Between the Northwest Liguan Continent and the North Xinghe Continent, on the endless sea.

Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and the endless sea is calm, except for the occasional giant whale or two huge whales turning over on the surface of the sea, stirring up a burst of white waves, the rest of the time is calm and unexciting.

High in the sky, a flock of birds fly from west to east across the sea, and some of them find that they are exhausted on the way, and they will temporarily settle on the backs of some of their sturdy peers, and take advantage of the strength to move forward for a short rest, and after a while, they will spread their wings again and join the same kind of queue, accompanying each other and traveling across continents together.

A ray of light sprinkled down on the sea surface through the gaps between the thin clouds, as if the sky descended on the light, illuminating the sea surface a piece of light and a dark, as if sprinkling a layer of mottled for the entire sea surface, the heaven and the earth are so peaceful, bright and quiet.

I don't know how long later, in the middle of the clouds above the sky, a huge shadow slowly appeared, like a Kunpeng spreading its wings and soaring for nine days, covering countless rays of sunlight from higher places, making the sea surface shrouded by it suddenly fall into a darkness, and also frightened away countless birds passing through it.

If you look closely, you will find that the shadow body that covers the sky and the sun is as big as a mountain, shaped like a huge sea fishing boat, but it flies above the clouds, and there are six huge and narrow oars on each side of the hull, which are neatly aligned and constantly dialed from front to back on both sides of the ferry, and the cycle repeats, just like rowing in the water, disturbing the countless flowing clouds on both sides of the bottom of the boat, and this is one of the legendary cross-sea ferries, which is used by immortal monks to travel across continents. Or for the circulation of goods between two continents separated by tens of thousands of miles to hundreds of thousands of miles.

The number of cross-continent ferries in Jiuzhou is actually not too much, relatively speaking, the richest Dongshi Jizhou has the highest number, about five, and the least in the northwest Liguan Zhou, only one is located in the south of Liguan Zhou, named Dunhuang City, the Sanpin Sect has one, and all the ferries in the entire Jiuzhou are added together, and the total number is not more than twenty, and on average, a continent can only be divided into two slightly more, which shows its rarity.

The reason why this amount is so scarce is mainly because the cost is too high, and the money spent on building a transcontinental ferry is completely enough to support all the expenses of an immortal sect with a rank of about four in one jiazi, including the purchase of heavenly materials and earth treasures required for the cultivation of disciples in the refining sect, including the daily operation of the sect, as well as the exchange of gifts between the immortal sects, etc... If you are tighter, all the expenses will be counted in it, and you may not be able to make up the cost without eating or drinking.

However, such a large consumption is only the cost of construction, and does not include the maintenance costs that naturally occur over time after the ferry is completed, as well as the consumption of the ferry boat going back and forth between continents, so there has always been a recognized saying in Jiuzhou, the immortal families who can afford a transcontinental ferry are all rich and oily top mountain gates, and their ability to fight is not necessarily, but if they take money to smash people, then these super-rich immortals will inevitably be the best of the best!

Today's cross-continental ferry, is a day ago from the east coast of Liguanzhou Changfeng ferry anchor liftoff, all the way to the east, the destination is far away in the east side of Liguanzhou 160,000 miles away from the North Xinghezhou, the ferry on the huge mast black sail, engraved with the same huge "Xiangwang" two words, pen dragon snake, iron painting silver hook, indicating that the ferry behind the fairy gate is the famous Xinghezhou Xiangwang Mansion.

This ferry named "Longxing" belongs to the Xiangwangfu, and it is also the only cross-continent ferry among the four major palaces, although the other three palaces are not inferior in force to the Xiangwangfu, but there is no cross-continent ferry available, and when the children of their respective palaces travel across continents, they have to pay to take the ferry of other Xianmen.

In a luxuriously decorated Tianzi cabin on the top floor of the ferry cabin, a young man in a sky-blue robe sat at the round table in the center of the room, it was Chen Zheng, a disciple of the Chen family of Xiangwangfu, and Zhao Jicheng, a young man from Yanguan Town who left Liangzhou for the first time, was standing by an open window on the side of the guest room, looking at the endless sea of clouds outside the ferry, the two were silent and did not talk, and the Xiangwang Mansion who was responsible for protecting Chen Zheng was not in this room. After the three of them boarded the ferry, he disappeared without a trace, and he did not know where he went.

