Ji Yuan finished his joke and saw clearly the two children who came over. Yes, he saw them clearly.
The two men were dressed in clean light blue robes without a speck of dust. Even their exposed boots were spotless, and their faces were also clean.
They had come from a mountain road, and it was already dark. Would two ordinary kids dare to run into the mountains at this time? And come to the edge of such a deep pool that was scary to just stare at
I looked behind me again and confirmed that there were no adults around. The probability that these two children were ordinary people was greatly reduced, and there was no demonic or yin energy on them...
"The mountain god? Or maybe it's the first time I've met a real immortal cultivator after being here for so long?"
Ji Yuan's heart was slightly moved, but he didn't seem as excited as he had imagined before. He pretended to turn back and continue reading, but he was very curious about the specific background of the visitor.
However, Ji Yuan was calm and composed, but the two children could not bear to watch. The boy said:
"Hey, fisherman, when are you going to leave? You won't catch any fish anyway."
Another girl immediately followed up:
"It's dark now, aren't you afraid of wild animals in the mountains?"
From the perspective of ordinary people's logic, it is actually quite interesting that the two children asked this question.
Ji Yuan turned around and looked at them again.
"It's already dark, and you two kids are still wandering around in the mountains. Aren't you afraid that your family will worry about you, or that wild animals will eat you?"
“We are not afraid!”
"Yes! We are not afraid!"
As if to make her statement more convincing, the girl added another sentence.
"Don't look down on us because we are small. We have very high martial arts skills!"
Ji Yuan smiled and nodded in agreement.
"I see. My apologies. But I'm not afraid. I also have very high martial arts skills!"
After saying that, Ji Yuan turned his head back to reading, and he had no intention of moving no matter what.
Judging from the brief exchange, these two should really be children of the same age as they look, not guys who look like children but are actually about a hundred or eighty years old.
"Humph, you won't catch any fish even if you fish all night!"
As soon as the boy finished saying this, Ji Yuan's expression suddenly changed. Although the fishing rod did not change, the fishhook in the pond seemed to be touched.
The next moment, the fishing line trembled slightly. Ji Yuan narrowed his eyes and shook his wrist. There was no big movement, but the fishing rod bent like magic and swung upwards.
“Crash~”
The originally calm turquoise water was splashed with a series of water splashes. A silvery-white, translucent small fish about the length of an index finger was hooked on the fishhook and thrown into the air along the direction of the fishing line and fishing rod.
"Silver Orifice!"
The boys and girls exclaimed in unison.
With an exclamation, the boy almost subconsciously pulled out a circular blue jade pendant from his sleeve. In an instant, the blue jade grew from small to large, dragging a faint blue light as it flew towards the silver fish that was still in the air. The light formed a vague outline of a pocket behind the jade pendant.
"Um!?"
Ji Yuan swung the bamboo pole, and with the skill of a top martial arts master, the fishing line held the silverfish as flexibly as a flying bird. The blue jade was not flying slowly, but it could not cover the silverfish.
After the jade pendant rubbed the silverfish twice, Ji Yuan simply shook the rod downwards, and the silverfish attached to the fishing line and hook suddenly flew downwards and towards Ji Yuan.
A line of water rose from the pool and condensed into a water ball the size of a rubber ball in front of Ji Yuan.
"Boo~"
The silverfish fell into the water ball with extreme accuracy at the moment when it was formed, and the iron hook on it was shaken out of the silverfish's mouth by Ji Yuan's skillful strength.
The boy frowned and took back the jade ring flying in the air. He and the girl stared at Ji Yuan, watching the little silver fish swimming in the water ball but unable to escape.
"Who are you? How dare you come to the Bishuitan Lake to steal the silver fish!"
Ji Yuan temporarily put away the fishing rod and put it aside, then turned half of his body to look at the two children with angry faces.
"Is this clear water pond still exclusively owned by you, Yu Huaishan?"
As soon as Ji Yuan saw the blue ring-shaped jade pendant, he knew which side the person was on.
"Do you know that our Yu Huai Mountain still hasn't given us the silver fish?"
The boy spoke in a very childish manner, no different from other children from ordinary families.
Ji Yuan also laughed.
"I've been fishing here for most of the day and only caught this one fish. Even if you, Yu Huaishan, are a famous family in Jizhou Immortal Mansion, you can't just rob them, right?"
"You! This Bishuitan belongs to our Yuhuaishan! So the Yinqiaozi is also ours!"
"We come here every year to wait for the silver carp, and it has been several years!"
If it was the same Ji Yuan in the past, perhaps these two kids would have been really frightened, but now at least they have understood a lot of things.
"Haha, this Bishuitan Lake is lawless and is nearly 700 to 800 miles away from Yuhuai Mountain. So it has become your mountain sect's property?"
