Immortal Road.

Chapter 434: Stormy Sea, Mermaid Changes Tail

Linshan thus changed its direction, first heading eastward into the sea.

Then he moved away from the coastline, went deep into the waters of Yan State, and then turned south.

This time it went smoothly.

They entered the East China Sea territory of the Song Dynasty smoothly along the way.

East China Sea.

Now that it has been taken under the control of the three righteous sects, the laissez-faire attitude of the past is no longer in place. All small forces are registered and under supervision.

The influence left behind by the three evil sects has not yet been completely eliminated.

The most obvious is the poisoning of faith.

At the beginning, the Black Lotus Sect preached extensively in the East China Sea, brainwashing nearly one-third of the island's common people and instilling the idea of ​​believing in the Black Lotus Buddha.

Although the righteous path came later and put order, it sent people to destroy the Black Lotus Buddha statues everywhere and purify the mortals' faith again.

But pollution is easy and control is difficult.

This is a long, gradual process.

We can only blame the altar purifiers back then, who used all means to gain contributions to the religion, and used all kinds of crooked tricks one after another, making the East China Sea a mess.

What the righteous path does is not only to clean up the cancer, but also to drive out and suppress the alien races in various sea areas and end the separatist state of internal strife and separatism.

Those who are not of our race must have different hearts, especially the major alien races. They are fickle-minded, colluding with the evil ways today and joining the righteous ways tomorrow. They are like time bombs.

For the sake of stability here, the righteous sects swept across all the sea areas with the force of thunder.

How could the Inhumans stop this?

They were either destroyed or fled to the open sea. Knowing that resisting a top sect would mean death, they naturally would not stubbornly stay in the East China Sea.

In comparison, although the demons are overbearing, they never take the East China Sea seriously. They only regard it as a springboard and have no intention of killing them all.

During that vigorous sweep, some Inhumans fled to the sea, but some still lingered in their homeland and refused to leave.

For example, the mermaids in the Stormy Sea.

The reason why they did not leave was, of course, because the entire Stormy Sea was covered with ruby ​​coral forests that were suitable for them to live in.

Another thing is that their ethnic group is too weak, and they simply cannot survive in the barbaric places like the outer sea. The cruel competition environment is not suitable for the weak.

It is very likely that they would go there on the first day and be destroyed on the second day.

Moreover, the mermaids themselves are the most favored maids among all the major sea tribes, and one-third of the slave trade market is made up of mermaids.

They are sold wherever they go, and are no different from walking delicacies.

Originally, the East China Sea was a mess with no major forces settled in. Places like the Stormy Sea became their worry-free back garden.

Now that the righteous path has made up its mind to wipe out everything and consolidate the East China Sea as a strategic barrier, it will no longer stand idly by as before.

The mermaids are used to staying in their comfort zone and have no courage to go out to sea, so they can only hide in the seabed all day long like sea loaches, living a miserable life.

Fortunately, the young patriarch of their tribe had a trading channel in a distant country a while ago. As long as they continued to provide fresh seafood, there would be a steady supply of spirit stones and materials.

It kept them going for quite a while.

But later on, it was said that they started to engage in independent breeding and no longer needed them!

For this reason, the young patriarch lost his temper in the tribe, scolding them for not keeping their word and being treacherous.

Anyway, it has become a consensus among the mermaids that all human monks are bad. This also fits their impression, so it's no big deal.

Just get by with life!

However, it was said that recently, the northern border of the Song Dynasty was at war with other countries, and the three top sects were short of manpower, so they were forced to draw people from the East China Sea.

In order to maintain stability, some sects and families from the mainland were assigned to patrol various places in the East China Sea.

On the other hand, in the beginning, those people in the Stormy Sea only followed orders and not announcements. They were there just for show and their sweeping force was far less powerful than that of the people from the top sects. For a time, the mermaids thought that good days were coming.

But unexpectedly, in less than half a year, a Foundation Establishment cultivator among this group of newcomers accidentally captured a Foundation Establishment mermaid. He first took her in as his maid for a while, and then sold her through the sea market and made a fortune!
Now everyone is jealous!

In the past, the top sects claimed to be famous and upright, but due to the shame of not engaging in slave trading in public, at most they did it in private and never made it public.

But why should these small and medium-sized aristocratic families and sects care about this?

Seeing a way to make money right in front of them, everyone couldn't help but be tempted.

So the vigorous operation to capture mermaids began.

This group of mermaids hid from place to place, but were still surrounded and hunted, suffering heavy losses. Many members of the tribe were captured to warm other people's beds or were sold. Their end was miserable!
Later, they were left with no choice but to move towards the deep sea and dangerous areas ravaged by strong winds. However, the sects and families had been blinded by the huge profits and chased after them despite knowing the danger.