After the cross-continent ferry lifts off, it will basically bring its own protective light shield to shelter from the wind and rain and ensure the smooth flight of the ferry, so even if the small town boy Zhao Jicheng stands in front of the open cabin window, he does not feel any discomfort, only a layer of mild sunlight comes in, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Zhao Jicheng stood by the window with a calm expression and watched for a long time, until the Chen disciple who was sitting at the table behind him began to fall asleep because he was a little bored, he slowly turned around and walked back and sat opposite Chen Zheng, and did not close the window, just let it open, and after he sat down, he finally smiled and said to the Chen disciple: "Until this moment, I finally have some confidence that your Xiangwang Mansion is indeed strong, and you can not put that Zhuyu Mountain in your eyes." ”

The disciples of the Chen family who listened to Zhao Jicheng's voice woke up slightly, and after hearing what he said, they couldn't help but raise their eyebrows, and said with a smile: "A low-level sect that can't be reached from the fifth grade, and the strongest monk in the sky is only an eight realms, and one person can pick through the road between his entire mountain gate and the ancestral hall. ”

Zhao Jicheng listened to this answer full of disdain, and then raised his eyebrows and didn't say much, but asked another question with some curiosity, "You always say the nine-grade system, I'm a little curious, what kind of division are those sects in it?" ”

Chen Zheng waved his hand a little boredly, and said: "It's just the three, six, nine, etc. that are high and low in the cultivation world, it's not a new thing, whoever has a big fist, whose grade is high, the ninth and eighth grades must have at least one monk from the third realm and the sixth realm respectively, and the seventh rank goes up to the fifth grade, which corresponds to the seventh realm to the ninth realm, although the fourth rank and the third rank are so on, they also require the ten realms and the eleventh realm to sit in the town, but an additional condition is added, that is, there must be a war exploit for the outside of the nine continents to be promoted, As for the second grade and above, they are all hundreds of schools, and except for a few exceptions, others basically can't get in. ”

Zhao Jicheng nodded, digested the classification in silence, and then said: "Extraterritorial combat exploits, refers to the ghost clan?" ”

"Not only that, there are also some remnants of the demon clan and the demon clan, all of which are scattered among some small islands in the sea, and the Jiuzhou monks want to find these stragglers to fight a few times, and it will be very difficult to find them across the sea, so it is not easy to earn enough weight for the promotion of the sect in terms of military achievements, and it will take many people to accumulate a little bit for many years."

The Chen disciple who spoke probably felt too bored, so although he was chattering and explaining, those eyes had already begun to fight with his upper and lower eyelids again.

Zhao Jicheng's performance of the peer on the other side of the table has long been commonplace, except for the time when they were targeted by the two girls, one red and one white, in the township school because of the mud legs at the east entrance of the town, this Chen Zheng seems to have always been in a state of being a hanger and not caring about everything.

Some of the stories of the rivers and lakes are very novel for him, a fledgling small-town boy, and he has long been accustomed to this prince disciple, but he didn't let him fall asleep like this, and continued to ask: "Then what's going on with your four major palaces, why can you be independent of the nine-grade system, and can still make the Linyuan Academy, the co-owner of the rivers and lakes, pinch its nose and acquiesce to your maverick?" ”

This topic is a bit special, in fact, there are actually some secrets of Jiuzhou that are not quite accessible to outsiders in that answer, so Chen Zheng, who heard the question, opened his eyes again and looked carefully at the peer opposite with a calm face, but with curiosity in his eyes.

