moonlit night

Yue Qingchen stood at the stern of the ship for a while, seeing the afterglow of the sunset glowing from splendor to silence, the sun gradually sinking below the sea level, and could no longer be seen, so he walked back to the cabin and found a random corner to sit down.

As soon as he sat down, Wan Qing leaned forward, and Yue Qingchen, who looked like a mouse-eye, was really uncomfortable, so she leaned to the side to give him a space, turned her face away and said: "If you have something to say, just say it." .”

Wan Qing sneakily glanced around, not sitting in the place Yue Qingchen had left for him, but she wanted to move in front of the other party, she lowered her voice and said happily: "Guess what I just heard what news?"

Yue Qingchen glanced at him, too lazy to play this kind of child's tricks, Wan Qing didn't mind it, and said with undiminished interest: "You were not here just now, so I wandered around the room and interjected when I found a chance to talk to those fishermen. Chatting with people, I was thinking to see if I could find out the habits of the fish you mentioned, but I didn’t expect to hear something related to who.”

At present, the sky is not yet dark, and before the time for the big fish to surface, everything is ready, and the fishermen in charge of casting the net have nothing to do, so they all huddle in the cabin and chat. Drill in.

Wan Qing avoids people talking too much, she didn't say who is who, but they both know it well, Yue Qingchen nodded, motioning for him to continue, Wan Qing continued to talk on her own:

"Didn't you just meet the Demon Race at the gate of the city? I heard from some buddies on the boat that the new Demon Lord of the Demon Race is really terrifying. In one year, the scattered sands in the Northern Territory, which were originally fighting independently, were assembled into six armies, and the north and the south echoed and coordinated properly, and soon swallowed up a large area of ​​southern Xinjiang and the northern border."

"Didn't we hear less of this kind of words along the way?" Yue Qingchen said lightly, "Don't grow others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige."

"That's not the crux of the problem," Wan Qing waved her hand desperately, "They said that although the Demon Lord was unpredictable, his behavior was also very strange. Although he slaughtered the Huanhua Palace, he didn't care about the other sects who captured it." He did not commit any crimes; he sent his men to search for beauties and sent them to the devil's palace, but he never favored one of them. What's even more strange is that in just a few months, he still had the heart to search for skilled craftsmen. A building was built in the Wangurusi Palace."

"A building?" Yue Qingchen frowned slightly, "What is it for?"

Wan Qing shook her head like a rattle: "I don't know, but they said the name of that building as if it were real. They all said it was Lanyue Tower."

He just wanted to express his opinion on this name again, but Yue Qingchen said calmly: "You can go up to the blue sky to embrace the bright moon, this name is not bad."

As soon as Wan Qing heard the voice, she knew that Yue Qingchen said this because she didn't want to entangle this topic any more.But as soon as these words came out, even Wan Qing felt that the face of the person in front of her seemed to be in a bad mood, but she immediately returned to normal, so she just pretended that she was wrong and continued to tell the news she had heard.

What he said later were all innocuous words, Yue Qingchen didn't listen to a word, only felt that the stale air in the cabin was becoming more and more unbearable.He stood up, pushed open the cabin door and walked out under Wan Qing's slightly surprised eyes, until the cold and salty sea breeze gently blew on his face, he barely felt better.

Unknowingly, the night has come up, and the bright stars above the sea have also climbed into the dark night, shining brightly in the moonless night.Yue Qingchen walked slowly to the vicinity of the mast, looked at the cloud sails bulging in the wind in the silent night, but smiled wryly, with mixed feelings in his heart.

He leaned himself on the side of the boat, staring at the turbulent waves like ink below, somehow suddenly wanted to have a jug of wine by his side, so he planned to go back and get the ones he bought at the foot of Maoshan.

But before he could take any further steps, Yue Qingchen suddenly felt a scorching gaze on him, just like what he felt in the city during the day.He suddenly turned around and followed his senses, and saw a giant ship that was taller and faster than the one he was riding on suddenly appeared on the originally white sea not far away. to the front.

When the two ships passed each other, they got closer for a moment. Yue Qingchen could see a man in white clothes wearing a black cloak on the opposite side. He couldn't see his face clearly at a glance, but he felt that he was very handsome, Yuan Ting and Yue Zhi , when it is a dragon and a phoenix among people.

In the blink of an eye, the man seemed to have smiled silently, but quickly disappeared with the boat and was no longer seen.And with his departure, the thorny gaze before also disappeared without a trace.

