The water in Hopelessness was clear and blue, and the northwest sea breeze was blowing gently. Xue Tong pulled up the sail, and the bow of the ship was slightly raised. It was as light as a flying boat and sailed towards the depths of the sea.
Xue Tong smiled and leaned on the side of the ship, looking at the waves rising beside the ship. The yellow beech ship had a draft of thirteen feet, the deck was two feet above the sea, and the two masts were twenty feet high, and hung with a total of seventeen white sails.
Xue Tong went to Wanyu Island, which was 38,000 miles away from Chongguang.
Wanyu Island has hundreds of thousands of islands, nearly half of which are uninhabited. The several large islands in the center are said to be nearly the size of Jiayuan Kingdom.
The monsoons and ocean currents of Wuwanghai for most of the year are heading towards Wanyu. Xue Tong needs to arrive before April of the next year, and there is still nearly half a year.
Xue Tong's nautical chart was bought at a high price in Wanqian Kingdom, which described the route and an island reef southwest of Wanyu Island.
He had never gone to sea, let alone such a far place. Xue Tong identified the position at high altitude, adjusted the direction, and sailed into the route.
After a while, except for the vast sea, there was no reference to the land. We could only observe the position of the stars and the moon and make a rough judgment.
The voyage into the Hopeless Sea is full of unknowns. Once the ship capsizes, relying only on flying magic weapons and cloud control skills will eventually end up in the sea.
Flying magical instruments cannot sustain their power during flight. Even if twenty or thirty magical instruments are prepared and used one after another, the storm on the hopeless sea will still very likely overturn the magical instruments.
A big boat is undoubtedly the safest way.
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Bone puppets and hawksbills are playing on the deck. This place is close to the mainland. Seabirds fly by from time to time. The hawksbills spread their wings and chase, and occasionally they can catch a few.
The vulture has grown to half a man's height and is fierce. Its eyes look gentle except when looking at Xue Tong and Gu Puppet.
Its claws and sharp beak are in exaggerated proportions, and its wings are slightly smaller, which are also inherent characteristics of the harpoon vulture.
The hawksbill either uses its sharp claws to claw the seabirds to pieces, or pecks the bird's head off in one bite, killing it but not eating it.
"The speed of the eagle is relatively slow, but its ferociousness is very good."
Xue Tong smiled broadly and threw out several fist-sized snake gallbladders.
The eagle swallowed it whole, and its ferocious eyes became blurred and tired. Xue Tong whistled, and the eagle quickly took a few steps and lay down beside it obediently. When the eagle broke its shell, it drank his blood for half a year, and the gray dots entered its body. , and Xue Tong can be said to have a mind-to-heart connection, but Xue Tong still uses falcon training to make him understand his orders better.
Xue Tong also prepared a lot of training tools for the bone puppet. After the bone puppet drank a dark green centipede inner elixir, the light green color of the bones deepened again.
Bone puppets are poisonous. Xue Tong caught a five-foot-large fish from the sea. Bone puppets' fingertips lightly scratched the fish's back. Soon the big fish's eyes turned white and black blood flowed from the corners of its mouth.
"It is not difficult to detoxify the bone puppet at the moment. A thousand elimination pills are enough. The bone puppet is mixed with common snake venom, scorpion venom, toad venom, centipede venom, etc. In the future, it will be difficult to cure the poison as it becomes more severe. "
However, the material of the bone puppet is inherently insufficient after all. In the past, it was made from the bones of a pair of blood bear bears who were masters of the martial arts. Although a large amount of spiritual stones, spiritual liquid, and demonic beast pseudo-alchemy and inner elixir were spent in the later stages, the speed of cultivation was still unsatisfactory. satisfy.
"It's just a matter of using a large number of demon bear skeletons to boil bone slurry and letting the bone puppets soak in the slurry pool. This method requires a lot of money. Fortunately, I have no shortage of spiritual stones."
Thinking of this, Xue Tong couldn't help but smile.
The hopeless sea water changed from clear blue to dark blue, and then to the dark blue it is now.
