Three days passed quietly.

If you look down from the air, you will find a few small black dots abruptly exposed above the vast sea.

It was a small roundabout surrounded by several huge rocks, some distance from where the old man had lowered his net to catch electric eels, and it was clear that this was where they usually docked their sailboats to take shelter from the wind.

Raising the sails, setting sail, with a low horn sounding, many men in Tsing Yi performed their duties, the big ship slowly changed the direction of the bow, and then the fleet lined up and slowly headed towards the southeast.

On the first boat, the old man stood at the stern, his hands raised high, and silently bowed reverently to the place where he had been netted three days ago. Gradually, the big ship got farther and farther away from the reef roundabout, and at one moment there seemed to be a flash of golden light on the roundabout, and when I looked at it again, the roundabout had disappeared from the sea, as if it had never appeared on this sea.

At one point, a shout of rage broke the silence on the ship.

"Don't bother me, Lao Tzu is in a bad mood, be careful like this, Lao Tzu will really beat you up. ”

In the angry shouting, I saw a man with a round head and big ears blocked by a teenager at the mouth of the ship's warehouse, neither up nor down.

"Please, as long as you are willing to teach me, you can do whatever you want me to do. The boy knelt on the ground, his slightly hoarse voice pleading.

"How many times have I said that I have nothing to teach you. ”

The round-headed man was Huang Gui, at this time, he was slightly angry, staring at the nameless young man who was clutching his trouser legs, but there was a faint look of helplessness in his eyes.

"You can hunt such a big electric eel from the deep sea, even a monster like the blood snake can kill, you must not be an ordinary person, please teach me some skills. Holding Huang Gui's trouser legs, the young man said unrelentingly.

"Ugh! annoying. As he spoke, as soon as Huang Gui's feet were raised, the young man was kicked away like a ball and fell heavily on the deck. There were a few other men in Tsing Yi on the deck, and they all just smiled bitterly and shook their heads when they saw this scene.

One rolled over and sat up, the boy clasped his hands around and buried his head between his knees, his body rising and falling slightly. But after a while, he raised his head again, and his slightly tear-stained eyes stared for a moment at the mouth of the ship's cabin, and then turned to the sea to the west, and if there was still a trace of sorrow in those eyes before, the trace of sorrow was slowly disappearing, and was replaced by a determined look.

"What's your name?"

The old man's voice suddenly sounded in the young man's ears, and after being stunned, the young man turned his head, and after glancing blankly at the old man who sat next to him at some point, he lowered his head again.

Seeing that the young man didn't care, the old man smiled faintly and said, "Tell me, why can you go to Huang Gui in a low voice, but you are not willing to say a word to the other people on the boat." ”

The boy still did not speak, but lowered his head and drew small circles on his feet with his fingers.

"Huh. The old man smiled, seeing that the young man still didn't care, and didn't care, he sighed and continued with a smile: "Why don't I tell you a story." After speaking, he didn't care whether the boy would listen or not, so he opened his mouth and began to speak.

"A long time ago I had a friend, his hometown is on an island in this vast sea, I can't remember whether he was a fisherman or a mountain dweller, but I remember that when I met him, he was also adrift at sea and almost died, but fortunately he was rescued by my grandfather, I was nine years old, he was thirteen years old?"

"Do you know why he almost died at sea? He said that he and his family took a boat from the Moon Stone Country to live in Leizhou in the northern sea, and accidentally fell into the water due to wind and waves. He is the best friend of my life, but I have never believed his statement back then, do you know why?"

The young man's circular hand paused visibly, but he still didn't pay attention to the old man.

The corners of the old man's mouth lifted slightly, and he continued: "Sometimes, if you pay attention, the eyes of people are the best indicator of what is going on in their hearts, and my friend is the same. At that time, I saw a deep hatred in his eyes, and perhaps for some reason he had to hide this hatred, but it would be inadvertently revealed. ”

Later, this friend was fortunate enough to enter a sect to practice. When I saw him again eight years later, he was already a master of entering the realm of the Imperial Spirit. At this time, there was no hatred in his eyes, but instead there was a killing intention. I remember we had a good drink that night, and when I woke up the next day, he was gone. Half a month later, he came back, his face was happy, and his eyes were full of wild arrogance. ”

"I smell blood on him. In eight years, I don't know how much he suffered, but he became one of the best masters in the sect, and I was just an inconspicuous stunned young man among the clansmen. I didn't ask him what he had been doing in the past half a month, because I thought he was his best friend, and maybe he was my real friend, so he never said ...... to me."

