Chapter 258, Rising Sun Island
Two days later, at sunrise.
The sky is getting brighter, and the awakened Linyagang is a thriving and busy scene.
This is the largest port within a radius of thousands of miles, it is a natural harbor, leeward, resisting waves, hundreds of large and small ships are moored in the harbor every day, most of them are fishing boats and merchant ships, if the wind and waves are raging in the season, the ships in the port will even be as many as thousands.
It's June, the best sailing season of the year, and it's also the seventeen-year golden sailing period, but the so-called 'golden sailing period' has long since fallen short of its name.
When the sun rose, seven large ships slipped out of the harbor, and this fleet was clearly ocean-going merchant ships, not only large in size, equipped with sails and aura drives, but also equipped with cannons.
The lead ship was about 20 zhang 45 zhang long, with three white mast sails standing on the deck, and six circular aura drives distributed on both sides of the hull. On each side of the bow was painted with three large characters: Shippo. This is the flagship of the fleet, the captain of the fleet.
The tail of a large black ship was the largest, three or four zhang longer than the Qibao, and it was once one of the main warships of the Tianxuan Empire's forbidden army in the Tianlong Continent. The ship originally had no sails and was largely flying in the sky rather than on the water. Now, not only has it been fitted with a three-sided sail, but the entire hull has been reinforced with a large number of hibiscus wood and metal components, making it even more suitable for sailing on the sea. This is naturally the Xuanwei of the Xuanhu Gang.
The other five ships of the fleet were obviously much smaller than the two at the end of the fleet, and none exceeded twenty zhang. They are the Tianya of the Linya Chamber of Commerce, the big fish of the Yuyang Country Big Fish Chamber of Commerce, the Tongyuan of the Heishui State Datong Chamber of Commerce, the Jade Emperor of the Jade Emperor Pavilion of Yuhuangdao, and the Mingguang of the Sun and Moon Treasure Village of Zhengxu Kingdom.
Except for the Xuanwei escort, each of the other ships had a crew of thirty or forty people, and the ships were also full of various cages for living animals, loaded with various spirit plants and spirit beasts that could not be carried in storage containers. Seven big ships sailed to the east facing the rising sun.
The weather was fine for six days in a row, and the fleet traveled thousands of miles by sea. But bad weather always comes, and from the seventh day onwards, the wind and waves gradually increase, and the ships rise and fall one after another on the turbulent sea, often in two different troughs between the front and rear, separated by the wave mountains in the middle, and each other's mast tops are barely visible.
Although Qingshi and others have spanned tens of thousands of miles of sea, they fly at high altitude most of the time, and rarely sail on the violent sea for several days in a row.
After continuing to move forward in the endless wind and waves for seven or eight days, although the three of Qingduan Chen were all Jindan realm cultivators, they were also shaken by the bumps and made their heads dizzy, nauseated and wanted to vomit, only Hu Hailong had already gotten used to it, and it was not so uncomfortable.
That night, the wind and waves continued to increase, and another storm was ushered in. The fleet was ravaged in the storm, and more than a dozen cages on the Big Fish and the Jade Emperor were swept away by the waves, and the Jade Emperor also lost one sailor. As he was inspecting the ropes that bound the cage's cargo, a huge wave knocked him off the deck along with seven or eight large iron cages containing red spirit oxen, and disappeared into the dark and violent sea in an instant.
At dawn, the storm finally stopped, and it seemed that in an instant, the rain was gone, the wind stopped, and the tumbling ink cloud was like a giant monster that had suddenly lost interest in the toy in its hand, and it left the tormented small fleet and ran northwest, leaving only a calm sea, bathed in golden sunlight.
Qingshi and Duan Chenhu walked out of the cabin and came to the deck, enjoying the beautiful sunrise and wonder, feeling that the violent storm last night was as unreal as a nightmare.
The flotilla that was scattered by the wind and waves slowly gathered, and the leading Qibao raised a flag, saying that it was close to the easternmost island of the Rising Sun in the Wanshan Sea, and the flotilla was going to visit Mujin on the island as planned, so the flotilla adjusted its direction and sailed to the southeast.
