no one knows better than me

While several people were contemplating, Ji Wuduan seemed to want to show a map and open it for a look, so he looked left and right, and asked, "... Where is Master Yan?"

Zhuang Qingliu: "I stayed in the Immortal Mansion and didn't come out. I'm probably busy arranging to search for the teleportation point in Yancheng at the moment." The most important thing is that it should be because Zhu Heng is still delaying Zhuang Huang, so I didn't follow up with him in the end. come out.

Mei Hualan listened to the two of them talking, didn't speak, but thought for a moment, waved her hand, and a three-dimensional map was suspended in mid-air.

But this map is not from Xianlu, but Gumengchao, a large expanse of dark blue sea with snow-white waves, and countless tiny islands inlaid on the surface of the sea.

"Ah, let me guess." Ji Wuduan suddenly raised his hand and looked up in his heart, and quickly pointed in a circle, "Could it be that the Daling Island 600 years ago was split, and then she was divided into these countless pieces?" The small islands are scattered in the sea."

"How could it be? It's not like building Lego, but it can be stored in a scattered manner. It would have sunk to nowhere." Zhuang Qingliu also stared at the aura floating in the sky and said, "And not to mention all these small islands, I basically knew them when I was a child. I went up and looked, if it was scattered on the same island, I wouldn’t have missed it.”

One sentence dispelled Ji Wuduan's hand that was about to go up and fight the island together.

At this time, Mei Hualan suddenly asked: "Zhuang Zhu, have you ever been on a boat?"

"Naturally." Zhuang Qingliu turned to look at her and laughed, "Didn't you put me on a boat before and drag me around? And marrying into your Mei family, how could you not take a boat?"

Ji Wudu rolled his eyes sorely, and glanced at them.Mei Hualan's thick eyelashes also moved slightly, and she looked back from the floating map, maintaining Jingzhuang Chongzhuang Qingliu and said: "It's a boat back to the old dream tide."

"?" Zhuang Qingliu said, "It's alright, what kind of boat do you take so far away?"

This is equivalent to someone asking her if she has ever returned to her natal home in a donkey cart when airplanes and high-speed trains are running everywhere in the 21st century.Not to mention donkey carts, she rarely even sees donkeys.

Facing Zhuang Qingliu's thoughtful gaze, Mei Hualan said succinctly: "I've been on it, no matter how many times I get close to it, there will always be a mysterious undercurrent swirling over and washing the boat away."

"That's because Gumengchao's island has been surrounded by miasma for many years. You can't enter before you get permission to enter the island."

"No." Mei Hualan said to her, "I went there by boat after you... were gone."

Zhuang Qingliu suddenly looked at her: "Huh?"

Mei Hualan said in a normal tone: "After you were gone 20 years ago, I was basically in the Dream Tide, but sometimes I had to come out when something happened at home. After I was injured here, I couldn't teleport there anymore, so after a few rides Second ship."

"That's it." Zhuang Qingliu looked at her for a moment, feeling a little upturned in her heart, but she temporarily covered it up again in an instant, and just thoughtfully said, "Can't you get in when you're on a boat?"

"Yes, no matter how long you spin around, you can't get in. In the end, I managed to teleport in when there was only a little distance left." Mei Hualan stared at her and said, "But since 20 years ago, that barrier has been You told me, why can’t I get in? And why can I get in by teleportation, but not by boat?”

Zhuang Qingliu frowned suddenly: "Because the restriction that looks like a eddy current is set in the sea!"

In the past, whether all the people who approached were sent away or entered the island, all the entry and exit were secretly adjusted by Zhuang Huang at any time, thus creating an illusion that the miasma of the sea was at work!

She said decisively: "Let's go! Go to Gumengchao!"

To be precise, go to the deep sea directly below the Dream Tide.

At this moment, Mei Xiaohan's voice suddenly sounded seriously from the communication talisman: "Senior Zhuang, that is her most important site and a place you are completely unfamiliar with. I suggest you bring a few people with reliable cultivation to go with you. , can help from the side, in case of accidents."

