After traveling some distance, the old salted fish shouted again: "The wind is northwest, and the foremast is sailing." Several sailors ran behind Zhang Zhao and shouted in unison, and a black sail rose in unison. As they pulled the sail line to adjust, Zhang Zhao felt a slight tremor under his feet, and the speed of the boat increased significantly.

"The wind is northwest, and the midmast is sailing. With a shout, an even larger black sail was pulled high into the air, slightly bulging in the breeze behind the side, and the ship moved a little faster.

"The wind is northwest, and the backmast is sailing. Reel in the oars. After the three sails were raised, the speed of the ship was several times faster than the beginning, and dozens of oarsmen under the cabin were idle, and they all rushed to the deck to look around.

The sky is like washing, the blue water is like a vast, the sea and the sky are the same color, and the blue is endless at a glance. Zhang Zhao stood at the bow of the boat and felt the breeze blowing on his face, and his chest was open, and he had left all the unhappiness behind him as the boat sailed.

At this moment, Zhang Zhao forgot all his troubles and enjoyed the freedom in front of him. The white waves of water on both sides of the bow of the ship were noisy, stirring up countless unknown sea fish to jump on the surface of the water, and he looked at all this novelty, grinned and grinned, and stood in the bow of the boat, shouting, and busy.

The sailors on the deck couldn't help laughing when they saw Zhang Zhao's appearance: "It seems that this is the first time that the little owner has gone to sea." The old salted fish stabilized the rudder and gathered with everyone, looking at Zhang Zhao's back running around and smiling.

He whispered to Seabeard, who was laughing beside him: "It's good to be young, we looked like this for the first time on the boat, but decades have passed, although we can't leave this sea, we can't find this feeling for the first time." ”

Seabeard nodded, "yes." But it's not because we can't forget the first feeling we have been at sea for so long. Zhang Zhao ran for a while, looked back and saw that everyone was smiling at him, and quickly stopped: "Uncle Yu, why are everyone looking at me?"

The old salted fish raised his voice and replied: "Back to the host, we remembered the first time we got on the boat, how about the host, this feeling of going to sea is good." ”

Zhang Zhao shouted: "It's so good, standing here and lying together, it's like flying in the sky, I finally understand now why you all like this sea." His words won the hearts of everyone, and everyone laughed in unison.

At this time, a young sailor came running from behind: "Little boss, we found something strange in the lower cabin where we were resting. Zhang Zhaotou, who was looking into the distance, did not reply: "What's weird?"

The sailor scratched his head: "I can't tell, let's ask the owner and Uncle Salted Fish to come down and have a look." Zhang Zhao solemnly turned around and nodded when he heard what he said: "That's okay, you take us to have a look." The two men followed the sailor to the lower cabin, and saw some sailors leaning against the wall of the ship looking out.

The two sides of this deck are paved evenly, and there is a protruding drum-like pier-shaped wooden platform on the cabin board a dozen steps apart, and there is a pull ring on the deck above each round wooden platform, and several pull rings have been pulled open by the sailors, revealing palm-sized windows.

Looking out of the small window, the approximate location is in the middle of the hull below deck, away from the water. These sailors had never seen such a thing, and they all waited with curiosity for the old salted fish to explain.

The old salted fish looked back and forth: "Little proprietor, if I guess correctly, the original owner of the ship was afraid of encountering bandits, and planned to install some artillery or something like that here. ”

Zhang Zhao stepped forward to take a look, and found that the circular wooden platform was carved with dense patterns, which seemed to be a bit mysterious, but he was surprised to hear the words of the old salted fish: Yu Bo, there are still bandits on the sea?"