A few hours later, a small island appeared in front of the fleet, and that was the Rising Sun Island, where the Mujin people lived.
Soon, the fleet approached the Rising Sun Island, an island a hundred miles in circumference, not small in size, with rolling green peaks visible in the distance. This island is the private property of Mu Zhen, and the entire island is only inhabited by Mu Zhen, his disciples and servants, and there are less than 400 people, and others will never dare to land on the island without permission.
Lian Shankai naturally sent someone to ask Mu Zhenren to visit the island, and Mu Zhenren agreed. Therefore, when the fleet arrived at the only port on the north shore of the island, the disciples sent by the Mujin people to meet them were already waiting here.
The two disciples sent by Mu Zhen, both dressed in green, a man and a woman, both looked young, and each of them stood on the dock with seven or eight male and female servants, commanding seven large ships to anchor in turn. The harbor was large enough to accommodate a fleet of ships, and their own sea-going ships had more than a dozen large and small ships anchored in the harbor.
There is a road along the wharf that winds to the undulating mountains, and the male disciple named Su Hedai said that if you go twelve miles along this road, you will enter a wide canyon between the two mountains, and then go more than ten miles along the canyon, and it will be Lingmu Mountain Villa. Those who are willing to go to the villa can go on their own, and there are people at the entrance of the villa to answer them, but be careful not to touch the flowers, trees and building facilities on the way.
Hearing Su Hedai say this, everyone was overjoyed, because Mu Zhenren has always disliked outsiders, and there are few people who can go to Rising Sun Island a year, and even fewer can go to Lingmu Villa, as for seeing Mu Zhenren, it depends on fate, and people with this fate often don't have one for a few years.
As a result, the men on the ship were ready to land on the island and go to the villa, and there were one hundred and fifty people, which accounted for more than half of the fleet.
Hundreds of spirit beasts such as cloud-maned horses, red spirit cows, and black wind rock sheep were unloaded from the ship, and thousands of pots of various exotic flowers and plants, spiritual wood and precious fruits were brought down, all of which were gifts for Mu Zhenren.
The two disciples instructed the servants to collect the animals and plants and transport them to the farm. The people who went to Lingmu Mountain Villa set off along the avenue one after another, three in groups of five, some riding horses and some walking, enjoying the beautiful scenery all the way, talking and laughing, and feeling happy.
Qingshi and the other four people naturally wanted to go to Lingmu Villa, and Qingshi also wanted to meet this legendary mysterious figure. After the four of them got off the boat, Qingshi put the Xuanwei into the storage container, and this shocking technique naturally stunned the people who traveled with him, and even the two disciples of Mu Zhenren were amazed.
Qingduan Chen Hu and the four of them walked along the avenue, President Yu Lian of the Heishui State Chase Chamber of Commerce and six subordinates walked with them, and walked for a while, Lian Shankai and his subordinate Wang Seventeen and two people caught up and walked with everyone.
Soon, the road bypassed a small hill and began to enter between the two mountains, which was a large wide canyon with steep mountains on both sides, but far apart, and the middle canyon was relatively flat and overgrown with a variety of plants.
The aura on this island is very abundant, and it is more than a large island with an area of one million square miles like Zhengxu Island, and it is obvious that there must be spiritual veins on the island, which is really a blessed land.
Unlike the low shrubs outside the canyon, there are many kinds of plants here, most of which are rare high-grade spiritual plants, which are not only gorgeous and strange, but also grow very tall.
The avenues are still there, but at the same time some small roads have begun to appear, the paths are zigzag and crisscrossed, and there are streams and bridges that run across them, and some delicate pavilions dot the forest, almost like a fairyland garden. In order to see the spiritual flowers and plants on the roadside, many people walked into the trail to enjoy it slowly.
