The Great Seminary

Chapter 289 At Your Fingertips (Part 2)

The painted boat 'Bibo Yunzhou' is only a small to medium-sized sea vessel with a size of 500 li.

However, due to its special purpose, its maximum voyage is only about fifty or sixty miles from the shore.

During the day, there are several young girls who can play the zither, compose poems, write lyrics, and paint.
Dozens of courtesans who could play musical instruments, sing, drink, and sell their bodies;

Hundreds of maids, cooks, old women, and pimps;
Guests who are enjoying the scenery and sea views can do some "refined" things.

The girls who had entertained guests and their maids stayed overnight, along with the bodyguards.

Therefore, its structure is also special.

A spacious five-story pavilion was erected on the deck.

Below deck is a huge kitchen, with a chimney dug above it to let in cooking smoke.

Truly ingenious.

Normally, once you're on a boat, even if you just follow the crowd, drink a bowl of tea, listen to some music, and don't even eat the snacks, you still have to pay five taels of silver.

Not to mention chartering a boat like this today.

But now, the top floor of the 'Azure Wave Cloud Boat' is a large pavilion with 'windproof magic arrays' set up on the windows on all four sides.

Tao Yilin, the direct descendant of the Tao family in Zhehai, who spent a lot of money to book the venue, regretted it so much that he wanted to slap himself.

He repeatedly looked around at the people beside him, who, although they shared the same ancestors and clans, had different backgrounds and circumstances, and whom he had only just met.

Tao Tuzhe, who used to seem polite, now appeared extremely arrogant when drunk, bowing repeatedly as he said:

“Brother, brother, the one who can operate a mechanical ship and herd spirit creatures on the Four Suns Sea must be no ordinary person.”

Most of them are quite familiar with our family.

"It's not good to be impolite; it would be a loss if I did."

Tao Tuzhe, a fresh-faced boy of sixteen or seventeen, his cheeks flushed from drinking, said:

"Brother Zong, please stop talking."

I clearly saw the strange insect first, so how come someone else points to it and says it's his, so it's his?

But I was unconvinced and insisted on getting it first before arguing with him.

"What's the point of arguing about this? It's clearly someone else's property!"

Tao Yilin was so angry that foam appeared at the corners of his mouth. Seeing that he couldn't persuade Tao Tuzhe by himself, he had no choice but to look around for help.

Finally, his eyes were fixed on Zhao Hezhe, who had come with Tao Tuzhe and was said to be his senior brother.

He repeatedly cupped his hands and said:
"Brother Zhao, you must persuade Tu Zhe. He can't get drunk and act recklessly, or he'll lose face."

"Haha, Brother Yilin, my junior brother Tao would never do anything undignified."

Zhao Hezhe, a tall and burly man, stroked his beard and grinned.

Tao Yilin was also a smart young man from a prominent family, and he carefully considered the meaning behind those words.

He recalled Tao Tuzhe's sudden change to a dissolute lifestyle and immediately understood.

"He's taken a fancy to someone else's spirit, but he's not bound by the rules on his own turf, so he's pretending to be drunk and acting like a scoundrel!"

First, try to take the item; if you can't, then say you were drunk and acted recklessly, and apologize.

He even pretended to be drunk and passed out, blaming all the trouble on me.

When he woke up, he claimed to know nothing.

They'd snatch it and probably run away; what a despicable brat!

But even though he had figured it out, since Tao Yilin had gone out of his way to invite Tao Tuzhe to the sea for a "refined game," he couldn't afford to offend him easily.

He could only sigh inwardly and walk to the window to look out at the sea.

They discovered that Tao Tuzhe and his guards were already fighting with the group of sea spiders.

And they completely took the upper hand.

If it weren't for the fear of accidentally harming these spiritual creatures, I probably would have subdued them long ago. I couldn't help but think:

"Sigh, the owner of these spirit creatures deserves to be unlucky. How did they end up running into this shameless little bastard?"

Go and see the spirit owner on the ironwood tortoise mechanical ship next to it.

Because I was initially focused on stopping Tao Tuzhe's reckless actions, I only gave it a cursory glance.

Now, upon closer inspection, one can see that the one who uttered those arrogant words, the owner of the spirit, was neither fat nor thin, neither tall nor short, with neither ugly nor handsome features, and an expression on his face that was neither a smile nor a frown.

Suddenly, a legendary figure came to mind, and my heart skipped a beat.
"As the old saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs, but misfortunes never come singly!"
"That bastard Tao Tuzhe is a drunken, filthy scoundrel. Could he have messed with someone even worse than him?"

The hairs on the back of his head stood on end, and he was about to speak up and explain how formidable he was.

Suddenly, several lion-headed spiders in the sea deliberately bumped into the blade of a clay serpent guard, and were all cut in half.

But the upper segment of a spider bit the guard's wrist.

In an instant, a thick, murky liquid was injected into his body.

The guard acted decisively, immediately dispelling his cultivation technique to prevent the spider venom from spreading throughout his body with the flow of his blood and qi.

Once the exercise stopped, his eight-foot-tall, two-hundred-pound body would naturally no longer be able to walk on the waves.

Fortunately, the closest companion was also in sync; with a swift movement of his left foot, he caught the burly guard's body in half a breath.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle of pills, bit open the wax seal with his teeth, and was about to pour it into his mouth.

At the same time, he asked with concern, "How do you feel?"

Before he could finish speaking, an extremely bizarre scene suddenly unfolded.

The burly guard's mouth suddenly transformed into a lion's maw, instantly catching the fist of his companion who was feeding him the medicine.

The same thick and murky liquid was injected into his body.

"Ah... what kind of monster is this?!"

The companion who was feeding the medicine was so frightened by this that his voice cracked.

Forget about the brotherhood built on feasting and drinking, he smashed the burly guard's head with a single blow.

Those around them didn't see the details clearly, only that the person administering the medicine went mad and suddenly killed his companion, and immediately more guards rushed over.

As soon as he got close, the burly guard's body turned into a spider's nest, and dozens of lion-headed spiders tore through his clothes and pounced on him.

After a fierce biting, the lion's eyes gradually turned bloodshot, and it charged towards its other 'prey'!
at the same time.

Zhang Gui felt that although he could still sense the presence of the lion-headed spider, he could no longer convey his meaning to it.

They could only watch helplessly as the lion-headed spiders in the sea wove their webs, intertwined, and together pounced on the remaining guards.

At this point, the guards showed no mercy and used every trick in the book.

They surged with waves, created ice, whipped up winds, and turned snow into blades as they faced the lion-headed spider.

Unfortunately, after a small battle with the human cultivators, the lion-headed spider had already figured out how to deal with them.

He used his body to forcefully collide with the guard's deadly attack.

And some of the spider webs they spewed out seemed to be able to block the cultivators' attacks.

Amidst the chaotic dance of insects, one is bound to get bitten, scratched by animal claws, or pierced by limbs.

Soon all the guards died, turning into hundreds of spider clones.

Zhang Gui suddenly realized that the high-quality spiritual flesh and blood, when hunted and eaten by the Lionhead Spider, could not only increase its size and strength.

It can also create more spider prostheses.

In other words, it can improve both 'quality' and 'quantity', achieving two goals at once.

The only problem is that it can temporarily lose control for a moment!

(End of this chapter)