Chapter 18

When he came to Tang Jie's residence, Shi Jingzhai found that Tang Jie was not in the house. He asked the maid and found out that he went fishing in Jinchi Peak.

Jinchi Peak is a peak on the west side of Yongsui Mountain. It is not called Jinchi Peak, but Jinding Peak. More than a thousand years ago, there was a real Tianxin who fought in Jindingfeng. The battle was so dark that even the top of the mountain was flattened, the terrain was sunken, and a lake was finally formed. The lake on the top of the mountain was named Jinchi because the lake on the top of the mountain was shining brightly in sunlight, and then Jinding Peak became Jinchi Peak.

However, although there is a lake on the Jinchi Peak, there are no fish, and Tang Jiecun has some kind of intention to go fishing in the Jinchi. Fortunately, there are many unthinkable things in the way of immortal cultivators. As long as they have the heart, it is nothing to make the golden pond full of fish.

Knowing that Tang Jie was on Jinchi Peak at this moment, Shi Jingzhai flew to find him.

The top of Jinchi Peak is covered with snow, and the lake is covered with thousands of rays of light. Two incompatible landscapes appear at the same time at this moment, weird and harmonious, presenting a different kind of scenery.

In the heart of the lake, a row of rafts floats leisurely.

Tang Jie was sitting leisurely on the raft with a hanging pole in his hand, looking like a wild crane in the clouds, enjoying the fairyland. Under the surface of the water, a large school of koi swims around, and a long and thin sewing needle hangs in the school of fish. It is Tang Jie's hook.

Naturally, such a hook could not catch any fish, but Tang Jie didn't care at all, just waiting quietly.

When Shi Jingzhai flew over from the distant sky, the sound of "Little friend Tang Jie" made Tang Jie finally have a smile on his face.

The fish is hooked.

He raised his head and looked towards the sky: "It turns out that Master Shi is here, why don't you come down together and grab a few poles and have a drink?"

As he spoke, he raised the jug beside him and invited him to the sky.

Shi Jingzhai laughed aloud: "Little friend is really in a good mood, since that's the case, why not just accompany you."

A tone that I was just passing by.

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from the mustard bag, folded it in threes and twos, and turned it into a paper boat. Then he blew on the paper boat, and the paper boat swelled in the air, and finally became like a real boat. on the water.

Then Shi Jingzhai descended from the sky and landed on the bow of the boat. He waved to Tang Jie and said, "Little friend, why don't you come on my boat, your place is a bit small."

Tang Jie couldn't help but admire this.

Regardless of Shi Jingzhai’s use of paper as a boat, it seems simple,

But it is the real ability to transform things, and it is also an ability that can only be mastered by entering the Tianxin. Back then, Xu Muyang used the same method to send him away with a paper horse.

Hearing what Shi Jingzhai said at this moment, Tang Jie jumped onto Shi Jingzhai's boat, boasted "the real man has good skills", took out a cup from his bag, filled Shi Jingzhai with a wine pot, and brought it to him.

Shi Jingzhai took the wine and sniffed it carefully, then laughed and said: "Twenty years of apricot blossom wine, Tang Jie, you robbed the old Chen's house at the foot of the mountain, and brought the only fine wine from Yongsui Mountain. The fish, this is obviously the embroidered gold carp from King Jing's Mansion in Yaocheng, but you brought it here. Feelings, you didn't see each other yesterday, and you went to Qiongzhou."

"A real person's eyes are like torches, powerful, powerful!" Tang Jie clasped his hands and said with a smile, "Tang Jie's little tricks will not be able to deceive the real person's eyes."

Shi Jingzhai looked at the large group of embroidered golden carps in the lake, and couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "It is said that these embroidered golden carps are delicious, and each one is the best in the world. King Jing's mansion has only raised nearly a thousand of them so far, but they were killed You got so much all at once, you're afraid you've scooped up his family's pool, right?"

Tang Jie said with a smile: "The Lord Jing is really stingy, I asked him for a hundred pieces, but he refused, saying that he would sell me ten pieces at most, and in a fit of anger, he sneaked in and took the money from his pond. The fish has been touched clean, I'm afraid it will blow up that Prince Jing's lungs."

Shi Jingzhai frowned and said: "I know that my little friend is also very important in the Xiyue Sect, and he is the one who personally issued a recommendation order from the leader of the Ming Dynasty. According to ordinary people in Jingwang District, it is not a big deal to take a few fish from him. However, the Xiyue Sect has rules for a long time, and only real people can sit on an equal footing with ordinary kings. My little friend is only a spiritual master in the end, so I am afraid that this kind of behavior is still a little too much."

