Chapter 193 Killing the Ferryman
Chapter 193 Killing the Ferryman
After the copper coins made a crisp and pleasant clash sound in the ferryman's bag, the ferryman rowed the boat again.
Seeing the ferryman using the bamboo pole almost non-stop, sometimes rowing the boat, sometimes constantly poking out evil spirits, looking very busy, Tian Lin couldn't help but feel the same way.
When he and Yu'er and her sister came to Chenxiantang in the evening, he was the one killing the evil spirits in the front while Cui'er used the soul-gathering bead to collect the remaining souls.
By that time, Tian Lin's true energy and spiritual consciousness were completely depleted, and he was exhausted.
But now the ferryman has to deal with not only wandering souls, but also night wandering gods.
The degree of hard work they put in is obviously much greater than mine, and it's so busy that it makes me feel distressed.
"Will there not be enough soul-gathering beads soon?"
In Tian Lin’s storage bag, seven or eight soul-gathering beads that had swelled to the size of eggs were emitting a faint glow.
Among the seven or eight soul-gathering beads, there were only three that had not been used.
Apart from this, the soul-gathering bead in his hand can only hold two more night-wandering gods.
"Young man, do you still want to take a boat?"
Another quarter of an hour later, the ferryman suddenly asked a question.
Probably due to the intense exercise, pus flowed from the ferryman's eyes and all over his face, making him look somewhat disheveled.
"Of course, take the boat. Please go one more copper coin southward for me."
Tian Lin flicked his fingers, and the copper coins made a crisp and pleasant sound in the ferryman's bag.
His heart suddenly moved as he looked at the sack on the ferryman's shoulders.
The bags at the front and back of the sack were bulging with content unknown of countless copper coins.
If I had these copper coins, I could ask the ferryman to take me back to Yulong Continent.
Anyway, the ferryman doesn't need to rest, and his strength is very good. As long as he has it, his personal safety will be guaranteed as long as he pays the full fare.
Half an hour passed quickly, and the ferryman turned his head and looked at Tian Lin dimly: "Young man, do you still want to take the boat?"
"Take, it's just that I want to go back to the place where I first took the boat."
"It will cost six copper coins to go back the same way."
Tian Lin was stunned by the ferryman's words. He thought that besides asking about taking the boat, the ferryman only asked "If you are not like me, how can you be reborn?"
I didn't expect that besides those two sentences, the ferryman had another set of words.
"Six copper coins. Do you want to raise the price temporarily?"
The ferryman had already started to whip the bamboo pole and asked him, "Young man, do you want to take a boat?"
What else is there to say?
The servants in carriages, boats, and inns should be put to death even if they are innocent. This has been the case since ancient times.
Tian Lin just didn't expect that this "ship" had become a ghost ship and was still so black-hearted.
He took out a copper coin and said, "Please take me back the same way."
“Not enough money!”
"Then we'll take the one-copper-coin route first!"
The ferryman didn't waste any time, he just picked up the bamboo pole and turned away.
Just as Mei Xiangu said, as long as you are willing to pay, it will not refuse no matter which direction you point to.
But the scary thing is that this guy looks like a puppet, but he knows how to raise prices and cheat people.
This time, after only walking for less than a quarter of an hour, the ferryman asked Tian Lin, "Young man, do you want to take the boat again?"
As the saying goes, it is easy to get on a boat but difficult to get off!
Tian Lin was sure that as soon as he got off the boat, the ferryman would ask him if he wanted to take another boat.
If you don't pay for the boat ride, he will kill you with a bamboo pole, just like killing those wandering souls.
"Build it, build another copper coin."
Tian Lin was not angry and took out another copper coin.
But he expected that the ferryman would shorten the journey and ask for more money, and therefore he also anticipated that even if he had another twenty copper coins, he would probably not be able to return to where Mei Xiangu and the others were.
Therefore, Tian Lin has given up the idea of going back to find Mei Xiangu.
He pointed into the sea and said, "I want you to carry me into the water."
If he were a real boatman, he would definitely think that Tian Lin was looking for trouble.
But the ferryman is different. He will definitely carry passengers if he collects money.
Soon, Tian Lin only saw the ferryman pushing the bamboo pole into the air, and the boat suddenly turned over and went vertically into the sea.
After the wooden boat entered the water, Tian Lin hurriedly took out the Millennium Boat from the storage bag and hung the storage bag under the Millennium Boat.
In an instant, he had dived more than ten feet deep on the ferryman's boat.
What is the situation like under the Chenxiantang, which is ten feet deep?
The sword energy here was as dense as swimming fish. Although people could not see the sword energy, they could see with their naked eyes the streams of water that were cut apart, running around like bubbles.
Just as Tian Lin raised his hands to cover his eyes, his arms and cheeks were cut by the sword energy.
Not only him, but also the ferryman on the boat was the same.
The boat moved another ten feet, and the ferryman's voice was not affected at all in the water.
He calmly asked Tian Lin if he wanted to take a boat ride. Tian Lin threw a coin and pointed to the deep sea.
Tian Lin was not afraid of death, and the ferryman who had long been dead was even less afraid of death. One man and one evil spirit, along with the ferry, went deeper into the seabed.
Although the depth was still about ten feet, the sword energy contained in it increased exponentially with each subsequent foot.
Tian Lin can use his spiritual consciousness to digest these sword energies.
He released his spiritual awareness directly through his body, digesting a large amount of the sword energy around him.