It turns out that the map that Meihualan wiped out in midair just now was sent by a summons.

However, just as Mei Xiaohan finished speaking, an angry voice suddenly pierced through the void, and fell on his ears like a thunderstorm: "——Zhuang Zhu!"

"Do you really know what you're doing?" The figure of Zhuang Huang, who seemed to be paying attention to the movement here at any time, appeared instantly, staring deeply at Zhuang Qingliu word by word, "Every time you save one more person now, You are ruining the life of one of your own people."

"That's not how the account is calculated," Zhuang Qingliu seemed to pause when he turned around, pursed his lips, and said softly, "I know very well." Walked out, and slashed the flames with a sword from behind.

Without looking back, Zhuang Huang dodged it, and stretched out her hand to grab it. The rainwater that poured and splashed from half the sky was caught in her hand. She spun a whirlwind violently like a dice, and then condensed into a tight ball of water , Shocked Zhuheng so loudly.

The sparks jumping on Zhu Heng's long sword were instantly extinguished, but the fierce sword wind still swayed steadily.

The two fought together again in an instant, and the entire city tower of Meicheng collapsed like a torrent of water. With three moves and two moves, the centuries-old nine-story flying tower in the center of the city was taken away by a wave of spiritual waves. , razed to the ground.However, compared with Zhuang Huang's tiny damaged sleeves, Zhu Heng, who had already formed a layer of blood all over his body, was more disadvantaged.

Ji Wuduan looked at this posture, and quickly thought about going up to help, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't even find a gap between the two of them, so he opened his mouth tiredly and cheered: "Zhu Gong Lord, come on!"

"..."

"I'll help you!" Beside him, Pei Yi, who was stabbing straight, flew up immediately, stabbed with a sword in his hand, and then spun out again.Grabbed by Zhuang Qingliu, she pulled her back and said, "Okay. Don't deliver the food. Follow me to do other things."

Mei Xiaohan said in a sharp voice: "Senior Zhuang, Hualan, a fishing boat has been dispatched to the nearby seaport of Siguiya. It's an emergency and there is not much time left. You just use it."

"Okay." Zhuang Qingliu responded, and after seeing Zhu Heng who was still dealing with Wuyu, he immediately pulled Ji Wuduan and Pei Yi away.

Zhuang Huang tried to stop him several times, but was immediately entangled back, unable to move away.

In the large city behind which has been reduced to mountains and fields, the green plants are still surging like waves, trying to rush out more and more violently each time, Mei Hualan calmly ordered: "If there is any situation, please contact me at any time."

"Okay, got it." Mei Xiaohan who had calmed down said as if sitting in the tent, "Come back safely."

Departing from Meicheng, we soon arrived at the mouth of Siguiya. It was a severe winter, and the sky was so cloudy that we could only see a blurred gray shadow on the sea.

The few people had just boarded the boat when a dazzling wave of spiritual light suddenly surged from the side of the boat. Ji Wuduan leaned over the side of the boat and looked down. It was a golden-red koi.

However, Yuyu flicked her tail happily, indicating that she was not here to see him off, but asked Zhuang Qingliu to take it with her.

Zhuang Qingliu immediately refused: "No. You are not working."

Yuyu: "???"

After ruthlessly leaving Yuyu behind, Zhuang Qingliu stretched out his hand and disappeared here with the boat, and asked Mei Hualan, "How far?"

"Ten nautical miles."

"Okay." When he teleported to Gumengchao and was still ten nautical miles away, Zhuang Qingliu appeared from mid-air, flipped his wrist, and threw the huge fishing boat into the sea. , rushed past at a phantom-like speed.

However, when it was less than two nautical miles away, Ji Wuduan turned over and got on the bow of the boat: "—voovo!!" He vomited like a salted boardfish.

Pei Yi stepped forward with some surprise, squatted beside him and handed over a piece of sleeve: "Brother Ji, are you seasick?"

