Chapter 251 Heading to Leizhou

Liu Tianming took off his hat: "I received your summons last night and immediately started making arrangements. But I was worried about it, so I just came here myself."

"Aren't you afraid of being discovered by people from Changchun Temple?" Yuan Ming asked.

"What will they do to me if I'm discovered? Let's not talk about this. Brother Ming, I have arranged ten identical carriages as you said in your secret message last night. They will leave the city from different directions later and go to different places. The place we are sitting in is one of them, and the driver is an ordinary unsuspecting guard, just feel free to arrange it." Liu Tianming waved his hand and said in a low voice.

Yuan Ming smiled: "I'm really bothering you this time."

"Our relationship doesn't have to worry about this! By the way, you should keep this thing." Liu Tianming took out a communication charm and handed it to Yuan Ming.

He continued to explain: "This is a special two-way communication talisman with my magic imprint on it. If you encounter any trouble outside, feel free to contact me."

Yuan Ming nodded and accepted the communication talisman.

Seeing this, Liu Tianming smiled, stood up and said, "I didn't expect that we would be separated again not long after we got together. Brother Ming, take care of yourself."

Yuan Ming hugged him and the two said goodbye.

Soon, the carriage galloped all the way through the city gate. Under the watch of a plaque with the word "Qu Jiang" printed on it, it drove away towards the rising sun with billowing smoke and dust.

At the city gate, a middle-aged city guard looked absently at the carriage in the distance, turned to his colleagues and said, "Did you hear what happened at the abdication ceremony yesterday?"

"Of course I have heard about it. Who in Qujiang City doesn't know about such a big thing?" the young colleague picked his teeth with a bamboo stick and replied casually.

"Sigh, I don't know how Mr. Yuan practiced. Three years ago, he was a mortal who was rejected by the Changchun Temple due to poor qualifications. Now he can defeat the national master. It is incredible." The middle-aged city guard sighed.

The young colleague threw the bamboo stick away and said energetically: "It's really unbelievable! Speaking of Mr. Yuan, I heard that the "Journey to the South of Mr. Sheng" sold by Tianming Bookstore was adapted by Mr. Yuan based on his own experience in southern Xinjiang. No, after I change my shift, I have to buy a copy and come back to read it, maybe I can learn something from it."

"Come on, just you?" the middle-aged city guard sneered.

"If a person has no dreams, he is no better than a salted fish. A salted fish can turn over!" the young colleague said nonchalantly.

The middle-aged city guard was slightly startled. After a moment, he suddenly coughed twice and said:

"Ahem, what about that? When the time comes to help you, brother, I will also take a copy with me. I want to see what opportunities there are in southern Xinjiang."

…

One month later, Wohe City.

The city got its name because it is adjacent to the Wo River. It is not very big, but because the docks in the city connect the north and south waterways and there are countless passenger and cargo ships, it is also very prosperous.

Because of this, there are many people in the city who eat by water, and Wang Laowu is one of them.

His ancestors had fished for generations, and it was only in his generation that he managed to save some savings. His father originally wanted to expand the fishing business, but Wang Laowu was unwilling to live with fish all day long and resolutely bought a boat. The passenger ship turned around and started the ferry business.

It's just that in this city, there were only 100 or 200 people engaged in the ferry business. Wang Laowu's passenger ships were not very novel. There were few guests, and they soon fell into the dilemma of being unable to make ends meet.

Now, he can't even afford to hire a man, and the whole family lives on the boat, helping to steer the ship and raise the sails, so that he can barely make ends meet.

Seeing that he was turning thirty-five, facing his wife's daily complaints, the disappointed eyes of his old father, and his son who was growing taller and with an increased appetite, Wang Laowu felt doubly anxious and spent the whole day wandering on the dock. Looking for guests.

Today, just after noon, Wang Laowu crowded beside the tea stall where the porters rested, asked for a cup of free cold water, and drank while looking at the situation on the pier.

Logically speaking, there would be no guests at this time, but I wonder if Wang Laowu was lucky, but he did find a guest looking for a boat.

The man was wearing a plain gown. Although his clothes were simple, the pair of phoenix eyes and sharp eyebrows on his delicate face looked particularly extraordinary.

This person was Yuan Ming, who left the capital alone to avoid the revenge of Changchun Temple.

Wang Laowu's eyes were bright, he quickly drank the cold water in the cup, and trotted over in three steps and two steps.

"This young master wants to use a boat?"

Yuan Ming had just finished his conversation with other boatmen. When he saw Wang Laowu approaching, he nodded: "Yes, I want to go to Leizhou City. Can your boat get there?"

Wang Laowu was immediately overjoyed. Seeing that the young master had extraordinary demeanor, he should not be a stingy person. He tried and said: "Sir, Leizhou City is not easy to get to. The water is very fast along the way. Going there will damage the boat. I will still be empty when I come back." Take a trip!”

"Of course I know this, so I asked whether your boat will go or not. I will charter the boat." Yuan Ming said.

