The Dafu passenger ship anchored on the Misty Island for a day, carrying the last batch of passengers. Under the push of the strong west wind, the ship sailed away from the port, heading towards its destination, the capital of the Dongting Protectorate, Auspicious Light Breaking Waves.
In the middle of the ship, in a single detention room, a person wearing a cloak and a hood sat cross-legged. From the shadow of his face, it could be seen that he was a young man.
The narrow door at the bottom of the detention room opened, and a few newspapers were stuffed in from the outside.
Zhang Yu heard the footsteps go away, and reached out to pick up the newspaper in front of him. After many years of training in the breathing technique, his body was far stronger than ordinary people. Even if the light here was dim, it did not hinder him from reading.
He first glanced at the date.
"Da Xuan Calendar, February 2nd."
His gaze paused on it for a moment, and then he continued reading.
Compared to the Hong Kong Island newspaper three days ago, this newspaper only had some changes in the price of some goods. Everything else was almost the same, the news was from ten days ago.
This was also understandable. Although the islands of the Tenghai Sea area were frequent, they were limited by the relatively backward means of communication. In the end, it could not be compared to the Skynet that covered everything in his previous life.
Compared to his previous life where everyone relied on nutrition cabins to maintain their lives, where only the consciousness could still move, everything in front of him was at least still alive.
He neatly folded the newspaper, put it to the side, and continued his original breathing.
In these few days of restricted movement, because he maintained a long period of meditation, he had an unexpected harvest.
He could feel that somewhere on the ship, there was an object that was emitting a strange energy, and under the guidance of his breathing, it was being absorbed bit by bit.
Before this, he had to directly touch it to do this.
He was in a good mood as he thought, "No wonder teacher often said, 'As long as the mind is in the void, the void will come'. It seems that before we reach the capital, I will be able to absorb all of this energy."
He did not do this continuously. Instead, he paused every once in a while. This was a trick that he had figured out in this period of time, because only this way would it be more efficient.
Just as he stopped again, the faint sound of many children's voices came from outside, should be coming from one of the lower cabins. He carefully distinguished, and found that they were reciting a poem.
Although the voices were young, they were uniform, clear, and imposing. The content was also just right that he was familiar with.
This was a song called "Summer Breeze".
As a citizen of Tianxia in this world, he had heard this story countless times.
"The Great Dao is mysterious and the universe carries it. Millions of clouds in Heaven City come."
"Dazzling divine light illuminates the heavens of Han, splendid summer colors build a magnificent stage!"
"The blazing sun wants to steam the Qinghai, and the dawn opens to the East."
"Today, I have inherited the fate of the Dao of the Heavens and the Earth, and have been praised throughout the ages!"
This world had experienced the changes of several eras. There were invasions by outsiders and the revival of ancient powers. Every time, a new civilization would rise from the ruins, and from prosperity to destruction, the land was filled with ancient ruins from various eras, filled with all kinds of monsters and gods.
All of this changed on a certain day three hundred and seventy-three years ago.
Tianxia had arrived!
It was said that at the beginning of Tianxia, the Floating City, which covered the sky and covered the sun, was suspended at the top of the sky. At that time, every corner of the known world could see it.
And this poem was used to praise the scene at that time.
After Tianxia entered the world, in order to re-establish a new order in the broken and chaotic world, it was inevitable that fierce conflicts broke out between them and the gods, monsters, and natives.
Tianxia, who had many cultivators, did not encounter any decent opponents in the beginning, but as the war dragged on and the territory under their rule expanded, more and more problems appeared.
In order to adapt to the changes in the situation, the upper management of Tianxia made improvements to the original cultivation method, but differences and contradictions also appeared.
Since then, the cultivators of Tianxia were divided into two groups.
The cultivators who worshipped the new method were called "Xuanxiu", and those who still followed the original cultivation method were called "old cultivators".
And his former teacher was an old cultivator!
Five years ago, when he was twelve years old, his adoptive father invited a teacher for him to teach him the old cultivation method.
But things were unpredictable, and because of some reasons, he was not able to go far on this path, and instead embarked on the path of the new method.
But now, he was just a beginner. This time, he was going to the capital of the protectorate to learn a higher level of the new method.
Just as he was immersed in his own memories, a series of gunshots rang out from the outside. Following that, a long and dull echo drifted over along with the sound of waves breaking through the waves, and it was rapidly approaching.
After a short silence, he felt the ship under him shake violently, as if it had been hit by something. Fortunately, he stabilized his center of gravity in advance, and did not fall because of this.
Sporadic wails and shouts could be heard from outside.
He thought for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the door panel, and with a light force, the door bolt was broken with a crack. He reached out and grabbed the door frame, then walked out of the detention room.
He stood at the door, tightened the scarlet gloves on his hands, then quickly walked through the long cabin, and stepped on the stairs outside.
The deck was in chaos. People were screaming in pain everywhere. Broken corpses of monsters were strewn all over the deck. The floor was covered in stinking blood. The ship's guards were running around in a hurry. Sporadic gunshots could be heard from time to time.
He looked at the monster corpses, and recognized that they were called water babies, or "water monkeys", and were the most common water monsters in the sea and river.
He walked a few steps to the side of the ship, and looked into the distance. There, a huge back was exposed on the surface of the sea, and there was a layer of colorful flowing light above it.
