Chapter 23: Jiao's Family
"Well, I'm leaving. It's been ten years, I didn't expect to continue to drift", Qu Bincheng was a little helpless.
"Wait, you just said 'you', you mean you don't come with us?" Qu Bincheng suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Yes, I'm not going to leave for a while. Lan Qian replied truthfully.
"Why? Are you going to stay and die?" Qu Bincheng was a little angry.
"Of course not, I won't show up at that time, unless there is a first-order martial marquis who is alone, and I will challenge it again. "Lan Qian's purpose is to continue to challenge.
"No, it's too dangerous, if the second-order or third-order martial marquis suddenly arrives at that time, then your life will not be guaranteed. Qu Bincheng was still opposed.
"Uncle Qu, you forgot, I have the eye of heaven, with my current strength, I can see things within a radius of 10 miles, so I won't make a move without the right time. Lan Qian explained.
"What if... I still don't think it's safe, it's too dangerous. Obviously, Qu Bincheng has treated Lan Qian as a relative.
"Uncle Qu, you can go first, I will definitely come to you in a month or two, at most half a year", Lan Qian didn't want to give up, "By the way, Uncle Qu, where are you going to go?"
"Let's go to the Ink Domain for the time being, you can think about it again, it's really dangerous to stay. Qu Bincheng made the final persuasion.
"I know, I'll go to the Ink Domain to find you when the time comes," Lan Qian insisted.
In this way, after some persistence, Lan Qian successfully resisted the admonition of Qu Bincheng and Qu Qiuyun and others and stayed.
That night, the Qu family held a large-scale celebration banquet and farewell banquet, and made a big fuss with joy. Of course, because they are about to leave, some people are still very reluctant to this quiet and peaceful island, such as Qu Qiuyun, who is secretly crying in a corner at the moment. On this night, some people laughed, some cried, some people were sad, some people looked forward to it, all kinds of moods, all kinds of flavors.
The next day, the Qu family packed up everything, eliminated all traces related to the Qu family, and headed for the ink domain, leaving Lan Qian with only a small boat and a simple sea chart.
Before leaving, everyone was reluctant, and Qu Bincheng could only tell Lan Qian again to be careful. For Xu Yang, Liao Ming and others, they are also reluctant to watch Lan Qian take risks here, but everyone has their own ambitions, they can actually understand Lan Qian's choice, and they also understand that Lan Qian's current strength is completely due to Lan Qian's own hard work. The one who can't understand Lan Qian the most is Qu Qiuyun, she doesn't understand why Lan Qian has to work so hard, he can cultivate everywhere, why he has to choose such a dangerous way, this is an extremely irresponsible behavior for those who care about him, so she didn't show up in the end, and hid in the corner alone again and secretly cried, and she didn't know whether she was reluctant to leave the island or cry for Lan Qian.
Finally, the Qu family's ship went away, gradually turning into a black dot, and finally disappeared into the sky, and Lan Qian returned to the state of a person again. In his previous life, although he was modest on the surface, he actually longed for battle in his heart, and longed for the life in the rivers and lakes in martial arts novels and the pleasure of happiness and revenge. Now, Lan Qian was fortunate enough to have a body of inheritance and master a terrifying martial art, and he was extremely eager to fight, eager to exert the power of his whole body, which was why he insisted on staying.
In the next twenty days, Lan Qian once again entered a frenzied cultivation. The first is to make every effort to open up the eighth meridian and eight veins leading to the left hand, and move towards the fifth-order martial generals, the second is to consolidate the relevant martial arts of the earth element, and the last is to focus on cultivating the eighth element, the thunder element. In the Five Elements and Five Elephants, the thunder master kills, leads the thunder to the heavens, and acts for the heavens, which is a very domineering martial art, and in the Ten Tricks Sutra, the thunder element blesses one's body, which can resound the heavenly thunder in the mind and enhance the resistance to illusions. Cultivating so far, Lan Qian's Five Elements and Five Elephants and Ten Tricks Sutra have cultivated 8 elements, the more elements he cultivates, the more Lan Qian sighs, so many elements, all-encompassing, offensive and defensive, involving various different fields, it is really hard to imagine what a genius the person who created this martial art and mental method in the first place!
While cultivating the thunder element, Lan Qian also cultivated a thunder-attribute spirit-level high-grade martial art, Nine Rings of Heavenly Thunder, which was a sonic attack
, cast out like a thunder explosion, the light can make the enemy temporarily deaf, the heavy can make the enemy temporarily stunned, nine thunder in unison, landslides and ground cracks, is an excellent match for the electric eye martial arts.
In addition to cultivation, Lan Qian also had another task to do, which was to confirm the continuous casting interval of the electric eye to prevent the recurrence of the same situation as before. In the case of more than a dozen, having that kind of accident will definitely cost him a lot, so Lan Qian has to make sure.
