The further you go towards the deep sea, the dangers in the Sea of Silence will increase exponentially, and the strength of the monsters in the sea will naturally become stronger and stronger.
Chen Mo looked from the coastline. No matter where he was, the Sea of Silence was a deep gray under the reflection of the clouds. It seemed that Li Fan did not need to lie. Building a ship was the only way to reach the island.
"In that case, I will also help." Chen Mo thought for a moment and said.
"Of course you are welcome. Fellow Daoist Chen, please come with me. I will arrange a task for you."
Li Fan seemed to have expected that Chen Mo would definitely agree. He said with a smile and took him aside.
The shipbuilding drawings were carefully divided into more than ten sheets. What Chen Mo took over from Li Fan were two drawings for building masts.
The materials were piled in an open space not far away. They were two sections of white bones about a foot long, but there were many bone spurs on them. They required the monks to continuously polish and trim them, and to continuously infuse spiritual power to have the power to support the sailboat.
"This is the backbone of the tiger snake beast..."
Chen Mo recognized this object at a glance. With such a long spine, it was at least the level of a fourth-order monster. For a monk, it was equivalent to two cultivators in the early stages of foundation building. Although he was shocked, he did not show it. It's just that he secretly has a deeper understanding of Li Fan's strength.
"Friend Daoist, please be careful when building the mast. This material is extremely valuable. After landing on the island, I will take it away for use in making magic weapons."
Li Fan was afraid that Chen Mo didn't understand the importance of the spine, so he asked again before leaving. Chen Mo naturally pretended not to understand and responded, promising to complete it as promised.
Although he knew in his heart that building the mast was the most difficult part of shipbuilding, Chen Mo still took it on.
There is no other reason. If you are riding a single raft or a small boat, even if there is a huge wave in the sea, Chen Mo's people and the boat will be gone.
Moreover, Chen Mo had also seen before that what they were going to build was a two-masted sailboat. From a sailing point of view, there would be no problems with the stability of this type of ship. This was the key to his joining the team.
There were a total of eight people in the shipbuilding team. Li Fan and Li Gang were from the same sect. The two young men looked similar. Chen Mo speculated that they should be twin brothers.
Although the three women did not know each other, judging from their eyes, they seemed to have reached some kind of consensus.
Chen Mo didn't want to capsize his boat in the gutter and be attacked by a group of people with calculations on the sea with nowhere to escape, so after he completed a single mast, he found an excuse to ask Li Fan to observe and learn other drawings of the sailboat.
The latter didn't think much about it, thinking he was just out of curiosity, so he showed him a stick of incense generously. After Chen Mo memorized certain key points of the hull, he pretended to be thoughtful and returned it to him. Li Fan.
Although I don't know if it is useful, if something bad happens, Chen Mo still has the ability to destroy the ship and drag everyone to the bottom of the sea.
Two days passed quickly. The group of people only focused on the affairs at hand. In order to land on the island in advance and win the praise of Master Mo Yuan, they worked day and night. The two-masted sailing ship arrived before the third day of the morning. , was finally sent into the Sea of Silence.
"Everyone, please adjust. We will set off after half a stick of incense. If there are storms and waves on the sea, we will have to work together to stabilize the ship. I would like to thank you in advance."
Li Fan bowed slightly to the group, and Chen Mo and the others naturally agreed. Then he bowed first and then charged a hundred low-grade spiritual stones from each of them as the fee for steering the helm.
He was driving the ship throughout the entire journey. Chen Mo and others only needed to maintain the safety of the ship and then wait for the Demonic Island to appear.
Time flew by and everyone boarded the boat. Chen Mo also found a corner to sit down and rest. However, the good times did not last long. Before two hours, the clear sky at noon quickly turned cloudy. Everyone opened their eyes in unison, and then There was a muffled thunder roaring overhead, and the strong wind roared almost instantly, blowing the canvas into a big bag: "Fellow Taoists! Stabilize the hull!" Li Fan frowned and immediately said to Everyone reported that as he was saying this, they saw slight spiritual power fluctuations in the hands of the monks.
Chen Mo didn't want to hide his secrets. The light green spiritual power lingered, and the strange brilliance immediately enveloped the ship along with everyone.
At this time, the hull began to undulate violently, and thunder and lightning began to flash in the purple sky, striking the sky one after another. Li Fan was still talking loudly to his fellow juniors, but was stopped by the continuous thunder and lightning. The sound was masked, and Chen Mo and others could no longer hear it.
There was a shower of rain in the sky. In the boundless sea, the purple sky and the endless sea water merged into one. Seven people and a boat seemed so small and insignificant at this moment.
The three women were obviously going to sea for the first time. They faced the wind and waves mixed with lightning and thunder. The lightning dyed the sea and the sky into one color. The feeling of despair that there was no one else in the silent sea made the limbs of these people who were soaked by the rain feel cold, even if It is a cultivation level in the foundation building stage. When faced with Tianwei's magical axe, the effect it can exert is still too small.
