The Daifuku passenger ship anchored in Kirishima for a day, picked up the last passengers, sailed out of the harbor under the push of a strong westerly wind, and sailed towards its destination, Ruiguang, the capital of the Totei Prefecture.

In a single holding room in the middle of the ship, a man in a cloak and a hood sat cross-legged, a young man visible from the face peeking out from beneath the shadows.

The narrow flap door under the cell opened, and several newspapers were crammed in from the outside.

Zhang Yu listened to the footsteps and walked away, reached out and picked up the newspaper in front of him, years of breathing exercise, so that his physique is far better than ordinary people, even if the light here is dim, it does not prevent him from reading.

He first glanced at the date.

"The second day of the second month of the Great Xuan Calendar. ”

His gaze paused for a moment before he looked down.

Compared with the Xiangdao newspaper three days ago, this newspaper only has some changes in the price of some goods, and the rest of the newspaper is almost the same, it is all ten and a half days ago.

This is also understandable. Although the islands in the Tenghai Sea area have frequent exchanges, they are limited by relatively backward modes of transportation and exchange, and they cannot be compared with the sky net that enveloped everything in his previous life.

Compared to the dead world in the previous life where everyone relied on nutrition pods to sustain life, and only consciousness could still move, everything in front of me was at least still alive.

He folded the newspaper neatly, set it aside, and continued his breathing.

In the past few days when his activities have been restricted, he has had an unexpected gain due to the long period of meditation.

He could feel that somewhere on the boat, an object was emitting a strange energy, and as he breathed in it, it was ingested in bits and pieces.

And before that, he still needed to do it through direct touch.

He thought happily: "No wonder the teacher often says, 'If the spirit is in the middle, the void will come', and it really makes sense, it seems that before I reach the capital, I will be able to absorb these source energy." ”

He didn't do it all the time, but he paused every once in a while. It's a trick he's figured out during this time, because that's the only way to be more efficient.

Just as he stopped again, the loud voices of many children could be heard outside, presumably from some of the lower cabins. He looked closely, but he was reciting a poem.

Although the voice is immature, it is better than being uniform, clear and imposing, and the content is exactly what he is familiar with.

This is a song "Summer Wind".

As a Tianxia person in this life, he has heard it countless times.

"The Great Dao is full of Xuanyun, and the Heavenly City is full of millions of cracked clouds. ”

"The great god shines in the Hanxiao, and the brilliant summer color builds Huatai!"

"The scorching sun wants to steam Qinghai, and the morning dawns in the east. ”

"Today's humanity is pale and yellow, and the song of eternity is said to be prosperous!"

The world has gone through several epochs, with invasions from outsiders and the resurgence of ancient powers. Each time, a new civilization rises from ruins and then rises to destruction, so that the land is littered with ancient ruins from all ages, filled with all kinds of monsters and gods.

And all that changed one day three hundred and seventy-three years ago.

Summer is coming!

It is said that at the beginning of the arrival of Tianxia, the floating heavenly castle that covered the sky and the sun hung on the top of the high dome, so that every corner of the known world at that time could be seen.

And this hymn is used to praise the scene at that time.

After Tianxia entered the WTO, in order to re-establish a new order in the broken and chaotic world, it was inevitable that violent conflicts broke out with those gods and monsters and natives.

Tian Xia, who had many cultivators, didn't encounter any decent opponents at first, but as the war dragged on and the territory of his rule expanded, more and more problems arose.

In order to adapt to the changes in the situation, the upper echelons of Tianxia improved the original cultivation methods, but disagreements and contradictions also appeared.

Since then, the Tianxia cultivators have been divided into two groups.

Cultivators who worship the new method are called "Xuan Xiu", and those who still follow the original cultivation method are called "Old Xiu".

And his former teacher is an old cultivator!

Five years ago, when he was 12 years old, his adoptive father hired a teacher for him to teach him the practice of the old Dharma.

However, the world is unpredictable, and for some reason, he was not able to go far on this road, and then embarked on the path of the new law.

However, he is only able to enter the door now, and this time he went to the capital of the capital to learn a new method of a higher level there.

Just as he was immersed in his memories, the roar of muskets suddenly sounded outside, followed by a long, dull echo drifting along with the sound of breaking through the waves, and it was in a hurry.

After only a short silence, he felt the ship under him shake violently, as if it had been violently hit by something, but fortunately he stabilized his center of gravity in advance and did not fall down.

Sporadic wails and shouts rang out outside.

He thought about it, stretched out his hand and put it on the door panel, and with a slight force, the door bolt was broken with a click, and he stretched out his hand to hold the door frame and walked out of the detention cell.

He stood in the doorway, tightened the scarlet gloves he was wearing, and then walked briskly through the long compartment and stepped up the stairs to the outside.

There was chaos on the deck, screaming in pain, the corpses of broken monsters were scattered and strewn with blood, and the ship's guards were running in a hurry, with the occasional scattered muskets.

He looked at the corpses of the monsters and recognized them as Water Babies, the most common water monsters on the sea and in inland rivers.

He walked a few steps to the side of the ship, and looked into the distance, where a huge spine was exposed to the sea, covered with a layer of colored streamers.