"Uh, thank you, I'm not dizzy." He accepted it kindly, but Ji Wuduan didn't use his sleeves, which were mixed with blood, mud, soil, and unknown liquid. After a burst of vomiting, he spread out dizzily on the deck and said, " It's the smell of fish and sweat from this boat, ma'am... oh, I'm dead!"

"Please help throw out those stinky fish that haven't been unloaded in the fish hold, thank you!"

"..." Ji Wuduan didn't like fish when he was young, and he even hated the smell of fish.Pei Yi quickly slipped into the fish cabin below and complied.

On the other hand, Zhuang Qingliu threw him a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi... Plum Fragrance Revitalizing Lotion, which Mei Panpan carefully prepared for her. This is the only one, there is no other branch.

Pei Yi pushed aside the gourd plug, knelt down and fed Ji Wuduan a few mouthfuls, saying, "Be patient, it is an immeasurable merit to be able to get rid of those evil spirits that have wreaked havoc on the world during this trip."

Zhuang Qingliu, who was looking at the sea, suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Get rid of it? Evil?"

Ji Wudu seemed to want to say something, but at this moment, wow——!A splash of water hit the ship's side, setting off a huge wave, and he immediately threw his head aside again.

Pei Yi frowned, as if he didn't want to say anything at first, but finally said seriously: "It's a fact that they are killing innocent people indiscriminately."

"What you see counts as indiscriminate killing of innocent people, doesn't it count as what you don't see?" Zhuang Qingliu seemed to have never understood it carefully, and looked at Pei Yi meaningfully, "So you always thought so, this It turns out that there are some people in the world who are very self-indulgent."

Pei Yi was not angry, but just stared at her, and said seriously, "What do you mean?"

"Nothing." Zhuang Qingliu suddenly turned his head, looked out at the foggy sea in the distance, and said indifferently, "People are not good people in the first place. For their own survival and development, what kind of race is against them? If I have threats and influence, I will try my best to kill them all. The first animals to disappear are those animals with huge size and power, do you think they still exist now?"

Pei Yi thought for a while, but without saying anything, Zhuang Qingliu turned his gaze back, and glanced at him with the corner of his eye: "You know that the aura of your Human Race Xianlu is getting weaker and weaker, why?"

Pei Yi nodded and said, "Please enlighten me."

"There are auspicious beasts in this world. There are dragons and phoenixes. People used to regard them as auspicious when they were humble and relied on offerings. On the contrary, auspicious beasts would protect the human race in times of natural disasters and man-made disasters. They are so dependent on each other. Later, because of these auspicious beasts The whole body is full of treasures, so it gradually withered away under the greed of human beings, and the spiritual veins of heaven and earth lost their circulation, and then began to become increasingly unbalanced and exhausted, and people lost all blessings because they killed their own protectors."

Zhuang Qingliu said: "The entire development history of the human race is a history of aggression that cannot be more intuitive. This is a fact."

Pei Yi pursed his scarred and swollen lips this time, but did not make a sound.

Zhuang Qingliu fooled people into the sky, but turned his head silently, and said: "But people have come all the way from the prehistoric, and they have developed a dazzling civilization, which is definitely beyond the reach of any race in the world. This is also true. There is nothing to say. It is because human beings and human nature are complex that the world is so rich and colorful."

"So the only thing I want to say is that when people can be kind, try to be as kind as possible; when they should be in awe, they should also have a little awe. Along the way, no matter how good anyone is, there is a limit. Sometimes God-given Luck is also very important."

Not far away, the outline of Gu Mengchao has already faintly flashed, wrapped in a soft white mist, Mei Hualan is sitting beside her, silently and quietly watching her for a long time.

After Zhuang Qingliu finished speaking, he suddenly pulled Zhuling out of its sheath, and after a gust of surging waves crashed down on his head, he drew his knife to cut off the water, and unexpectedly cut a road directly to the bottom of the sea.

At this time, a paradoxical vision appeared—the blue water flow that should have filled the ocean formed a vacuum-like fault when it was about to approach Gumengchao Island. Starting from the edge of the fault, the sea water was like The waterfall seemed to be falling down, and began to splash and pour down with rumbling rumbles.

