It wasn't until Han Xiao and Zhao Gangdan boarded the warship bound for the Huating Empire that Han Xiao knew what Zhao Gangdan's so-called preparations were. Looking at the detailed list in his hand, Han Xiao wondered if there was something wrong with Zhao Gangdan's brain.

"The best black blood tea, what kind of tea is this?" Han Xiao felt strange when he saw the first thing.

"I don't know about black blood tea?" Zhao Gangdan snorted exaggeratedly and said: "Actually, black blood is not a very rare thing, after all, it is the blood released from the black spirit bird. However, this superb black blood can only be obtained from the body of the Black Spirit Bird King. The black spirit bird is a notoriously weak demon beast, and it is very difficult to produce a bird king among the clan, so it has become a rarity with the best black blood. ”

"I understand what you say, but what's the use of this thing?" Han Xiao continued.

"What's the use?" Zhao Gangdan's eyes were exaggerated again: "Do you know how many processes this superb black blood tea has been refined? In order to maximize the effectiveness of the best black blood, even more than three hundred kinds of auxiliary materials are needed." It took me half a year to collect this pound of top-grade black blood tea, but I never had the opportunity to go to the imperial capital before, so I couldn't send things out. Oops, this time I took the best black blood tea to give it to Sister Qian, I guess I should be called Brother Dan. ”

Looking at Zhao Gangdan's intoxicated look, Han Xiao couldn't bear to take out a knife to kill him, but just asked coldly: "I'm just asking you, what is the purpose of this thing." ”

"Oh, rejuvenation. This time, Zhao Gangdan said the effect of the best black blood tea very simply.

Han Xiao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is it just to stay young?"

"Do you think it's possible?" Zhao Gangdan looked at Han Xiao like an idiot, and said: "Even if it is the best black blood tea, it is just to control the speed of aging, if you can drink it all year round, you can probably maintain the appearance of seventeen, eighteen, nine, and twenty years old for about seventy or eighty years, but in fact, this also varies from person to person, and it is definitely impossible to achieve eternal youth." ”

"Then just to stay in the face, it consumes so many resources and spends so much energy?" Han Xiao was a little puzzled.

This time, it was Zhao Gangdan who was a little puzzled, and said with a smile: "What's the trouble, anyway, it's just to give an order, when the clansmen go out to do business, they naturally know the materials they need to collect, as long as the spirit stone is used, this thing will naturally not worry about not being able to refine it." ”

Han Xiao didn't say anything more, and suddenly he felt that there seemed to be a certain gap between himself and Zhao Gangdan. Looking at the different environments from small survival, the director's views on many things will definitely not be the same. In Zhao Gangdan's eyes, it takes so much resources and energy, as long as it can be refined to make people happy, it is a good thing, but in Han Xiao's opinion, this is a waste.

"What about this?'s Holy Spring Fruit?" asked Han Xiao as he continued to look at the detailed list.

"Oh, rejuvenated. ”

"Tianluo water?"

"Oh, rejuvenated. ”

"Frosted grass?"

"Oh, rejuvenated. ”

"Blue Flame Pill...... Well, this one is also rejuvenating, right?"

"Yes, yes, this is a good thing, better than the best black blood tea. Zhao Gangdan nodded again and again.

Han Xiao casually threw the detailed list aside, just now he saw that there were at least dozens of things listed on the detailed list, but he didn't need to ask to know what these things were for. Looking at Zhao Gangdan, who had been smirking from time to time since he set off, Han Xiao asked suspiciously, "What are you doing with so many things for women?"

"Nonsense, it's useless to go to Sun's house and bring things for men. Zhao Gang glanced at Han Xiao.

"What kind of family is the Sun family?"

"A ......" Zhao Gangdan frowned, smacked his lips and said, "How can I say it, a very mysterious family." Even if they are also families in the tribe, we don't see the details of the Sun family very thoroughly. The Sun family is also the descendants of the hundred tribes in the Tianfu monks, it is the bloodline of the Dongli tribe, it is said that the Dongli tribe was also a very strong bloodline among the hundred tribes of Tianfu, but the descendants of the Dongli tribe are very strange, they do not leave men in their family, and never participate in any battles outside the tribe, if it is not for the descendants of the same Tianfu tribe, in fact, it is impossible for us to connect together. ”

"A family that doesn't leave a man?, so how can this family continue, and how can their bloodline be passed on?" Han Xiao asked suspiciously.

"Fool, just because you don't keep a man doesn't mean you don't look for a man. Zhao Gangdan pouted and said: "There are only women left in the Sun family, but even the most core clansmen can marry outside, but the clansmen who marry out must move out of the Sun family, or they still live in the Sun family, but the husband's family cannot enter the Sun family's mansion to live together." The offspring born, if it is a male baby, regardless of the talent, will be handed over to the husband's family for training, but this does not mean that the Sun family does not cultivate their own male offspring, in fact, even if they give birth to a son, all the people of the Sun family will do their best to cultivate, and even teach some of the secret exercises of the Sun family. In fact, to put it bluntly, when these exercises are passed on, it is equivalent to passing them on to the husband's family, but in doing so, the Sun family also agrees. ”

Zhao Gangdan slowed down for a moment and continued: "But relatively, the Sun family attaches great importance to the female clansmen born, which must be explained before they get married, no matter how talented they are, they must be selected by their Sun family first, if they are favored by their Sun family, then this girl must be taken away by their Sun family, and then cultivated in the Sun family's mansion, in this way, it is actually equivalent to a complete relationship between this girl and her husband's family." Even for some Sun family members who moved out to live with their husband's family after getting married, this is equivalent to them completely giving their children to the Sun family. ”

"Why are there such strange family rules?" asked Han Xiao puzzled.