The old salted fish nodded: "Of course, our boat will be in the same place as the sea route in the Xuan Water Area when it goes to the back, and sometimes we will meet sea bandits, they come from the desert island on the other side of the Xuan Ice Sea, they are all small boats, and they can't stop a big ship like us at all, so there will be no danger." The pirates usually have two cannons on their ships to frighten people, and later several big merchants in Xuanshui City also installed cannons on their own merchant ships, so the pirates did not dare to approach. ”

Zhang Zhao asked curiously: "Then let's all load the cannon on the ship." The old salted fish said with a smile: "The little owner is too worried, our sea route is no more than the ships on the other side of the Xuan waters, the chance of encountering bandits in the vast sea is very small, and the cannon is not something that anyone can put in, if it is not accurate, it will be a few hundred taels of silver falling into the sea." I've only encountered pirates three or five times in the past few decades, and I've chased them after them for a while. ”

"Those big merchants have expensive and heavy cargo on their ships, and they can't swagger quickly, and they will be loaded with artillery for fear of being remembered by bandits. I think that the original owner of our ship also wanted to make a big deal, so there was such a thing. ”

For the whole day, Zhang Zhao looked east and west on the deck, and the blue sea was everywhere. Compared with this sea, he used the meditation lake to feel as small as a drop of water, which made Zhang Zhao sigh that the size of the world was really unimaginable.

In the evening, the old salted fish ordered to lower the middle and rear sails, only the front sail was slow, everyone had eaten and went down to the cabin to rest, except for a few sailors to observe the wind and waves, the rest fell asleep quickly, and soon there was a snoring sound in the cabin.

Zhang Zhao had never tried to rest on the boat, and he couldn't sleep after lying down for a long time, so he got up and sat down for a while, opened the hatch and came out, and gently went up the deck along the wooden ladder.

The old salted fish sat cross-legged on the deck alone, bowing his head and stretching out his hand to paddle around, Zhang Zhao saw that he was thinking about it and coughed lightly. When the old salted fish heard the sound, he looked back, and hurriedly got up and greeted: "Why hasn't the owner slept yet." ”

Zhang Zhao shook his head and said, "I can't sleep." The old salted fish smiled: "Well, the first time I got on the boat, I couldn't sleep all night, but you are also good, how many people are on the boat for the first time, let alone sleeping, no matter whether they sit or stand, they are dizzy, and they vomit and discharge in less than a day after going to sea." ”

Zhang Zhaoqi said: "Will it be like that?" The old salted fish nodded and said: "Everyone is different, I think the owner has nothing to do for so long." Zhang Zhao walked to the side of the boat and exhaled a long time: "It's not uncomfortable, it's just that I can't calm down in my heart." ”

The old salted fish followed: "The owner is still young, and he is so happy to go to sea for the first time." Zhang Zhao looked back at the deck where the old salted fish had been sitting just now: "What was Yu Bo doing just now?"

The old salted fish sighed: "I'm old, I'm afraid that my head is not clear when there are many people, I'm calculating the silver taels spent in the past few days, and then think about what is scarce in Xuanshui City, so I can tell the little owner about it." ”

Zhang Zhao smiled and shook his head: "Uncle Yu, you don't have to bother to tell me this, I don't know anything about the sea, I just bought this boat because I really like it." You didn't say that the cargo hold of this ship is very large, this time I went to Xuanshui City, if there is anything that can be trafficked, you can take some with you, and I just have to pay for it. ”

The old salted fish was silent for a long time after listening: "Young and dare to do it." I have lived for most of my life, and if I say that I rely on the old and sell the old, the future of the owner must be limitless. Since you even trust in business matters so much, as long as you don't dislike Yu Xian as useless, I have left half of my old life, and I will hand it over to you from now on. After the old salted fish returned to the cabin to rest, Zhang Zhao stood alone on the bow of the boat and looked at the sparkling waves under the moon, gradually immersed in this peace and tranquility. Dozens of golden characters in his mind slowly dispersed, and the whole person suddenly entered the realm of nothing outside his heart, and the spiritual platform was empty, as if he was incarnated as a part of the vast sea.

The golden light of the soul consciousness is like a huge net that spreads out, some of which floats above the surface of the sea, and the other half goes deep into the water. This feeling is completely different from when Zhang Zhao was on the ground or in the meditation lake, in the past, his divine consciousness had expanded to more than ten zhang to the extreme, and at this moment, the golden light melted into the sea water and seemed to extend endlessly.

