Chapter 171 An old friend comes

Chapter 171 An old friend comes

Chapter 171 An old friend comes

Zhang Xiaoke knew that Tian Lin was going out to sea today, so he sincerely reminded Tian Lin: "After you go out to sea, if you encounter these soul cultivators, it is best not to get entangled with them.

These soul cultivators stick together, so even though the righteous people hate them, they don’t easily provoke them.”

Tian Lin nodded, summoned the small boat from his storage bag and crossed the sea.

Others who were in the thick fog did not see any difference from the fog near the sea.

When he approached the small boat where the soul cultivators were, the soul cultivators looked at Tian Lin warily. After noticing the color of Tian Lin's clothes, they knew that Tian Lin was a foundation-building cultivator, so they performed the ceremony respectfully on the boat.

Tian Linchong nodded to the other soul cultivators and continued their voyage.

The closer the ship gets to the open sea, the thicker the fog becomes.

Tian Lin didn't know whether the sound in his ears was the whistling of the sea breeze or the whimpering of the resentful souls.

When he had gone another mile, he was completely surrounded by fog.

The white mist was just ordinary mist, and Tian Lin never saw any prompt words appear.

But in the fog, Tian Lin saw two figures swaying.

“Is this a vengeful spirit?”

Tian Lin didn't need any spiritual sense at all, because he had eaten the True Eye Fruit, and the existence of such resentful spirits could not be hidden from his eyes at all.

Two figures were wrapped in the fog like the breeze, floating on the sea, and then rushing towards Tian Lin.

Tian Lin slapped the flying sword with his right hand, and the flying sword instantly turned into a beam of light that cut the two figures into two.

But the color of this figure was only slightly dimmed. Although it was no longer in human form, it pounced towards Tian Lin again.

Tian Lin frowned slightly, and the flying sword smashed the figure into pieces several times until the figure disappeared completely.

"It seems that these resentful spirits are not that scary, but it is difficult to eliminate them using only true energy."

Tian Lin discovered that the further he went, the more such resentful souls there would be.

He was afraid of encountering a more powerful vengeful spirit, so he stopped rowing the boat and took out the conch shell and blew it instead.

After half an hour, the figure of the Five Elements Dragon finally appeared under the sea.

Tian Lin put down the snail shell and dived into the sea.

Although the skin and flesh of the Five Elements Dragon are harder than those of other sea fish, its temperament is extremely docile.

It was not until Tian Lin's harpoon pierced its body that the Five Elements Dragon began to struggle violently.

This Five Elements Dragon was even bigger than the one Tian Lin caught yesterday. Despite Tian Lin's physical condition, he was still shaken by the Five Elements Dragon and felt dizzy and almost vomited blood.

The man and the fish quickly descended to the second level of the sea, and Tian Lin instantly saw the prompt for [Soul-Replenishing Powder].

Is this soul-replenishing powder also available in the second-level sea area?

Tian Lin was confused, but still held on to the harpoon and followed the Five Elements Dragon into the depths of the sea.

This time, in addition to him and his fish, Tian Lin also saw some resentful souls being pulled down by the sea.

Tian Lin didn't know how these resentful souls got contaminated with the water of Chenxiantang, but he was somewhat happy to see it.

As long as Chenxiantang can also have an effect on these resentful souls, then Chenxiantang can be regarded as a moat of Pingyang County.

At this time, the man and the fish had already descended to the fourth layer of the deep sea. The dense [Soul-Replenishing Powder] had almost turned the Five Elements Dragon into a sieve.

Tian Lin's face looked extremely ugly. He could use his spiritual consciousness to absorb the soul-replenishing powder after it entered his body.

But if the Soul-Replenishing Powder entered his body too quickly, he would not be able to digest it in time.

Fortunately, the Five Elements Dragon had already died by this time. Tian Lin hurriedly took out the Five Elements Dragon Pearl and internal organs of the Five Elements Dragon, and floated upwards quickly.

The Five Elements Dragon Pearl and internal organs were already riddled with holes at this time, but because the [Soul-Replenishing Powder] was so small that it was invisible to the naked eye, the internal organs were still able to form, but the Five Elements Dragon Pearl began to "leak".

In an instant, the five-star spiritual energy almost "exploded" in the sea, helping Tian Lin to rise to the sea.

Tian Lin held the empty shell of the Five Elements Dragon Pearl in his hand, trying his best to digest the Soul Replenishing Powder in his body. As for the movement of floating on the water, it was all done subconsciously by his body.

He himself didn't know how much time had passed before he finally surfaced.

Looking at the Five Elements Dragon Pearl with holes everywhere, Tian Lin crushed the Five Elements Dragon Pearl with a grim expression.

He put on his clothes and threw the Five Elements Dragon's internal organs into the storage bag. Then he looked at the fog in the distance with some doubt.

It was getting dark at this time, and it was not appropriate for anyone to sail out to such a distant sea.

But Tian Lin saw with his naked eyes that a large pleasure boat was floating on the river from far away to near.

The pleasure boat has two floors, with red lanterns hanging at the bow and stern.

Under the temptation of the red lanterns, two figures would board the boat from time to time.

In the pleasure boat, the laughter of men and women could be heard from time to time.

"I am washing clothes by the river. The water is flowing eastward to meet my lover—"

Amid the laughter, there was first the sound of a piano, followed by the singing of female dancers.

The tune is not new, but the singer's voice is so indescribably sad that it makes people cry.

Tian Lin's heart shuddered, remembering that the little drunkard in the small town had sung this song when he had just come out of the Shangjia Mine.

The reason why Tian Lin was alert was not because he suspected that the person singing on the boat was that drunkard.

