There was only a puff sound, and Guo Xun penetrated the purple electric tuna's body. The purple electric tuna's blood burst out, purple light flashed, and its body swayed crazily. Guo Xun's blow just now had damaged its foundation. This was Its last struggle before death.
After a while, the bright red eyes of the purple electric tuna became dim, and the whole body stopped swinging. The purple electric light on its body also disappeared, and the huge body began to slowly sink to the bottom of the river.
At this moment, the Nascent Soul of the Dragon Bearded Golden Scale Fish felt a wave of dizziness. It felt that it was about to die. The earthy color of the Nascent Soul became darker, as if it was about to dissipate at any time.
The dragon-bearded golden-scaled fish glanced at Guo Xun's soul lightly, and then quickly returned to Guo Xun's Qi sea, and then fell into a deep sleep.
Everything returned to calm again, Guo Xun floated upward quietly, his charred skin began to peel off, revealing the tender white inside. Soon after, Guo Xun was lying naked on his back floating on the surface of the Biluo River.
Guo Xun fainted after being knocked away by the purple lightning. He had no idea what happened after that.
Guo Xun's strong body and the lightning beads absorbed most of the purple lightning. Now the spiritual energy in Guo Xun's body itself has purple electric light. After a combination of several factors, Guo Xun's survival depends entirely on this.
After Guo Xun was unconscious, he was drifting on the Biluo River. During this period, some monsters and water monsters wanted to attack Guo Xun. These little monsters were not of high level. Just when those monsters and water monsters were about to approach Guo Xun, A golden light suddenly appeared on Guo Xun's body.
These little monsters who wanted to eat Guo Xun were shocked and fled in a hurry, not daring to make any mistakes.
Guo Xun is just a small human being. It may be considered a breakfast for these little monsters, but for those real big monsters, it is simply not worth mentioning. To a "floating corpse" like Guo Xun, they Don't even bother to look.
Guo Xun followed the Biluo River down the river until the next day, when a group of mighty merchant ships passed by Guo Xun down the river. Each ship was hung with more than a dozen flags, large and small. There is a big word "Shang" written on the flag.
There were noisy gongs and drums and constant singing on the fleet. It should be celebrating something happy, or it could just be a program for a group of people to kill boring time.
According to the words on the flags flying in the fleet, it is not difficult to tell that the owner of this fleet should be named Shang. The fleet is a merchant from Shanghai City, the county seat of Shanghai County, Biluohe County, Nanding Country.
Merchant is one of the five major families in Shanghai City. Although he is named one of the five families, everyone in Shanghai City knows that Merchant has long since declined.
Back when the merchants dominated Shanghai City, even the Nan family, the city lord, had to stay away.
But later, for some unknown reason, the business was in turmoil overnight, the family collapsed, all the top family members died, and the flourishing business was cut in half.
Then the merchants were squeezed out again, their reputation was greatly reduced, and their pomp was not as good as before. After a hundred years of ups and downs, they gradually declined, and now they have become the lowest.
Nowadays, when talking about merchants in Shanghai City, few people know that merchants were the first of the five major families in Shanghai City.
The merchant fleet was beating gongs and drums at this moment, and the journey was full of joy and excitement.
Logically speaking, a declining family should not have such an atmosphere, but now it is extremely different, because they are going to Bihai City, the county seat of Biluohe County, to participate in the Linlang Business Expo, which is held every ten years.
Merchants spent a lot of money to participate in this event.
It has been a long time since merchants attended the Linlang Business Expo. The Linlang Business Expo is the grandest royal event in Biluohe County with the richest resources and the most opportunities.
Even the royal family of Nanding Kingdom would send people to attend such a grand event, and some people from other countries would also come here from thousands of miles away to attend this grand event.
It’s just that among all the countries that came to participate this year, Tang Huangguo was not the only one. The reason is also very simple. A year ago, Nanding State went into full-scale war with Tang Huangguo on the grounds that Tang Huangguo used cultivators to participate in the war without authorization. Now the two countries are fighting hard. Almost countless mortals participated in the war, and even cultivators went to the battlefield in large numbers.
After a year of fierce fighting, the Tang Dynasty gradually became unable to cope with its capabilities. The frontline battlefields were retreating steadily, with fewer victories and more defeats. Gradually, the entire front line was cast a shadow.
Now that there are undercurrents surging between the two countries, it is naturally impossible for Tang Huangguo to send people to participate in Nanding Kingdom's Linlang Business Expo under such circumstances.
Compared with the brutality on the frontline battlefield, there was peace and prosperity in the Nanding Kingdom, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. It seemed that they did not take the war seriously at all. Many people did not even know that their country was at full-scale war with the Tang Dynasty.
This year's Linlang Business Expo is said to be the largest in the past century. Its purpose is self-evident. The royal family of Nanding Kingdom is certainly not a fool. How could they miss this opportunity to show off.
This is not only a good opportunity to show the country's economic and social prosperity, but also a good opportunity to encourage other countries to realize how powerful Nanding Country is, so the Linlang Business Expo, which is held every ten years, is naturally a special event.
As a declining family, merchants naturally have to seize opportunities like this with all their strength. It would be perfect if they get on the line with other big families. Even if no family thinks highly of merchants, it would be very good to make a lot of money.
Merchants have been preparing for this for a long time, and the rise of merchants lies in this.
In order to participate in this Linlang Business Expo, the merchants devoted all their family efforts and used their connections and connections to collect enough materials and funds, and then reached the minimum entry standard for participating in the Linlang Business Expo.
Although it has just crossed the threshold, it is also the result of decades of accumulation by merchants. How can this not make them happy? Therefore, it is natural to beat gongs, drums, string instruments and sing.
The other big families in Shanghai City took the spaceship to Bihai City because of their strong power and financial resources, while the merchants chose river transportation because they were shy about their wallets.
In fact, river transportation is very safe. Although there are many monsters and monsters in the Biluo River, they generally do not attack human ships on their own initiative.
First, it is thankless. After all, this is not the Qingtian Ancient Vein, and the Biluo River is also the territory of humans.
Second, it is not of much value, because since most of these people choose to take a boat, most of them are mortals, but any stronger cultivator will take such a risk.
It is of no use to mortals except to satisfy hunger and fill their stomachs. It is not as delicious as other monsters in the river. To be really useful, it must be monks who are above the elixir condensation stage.
There are not a few fleets like merchants on the Biluo River, but there are very few that actually have problems.
If these monsters attack the fleet, but do not do it too cleanly, they will attract the revenge of the high-ranking monks.
The safety of river transportation is a matter managed by Nanding State, so the monsters in Biluo River are very conscious.
Most of their real dangers are not the monsters and monsters in the water. The only thing that can really deal with humans is humans themselves.
Those who dominate the mountains are bandits, those who block the water are thieves. The Biluo River stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles and is rich in products. There are many merchant ships, so there is no reason why there are no water thieves.
Therefore, what merchants who do business through the Biluo River fear most are those vicious water thieves.
Today's water thieves are very smart, and they rarely make one-shot deals. Since you do business through my territory, you have to pay protection fees, so as long as the merchants pay the money obediently, the water thieves will generally not embarrass them.
Nan Dian Kingdom also turned a blind eye to this matter. After all, there were too many twists and turns, and the entanglement was too deep. If the government could get into trouble, it would not be done.
As long as the water thieves don't go too far, the government actually acquiesces in such a thing. As for what role the government plays in this, it is unknown whether it collects "taxes" from water thieves.