Zhang Zhao felt as if he was gliding against the surface of the sea, but the waves parting on both sides of the hull, the fish swimming with a little glimmer under the water, the even breathing sound in the cabin, the old salted fish sleeping with a smile on his face, the yawning sailor in the mid-mast ship, and the dense and strange patterns carved on the hull were all like seeing with his own eyes.

The breath in his nose was long, and as Zhang Zhao's perception range became wider and wider, the scenes shrouded in soul consciousness also increased, and countless pictures and sounds echoed in his mind, and even his head felt dragged back slightly by this invisible golden net.

This chaotic pressure lasted for a long time, and Zhang Zhao finally sorted out everything in the sea of knowledge, and he separated some inconsequential scenes in the cabin, leaving only the sound of the waves and moonlight that he wanted most at the moment.

Feeling his soul glide through the water, Zhang Zhao felt as if he was swimming in the water in the meditation lake, and as he expanded the range of the golden light again, this feeling of comfort became even stronger.

I don't know how long it has been, but Zhang Zhao, who felt that the golden light could no longer probe out a bit, realized that he had unconsciously performed the "Blue Sea Listening to the Waves Soul Nourishing Technique", and this technique had been integrated into his sea of consciousness somewhere since the realm of life and death.

Zhang Zhao took back the wisps of golden light that seemed to be still a little wet in his mind, and suddenly felt that his head seemed to be much clearer, and many scenes that he had ignored before became clear. Even when he met the gang of bandits outside Aoki City, he cut them down with a knife in his hand, and the truth that the man in white was stabbed in the forehead before he was killed by Uncle Wang was finally clear.

The gambling between the Jiang City Lord and the three black-armored people, the earthen wall of Ling Yinian and Fan Yongle in front of the underground palace was destroyed by the strength exuded by the umbrella demon, and those spell moves that he couldn't understand at that time and thought he had long forgotten were still deeply imprinted in his mind.

Since becoming a cultivator, Zhang Zhao has never examined his memories so seriously as he does now, and he has put aside all distractions and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the exploration of his spiritual practice.

Counting the things left by the five soul masters in the underground palace in his sea of knowledge, the spells that Zhang Zhao has learned and seen are really not few, those moves are indiscriminately engraved in his head, and although they are used in a variety of ways during battle, although they are beautiful, the power is still slightly unsatisfactory.

Although the set of sword techniques he created by himself was recognized by Gu Qianzhong and Long Huaiqing, the chances of winning against the cultivators of the upper Yin and Yang realm were still not high, and after seeing Zhuo Xu's Yiyi Transformation Realm of the end of the world, he deeply realized the gap between them.

Zhang Zhao pondered and listed all the moves he could use one by one, even those demon beasts were all turned into golden light, and countless humanoid beast shadows shook in his head, trying to sort out the number of ways that could exert the greatest power.

In the blink of an eye of the night, Zhang Zhao not only felt cool and tired in his mind, but felt that the space for knowing the sea where the golden characters were located seemed to have expanded a little. At this time, the old salted fish drank and asked the sailors to raise the three sails together, and after the boat accelerated, Zhang Zhao suddenly shouted and pointed to a school of fish in front of him that had just flapped its wings from the sea.

The old salted fish has long been surprised: "Owner, it's a group of flying birds and fish, and if a boat passes by, it will fly up and dodge." Our boat has reached the deep sea, and there are many big fish for you to see. Zhang Zhaoqi said: "Aren't we already in the sea now?

A sailor next to him smiled and said, "Where is this? It will take five or six days to see those big fish." After hearing this, Zhang Zhao looked around with great expectations, and in the dead of night, he swam in the deep sea and practiced wholeheartedly, and felt that there were some new feelings at sunrise every day.

At noon on the fifth day of going to sea, Zhang Zhao, who was watching from the bow of the boat, heard the old salted fish call him: "Boss, look over there." Zhang Zhao looked in the direction pointed by the old salted fish, and saw a huge fish tail in the distance suddenly rising from the sea, slapping heavily on the water, and making a loud noise in the waves.

