abnabooks Chapter 1689: Islands Following the Storm
Chapter 1689: Islands Following the Storm
Chapter 1689: Islands Following the Storm
After another four hours, the sun began to slant, and the storm only grew a little bigger in everyone's sight.
If I had listened to the captain just now, I don’t know when I would be able to get close to it.
But even so, everyone was amazed.
The captain described it well, storm...wall!
This is not a tornado, this is the storm wall that will soon fill everyone's vision, high, thick, and blocking!
It is also accompanied by massive amounts of smoke, clouds, fog and dust.
There were lightning and thunder in the whirlwind.
The captain's face turned pale, and he pleaded with Bai Ziqi: "Sir, if we continue like this, we will die!"
Bai Ziqi was unmoved: "Don't worry, if I say it's okay, then it's okay."
The Qing Guards said nothing. If Envoy Bai said it was okay, then it was okay, and they didn't need to doubt it.
The closer the boat got, the more everyone felt that the storm wall was extremely wide and had almost no end on both sides.
Compared with the size of this super storm, the large ship carefully selected by Bai Shiqi was like a dozen sesame seeds placed next to a hundred-pound melon.
The power of heaven and earth was fully displayed at this moment. Any words to describe it would be pale.
And the storm was coming towards the big ship.
Judging from its speed, it will collide head-on with Bai Ziqi's ship by tomorrow at the latest!
In this situation, he remained calm as usual.
"Drive straight at it, just in time."
Time? The captain was almost terrified. What time?
If he had known that these people were all crazy, he would never have taken their money!
No one dared to sleep that night.
The bright stars in the night sky disappeared, leaving only pitch-black darkness.
The next morning, the captain and his men were all bruised and battered, and they looked at Bai Wei with evasive eyes.
Because it was running in both directions, the storm wall looked extremely spectacular in everyone's sight.
Fortunately, the people around Bai Ziqi were all strong-willed. If they were ordinary passengers, they would have cried, made a fuss, or even hanged themselves.
The sea breeze at this time was so violent that Bai Ziqi ordered everyone to take out the lamp spirits and form a stable formation so that the ship did not sink to the bottom of the sea.
The captain and the sailors had all been beaten up once, with bruises on their faces and noses. They did not dare to act up now, and they sailed the ship obediently towards the storm.
"If I didn't make a mistake..." Bai Ziqi muttered to himself, "No, it's impossible to make a mistake!"
Soon, the ship entered the ocean current circle surrounding the storm, and even with the wind-fixing magic array, it was tossed all over the place, and several times the sails were about to touch the sea surface.
Because storms suck water upward, ocean currents suck everything around them up into the air.
Once the boat is caught in the ocean current, it will be swept away automatically. No matter how skilled the captain is, he cannot pull the boat out of the ocean current.
Seeing the storm getting bigger and bigger in his sight, with the water being sucked up into the sky winding like a living dragon on the storm wall, the captain closed his eyes in despair: "It's over."
The sea water was sucked up by the waterspout and turned into icy mist, which then hit him hard in the face and penetrated into his heart.
But just as he hung his head and waited for death, the wind seemed to weaken, not blowing his face as hard as before. The moisture blowing on his face also became lighter, and he heard the cheers of others:
"It's up to the sky, the water dragon is up to the sky!"
When the captain opened his eyes, he saw that the huge storm wall in front of him was disintegrating, and iron-gray smoke was rising into the sky, as if it was sucked into the clouds by something.
Only a few wisps of rising water remained, like a flying dragon ascending into the sky and diving into the clouds, never to be seen again.
In less than two quarters of an hour, the sea was calm again, with only a drizzle of rain falling from the sky. The captain licked his lips subconsciously; it tasted salty.
This is the last bit of sea water that is sucked up to the sky, turning into rain and returning to the sea.
Then fish started falling from the sky, crackling, all kinds of fish, like hail.
The captain's men were cheering at first, feeling that they had survived a disaster. However, a two-meter-long shark fell from the sky and knocked several of them unconscious. The shark was floundering around on the deck with its bloody mouth open.
The sailors were so scared that they tried to avoid it. At this moment, something popped out from the cabin and took advantage of the giant shark turning around to knock it into the sea.
The boatmen's vision was blocked by the giant shark, so they couldn't see what it was. It was as if they only saw a gray shadow, and then the giant shark was kicked into the water, and the shadow disappeared.
Wow! That shark must weigh several thousand pounds, right?
The boat was shaking constantly, and Bai Ziqi ordered: "Keep moving forward."
A quarter of an hour later, the dark clouds that were about to press down on the sea disappeared into thin air in an instant.
What does it mean that there are unexpected events in the world? This is a living example.
When the storm dissipated, there were more than a dozen islands of various sizes ahead, with mountains and lush green trees, just like ordinary islands.
"This, this...?" The captain rubbed his eyes. "There are no islands in this sea area. Where did they come from?!"
"It was brought by the storm." Bai Ziqi was also staring at the island, "This is the legendary Silver Pearl Island!"
Silver Pearl Island is hidden in the center of the storm.
He had calculated the time well. Such a magnificent storm wall would surely dissipate at two quarters past noon today!
As long as they time it right, the storm won't cause them serious harm.
The fleet continued to move forward, and the Silver Pearl Island in the distance became larger and larger in sight.
