:
"If you are a disciple of the Immortal Sect, you certainly don't need a pass. As long as the people in the county government verify your identity, you can use the teleportation array even without spirit stones."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard cheers from afar.

Tian Lin and Dr. Cha both turned their heads to look at the coast, only to see that the two groups of people from the two gangs there were dispersing at this time.

The man who had invited Tian Lin to have tea earlier strode towards the tea shop and impatiently dismissed several of his companions who were following him.

The man entered the tea shop, and Dr. Tea smiled and poured him a cup of tea to comfort him, saying, "Seventh Master, it doesn't matter if you lose a game. You can always try again next year."

Master Qi said with an unpleasant expression, "If you don't know how to speak, then don't speak - wait another year? Wait another year, and a bunch of brothers in my gang will be left to starve? You don't know how hard it is to earn spirit stones now. If I weren't a man, I would have put my body in Zuihualou to earn spirit stones."

The tea doctor placed the tea next to the seventh master, then returned the silver he had given him earlier, and said with a smile:
"Seventh Master, the gentleman next to you has already paid for your tea."

The Seventh Master had obviously suffered a defeat and was looking for someone to vent his anger on, so he followed Dr. Tea's words and said:

"You call me Seventh Master and call him Uncle. It seems that in your eyes, I am younger than him?"

(End of this chapter)