Lin Jiang was sitting by the Yuntuo River fishing.
Most of the people fishing by the Yuntuo River were in the Qi training stage. People in the foundation building stage basically stopped doing this because the return rate was too low. It was cost-effective to use a fishing boat to fish.
However, fishing by fishing boats had to be approved by the fishing gang and they had to pay tribute to them. Lin Jiang had no intention of doing this. He fished for fun and to get food for the big and small sand sculptures.
After the big and small sand sculptures broke through the late second stage, their appetite increased again. This kind of first-level demon fish had to eat 100 to 200 kilograms a day, and eating like this was almost useless for their cultivation.
If they wanted to continue to advance, they had to be fed with higher-level spirit meat or demon pills, but the expenses were even more terrifying. Demon pills were only available in the third-level demon beasts, and each pill cost at least tens of thousands. Lin Jiang couldn't afford it, so he could only come to fish to earn food.
As for the advancement of the big and small sand sculptures, Lin Jiang left it to time. He would take his time. Anyway, the lifespan of the demon beasts was longer than that of the cultivators. There was no rush. It was good to maintain the current situation.
"The fish in Yuntuo River have become smarter. All the stupid fish have been caught."
Lin Jiang's harvest today was not good. He hadn't caught any fish for more than an hour. This made Lin Jiang miss the feeling of fishing before. It was really satisfying.
The demon fish in Yuntuo River are much smarter than ordinary fish. Their memory is more than seven seconds. If they eat too much fish food, they will remember it. That's why fishermen have to change fish food frequently, otherwise they will wait for empty-handed.
"Fishermen will never be empty-handed. If I can't catch any fish, I will stab it. Hehe."
Lin Jiang put away his fishing rod, took out a harpoon from his storage bag, smiled, and then jumped into the Yuntuo River.
The Yuntuo River is very deep. It is said that the deepest place is thousands of meters, comparable to the sea, but the ordinary section of the river is only tens of meters deep. Lin Jiang used his spiritual power to bless his eyes, and everything at the bottom of the river was clearly visible.
"Puff"
Lin Jiang saw a huge demon fish, and immediately stepped forward and stabbed it fiercely. Blood gushed out of the demon fish, but the demon fish not only did not die, but instead rushed towards Lin Jiang fiercely.
The fight at the bottom of the river began. Lin Jiang held a harpoon and fought with the demon fish at the bottom of the river. The demon fish's methods were mainly ramming and biting. Lin Jiang's methods were also restricted by more than half, but it was still not something the demon fish could deal with. He used his flying sword to poke it a few times, and the demon fish began to flee.
Lin Jiang stabbed the harpoon into it, and there was a rope tied to the tail of the harpoon. Lin Jiang let the demon fish drag him forward. Today, he was going to kill this demon fish.
The demon fish fled all the way, but after half an hour, it could not escape anymore. It lost too much blood and was dying. Lin Jiang mercifully ended its pain, gave it a physical salvation, and then dragged it ashore.
"Uh..."
Lin Jiang had just dragged the thousands of pounds of demon fish to the shore when he saw a scene that told him too much. A man in black robes was touching corpses. There were more than ten corpses lying beside him. Judging from their clothes, they seemed to be members of the Julang Fishing Gang.
The man in black robes turned around. He was wrapped in black robes all over, leaving only a pair of eyes staring at Lin Jiang.
"I didn't see anything."
Lin Jiang turned around and tried to leave, but when he turned around, the man in black robes had appeared in front of him, blocking his way. His powerful consciousness immediately locked onto Lin Jiang.
Lin Jiang cried out in bad luck. This man was actually in the Jindan stage. There weren't many Jindan stage people in Yunzhong City, maybe only a few dozen. Anyway, he rarely ran into one, but today he bumped into one.
"Who are you?"
"Senior, I'm Lin Wu, a casual cultivator from Yunzhong City."
"You're still fishing in the foundation building stage?"
"It's not fishing, it's spearfishing. The fish in Yuntuo River are too delicate and can't be caught."
"Is there any difference?"
"It seems not."
"What do you fish for?"
"To eat, I like to eat fish."
"It doesn't cost much to buy fish."
"The ones you buy are not as delicious as the ones you catch yourself."
Lin Jiang said honestly. He really likes to eat fish, but since the Three Forks Fishing Gang and the Giant Wave Fishing Gang had a big fight and threw all the bodies into the Yuntuo River, he stopped eating the fish in the Yuntuo River until he moved into the Yunzhong Mountains and caught fish in the streams and pools in the mountains.
"You can go now."
"Ah, you're letting me go now?"
"Well, what you said just now reminded me of an old friend. I'll let you go today, but you should know what to do."
"Understood, I haven't been here and didn't see anything."
Lin Jiang nodded. He knew the rules. He was a rule-abiding person.
The black-robed man ignored him and continued to touch the corpses. Then he cast a spell and threw all the corpses into the Yuntuo River. The river was surging and they disappeared in a few seconds.
"He left so fast."
Lin Jiang saw the black-robed man disappear quickly. He sighed, chopped the fish in his hand into several pieces, and stuffed them into the storage bag.
"I will never eat fish from the Yuntuo River again in my life."
Lin Jiang secretly swore. This Yuntuo River was too scary. He didn't know how many corpses were thrown into it every day. This reminded Lin Jiang of his third brother. He was really awesome. A mortal was more powerful than him, a cultivator.
