Qing Dai held the Earth Escape Talisman and scurried around like a fish in the ground.
The rapidly consuming demon power could not stop Qingdai's excitement, because a moment ago, the man who changed the structure of her Hidden Dragon Seal sent her a vague message through the Hidden Dragon Seal.
"The three hundred and thirty kilograms of yin copper required for the magic promotion have been prepared. She is required to rush to the notified location immediately. She will not wait until she is late."
How could this not make Qingdai excited? The fearful life she had experienced since she was a child had made her too thirsty for power. She frantically wanted to become stronger until she gained the power to truly control her own destiny.
Although the White Bone Demon God's chaotic battle outside the city today made the entire Canglan City commotion, she still left the relatively safe city without hesitation and rushed to the wilderness to the south.
As for whether the man who calls himself Chakravartin is lying to her?
The moment this idea appeared in her mind, Qingdai threw it away. She was restrained and controlled by the other party and had no right to question it. Once she disobeyed the order, the other party could burn her Yin Shen with just a thought.
Instead of thinking about that, it is better to think about how to get more benefits. Only by going further on the road of magic can you possibly get rid of control in the future.
The destination was getting closer and closer. Seeing that most of her demonic power had been consumed, and she still needed some demonic power to deal with various unexpected situations on the way, Qingdai escaped directly from the ground, looked at the direction in the dense forest, and headed towards the nearest tributary of the Canglan River.
Run away wildly.
Yaizhen is the child of a dragon and a wolf, and is very good at surviving in dense mountains and forests.
Qingdai, who was practicing the Yazhan method, ran and jumped in the forest, trampled on fallen leaves, jumped over mountain streams, climbed up high slopes, and finally came to a wide flowing river in the latter half of the rainy night.
A fire was lit on the shore, illuminating the nearby river with sparkling light. A tall figure was sitting by the fire roasting a deer, waiting for the arrival of Qingdai.
"Sir, my subordinates rushed here immediately after receiving the news. However, due to their low cultivation level, they only arrived at this time. Please forgive me, sir."
Qingdai ran down the gentle slope and knelt down on one knee from a distance, making a full posture.
"Come here, don't do this in front of me."
Du Kang turned the deer on the grill and waved to Qingdai to come over.
It is already late at night, and it has been a full two hours since Du Kang left Tuwei Lane. He has already selected a dock location for the seagoing ship to be built.
It is the Dangshui River, the nearest large tributary to the Canglan River.
Although the surface of this river is gentle, its upper and middle reaches are located in high mountains and canyons. There are no ships that can sail in such rapid river water, which creates a lonely scene in this waterway.
The waterway is wide, the water is deep enough, and it is close enough to the Canglan River. These innate conditions determine that this is a good place for shipbuilding.
Du Kang just walked around the nearby river and saw several abandoned or still operating shipyards. You can imagine how many shipyards there are in the entire Danshui River.
With the green-faced boy's ability to control wood, it is not difficult to build a ship as long as he finds a master who knows how to build ships and occupies an abandoned shipyard.
Du Kang popped out his claw blade, cut off a deer deer leg and handed it to Qingdai who walked beside him.
"As you can see, I also know how to use Yajuan. I can help you take a step further with this spell, but what can you give in exchange for this power?"
"Loyalty, I am willing to dedicate my loyalty to you."
Qingdai took the deer's leg with both hands, looked respectful, and answered without hesitation.
"I hope you will think clearly before answering. For a monk, loyalty is never empty."
Du Kang stretched out his hand and pointed in the air, and a green talisman flew out from his fingertips, floating unsteadily in front of Qingdai.
"This is the Demonic Seal. You should have heard of its name. If you really want to trade loyalty for strength, then take it. If you don't want to, it's still too late to change your mind."
Qingdai's pupils shrank when she saw the talisman, she subconsciously pursed her lips, and she froze for a long time before speaking.
"Is there anything else in Qingdai that can be worth three hundred and thirty kilograms of copper?"
As she spoke, Qingdai began to undress her clothes.
"Your body is not that valuable."
Du Kang's voice interrupted Qingdai's movements, and as he turned his head to look at herself, Qingdai saw a pair of black eyes.
It was a pair of deep eyes, like a pair of whirlpools that sucked all her heart into them. After spinning around and falling to the ground, she once again saw the moonlight giant with six arms.
Standing at the feet of a three-foot-tall giant, the suffocating feeling next to the giant made Qingdai feel so small, and the other's god-like and Buddha-like aura overwhelmed her.
The giant leaned down gently, and his soft words sounded like the roar of Hong Zhongda Lu in Qingdai's ears.
"Your body is not that valuable."
"Absolute loyalty is your only bargaining chip."
"Do you have any more chances?"
