Chapter 39

"The Yanchuiying is in the forbidden area of my mansion. You can't enter." The male cultivator saw Jitang lower his eyes and hesitated for a moment before saying hurriedly, "That flower is not as beautiful as the copper-flower. Fellow Daoist, there is no need to be disappointed."

Jitang responded.

As he spoke, the disciple who had gone in to report also returned. "Fellow Daoists, please stay in the outer palace tonight. I will take you around the palace tomorrow. However, the inner palace is where Master and the seniors practice meditation..."

Su Jinzhou understood what the other party meant. "Thank you, fellow Daoist. My junior sister and I are new to the island. It's a great honor to be able to visit the mansion and discuss the ways of cultivation with the disciples there. I'm very grateful."

They were taken to the outer palace residence by their disciples, and their rooms were adjacent to each other.

As the night deepened, Jitang slipped into Su Jinzhou's room.

Su Jinzhou took a nap with his clothes on, and got up when he heard three gentle knocks on the door.

Ji Tang flashed in and said with a smile, "I knew that Senior Brother was not asleep."

Su Jinzhou straightened the hem of his clothes and said, "Let's go."

They took advantage of the night to sneak into the forbidden area of the inner palace.

It was late at night and the disciples guarding the forbidden area were inevitably tired.

Ji Tang summoned his own magical weapon, Wanyinzhao, to conceal the figures and breath of the two men, and then used the soul-stealing technique to safely penetrate deep into the forbidden area.

They were injured and did not dare to be careless. After finding the medicinal field, Su Jinzhou was responsible for watching and reporting, while Ji Tang was responsible for searching for Yan Chuiying among the medicinal fields.

Fortunately, there were no disciples guarding the medicinal fields, so it was much easier for Jitang to find them. She moved quickly, searching through each medicinal field, and finally found a small cluster of salt-blowing warblers among the lush, waist-high Xiraodian grass.

Jitang took out two wooden boxes, carefully dug up the soil, pulled up the two salt-blowing warblers by their roots, and placed them in the wooden boxes respectively. After confirming that they were correct, he put the wooden boxes into the storage bag.

After doing all this, she filled the soil and it looked the same as before.

As long as the disciples of Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion do not know every kind of herb, it will be difficult for them to find the two missing Salt Blowing Orioles.

"Juniors are eager to save people, and it is wrong to take it without asking. We owe you a favor, and we will definitely repay you in the future."

Ji Tang finished speaking in a low voice, then stood up and nodded to Su Jinzhou.

They returned along the same route and when they were about to leave the forbidden area, they ran into a team of patrolling disciples.

Su Jinzhou and Jitang held their breath and did not move.

Ji Tang's Wanyinzhao has the effect of hiding the physical body and shielding the spirit, soul, and breath. As long as they don't move, even the seniors with high cultivation will not be able to detect them.

The team of disciples lined up and walked into the forbidden area. There was a familiar face among them. He was one of the disciples who entered Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion and was guarding outside the mansion. He was the disciple who comforted Jitang Tongyinghua Gengmei.

The leader's cultivation level was unknown, but he must be the one with the highest cultivation level among the disciples. "We must prepare all the treasures tonight. I will set off early tomorrow morning."

"Senior brother, a few hours ago, two fellow Taoists from the Suxuan Sect visited our residence. They mentioned the incident in the Fenglei Sea and that Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast was acting a little abnormally. The Weihai Palace was extremely busy with this. If you go there at this time, will they have time to see us?" The speaker was a familiar disciple.

The person walking in front stopped and said, "It seems that the sea dragon boat they were riding on was the one that had the accident. Where are they now?"

Disciple: "Rest in the Qingzhu Pavilion in the outer palace."

"Until Master gives us new orders, let's stick to our previous arrangements. First, take all the treasures. I'll go find those two fellow Taoists and ask about the situation after daybreak."

"yes."

Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou exchanged glances, and waited until the group had gone far away before they quietly left the forbidden area, carefully avoiding the patrolling disciples and returning to their residence.

After a short rest, the senior brother who said he was coming to see them arrived at dawn.

Su Jinzhou told him everything he knew, including the sinking of the Sea Dragon Boat, the abnormal behavior of the Sturgeon Shark King Beast, and the situation in the Wei Hai Palace.

Jitang already knew his name, Song Yisui. "Senior Brother Song, are you going to Weihai Palace?"

Song Yisui: "Indeed, my palace and Wei Hai Palace have always been on good terms, with exchanges every year. Now is the time we had scheduled to visit, but we didn't expect to encounter something like this."

He: "Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast really ate a living thing?"

Jitang nodded. He had repeated this question three times.

Song Yisui: "Sorry, Junior Sister, I keep asking you."

Jitang said it was okay.

Song Yisui: "This is truly unbelievable. Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast hasn't eaten living things for thousands of years. This goes against its cultivation."

Ji Tang: "Once you reach the Golden Core stage, you can practice fasting. Eating grains after that is actually detrimental to your cultivation. But for Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast, those impurities are at most a waste of time, not a big deal. Why are you so surprised, Brother? I remember Senior Jin Fengning of Wei Hai Palace was just like you when he heard about it."