But the wind on the sea suddenly changed direction and blew from the island towards here, and thick fog, which came from somewhere, rolled in towards us!
The rings on the hands of Bai Ziqi, Bai Shiqi and others suddenly emitted red light.
"The fog is poisonous, open the barrier!"
The rings on their hands would react when encountering magical powers or poisons.
This is a magic weapon specially prepared by Bai Ziqi. After all, the opponent is a mirage fairy. Who knows when he will be hit?
In a blink of an eye, fog came, but more than ten large ships opened the barrier, and the light blue light shield kept the thick fog out.
Ordinary sea fog is milky white, but this fog is white with a hint of pink, the color is very beautiful.
Bai Ziqi's magician said, "This is smoke and miasma, it will make people confused."
The fog was soon so thick that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. All they could see was a vast expanse of white. They could not even see the friendly ships several feet away.
Bai Ziqi didn't need to give any instructions, everyone should be on high alert to prevent sneak attacks.
Where will the first attack come from?
However, there is no answer to this question, because the sea breeze is still blowing, and it will blow away the thick fog in a short while.
The sea was open again, and although there was still some haze in the air, the view was at least clear, and everything seemed to be the same as before.
The thick fog just now was probably caused by foreign ships entering the storm circle, thus triggering some defensive magical powers?
The sea was calm, so Bai Ziqi ordered the fleet to stop advancing.
As soon as you step onto the island, you will reach the territory of True Man Qianhuan. You must maintain a minimum level of respect for the strength of this ancient true immortal.
He was more cautious than usual, even keeping a distance of more than ten miles at sea, and then sent out three brown-backed kites to fly towards Silver Pearl Island with the wind.
They need to do some reconnaissance first.
These three kites share the same vision with their respective owners. Whatever they see, their owners can also see.
Looking down from the sky, the archipelago is like pearls on the sea, with beautiful scenery. White birds are circling in groups, and they panic and hide when they see kites.
In the east of the largest island, there are towering mountains and shrouded in white mist.
There are fairy mountains on the sea, and it is no different.
There are also farmlands, buildings, dams, and various traces of human activities on the island.
If the kite flies a little lower, it can see that the main island has the most densely populated towns and villages, while the farther away the island is, the fewer people there are.
If Silver Pearl Island was not located in the middle of the storm circle, from the perspective of the kite, there would be no difference between it and an ordinary island.
Bai Shiqi was a little surprised: "Judging from the density of houses, there are at least tens of thousands of residents in the Silver Pearl Islands!"
How could there be tens of thousands of people living and reproducing on such a stormy archipelago that is far away from land?
Moreover, this is the cave of Master Qianhuan!
Could it be that the ancient immortals would live with mortals? Bai Shiqi couldn't imagine it. It felt like Miao Zhantian lived next door to him, which was particularly unreal.
"Making a mountain out of a molehill." Bai Ziqi was observing the main island of Yinzhu in the distance, with a sand table on the table in front of him.
Wherever the kite flies and sees, the terrain will be automatically outlined on the sand table, and it will be scaled down proportionally.
Even the buildings, rivers, and rocks on the island will appear in the sand table one by one, lifelike.
If they fly a dozen more rounds, they will be able to complete the map of the entire Silver Pearl Island.
Silver Pearl Island is very mysterious, and no outsider has ever done this kind of mapping. Even the Miaozhantian Temple has not been able to collect relatively complete information. A detailed, meticulous, and reliable map is extremely important for Bai Ziqi's actions and commands.
"Immortals, like gods, need to be worshipped. In ancient times, common people lived on the ground and looked up to the immortals in Lingshan Mountain. They had to pay tribute to them regularly, which was also called 'immortal tax' or 'immortal tribute'." Bai Ziqi's words were slightly ironic. "An immortal sect can easily have tens of thousands of people from top to bottom. The Dahuan Sect that originally occupied Xushan Mountain even had 60,000 disciples. In addition to the immortals who practiced fasting, the food and expenses of the sect's disciples had to be borne by the common people in the territory. On average, thirty common people could support one immortal sect disciple. Therefore, this 'immortal tax' is very heavy. If the harvest is not good or the tribute is low, the immortal will not care about your difficulties and will immediately punish you to let these ants know what the wrath of thunder is."
"There are also immortal fields, medicinal gardens, and pastures in the Immortal Sect, which require a large number of laborers and menial tasks, and these must also be drawn from the civilian population. You see, how can the life of an immortal be without the contributions of mortals?" Bai Ziqi pointed to the Silver Pearl Island, "Since this is the cave residence of True Man Qianhuan, it is not surprising to continue this model."
In ancient and medieval times, immortals and celestial sects all lived like this.
He took a deep breath: "However, the spiritual energy here is not as good as expected."
Only a few dozen days had passed since the eruption of the Emperor's Liquid, and the spiritual energy in the outside world was very dense, so dense that ordinary creatures in the early stages were not used to it, and even felt a little intoxicated by the oxygen. In comparison, the spiritual energy in the center of the storm and the waters of Silver Pearl Island was not as abundant as imagined.
You know, the reason why the immortals' residence is called "Dongtian Paradise" is that the concentration of spiritual energy here must be dozens of times that of the outside world. Otherwise, the immortals here are not in seclusion, but in prison.