From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 209: The Abundant Rice of the Ghost Country

The tiger woman is not a tiger spirit, nor is she the tiger spirit's wife. Instead, she is the ghost of a jealous woman who was killed and was transformed from the death energy of the underworld.

In addition, there is the Tiger Auntie, who was transformed after the old witch was murdered. They all had the temperament of a tigress in their lives.

The same thing happened to the tiger woman on Hushan Island. She transformed herself into a ghost tiger and practiced to become an immortal. She vowed to seek revenge on her husband, so she pawned her property in the East China Sea.

The dead souls who turn into ghosts have lost all their memories of their lives, just like the book fairy ghost monkey, who only want to practice in peace in the peach and willow forest and don't want to trace their past lives at all.

However, this tiger woman is obsessed with something. You should know that most tiger woman ghosts are killed by their husbands. After they turn into ghosts, they have a jade with a name that can be used to find information about their lives.

At this time, Hushan Island had been sealed off by Chaoju City with forbidden magic. The two brothers Yu Shuyang and Li Zhen took a turtle ship to Taodushan Islands.

The turtle ship is made from the shell shed by a giant sea turtle. The ship does not sail on the water, but lurks in the water like a turtle.

This boat is not small and can carry more than a thousand passengers at a time. Like the ferrymen on the river, it specializes in ferrying people.

Yu Shuyang originally wanted to return to Yatou Mountain and take his junior brothers Li Taiping and Zhixian Tuliu to Hushan Island.

Later, he remembered that Jing Mujie of Huolongfang wanted to let his youngest son go to see Zhitian, and Yu's father had already returned to the mountain to practice in seclusion, so he left his junior brother Li Taiping in the mountain.

The turtle ship ferry is the exclusive business of Chongjia City on Chongyuan Island, specializing in carrying passengers from Kuhai Cliff Island to several large islands.

The boat sailed to the southernmost tip of the Taodushan Islands, a small island called Wu Yu. The island was so small that it could only accommodate more than a thousand people standing.

Yu Shuyang and Li Zhen got off the boat with everyone else. Some passengers' families had already come to pick them up by boat, and the sea was bustling with people coming and going.

If it takes a whole day to fly from Chaoju Island to Taodu Mountain Islands by wind, Yu Shuyang’s magic power will not be able to support it, let alone take Li Zhen with him.

"Li Zhen, here, look here."

A voice called out. It was Zhu Zihui who was speaking. According to the flying talisman Li Zhen sent her yesterday, the Zhu family owned six islands in the Taodu Mountain Archipelago.

"Cousin, you came really quickly. We just got off the boat not long ago."

Li Zhen pulled Yu Shuyang onto the ship. The sea boat was a spiritual ship used for short-distance transportation between islands. It was made of the skin of a sea python and could carry 10,000 kilograms of cargo without sinking in the water.

"Didn't your family buy a mountain on Chaoju Island? Why are you coming to Taodushan Islands to buy land?" Zhu Zihui asked in confusion.

Yesterday, Li Zhen sent her a flying talisman, which scared her at the time because a few days ago, the fairy Haixia persuaded her about how good the Yu family was.

As soon as he received the letter from his cousin, the old ancestor praised him and specifically asked her to come and pick up the boat today.

"My second uncle is about to break through to the fifth rank, and then he will have to refine the earth's energy to prepare for opening up the blessed land.

"We need to find a place to transplant the spiritual fields and trees, and we happened to have a cheap island, so we bought it." Li Zhen explained first.

Zhu Zihui remained silent after hearing this. Her family only had the fairy Haixia to support it, and her aunt Zhu Sanniang was the most outstanding among her descendants. Seeing that they were about to run out of successors, she thought of betrothing her to her cousin Li Zhen.

Later, the Zhu family will ask the old aunt Zhu Sanniang to go back and take charge of family affairs, or, if Li Zhen becomes a demon fairy by relying on the business route, she can also go back and temporarily take over the position of the patriarch.

If a demon fairy appeared in the Yu family now, the ancestor would probably come with a dowry and ask to marry her to Yu Shuyang.

Li Zhen didn't know the details. Seeing that no one on the boat was talking, he also kept quiet and stayed aside.

