At nightfall.

The fishing port of Aolai became more and more lively, and many traders in the city came to the fishing port with all kinds of goods, but they still could not satisfy the whale appetite of the giant sea boats. In the evenings, the weather was cool and easy to work, and the porters were busy transporting goods above and below deck.

Suddenly, a group of dozens of wolf-like men with swords rushed to the port, driving away the busy porters and idlers near the big ship, and did not let them approach.

Steward Li and Su Chen were on the deck of the ship, and they were also driven aside by these strong warriors.

Soon, on the giant ship, a chief steward in brocade robes and several senior stewards were respectfully waiting for the arrival of a distinguished guest under the ship.

After a while, I saw an eight-lift sedan chair carried by eight top first-class masters, arriving near the port sea ship.

"Little Zhou Da is in charge, welcome Dao Ye. Cao Dong's family had to know that the master was going to go to sea with the ship, and they were very happy, and the special villain came to greet them, and the owner had set up a banquet on the ship to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the Taoist. ”

The chief steward hurriedly stepped forward to say goodbye.

In the sedan chair, there was a low and indifferent voice, "Don't talk about those useless things, Master Dao, I have something to go to the open sea." When is your ship going to depart?"

The old Taoist priest in the sedan chair, who claimed to be a Taoist master, was obviously a little anxious.

He is not an outsider, it is the old Taoist priest of You Fangge.

Since the battle of the Mithril Mine Cave in Qingwu City, Ge Lao Dao and Young Woman Fang have teamed up to deal with Wei Zhuo, the young master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect, and they have fled. But Wei Zhuo still died for no apparent reason.

After Wei Zhuo's death, the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect has been tracking down the whereabouts of him and the young woman of the Demon Demon Alliance, wanting to find out the cause of the young sect master's death.

Over the years, the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect has vigorously pursued him in the immortal cultivation world, and even offered an astonishing price of up to 50,000 spirit stones.

Ge Laodao has been hiding in Tibet for many years in the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Middle Earth, and he is afraid of being betrayed, so he does not dare to show his face easily. When he goes out, he travels in a sedan chair like a mortal rich businessman, but he can never get rid of the hidden worry of being pursued by the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect.

This seriously affected his cultivation, and he had not been able to make any progress for many years.

Although the Middle Earth Immortal Cultivation Realm is large, the wanted bounty issued by the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect is too tempting. Fifty thousand spirit stones were enough to make many immortal cultivators moved, and they betrayed his whereabouts to the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect.

After thinking about it, the only way to avoid trouble was to go to the distant overseas Xiaoling Island outside the East China Sea.

There are also islands for cultivators to cultivate far overseas, and they are not under the jurisdiction of the Middle Earth Immortal Cultivation Realm, and the influence of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect is beyond the reach of the whip. Since the Middle Earth Immortal Cultivation Realm can't stay, the only way to try your luck overseas is to try your luck.

However, overseas is not a matter of a few days by Edgeworth, a monk of the Tsukiki, and there is no place to stay on the way, and the distant sea routes and unpredictable threats must be carried out by large sea ships.

Ge Laodao heard that in this remote fishing port of Aolai, there is a private smuggling giant sea ship every year, which will go to Yuanhai Ling Island.

In order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, he had to set off as soon as possible after boarding the ship.

"Tonight! We'll leave tonight! We're all on the boat, just wait for the Dao Ye to come! The owner ordered, just wait for the Dao Ye to come, and we will leave the boat immediately. ”

Manager Zhou hurriedly assured.

"Hmm!"

In the sedan chair, the old Taoist priest was satisfied, and let the warriors carry the sedan chair onto the giant sea ship.

"Master Dao, let's go upstairs, please. There were also a few distinguished guests on the ship, and the host was chatting with them and exchanging immortal skills. When the Taoist master comes, he will definitely shine. ”

Chief Zhou personally escorted him to the top floor of the giant sea ship. There, there was a banquet held by Cao Dong's family to entertain the monks and masters on the giant sea ship.

...

Su Chen was on the side of the deck, listening to the voice of the old Taoist priest in the sedan chair, and he was vaguely familiar. Déjà vu, but I can't remember who it is.

Su Chen didn't understand why he was somewhat familiar with such a character, and seemed to have dealt with him.

"If you can get the most trusted manager of the Cao Dong family, Zhou Da, will come out to greet him in person, and the master in this sedan chair must be an immortal. ”

Steward Li's expression was full of envy and sighed slightly.

Ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to deal with immortals.

But this giant sea ship is a rare exception, every time you go to sea, there must be more or less immortal cultivators, who will carry this ship.

Of course, not everyone is qualified to talk to the immortals. Don't talk about his little steward, even if he is a senior steward. Only the general manager of Zhou Da beside Cao Dongjia is qualified to say a few words to the immortals.

If you are close to immortals, you will have a chance to become immortals, and maybe you will also have a chance to become immortals.

But a small steward like him basically had no hope of being able to reach these immortals.

"Listening to the words of the general manager of Zhou, you Cao Dongjia... Also immortals?"

Su Chen was puzzled.

Steward Li just nodded slightly, but he didn't dare to say much about the owner's affairs.

This giant sea ship is thousands of feet long, far more than dozens of times that of ordinary large sea ships, and the keels used are all made of extremely strong spirit wood on the Far Sea Spirit Island, so that it can resist the attack of strong winds and waves at sea.