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"Just dig a fish pond honestly"
After returning to his home in the Yunzhong Mountains, Lin Jiang looked at a low-lying open space and decided to dig a fish pond.
Two hours a day, Lin Jiang spent a month digging a fish pond of more than ten acres, then put in stream water, and bought fish fry from outside and put them in the fish pond.
"Big sand sculpture, small sand sculpture, the fish in this fish pond are mine, you are not allowed to steal or rob"
Lin Jiang grabbed the big and small sand sculptures to educate them. The fish in this kind of fish pond cannot be raised big, at most three or five pounds, and the fish in the whole fish pond are not enough for them to eat in one meal. Lin Jiang prepared it for himself, and their fish can only eat the fish from the Yuntuo River.
"Chiji..."
The big and small sand sculptures were overjoyed when they saw the big fish Lin Jiang took out. They didn't care whether it was from the Ganges or not, they were all fish.
"There are fish, chickens, ducks, and deer. This life is wonderful"
Lin Jiang looked at the home he built with his own hands and was very satisfied. Compared with the hustle and bustle of the big city, he preferred this pastoral scenery.
When he lived in Yunzhong City before, Lin Jiang seldom went out for entertainment. The public opinion in Yunzhong City was not limited to Yingchun Tower. Only those who loved to play knew how fun it was, but Lin Jiang never went there. Now he was fine with some flowers and plants.
Lin Jiang had been practicing cultivation, but he was never in a hurry. Not to mention the entire cultivation world, even in Yunzhong City, he was just a dispensable shrimp. As long as you didn't cause trouble, you would be unlucky to be killed when you went out. What's more, he seldom went out, a dead otaku.
After another month, Lin Jiang received Sun Man's sound transmission note, and the exchange meeting started again. He went to Sun Man's cave. The distance between the two houses was about fifty miles, not far. At the flying speed of the foundation-building period, it would take a moment to arrive.
"Fellow Daoist Lin is here first."
"We live close to each other, so what's the program for this exchange meeting?"
"It's the same as always, but I recently refined a batch of elixirs, the Sanhua Pills. Are you interested in taking them, Fellow Daoist Lin?"
"Forget it, I still have more than a hundred years to live, so there's no rush. Leave it to other Daoists. I think Fellow Daoist Zhang needs it."
Lin Jiang shook his head. The Sanhua Pill is also a treasure that can extend one's lifespan, but it only lasts for five years, and the Sanhua Pill cannot be reused. The second pill will be useless after it is taken. In Lin Jiang's opinion, the cost performance is very low.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang is gone. He doesn't need it anymore."
"Gone, is..."
"No, no, he said he wanted to go out and try his luck. It seems that some secret realm or something has appeared on the north side of the Yunzhong Mountains. I tried to persuade him, but it didn't work."
Sun Man hurriedly explained that gone means literally, not dead, so don't get me wrong.
"Isn't the north a wilderness? How come there is a secret realm?"
Lin Jiang asked. The Yunzhong Mountains are very large, and its main vein stretches for tens of thousands of miles from east to west. The Zhongxing Sect and the Yunjian Sect are also mainly active in the south of the Yunzhong Mountains. There are several powerful demon kings occupying the north. The demon clan is more powerful than the cultivators, and it is a wild environment.
"Some immortal cultivators like the life in the wilderness and will settle down in the depths of the wilderness. They may also guard some natural treasures. They will set up very powerful formations. When these formations are left behind, there will be an independent environment inside. This is the secret realm, which is different from the secret realm of the big sects."
"I see. Thank you for your advice."
"But Brother Daoist Lin is very capable. You should go out and explore if you have the chance. The wilderness is full of treasures. If you find a high-level spiritual medicine, you won't have to worry about resources for decades."
"Yes, Brother Daoist Sun makes sense."
"If Brother Daoist Lin has this intention, I can introduce some friends to Brother Daoist Lin. They are all very capable and reliable. They have a good reputation in Yunzhong City. You just need Brother Daoist Lin to agree that when you get spiritual medicine in the future, you will sell it to me first. The price will be the same as outside, and I will never let Brother Daoist Lin suffer a loss."
"Let's talk about it after Lin's cultivation becomes stronger,"
Lin Jiang replied. You are right, but I'm sorry, I can't go if you want to take the risk.
The biggest benefit of taking risks is that you can get rich overnight. This is the fastest way for ordinary cultivators to cross classes, but he doesn't want it. With unlimited lifespan, he can slowly accumulate wealth. If one year doesn't work, then ten years. If ten years don't work, then a hundred or a thousand years.
He can save a few hundred spirit stones a year, and a hundred years means tens of thousands of spirit stones, which is not a small amount. Not
a small amount. After a while, the people invited by Sun Man arrived one after another. Some people left this small circle, and Sun Man would also add some new people to come in, and the number of people was generally maintained at around ten.
Lin Jiang had nothing to trade with them, but he liked the discussion of Taoism. Lin Jiang practiced alone and had no master. This kind of discussion of practice was very helpful to him, so Lin Jiang would not be absent in most cases.
"Fuck, what's going on?"
"Such a strong spiritual fluctuation, someone is fighting"
"The divine sense can't detect it, could it be the Golden Pill Ancestor"
When the exchange meeting was about to end today, everyone suddenly felt a strong spiritual fluctuation, and everyone's face changed. Their divine sense couldn't detect it, so it was at least a few hundred meters away, which was definitely not a movement that the foundation-building period could make.