Volume 5 Chapter 2 Haizhou
Seeing Moyue's shy appearance, Kong Ming smiled and kissed Moyue and Tie Suxin's foreheads like a dragonfly, and then bowed to everyone with a fist: "Everyone, don't pass it here, there will be a period later!"
Before the words fell, he heard the sound of horses' hooves, and Kong Ming was alone and soon went far away......
Although it is a process that almost every cultivator must go through, there is no fixed pattern for the way of trials, and how to travel through the world is completely different from person to person. And the so-called travel, it is not necessarily necessary to travel all over the world in Kyushu, some people with a particularly deep fortune may have an opportunity within the scope of this state, so as to break through to the realm of handsome. And some people, even if they really set foot all over the world and Kyushu, they have never been able to take that crucial step! The creation in this can only be said to be the will of heaven to make people.
At the beginning of preparing to leave, Kong Ming had already calculated in his heart that the first step for him to test the world was to go to Haizhou, which was located in the southeast of the Tianyuan Continent!
The reason why Haizhou was chosen is naturally because among the Tianyuan Kyushu, Haizhou has the widest border area with the ocean, and the most rivers and lakes in the territory. Topographically, Haizhou is more like a huge peninsula with a coastline of hundreds of thousands of miles, and in addition to being connected to the entire mainland in the west, the east, south, and north are all facing the sea. Moreover, Haizhou is also a state with the most extensive sea area, if you count all the sea area, even Yuanzhou, which is known as the largest state in Tianyuan, is smaller than Haizhou in terms of area.
The population of Haizhou is not much in Tianyuan Kyushu, almost around 20 or 30 billion. Half of them live on land, and the other half live on islands in the sea. If not too many islands. It is difficult to accurately count the population, and the population of Haizhou will not be a general figure of 20 or 30 billion.
Arguably. The whole Haizhou, whether it is land or sea, is related to the word "water", people on land like to call Haizhou "the state of ten thousand lakes", and people on the ocean like to call Haizhou "the state of ten thousand islands". In short, just from these nicknames, it is enough to explain what kind of place Haizhou is.
Kong Ming chose Haizhou as the first stop of his trial, and the reason was very simple, that is, Haizhou was the state with the most complete water system exercises in the world and the largest number of people cultivating the water system Yuan Force! And this was also determined by the geographical environment.
Kong Ming has cultivated to his current state. It is already a four-system spirit body of wood, fire, earth and gold, and the water system is the only one lacking in the five elements of elemental power. According to Kong Ming's previous practice of having one more spirit body every time he broke through a realm, if he wanted to break through to the handsome realm, he must achieve a water spirit body. Therefore, for the sake of the water system spirit, this Haizhou Kong Ming must come!
If he really wants to be able to take the most crucial step on the path of cultivation, Kong Ming can not only break through to the handsome realm, but also have the possibility of cultivating the five-line spirit body that he hears and hears, and pushes the power of the "Five Elements Reincarnation Gong" to the pinnacle. Unleash a power that ordinary people can't imagine.
When Kong Ming fought with the people of the Yunxia Sect and the Outer Sect, with the help of Xiao Budian and Xiao Ao, they gathered the Yuan Force of the Five Elements, and exerted a terrifying combat power that Yun Chonglou, a junior marshal, could not match. It can be seen that after the five elements are gathered, the power is amazing.
When Kong Ming defeated Yun Chonglou, he was still only a mid-level general's cultivator. And the so-called gathering of the five elements also needs to rely on the power of the spirit pet, if you wait until Kong Ming is promoted to the handsome realm. In addition, he has achieved the Five Elements Spirit Body, so even if he is facing an emperor-level powerhouse. I'm afraid it's not that I don't have the power to fight.
It is precisely because of these considerations that Kong Ming will put the first stop of the trial in Haizhou.
Liangzhou is located in the southernmost part of the Tianyuan Continent, but the way to the sea south is blocked by the wild forest, and the only one that really has an outlet to the sea is Qinghai County, which is located in the east of Liangzhou, and Qinghai County is also the only county in Liangzhou that has a border with Haizhou. Therefore, if you want to go to Haizhou, you must first go to Qinghai County.
After leaving Yunxia City, Kong Ming went all the way to Yunshan City, the capital of Izumo County, intending to borrow the teleportation array of Yunshan City and directly teleport to Haitian City, the capital of Qinghai County. If you don't use the teleportation array to hurry, just rely on horseback, even if you don't stop traveling all the way for a year and a half, I don't know if Lu Dao can get out of Liangzhou and enter Haizhou, and the so-called trial, it is naturally impossible to waste time on the road, and when you can use the teleportation array, you will naturally have to make great use of it.
