Chapter 200: Capturing the Sun God
Chapter 200: Capturing the Sun God
By the time he found Mei Xiangu and others by boat, it was already dawn.
Just as Mei Xiangu said, the number of wandering souls in Chenxiantang is really fixed.
After everyone had been on guard for several nights at sea, the number of wandering souls on Chenxiantang gradually became scarce.
Whenever Tian Lin wanted to collect some residual souls, he could only row a boat towards the distant sea.
The wandering souls disappeared so quickly that Tian Lin was caught off guard by this sudden change.
However, the wandering souls disappeared and the fog no longer invaded Pingyang City, which was a good thing for the entire Pingyang City.
Also because there were fewer souls floating above Chenxiantang, the number of people on duty during the day and at night became extremely scarce.
At this time, only a few cultivators in the early stage of foundation building were left to guard the Chenxian Pond on the east and south sides day and night.
Only in the south, there are still some ferrymen occasionally appearing, so at night, only a few people such as Tian Lin, Mei Xiangu and Tong Shisan will go to patrol the south.
The next afternoon, Tian Lin sat in meditation on the second floor of Master Long Dan's alchemy room.
He heard the voice of Master Zhou while he was meditating just now.
Although Tian Lin and Master Zhou met in the illusion of Mount Wenda, Master Zhou was just a Qi Refiner at that time.
But Tian Lin was very familiar with Master Zhou. Even though a thousand years had passed and the other party had become a Jindan cultivator, his speech had become much calmer and more dignified.
But in Tian Lin's ears, this guy is still the human trafficker who traveled between Yulong Continent and Cangzhou a thousand years ago.
"What are you looking at, Master?"
Yu'er followed Tian Lin's gaze and looked towards Chenxiantang.
Unfortunately, Yu'er didn't recognize Tong Yao, let alone Master Zhou and the female elder of the Goddess Sect.
She only saw Tong Shisan and Mei Xiangu walking together, so she said, "Recently, I did hear some rumors."
"What rumors?"
Only after Master Zhou, Tong Yao, and the female elder of the Goddess Sect boarded the big ship did Tian Lin withdraw his gaze from the Shenxian Pond.
He also looked at Tong Shisan and Mei Xiangu, and found that although the two were walking together, they were keeping a distance from each other.
However, Tian Lin felt somewhat familiar with the girl next to Tong Shisan.
It was the girl in the early stage of foundation building who scolded Granny Tan in Kun Lake and followed the nursery rhyme on the sea.
"The sword bearers of the Tong family are saying that the Thirteenth Young Master will marry Mei Xiangu."
Tian Lin had just asked casually, but after hearing Yu'er's words, he finally became interested.
"Didn't Master Thirteen want to be an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect? How did it become that he wants to 'marry' into Shennv Sect?"
Hearing Tian Lin's question, Yu'er said:
"Mei Xiangu's status is not ordinary. She is now an outer disciple, but in fact she is the illegitimate daughter of the elder of the Goddess Sect. After the Goddess Sect leader announces it to the public, Mei Xiangu can become an inner disciple."
Although both inner disciples and outer disciples are called immortal disciples, their status is worlds apart.
Patriarch Yao Yue had been thinking about it all his life, but in the end, after reaching the golden elixir level, he still couldn't enter the inner gate.
It can be seen that this class gap is extremely difficult to cross, but it is not difficult to understand why the Tong family planned to "marry" Tong Shisan to Mei Xiangu.
"Young Master Thirteen is such a proud person, I'm afraid he may not agree."
After Tian Lin finished speaking, Yu'er said, "This is the intention of the Tong family's ancestor. I'm afraid the Thirteenth Young Master cannot refuse. Moreover, for this matter, the eldest lady came all the way from Tianbei County. And the Thirteenth Young Master has been afraid of the eldest lady since he was a child--"
Tian Lin suddenly remembered that when he visited Tong Shisan a few days ago, Tong Shisan's stepmother happened to return to the old house.
At that time, he just thought that the eldest lady of the Tong family was worried about her son's injury, so she rushed to Pingyang City from Tianbei County.
Now that I think about it, it was probably for Tong Shisan’s marriage.
Think about what Tong Shisan said about his childhood experiences. His stepmother was strict to him to the point of being harsh.
This shows how much the eldest lady wants her son to become successful, so the Tong family, including the eldest lady, will never give up the opportunity to marry the elder of the Goddess Sect.
Tian Lin nodded. He was not interested in the future of the Tong family, nor was he interested in whether Tong Shisan could marry into the Goddess Sect.
It's just that too many sword bearers and sword slaves worshipped by the Tong family died during this period, so the Tong family replaced them with a new batch of sword bearers. And these new sword bearers all came out of the Tong family's inner house, so it's inevitable that some fresh gossip will spread -
"You are telling me this because you want me to marry into the Goddess Sect, right?"
Tian Lin just nodded, but now that he realized what was happening, he couldn't help but look at Yu'er in surprise.
Yu'er didn't dare to look directly at Tian Lin. When Tian Lin looked at her, she knelt down at the window and said, "I acted without permission. Please punish me, Master."
There was no one else around at that time, and since she called him "Master", Tian Lin had to suspect that she had guessed that he was Tian Shuang.
"I know what you mean, but the Tong family is a family of cultivators, and there is a Jindan cultivator as a matchmaker. I have no one to rely on, and I am a Huahualang. How could Mei Xiangu look down on me?"
