Volume 1 The Gathering of the Storm Chapter 77 An Outrageous Mission
"Woo...... If you don't practice, you won't practice!" The numbness on his body quickly passed, but Nanhua leaned on the ground and refused to get up, and muttered, "I'm too weak, it's all Lei Yuanqi, every time you let me attack first, I always lose without touching you!"
He Qingying pulled Nanhua up from the ground and comforted: "We have just come into contact with Lei Yuanqi, you are just not proficient yet. ”
"It's all new to Lei Yuanqi, and your martial arts skills are clearly much more powerful than mine. Nanhua still looks like he's crying.
He Qingying replied seriously: "It's not much stronger, just now I was afraid of hurting you, so I didn't use all my strength." ”
Nanhua cried even harder.
"Or, I'll give you one more trick later. ”
"......" Nanhua was speechless for a while, and smiled reluctantly, "No, no need......"
If He Qingying continued, she would have to lose confidence completely.
Thinking so, Nanhua decided to change the topic.
"Qingying, anyway, Old Man Chu said that practice is not necessary, just to familiarize us with how to apply Lei Yuan Qi to martial arts. Nanhua laughed, pulled He Qingying's arm, and urged, "Let's move on to the next project first, take a look, what is the task left by Old Man Chu today?"
He Qingying nodded and took out a folded piece of paper from the jade letter.
There was a magic seal attached to that piece of paper, and the magic seal dissolved the moment it was irradiated by the sun, and He Qingying was able to unfold it.
There is only a short sentence on the paper - "Within seven days, without the help of any means of transportation, come to the summit of Crescent Moon Peak." ”
"Well, a mission left us here for seven days, like this old man's style. Nanhua frowned, and kept complaining, "Who would have thought that after finally coming out of the forest, and before he slept peacefully for two days, he began to make a bed for the sky again." No, you can't even see the stars in the cave...... Next time I go back, I'll have to stuff a bed in Yuxin!"
On the days when the wind and the others entered the Nine Heavens, both of them cultivated at the Fuchuan Wall at the request of Chu Zhaoye, because at certain times in the evening, a small amount of Thunder Yuan Qi would be generated in the karst cave here.
But this place is really far away from Reims Academy, and it is a waste of time to go back and forth every day, and it is easy to miss that "specific time period", so the two of them have been spending time in the cave these days.
He Qingying didn't care about Nanhua's chatter, but her eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Why is it so long to climb a mountain peak in seven days?" He Qingying was full of doubts, "I heard that there are no very high peaks on the floating river wall. ”
Nanhua was puzzled, "Isn't it good to give a long time?"
He Qingying shook her head, "It's just that there is a feeling that something is not quite right, and I can't tell you clearly." ”
"Just take a look, I remember that my husband gave me a map of Ukikawabi. ”
He Qingying said "um", and took out another piece of paper from the jade letter.
As you can see on the map, the area called "Ukikawabi" is very large.
From the southern suburbs of Xingli City to the southernmost part of Qingzhou, there are even several larger towns in the middle, all of which are occupied by tens of millions of peaks and forests on the Fuchuan Wall.
A river called "Xi River" runs through the entire floating river wall, and countless small tributaries divide the floating river wall into many fragmented areas, and also erode many famous karst cave landscapes.
Further south of the floating river wall, it is connected to the Fanggu Mountain Range, which separates Qingzhou, Lizhou, and Zhuozhou.
Crescent Peak, just close to the Fanggu Mountain Range.
Nanhua almost scolded again at the first glance when he saw this place marked with the words "Crescent Peak".
"What the ......" Nanhua put on a smiling face, pointed to Xingli City on the map, and then shuddered and pointed to Crescent Peak, "This - how far away?!"
Judging from the distance between the two locations on the map, even if they immediately rushed to Crescent Moon Peak by boat, it was estimated that they would have to fly for a day and a night.
And Chu Zhaoye made it clear that he could not use any means of transportation.
That is, they have to run on two legs.
Unless it's a martial artist who has learned the art of flying, it's easy to complete this task.
The problem is that only when a martial artist reaches the Qi Stealing Realm can he learn how to control his vitality and fly in the air.
The distance of a day's journey is calculated according to normal walking, and it takes a person about ten days to reach it.
And that's without counting the physical exertion.
For seven days, they only relied on their legs, and it was still a question whether they could reach the Crescent Peak, let alone climb to the top.
"The back of the map says that Crescent Peak is the highest solitary peak on the Ukikawa wall. He Qingying also made up for it.
Nanhua couldn't say anything.
Just now, she didn't like to sleep well in the wild, but now it's okay, maybe she doesn't even have to sleep.
