The wind and waves at sea are much stronger than those inland, Deng Xinming wrapped his small padded jacket tightly and rubbed his nose, who would have thought that a gust of wind would blow out the fire in front of him.

"Whew-" Deng Xinming's hand ignited another flame, and the warm light of the fire reflected his face red.

With a long sigh of relief, he lay on the deck, gradually feeling a little sleepy.

"Xinming, are you sleeping?" The hatch was pushed open, and there was a metal clatter, and Qin Xing walked slowly.

Deng Xinming rubbed his eyes, yawned, and said, "Not yet, I'm about to sleep." ”

The sound of the soles of shoes stepping on the deck sounds crisp. Qin Xing walked next to Deng Xinming and sat down: "You go back to your room and sleep, I can't sleep, stay outside for a while." ”

Deng Xinming was stunned for a moment, looked at Qin Xing's somewhat cold side face, and frowned slightly: "Brother Xing, are you still thinking about Xiaoqiu?"

Qin Xing smiled helplessly and shook his head: "I just can't sleep, don't worry about me, you go back to sleep!"

"Okay......" Deng Xinming glanced at him worriedly, then didn't say anything, got up and walked to the room.

The sky in the north was cloudless, and the stars at night were even brighter than those seen in the elven tribes, and countless stars shimmered with silver-white light, spilling into the sea, and the sea surface was sparkling, reflecting the night sky, which was extremely dazzling. For a time, the sky, the sea, and countless stars illuminated the ships in the vast sea.

Qin Xing stared blankly at the starlight reflected in the sea, and his thoughts gradually became blurred......

......

That was when he was six years old.

After a week of hard practice, the flame technique finally succeeded, and Qin Xing excitedly found four or five friends from the orphanage, wanting to show off to them.

It's just that when Qin Xing cast a spell in front of everyone, he couldn't condense the fire spirit essence no matter what, until he was sweating profusely and sat down on the ground panting, and he couldn't successfully use the fire technique.

Everyone let out a sigh one after another, and among them, a child with better talent even released a flame technique in public and threw it on Qin Xing's body, so hot that his body trembled uncontrollably, but he couldn't help but shout.

"You guys, it's too much!" a childish, slightly angry voice came from behind him.

Hearing this, the children were so frightened that they ran away, without even looking back, and shouted, "Run! The blonde devil is coming!"

"Hey, Ah Xing, are you okay?" A stream of water extinguished the flames on Qin Xing's body, and Pang Xiaoqiu squatted down and patted the dust on Qin Xing's body.

Qin Xing's lips trembled a little, and his teeth kept colliding uncontrollably. He didn't look up at Pang Xiaoqiu, he felt that he didn't have the face to be friends with her.

"Ah Xing, don't be discouraged! you've worked hard!" Pang Xiaoqiu patted Qin Xing's back and comforted him jerkyly.

Qin Xing's eyebrows lowered, and he muttered, "But what's the use of working hard, I still can't do anything......

Pang Xiaoqiu's red lips pursed slightly, his big eyes blinked, thinking about what method to comfort him.

"By the way, Ah Xing, let me tell you a story about a carp jumping over the dragon gate!" Pang Xiaoqiu thought about it.

"I've heard this story. Qin Xing was still listless.

"Eh~ It's different, I made up this story myself...... Belch...... It's a version you haven't heard of. Pang Xiaoqiu smiled awkwardly.

Qin Xing raised his head and secretly looked at Pang Xiaoqiu with his spare eyes.

Pang Xiaoqiu smiled, sat next to him with a big grin, and said: "Once upon a time, in the distant sea, there was a group of carp, and there was a dragon gate where they lived. Later, a passing fish told them that as long as they could jump over the dragon gate, they would become dragons and fly to the sky. So the group of carp scrambled to jump the dragon gate, but no fish could jump over, so they all gave up. Among the carp, there was one fish that was particularly ugly, and the pattern on its body was not red and white like other carps, but black and gray, and its companions looked down on it. But only this fish has not given up the dream of jumping over the dragon gate, it tries every day, but it never succeeds, and it jumps at a lower height than any other carp. ”

His companions ridiculed it, saying that if it didn't have this ability, it should not be able to do it, and in the end it could only ask for its own hardship. But it didn't give up, day after day, year after year, but the height of the jump still didn't grow. ”

Listening to Pang Xiaoqiu's story, Qin Xing was slowly attracted, because this carp was exactly like him.

Pang Xiaoqiu couldn't help but be happy when he saw Qin Xing listening to the story intently, and continued: "Seeing that I haven't made any progress, this carp has no confidence in himself. But one of its friends did not give up on it, but encouraged it all the time, which also strengthened its confidence. ”

Then one day, the carp suddenly found its own reflection in the water, and it found that its appearance had changed, and the patterns on its body had become colorful, and it looked very beautiful. At this time, it finally understood that it was not an ordinary carp, but a koi. Transformed into a koi fish, it jumped to its feet, jumped over the dragon gate, and turned into a dragon. ”

Qin Xing was fascinated by what he heard, and the light of hope rekindled in his eyes.

Pang Xiaoqiu looked at Qin Xing with a smile and said mysteriously: "Legend has it that when you meet a koi, you will become very lucky!"

"Really...... But I haven't even seen the sea, so where can I find koi?" Qin Xing suddenly became excited, but he instantly paused.

"Yes, if possible, I also want to see the sea......" Pang Xiaoqiu showed a yearning look, "However, I have a koi fish here!"

"Really?" Qin Xing became excited again.

Pang Xiaoqiu smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, and stuffed a thumb-sized koi toy into Qin Xing's hand: "This is me at the commissary...... Belch...... I picked it up yesterday, and now I'll give it to you, and the koi will definitely bring you good luck!"

......

Qin Xing looked at the koi toy that had been kept in his hand for ten years, thinking back to the past, and couldn't help but smile from the bottom of his heart.

was so stupid at the beginning, I didn't even hear that Xiaoqiu made it up by herself based on the story of the ugly duckling, and stupidly thought that she was the koi.

But don't say it, the story made up by Xiaoqiu is really reliable, didn't he become a genius overnight after the awakening of his natal spiritual element?

Xiaoqiu, I don't know how you're doing in Dragon Valley now?

The ship was slowly moving westward under the blowing of the east wind, and under the light of the stars, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up ahead.

When the boat approached, it became clear that it was a piece of ice floe, which must have floated from the north.

And above the ice floe, there was something that emitted a faint glow.

Qin Xing rubbed his eyes and looked at the position in disbelief.

On the ice floes, it was a koi, a koi covered with colorful stripes, shining with colorful brilliance against the starlight.

At this time, Qin Xing's heart set off a wave.

No one knew what was going on in his mind, but they could see his smile grow brighter and brighter.

Xiaoqiu, can we meet again?

Perhaps, I am indeed too pessimistic!

Thank you, Xiaoqiu......