Chapter 192 Ferryman

Chapter 192 Ferryman

Chapter 192 Ferryman

"How can one be reborn if one does not die?"

Tian Lin didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. He just asked Cui'er and Yu'er on the wooden boat to prepare for escape.

He himself looked up at the Fairy Mei high in the sky.

I saw Mei Xiangu put the big flag into the storage bag, and then took out a broadsword.

With a flying sword under her feet and a broadsword in her hand, she swooped down in the direction of the sound in the fog and disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant.

"Girl, would you like to take a boat?"

In the thick fog, the old man's voice sounded unusually calm.

Outside the fog, the foundation-building monks who were defending this sea area stood up and looked at the fog with some fear.

Some of them saw the wind lantern in the fog, while some did not see it but had heard the old man's voice in the fog.

It was unknown who the old man was, but since he was able to break through the blockade of the elders of the Tong family and "survive" the thunder that Mei Xiangu had just brought with her magic, it was clear how terrifying his power was.

Obviously, the old man was not someone Mei Xiangu could handle, and Mei Xiangu was probably dead at this moment.

"Damn it, we have to find a way to remove the flags. It's important to find a way to escape."

Rong Gongfeng cursed and started to pull down the battle flag on the boat.

On the big ship, Mei Xiangu, holding her sword, said angrily: "Follow me to rescue Xiangu. If anyone dares to escape from the battlefield, don't blame me for being ruthless with my sword!"

But Bao Jian was just a maid. Although she had reached the initial stage of foundation building, she did not have the deterrent power of Mei Xiangu.

Tian Lin's gaze now turned to the Goddess Tree on the bow. The Goddess Tree was now lush and leafy, with at least hundreds of petals on it.

Looking at this tree of "Enlightenment Tea", how could Tian Lin not be moved?
Since Mei Xiangu is dead, then this goddess tree——

Tian Lin suddenly flew up from the boat and landed directly on the big ship.

On the big ship, Mei Xiangu drew her sword and pointed it at Tian Lin in front of the Goddess Tree, saying, "How dare you! You want to steal the tree?"

"I didn't steal the tree, I wanted to save Mei Xiangu."

Tian Lin was standing on the big boat. Looking far ahead, he saw Fairy Mei rushing towards him from the fog on the waves as fast as sparks.

In order to avoid any 'misunderstanding', Tian Lin took two steps back and distanced himself from the Goddess Tree, then walked to the side of the ship and looked at Rong Gongsheng:
"Rong Gongfeng, the battle flags cannot be destroyed. If they are destroyed, the barrier that we have worked so hard to build will have a gap here. At that time, the other ships will be attacked from both sides."

When Rong Gongfeng was about to persuade Tian Lin to escape with him, he saw Mei Xiangu appear in the fog and quickly fly onto the bow of the boat.

When the words came out of his mouth, the content changed:

"I understand what Fellow Daoist Tian said, so I was just checking whether the formation flags were firm. You know, I'm a weapon refiner. Although I'm not familiar with formations, I have some knowledge of them."

The conversation between the two was heard by Mei Xiangu who had rushed back. She looked a little pale and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. She looked at Rong Gongfeng and Tian Lin on the boat with a half-smile.

Finally, she threw a bag from her hand and said to Tian Lin:

"I feel relieved if you two are willing to share my worries. Go, take these things and lead the ferryman to find the Tong family's chief elder."

Rong Gongsheng's face changed, but Tian Lin seemed relatively calm.

He undid the thread of his pocket and saw seven copper coins wrapped in the cloth.

These seven copper coins all have the four characters "Youdu Tongbao" on them.

"Mei Xiangu asked me to take this money to lure the ferryman away, but I don't know what kind of magic weapon this money is?"

Mei Xiangu said: "It doesn't matter whether you are a human or a ghost, as long as you are willing to pay, the ferryman will turn around and accompany you to wherever you want to go."

Tian Lin was stunned for a moment, and asked her tentatively: "I asked him to take me to the moon, can he take me there too?"

Mei Xiangu thought Tian Lin was making fun of her, so she sneered, "The moon is too far away. I'm afraid you can't afford it. Maybe the underworld is closer."

Tian Lin knew that this was a huge risk, but he did not hesitate too much and directly put the bag of copper coins into his storage bag.

Rong Gongsheng on the boat turned pale and asked Mei Xiangu in a trembling voice:

"Since they are human or ghost, as long as we pay money, we can make the ferryman turn around, so why don't we let Bao Jian and Jian Nu go?"

Rong Gongfeng shook his head like a rattle, took two steps back, grabbed his sword, and said, "You will die for me, the master."

On the big ship, Mei Xiangu's eyes turned cold and she reached out to touch the plum blossoms on the goddess tree.

Tian Lin knew that she could kill people with plum blossoms, so she quickly said, "The ferryman is coming this way, let me go meet him alone."

After saying this, Tian Lin turned his head and looked at Rong Gongfeng on the boat:

"Brother Rong, if I can come back alive this time, you must repay my favor."

At the critical moment of life and death, Rong Gongfeng nodded his head like a chick pecking at rice.

Seeing this, Tian Lin looked towards the ferryman in the distance of the big ship.

The so-called ferryman looks like an ordinary old man rowing a boat.

Looking at the bamboo pole in the old man's hand, Tian Lin thought of Sect Master Xun.