After more than a month at sea, we have reached the deep sea.
Xue Tong practiced with bone puppets and eagles every time, avoiding boring and even maddening worries.
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The sea surface was sparkling, and the waves crashed against the ship, making a roaring sound. Xue Tong faintly heard an extremely deep sound coming from far to near.
"Something's happening!"
Xue Tong jumped to the top of the mast, his golden eyes quickly searching the sea.
In the distance on the port side, the silver light on the sea level seemed to be missing a piece. Before Xue Tong could identify it, the black piece disappeared suddenly and appeared on the closer sea surface a few breaths later.
"Oh my God, what a big fish monster!"
Xue Tong flew out like a bird, his palm suddenly lit up, and a thunder ball was blasted towards the fish spine.
The thunder bead entered the water and exploded violently. The thunder arc reached hundreds of feet. With the help of blue and white light, Xue Tong could clearly see an oversized swordfish passing by.
His magic power was activated, the void trembled slightly, and a golden sword was aimed at the fish's head and slashed down.
The moment the sword tip pierced the sea, a huge whirlpool suddenly surged in the dark blue water, and the waves rose into the sky. The swordfish swung its tail fin vigorously, and its huge body of more than ten feet long jumped out of the water. The Golden Rainbow Penetration Sword clung to it. The fish's back sank into the bottom of the sea.
"Boom" the swordfish fell into the sea, causing a huge splash of water. Xue Tong looked through the water mist to see where he was, and used his lightning strike technique.
boom!
Thunder struck and lightning struck, finally hitting the swordfish.
When the water spray dispersed, the fish monster disappeared, leaving only a pool of bright red blood foam and large fish scales on the sea surface.
"so close!"
The two-foot-long hard bone spurs of the swordfish are likely to penetrate the bottom of the ship. Once the mast ship is destroyed, it will be impossible to escape in the vast sea.
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Boom!
There was a loud thunder, and the rocking of the mast ship suddenly intensified. Xue Tong opened the hatch. It was daytime, but the surroundings were completely dark, with only the light from a white light beam in the distance.
The black rotating air mass outside the light pillar soared straight into the sky, and the waves on the sea surface were extremely wide, rising up like hills a hundred feet away, rushing towards them.
The masted ship rose and fell between the peaks and troughs of the waves. The waves crossed the deck and hit the second-story cabin hard. The water splashed seven or eight feet high.
The sails of the ship had already been furled. The swing of the ship was so large and the magnitude of the earthquake was so strong that Xue Tong was unsteady and in danger of falling into the sea or being swept away by the big waves at any time.
The masted ship encounters the terrifying dark storm in the Hopeless Sea. Once it is caught in the center of the storm, the entire ship will be immediately turned into powder, and no residue will be left.
Xue Tong held the rudder tightly and turned as far as possible away from the storm. The rudder creaked and the force in the waves was amazing. Xue Tong used 80% of his arm strength to stabilize the direction.
Huge waves, strong winds, heavy rain, and thunderstorms all night long.
When the storm passed, Xue Tonglei collapsed to the ground, his arms almost losing consciousness.
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The most terrifying black sea area has passed.
"The color of the sea water is getting lighter. It seems that we have sailed out of the center of Wuwang Sea and are getting closer to Wanyu Island!"
Xue Tong felt happy and called out the vulture.
After more than four months, the eagle has grown taller, its feathers have deepened in color, brown with black, and its red eyeballs have a black pupil across a golden line, giving people a noble and awe-inspiring feeling.
The thick eagle claws were larger than Xue Tong's palm, and the hooks were so sharp that they could cut a wooden stick as thick as an arm into two pieces with one grab.
The vulture flew around the mast ship, sometimes swooping towards the deck, and sometimes quickly pulling up and rising directly into the clouds. Xue Tong popped out several carved bones, all of which were caught by the vulture and swallowed.
Xue Tong took a look at the top-quality spiritual stone in the spiritual pet bag. Eighty percent of its color had faded. With the unusually abundant spiritual energy and the support of the snake gall bird, the eagle had grown to the level of an early martial artist.
