Chapter 1 001: Fighting for fish in Linyuan, paper maidservant
Dazhou, Jiangcheng Mansion, Linyuan County.
The sky is as clear as Qiong Qiong, and the clouds are floating like blue dogs.
Under the clear sky and white clouds, some fishing boats and sampans are docked at the Xuemen River Pier in Linyuan City to sell their catch, or they are traveling back and forth to fish.
Many people in Linyuan City are fishermen who make a living on the Xuemen River. The Xuemen River has a long history, and there are even rare fish in the river. Therefore, it often attracts fishing enthusiasts from outside the city.
An elegantly decorated carriage passed along the river bank. Different from the lively scene of hundreds of boats competing in the river, inside the carriage, a young man with a handsome appearance was holding a book and reading it carefully, with a leisurely attitude. .
"Three hundred years after the Great Yun Kingdom, Emperor Yun died, and Prince Yun Qi succeeded to the throne, changing the Yuan Dynasty and establishing a new one.
The new dynasty has only been three years, and an evil spirit appears in the clouds of a foreign land, eating thousands of households and destroying all life."
"In the twenty-fourth year of Dayun's new dynasty, the king Yun Qi was unruly, colluded with foreign monsters, preyed on the common people, and poisoned the common people. The wealthy families could not bear it and started to stand on their own.
In the next three years, the Zhou family of the aristocratic family was destroyed by Dayun, King Wu of Zhou ascended the throne as the new emperor, founded the Zhou Dynasty, promulgated various methods of cultivating supernatural powers, established the Evil Suppression Department, and recruited people with spiritual qualifications to join."
"In the tenth year of the Great Wednesday, the Shenyi Tower was born, using massive resources to recruit talented people with both martial arts and spiritual qualifications. Unexpectedly, many geniuses were sacrificed to the magic soldiers, and the world was stained with blood.
Dazhou Zhenxie Division dispatched experts to suppress it, and the Shenyi Building disappeared from the world. In the next fifty years, all the geniuses in the world were frightened by the ferocious power of the Shenyi Tower, hiding their strengths in clumsiness. It was not until the past ten years that people with excellent spiritual qualifications dared to take the lead."
"Spirituality, what is spirituality? It is said that the four realms of martial arts are just wallowing in the quagmire. Only those with spirituality can enter the extraordinary realm.
It has been three years since I traveled through time. I have practiced hard and have achieved some success in martial arts, but I still don’t know if I have any spiritual qualifications. "
The handsome young man named Chu Ge was looking at the series of information descriptions in the book in his hand. His long eyebrows slanted into his temples were raised as he fell into deep thought.
He is the soul that traveled through time and incarnated in the body of Chu Ge, a young man from a wealthy family in this world. Speaking of which, the two have the same name and the same appearance, but have different personalities. They seem to be from different parallel time and space.
According to the fused memories of his predecessor, he disliked martial arts since he was a child.
His eldest sister Chu Feixue also intended to let him practice martial arts, but in the end it was nothing, so he did not lay a good foundation in martial arts.
After he traveled through time, he did not immediately ask for martial arts classics from his eldest sister who was in the martial arts sect in order to avoid her feeling weird.
And even if he had the secret book, unless his eldest sister returned from the sect, there would be no one to guide him and it would be easy for him to make mistakes in his practice, so he went to a martial arts school in the city to learn martial arts.
Then, during normal correspondence, he slowly showed his change in his interest in martial arts, which could also pave the way for future meetings.
Suddenly, a burst of noise came from the direction of the fishing pen, and many people swarmed over. I vaguely heard someone exclaiming 'spiritual fish'.
"Um?"
Hearing the noise in the distance, Chu Ge perked up and put down the book.
"A spiritual fish actually appeared today? Go and have a look."
No one responded. The girl in green clothes driving the car was pretty and pretty, about sixteen or seventeen years old. Her hair was in a double bun and her eyes were lively. She was wearing a light green silk long skirt with a dark green satin vest on the outside, but she seemed to be mute. .
The carriage suddenly turned around and drove onto the pier. It seemed that the cold winter wind was biting and it drove straight to the fishing pen.
When many fishermen watching the excitement took a look at the carriage, they immediately moved out of the way and started talking with smiles.
"It's the young master of the Chu family's car! It seems that this spiritual fish belongs to him."
"The young master of the Chu family has inherited the huge property of the Chu family, and the eldest sister of the Chu family has been accepted as a disciple by the Hidden Water Sect. No one can compete with him for what he likes!"
"This Young Master Chu has a lot of hobbies. He likes to collect some weird things and he doesn't hesitate to spend a lot of money! I heard that he is still learning martial arts from Master Hu in the east of the city. I don't know if he has achieved anything famous!"
"Hey! If I were so rich, I would play everything and spend more money than him."
The maid in green clothes got off the carriage first, opened the curtain, and helped Chu Ge get out of the carriage.
