Yan Xiu asked tentatively, "Cave Master, are you preparing to go out to sea?"
Miao Yi nodded. Yan Xiu understood, and turned to leave to retrieve his mount.
Beside him, Xue Er couldn't help but ask, "When will Cave Master return?"
Miao Yi turned to look at the two girls, pondered for a moment, then smiled and asked, "Do you want to come with me?"
The two girls hurriedly nodded, and Miao Yi smiled, "Go pack a change of clothes."
"Yes!" Without another word, the two girls quickly ran back to their own rooms, and soon came out with a bundle each.
Perhaps they were afraid of the cold outside, as they had just stepped onto the threshold of cultivation, they each wore a black and white furry overcoat, made from the finest materials offered by East Arrival City.
Miao Yi stored their bundles into his storage ring, then called Charcoal over. He mounted the horse, and pulled the two of them to the back to sit properly.
It was the first time the two of them sat on a dragon steed, and their faces were clearly a little excited. However, it wasn't like they had never seen how a dragon steed was ridden before, so they imitated it and used their legs to step on the bones on both sides of Charcoal as pedals.
A dragon steed's body was half the length of a horse's body, and it was no problem for three people to sit on it.
The sound of a galloping dragon steed coming to a stop came from outside. Miao Yi knew it was Yan Xiu, and turned to say, "Hold on tight."
Qian'Er immediately extended her arms and hugged Miao Yi's waist. She had touched it when she was bathing the Cave Master, and was long used to it. She wasn't shy about hugging. Xue'Er hugged Qian'Er as well.
Charcoal charged forward a few steps in the courtyard, and suddenly soared into the sky, leaping over the roofs, causing the two girls to cry out in surprise.
Fortunately, they had Miao Yi's transcendence energy to support them, otherwise they would have been suddenly thrown off.
As soon as they landed on the plaza outside the grand hall, Yan Xiu, who was waiting, was a little surprised. He didn't expect the Cave Master to bring two handmaidens with him. Seeing the Cave Master riding Charcoal away quickly, he immediately chased after him.
The ground was covered in a vast expanse of white. It was winter, and the cold wind was biting cold. The dragon steed galloped at an extraordinary speed, and the two girls could only hear the wind whistling past their ears as the surrounding scenery flashed past them.
With Miao Yi's transcendence energy supporting them, the two of them didn't feel cold. Instead, their faces were filled with novelty and excitement, as they enjoyed this feeling.
"When your cultivations are high enough to ride a dragon steed, I'll get one for each of you." Miao Yi turned back and smiled.
"Thank you, Cave Master!" The two girls giggled, looking forward to the arrival of that day.
With the speed of a dragon steed, it didn't take long for them to reach the edge of the raging ocean.
The so-called dock was a cave carved out of a towering reef cliff by the sea.
Leaving the two girls outside, Yan Xiu led Miao Yi along a flight of stone steps and into the cavern.
The lighting inside wasn't very good, but with their transcendence vision, they could see everything clearly.
The cave was warm in winter and cool in summer. A double-decker ship was quietly moored in the belly of the mountain. It was obvious that it had taken a lot of manpower to build it.
After boarding the ship, Miao Yi looked around and nodded his head in satisfaction. He then whispered a few words into Yan Xiu's ear. Yan Xiu was taken aback at first, but soon nodded his head and accepted the order.
After that, Yan Xiu carefully taught him how to sail the boat and how to use oil to maintain it.
After the two of them left the cave, Miao Yi left a few people at the seaside, and rode his dragon steed to East Arrival City alone.
The dragon steed didn't enter the city. He went to the city alone to buy a bunch of things and put them into his storage ring, then left the city and rode his dragon steed back to the seaside.
This time, he brought the two girls and Charcoal into the gigantic cave, and brought them on board the ship. The two girls didn't dare to move around in the dark, and obediently stood in place.
Miao Yi pulled Charcoal to the inner cabin at the stern of the ship, and used shackles to tie Charcoal to the side of a capstan. Charcoal was a little reluctant, but when Miao Yi flashed out the tiny mantids and threatened him, he immediately became obedient. He began to drag the shackles and run around the capstan in circles. He was the driving force of the entire ship. How unfortunate.
The propeller at the back of the ship gradually spun faster. Miao Yi personally steered the ship, and the ship rode the wind and waves, rushing out of the seaside cliff with a whoosh.
Standing on the deck, Qian'Er and Xue'Er staggered, finally seeing the sun. Seeing that they were riding the wind and breaking the waves on the sea, they were extremely excited.
As the driving force, the faster Charcoal ran, the faster the ship would sail. However, the feeling of running around in circles was not pleasant. Unfortunately, this kind of ship was custom-made for dragon steeds. Normal horses didn't have that much strength and endurance.
Miao Yi soon appeared on the deck, and waved to Yan Xiu who was on the cliff. Yan Xiu cupped his fists, then leaped onto his dragon steed and left.
To Miao Yi, fighting with Fan Renfang and Fang Ziyu this time was purely a fluke. Putting aside the fact that he had the help of the little ones, if his cultivation hadn't broken through to White Lotus Second Grade, he would have long been beaten half to death by Fan Renfang's sneak attack. After that, he wouldn't have been able to use his White Lotus First Grade cultivation to defend against the two's long-distance transcendence energy attacks. It was the same as escaping with his life.
Because of this, he increasingly realized the importance of improving his own cultivation. However, staying in East Arrival Cave to cultivate felt a little unsafe.
Miao Yi had already made it clear to Yan Xiu that this trip was for cultivation, and also to avoid disaster. Because he had fallen out with Xiong Xiao, he was worried that Xiong Xiao would secretly harm him. Even though Yang Qing had stepped in, and Xiong Xiao might not touch him for the time being, this matter was still unclear.
Just as he had said to Qing Ju, as long as he had the chance, he would not let Xiong Xiao go. However, it was difficult for him to find such an opportunity, while Xiong Xiao could find one at any time. So it was better to play it safe. It was better than being unable to avoid it when the time came.
Miao Yi temporarily entrusted the matters of East Arrival Cave to Yan Xiu. He specifically told him that if anyone asked, he was to say that he had gone into the mountains to cultivate.
The reason why he brought the two girls along was because he didn't want to implicate them because of his personal grudges. Other cultivators could still surrender when encountering a strong enemy, but handmaidens and the like would only end up as playthings. After Transient Light Cave was breached, many handmaidens met a miserable end.
Qian'Er and Xue'Er excitedly ran up and down the ship, chattering away while pointing at the surrounding seascape.
Miao Yi wasn't in the mood. What was there to see about the seascape? He had stayed on the sea for a full ten years. The reason why he hid on the sea to cultivate was because it wasn't easy to find him.
He fished out a jade archive and looked at the sea map within. This was what he had asked Yan Xiu to prepare for him previously. He had gathered and compiled them from the various sea merchants of East Arrival City.
After checking the scattered islands in the jade archive, he finally confirmed his target location. He then returned to personally steer the ship.
A day later, the ship anchored at the edge of an uninhabited island. After confirming that there was drinkable spring water on the island, Miao Yi swept the reefs flat. He chopped trees to make rolling logs, and then cut vines to weave them into ropes. Together with Charcoal, he pulled the large ship ashore, and secured it with trees to conceal it.
The two handmaidens couldn't help with these menial tasks, and could only watch from the side. They didn't quite understand why the Cave Master was doing this. Shouldn't the ship stay on the sea? Why did he have to pull it ashore?
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