Volume 1: Lonely Island Chapter 157 Ransom
Siren Island Reef.
On one of the huge islands and reefs, there is only a small bare rocky mountain, and there are some scattered seaweeds around it, which have also been uprooted.
In the originally flat small stone mountain, there are stone caves, and the cave appears tortuous, and even forms a height difference, which is to prevent the sea water from entering the cave and submerging it all.
Every time it rained, the monks would squeeze into the caves to take shelter and only come out when the rain stopped.
As for the fresh water to drink, it is not a problem for the monks, and with a few water spells, they can collect it
In the morning, a burst of dark clouds suddenly came, and a shower fell within a few dozen miles of the Kraken Island and Reef.
The monks cursed the ghost weather as they squeezed into the cave to take refuge.
When the rain stopped in the afternoon, the eight city lords including the city lord Gao and the city lord Min bent their waists and drilled out the largest stone cave, and they didn't care about tidying up their appearance, so they called out their monks to go to the sea to fish near the reef.
Because there were so many captive monks here, they were not allowed to expend a lot of jīng effort on predation.
Hearing the shout, many of the monks immediately stepped out, and one of them plunged into the nearby sea to drive away the fish, while the monks on the shore kept casting spells to hunt the fish.
After more than half a month, they have become quite proficient in hunting marine fish, which can be regarded as a surprise
More than ten miles away, there are often two or three warships of Ye Village cruising, monitoring this nameless reef island. The people who are "under house arrest" here are all city lords and monks who have been captured by the Ten Villages Alliance.
There were brave monks who tried to swim back to the fairy village from the sea and escaped in this way.
Seeing this, the monks on the Ye family's sea ship did not stop them, but just watched from a distance.
Soon, the brave monks swam for more than a few miles in the sea, and they encountered a large school of saury, and almost lost their lives, and finally escaped back.
Seeing this, the monk on the Ye's sea ship laughed.
After a few times, no monk dared to attempt such a dangerous move again.
In the sea, a monk who is good at water spells may be able to easily kill a few sauryfish, but dozens or hundreds of saury fish frantically besieging will still make them miserable.
No Qi cultivation cultivator was able to cross hundreds of miles of sea and return to their immortal village.
Although the reef is poor, at least it is not dangerous.
The monks could only move around the reef for hundreds of feet, throwing all kinds of fish of different sizes ashore and dividing them into small teams of varying numbers to handle the fish.
Monks who know fire spells take turns casting fire spells to grill fish.
The flame generated by the spell was extremely hot, and the monks took turns to grill the fish, but they were able to cook the sea fish, and finally ate cooked food.
To the displeasure of the city lords, there was no seasoning here, and when the sun was hot at noon, the sea water was poured on the rocks to dry and some white salt. Now they are sick to their stomachs as soon as they smell the fish.
If you don't get hungry to the point where your chest is pressed against your back, the fish will not be able to swallow it.
The monks in each village were busy thinking of various ways to turn over the grilled fish in their hands into new tricks, and tried for a long time, but few people still started eating it.
"Look, there's a light sea ship in the distance, it seems to be coming towards us"
A monk was grilling fish, looked up for a moment, and suddenly said.
"It must be Ye Village's ship, I want to come and see if we have escaped This sea area has long been controlled by Ye Village's sea boats, except for Ye's sea boats, no one can get here. ”
A few of the monks turned their heads to look at it, disapproving, and went on grilling their fish.
Most of the monks were very calm and concentrated on their own business.
When they first landed on the island, they would be very excited when they saw the sea ship from Ye's Spirit Island appear, thinking that Ye Mo had come to negotiate with them.
But after more than half a month, disappointed again and again, these people have completely died, and now their hearts are like water.
The Ye Clan Immortal Village had no intention of letting them go at all.
The monk who found the ship was also bored, looked down at a grilled fish in his hand, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and took a bite, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.
"This boat doesn't seem to be passing by, it's coming."
After a few moments, someone shouted in surprise.
This time, the crowd was finally alarmed, and they all looked at the light sea ship, which was heading straight for the reef where they were.
"It's finally here"
"Damn, I thought that the surname Ye was going to imprison us all the time!"
"How can this be that we are worthy of a lot of 'spirit stones, where is he willing to imprison us all the time"
The sea ship slowly approached, and some sharp-eyed monks even saw Ye Mo standing on the bow deck with some Ye Village monks with red fire sword armor all over their bodies.
The city lords immediately threw away the sea fish and cheered up.
The water near the island is shallow, and the boat stops at a distance of 30 feet from the reef.
Ye Mo was not worried about being hijacked, all the monks on the ship were full sets of spirit sword armor, and those bare-handed "captives" were no opponents at all.
Besides, after being hungry for more than half a month, the iron-beaten man has long since lost the strength to fight.
The eight city lords led their men to the edge of the reef, looking at Ye Mo on the bow of the sea ship, but they didn't know what to say for a while. Ye Mo must have come to negotiate with them, but they couldn't say anything to beg for mercy
Ye Mo stood on the deck, his gaze swept over the Min City Lord and the others, and said with a light smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have prepared spirit rice, fresh vegetables and spirit beast meat for everyone, so I will send someone to the island to eat first, and then we will talk."
