When the man saw Hou Jiuming, he didn't even look at him. He waved his hand and escorted the three women into the cabin.
After the group left, Fatty Qian came to Hou Jiuming with a sincere face.
"Brother Hou, please endure the calm for a while and take a step back to open up the world. The identities of those people are not simple. Why bother to conflict with them just for the sake of a temporary dispute?
Listen to me, don’t provoke them, we can’t afford to provoke them!”
Hou Jiuming didn't pay attention to what Fatty Qian said. Let alone a young lady, what if she was a member of the royal family or a noble? She was not just a mortal, and would surely turn into ashes in a hundred years.
"Thank you, Brother Qian, for reminding me, I understand!" Although I don't care, I have to live up to my reputation. If others give me face, I must continue to do so.
If someone respects me, I should respect others. This is his standard of conduct in the world.
"Hey, that's right. Brother Hou has such a big heart at such a young age, and his future will be limitless. Come on, let's go have a drink together during lunch..."
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Time passed and four days passed quickly.
It's a good night, the moon is bright and the clouds are sparse, and the sky is filled with starlight covering the earth.
The three-gallon boat drifted with the current, and the cabin on the lowest floor of the building was completely dark.
Hou Jiuming sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at the elixir in his hand seriously.
This clear water elixir is already the last one.
His mana has also reached its peak.
"Whether it's successful or not depends on tonight!" After finishing his words, he decisively swallowed the pill.
As the elixir enters the abdomen, the majestic power of the medicine turns into spiritual energy and appears in the body.
Hou Jiuming did not dare to delay, so he quickly concentrated his energy and began to pull and refine.
"Wow~"
The powerful medicinal power travels through the meridians, just like the clear gurgling sound of the endless Yangtze River.
The medicinal power was refined one after another, but Hou Jiuming did not immediately incorporate it into his dantian, but continued to accumulate strength.
Time passed bit by bit, and when the entire clear water elixir was refined, the continuous mana in the meridians already made Hou Jiuming feel a dull pain.
Realizing that he had reached the limit, he immediately removed the blockage on the mana without further delay, and guided it towards Dantian."
"Boom~"
Without the blocking power, it is like a flood that bursts its banks, roaring towards the Dantian.
The Dantian, which was already full of mana, was immediately overwhelmed by the impact of this new force, making a "click~click~" sound.
The scene was like a piece of oval glass that would break at any time.
In fact, this is just a normal sign of breaking through the later stages of Qi training.
When the Dantian is first opened, its area is limited, and it will continue to grow as the realm breaks through.
The process of getting bigger is commonly known as the bottleneck.
For those with strong magic power or abundant resources, it is not difficult to expand the inherent Dantian again.
But if you don't have strong magic power and no resources, then even if you practice for a lifetime, it will be difficult to break through the small bottleneck.
As more and more mana poured into the dantian, the clicking sounds joined together, completely stretching the dantian that had reached its capacity.
"Dong~"
A sound like thunder exploded in Hou Jiuming's mind.
Then, his Dantian was rapidly expanding and expanding like an inflated balloon.
The originally full mana, after the Dantian expanded, immediately decreased as quickly as the water level dropped.
"Breakthrough!"
At the moment when Dantian expanded, Hou Jiuming felt happy.
He knew that he had successfully entered the late stage of Qi training.
However, after a moment, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and continued to guide the magic power into his dantian.
After all, we have just broken through and are not yet stable. If we get excited and our level drops, it will be a joke.
As the Dantian expands, a siphon effect occurs.
With Hou Jiu Ming as the center, the surrounding auras swarmed in like moths to a flame.
But Dantian is like a beast that has been hungry for a long time. As soon as the spiritual energy is absorbed, it is quickly refined into Dantian.
Because of this, the suction range from the outside world is also constantly expanding.
At first, it was only the area around the room where Hou Jiuming was.
But as time went by, this range expanded to the entire ship, and then to the river.
Such large spiritual energy fluctuations naturally caused some trouble.
The boatman and passengers who had fallen asleep on the boat suddenly felt awkward.
It's as if you have been living in a forest with plenty of oxygen and suddenly come to a city full of smog. The contrast is huge.
But outside, it's a different story.
Some confused souls were originally wandering aimlessly, but after the spiritual energy fluctuations appeared, they immediately instinctively approached the boat.
At first, it was just one or two.
But as the boat continued to move forward, it passed more and more places, and the number of souls gathered gradually increased.
The most obvious thing is that the boatman on the night watch on the deck suddenly felt the temperature in the air drop rapidly.
"Damn it, why is it so cold suddenly?"
Crossing his hands and rubbing them on his arms, he hesitated whether to go to the cabin to add some clothes.
But before he could make a decision, white mist rose from the river without warning.
The white mist came very suddenly. It was not there at first, but when I looked carefully, it was already invisible.
"what happened?"
Looking at the billowing white mist, the boatman shivered inexplicably, and goosebumps appeared uncontrollably on his body.
He is in his forties and has been on the ship for most of his life. He has seen a lot, but he has never seen such a strange fog.
"No, if this continues, the ship will be destroyed and everyone will die!"
Not to mention the cause of the fog, it was such a low visibility that it was not suitable to continue sailing. Thinking of this, the boatman pulled the rope in his hand without hesitation.
"Dang~dang~dang~dang~"
The rushing bell echoed in the quiet night sky.
People who were sleeping on the boat woke up immediately when they heard the bell.
"Quick, if there is an emergency, all boatmen must gather on the deck!" The boss of the boat got up from his bed and ran out without even bothering to put on his clothes.
Whether it was the boatman, the guests, or the helpers on the boat, everyone woke up to the sound of the bell.
For example, the group of people who had a conflict with Hou Jiuming.
"Emergency, Miss Protection!"
These people seemed to be sleeping with their clothes on. After the bell rang, they went out to gather faster than the boatman and came to a guarded cabin.
The warrior named Ma even knocked on the cabin door respectfully after arriving, "Miss, there is an emergency outside, please come out and join us as soon as possible."
"Master Ma, wait a moment, we are waiting for the lady to change~"
It was also at this time that a huge noise came from the hatch to the deck.