Chapter 10: The Storm (Part II)

"It's no wonder that the average pirate doesn't dare to cross the windless zone at will. Looking at these giant sea kings, Ye Wuji finally understood why the pirates took the great voyage.

With such a strong body size and strength, it can be imagined that ordinary people are not their opponents at all, let alone ordinary pirate ships, even the warships of the navy can't block a blow from the Sea King.

Ships that don't have the strongest people in the house don't want to pass through the windless zone safely, unless they can install Hailou Stone equipment on the bottom of the sea like the navy.

Fortunately, these sea kings are just beasts, they don't have spiritual intelligence, if they have spiritual intelligence, even Hailou Stone must not be able to stop them.

"Strange windless bands, strange great routes. ”

Ye Wuji felt very strange about the existence of the windless zone, there was really no wind in this sea area, even if there was a wild rainstorm blowing in the ordinary sea area separated from the windless zone, there was no sign of wind in the windless zone.

It's as if the wind blows into this sea area and disappears into thin air, no one knows what the reason is, not even the world government, and no one really understands why the windless zone exists.

What's even more strange is why the sea kings like to stay in the windless zone, those giant sea kings like to stay on the sea surface in the windless zone, floating quietly on the sea, as if basking in the sun.

After entering the windless zone, the rules that applied to the four seas before do not apply at all, and in the windless zone, or even the great route, if you want to discern the direction, you can only rely on one thing, and that is the record pointer, what compass, the compass is not applicable here at all.

Because the magnetic force here is very chaotic and irregular.

There are two kinds of record pointers, one is an ordinary pointer, and the other is a permanent pointer, and the navy uses it as a permanent pointer.

"Quick, there's a ship of the Sea Kings attacking humans, get over there. ”

Soon after the warship left the windless zone and entered the great route, it encountered a passenger ship attacked by the sea kings, which were different from the giant sea kings in the windless zone, the sea kings of the great route were a little smaller, but even if they were smaller, they were more than a kilometer.

This is a sea king that looks similar to a crab, in fact, the kilometer is the distinguishing point between the sea king and the sea beast, and those that exceed the kilometer are called sea kings, and those below the kilometer are only sea beasts.

The one who bit off one of Shanks's arms was actually a sea beast, and the sea kings would never appear in the areas of the four seas, and only the windless belt and the great sea route would have sea kings.

The giant sea kings, that is, the sea kings of more than five thousand meters, generally appear in windless belts, and the great shipping routes are rarely seen, of course, they are only rarely seen here, not that they are not unseen.

The sea king was quickly killed by Peach Rabbit, but by this time, the passenger ship had been completely destroyed, and the navy could only save a few survivors.

This is the Great Route, a very dangerous Great Route, not to mention the many pirates who entered the Great Route, the Sea Kings alone have buried countless people at the bottom of the sea.

If the pirates want to find the Great Secret Treasure, they must go through several major levels, the first is the entrance to the Great Route, if there is no map to guide them, most of the pirates are buried under the Red Earth Continent.

Even if you have a map, if you are not lucky or strong, you will most likely hit the Red Earth Continent, and the closer you get to the entrance of the Great Route, the more violent the currents will be.

When Luffy's Golden Merry entered the entrance of the Great Voyage, if Luffy hadn't changed the direction of the ship with a rubber fruit at a critical time, the Golden Merry would have been destroyed like other pirates, and under such a violent current, with the strength of the pirates who had just entered the Great Voyage, it would have been impossible to survive.

Of course, this is also related to Luffy's impulsiveness, the other pirates will be fully prepared before entering the great voyage, only Luffy and their ignorance just broke in.

This is the first level, and it can be said that almost ninety percent of the pirates fell there.

The second level is the battle between pirates, from all over the world, as well as the pirates from the great route, each of them is an enemy, Brooke's pirates were defeated by the pirates fighting each other, and did not reach the new world.

The third level is the geographical environment and natural climate of the great route, if there is no record pointer, in the great route is simply the act of looking for death, I don't know how many pirates who do not understand the situation of the great route, lost in the vast sea area of the great route, exhausted the supplies, and died of hunger and thirst.

Add to this the changeable natural climate of the great voyage, which may be sunny one moment and stormy the next, and it is difficult for a good navigator to reach the Chambord Islands, the entrance to the New World, alive.

It can be said that a good navigator plays a role no less than that of a person with the strength of the Seven Martial Seas in the great voyage, and even in some cases, comparable to the Four Emperors.

The battle between the Golden Lion and Roger was lost under the changes in the natural environment, and if someone could have predicted such changes at the time, the outcome of that battle might have been completely different.

Of course, there are very few such navigators, even in the navy, there are not many, and there are more standard navigators in the navy.

