Chapter 148: On the Thief Ship(1/2)
Qimei City, the last night.
Ning Fan and Paper Crane sat under the grape vines, lying on wicker chairs, looking at the moonlight side by side.
Tomorrow, Ning Fan will leave, but he is not prepared to take the paper crane away.
"Why don't you take me there? Because I'm too weak and not worthy of you?" Zhi He gently leaned his head on Ning Fan's shoulder.
"No...it's because I'm too weak to protect you..." Ning Fan blamed himself.
"Brother Fan, you are not weak, you are more powerful than anyone Zhihe has ever seen..." Little Zhihe gently pressed Ning Fan's mouth with his smooth hands and comforted him.
The two of them stopped talking and leaned their heads together again, watching the moonlight shine down.
Zhihe is not suitable for cultivation. Even though she has the best natural charm and a cultivation speed that even Ning Fan can't envy. But in the world of cultivation, one does not have to be talented to survive... Many demon lords may not have good qualifications.
But with his ruthless and cunning character, he was able to climb up step by step. With Zhihe's naivety, even facing monks whose cultivation level was far lower than hers would be in danger.
She is not suitable for practicing Taoism. Even if one day she makes great progress in cultivation and becomes an immortal, she is still not suitable.
Ning Fan could also take the paper crane and hone his indifferent personality in the sea of blood, but he didn't want to...
Ning Gu didn't want to kill anyone, so he promised Ning Gu an ordinary life.
Zhihe didn't want to kill anyone, but he would also promise Zhihe a peaceful and joyful path to Taoism.
Zhihe is not wrong, only the time is wrong... In the farthest ancient times, there were many weapon refiners. At that time, it was said that the fairy world was peaceful and there was no killing and fighting at all... Zhihe should live in that era and live in that era.
A love story between immortals and a legendary story...
The Yue Kingdom is just a lower-level cultivation country, and it doesn't even have a real Nascent Soul master... Ning Fan doesn't count, and Jing Zhuo only counts half of it.
But in the more powerful intermediate cultivation countries, the Yuanying old monsters there are just like the Jindan old monsters in the Yue Kingdom. Although there are not many, they are not less.
There are even old monsters who transform into gods in the superior cultivation country... As for the destination of Ning Fan's trip, the Endless Sea, it is a place where monks from the superior cultivation country must be careful when entering it.
The Endless Sea, known as Xiu Tomb! The Monk's Tomb! No one cares about killing people there, and even the Rain Palace cannot interfere... There is no distinction between the righteous demon sects, only the strong and the weak. There, there is its own law of survival... Ning
If Ning Fan is walking alone and encounters danger, he can run for his life, but if he takes the paper crane with him, if something happens to the paper crane, Ning Fan will regret his life.
Zhihe was the first woman to enter his heart. That steamed bun and jade lock saved Ning Fan's life and brought him a different life.
Under the moonlight, Ning Fan closed his eyes slightly, and the fragrance of paper cranes lingered in his nose...
The scene of the Hehuan Sect's encounter appeared before our eyes.
Zhihe is an ordinary girl. She yearns for the ordinary, does not like fighting, and has a pure mind. She has no special skills, but she is the one who understands Ning Fan best among all the women.
She understands Ning Fan's gentleness, understands Ning Fan's helplessness, and knows that Ning Fan, like her, actually doesn't like to fight...
In Ning Fan's heart, he has the complacency of paper crane, but fate forces him to meet the old demon and embark on a road of cultivating demons that he cannot turn back.
Take half of Zhihe’s character, take another half of Old Devil’s character...that’s Ning Fan today!
"That...Brother Fan..." Zhi He had big eyes and had something to say.
"Um?"
"When you come back from the Endless Sea, will you bring me a lily of the valley?" Zhihe begged.
"Lily of the valley? Doesn't this kind of orchid exist in Yue?" Ning Fan said in surprise.
"It's different... I heard that the orchid grass in the Endless Sea can make a sound like wind chimes when the wind blows. It's very nice... When I hear that sound, I know that you are back..." Zhihe said stupidly
Then, he fell asleep in Ning Fan's arms.
Ning Fan, on the other hand, silently remembered this silly girl's silly wish.
Lily of the valley is just an extremely ordinary mortal flower in the endless sea... The wish of the paper crane is very simple, so simple that it makes people pity.
Paper cranes cannot go to the Endless Sea because the Endless Sea has endless dangers. That is the origin of the word "Endless".
As for Ningcheng, it is Ning Fan's home, and the family needs people who are looking forward to his return.
The trip to the Endless Sea may take ten years, dozens of years, or even a hundred years.
This waiting may be torture, but this is the life of a monk. Even for Taoist couples, when the husband goes into seclusion, the wife may not see his face for decades.
Monks have the same helplessness as monks. Even true immortals cannot be free.
"A lily of the valley... I remember it."
...
Outside Qimei City, a magnificent ship is about to set sail.
Under the boat, Patriarch Jingzhuo and Ning Fan said goodbye to their relatives and friends, as well as the Yue monks who were seeing them off.
Most of the visitors were monks from the Huoyun and Guique sects. There were also people from other sects who came to watch, but obviously they were not as enthusiastic as the monks from the second sect.
The four tribes of Nangong, Situ, Yuchi, and Qimei, and the four guards of Ningcheng.