After a while, it was probably because he didn't fall asleep that he was a little tired, so he simply leaned forward and lay on the table, and then said slowly: "Some things are not easy to say, after all, it involves the origin of each royal mansion... I can only tell you that the four major palaces all have their own origins, and many immortal sects in Jiuzhou headed by Zhuzi, including the school palace in the center of the Middle Earth Divine Continent, also have some old accounts, although their respective account books are not the same, but the Linyuan school palace is also because of these scruples, so it is not too tough on us, of course, the four major palaces are not weak hands It is also certain, but compared to those old accounts, this is not so important. ”

Zhao Jiazi listened to this explanation as if he had said everything, and as if he hadn't said anything, and suddenly had a bit of a playful taste: "Listening to you say this, it seems that the relationship between the Xiangwang Mansion and the Middle Earth side is not very good, right?" Will you still take their trades? ”

Chen Zheng's eyes, which were about to close again, raised his eyelids slightly at this moment, looked at Zhao Jicheng opposite with a smile, and said, "You don't have to use this tortuous way to test my intention to accept you from the Prime Minister's Palace!" When you and I first met, I actually hinted at something about you, and as for whether you can figure it out in the end, that's your question, and I shouldn't be responsible for answering it! If you have to get to the bottom of it... You can actually wait, I guess someone who should have come to you a long time ago should be coming to see you soon, and you can ask him when the time comes. ”

After saying this, this disciple of the Chen family of the Xiangwang Mansion seemed to finally couldn't bear the overwhelming sleepiness, and completely fell asleep on the round table.

Seeing this, Zhao Jiazi, who was sitting opposite him, did not choose to ask again after being slightly silent, then turned his gaze and got up again, walked to the open window, looked out the window and began to be stunned.

The clouds outside the ferry seem to be slowly beginning to change the sky, and the transcontinental ferry above the clouds is calm, but I don't know what kind of treacherous waves and clouds will be ushered in on the endless sea under the clouds?

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Jiang Shenyu, the girl in red, and her senior brother Fansheng left Yanguan Town in Liangzhou together after bidding farewell to their ancestor Old Man Qin.

Since the ancestor wants to be guilty in Yanguan Town, and may go to one of the cities on the Sifang Sea in the future, then their senior brother and sister will not be able to follow them all the time, although the little girl is very unhappy with her pouting mouth, but after being forcibly sent away from Liangzhou by the old man Qin, she has no other way, so she can only follow the senior brother all the way south to the Changfeng ferry on the southeast coast of Liguanzhou, and then go their separate ways there, and return to Zhongtu Momen, The little girl in red took a boat south to Nanxizhou Jiang's.

This time, the southbound ferry that the little girl took at Changfeng Ferry happened to be the "flying sky" raised by Dunhuang City in Liguanzhou.

There are less than 20 cross-continent ferries in Jiuzhou, because of the huge cost and it is not easy to raise, so most of the immortal sects that own ferries will use them as merchant ships, constantly flying back and forth between continents, collecting money from passers-by to take the boat, or the delivery money for trading, in order to make up for the deficit of the sect's boat maintenance, if the business is good enough, you can also make more money, which is a good source of wealth for the sect.

This belongs to the Dunhuang City flying ferry shape, and the Longxing ferry of the Xing and Zhou Xiang Wangfu is not the same, not so much a boat, in fact more like a huge area of the nine-story wooden building towering into the clouds, located in a piece of the Yanguan Town West Golden Pillar Cliff like a huge mountain stone, when flying into the clouds, there are fairy sounds around, there are many fairy phantoms around the circle, so when it flies in the middle of the clouds in the sky, it looks like a fairy palace from a distance, and it is also like a mirage.

When the little girl saw this ferry for the first time a long time ago, she always felt that it was somewhat similar to the Daomen Immortal Palace in the Kunlun Ruins, or the pagoda in the Ling Mountain, but the fairy phantoms that kept flying around were very beautiful!

The girl in red, who has always liked beautiful things, looked at the fairy sisters flying in the sky, and felt that they were all beautiful, so she naturally fell in love with this cross-continent ferry like a wooden building.

may be because they are traveling on the same road, so after the little girl took the flying ferry, she happened to meet the son named Chen Shuang under the Chen family in Nanxi, who also went south, and Chen Wanke, the fat old man who held a pair of lion's head walnuts for him, and Chen Ji, the sister-in-law of the Chen family who returned to Nanxi Zhou with them.

Nanxi Zhou Yingshan Chen and Xu Chuan Jiang, both a continent of tyrants and co-owners of mountains and rivers, has always had a good relationship, and there are few turf conflicts, so they are still neighbors who get along more harmoniously, so after the two sides go together, they also get along relatively well.

