Chapter 7: Water Thieves
Descending the river, passing through dozens of towns, the boats stopped at several of the larger ferries for several hours to rest and buy some food.
Since He Ping left from Shaoyang, it has been two days, because of the wind, so the journey to Yishui has passed most of the way, and it will be reached in a few days, but it is really as Wu Jing said, Zhao's merchant ships have been unimpeded all the way, and there are many small merchants' ships following, it seems that they want to take advantage of the majesty of Zhao's merchant ships to avoid the attack of water monsters from the river.
The Zhao family was not surprised and did not drive away.
Speaking of the Zhao family's merchants, only one housekeeper has appeared in the past two days, and he has never seen anyone except for some miscellaneous servants, which also makes He Ping secretly say that it is a pity that if he can get acquainted with the Zhao family and meet the rumored great cultivator of their family, it is a great thing for him.
Wu Jing this person, after two days of contact, He Ping felt more and more extraordinary that this person was extraordinary.
According to his own words, his ancestors had produced cultivators, and although his generation of families has declined, the books he left behind still record a lot of things about cultivators.
Although the Wu family has never produced a person with cultivation qualifications since that cultivator, the Wu family from top to bottom cherishes the things left by the ancestors, as long as there are qualified people in the Wu family, they can use the things left by the ancestors to restore their glory.
Wu Jing was very sorry when he talked about this matter, the Wu family did not even have a first-class qualification for hundreds of years, the ancestors were nowhere to be found, there was no protection of cultivators, and the decline of the family was also reasonable, even the things left by the ancestors were sold a lot, and they were later discovered by gangsters and robbed a lot.
Wu Jing also knew very well about the matter of Tongmai Fruit, and his ancestors specially prepared a few Tongmai Pills for the sake of the cultivation of his descendants who only had first- and second-grade qualifications, and this Tongmai Pill was refined with Tongmai Fruit as the main material, and a pill could make the first- and second-grade qualifications not have to be constrained by the first threshold, and go straight to Qi refining.
Although the Tongmai Fruit and even the Tongmai Pill are extremely difficult to preserve, if there is a foundation building major cultivator who is willing to apply mana to carve the magic circle and seal it with a jade box, it is not difficult to preserve the Tongmai Pill.
However, these Tongmai Dan were also snatched away by the gangsters, which also made He Ping feel a deep pity, if he was still there, He Ping said that he would not have to talk to Wu Jing about this Tongmai Dan.
According to Wu Jing, the Tongmai fruit will indeed ripen this year, and it is in Yishui Mountain, the reason why Yishui City built a city under Yishui Mountain is also related to this Tongmai fruit, but although the Tongmai fruit will ripen soon, it just can't be picked at will, because the ripe place of the Tongmai fruit is controlled by the Chen family of Yishui City.
In the early years, the ancestors of the Chen family accidentally discovered that there was a Tongmai Fruit on Yishui Mountain, and immediately realized that it was profitable, although the Tongmai Fruit was not a high-grade elixir, it was rare, and many great cultivators also flocked to the Tongmai Fruit for the sake of their juniors.
The ancestors of the Chen family relied on the Tongmai Fruit to make a fortune, but as soon as the wealth was exposed, it was common to provoke coveting, and under the joint efforts of several families with great cultivators, the Chen family was unable to keep this treasure, but fortunately, the Chen family had also attracted many cultivators who had relied on the Tongmai Fruit for many years, so they still had a certain right to speak in the distribution of the Tongmai Fruit.
The Chen family and the rest of the families did not send cultivators to pick the Tongmai fruit, but only sent mortals to pick it, this practice was to prevent the cultivators of each family from directly picking all the Tongmai fruits alone, and the second was to train the juniors.
Although it is said that only mortals can be sent, how can each family really send mortals who have not cultivated at all to pick them, as long as they have not broken through the realm of qi refining, they are still mortals.
And the gap between the beginning of the sense of qi and the breakthrough of the qi refining is not the same, the person who is about to break through the qi refining is honing the meridians every day, although he cannot control the aura of heaven and earth, but the physical body is also tempered to the point that it is not comparable to the person who is looking for the beginning of the qi sense.
And Yishui Mountain is far from being as safe as Shaoyang Mountain, there are many fierce beasts on Yishui Mountain, not to mention for the time being, there are more demon beasts guarding the Tongmai Fruit, demon beasts are already able to control the aura of heaven and earth, and killing mortals at every turn is like probing for things, which is extremely dangerous.
Therefore, on the way to pick the Tongmai fruit, there are not a few people who die, but there is no way to do it, each family can only use all means to give the clansmen treasures in case of accidents, but to be honest, almost all the clansmen of each family can reach the stage where they are about to break through the stage of refining qi, so it is easy to die.
After a while, the merchant ships came to a canyon with mountains on both sides, and the mountain walls were full of miscellaneous trees, and the growth of such cliffs made it even more tenacious.
At this time, it was the middle of the afternoon, and when He Ping was entering the meditation, he was woken up by Wu Jing, "Brother He, wake up!"
"Brother Wu, what's the matter?"
"Have fun watching it. Wu Jing smiled and led He Ping to the deck, He Ping looked forward, it was a few fishing boats without flags, and after a little thought, he knew that this was a water thief in Yishui.
Yishui not only has water monsters under the water, there are also water thieves on the water, although the government cracks down hard, but there are still people who commit crimes against the wind, after all, as long as the merchant ship is robbed, the money is countless, the water thieves are also smart, do not rob the ship, because the goods they can not deal with, only rob the merchant ship that comes back after selling the goods, that is the commercial goods have become money.
He Ping frowned a little when he saw these pirate ships, and asked Wu Jing with some surprise, "Brother Wu, the Zhao clan is not a big merchant, is there a cultivator behind it? How dare these water thieves come to hijack the ship?"
"Hehe, the Zhao family has cultivators," Wu Jing paused and said in a low voice, "But this water thief is not an easy person." ”
"What does Brother Wu mean?"
"If Brother Fool is not bad, there are also cultivators in this group of water thieves, and let's see how this Zhao family copes. ”
Wu Jing's casual smile made He Ping feel a little relieved, but people like He Ping, who had a little sense of qi, were unaware of the so-called cultivators of the water thief, how did mortals like Wu Jing find out?
He Ping couldn't think about it, the pirate ship was already approaching.
"Wu Na Zhao, don't stop the ship quickly!" came a loud shout from one of the thief ships, and the travelers on board woke up.
"It's that any thief dares to come to my Zhao family's presumptuous!" After a while, the housekeeper walked out of the inner cabin, the housekeeper looked like he was in his fifties, his beard was half white, and he looked a little angry at the moment.
The housekeeper snorted coldly, pinched his right hand, secretly recited the law, and in a moment a cyan ball rose out of thin air, He Ping felt carefully, this ball is containing a great wood aura, and the housekeeper is a cultivator!