In ancient times, the Holy Emperor Lixin was the first to complete the exploration of the territory of the human race, dividing the world into Kyushu, the south was called Yuezhou, and the country that was later established here naturally called itself the Great Yue Kingdom.

The land of the Great Yue Kingdom is much more than that of the Southern Chu Kingdom, with a total of eighteen counties. Yanling County is the most narrow county among the eighteen counties, adjacent to Taicang Mountain in the east, Da Chijiang River in the west, Mangmang Cangshan and the rolling Yangtze River have been handed over twice, just like a narrow leaf, enclosing this piece of land surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Wu Xie sat on the bow of a large ship of more than ten zhang, blowing the river breeze and looking at the scenery. At this time, it was the middle of winter, the cold wind was bitter, and the river wind on the Da Chi River was even more cold and biting, even the experienced boatmen did not want to blow for a long time, and they would have to change people after a while, but he was not affected at all, but felt cool and refreshing, very comfortable.

The innate body is not invaded by cold and heat, and if you want to make him uncomfortable, at least it must be cold to the extent that the entire Great Chijiang River is frozen tightly - that is still based on the premise that he does not use pure yang true fire to keep warm.

A middle-aged boatman with a bronze face walked from the boat gang with a penny, but he didn't dare to walk up to the bow of the boat, but just looked at Wu Xie silently five or six steps away, his eyes full of respect.

He has seen a lot of fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys leaving home to go around the world, but this kind of young man who is not invaded by cold and heat is the first time he has seen it. Not to mention that Wu Xie also has a powerful medical skill, and he has a good heart to help the world and save people. With great ability, good character, and young age, this passenger who exudes magic and eccentricity is exactly the kind of strange people who often appear in folklore.

Although Wu Xie seems to be very good at talking after getting along during this time, strange people often have thoughts and taboos that are not known to ordinary people, and accidentally offend them...... I can't think of it, I can't think of it! After thinking about it too much, I feel cold, thousands of times colder than the river breeze in the middle of winter!

It's just that the boatman also has a little thought in his heart: in folklore, there are often down-and-out mortals who are occasionally appreciated by strange people, and are given treasures or elixirs, or from then on they prosper, or they can live a long life...... In short, although he knew that a mere boatman really had no reason to be appreciated by strange people, it did not prevent him from daydreaming a little.

The young man who was walking with the strange man looked weak, and he didn't even look as good as himself, at most he had a few stinky money. That kid can get adventures, and of course he can!

"Master, this boatman is looking at you behind your back again, isn't he trying to harm you?" Jasmine said very dangerous things on her lips, but she smiled on her face, and she didn't care about it.

"Oh? He dares! Wu Xie didn't think that an ordinary boatman could hurt himself, so he didn't answer, but Du Ruo immediately revealed his fierce face, "I'll go into his dream tonight to warn him, and beat him with ten thousand peach blossoms!" If he still doesn't repent, throw it into the Great Chijiang River to soak in cold water and make him sober! ”

"This is too inefficient, you should just grab him and suck him dry, and then destroy the corpse - just crush the corpse and throw it into the Da Chi River, just add food to the fish......"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Wu Xie stopped Jasmine, who was trying to teach Du Ruo badly, and persuaded, "What did the boatman do to harm me?" I'm just a poor bastard You Fanglang, and all over my body is a medicine box except for two or three taels of broken silver, could he just risk his life for this little profit? Jasmine, don't always think in the wrong direction! ”

"But there is a rich man next to you, and the clay guy doesn't understand the truth of 'wealth is not exposed' at all, and he has been targeted more than once along the way."

Wu Xie was speechless, but he still refused to agree.

He didn't know why the boatman paid so much attention to himself, but if just because the other party paid attention to himself, he thought that the other party had evil thoughts and further developed to the point of being the first to strike - this is not some caution, but a simple paranoia of being killed, it is a disease, and it must be cured!

