Chapter 175 With bad intentions
Chapter 175 With bad intentions
The next morning, when Tian Lin took Yu'er to Chenxiantang, they ran into Gao He and his wife who had been busy all day and night.
These two foundation-building monks, who always looked radiant, now looked pale and tired.
Even so, Tian Lin could still see that both of them seemed to be in a good mood.
"Fellow Daoist Tian, what did you gain last night?"
After Gao He asked, Tian Lin said, "Alas, there are too many people now, and we can't hunt sea fish, and we can't catch wandering souls."
Gao He watched Tian Lin walk away and couldn't help but say, "This guy has no manners. I told him everything, but he didn't even ask how much we gained."
Cai Shu snorted coldly, "Why don't you just keep quiet and make a fortune? Why are you showing off to him? Besides, I've wasted a lot of pills tonight, and I don't know how to make it back."
When they returned home, Tian Lin had already brought Yu'er to Chenxiantang.
Looking at the densely packed boats anchored on the coast and the people hustling and hawking on the shore, Yu'er was a little shocked.
She tilted her head to look at the Hebo House not far away. Now, there was a small shop of the Tong family next to the Hebo House.
That small shop obviously sells things like talisman paper and elixirs.
“Master, you are right. These monks who go to Shenxiantang to capture wandering souls consume a large amount of elixirs and talisman paper every day.
Even our Tong family's Duobao Pavilion has opened a small shop here, which shows the benefits of it."
After Yu Er finished speaking, she quickly frowned and said:
"But sir, can you buy talisman paper and elixirs cheaply from somewhere else?
If you buy less, others may not be willing to sell it to you at a lower price. If you buy more, some things may not be sold. Although I have never learned business in your house, I know that there is no business in the world that is guaranteed to make a profit without loss. "
Tian Lin saw that she had already entered the role, so he said:
"I will find a way to get the talisman paper and the elixir. Whether you can sell them depends on your ability. You can look around today and get familiar with the prices of the elixir and talisman paper. In two days, I will give you the talisman paper and the elixir."
After he finished speaking, he took off his badge and gave it to Yu'er:
"If anyone makes trouble, take out this sign. This is Shenxiantang after all, and my Tong family should have some respect for offering sacrifices."
Yu'er took the badge and watched Tian Lin go out to sea.
She has the cultivation level of the sixth level of Qi Refining. Normally, no one in the downtown area would attack her.
Fortunately, she is a Qi Refiner, otherwise Tian Lin would not dare to entrust the task of selling things to her.
Just as the Great Elder said, Chenxiantang is now a mixed bag of good and bad people, and the Tong family alone cannot control it.
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For the next three days, not only did the number of people visiting Chenxiantang not decrease, but there were even more Yue Opera performances.
During these three days, in addition to the people who caught wandering souls, a new profession called corpse retriever emerged in Chenxiantang.
Most of the time, what these people hold in their hands is not a talisman paper or flying sword, but a large scoop made of thousand-year-old wood.
It might be difficult to rescue people by scooping up the huge scoop into Shenxiantang, but it would not be difficult to pick up people's belongings from the sea.
Among the many corpse lifters, Tian Lin is considered to be well-known.
He was the first person to use a paddle to salvage the remains of a body that had fallen into the sea in front of everyone.
He was also the first cultivator who had reached the foundation-building stage and was not in a hurry to capture wandering souls, but specialized in salvaging corpses.
However, other people have a good impression of Tian Lin, because Tian Lin would not deliberately kill people and retrieve corpses.
He even came to the rescue several times when people were injured by wandering spirits.
Tian Lin's colleagues, like vultures eyeing rotten meat, would cling to other monks who went out to sea, waiting for them to die so they could fish out their bodies.
"Master, this business of selling things is really good. We made a net profit of more than fifty low-grade spirit stones yesterday."
Yu'er had a smile on her face, and was obviously quite satisfied with yesterday's harvest.
But how could dozens of low-grade spirit stones satisfy him?
This is not as profitable as fishing.
"You sell these things, and I'll go to the south to have a look later."
Tian Lin handed a storage bag to Yu'er, but Yu'er advised:
“Recently, there have been night-wandering ghosts in the south. Since the master has no intention of competing for the position of outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect, there is no need to go to the south to retrieve the corpses.
Besides, the body of a foundation-building cultivator might not be so easy to retrieve."
Tian Lin did not answer her, but looked at the place not far away and said, "That woman over there must be Xiang'er, right? What is she doing here?"
Tian Lin met Xiang'er once when he went out in Pingyang City. She was also a beautiful beauty.
It’s a pity that although Xiang’er is beautiful, she is not liked by Cai Xiangu.
Cai Shu always thought Xiang'er was a vixen, so she was always on guard against her.
Tian Lin remembered that the day before yesterday, when Cui'er was whispering to Yu'er, she complained that Xiang'er had ridiculed them for being peddlers.
So when Tian Lin saw Xiang'er also setting up a stall today, he felt very strange.
"This matter - this matter may be that after seeing you earning spirit stones, Cai Xiangu became jealous and wanted to follow your example and let the sword bearer at home go out to supplement the family income.
Nowadays, the worshippers in Pingyang City are too embarrassed to sell their goods, so they have sent the sword bearers out to sell goods along the shore of Chenxiantang. "Tian Lin smiled and said, "That's good. This way, your fellow sword bearers won't have the face to laugh at you anymore."
