After defeating the water thief, an unexpected result appeared: Sandao, as the second leader of the Water Wolf Gang, actually planned to change his ways, and ran back with a white flag to ask me to take him in, saying that he was willing to submit to me and would not be a water thief from now on!

After discussing with Liu Han, the Mocking Ghost, and others, I finally decided to take in this gang of water thieves. This will not only solve the problem of rampant water thieves in the neighborhood once and for all, but also greatly expand my strength.

So, I had the Three Swords and a few of his henchmen follow us aboard the Victory, set sail through Bayou into the underground waterways, and find the place where the pirates were hiding their ships. Sure enough, Sandao didn't lie to me, the four big ships and 22 speedboats that were used as a "greeting gift" for surrender were all there, in addition to more than 400 down-and-out water wolf gangs.

Most of these gangsters who did not follow the three masters and the four masters to leave were the subordinates brought over by Hei Tai Sui and the three swords when they were in the ghost army, and a few were the wandering ghosts who were coerced before, or they really had nowhere to go. Now there is a chance to change their ways, and they are actually quite happy. Besides, I have built up enough prestige and intimidation in the fierce battle with Hei Tai Sui that they can follow me convincingly.

I asked Sandao to gather all the helpers to come and listen to my teachings, and ordered them to change their minds, change their ways, and not do anything that hurts heaven and reason. Of course, in addition to these great principles, I also promised many practical benefits: first, not to be enslaved, second, to have a monthly salary, and third, to arrange accommodation.

All in all, I do intend to transform these thieves into qualified sailors and soldiers, earning status and remuneration by doing honest labor. Therefore, carrots and sticks, two-pronged can really collect the "ghost heart".

The Water Wolf Gang was very happy to hear this, and they all cheered in support.

Giving such preferential treatment to the water thieves, my own former subordinates naturally can't be treated badly, especially the dozens of sailors on the Victory who performed well in this battle, and they should be commended. Therefore, by the way, I will remove all of them from slavery and officially become my subordinate employees, without discrimination.

After successfully absorbing these 400 water thieves, the next task is how to deal with the four large ships and the two dozen small boats. The ridiculer had the most ideas, so he suggested that I first pull them all back to the fishing village, and let Wang Shou send someone to convert half of the boats into fishing boats and half into cargo ships.

The bands of water thieves were also handed over to the mockers to sort down according to their abilities and specialties, either as fishermen, farmers, or as sailors on cargo ships. There is also a small group of the old ghost army with the strongest combat ability, and Liu Han and I have personally trained them to become professional soldiers, who are responsible for the vigilance and defense of the fishing village.

After taking over a few large ships of the pirates, the size of my fleet has quadrupled. In addition to forming a fishing team to fish deep into the Stygian Sea, I began to plan to form my own expedition team and regularly enter the ghost forest to search for good goods. For this reason, I deliberately went to the Giant Waterfall City to find Xue Da, and recruited several experienced expedition members through his connections.

In fact, since the elimination of this troublesome group of water thieves on its own, the fame of this small fishing village has grown. Some of the dry goods and specialties produced locally do not even need to be transported to Dayin City to sell in person, and our own merchants come to buy them. The production attributes of the fishing village are also becoming more and more obvious, and I gradually no longer have to personally lead the team to run the boat every time, but simply leave it to the iron head, the water demon and the three knives to run.

Later, the number of idle Yin cultivators and ghost cultivators who came from other Yin Cities gradually increased, and the village chief Wang Shou did not refuse to come. The size of the fishing village grew larger and larger, and the total population suddenly exceeded 2,000 a year later. Now this fishing village is not so much a village, but in fact it has begun to take on the scale of a small Yin City.

It's been almost three years since I came to the fishing village, and I started from only a dilapidated noodle shop boat and a few down-and-out ghost guys in my hands.

Half a year ago, Liu Han, who had been overtaken by me, finally broke through to the fifth level of cultivation and was on an equal footing with me. This also gave me a big stimulus: if I don't have to work hard, my boss will have to be pressed by the boss's wife!

As a result, I began to become more attentive to my cultivation, and the frequency of eating yin meals also increased. However, since the effect of Huangquan soup on my cultivation has been lost, I have been eating several kinds of self-made purple wheat noodles and yin meals recently. Among them, the "human-faced beast heart" is the most significant one.

I'm as familiar with eating ghosts as I am in my own backyard, and although there will still be all kinds of dangers, as long as I'm careful enough not to go deep into the core area easily, there will be no door-to-door accidents. In order to obtain the main material of the "Human-faced Beast Heart", I had to enter the Blackwater Swamp alone from time to time.

