Chapter 111: Boat Overlord

  This... this guy, whoever is by his side will have their lifespan reduced! Mu Zhaoxue shook her head repeatedly. Her originally slow-beating heart had just jumped faster than a normal person's for an instant, and in that instant, she was startled into wasting quite a bit of her lifespan.

  "Of course, 'Flying Upward' is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. The upper part is also called 'Entering the Gate', the middle part is 'Progressing', and the upper part is 'Flying Up'. Each part has nine levels, and with each level of comprehension, there will be subtle changes in the body that can still be observed with a little attention."

  Mu Zhaoxue said these words and found a little psychological balance. At least this kid didn't quite understand some things about flying high.

  "I've already grasped the first layer of entrance according to what Master Sister meant. So, does it look like there's any change?"

  Mu Zhaoxue said with a smile that was not quite a smile: "Now, compared to yesterday, your eyes seem sharper and more spirited, and you are extremely sensitive to your surroundings. You can detect even the slightest movement. Just now, I quietly stood behind you, but you immediately sensed it. This is the change that comes from having grasped the first level of understanding."

  Ye Feng jokingly said: "Don't I look more handsome than yesterday?"

  Mu Zhaoxue smiled slightly and said: "Don't be poor, the sky is already bright, we will arrive at Nili Town in less than an hour, hurry up and prepare."

  Ye Feng nodded and said: "I'm all ready, just waiting to go out to sea." After finishing speaking, he sat cross-legged on the ground and continued to practice.

  Mu Zhaoxue furrowed her brow, gazing at Ye Feng, and muttered to herself: This kid is really a freak, indeed different from other true disciples, no wonder even the discerning Luo Zongzhu would take him as an apprentice.

  The morning sun slowly rises from the distant horizon, with a million rays of light covering the earth, and all things in the world are awakened. The azure sky is cloudless, and the purple golden gourd drags a long tail, like a daytime meteor streaking across the sky, rushing northward.

  "Look, it's Mudan Town up ahead." Mu Zhaoxue said, pointing forward.

  Ye Feng was so excited that he hastily stood up to look around: as far as the eye could see, the sky and sea seemed to be connected together, shining with phosphorescence on the surface of the sea against the rising sun, the sea and sky were one color.

  "We're finally here," Ye Feng said excitedly. "I've never seen the ocean since I came to this world, and I really want to see what it looks like."

  "This world? Have you been to other worlds?" Mu Zhaoxue asked curiously.

  Ye Feng's eyes quickly turned around twice and said: "Uh... I mean, it's the first time we've come to a place so far from the Demonic Sect. Let's hurry up and go take a look at Mudou Town."

  Mu Zhaoxue nodded and pinched a hand seal, the purple gold gourd's speed gradually slowed down, and finally landed on a bare mountain top.

  Two people emerged from the purple golden gourd, Ye Feng stretched his waist and looked around, in the distance was a vast sea, and around them were only some broken stones and weeds, without even a ghostly figure.

  Ye Feng curiously asked Mu Zhaoxue: "Is this bird's place where it doesn't poop Mudan Town?"

  "Ha! That's Mudou Town over there by the sea," Mu Zhaoxue said with a chuckle, shaking her head and pointing to a village in the distance. "We stopped here because we didn't want to draw attention to ourselves. Everyone from Dongzhou who wants to go out to sea gathers at that town, and it's full of all sorts of people. If we were to fly in on the Purple Gold Gourd, I'm afraid we'd be targeted by others before we even land. It's better to be careful when going out."

  Two people walked down the mountain and headed in the direction of Nili Town.

  As soon as he entered Mudian Town, the scene before him made Ye Feng feel somewhat unexpected: the town was bustling with people, the streets and alleys crisscrossed, and there were small vendors doing business everywhere, shouting voices rose and fell, all kinds of shops lined the streets, and people of all shapes and sizes came and went without stopping, even mixed in with some humanoid monsters, a lively scene.

  Ye Feng said as he walked: "I thought this Mudou Town was just a small town by the sea, with only a few households, spending their days fishing and sunbathing, living a leisurely life. I didn't expect it to be so lively, like a market day."

  Mu Zhaoxue gazed vigilantly at the people brushing past each other, her face stern as she said, "This town is a necessary route for those traveling from Dongzhou to the Wuzhi Sea, so it's naturally gathered many people and merchants. You can basically exchange all sorts of goods needed for going out to sea here."

  Ye Feng came to this place for the first time, his heart was full of curiosity, just like a child who had come to a toy store, he would look around at one stall and then chat with the merchants on the other side.

  Mu Zhaoxue pulled Ye Feng back and said in a low voice, "This place is different from our sect. There are no rules here, and we'll encounter danger everywhere. Let's hurry to the 'Tonghai Chamber of Commerce' and prepare to set sail as soon as possible."

  "Aren't we all ready yet? What else is there to prepare?"

  Mu Zhaoxue raised an eyebrow and said to Ye Feng, "We still need to go to the 'Tonghai Chamber of Commerce' to rent a boat before we can set sail."

