A thick fog covered the field of vision, and the fog on this boundless ocean was unsettling. Even Zhang Hao was inexplicably nervous. Even Chen Yansong stood on the watchtower of the Iron Duke, scanning the surroundings with the powerful divine sense of the Transformation Period. However, it is still a drop in the bucket.

The power of man and the power of the sea cannot be compared at all!

Time passed little by little, and before I knew it, it was past midnight. Zhang Hao looked at the next time-keeping life magic device and frowned slightly.

In the middle of the night, the fog on the sea still did not disappear.

Since the thick fog started, Zhao Dahe's star-pulling technique has also not worked-the dense fog is the work of the mirage, and Zhao Dahe's star-pulling technique cannot be broken through. The compass is even more chaotic. If you can't, you can only ...... Go in a given direction, let's move forward.

Relying on the strength of the steel giant, Dugu Junjie commanded the battleship to advance strongly, hitting a lot of things along the way, mostly ice floes. In this icy winter, it was a piece of cake for the sea monsters to make ice floes.

However, for a 10,000-ton warship, there is no pressure to smash these small ice floes.

At this time, the battleship Zhiyuan followed behind the Iron Duke, which could greatly reduce the waste of energy.

Compared with the diesel-burning Iron Duke, the battleship Zhiyuan burns spirit stones, and the power is not very good, and spirit stones are used too much at sea. For example, defensive enchantments!

Before he knew it, it was already night, and when the thick fog in front of him began to have a gray brilliance, Dugu Junjie breathed a sigh of relief: "It's been a night." No matter how powerful that mirage is, it can't withstand such a wide range of spells!"

As soon as the words fell, the morning sun rose, and the thick fog quickly faded. The blue sky and white clouds reappeared in everyone's sight.

The sailors cheered as they triumphed over the most terrible mirage in the legend! Because, the most feared thing at sea is to get lost.

However, Dugu Junjie did not cheer, because the compass was still trembling, and the swing direction exceeded the angle of plus or minus 10 degrees.

After looking at Chaoyang, Dugu Junjie and helplessly found that Chaoyang did not rise due east, and it was unrealistic to rely entirely on Chaoyang to guide the direction. The human senses are biased, and in a long voyage, if the deviation exceeds 1°, the destination can deviate by hundreds of miles!

Zhao Dahe couldn't take a break, so he hurriedly got up and calculated the direction. In the end, the direction of Zhao Dahe's calculation was ...... Thinking about the sun forward!

"How is it possible! No matter how much deviation there is, it won't be such a big deviation!" Dugu Junjie is almost about to jump to his feet, are you using kneecaps to calculate?

Zhao Dahe shook his head with a smile and pointed in the direction of the stern: "Do you see a white dot somewhere? That is the rising sun, and there is the east! General Dugu, we haven't gotten rid of the influence of the mirage yet!"

In fact, the waves and fog I experienced before were all foreplay. General, don't forget the mirage's best trick - mirage!

Now they have turned the light of the morning sun on us!

According to the records of my sect, many people are planted on this. Thinking that the most dangerous moment has passed, thinking that the morning sun has risen, everyone will instinctively take the morning sun as a guide. But I don't know that this is the real means of the mirage!"

Everyone discussed, and they all didn't believe it - the sun is obviously on our left, this sun is so warm, how can it be fake!

In the end, Zhang Hao spoke: "Go to the stern of the ship to see if there are any round white spots on the sea surface, the size of a disc, the kind that cannot be explained." ”

Dugu Junjie ran to the stern of the ship to take a look, and there were indeed not obvious white spots on the sea, about the size of a disc, and finally believed Zhao Dahe's words for the time being. But he pointed to the compass and said, "Although the pointer of this compass oscillates, the general direction is not wrong, right?"

Zhang Hao spoke: "The phoenix does not fall into the land of no treasure, and the place where the mirage lives must also have something special. Maybe there's a magnetic mountain under the sea!"

Dugu Junjie thought about it, and finally gave the order to move in the direction of Zhao Dahe.

In this way, everyone gradually realized that the sun was moving to the left, and after half an hour of the battleship's run, the sun had already coincided with the white dot on the sea level, and the sun appeared completely to the left side of the battleship, and the compass was finally stable!

"Huh......" Zhao Dahe laughed, exhaled a rough breath, and actually leaned on the railing and fell asleep.