Along the way, Kong Ming didn't encounter any trouble, because he had already forged a new identity for himself before leaving Yunxia City. Now he is just an ordinary ordinary person in Yunxia City, because he was frightened by the war, he had to leave his hometown and go to Qinghai County to join a distant relative.
With such a hidden identity, coupled with the fact that the Jade Pendant hides Kong Ming's true cultivation, naturally no one can see through Kong Ming's identity. Besides, now that Izumo County has just finished a big battle with the sand pirates, there are a lot of people like this who have left their hometowns because of the war, and Kong Ming is hiding in the crowd, not at all.
On this day, Kong Ming came to Yunshan City smoothly, and then, as an ordinary traveler, he purchased a quota to be teleported to Haitian City in Qinghai County, and smoothly left Izumo County and entered the territory of Qinghai County.
Although Haitian City is the capital of Qinghai County, unlike other group capitals, it is not located in the center of the county, but on the eastern coast of Qinghai County. As soon as you go out of Haitian City, it is the East China Sea without cliffs, but as long as you cross an inner bay by sea, you can go directly to Haizhou, which is at least more than ten days less than a detour to Haizhou by land.
Kong Ming's choice, of course, was to go to sea by boat. Therefore, even if he came to Haitian City, he would not be able to take a closer look at the different scenery of this seaside city and the inland city, but went directly to the harbor to find a boat to go to sea.
Haitian City has the largest seaport in Liangzhou, and this seaport is also the only sea exit in Liangzhou, and has very close business contacts with several states such as Haizhou, Qingzhou, and Yunzhou. Transporting goods by sea is naturally much slower than using the teleportation array, but the cost of sea transportation is low, and the volume of cargo is large, and often the transfer of some bulk materials, if the time requirements are not particularly high, they will be transported by sea. Therefore, no matter which state it is, as long as it is a city with a seaport, it is relatively prosperous.
Haitian City is the only seaport in Liangzhou, and the construction here is not based on the power of Qinghai County, the entire Cangnan Empire has also invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this, so the scale of Haitian City's seaport, even compared with several famous seaports in Haizhou, is not inferior at all.
Kong Ming was not a person who had never seen the world, but when he first arrived at the harbor of Sea Sky City, he was also taken aback by the sheer size of the harbor. Because no one would have imagined that the coastline of nearly 100 miles long has all been built into docks, and several super-large docks in the center are enough to dock super giant ships with a hull length of nearly 1,000 meters.
What is the difference between a giant ship of this magnitude and a mountain peak lying horizontally? It is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Kong Ming also experienced the Chibi War in the Three Kingdoms era, but the largest three-story ship on the Yangtze River, in front of such a huge ship, was not even a small sampan, which really opened Kong Ming's eyes.
In such a huge harbor, there are at least a million people living around the harbor every day. Whether it is transporting goods or people, there are thousands of large and small shipping companies. After the initial shock, Kong Ming also entered the harbor, preparing to seek a ship that could cross the sea to Haizhou.
Generally speaking, the big shipping companies mainly deal in freight transportation, and only the smaller shipping companies get involved in passenger transportation. Moreover, specialized passenger transport often loses money, and it is generally some small and medium-sized cargo ships, which transport people by the way while transporting goods. As you can imagine, if you really want to take the sea route, the journey must be very hard. But for Kong Ming, what is the value of hard work? The important thing is to save time.
After wandering around the harbor for almost an hour, Kong Ming finally found a small boat company and was willing to send people to Haizhou, and the asking price was not expensive, only ten silver coins, but the so-called transporting people was just a small cargo ship along the way.
It is said to be a small cargo ship, but in fact the length of the ship is more than 30 meters, which is definitely not small, but it is not in such a huge harbor, such a cargo ship can only be described as small. There were more than ten people on this small cargo ship at the same time as Kong Ming, all of them ordinary people, who went to Haizhou either to visit relatives and friends, or to run orders to help do some small business. Kong Ming rarely had the opportunity to contact these ordinary people, and being crammed into a small cabin with them was also an extremely special experience, and it could be regarded as part of the trial.
After the ship finished loading, it was about to pull the anchor and set sail, when suddenly the ship sent another guest, saying that there was an urgent matter and needed to go to Haizhou, so he was in a hurry to get on the ship.
This new guest on the ship is an old man with white hair and white beard, who should be not young, but his body is not bad, and he looks very energetic. If it is an ordinary dying and decrepit, how can it be possible to go out to Haizhou alone?
According to the old man, because his son, who was doing business in Haizhou, was seriously ill, he had to rush to Haizhou, but Kong Ming knew that the old man was lying. Because although this old man seems to be just an ordinary person, he is actually a cultivator with a high level of cultivation, and it is preliminarily estimated that he has at least a mid-level Yuan General or above!
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