Lin Shan traveled leisurely for ten days, enjoying the vast scenery of sea and sky along the way.

I felt something when I first watched it, but later I got tired of it and felt a little visually fatigued.

In order to maintain speed, it is still necessary to use the rainbow flying method, which is incomparable to other flying magic tools.

If you want to travel quickly and completely liberate yourself, and pursue comfort and speed at the same time, then the only option is a flying magic weapon.

However, flying magic weapons are a very rare category in the world of cultivation, and perhaps only one out of ten weapon-refining masters can make one.

Drawings, materials and corresponding legal prohibitions are triple restrictions, making it basically difficult to see them.

Even Taoist Qingji doesn’t have a magical flying weapon, let alone others.

The master of Qingyang Peak might have it, but his inheritance was taken away by General Xiong, so Lin Shan had no way to confirm it.

Journey southwards in the East China Sea.

While passing through the Stormy Sea, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have a summoning contract that connected him to a mermaid girl.

Since the establishment of the Lin Chamber of Commerce, the fresh seafood caught by the mermaids from the East China Sea helped them seize the market and open up the situation in the western part of Lu.

After all, fresh seafood is much more tender than other seafood shipped from distant places. In addition, there is no transportation cost and the low price is also an advantage, which has allowed the Lin Chamber of Commerce to rise strongly and squeeze out other seafood chambers of commerce.

The last one became the dominant one and the industry leader in western Shandong.

When there were no competitors, Lin Shan adopted the strategy of breeding. He no longer needed to cooperate with the mermaids, but chose to keep it all to himself.

Although farmed seafood is certainly not as good as freshly caught ones, who can blame Luxi for no longer having a rival aquatic products chamber of commerce?

Being the only dominant company doesn't mean he has the final say!

In fact, there is another reason, that is, Lin Shan feels that it is too troublesome to summon the mermaid girl all the time. He wants to let his subordinates operate it on their own and free himself from it. He can't do it all by himself just for a chamber of commerce, right?

So many years have passed, and now that he is passing by the Stormy Sea again, he can't help but want to go and take a look.

If possible, you can also ask the locals about the secrets of the "Penglai Holy Land".

He now has two "ancestor tablets" in his hands, and still has no clue. If he wants to conduct an in-depth investigation, he can only find an entry point first.

The mermaids, isn’t that just right?
Lin Shan's eyes rolled, he thought for a while, then stopped on the sea, took out the summoning flag and shook it!
A blue vortex appeared out of nowhere.

A cold voice came from the other end: "You still remember to summon me?" Then, a graceful figure walked out.

"Pfft!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as I went out, I stepped on empty air and fell directly into the sea.

The mermaid girl swam up angrily and almost fought with Lin Shan!
"Where did you get your feet? Didn't you have a fish tail before?"

Lin Shan couldn't help but look down and found that the mermaid girl had changed a lot. Her beautiful fish tail had turned into two jade feet.

Can the mermaid come ashore?

"I took the holy medicine and transformed into a human. What does it have to do with you?"

The grievances that the mermaid girl had suffered over the years exploded in anger, and she was about to come over to him.

"Oh!"

However, because he had some resentment towards Lin Shan, he was detected by Chengming Qingyun, who suddenly appeared and bounced him away!

This cloud is extremely spiritual and quick to react, worthy of being a spiritual creature in heaven and earth that automatically protects its master.

Lin Shan couldn't help but nod his head in satisfaction. Ci Yun was so excited to receive his master's praise that he was twitching with joy.

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The mermaid girl was so angry that she gnashed with hatred when she saw Lin Shan's ugly face.

"No, if you have something to say, just talk it over. Why are you so angry with me? How have you been lately?"

"What's so good?!"

Lin Shan stood on the sea and was scolded for a full quarter of an hour. All of them were about breaking one's promise, breaking one's promise, going back on one's word, and changing one's mind.
In the end, the plot of abandoning someone after having sex with them all came out!
"Don't talk nonsense. When did I abandon you?"

Lin Shan was scolded for no reason, but he had to endure it. After all, he wanted to ask a favor from the mermaids on this trip, and his mouth ached.

After the mermaid girl scolded and explained, he finally understood what was going on.

It turned out that the situation of the mermaids was getting worse and worse. Because she had connections with Lin Shan, she was able to deliver a large amount of supplies to the tribe by "bringing goods from overseas", so her status suddenly became high.

The tribe directly appointed her as the young clan leader, ordered her to be responsible for connecting with the outside world, and even placed most of their hopes on her.

But Linshan was different. After opening up the market with seafood, he simply went it alone!

The mermaids were all stunned.

