Chapter 15 – A Little Enlightenment on a Boat
Chapter 15 – A Little Understanding on the Boat
The next day.
When Chen Fan got up, he realized that the bodies of the three Jiang Chi people were gone.
He knew that both the Iron Fist Gang and the Blood Sword Martial School would be investigating this matter.
But that would have nothing to do with him.
On the surface, he was just a thirty-something year old Qi Nurturing Realm martial artist.
“I’m going out for a while next.”
Chen Fan found a bag, packed the Triple Yuan Yang Fire Furnace, and after speaking with a few guards, he carried a sword and left White Stone City.
After last night’s murder, he had felt nothing.
But as the night passed, the scene of several people’s heads being decapitated by him and blood gushing out like a spring was actually like a nightmare, surfacing from his mind several times.
It caused him to be disturbed for a while.
So he decided to temporarily leave White Stone City and find a place to, well, relax and unwind.
“Selling baklava, one copper for one baklava.”
“Buns for sale, big cabbage and pork skin buns.”
The mornings in White Rock City are full of life.
“Come five buns.”
Chen Fan bought five buns.
He ate the buns while strolling around the city.
He still vaguely remembered that when he first came to White Stone City, he ate the buns sold by this vendor.
“I’ll take this horse.”
Subsequently, Chen Fan was at the horse market again and bought a red date horse.
He had never ridden a horse.
However, with his current strength, it was still no problem to control a horse.
“Hyah!”
Chen Fan used his sword as a whip, cutting through the early morning tranquility and leaving White Stone City.
Two hours later.
He rode his horse to the Moon Reflecting Lake.
It was the largest lake in the neighborhood.
The lake was vast and sparkling, as if it was a huge mirror.
Around the lake, willow trees swayed gently, their green strands dancing in the breeze.
In the distance on the lake, several egrets spread their wings and fly, leaving a string of crisp cries.
On top of that, there was a fishing boat, fishing in the lake.
“Old man, I’ll take this boat.”
Chen Fan searched for a wooden shanty boat by the lake.
This was a small boat that was specially provided to Jianghu martial artists, as well as literati, for sightseeing.
There were quite a few boats like this in Ying Yue Lake.
“Alright, guest, I’ll prepare it for you.”
The old boatman collected the money and sharply untied the cable with a big smile.
Chen Fan jumped onto the boat.
There was no need for the old boatman to explain, so he propped the boat away from the shore.
The boat gently swayed on the lake, as if a leaf was floating in the wind.
Ever since he came to White Stone City, he hadn’t had a good rest for quite some time.
“The last time I was this leisurely, it seems like it was the time when I had just crossed over to this world and was living alone in the valley.”
Chen Fan shook his head.
He paddled while looking at the poetic scenery around him.
Speaking of which, this was the first time he had seen such a big lake.
It was also his first time paddling a boat.
When he was on Earth, after obtaining the Wishing Bead, and knowing that he could cross over to other worlds, he had spent most of his time, on exercising his body.
Other than that, it was learning various survival skills.
“This feeling of relaxation has been a long time coming.”
Chen Fan took a deep breath.
He felt that the irritation in his heart seemed to be expelled a lot with this breath.
One hour later.
He rowed the boat to the center of the lake. White clouds drifted across the sky as he put down the oars and sat on the bow, listening to the sound of fishing songs coming from the distance, his mind growing more and more serene.
“Boo!”
Chen Fan took out a Sanyuan Dan from the Dan bottle he was carrying and put it into his mouth.
He then lay down on the boat and let his internal qi run on its own.
“Mr. Lu, yesterday I saw that you hurriedly rushed back from the county town, did something big happen?”
A few hundred meters away from Chen Fan, a large boat rowed by.
On the boat, a few youths pushed cups together.
“What could have happened in the County City? Earlier, some people said that the Three Yuan Yang Fire Furnace was seized by Zhang An, the White Dragon in the Waves, but wasn’t there no movement soon afterward?”
“Hehe, this time is different, I’m afraid you guys still don’t know, yesterday two innate realm martial artists from outside the border wanted to assassinate the Qingyang King, and as a result, they were targeted by Li Chaofeng, and both of them died in the city.”
“Li Chaofeng? You’re talking about Li Chaofeng, the Life Snatching Absolute Blade who advanced to the innate realm two years ago?”
“Who else could there be besides this one?”
The male surnamed Lu let out a sigh of emotion.
He was considered a young talent in several nearby cities.
At a young age, he had cultivated to the Qi Condensation Realm.
But compared to that Li Chaofeng, it was the difference between a glowing fire and a white moon.
“An innate who is less than thirty years old has not appeared for a long time in our Great Qian Dynasty, right? However, Li Chaofeng’s achievement of being an Innate actually didn’t travel to the Blood Abyss two years ago, which is a bit surprising.”
“Maybe he wants to play it safe and increase his strength a little more, waiting for the next five-year Blood Abyss gate opening.”
“Time is life, we martial artists, who want to turn to the path of cultivating immortality, it is already difficult, a year at night, the result caused by this, may be a wasted life.”
“Immortal cultivation …… huh, I have twenty three years old this year, still only condensed qi realm martial artist, this life already do not want to.”
The large three-tiered boat with a carved fence pressed across the lake and gradually faded away.
Chen Fan was lying in the small boat a few hundred meters away, without the slightest awareness of this, he looked at the languid white clouds in the sky, his spirit was soothed, and he even slowly fell into a deep sleep.
And as he fell asleep, the internal qi in his dantian actually accelerated.
Chen Fan’s face was calm, as if he had entered a special state.
It wasn’t until an unknown amount of time later that he slowly opened his eyes.
“This is ……”
After waking up, Chen Fan was instantly confused.
He looked at the sky.
He only saw that at this moment, the warm hot sun had turned into countless stars, which were reflected in the lake.
Chen Fan could no longer use words to describe this sleep of his.
He only knew that this time he woke up, the internal qi in his body had actually filled the entire dantian.
It seemed like if he only had to make a small retreat, he would be able to break through to the Qi Condensation Realm in one fell swoop.
This was more than a month faster than his expected breakthrough time.
“Is this an epiphany?”
Chen Fan recalled his understanding of martial arts.
As far as he knew, there were indeed martial artists in this world who had once had an epiphany and increased their strength greatly.
“Perhaps it was only a small epiphany.”
Chen Fan shook his head.
But even if it was only a small realization, it was still considered a huge gain for him.
After this realization, he only felt that there were no more distractions in his heart.
The scene of last night’s sword decapitation seemed to have become a passing cloud.
It still existed in his memory, but it no longer had any effect on him.
“Brush!”
Chen Fan was moved by his feelings, and with a flash of his figure, he had left the boat and stepped into the lake.
The tip of his foot lightly tapped on the surface of the lake, instantly sending up layers of ripples, as if a dragonfly was pointing at the water, continuously tapping on the surface of the lake for four or five times, bringing up pieces of water splashes.
Finally, Chen Fan’s figure spread out, just like a roc spreading its wings, rising up in the wind, and steadily landing back on top of the boat, a set of actions, flowing in the clouds and flowing in the water.
“The wooden boat is traveling in the water.
The white clouds are soothing the mind.
I woke up in the middle of the night, and the sky entered the water.
The Milky Way in the sky is like a painting screen.”
Chen Fan searched his intestines and recited a small poem, but unfortunately no one was around at this time, and no one could see the, come see me pretending expression swirling on his face.
(End of chapter)