Chapter 192 Ferryman
"How to live without death?"
Tian Lin couldn't figure out the meaning of this sentence. He just asked Cui'er and Yu'er on the wooden boat to prepare to escape.
And he himself looked up at Fairy Mei in the sky.
I saw Fairy Mei put the big flag into her storage bag, and then took out a broad sword.
With a flying sword under her feet and a broad sword in her hand, she swooped down in the direction of the sound in the fog and disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant.
"Girl, would you like to take a boat?"
In the heavy fog, the old man's old voice sounded, looking unusually calm.
Outside the fog, even the foundation-building monks who were defending the sea area stood up and looked at the fog with some fear.
Some of them saw the wind lantern in the fog, and some of them did not see it, but they heard the old man's voice in the fog.
It is unknown who the old man is, but since he can break through the blockade of the elders of the Tong family, and can survive the thunder that Mei Xiangu borrowed just now, it shows that his strength is terrifying.
Obviously, the old man is not something Mei Xiangu can deal with. And Fairy Mei is probably dead at this moment.
"Damn it, we have to find a way to remove the formation flag. It's important to find a way to escape."
Rong Zongfeng cursed there and started to pull the formation flag on the ship.
On the big ship, Mei Xiangu held her sword and said angrily: "Follow me to save Xiangu. If anyone dares to escape from the battle, don't blame me for being ruthless with my sword!"
But this sword-holding girl is just a maid. Although she has the cultivation level of the early stage of foundation building, she does not have the intimidating power of Fairy Mei.
Tian Lin's eyes were now looking at the goddess tree on the bow of the ship. The goddess tree was now lush with branches and leaves, and there were at least hundreds of petals on it.
Looking at the 'Enlightenment Tea' in this tree, how could Tian Lin not be moved?
Now that Fairy Mei is dead, then this goddess tree——
Tian Lin suddenly flew up from the boat and landed directly on the big ship.
On the big ship, Fairy Mei drew out her sword and pointed it directly at Tian Lin in front of the goddess tree: "How dare you, do you want to steal the tree?"
"I don't steal the tree, but I want to save Fairy Mei."
Tian Lin stood on the big ship. When he climbed up and looked into the distance, he saw Fairy Mei coming from the fog like a spark of fire on the waves.
In order to avoid causing a 'misunderstanding', Tian Lin took two steps back to distance himself from the goddess tree, then walked towards the side of the ship and looked at Rong Zongfeng:
"Rong worships, the formation flag cannot be destroyed. If the formation flag is destroyed, there will be a gap in the barrier you finally formed. By then, the other ships will be attacked from both sides."
When Rong Gongfeng was about to persuade Tian Lin to escape with him, he saw Mei Xiangu appear in the heavy fog and quickly flew onto the bow of the ship.
When the words came out of his mouth, the content also changed:
"I also understand what Fellow Daoist Tian said, so I was just checking whether the formation flag was strong. As you know, I am a weapon refiner. Although I am not familiar with formations, I have some experience in formations."
The conversation between the two was overheard by Mei Xiangu, who rushed back. She looked a little pale, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and looked at Rong Zongsong and Tianlin under the boat with a half-smile.
Finally, she threw a bag out of her hand and said to Tian Lin:
"I'll be relieved if you two are willing to share my worries. Go ahead, take these things and lead the ferryman to the eldest elder of the Tong family."
Rong Fengfeng's expression changed, but Tian Lin seemed quite calm.
He untied the thread from the pocket and saw seven copper coins wrapped in cloth.
These seven copper coins all have the words "Youdu Tongbao".
"Mei Fairy asked me to use this money to lure away the ferryman, but I don't know what magic weapon this money is?"
Mei Xiangu said: "No matter you are a human or a ghost, as long as you are willing to pay, the ferryman will turn around and accompany you to wherever you want to go."
Tian Lin was stunned and asked her tentatively: "I asked him to take me to the moon, can he also take me there?"
Mei Xiangu thought Tian Lin was here to make a joke, and sneered: "The moon is too far away, I'm afraid you can't afford it, maybe the underworld is closer."
Tian Lin knew that this matter was extremely risky, but he did not hesitate too much and directly put a bag of copper coins into the storage bag.
Rong Zongfeng's face on the boat over there turned a little pale, and he couldn't help but asked Mei Xiangu in a trembling voice:
"Since they are humans or ghosts, and they can make the ferryman turn around as long as they pay money, why not let Baojian and Sword Slave go?"
Rong Gongfeng shook his head like a rattle, took two steps back, grabbed his sword, and said, "You will die for me on my behalf."
On the big ship, Fairy Mei's eyes turned cold, and she reached out to touch the plum blossoms on the goddess tree.
Tian Lin knew that she could kill people with plum blossoms, so he quickly said: "The ferryman is coming this way, just let me go and meet him alone."
After saying this, Tian Lin turned to look at Rong Zongfeng on the boat:
"Fellow Daoist Rong, if I can come back alive this time, you have to return my favor."
At the critical moment of life and death, Rong Fengfeng nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.
When Tian Lin saw this, he looked at the ferryman in the distance of the big ship.
The so-called ferryman looks like an ordinary old man holding a pole.
Looking at the penny in the old man's hand, Tian Lin thought of Sect Leader Xun.