Zhao Gangdan smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "No one knows this, that's why I said that the Sun family is very mysterious." This family is not warlike and not good at war, although it cannot be said that the male friars are certainly stronger than the female friars, but there is no male dominance in the family, and it must appear weak. But even so, the Sun family has been insisting on maintaining this method of continuation all these years. ”

"What is the most powerful aspect of the Sun family?" Han Xiao asked directly. Although Zhao Gangdan said that the Sun family was extremely strange, and it was summed up as "many faults and small skills", Han Xiao did not believe that such a family would really be useless.

Although it is only a walk in the city of the Zhao family, Han Xiao has also a certain understanding of the state of the tribe, although it is a relatively secret alliance, but it is also hierarchical in the tribe, and the powerful bloodline and family naturally enjoy more power, but here these powerful families will also shoulder more responsibilities.

And since the Sun family is a member of the tribe, it also belongs to the descendants of the talented hundred clans back then, but in Zhao Gangdan's words, he did not see any contempt for the Sun family, and the Sun family does not need to rely on the tribe to survive like other small families in the tribe, which proves that the Sun family must have something extraordinary.

Looking at Han Xiao's determined look, Zhao Gangdan nodded and said: "The Sun family has been alchemy for generations, and there will be at least one alchemy master in each generation of the Sun family, and now Sun Huaipei, one of the three most prestigious alchemists in the Huating Empire, is a member of the Sun family. ”

Hearing Zhao Gangdan say this, Han Xiao also understood why the Sun family dared to go their own way and inherit it in their own way. Alchemists are generally two extremes, the threshold of alchemists is not high, even lower than the threshold of alchemists, so as long as a monk with a little talent can become an alchemist, but the vast majority of alchemists can only stay in the realm of first-order alchemists throughout their lives, and can only refine some of the most basic and most commonly used low-level pills.

Most of these alchemists have been diligent and diligent all their lives, but they have basically been in a state of high and low all their lives, and some of them are not diligent enough and may even be poor.

But as long as you can become a second-order alchemist, you are basically very rich, and if you are a high-level alchemist, you are even more valuable, but such a minority is after all. Therefore, generally speaking, monks who feel that their talents are not very good will not follow the path of an alchemist, study the way of navigation well, and it is possible to earn more resources as a crew member, and if they can become a gunner, it is much better than being a boring first-order alchemist.

However, being able to become a family of alchemy families naturally means that there are many great alchemists in it, so the overall situation of this family is naturally much better, in fact, it should be similar to the situation of the Zhao family, they are all not warlike but there are many spirit stones, many times as long as they are not too aggressive, as long as they have spirit stones, they can live very well.

When following Zhao Gangdan to the Huating Empire, Han Xiao finally began to sigh that if he could have an extremely fast sea ship, no matter how much he could play a role in the naval battle, at least he could avoid a lot of seafaring pains. When he was a child, Han Xiao always longed to go to sea, especially wandering in the boundless open sea, to become the top captain, it is best to be able to run a fleet like the third uncle, sweep away all the enemies who dare to attack, and when he is bored, he can also go to fight pirates by the way.

But I have to say that many times people just don't get what they don't get is the best, and after they get it, they will start to disgust. Since the beginning of the trial in the Andi Sea, most of Han Xiao has been floating on the sea in the past half a year, and he has experienced many naval battles and seen some different styles of pirates, but now Han Xiao is a little tired of sailing.

It turns out that the story is really all deceitful, the so-called nine deaths and life of the open sea is not much different from the inner sea, the legendary deep sea monsters, open sea beasts, thunderstorm clouds have not all appeared, the extremely boring Han Xiao can only go to the sea to catch fish and play when he has nothing to do, but unfortunately he really doesn't have a very good cultivation talent, no matter how the method of water escape is used, there is no way to improve, in the end, although Han Xiao is extremely reluctant to admit it, but the thing he has to admit is that maybe he only eats more Void Beast bones, it is possible to continue to improve the subtle Cheng of the method of water escape。

"Alas, if this ancient dragon is a water demon dragon, maybe eating its bones can really improve the water escape method. Han Xiao suddenly remembered the ancient dragon bone in the storage bag, and thought wildly.

Suddenly, he turned his head to look at Qingpu on the side, Qingpu also saw Han Xiao's eyes with strange eyes, and suddenly seemed to see through Han Xiao's thoughts, and immediately quickly shook his head and waved his hand, as if saying that he was not delicious.

