I have the best bloodline

Judging from her aunt's anxious expression, Su Yan could really see the word "fear."

Clearly, the time she spent taking care of the elders' children in the clan had given her aunt psychological trauma.

Now I can't stand the term "proud baby".

"Go home? Oh, oh, oh."

Jiao Nanwu, who had just woken up, was a little dazed. She nodded blankly and walked towards the windowsill, almost jumping into the river.

The waterways in Xia Yu City were not natural waterways, but underground waterways artificially excavated after Emperor Yu of Xia established the country, filling the gap in Xia Yu's lack of military ports.

The underground waterway that Samenagiri takes home leads to the mainland's underground water system. After a few days of sailing west on a special vessel, the sea will be visible.

Therefore, while the slumbering curse had not completely dissipated and Jiao Nanwu was still in a daze, when she heard Su Yan say that he wanted to go home, she went straight to the windowsill, preparing to jump into the river and manifest her true form as a mermaid to swim to the bottom of the river.

"What are you planning, Nanwu?"

Seeing Jiao Nanwu preparing to jump into the river, Su Yan quickly grabbed her waist and pulled her back.

"There's no need to rush! Let's have breakfast first before heading out! Auntie hasn't fully settled things at Ruchun Garden yet!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 375 Heading to the Western States

"Wow... such a good thing?"

Upon receiving a telepathic message from her aunt seeking help, Hua Yu Zhenren dressed up briefly and went to Ruchun Garden. Her aunt briefly explained that she was going out to avoid trouble and asked Hua Yu Zhenren to help look after the talented women of Ruchun Garden.

But Hua Yu Zhenren's focus wasn't on the talented women at all; instead, it was on the arrogant Auntie.

After learning from her aunt's tone that there were probably some baby venomous insects around her, Hua Yu Zhenren's expression gradually changed from doubt to ecstasy. Didn't this mean that she finally had a chance to abduct the King of Poisonous Insects?

Even if you raise a baby worm to adulthood, it will still be a worm, it just might take some time and resources!

"Is this really okay?"

After entrusting Ruchun Garden to Huayu and instructing her to help entertain her aunt, the aunt immediately took Su Yan and Jiao Nanwu and made a quick getaway.

Not long before leaving, Su Yan couldn't help but turn back to look at the facade of Ruchun Garden and said, "Aunt Huayu has always wanted to lure the proud insect home to sign a blood pact and worship it as her natal Gu insect. Aunt, aren't you afraid that Aunt Huayu will actually succeed?"

How can I explain this to you?

My aunt waved her hand dismissively and said, "Among the proud insect tribes, my temper and personality are probably the best. Other proud insects don't have my kind temper."

"Hua Yu and her aunt should be able to spend a wonderful holiday together, right?"

Although the aunt said this, she already pictured her eldest aunt with a sarcastic and mean face, riding on Hua Yu Zhenren's back, raising her whip high and lashing Hua Yu Zhenren, who was always flirting and being promiscuous beside her.

Compared to her tyrannical aunt, Hua Yu Zhenren, who was being held down by her aunt while riding a horse, had tears streaming down her face. Her snow-white back was covered with crisscrossing bruises and red marks. She pursed her lips, her face full of humiliation. Beside her, four or five little worms looked at the two adults with curiosity and drooled.

"I guess nothing serious will happen?" Auntie muttered to herself, a little apprehensive. She quickly sent a telepathic message to Master Huayu, telling him to behave himself when he saw her.

"So brutal?"

Upon receiving her aunt's telepathic message, Hua Yu was secretly startled, then licked her lips and said:

"As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold, so take the risk! A Gu cultivator without a proud insect is an incomplete Gu cultivator!"

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The aunt and her group, who have already left, have somehow managed to stir up Hua Yu Zhenren's rebellious spirit due to the warning message, making her determined to bring home a proud worm no matter what.

Led by Jiao Nanwu, Su Yan dived to the bottom of the river in Xia Yu City, headed north, and arrived at a bustling underground market through an underwater cave.

