Cultivation Kill

The car dealerships in the county town are rows of open tents.

Below the tent is a long row of stables, and in front of the stables are many two-meter-high stone hitching posts.

There are many people buying horses and renting cars right now, and they are talking with the horse trading company's employees.

"I gonna go see."

Shen Zige saw a two-wheeled carriage parked outside a stable. The brown horse was eating hay from the trough, neighing excitedly and occasionally snorting.

A woman in a pleated long skirt came to the carriage that Shen Zige had her eye on, and a coachman immediately came forward to greet her, and the two began to negotiate the price.

Shen Zige scanned the surroundings with his divine sense and found that this was the only carriage left in the carriage yard, so he quickened his pace and walked over.

"Ten taels of silver, take it or leave it!"

The coachman's voice came from behind.

"You usually charge two ounces, why are you charging five times more today?" the woman in the pleated long skirt said. "This is extortion!"

"Normally it's normal, but now it's the Great Yuan Festival, so price increases are normal. Are you going or not?" the driver asked impatiently.

The woman in the long dress hesitated.

Shen Zige stepped forward: "Can you accept carpooling?"

"What does carpooling mean?" Uganda doesn't have Starry Sky or Star Realm Companies, and few transmigrators come here, so it's relatively backward. They don't even understand what carpooling means.

It means you and I will split the cost of renting the carriage, half for each of us.

“But we’re going to different places!” the woman in the long dress said.

"Didn't you want to go to Xizhou City?" Shen Zige said. "Same destination."

"You...you were eavesdropping on me!" The woman in the long dress was startled. She was certain that Shen Zige wasn't beside her, so how could she have heard what she was saying?

Shen Zige was too lazy to explain. This woman seemed to come from a good family and should have met cultivators before. Could it be that there are far fewer cultivators in Wu Kingdom than in Zhu Kingdom?

That makes sense when you think about it. There are large companies in the Bamboo Kingdom training mortals, as well as various pressures of competition and death. Most importantly, there are transmigrators from Earth, so there are many cultivators in the small cities of the Bamboo Kingdom.

It is estimated that most cultivators in Wu Kingdom stay in big cities. Even if there are some in this small county town, there won't be many, and they won't come out often. So ordinary people don't think about cultivators.

Shen Zige deduced that most of the human cultivators in Wu Kingdom were from the Great Yuan Sect, otherwise the fat patriarch of the Zhou family and his servants would not have immediately assumed that Shen Zige was from the Great Yuan Sect.

"I usually only carry one person in my carriage. If you share, it's ten taels per person," the driver said. "The more people there are, the harder it is for the horse, so you have to pay extra."

"What does the horse's exhaustion have to do with your coachman?" the woman in the long dress said. "Although I don't agree to carpooling either, your coachman's words are rude, and he's basically extorting us."

“I have to pay a lot of management fees to the car dealership every month. If I don’t make more money, how will I survive?” the driver said. “Are you going to rent it or not? If not, move aside and don’t interfere with my business.”

“Oh, you probably can’t pull us away now,” Shi Yuan said as he walked over.

"What do you mean?" the driver glared at Shi Yuan.

"As far as I know, the grass this horse is eating is called wolf's blood grass, which is very similar to ryegrass, and many people can't tell the difference," Shi Yuan said. "When animals eat wolf's blood grass, the toxins will take effect in less than an hour, causing the animals to hallucinate, go crazy, and eventually die."

Upon hearing this, the coachman's expression changed, and he hurriedly rushed over, scooped up all the hay from the manger, and threw it far away.

The horse's eyes turned red. It turned its back to the coachman, kicked him angrily, and the coachman screamed and fell to the ground.

"I forgot to remind you, as the name suggests, this grass is addictive the more you eat it. If you take it away, the animal is very likely to become enraged and not recognize its owner!" Shi Yuan walked past the driver without looking back.

When the coachman saw that the coachman had been kicked by the horse, he quickly called for others to help lift him onto the haystack and pinch his nose to help him recover.

"What do we do now?" Shen Zige asked Shi Yuan. "Should we buy a few horses to ride, or perhaps secretly fly away on a sword?"

“A messenger, a messenger should have a carriage,” Luo Wansheng said, stepping forward. “Let’s go to the post office.”

Upon hearing this, the woman in the pleated skirt also went along.

More than ten minutes later, the four arrived at the post office in the county town.

Sure enough, there were two horse-drawn carriages in front of the post office. The carriages were made of wood and covered with a rainproof tarpaulin. Two staff members in green clothes were carrying letters into the carriages.

"Brother, are you going to Xizhou City?" Luo Wansheng asked as she stepped forward.

"My car is heading to Laozhou City, while the one next to it is heading to Xizhou City."

Luo Wansheng then asked the person next to her if they could give them a ride.

"This is a carriage for transporting letters; it's inconvenient to bring people along," the messenger said, looking troubled.

Shi Yuan stepped forward, stuffed a spirit stone into the messenger's hand, and said, "Please help me."

The messenger in green glanced at the spirit stones in his hand, swallowed his refusal, and said, "There aren't many letters. I'll stack them in the corner, and I'll give you four stools in the remaining space in the carriage, but don't think it's too crowded."

"It's alright, I think this carriage is quite spacious," Shen Zige said.

"Okay, please wait a moment." The messenger nodded, then climbed onto the carriage to sort through the letters.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the messenger finished tidying up the carriage, then brought another horse from the back of the shop to pull the carriage together, and placed a stool in the back compartment.

A woman in a pleated skirt shamelessly tried to hitch a ride.

Shen Zige and Shi Yuan sat on the left side of the carriage, while Luo Wansheng and the woman in the long dress sat on the right.

"drive--"

The messenger sat in front and rode forward. He struggled to control two horses by himself, but he didn't complain because of the spirit stone.

The carriage moved slowly.

Half an hour later, both Luo Wansheng and the woman in the long dress were pale and vomited several times when they opened the carriage door.

Due to the lack of proper shock absorption, the shaking and vibration were so severe that the two women, who were not used to riding in cars, vomited repeatedly and almost brought up their stomach contents!

"I'd rather walk than ride in a carriage from now on!" Xiao Wansheng said. "What's your name, and why do you want to go to Xizhou City?"

"My name is Zheng Yujie, and I'm going to find my relatives." The woman in the long dress was also exhausted and leaned against the carriage.

Shen Zige was practicing the Sun Sword Technique with her eyes closed. She was as if she were glued to the car, and no matter how much it shook or vibrated, she didn't react.

Shi Yuan didn't say anything, took out two pills from his pocket, handed them to the two women, and said, "These are motion sickness pills I made myself."

The two women looked at the dark pill in their palms and asked in unison, "Won't this medicine kill us?"

"No, don't worry, I'll compensate you if you die!" Shi Yuan replied. "I won't charge you any money, it's free, eat it or don't, I'll make you vomit to death!"

Luo Wansheng hardened her heart, threw the black pill into her mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.

"It tastes so bitter, worse than poop!" Luo Wansheng stuck out her tongue and spat out of the car.

Although the medicine was bitter and unpleasant to take, it significantly reduced her dizziness and nausea, and a few minutes later, her complexion was no longer as pale as before.

Seeing this, Zheng Yujie also pinched her nose and swallowed the medicine.

As dusk approached, they arrived at a small county town, and the messenger drove the carriage to an inn to rest.

Shen Zige went to the hotel to rest, while Shi Yuan took the two women to buy food.

After that, every night the messenger would drive his carriage to a nearby county town inn to rest. After a three-day journey, he finally arrived in Xizhou City.