Looking at the small flower swaying together on the top of Qingpu's head, Han Xiao felt full of joy, and the feeling of boredom was still a little less after all. In fact, his original idea was to take this opportunity to devour the ancient dragon bone, but when he thought that the origin of this thing was extraordinary after all, no one could say what kind of abnormal changes would occur after eating it, and Han Xiao did not dare to venture in the open sea. Although the open sea is a calm mess, Zhao Gangdan has repeatedly emphasized that the danger of the open sea will either not come, and once it comes, it will basically be a dead end, so if you don't want to sit still and wait for the time to die, it is best not to try to cultivate when you go to sea.

In this way, Han Xiao can only continue to be bored and in a daze-

West.

Since ancient times, the Huating Empire's control of the West Sea has not been very stable, which is not the same as that of the East China Sea. Although the Huating Empire also didn't care much about the situation in the East China Sea, it was because there was nothing worth paying attention to in the East China Sea, and in the small continents or large islands that did not produce top-level resources or a large number of resources, there would naturally be no more troops to invest if they lacked resources.

It's just that some relatively small islands will have some resources, and the Huating Empire is unwilling to pay attention to them, and slowly some pirates will appear. However, the pirates in the East China Sea are actually more like refugees, they don't dare to rob the merchant ships of the Huating Empire, to put it bluntly, they are nothing more than a group of thieves who fight all year round in order to compete for the Huating Empire's resources that are not rare in the East China Sea. Thieves on the sea are naturally called pirates.

However, the West China Sea is different, the West China Sea is much larger than the East China Sea, and there are many resource-rich islands in the West China Sea, and more importantly, many islands are very close to each other, forming a lot of island groups. The group of islands was originally a good place to live, and it was possible to build a port on it, to move the inhabitants, and it only took a few decades, two or three generations, to develop the port into a good way.

The role of the port in the naval battle naturally does not need to be repeated, the two sides are at war at sea, the side with supplies and the side without supplies are definitely not on the same level, it is the island group in the sea area of the West Sea, which has always been valued by the Huating Empire, and even the island group itself is much more important than the resources above.

However, the West Sea is a huge sea area after all, and the island group and the mainland are two different concepts after all. It is impossible for the Huating Empire to invest too many troops in a sea area, and the consumption is too large, not to mention the risk component. However, if the stability of an entire area of the open sea cannot be guaranteed, the stability of the mainland will be in vain in many cases.

In the past, the Huating Empire's control over the West Sea was not strong, and in recent years, it has become even worse. The main reason is that some guys who are called pirates of the West by the Imperial Navy.

In the West Sea, a warship that didn't seem to be too large, but slightly larger than an ordinary ocean-going ship, much smaller than the Shenwei ship, sailed calmly on the sea. There was no flag on the ship, just a very ordinary black cloth hanging from the mast. It was a pure black cloth that didn't look much different from the one you bought in the bazaar.

It's not very surprising that there is an ordinary black cloth hanging on the warship, if it is the navy or pirates in other seas who see such a warship, they will either scoff at it, or they will try to attack it very casually, because this ship is indeed not so powerful in a sea like the West Sea.

But because this is the West Sea, because the situation in the West Sea is not what it was a few years ago, as long as the navy in the West Sea sees such a warship appearing, it will definitely be on alert immediately, and it is definitely the highest level of vigilance.

Pirates of the Night.

This unassuming ship is a pirate ship, and its name is not as ordinary as it seems. Even if the name of the Night Pirates is heard by pirates who were already quite powerful in the Western Sea, they can't help but frown. This is a very powerful pirate group, and this is also a pirate group that does not play cards according to common sense at all.

The black cloth he wore was the flag of the pirate group, but if you looked closely, you would see that there were actually many tiny dark red blood spots on the extremely black-looking cloth.

On the Night, a burly, middle-aged man with his upper body and thick chest hair was screaming wantonly. The chest-haired man had a huge bamboo basket on his left hand, and when he reached out and grabbed it, he would immediately grab a large handful of bone-crushing fish, and all the bone-crushing fish that were caught were all struggling, but he didn't even think about it and sent it directly into his mouth, instantly bursting out of emerald green juice, if someone just saw this scene, they would even mistakenly think that he was eating insects.

The chest-haired man hiccuped in enjoyment, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Ian, when can I do it again, I'm holding back my problem." ”

The chest-haired man's voice was almost farther than the distance of the spirit cannon, but for a long time after he finished shouting, no one on the empty deck responded to him, and it was only at the end that a lazy voice came down from the lookout: "The captain said that the people of the Huating Empire have been beaten a little too much recently, so we should slow down." ”

"What kind of truth is this, shouldn't you take advantage of the victory to chase after the murderer?" the man with chest hair yelled puzzled.

......The man on the lookout just wanted to reprimand a few words, but his voice stopped abruptly.

"What's wrong?" the chest-haired man immediately asked nervously.

A thin man suddenly stood up on the lookout, this person was holding a slender pipe in his hand, which looked like a bamboo pipe, he put the pipe in front of him and looked at it for a while, and finally said with a somewhat complicated face: "It's strange, how can a ship take the initiative to find us?"