This time, I found an adult giant rotten wood crocodile, with a fat body and dark back armor that was as hard as a fossil. And its iron tail was as strong as a thick mace, swept away every time I tried to approach from behind. In the end, it took a lot of effort to lure the rotten wood crocodile into a bush, and then jumped on its back and split the ugly crocodile's head with the usual knife, killing it.

The yin dish of human face and beast heart must use the freshest main ingredients plus purple wheat noodles, cook and process them on the spot in a special way, and then eat them immediately to get the best lifting effect. So, after catching this rotten wood crocodile, I built a simple stove, cooked a pot of noodles with a shield wok, and then went to deal with the crocodile that had just died.

"Flutter!"

I expertly dissected the abdominal cavity of the adult crocodile, reached inside and groped for a while, before I found what I was looking for: a heart that was still beating "bang".

The next method is very simple, I use a normal knife to quickly slice the crocodile heart, stir it into the noodles, and then gather the yin force to draw out the fire of the two instruments for stir-frying, and fry until it is half-cooked and can be eaten out of the pot. When eating, there are still some undried blood stains on the crocodile heart slices, and although the tooth feeling is good, the psychology also has to be passed.

After eating the human face and beast heart, I meditated on the spot and practiced the fifth exercise of the Yin chapter of the Liangyi Mind Method. This is also the highest level of exercise I can master so far, and as for the sixth and seventh level exercises, according to Master, they were long lost in the catastrophe of "Hades Book Burning" hundreds of years ago.

"Click!"

There was a slight sound in the dantian of my lower abdomen, and the yin qi outside my body instantly accelerated the speed of entering the body, just like a dragon absorbing water. These yin qi were quickly converted into yin power in the dantian, full and overflowing, and I felt that my whole body was suddenly full of power!

"It's finally a breakthrough!" I was pleasantly surprised. It has been four years since I was promoted to the fifth level of primary cultivation when I was serving as a Yin general in the underworld, and it has been four years before I finally broke through to the fifth level of intermediate level, which is really not easy!

But in the midst of the rejoicing, I suddenly began to feel hot all over my body, and there seemed to be a raging fire burning in my chest, which made me upset and irritable. In order to avoid going mad, I hurriedly dispersed my gong and cut off the Yin Qi that was still frantically burrowing into my body. Although doing so may cause the cultivation that I have just advanced to become unstable, it is still better than going mad.

However, after the exercise, my mind was still in a state of excitement, and the yin power in my body was bursting, and I always wanted to find something to vent to be comfortable.

"Kiln ......"

At that moment, there was a slight grinding sound a few meters away from me. I turned my head to see that a bowl-thick python was swimming out of the grass, raising a triangular head in front of me, spitting out a letter with bad intentions.

It's really a guy who doesn't have long eyes, but he appeared at this time, and he dared to provoke me?

My heart was on fire all of a sudden, and I could no longer suppress the impulse that was already close to going berserk, so I jumped forward with a roar and grabbed the python, grabbed it by the neck tightly, pulled the long snake out of the grass, and then raised it high above my head, trying to smash it to the ground.

The anaconda that survived in this black water swamp must not be a good species, and it reacted immediately when it was suddenly attacked, wrapping its long tail around my waist. As a result, I couldn't do the throwing because the snake body was connected to my body, and I almost fell. In addition, my usual knife was stuck in the scabbard at my waist, and it was tightly squeezed in the inner ring by the thick snake body, and I couldn't take it out.

But I was gradually losing my mind at this time, and I didn't think of killing the snake with the usual knife at all, but I wanted to fight the snake with my bare hands, and I used my teeth to bite without a knife!

"Wow!"

There are no scales under the neck of the flower python, and it is relatively soft, and I bite it hard, and even bite out a mouthful of blood. The snake's blood stinks, but when it was poured into my throat, I felt an extremely wild release and satisfaction, so I bit the snake's neck and sucked hard.

The python was in great pain, convulsing and wriggling, and then tightening the snake's body, wrapping me tighter and tighter. I was unsteady on my feet, and finally I was dragged to the ground by the heavy body of the snake, and I couldn't breathe after my chest was strangled, and I almost suffocated.

But that's what I seem to enjoy, and the closer I get to death, the more pleasure I feel and the crazier my reactions become. So, I stopped sucking the snake's blood, and instead tore the snake meat with my teeth, and swallowed a piece of it raw without chewing it. After a few large bites, I bit out a large hole in the relatively thin neck of the snake, revealing the bones inside.

"Drink!"

In the end, I roared angrily, and with ten percent of the strength in my hand, I broke and twisted, and I tore off a huge snake head on the spot!

The python lost its head, and the snake's body began to relax, sliding off me little by little. But I didn't want to let it go, so I put the snake's neck, which was still bleeding, to my mouth, and continued to drink the blood in a big gulp.