Chapter 348: Life Is Difficult

The moment they stepped onto the dharma ship, Xu Qing and the Captain immediately cooperated to control the dharma ship to gallop toward the distance.

Both were terrified, looking at the forbidden land behind from time to time.

One could see the giant in the forbidden land struggling violently, heaven and earth changing color, black clouds rolling, and even thunder roaring. And no matter how the giant roared, the huge net emanating from the forbidden land restricted it tightly.

Looking at this scene, Xu Qing had lingering fears.

The Captain on the side exhaled and began to sigh with emotion.

"Sure enough, as I guessed, the Sword Forbidden Land is a prison land. This forbidden land was once named Lingyin, and later, after being suppressed with all its might by the ten thousand clans of Fenghai County, Lingyin became a prison."

Xu Qing was lost in thought. He originally also had strangeness in his heart, because Seventh Uncle had said before that this forbidden land was named Lingyin, but in the Captain's mouth, it was Sword Forbidden.

At this moment, following the whistling of the dharma ship, Yan Yan looked at the miserable Xu Qing and the Captain and hesitated for a moment.

"Brother Xu Qing, aren't you going to restore your vitality?"

"And Big Brother, aren't you going to protect Brother Xu Qing?"

"How come... you caused such a big commotion." Yan Yan was also terrified. Before, when she saw the giant appear from far away, her mind and even her body were shocked by the sense of oppression brought by the terrifying giant.

Hearing this, Xu Qing looked at the Captain expressionlessly, his gaze falling more on the Captain's nose.

The Captain blinked, without any sense of embarrassment, but waved his hand and threw a fruit that had been eaten more than half to Xu Qing.

"Little Junior Brother, this is what Senior Brother left for you. I forced myself to hold back and didn't eat it all. Sigh, I am just like this; when I encounter good things, I think of you, Little Junior Brother, the first time."

Xu Qing took it. Just as he held it in his hand, his expression changed, and he lowered his head to look at it.

He could feel that within this fruit that had been eaten more than half, there contained a very peculiar aura.

This aura didn't have much influence on the physical body, but after smelling a mouthful, Xu Qing felt his spirit lift. He immediately understood that this thing had a not-so-small nourishing effect on the divine soul.

"I don't know what this thing is either, haven't seen it. I just saw a group of silly big guys worshiping it, so I snatched it and took a bite, discovering it had great help for the divine soul." Thinking of the stimulation and harvest this time, the Captain was radiant.

Xu Qing didn't dislike that this fruit had been bitten several times by the Captain and swallowed it directly. For him who grew up in the slums, he had even snatched food that a dog had eaten half of, let alone Erniu.

After swallowing it at this moment, a wisp of cool feeling flowed through his entire body, finally fusing into his sea of consciousness, causing his sea of consciousness to tremble, faintly as if it had been reinforced a lot and also expanded a bit.

All of this was a manifestation of the soul growing stronger, so Xu Qing licked his lips and looked at the Captain, about to inquire about some things regarding the forbidden land giant.

"Captain..."

"Gone!" Before Xu Qing could finish speaking, the Captain was immediately vigilant. After finishing, he seemed to notice his reaction was a bit too much, so he blinked and coughed.

"Little Ah Qing, next we are going to the Sword-Holding Court. Let me tell you, the Sword-Holding Court is a good place."

Xu Qing was suspicious and looked at the Captain carefully.

Regarding the other party's previous performance, Xu Qing felt there was a problem, so his eyes narrowed slightly, and he spoke softly.

"Big Brother, actually, if I didn't give you that thirty percent of Dao blood, my promotion this time might have been safer, but you are my Big Brother..."

Hearing this, the Captain sighed long, waved his hand, and another fruit flew toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing raised his hand to catch it and spoke softly.

"Life is difficult."

"Big Brother, things in the world are impermanent. It's hard to say which day you might not have this Little Junior Brother of yours. If I cannot walk with you in this life, I hope that at the moment you stand at the peak of the firmament, you will take a look at this world for me."

The Captain was depressed, muttered a few words, and secretly thought how this Little Ah Qing learned so fast, so he sighed again, took out a tree branch from his storage bag, and threw it to Xu Qing.

On that tree branch, there were eight or nine fruits.

Seeing this scene, Xu Qing gasped. He originally thought the Captain had taken at most six or seven, but he didn't expect this guy to just give a tree branch casually.

"Big Brother, you didn't dig up the root and move the other party's fruit tree away, did you?"

The Captain coughed and hurriedly shook his head to indicate he didn't.

Yan Yan blinked on the side and suddenly spoke.

"Life is difficult..."

"Stop stop stop!" The Captain looked helpless and took out three more fruits to hand to Yan Yan.

Yan Yan beamed with joy, flew rapidly to Xu Qing's side, and handed the fruits to Xu Qing.

"Brother Xu Qing, for you."

This scene made the Captain stunned for a moment, becoming even more depressed.

Xu Qing didn't want Yan Yan's fruits.

As for how many the Captain actually had, Xu Qing didn't care. After he ate these seven or eight fruits, he already felt that his sea of consciousness had undergone huge changes. While becoming increasingly resilient, his soul was also twice as strong as before.

A feeling of being full surfaced in his heart.

Xu Qing understood that this was the limit of his soul at the current stage, so during the journey that followed, Xu Qing sat cross-legged and began to stabilize his breakthrough.

Just like this, time passed. Soon, half a month passed. The sound of river water rushing came from below the dharma ship. Looking over, it was precisely the intersection of the vast Youxian Wangu River main river and the Taisi Du'e Mountain.