This is the culprit that made the Daifuku almost subvert, a sea monster with extraordinary strength and huge size.

A spiritual creature.

He thought for a moment, and then walked towards the top floor of the Daifuku, where the escort was helping the wounded under the command of a captain, and no one cared about him for a while.

When he came to the top, he saw that the captain Shi Dongliang was talking to a middle-aged man in well-dressed clothes, looking like he was arguing about something, and there were five or six women with exquisite makeup next to him, who were sobbing lowly at this time.

"Stone bow, there are guns on board, why not fire?"

"Mr. Helian, this is a newt, a rare spiritual monster, its surface has a layer of spiritual clothing, guns are useless at all, it will only provoke it, what we need to do now is not to deal with it, but to find out why it attacked us!"

When Zhang Yu heard this, he said loudly: "Shi Chuanshou, maybe I know the reason." ”

The middle-aged man turned his head and said in surprise, "Who are you?"

A guard glanced at Zhang Yu a few times, his expression tightened, and pointed at him and said, "He, he seems to be the one who is locked in the detention room!"

"The people in the detention cell?" The middle-aged man looked panicked and shouted, "Guards, guards!"

When the captain of the guard below heard the shout, he reacted quickly, and immediately rushed up with a team of people, surrounded Zhang Yutuan, and pointed a firearm at him.

Facing the muzzle of the black hole, Zhang Yu stood calmly.

Shi Dongliang patted the shoulder of the captain of the guard in front of him, motioning for the latter to get out of the way. He looked at Zhang Yu and said, "Are you the Zhang Shaolang who was detained for trading forbidden items with the cultists?"

Zhang Yudao: "Yes." ”

The middle-aged man was still very nervous, and said, "Forbidden, what forbidden? It won't be a major criminal in the Imperial Protectorate, right? You, you take off your hat." ”

Zhang Yu glanced at him, grabbed the brim of his hat with both hands, and lifted it back.

"......"

Everyone present, both men and women, let out an exclamation from the bottom of their hearts the moment they saw his face.

It was hard for them to imagine that there were such good-looking people in the world, all of them staring at him intently.

Zhang Yu faced everyone's gaze, his expression was natural, and he didn't feel any nervousness.

His teacher's evaluation of him is "the qi is clear and beautiful, and the appearance of the immortals", which is not only due to his natural appearance, but also because of the five years of cultivation of the breathing technique, and his temperament has undergone a great change.

Shi Dongliang couldn't help but glance at him several times, but he quickly restrained his emotions and said solemnly: "Zhang Shaolang, do you say you know the reason why this monster came to us?"

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "When I came over just now, I saw a lot of corpses of water babies on the boat......

Before he could finish his sentence, the middle-aged man shouted, "Yes, it's the water babies!" and he shouted at the guards, "Why don't you get rid of them?

The captain of the escort suppressed the anger in his chest and said, "Mr. Helian, the water baby is a cannibal monster, and all things that pose a threat to the lives of passengers, we ship guards have the responsibility to eliminate them!"

Shi Dongliang made a gesture to stop the two from arguing, and said in a deep voice: "Listen to Zhang Shaolang first." ”

Zhang Yudao: "My major is ancient naturalism, and I understand the habits of many monsters. After the newt monster has gained spirituality, it will consciously exercise its cubs, and they will drive the water babies driven by themselves to a place and let their cubs hunt for food, in the process, the water babies not only act as the protection of the cubs, but also the food for it after it is in trouble. ”

Shi Dongliang raised his head suddenly, looked at Zhang Yu, and said, "Zhang Shaolang is saying that this monster may have placed the cub's predation site on the Daifuku this time?"

Zhang Yu nodded and said: "This is the most likely, the newt itself does not feed on people, this monster should have heard the sound of fire, worried about the safety of its cubs, so it had the action of hitting the Daifuku later." If we can find the cubs in time and return them to the sea properly, we will have a chance to avoid a direct confrontation with this monster. ”

"Hurry up and find it!"

Shi Dongliang immediately gave the order.

The captain of the guard said, "Father, I'll go!" Before the words fell, the man had already rushed downstairs.

The newt did not make a similar move after ramming the Daifuku once, but it did not leave, but kept cruising around the hull, but it could be seen that it seemed to be getting more and more agitated.

Everyone waited in fear, for fear that the monster would erupt again, and they didn't know if the Daifuku would be able to withstand it at that time.

About half a moment later, at the sound of eager footsteps, the captain of the guard rushed back with a crew member who was holding a cloth-wrapped object in his hand.

The middle-aged man snatched it up, and the two of them asked anxiously, "How is it? Did you find it? Is it this one in your hand?"

The crew member nervously opened the shroud in his hand, revealing a small thing with a lizard tail, a sleek body without scales, and a dark purple color, which was now struggling there.

The captain of the guard said, "We found this little thing in the utility room. ”

The middle-aged man was overjoyed, he waved his hands and urged: "Great, quick, quickly throw it into the sea!"

But at this moment, the cub suddenly twitched a few times, and the long tail that flicked back and forth suddenly tensed, and after just a few breaths, it suddenly relaxed, and its head drooped downward, motionless.

The crew stiffened, he swallowed his saliva, and said in a trembling voice: "It, it seems to be dead." ”

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