He was tall and burly, with a silver crown on his head, white python arrow sleeves, and a jasper red belt around his waist. At first glance, he looked like a rich man. He was so majestic that the fishermen on both sides with a strong smell of fish involuntarily got out of the way. Some of them got out of the way. Compliment with a smile.
"Mr. Chu, what we caught this time is the red-scaled claw fish. It was caught by Xiao Qin, the city's yamen servant. You must capture it!"
"Oh? Xiao Qin, did you catch the spiritual fish again? Not bad."
Chu Ge walked through the crowd and looked at the young man in the crowd with a sword on his waist and a spiritual fish in his bare feet with a surprised expression, and smiled.
"With your fishing skills, you can make a living without working as a yamen errand."
Xiao Qin was a young man with sallow complexion. When he saw Chu Ge approaching, his eyes lit up slightly. Who didn't know that the young master of the Chu family was the sponsor? He immediately smiled and raised the spiritual fish in his hand.
"Young Master Chu complimented me. We, the people of Linyuan City, can wade at the age of seven and swim at the age of ten. We can fish in large cities. I am also lucky. Are you interested in this spiritual fish?"
Chu Ge smiled and nodded, took a look at the condition of the spirit fish, praised it, and said, "Yes, this is the red-clawed fish. I've heard of it but never seen it. I'll give you twenty taels! I want this spirit fish." ”
The people around him were in a slight uproar when they heard that the price had doubled. Several people who wanted to bid were also dumbfounded.
Their inner limit is fifteen taels. If there is a dispute of spirit during the bidding, they will compete for twenty taels. But at this time, feeling the calm and calm aura of the young master of the Chu family, who dares to fight again.
"Xiao Qing!"
Chu Ge glanced at the maid beside him.
Xiaoqing just smiled and stepped forward to pay the bill without saying a word.
"Xiao Qin, next time you catch a spirit fish, you can bring it directly to my house!"
Chu Ge smiled lightly, got on the carriage and left.
When the surrounding fishermen saw this, they were all not surprised, while some people from the outer city who did not compete to grab the spiritual fish were secretly annoyed.
However, after asking around and finding out that there were actually people in the Chu family who were disciples of the Hidden Water Sect and other major sects, they had no choice but to give up.
After getting on the carriage, Xiao Qing put down the lively spirit fish in his hand.
As Chu Ge raised his hand slightly, Xiao Qing's delicate body seemed to have lost its strength and slid down. The tight cloud belt around her waist slipped away, and her eyes quickly dimmed.
Her whole body seemed to be weak and boneless, with only a layer of skin supported by bamboo strips. As the bamboo strips collapsed one by one, her whole body fell to the ground like a pile of clothes, and her black and shiny hair drooped. On the clothes and skin, the fair face became whiter, as pale and bloodless as a piece of paper.
"It only takes half a day to maintain this shadow puppet, but it actually loses a ray of supernatural power. It's not cost-effective, it's not cost-effective, it's better to spend some money to hire a few maids, it's cheaper!"
In the carriage, Chu Ge looked at the masterpiece that had fallen to the ground, sighed and shook his head, stretched out his hand to grab it, and picked up the face of a beautiful woman drawn on a piece of paper, but it turned out to be a face like jade, eyebrows like distant daisy, a Yao nose and cherry lips. , although she looks charming, she is not flirtatious or evil. Chu Ge was extremely satisfied with his painting skills. If he couldn't marry a wife in the future, he would draw more paper figurines to accompany his wife, which would be a comfort, but would be a waste of time.
He put away his face, flicked the fingers tucked into his sleeves, and the almost invisible threads were instantly retracted from the leather bags and clothes on the ground.
To say it's not cost-effective is actually just kidding.
Although this shadow paper puppet seems useless, if used correctly, it will be a great help, especially in actual combat, it will often have the effect of confusing the real one.
However, it has only been three years since he traveled to this world, and he has not yet cultivated this skill to a very advanced level. It can only be used as an auxiliary skill in martial arts practice. For those who do not understand this, it can be Works wonders.
After pulling the carriage aside, Chu Ge's eyes fell on the spirit fish in the carriage.
This fish has red scales and claws, and it is still jumping around when it has been out of water for a long time. It is indeed a strange species of spiritual fish among fish.
If martial arts practitioners often eat this fish, their martial arts cultivation will surely improve rapidly.
However, when Chu Ge purchased this spiritual fish, he did not eat it directly, but used it as a sacrifice to maximize its value.
He suddenly grabbed the spirit fish, and the next moment, on his wrist under his clothes, a tattoo of a bronze bell with a dragon pattern seemed to come to life, lifelike.
The spirit fish disappeared in an instant, but there was a groove on the bronze bell with a dragon pattern that looked like a tattoo on his right wrist, faintly showing brilliance.
This brilliance can only be seen by himself.
But he saw an extra spiritual fish emerging from the groove.
The spirit fish quickly fell into a circle of golden light in the center of the groove.
