Chapter 451: Senior brother, the hook is straight, and the bait is salty
Among the mountains and ravines, the Jiuqu River stretches from west to south.
The surface of the river was as smooth as a mirror, with sparkling waves.
Suddenly, with a “Boom~” sound, the severed hand tied to the silver wire was smashed into the river, causing a slight ripple that spread.
Ye Anping was wearing a raincoat and sitting at the front of the boat holding a pole. His dark purple eyes were fixed on the floating fish float not far in front of him. The look on his face was already a bit hopeless. The empty fish basket beside him said it all. .
——He had been “Fishing” for three consecutive days.
Pei Lianxue, who was sitting aside and watching him fishing, felt bored now. She fell asleep in a daze, then fell down and leaned on his shoulder.
Ye Anping showed a little helplessness, raised his hand to fiddle with his junior sister’s bangs, then looked up at the sun that had begun to set on the top of the mountain, lowered his head and sighed:
“Why haven’t you taken the bait yet? I’m tired of waiting…”
“Um?”
Pei Lianxue raised her head drowsily, rubbed her eyes, and glanced at the undulating fish float in the distance. She seemed to think that her senior brother was quite good, so she curled her lips and said:
“Senior brother, you said three days ago that you would fish for fish soup, but now I can’t even drink it.”
“Don’t worry, the bait has been thrown out, the fish will always take the bait.”
“We might as well go find a town and buy a fish.”
“How can the fish you buy be as delicious as the fish you catch yourself?”
It was rare for Pei Lianxue to see something that her senior brother was not good at. She suddenly raised the corners of her mouth like a dog, but she didn’t say anything. She lowered her head and looked at the river beside the boat. There were a few fish in the river. When she came up, she put her right foot on the side into the river water and stirred it slightly.
Ye Anping took a look:
“Junior sister, your feet can drive them away…”
Wow——!
Before she finished speaking, Pei Lianxue suddenly raised her right foot and lifted it out of the water.
And what came out of the water with her feet was a fat fish with black scales about twelve inches long that bit her toes.
After Pei Lianxue flicked her foot, the big fat fish jumped out of the air in a parabola and landed in the fish basket next to Ye Anping.
Ye Anping looked at the lewd fish in the fish basket that was biting his junior sister’s toes. He was silent for a moment, then raised his head and looked back at Pei Lianxue, and saw her squinting with pride and smiling:
“Hee~”
“Alas… Senior brother admits defeat.”
Ye Anping shook his head and sighed slightly, and decided to take the fish to stew in a while. Then he looked at the fish floating in the distance and counted the days with his fingers.
It was already the fifteenth day since he and his junior sister came out of the Xuanxing Sect.
During these fifteen days, they traveled all the way and visited almost all the small towns and villages on the way.
Although he did see a lot of local customs and the junior sister had a lot of fun along the way, traveling around the mountains and rivers was secondary. His main purpose was to “Spread bait”.
Now, countless eyes in the four realms were staring at him.
Before, he was squatting in the Xuanxing Sect, and the owners of those eyes did not dare to make any plans for him, but now he came out, and he was in a forest far away from the jurisdiction of the Xuanxing Sect.
Once the black market’s casual cultivators, demon cultivators, Taibai Sect, and many other sect forces learn about this, they would definitely send people to get close to him.
And that’s just what Ye Anping thought.
In the past few days when he was facing the abyss, his junior sister had already sent about seven or eight cultivators who approached him with malicious intent to feed the fish at the bottom of the river.
But the person he was waiting for was like a fish that had been reluctant to bite his hook. He didn’t know where he was now…
“It’s so slow, that girl from Taibai Sect…”
Upon hearing the word “Girl”, Pei Lianxue’s eyes instantly froze, and she asked quickly:
“Who is that girl?”
“The chief disciple of Taibai Sect is also the great-nephew of old man Zu Yuanna, Zu Lingzhi.”
——In the game, a girl was rubbed by Feng Yudie.
Ye Anping added this in his mind. Looking at his junior sister’s serious face that seemed a little angry, he quickly smiled and pinched her nose and said:
“Don’t worry, senior brother is not interested in her, he just needs her to be a ferryman.”
“Senior brother also said before that he was not interested in Yunluo… Tianchong!”
“Hiss—” Ye Anping suddenly took a breath of air after hearing these two words, “Junior sister, who told you?”
“Ahting listens to what Brother Liang says, and I listen to what Ahting says.”
“…”
Ye Anping was silent for a while, shook his head and smiled, saying:
“Senior brother swears that he will not attack her.”
“Well…” Pei Lianxue rolled her orange eyes and answered with her arms crossed, “Let’s trust senior brother for once! Humph~”
Ye Anping raised his hand to gently scratch her nose, then rested his elbow on his thigh, propped up his cheek and looked back at the river.
The green waves floated and trembled slightly.
Suddenly a breeze blew by, causing ripples in circles.
Phew~~
The undulating fish float was suddenly pulled into the water. A force came from the fishing line and pulled the long bamboo pole into a crescent moon falling into the water.
“Oh~ It took the bait.”
