Chapter 31 Yingzhou
Jian Anning saw that everyone present had a confused look on their faces.
Her heart suddenly tightened, and her peripheral vision caught sight of the bronze mirror that she had casually placed upside down on the table.
Jian An Ning pulled up the corners of her mouth with difficulty, and said to Yun Zhongzi with a forced smile: "This should also be considered as a task for us at Yuxuan Peak to complete. Remember to ask the Great Elder to help me remember it."
Yun Zhongzi had no doubts about it, agreed to Jian An Ning's words, and left Yuxuan Peak.
"There is no time to lose. Let's go back and rest today. We will set off for Yingzhou tomorrow." Jian An Ning said to her disciples.
Fan Qingyue naturally supported Jian Anning's decision very much. He carried Jiang Tan on his back and left the room.
Jian Anning breathed a sigh of relief, but then she saw Lu Fei standing there like a wooden stake. She was startled and said in feigned anger, "Why don't you go back?"
Lu Fei: ...
"This is my residence."
Jane Anning: ...
She forgot that her cave was destroyed by Fan Qingyue's breakthrough and has not been repaired since.
But soon, Jian An Ning adjusted herself, picked up the bronze mirror calmly, and said, "Then you can fix it well, and I will not disturb you anymore."
Lu Fei watched Jian An Ning leave and listened to the strange laughter. After Jian An Ning completely disappeared from his sight, he also disappeared.
But is that Jane Anning laughing?
He felt that her smile was very forced, and although the sound of her laughter was similar to hers, it contained a genuine joy, even an amused emotion.
Lu Fei had an immature guess in his mind. He felt as if there was another person in the mirror.
Jian An Ning didn't realize that Lu Fei had discovered something unusual. She almost ran away with the bronze mirror and fled to an open space in the back mountain.
She leaned against the dry old tree that stood out among the lush greenery, staring blankly at the person in the mirror who was about to faint from laughing, and said, "What's so funny?"
The person in the mirror pointed at her, and the finger looked like it was about to pass through the mirror.
She paused for a moment, then asked, "What are you worried about?"
"You're actually worried?"
"How did you become like this?"
Jian An Ning simply turned the bronze mirror upside down and cast several spells to seal the sound.
She knew that people with abnormal brains could not speak normal words.
The next day, in the main hall of Qingyun Sect.
Yingzhou is different from Fuyu. It is isolated overseas and there are many ancient restrictions on the sea. It is impossible to reach it by magic.
Therefore, if you want to go to Yingzhou, you must go through an ultra-long-distance teleportation array. However, there are not many forces capable of setting up such a teleportation array. Therefore, Yingzhou has always been isolated, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand the situation.
Even though Jiang Tan is from Yingzhou, he has not returned to Yingzhou for more than a hundred years, so it is unlikely that Jiang Tan knows what changes are happening in Yingzhou at the moment.
But Jian Anning was fearless. She led her disciples onto the teleportation array and said, "The channels of the ultra-long-distance teleportation array are sometimes unstable. We must hold each other tightly to avoid being separated."
Seeing that they were ready, the monk in charge of the teleportation array placed the spirit stones into the grooves of the array. With these spirit stones as the origin, spiritual light lit up along the lines of the array.
At this time, Jane An Ning just remembered that she seemed to have forgotten to remind him.
In an instant, their figures disappeared from Qingyun Sect, and the next moment they reappeared on an island.
But this small island did not look as prosperous as Yingzhou as imagined, and it was quite small. At a glance, it was clear that there were people coming and going on the island, but there were no buildings. The most delicate trace of human activity was probably the teleportation array where they were at the moment.
"Is this Yingzhou?" Jian An Ning scratched his head and asked.
"This isn't it," Jiang Tan answered her calmly, adding, "This is a small island near Yingzhou, called Dongyu Island."
"But the ultra-long-distance teleportation array requires extremely careful maintenance. How could the Jiang family leave it in such a deserted place?" Jian An Ning said with some confusion.
"Yingzhou isn't big, so the population isn't large. Dongyu Island is already the largest island nearby," Jiang Tan explained. "As for why we didn't place this formation on Yingzhou's main island..."
"I only heard my grandfather mention that when the ancestors of the Jiang family came to Yingzhou, they came with the intention of never leaving."
"That's why he placed the exit far away, but he was worried about cutting off his own escape route, so he didn't want to place it too far away."
Jian Anning touched his chin and said, "Your ancestor seems a little hesitant."
"perhaps?"
Jiang Tan couldn't be sure whether the information was accurate. After all, even her grandfather only lived for a few hundred years and had never lived in that era.
"Then how do we leave Dongyu Island and go to Yingzhou Island?" Fan Qingyue asked during the break.
Jiang Tan looked around for a while and recalled, "I remember there is a ferry crossing on the north side of Dongyu Island that leads to Yingzhou Island."
"Why not use magic to cross directly? It shouldn't be far from here to Yingzhou Island?" Lu Fei was a little confused.
"No," Jiang Tan answered with certainty, "Because the seas near Yingzhou are completely restricted, so restrictive that even a feather can't float or a bird can fly. So far, no one has been able to break it."