He Qingying was calm, and there was even a kind of relief on her face, she rolled up the map and put it into Yuxin, and greeted Nanhua.
"Let's hurry up. ”
"Wait, are you really going to go?" Nanhua grabbed He Qingying's hand, "This can't be done!"
"No, it can be done. He Qingying patted the nervous hand that grabbed her twice, "Don't forget, Lei Yuanqi is not only explosive, but also has a great increase in speed." ”
"It's indeed feasible to use Thunder Yuan Qi to speed up walking, but in that case, wouldn't you have to stop and stop to replenish Lei Yuan Qi?"
He Qingying seemed to hear something funny, and a light smile suddenly appeared on her indifferent face.
She rubbed Nan's hair and said, "Have you forgotten that running requires much less energy than when using martial arts?"
Nanhua had a flash of inspiration in his mind.
"I'll do the math later......"
She remembered that the last time she measured the capacity of the Qi Sea, she was five thousand, and He Qingying was five thousand three.
Since they knew that there were four types of Yuan Qi, several partners had also discussed together whether there was a conflict between the various attribute Yuan Qi in the Qi Sea.
The result of practice is that the vitality of different attributes does not interfere with each other, and the sea of qi coexists.
When a certain type of Elemental Qi is newly absorbed, it will preferentially squeeze out the space occupied by the non-attribute mixed Elemental Qi in the Qi Sea.
For example, in her current qi sea, there are about two percent of wind vitality, two percent of water vitality, and less than one percent of thunder vitality, and the rest are mixed vitality - they add up to a total of five thousand.
The Spirit Martial Master's absorption of Yuan Qi reduces the complicated refining process, and this advantage will be further expanded when absorbing the Yuan Qi of the four systems.
After all, an ordinary martial artist also has an extra step to select the four systems of vitality from the mixed vitality, so the time it takes will be greatly increased compared to absorbing the hybrid vitality.
Spirit martial artists don't need this step, they can use it if they are in the environment, and they only need a small amount of time to incorporate them into the sea of qi.
Although it is limited by the realm, when the spirit martial artist uses the martial arts, the vitality in the sea of qi cannot be used all at once.
But if it is only used for the negligible consumption of vitality such as rushing, they can use as much vitality as there is in the sea of qi.
Nan Hua silently calculated that if she replaced all the remaining mixed vitality in the qi sea with thunder vitality, these thunder vitality could fully support her to run all day.
After consuming this part of the thunder vitality, it is just the time when the thunder vitality will be generated in the karst cave again, rest and continue to absorb the thunder vitality, and the perfect connection!
Thinking about this, Nanhua suddenly had confidence in this task.
However, the excitement did not last long, and she immediately thought of something else.
"Now that there is no problem on my side, what should you do?" Nan Hua asked, "I remember you said that the acquired spirit martial artists, like ordinary martial artists, need to refine their vitality. ”
"That's right, it's been about the same time for us to absorb Thunder Yuan Qi these days, but the Thunder Yuan Qi in my body is definitely much less than yours. He Qingying replied affirmatively.
"Ah, what then?" Nanhua sighed, bothered by this question very seriously, "Sir also forbids me to use the Crossing Yuan Technique, otherwise I can still help you." ”
And He Qingying said calmly: "Don't do it, my realm is one level higher than yours, and my own basic speed is faster than yours." The capacity of the Qi Sea is much higher than yours, and without Thunder Vitality, it can also keep up with you with mixed Vitality. ”
“......”
Nanhua began to regret asking this question.
Originally, when facing ordinary martial artists, even if she couldn't compare to others, she still had some sense of superiority as a spirit martial artist.
Since she has been alone with He Qingying for so many days, she has found that He Qingying is much better than her in all aspects, which is hitting her all the time.
And He Qingying is an acquired spirit martial artist, and even the only remaining sense of superiority has been wiped out, so she feels more and more dwarfed by He Qingying.
"Let's go. He Qingying called, raised his feet and walked south.
"Okay!" Nanhua came back to his senses, dissipated the nonsense in his mind, and hurriedly followed.
The pace of these two people was not consistent, in the first half of the day, He Qingying was faster because of the blessing of Lei Yuanqi, and Nanhua lagged behind, and followed closely in the place where He Qingying's figure could be seen in the distance.
This gap will gradually narrow over time, and in the second half of the day, He Qingying will fall behind slightly due to the exhaustion of Lei Yuanqi.
They all tacitly did not go to the slow one, because they knew each other, and those who were left behind did not want to be held back, and they would definitely try their best to chase forward.
In this way, in the evening, the two of them converged, and then found a nearby cave from the map to drill into.
One is to rest, and the other is to replenish Lei Yuanqi.