Just after the time for a cup of tea, the waves about three to four feet high began to throw the boat up and down hard. The bumpy feeling made everyone feel dizzy, and Li Fan's skills were indeed amazing. In such a difficult situation, Under certain circumstances, the ship can also be steered into the wind to avoid direct collision with the airflow.
Even so, Chen Mo and others' faces were also a little pale. His previous thoughts of crossing the Sea of Silence suddenly disappeared.
Fortunately, the thunderstorm did not last long, and with the combined efforts of the seven foundation-building monks, the ship kept moving forward until the thunderstorm weakened and the canvas finally calmed down.
"It's so scary..."
"The Sea of Silence is really too dangerous..."
The sea cleared up, and the faces of three-year-old children changed as unpredictable as the faces of three-year-old children. The two female nuns, who were still frightened, couldn't help but sigh.
Soon, the discussion turned into chirping between women, and the two brothers also joined in the conversation, mostly talking about the ruthlessness of the wind and waves, and also complimenting each other with polite words.
Li Gang couldn't listen anymore. He didn't like words, and naturally he didn't like others nagging at the side, so he interrupted the atmosphere of getting acquainted with him with a cold voice:
"What is this? We have only driven less than ten miles, and we haven't even encountered a decent sea creature attack, and yet you are so excited!"
The two female cultivators were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then someone reacted: "So, you and your senior brother had the experience of going to the Demonic Island once?!"
The speaker was a beautiful woman in a pink skirt and palace attire. She had a round figure. It seemed that she was a well-respected cultivator in the sect and was not easy to fool.
When the topic that Chen Mo was interested in came up, he immediately stood up and looked at Li Gang. The other two brothers also showed doubts.
Li Gang suddenly felt bad and was about to defend himself. At this moment, his senior brother Li Fan came over to help him: "Yes, we did board someone else's ship a month ago."
"But there were only five people on the boat at that time, and the boat was also a square-masted boat. It was not as resistant to wind and waves as it is now. Halfway through the journey, we were attacked by a pipefish. A hole was dug in the bottom of the boat, and two people died. In the sea, Li Gangfu and I were lucky enough to save our lives."
"So you decided to try again, build a boat on the beach and recruit free helpers?" the twin brother's brother asked immediately.
"Yes." Li Fan admitted generously.
"Why didn't you tell us earlier?"
Seeing him nodding in agreement, the three women became angry in unison. They wanted to land on the island as soon as possible to show that they were different from others.
But if they still risk their lives, there is no room for them to be careless.
Li Fan said calmly: "It's not too late to tell now. As my junior brother said, the ship has just sailed out. You can fly back at any time if you want. However, if the spirit stone is not returned, all the hard work of building the ship will be in vain." ”
A short female cultivator in women's clothing couldn't help but cursed at him: "You bastard, you actually tricked us into doing hard labor!"
The remaining woman also followed up and said: "You damn liar, are all the disciples of your Luo Xing Sect secretly and abducted like you? If your fellow disciples hadn't leaked the truth, how long would you have kept it secret from us?"
Being pointed at and scolded by three women, Li Fan's face became ugly: "What does this have to do with whether I can hide it from you or not? As long as you have the idea of landing on the island, you will have to withstand the test on the way, and then again Come back, if you are not in a hurry, you can wait for the people from Trapped Demon Island to send a boat to pick you up. Why are you here? Isn’t it just to be looked down upon by them?"
"Anyway, as far as we know, apart from using flying mounts, we haven't heard of any monks who have landed on the island. If we do it, they will see a lot of benefits in view of our potential."
Li Gang added this sentence, which immediately made the three female cultivators speechless: "Fellow Daoist Chen, seeing that you never express your opinion, I would like to ask specifically, what do you think now?"
Li Fan glanced around the boat and his eyes stopped on Chen Mo.
Seeing everyone's eyes turned to him, Chen Mo said what he had thought about for a long time:
"So far I can accept it. My suggestion is to keep moving forward. If the risk is too great, you can vote by a show of hands. If you get more than half, you can go back, and vice versa."
There are a total of eight people on the boat, which means that if more than five people agree, they can move on.
The method of the minority obeying the majority was proposed by Chen Mo and was unanimously recognized in an instant: "This method is good, Fellow Daoist Chen. He agrees. Li Gang and I also agree to move on. What about you two?"
The two brothers were not as timid as the three female cultivators. They nodded in agreement, so Li Fan said to them again: "Now the vote is five to three. If you still don't agree, you can leave."
The three women still had cold faces and said nothing. Li Fan immediately understood that they didn't want to leave now, but that they were missing a step. Otherwise, where would they put their face?
After thinking about this, he immediately said: "How about this, I apologize to you for hiding it before, I will return half of the spirit stone to you, and this matter will end here?"
Hearing what he said, the expressions of the three female cultivators relaxed a little, and they joined together to talk for a while, and no longer mentioned returning.
