Chapter 246

"Creak, creak..."

The old man was still sawing wood.

The group behind was still standing there dryly.

Not far away, Heng Xian had already arrived at the beach holding the wooden box.

"Where exactly is the link?" Yu Qiuyi pondered.

Among the ordinary disciples, Ye Ling'er, who had been looking around, suddenly walked out and tried to say to the old man: "Ten jin of cooked beef and a jar of aged burning knife liquor!"

The old man finally stopped sawing wood and asked coldly: "Do you have money?"

Ye Ling'er looked at Niu Wanli, Yu Qiuyi, and the group.

The group was stunned for a moment and immediately placed the five hundred plus "knife coins" on the table.

The old man's eyes shone, and he pinched ten knife coins: "Alright, wait a moment!"

He ran into the shop nimbly.

The group looked at each other and looked at Ye Ling'er: "How did you think of that?"

Ye Ling'er looked at the direction the "cat-faced man" left: "When the cat-faced man came over earlier, the old man also ignored him. He asked for beef and wine, and then the conversation started. I thought it should work!"

Yu Qiuyi, Niu Wanli, and Ye Hongxue's group's expressions changed!

If asking for cooked beef and wine wasn't the "cat-faced man's" random attempt to see if the knife coins were useful, but the way to "open" the conversation with the old man, then... this "cat-faced man" was truly too terrifying!

Because this kind of strange way of opening a conversation was completely impossible to start with, and there was nowhere to ponder!

Where did he observe it from?

"Here!" The old man walked over carrying steaming cooked beef and wine.

The group had to put aside their thoughts and eat and drink casually. At this taste, they couldn't help but look at each other.

The spiritual aura of this beef and wine was too rich, and it completely cleared away all the physical discomfort after the previous "tender bud poison on the head."

Looking at it this way, the cat-faced man's methods were truly mature and invincible!

"Who exactly is he?" Yu Qiuyi couldn't help but ask.

"Could it be Heng Xian?" Ye Hongxue hesitated.

Du Qiyue shook their head: "I am more inclined to believe he is a disciple of one of the fourteen sects, because being able to probe so many secrets of the ruins and understand so many methods, it is very likely that the ancestors of each sect liked him very much and gave him hints!"

"Otherwise, with Heng Xian's experience of being hunted to the point of having no way to heaven or earth and disappearing for several years, how could he know so much?"

Ye Hongxue said: "Don't forget, Heng Xian is wearing that strange blood cloak and can enter directly!"

Niu Wanli shook their head and said: "The true identity of the cat-faced man is no longer important. Once entering the ruins, everyone can only walk to the end, either life or death. The cat-faced man is just the cat-faced man!"

Everyone nodded: "That's right!"

At this time, the beef and wine were finished.

Yu Qiuyi looked at the old man: "Old man, is there a bridge across that sea in front?"

This was the "cat-faced man's" way of talking. The "cat-faced man" had "waded through the water" in front, so there should be no problem.

Sure enough, the old man replied the same way as before: "Of course there is no bridge. Such a wide sea, where would a bridge come from?"

The two finished the conversation process, and the old man introduced the boats.

The crowd immediately took out "knife coins" and bought two middle-grade boats and ten low-grade boats.

The old man collected the money and took out twelve spirit stones, ten black and two white, with corresponding numbers on them. They should be the activation spirit stones and numbers for the spirit boats.

Yu Qiuyi distributed the spirit stones and tried to ask the old man: "I don't know what that box my friend bought earlier was?"

They were just asking casually and didn't expect the old man to answer.

Who knew the old man would directly reply with a smile: "Compass, eternal oil lamp, cold-avoidance pill, evil-avoiding pill, demon-driving bell, long-spirit fishing rod, three boxes of bait, thousand-mile eye! A total of two hundred and nine knife coins! Do you need them?"

"Uh..." The crowd looked at each other and looked at the pitiful twenty-plus knife coins left.

So many, didn't make a mistake, right?

With so many things, why whisper into the ear? We can't afford them!

The group simply asked about the prices of these things and discussed for a long time, finally deciding to spend all the remaining knife coins to buy the compass for direction and the cheapest demon-driving bell.

When they hurried to the seaside with the things and the boat-opening spirit stones, they saw a row of boats of various sizes on the beach.

