Xianlu

Chapter 395
Two Erhai Taoist priests were imprisoned in an iron coffin, one desperate, the other hideous, and the Taoist surnamed Lai next to him was still nagging, saying, "Master Taoist, these two are not idiots, look at them His complexion and soul are very pure, without any filth, so it is perfect for cultivation."

When Xu Dao heard it, his expression remained stern, and he whispered softly: "Oh? Why is it so unusual, tell me."

Seeing that Xu Dao didn't do anything, Daoist Lai breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly continued to explain.

But the next moment, Taoist surnamed Lai found that he couldn't move his body and couldn't listen to his speech. He was trembling and sweating coldly, as if there was a weight of ten thousand catties on his body.

The same was true for the two skinny Taoists beside them, they all had panicked faces, only their eyes could move.

Xu Dao didn't pay attention to the Taoists of Xihai any more, he stepped on the iron cage, walked up to the two Taoists of Erhai, and sighed softly.

He stretched out his finger and flicked it lightly. As the sword qi sizzled, the chains binding the two Taoists broke, and a thin black thread protruded from Xu Dao's back and fell onto the iron coffin. , Nibbling on copper and iron like snakes and insects.

Bang Bang!There were two sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground, and a man and a woman fell out of the coffin and smashed hard at Xu Dao's feet.

The look in their eyes flickered, and some couldn't react. Among them, the female Taoist raised her desperate face, and her eyes gradually recovered. She looked up at Xu Dao, and then her eyes froze again, as if she recognized something. like.

The other male Taoist didn't look at Xu Dao after he untied the shackles. He struggled and climbed to the side of the female Taoist, hugged her tightly, and wanted to say something, but couldn't say a word. His mouth was scarlet, and he spat out a few mouthfuls of blood hoarsely.

Xu Dao glanced at this person, and found that this person's tongue had already been cut off, making him unable to speak.

Xu Dao flicked his fingers casually, and the two decontamination and calming spells landed on each other. No matter whether they were conscious or not, their eyelids immediately became heavy, and they were about to fall asleep slowly.

Among them, the tongueless male disciple had a ferocious face and wanted to resist Xu Dao's spell, but after hearing a few words, he suddenly felt a long-lost peace of mind, and his tense spirit completely relaxed.

A sigh sounded: "It's good to have a rest."

Xu Dao flicked his sleeves, released dozens of soldiers from the sleeves, and asked the soldiers to pull the cloth, wrap the two Erhai Taoist disciples, and carry them to the deck to take care of them.

After dealing with these chores, he turned his head and looked at the three Taoists of the West Sea.

A sneer appeared on his face: "You guys, you can talk now. If you ask a question, you can answer it. If the answer is wrong, you will be responsible for the consequences."

There were gurgling sounds from the throats of the three Taoists of Xihai, their pupils shrank suddenly, and immediately they saw a gust of white air rushing up, enveloping them, and the noise in their ears stopped, only Xu Dao's indifferent voice continued sounded.

Immediately, terrified shouts sounded from the bottom of the black ship, as well as screams one after another.

"Ah! Daoist, just ask, just ask!" The three Taoist disciples said everything they knew, like pouring beans.

Through the mouths of the three, Xu Dao immediately had a clearer understanding of the entire West Sea, especially the tens of thousands of miles nearby.And what he saw was not false, the other three were just traders who sold people as animals.

This kind of merchant travels between the various islands, occasionally reselling scarce items, buying low and selling high, but the most they deal with are the goods of living people, and they also have a special name - tooth people.

As for the vegetable people and animal people in the opponent's mouth, the situation is completely different.

The former refers to mortals who have no magic power. For practice, they taste like vegetables and radishes, and only their souls are available, so they are called "vegetable people".

The latter refers to defeated monks with mana and demonic blood. Regardless of their level of cultivation, human form or not, they not only have their souls to use, but also their flesh, muscles, bones and other things. Compared with vegetables and radishes, they are more like cattle and sheep Pigs and dogs, so they are called "animal people".

The reason why Taoists surnamed Lai drove the boat to Yuren Island was because he wanted to earn a ticket by selling living people so that he could accumulate foundation-building resources for himself.

In order to make a lot of money from this ticket, he sold all his family property, started from the original merchant, and personally led two guys to buy this black boat and come out to run the order gang.

But he was not acting recklessly, but he had planned ten years in advance, but this year, seeing that the wind direction and the waterway were just right, and there were still major events happening in the West Sea, Daoist Lai became ruthless and quickly spent money to collect a batch of goods. I hurried out of the island and walked to the sea.