Sect Master Xun had bid farewell to Elder Xiao at Yaoyue Sect and crossed the sea to the south to find a way out for Yulong Continent.

But in the end, it was the boatman of the pleasure boat who appeared in Chenxiantang, which was quite strange.

Tian Lin estimated that this ferryman had at least reached the late stage of foundation building when he was alive. If you add the boat under his feet and the bamboo pole in his hand, he might not be much weaker than a Jindan strongman.

"What are you standing there for? Why don't you get on the boat?"

Seeing the ferryman paddling closer, Mei Xiangu spoke something.

Tian Lin didn't want to take any risks, but he knew that Mei Xiangu was decisive in killing people, and Rong Gongfeng would never sacrifice himself for others.

There was no way to avoid it, so he stepped on the bowstring and jumped down. The ferryman in the distance stopped the boat and asked, "Young man, would you like to take a boat?"

Tian Lin didn't say anything for a moment, just stared at the ferryman.

The ferryman was wearing a black robe, his face was dark blue, and his eyes were just two black holes, with pus occasionally flowing out of them.

A foul smell came from him, and it was obvious that the ferryman's body had already rotted away.

"May I ask the boatman how much is the boat fare?"

"Young man, would you like to take a boat?"

The ferryman answered irrelevantly. In the distance, on the big boat where Mei Xiangu was, the voice of Mei Xiangu was heard, shouting: "You have been talking to this dead man for a year, and he only has a few words.

If you don't want to die, pay the money and get on board before he pulls the pole out of the sea."

Mei Xiangu's words made Tian Lin's heart tremble. He indeed found that the ferryman pulled the bamboo pole out of the sea.

Seeing that the bamboo pole was about to leave the water, Tian Lin took out a copper coin and threw it into the ferryman's bag.

The sound of "copper coins" colliding was heard in the ferryman's bag. The ferryman put the bamboo pole back into the sea. After Tian Lin got on the boat, he asked without turning his head, "Where are you going, young man?"

Tian Lin casually pointed to the south. He remembered that the Great Elder and others went to the south.

If the seven copper coins could lead him to see the Great Elder, then perhaps, as Mei Xiangu said, he could be saved.

But Tian Lin estimated that seven copper coins might not be enough to bring him to see the Great Elder.

He had made a decision. If three copper coins were not enough for him to find the Great Elder, then he would use the other four copper coins to return the same way and come back to find Fairy Mei for a solution.

At that time, either Mei Xiangu will personally drive away the ferryman, or Mei Xiangu will pay for him to go find the great elder.

In short, if I were to die, I would always drag Mei Xiangu down with me.

As Tian Lin pointed, the ferryman thrust the bamboo pole in his hand deep into the sea, and the boat moved out instantly.

Tian Lin was looking at Mei Xiangu and others at this time, and the foundation-building cultivators on the same line as Mei Xiangu were also looking at Tian Lin.

The ferryman rowed the boat very fast and the men soon lost sight of Tian Lin, who followed the ferryman into the fog.

"Sir, you came from the south with those wandering spirits, right?"

"What's in the southern sea?"

"Is there a hell in this world?"

The boat was not big and there was nothing on it.

In addition to thinking about how to escape, Tian Lin's attention was also on trying to talk to the ferryman.

Unfortunately, this ferryman is just as Mei Xiangu said, he keeps repeating the same two sentences over and over again, like a complete walking corpse.

Tian Lin no longer tried to talk to the ferryman, but instead focused his attention on the wooden sign on the ferryman's waist.

The pattern on the back of the wooden sign could not be clearly seen, but the word "ferry" was written on the front.

This waist badge seems to be an identity card, and I don’t know who made it.

Tian Lin looked up at the ferryman's back, and suddenly heard the ferryman turn his back to him and say, "Young man, would you like to take a boat?"

When Tian Lin saw a wandering soul emerging from the fog, he realized that the ferryman was not talking to him.

The wandering soul ignored the ferryman and did not answer when the ferryman asked him twice.

Just as the wandering soul was about to pass by the ferryman's boat, the bamboo pole in the ferryman's hand had already been pulled out from under the sea surface and went straight through the wandering soul's body.

In an instant, the wandering soul turned into a remnant soul.

Tian Lin's heart moved, and when the ferryman attacked the second wandering soul, he had already taken out the soul-gathering bead.

Driven by the true energy, the soul-gathering bead absorbed all the residual souls around it without any waste.

But this place is obviously far away from Mei Xiangu and others, so when Mei Xiangu borrowed magic earlier, the power of thunder did not reach here.

There are so many wandering souls here that the ferryman is forced to take action frequently.

Among the many wandering souls, Tian Lin also saw two night-wandering gods.

However, although these two night-wandering gods were powerful, they could not escape the ferryman's bamboo pole.

After using one soul-gathering bead to absorb the residual souls of two Night Wandering Gods in succession, Tian Lin's soul-gathering bead felt like it was about to explode, and a layer of frost directly covered Tian Lin's palm.

Tian Lin put the enlarged soul-gathering bead into his storage bag, took out a new soul-gathering bead and began to absorb the residual souls.

Just when Tian Lin was enjoying himself by picking up bargains, the ferryman who was killing wandering souls and rowing the boat suddenly asked, "Young man, do you still want to take the boat?"

Tian Lin knew that he was talking to him, so he took out another copper coin from his storage bag and said, "Go a little further south."

(End of this chapter)