The bone puppet's soul fire became brighter, and its bones rattled softly from time to time, indicating that it was not far from being upgraded.
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One month later.
The blue water returned, and for the first time in months, the shadows of seabirds appeared. Xue Tong ascended to the sky to observe whether there were islands on the distant sea level.
Finally, the brig reached the first uninhabited island.
The second and third...Xue Tong compared the chart and showed that he had reached the reefs off Wanyu Island.
"Change the route to the northeast and we should arrive at the inhabited island in ten and a half days. By then we can always get a more detailed map of Wanyu Island."
Wanyu Island is approaching, but Xue Tong's heart becomes more and more hesitant: What should he do with the two-masted ship that cost tens of thousands of spiritual stones, let it drift on the sea and become a ghost ship, or give it away or exchange it for spiritual stones, gold and silver? Should he go deep into Wanyu Island? In the hinterland of the continent, it is better to occupy the island and be the owner of the island.
Pros and cons.
Just as he was thinking and hesitating, two sloops were looming on the sea. Xue Tong pulled up the full sail and approached quickly through the wind and waves. The sloops wanted to escape at first, but later saw that they could not get away, so the ropes stopped and moved closer together.
Xue Tong flew across the clouds and landed on the fishing boat.
The fishing boat is six to seven feet long, with fishing nets and buoys hung on its sides. The elm deck is old and the whole boat is filled with a fishy smell.
The six fishermen were very cautious, and when they saw Xue Tong coming from the sky, they were so frightened that they did not dare to move.
Xue Tong met someone for the first time in half a year. He was very kind and said in a friendly manner: "Fellow fishermen, may I ask where this is?"
The older man among the fishermen stammered: "This... Yanming... Island, dare I ask... where is the Taoist priest from?"
"Oh, fisherman, don't be nervous. I come from a continent tens of thousands of miles away, and I have been drifting at sea for half a year."
The six of them looked at each other, as if they had never heard of other continents.
"He came from the mainland on the other side of the sea."
Xue Tong thought it would be best if you didn't hear it. He also wanted to know what other continents there were, and considered claiming to be from the New World in the future, completely erasing the traces of Chong Guang.
He changed the topic, took out the chart and asked: "Where is Yanming Island exactly and what is the condition of the island?"
The elderly fisherman read the chart, pointed and said, "Reply to the Taoist priest, Yanming Island is one hundred and eighty miles away from here. There are two thousand residents on the island who have been fishing for generations."
Xue Tong glanced at the fish cabin, half of which contained ordinary hairtail and squid, covered with a layer of ice chips.
“It seems like the fishermen aren’t catching many fish.”
The older fisherman said sarcastically: "The climate around Yanming Island is changeable, the water is deep and the waves are rough, so there are really not many fish that can be caught, so I can only maintain it."
"Oh, since the environment of Yanming Island is harsh and Wanyu Island is full of islands, why not change the place?" Xue Tong asked.
"The Taoist priest doesn't know. How can it be so easy for islanders to migrate? The big inland island is prosperous and rich, how can we go there? Yanming Island is the largest island attached to Luosi Island. It is under the control of the leader of Liang Island. We have to leave. It requires his consent."
"What kind of role is the owner of Liang Island of Luosi Island?"
"Since the Taoist priest came from the other side of the sea, he must not know much about Wanyu Island. Island Master Liang is in charge of sixty-two islands, big and small. He is the island owner of the wooden anchor level. The island owner of Wanyu Island is divided into gold, silver, copper and iron. , Wood Level 5, Island Master Liang is not a high level but he can soar into the clouds, his force is unimaginable." said the older fisherman.
"Really, so foreign warriors must obtain the permission of Island Master Liang to operate nearby."
"Yeah, I think so too."
"Do you have a more detailed chart?"
The fisherman took an embroidered sea map from his arms, and Xue Tong gave him a handful of broken silver in exchange.
He was not going to visit the owner of Liang Island. He was interested in Lishan Island, which was nine hundred miles away and five times larger than Yanming Island.