Dugu Junjie came to Zhao Dahe's side, bowed his head, and said thank you softly, and asked Zhao Dahe to be carried down to rest. Especially in the morning, it is even more difficult to point out the right direction in an environment where everyone is suspicious.

In fact, if Zhang Hao hadn't spoken last and suppressed everyone this time, I don't know how many quarrels would have occurred in the end.

And at this time, Dugu Junjie felt that the real sunlight, or the sunlight that has not been refracted is slightly scorching, which is not available in the sunlight before.

"Hmph!" Dugu Junjie snorted coldly, "The guns in the stern, give our friends a wave!"

The guns of the stern of the two battleships fired a wave of artillery at an elevation angle of about 45 degrees. The shells flew more than 10 kilometers and exploded dozens of meters of seawater, and the sea water in a range of several hundred meters suddenly sank. It took about thirty seconds for the explosion to return to the battleship, and there was a faint dragon groan!

"Mirage is nothing!" Dugu Junjie began to be proud, "In the face of the steel battleship, it is different or powerless! Haha, accelerate forward." Our goal is the West Coast of the Continent!

The dragon has been encountered, and it is not a dragon yet. This shows that what is ahead of us must be a great fortune!"

Zhang Hao: ...... Is there any direct correlation between encountering a mirage and wealth?

But since you're happy, forget it. The night of fighting, instead of exhausting the sailors, was extremely exciting. The most dangerous mirage in legend...... We blew it up with artillery and pierced several holes with ballistas!

Victory is the best elixir!

Zhang Hao couldn't help but walk to the bow of the Iron Duke and stroke the 460mm gun. New artillery, new technology. Initial maturity of hydraulic technology allowed the 460-mm gun to be put into service.

Not only hydraulic technology, the new Iron Duke is no longer just an ordinary artillery, but a naval gun. Some technologies and modifications suitable for warships have been initially applied, such as rotating turrets.

Rotating turrets, which require oversized bearings. This technology is at the heart of turret technology, with bearings over two and a half meters in diameter and requiring very large machine tools, and rollers, each of which is one foot long. Inside the bearings, double rows of rollers were used to withstand the huge recoil of the gun.

Standing next to the turret of the 460-mm gun, the person looked very small. However, there is one point, because the gunners are all cultivators, and the 1.4-ton shells can be raised with both hands, so the shells here are ...... It's still hand-filled!

It's as simple as it gets, saving space for fuel and transporting more shells.

Zhang Hao stroked the cold body of the artillery, it's winter. But at this time, feeling this cold breath makes people's hearts burn.

Giant ship cannons. It took another century to develop a 460-millimeter naval gun, which was soon obsolete, but here it took Zhang Hao less than a year to develop such weapons with his own influence.

A 460-mm shell is almost ten times more powerful than a 300-mm shell!

As the charge increases, the power of the shell rises in a curve. The more explosives, the higher the core temperature, the greater the core pressure, the more violent the shock wave, and the faster the shrapnel.

Zhang Hao stood next to the artillery, and his heart was full of emotion for a while.

There were sailors passing by, even some little masters in the Jindan period, and when they saw Zhang Hao, they respectfully asked the young master.

At noon, Zhao Dahe woke up, he proofread the course, and chatted with Zhang Hao in the bow of the ship - he was really talking about 'heaven', because what Zhao Dahe and Zhang Hao discussed was the spherical earth and the endless starry sky.

Although it is inconvenient for Zhang Hao to confide too many things for the time being, and the things of the two worlds will definitely be different, but only Zhang Hao's inadvertent words and vocabulary have benefited Zhao Dahe a lot. Similarly, Zhao Dahe also had some words, which made Zhang Hao quite interested.

After discussing until the evening, Zhang Hao finally asked the question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time: "Xiao Zhou Tiangong, have you heard of it?"

"Of course!" Zhao Dahe nodded, "Xiao Zhou Tiangong is one of the most widely spread and effective exercises. ”

"Then why is it called 'little' Zhou Tiangong and not 'Zhou Tiangong'?"

"This old man really knows!" Zhao Dahe's face was a little proud, "The specific time has been forgotten, in short, a long time ago, in an ancient ruins in Kunlun Continent, people found "Zhou Tiangong" on the stone tablet in the ruins.

However, because the age is too old, the text is simple, the language is obscure, and there are many unfamiliar symbols, etc., and the stele itself is also a little mottled. In addition, the stone tablet that recorded "Zhou Tiangong" was damaged because of everyone's battle. In the end, less than half of the content can be interpreted from the stone tablet!