Tian Lin didn't talk to Yu'er any more. He took the hot food handed to him by Cui'er. After a simple meal, Tian Lin went out to sea again.
This time he did not go west again, but instead went boating south in the fog.
He traveled a mile south and would not encounter any Qi-refining practitioners when he came to populated areas.
Soon, Tian Lin saw Gao He and his wife near the southern coast.
The couple was riding in a boat that was neither too big nor too small. Gao He was holding the Soul Needle in his left hand and a wooden sword in his right hand, and was looking around vigilantly.
Next to Gao He, Cai Shu was sitting cross-legged, meditating to restore her energy.
The sea breeze made the talisman papers on their cabin whistle, making the two people on the boat unable to rest.
Gao He's serious face finally became relaxed and happy after seeing Tian Lin.
"It's a happy thing to meet an acquaintance at sea. Fellow Daoist Tian, why did you dare to come to the south today?"
After he said this, he glanced at the big scoop on Tian Lin's wooden boat and instantly remembered Tian Lin's identity.
For a moment, Gao He felt like he had eaten fly shit, unable to spit it out or swallow it.
"Don't worry, Brother Gao. I will leave right away and will not bring you any bad luck."
Tian Lin also knew that his identity as a "corpse retriever" was not popular, so he didn't try to offend others here.
He bowed to Gao He and continued to sail south.
But after Tian Lin entered a layer of fog, he dived into the sea and quietly moved towards the boat of Gao He and his wife.
From under the sea, he saw Cai Shu standing up from her meditation and heard her say:
"From now on, don't talk to Tian anymore. He seems to have bad intentions towards me."
Then Gao He laughed and said, "Even if an old man like him has feelings for you, would he dare to touch you? Don't worry, I will talk less to him in the future."
Chenxiantang can isolate people's spiritual consciousness, so neither he nor his wife could sense Tian Lin's existence.
Even if there were slight sounds of movement under the sea, they were drowned out by the waves. And most importantly, no one thought that people could hide under the sea.
At this time, Tian Lin was a little dazed under the boat where he and his wife were sitting. He had come back to see if there was any chance to salvage the body, but he didn't expect to hear the couple criticizing him.
Tian Lin reflected on himself and wondered if he really had any bad intentions towards Cai Shu?
I haven't even met her twice, and she's not a fairy, so how could I have any improper thoughts about her?
"You and I have been collecting residual souls day and night for a while, and the harvest is not bad. But now there are more and more mid-stage foundation building people coming to Chenxiantang to collect residual souls. How can we compete with those mid-stage foundation building masters?"
Cai Shu suddenly sighed, and then Gao He said:
"We can't beat them alone, but two of us may not be able to do that. Although they are in the middle stage of foundation building, they fight alone. How about you and I working together? When I become an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect, I will find a way to help you collect the Fire God Pills."
"Okay, I don't ask to cultivate the Five Elements Dharmakaya either. As long as the Fire Element Dharmakaya is successful, it will be enough for me to become a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building."
He and his wife chatted on the boat for half an hour, and Tian Lin froze under the boat for half an hour.
After half an hour, there was still no sign of the wandering soul. Tian Lin guessed that the couple would not die tonight.
He could only dive under the sea back to his small wooden boat and continue to move deeper to the south.
The ship of Gao He and his wife was already at the outer edge of the coast, and if Tian Lin went deeper, he would be close to the open sea.
There are many wandering souls in the distant sea, and there are also some night wandering gods. It is very dangerous to enter the distant sea in the south.
But Tian Lin stopped the boat when approaching the distant sea, turned over and dived into the lake again.
The southern Chenxiantang is dangerous only on the sea surface, but it is as safe below the sea surface as the western Chenxiantang.
Tian Lin was sure that the Night Wanderer would not dare to enter the water, so he simply dived into the open sea.
He sneaked like this for half a quarter of an hour, and there seemed to be lights on the sea in the distance.
Tian Lin quietly poked his head out from under the sea and saw a wooden boat with Li Gongfeng, whom he had met once at Tong's house, sitting on the bow.
There were talismans pasted everywhere on Li Gongsheng's boat, and a ball of fire was spinning in his hand.
The fireball didn't rotate for a while, and as Li Gongsheng raised his hand and pointed, the fire exploded three feet ahead in an instant.
Tian Lin saw with his own eyes that four or five wandering souls were hit by the flames and then all turned into residual souls.
Li Gongfeng did not wait for these residual souls to dissipate. The soul-collecting bead in his hand flew out first, and after collecting all the residual souls, it flew back into Li Gongfeng's palm.
This operation was very fast and really amazed Tian Lin.
He remembered that Li Gongfeng was also in the initial stage of foundation building, and he had cultivated the dual-action Dharma bodies of water and fire.
Strictly speaking, Li Gongsheng's dual-action body of water and fire has not yet taken shape, but even so, his methods are extremely fierce.
"Is this the difference between having a Dharma body and not having one? And from the look on Li Gongfeng's face, it seems that he hasn't put in any effort."
At this moment, Tian Lin under the sea was really envious. Looking at Li Gongfeng's look, he seemed to have some bad intentions.
(End of this chapter)