Life in the Shui family was peaceful, and thanks to Shui Congyue's status, life in Huanjiang City was also comfortable.
Spring is like a pitter-patter of silk rain, rushing towards Huanjiang City in excitement. Wu Gen took Chu Ji with him, holding two oil-paper umbrellas, wandering by the stone bridge carved with little lions, and strolling on the rain-soaked bluestone road.
Accompanied by the swaying of oars, the babbling Nanqu music floated from the side of the awning boat. Wu Gen reached out and stuffed a piece of maltose into his mouth. He glanced at Chu Ji, who was leaning against the window and quietly looking at the scenery on the shore, and a faint hint of sadness appeared.
In a few days, Wu Gen will leave Huanjiang City, accompanied by Wu Mo and Shui Congyue. Shui Congyue was determined to go out and have some fun, and even the ruler of Shui Xun Sword couldn't stop him.
Farewell is coming. In the past few days, Wu Gen takes Chu Ji around the city every day. But Chu Ji always looked gloomy, with more resentment and less innocence on his immature face.
After all, he was still a little young. After walking from Xingluoyuan, leaving his grandfather's protection, and wandering around all the way, Wu Gen became the pillar of support in his heart. Now that this pillar of support is leaving, it is inevitable to feel depressed.
A few days ago, Wu Gen secretly handed over the yin and yang combined method to Chu Ji. He cannot practice qi on his own, but if Chu Ji can figure it out with the resources of the Shui family, he can also help the garrison.
Unlike Zhao State, most of the real Qi practitioners in Zhujuan State are inherited from their families, and powerful people are hidden among the major families. As for those large and small sects, to be honest, they are just some practitioners who cannot enter the family system and have no choice but to unite.
The Shui family is a master of qi training. Chu Ji stayed here. With his amazing qualifications and the guarantee of Shui Congyue, his future was bright.
Wu Gen himself was still a young man, with a bumpy road and no fixed place to live. Chu Ji could only suffer in vain by following him. Having a place to settle down was the right way for him. As for the resentment in the little girl's heart, we can only wait until she is older to understand Wu Gen's painstaking efforts.
The hull of the ship shook, but it had reached the shore. Wu Gen pulled Chu Ji onto the springboard and walked towards the Shui family.
Along the way, both of them were silent. Wu Gen thought of telling some jokes to relieve the dull atmosphere. He opened his mouth, but he really didn't feel like this, so he could only hold Chu Ji's little hand tightly.
A big umbrella, a small umbrella, two figures, one high and one low, gradually merged into the drizzle.
When he came to the door, Chu Ji suddenly raised his head and said, "Brother, you want to come back to see me."
Wu Gen looked gentle and said, "Definitely."
"Hook?"
"Hook."
"Hang yourself with a hook, and it won't change for a thousand years. Haha... haha... haha..."
Wu Gen was packing his luggage in the house, his steps seemed very heavy.
Since he planned to continue to rob, no, continue to travel to Zhujuan Kingdom, Wu Mo disliked his poor cultivation and was really a burden if he ran away, so he taught him a magic technique.
At the beginning, Wu Gen had to move quickly on the water without sinking. When he got a little better, he would add weights to his body. Finally, he had to walk on the water as if he were walking on flat ground, and only then could he achieve success without any water touching his body. If you become more mature, you will have to walk on the air and move freely in the air.
In order to run smoothly, Wu Gen was tortured by Wu Mo these days and was in agony. On the lake next to Shui's house, I often see a thin old man holding a feather duster and constantly beating the young man splashing in the water in front of him.
At the end of the day, Wu Gen's head was covered with bruises and his body was covered with bloodstains.
It hurts. Feather dusters are a nightmare for countless people when they were young. Because Wu Gen was an orphan, he had never enjoyed such thunder and rain since he was a child, but this time he fully made up for this lesson.
After getting up and leaving the house, Chu Ji was already waiting at the door, followed by two maids.