His luck was also good. Before he met Xu Dao, his journey was smooth and smooth, and he occasionally ran into fierce beasts in the sea, but they were all successfully resolved by the black boat that spent a lot of money.

This made him happy, thinking that those merchants who traveled across the sea in the past exaggerated the risks in the sea...until he met Xu Dao today.

After being taught a few times by Xu Dao, no matter whether it was Taoist Lai or his two buddies, they all spit out things quite happily, and they didn't dare to take money in front of Xu Dao at all, but just blindly begged Xu Dao to keep them together. Destiny, you will definitely be an ox and a horse.

If it was just an ordinary businessman, Xu Dao would really consider letting the other party go after the questioning, but the goods sold by the other party were living people, and two Taoist disciples were involved, Xu Dao never thought about it possible.

What made Xu Dao a little bit concerned was that when the other party talked about the sale of living people, they didn't mean to hide it at all. They were so generous, their words were really like talking about animals, and they didn't realize that they were also "living people" at all.

This made Xu Dao doubtful, and after some forced questioning, he took out the other party's soul and put it in the inner world, so that he could flip through the other party's memory.

The three "toothmen" have low morals, even though their souls seem to have been tampered with, but Xu Dao spent some effort and successfully searched for the soul.

He first tested the authenticity of the content of the forced question, and then learned more vividly about the environment of Xihai through the memory of the other party.

The bottom of the black ship.

Xu Dao volleyed cross-legged, his brows were furrowed, and pictures were constantly flashing in his mind, which made his expression a bit uglier than when he was pressing Taoist Xihai.

Through what he saw with his own eyes and what he obtained from his soul search, Xu Dao had to admit a fact: that is, although there were not few living people in the West Sea, the situation of people was even more difficult.

The entire West Sea has long been filled with fishy smells, and although cultivators are not monsters, they are also part of it.

This made Xu Dao couldn't help but think of the "Eighteen Hells" he heard about when he was in the Temple of White Bones, and he said silently in his heart: "Has cannibalism become an industry?"

He was a little unbelieving, and wanted to dig through the memories of the three Taoists to find out the clues that caused this situation, and whether there was an orthodox Taoist sect in the West Sea.

But after all, Xu Dao was only searching for souls, not eating them, so he couldn't find out everything in detail.

After hesitating for a few times, he completely suppressed the urge to eat the soul, and his Dao heart was unbreakable.

Several times, the souls of the three Xihai Taoist disciples had been tortured out of shape. Before Xu Dao could see anything, they were shattered into the inner world and turned into nothingness.

Sighing softly, Xu Dao also slowly opened his eyes, looked at the dark cabin, and then glanced at the iron cage under his feet.

In addition to the two imprisoned Erhai Taoists, there are living creatures in the iron cage below, which are also "animals" with magical powers, but they are not from the state of Wu, but are produced locally in Xihai.

After a few glances, he withdrew his gaze.

Xu Dao didn't shoot at the "animal man" below, nor did he release it directly, but walked up the cabin with his hands behind his back.

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The interrogation did not happen in the blink of an eye, and the subsequent soul search took Xu Dao a lot of energy, which lasted more than three days.

During these days, the black ship has been suspended in place, and the two Taoist disciples who were rescued by him also woke up early on the deck.

It was only because of the resistance of the scale soldiers that the two dared not go down to the third floor, so they could only wait on the deck, manage the entire black ship together, and prepare water for the living people on the first and second floors.

But the two of them weren't busy just yet. The slave laborers were in charge of the details on the ship, and all they did was calm people's hearts.

When Xu Dao passed the first and second floors, he suddenly found that although the wooden cage was still crowded, the environment was very different from before. It was no longer as dirty as a pigsty, and the complexion of the living people inside was much better. .

Among them, the cabin on the first floor, which has the largest space, has a lot of new residents. Their faces are all thinner. Occasionally, there will be voices, but they are still very timid.

Walking all the way, when Xu Dao appeared on the deck, it was just noon outside, the blue sky on the sea was like a mirror, and the golden sun shone on the dark and shiny deck, which was shiny and silky.

As soon as Xu Dao stepped out of the cabin, he felt as if he had stepped into a bright painting. The blue sky and white clouds outside were incompatible with the crowded and oppressive environment below the deck.

At this time, he had tied up his hair, exposing his entire face, and simply raised his head to bathe in the sunlight, as if trying to wash away all the images in his mind.

Just at this time, two figures appeared beside him, shouting: "See Daoist!"

