Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 775 Twenty-seven Lives
Feng Laoliu waved his hand and said,
"Of course I am not gathering troops to rebel. It's just that a few days after you left, His Majesty suddenly fell ill. He even asked a fairy master to cast a spell, but it only delayed the time. When I left earlier, I heard the news from the palace that His Majesty only had half a month to live. I am a member of the wise king, who intends to fight for the throne, but the prince is suppressing me..."

Oh...it turns out to be another drama of brothers vying for power!
Gu Shiyi was somewhat bored, and after thinking for a while, he said,
"Even if I have a way, it would take so long for the prince to ascend the throne before the weapons arrive!"

Feng Laoliu responded,

"This matter... I have also discussed it with the wise king. Firstly, your majesty's dragon body and the immortal master are trying to prolong his life. Secondly, the prince is now under attack from all sides. The current majesty has four sons in total. In addition to the prince, there are three princes. The three princes are not on good terms with the prince, and all of them want to take the throne. The wise king has been secretly planning this. Now the prince and the other two princes are fighting each other. I am afraid that even if he takes the throne, he will not be able to sit firmly..."

In a word, the emperor Dayuan's sons were fighting each other to their heart's content, and no one would be convinced by whoever came to power, so a war was inevitable in the future. So this wise king wanted to take advantage of the three brothers fighting each other to equip himself with troops in the back, and then take advantage when they were all defeated!
"Now...what we lack is weapons, especially various bows and arrows..."

Bows and arrows are good for long-range attacks and are most suitable for a country like the Abyss that relies on ships to fight wars!

Gu Shiyi raised her eyebrows and hesitated. She naturally didn't want to participate in the struggle for power in this mortal kingdom, so she responded,
"Although I have some connections in the Southern Ming Kingdom, they are all in the business world. I can sell you some ironware, but weapons... these are controlled by the government. If the court officials get to know, I'm afraid the whole family will be implicated..."

Feng Laoliu nodded and said,
"This... I also know..."

After saying that, he reached to his waist, took down the cloth bag hanging there, opened it, and revealed a bag full of thumb-sized night-shining pearls.

"The wise king knows that this matter is difficult to handle, so he specially asked me to bring this bag of pearls, saying... as long as this matter is handled well, there will be ten boxes of such pearls as gifts..."

"This one……"

Gu Shiyi naturally didn't take this kind of pearl, which ordinary people regarded as a rare treasure, seriously and still wanted to refuse him. But she changed her mind and
"If I still refuse, he will definitely continue to pester me. Why should I waste my time with him? It is better to pretend to agree and wait for him to leave this ship. He will have no chance to find us in the future!"

So he nodded and said,
"Forget it, let's just make a good relationship with the Dayuan royal family!"

Feng Laoliu was overjoyed when he heard this, and he stood up and bowed repeatedly.
"Thank you, Master Gu!"

Gu Shi nodded,

"That's the case. Let's set off back to Nanming tomorrow..."

"Thank you, sir!"

Feng Laoliu was happy to see that she agreed, and he wanted to go back to report to the wise king, so he did not stay any longer. He just agreed with Gu Shiyi on the method of delivering the message and the place to meet, and then left by boat!

As soon as he left, Pu Yanlan appeared in the hall and smiled slightly.

"Eleven, are you planning to get the merit of following the dragon?"

Gu Shiyi laughed and said,

"If I had that mindset, I might as well become an emperor myself!"

"So you still want to help Feng Laoliu?"

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"I was just trying to fool him. We will leave here early tomorrow morning and he won't be able to find us!"

Pu Yanlan smiled and pointed at the bag on the table.

"You have already accepted a bag of pearls from them. This is the deposit!"

Gu Shiyi smiled and waved his hand.
"That's fine. I'll catch up with him tomorrow and quietly return the bag of pearls to Feng Laoliu!"

"That's okay!"

Pu Yanlan nodded, and the two returned to the cabin, meditating and resting. In the blink of an eye, it was dawn. Gu Shiyi remembered the bag of pearls from yesterday, so he put it in the storage bag and said to Pu Yanlan,
"Yan'er, I'll be back soon!"

Pu Yanlan nodded, thought for a moment and said,

"I'll make breakfast and wait for you to come back!"

Although the two of them are able to fast, they still have to cook and eat three meals a day whenever they have time. This way they feel that they have not left this world!

Pu Yanlan went to the kitchen to light a fire and cook. Her two little kids jumped around to help. Before her fish porridge was cooked, she sensed that Gu Shiyi had returned, and immediately went out to greet him with a smile.
"Why did they come back so soon? I guess Feng Laoliu's boat didn't go very far?" It was understandable that it was not safe to sail in the middle of the night. Feng Laoliu and his crew must have dropped anchor nearby and stayed overnight...

As soon as she finished speaking, she was stunned by Gu Shiyi's gloomy face.
"what happened?"