Tang Jie said indifferently: "It's okay, it's just a crime of disrespect, and it shouldn't be a big deal. Making small mistakes is harmless, as long as you deal with big problems, it's a big deal to destroy your family."

Shi Jingzhai was shocked when he heard this.

What kind of event is a major event that destroys a family?

Speaking of which, there is one right now.

Was Tang Jie's words unintentional or did he mean something?

Shi Jingzhai didn't know, but his heart became more and more jealous.

At this moment, he laughed dryly and said: "What my little friend said is that as long as you focus on the big things, some small things are irrelevant."

Tang Jie had already sat down on the bow of the boat, threw the fishing rod back into the lake and said, "Do you want to fish together?"

Shi Jingzhai looked at his straight hook and said with a smile, "It's really fresh for my little friend to fish with a straight hook."

Tang Jie replied: "I have nothing to do, just teasing and playing. Real people don't underestimate the embroidered gold carp's appearance of ignorance, but each carp is actually very alert. If I really want to catch one, they may be caught immediately. Then they dispersed, and the sight of this group of carp arch guards will never be seen again."

Shi Jingzhai regretted: "Then I won't be able to eat this embroidered golden carp."

Tang Jie laughed loudly: "Since the real person said so, then even if Tang Jie burns the piano and cooks the crane, he will still be able to catch a few."

As he spoke, he swung his fishing rod, and the straight hook passed through the bodies of more than a dozen embroidered golden carp in a row, and landed on the deck in a string, thumping and jumping. They dispersed at the same time, even with Shi Jingzhai's eyesight, he couldn't see where the fish went.

Tang Jie said: "That's enough."

As he said that, he took out a small knife and started scraping the scales on the boat.

When Shi Jingzhai saw him start, he had already set up a small stove to boil water. Tang Jie washed the killed fish with lake water and threw it into the pot. Cultivators usually carry seasoning bottles with them, so you put some chopped green onion, and I put some. Ginger, the old and the young make fish soup on this lake. From time to time, there will be comments such as "Don't make all the soup, more than ten pieces, save some braised and steamed", "If you don't have a wok, you can change it, we are immortals", "There is no soy sauce? Can it be changed?" "It can't be forgotten, white Let’s fry it, it’s delicious too.” “You don’t know what a steamer is? I’ll make the foundation and you can change it.” “No, it’s getting hot here, Lao Shi, your pot is so bad, it will rot if you poke it, I know it’s Made of paper..."

Most of the time, Tang Jie said and Shi Jingzhai listened. Tang Jie is qualified to be the teacher of Shi Jingzhai at least in terms of cooking. After a busy trip, a feast of whole fish gradually became a reality.

Seeing this sumptuous fish feast, even Shi Jingzhai moved his index finger, and Tang Jie said with satisfaction: "That's right, today is considered a lucky day. By the way, why don't you call head Qiu, Master Liang, and Master Yu together?" , this rare item of embroidered gold carp, if you and I have it alone, it may not be suitable."

Hearing what he said, Shi Jingzhai had no choice but to say: "Lao Liang has some matters that he cannot leave for the time being. As for Wanniang, she is not in the faction now, so I can't call her. I'd better send a letter to the head, and invite him to come."

"Oh, did Empress Yu go away?" Following Shi Jingzhai's words, Tang Jie said casually: "That's really a pity, the Jin family's account may be healed in a few days, I don't know if it can be done before Empress returns. See her again."

Shi Jingzhai said with a smile: "She just went to see a few friends, and she will come back tomorrow night, so she should have time to eat your embroidered golden carp."

"That's good." Tang Jie smiled and nodded.

The two of Liang Yu couldn't come, so the head of Qiu also wrote back saying that he had something to deal with and he was not free for the time being. In the end, none of the three of them came, but the two of them were here to enjoy themselves.

After he was full with wine and food, Shi Jingzhai excused himself and left. Although he was asked to monitor Tang Jie, it was impossible for him to stay with him for twelve hours. Anyway, as long as Tang Jie didn't leave the Shimen Sect, he wouldn't be able to do anything, so don't worry too much about it.

Tang Jie watched Shi Jingzhai leave with a smile, and his eyes became sharper when he disappeared.