Later, everyone found that this exercise did not seem to be simple, and they wanted to try to fix it, and it was at that time that astrologers appeared.

The ruins appear to be an astrological platform, and there are many engraved stone tablets, oracle bones, slips, and even animal skins, the original Tianma paper, and so on.

In the process of interpreting the exercises, many theories were born, and astrologers were one of the more prominent ones, but now it seems that we still inherit many fallacies and are very incomplete!

Later, everyone found out that "Zhou Tiangong" was not simple, so they began to study it. After many years and many people's continuous research, there is finally "Xiao Zhou Tiangong".

Over the years, Xiao Zhou Tiangong has been continuously improved and repaired, and has become more and more perfect. At least under the transformation period, Xiao Zhou Tiangong is perfect. It's just that above the transformation period, there has been no good breakthrough. It always feels like something is missing!

But now it's different, I already have an idea! The earth is round, and it's a star!

By the way, I also practice Xiao Zhou Tiangong, but it is circulated within our sect, and there are many more details than the outside world, mainly in astrology. ”

Zhang Hao frowned slightly: "Wait, I have a few questions! According to the predecessors, the exercise "Zhou Tiangong" in the ruins obviously involves the secret of the starry sky, right?"

Zhao Dahe's face instantly became serious, and he nodded slowly. "Not bad!"

"So, how old is that ruin?"

"Not sure. But the consensus is that it's longer than our current historical record! Otherwise, we wouldn't be ignorant. ”

Zhang Hao's expression became serious: "Then the problem comes." We even had someone who explored the secret of the starry sky before, and formulated "Zhou Tiangong" based on this.

In the absence of the sky, we have to observe the starry sky and integrate the secrets of the starry sky into the exercises, my predecessors think, can we do it now?"

Zhao Dahe thought for a long time and had to shake his head: "I can't do it!"

In other words, before we have historical records, there was a civilization that surpassed us...... Probably extinct!

And the predecessors said that that and the words left behind are simple and obscure, but they are not completely indecipherable. This shows that we are descendants of those people, but we have lost the records of our ancestors, our culture, our language, and so on!"

Zhao Dahe didn't speak, he fiddled with his astrolabe, and said after a while: "Maybe there are some ancient inheritance families, sects, etc., there are ancient records, but they are not made public.

These ancient families, etc., I 'maybe' encountered a few times, they are powerful and unreasonable, they can rely on the cultivation of the Yuan Infant Stage, fight against the Transformation God Stage, and even win the battle!"

Zhang Hao nodded: "But no matter what, there was at least a special era before us, and the understanding of astronomy and cultivation in this era is far beyond our modern era!, right?"

"Not bad. ”

Zhang Hao rubbed his eyebrows: "So is "The Elephant of the Earth" a legacy of that unknown era? Forget it, this problem is not solved for the time being. What matters now is why that era is gone, and we can hardly hear the aftermath of that era now!

In ancient times, were there any disasters or anything like that, and will we encounter them in the future?"

This time Zhao Dahe smiled: "Young Master Zhang, what you think, is it too far? We haven't even opened the navigation line yet!"

"Uh...... Haha......" Zhang Hao laughed loudly, "I still have a question, the true yuan in my body, the true yuan of practicing Xiao Zhou Tiangong, seems to have a reaction when I meet you to stimulate the astrolabe." ”

"Really?" This time it was Zhao Dahe's turn to be shocked, "I'll try again! Our ancestor has such a record! This astrolabe of mine was brought out of the ruins and has been passed down for tens of thousands of years. So far, the light is as good as new. This kind of magic weapon manufacturing method is also beyond the reach of today!"

Zhang Hao ran the exercises, and Zhao Dahe put the compass in front of Zhang Hao. But seeing that the compass actually seemed to form some kind of resonance with the true element in Zhang Hao's body. But when Zhang Hao wanted to urge further, his heart suddenly became hot, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth.

"This ......" Zhao Dahe panicked instantly.

"It's okay, cultivation is not enough!" Zhang Hao wiped the corners of his mouth and waved his hand around, "I estimate that it will take at least the Yuan Infant Stage to initially explore the secret of this compass!"

"Oh......" Zhao Dahe breathed a sigh of relief, but there was some disappointment in his tone.

The battleship continued to advance, but the next two days were calm and calm...... It makes people start to be lonely.

After sailing for more than three days, there was no hope in sight on the vast sea, and a feeling of loneliness seemed to be beginning to spread.