After Lan Qian had been cultivating in full swing for 10 days, an emergency meeting was also held in the hall of the Jiao family on the outlying island, Jiao Wen, the head of the Jiao family, sat on the main seat in the middle, his face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word, and the dozen or so martial marquis below sat on both sides, each with their heads hanging silent.
After half a salary, Jiao Wen finally spoke, "Let's talk about it, what is the situation?"
"Jiaoling's last report mentions that they found a small island and found an expedition ship of the water dragon expedition on the shore, so we can basically conclude that the water dragon expedition team was killed on that small island. A Wuhou analyzed.
"Well, what else?" Jiao Wen continued.
"Jiaoling's search team didn't report to the outlying islands after they arrived on the island, there may be three reasons, one is to forget..."
"Fart!When will Jiao Ling forget about this kind of thing", Jiao asked directly denied this reason, "What about two?"
"The second is that I have encountered a very annoying situation, and I can't report it for the time being", the Wuhou just now looked at Jiao Wen worriedly, and when he saw that he didn't speak, he continued, "The third is... The third is..."
"Say!"
"The third is that Jiao Ling and others were all killed!"
"Well, in my opinion, the second reason is the same as the third, there is a high probability that the Jiaoling search team has been completely wiped out. Jiao Wen expressed his opinion, "Where is the location of the island?"
"30,000 miles south-east, we're already close to the line of life and death. A martial artist replied.
"It's quite far away, Jiaoling's strength is a second-order martial marquis, and there are two first-order martial marquis under his command, and the overall strength is not weak, but he was killed on such a remote island, and it is very likely that he will be completely wiped out in one day, then the enemy's strength must be at least second-order martial marquis strength, or even stronger." Why would a strong man of this strength go to such a remote place?" Jiao Wen began to analyze by himself.
"I have some opinions, I don't know if it's accurate," said a fourth-order martial artist.
"Third brother, please speak!" Jiao Wen said politely. That fourth-order martial marquis was Jiao Wen's clan brother Jiao Yan, and his strength had reached the peak of the fourth-order martial marquis.
"Judging from the information currently available, it is not completely certain whether all the search team in Jiaoling was killed, but from the news from Jiaoling, the contents of the water dragon expedition ship have been emptied, and no one can be found, and it is basically a fact that all of them were killed. According to the rules of our Jiao family, when the expedition team goes ashore to explore, there will always be some people left on the ship, but now no one has escaped back, which means that there are two possibilities, one is that the other party is very strong, and after killing the expedition team that went ashore, it catches up with the expedition ship and then slaughters it again; Jiao Yan analyzed.
"Go on!"
"In either case, it looks normal, but when you think about it, it's weird. First, why did the other party want to kill all the members of the expedition team? If the expedition team entered the island and offended the other party, then it was necessary to kill them all? Even if they were all killed, was it necessary to go to the ship and kill all the others? If the other party discovered the expedition team very early and then ambushed and killed all the expedition members, it would be even more strange, the two sides had no grievances, why did they ambush and kill all of them like this? Is it because they have a grudge against the Jiao family? Or is there some shady secret?
"In this way, there are indeed many doubts", Jiao Wen agreed with Jiao Yan's opinion.
"Is it possible that the people on that island have a very strange personality and want to kill all the people who find it?" asked another martial artist.
"That also shows that the island has a secret to tell," Jiao Yan continued, "and in any case, it is a big doubt that the expedition was all killed. Another question is why the search team can easily spot the expedition ship, since there is a watchtower on the island, but there is no one on it, what does it mean?
"Go on!" Jiao Wen already vaguely understood what was going on at this moment.
Jiao Yan speculated along his train of thought, "The Jiao family's search team has been discovered, but the expedition team's ship is still placed on the shore for the search team to discover, that is tantamount to telling the search team, what you want is here, you come and investigate, come to the island to investigate! So......" Speaking of this, Jiao Yan looked at Jiao Wen.
"Trap!", the two looked at each other and instantly understood.
"Bang", Jiao Wen slammed down the chair, "Trap! It's actually a trap! And it's so cleverly arranged, a few simple strokes, but you have to be led away by him." Who could this person be?" Jiao Wen's face became even more gloomy.
"Knowing that it is the Jiao family's search team and deliberately arranging a trap, then there can only be two situations, one is that the other party does not want others to discover this island, and the other is that the other party has a grudge against the Jiao family! Only these two situations can explain the first interception and the second trap! However, the people on the island did not choose to ambush the search team when they arrived on the island, but lured the search team into the island, which means that the result is more inclined to the second possibility - having a grudge with the Jiao family!", Jiao Yan continued to analyze.
"You're missing a bit," Jiao Wen added.
"Please make it clear to the eldest brother. ”
"That is, the people on the island are not particularly strong, otherwise why lay traps. Jiao Wen said.
"That's not necessarily, the other party doesn't know the strength of the search team after all......" Jiao Yan suddenly stopped.