Eternal Tranquility

Liu and Liang followed the direction in which the green energy disappeared and found a real island. Unfortunately, like other islands in the sea, this island is not much different except for the lush vegetation.

Under Liang Jing'an's teasing gaze, Liu Qinghuan could only reluctantly admit that the Five Qi Tracing Technique was somewhat impractical.

In the next few days, every time he used this technique, he mostly found some islands, but not even a shadow of Dushuo Mountain.

but……

He remembered that Ming Yangzi had told him before setting off that the best time to find the innate ghost peach tree was during the blood moon. At that time, the ghost peach tree would leak out a trace of innate wood energy while absorbing the moonlight. .

But they don't know when the next blood moon will appear. During this period, the two of them can only hold the map of the Qingmirage family and follow the dotted lines to find it one by one.

Time flies by, and months pass by in a blink of an eye. In the vast mirage and endless waters, it is so difficult to find a floating mountain!

The deeper you go into the sea, the mirages you encounter become more powerful, and each illusion becomes more powerful than the last. Even with Liu Qinghuan's cultivation level, he does not dare to ignore them.

The sound of silk and bamboo lingers in the ears, the body pressed against her is soft and graceful, and the fragrant aroma of orchid is refreshing. Liu Qinghuan's eyes flashed with clarity, and he pulled Liang Jing'an, who was gradually in a daze, and firmly held the spirit sword that was rushing towards him, and the aura of Haoran's sword suddenly burst out!

The Jingwei Sword made a sweet cry, bringing out ripples of destruction wherever it passed. Whether it was the dancing and smiling beautiful woman, the fairy-filled courtyard, or the exquisite and luxurious palace, they were all tearing apart the heaven and the earth. The broken character formula was torn into pieces.

With a burst of energy, his whole body turned into a sharp arrow that shot out quickly. He rushed into the sea with the power of his huge sword. He found the mirage trying to escape in the chaos of water. Jingwei's sword passed through the long The long blue-purple sword marks were like a powerful slash coming out!

When the mirage saw that it had been discovered, it looked over coldly with its snake eyes without a trace of emotion.

This is a third-level peak mirage. The long and thick snake is covered with thick purple-red scales. The long purple hair on its back is like a wildly dancing flame in the sea water. The claws under its body are thick and sharp. It's not that it doesn't have horns, it almost looks like a dragon.

Its heavy snake body twisted with unimaginable flexibility, and Jingwei's sword grazed its scales and flew into the air. With another twist, he dived into the deep sea very quickly.

How could Liu Qinghuan allow it to escape? They had been trapped in all kinds of strange illusions created by this cunning mirage for several days. Today, they finally found a flaw and tore it open. Naturally, they wanted to work hard together.

Following closely behind him, Liu Qinghuan connected his hands, and the Qiankun finger broke out long white water marks, and opened several bloody holes in his body at a faster speed, and Jingwei sword also circled back.

The mirage twisted its body in pain, nimbly dodging the attack, and opened its mouth to spit out clouds of black mist, making the underwater vision darker and darker.

The fog had a slight effect of isolating spiritual consciousness, and after all, being in the water was not as convenient as being on land. Liu Qinghuan got into a fight with the mirage.

Although the mirage beast has no other means of attack other than creating illusions, the monster's powerful body with rough skin and tough flesh cannot be underestimated. If it attacks fiercely, even Liu Qinghuan will not be able to withstand it for a while.

The huge snake's body rolled up like a river, and waves of water hit Liu Qinghuan with great force, leaving him with almost no place to stand. He could only rely on Jingwei Sword and Qiankun Finger to grind against it slowly.

I don't know how much time passed, but when the sea water was dyed a light red, the mirage was finally too injured and exhausted, and Liu Qinghuan took the opportunity to kill it.

He stood on the snake and pulled out the Jingwei sword that was stuck in the skull of the mirage. He then reached in and searched for it. He pulled out an egg-sized aqua blue demon pill and smiled with satisfaction. Then he made a stroke on his abdomen and took out the somewhat shriveled mist bag. He weighed it with some regret and put it into the ring.

After searching for useful spiritual materials from the mirage, Liu Qinghuan jumped out of the water and saw Liang Jing'an holding a water mirror to check, but the expression on his face was slightly gloomy, and he was lost in thought.

Liu Qinghuan glanced at him: "Brother Liang?"

Liang Jing'an turned his head: "Brother Liu... have you solved the mirage?"

Liu Qinghuan hummed, took out the demon pill and shook it.