At dawn, we continued to march.
......
Five days later, in the evening, on a high slope with a wide field of vision, He Qingying and Nanhua stood still.
"In half a day at most, we will be able to reach Crescent Peak. ”
He Qingying rolled up the map and looked south.
There is still some distance from Crescent Peak, but from this place, you can already see the towering mountain peak in the distance.
"Where's the nearest cave?" asked Nanhua according to the practice of these days.
"There's no hurry, we'll take a break here. He Qingying said, sitting down on the ground.
"What's wrong?"
However, He Qingying just looked at the crescent moon peak quietly and did not reply.
She looks relaxed and laid-back.
Occasionally, a breeze blew her long light blonde hair away, and instead of reaching for it, she closed her eyes, as if enjoying everything around her.
It was the first time she had seen He Qingying in this state, and out of curiosity, she also sat down and closed her eyes.
The running for several days in a row had already exhausted Nanhua physically and mentally, and she only had the time limit given by Chu Zhaoye in her mind, and all she had been thinking about was that she couldn't be late, she couldn't be late.
At this moment, blown by the soft breeze of this evening, it seems that I am really not so anxious.
Nanhua even stretched and lay comfortably on the grass.
I don't know how long it has been, He Qingying suddenly snorted softly and touched Nanhua, who was about to fall asleep.
"Draw, look!"
Nanhua opened it and found that night had fallen, and the night sky was cloudless, twinkling with sparse starlight.
Standing up and looking at the place where He Qingying was standing, Nanhua gradually opened his mouth.
At that time, the moon happened to shine in the southern sky, and the glow of the moon gave the crescent moon peak in the south a bright outline, and from their point of view, the crescent moon peak was really like a reclining crescent moon!
"I was in such a hurry that I almost missed the amazing view. He Qingying's eyes also reflected the moonlight, "I have a long ...... It's been a long time since I've taken a good look at the scenery. ”
"Me too. Nanhua was also quite touched by the scenery in front of him, and showed a nostalgic look, "That's good." ”
Neither of them spoke again, nor did they mention anything about going to the cave, and they were immersed in the night until dawn.
Because of the lack of thunder vitality, when I came to the foot of Crescent Moon Peak, it was already the evening of this day.
After using one night to replenish Lei Yuanqi, as soon as the seventh day dawned, they officially began to climb the peak.
Although the crescent moon peak is steep, it is also craggy, and the vegetation cover is very lush, unlike some mountain walls that are bare and have no footholds, and it is not as difficult to climb as you think.
Even if its height is still daunting, when you actually start climbing, you will find that even if it is high, it is only a matter of time before you climb it.
As they reached the summit, the slope slowed down, and the two climbed more easily.
From this point of view, in Chu Zhaoye's task, the distance from Xingli to the middle of Crescent Moon Peak is the big one, and it has little to do with Crescent Moon Peak itself.
After only half a day, they reached the summit.
As said on the task paper, Chu Zhaoye was really waiting at the peak.
"Sir, here we are. The two bowed together.
"Uh-huh...... The timing was just right, and it was well done. Chu Zhaoye was still the same drunken old look, and took a sip of wine, "Okay, now give you five days to go back to Reims Academy to find me!"
"What?!" Nanhua thought he had misheard.
He Qingying also never expected that Yuan opened a pair of eyes full of confusion.
Chu Zhaoye really repeated again, "Within five days, return to Lance." ”
"Hey, you old man, why do you start tossing us again every time I finally get to talk to you normally?" Nanhua jumped to his feet angrily, "I thought we had some special training here, and it turned out to be a trip for nothing?"
"Yo, you can still jump, isn't it quite powerful!"
"You!"
"If you choose my old man Chu as a teacher, you have to accept my teaching method!" Chu Zhaoye retreated sharply towards the cliff behind him, stood in the air, and said leisurely, "Okay, okay, don't hurry up and rush back, it's not good to go down the mountain when it's dark!"
After saying that, he flew directly down the Crescent Moon Peak, leaving behind the two people who were at a loss for what to do at the peak.
"I'm so angry, this mission is outrageous!" Nanhua puffed out his mouth and stomped his foot again.
"Did you notice...... What the gentleman said is right. He Qingying, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.
"What's good?"
"You still have the strength to be angry. ”
Nanhua looked confused, "Huh?"
"According to common sense, we have traveled so far with our legs, and we will definitely be weak at this moment. He Qingying also moved her legs and motioned to Nanhua to look, "But we have nothing to do." ”
Nanhua's eyes widened suddenly.
"Therefore, the task assigned by the gentleman is indeed a special training. He Qingying's eyes gradually became confident, "Go back to Lance, within five days." ”