Gu Shiyi stretched out a hand towards her, one of which was covered in blood. She said coldly,
"Feng Laoliu is dead. Four ships in total, twenty-seven lives, all dead!"

Gu Shiyi's expression was very bad. After all, Feng Laoliu had been with them for some time. He was a generous person and got along well with Gu Shiyi. He was also very respectful to Pu Yanlan. But now, in the middle of the night, the person was gone. Both Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan frowned.
"Do you know who killed him?"

Gu Shiyi hummed,

"I'm not good at tracking. I tried to call back the spirit once, but it didn't work, so I came back and asked you to go and have a look!"

Pu Yanlan nodded, and Gu Shiyi created a gust of evil wind, which blew up the sail. In less than half an incense stick of time, they arrived at the scene of the murder. In fact, Feng Laoliu was not far away from them that night, and the two boats were only about ten miles apart. At this time, the ownerless boat was floating quietly on the water. After Pu Yanlan arrived, she saw Feng Laoliu's body, whose throat had been cut and blood was all over the ground. It seemed that he was lying on the ground. When Gu Shiyi turned him over, he saw that Feng Laoliu's facial features were very distorted, and it could be seen that he died in great pain.

Gu Shiyi frowned.

"Yan'er, call his soul out and ask..."

Pu Yanlan nodded, stretched out her hand and pointed at the forehead of Feng Laoliu's corpse. She gently pulled it outwards, and a wisp of black smoke came out from her finger. It was just half an inch away from the forehead when it broke off with a puff. The black smoke immediately dispersed and disappeared without a trace...

Pu Yanlan was stunned when she saw this, and tried again. This time, the black smoke on her finger disappeared, and her face darkened.
"His soul has been taken away by someone..."

Then he turned around and tried to summon the souls of the other corpses, but without exception, none of them could be summoned. After watching, Pu Yanlan said with a cold face,

"The other party must have asked a cultivator to take action. After killing these people, they took away all their souls. It seems that they are also afraid of being summoned by the cultivator. Let's follow the clues to investigate..."

Gu Shi said,
"This Feng Laoliu claims to be an imperial merchant, but in reality he is just a servant who runs errands. Is it worth it for someone to ask the immortal master to deal with him?"

Pu Yanlan thought for a while and said,
"The intrigues among mortals fighting for the throne are complicated and hard to understand, so there is no need for us to delve into them. After all, Feng Laoliu has made friends with us. As long as we can find his soul and help him to be reborn in a good way in his next life, we will have fulfilled our fate!"

They are all cultivators, and what matters to them is fate and sin. If left alone, it will definitely affect their spiritual aspirations!
From the two men's perspective at that time, even though there were twenty-seven lives lost, revenge was a trivial matter and they did not take it seriously!
Gu Shiyi asked,

"The souls have been taken away. How can we find the person who cast the spell?"

Pu Yanlan said,

"It's okay. I have my own way. Although these corpses have no souls, the person who cast the spell is probably not at a high level. If I were to do this, I would definitely burn the corpses, leaving no chance for the next person to cast the spell!"

After saying that, he formed seals with his hands, muttered something, and raised his finger. The body of Feng Laoliu in front of him suddenly stood up straight from the ground, facing the window, with a pair of eyes that were still open in death, staring out the window with gray eyeballs without blinking.

"The murderer went south!"

At that moment, Gu Shiyi used a finger of true spirit fire to burn the boat of Feng Laoliu and others, while Pu Yanlan collected the bodies of Feng Laoliu and his followers and returned to their boat. After Gu Shiyi burned the boat and returned, he saw Feng Laoliu's body standing upright behind Pu Yanlan. His bloodstained clothes had been changed, and the finger-long wound on his neck had healed. If it weren't for his dull eyes and wooden expression, Gu Shiyi would have thought that Yan'er had resurrected Feng Laoliu!

"How did you get this wound?"

Gu Shiyi stared at Feng Laoliu's body from head to toe. Pu Yanlan was reciting a spell, summoning a strong wind that blew up the sails. Upon hearing this, she responded,

"I didn't do anything. I just applied some powder on his wound. This powder can heal the wound, but the drug is overbearing and will cause the injured person to suffer extreme pain..."

But now Feng Laoliu is dead, so it doesn’t matter whether it hurts or not!

Their boats filled up their sails and, like an arrow shot from a bow, they chased southwards...

In fact, after Feng Laoliu died, the blood that flowed out had not yet coagulated when Gu Shiyi arrived. Although they were delayed for a while when they were summoning the soul, they chased after him at full speed. In fact, the two sides were not far apart. It took them less than half a day to catch up. Gu Shiyi, who was standing on the bow, had already seen the ship in the distance and pointed with her finger.
"Yan'er, is that the boat ahead?"

Pu Yanlan turned her head and glanced at Feng Laoliu behind her. Feng Laoliu's wooden face had a muscle twitching.
"Yes……"

Pu Yanlan nodded, and Gu Shiyi asked curiously,

"He has no soul anymore, how can he have such an expression?"