In fact, Yu Shuyang was using his magic power to nurture his nephew. Yesterday, after Yu Fu left, he took out the python egg from the cloth bag and looked at it.

The snake eggs are as big as a little finger. It is totally unexpected that the python that can swallow an elephant can be so small. Maybe it is because it was born prematurely and did not get enough nutrition.

The boat didn't sail for long before arriving at Hushan Island, which is located at the northern end of the Taodushan Islands, not far from the desolate sea waters.

"I didn't expect this island to be so close to the desolate sea. We have to be extra careful." Zhu Zihui had never been to the Tiger Mountain Group. As soon as she saw the desolate sea, she knew something was wrong and hurriedly gave a few reminders.

"Cousin, what's the trouble with this desolate sea?" Li Zhen asked in confusion.

Seeing that Li Zhen and Yu Shuyang both looked confused, Zhu Zihui felt both angry and amused, and then she began to explain.

The story has to start from Taodu Mountain. Taodu Mountain is the location of the Eastern Ghost Gate. It is a natural portal to the underworld. Therefore, it attracts a group of wandering ghosts to gather here.

There was a magical peach tree on Taodu Mountain, named Dushuo. The tree grew very big, and its crown covered an area of 3,000 miles.

Every day, the morning dew dripping from the trees flows into the sea and turns into a peach branch ghost water. This water contains all kinds of deathly air. Living people who enter the water are like being eaten by thousands of ghosts.

The second is a group of ghosts who lurk around the desolate sea every night and prey on the wandering souls and ghosts that gather there.

This ghost not only preys on wandering souls, but also invades islands, plunders spiritual objects and plants on the island, and even kills people. It is jokingly called the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts.

Tiger Mountain Island was built here. I believe that the tiger woman originally planned to guard the desolate sea and hunt for prey. Moreover, with her level of cultivation, it would be a death sentence for her if ghosts came.

"I'm not afraid of the hundreds of ghosts parading at night. If they dare to cause trouble here, I'll just deal with them." Yu Shuyang said with a smile.

The island monsters are afraid of ghosts, not because they cannot defeat them, but because the Taodu Mountain Islands are connected to the underworld, and ghosts can travel freely. If they cannot kill them all, they can only wait for revenge in the future.

Yu Shuyang holds a soul-guiding banner in his hand, which can lead the Xuanshui and Huangquan waters at any time to wash away ghosts and monsters, and capture them to the Xuanming underworld to do hard labor.

Seeing Yu Shuyang speaking in such a loud tone, Zhu Zihui stopped trying to persuade him. She knew that many men were used to this and only treated him as that kind of person.

The shape of Hushan Island is like a tiger descending from the mountain. The mountain is made of yellow iron stone. You can feel the evil spirit of a golden tiger when you are about seventy or eighty miles away from the island.

The island is 300 kilometers in radius and is one of the largest islands in the Taodushan Archipelago. It is more than four times larger than Yatou Mountain.

The places where ghosts live are mostly filled with eerie spirits, like the Peach and Willow Forest, unlike the Tiger Mountain Island, which is filled with golden energy like a sword, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the residence of a sword immortal.

"Hey, why is there such a murderous aura on this island? Could it be that some deadly weapon is raised here?" Li Zhen couldn't help but wonder.

You must know that at present, Hushan Island is sealed off by the Chaoju City, and all spiritual energy and earth energy are isolated from it. Even though it is seventy or eighty miles away, there is still such a strong golden tiger evil spirit, which must be the place where a deadly weapon is being raised.

"It doesn't matter. No matter what kind of treasure it is, my surname will be Yu from now on."

Yu Shuyang took out the jade talisman and activated the forbidden spell on the island. He saw a tiger mountain with golden spots and a yellow background, three hundred feet high and nine hundred feet long. The tiger's head, tail, and claws were all clearly carved.

"This this……"

Li Zhen looked at Hushan and was speechless.

Yu Shuyang also sighed. This was like refining the entire mountain into a golden tiger, constantly inhaling and exhaling the dark death energy into the desolate sea, washing out the golden energy of Huangtie Mountain.