In this regard, it can be said that Luffy picked up a big bargain, Nami has a top navigator talent, don't look at Nami's strength is not high, but his role is irreplaceable, even if Zoro and Sanji are replaced, Nami cannot be missing.

Especially in the New World, if you lack a good navigator, you will definitely find death, after all, no matter how strong you are, you need to eat, and once you get lost in the waters of the New World, the result can be imagined.

The pirates of the Four Emperors all possess a powerful navigator.

The fourth is the attack of powerful sea creatures such as sea kings and sea beasts, if you are unlucky and there is no master on the ship, then you can only wait for death.

Not only pirates, but even the navy, every year because of this reason, lose a lot of warships and a large number of navies, after all, the attacks of sea kings and sea beasts do not distinguish between navy and pirates.

The fifth is the pursuit from the navy, the navy of the Great Voyage is different from the four seas, the navy here is the headquarters of the navy, the navy has set up a large number of branches in the Great Voyage and the New World, they will not watch the pirates run rampant.

In addition, there are many pirate hunters who are eyeing the high bounties of the pirates, and it can be said that every one who can reach the Chambord Islands is a combination of strength and luck.

Even one of them is weak, and it can fall on the path of the great route.

"I said you should come to me and be an exclusive chef. After eating the food in front of him, Peach Rabbit looked at Ye Wuji on the side with a look of hope.

When leaving the East China Sea, Ye Wuji inadvertently showed his cooking skills, and then Ye Wuji became the exclusive chef of Crane and Peach Rabbit.

Although the level of the chef on the crane warship is good, there is still a lot of gap compared to Ye Wuji, and now Ye Wuji's cooking skills are definitely higher than that of Sanji in the back.

When he was at the time of the demon tail, Ye Wuji's cooking skills had made great progress, and his corresponding ox-solving knife method had also reached the point of completion.

It is worthy of being praised by the Taoist Zhuangzi, and the knife method actually implies the realm of Taoism, so for Ye Wuji, cooking is actually a kind of cultivation.

In addition to cooking, in addition to cooking, in addition, in calligraphy and painting, piano art, Ye Wuji has also made great progress.

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There is a mixture of things" from the twenty-fifth chapter of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". The theory of cosmogenesis has appeared in Lao Tzu more than 700 years BC: "There are things mixed together, and they are born from nature." Independence, unchangeable, can be the mother of the world. I don't know whose son is the first of the emperors, I don't know his name, but the word is called "Tao".

As early as the pre-Qin period, the ancients began to explore the universe, mainly concentrated in the pre-Qin Taoist "Laozi" and "Zhuangzi" and other works, over time, Taoist thought continued to differentiate and spread, especially to the "Guanzi" four articles ("Xinshu" upper, lower, "white heart", "inner industry") as the representative of the "essence" of the Taoist "essence" theory of Laozi cosmological thought to the depth of development, Zhai Xia Taoism not only talks about the "water origin", "essence" theory, but also talks about the "way of the quiet cause" of the reflection theory. In addition, the Taoist cosmological ideas are also expressed in "Taisheng Shui". As a result, it evolved the Xuanye theory and the Chaotian theory with a strong Taoist color. [2]

Among the three schools of thought that discussed the structure of the universe in ancient China, the Gaitian Theory, the Hun Tian Theory, and the Xuanye Theory, only the Xuanye Theory expounded the infinite nature of the universe from a distinct standpoint, but due to the obstruction of Confucianism, this doctrine has not received due attention.

Xuanye Theory is the most insightful idea of cosmic infinity in the history of our country. Unlike the ancient Western geocentric theory and Copernicus's heliocentric theory, which regarded the celestial body as a hard spherical shell, Xuanye theory believed that the universe evolved by the Great Dao was infinite, and the universe was full of gas, and all celestial bodies floated and moved in the gas. The laws of motion of the sun, moon and stars are determined by their respective characteristics, and there is no hard celestial sphere or wheel to bind them. The Xuanye theory broke with the notion of a solid celestial sphere, created the theory that celestial bodies float in gas, and further believed that even the celestial bodies themselves, including distant stars and the Milky Way, were made up of gas. It is very rare that these observations bear a striking resemblance to the conclusions of modern astronomy. This is said to have come from the Yin Dynasty.

"Chang Luzi" believes that the sun, moon and stars are also composed of qi, which is nothing more than glowing qi. "Liezi Tianrui" cloud: "The sun, moon and stars are also those who have glory in the qi." The well-known Taoist idiom story "Worrying about the sky" is about this problem.