The river water here was surging, tossing as if it were a great sea, crossing through the large canyon of Taisi Du'e Mountain, dividing this mountain range into two sections, and there were even multiple waterfalls, looking like a painting.

Yan Yan was seeing this vast painting for the first time and was attracted by it at this moment.

And Xu Qing had been here before when he and the Captain were performing the river patrol mission, so he took a look and withdrew his gaze, taking out that cloth strip full of immortal aura.

This was a taboo magic treasure fragment. One could imagine that a complete taboo magic treasure should be a whole shroud.

The black blood stained on the gray cloth strip made it full of ominousness, yet the immortal aura was incomparably rich. After Xu Qing inspected it, his palm felt pricked again.

Xu Qing's eyes revealed brilliance. The functions of taboo magic treasure fragments were varied. Perhaps because they were broken, it was very difficult to probe them through divine sense; one needed to try them personally.

Among them, such as the black wood block and the little mirror, the functions were relatively obvious, so they were easily perceived, but the ability of this cloth strip was somewhat complicated.

After Xu Qing studied it, he suddenly opened his own Wuji Crown protection. When he touched this cloth strip again, he discovered that the invisible thorns of this thing actually ignored the protection and still pricked into his palm.

"Ignore protection?" Xu Qing's mind moved. He thought of the Red Woman's evil ghost sickle.

After a while, Xu Qing took out the dagger embryo the Captain had given him. This black embryo emanated sharp brilliance, and the eyes formed by the patterns on it looked eerie.

Originally, Xu Qing planned to find a suitable object as a handle for the dagger after returning to the sect, but now he looked at the cloth strip and had a new idea.

After pondering, Xu Qing felt he could try.

Thus, he wrapped the cloth strip around the end of the dagger, wrapping it circle by circle to form a simple handle.

After doing this, Xu Qing held it in his hand. The feeling of stinging pain was intense, but Xu Qing recovered quickly and was good at enduring pain, so his expression was as usual.

The right hand holding the dagger was even more so, firm as an iron pincer.

Then he raised his left hand and touched the blade and tip of the dagger lightly. Upon touching, that feeling of being pricked surfaced again, as if the ability of the cloth strip was transmitted to the dagger.

"Sure enough!" Xu Qing spoke suddenly.

"Yan Yan, open your protection."

Yan Yan had been paying attention to Xu Qing. After hearing Xu Qing's words, she didn't have any hesitation and immediately opened the protection jade slip given by her grandmother. The moment it formed a layer of protection, Xu Qing moved.

The dagger in his hand approached in an instant. The moment it touched Yan Yan's protective light shield, the dagger actually ignored the protection, directly pierced through, and fell toward Yan Yan's neck.

Yan Yan didn't dodge at all; she trusted Xu Qing very much.

The next instant, Xu Qing withdrew his right hand. While satisfied in his heart, the Captain saw all this on the side and spoke in surprise.

"This cloth strip is not ordinary."

Xu Qing nodded and continued to study it. Until he completely determined that these two items combined would greatly increase in power, he lowered his head to look at his shadow.

Xu Qing felt that the shadow would definitely have a day of exposure in the future. Since that was the case, he had to prepare in advance.

Thus, under Xu Qing's divine sense, the shadow dispersed a wisp without leaving a trace, gathering on the eye of this dagger.

Following its fusion, this eye looked normal at first glance, but if one looked carefully, it seemed to have come alive.

If you stare at it, you will feel it is also staring at you.

"Then it is to think of an incantation as a precursor to the shadow fusion secret technique when it is displayed."

Regarding thinking of an incantation, Xu Qing felt he was not good at it, so he transmitted divine sense to the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

Soon, the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor, who was well-read in storybooks, thought of one.

"Shadow Prison Prohibition, Ghost Child Decree."

"Immortal Law Folds Spirit, Heaven and Earth My Fate."

Xu Qing muttered in his heart, always feeling that these four sentences were a bit weird, but he couldn't think of a better one for a moment, so he didn't use it immediately, which made the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor feel some regret in his heart.

These four sentences contained some of his little schemes.

"Little Shadow, oh Little Shadow, let you fight with me, humph humph, have I, the Ancestor, read books for so many years in vain? I'll let you see your Ancestor's methods later."

At the same time, as the dharma ship left the main river area of the Youxian Wangu River and galloped toward the north at full speed, the color of the earth gradually changed, no longer black, but white snow appeared.

The temperature here also dropped a lot, and even a few days later, they encountered a snowstorm.

Snowflakes fell like goose feathers. While covering the earth, some also piled up on the dharma ship in the sky, as if putting on a white ship coat for the dharma ship.

And the heaven and earth in front were blurry, all covered by the wind and snow. This sudden snow became larger and larger, until it became a blizzard.

The sobbing sound of the wind echoed in all directions, and the cold chill permeated the human world along with the snowflakes.

Regarding snow, Xu Qing was not unfamiliar.

In the winters of his early years, the wind and snow were a test of life for him, but such heavy snow was something he rarely saw.

"We have finally arrived at the Northern Ice Plain. According to this speed, at most two months, we can reach the end of Yinghuang Prefecture, which is the place where the Taichu Liyou Pillar is located."

"That place is also the headquarters of the Yinghuang Prefecture Sword-Holding Court." The Captain revealed anticipation, his voice echoing amidst the sobbing of the wind and snow. ===== CHAPTER 349 =====