Chapter 192: The Unsettled Sea
(It's a big map, a lot of things have to be carefully considered, and there are fewer updates, forgive me, and I'll be on the right track soon.) In addition, because I am going to Guangzhou to attend the annual meeting on the 13th of this month, I also have to save some manuscripts. I'm excited to be eligible for the annual meeting for the first time since writing my book!)
In the south of the barren island, the ocean is a piece of ocean, and here is the uncertain sea. Crossing the uncertain strait, it is the land of Shenzhou.
The Xuanhuang Continent has nine continents, and there are vast seas between each continent, and if you want to reach other continents, you must cross the sea.
As a result, the ferry industry is extremely prosperous, and most of them are controlled by the big forces in the continent.
The Wasteland is special, because the power of the sects in the state is weak, so many important continent and sea docks are controlled by other big forces.
For example, Wudinghai Wharf was opened by Tianbao Commercial Bank.
Tianbao Trading House has tentacles all over the continent, doing all kinds of business, including sailing and ferrying.
Five hundred years ago, when the dragon veins of the wasteland were not broken, the people were outstanding and the products were abundant, but they suffered a catastrophe and became an "abandoned continent", and many large sects and local families migrated out one after another, drifting across the ocean from the Wuding Strait and moving to the opposite Shenzhou.
These people are called "deserters".
For more than 500 years, there has been an endless stream of people fleeing the famine, but in recent years, the number of people has gradually decreased. After all, those who want to go, those who can go, are almost gone.
It is not easy to leave one's hometown and go to an unfamiliar continent to seek a living, and it is even more difficult for a huge sect to open up a new world. For many people, they would rather nest in a deserted continent and be more comfortable as a soil overlord. Besides, taking a boat across the sea is worth a lot of money just by the cost of the ticket. Waiting for idle people can't support it at all.
On this day, in the evening, a team of more than 20 people appeared at the lively Wudinghai Wharf in the barren island. The team was disheveled, but all of them wore long swords at their waists, which made them look strange. Experienced people quickly guessed that these people must belong to a certain sect, and it was only for convenience that they did not wear uniform sect clothing.
After all, it's over to Shenzhou. If you are not familiar with the place, you must keep a low profile. Otherwise, if you accidentally touch the moldy head of some ground snakes, they will be wiped out in minutes.
Wudinghai Pier, due to its unique geographical location, has been going on for a long time. A lively market town was formed early on, with all kinds of shops and shops, and the streets were bustling from morning to night.
When Liang Qiufeng and his party arrived, it was almost evening. Before the disciple who controlled the Moyun Goshawk returned, he handed Liang Qiufeng a treasure bag, which was handed over by Xiao Jihai. What's in it should be useful.
In a hurry, Liang Qiufeng didn't have time to open it to watch, so he carried it on his body first, and was speechless for his gratitude to Xiao Jihai.
They left Jungnam Mountain. If you are in a hurry, there must be a lot of mistakes. And Xiao Jihai obviously noticed this, so he packed a treasure bag and handed it over to Liang Qiufeng.
"Qiu Feng. What are we going to do now?"
Zhang Jiangshan looked west and asked.
Liang Qiufeng replied: "Go directly to the dock and ask someone from Tianbao Trading House." See when the flight departs, and buy your ticket in advance. ”
The group walked through the lively street market, and soon found the office set up by Tianbao Trading Company on the wharf, went in and asked, and got the result.
Ships to Shenzhou sail only once every 10 days, scheduled in the morning. They came by chance, tomorrow is the ten-day period, there is a flight to the sea, there is no need to wait.
As for the ferry ticket, each person needs to pay 1,000 catties of Lingmi, which is really frighteningly high.
Hearing this huge amount of spiritual rice, everyone looked at each other and was shocked.
These people are all elite-level disciples in the Sword Mansion, and their daily income is good, but they have never tried to spend such an expensive capital on travel.
The deacon of Tianbao Commercial Bank, who sold tickets, sat on the comfortable Taishi chair, didn't look at it properly, and said lazily: "Do you want to buy it? Sue you, there are more than 50 places left, and they will be robbed in a while. ”
"Let's buy it!"
Liang Qiufeng gritted his teeth and asked everyone to take out the spiritual rice to pay, and what he finally got was a palm-sized ticket token.
The token is quite heavy, swarthy, and one side is engraved with the word "Tianbao", which belongs to the symbol of Tianbao Trading Company, and on the other side is written the five words "Wudinghai Wharf".
The deacon of the Treasure Merchant House said, "Keep the tokens, and board the ship on time tomorrow." Our firm only recognizes the ticket but not the person, and if it is lost, it will not be replaced. ”
This is all the rules of the industry, the true character of the overlord, there is nothing to say.
Out of the outside, Liang Qiufeng suddenly said: "After everyone checks into the inn, don't run around, and you have to arrange people to keep vigil at night." ”
Zhang Jiangshan asked, "Qiu Feng, are you afraid?"
"Yes, in such places, there are many dragons and snakes, and it is inevitable that some people have bad intentions and want to do that murderous and oversold business. ”
"There are so many of us, aren't we afraid?"
Zhang Jiangshan was skeptical.
"It's always right to be cautious, and now that we're outside, we have to be even more careful. ”
Gu Chengyang thought so: "Yes, Qiu Feng is right. ”
Since his right arm was abolished, he changed his left-handed sword, and since he returned from Taicheng, he has been hiding in the back mountain to practice swords. This time, Liang Qiufeng found him and explained his intentions, and he agreed without hesitation, and wanted to follow Liang Qiufeng across the ocean and go to Shenzhou for development.