Ordinary mortal wood breaks as soon as it breaks, how can it be possible to build a thousand-foot long-sea ship.

How could an ordinary man have such a giant ship!

Moreover, Aolai Fishing Port is a remote port, not a large city. Some of the smuggling ships depart from here. The government also turned a blind eye and did not dare to pay attention to these shipowners with unusually strong backgrounds.

...

After the chief manager of Zhou and the eight-carrying sedan chair got on the sea boat, many big men quickly closed the team and boarded the sea ship.

Order was restored to the port of Aolai, and it was lively again.

The stewards urged, and hurried to let the porters load the cargo of the giant sea ship. It took an hour to move the last bit of remaining cargo to the ship.

In the middle of the night, huge sea ships loaded with many cargoes, leaving the lively Aolai fishing port in the night, slowly sailing out to the open sea, and sailing to the depths of the East China Sea.

After the giant ship left, the Aolai fishing port returned to silence.

Su Chen had only taken small boats in rivers and lakes before, and there was no wind and waves.

When this huge ship went out to sea, I realized that the wind and waves in the depths of the sea were huge, and there was no wind and three feet of waves.

Especially when encountering a storm at sea, dozens of feet of waves are surging.

A slightly smaller merchant ship is like a flat boat, and a single wave is overturned. Only this kind of giant sea ship thousands of feet long can sail against the wind and waves without being overturned by the waves.

Giant ships stretch nine floors from the lowest ballast to the top deck.

There were thousands of people on board, helmsmen, boatmen, cooks, and men, living in cabins on different floors. The more high-rise the attic, the more dignitaries are naturally able to live in.

Steward Li's status in this giant sea ship is not high, he is just a small steward who does trivial tasks such as idle bookkeeping, and can only live on the lower three floors.

The lower three floors have no windows, are cramped with only one bed, and the air is very stuffy and crowded.

Su Chen is a ship escort warrior recruited by Steward Li, and his monthly salary of ten taels of silver is the treatment of a low-level martial artist. Naturally, he could only live in the lower three floors of the cabin, which was stuffy and turbid and impermeable.

Su Chen didn't mind too much about this.

He was a ship escort, and during the day he stayed back and forth between the middle and lower third decks to prevent people on board from picking quarrels and provoking trouble, fighting, and only sleeping at night under the cabin.

It's just that when he sleeps and rests in the middle of the night, he always faintly hears some whipping, scolding, and wailing from the lowest stone chamber.

After half a month, Su Chen couldn't help it, and came to the bottom stone cabin in the middle of the night.

He opened the hatch and entered the bilge, and was shocked to find that the stone chamber had been divided into iron cells, and thousands of slaves were held in these iron cells.

Most of the slaves were middle-aged men, but there were also a small number of women and children, dressed in fine clothes, or poor people and peasants, all of whom were shackled hand and foot, and wailed incessantly.

"This good man, help!"

When the slaves saw Su Chen coming in, they immediately shouted for help.

Under the cabin of the ship, there were several swordsmen who were in charge of guarding the swordsmen, who were awakened by the sound of this group of slaves, and saw a young man breaking into the bilge, and couldn't help but warn Su Chen not to meddle.

Steward Li woke up in the middle of the night and found that Su Chen was not on his bunk, startled, and hurried to hear the noise of the bottom cabin of the ship, and hurriedly apologized to the swordsmen and pulled Su Chen away.

Su Chen followed Steward Li back to the third floor of the cabin.

He was just a little puzzled, although there were slaves in the Tang Dynasty, but these people crying and shouting in front of him did not look like slaves, they seemed to be kidnapped and sold privately.

"Anyway, the ships are out to sea, and you'll see it later. I'll tell you the truth, brother, this giant sea ship is no ordinary cargo ship. This is a smuggling ship, and the most important thing is the slave trade. Cao Dong's family is on a small spirit island in the far sea, which is a famous big man, and he has a spirit mine under his command, and these slaves are all trafficked to mine. Many miners die in the mine every year, and a batch of miners must be transported over every year to replenish the manpower. ”

"No one dares to do this?"

Su Chen's heart shook.

Only then did he know that it was a giant slave ship. No wonder, he saw the port of Aolai, where those worthless coarse grains were transported on huge sea ships by hundreds or thousands of loads.

Steward Li lowered his voice, "Who dares to care about this." On this ship alone, there were ten Qi Refining Immortals who went to sea to protect the boat. Not to mention that Cao Dongjia himself is a foundation building immortal, and there are some scattered immortals who go to sea with the ship. They all live on the top floor, but we little people can't see it.

Dare to stop Cao Dongjia from making money and mining, it is definitely a dead end. Don't get out of the cabin to take care of those slaves again, or you'll get into trouble, and I won't be able to protect you, brother. Maybe you're going to be locked up.

The ship was to sail for more than a year, and the days on the sea were boring and boring. Every month, a fairy ascension party is held on the ship, and Cao Dongjia will take out a bowl of spiritual rice to boost the morale of the crew, and I will take you to see the excitement in a few days.

If you can get the reward of a bowl of spiritual rice, tsk, maybe you can become a Qi refining immortal, then you will be immortal, and there will be green smoke on the ancestral tomb!"

As he spoke, Steward Li couldn't help but swallow his saliva, looking forward to the Immortal Ascension Meeting in a few days.