The golden light was like a golden ball. After the spirit fish fell in, a message quickly appeared on the surface of the ball.
"Red-scaled claw fish (exotic species among fish): Introduction: (A strange fish that mutates after being affected by strange forces. Eating it by ordinary people can strengthen the body and increase strength. Eating it by warriors in the four realms of martial arts can improve their energy and blood and improve their strength. Eating it by condensing martial artists The special power can be extracted and refined)
Current status: Refining the optimal ability."
Seeing the message appearing on the dragon bell tattoo, Chu Ge was not surprised.
Before traveling through time, he had taken a photo of a double-button dragon clock in the National Museum, but as soon as the flash came on, he was inexplicably transported through time.
After time travel, he had this dragon bell tattoo on his wrist.
Anything of value can be swallowed by the clock heart in the groove of this clock.
Then, Zhong Xin will extract the most valuable part of the thing within a certain period of time.
In the past two years, Chu Ge has sacrificed gold, silver, jewelry, food, wine, bark, stones, and even corpses to this bell, which cost a lot of money
He also sacrificed a spiritual fish with wings. Gained a natural ability 'Shark Fin'.
However, that ability is too useless. After mastering the inheritance, a pair of foot-long shark fins will be formed on his back.
The shark fins cannot help him fly, they can only help him swim faster in the water.
This kind of talent is mostly funny. After all, he doesn't need to be a fisherman to catch fish.
After he gives up that ability, it will turn into a pure force for him to absorb.
It should be noted that supernatural power is a power that can only be accessed by warriors who are in the Condensation Realm or above the fourth realm of martial arts. It is a mysterious power that wanders between heaven and earth.
Warriors from the four realms of martial arts cannot be contacted at all.
However, Chu Ge was able to rely on Long Zhong to be exposed to the absorption of supernatural powers in advance, which naturally made him feel like a fish in water after practicing martial arts. He is now a martial artist in the bone training realm, the third of the four realms of martial arts.
It's just that I'm here for the first time, and I'm frightened by the rumors about the Shenyi Building.
On the surface, he prefers to hide his strength and never show his true strength. Therefore, even the master of the Chengdong Hu Hall who taught him martial arts only thought that he was a second-level meat training martial artist.
At this time, I saw that the red-scaled claw fish was still being refined, and it might take four or five days to complete.
Chu Ge immediately stopped paying attention and turned to look at other messages in Long Zhong.
""Five Maoshan Wonderful Skills" (incomplete): Level: [Magic skills above supernatural powers]
Explanation: (One skin, two papers, three embroideries, four casts, five poisons, and six pottery sculptures. The strange skills of Wumaoshan are regarded as heresy, but there are also essences in the heresy, six of which are profound and profound. Unfortunately, this strange book only records four of them. , paper, embroidery, five poisons.)
Current status: Mastered the inherited skills of shadow puppetry, paper-cutting, embroidery, and the five poisons."
This fragment of "Wumao Mountain Wonders" was taught to him by a Taoist priest from the world before he traveled through time, and later became the craft he relied on to make a living.
However, he had always thought that the skills he mastered were just some folk skills, but unexpectedly, when he traveled through time, the score passed down by the Taoist priest was also absorbed into the Dragon Bell, and it was also identified as a thaumaturgy of above the supernatural level.
You must know that in this world, thaumaturgy above the supernatural power level, except for the secret arts that reduce potential, most require a strong person in the Condensation Realm who has mastered the supernatural power to learn.
In the past two years, when Chu Ge tried to use this craft to make some small objects, many objects would often mutate after being infused with supernatural power, showing strange changes like shadow puppets and paper figures.
However, he has never mastered the supernatural power, and can only rely on the dragon bell to refine the supernatural power from some spiritual things before he can use the dragon bell to practice, so his cultivation speed has never been faster.
"Extraordinary power. Extraordinary power, the four realms of martial arts: skin, flesh, bone, and blood.
It is said that after the blood exchange, the three flowers gather at the top. If there is spirituality, one can sense the strange forces in the world. If there is no spirituality, one will completely stop in the four realms of martial arts."
Chu Ge stood up and walked out of the carriage, looking at the east-flowing river not far away, with a deep expression on his face, "Do I have spirituality? If not, how can this earthly torrent be sustainable?"
He has already felt the wonder of supernatural power. It can be combined with thaumaturgy to turn decay into magic, making shadow puppets appear to be full of life, lifelike, and fake.
It can also be transformed into the power of vitality and blood to strengthen the body and prolong life.
Precisely because of this knowledge, he desires to possess that kind of power even more...
"Uncle, do well!"
At this time, a little beggar passed by in the cold wind.
Chu Ge suddenly flicked his finger, and a copper plate flew out and hit the horse on the butt.
Then it bounced back and landed in the beggar's broken bowl, making a "ding-dong" sound.
The horse was in pain, and Herod neighed, immediately kicked out his four hooves, and ran out, going straight to the martial arts hall in the east of the city
(End of this chapter)