Above the cave walls and ceiling hang crimson fire-elemental crystals, which not only illuminate the cave but also suppress a significant amount of water vapor. A harbor has been built at the edge of the cave, with ships of different sizes docked at the pier, and sailors carrying wooden crates from the hulls to the pier.

Although the box was sealed tightly, a pattern of a marine creature was printed on its surface, making it easy to guess that it contained storage bags. These bags were likely filled with a large variety of seafood.

The cave market was originally a military port, but now it serves as a distribution center for Xia Yu seafood. Merchants from Xia Yu City and its surrounding satellite cities wait here every morning to pick up their goods.

"Don't come here unless you have a specific reason to."

After glancing around, the aunt looked at Su Yan with a serious expression and warned, "Although this place no longer has the attributes of a military port, as far as I know, Xia Yu still has some important military sites here. If you go inside, the wooden spikes and nails sprayed by the plant demons will fill your mouth."

The cave was damp and the climate was hot and humid, so not many soldiers were willing to be stationed there. Therefore, the Xia Dynasty secretly dispatched some plant demons to guard the area.

Of course, given her status as an aunt, she shouldn't actually know these things, but a certain cat, after getting drunk, kept rambling on and on to his aunt, and in the process, he revealed some inside information about Xia Yu to her.

"If there's nothing wrong, I probably wouldn't have come here on purpose," Su Yan remarked.

There's nothing fun or scenic about this cave; it's simply a distribution port for Xia Yu seafood products.

"Over here, over here!"

While Aunt and Su Yan were talking, Jiao Nanwu had already run to the wooden pavilion not far from the river, took out spirit stones from her storage bracelet, handed them to the ticket seller, and bought three tickets for a cruise to the coastal area of ​​the western state.

"By the way, Auntie, why don't we take the teleportation array directly to the Western State?"

Su Yan looked at the boat ticket in her hand, then at her aunt who could travel hundreds of miles in an instant, and didn't quite understand why there was a faster way without having to take a boat.

"We're not in a hurry now, so what's the fun in using a teleportation array to travel and have fun? It's meaningless."

The aunt also took the cruise ship ticket, smiled, and said something to Su Yan.

Cultivators have long lifespans, and unless there is an emergency, my aunt still likes to travel slowly, enjoying the fresh and beautiful people and scenery around her, and cutting things along the way.

Therefore, when my aunt went to her hometown, Minami-no-Mori, on the coast of western Taiwan, she chose to travel by boat.

"Ready to depart!"

The original cargo ships were quickly renovated and transformed into passenger ships.

Su Yan watched in stunned silence, and felt deeply worried about the quality of her trip.

As it turned out, Su Yan's feeling was correct. The cabins on the ship were quite basic, with just a bed and a thin sheet on it. There was nothing else in the room, let alone a teapot to enhance the comfort of the home. Su Yan couldn't even find the essential chamber pot for his long journey.

Meanwhile, on the deck of the cargo ship, sailors were diligently tightening screws to secure the tables and chairs to the deck so they wouldn't shift. A somewhat rudimentary dining hall had been erected.

"set off!"

When the time came, the captain of the cargo ship ignored the other passengers who had bought tickets but had not yet boarded, turned around, shouted to the crew, and opened the protective layer of the ship to retrieve the anchor in its fixed position onto the ship.

The fairy boat gradually sank to the bottom of the water. Without any power, the boat shot out directly along the rapid undercurrent of the river, carried forward by the undercurrent.

The passengers on the boat were thrown back and forth by the powerful thrust.

Upon seeing this, Su Yan revealed his true form, a fox lying on the ground in a "太" shape, its claws extended and gripping the wooden floor tightly. He turned and roared:

"Captain! Do you have any VIP tickets? I'll pay extra!"

"Conditions are limited."

The captain himself no longer took the helm; instead, he held onto the mast with a look of nonchalance, preventing his body from flying around due to the ship's high speed.