"What the hell is this?" Ji Wuduan was stunned, lying on the side of the ship looking at the bottomless abyss of the sea, with a chill and awe in his heart, he murmured, "What do you mean, is this a bottomless pit? ?”

Zhuang Qingliu stood at the bow of the boat with a tall figure holding a knife, and took a look at the fierce vortex surging towards the center... Axi, they have actually been lying flat on the ancestor's tomb for so many years.

Pei Yi looked down at the almost vertical road leading to the bottom of the sea, then turned around and said, "...how can I put it this way, it's too long, why don't we have a meal before we go on the road?"

"Good idea." Zhuang Qingliu glanced sideways at him, "Don't you need money for food?" Pei Yi: "???"

A cloud of spiritual light overflowed from Mei Hualan's fingertips, she popped it out and tried it, and said, "It's just that after the sea water was pushed away, the barrier inside was revealed, how to get in is hard to say."

As he said that, Zhuang Qingliu suddenly raised his hand and pressed down, urging the boat to rush in quickly—and then, as expected, like a motorboat crashing into a high-speed rotating turbine, he didn't even get close, and the whole boat and four people were hit by a wall. A vigorous "bang" bomb flew out.

Ji Wudu retched in mid-air: "Whoa!

Pei Yi had already skillfully turned around to catch him, Zhuang Qingliu stabilized the boat, and tried slow rowing one after another, drifting with the current, falling in the air, even submerged and surging at the bottom, without exception, he couldn't get in.After tossing for a long time, he was still blocked by this impenetrable barrier.

Ji Wudu was so dazed that his face was sallow, like a cabbage that had been frosted in the ground and no one harvested it. If so, he tilted his neck weakly, tilted his head and observed: "It's not just us, it seems that all the fish in this sea swim to Here, there are natural or forced turns, and none of them can go in."

When he said it by accident, a white light suddenly flashed across Zhuang Qingliu's mind, and he blinked and said, "No, there is a kind of fish that can swim in."

Pei Yi immediately asked, "What fish?" At the same time, plans to go into the sea to catch fish and hide in the belly of fish had already appeared in his mind.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Qingliu said two words: "Wooden fish."

"..." Pei Yi was surprised for a moment, then turned his head to confirm, "Is it the wooden fish I understood???"

Zhuang Qingliu made a "tie, tie, tie" tapping gesture, nodded and said: "If you understand this wooden fish——yes."

It was rare for Mei Hualan to turn her head at this moment, she thought about it seriously, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"It doesn't have any special meaning, it's a privately created barrier." Zhuang Qingliu turned to her, and said three words seriously, "—Zhenshan Monk."

This is when she was searching for the soul of Yu Chenyue in Taohuayuan, and learned from his memory that in Yu Chenyue's memory, when the "Shenshan Monk" took him into the enchantment barriers on many special occasions, the way to open the barriers was in the wooden fish. Knock out a special clapper sound!

Without further ado, Pei Yi immediately swept back and forth, chose the thickest pile and mast on the ship, pulled out his sword and dagger without complaint, bent down to operate, and quickly built a wooden fish.At the same time, Ji Wudu contributed a mallet with a stinky wooden barrel containing fish.

For the sake of accuracy, Zhuang Qingliu deliberately tuned out the special melody of Zhuang Huang knocking on wooden fish in his memory. After memorizing it carefully this time, he began to "tie and tie" the knocking, and while he was knocking, the boat sailed towards the black hole-like abyss barrier.

However, very ruthlessly, they were bounced out with a whoosh like popping candy.

Believing in her evil, Pei Yi, who was standing at the bow of the boat, was instantly chilled by the surging sea water, could not help but wipe the water on his face, turned his head and said depressedly: "Your Excellency, Young Master Zhuang??? "

Even "Your Excellency" came out, Zhuang Qingliu smirked at him very sorry, thought carefully for a while calmly, and suddenly said: "It's not that there is something wrong with the wooden fish, it's that the person who knocked on the wooden fish is wrong!"