As Ye Anping raised his pole, a fifteen-foot-long white-scaled river fish jumped over the dragon gate, entered from under the sun in the sky, then emerged from above, and then fell accurately into the bamboo weave on the boat. Inside the fish basket.
Thump thump thump…
Ye Anping’s face showed joy, and he quickly lowered his head and looked into the fish basket, only to see two river fish, one black and one white, struggling to sway their tails, slapping each other’s mouths with their tails at the same time in the fish basket.
After a moment of silence, he sighed:
“It seems that there is more than one fish hooked…”
⑸.⑵.⑹.⑹.⑸.⑵.⑵.⑸.⑴.
Whispering, Ye Anping took Gu Mingxin’s right hand, which was full of veins, from the front end of the fishing line, touched the back of her hand to express comfort, and then hung it back on his waist…
…
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The sun set.
The streets of a small town built along the river were crowded with people and shouts kept coming:
“The best magical weapon, no one can be deceived…”
“Fresh roasted chicken…”
A woman wearing a black and white robe walked slowly along the street, looking at the vendors on both sides, her amber eyes revealing a condescending arrogance.
The woman looked like a mortal who was sixteen or seventeen years old. Her long black hair was tied into a horizontal “8” by jade hairpins, and her steps rose and fell on the top of her head.
Zu Lingzhi looked at this small town mixed with mortals and cultivators, with a look of reluctance on her face. Then she looked at a busty woman beside her who was a head taller than her, and complained:
“Elder Cao, do you think that the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect doesn’t know what kind of situation he is in now?”
Elder Cao looked at her with a smile and asked:
“Hmm? Miss Zu, why do you ask that?”
“Don’t he know that he is being stared at by many people in the Four Realms? He actually dares to come to such a ravine to enjoy the mountains and rivers with such arrogance. Grandpa actually asked Elder Cao and this lady to come over and keep an eye on him to prevent him from encountering any accidents. .”
“Haha… Who knows? But it’s our nature to be playful.” Elder Cao joked with a smile and shook the fly whisk in his arm slightly, “If someone dares to go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers under such circumstances, it means that they have confidence and are not afraid of being targeted.”
“Confidence? As far as I’m concerned, this young guy just doesn’t know how high the sky is and only knows how to regret it after something happens.”
“Girl Zu, you can’t say that. I have heard that Young Master Ye of the Hundred Lotus Sect had reached the late stage of core formation when he was only in his twenties, and the core he obtained was a Heavenly Dao Golden Core. Nowadays, it is said that he has ‘Spring of Life’…”
Zu Lingzhi twisted his eyebrows disdainfully and interrupted:
“This young guy has already reached the advanced stage of core formation at the age of seventeen. And didn’t I hear that he has two spiritual roots? Humph~ What’s so great about that.”
“And he’s very handsome.”
“So what if he’s handsome? Are there any ugly cultivators in the Immortal family? The face shaping core is not valuable.”
Elder Cao sighed slightly when she heard this and said no more.
About half a month ago, Zu Yuan asked her to take Zu Lingzhi to Xuanxing Sect to meet the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
What Zu Yuan said was that if he invited the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect to come to Taibai Sect as a guest, he could also give some advice on the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect’s cultivation…
But in fact, Elder Cao also understood that the most fundamental reason was the “Spring of Life” that had been spread before.
She also felt it was normal.
Taibai Sect and Xuanxing Sect were both major sects of the Immortal Family, and it was not a big deal to steal each other’s disciples. Sometimes they even poached each other’s elders.
What’s more, the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect also had the “Spring of Life”. He was already in the late stage of core formation at a young age, and his future was limitless.
It made sense to send an elder like her to poach people.
As for why she was asked to bring Zu Lingzhi with her?
She felt that it should be a bit of a “Honey trap”.
Zu Lingzhi had been domineering since she was a child, and she had poisoned half of the Taibai Sect with one mouthful. However, people’s preferences were all kinds of strange. It would be good if she charmed the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect…
One is willing to fight and the other is willing to endure…
But–
According to what she heard on the way, this “Honey trap” will most likely not work.
They were planning to rush straight to the Xuanxing Sect, but on the way they heard that the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect was taking his Daoist companions to this place for sightseeing.
He already had Daoist companions, how could he still like this girl Zu Lingzhi?
Elder Cao looked at the “∞” on the back of Zu Lingzhi’s head, and suddenly felt a little tired. How could this girl find a Daoist companion with such a bad temper?!
“Sigh…”
“Huh? Elder Cao, why are you sighing when nothing happens? Are you menopausal?”
“Based on what you say, girl, if you can find a Daoist companion in this life, I will kowtow to you three times personally.”
“Daoist companion? What are you using it for?” Zu Lingzhi shrugged slightly, spread his hands and said, “Then why not go to the market and buy a jade turtle, ha…”
?
“Jade turtle? Have you bought it?”
“I am not interested in artifacts that corrupt the Daoist heart.”
“Then how do you know that this thing is sold in the market?”
“Elder Cao, what you are asking… Haven’t you ever ridden a pig? Haven’t you ever seen a pig run?”