When the city lords and their monks heard this, they all cooed in their bellies.
A small boat, under the eager anticipation of the captives, was released from the sea boat, and sailed to the reef with a large amount of fragrant spirit wine and beast meat.
The monks involuntarily ran towards the place where the boat had landed.
"You guys stand back, how can I go ashore if I don't have a place?"
This sentence immediately made the faces of all the city lords and monk captives on the reef red-faced.
Shameful enough
However, they are not to blame.
Whoever brings it on this island for more than half a month, eats fishy fish every day, and has no seasoning, I'm afraid they can't take care of their image.
The monk went ashore and took out buckets of food, plates of porcelain bowls, and chopsticks.
The city lord and his monks received the food, consciously stepped aside, and ate wildly. On the whole island, only the sound of munching and shouting was heard.
On the sea boat, Ye Mo, Chang Fei, Gao Yan, Tunu Wuwei and other followers were all dumbfounded.
"It's only been half a month, and you're hungry like this?"
Mo Ling felt sympathy, covered his mouth and whispered.
"Who let them join forces to fight our fairy village, they deserve it"
Wang Hu couldn't help but laugh.
The eight city lords ate and drank enough, rested for a while, and then were invited to the Ye family's sea ship one after another to discuss the ransom with Ye Mo.
After suffering defeat and becoming a prisoner, it is a matter of course to pay the ransom.
When it came to the spirit stone, the eight city lords suddenly recovered their gods, became jīng ming, and bargained with Chang Fei, which was very intense.
It took a whole day for the ransom to be agreed. Depending on the severity of the situation and the number of monks under them, the eight city lords paid 10,000 to 20,000 spirit stones respectively to redeem their bodies.
The city lord of Min instigated other immortal villages to oppose Ye Village for the second time, and violated the agreement first, and spent a maximum amount of 20,000 spirit stones before allowing him to return.
It also took time for the delivery of the spirit stones, and it wasn't until five days later that the henchmen sent back by the city lords brought ransom money to the Ye Clan's Immortal Village one after another.
"I didn't sign an agreement with you, I want to continue to take revenge, don't bear it, although I can't make a move, the ransom for the next defeat will be far from the amount just now."
After Ye Mo received the ransom, he sent the city lords away and said with a smile.
The eight city lords were ugly one by one, and they boarded the fast boat sent by Ye Mo in different minds, and left in embarrassment.
After the eight city lords returned, they all settled down temporarily, and they didn't even go to sea easily, and this sea area really calmed down.
They paid a large amount of spirit stone ransom, which had already dragged down the development of their respective immortal villages, and it had become impossible to challenge the Ye family's immortal villages in a short period of time.
At this time, the Ye Clan's Immortal Village had completely become powerful, occupying fifteen sub-islands, and getting a ransom of more than 100,000 spirit stones from each immortal village.
The affairs of the Ye Immortal Village were unfolding in an orderly manner. Although a large number of techniques were bought, it took a lot of time for the monks to become proficient.
Ye Mo's affairs are less.
Ye Mo planned to take advantage of this time to be more leisurely and go to other immortal villages in the Aolai Islands to have a look.
There are 360 new immortal villages in the entire Aolai Islands within a radius of 10,000 miles, and there are only 10 immortal villages within a radius of 1,000 miles around him, which is only a small part.
He wanted to see how some other powerful immortal villages were developing.
The dock of Yip's Immortal Village.
Several small fishing boats are returning to the harbor from a distance, and some are preparing to set sail. These ships were half smaller than the lightly armored warships, could only carry more than a dozen people, and did not have combat artifacts such as bronze cannons.
This small fishing boat is the main means of transportation for the cultivators to travel between various immortal villages, as well as to go out to hunt and kill Kraken beasts.
This Aolai island is not far from each other, and the wind and waves are not too big, so it is enough to take this kind of small boat.
Ye Mo was dressed in casual clothes, wearing a hat on his head, and Ah Shui, one of the Tunu guards, mixed among more than ten casual cultivators, and boarded a small fishing boat moored at the dock.
He planned to go around the various immortal villages as a casual cultivator, and he could see more things.
The fishing boat was going to a Shen Clan Immortal Village thousands of miles away, and it would leave in the morning and arrive in about a day
This immortal village did not participate in the previous conquest, and it was in a state of peace with the Ye family's immortal village.
Ye Mo got on the fishing boat, got into the cabin, and found a clean place to sit down.
There were more than a dozen casual cultivators on the fishing boat, counting Ye Mo and Ah Shui, there were only two mid-stage cultivators.
The others were all in the early stages of Qi training, and these people were dressed differently, and each sat with a familiar companion and talked in a low voice.
As soon as Ye Mo and Ah Shui found an empty seat to sit down, they heard the boat boss outside the cabin shouting.
"Sit down, let's sail"
The ship's boss, a middle-aged man in his forties with a beard on his face, untied the rope tied to the shore, pulled up the iron anchor with a winch, and set sail out of the port.
The fishing boat left the wharf, made a large curved bend in the sea, and headed for Shen's Immortal Village.
The boat was full of monks, some talking in low voices, others meditating with their eyes closed.
After half an hour, everyone in the cabin became a little familiar, and they gradually began to talk more.