According to the record of "Liezi Tianrui", a person from the Qi Kingdom heard that the sun, moon and stars were floating in the sky, so he "worried that the heavens and the earth were falling, and there was nothing to send, and he wasted sleeping and eating." Those who persuaded people put forward the idea that "the sun, moon and stars are also bright, and there is a shining one in the qi." That is, not only the sky is full of gas, but even the sun, moon and stars are gases, but they are only glowing gases. Later scholars of Xuanye Theory also proposed that the earth will be bad, and the heavens and the earth will also be bad, but there is no need to worry. It can be seen that the Xuanye theory believes that the earth itself, like the sun, moon and stars, is a celestial body in space.

The "Zhuangzi Wandering" of the Warring States Period expounded more representatively: "The firmament of the sky, its righteous color is evil, and its far away is not the ultimate evil?" That is, is the deep cyan in the sky its true color? Is there no limit to its vastness and remoteness? Zhuangzi also used the dialogue between Tang and Thorn to express his belief in the infinity of the universe: "Tang asked Thorn and said: 'There are extremes in the upper and lower four directions?' Thorn said: 'Beyond the infinity, there is also the infinite complex.' That is, is there a limit to the upper and lower four directions? There is no limit or no limit outside the limit.

The Song and Yin literary schools of the Warring States Period also believed that all things in the universe were composed of "qi" or "essence", as the "Guan Zi Neiye" said: "The essence of all things is life, the next is the five grains, the upper is the stars, the flow between heaven and earth, it is called the ghosts and gods, and the hidden in the chest is called the saint; it is the fame." It is like ascending to the sky, it is like entering the abyss, it is like being in the sea, and it is like being in the air. That is, the origin of all things in the universe is "qi". Yin and yang interact with each other, transforming grains on the earth, and the sun, moon and stars in the sky. Yin and yang are filled between heaven and earth, and they are called ghosts and gods, and those who understand the laws of yin and yang are called saints. Sometimes the qi shines brightly, as if rising in the sky, sometimes it disappears, as if it has sunk into the abyss, sometimes it is moist and soft, as if it lurks in the sea, and sometimes it is unattainable, as if it is in a steep mountain. Xuanye said that qi is everywhere and is the origin of all things in heaven and earth. The sun, moon and stars, including the earth itself, float in the air.

We can also see some traces of Xuanye's thoughts from the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing". For example, the "Six Micro Principles" cloud: "The way of heaven is also." Like a cloud. Look at the abyss. The abyss is still measurable, and the clouds are not known. The view of the sky here is likened to "facing the floating clouds", "looking at the abyss", and "not knowing the extreme". These statements are quite similar to Hao Meng's Xuanye theory. Another example is the "Five Running Treatises": The Yellow Emperor asked: Is the earth the lowest? Qi Bo said: The earth is only under the people, in the middle of the void. The Yellow Emperor asked again: "The void is empty, and how does the earth stop in the middle?" Qi Bo said: "The atmosphere is also lifted. "['The void is full of atmosphere, and the earth floats in it, and it is conceivable that the sun, moon and stars can only float in it. This view is consistent with the Xuanye view.

"Jin Shu Astronomical Chronicles" recorded: "The Book of Xuanye died, but the Han secretary Lang Xuan Meng remembered the ancestor of the clouds: 'The sky is qualityless, looking up at it, it is lofty and infinite, and the eyes are exquisite, so the sky is pale.'" For example, looking at the Yellow Mountain in the distance and all are green, looking down on the deep valley of thousands of people and black, the husband is not the true color, and the black is not the body. The sun, moon and stars naturally float in the void, and they must be angry in their actions. It is based on the seven rays or passing away or dwelling, or going forward or reverse, seeing impermanence, advancing and retreating differently, because there is no root system, so they are different. Chenji often lives in his place, and Beidou is not with the stars. Seti and Zhenxing are all eastward, one degree per day, thirteen degrees per month, and they are not tied to anything. If it is attached to a celestial body, it will not be allowed. That is, the sky has no form, looking up, it is high and far from the limit, and the eyes are too narrow to see clearly, so the sky is firm. For example, the Yellow Mountain that looks far away from all sides is all cyan, and the deep valley of thousands of miles is black, blue is not true color, and black has no substance. The sun, moon and stars naturally float in the void, and their operation and retention all need qi to maintain. Therefore, the seven rays either pass or stop, or go forward or backward, there is no routine between hiding and manifesting, and the path of advancing and retreating does not follow the same path, because there is no root system, so they are different. The North Pole often lives there, and the Beidou does not disappear westward with the stars. Both the Seti and the Zhenxing all travel eastward, one degree in the day and thirteen degrees in the month, and the slowness and speed are left to their own devices, and they have no root system to be clearly known. This cannot be done if it is attached to a celestial body. In other words, the sun, moon and stars floating in space are all controlled by the air.