On the surface of Qing River, a large ship was sailing through the waves.
The part of the ship that was in contact with the surface of the water had many fin-like objects flying up and down.
This was a hundred-fin ship made by the Mohist's mechanical technique. It imitated the fins of fish that assisted in swimming.
A dozen men stepped on the water wheel at the bottom of the ship to push these "fins" and speed up the ship.
Of course, it was faster without using manpower. One only needed to put Dao Essence Stones into the formation plate carved by the Mohist cultivators.
However, it was obviously cheaper than using manpower.
This large ship could carry 200 people, which was considered good in the waters of the entire Zhuang Country. It was a government ship, but it also operated passenger and freight businesses.
Du Yehu was on this hundred-fin ship.
Maplewood City was located in the northeast of Zhuang Country, and Jiujiang City was in the west. It was the most convenient to go to Qing River first.
The military was strictly controlled. He finally had a long vacation. After boarding the ship, he drank a jar of strong wine and fell asleep. He only woke up now and came out to enjoy the river breeze.
It was already winter, but because New Year's Eve was approaching, the people on the ship were still very noisy.
At this time of the year, most of the people on the ship were travelers returning to Wangjiang, Maplewood, and the three mountains.
Du Yehu leaned close to the crowd and listened quietly for a while. He found that there was not a single native accent of Maplewood City. He curled his lips in boredom and returned to the cabin alone.
Not long after, he came out with big and small bags. Taking advantage of the short time when the ship was docking, he got off the ship alone.
There was still a water route from here to Wangjiang City, so he was the only one who got off the ship.
In such cold weather, Qing River was not a problem, but Luliu River would probably be frozen.
Therefore, it should be more convenient to take the dry road from here.
These things were taught by the military captain who claimed to have traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Zhuang Country. It was very useful.
The bags were filled with gifts that he had carefully prepared. There were specialties from Mount Tai Commandery (Jiujiang City had no specialties other than ferocious beasts), spoils from the battlefield, and some good things that were specially provided for Jiujiang Profound Armor.
In short, Tiger Du dared to guarantee that he would definitely make those bumpkins happy. His little sister An 'an would definitely grab his big beard and fiercely kiss him twice.
Both of his hands were full. From afar, he looked like a moving shelf, but Du Yehu didn't feel tired at all.
It had been many years. He had spent the New Year with Ling He, Jiang Wang, Fang Pengju, and Zhao Rucheng.
He and Ling He didn't have a home. Jiang Wang's trip back to Phoenix Creek Town was also hurried. Fang Pengju didn't like to stay in the clan's land, and Zhao Rucheng didn't stay at home much either.
Therefore, the five of them were always together.
This year, there was no Fang Pengju, but there was Jiang Anan.
Thinking of Jiang Anan's cute little face, Du Yehu couldn't help but grin.
His blood relatives were all gone. Jiang Wang and the others were his blood brothers, and Jiang Anan was his blood sister.
Wasn't he trying his best to climb up the Nine Rivers Profound Armor just to show off in front of his brothers and receive the adoring gazes of his sisters?
Before he left, he had made an appointment with Jiang Wang to compete in the cultivation speed of the Four Spirits Body Refining Technique.
Now that he was walking the path of the ancient military school's Blood Qi, he had mastered the Four Spirits Body Refining Technique, and the four spirits had converged. It was time to let his third brother know who the big brother was.
Du Yehu advanced very quickly. The closer he got to home, the faster his footsteps became.
He took large strides and ran on the road, eager to return home.
"Stop!"
When he was still some distance away from Maplewood City, a group of soldiers stopped him.
"What?" Du Yehu stopped and asked unhappily, showing the Nine Rivers Profound Armor soldier tag on his waist.
The soldiers looked at each other. The leader saluted and said, "Sir, we can't go any further."
"Why?" Du Yehu suddenly had a bad premonition.
The soldiers looked at the bags on his body and roughly understood why he was here. They couldn't help but show sympathy.
"You probably left the camp early and missed the notice," the soldier said carefully. "The evil sect, the White Bone Path, is wreaking havoc here. They sacrificed the entire Maplewood City to welcome the Evil God. Although the scheme was exposed by Maplewood City's Dao Academy Dean Dong Ah and even alarmed the State Minister, the entire Maplewood City has already fallen into the netherworld. Living people are not allowed to enter. "
Thump! Thump!
