Chapter 25
Chapter 25
On the coast of the East China Sea, after the zigzag coastline connects hundreds of miles of rugged beaches, a large flat sandy land suddenly appears. The originally abrupt coastline bends and turns here, forming a quiet bay, separating the fierce waves outside. The waves also sheltered the unnamed fishing village behind the bay.
Cang Nan was dressed in a tight robe, clean and neat, looking like a knight walking in the world.
Several subordinates, also smartly dressed, stood behind him a few feet away.
In front of him were the villagers of the entire fishing village. Under the leadership of the village chief, everyone came to see the benefactor off.
The time goes back to two months ago. At that time, Daoist Xuanqing was the main agent of sect affairs, and Cang Nan was the assistant manager. On that day, he saw the disciple of the Secretary of Government Affairs who was in charge of collecting and transmitting internal and external intelligence information come out of Guanlanyuan, holding a box of materials and saying It was a real person who looked at it and judged it invalid and useless, and was going to destroy it.
Cang Nan said that he was here to deal with it, and after taking it back, he found an unusual piece of information.
The information was sent back by the envoy stationed in the Eastern Continent, and it was not directly related to the Tianyan Sect. It only mentioned one thing: Guangning County, which is not far from the Dongying Fourteen Sects, has frequently occurred in the past six months. The event of a young girl harvesting yin to replenish yang.
This kind of non-righteous practice will only be opportunistic and treacherous.The obscene and shameless scum of the cultivation world stepped on Cang Nan's bottom line, and he immediately went to Master Xuanqing and proposed that the Tianyan Sect could not ignore this matter.
Master Xuanqing said in a tolerant tone with his understanding of young people's passion and recklessness: "Nephew, the world is so big, and injustice happens everywhere every day. If Tian Yanzong takes care of everything, how can we manage it?"
"Are these scumbags allowed to do whatever they want and harm others?" Cang Nan couldn't understand the downplaying attitude of Master Xuanqing.
"If this matter is within the jurisdiction of my Tianyan Sect, it is not a bad idea to send someone to find out about it, but my nephew, Guangning County does not belong to any prefecture under my Tianyan Sect's jurisdiction. Even if it is to be managed, it is in the Donglu area Under the sect's rule, they will handle this matter on their own, and we don't need to intervene."
The most remote affiliated sect of Tianyan Sect in the Eastern Continent is the Dongying Fourteenth Sect. Although Guangning County is almost adjacent, it is indeed out of the protection range of Tianyan Sect and its affiliated sects.
"Evil cultivators are running around, this time they are not in the territory of Tianyan Sect, maybe they will be there next time, how can this be used as a reason for not asking?" Cang Nan said solemnly.
Seeing him like this, Xuan Qing laughed instead, as if thinking that Cang Nan's seriousness was really childish. "If that's the case, it's not too late for the deity to send someone there... Alright nephew, your wedding is coming soon, and there are still many things that haven't been prepared yet, so you have to pay attention to it yourself, don't be a shopkeeper who throws your hands away... this matter Think long term..."
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The result is of course fruitless.
Since then, Cang Nan's wedding is approaching, although he has always been willful, he will not really disappear during this period, so this matter is put aside for the time being.
He didn't bring this up until that day when Immortal Master Zhongguang of Minghua Palace announced his retreat and asked him to talk alone at the end.
"Cang Nan, since I have ordered you to act as the representative of the sect, you should handle it according to your own discretion. Since it is not far from the Fourteenth Sect of Dongying, they just sent an invitation letter. What a big deal." Immortal Venerable Zhongguang also mentioned this matter, but then the subject changed to Cang Nan.
"This marriage with Jiuyi, I know that you have resentment before, do you still complain about being a teacher?" Chongguang Xianzun has always been serious, and when he said this, his expression was rarely relaxed and happy, and it even sounded like he was running on his apprentice .
"The disciple didn't complain." Cang Nan quickly replied.
Chongguang Immortal Venerable chuckled, and asked again: "Then...do you like it?"
Cang Nan raised her head in astonishment, saw Master's teasing, couldn't help but blush slightly, and replied in a very low voice after a long while: "...I like it."
Chongguang Xianzun haha stroked his beard and said: "Since you like it, get closer to An Yue, and Taoist couples should do more things between Taoist couples."
Cang Nan was even more shocked, he couldn't believe that such words came from the mouth of the always strict and serious master, he was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to answer the words.
He remembered Elder Jian's reminder, and considered whether to ask Master, but finally felt that it was very frivolous and disrespectful to bring up this topic in front of Master, so he suppressed the urge to speak out.
However, the topic of Chongguang Immortal Venerable quickly turned to other matters, explaining to Cang Nan one by one.
Until he said goodbye and left, Cang Nan's question remained silent.