As long as it is not put into practice, there is no sin in mere "ideas". Who doesn't have a little dirty thought in his heart? Who doesn't have greed and malice? If you want to make a move just because the other party "maybe" have "bad intentions" towards you, then it is better to shrink into the Heavenly Book World Realm and be a turtle!

So until he left the ship and landed, Wu Xie did not allow Jasmine and Du Ruo to do anything to the boatman.

However, he was also a little curious, so when he was leaving, he specially found the boatman and asked what was going on.

"Do you think I'm a legendary stranger, and you want to see if you can get an adventure?" When asked everything, Wu Xie couldn't help but wonder.

He imagined several different possibilities, but he didn't expect it to be this!

"You see, if you look at others with malice, you will only see malice - but in this world, there is not really malice everywhere......" He seized the opportunity to educate Jasmine and Du Ruo on their moral values, and said a lot of things.

Because he unexpectedly got the opportunity to preach, Wu Xie was in a good mood and took a crystal jade plaque from the Heavenly Book World Realm and gave it to the boatman.

"This is the jade coin of Bai Yulou, a famous merchant in Southern Chu, and one can be exchanged for a thousand taels of silver. Since you have a heart, I will fulfill your adventure. He said to the stunned boatman, "But I would advise you, but those who have special skills tend to have a special personality." If you have any wishes, just say it to your face, and don't hesitate behind your back. Fortunately, I'm a kind person this time, if I meet those hot-tempered people, I'm afraid that I will kick you off the Da Chi River a long time ago. ”

Skipping the overjoyed boatmen who thanked them repeatedly, Wu Xie and Tao Tu got off the boat and hired a carriage to continue southwest along the main road.

They had planned to take a boat directly to Qingniu Town, but the boatman told them that the boat would only go to Wu'an County and would never go west. Because from Wu'an County to the west, the place where the water of the four rivers merges into the Great Chijiang River, there has always been a legend of "dragon".

Most of the people who sailed were superstitious, and the worship of the dragon god was even more active and serious. Since that section of the waterway was inhabited by the dragon god, it was inconvenient for the ship to pass over the dragon god's head.

Of course, the more important reason is that the road is of little value, but it leads to a run-down town that doesn't even have a dock. Further upstream, the water is so strong that no boat can swim upstream.

In other words, the waterway further west from this Wu'an County has lost the value of shipping.

"I think it may have been deliberately arranged by the immortals." Sitting in the carriage, Tao Tu didn't know how many times he reviewed the immortal notes left by the ancestor at the beginning, and said thoughtfully, "When the ancestors asked for immortals, the boats here would sail all the way to Qingniu Town. Since then, almost four hundred years have passed, and something may have happened in these four hundred years, so that the immortals made the town of Qingniu abandon the docks, and also created the legend of the dragon god to prevent the ships from approaching. ”

"Perhaps, but it doesn't have much to do with us." Wu Xie leaned against the wall of the car with his eyes closed, and said casually, "If we can succeed in seeking immortals, we can naturally know the reason; If not, then why is it important? ”

"That's right...... But Wu Daxia, you can definitely be favored by the immortals! With your talent and character, there is no reason for the immortals to turn you away! The clay mouth was cheering for Wu Jie, but the meaning in the words was more to encourage himself.

He knows that his talents are mediocre, and he has no special merit in being brave or not. The only advantage is probably that it is more open-minded, and there is also the ingenuity that has been exercised since childhood. For the immortals, he doesn't seem to be worth mentioning at all, compared to Wu Jie, it is simply the gap between stone and jade.

But even if it was an inconspicuous little stone, he really wanted to cultivate into an immortal, transcend birth, old age, sickness and death!

The two people in the car were silent, and the driver who was driving the car happened to be a gourd with a sawed mouth, and the road was very dull, until they approached Qingniu Town, and they encountered something that could be embellished a little.

It was a group of people who were in trouble.

