Chapter 426 – Mussel Collector
Chapter 426 – Mussel Collector
In the middle of the fishing net, there was actually a person.
For a while, the fishermen looked at each other in disbelief.
They spent all their days fishing around this sea, this was the first time they had encountered such a situation, and they didn’t know if they should continue to collect their nets.
Old Li, who was in charge of the boat, was the first one to come back to his senses, his cultivation of the second level of qi cultivation was at the bottom of the Cultivation World, but among the group of mortals, he was considered to be the most knowledgeable person.
The old Li was suspicious and swept the eyes of the people in the fishing net, this woman looks clear but not demonic, in the water and clothes are not wet, it does not look like a mortal.
However, the fishing net is only a grade one inferior spiritual weapon, if she is a cultivator, how could she not even break free?
The old Li heart has weighed, this woman may be with the water pearl, dive into the sea of clam picking women, they are not careful to give the net to come.
He waved his hand, “She should be a nearby mussel picker, mistakenly into the fishing net, first fish the person up.”
The other fishermen sniffed and showed a dawning look, and without any doubt fished the net onto the boat.
Xu Chuniang heard the words of the old man at the bow of the boat, and knew that she was being treated as a clam picker picking mussel beads in the sea, but was not angry.
When she was underwater, she could have easily broken the net and gotten out, but if she had done that, the net would have been destroyed.
Although she is a Jindan cultivator, she is also unwilling to bully the weak, especially by relying on her cultivation to bully some mundane people.
So Xu Chuniang simply stayed in the fishing net, waiting for the net to be closed.
It so happens that she came out from the secret realm of water spinning, at this time also do not know where, can borrow the identity of the clam picker, to these fishermen to ask some questions.
Old Li saw that the woman in the net did not deny his words, and in the bottom of his heart, he believed in his judgment even more.
He took the initiative to walk up and untie the fishing net, his tone slightly dissatisfied.
“How did the little girl run to this area to pick mussels, although this area is safe, but occasionally there will be one or two sea demon beasts, and this sea is too deep a bit, in case you encounter something can do?”
Xu Chuniang didn’t refute the other party’s speculation about her identity, and nodded with a slightly stiffened expression at her words, “I know, I won’t come next time.”
Only then did Old Li’s brows loosen, his face bringing out two points of a kind smile.
“Just as it should be, although this Lin family collects heavy taxes on spirit stones, but you can’t even disregard your life in order to earn some spirit stones. It just so happens that we are ready to go back, so you can come back with us.”
Xu Chuniang nodded, but in her heart, she was a bit puzzled by what he said.
Listening to his tone, the Lin family seemed to be a cultivation family in this area. But a cultivation family, would they collect taxes from mortals?
Back in Nansha Island, although life was not easy for mortals, they did not need to pay taxes.
Later, when he went to Pingfeng Island, he hadn’t heard of anything similar.
This was the first time she had heard of this claim that mortals needed to pay taxes to cultivation clans.
She didn’t say anything, but the several fishermen on the side were deeply moved and sighed about how difficult life was.
“Every time I venture out to fish, half of the proceeds have to be paid in, and the rest is just enough to make ends meet.”
“If you’re unlucky and don’t get any harvest, you’ll have to spend a lot of money to repair your fishing boat’s nets.”
“We are still so, picking mussels is even more difficult, soaking in the sea all day long just to find mussel beads, hard to pick mussel beads but can not afford to use …….”
For a while, many people looked at Xu Chuniang with sympathy in their eyes.
She didn’t feel a little sweaty, and quickly changed the subject, “How is the harvest this time?”
Speaking of pouring in the harvest, Old Li’s face revealed a pleased smile. “It’s not bad, there are quite a few large spirit fish, they should be able to fetch a good price. My son has followed the young master of the Lin family to cultivate, and has already reached the sixth level of qi cultivation.
It’s just that with this level of cultivation, he needs a lot of spirit stones to cultivate on weekdays. His small salary isn’t enough, so I can help out a little.”
Mentioning his son, who has a sixth level cultivation and a bright future in the Lin family, Old Li’s tone was full of pride.
He only has a cultivation of the second level of qi cultivation, one is the qualification is too poor to start too late, and the second is also no family to help all rely on their own struggle.
His son is talented and hardworking, so he naturally wants to do his best to help him.
This time, in addition to the spirit fish, but also very lucky, netted a tail of valuable blackfish it!
Hearing this, the several fishermen beside him were envious and joked, “Brother Li is showing off his good son again!”
“Old Li’s son was eight years old when he drew qi into his body, and now he’s only eighteen years old, and he’s already at the sixth level of qi cultivation… tsk tsk, if this were my son, I’d be praising him every day!”
“Little Li is really good, but his temperament is a bit cold, once I went to the Lin family to deliver fish and saw him, he didn’t even greet me.”
“He is the person who follows young master Lin, but in the future there is a great hope of building the foundation, why would he want to greet people like us …….”
Xu Chuniang listened to the fishermen on the boat gossiping, her face unconsciously revealed a smile.
Obviously, she only needed to ride on the wind or utilize a flying shuttle to get to the island in a very short period of time.
But she didn’t do so, instead, she sat on an aged fishing boat, listening to the people on the fishing boat share their mediocre and fulfilling lives, slowly but firmly traveling towards her destination.
Xu Chuniang had joined the Dao at the age of eight and had been practicing for decades now.
Looking back at her journey over these decades, she had either been practicing hard or practicing outside, with hardly a moment to spare.
Suddenly, she felt that it seemed quite nice to slow down and take a look at the world, listen to the sound of the waves lapping against the side of the ship, and feel the gentle sea breeze on her face.
Her heart gradually calmed down, and the worry of not having a technique after breaking through Jindan subsided a lot.
As the saying goes, “Let the birds fly when the sky is high, and let the fish leap when the sea is wide”.
However, with the height of the sky and the depth of the sea, even if one exhausts the power of the flying birds and the swimming fish in their entire life, they will not be able to get a full picture of the Canghai Sea.
If the birds and fish are obsessed with leaping between the sea and the sky, I am afraid that they will not be able to experience the wonderful fun of soaring and leaping until they are exhausted to death.
Xu Chuniang felt, she and the flying birds and swimming fish is no difference, and the road is like this boundless, bottomless Canghai.
It is said that the road is merciless, need to go against the current courage, but the road has yin and yang, one and one is the road.
Aggressive, do not know how to stop and reflect on themselves, not a long-term solution.
And cultivation and cultivate the heart, kill the way for self-protection, cultivation is the foundation of everything.
One thought, Xu Chuniang has a sense of clarity, since the breakthrough has been pressed in her heart that big stone finally no longer exists.
The road is difficult to walk, let’s just walk on it.
As long as each step is taken steadily, there will be no fear of running out of road in the future.
She was still very young and had enough time to slowly explore and recognize this world.
Xu Chuniang felt the sea breeze and listened to the lapping of the waves, and when she looked at the world again, her mood became even more peaceful.
And the cultivation within her body, which had not been stabilized by the gong method since her breakthrough, had finally stabilized, as solid as a rock and unshiftable.
(End of chapter)