Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 183 Ao City
Huge water droplets hit people's faces like pebbles. The captain held tightly to the mast, shouting to his crew amidst the raging waves.

"Hands! Lower the sails! Set anchor!"

He had been sailing Dongzhou for fifteen years, and most of the crew members were old comrades. Although the storm came unexpectedly, everyone still carried out their work in an orderly manner.

The large ship is still under his control.

However, when the boat captain raised his face and looked at the sun high in the sky, a sense of oppression stemming from experience still lingered in his heart.

It's so strange. The sun was shining brightly and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. How could such a big storm suddenly appear?
Before he could think it through, another huge wave, several meters high, came crashing down, lifting his ship high into the air. Immediately following behind was an even more violent wave, crashing onto the deck with a thunderous roar!

Not to mention the merchants, even the less experienced sailors were showing fear at this moment.

The captain had to call out even more urgently for them to return to their posts: "Captain! Take some men to drain the water!"

But just as he raised his arm to wave at the crew, one of his old buddies suddenly widened his eyes and pointed behind him.

Based on his years of experience sailing, the captain had a premonition that there might be a towering wave behind him, or a reef hidden in the waves.

He struggled to turn his head, but what he saw was a huge spine rising slightly from the sea in the distance...

Poseidon God!
The captain turned around and roared at the top of his lungs, "Hard to port! Evade! Evade!"

It was a futile cry; in the raging waves, turning a ship is not easy, as everyone knows.

When the sea goddess swims by with giant waves and storms, she is usually in a bad mood.

……

A fast horse entered Ao City.

The soldiers at the city gate responsible for checking people entering the city only glanced at him before letting him pass without any obstruction.

Those horses flying tricolor flags belong to the three major clans of Aocheng.

Once inside the city and onto the main road, the horse showed no sign of slowing down. Amidst the gasps of the crowd, it continued its reckless gallop, ignoring even those who were slow to react, as if it wouldn't matter if they were killed.

Seeing a little boy squatting on the ground with snot running down his face, the horse's hoof trampled over him.

At the critical moment, a figure with a pom-pom on its head rushed out and pushed the child to the side of the road.

Then, the figure hunched its neck, curled itself into a ball, and narrowly escaped from under the horse's belly.

Lu Li got up from the ground, turned to look at the horse's rump in the distance, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Damn, thank goodness I'm still young."

She turned around and looked at Pei Xia, who was still craning his neck to watch the shopkeeper sell wine in the tavern next door. She was furious and ran over to him, kicking him in the calf: "Still greedy, still greedy! I almost got hit by a horse!"

Pei Xia hooked her other leg up, scratched her calf, and asked without turning her head, "Is the horse alright?"

"Depend on!"

Taking the newly bought gourd of wine from the shopkeeper, Pei Xiamei took a delicious sip and said with a smile, "If you're going to do something righteous, you should be prepared to suffer losses beforehand. I've already taught you that."

The gourd was newly bought. Having had experience before, Pei Xia knew what she was doing and would go to the market to buy the kind of gourds that cultivators used to hold pills; they were all high-quality items.

As for money, when he was in Changjun, Pei Xia went to the market and sold the twin swords he had obtained from Qiu Sheng.

These martial arts implements have always sold extremely well, and even though they were in a hurry to sell them, they still managed to get two thousand taels of silver.

Thanks to this, Pei Xia bought two horses and changed his attire. He now wears a white and blue training uniform, which makes his posture look upright. His gradually growing hair is also tied up. More importantly, because of the inner fire, Pei Xia's mental state is much better than before. His complexion is no longer haggard and dull, and his dark circles have disappeared!
Now that his good looks have been revealed, he really is a handsome and dashing young swordsman as he walks down the roadside.

Lu Li looked up at him. He was full of energy, and his smile was so cheerful and carefree. His little apprentice twisted his face, as if he was suppressing something: "Stop smiling, really stop smiling. You're so sunny, it makes me want to throw up."

Pei Xia grabbed her by the back of her collar and led her out of the tavern.

In fact, it wasn't just Lu Li who felt unfamiliar; Pei Xia herself also felt unfamiliar with the current version of him.

After the tragedy, he hadn't felt this real sense of "being alive" for a long time.

The heart fire did indeed improve his condition to a great extent, both physically and mentally.

This made him even more excited and eager to obtain the complete Ru Tao.

Lu Li skillfully climbed up his arm to his neck, looked around, and asked, "Where's Han Youzhi?"

"Hiding away surfing the internet, huh?" Pei Xia said casually.

After careful consideration, Pei Xia decided not to tell Han Youzhi about the matter of Qiongxiao Yuyu.

Although she couldn't say there was absolutely no affection between her and Lao Han, judging from her usual conversations, the reason they had traveled together from the underground palace to the present was only because of the snake breeder's restrictions.

Once the restrictions are lifted, she will probably part ways with Pei Xia, so from that perspective, there is indeed no reason to reveal it to her.

As they were talking, a tall woman a little further away led a horse, scanned the crowd for a moment, and walked towards Pei Xia.

Han Youzhi also changed her clothes, wearing a white-based, tight-fitting blue shirt. However, the shirt accentuated her curvaceous figure, making her a striking figure wherever she went in the city.

Her sideburns fell to her collarbone, and her hair was tied in a ponytail at the back of her head. Through the wispy bangs on her forehead, Han Youzhi looked at the wine gourd in Pei Xia's hand and said with disdain, "You drunkard."

“Only those who can get drunk are called drunkards,” Pei Xia said, pointing a finger at herself with the gourd in her hand. “I’ve never been drunk in my life.”

Han Youzhi was too lazy to argue with him, so she rolled her eyes charmingly and led the horse ahead: "Let's go, let's go to the dock early. I heard that it's hard to find a ship to go out to sea lately."

Pei Xia walked a few steps to the roadside, took his horse, and ran a few steps to catch up: "Dongzhou Sea is just a long and narrow strait. With your cultivation level, you can cross it in a small boat when the weather is fine."

As Han Youzhi walked, she turned her head back and swept her long, narrow phoenix eyes over him: "And what about you?"

"You wouldn't abandon me, would you?"

"Ha, you're shameless."

Amidst the bustling streets, the three men and two horses chatted quietly as they slowly walked into the crowd.

Meanwhile, the fast horse carrying the tricolor flag galloped all the way to the He family mansion in the north of Aocheng, where it suddenly pulled on its reins.

The weary rider dismounted and, using almost all his remaining strength, raced into the courtyard.

Inside the He family's main hall, the old patriarch, He Chongguang, sat in the main seat, leaning on his cane, his face somber and grave, sighing repeatedly.

He turned to look at the black messenger beside him, as if unwilling to give up, and asked again, "My Chen'er and the others really are..."

Before the question could be finished, a messenger rushed in from outside the hall, tripped heavily on the threshold, and fell to the ground.

He looked up, panting, and said, "The Sea Patrol God has stopped in the Eastern Sea!"

(End of this chapter)