Yue Qingchen stared at the water waves brought by the boat for a long time with a complicated expression, his mind was running fast, trying to find some clues that could be connected in series from the recent events, but before he could sort out his thoughts, he heard Someone behind him yelled:

"Here we come! Let it go!"

The originally silent deck suddenly became noisy, and all the chattering people ran out of the house, and those who put ropes and pulled nets were everywhere.Wan Qing followed the flow of people and ran to Yue Qingchen's side, she panicked and said, "Brother Qingchen, has the time come yet?"

Yue Qingchen turned his head and looked out, only to see dots of stars under the water surface, like fireflies and lanterns, spread flat on the grass woven by sea water.

Those are the eyes of giant fish.

As soon as they woke up from a deep sleep, they were attracted by the bait placed on the boat, and they were coming here in groups.

Right now is the best time.

There was a whistling wind by her ear, Yue Qingchen's eyes narrowed, she grabbed Wan Qing's hand and asked:

"Have you eaten the water avoiding pill?"

"ate!"

"Very good," Yue Qingchen closed her eyes, "Hold on to me and jump."

Right now Yue Qingchen said east, Wan Qing didn't dare to go west, she immediately held Yue Qingchen's hand tightly according to her words, then closed her eyes, held her nose and jumped down from the boat several floors high Leaping, half jumping, half falling into the water.

The process of falling was extremely fast, but for Wan Qing, who was a little afraid of heights, it seemed to be stretched out, and the sea wind was as sharp as a knife cutting on her face. Human hands are the only warmth he can feel at this moment.

Brother Qingchen...

The people on the boat only heard a "splash", and when they rushed over to look down, they could only see the huge splash when the two entered the water, but no one cared about them right now, because the fish in the water today have nothing to do with them. It was not the same in the past, not only was it extremely manic, but also seemed to be driven by something, regardless of its own safety, and began to crazily hit the extremely hard hull.

Yue Qingchen who was underwater naturally also felt this kind of change. As soon as he entered the sea, he and Wan Qing returned to their original appearance.

Of course, this pill was specially purchased for Wan Qing. Although Yue Qingchen's old wounds were not healed, her spirit root was mutated from water spirit root, and she was born to be close to water, and she could move freely in the sea.

There is only one point, sea water is different from fresh water, although the North Sea is not far from Beiming, the water temperature is lower than other sea areas, but it will still greatly restrict the display of the ice spirit root.

Yue Qingchen had already thought about this point, and was prepared for it, but he would not use it lightly unless it was absolutely necessary. After all, restrictions are relative, as long as he does not meet monks of the Mahayana stage and above, there will be no problems.

But the abnormal movement of the underwater spirit made Yue Qingchen somewhat uneasy.

All unexpected abnormal situations may become the inducing factors for the trip to return without success.

"Wow! A lot of fish! Hey, don't bite me! My skin is rough and fleshy, I don't like it!"

Wan Qing's screams sounded like killing a pig, Yue Qingchen's expression remained the same, but she immediately tapped her fingertips, turning the running water into a water blade, and easily resolved Wan Qing's crisis of being besieged by a school of fish.

"You should learn Taoist alchemy from Huaiyuan." He swam up to Wan Qing, said lightly, and then swam forward. Plane Dafa, and fly to chase Yue Qingchen.

After finally catching up, Wan Qing was startled by the scene in front of her before she had time to catch her breath, and was speechless for a long time.

He thought that he had just entered the sea and hadn't dived too far, so he wouldn't encounter many dangerous and large underwater spiritual creatures. Unexpectedly, there were groups of fishes densely packed under his feet, all kinds of fish. There are countless, slender scale-covered sea snakes and slow-moving sea turtles among the colorful coral bushes, but they are all swimming fast in one direction at this moment, and I don't know what is attracting them.

The scene was too spectacular, Wan Qing was dumbfounded, but suddenly heard Yue Qingchen's deep voice:

"These are lower-level deep-sea creatures with the instinct to obey higher-level creatures. The rush of fish to one place in such a hurry shows that higher-level creatures are calling them. But I just read it, and it includes It can only explain one thing if we have found a sixth-order turtle and a seventh-order water dragon that fishermen often call 'sea ghosts'."

Wan Qing was holding her breath when she heard it, when she saw him pause, she couldn't help asking curiously: "What's the matter?"

Yue Qingchen turned his eyes from the school of fish to him, and said solemnly: "It means that in this sea, a real dragon has appeared. If you want to take the blood of the dragon, this is probably an opportunity. But I thought that as long as you follow that But if the fish that give birth to jewels walk, you can find the fairy tomb, but now all the fish are swimming in the same direction. Could it be that the direction in which this dragon appeared is the same as the Qin Sheng's tomb we are going to?