  Ye Feng furrowed his brow and asked, "Didn't Mu Shijie say that she had already prepared a 'light boat to avoid water' long ago? Why do we need to go and join their ship, can't we just set sail directly?"

  Mu Zhaoxue waved her hand at Ye Feng and said, "You don't know this, but the 'Tonghai Chamber of Commerce' has a lot of influence in Dongzhou. They have connections with all the major sects and are also closely related to the pirates near the sea. They even have dealings with some of the sea monsters and beasts near the shore. The ships of the Tonghai Chamber of Commerce all have special markings, so as long as they see that it's a ship from the Tonghai Chamber of Commerce, they won't be attacked by pirates or sea monsters. This is also an unwritten rule."

  He's a tyrant, I used to see vegetable tyrants in the old vegetable market, fishing tyrants in the seafood market, and I didn't expect this small town of Mud Lotus to have a boat tyrant too. It seems that every industry has its own 'tyrant'.

  Ye Feng furrowed his brow and said, "Isn't this obviously using the money earned to support pirates, and then having the pirates coerce others into renting ships from them? Is there really no one managing such things?"

  "The Tonghai Merchant Association provides some rare seafood products to various major sects every year. Moreover, there is no sufficient evidence to prove that they collude with pirates, it's all just rumors and hearsay. Besides, renting a ship isn't very expensive, you can rent a good one for just ten low-grade 'Dragon Blood Pills'. To avoid unnecessary trouble, many people are willing to rent ships from here to go out to sea."

  Dragon Blood Dan? Ye Feng muttered to himself: This kind of dan is nothing special, I'm too lazy to refine it usually, and even if someone gave it to me, I'd think it's a waste of space. However, it's said that this dan is used in the Nine States as a medium of exchange for goods, used to measure the value of an item. The more valuable the item, the more "Dragon Blood Dan" you can exchange for it, just like currency.

  Ye Feng nodded and said, "This 'Dragon Blood Pill' I do know, basically everyone has it, it's a must-have pill for exchanging the items one needs, and the method of refining Dragon Blood Pill is also very simple..."

  "Simple?" Mu Zhaoxue interrupted before Ye Feng could finish speaking: "Do you know that in the entire Eastern Continent, there are no more than five masters who can refine this kind of elixir? Among the hundreds of millions of disciples of the Inverse Sword Sect, not a single one knows the formula for 'Dragon Blood Elixir'. It's said that refining this elixir requires outrageous materials and needs to be assisted by dragon blood in order to succeed."

  Ye Feng swallowed his words, thinking: Forget it, if others knew I had Tai Gu Long blood on me, they would rush up like zombies and devour me. It's better to refine some Dan medicine similar to "Dragon Blood Dan" to pretend, that way I can get rich. Anyway, this world doesn't have police, so counterfeiting "fake currency" won't get me caught.

  Mu Zhaoxue looked at Ye Feng with a sly smile, as if she had seen through his thoughts. She smiled and said: "The real Dragon Blood Dan will always emit a faint dark red color. This color is very special and no matter how you manipulate it, the color cannot be erased. Plus its unique fragrance, even an ordinary person can distinguish between true and false at a glance."

  Is that so? Ye Feng curled his lip, these days there are counterfeit bills that can't be detected by money detectors, the key is still the technique! The technique of refining elixirs, I'm still quite skilled at it.

  "Then can't we just use other pellets to exchange for what we need?" Ye Feng furrowed his brow and asked.

  Mu Zhaoxue smiled and said, "If both parties are willing, of course it's possible. However, the merchant guilds in all nine states only recognize Dragon Blood Dan. You must first exchange your items for Dragon Blood Dan, then use the exchanged Dragon Blood Dan to trade for what you need at the merchant guild."

  Yefeng curled up the corner of his mouth and said, "Although ten dragon blood pills are nothing, but all the people in the entire Eastern Continent who go out to sea rent ships from their business association. The boss of that business association has really made a fortune, what a shrewd businessman, he even knows the principle of 'thin profit and many sales'."

  Mu Zhaoxue smiled slightly, this junior brother's mind still had quite a few worldly thoughts of a merchant, compared to many stupid junior brothers who only knew how to cultivate diligently, it was much more interesting.

  Ye Feng followed Mu Zhaoxue to a wide dock by the sea, where the endless ocean unfolded before them, and the sea breeze carried a salty smell unique to the ocean.

  Ye Feng took a deep breath, and suddenly felt refreshed all over, muttering to himself: "This is much better than the suffocating car exhaust in the city, it's really comfortable."

  "What's wrong? Hurry up!" Mu Zhaoxue turned her head and urged Ye Feng to keep up with her.

  Ye Feng walked along the dock, looking around: the vast wharf was moored with large and small ships of all kinds, like a winding long snake, extending northward along the coastline, with thousands of ships, some had just arrived, while others were gradually leaving, people of all shapes and sizes shuttled between the ships and the land, the dock was bustling with activity.

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