Chapter 18: Seventeen States of the Human World

The big ship was moving fast on the sea, and Meng Yuan sat on the side of the boat and looked at the mountains in the distance, full of anticipation. In the past fifteen years, twelve years in the mine, three years on the desert island, I can finally see a normal girl, and my great ambition is about to take the first step. Thinking about the bright future, the smile on his face is even bigger.

An old sailor looked at Meng Yuan's appearance, took a puff of dry cigarette, spit smoke in his mouth and said, "Young man, do you miss your daughter-in-law?"

Meng Yuan turned his head and said with a smile, "Yes, uncle." ”

"Where are you from, Hongcheng or Juncheng?"

"I don't know. ”

The old sailor tapped the soles of his shoes, flicked the ashes and said, "You stupid boy, if you don't, you don't know." ”

"Uncle, it's my first time in the human world. ”

The old sailor is also a knowledgeable person, and quipped: "If you return to the human world, are you a demon?" ”

Meng Yuan also began to be bad, pretending to be very profound and said, "Isn't it like that?"

"I'm like you big-headed ghost, playing tricks with old men. As he spoke, he knocked Meng Yuan on the head with a cigarette stick.

Meng Yuan laughed at himself, clutched his stomach and said, "Uncle, I'm not joking with you." I'm a foreigner, it's my first time here, what kind of province is this?"

"What is a province, it's not called a province here. ”

Meng Yuan slapped his forehead, forgetting that this was not the earth. Then he asked, "What kind of boundary is this?"

The old sailor thought that he had met a fool, ignored Meng Yuan, and prepared to leave. Meng Yuan was anxious, grabbed the old sailor's clothes and said, "Uncle, I really didn't make fun of you, I really don't know." Here's an elixir for you, as cigarette money. ”

The old sailor looked at the black pill in Meng Yuan's hand and asked, "Pill?"

Meng Yuan shook his head and said, "Cultivating immortals is not enough, it can relieve your fatigue and allow you to recover your strength." Saying that, he took one, stood up and punched a few times, indicating the effect of the elixir.

The old sailor picked up the elixir and looked at it with a suspicious expression. Meng Yuan asked the old sailor to taste it first, and the old sailor felt much more refreshed after eating it, and he was very happy. Seeing this, Meng Yuan gave another one and said, "Uncle, tell me what kind of land is here, and I'll give you another one after I finish speaking, okay?"

The old sailor confirmed that Meng Yuan really didn't know, and sat next to Meng Yuan at the moment and said, "We belong to Qingyuan County under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, and the place we are going to is Hongcheng." ”

Meng Yuan calculated in his heart that this state may be equivalent to a province, a county to a city, and a city to a county. "How many states do we have?"

"Seventeen, state!"

Meng Yuan admired this old man a little, after all, there are really people in the mountains and villages on the earth who don't know how many provinces there are in the country.

The old sailor looked at Meng Yuan and thought he didn't believe what he said, and explained: "Don't think that the old man is scolding you, the reason why I know it is because someone made up a poem." We'll know if we hear more. ”

"What poem?"

The poem is called "Autumn Departure". Bailu River on the guest, waterway seventeen states. Drink snow plum wine often, and think about the past in autumn?"

Meng Yuan thought that his language should not be bad, but he was also confused. The old man explained with a smile: "I heard those sons say that this poem was written by a woman who lives in Bailujiang, and I hope that my lover can hear it and go back to her." In addition to the three characters of the seventeen states in this poem, each word corresponds to a state name, and six of the characters are homophonic, namely: Shangzhou, Luzhou, Yinzhou, Lizhou, Guzhou, and Youzhou. He stopped and took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Do you know what the poem says?"

Meng Yuan felt that his IQ had been insulted, but generally at this time, you still have to obey the will of others, this kind of behavior is called respect.

The old sailor said proudly: "You dolls, who don't read well, know that you don't understand such a simple and easy-to-understand poem." ”

Meng Yuan looked teachable and said: "Uncle is right, the kid is taught, taught. ”

The old sailor was still very satisfied with Meng Yuan's performance, and said leisurely: "This poem is mainly about the woman's hope that the merchants on the Bailu River can convey their thoughts about her lover. The Bailu River is a large river that runs through the entire seventeen states, so it can reach all the major states by waterway. As for the snow plum wine, I heard that the woman made a good wine alone, and she would send a pot every time a merchant ship passed by. You know now, right?"