After Ji Yuan finished speaking, he felt a slight movement in his heart and shouted something behind the two children, intentionally, as if jokingly but also seriously.
"Are there no elders here with you? You're just letting these two kids act up!"
Originally, this was just a tentative remark from Ji Yuan with a hint of sarcasm, but unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, a sound really came.
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Your Excellency. It is indeed me, Yu Huaishan, who is in the wrong!"
The voice was not as calm, deep and powerful as Ji Yuan's, but it could be described as gentle and elegant. As the voice fell, a middle-aged man in a blue robe with a jade hairpin in his hair came floating in, as if he had walked out of the air.
Before this, Ji Yuan had not noticed any trace of this person's existence. He could neither see nor hear him. This really scared Ji. However, after several exercises, Ji Yuan did not change on the surface, and his eyes were calm.
In fact, the person coming from the other side was also frightened by Ji Yuan. He couldn't see who the fisherman was. There was no visible aura or divine light on his head. He seemed to be just an ordinary mortal, blending in with the surrounding nature.
Especially the move he made when he was teasing the boy just now, where he twirled the fishing rod and fishing line, it was so effortless without any airs of martial arts, and there wasn't even any trace of magical power revealed. His water-controlling skills were also extremely delicate and smooth without any artificiality. He only used the simplest water-controlling technique, nothing more.
And although the blue-robed man came out on his own, looking at Ji Yuan's special eyes, he always felt that the other party could see through him after the Huaxu Jade Talisman.
"Haha, I just shouted casually, and I didn't expect that there would really be an elder following me. You are really patient!"
As he spoke, Ji Yuan also sat up and turned half of his body so that he didn't have to keep turning his head to face the back, which also exposed a copy of "Tong Ming Ce" on his knees, causing the man in blue to slightly narrow his eyes.
"Tongmingce? It's a heavenly book!"
The visitor didn't take Ji Yuan's words seriously at all. It was impossible for the other party to read a book while fishing while he was in a state of concentration.
"You are joking, my Lord. It is the two young boys who are making trouble. They are anxious because it takes a year for this clear water pond to produce a silver orifice, which will benefit the cultivation of the two young boys like us."
After saying this, the man in blue waved his hand, and the two boys were pulled directly to his side as if by invisible threads. It seemed that he was disciplining the two boys for their rudeness, but in fact, he had been quietly on guard against them.
The fisherman in front of you is of unfathomable skill and his seemingly gentle temper may not be genuine, so you'd better be careful with him.
"It's just a silver thread, find a reason to leave!"
"My name is Qiu Feng from Yuhuaishan. May I ask your name? Are you here just to wait for us?"
Qiu Feng intentionally softened his tone, changed his address to a respectful one, and bowed slightly towards Ji Yuan.
Of course Ji Yuan did not dare to be arrogant. He slowly stood up and bowed in return. After hesitating for half a second, he decided to give his real name.
"My last name is Ji Yuan, no need to call me noble. I came here just because I read the legend of the heretics in my spare time and learned that this place breeds water spirits, so I was interested in finding out what's going on."
'It's good that you're not waiting for me!'
Regardless of whether it was true or not, Qiu Feng breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on his face.
"Since the master has already caught the silver fish, we won't stay any longer to disturb him. Let's go now! He'er Yiyi, let's go."
As he spoke, Qiu Feng bowed slightly to Ji Yuan again, then turned around and left with the two boys.
Ji Yuan could see that Qiu Feng was cautious and wary towards him, but apart from bowing in return by the pond, he didn't know what to say for a moment. Was this the end of his first contact with a cultivator
The two boys were still unwilling to leave, kicking rocks and weeds as they walked. After they were a short distance away from the pond, the girl could not help but mutter and complain in a low voice.
"What? You're trying to steal our money and pick on a kid..."
Qiu Feng was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry. This child really thought that Bishuitan was his own home.
But I didn’t expect the boy to add: “Well, you are shameless…”
Originally, the first few sentences were nothing, but as soon as the words "shameless" came out, Qiu Feng's face changed drastically and he immediately interrupted him.
"He Er!"
These two boys of my senior brother are too ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth. There are many people with profound Taoism in this world whose six senses are extremely sharp. Everything else is easy to deal with, but it is very taboo to directly insult someone in the face.
“Hahahaha… That does make sense. It’s really shameless to snatch things from a child!”
Ji Yuanzhongzheng's voice came, although he was laughing, it made Qiu Feng's heart suddenly jump. In his nervousness, he had already mobilized his magic power, and the jade hairpin on his head had turned from blue to red. He, a fairy from the Chaoyuan realm, had no confidence at all.