The three people and three horses slowly walked out of the Shui family gate, with only Chu Ji and the housekeeper and servants at home seeing them off. Shui Xunjian won't care about his rebellious son, as long as he doesn't die outside.
Wu Gen rubbed the iron arrow in his hand and looked at the slightly simple pattern on it, feeling very happy.
These seven iron arrows were made with the help of the Shui family. The last iron arrows with blood talismans were all lost during the battle with Gao Cheng. With Wu Mo's lazy character,
I won't be patient enough to help him retrieve it.
The Shui family is strong, so it is naturally easy to build such an iron arrow. After such a long time, Wu Gen also gained some insights into the Blood Spirit Talisman. After all, this talisman was created in a hurry by Master Qiu, and his thoughts were not very comprehensive. It was too complicated and difficult to push away in large quantities.
With Chu Ji's help, Wu Gen experimented many times and finally simplified the talisman. When choosing materials, the Shui Family Butler provided a variety of options, all of which were rare materials in the world. Wu Gen chose the cheapest meteorite.
If the blood spirit talisman wants to be used on a large scale by martial arts, the cost must be controlled. Otherwise, the hard-earned blood spirit talisman can only be used by a few people, and what use is it.
After adjusting the blood spirit talisman several times, I finally successfully painted it on the meteorite. Not only is the power not reduced, but the cost is greatly reduced. If there is any war, a large number of them can be equipped to mortals.
This move made Wu Mo tease Wu Gen all day long for picking up rags. When people practice cultivation, whatever is not rare comes from it, regardless of cost, gain or loss, for fear of losing some power. When he arrived at Wu Gen's place, he did the opposite and picked up bargains.
In the end, Shui Congyue couldn't stand it anymore, so she asked the housekeeper to use the most precious Yu gold to make seven long arrows, and threw them to Wu Gen. Love him or not, the Shui family couldn't afford to lose this person.
Ten days later, on an unnamed hill in Zhujuan Kingdom, Wu Gen and three others looked at a green mountain in the distance. Their clothes were blown up by the wind, giving them a more chilling smell.
The three of them all wore a mask. Wu Gen and Wu Mo originally wore black and white. After Shui Congyue came over, he snatched the white mask away without any explanation, so Wu Gen had to choose a red face.
This is where a refined iron mine of Feiyun Sect is located. Feiyun Sect is the third sect that the three want to rob. The other two are in the south of Zhujuan Kingdom. This sudden attack into northern Xinjiang was just to catch the opponent off guard.
Feiyun Sect is a large sect in Zhujuan Kingdom, with more than 500 members, and its sphere of influence covers more than half of the county. If it hadn't been for the secret interference of the Zhujuan royal family, it would have been impossible to swallow up other sects in the county and become the dominant one.
This sect owns two iron ore mines, so it is not a problem to feed these 500 people due to its favorable location. However, in recent years, Feiyun Sect has been obsessed with occupying a county and constantly attracting sect members, which has made the sect's expenses somewhat tense.
Those who dig mines and dig holes are all mortals. Who among practitioners would do such lowly work? In order to reduce costs, Feiyunmen searched for landless refugees and farmers everywhere. Sometimes some powerful people would sell to them at low prices some people they captured from unknown sources.
Feiyunmen is extremely harsh on these miners. They are locked up as soon as they enter the mine and will never get ahead. Mining is hard work, and there are many dangers in the cave. In addition, Feiyunmen is obsessed with profit and only provides food to Weibo, which makes the mortality rate of miners extremely high, and the demand for new miners is never-ending.
From this, a strange phenomenon occurred. There was not a single beggar or homeless person in the county where Feiyun Gate was located. The county governor even reported to the court and called himself Wuqi County. Of course there is no beggar, they are all in the mine of Feiyunmen. In this way, it will be beneficial to both Feiyunmen and the government, and both parties will be happy.
Over the years, in order to expand their financial resources, Feiyun Sect has started a business of stopping rain, praying for sunshine, exorcising evil spirits and suppressing ghosts. They sell talismans and make a lot of money. Gradually, he started to look down on the government and other sects. It's just that because of his power, others dare not comment.