“Hiss—he’s full of dirty talk!”
Zu Lingzhi smiled crookedly and raised her hand to brush away the hairs on the side of his cheek:
“Haha~ What dirty talk, this is called common sense.”
“…”
Elder Cao had nothing to say.
At this time, the two of them also came to the door of an inn with a plaque of “Gu Xiangju”.
“That’s it…”
Elder Cao murmured, looked up, stepped across the threshold, and walked inside.
However, just as she stepped forward with her right foot, a man in purple clothes walked out of the inn and passed by her.
Elder Cao looked sideways, only to find that the woman in purple was also looking toward her with her charming eyes.
The moment their eyes met, Elder Cao quickly raised her left hand to hold Zhu Lingzhi behind her and held the whisk hanging in the crook of her left arm tightly with her right hand.
After the woman in purple smiled gently at her, she walked toward the other end of the street without looking back.
After knowing that the woman completely disappeared from her eyes, Zu Lingzhi on the side asked:
“Elder Cao, is that woman a demon cultivator? Her cultivation level is quite high.”
“In the early stage of Nascent Soul, she has a charming eyebrow and looks like he belongs to the Hehuan Sect, or she is a demon cultivator who practices the Hehuan Technique.”
“Ha~” Zu Lingzhi immediately rolled her eyes at her, “I knew that the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect really didn’t care what the situation was, and actually brought his Daoist companion to a place like this to have fun? He attracted a demon cultivator here, and it’s still a Nascent Soul demon cultivator. Isn’t this asking for trouble?”
Elder Cao actually didn’t think anything of it before. After all, this was still the Western Domain, so it was no big deal for Ye Anping to take his Daoist companions out to play.
But now that she met a demonic cultivator who was in the Nascent Soul stage, she had to admit that the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect was really too ambitious.
He didn’t know how to hide his identity when he went out to have fun, but he was so arrogant. Now, as long as he was a person, they could know where he was by simply asking.
Elder Cao sighed melancholy:
“Oh… Now we’re in trouble.”
“What can we do if it’s troublesome?” Zu Lingzhi kept saying aggressively, “Why don’t we go rescue him? Grandpa asks us to invite the man named Ye back to the Taibai Sect~”
“You still know…”
Elder Cao rolled her eyes at her, turned around, and prepared to chase the demonic cultivator.
However, at this time, the shopkeeper of Gu Xiangju rubbed his hands and walked over, proactively asking them:
“Two seniors from the Taibai Sect, are you here to inquire about the whereabouts of the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect?”
Zu Lingzhi looked at the shopkeeper and frowned slightly:
“Just tell me.”
“Hey~ a lot of people have come to inquire about this matter these days. This junior is also in business, so naturally…”
“You need spirit stones for such a trivial matter.” Zu Lingzhi’s face twitched, but he still took out ten spirit stones from the storage bag, “Here~ tell me.”
“Not enough.”
“How much do you want?”
“Five thousand spirit stones. That’s how much the senior in purple gave just now. Since the two seniors are from the Taibai Sect… I can give you a discount. How about accepting three thousand spirit stones from the two of you?”
Zu Lingzhi suddenly had veins on her forehead and asked:
“Why don’t you go and grab it? Just this news, you charge three thousand…”
But she was interrupted by Elder Cao on the side:
“If you collect three thousand spirit stones, you must know the exact location of the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect?”
“Of course…”
The shopkeeper smiled slightly and nodded. Ye Anping came to the town specially before and told him that he would fish on the Qinshui River in recent days, and asked him to sell the news there. He also said that it would be more expensive when the time comes. He would come over and divide it into 70-30.
Elder Cao thought about it for a while, nodded, and said:
“Ganoderma lucidum, give it.”
“Hiss—” Zu Lingzhi bared her teeth and took in a breath. She hesitated for a while, but still took out the small bag containing three thousand spirit stones from the storage bag and threw it over, “Here! Throw the previous ten spiritual stone…”
The shopkeeper thought she was quite stingy, but he still exchanged the spirit stone for the spirit stone bag, then handed her over and said:
“About fifty miles to the southwest from the town, there is a small boat at the third bend of the Qinshui River. Young Master Ye is fishing in that small boat.”
“Qinshui River…”
Elder Cao twisted his eyebrows. He remembered that it seemed to be the nest where Xuanxing Sect raised Qinshui Dragon…
And fishing?
She suddenly felt that she and Zu Lingzhi were like “Fish” now…
Zu Lingzhi twisted her eyebrows and cursed:
“If I go there later and don’t find him, believe it or not, I will make it impossible for you to open this shabby inn!”
“The profit of this small store is very small, so I won’t lie. Two seniors, I won’t give it away to this junior.”
The shopkeeper collected the money and hurried back to the counter. Zu Lingzhi looked at the frowning Elder Cao, hesitated for a while, and asked:
“Elder Cao, are you suffering from dementia? Let’s go and save people.”
“…”
Elder Cao came back to her senses, rolled her eyes at her, then turned around and walked out of the inn, taking Zu Lingzhi with her and heading toward the Qinshui River with her sword.
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