Ji Wudu: "?"

Zhuang Qingliu recalled the memory of Yu Chenyue, and said seriously: "The wooden fish is a Buddhist magic weapon, and the person who knocks the wooden fish must be a monk."

Ji Wuduan said "ah": "...Where can I find a monk??"

"It's not easy. A monk starts by shaving his head. If he shaves his head, he is at least half a monk." Zhuang Qingliu quickly turned to Pei Yi, looked at the top of his head and said, "Please contribute."

"You fucking??" Pei Yi was shocked, "My fucking???...Why me?"

Zhuang Qingliu said solemnly: "Because you eat a lot, you have to pay the price."

Pei Yi looked down at the big wooden fish that was as round as a bald head: "...What's the point of that?"

"The wooden fish knocks day and night, which essentially means that they will not retreat in case of disaster. The rest of the fish will naturally retreat when they encounter a barrier, but it can rush in with the perseverance of not turning back." Zhuang Qingliu secretly practiced Buddhism in his mind, He talked eloquently, "Besides, according to Buddhist legends, the wooden fish is born with supernatural powers after eating Buddhist scriptures. If you tap on it, everything blocking it will naturally dissipate."

Pei Yi: "..."

After listening this time, Ji Wuduan also fell on the ground enchantingly, made a gesture of invitation modestly, and said: "Little Sect Master Pei, thank you for your sacrifice, everyone will thank you!"

Pei Yi finally asked them seriously: "Won't your conscience hurt?"

Ji Wudu falsely said: "A little bit."

Mei Hualan said pragmatically, "No."

Zhuang Qingliu sang Fu Sui, telling the truth: "I'm sorry, my sorrows and joys are not connected with yours."

So Pei Yi drew out his sword neatly and became a bald head.

Although the finished wooden fish is not big, it can barely accommodate two people sitting side by side on it, and the hollow belly inside can barely accommodate two people.Zhuang Qingliu quickly thought about abandoning the boat, and said: "Other things can't get in, get on the wooden fish."

Pei Yi and Ji Wudu squeezed their buttocks back to back and sat on the wooden fish, while Zhuang Qingliu jumped down unceremoniously, ran to the obviously comfortable hollow abdomen and said: "You are all noble human beings, I invite you first. "

"..." Pei Yi pointed at the plum blossoms beside her with a mallet, "What about your Lord Baabaa?"

"Oh, isn't she polluted by me?" Zhuang Qingliu took Mei Hualan's hand without looking back, and pulled her in with a smile.

Ji Wudu rolled his eyes to the sky, and Pei Yi began to sit on the wooden fish and knocked "bang bang bang bang" near the barrier. This time the journey was unimpeded, and he shuttled into the dark abyss in an instant.However, the barrier seemed to be going down vertically, but the few people didn't feel like they were falling and weightless. The only thing they could feel was that the front seemed to be bottomless, and there was still a long way to go.

After tossing back and forth for such a long period of time, now I finally relax, curled up in the wooden fish and get closer.Zhuang Qingliu couldn't bear a surge of tiredness, so after sitting in the dark for a while, he still couldn't help but tilt his head, and fell asleep leaning against Meihua's neck

"—Tie Dang! Tie Dang! Tie Tin Tin Tin Tin..."

The crisp and dull intertwined percussion sound seemed to be very clear in the dream. Zhuang Qingliu squinted for an unknown amount of time, and was finally awakened by a gentle shake. When he opened his eyes, he was still confused and asked: "Dawn Is it? The one who stays up in the morning is the best..."

"..." Mei Hualan put her arms around her shoulders, and said concisely, "The knocking sound stopped."

It was still dark outside, but Zhuang Qingliu woke up immediately - the sound of knocking suddenly stopped without saying hello, which meant that the people above disappeared in an instant!Not even a warning was issued.

The two of them set off immediately and got out of the wooden fish. The moment they passed through, the water above their heads flashed slightly, and the world suddenly turned upside down. Countless burnt and collapsed trees came into view, and an indescribable scalding heat wave hit their faces instantly. .