With a light wave of his hand, the fish that escaped earlier swam back one after another, still circling around Tang Jie's small raft.

Tang Jie pointed at it casually, and a carp suddenly made a light fluttering sound, turning into bubbles and bursting. It was indeed a swimming fish made by duplication. Then there was a crisp sound, and the countless embroidered gold carps in the water burst and disappeared one after another, and finally became nothing. Feelings The nearly thousand fish here are all copied, no wonder their actions are so unified.

Fortunately, it was a fish. If it was a human, Shi Jingzhai might have already seen it.

No matter what, he couldn't think of it, except for the dozen or so strips they ate, everything else was fake. Tang Jie did go to King Jing's Mansion to buy more than ten embroidered golden carps, but he was not so arrogant as to kill them all.

The reason for this is actually to test whether Shi Jingzhai can see through his copying technique.

Last night he attacked and killed Lu Dong's subordinates. Although he deceived two maids with the duplication technique, he didn't dare to deceive them because he didn't have the confidence to do so. That's why he disappeared during the day. After today's testing, Shi Jingzhai did not find any problems with the fish. Tang Jie finally gained confidence, which greatly guaranteed his future actions.

For example, if Tang Jie wants to go somewhere again, he can use the clone to accompany Shi Jingzhai to drink and chat, and no one will doubt him anymore.

But besides that, Tang Jie had another bigger harvest.

Lowering his head at this moment, he murmured: "Come back tomorrow night, come back and forth, if you fly at full speed..."

Tang Jie did the math, estimated the approximate distance Yu Wanniang could fly, took out Zhang Qixia's map and looked at it carefully.

There are seas on both sides of Wenxin's southeast, and it is basically impossible to fly here. To the north is to go in the direction of the Xiyue faction, and to approach here is to seek death, so Yu Wanniang's only choice is to go west. Since it is only a one-day journey, then its end point is precisely... Li Country.

He finally knew who these people sold the goods to.

"Qijuemen!" Tang Jie spat out these three words coldly.

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The mine under the night is still busy.

This is a world without day and night, or in other words, the world here has never had light from the very beginning.

The haggard miners walked around the cave with heavy ore baskets on their backs. They held picks in their hands, looking for every possible place where the ore could come out, and then digging hard. Occasionally, when they got a stone that flashed with inspiration, instead of shouting happily, they immediately pounced on it and carefully covered it, lest others would find out.

As the ore veins gradually dried up, the ore sources gradually decreased, and it became more and more difficult to obtain high-quality ore. Sometimes digging for a day may not get any benefits. So with the depression of the mine, the scramble and killing became more and more.

From time to time, a black shadow can be seen rushing past, and behind this rush is a corpse lying on the ground and an empty mine basket.

Tang Jie walked in this dark and chaotic world, but no one noticed his existence.

He is like a ghost, wandering through the mine, step by step towards the depths.

Compared to last time, at least this time he didn't need a guide anymore.

Going deep, the miners became scarce again.

Tang Jie stood still when he came to the place where he met the Earth Demon Ape last time.

Shows some silver sand taken from a mustard bag, rubbed and sprinkled on the ground. Then he took out some materials and arranged them according to their positions, and put more than ten kinds in one breath.

Compared to last time, Tang Jie was much more prepared this time.

As the material was laid down, the fingertips were drawn out with spiritual energy, forming a series of spiritual patterns. Finally, Tang Jie punched into the rock wall, picked up a large piece of ore and rummaged carefully, found a few pieces of raw ore, rubbed it for a while, and got Tang Jie placed a small piece of spirit stone on the ground.

Seeing a brilliance on the ground, dots of silver light danced in the air, spreading to the surroundings, and in a blink of an eye, the entire mine and the cliff were placed under the shining stars.

Tang Jie's brows and eyes reappeared, combined with those starlights, showing a strange light, like a searchlight straight to the bottom of the cliff.

With the help of the magic circle, Tang Jie's eyesight was particularly strong this time. His eyes penetrated through the darkness and fell to the bottom, and finally saw the existence in the depths of the cliff.

At the bottom is a large piece of humus forest. The purple-black land is full of dead trees, and the dry branches are covered with Jedi poisonous moths. They perched on those dead trees, quietly, motionless, as if asleep.

The entire land is covered by the dust of these poisonous moths, reflecting a purple dead air.

These highly poisonous creatures that can kill even real people lie quietly at the bottom of the mine, as long as they don't disturb their rest, they will not easily move out. This is perhaps the only good thing about this poison.