Meng Yuan snorted coldly in his heart, I thought you were going to talk about it word by word, what are the fake words, the poetic eyes, the artistic techniques, what feelings are included, it turns out that I just talked about two sentences casually, and eighty percent of them were also written down when listening to other people's chats. On the surface, he asked with a teachable look: "Uncle, I understand, may I ask if there are any particularly powerful sects in our Qingyuan County?"

"What's the matter? You still learn from others to cultivate immortals? Come on, saving more money while you are young and getting a daughter-in-law is a big deal. The old sailor persuaded.

When Meng Yuan heard this, it was time to start pretending to be B. As long as he sacrifices the snake concubine, shows his hand, and scares him to death. Di Yu seemed to guess Meng Yuan's mischievous thoughts, and persuaded: "Let's honestly worship a sect and make up for the basic things." ”

Meng Yuan didn't pay attention to Di Yu's words, he had to pretend to be B when he should pretend, otherwise what was the fun in life. He stood up, lifted his pants, closed his eyes, and made strange gestures in his hands, looking like a peerless master. was about to sacrifice the snake queen, but someone kicked her in the ass, and she landed completely in a dog-eating posture.

Meng Yuan trembled and roared, "Who is it?"

"It's me! Damn, the ship is about to dock, why don't you hurry up and drop anchor, and play with a hammer here?" A burly man stood behind Meng Yuan and scolded.

When Meng Yuan heard this, he was really angry. The seven spiritual veins in the whole body began to absorb the spiritual energy, and this action alarmed the two old men and a middle-aged man in the shipbuilding. The two old men glanced at each other and shook their heads. At this time, a young man in his early twenties asked, "What happened to Uncle Wang and Uncle Liu?"

The two old men, Wang and Liu, are the elders of Beichuan Academy under the jurisdiction of Qingyuan County, Wang Hongji and Liu Ziping.

Wang Hongji replied, "Wen Bin, there is a cultivator on this ship, and he is still a master. ”

Wang Wenbin stood up, bowed and said, "Uncle Shi said that he laughed, if there is a master here, the disciple will not let the two uncles work so hard." ”

At this time, a middle-aged man ran in and said, "Master, there seems to be a situation outside. ”

Wang Hongji brushed his beard and said: "In this case, let's go out and meet such a Taoist friend!"

On the cabin, Meng Yuan's aura had reached its peak. Di Yu persuaded: "You forgot that the master told us not to kill innocent people in vain. Seeing that Meng Yuan didn't listen, he began to stop Meng Yuan. Meng Yuan roared, "What are you doing?"

"You can't hurt the innocent. ”

"Who told you that I was going to hurt the innocent? Am I that kind of person? Didn't you notice that there was a very powerful demon beast approaching us?"

Di Yu was a little embarrassed and said, "I thought you were going to do something to that person." ”

"You idiot, I'm not a killer who doesn't blink, as for killing people for this shit? Besides, I don't dare to fucking kill people. After Meng Yuan finished scolding, he observed the surroundings wholeheartedly.

All I could hear was a clear cry on the surface of the sea, and a huge white dolphin jumped out of the water, making a perfect curve in the air. Meng Yuan looked at the white dolphin, and scolded from afar: "You salted fish who forgets profit and righteousness, return my baby." ”

The white dolphin seemed to hear Meng Yuan's words, and the voice of a seven- or eight-year-old child came out of his mouth and said, "I didn't! I ate that demon pill and felt like I was about to cross the thunder tribulation, so I left." ”

Meng Yuan looked at the white dolphin, and was speechless for a while, but finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said in disbelief: "Demon... Demon King, you... Are you the Demon King?"

The white dolphin shook his round head and said, "Yes, I was a little demon king before, and now I am at the second order." ”

Meng Yuan thought about what the Five Peerless Heavenly Venerables said, "If you want to devour the Demon Pill, your own cultivation must be higher than or equal to the Demon Pill level." In other words, Lao Tzu's demon pill is a demon king's, thinking of this, he fell back directly on the board.

As for why it's not a ninth-order demon beast pill, because the only one who can help a demon king break through the rank is the demon king Neidan of the same level. After all, the gap between the demon beast and the demon king was too big, and Meng Yuan still suffered a loss of ignorance. He didn't have a very clear understanding of his own cultivation, after all, the people he had met before were too powerful.