Sect Master Xun was bidding farewell to Elder Xiao in Yaoyue Sect, and traveled south to find a way out of the Jade Dragon Continent.
But in the end, the boatman who turned into a painting boat appeared in Shenxiantang, which is not unreasonable.
Tian Lin estimated that this ferryman had some cultivation in the late stage of foundation building during his lifetime.
If you add the boat at its feet and the bamboo pennant in its hand, it may not be much weaker than the strong one with golden elixir.
"What are you doing here? Why don't you get on the boat?"
Seeing the ferryman approaching, Mei Xiangu spoke.
Tian Lin didn't want to take risks, but he knew that Mei Xiangu was decisive in killing, and Rong Gongfeng would not sacrifice himself for others.
He couldn't hide, so he stepped on the string and jumped down. The ferryman in the distance stopped the boat and said, "Young man, do you want to take a boat?"
Tian Lin didn't say anything for a while, just stared at the ferryman.
The ferryman was wearing a black robe and his face was dark blue. There were only two black holes in his eyes, and pus occasionally flowed out of them.
The stench came from him, and it was obvious that the ferryman's body had already rotted.
"Excuse me, boatman, how much is the boat fare?"
"Young man, do you want to take a boat?"
The ferryman answered irrelevantly. In the distance, on the big boat where Mei Xiangu was, Mei Xiangu's voice was heard shouting: "You have talked to this dead man for a year, and he only has a few words.
If you don't want to die, pay the money and get on the boat before he pulls the bamboo pole out of the sea."
Mei Xiangu's words made Tian Lin's heart tremble. He really found that the ferryman pulled the bamboo pole out of the sea.
Seeing that the bamboo pole was about to leave the water, Tian Lin took out a copper coin and threw it into the ferryman's bag.
Then he heard the crisp sound of "copper coins" hitting each other in the ferryman's bag. The ferryman put the bamboo pole in his hand back into the sea. After Tian Lin got on the boat, he asked without looking back: "Where are you going, young man?"
Tian Lin pointed to the south casually. He remembered that the elders and others went to the south.
If seven copper coins can lead him to see the Great Elder, then perhaps, as Mei Xiangu said, he can be saved.
But Tian Lin estimated that seven copper coins might not be able to lead him to see the Great Elder.
He had made a decision. If three copper coins were not enough for him to find the Great Elder, then he would use the other four copper coins to return to the original route and come back to Mei Xiangu to find a solution.
At that time, either Mei Xiangu would drive the ferryman away personally, or Mei Xiangu would pay him to find the Great Elder.
In short, if he was going to die, he would always drag Mei Xiangu to be his scapegoat.
As Tian Lin pointed, the bamboo pole in the ferryman's hand was deeply inserted into the sea, and the boat rowed out instantly.
Tian Lin was looking at Mei Xiangu and others at this time, and the foundation-building cultivators on the same line as Mei Xiangu were also looking at Tian Lin.
The ferryman rowed the boat very quickly, and these people soon lost sight of Tian Lin, and Tian Lin also followed the ferryman into the fog.
"Sir, did you come from the south with those wandering souls?"
"What's on the sea to the south?"
"Is there a hell in this world?"
The boat was not big, and there was nothing on it.
Tian Lin's attention, in addition to thinking about how to escape, was also trying to talk to the ferryman.
Unfortunately, the ferryman was just like what Mei Xiangu said, saying the same two sentences over and over again, completely a walking corpse.
Tian Lin no longer tried to talk to the ferryman, but his attention was on the wooden sign on the ferryman's waist.
The pattern on the back of the wooden sign was not clear, but the word "ferry" was on the front.
This waist sign seemed to be an identity card, and no one knew who made it.
Tian Lin looked up at the ferryman's back, and suddenly heard the ferryman say with his back to him: "Young man, do you want to take a boat?"
When Tian Lin saw the figure of a wandering soul emerging from the fog, he realized that the ferryman was not talking to him.
The wandering soul ignored the ferryman and did not answer when the ferryman asked twice.
Just when the wandering soul was about to leave the ferryman's boat, the bamboo pole in the ferryman's hand had been pulled out from under the sea and directly passed through the wandering soul's body.
In an instant, the wandering soul turned into a residual soul.
Tian Lin's heart moved, and when the ferryman attacked the second wandering soul, he had already taken out the soul-collecting bead.
Under the urging of the true qi, the soul-collecting bead absorbed all the residual souls around without waste.
But this place was obviously far away from Mei Xiangu and others, so when Mei Xiangu borrowed the magic before, the power of thunder did not reach here.
As a result, there were so many wandering souls here, forcing the ferryman to take action frequently.
Among the many wandering souls, Tian Lin also saw two night wandering gods.
However, although these two night wandering gods were strong, they could not escape the bamboo pole of the ferryman.
After using a soul-gathering bead to absorb the residual souls of two night wandering gods, Tian Lin's soul-gathering bead felt like it was about to explode, and a layer of frost directly covered Tian Lin's palm.
Tian Lin put the larger soul-gathering bead into the storage bag, took out a new soul-gathering bead and began to absorb the residual souls.
Just when Tian Lin was having a great time picking up bargains, the ferryman who was killing wandering souls and rowing the boat suddenly said: "Young man, do you still want to take the boat?"
Tian Lin knew that he was talking to him, so he took out another copper coin from the storage bag: "Go a little further south."