It seems that the tiger woman wanted to refine this Golden Tiger Mountain into a Dark Tiger Mountain, which is why it attracted the dark death energy to invade from time to time. I don’t know why she gave up halfway.

Before the boat reached the shore, a golden bee the size of an arm flew over, landed on the shore, rolled on the ground, and transformed into a middle-aged woman. "I wonder which of these three distinguished guests is the master of Tiger Mountain?"

"It's me. I guess you are Jin?" Yu Shuyang asked.

"I am Jin, the former housekeeper of Hushan. Now that the mountain master is here, please check me out." Jin Hu said cautiously.

Golden Tiger was the bee slave of Hushan. He and all the spiritual beasts and plants of Hushan were sold out by Hufu.

Now that I have a new master and this is the first time we meet, I have to serve him carefully, for fear of saying something wrong and causing him to dislike me.

Yu Shuyang nodded. He had seen it on the sea route list earlier and knew that there was a nest of bee slaves on the island. He thought it was a spiritual beast like sand pigs or blue rock sheep.

"Jin, what is your current level of cultivation?" Yu Shuyang asked in confusion.

Just now, he saw the golden bee transform into a human. Unlike him and Li Zhen, they wore fish-skin clothes to transform into human form. He must be at least a seventh-grade cultivator. How could he be willing to be a slave?
"In reply to the mountain master, I am now in the middle stage of the seventh rank. I wonder if you are curious why I voluntarily sold the mountain as a slave?" Jin Hu said with a smile.

Yu Shuyang nodded and motioned for her to continue.

“The Mountain Master may not know that we bees and insects cannot leave our nests unless we break through the fifth level of cultivation and become demon immortals.

Moreover, in this vast East China Sea, apart from Tiger Mountain, there is no other place where our Golden Bee clan can settle down with such rich golden energy.

Please rest assured, Mountain Master. We, the Golden Bee Clan, all know the rules and have been diligent in managing Tiger Mountain over the years. If you don't believe me, come with me and see for yourself."

Jin Hu explained slowly. She just took a look and found that the three monsters that landed on the island had lower cultivation levels than her, and their demeanor did not seem to be without background.

She must be a descendant of a demon or fairy family on a nearby island. She was also afraid that he wouldn't get along well with the new island owner, so she introduced him right away as if to show off her merits.

"What's the story behind this Tiger Mountain? Do you know its origin?" Yu Shuyang asked again.

He was not afraid of not being able to subdue the Jin family. He had killed snakes of the fifth rank, so a seventh-rank mid-stage bee demon was certainly no problem for him.

"Mountain Master, this is the Fortune-Suppressing Tiger Seal refined by the previous mountain master. Unfortunately, the Iron Mother is hidden in Tiger Mountain, and no matter how much the Netherworld's Death Qi washes away, it cannot wash away the Gold Qi."

Jin Hu explained that she had helped to break the stones for the tiger tail and tiger claw when excavating Tiger Mountain, and she had heard Tiger Wife talk about it several times at that time.

She wanted to refine Tiger Mountain Island into a tiger seal, so that she could use it to travel through the underworld at any time and not be trapped in the inland of Jiuzhou.

At that time, Jin Hu was sad about it for a long time. If Hushan Island was refined into a tiger seal, the Golden Bee clan would have to move. Where would they settle down then?

Yu Shuyang nodded. It was just as he guessed. He didn't expect that there was actually iron mother hidden there. In this way, Hushan could be considered a pyrite spiritual mine.

Under the yellow sand city of Danhuang Cave Heaven, realgar stones continue to grow, which means that there is a mother stone hidden underneath. The yellow stone that was dug for Li Zhen was the prototype of the mother stone.

The mother ore in the mountains is equivalent to a constantly growing mineral vein. As long as the mining volume is less than the growth rate, ore can be mined continuously.

Then, Jin Hu took the three monsters to the animal pen. There were 500 pigs and 500 sheep raised on the island. If they were sold, they would be worth 300,000 or 400,000 talismans.

Sand pigs are smaller than ordinary meat pigs, only as big as piglets. They are covered with a layer of yellow sand and burrow around in the ground like earthworms.

The blue rock sheep is not big in size, a little smaller than a local dog. Its body is as green as an emerald stone sculpture, and it stands there like a stone statue.

