Yao Bird

Lu Yang's knowledge of the cultivation world wasn't comprehensive. Before joining the Dao Seeking Sect, his knowledge came from storytellers. After a year in the Dao Seeking Sect, his knowledge of cultivation grew at an astonishing rate, but none of the books he read mentioned how to get off a flying boat.

Who writes that kind of thing in a book?

In terms of common sense in the cultivation world, he was still inferior to someone like Tao Yaoye, who had grown up in a family of cultivators since childhood.

Regarding flying boats, he only knew that they belonged to the Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association, and the way to disembark was to jump, but the specific method was unknown.

Every year, flying boats brought in huge amounts of wealth, but this was only a trivial industry for the Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association.

The Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association was the largest merchant association in the Central Continent, with mysterious backing forces and countless rare treasures. As long as you had enough Spirit Stones, even treasures that only existed in legends and had never been seen before, such as the Buddha Kingdom Sarira, the Yao Domain sacred bones, and Immortal Fruit, could be bought.

If anyone dared to owe the Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association money, or took a chance and stole from the association, then the several cultivation experts who disappeared without a trace were a warning to the world.

Legend has it that there was a cultivation expert known as the King of Thieves, who was proficient in the Dao of Space, and could take away other people's storage spaces as easily as reaching into a bag. Distance was just a meaningless number to him. He could cross thousands of mountains and rivers in one step, from the extreme west of the Central Continent to the extreme north.

He had even stolen from Tribulation Crossing Stage experts.

There was an unwritten rule in the art of theft, which was not to steal anything from the Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association.

Originally, the King of Thieves obeyed the ancestral precepts of thieves and had no contact with the Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association. As his fame grew, countless well-known experts joined forces to hunt him down, but they couldn't even find a piece of his clothing. He gradually felt that these cultivation experts were nothing more than that, and that he had surpassed the ancestor of thieves, so why should he continue to abide by the rigid ancestral precepts?

He arrogantly announced that he would steal the treasures of the Falling Gold Coin Merchant Association tonight.

Everyone thought that either the King of Thieves' Dao of Space was so profound that he could steal treasures silently, or there would be a great battle inside the merchant association, with the King of Thieves fighting against the experts behind the association.

No one expected that nothing happened that night, and the King of Thieves never appeared again, disappearing without a trace.

Lu Yang's embarrassment only lasted for a moment. When it was time to jump off the boat, strangers didn't have time to keep looking at Lu Yang.

Everyone held up paper umbrellas and jumped down, disembarking one after another.

Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye also moved.

High in the sky, several strangers opened their umbrellas, looking as small as sesame seeds in the distance. Lu Yang was different. He pulled the rope behind him, and the parachute opened with a "bang", particularly conspicuous in the high sky.

Normally, Lu Yang would be very nervous at such a height.

But now Lu Yang had no time to think about these things.

Too embarrassing.

Fortunately, everyone had different destinations. Only Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye were going to Taiping Township.

As soon as they arrived in Taiping Township, they received a warm welcome from the Township Chief, who seemed to know they were coming.

"Two Immortal Masters, you've finally arrived. The way you jumped off the flying boat was truly extraordinary."

Lu Yang opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn't ask why he knew when they would arrive.

"My name is Lu Yang, and she is Tao Yaoye. We are both disciples of the Dao Seeking Sect. The description of the Yao Bird in the mission is not very detailed, so please tell us the details, Township Chief."

Originally, the Township Chief had prepared a welcome banquet, to drink a few rounds first, give some local specialties after drinking too much, and then talk about the Yao Bird in detail. That's how people from above handled errands.

He didn't expect the two to be so decisive, and he was secretly delighted, praising them inwardly, as expected of disciples from an immortal sect.

Tao Yaoye glanced at the Township Chief, who had a Late Qi Refining Stage cultivation. He hadn't laid a good foundation in his early years, and there were many impurities in his spiritual power, making Foundation Establishment hopeless. He was just an ordinary cultivator, with nothing outstanding about him.

Speaking of the Yao Bird, the Township Chief looked distressed. Taiping Township didn't have many outsiders to begin with, and it was relatively closed. Now that the Yao Bird's matter had spread nearby, even merchants were unwilling to approach it.

He had reported it to Quhe County, but Quhe County was short of manpower, and seeing that the Yao Bird didn't hurt anyone, they said to wait a little longer, and send someone to Taiping Township when they had time.

This wait had been twenty days.

"It was about twenty days ago. Feng the Tailor ran into the street, shouting that a man-eating great Yao had come to their house, and it was very powerful."

"The neighbors were shocked when they heard this. A man-eating Yao was no small matter. Taiping Township only has about thirty cultivators, and I have the highest cultivation among them. I am also the Township Chief, so Feng the Tailor brought the neighbors to find me."

"Before exorcising the Yao, I had to find out the situation. I asked Feng the Tailor, 'You say the great Yao eats people, who did it eat?'"

The danger of a Yao that had eaten people and a Yao that hadn't eaten people was very different. Humans were the spirit of all things, born with intelligence. Once a Yao had eaten a human, it would be addicted to the taste and would eat a second and a third person... causing harm to one side.

"Feng the Tailor said I don't know who the great Yao ate, but that Yao could speak, so it must have eaten someone to be able to speak."

There were indeed rumors among the people that Yao could speak human language and transform into human form after eating people, but this was just hearsay.

How could Yao Race cultivation be so simple? To speak human language, one had to refine the hyoid bone in the throat, which required at least Late Qi Refining Stage.

"Feng the Tailor said that the Yao was colorful. At first, he thought it was just a bird lost in the mountains. The Yao Bird sat behind him, watching him sew clothes, without moving. Suddenly, it started talking, scaring Feng the Tailor to run out of the shop."

"Seeing that Feng the Tailor couldn't provide any useful information, I told them to wait in the distance, and I approached secretly alone. I saw the Yao Bird."

"The Yao Bird's feathers were bright and lustrous, and it had very distinct red circles around its eyes. It was clear that it wasn't an ordinary bird. How could an ordinary bird dare to be so flamboyant?"

"The Yao Bird opened its mouth and asked me, 'Who are you? Where is Zhang Guanjia?' Its tone was quite urgent."

"I was puzzled. Zhang Guanjia was a cultivator in our township, at the Third Level of Qi Refining, with mediocre cultivation. How could he have any connection with a Yao Beast?"

"At that time, I tried to relax myself, so that I didn't look threatening, and politely asked, 'May I ask what the Yao King wants with Zhang Guanjia?'"

"The Yao Bird didn't answer, and flapped its wings, leaving the tailor shop."

"Since then, the Yao Bird has been flying around Taiping Township, eating the grain in the fields and speaking human language. Although it doesn't eat people, how can mortals not be afraid when they see a Yao? Therefore, everyone has been living in fear these days, afraid that the Yao Bird will become fierce and eat everyone in one bite."

"Have you fought the Yao Bird? How strong is it?" Lu Yang asked.

The Township Chief shook his head, "That Yao Bird is in the air all day, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, making it difficult to find its trace."

"Moreover, I can't see the Yao Bird's cultivation, which means it's at least at the Seventh Level of Qi Refining like me. I'm worried that the Yao Bird has no intention of hurting people, and that if I rashly fight it, I'll mess things up and anger it."

Lu Yang nodded. The Township Chief's actions were reasonable.