No matter how hard they tried to contact Lin Shan, they couldn't get through. After all, summoning was one-way. Lin Shan took the initiative, and the mermaids could only wait passively.

In the end, he waited no matter how long he waited. After so many years, Lin Shan seemed to have forgotten about the mermaids.

In fact, he was almost forgetful.

He thought it was just a simple cooperation, but to the mermaids it was a betrayal and a complete betrayal.

As the saying goes, a little bit of rice will be resented, and if you don't give, hatred will grow. Even the mermaid girl was blamed by her tribesmen. This is human nature.

The mermaid girl has been accustomed to being looked down upon over the years. Sitting in the position of young clan leader, she is accused of inaction, which puts her under great pressure.

Later, the top sects in the Storm Sea evacuated and were transferred to the inland sects and families. The grand hunting began and they were almost out of breath.

In order to gather intelligence, the mermaid girl had to endure the pain and take the holy medicine of her tribe, replacing her fish tail with legs, so that she could blend in with the humans on the shore without being recognized.

The fish tail is the mermaids' favorite body shape. If it were replaced with the humans whom they hate the most, one can imagine how they would be looked down upon by the tribe.

However, in order to save her people, she did not hesitate, because she is now the young leader and must take responsibility.

Lin Shan was very confused after hearing this, so he asked a soul-searching question.

"You are just the junior patriarch. Where is the patriarch?"

Logically speaking, when the clan is facing a life-and-death situation, shouldn't the clan leader be the one fighting the hardest?
Why are you so active as a young patriarch?

The merman girl was stunned.

Then he became furious and denounced.

"The clan leader was killed by the guardian of the demon sect decades ago because of you, and you still have the nerve to say this!"

The patriarch died a long time ago?

Lin Shan was puzzled. What does the life or death of your clan leader have to do with me?
I only understood it after an explanation.

Back then, Lin Shan forced a contract with the leader of the water bears in the Stormy Sea. The mermaids had been away from the world for too long and thought that the East China Sea was still a mess as before, so they sent a letter of inquiry to the Demonic Path to ask for an explanation.

The result is predictable. The demons were preparing for a swearing-in ceremony and launching a full-scale attack on the Song Dynasty. How could they possibly give you an explanation?

The Yuanying stage bosses of the United Front Department were ruthless and didn't talk much. They immediately sent people to the mermaid tribe to make a big fuss.

It is said that the scene was extremely tragic. The mermaids were beaten until they surrendered. A Jindan-stage elder and an old clan leader who was at the peak of the foundation-building stage were killed. Ten mermaids in the foundation-building stage were abducted, and the entire tribe was wailing.

The source of all this points directly to Lin Shan!
Later, the mermaid girl started trading seafood, and the tribe forgave her a little. However, once the supply was cut off, they immediately settled all the new and old grudges, and Lin Shan and the mermaid girl hated each other together.

After understanding the cause and effect of this, Lin Shan was really annoyed. It was obviously you guys who brought this upon yourselves. What does it have to do with me?

But somehow, he could vaguely feel that this matter did have a great cause and effect relationship with him.

If you didn't kill Bo Ren, Bo Ren would have died because of you.

Sometimes cause and effect are like this, difficult to cut off and unravel. No one can foresee their past and future, and you never know when something bad will happen.

There is a lot of hatred without reason. No one in the world of cultivation is clean!
"All right."

Lin Shan nodded dejectedly. Anyway, the lice wouldn't itch if there were too many of them, and he had become numb to it.

It's useless for the mermaids to hate him. Anyway, this tiny tribe poses no threat to him. How could an elephant care about the ants that hate him?
However, since he was passing through the East China Sea on this trip, he would just do something convenient and would need to make more use of the mermaids.

The more ancient the race, the more likely it is to know the secret of the Penglai Holy Land. If he wants to know, he will really go there.

At this time, the mermaid girl also suggested that he should go to the mermaid tribe as soon as possible to rescue them. Now the whole tribe was fleeing east and west, and their range of activities was gradually shrinking. They were almost at the end of their rope.

"What if I didn't come to the East Sea? You guys would just wait to die?"

Lin Shan was now feeling dissatisfied. He thought, you can't survive without me, so I am a living Bodhisattva?

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The mermaid girl was disheveled in the wind and didn't know what to say.

Of course they can survive without Lin Shan. They can leave their homes or escape to the open sea. It just depends on whether the mermaids are willing to do so.

Now that the kid is back, we should pull him over to save the situation. It would be great if we didn’t take advantage of the free labor!
"I can save you, but afterwards, your entire clan will owe me a life, and you must do me a favor!"

Lin Shan doesn't do charity or offer warmth, he just puts forward the conditions first.

Don't talk about friends, just talk about interests.

(End of this chapter)