It didn't take long for the group to find an inn to live in, twenty-one people, and only four rooms. Most of them don't feel sleepy, and they just think about sitting and pranayama to cope with the night.
One of the rooms was occupied by three women.
Three women, in addition to the young, the remaining two, one is Zhang Jinxiu, and the other is Wu Danmei.
Zhang Jinxiu is Zhang Jiangshan's younger sister, and her arrival comes from Zhang Jiangshan's strong recommendation. Liang Qiufeng agreed, you must know that although this woman has a bit of a rough temperament, her martial arts talent is really good and has great development prospects.
And Wu Danmei was selected and appeared in the team, but there was a bit of a surprise.
At the beginning, this woman met Liang Qiufeng in the Ali Mountains, and Liang Qiufeng asked her to return to Gushan City to find Zhang Jiangshan. After she and her grandfather Wu Shan returned to the city in disbelief, they came to the City Lord's Mansion to find someone and took out the small flying sword given by Liang Qiufeng.
As soon as the fat man saw it, he recognized that the sword belonged to Liang Qiufeng, and after hearing the meaning clearly, he agreed to come down. Not only Wu Danmei. Even her grandfather Wu Shan also accepted it and became a disciple of the Sword Mansion.
As inner disciples, he and Liang Qiufeng both have the power to recommend.
The grandson of the Wu family was overjoyed, and asked Liang Qiufeng if he was a disciple of the Sword Mansion. Zhang Jiangshan's mouth was fast, and he said it all at once.
Wu Danmei only learned Liang Qiufeng's true identity, his back was against the Sword Mansion, no wonder he was not afraid to kill the disciples of Fengyangmen.
Later, the grandson of the Wu family went to Zhongnan Mountain with a letter of recommendation, and became a disciple of the outer mansion of the Sword Mansion.
When Liang Qiufeng was selecting people. I accidentally saw Wu Danmei practicing swords in the sword arena, and as soon as she groaned slightly, she called the other party, and Wu Shan was included in the team together.
They are in a row. went to Shenzhou first, and said that it sounded like a "vanguard" and a pathfinder, but in terms of facts, the role it could play was really not much.
With such a small amount of manpower, what can be done in the Divine Continent, not to mention the lowly cultivation of these people. I'm afraid I can't even splash much.
The reason why Lao Wuwang suddenly proposed such a construction was that Liang Qiufeng's understanding was probably that the other party did it intentionally, and he wanted him to lead the team out to sharpen and exercise.
Plainly. It's a special experience. One could even say, brutal.
In this regard, Liang Qiufeng was very open-minded. Now that man has come out, he has to do his best. Try your best to see if you can make some achievements in Shenzhou. Let the Sword Mansion be impressed.
I just don't know, after many days, has the demon beasts in the Ali Mountains broken out, and what kind of catastrophe has it caused?
Especially the fellow disciples of the Sword Mansion who stayed in Lonely Mountain City, are they okay?
For Long Xiangtian, who insisted on going his own way, Liang Qiufeng was not cold, and that day in the City Lord's Mansion, he dared to fight with outspokenness, and even reprimanded. It's a pity that compared to the other party, his qualifications and prestige are much lower, and Leng Zhu'er, Luo Gang and the others all chose to believe in Long Xiangtian and stayed in Lonely Mountain City.
After experiencing this, Liang Qiufeng deeply realized: In addition to having courage, you also need to rely on strength to resist, otherwise it will not be convincing, even if your words are right, it is useless.
The world is big, and the truth is the greatest, but if there is no real strength, the truth will become empty speech, worthless.
Since entering the Sword Mansion, Liang Qiufeng has been in the limelight, but compared to a highly qualified genius disciple like Long Xiangtian, he is still much worse.
Sitting in the inn room, Liang Qiufeng took a deep breath, opened the treasure bag given by Xiao Jihai, and checked the contents inside.
At first glance, I can't help but be surprised.
The sword theme, contained in the treasure bag, as many as thirty-six, is a sword theme. And these sword questions all have one significant thing in common, all of them are sword formation types.
Many people form a formation, and the power is doubled when the formation is formed.
It's just that in the martial arts, individual heroes are the most respected, and those who cultivate sword formations, and other formations are relatively rare. Zhongnan Sword Mansion is a sword cultivation sect, and there are a lot of sword titles about the sword array, but there is no one in the door who is willing to cultivate the sword array.
Therefore, many sword topics related to the sword formation were shelved.
Now, Xiao Jihai gave these sword questions to Liang Qiufeng. His intentions were that after Liang Qiufeng and his party went to Shenzhou, their strength was not guaranteed, but if they could select people to come out to cultivate the sword formation, they might have something to rely on.
This idea is very interesting.
Liang Qiufeng flipped through all the sword array questions one by one, and a bold idea came to mind, and he soon had a preliminary idea.
Zhang Jiangshan leaned over and asked, "Qiu Feng, what treasure did Elder Xiao give?"
"It's some sword formations. ”
"Ah, what's the use of that? Uh, maybe Elder Xiao wants you to bring these sword questions to Shenzhou to sell them, maybe they can be sold for a good price. ”
Thinking of this, the fat man's eyes lit up.
Liang Qiufeng said: "You just think about money." ”
"Who wouldn't?"
The fat man was right, and suddenly sighed: "I heard that over there in Shenzhou, spiritual rice and ordinary pills are very depreciated. In the past, we had to be mentally prepared, if one was not good, we had to work as a street performer or something to earn living expenses. ”
He was pessimistic.
Liang Qiufeng's heart sank: The fat man's words are very reasonable. He decided that after getting on the ship, he would buy many books related to the customs and customs of Shenzhou and take a closer look.