However, a lot of sword energy still had not been "digested" by him in time and directly penetrated into his body.
When the ferry went down two or three feet, Tian Lin was already feeling a bit overwhelmed, let alone the ferryman?
Under Tian Lin's spiritual perception, the ferryman's soul began to dissipate rapidly, and the saddle bag on his shoulders also fell off.
Tian Lin hurriedly caught the fallen sack with his hands, but due to insufficient protection, the sack was broken into pieces by the sword energy, and a large number of copper coins scattered downwards.
Tian Lin used the Buddha and Demon Freedom Technique and with one punch he repelled the undercurrent below.
The copper coins tumbled in the undercurrent, and a large number of them were damaged by the sword energy, but Tian Lin still caught more than twenty copper coins and protected them tightly with his spiritual consciousness.
It's a pity that the Soul Gathering Orb cannot be brought down, or even if it is brought down it is difficult to ensure that the Soul Gathering Orb will not be damaged by the sword energy.
Tian Lin watched as the ferryman's soul dissipated, but he was unable to gather up the remaining soul of the ferryman.
But what surprised him was that although the sword energy was powerful, the wooden sign on the ferryman's waist and the ferry boat were not damaged at all.
Tian Lin didn't know where these two things came from, nor did he know what materials they were made of.
As soon as the ferryman died, Tian Lin picked up the bronze plate and dragged the ferry upwards again.
He is not a ferryman and does not have the ability to control the ferryboat.
But now the Shenxiantang could no longer restrain people's true energy and spiritual consciousness. Tian Lin relied entirely on his own cultivation and rushed out of the sea in less than a quarter of an hour.
Because he and the ferryman did not dive for a long time, the thousand-year-old boat he had left on the sea was still drifting on the sea, not far away from him.
Tian Lin stepped onto the waves and boarded the Millennium Boat, then picked up the storage bag hanging under the boat.
He put the ferry and the wooden sign into his storage bag, along with the twenty or so copper coins, and then he rowed quickly in the direction of Mei Xiangu and the others based on his memory.
The sky was about to brighten, but Tian Lin could not feel it clearly in the thick fog.
After he had been sailing for an hour, he finally saw Mei Xiangu's ship from afar.
Because it was daytime, the number of wandering souls was obviously not as active as at night.
When Tian Lin arrived at where Mei Xiangu was, although the monks on the sea were still busy killing evil spirits, the battle was obviously not as intense as in the early morning.
Tian Lin's appearance was indeed unexpected. On the big ship over there, Fairy Mei looked at Tian Lin with a strange look in her eyes.
After Tian Lin got on the boat, Mei Xiangu asked Tian Lin as if she had seen a ghost: "How did you get rid of the ferryman last night?"
Tian Lin said: "Didn't the fairy ask me to find the Great Elder? As long as I find the Great Elder, I will definitely be able to get rid of the ferryman."
Mei Xiangu frowned. She was sending Tian Lin to his death.
She herself couldn't deal with the ferryman, and she didn't believe that the Tong family's elder had such ability.
Besides, in the vast Chenxian Pond, how could it be easy to find the trace of the Great Elder?
"Have you found the Great Elder?"
Tian Lin shook his head and said, "I met a Jindan cultivator yesterday. Fortunately, that Jindan cultivator helped me, otherwise I might not be able to come back alive."
"In Chenxiantang, besides my uncle and the guy surnamed Zhou, there is only Senior Sister Tongyao -
But Senior Sister Tong Yao is not on Shenxiantang. Do you think the one you met is the one named Zhou or my uncle?"
Tian Lin guessed that the person surnamed Zhou mentioned by Mei Xiangu must be Master Zhou.
"I don't know Master Zhou, nor do I know your uncle, so I don't know who that Jindan senior was last night."
Although the battle was not fierce at this time, there were quite a few wandering souls.
Mei Xiangu took seven petals from the Goddess Tree and threw them into the field:
"You've been trying to get my cold incense leaves twice. Since you like them so much, these six cold incense leaves will be your reward."
Tian Lin said so much not simply to complain, but to see if he could get any compensation.
Now that he has obtained seven pieces of Enlightenment Tea, how can he not be happy?
"Thank you for the reward, Fairy Mei. I will go back to recuperate first."
Mei Xiangu did not stop Tian Lin, but said to her with her sword in her arms: "Take my battle flag and send him away."
The man with the sword took the battle flag, glanced at Tian Lin, then turned and left.
She walked to the stern of the ship, next to the light shield that blocked the wandering souls, and pointed the formation flag at the shield. A hole appeared in the light shield instantly.
The hole opened wider and wider, until it was big enough for a boat to leave.
The man holding the sword put away the command flag and glanced at Tian Lin.
Tian Lin bowed to the man holding the sword, then walked through the light curtain.
As soon as Tian Lin left, the opening of the light curtain closed instantly.
The man holding the sword returned to the bow and said to Mei Xiangu, "Xiangu, could he really be Zhaixingzi?"
Mei Xiangu was also a little uncertain at this time.
She didn't quite believe that Tian Lin was so lucky to meet a Jindan cultivator who could save his life.
But if it weren’t for the Jindan cultivator saving his life, how deeply would Tian Lin’s cultivation and strength be hidden?
"If he really is the Star Picker, I will kill him!"
After saying this, Mei Xiangu ignored Bao Jian.
(End of this chapter)