This was the culprit that almost destroyed the Dafu, a sea monster with extraordinary strength and a huge body.
A spiritual creature.
He thought for a moment, then walked to the top deck of the Dafu. The guards were helping the wounded under the command of a captain, and no one cared about him at the moment.
When he came to the top, he saw the captain, Shi Dongliang, talking to a middle-aged man in tailored clothes. It seemed that they were arguing about something, and there were five or six women with delicate makeup next to them, who were crying softly.
"Stone bow, there are cannons on the ship, why don't you fire?"
"Mr. Helian, this is a Heavenly Salamander, a rare spiritual monster. It has a spiritual coat on its surface. Guns and cannons are useless against it. They will only anger it. What we need to do now is not to deal with it, but to find out why it is attacking us!"
Zhang Yu heard this, and said, "Stone bow, maybe I know the reason."
The middle-aged man turned his head, and asked in surprise, "Who are you?"
A guard looked at Zhang Yu a few times, and his expression tightened. He pointed at him and said, "He, he seems to be the person in the detention room!"
"The person in the detention room?" The middle-aged man looked panicked, and shouted, "Guards, guards!"
When the captain of the guards below heard the shout, he reacted quickly and immediately rushed up with a group of people, surrounding Zhang Yu, and pointed their guns at him.
Faced with the black muzzles, Zhang Yu stood calmly.
Shi Dongliang patted the captain of the guards in front of him on the shoulder, motioning for the latter to move aside. He looked at Zhang Yu and said, "You're Zhang Shaolang, the one who was detained for trading forbidden items with the heretics?"
Zhang Yu replied, "Yes."
The middle-aged man was still very nervous. He said, "Forbidden items? What forbidden items? You're not a wanted criminal of the Protectorate, are you? You, you take off your hood. "
Zhang Yu glanced at him, then held the brim of his hood with both hands and lifted it back.
"Wow …"
Everyone present, regardless of whether they were men or women, exclaimed from the bottom of their hearts the moment they saw his face.
It was hard for them to imagine that there was such a good-looking person in the world, so they all stared at him without blinking.
Zhang Yu faced everyone's gazes, his expression was natural, without any uneasiness.
His teacher's evaluation of him was that he was "fresh and handsome, like a banished immortal". This was because of his natural appearance, and also because of the great changes in his temperament after five years of practicing the breathing technique.
Shi Dongliang couldn't help but look at him a few times, but he quickly restrained his emotions and said solemnly, "Zhang Shaolang, you said you know the reason why this monster came to us?"
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "When I walked over just now, I saw a lot of Aquababe corpses on the ship …"
Before he could finish, the middle-aged man shouted, "Yes, it's Aquababe! It must be because of these Aquababe! "He shouted at the guards," Why didn't you drive them away? It's you who attracted this monster! "
The guard captain suppressed the anger in his chest and said, "Mr. Helian, Aquababe is a kind of man-eating monster, and we, the ship's guards, have the responsibility to eliminate all things that threaten the lives of the passengers!"
Shi Dongliang made a gesture to stop the argument between the two, and said in a deep voice, "Let's hear Zhang Shaolang finish first."
Zhang Yu said, "I majored in ancient natural history, so I know a lot of monsters' habits. After a monster like a Heavenly Salamander obtains spirituality, it will consciously train its young. It will drive the Aquababe under its control to a place and let its young hunt for food. In this process, the Aquababe not only acts as its young's guard, but also as its food when it is in trouble. "
Shi Dongliang suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhang Yu, saying, "Zhang Shaolang, are you saying that this monster may have put its young's hunting place on the Dafu this time?"
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "That's the most likely reason. The Heavenly Salamander itself doesn't eat humans. This monster should have heard the gunshots and was worried about the safety of its young. That's why it rammed into the Dafu. If we can find the young in time and properly send them back to the sea, we will have a chance to avoid a direct conflict with this monster. "
"Hurry up and find it!"
Shi Dongliang immediately ordered.
The guard captain said, "Father, I'll go!" As soon as his voice fell, he had already rushed downstairs.
After the Heavenly Salamander rammed into the Dafu once, it didn't do anything similar again, but it didn't leave either. Instead, it kept cruising around the hull, but it could be seen that it seemed to be getting more and more anxious.
Everyone waited anxiously, afraid that the monster would attack again. They didn't know if the Dafu could still withstand it at that time.
About half an hour later, with the sound of urgent footsteps, the guard captain rushed back with a crew member. The latter was holding something wrapped in a cloth in his hand.
The middle-aged man rushed forward and asked anxiously, "How is it? Did you find it? Is it the one in your hand? "
The crew member nervously opened the cloth in his hand, revealing a small dark purple thing with a long lizard tail. It was naked and without scales. At this moment, it was struggling with all its might.
The guard captain said, "We found this little thing in the utility room."
The middle-aged man was overjoyed. He waved his hands and urged, "That's great. Hurry up and throw it into the sea!"
But at this moment, the young salamander suddenly twitched a few times. Its long tail that was swinging back and forth suddenly tightened. After a few short breaths, it suddenly relaxed. Its head drooped down and stopped moving.
The crew member's body stiffened. He swallowed and said in a trembling voice, "It, it seems to be dead."
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