Sure enough, Liu Baiyi and Ling Xiao stood aside and did not disturb the fisherman.
Not long after, Ling Xiao saw the fishing line jumping slightly, and a few slight ripples appeared on the water surface.
whoosh!
The fisherman's fishing rod was instantly raised up, drawing a very beautiful arc in the air, but to Ling Xiao's surprise, he did not catch any fish as he had imagined.
"Hmm? Fishing with a straight hook? How do you catch fish with a straight hook?"
Ling Xiao's eyes flashed with some surprise.
The fisherman's hook was actually straight. Even if a fish was about to be hooked, it would probably be scared away in an instant by the fisherman's actions.
"Little guy, who says you can't fish with a straight hook? It's just that those who are willing to take the bait will be caught. Didn't you come today?"
The fisherman seemed to know what Ling Xiao was thinking. He spoke in a calm and ethereal voice, then slowly turned his head.
The fisherman looked very old, with wrinkles all over his face, but his eyes were extremely vicissitudes and deep, as if containing the wisdom to see through everything. He spoke to Ling Xiao very gently.
"Meet the Grandmaster, he is Ling Xiao!"
Liu Baiyi saluted the fisherman.
"Is this the disciple of my nephew Chilong? He is indeed an interesting little fellow! Lingxiao, do you know why I use a straight hook to fish?"
The fisherman smiled at Ling Xiao.
"Is the ancestor trying to comprehend the great Dao of heaven and earth?"
Ling Xiao thought for a moment and said.
"No, no, the reason why I use a straight hook to fish is because I like it! In this world, there are not so many things that are taken for granted. For many things, you just need to listen to your heart! As the saying goes, it is better to take the straight path than to seek the crooked path. That's the truth!"
The fisherman shook his head and said with a meaningful look in his eyes.
"Disciple has learned the lesson!"
Ling Xiao nodded. Although he had some complaints about the fisherman's pretentiousness, he also knew that masters all had some quirks. He just thought that this was the quirk of the fisherman's ancestor. It was indeed as he said, to follow one's heart and do what one wants.
"I'll give you this fishhook as a gift! Ling Xiao, you guys are going to meet Junior Brother Qiaofu next, right? Junior Brother Qiaofu is in a bad mood because he didn't catch that old guy Lei Bo, so you have to be careful!"
The fisherman said with a smile, and then handed Ling Xiao a silver fishhook, but it was still a straight hook, and it looked like a silver needle, flashing with bright light.
"Thank you for the reminder, Master!"
Ling Xiao accepted it respectfully.
This fishhook looks like it should not be simple. Although Ling Xiao doesn’t know how to use it yet, since it is a gift from the ancestor, it must not be an ordinary item but a very precious treasure.
"Uncle Junior Master, this is the Ruyi Wuxin Hook, a powerful treasure. It is the weapon that our ancestor used when he was young. It can be transformed into a myriad of forms and is extremely extraordinary!"
Liu Baiyi knew this fishhook very well and immediately explained it to Ling Xiao through voice transmission.
"The Ruyi Heartless Hook? This is a top-grade holy treasure, mysterious and powerful. Even compared to the Fantian Seal, it is not much weaker!"
Ling Xiao was also somewhat shocked and thought secretly that he had heard of the reputation of the Ruyi Heartless Hook, but he did not expect that the Fisherman Master would give it to him directly.
After the fisherman gave the gift, he continued to sit cross-legged in front of the lake and fish.
Ling Xiao and Liu Baiyi both bowed silently to the fisherman and continued on their way.
After walking along the bank of a quiet lake and through a disorganized stone forest, Ling Xiao and Liu Baiyi finally arrived at a dense forest.
Snap!
A burly man wearing animal skins, with muscular body and strong blood, was holding a big axe and chopping down trees. The axe blade was extremely sharp and he quickly chopped down a towering ancient tree.
When Ling Xiao saw this burly man, he immediately understood that he should be the woodcutter that the fisherman mentioned, the third ancestor of the Temple of War God!
"Grandmaster, this is..."
Liu Baiyi bowed to the woodcutter, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted rudely by the woodcutter.
"I don't want to know who he is! Liu Baiyi, since you are the chosen successor, you must be quite strong! How about this, as long as he can take three of my moves, I will acknowledge him as the future Supreme God of War, how about that?"
The woodcutter glanced at Liu Baiyi indifferently, his eyes were extremely sharp, as if he didn't take Ling Xiao seriously at all.
“Three moves? Grandmaster, you are asking too much, aren’t you? After all, there is a huge gap between Ling Xiao and your cultivation level. I’m afraid he can’t even take one of your moves!”
Liu Baiyi said with a wry smile.
"Don't worry! I will suppress my cultivation to the same level as him, but if he can't even take three of my moves, then he should just leave the War Heaven Holy Land. My War God Temple doesn't need such trash!"
The woodcutter said indifferently.
"Three moves? Great! Grandmaster, let alone three moves, even if it's thirty or three hundred moves, what do I, Ling Xiao, have to fear?"
Ling Xiao smiled calmly, with a bright light flashing in his eyes.
If the woodcutter did not suppress his cultivation, then with the terrifying power of the Saint King realm, even if Ling Xiao had the Wordless Heavenly Book and the Fantian Seal, he would not be a match for the woodcutter. After all, the gap in cultivation was too great.
It's like a baby holding a machete, no matter what, he is no match for an adult man.
However, in a battle with people at the same level, Ling Xiao has never been afraid of anyone!
"What a big mouth! Take my first move first, chop wood!"
The woodcutter said indifferently, and then a blazing divine light flashed around him. He suppressed his cultivation to the realm of the seventh turn of half-saint, and the axe in his hand also flashed with cold light in an instant, and suddenly chopped towards Ling Xiao.
The axe light was extremely sharp, as if it treated Ling Xiao as an immovable tree. In an instant, thousands of axe lights were chopped out, trying to chop Ling Xiao to death completely.
Ling Xiao only felt that in front of the overwhelming axe light, he seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move at all, as if he could only face the chopping of the axe light.
"This is... the power of time?!"
Ling Xiao's whole body trembled, and he immediately realized that what was added to him was actually a trace of the power of time. He seemed to be frozen in place, and the movements of his body could not keep up with the movement of his thoughts.
"Time Sutra, time slows down!"
Ling Xiao immediately used the Sutra of Time without hesitation. A strange light emanated from his body and suddenly rushed towards the sky of axe lights in front of him.
Suddenly, the axe lights in Ling Xiao's eyes seemed to slow down countless times in an instant and slowly fell towards him.
Ling Xiao also broke free from the restraints of the force of time in an instant, and moved across the air, dodging the axe lights in the sky at the critical moment!
PS: I worked overtime quite late at night, so there are only two updates. Everyone should go to bed early.
(End of this chapter)