The big fish didn't show its full body, and it was miles away from the boat. Zhang Zhao felt the breathtaking sound of the fish's tail lapping the waves several feet wide, and couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Yu Bo, how can this fish be so huge, if it is close to the boat, it will be okay." ”

The old salted fish laughed: "Don't worry, the giant whale is the most docile, and when it sees the boat, it always hides far away, it is not losing its temper, it is playing and playing, and the closer we are, it will dive into the sea and run." ”

Zhang Zhao was very surprised: "It's so big, it's still afraid of boats?" The old salted fish waited until the whale's tail was slapped again before replying loudly: "No matter how big it is, it's just a fish, and it's very timid." Zhang Zhao stared at the giant whale until he couldn't see it, and his attention was attracted by a group of guinea fish that jumped up and landed neatly.

In the days that followed, as they said, not only did they encounter an astonishing number of fish, but also many of them were larger than the three-masted ship. Ten days later, Zhang Zhao was wandering on the deck, and the old salted fish pointed to the distance and said to Zhang Zhao: "Boss, you pay attention to it, it can be called a big fish." ”

The side of the boat passed a small island, which was full of sand and gravel weeds, and a few seabirds fell on it lazily and did not move, Zhang Zhao looked at it for a long time and did not find any big fish: "Yu Bo, isn't this just a small island? Where are the fish?"

Everyone who heard it laughed, and Zhang Zhao looked carefully, only to find that this small island was actually an incomparably huge black giant fish. It floated on the surface of the sea and brushed against the big black ship, only a dozen paces away from each other.

The soul sense swept underwater, and Zhang Zhao found that the fish was more than ten times longer than the three-masted ship, with a flat head, and the island was its broad, flat back exposed on the sea. Despite its size, the fish floated unfazed on the surface of the sea, ignoring the sand and rocks on its back and the boats beside it.

"The fish is called the mackerel, and it is the largest fish in the sea. Zhang Zhaozheng was fascinated, and heard the old salted fish add: "This is still small, the real big kunyu, it is several times larger than it." ”

Zhang Zhao couldn't imagine how big the big kunfish in the mouth of the old salted fish could be, and the biggest beast he had ever seen was just a giant elephant transformed by himself, compared to the big fish in the sea, it was really like an insect ant.

In addition to the excitement, Zhang Zhao felt that he was indeed sitting in a well and watching the sky in the past, but he didn't know that there was such a sea hundreds of miles away from his own town.

The sailors on the boat often threw down the iron hooks hanging with raw meat, and once caught a big fish that was three or four zhang long, if it weren't for Zhang Zhao's efforts to help drag it up and stun with a broken immortal, dozens of sailors were almost dragged into the sea by the fish.

Zhang Zhao ate and drank with them, and learned to distinguish what kind of fish can be eaten raw and how to cook it to retain the umami in the fish. When the sailors saw that he didn't have any arrogance, they all thought that this owner was really good at being approachable.

After nearly 20 days of doing this, Zhang Zhao saw more and more kinds of fish, and when he was in the fugue at night, he dispersed his soul consciousness into an ocean, and then condensed all kinds of fish he saw during the day to swim in it, and later released more than ten demon beasts, controlling them with a trace of soul thoughts, and appreciating the feeling of moving all things at the same time.

Zhang Zhao deduced his own moves with his soul thoughts, at first he could only use two demon beasts to attack at the same time, and then fifteen or sixteen demon beasts could barely control it together, and when he added all the giant whales and dolphins in the sea, it took nearly a month.

He was no longer satisfied with meditating like this, but there was really no place to try it out at sea. This night, he felt all the exercises in his mind, and he felt that the spiritual power of his whole body was drumming and he was eager to try, and he suddenly had an idea when he looked at the calm sea.

Zhang Zhao quietly untied a cable and tied it around his waist, and then gently plunged into the sea to ride the waves, and it took a while to combine the wind walking technique with the method of walking on the waves in his mind, "Blue Sea and Pingchuan". After repeated trials, he untied the cable and spread his body far away from the ship.

The spiritual power of the whole body surged, Zhang Zhao stepped on the sea with every step and jumped up with his strength and then walked against the wind, leaving the big ship for more than a few miles in a moment. When he turned around and saw that there was only one black spot left on the sea, Zhang Zhao stopped his body and danced.