Tang Jie looked for it patiently as his gaze wandered over the rotten ground. If the place where the clamworms are produced is really near the territory of the poisonous moths, then there must be a way to get in.

Tang Jie believed that he would be able to find it.

It's a pity that in this highly poisonous land, apart from poisonous moths and dead trees, there is only the underground river that is still flowing. Because of the toxin, the underground river has turned into a faint green patch.

Then Tang Jie's heart was shocked.

He jumped up suddenly and flew downwards, not stopping until the edge of the starlight. The effect of the magic circle can still be used here, but it can be closer to the underground river. This narrowing of the distance made Tang Jie see more clearly that on a large rock near the underground river, there were several traces that were different from it.

These marks are not clear, but they look like they have been trampled on.

There are not many places for the entire humic forest to settle down. If there are, then this big rock on the edge is indeed a good choice.

As soon as Tang Jie saw this stone, a thought came to Tang Jie's mind: Could it be that they passed down this river?

Tang Jie immediately realized that this might not be impossible!

The underground river is flowing, which means it's not chronically poisoned like other places. There are two types of poisonous moths, one is dust and the other is venom. Its venom is fierce poison, and its dust is long-term slow poison.

The humic forest was created under the influence of the poisonous moth's dust. As for the underground river, despite its green color, it is completely different from the poisonous venom in the poisonous moth's body. It is simply a weakened dust toxin.

This kind of toxin can definitely be resisted by Tianxin's real strength.

But then again, if you swim in this underground river for a long time without a good detoxification method, those chronic poisons will accumulate day by day, and I'm afraid it will seriously affect your physical condition.

Regarding this, Tang Jie can only say that people die for money, and birds die for food.

Compared with the huge wealth that is about to be obtained, two years of hard work are nothing.

Thinking of this, Tang Jie also sighed and turned downwards.

This time he was much more careful, flying all the way until he landed on the big rock, he didn't dare to make a sound for fear of alarming the poisonous substances.

Then he gently took off his clothes and slowly stepped into the water.

Although he hadn't entered Tianxin yet, the Hundred Refining Stage plus a jade body might not be worse than the ordinary Tianxin Stage in terms of resistance to poison. Besides, he didn't have to enter for a long time, so he didn't have to worry about anything.

After entering the water, Tang Jie only felt cold all over his body, and his skin was numb and itchy, as if thousands of insects and ants were biting him. He knew it was a toxic reaction, so he could only endure it. Fortunately, after a while, the skin gradually adapted to the highly corrosive river water, and the itching was greatly relieved.

Tang Jie followed the river all the way downstream.

He originally had a pair of underwear on his body, but at this moment he was swimming, but when he moved his legs, he saw that the underwear had been torn open. After touching it, I found that under the poisonous water, the fabric becomes brittle and rots when touched.

It was not Tang Jiezao who was an extraordinary person. Most people would die immediately after rolling a few times in this water. It is said that it is a weakened toxin, but its power is still not trivial.

Tang Jie couldn't help but shook his head in amazement, and then simply continued to sneak under the water naked.

After walking for a while, a slender pipe appeared in front of it, and the end was so dark that nothing could be seen clearly. Without the help of the magic circle, Tang Jie couldn't see the situation inside, which made Tang Jie feel hesitant, wondering whether he should continue to move forward.

Because this tunnel is too narrow, even people who are a little fatter can't get in. Tang Jiejin was able to enter, but once he entered, it was difficult to even turn around. If he wanted to retreat, he could only slowly rub it little by little. If there is any danger, being in such a long and narrow corridor will basically result in death.

Tang Jie didn't make a decision immediately, but first looked at the surrounding environment to confirm that there were traces of someone coming here, and then thought of Shi Jingzhai's slender body, and gradually understood, so he no longer hesitated, and drilled into the pipe.

I don't know how long it took to move forward in the tunnel bit by bit. Fortunately, the cultivator is very good at holding his breath, and it will be fine if he doesn't breathe for a while. Finally, Tang Jie got out of the tunnel. In a large pond.

Only then did he realize that the pipeline was a mountain wall hanging above, and there was a hidden cave below.

Compared with the humic forest occupied by the Jedi poisonous moth, here is a rare fairy cave with gurgling water and strange rocks. What's even more rare is that there are poisonous moths guarding it outside. It is simply a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

But when he looked inside the cave again, Tang Jie was completely shocked.