Gui Quezi, Xue Qing, Nan Wei, and even Yan Zhuiyun, who had had conflicts with Ning Fan, Bai Feiteng, and Yan Bai, who had some resentment.
To say goodbye to these people, a few words of advice and pleasantries are enough.
But saying goodbye to Lan Mei and other girls made Ning Fan a little reluctant to leave.
"Ning Fan, take this piece of fairy jade...I asked for it from my father..." Lan Mei stuffed a bulging storage bag into Ning Fan's arms rather resentfully.
Ning Fan's mind swept away, and he suddenly looked surprised... Three hundred thousand immortal jade... This is probably all Gui Quezi's base. I'm afraid that in Gui Que Sect, Lan Mei must have dug three feet into the ground to get it.
Come to these fairy jade.
"In the Endless Sea's Lost World Tower, if you start practicing, it can't be overstated to say that a thousand gold pieces of gold a day are enough... When you go out... don't be reluctant to spend money..." Lan Mei asked... I'm sorry for Ning Fan not taking her with him.
, she was quite resentful, but still extremely worried about Ning Fan's safety.
Of course, she was also slightly worried about whether Ning Fan, with his playful temperament, would flirt with women outside...
Lan Mei and Ning Fan are related to each other. This matter is not a secret to many Yue monks.
The farewell gift was three hundred thousand immortal jade... Even the ancestors such as Jing Zhuo were extremely envious of Ning Fan's luck. I'm afraid it would be difficult for the Yue Kingdom to find another good wife, so she waved her hand to her husband thirty thousand yuan.
Ten Thousand Immortals Jade spent...
The egret also came, but did not come forward to talk to Ning Fan, and only watched Ning Fan leave from a distance.
When Ning Fan saw that insignificant figure among the crowd, he smiled at him. Immediately, the egret's beautiful eyebrows trembled, and he turned around to take another look at his expression.
"Be careful on the road..." She finally said this.
"You too, practice hard, and when I come back, you might have a chance to kill me." Ning Fan teased back.
"Hmph! Do you think I can't do it? Just wait. When you come back, I will definitely improve my cultivation and surprise you!" Bailu said dissatisfied.
"Well, I'll wait."
...
After saying farewell, Ning Fan and Jing Zhuo received many generous gifts from old monsters and took a boat to the north.
On the boat, there were even twenty delicate maidservants given to Ning Fan by the ancestor of the Seizing Body Sect... In fact, they were originally given to Ning Fan as cauldrons, but as the saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests, Ning Fan
No matter how lacking the cauldron is, it will not bring harm to these Yue female cultivators. Moreover, these female cultivators have good looks, but their cultivation is only at the fourth or fifth level of Pulmonary Pulse. If they are supplemented, they will not be of much use...
I'd rather just be a maid... Didn't you see that Lan Mei and the other girls' faces looked a little ugly?
And among the twenty female maids, Ning Fan recognized an acquaintance at a glance, but did not reveal it.
These maids were only responsible for serving tea and water on the boat. Ning Fan did not issue an order to share the same bed, which made the maids secretly relieved.
In addition, Ning Fan also used some unknown means to conjure ice spirits, moon spirits, etc., a total of seventeen female cultivators.
Among these female cultivators, except for the two golden elixir cultivators, some other women even volunteered to serve Ning Fan on the mat... As for whether Ning Fan agreed or not, these maids did not know.
The building ship flew for several days, far away from Ningcheng, and heading towards the northern border of Yue Kingdom. At this moment, Ning Fan suddenly summoned the maids and said meaningfully to one of the female cultivators,
"Fairy Suqiu left without saying goodbye that day. Ning thought that she would never see the fairy again in this life, but she never thought that the dignified Fairy Suqiu would come to my ship and become a slave through the introduction of Ancestor Duoshe..."
The acquaintance Ning Fan recognized at a glance was Fairy Suqiu, and she actually got into the building.
After her identity was discovered, Su Qiu immediately learned how to disguise herself, smiled lightly and said,
"It makes Ning Zun laugh. I have no sect now, but I want to join a friend's sect in the Endless Sea... But all my immortal jade has been left to the Taixu sect. Now I am penniless and alone.
However, it is difficult for me to reach the Endless Sea despite my strength, so I want to come and seek refuge with Ning Zun... Why, Ning Zun, the dignified person, don’t want me to go with you?"
"No, I'm just a little flattered... Fairy Su Qiu got on my pirate ship. It won't be easy to get off." Ning Fan said with a smile.
"Pirate ship..."
Hearing Ning Fan's joke, Su Qiu couldn't help but laugh even though her face was serious. Is there anyone in the world who calls himself a thief?
But when she thought of the ambiguity in Ning Fan's metaphor, Su Qiu recalled the fragrant detoxification that day, her heart trembled slightly, and she immediately looked away.
"I am no longer the ancestor of Taixu Sect, nor Fairy Suqiu. From today on, just call me Taoist Fellow Yin..." Suqiu sighed slightly as if she was troubled, but this sigh was immediately laughed at by Ning Fan.
Sweep away the boredom.
"How about calling you Suqiu?"
"not good!"
"Okay, you win... Fellow Daoist Yin, since you came to my boat and asked me to take you to the Endless Sea, then let's calculate the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation along the way..." Ning Fan pretended to be serious.
To be continued...