Wu Gen and others chose one of the iron mines in Feiyunmen and planned to loot it. Originally, according to Wu Mo's idea, he would directly sign up with his sect, but Wu Gen flatly rejected it. .c
The sect's land is the foundation of a sect, and it must be the place with the strictest protection. No matter how good the three people can fight, how can they defeat hundreds of people with the blessing of the right location? They can't do such a stupid thing.
The method Wu Gen gave was to divide and annihilate it. Specifically, it was to destroy its outer perimeter first and let Feiyunmen lose blood little by little.
Feiyunmen will not watch their financial resources dry up, they will definitely send people to guard them, and the three of them can take the opportunity to kill the reinforcements. Eventually, the power of Feiyun Sect's main sect will drop to a low point, and only then can one decide whether to join the sect.
As for whether other sects or the government will intervene during this period. Traveling around the county these days, Wu Gen and the others also discovered that the people who wanted Feiyun Sect to suffer the most were the above two. Feiyunmen is strong
It's too fast, it has destroyed the original pattern and broken the existing balance.
In this world, there are rules whether on the mountain or down. Although some rules are not written in words, everyone will abide by them unanimously, which is the so-called convention.
At present, Feiyun Sect, relying on its great power, has become a rule breaker and needs someone to punish it urgently. Therefore, if Wu Gen and others take action, not only will they not be blocked by others, but they will also receive help from Ruo Ming Ruo Yin. This is why Wu Gen chose Feiyun Sect after much deliberation.
Back outside the iron mine, the three of them looked at each other. One of them needed to sneak in first to explore the terrain.
Wu Gen looked at Wu Mo, who glared, "If there is a powerful person on the other side, and I still need to deal with it with all my strength, there is no need to come to me for such a trivial matter."
Turning to look at Shui Congyue who was holding the stick, Shui Congyue saw that now Shui Congyue had replaced the halberd with an iron rod. After all, the halberd was quite conspicuous. If anyone saw it, it would inevitably bring trouble to the Shui family.
Shui Congyue snorted and ignored Wu Gen.
With a sigh, Wu Gen had no choice but to change into ragged clothes and prepare to explore the mine himself. The helmsman in the village could just give orders, but he himself had to do the dirty work of being a spy. It was really a miserable life.
Pressing the mask on his face, Wu Gen took advantage of the darkness and quietly sneaked into the mine from a hill at the entrance without passing by the intersection.
As soon as we entered the mine, we were greeted by a stench. I originally thought it would be quieter at night, but I didn't expect that there were torches everywhere. There are still miners holding oil lamps in their mouths, constantly going in and out of the mine entrance.
It turns out that this mine works day and night, which shows how much Feiyunmen profits from it in a year. Since no one else dared to come here to cause trouble, the guards at the mine were surprisingly sparse, and it was unknown where the people from Feiyun Gate were.
Teams of miners who looked like zombies were constantly carrying the newly dug ore, with an overseer behind them. According to the Qi-gaining method of Wuguo's teaching, this person is not a cultivator, but an ordinary mortal, but he is just born with a more vicious nature.
The overseer brandished a whip made of wire and cursed at the slow-moving miners.
Suddenly a miner fell down. The supervisor went up and kicked him fiercely. The man on the ground showed no reaction. He tried his hand in front of his nose, but he was already dead. The supervisor was so angry that he kicked him again, summoned two miners, and ordered the corpses on the ground to be thrown into a large pit.
After the two people left, Wu Gen walked to the pit, looked inside, and couldn't help but cover his nose. There were dead bodies in the pit, layer upon layer, and some had been rotting for many days. It turned out that this was where the stench that permeated the mine came from. Looking at the size of the pit, there were at least hundreds of corpses thrown into it.
With a stern look on his face, Wu Gen slowly walked backwards and left, hiding in the dark and staring at the supervisor who was still yelling.
After a while, the supervisor, probably having a stomachache, walked to a dark place and squatted down. Just when I was about to have some fun, a shadow suddenly appeared behind me.
