Flying Clouds in Another World

When the official ship docked, the officials hurried forward to salute and respectfully invite the old man to board the ship. After the old man and his party boarded the official ship, they immediately went upstream along the winding water. Liu Feiyun looked at the official ship going away and thought: This old man must not be an ordinary Confucian scholar! Inkstone washer! But I don't know where he came from. Not long after, an inconspicuous civilian ship came, but it was the cargo ship of the Liu family. Liu Feiyun and Liu Shihu also boarded the ship and set sail, heading north along the Grand Canal connecting the north and the south. At the same time, a team of carriages and horses left Huishui City and headed north.

Xiyanke stood at the bow, watching the turbid water splashing with waves. The men and women who followed him had returned to the cabin to rest, with only two guards standing behind him. "It's sad to see the rise and fall of a dynasty, with thousands of palaces turned to dust! Rise! The people suffer! Fall! The people suffer! Water can carry a boat! It can also overturn it! Even a teenager understands this truth, why don't those dignitaries who hold power and hold power understand it? Do they have to wait until the world is in chaos?" Xiyanke said to himself with some sadness.

"Cough cough!" A guard had a strange look on his face and couldn't help but cough a few times.

"What's wrong! Are you martial artists not as strong as a frail old scholar like me?" Xiyanke said with a smile.

The guard couldn't help laughing and asked, "Old sir, do you know who the young man who said these two sentences is?"

"Oh... who is it?" "He is the Earl of Yunzhou Le'an, the former commander of the Tiger Power Army, and the youngest son of Liu Feiyun, the Liu Shihao, the butcher you scolded as the target of public criticism!" "Liu the butcher! Liu Feiyun? It's actually him?" Xiyanke was stunned!

"Yes, it is this person. I went to watch the Miyun Sect competition that year and met this person. At that time, he fought hard with a kid named Lu for a long time, so I was deeply impressed!" the guard explained.

Inkstone Washer suddenly realized, "Liu Yun, Liu Feiyun, so it's him! I heard that this boy was going to die young and was plagued by illness. I didn't expect that he would grow up this big."

The guard sighed, "One hundred thousand gold in exchange for a life, just to live twenty years longer, to be able to pass on the family line and keep the Liu family prosperous! It's hard to say whether this Mr. Liu's fate is too good or too bad!"

"One hundred thousand gold in exchange for a life! Alas! What a pity! I see that this boy's words and deeds are extraordinary, and he is definitely not a reckless man like Liu the Butcher who only knows how to kill. If he can live past thirty, he will definitely be a man of great influence. Look at his attitude towards his servants and his reaction to my slip of the tongue. It's not something a playboy can do. Even the elite children of those aristocratic families are no more than this."

Xiyanke sighed, but then he changed the subject, looked at the two of them, and whispered meaningfully: "Guard Zheng, I know that you two brothers are both hidden martial arts masters. If I die one day and the world is in chaos, and this boy is still alive and has no worries about his short life, you may want to go and join him! Believe in my judgment, if this boy doesn't die young, he may become a wise leader!"

Guard Zheng was stunned. He didn't expect Xiyanke to say such words!

"Don't tell anyone else about this. Just keep it to yourself. Consider this as a reward for your repeated efforts to save me and my family!" Xi Yanrong whispered solemnly again.

Guard Zheng and his companions looked at each other in silence, and just silently bowed to the Inkstone Washer.

Liu Feiyun didn't know who the Inkstone Washer was, but they knew him very well.

Not long after Xiyanke's boat left, a boat from the Green Willow Chamber of Commerce came over. On the bow of the boat stood a man wearing spiritual armor and carrying a huge bow. It was Qin Cheng, the commander of the Tiger Power Iron Guard of the Liu family. When he saw Liu Feiyun and the others, he laughed and said, "Yun boy, I haven't seen you for two years, but you have grown a lot taller. You look a bit like the military commander in your youth! Hahahaha!"

"Uncle Qin! I didn't expect that father would trick you into sending you here!" Liu Feiyun hurriedly performed a junior salute.

"Hahahaha! The world has been a bit unstable in recent years, so we better be careful! Hurry up and get on the boat! We still have to hurry!"

When the boat was about ten feet away from the dock, Liu Feiyun and the other man jumped onto the bow.

The ships did not dock but continued northward along the canal.

Qin Cheng looked Liu Feiyun up and down again, then smiled and said: "Not bad! You are almost at the late stage of the cultivator realm! It seems that you can enter the master cultivator realm before you are twenty-four years old! In this way, the worries of the military commander and his wife can finally be completely eliminated. It is really a great blessing for the Liu family!"

After saying that, he looked at Liu Shihu again, patted him on the shoulder, and continued: "I really didn't expect that Liu Yihu would give birth to a son like you who has an excellent talent for martial arts! At such a young age, he has already reached the master level! It's really unexpected! Boy! Keep working hard, maybe your achievements will surpass mine in the future!"

Liu Shihu grinned and said embarrassedly: "Thank you for the compliment, Commander-in-Chief!"

At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties approached the three people, bowed to Liu Feiyun and said, "I am the master of this speedboat, and I am honored to meet you, young master!"

Liu Feiyun nodded and asked, "I wonder when this ship can reach Beijin Prefecture at the earliest."

Beijin Prefecture is the northernmost end of the Grand Canal and is also the seat of Yunzhou.

The speedboat master replied respectfully, "Young Master, this boat is a new type of boat, called the Thousand Mile Boat, and it has an incredibly fast speed. If the waterway on the Grand Canal is unobstructed, it can travel a thousand miles during the day and hundreds of miles at night. However, this season is the busiest time for water transportation, so I'm afraid the speed will be greatly reduced. It can only travel six or seven hundred miles during the day, and it's good to travel more than two hundred miles at night. It will take at least four or five days to get from Huishui to Beijin."

"Thousand-mile Boat!? I didn't expect that our Liu family also has this Thousand-mile Boat! I remember that this Thousand-mile Boat has been on sale since last year!" Liu Feiyun was very surprised. To be honest, he also contributed a lot to the appearance of this Thousand-mile Boat, because this Thousand-mile Boat was developed by the Kuitian Pavilion.

The so-called thousand-mile boat is actually a primitive paddle-wheel ship from ancient times in the world before Liu Feiyun traveled to. It is also called a car ship. There is a group or array of paddle wheels similar to water wheels on both sides of the ship. It is driven by human or animal power instead of paddling with paddles.

However, in that time and space, vehicles and boats flourished for hundreds of years before gradually disappearing.

In this strange world, because of the existence of spirit stone veins, not only can humans refine spirits and strengthen their physical constitution, making the cultivators of this world stronger in physical strength, but also the animals and plants in the spirit stone vein area are greatly affected, resulting in various mutations.

Therefore, if cultivators or mutated spirit beasts are used to drive vehicles or ships, both the speed and range will far exceed that of another time and space.

When Liu Feiyun arrived at a cabin of the boat, he saw twelve strong men stepping hard on the pedals connected to the main shaft of the paddle wheel, while more than twenty other men were resting next to them.

"Oh! It turns out to be just the most primitive rickshaw boat!" Liu Feiyun was inevitably disappointed when he saw such a scene.