"Right! Everyone, hold on tight! We might need to jump over a waterfall with a drop of 300 meters in a bit, and the current below is three times faster than it is now."

As a former military port of the Xia Dynasty, the river channel contains some natural formations arranged using the terrain.

Once the ship lands in the designated area, it can provide a unique experience of rapid, high-speed military operations.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 376 A Thousand Miles of Barren Land, Yellow Sands Filling the Sky

"Ahhhh!"

The celestial boat activated its defensive formation and submerged into the riverbed. It was swept along by the undercurrents and its speed increased. It leaped over waterfalls with drops of hundreds of meters and landed directly in the lake below. It then boarded another section of the riverbed's undercurrents and took off from the spot.

Customers were flying around on the ship, while highly skilled cultivators could barely sit on chairs in the dining hall.

Su Yan struggled to get on all fours, using her not-so-sharp fingernails to grip the splint, climbed out of the dormitory, and jumped directly from the porthole, leaping into her aunt's arms and tightly hugging her waist.

The celestial ship's course was very strange; it wasn't moving forward normally but was constantly falling.

Leaping over a waterfall, landing on another riverbed, and then speeding across the waterfall again at a minimum speed of 450 kilometers per hour, the journey has already covered a two-kilometer drop in just half an hour.

"Sister Nanwu, next time we return to Nanbu Prefecture from the West Sea, let's take the fairy boat again! Traveling by boat through turbulent currents and undercurrents is really not something we can handle."

Su Yan peeked out from under her aunt's arm and looked at Jiao Nanwu, who was trying her best to hug the table tightly, and complained.

If living conditions didn't allow it, Su Yan wouldn't complain about boarding such a celestial ship. When he used to run away from home, he would only sneak into the cargo hold of the cargo ship and sit with the boxes of goods, leaning on the porthole to look at the scenery outside.

But that was a last resort due to limited living conditions.

Now that living standards have improved, there's really no need for such thrilling experiences.

"Doesn't the little fox like it?"

Hearing Su Yan's complaints, her aunt showed a hint of surprise on her face and said, "I thought you would like this kind of flying and escaping route."

Su Yan is a hybrid of a nine-tailed fox and a dragon, so entering the water should feel like coming home to him.

Before setting sail, my aunt always thought that when Su Yan landed in the dark river, he would excitedly jump onto the table and cheer, experiencing the thrill of the fairy boat descent.

But judging from his curled-up appearance, the little fox doesn't seem to like such exciting activities.

"It was quite fun, actually."

Su Yan glanced at the flying customers around him, his fox-like face showing a subtle hint of something else, and said, "I feel cheated that this fairy ship charged us admission fees but provided us with this kind of service."

"One pound of spirit stones per person, it's not expensive," Jiao Nanwu explained to Su Yan when she had a moment.

These ships were mainly engaged in cargo transport, delivering goods from all corners of the world to the Xia Dynasty.

They arrived with a ship full of goods, but the return journey was uncertain. They couldn't always receive cargo from Xia Yu merchants, who preferred and were accustomed to using the post stations' celestial ships for air transport.

Rather than losing money by sending the celestial ships back empty, these ships will pick up some customers on their return journey to subsidize the energy losses of the ships.

Therefore, this type of fairy boat is really not expensive, it can even be said to be ridiculously cheap.

After all, a boat ticket costing one pound of spirit stones per person can cross half of the central state and an entire western state.

"One pound of spirit stones per person?"

Su Yan was taken aback by these words, fell into deep thought for a moment, looked at the captain who was holding onto the mast with a calm expression, and asked:

"You said earlier that paying more wouldn't get you a VIP room, so if I add some more spirit stones, can I see people flying through the air?"

"Yes, the Immortal Ship isn't activated yet; it's just moving forward using the current. Once the Immortal Ship's formation is activated, it can increase its flight speed by four or five times." The captain gave Su Yan a clear answer with a confident expression.

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Seeing the captain's eager expression, Su Yan hesitated for a long time before rejecting his previous suggestion.