"Such a big one!" Liang Jing'an suddenly said: "No wonder the illusion is so powerful, I almost..."

He smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for you, Brother Liu, I would have fallen into an illusion and lost my mind. The deeper I go into the mirage sea, the more powerful the mirages I encounter, and I gradually feel more and more powerless, which is holding you back." ”

Liu Qinghuan slapped him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother Liang, it's not like you to talk like this. You and I have been on the same journey for so long and have gone through so many things. How can we say that we are holding back."

Liang Jing'an was not a slimy person, so he laughed at himself and said nothing more.

"However, this incident has also reminded us." Liu Qinghuan said: "As the mirage becomes more and more powerful, even if we know that it is an illusion, it will take a lot of effort to get out. We will have to work harder in the future. Be careful."

"Yes." Liang Jing'an said with emotion: "These guys are getting more and more cunning. I fell into it knowing that it was an illusion, and I gradually became obsessed with it. It's really..."

He shook his head and did not continue. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "We have been at sea for so long and haven't even found a single hair on Dushuo Mountain. I really don't know when we will find it."

Liu Qinghuan looked up at the sky. The blood moon now only had a tiny bud. The blood moon didn't appear in the past two years, and he didn't know if there would be one this year. He could only say helplessly: "Take your time, there is no point in rushing. The map shows that there should be an island nearby, let's go there to rest." Two days.”

"It's okay, I've been trapped by that mirage for so many days, so I need to take a rest."

The two of them packed their things. Liu Qinghuan flew forward and raised his chin towards the water mirror in his hand: "Are any fellow Taoists nearby?"

"No, they're all quite far away."

The Great Mirage was so vast that there were only a dozen or so of them, and several more people died later due to one or another reason, so now there were only seven or eight green dots left on the water mirror. Such a small number of people, thrown into the sea, are like a drop of water flowing into the vast ocean. If there is not a water mirror, where will it be found?

Both of them stopped talking, feeling a little sad.

This aimless search, which lasted for several months, not only consumed a lot of their energy, but also their will, leaving no hope in sight. Liu Qinghuan had imagined that the Innate Ghost Peach Tree would be extremely difficult to find, but he did not expect it to be so difficult to find.

These days, he often used Qingmu Qi to perform the Five Qi Tracking Technique, but to no avail. He even tried to communicate with Sanmulgmu. The three mulberry trees and the innate ghost peach tree are both sacred trees. He thought that maybe these two species might be able to sense something and help him find it.

However, the Sanmulberry Tree seems to have fallen into a deep sleep since the last time it showed its power in the Black Feather Hill in the Eastern Wasteland. It has not moved for a long time. No matter how Liu Qinghuan shouted outside the Spiritual Root Tree, it did not even extend a tentacle. .

So he could only run back and forth like this. When he thought about how many people Yun Mengze would die in the sealing war every day, he felt a strong sense of urgency in his heart.

However, he also gained a lot during these days. Not to mention the demon elixirs and materials obtained from the mirages and other demonic beasts he hunted along the way, he also occasionally picked up rare spiritual herbs from the islands he encountered along the way.

Half a day later, the two of them arrived at a sea surface. Liang Jing'an flipped through the map and said, "The island should be nearby. Why can't we find it after several rounds?"

Liu Qinghuan looked around and said uncertainly: "Maybe it sank? Or it floated away."

Liang Jing'an shook the map: "What a broken map, it's becoming more and more unreliable."

"This is common in the sea." Liu Qinghuan said soothingly: "Besides, this is already a deep sea, and it is full of powerful monsters and illusions. I am afraid that the Qingmirage family will rarely send people to come here, so mistakes are inevitable. Yeah, let’s look for it again.”

Liang Jing'an nodded, suddenly with a smile, and said: "Brother Liu, I used to think that although I have a rough temper, I can be patient when I need to be patient, but compared with your slowness, But it still seems a bit too impatient.”

Liu Qinghuan was stunned for a moment, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he looked thoughtfully into the distance.

When he was young, he had a strong curiosity, and he would take revenge regardless of the consequences when encountering troubles, such as the conflict with Qu Yunhe in the Great Xumi Qiankun Pagoda. Later, he experienced many things. Love, hate, and grudges gradually faded away, and his temperament became more calm and peaceful.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that his mood was more complete, and there were clear signs of the flaw in his mood when he encountered Xue Mei that day.

Without further ado, the two of them continued wandering on the sea for several more months. When the blood moon in the sky was about to be complete again, there was still no trace of Dushuo Mountain.