The old man's voice stopped abruptly, and his eyes were full of inexplicable meaning when he looked at the young man.

"Friend...... Isn't there supposed to be no secret between friends?" the young man bowed his head, and his voice as thin as a gossamer answered the old man for the first time.

"It depends on what kind of secret it is, if it's something dangerous to a friend, are you still willing to tell the other party?" The old man didn't seem to be surprised at the young man's reply, but smiled knowingly.

"You just said that cultivation, what kind of master of the Imperial Spirit Realm is that friend of yours, that Huang ...... What is Mr. Huang Gui's realm?" After a pause, the young man suddenly raised his head and asked eagerly at the old man.

"Hmm......" the old man snorted softly, but his eyes were closed, and he no longer paid attention to the young man.

"That...... Old Pioneer...... Grandpa, can you tell me?" the young man obviously didn't know what to call the old man in front of him, but the conversation had already opened, and he seemed to be unable to stop.

"You can call me Yu Lao. The old man closed his eyes and said lightly.

"Oh! That's ......"

"I don't know your name yet, and how old are you?" the old man asked, interrupting the young man.

"I ...... My name is Li Ding, the name given to me by my father, this year...... Fourteen years old this year?" the boy said after a pause.

"Li Ding? That's a kind of interesting name. And the head man, Daddy? So you used to live in a tribe on a small island. Yu Lao smiled and nodded, opened his eyes and said.

Li Ding also nodded, indicating that Yu Lao guessed correctly. However, this made the old man stunned for a moment, and after a moment of silence, he continued: "Let's put it this way, Huang Gui's little trick is not even a fart in the eyes of a true cultivator. ”

"Sir...... No, Yu Lao, what you said is true!" Li Ding didn't expect Yu Lao to answer him like this, and his eyes were shining. Turning his head to look at the sea, at this time, Li Ding's eyes were not only surprised, but more excited.

Looking at the silent young man, Yu Lao suddenly asked, "However, can you tell me what happened to you before you were rescued, why did you keep pestering Huang Gui?"

"I ...... What can I do, I ...... I just want to learn something and ......."

"Forget it. Yu Lao suddenly interrupted Li Ding's words, stood up, frowned, and said: "It seems that you and I can't be friends at our age, and besides, like the friend I told you before, it's too much for the old man to have one in his life." ”

After speaking, Yu Lao got up and left, suddenly stopped again, turned around and asked, "Are you literate?"

Li Ding was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "I know." ”

"Take this and take a look, it may be useful to you, but keep it safe, and return it to me when you're done. Yu Lao took out a foot-long scroll from his cuff and threw it to the young man.

Looking at the back of Yu Lao going down to the cabin, Li Ding stared at the scroll in his hand with some surprise, remembering Yu Lao's previous words, the hand holding the scroll couldn't help but tighten a little.

"Grandpa really has a way, just a few words to make this stupid boy speak. In the cabin, the girl hugged Yu Lao's arm and said coquettishly.

"This kid is unknown, why the clan elder is so polite to him. Huang Gui whispered on the side.

"That's right, grandpa also showed him all the testament, and you are usually reluctant to show it to me. The girl continued to coquettishly.

"It's useless for you to read it, it's just an interesting book in your hands. You don't have the talent to practice at all, just like Huang Gui, although he entered the Ning Yuan Realm with the power of the elixir, but after practicing for so many years, he has always been in the same place in the early stage of the Ning Yuan Realm. Yu Lao looked at the girl, showing a look of love and pity, and said slowly.

Here, Huang Gui scratched his head a little embarrassedly, but suddenly seemed to remember something, and said in a cautious voice: "The clan always said that this kid is ......"

"Well, it's not stupid. Yu Lao stared at Huang Gui and said, "I investigated when I rescued him, although this kid does not have Qiyuan, but his bones are wonderful, and I can hear from his roar a few days ago, he is full of energy, and he must be a good seedling of cultivation." Besides, this kid's surname is ...... Hehe. ”

"But what does this have to do with us? We don't know him. The girl asked.

"I promised that guy from Heavenly Dao that if I met someone who could be cultivated, I would definitely introduce him to him, and this kid is the most satisfying I have seen in so many years. Yu Lao said, his eyes revealing a deep meaning.

"But the second lady also said, we don't know anything about this kid, he is from there, what has he done?" Huang Gui said.

Yu Lao was silent for a moment, glanced at the thin figure through the gap in the wooden board at the warehouse, and said: "This, as the saying goes, can be met but not sought, maybe this is fate, just like back then...... Forget it, let's talk about it when we get back to the island. ”