According to the technique that he had imagined countless times these days, Zhang Zhao's whole body spiritual power suddenly burst out, and Huo Ran waved out various colors of sword qi with a faint golden light, condensing into more than ten fierce demon beasts, attaching thin cables of light and stepping on the sea in the air.

Zhang Zhao continued to shake indisputably, dozens of large and small fish surrounded the demon beast, followed by pots and pans, tables, chairs, flowers and plants flew out one after another, and behind everything there was a knife light like countless thin threads tied to it.

As Zhang Zhao's soul arrived, the light on the sea flickered, and more than 100 clusters of fancy and complicated sword lights swirled around Zhang Zhao. The monsters, flowers and plants are orderly and do not touch each other, and the sea is full of longing and bright shadows like marquees.

Soul consciousness is an intangible thing, but Zhang Zhao combined the soul method and sword trick spiritual power to create everything in front of him in his exploration, but it is a pity that such a shocking achievement appeared in the deep sea and no one knew about it.

He danced for a while, and the sword light was already dim, and Zhang Zhao was satisfied, turning the scroll and mixing all the light and shadow into one. The sword light, which was supposed to gradually dissipate, suddenly let out a sharp whistling and turned into a shiny vortex twisted like a python, sucking the sea water with a "whirring" sound.

This thick wind vortex wrapped in a crystal column of water, rumbling faster and faster, Zhang Zhao felt the huge power contained in it, and was wondering, and the sea water under his feet suddenly rolled and blistered like a boiling pot.

When he performed the trial move, he felt that the wind and sea water in his perception had undergone some changes, and at this time, he realized that it was not his spiritual power that stimulated, but that the weather at sea had just changed drastically.

The bright moon that was still hanging in the air not long ago has disappeared, and the entire sea surface has become dark black and bumpy, and the waves are surging and rising wave after wave, and several wind vortices of different sizes appear one after another in front of Zhang Zhao's eyes, sucking the sea water like a giant elephant drooping its nose.

Dark clouds covered the top, and huge waves several feet high surged from all directions. The torrential rain fell like a torrential rain, and the sea roared like thunder and trembled like crazy and spit out clumps of white foam, Zhang Zhao, who had never seen such a momentum, suddenly panicked.

He lifted his breath and jumped up to bypass the whirlpool of the wind in front of him, and ran desperately in the direction of the big ship in his memory. was stopped by the huge waves again and again, and struggled to break out of the tide rushing in the mountains and seas again and again.

Zhang Zhao only felt that the sea water within the scope of his soul perception was like thousands of troops rushing and roaring together, and the huge waves crashed against the sea surface and made a low and continuous shocking roar like a war drum, and he jumped over a hundred and ten waves one after another, and the violent wind and fury tide in front of and behind him did not show any tendency to weaken at all.

After the initial panic, Zhang Zhao's stable soul mind firmly locked the direction he had just run, and he stepped on the monstrous waves with great determination, and still did not find any trace of the ship after half an hour.

Standing on the waves and calmly recalling, Zhang Zhao instantly understood his miscalculation, after he left, the ship still kept moving forward, and at this time, he couldn't see it and returned to the same place, so naturally it would not be encountered. He figured out how to adjust the direction of this section, and chased all the way to the increasingly fierce wind and waves around him.

Zhang Zhao traveled at least more than ten miles in the mighty waves, except for the roaring waves in his face, and did not find his own boat. Just when his heart was just shaken, he seemed to see a little light flashing in the distance in the boundless wind and waves.

Shaking his shoulders and taking off, Zhang Zhao chased after the wind and waves, and after running for several miles, he still failed to detect the existence of the ship in the empty sea of knowledge. At this moment, a cloud of white light flashed in front of him, which was particularly conspicuous on the dark sea.

Although the wind and waves around him were still there, Zhang Zhao's heart felt extremely steady, and through that light, he clearly saw that the three-masted black ship in front of him was the three-masted black ship that he bought with a lot of money.

(End of chapter)