On this day, the Qingming Meditation Pendant on Liu Qinghuan's body suddenly shone like never before. The dazzling white light almost drowned him. At the same time, a coolness like a tide rushed into his mind, causing him to tremble all over and stop involuntarily.

Liang Jing'an, who was rushing forward, saw his expression changed drastically. He couldn't help but be extremely surprised and turned back: "Brother Liu?"

Liu Qinghuan raised his hand and signaled him not to speak for the time being. An inch-long light emitted from his eyes, and he brought his eyes to the extreme, sweeping towards the thick fog around him.

Looking around, there is nothing unusual except for the thick fog that persists. The powerful spiritual consciousness directly penetrates into the very depths of the sea, only to find a few medium-sized second-order mirage beasts swimming slowly. move.

Liang Jing'an leaned behind him cautiously and waited for a moment before calling softly: "Is there a big mirage?"

"No, I didn't find it..." Liu Qinghuan was puzzled. At this time, the Qingming Meditation Pendant had returned to normal, the white light dissipated, and only a slight coolness flowed into his body, as if the moment just now was his illusion.

That was certainly not an illusion, so his face remained solemn and he asked in a low voice: "Do you notice that there is an illusion around you?"

Liang Jing'an fiddled with his illusion-breaking weapon: "No."

Liu Qinghuan frowned and scanned the surroundings with his spiritual consciousness. After thinking for a while, he said, "Maybe a big mirage just passed by..."

This reason was really hard to convince, but other than that, he could not find any other reason to explain the sudden brightness of the Qingming Jingxin Pendant.

"Next, we have to be more careful."

Liang Jing'an had long been accustomed to following his opinions, so he just nodded cautiously.

The two of them traveled through the thick fog with extreme vigilance. For several days, they only encountered a few small illusions.

The two of them, facing a formidable enemy, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Liu Qinghuan touched the Qingming Meditation Pendant on his chest. After this pendant, there was no difference.

Liang Jing'an suddenly raised his hand and pointed forward: "Brother Liu, there seems to be an island in front of you."

"Huh?" Liu Qinghuan looked up, and indeed through the fog, he could vaguely see the outline of the island: "Isn't this an illusion again?"

You know, those extremely cunning mirages are not stupid, and they will not create things that obviously do not belong to the sea. Most of them appear as island images in the first place.

However, there was no abnormal reaction from the Qingming Meditation Pendant, and the scenery around him did not change.

"Haha, there is indeed an island near here!" Liang Jing'an had already pulled out the map and said happily.

Liu Qinghuan leaned over and took a look, still unable to dispel his doubts.

"How about we go over there and have a look?" Liang Jing'an suggested hopefully: "Look, you didn't find anything unusual, and I didn't find anything unusual either. There is indeed this island on the map, so it shouldn't be an illusion. This is happening every day. I was eating, drinking, and having sex at sea, and I couldn’t even sleep at all. It was really boring.”

They had been floating on the sea for several days. The last time they encountered a real island was two months ago. Both of them were almost turned into bacon by the sea breeze. It was really tempting to set foot on land.

Liu Qinghuan no longer objected, but he still didn't lift his eyesight and leaned closer.

When they arrived near Deshima, the originally thick fog became thinner, and the true face of the island slowly emerged in front of the two of them.

Liang Jing'an raised his hand to summon his Fantian Seal, pouring mana into it, and said: "He, this island looks quite big. Brother Liu, as usual, you check the water, and I will bomb it above." ”

Liu Qinghuan also took out the Jingwei Sword, responded with a cry, and then fell into the water. He could hear the sound of smashing from above.

This is a test they will conduct every time they encounter an island in order to avoid falling into an illusion without knowing it.

After wandering around underwater for a while, and then going very deep, without finding any signs of the existence of mirages, Liu Qinghuan surfaced and made a gesture.

Liang Jing'an stopped and continued to make seals, cheered, landed on the island, and walked up and down the rocky beach: "I have found a place to rest. It feels so good to have my feet on the ground!"

Liu Qinghuan smiled slightly, then flew down to the island, wiped his face, and kneaded his hands, and his soaked clothes immediately became dry and flat.

"We'll go explore the island later. If there's no danger, we'll rest here longer this time."

Liang Jing'an's depressed look these days was gone, and he kicked away the sand and stones under his feet with great interest, and said: "This island is so big, and the spiritual energy is a bit richer than other places, maybe we can find spiritual veins! "