He just thought that the singing girl was a human, not a ghost, but he had clearly seen a resentful soul boarding the ship before, which also proved that this ship must be a ghost ship.

With the movement of the thousand-year-old wooden bamboo pole, the pleasure boat came towards Tian Lin.

Tian Lin always felt that using a bamboo pole to paddle a boat on the sea was too strange. You know, Chenxiantang is not shallow. How long of a bamboo pole would be needed to reach the bottom and paddle the boat?

Seeing the pleasure boat approaching, Tian Lin urged the boat under his feet to move away, while summoning his flying sword and slashing at the pleasure boat.

When his sword fell, the boatman in straw raincoat and hat at the bow raised his head.

Looking at the face of the man under the bamboo hat, Tian Lin couldn't help but shout, "Sect Master Xun?"

But Sect Master Xun did not say anything. Tian Lin's sword cut through his hat but did not break his body's defense.

He just looked at Tian Lin coldly, still holding the bamboo pole and moving towards Tian Lin's boat.

Tian Lin didn't know what Sect Master Xun experienced after he went out to sea, but he suddenly remembered that Sect Master Xun did look for a way out to the south after he went out to sea.

But at this moment, it was obvious that Sect Master Xun was already dead. There was only a corpse, paddling on the wooden boat.

Even a powerful warrior in the late foundation building stage like Sect Master Xun died at the hands of the painted boat, let alone myself?
Tian Lin did not dare to delay, and swung the oar in his hand almost in a circle. In an instant, the small wooden boat was "flying" across the sea like an arrow.

The pleasure boat seemed to be moving very slowly, but Tian Lin could see with his naked eyes that it was getting closer and closer to him.

If this continues, Tian Lin will be caught up by the pleasure boat sooner or later.

But he was still in the open sea, and he didn't know how far he was from reaching the shore.

Tian Lin made up his mind, threw away his storage bag and dived into Chenxian Pond.

He remembered that even the resentful spirits could not escape the 'curse' of Shenxiantang.

Sure enough, after Tian Lin entered the sea, the pleasure boat seemed to have lost contact with Tian Lin and no longer chased Tian Lin.

On the pleasure boat, the faint singing and the laughter of the guests gradually faded away from the fields and forests in the sea.

Tian Lin, his whole body submerged under the sea, watched the pleasure boat moving away on the sea until he could no longer see the boat or the lanterns on it.

But he still didn't dare to be careless. Instead, he swam to the bottom of the boat, kicked his legs and supported the boat as he swam towards the offshore.

Since ancient times, people have always ridden in boats, but boats have never ridden in people's boats.

But Tian Lin was forced into a helpless situation by the pleasure boat and could only be in such an embarrassing state.

He himself didn't know how long he had been swimming, but he finally heard the laughter of those soul cultivators from the daytime under the sea.

He stuck his head out from under the boat and vaguely caught sight of the sea nearby, then he turned over and got back on the canoe.

When he approached the boat of the soul cultivators in his small boat, the soul cultivators and Tian Lin performed the ceremony.

Tian Lin nodded without further ado, fearing that the pleasure boat would appear again, he sped up the boat and rowed towards the coast.

"He looks pale, maybe he was frightened by the evil spirit."

A soul cultivator waited for Tian Lin to walk far away before speaking.

"That's not the case. He is also a foundation-building cultivator. His strength cannot be that weak."

"That may not be the case - even for a foundation-building cultivator, it is inevitable to see wild ghosts and wandering gods in the distant sea -"

While they were talking, Tian Lin had already landed and went directly to the water official to hand over the viscera of the Five Elements Dragon.

The water official gave Tian Lin three medium-grade spirit stones and couldn't help asking Tian Lin, "Where is your Five Elements Dragon Pearl?"

Tian Lin shook the crushed Five Elements Dragon Pearl in front of the Water Official and said with an unpleasant expression, "It's broken."

The water official comforted Tian Lin: "Senior, don't be angry. Even if you don't have the Five Elements Dragon Pearl, what you got today is still a lot.

Besides, even if the Five Elements Dragon Pearl breaks this time, will it break again the next time?"

Tian Lin smiled when he heard this: "You are really good at comforting people - by the way, has anything happened at sea recently?"

The water official thought for a moment and said, "There is no sign of the tomb being opened yet, but I heard that the Great Elder is gathering the worshippers from Pingyang County to go to the south of the sea to hunt resentful spirits."

Tian Lin frowned when he heard this: "How can the priests do such a useless thing?"

"So the Great Elder promised that anyone who was willing to go south with him would be rewarded with thirty mid-grade spirit stones every month."

Thirty mid-grade spirit stones is quite a big deal.

But Tian Lin was not moved.

The pleasure boat he encountered today was in the distant sea, which was not the south where there were the most resentful souls.

You can imagine how dangerous the south is.

Tian Lin felt that it was inappropriate to risk his life for thirty medium-grade spirit stones.

Besides, his goal has always been to visit the Taoist Sect, and Pingyang City is not a place for him to stay for long.

"The Kunhu Tomb is about to be opened, and now there are resentful spirits from the sea haunting us - Pingyang City is going to be busy from now on."

After Tian Lin finished speaking, he stopped chatting with Shui Guan.

When he returned to the mansion, Yu'er told him that tomorrow was the day when the Great Elder would summon the priests to discuss matters, and asked Tian Lin to make some preparations.

Tian Lin guessed that the Great Elder was probably going to talk about the resentful spirits at sea.

He was not interested in the resentful spirits on the sea, but was somewhat wary and did not want to see Zhou Shoufan again.

But I can avoid it this time, but what about next time?
Besides, he had just become the Tong family's priest, so how could he be absent from the first "meeting"?

(End of this chapter)