As for Chen Ji, a young man in a small town, he is still the nerd who has always only cared about things in books, as the little fat man Zhu Zhen said, and has less sophisticated words in dealing with people.

From the beginning of the Feitian Ferry's departure from Changfeng Ferry to the south, the three teenagers and girls who were traveling on the same road had not yet returned to their respective cabins, but first stood in a row and lay in a row in the railing of the highest part of the nine-story wooden building, looking at the endless sea of clouds outside the light cover of the ferry, each thoughtful.

After a while, Chen Shuang, who was standing in the middle, first turned his head sideways to look at Chen Ji, a silent young man standing side by side on his left, and then turned his head to look at Jiang Shenyu, a red-clothed girl standing on the other side of him at a distance, and after thinking about it, he first smiled and broke the silence.

"Miss Jiang, after returning to Nanxizhou this time, if you are free, you can go to our Yingshan as a guest."

Hearing this, Jiang Shenyu slightly turned his head and glanced at the Chen family disciple with a smile on his face, and then nodded dispensably, but did not speak.

Chen Shuang, who was a little bored with himself, couldn't help touching his nose, then thought about it and said: "If nothing else, Chen Ji's name will be written into my Yingshan Chen family's lineage genealogy, you two should have met in the township school before, everyone will be neighbors in the future, you can also make friends, maybe you will see each other in the future, and you can take care of each other." ”

Hearing this, the young Chen Ji was still expressionless, and continued to look at the ferry, without speaking, and without any special reaction.

The little girl Jiang Shenyu turned around, propped one elbow on the railing, ten fingers as slender as a green onion and a small jade hand supporting her chin, and slightly glanced sideways at the small town boy standing on the other side of Chen Shuang.

Then, she didn't know what she thought of, she suddenly hooked the corners of her lips and smiled, and the demeanor at that moment was as bright and shining as a blooming peony, but she heard her tone coquettishly say: "I think he is a little too stupid, compared with his junior brother who has just started, it is not interesting enough, as for whether the rivers and lakes will meet again, and whether they need to take care of each other, it is not necessarily, so whether to make friends or not, in fact, is not so important!" ”

After saying a word, Chen Shuang, who took the initiative to talk to her, didn't wait for her to respond, so she continued to smile and said: "This girl has a high vision of making friends, and not everyone can be friends with me, so I can't be friends with him, and neither can I be friends with you!" That's why don't talk to me with family background, neighbors, etc., this girl is not familiar with you! ”

This little princess of the Jiang family, who always likes to be dressed in red, is in a hurry, and is familiar with everyone with a smile, today for some reason is abnormal, and there are a few bright spikes between her words without concealment, as if she has a bad impression of the Chen sister-in-law in the town who has not been in contact with her many times, and she can't even look at it with Chen Shuang, so after saying something, the listeners clearly feel that she has been pampered by thousands of pets from childhood to adulthood.

After finishing speaking, she didn't give the other party a chance to refute, just turned around and left, as if whether the other party would be choked to death by her part of robbery, or give her anger, it had nothing to do with her.

Chen Shuang, a young man who was still standing by the railing, touched such a gray nose, grinned a little embarrassedly, and his face was a little strange, he had always heard that the little princess of Xu Chuan Jiang's family was not easy to get along with, and today he was taught, but he didn't understand the reason for the other party's such obvious malice.

When he turned around, he saw that Chen Ji, a young man from a small town who had been expressionless, no longer looked at the vast sea of clouds outside the ferry, but looked back at the red figure that was fading away and disappeared around the corner, and did not say a word for a long time.

Chen Shuang smiled when he saw this and said, "What? Do you feel a little unconvinced by being compared to being so easily? ”

Chen Ji withdrew his gaze from the corner where the red clothes had disappeared, then turned his head to look at his peers who were questioning, and turned his gaze away from the ferry again without saying a word.

Chen Shuang, a young man who touched his gray nose again, always felt that he had done more embarrassing touching his nose today, so he smiled playfully, turned his head to look at the rolling white clouds churning like rivers and seas in front of him, and laughed in a low voice.

"It's really, one is harder to serve than the other!"

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