"Wow!" Chen Tianye, like everyone else, was dazzled by these rare spirit plants, and at this time, he walked quickly into a path, came to a tall tree, patted the trunk and shouted, "This is a seventh-level spirit wood and a blood real tree!" ”
Qingduan Chen Hu, Lian Shankai and others walked over, and they all gathered under the tree and looked up at the yellow fruits on the tree, which were used to refine life-saving elixirs such as the Interrupted Pill.
"This is the sixth-level spirit grass Haycilan!" Chen Tianye turned into a fork in the road again and shouted excitedly, "This is the seventh-level spirit flower Zilanzi!" It's ......"
Qingshi's ability to identify spirit flowers and spirit plants was no worse than Chen Tianye's, but he had never seen so many superb spirit plants with his own eyes, so he also walked farther and farther away from the avenue as Chen Tianye walked further and further.
Suddenly, Qingshi keenly felt a trace of energy fluctuations, the distance of the fluctuation was far, but the range was very large. Qingshi hurriedly stopped and shouted to Duan Chen Hu and the three of them to gather around him, and at the same time concentrated and calmed down, carefully perceiving the sudden abnormal situation.
Duan Chen Hu and the others walked to Qingshi's side in confusion, and even Shan Kai, Yu Lian and their subordinates also gathered.
"What's wrong?" Lian Shan asked.
Qingshi didn't answer, just quietly examined it. Yu Lian frowned and said, "There seems to be energy fluctuations!" ”
"Not bad!" Qingshi was finally able to confirm it, and said, "There is a huge range of magic circle activated, it's not simple, I'm afraid it includes the entire valley!" ”
"So we're stuck in the circle?" Chen Tianye said, "This is strange! ”
"May I ask the master of the bluestone," Yu Lian said, "Can you tell what kind of array this is?" Are there any dangers? ”
This Yu Lian has a long body and a jade stand, a three-foot long hair under his chin, and a calm bearing, it seems that Yu Jindao also has a certain amount of research, at this time, he is in a state of alert, judging from the breath released from the whole body, his true qi cultivation is also quite high, and it should be a high-level Jindan realm.
"I don't know!" Aoshi said, "But I haven't found a murderous aura for the time being. ”
"Oh!" Lian Shankai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Most of the time it's a guy who has a cheap hand and can't help but pick the spirit flower and spirit fruit, so it caused a maze or shielding array." It shouldn't be a big problem. ”
For Lian Shankai's explanation, Qingshi disagreed. It makes sense to manipulate the Spirit Flower Spirit Fruit to cause a maze or shielding array, but it is very strange that the control range of the magic circle caused by it is so wide.
"Let's get back to the road first." Qingshi said.
Everyone turned around and walked back, but they had just taken a few steps and had not yet turned back to the main road, when a new energy fluctuation appeared. The energy fluctuations that appeared this time were very strong, and there were many sources, not only Qingshi and Yu Lian, but all seven of them felt it.
"Don't mess around anymore!" Qingshi shouted, "If my guess is correct, Shi Cai launched a closed large array that closed the entire valley area, and now it is different magic arrays that have been launched everywhere in the valley, judging from the characteristics of energy fluctuations, there are at least psychedelic arrays and killing arrays, and there are a lot of them." ”
"Oh my God!" Yu Lian said, "Seal off this area first to prevent those who enter the valley from escaping, and then launch the Psychedelic Array and the Killing Array, is this to take our lives?" ”
"No, it won't!" Even Shan Kai's face changed, "This ...... How is this possible? ”
"It's hard to say the specifics right now!" "But let's prepare for the worst first!" Let's not move, lest we trigger the circle and fall into it. ”
"Hmm!" Yu Lian said, "The big boss of Qingshi is right, don't act rashly first, wait and see what's going on!" ”
"This Lingmu Villa is too ruthless!" Duan Wutian complained: "Even if someone steals the Spirit Flower and Spirit Grass, there is no need to make such a big battle!" Is it true that picking a fruit and a flower will cost a person's life? ”
Most of the people thought the same as Duan Wutian, but Qingshi believed that such a large group of magic circles was definitely not to prevent spiritual vegetation theft, this was obviously a giant trap that had been laid a long time ago, and they were likely to fall into a conspiracy trap.