"Why are these pigs and sheep so weird?" Li Zhen couldn't help but ask.

"This was originally raised by the mountain master to hunt the Iron Mother. It is not a spiritual animal that was killed for meat." Jin Hu explained.

The Sand Pig and the Green Rock Sheep are both earth-based spirit beasts. One can swallow soil and spit out sand, and the other can turn soil into stone. They are both very rare. It is thanks to the care of the Golden Bee Clan that they are taken care of, otherwise they would have run all over the mountains and plains.

"Not bad, not bad. I can sell spiritual soil in the future." Yu Shuyang smiled with satisfaction.

Then, I went to see the Shuiguang Vineyard. The grape vines were like dragons. A hundred-foot-long red vine had thousands of branches, and the grape leaves were also red like blood.

“This is a fifth-grade precious medicine. It wasn’t specially cultivated. It might have been a seed blown by the wind. After more than a hundred years of cultivation, it grew into its current appearance.

Every summer and autumn, we can harvest 500 kilograms of grapes, which can be sold for 100,000 taels of cash." Jin Hu explained with some pride.

This water grape is one of the few that can be produced on the island. She also knows the temperaments of the three monsters and they all like to talk about money.

After visiting the vineyard, we went to see the spiritual chives flowers and golden beehives. In the heart of Tiger Mountain, on a flat land of several hundred feet in size, the spiritual chives flowers grew lush and green, and golden bees as big as thumbs were flying back and forth.

The golden bees were collecting honey and pollen. The beehive was hanging on Hushan's chest. It looked like it weighed several thousand pounds, and there were at least hundreds of bee monsters of all sizes.

"How much honey can be produced and how much pollen can be collected every year?" Yu Shuyang was very satisfied.

We were always short of manpower in the past, but with this group of golden bees, we can open up tens of thousands of acres of grass fields and tea gardens without having to worry about not being able to take care of them.

"We produce 500 kilograms of honey and 100 kilograms of pollen every year," Jin Hu said timidly.

Jin Hu was embarrassed when he heard this. When the tiger woman was on the island, she only went to the wild sea to hunt and to perform rituals on Tiger Mountain, and never asked about the affairs of the island.

She made money by harvesting spiritual chive flowers and picking water grapes, and never considered selling spiritual honey or pollen.

Yu Shuyang nodded. He also realized that the management on the island was very ordinary, or very loose, and no industry had been formed.

I think it has something to do with the tiger woman's poor management skills, and also with the golden bee in front of him. From the answer just now, he could hear that the golden bee clan is just working without putting in any effort.

"Are there any other things on the island?" Yu Shuyang asked again. He always felt that there shouldn't be any. There should be Guigu and Guimi.

Tiger Woman is a ghost beast. Besides preying on the dead, doesn't she also eat ghost grain and ghost rice? The Book Fairy Water Monkey also grows ghost-faced peaches to eat.

"Master, there is a cave at the tiger's mouth of Tiger Mountain, but it is sealed by a forbidden spell. If there are other caves, they may be in the tiger's mouth cave." Jin Hu explained.

Just now she said that honey and bee pollen should be reduced by half, and she also noticed the change in the mountain master's expression, and felt scared again.

Yu Shuyang took out the Dragon Carp Wanfa Bell, cast a spell and flew towards the Tiger's Mouth Cave on the wind, where he saw the words "Feng You" written on the entrance of the cave.

After taking two steps forward, he found that there was indeed a magic ban. He took out the jade talisman to enlighten it, but it was of no use. It was obviously the tiger woman who cast the spell.

Although he couldn't get in, there was still room for exploration. He blew the wind and drilled into the gap in the forbidden area.

With the combination of the art of collecting wind and observing qi and the ability to see and hear from heaven, he figured it out in a moment. It was almost the same as his guess. It turned out to be the ghost rice - Fengyou rice.

The ears of Fengyou rice are shaped like pomegranates, and the grains are as big as peanuts. Ghosts can be full for three days after eating one grain. It is a treasure of the Fengyou Ghost Kingdom.

　I'm packing my luggage recently and preparing to move, so the updates will be less frequent. I'm sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)