The voices were a man and a woman, unfamiliar to Xu Dao, but somewhat familiar. They were the two Erhai Taoist disciples he had rescued from the bottom of the boat.Xu Dao continued to raise his face, but did not immediately respond to the other party.

The two Taoist disciples respectfully shouted again: "Disciple Wu Bixi, knock on the head of the Taoist palace."

"Disciple Liang Xia, kowtow to the Taoist priest of the Taoist Palace."

The two of them knelt directly in front of Xu Dao, kowtowed and kowtowed three times and bowed nine times.

Xu Dao opened his eyes at this moment, with some surprise in his eyes.What surprised him was not the two bowing their heads, but the voices they shouted.

"You two, do you know Pindao?" Xu Dao looked down at each other.

Among them, the female Taoist who called herself "Wu Bixi" still lowered her head, and said with some hesitation: "Reporting to the Taoist priest, all the disciples are disciples of the Taoist palace. When I first entered the Taoist palace, I was lucky enough to meet the Taoist priest. Therefore, I wrote down the appearance of the Taoist priest."

Another male Taoist who called himself Liang Xia also spoke out, his voice was dull and strange: "The disciple is also."

Xu Dao found that the other party was slurred, but was using some kind of spell to vibrate the air flow, speaking like a mortal ventriloquist.

He glanced at the two of them, compared their faces one by one, and pulled out a memory from his mind, and suddenly said, "So it's you two."

Then he laughed again and said: "Coincidentally, it was also the first time that Pindao entered the Taoist Palace, you and I can be regarded as 'the same year'!"

These two people were a man and a woman that Xu Dao met by chance outside Shuiwu when he rushed to the Taoist Palace to attend the initiation ceremony after he killed Taoist priest Lei Zhao.

Although it was only a one-time relationship and there was no intersection afterwards, the Taoist priest's memory is amazing, and Xu Dao did not forget the two of them.

Xu Dao was only because of his extraordinary memory, while the two Taoists were genuinely envious, even jealous of Xu Dao back then. They were touched by his high-spirited appearance back then, so they remembered deeply and recognized them at a glance.

Times have changed, and now the two of them, whether male or female, kowtowed on the deck and hurried back: "Don't dare, my disciples are mere Taoist disciples. I am so grateful to have the chance to meet the Taoist priest today."

During the speech, although the male disciple Liang Xia was excited, his voice was muffled, and he couldn't hear anything, while the female Taoist disciple Wu Bixi was already weeping again and again, which made people sigh.

Seeing the excitement of the two, Xu Dao recalled that the other party had been imprisoned at the bottom of the boat for many days, sighed in his heart, and then used his magic power to lift them up.

He didn't appease the other party immediately, but straightened his expression, and said: "You and I are both people in the Taoist palace, what are you doing kneeling, just get up and talk."

The two Taoists shook their bodies, thinking they were annoyed by Xu Dao, the sobs in their mouths froze immediately.But then the two heard again:

"This place is the West Sea, not the State of Wu. The two of you fell into this place, and you can tell the poor Dao what you have experienced." Xu Daowen said softly.

Wu and Liang were supported by his mana, and their faces were different, but they talked about their experiences word by word.

It turned out that more than half a month ago, when the sky of Wu Kingdom collapsed, not only the Taoist priests of the Taoist Palace were sent out, but the rest of the Taoist Palace disciples, servants, and even the entire living beings of Wu Kingdom were sent out.

It's just that they were sent out in a different way. They didn't fly out by themselves on a paper boat, but they were in the fragments of Wu Kingdom, and came to the West Sea together with pieces of Wu Kingdom's heaven and earth.

The fragments of the Wu Kingdom that fell from the sky did not fall directly into the sea, but were either taken away by the Taoists of Xihai, or turned into islands on the sea.

The entire land of Wu State returned to the mountain and sea boundary in a fragmented state, and was completely integrated into the West Sea.

Among them, the closer to the boundary of the Dao Palace, the smaller the divisions, almost mixing up the entire Erhai Lake, and then randomly throwing them around.

Wu and Liang were on a boat in the Taoist Palace, and came to the West Sea together with others.But after falling into the West Sea, he was immediately captured by the nearby Taoists of the West Sea and directly reduced to cargo.

Listening to what the two said, Xu Dao suddenly realized that the collapse of the Wu Kingdom that day was really not just a strategy of breaking the jade, but a strategy of carrying on the fire.

He looked at the two people in front of him, and he hadn't figured out what it meant, but the brand mark on his forehead was beating, shaking his spirit and soul together.

(End of this chapter)