Wang Laowu rolled his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and stretched out four fingers: "You can go, but you only need this amount."

The price he quoted was more than twice the usual price.

Yuan Ming didn't point it out and said: "Okay, but I need to leave now."

"No problem. My whole family is on the boat and we can set off immediately!" Wang Laowu was overjoyed when he heard this. He nodded repeatedly and led Yuan Ming to his boat.

His ship is not big, but it can be considered neat. There are six rooms separated on the deck. Except for the Wang, Lao, and Wu family, the other five rooms are empty.

Yuan Ming randomly picked a room to stay in, told Wang Laowu not to disturb him, and only needed to deliver the food to the door, and then sent him to start the boat.

After Wang Laowu left, Yuan Ming silently performed the "Underworld Moon Art" to release the Soul Crow to monitor in the air, and at the same time summoned Huazhi from the spirit beast bag to let him lurk under the cabin, so he felt a little relieved.

In the past month, he rode a carriage and a horse, changed his clothes and put on makeup, went around, traveled day and night, and spent almost all his time on the road, rarely stopping.

Now on this boat, going down the waterway, there is no need to change carriages and horses, and there are more breaks for rest.

The tense mood relaxed a little, Yuan Ming summoned the Stealing Heaven Cauldron, inserted a black incense made of new materials, and lit it.

In the lingering fragrance, Yuan Ming recalled the appearance of his father in his heart, and soon possessed him.

Compared with a month ago, Yuan Zuochong's appearance has not changed much. At this moment, he is sitting in the study, writing a memorial.

"I, Yuan Zuochong, request to retire..."

Soon, he finished writing the memorial, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and then picked up the memorial, read it again and put it away.

After pondering for a moment, Yuan Zuochong suddenly took out the communication talisman left by Yuan Ming, looked at it for a long time, and finally put it down.

"I don't know how Ming'er is now. With his cultivation courage and experience, he has returned to Nanjiang. Even if he encounters any trouble, it should not be difficult for him."

A long sigh fell.

Yuan Ming also ended the possession at this time. When he returned to his original body, he was melancholy in his heart.

Soon, he picked up his mood. Since there should be nothing to do at home in the short term, he also had to make some plans for his next journey.

He immersed his consciousness into his storage ring, and after a brief inventory, he found that most of the elixirs and talismans he had prepared earlier had been used up, and there were not many left. What was useful to him at the moment were the bottles of foundation-building elixirs looted from Elder Mengshan and Xu Changqing.

As for the "copper skin elixir" looted from Liu Su, he could only put it aside before finding a suitable body-refining technique.

As for the spirit stones, there were more than 2,000 in total, which seemed to be a lot, but it would not be useful to buy some elixirs and other things for foundation-building practice.

Apart from these, he still had a lot of magic tools.

There was only one nameless black needle among the top-grade magic tools, and there were about ten middle-grade and low-grade magic tools, such as the Cold Star Sword, the Nine-ring Golden Knife, the Short Green Dagger, and the Golden Snake Sword.

Yuan Ming selected some of them that he could not use, and planned to wait until he arrived in Leizhou to find a market to sell them for some spirit stones, and then he looked through some spirit materials in the storage bag.

A lot of spiritual materials used for making incense were consumed, and they had to be replenished in Leizhou. In addition, there were several spiritual materials that Yuan Ming had long forgotten, which he also dug out.

First, there was a piece of earthy yellow shell and a ball of gray silk the size of a human head, which he found in the storage bag of the elder of White Dragon Island in the market of Black Rock City.

Secondly, there was a fiery red curved horn, which Yuan Ming got when he was doing a task in Biluo Cave. Although its origin was unknown, according to the judgment of Master Huolian, the grade of this item was even above the middle grade.

Finally, there was the golden leopard skin that Yuan Ming hunted. As a second-level lower-level fierce beast, its fur was also valuable!

While flipping through it, Yuan Ming suddenly found a green ball, which was the heart-breaking thunder he bought in the ghost market of Black Rock City.

At the beginning, he bought three in total, one of which was used on Elder Mengshan and one was used to deal with the vortex beast. The effect was indeed good. Now there is only one left, and he will never use it unless it is a critical moment.

This magic weapon is a unique magic weapon of the Five Thunder Sect of Zhao State. Leizhou is adjacent to Zhao State, and there may be heart-breaking thunders circulating secretly in the market.

Yuan Ming made up his mind and carefully put away the heart-breaking thunder. He sorted out the remaining talismans and other items and finally counted the items in the ring.

He moved his mind to the Soul Crow and saw that Wang Laowu's boat had left the dock and was sailing north along the Wo River. His family did not talk to him, which was just what he wanted. He withdrew his mind and began to practice.

Half an hour later, Yuan Ming sighed and frowned and left the state of practice.

Since he got the full version of "Nine Yuan Jue" from Liu Tianming, he has been practicing for a while. Although his cultivation has improved a little, it is much worse than the feeling of rapid progress in the Qi Refining Stage.