Even with Du Yehu's strength, he couldn't grab the bags and let them fall to the ground.
"… What about the people in the city?" he asked, trembling.
The soldier sighed. "They're all gone …"
Crack!
Du Yehu was startled by this sound. When he came to his senses, he realized that he had inadvertently stepped into the ground and sunk several inches into it.
He pulled his foot out and heard a wailing voice next to him.
"Gone, gone, all gone! Everything's gone! "
Du Yehu looked over and saw a man with bags on his back crying on the ground. His voice was already hoarse.
After crying for a while, he truly ran out of energy and stopped for a while. After a while, he began to wail again.
From the looks of it, he was also a villager returning to Maplewood City. He was stopped on the way home.
"Dong Ah, Dong Ah! Dong Ah is our Dean! " Du Yehu suddenly seemed to have grasped something and asked excitedly: "Since it was Dean Dong who exposed the evil cult's scheme, the cultivators of the Dao Academy should have all escaped, right?"
The soldier said apologetically: "Other than Dean Dong, no one was able to escape, including the instructors and students."
Du Yehu sat down on the ground and scratched his head.
"No, no, no."
He muttered to himself in a daze.
"Boss, don't you have great wisdom?"
"Third brother, aren't you better at fighting than me?"
"Fifth brother, aren't you smarter than me?"
"Why are they all gone? Why are they all gone? "
After muttering to himself, he shouted: "You three big men, how can you not even take care of An An!?"
…
"I don't believe it."
He muttered for a while, then suddenly stood up and gathered the gifts he brought. He hugged them into a ball and rushed towards Maplewood City without looking back.
"Sir, you can't go there!"
The soldier reached out to stop him, but Du Yehu was already far away in a few leaps.
"Let him go." The soldier next to him sighed: "He can't enter the Netherworld anyway. It's good to see it from afar."
…
According to the memories of the soldiers who sealed off the periphery of Maplewood City, the entire Maplewood City had been very quiet ever since it fell into the Netherworld.
Only around New Year's Eve that year, for some reason.
There were sorrowful cries like the roars of trapped beasts that didn't stop for three days.
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…
The mountain was high and the road was long. Jiang Anan slept and woke up on her brother's back.
They traveled during the day and cultivated at night, sometimes in a cave, sometimes in a tree.
They ate and slept in the open, and could only eat some wild fruits to satisfy their hunger.
But she was very sensible and didn't complain even once.
She knew that her brother would only be more tired and work harder.
There were several times when she wanted to get down and walk by herself, but Jiang Wang wouldn't let her.
The sky gradually darkened, and it was time to rest again.
Jiang Anan liked the night the most, not only because of the stars, but also because her brother could finally stop and talk to her.
After leaving Maplewood City, her brother didn't talk much.
According to previous experience, her brother should find a cave, light a bonfire, and let her rest in his arms.
But tonight, Jiang Wang carried her all the way up the mountain, all the way to the top of the mountain.
The cold wind at the top of the mountain was biting cold, and her little face was red from the cold. Her body was fine, and the animal skin wrapped around her was very warm.
Jiang Wang put her down from his back and held her little hand.
The brother and sister looked around at the top of the mountain, and saw that the stars were sparse and the wilderness was peaceful. The distant mountains were hidden in the curtain of the night, stretching under their feet.
"Brother, what are we doing here?" Jiang Anan asked.
"Tonight is New Year's Eve."
Jiang Wang asked slowly: "Anan, do you want to see fireworks?"
"Yes!" Jiang Anan immediately answered, but she quickly shook her head: "Anan doesn't want to …"
She probably also knew that now was not the same as when they were in Maplewood City. Where could they find fireworks in the wilderness? She knew that no matter what she wanted, her brother would do his best for her, so she was not willing to ask for extravagant things.
Jiang Wang squeezed her little hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Look."
He let go of Jiang Anan and flicked his finger in the air.
A flaming flower flew high and bloomed brilliantly.
His ten fingers moved together, and flaming flowers rose one after another, blooming in the night sky one after another.
They exploded into starlight that filled the sky.
It was as if the stars in the sky had fallen into the human world.
Every speck of starlight was like a person who had passed away.
Although the body and soul were destroyed, the light was eternal.
This was New Year's Eve of the year 3917 of the Taoist calendar.
On the top of a nameless mountain, Jiang Wang set off fireworks for his sister in the middle of the night.
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