The two sides should look at the same organization, but each other's positions are diametrically opposed, and the number of people is also very different. There were a dozen people on one side and only one on the other.

However, as long as you pay a little attention, you will find that the side with fewer people actually has the advantage - the dozen or so people all seem very nervous, more than one person has drawn his weapon, as if he is facing a great enemy, but that one person seems to be very relaxed, and he has not even drawn his sword.

Looking closely, although he was surrounded by more than a dozen people, there was no fear on his face, but he just looked very impatient.

"What are you chasing after me for? I don't owe it to the Nine Swords Gate. Wu Xie vaguely heard him complaining, "I've been chasing me for half a month, are you bothered?" ”

"Xie Minghuan, you have betrayed and fled, and the sin is unforgivable! Hurry up and get caught, go back to the sect with us to be dealt with, and maybe you can be lightly disposed of! Among the people surrounding him, a middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader shouted angrily, "If you are stubborn again, beware of our ruthlessness under the sword!" ”

"Uncle Ding, can you talk a little bit? Although there are many of you, I am not the kind of waste that is slaughtered by others, and if we really fight, we will only lose both sides - haven't you fought several times before, and when have you taken advantage? ”

"That's you stealing the Heavy Treasure of this Gate, the Cloud Breaking Sword! If it weren't for Excalibur, you wouldn't have been able to defeat us! A young man said angrily, "If you have a seed, return the sword, and let's fight again!" ”

"I don't need to put the Excalibur, I'm sick? And what does it mean to 'steal'? From the age of sixteen to thirty-five, I sold my life to the Nine Sword Gate for nineteen years, and I suffered hundreds of minor and serious injuries, and the blood that I shed was only heavier than a person's body. With so much hard work and credit, can't you change a sword? The swordsman named Xie Minghuan frowned and asked, "Could it be that the dignified Nine Sword Sect is not rewarded for its merits like this?" ”

"Senior Brother Xie, you have made a lot of contributions to this sect, and everyone knows the Tao. We admire you for your heroism - but you shouldn't be a traitor! A woman who probably had a good relationship with him before persuaded, "I know that you can't break through the congenital bottleneck for a long time, and I'm very anxious." But this matter can't be urgent, there are only a few congenital masters in their thirties? You better go back to the door and practice in peace! ”

"Is it rare to have an innate master in his thirties? Shen Yi, the head of the Nanhua Sword Sect of the Southern Chu Kingdom, became an innate master at the age of twenty-six! Xie Minghuan's face showed a fierce expression for the first time, which was strong unwillingness and indignation, "I fought with him a few times back then, and he was not my opponent at all. The result? Over the years, I have been running for my own sect, and I have been seriously injured several times, which greatly delayed the cultivation of martial arts, but I was defeated by this subordinate and grabbed the front...... Senior Sister Lin, I'm already a person who is going to be forty years old, not young! If you don't break through, I'm afraid there will be no hope! ”

"How can it be so easy to be a congenital master...... Our ancestors of the past dynasties, so many geniuses, there are only two innate masters in total. Brother Jie, don't be ambitious, down-to-earth is the right reason. A man who was older than Xie Minghuan persuaded, "Come back with us, ask for immortals or something...... There is not even a shadow! ”

"I'm not going back!" Xie Minghuan shouted loudly, and at the same time pulled out his sword, which was a sword that was so bright that it seemed to glow, "Seeing that the immortal mountain is almost here, I won't try it, even if I die, I won't be able to die!" Today, my surname Xie will leave the words here, you really refuse to let go of my words, it's a big deal, let's die together! Dead outside the fairy mountain, I can close my eyes! ”

Until the carriage faded away, the group of people was still noisy, but they never really moved.

Wu Xie and Tao Tu lowered the curtain, glanced at each other, and both smiled.

Although it is not clear the reason for the dispute between the two sides, an important piece of news has been revealed from their words.

This Qingniu Town is indeed where the immortals live!