Tian Lin said this because he was not interested in marrying into the Goddess Sect. After all, he could not see how much benefit there was in marrying into the Goddess Sect. If there was any benefit, it would only be the Tianyisheng Water Art and the Goddess Tree.
Although Tian Lin coveted the Tian Yi Sheng Water Art and the Goddess Tree, he could exchange the Tian Yi Sheng Water Art for the Soul Gathering Pearl, but the Goddess Tree was not enough for him to sell his freedom for.
As for selling his body - he wasn't handsome enough to shock the world or make ghosts cry, so how could Mei Xiangu give him the Goddess Tree just because of his homosexuality?
"As far as I know, Mei Xiangu doesn't like elders to interfere in her feelings. I think——"
Before Yu'er finished speaking, Tian Lin interrupted her with a wave of his hand:
"You misunderstood. I'm not close to Mei Xiangu. The only times we met were when she wanted to find Zhaixingzi, so she came to me to ask questions.
And because I am stronger than others, she spends more time talking to me."
Yu'er opened her mouth and wanted to say something else, but she also noticed that Mei Xiangu on the sea in the distance suddenly looked towards them.
Tian Lin knew that Fairy Mei's ability was not enough to eavesdrop on the conversation between master and servant from such a distance.
He tilted his head to look at Yu'er and said, "You don't have to go out to sea with me tonight. Just wait for me at the house in Pingyang City."
Without waiting for Yu'er to speak, Tian Lin jumped out of the window and appeared on the shore of Chenxiantang in a few steps.
He inadvertently glanced at the large ship where Tong Yao and the other two Jindan cultivators were, and then he bowed to Mei Xiangu and the other two on the small boat.
Mei Xiangu did not waste time talking to Tian Lin and said:
"We may need your help when we go out to sea today. I heard you and Tong Shisan asked about the Tianyi Sheng Water Art. If this goes well, I will ask Master Tan to help you intercede with the Shuiyun Sect."
Tian Lin frowned after hearing her words: "I wonder what it is that the disciples of the Immortal Sect cannot solve? I am afraid that I am too weak to help and make things worse."
Hearing Tian Lin trying to refuse, Mei Xiangu said coldly: "You can't refuse this matter. If you keep talking nonsense, even if the matter is done, you can't expect to get the Tian Yi Sheng Shui Jue."
After hearing this, Tian Lin had no choice but to get on the boat.
Although it is called a small boat, it is actually not small.
Although this small boat is not as big as the ship that the three Jindan cultivators were riding on, it also has a cabin that can accommodate three or four people sitting together at a table.
In the cabin, besides Master Tan who was fanning himself with his eyes closed, there was also Tong Shisan who was clasping his fists to Tian Lin, and the black-clothed girl who was ignoring Tian Lin with an ugly expression.
After Tian Lin returned the greetings to Tong Shisan, he sat down on a cushion beside him. After thinking for a while, he asked Mei Xiangu:
"If my guess is correct, there are three Jindan monks going out to sea. And the only place that can employ three Jindan monks is probably the pleasure boat on Chenxian Pond."
Tian Lin's smile was very forced. He looked at the three people present and said, "I have thought about it, how can someone like me who is at the initial stage of foundation building help a Jindan strongman?"
How could he be willing to die?
But Mei Xiangu asked him to get on the boat, and there were three Jindan in the boat ahead, so he had no say in the matter.
"You are a ferryman, so what are you afraid of? Besides, it's not just you who will take action this time. We will also take action together."
Tong Shisan also said to Tian Lin: "This time it was the ancestors who took action. We just need to secretly row the pleasure boat away after the Sun God leaves."
He explained: "Since Brother Tian is a ferryman, he must know that the strength of a ferryman is not his own strength, but the boat and the bamboo pole.
The same is true for the Sun God on the pleasure boat - if she loses the pleasure boat, she will become a lonely ghost with nowhere to go."
Tian Lin nodded. Actually, things had come to this point and he had no choice.
He was also prepared to dive into the seabed to survive in the event of an emergency.
At this time, a woman's angry voice suddenly sounded from the building ship in front: "Zhou Jiu, don't be too presumptuous."
The voice sounded strange, but it was familiar to Yu Tianlin.
He glanced at Tong Shisan and saw that Tong Shisan and the girl in black beside him both stood up.
"Miss Tong, you are over a thousand years old, why do you still have such a hot temper? A gentleman loves a beautiful lady -
You invited me to fight against the Sun God together, and I came all the way to Pingyang City without saying anything. It's fine if you don't appreciate me, but why are you scolding me?"
Tian Lin was still familiar with this voice. He recognized it as the voice of Master Zhou.
"I thought you were a fellow practitioner and that you should at least take into consideration the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city, so I invited you to help me exorcise the evil spirits. Apart from exorcising the evil spirits, please don't say anything else."
"Hehe, what does the life and death of the people in the city have to do with me? Miss Tong, you want me to help you with nothing but empty words. Am I the shameless one or you?"
The conversation of these Jindan cultivators was not likely to be heard, but perhaps because they were too excited, their voices not only spread beyond the ship, but even within a mile radius, the sound of their argument could be heard.
On the small boat, Tong Shisan could no longer sit still. He drew out his sword and pretended to go out of the cabin to kill someone.
Mr. Tan, who had been silent all this time, opened his eyes and said:
"Brother Tong is going to be the head of the family. How can you ignore your own safety just because of someone else's angry words? Don't forget that we came to Chenxiantang to capture the Sun God."
(End of this chapter)