Going to Dongying Fourteen Sects in person was a temporary decision. After leaving Tianlu Peak in a hurry that night, he wandered outside for a night and dawdled in Gong Chi's place for half a day without going back. As Gong Chi said, he hadn't thought about it yet. How to deal with An Yue; Second, the matter of Guangning County has always been in his heart, and now he just takes advantage of the invitation of Dongying Fourteen Sects to find out what happened.
From the information sent, he paid special attention to the details of the evil cultivator targeting the fisher girl, and he felt that things were not so simple.
So as soon as he arrived at Dongying Fourteenth Sect that day, he asked Chen You, who was traveling with him, to be in charge of the invitation. He asked the Donglu governor who submitted this information to take the two of them and rushed to Guangning County without stopping.
And this was more than ten days ago.
These days, he pretended to visit and follow the vines to find out the truth. It cannot be said to be easy, but it is not to the point of exhaustion.The main reason is that it took some time and effort to wipe out this gang of evil cultivators. Fortunately, the supervisor is stationed in Donglu, familiar with the local customs, and has paid attention to the early stage of the incident. Collecting some information before has played a big role. In the end, everyone worked together to take down the stronghold of this group of evil cultivators, and rescued the two fisherman's daughters who had been kidnapped.
After questioning, I found out that all this started from rumors that came out from nowhere, saying that the fishing village where the woman lived was a descendant of a family with the physique of a furnace in ancient times, thus attracting the coveted scum of cultivation.
The term "furnace tripod" is quite unfamiliar to Cang Nan. Although it exists in ancient legends, there are not many books in the Tianyan Sect's collection. Cang Nan has not seen a single word in any ancient book. In a hundred years of history, the so-called man of the furnace has never appeared in reality.
From Cang Nan's point of view, this is just like the legend about immortals beyond the Nine Heavens, it is fabricated by the world, and it is all nonsense in the final analysis.
And the most important thing is, even if it is true, how can you really realize the Dao by relying on such ineffective and opportunistic means to improve?Instead of being ashamed of it, they pursue it, that is, those incompetent and mediocre people will just pursue it.
If you still do heinous things because of this, destroying people's innocence, how is it different from those bloodthirsty monsters in the Valley of Ten Thousand Monsters?Moreover, if such rumors spread, it is more likely to bring disaster to the fishing village that has already been victimized.
"Is it you who spread the rumors?" Cang Nan stepped on the leader of the evil cultivator gang and asked coldly.At the same time, the spiritual consciousness pressed against the opponent's sea of consciousness, and the powerful coercion was like a raging fire.
The accompanying supervisor and his subordinates were lined up behind him, and they also kept a close eye on this group of scum.
Relying on their own cultivation, this group of evil cultivators have roamed around the East China Sea for a long time. Cangnan and his party fell from the sky, and after a few rounds, they beat them back to their original form. The members of the gang were dead and disabled. Trembling in front of him.
Although the boss didn't know which god they touched, he had already experienced the power of this young man with a terrifyingly advanced cultivation base. At this moment, his consciousness was suffering even more, as if he was about to be boiled dry in a pot. Yu, how dare you hide a little bit, tremblingly said: "The little ghost is obsessed, the ghost is obsessed..."
It turned out that they had been wandering for a long time, looking for a secluded, spacious and comfortable fixed base. After looking around, they found the fishing village. Unexpectedly, there was a powerful barrier around them that made it difficult to enter, so they made up this rumor and recruited More unscrupulous monks went there. Although they met with fierce resistance, they finally broke the barrier of the fishing village and kidnapped several women. After that, they harassed them many times. Although the fishing village tried its best to resist, it finally lost.
When originally planning to completely solve the fishing village again, I didn't want Cang Nan and his party to solve them first.
No matter how calm Cang Nan was, such a heinous and insane behavior still made him furious. Thinking of the two women who had been tortured to the brink of death when they were rescued, he kicked the scum to the corner of the room, knocking over the The other evil cultivators in one place rolled together.
"Xianjun, is it just..." The governor stepped forward to ask for instructions, but he was also very angry, and made a cutting gesture.
Cang Nan calmed down and said with a sneer, "It's not too cheap for them."
The envoy waits for instructions.
"Didn't you want to collect yin? Cut off the tool, bring it back to Tianyanzong, and throw it into the Valley of Ten Thousand Monsters."
Several people in the corner rolled their eyes when they heard the words "Tianyanzong" and "Wan Yao Valley", and they all fainted from fright.
The supervisor here took the order to carry out, Cang Nan walked out of the small room where he was inquiring, and there were heart-piercing screams from behind him, and he left without changing his expression.
Before returning to Dongying Fourteen Sects, Cang Nan and his party sent the two poor girls back to the fishing village. At the same time, he also had to consider the future safety of the fishing village.