"Then why are you hesitating?" Wan Qing immediately excitedly said, "If we just follow them, we'll be done! This time we can get both the Xuanwu Emperor Armor and the Dragon's Heart, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

Seeing that Yue Qingchen still seemed to have a hesitant look on his brows, he hurriedly went over to pull the other party's sleeve, and said with a smirk: "Brother Qingchen, if our trip goes well and we really get the painstaking care of the dragon, then you will never use it again." I am worried that I might become an enemy of Brother Ye, if I want to make it up to him, I will do my best to make it up, and when the 20-year period is over, we will go home together without any worries."

Yue Qingchen stared at him for a moment, the thick clouds between his brows finally dissipated, nodded and smiled lightly:

"it is good."

It's not that I don't know that there is a vast unknown everywhere I can't see. Maybe there are mountains of swords and fires, maybe there are many traps, but life and death are fate. Since the choice is a gamble no matter what, why not try not to think so much this time,

I just wish I was too sensitive before.

In fact, Yue Qingchen's guess was probably right, the only thing that was wrong was Jun Changye's thoughts on him.But it was this that brought the matter to the point where it was beyond redemption.

But that's for another day.

Now that they had made up their minds, the two of them stopped staying. They followed the school of fish not too far away, and kept a certain distance at all times, so as to avoid being mistaken as the attack target by the extremely manic high-level spiritual creatures.The school of fish moved very fast, but it took a long time to cover more than a thousand miles. Wan Qing kept her head on her way, but she had never swam so fast in her two lifetimes. Gradually, she felt that she couldn't take it anymore, and her calf tended to cramp, so she said in a low voice: "Brother Qingchen, why don't we take a rest first?"

"The front is coming soon," Yue Qingchen was unmoved, he raised his hand and pointed forward, pointing to a white spot not far away: "That is the place where the fish schools are rushing to, don't you want to See where it is sacred?"

Hearing that it was coming soon, Wan Qing cheered up immediately and insisted on continuing to follow Yue Qingchen to march with all her strength, but after another hour of walking, the light spot only changed from a small spot to a bowl-sized one, and she couldn't see it at all. what hope.

"Brother Qingchen," Wan Qing gasped, "how about we take a rest first..."

Before he finished speaking, a blinding light flashed in front of his eyes suddenly and quickly, followed by another one. After staying in the deep sea for a long time, Wan Qing was not used to seeing the light at first, and subconsciously tilted his head, but right here At that moment, a hand quickly reached out to cover his eyes.

"I'm about to enter the enchantment of the fairy tomb, keep up."

Yue Qingchen's steady voice came from beside her ear, and there was no sign of fatigue at all. Wan Qing secretly envied her in her heart, then spurned her useless body, and hurriedly grabbed Yue Qingchen's hand, The feeling swims forward with him.

Soon, even though Wan Qing was blindfolded, she could still hear the wailing of the tortoise in front of her when it touched the barrier, and smell the scorching smell of the first fish that rushed through the barrier, but he was surprisingly not He felt uncomfortable, as if something completely separated the heat wave from him.

Spiritual power is really the greatest creation of a cultivator.Oh yeah, hooray!

It wasn't until the surroundings regained calm that Yue Qingchen removed his hands from Wan Qing's eyes, but he was speechless for a long time, only staring at the ruined ruins in front of him that still showed the glory of the past for a long time, and then said firmly:

"We are no longer in Beihai."

"What, what?" Wan Qing didn't know what happened just now, so she couldn't help being a little confused, but when she saw the forest of steles and the temple in front of her, as well as the faintly visible candle dragon statue in the temple, she couldn't help opening her mouth wide in surprise, and said: "This This, this looks familiar! Did I see it in the little fat man's mirror?"

"Yes," Yue Qingchen said with a frown, "This is the Dragon Temple in the Sea of ​​Bliss."

The two stood on the stone steps at the end of the forest of steles for a long time, facing the towering statue with a height of [-] feet. They always felt that it was slightly different from what they saw in the Thousand Worlds Realm, but they couldn't tell the specific difference.

Yue Qingchen mobilized the web of thoughts woven with all his consciousness, and carefully inspected the inside and outside of the ancestral hall, but everything appeared to be normal, except that there was a layer of fog around the statue, which could not be seen clearly.

Dragon God's eyes are half-opened and half-closed, and at the bottom of those deep pupils, there is something secretly watching.

Yue Qingchen pondered for a moment, and finally took the lead, stepping over the threshold of the Dragon Temple full of algae.

After passing through this gate, everything after that is unknown.