"Who do you think you are? You can do whatever you want..."
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The sudden death of his parents when he was young, the fear and helplessness of living in the Qianlong Society, the satisfaction after practicing magic, the unwillingness and pain of knowing that he was at the bottom of the monks... The scenes of his life in just ten years are drawn in his mind.
Pass,
"Ah... don't say any more."
The deafening sound, even if you cover your ears, can still be clearly transmitted into your mind, like awls stirring in your mind, and the burst of pain makes Qingdai couldn't help but scream.
Following this scream, the words in my head miraculously disappeared.
I opened my eyes and looked around. It was still a quiet riverside on a rainy night, and the roasted deer legs in my hands still exuded a warm smell.
"If you can't make up your mind, you can leave here. This is more than three hundred kilograms of Yin copper. There are many people in this world who would sell everything they have for it."
Qingdai quickly lowered her gaze, not wanting Du Kang to see the hatred in her eyes.
She understood that it must have been this man who was playing tricks just now, which reminded her of these painful memories. But she did not dare to show her dissatisfaction, so she just put the deer's legs on a clean stone aside and bowed to leave.
The pace was not fast at first, but she quickly started running and headed back the way she came.
Wow!
The Yin copper cast into copper ingots poured out from the stomach pouch, making a clear sound of metal collision. Qingdai paused slightly before she could run far away, and then she sped out of Du Kang's sight.
Du Kang did not chase her, nor did he activate the restraint to burn Qingdai to death. Instead, he cut the deer in half with his claw blade and put it on the fire to let the unripe belly cavity fully roast.
Until the whole deer is fully mature, the fat is soaked into the lean meat, and the surrounding area is filled with an attractive smell, and a series of subtle footsteps can be heard not far away.
"Accepting this demon-fighting seal, can you make me stronger? Being at the third level of the Yaizhan method is not enough. I must at least become an intermediate-level monk."
Qingdai's whole body was wet, her eyes were red and swollen, and her wet face could not tell whether it was rain or tears, so she asked Du Kang loudly.
"Okay, I promise you."
Du Kang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and replied with a wise smile on his face. If the implantation of the demon seal did not require the complete consent of the recipient, why would he have to perform such a scene.
She mustered up the courage to look at Du Kang for a while, and the memory of Du Kang's attitude towards his subordinates finally became the last straw that broke Qing Dai's defense. She gritted her teeth and came to the demon-fighting seal. This time, without any hesitation, she exuded this seal.
The dreamy azure talisman is grasped in the palm of your hand.
"I hope I'm not wrong in my bet. This is a boss who is as good as his face."
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Yang Liu was a master shipbuilder.
It took him thirty years from being an apprentice in Shengjia Shipyard to becoming a master craftsman who could preside over the construction of large-scale ships on his own.
After that, Yang Liu worked in this position for another twenty years, presiding over the construction of more than twenty large ships and countless small ships. It was not until the year before last that he was sixty-eight years old and could not even hold a drawing pen steady, so he returned home from the shipyard to take care of himself.
Tiannian.
Although the pension money issued by the Sheng family is not much, it is enough for Yang Liu to provide for him in his old age and enjoy the joy of raising grandchildren.
But who knew that he had an unworthy son who was proficient in eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, and could make Yang Liu save twenty or thirty years of money? In less than two years, he was completely tortured by the unfilial son, and could only drag him along.
The old and weak body came out to earn another sum of money for the coffin after death.
Today, Yang Liu found a new job for himself through his former apprentice in the shipyard.
The apprentice didn't know much about the specific matters. He also learned about this job from elsewhere.
It seems that it is a newly opened small shipyard, and it wants to find an experienced master to check for the boss, so as to prevent the newly hired masters from getting along well with each other and causing big troubles.
This is a good job!
Upon hearing this, the apprentice felt that this position was very suitable for his master. He was noble, relaxed, had status, and could earn some money on the side. There was no one more suitable than his master, so he directly helped contact the new shipyard.
The person in charge of the other party was a female monk wearing a black gauze hat. After a simple conversation, the work was settled directly.
The term of office is until the first sea-going ship is built, and the remuneration is 800 taels of silver. An initial payment of 200 taels is required for settling in, and then room and board at the shipyard. The remaining salary is paid monthly.
After waiting for the two hundred taels of silver to be settled, Yang Liu hid the silver in a place where his son could not find it, and then set off alone with him.
Yang Liu was in a very relaxed mood. The shipyard was not far away anyway, just dozens of miles south of the city on the Danshui River. An old man who was about to die had nothing to covet. He could get high just by eating a table of food and wine.
Set off happily.
Yang Liu took the waterway. After the boat bumped along the Canglan River for more than an hour, he turned into the Dangshui River. It wasn't until he entered the dock built by the other party that he realized something was wrong.