Jiang Tan paused for a moment, then continued, "However, it is said that true immortals can ignore restrictions and directly cross the sea."
But it was obvious that it was just a legendary story, so Jian Anning and his group could only go to the ferry and take the boat.
Along the way, you can often see monks setting up stalls to sell the monsters they hunted.
Fan Qingyue was somewhat puzzled. "If there were impassable restrictions in the waters near Yingzhou, why were these cultivators still able to hunt demonic beasts? Logically, the demonic beasts should have been killed."
"It's strange," Jiang Tan explained, a look of confusion on his face, "this restriction only applies to humans."
Eh?
Fan Qingyue hadn't thought of this, and jokingly said, "Couldn't that be used to verify whether the people who landed on the island were truly human?"
As everyone knows, only humans in the world can cultivate to become immortals and ascend to heaven. Although other mountain spirits and monsters can also absorb the essence of the sun and the moon by instinct, this system is too crude and they can never achieve the great way.
In other words, there are no monsters in the world that can transform into human form. This is the consensus of everyone in the world.
But Jiang Tan didn't laugh, Jian An Ning didn't laugh, and even Lu Fei didn't laugh. Fan Qingyue felt a little cold, and he laughed bitterly twice to smooth things over.
"Are you guys going to Yingzhou Island?"
An enthusiastic monk came forward and introduced himself familiarly, "Tickets to Yingzhou Island are hard to buy and expensive, but I have a secret passage that allows you to enter Yingzhou Island, and it only costs half the price there."
The monk acted mysterious and whispered to them, "I'm telling you this because I think you have a connection. I won't recruit ordinary people."
Jian An Ning sneered, grabbed Fan Qingyue, who was inexplicably moved, and ran towards the long queue at the ferry.
She thought to herself: They look like newcomers, so I'd like to make some money from them, right?
Seeing them leaving, the monk shook his head with a fake sigh and said to them, "The boat is destined to cross for you. It seems that you and I are not destined to be together. If you come back, the price will not be the same."
Jian Anning said: Haha, I am a very common-sense person, don’t deceive me.
So the four of them lined up in a long queue, from dawn to dusk, and from dusk to dawn, until finally it was their turn.
Jane Anning felt exhausted and couldn't wait to leave this shabby place.
The boat ticket to Yingzhou Island is extremely expensive, but as a Nascent Soul cultivator, Jian Anning can more than afford the fare.
However, the monk who sold the ticket held out his hand to her first and said, "Please show me your pass."
Jane Anning:?
She turned her head and looked at Jiang Tan.
Jiang Tan was also confused and asked directly, "What pass?"
"You haven't been back to Yingzhou for a long time, right?" the cultivator explained. "The Jiang family has a new decree that anyone traveling to Yingzhou from the surrounding islands must have a pass."
The confusion on Jiang's face became even more pronounced, and he said, "I am a member of the Jiang family, how could I not know?"
"Eight out of ten people on Yingzhou Island have the surname Jiang. They can all claim to be members of the Jiang family and are exempt from the pass," the cultivator said, clearly growing impatient. "Only members of the Jiang family recognized by the head of the Jiang family are exempt from the pass. Otherwise, go queue up over there."
"Don't delay the people behind you."
Jian An Ning looked in the direction the monk pointed, and saw a queue on the other side that was much longer than the queue for boat tickets, and the dark crowd stretched as far as the eye could see.
She was more cautious this time. She went to the place where the pass was issued and asked, "What do I need to apply for this pass?"
The monk in charge seemed completely numb and mechanically replied, "I need a drop of blood from your fingertip and an item from Yingzhou Island that you have. Please note, it can only be something that belongs to you and has been recognized as the owner by a drop of blood."
Jane Anning: ...
What items does she have from Yingzhou Island?
Does Jiang Tan count as his disciple?
Jane Anning returned empty-handed, but avoided the tragedy of having to wait in long queues again.
She could only take her disciples and look for the monk who tried to recruit them again.
The monk waited patiently, as if he had anticipated this outcome, and said hypocritically, "What did I say? People still have to listen to advice."
"However, my ticket prices will also have to increase now."
The monk gestured to the price of a regular boat ticket, which was ten times the price. Fan Qingyue couldn't hold back and asked directly, "Why don't you just go and rob it?"
The monk didn't get angry, but just said, "Are you coming or not? If not, don't block my business."
Jian Anning's back teeth were about to break, but she still said, "Come on, why not? But none of us four have passes, how can we get to Yingzhou Island?"
The monk smiled mysteriously and said, "I have my own way of doing this business."
He called another blue-robed monk and asked Jian Anning and his group to follow him.
The blue-robed monk took them around Dongyu Island and finally led them to an underground tunnel.
In front of the tunnel stood a man with a handsome face like the warm spring breeze. He held a feather fan in his hand and wore a silk scarf on his head. He looked like a gentleman and easy-going.
However, Jiang Tan just glanced at him, and the next moment, a longbow took shape in her hand, and the arrow was pointing at that man.
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