The small ones were ordinary covered boats, the middle ones were like deck sailboats, and the top-grade ones were large passenger ships.

And the largest top-grade boat was three stories high, the hull black, hard and domineering. Compared to it, the other boats were like small dots.

At this time, the "cat-faced man" had already boarded the boat and started it, slowly sailing away from the shore.

"Hurry up and board, follow!"

The group hurriedly boarded the twelve boats, just enough to fit everyone.

……

Heng Xian was standing in the driving cabin of the huge top-grade boat, watching the green spirit stones light up and the boat sail straight out, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

This thing, he hadn't studied it, and it was completely contrary to the principles of boats in his memory.

Walking out of the cabin and boarding the wooden deck, in front was the endless sea level and the azure sky, and the sea breeze accompanied by bursts of fishy smell rushed toward him, feeling quite comfortable.

However, he still walked to the stern and looked toward the direction of the old man's grocery store on the opposite shore.

Even though the hexagram gave him the way to get along with the old man, he still had great curiosity about the existence of the old man.

How did this person appear? Tens of thousands of years!

Just at this moment, Yu Qiuyi, Liu Yu, Niu Wanli, and other sect disciples sailed up in middle and small boats, which were more than a little shorter than his large boat.

Seeing him standing at the stern, they thought he was looking at them, and the sect disciples couldn't help but look at him coldly.

However, Heng Xian ignored them directly. Even though the combat power of a group of Primordial Dan experts was very strong, there were ancient guard arrays and rebound arrays on the top-grade boat. If they weren't afraid of death, they could come and try.

At this time, the old man's grocery store on the shore was still there, but the old man was no longer sawing wood; he was counting money, counting one knife coin by one knife coin.

Heng Xian was surprised and subconsciously shouted loudly: "Grandpa, is the money enough?"

The old man ignored him and continued counting money.

The distance was getting further and further, and they were almost out of sight.

They saw the old man suddenly laugh loudly: "One thousand six hundred and one, just enough for the wine money that kid, the ancestor of the War God Palace, owed me. I haven't waited in vain for tens of thousands of years, hahaha..."

As he spoke, his figure flashed and he reached mid-air, and that strange bird turned into a huge, mighty, and domineering flying monster, carrying the old man, and fiercely tore open space, revealing a black hole.

The man and the bird drilled into the black hole.

"Swish—"

The grocery store scattered with the wind, turning into a pile of dust.

It seemed as if it had never existed.

"Uh—" Heng Xian blinked.

A bit confused, who is this old man?! Real or fake?

What kind of ability is tearing a slit in the air?

The sect disciples like Yu Qiuyi below also saw it and were stunned on their boats.

Not understanding, they simply didn't think about it. Heng Xian turned and returned to the front. He checked the second and third floors of the large boat, and the decoration and furnishings were very ancient and traditional, but no useful things were left behind.

However, beds, quilts, latrines, kitchens, all the daily necessities were there.

He stretched comfortably and sat cross-legged on the bed to meditate.

His large boat sailed in front, followed by a bunch of "lackeys."

Basically, how his boat moved, the boats behind followed suit.

The end of the sea was unknown, and everything was unknown.

At the beginning, everything was normal. After sailing for two hours, the temperature slowly dropped, the air was as cold as ice, and an indescribable evil energy also drilled directly into his body.

More importantly, it seemed that spiritual power was suppressed, and he couldn't lift his strength.

Heng Xian finally knew what the things that must be bought shown by the hexagram were for, and immediately took out the fire-red "cold-avoidance pill" and placed it to the side.

The fire-red pill emitted a misty fire energy, and the effect was immediate—

It was no longer cold in the cabin, and the evil energy disappeared, feeling warm all over.

He walked to the side of the cabin and looked out, only to see the Qi-condensing disciples on those small boats trembling like chaff, and ice dregs appearing on their hair.

Heng Xian couldn't help but shake his head and sat back, looking at the sea in front, suddenly thinking of Lin Shuyu, Ji Yaoyue, Xie Lingyu, Ma Xiaohua, and those people!

The reason he wore a mask and bamboo hat was to avoid awkwardness when meeting.

As a result, he didn't encounter them. I don't know what kind of tests they experienced...

(End of this chapter)