Everyone in the fishing village is ready to fight to the death with the evil cultivator who invaded again. Unexpectedly, a noble and handsome young man welcomes him. He also offered to help them repair the damaged enchantment.
The villagers couldn't believe it before, but it wasn't until the governor threw the bloody scum that was tied up like rice dumplings on the ground, that the villagers believed that the sky has eyes, and they all thanked the benefactor.
The village head led Cang Nan to see the barriers around the fishing village. Many places have been damaged by attacks and their mana is weak.Cang Nan was a little surprised to find that the core of the magic circle contained in this enchantment was actually the same source as the Tianyan Zong's mountain protection array, but the cultivation level of the person who cast the spell was obviously much lower.This also made Cang Nan recover with half the effort.
After the end, he said to the village chief: "Okay, in addition to reinforcement, I also added the spell of Tianyanzong to this enchantment. If someone attacks again in the future, I will consider whether to compete with Tianyanzong."
Only then was the village chief startled to realize that the person in front of him turned out to be Immortal Lord Lanri, the number one sect in the world, and immediately led the villagers to worship again.
Cang Nan helped him up: "Don't worry, I think you are also living here in seclusion, and you don't need to do anything, just restore your peaceful life in the past. If there is anything to do in the future, you can also go to the Fourteenth School of Dongpu not far away. help."
The village chief was grateful for Cang Nan's kindness, and told him that the fishing village was indeed in troubled times. The ancestors lived here in seclusion to avoid the disaster of monsters. There is also little contact with the outside world. If it is not for the help of the immortal this time, I am afraid that I will suffer a catastrophe.
When it comes to those rumors, the village head is naturally furious and denounces the fabrication, saying: "Although the ancestors of our clan have a little relationship with the ancient Liuyue clan, they are definitely not like theirs."
"Liuyue Clan?" Cang Nan questioned, it was the first time he heard this name.
The village chief's doubts about Cang Nan were also doubts, until he heard that the outside world had changed dramatically, he sighed in disbelief: "It turns out that the Liuyue clan has long been wiped out in this world."
Repeatedly stopped the people from the fishing village who were seeing him off, and politely declined the special products and other gifts they offered. Cang Nan and his party were about to leave with the sword, when an old voice came from behind: "Xianjun stay a step."
Cang Nan turned her head and saw an old woman walking tremblingly, holding a black box in her hand. The village chief rushed to help her, and told her that she was the widow of the former village chief, who lived in seclusion for many years and rarely went out.
The old lady was about to kneel when she came to Cang Nan, but Cang Nan supported her and asked.The old woman said with a trembling voice: "My husband only wishes for the safety of the fishing village in his life. This time, if it is not for the help of the immortal, it will be overthrown. There is no way to repay the great kindness of the immortal, and only a sea anemone passed down by the ancestors will be left. , I would like to express my gratitude and hope that Xianjun will accept it."
When the people around heard it, they all exclaimed, and then there was a piece of advice of "accept it".
After the village chief explained, Cang Nan knew that the sea anemone grew 800 meters deep in the East China Sea, and it was extremely hard to find. There were only two of them in the past hundred years. The Nine Yi Kingdom specially sent people to search for it, because the people in the fishing village are good at swimming, and they spent a lot of money to drive in several batches of boats that can go deep into the bottom of the sea. income.
Even at that time, no matter how the people of Nine Yi Kingdom begged and promised to give generous rewards, the old woman still refused to give in because it was passed down from the ancestors, and now she is willing to hand over and present it to Immortal Lord Lanri.
Nine Kingdoms?Hearing this name, Cang Nan's heart moved again: "Can I take a look?"
As the name suggests, sea anemone seeds are shaped like sunflower seeds, but not as sharp as real sunflower seeds, but more like a flat drop of water, with a dark blue color and a little bit of dark red. When placed on the hand, when the light shines in, As if splitting light and changing colors, different colors of light were cast on the palm of his hand. Cang Nan watched, and felt a sense of vastness and distance in his heart. In the past, this feeling only appeared after the moment when his realm broke through.
Cang Nan was faintly amazed, this object was obviously not full of aura like ordinary spirit treasures, but it gave people a sense of awakening.
"May I ask what is the purpose of this thing?" He humbly asked for advice, and another question popped up in his mind: Nine Yi Kingdom spent a lot of time collecting this treasure, and why.
The old woman said: "I don't know the specific use, but I only know that this thing is very warm and nourishing. Wear it to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and evil spirits will not invade. Therefore, I would like to offer it to my benefactor, and hope it can protect the fairy king in peace."
Looking at the sea anemone, Cang Nan imagined An Yue's slender neck and graceful collarbone curves, imagining that the sea anemone would look good if it hung around his neck.
With a slight movement in his mind, he smiled and said to the old woman, "If that's the case, I'll accept it."
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The author has something to say:
Cang Nan: I brought you a present.
An Yue: Do you know its real purpose?
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