Chapter 719: The Gift of Departure
As the old man had predicted, the next day was indeed a sunny day, perfect for sailing.
"Shura boy, I have already done everything I can, how dangerous the Demon Flame Sea is, I won't say anything more to you, you have almost learned my old man's lifetime of experience and knowledge in the past few days, but I still have one thing to teach you, I guarantee that as long as you learn this skill from me, you will be safe and sound." Before leaving the door, the old man suddenly said something to Asura, especially the last part, which immediately aroused Asura's great interest.
Asura even asked, "What is it?"
"Do you want to learn?" After the old man saw that Asura had really taken the bait, the old man immediately put on an unfathomable look and asked Asura.
"Of course. Asura nodded.
"Giving up the Demon Flame Sea and his party, the only way is not to go. ”
It seemed like a joke, but the old man was very serious when he said it, which made Asura not feel that the other party was joking with him.
The room suddenly fell into silence because of the old man's words, and the sun outside the window and Xi Xi shone in, highlighting that everything was so calm.
"Squeak!"
At this time, the door was pushed open, and Ling Ya walked in from the outside.
"Shura, everything is packed, we..." Ling Ya, who had just entered the door, didn't know what was going on, but before she finished speaking, suddenly Ling Ya was attracted by the atmosphere in the room, and she sensed that something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Ling Ya looked at the old and young in the room, then slowly walked to Asura's side and asked in a low voice.
"It's nothing, isn't it time to leave Cape Bay Town, a little reluctant old man. Asura's answer sounded like he was saying to Ling Ya, but the other person in the room knew in his heart that these words were equivalent to a manifestation of Asura's determination not to change his original intentions.
"This journey is really going through a lot of dangers, if you really can't solve it, just return immediately, remember that life is the most important. The old man sighed silently, and as he spoke, he took out a palm-sized compass from his bosom and handed it to Asura.
"Sir, is this...?"
Asura couldn't help but look at the compass after taking it from the old man's hand.
Judging from the feel, this compass is made of a material similar to brass, with a sunken semicircle in the middle, and in the middle of the semicircle is a pointer with a length of one inch, and in addition, there is nothing else on the entire compass, like the direction or scale depicted on the usual compass, which is not available on this compass, and it is precisely because of this that Asura can't help but be a little puzzled.
"What kind of expression do you have, do you think I'm going to give you a scrap to tease you?" The old man was observant, although Asura had tried his best to restrain his emotional changes, but he was still seen by the old man with a hint, and Asura couldn't help but laugh awkwardly after hearing the old man's words.
"Well, it's reasonable for you to think so, I'm afraid anyone who sees this thing like this thing will think so, but I'll tell you, it's a good thing like no other in the world. As he spoke, the old man took the compass from Asura's hand, then took the teapot from the table next to him, and poured some water into the semicircle of the compass.
"Hmm!?it...!" Seeing the compass's pointer suddenly turn, Asura was furious with curiosity.
"What do you see in the direction of this pointer?" When the pointer stopped turning, the old man put the compass on the table and asked the asura at the same time.
"The direction of pointing... Demon Flame Sea!" Asura could tell that the direction of this pointer was the Demon Flame Sea, and Asura also found that no matter how the old man moved this compass, the direction of the pointer was always pointing to the direction of the Demon Flame Sea.
"This is a treasure that has been passed down from generation to generation by our fishing and fire tribes, I don't know the origin of this thing for too long, in short, you just need to take this compass and sail according to the instructions of this compass, you will avoid many unknown dangers along the way, although this compass does not point in any direction, but as long as sea water is added to it, it will play a role, and there is always only one direction to point, that is the Western Continent!" After some explanation, the old man picked up the compass again and stuffed it into Asura's hand.
"Take it, now our people of the Fishing Fire Tribe will not go to sea easily, but we can't let the treasures left by our ancestors be dusty, and use them where they should be used, so that this thing can reflect its value. The old man knew that once he told the origin of this thing, Asura would definitely not accept it easily, so before Asura opened his mouth to refuse, his words dispelled Asura's worries in his heart.
"Thank you, old man!" Asura was deeply moved and thanked him solemnly.
"Alright, let's go!" the old man accepted Asura's thanks, and then led Assura and Ling Ya towards the harbor together.