The dock is old and empty inside. It is full of traces of long-term dereliction. The water is covered with foul-smelling aquatic plants. Iron star wood logs are piled randomly aside, suppressing the withered and yellow weeds in early spring.
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Sensing something was wrong, Yang Liu wanted to leave, but the woman next to him grabbed his neck. She held the old and frail Yang Liu to sit on a wooden chair.
As soon as his hands were placed on the armrests, the chair automatically squirmed and deformed, forming a handcuff with a natural tree texture that restrained Yang Liu in the chair and could not move.
"Nvxia, I have no money. The only two hundred taels of silver you gave me today. I'm just a bad shipbuilder and I don't know the secrets of the Sheng family. Please let an old man of my age go.
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"Old man, don't be nervous. We only invited you here because of your skills. When the ship we agreed on is built, you can leave with the money."
A young man's voice sounded from behind. When he came around to him, Yang Liu saw clearly that this was a tall young man with an ordinary face.
In an instant, Yang Liu suddenly thought of something, quickly lowered his head, closed his eyes, and shouted.
"I didn't see it, I didn't see your face, please save my life."
"The old man has misunderstood. In order to make our communication more efficient, I will give you a meeting gift."
The man walked up to Yang Liu and put his palm on his old and sparse head.
Just when Yang Liu thought he was going to be killed, a dazzling white light pierced his eyelids and shot directly into his eyes, and a warm power poured down from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
He felt that his weak heart became strong again, his lungs that always felt thick with phlegm when breathing became refreshed, and his trembling and weak hands also regained strength...
The wooden handcuffs disappeared at some point, and Yang Liu jumped up subconsciously.
Opening his eyes and looking at his strong hands, there were no old wrinkles and annoying age spots on them; he touched his chest, and the shriveled muscles became strong again; he took a few steps forward and came to the edge of the dirty water, with him on the water.
The face that was once in the prime of life, the black hair, the stretched face, and only a few faint wrinkles at the corners of the eyes...
All this made Yang Liu ecstatic.
If he hadn't been old and weak and needed someone to take care of him, that bad gambler's son would have been beaten to death long ago.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Now that I have recovered the body of a forty or fifty-year-old, if I don’t have money, I just need to make more money. If I don’t like this son, I can have another one. Calculate the time
You can still catch up with yourself and provide for yourself in old age.
He turned around and looked at the creator of all this, cupping his fists and saluting.
"I have met my benefactor. I, Yang Liu, have lived for more than sixty years. I am not an ungrateful person. My life is far less valuable than this spell. No matter what I am asked to do, my benefactor only has a mission, and Yang Liu has nothing to do.
Don’t obey.”
The young body gave Yang Liu a different spirit. He no longer looked the weak and old-fashioned before. Now he has the heroic temperament he had when he had dozens of boatmen under him at the shipyard.
"I would like to ask Master Yang to help me build a big ship that can go to sea."
"This... is not my fault. If I rely on my own strength, I'm afraid... I won't be able to do it."
Yang Liu looked around the obviously deserted shipyard, with a look of embarrassment on his face. Although he was a shipbuilder who started as an apprentice, he was asked to build a ship by himself, which could be as short as seven or eight feet, or as long as more than ten feet.
The boat was really giving him a hard time.
"I hired Master Yang at a high price, so I didn't ask you to do hard work. You just need to design the boat and build it according to your own ideas. There will be people to help you."
Du Kang patted Yang Liu on the shoulder and pressed him on the wooden chair again. Ten tiny vines stretched out from the armrests, and sharp wooden thorns grew out of the tips of the vines, which suddenly pierced Yang Liu's fingers.
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"ah--"
Yang Liu subconsciously raised his hands while exclaiming, but the severe pain he imagined did not appear. Instead, numbness appeared on his fingertips, and all ten fingers soon lost feeling.
"Close your eyes and it will tell you what to do."
Du Kang's voice rang in his ears. Yang Liu closed his eyes after hearing the words, and immediately a strange feeling appeared in his mind. The chair he sat on seemed to have become a part of his body, and this part of his body could deform at will.
The chair with yellow wooden texture quickly lost its original shape and squirmed into a group of vine chairs. This group of vines carried Yang Liu forward, like a throne of vegetation.
"Connect these vine tentacles to the iron star wood, and you can control their shape at will, the connection of the keels, the cutting of the boards, and the production of the mortise and tenon structure. Everything will become a piece of cake."
This is a method Du Kang specially designed for the mortal Yang Liu to communicate with the green-faced boy so that he can build the ship faster.
"After more than sixty years of crazy life, this is the first time I have come into contact with the power of magic. Let's start now."