On Heixing Island, in addition to the people of the War God Clan who have been assimilated into mortals, the patriarch of Diyong, the three elders of Difeng, Diyan, and Dihong are all from the Tianzun Realm, and they are all characters at the peak of cultivation, but it is a pity that their cultivation is sealed and they can't exert their own strength. Even the Chiyan Immortal Monarch who guarded Heixing Island was in the Taiyi Heavenly Immortal Realm, which was enough to deal with all the monks in the human world.

Emperor Yu was originally angry at the white dolphin saying goodbye, but now after listening to the explanation, the knots in his heart have also calmed. Took over the body, jumped on the head of the white dolphin, stroked it with both hands, and felt comfortable.

The white dolphin let out a clear cry and swam towards the deep sea. Seeing this, Di Yu stopped: "Don't take me away, I'm going to land." But by the time he finished speaking, he couldn't see the figure of the big ship behind him.

On the cabin, Wang Hongji looked at the white dolphins swimming away and was very surprised. He was not as uninformed as Meng Yuan, and he immediately judged that the lowest white dolphin was a demon king-level dolphin. Liu Ziping said: "How could the demon king come to the shallow sea, aren't they all active in the deep sea?"

Wang Hongji shook his head and said, "I can't figure it out. Did you notice the boy on its head just now?"

"Hmm! The aura fluctuation just now should have been emitted by him, and with this level of aura absorption, I am afraid that he has the strength of the mid-stage spirit infant. Liu Ziping commented.

"Seeing that he is not very old, he is really a genius of cultivation. This is to be worshiped in our academy, and the next distribution of spiritual ore will be settled. Wang Hongji said with emotion.

"It shouldn't be possible, this kind of genius is rare in the entire Jiangzhou, how can we keep it. Besides, seeing that he has a close relationship with the demon king, it must not be easy to come to the identity. Liu Ziping sighed.

After listening to the conversation between the two uncles, Wang Wenbin began to ask the sailors about the young man. When he heard that the sailor gave people two steamed buns, he was stunned.

The middle-aged man's head buzzed after hearing this, he was a disciple of Wang Hongji, named Wei Xingchang, and his cultivation had reached the ninth order of the Spirit Yuan. Wei Xingchang looked at the sailor and scolded: "You guy, you are really a treasure from heaven and you won't open your mouth." How can that yellow spirit stone be a mortal thing? Not to mention your two steamed buns, even Hongcheng in front of us can buy it. When the sailor heard this, he fainted and couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed.

As for the old sailor, everything is even stranger. Wang Wenbin guessed: "That young man can't really be from the demon clan, right?" he can transform into a human form, at least he is also a fourth-order demon king!"

The old sailor didn't think so, and said, "No, I heard him say that it seems that the dolphin ate his demon pill and crossed the thunder tribulation, and the young man was very angry and kept scolding the dolphin." Moreover, isn't the demon going to eat people? The stunned boat handle kicked the man's buttocks, and he fell directly into a dog eating shit, and he didn't live a good life. ”

Wang Hongji nodded and said, "It shouldn't be, the realm he showed before was no more than the middle stage of the Yuan Infant, which was equivalent to an eighth-order demon beast, and it was impossible to turn into a human form." ”

Wang Wenbin looked at the handle of the boat and smiled bitterly: "It is worthy of being a person from my Wang family, with the body of a mortal, you can beat a real person (also known as the real person realm) like this, you are definitely the first one in Jiangzhou, maybe the only one." ”

When the handle heard this, he laughed. "Young master, don't praise me, I just see that kid is not pleasing to the eye, and he is blindly posing in a hammer pose, and he has not been knocked down by my kick. By the way, the bear with him is still on our boat. ”

Wei Xingchang walked up to the handle of the boat and patted him on the shoulder, comforting: "After I go back this time, eat and drink as much as you like, don't be afraid to spend money." ”

Wang and Liu also shook their heads, after all, if a mortal dared to do this to himself, he would not be killed by them on the spot. For cultivators of the Spirit Infant Realm like them, face is indeed very important. I thought that the boy would not come back after leaving, but there is still a pet here, obviously there is an emergency, and he will definitely come back after finishing the matter.

After eating the two fish given by the sailor, the red panda thought it was delicious, and secretly took a few, but when he was eating, he saw that everyone's eyes were watching it, and hurriedly hid the fish under his buttocks, and picked up the bamboo next to him and began to gnaw, indicating that he did not eat it secretly.

Wang Hongji didn't ask the red panda anything, but instructed Wang Wenbin: "Wenbin! After speaking, he went back to the shipbuilding with Liu Ziping.