Usually the port, which was not very popular, gathered a lot of onlookers at this time, thinking that these people must have known something from some source, so everyone gathered here to watch the excitement, and they all wanted to see the origin of this person who dared to cross the Demon Flame Sea.
The sky was clear and cloudless, except for the tireless blowing of the sea breeze, and a flock of brightly feathered seabirds hovered over the bay at this time, chasing each other and hissing, making the whole bay more lively.
"Is that our ship? so big, so beautiful!" After arriving at the harbor, Ling Ya immediately became excited when she saw the ship docked there.
And Asura who also saw the back of the ship, his heart was also amazed, although when the ship was built, Asura and the old man stayed at the shipbuilding site, but the final appearance of the whole ship after the completion of the Asura was the first time to see.
Probably because of the use of island whale bone and island whale skin, the whole ship is about 30 zhang long from bow to stern, under the sunlight, the whole ship exudes a black and gray luster like metal, and the bow and stern are more imitating the shape of the head and tail of the island whale, making the whole ship look like a small island whale lying there.
"Yanho, don't follow me this time, I don't have any bottom in my heart whether I succeed or not, in case I encounter any danger, one less person to take care of is one less burden for me, so after I go to sea, you can go back to the academy directly, otherwise you will go to Longwang Town to find Nalan, and I can rest assured that I will be by her side." ”
When he was about to board the ship, Asura instructed Yan Hoof, who came with him, to say.
"I knew you were going to abandon me again! Okay, who made my current cultivation no longer able to keep up, I will go to find Sister Nalan, you must be careful, just like the old man said, if you really can't come back, Lord Dean will definitely have another way." ”
The increasingly mature Yan Hoof, now looks more and more like Asura, and when he looks at him, Asura feels in a trance that he is looking at his former self.
"Okay, I know, you have to be careful when you go back, now the mainland seems to be calm on the surface, but in fact it is full of dangers, no matter what happens, you don't have to be strong, there are Nalan and Grandpa Zhan Di, do you know everything from them?" Although he has not been with Yanho for a long time, and he is always separated, but for Yanhoof, Asura already has the same feelings in his heart as if he was his own family brother.
"I know, you can rest assured. Flame Hoof nodded.
"Okay, Shura get on the boat, the wind is right now, the sea is impermanent, no one knows when this wind will blow, it's better to set off as soon as possible. ”
The old man stood on the dock and carefully observed the direction of the wind, reminding the Asura to leave in time, so as not to miss this tailwind.
"Okay. Accepting the old man's suggestion, Asura pulled Ling Ya down the ladder and climbed onto the boat, standing beside the boat, Asura and Ling Ya waved goodbye to the people below, and then Asura skillfully pulled the anchor and raised the sails like an old sailor, and the sails puffed up, urging the whole ship to slowly sail into the bay.
"This ship is really not simple, the captain and sailor are all in charge of one person, and this can be regarded as a record in the history of navigation in Cape Bay. ”
The people standing in the harbor, watching the ships slowly moving away, said a man standing next to the old man Yaruf.
"This is indeed an unprecedented record, but in the history of our navigation in Cape Bay, there has never been a cultivation of a powerful firemancer to sail out to sea, right? ”
"You have such high expectations for him?" said the man in surprise when he heard Old Man Yaruf say this, "You yourself went to sea with that powerful fireman, but didn't you also fail?
I think this man has a good relationship with the old man Yaruf, otherwise he wouldn't know so much about the old man's past.
"The main reason why we returned home was not that we encountered any insurmountable difficulties, but that we had problems, no, it should be said that there was a problem with his body, otherwise we would definitely succeed, after all, we were all able to look at the Western Continent from afar!"
"What's going on?" the man asked curiously.
"Garuda... After all, it's Garuda. After a long silence, the old man said something inexplicably, then smiled and patted the man on the shoulder, and then turned and left the harbor.
"After all, it's still Garuda? What do you mean, grandpa? I know that the guy who went to sea with you back then was called Garuda, but... What do you mean, you told me how it was?"
The man pondered for a long time and didn't know what the old man's words meant, so he also turned around and left the harbor, chasing after the old man to get to the bottom of it.