There was actually a person in the fishing net.
For a moment, the fishermen looked at each other, unable to believe their eyes.
They fish near this sea area all day long. This is the first time they have encountered such a situation. They don't know whether they should continue to collect the nets.
Old Li, the captain of the ship, was the first to come to his senses. His cultivation level of the second level of Qi training was at the bottom of the world of cultivation, but among all the mortals, he was considered the most knowledgeable person.
Old Li glanced at the person in the fishing net in doubt. The woman had a pure and not coquettish face. Her clothes were not wet even though she was in the water. She did not look like an ordinary person.
However, the fishing net was just a low-grade spiritual weapon. If she was a cultivator, how could she not be able to break free from it
Old Li weighed the issue in his mind. He thought that this woman might be a clam collector who was wearing water-repellent beads and dived into the sea, and was accidentally caught in the net by them.
He waved his hand and said, "She must be a clam collector nearby who got caught in the fishing net by mistake. Pull her out first."
When the other fishermen heard this, they looked surprised and without any doubt pulled the net onto the boat.
After hearing the words of the old man at the bow, Xu Chunniang realized that she was being mistaken for a clam diver picking pearls from clams in the sea, so she was not angry.
When she was underwater, she could have easily broken the net and escaped, but if she did so, the fishing net would have been destroyed.
Although she is a Jindan cultivator, she is unwilling to bully the weak, especially relying on her cultivation to bully ordinary people.
So Xu Chunniang simply stayed in the fishing net and waited for the net to be collected.
It happened that she had just come out of the secret water vortex and didn't know where she was now. She could use her identity as a clam collector to ask these fishermen.
When Lao Li saw that the girl in the net did not deny what he said, he became more confident in his judgment.
He took the initiative to step forward and untie the fishing net, with a slightly dissatisfied tone in his voice.
"Why did the little girl come here to collect clams? Although this area is safe, there are occasionally one or two sea monsters. Moreover, the sea is too deep. What if something happens?"
Xu Chunniang did not refute the other party's speculation about her identity. She nodded with a slightly stiff expression and said, "I understand. I won't come next time."
Only then did Old Li relax his brows and a kind smile appeared on his face.
"That's right. Although the spiritual stone tax collected by the Lin family is heavy, we can't risk our lives just to earn a few spiritual stones. We are going to go back now, so you can come with us."
Xu Chunniang nodded, but she was a little confused about what he said.
From his tone, the Lin family seemed to be a cultivation family in this area. But would a cultivation family collect taxes from mortals
While on the Nansha Islands, although life was not easy for ordinary people, they did not need to pay taxes.
Later, I went to Pingfeng Island and never heard of anything like that.
Therefore, this was the first time she heard that mortals had to pay taxes to the cultivation families.
She didn't say a word, but several fishermen nearby were deeply touched and lamented the difficulties of life.
"Every time I risked my life to go fishing, I had to hand over half of what I earned, and the rest was only enough to make a living."
"If you are unlucky, not only will you not get any harvest, but you will also have to spend a lot of money to repair your fishing boats and nets."
"We are in such a difficult situation, so collecting clams is even more difficult. We spend the whole day in the sea just to find clam pearls, but we are reluctant to use the clam pearls we have collected with great effort..."
For a moment, many people looked at Xu Chunniang with sympathy in their eyes.
She felt a little embarrassed and quickly changed the subject, "How was the harvest this time?"
Speaking of the harvest, Lao Li showed a gratified smile on his face.
"Not bad, there are quite a few large spirit fish, which should be able to sell for a good price. My son has been practicing with the young master of the Lin family and has reached the sixth level of Qi training.
But this level of cultivation requires a lot of spirit stones for daily practice. His salary is not enough, so I will help as much as I can."
When talking about his son who had reached the sixth level of Qi training and had a bright future in the Lin family, Old Li's tone was full of pride.
He only had the second level of Qi training. Firstly, his aptitude was too poor and he started too late. Second, he had no family to help him and had to rely on himself.
Since his son is talented and hardworking, he naturally wants to do his best to help him.
This time, in addition to the spirit fish, we were also lucky enough to catch a valuable black fish!
Several fishermen nearby were envious and joked after hearing this, "Brother Li is showing off his good son again!"
"Old Li's son has been drawing Qi into his body since he was eight years old. Now he is only eighteen years old, but he has already reached the sixth level of Qi training. Wow, if this were my son, I would praise him to the sky every day!"
"Xiao Li is indeed a good person, but his personality is a little cold. Once when I was delivering fish to the Lin family, I saw him and he didn't even say hello to me."
"I am a person who follows Master Lin and has great hope of building a foundation in the future. Why would I greet people like us..."
Xu Chunniang listened to the fishermen on the boat gossiping and a smile appeared on her face unconsciously.
Obviously, she only needed to ride the wind or use a shuttle to reach the island in a very short time.
But she did not do so. Instead, she sat on an old fishing boat, listening to the people on the boat sharing their ordinary but fulfilling lives, and moving slowly but firmly towards her destination.
Xu Chunniang entered Taoism at the age of eight and has been practicing for decades.
Looking back at her experience over the past few decades, she was either practicing hard or gaining experience outside, and she had almost no free time.
She suddenly felt that it would be nice to slow down and look at this world occasionally, listen to the sound of waves hitting the side of the boat, and feel the gentle sea breeze on her face.
Her heart gradually calmed down, and the worries about not having any skills after breaking through the golden elixir stage were greatly reduced.
As the saying goes, "The sky is high and the birds fly freely; the sea is wide and the fish leap freely."
But given the vastness of the sky and the depth of the sea, even if birds or fish spend their entire lives trying, they still cannot see the entire picture of the ocean.
If birds and fish were obsessed with flying between the sea and the sky, they would probably die of exhaustion without ever experiencing the joy of flying and leaping.
Xu Chunniang seemed to have some feeling that she was no different from the flying birds and swimming fish, and the Tao was like this boundless and bottomless ocean.
It is said that the Tao is ruthless and one must bravely forge ahead against the current. However, the Tao has yin and yang, and alternation of tension and relaxation is the Tao.
Being blindly radical and not knowing how to stop and reflect on oneself is not a long-term solution.
Moreover, when practicing cultivation and cultivating the mind, the ways of killing and attacking are all for self-protection, and cultivation is the foundation of everything.
When Xu Chunniang thought of this, she felt as if suddenly enlightened. The huge rock that had been weighing on her heart since the breakthrough was finally gone.
The road is difficult to travel, so just take it slow.
As long as you take each step steadily, you won’t be afraid of having no way to go in the future.
She is still young and has enough time to slowly explore and get to know this world.
Xu Chunniang felt the sea breeze on her face, listened to the sound of the waves, and when she looked out at the world, her mood became more peaceful.
And since the breakthrough in her body, her cultivation, which had never been stabilized through any technique, finally stabilized, and became as solid as a rock and could not be moved.