Song Yisui: "Junior sister, you don't know. The food we humans eat includes grains, chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep, but in the final analysis, these are not the same species. But Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast is different. It is a sea beast. Except for seaweed and other fish in the sea, all fish are of the same species as Senior. Senior has long been intelligent and would never feed on his own kind. This is no longer a question of whether to abstain from grains or not."

Ji Tang lowered his eyes and sighed, "After all, they are all living things."

Song Yisui: "What?"

Ji Tang: "No, I understand, Senior Brother. It's just that when we left Wei Hai Palace, Senior Jin Fengning and the others were busy with Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast's affairs. I don't know what the situation is like now."

Song Yisui: "That's right, but we haven't received any news from Wei Hai Palace, and Master hasn't given any new instructions, so we still have to go."

Su Jinzhou: "Can we go with Brother?"

Song Yisui was surprised. "You're leaving so soon? We have to leave soon. Why don't you stay a little longer and discuss the way of cultivation with my disciples?"

Su Jinzhou said, "To be honest, we have some urgent matters that require us to return to Chenwuzhou as soon as possible. I am unable to use my spiritual power, and my junior sister's body has not yet recovered. Riding a sea dragon boat is not as fast as flying a sword. I hope that my senior brother can take us for a while. After we reach Weihai Palace, we can take the sea dragon boat back."

Song Yisui didn't ask any more questions. "It's just two people. We have no problem taking them. You guys should take good care of yourself. When you're well, come back to my house."

Su Jinzhou stood up and bowed: "Thank you, Senior Brother."

Song Yisui lifted him up: "You're welcome!"

Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou had nothing to prepare, so when Song Yisui sent someone to call them, they followed Song Yisui and his party.

As for Xue Ziyuan, Su Jinzhou could only send him a message and meet him another day.

Song Yisui and his party were all cultivators above the Jindan stage. They could fly directly across the Wind and Thunder Sea on their swords to reach the Wei Hai Palace, which was more than three times faster than taking a sea dragon boat.

When they arrived at Wei Hai Palace, Su Jinzhou and Song Yisui said goodbye.

They paid spirit stones from the port on the shore and boarded the boat, waiting for departure.

The sea dragon boats had not stopped sailing because of the previous incident, and the boats were still bustling with activity. Some people even talked about the unusual sinking of the boat by the sturgeon shark king beast.

Ji Tang shook his head: "They all thought that it was Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast who was acting abnormally and sank the Sea Dragon Boat, but in fact, the sinking of the Sea Dragon Boat had nothing to do with Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast."

Su Jinzhou said, "You see, there are disciples from the Weihai Palace patrolling the harbor. This means they haven't found the cause yet, so the truth is nowhere to be found. As for these people, their words get distorted by passing them around, so there's no need to listen to them."

Jitang: "Got it."

The sea dragon boats that travel from various islands to the port of Weihai Palace will gather together and gradually merge together. At each connection point, the crew will throw out an iron chain to merge the five sea dragon boats into one.

Because of an accident, their boat sank before they reached Haijinyunjian Island.

If they could successfully get out of the Wind and Thunder Sea at that time, they would see the sea dragon boat separate the iron chains and form five parts. Each part could become a sea dragon boat on its own, carrying the monks to different islands.

The Wei Hai Palace was located in the windy and thundery sea. When they boarded the boat, a defensive formation had already been constructed on the boat.

Ji Tang smiled: "Okay, no need to worry about the boat sinking this time."

The sea dragon boat has a defensive magic circle, which allows it to sail smoothly in the windy and thundery sea area and is not affected by the wind and thunder at all.

They went on like this for a while, estimated to be about an hour, and just as the sea dragon boat was about to sail out of the sea, the boat began to shake violently.

Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou were talking on the deck when they were thrown onto the railing by the sudden shaking.

Ji Tang reacted quickly. After the first collision, she immediately used the nightmare energy to tie herself and Su Jinzhou together and fixed them to the railing.

Su Jinzhou: "So Junior Sister's words are only effective for bad things, not good things?"

The corner of Jitang's mouth twitched, "Senior brother, your joke is not timely."

People were falling to the ground on the deck, but Ji Tang still had enough strength to pull up a few people nearby. They thanked him and followed his example, using their spiritual power to secure themselves to the railing.

Ji Tang looked up and saw that the defensive formation covering the sea dragon boat was sometimes real and sometimes not. It was obvious that there was a problem.

The crew members on the deck supported each other and went to the cabin below the attic to check the defensive formation. However, the second violent shaking soon began, and the crew members were thrown heavily onto the deck. Several of them fainted on the spot.

On the deck, screams of agony echoed one after another, mixed with angry curses: "What the hell is going on! Are we going to sink the Sea Dragon Boat again?!"

"Don't go out to sea if you're not fully prepared! Can the defensive array be repaired? Is this the Sturgeon Shark King Beast causing trouble?"

"No! How can we, the little cultivators, possibly be a match for someone in the Fusion Stage?"

Along with countless screams and curses, the remaining shadows of the defensive magic circle disappeared completely.

Without the protection of the defensive magic circle, the sea dragon boat suddenly became a fragile small boat in the rough sea.

Wind and thunder swept in, mixed with violent spiritual power, wiping out all sounds in an instant.

Ji Tang caught a glimpse of a blue light in the dark clouds above his head and hurriedly called Su Jinzhou to look.

Ji Tang: "The appearance of this blue light is strange. Could the previous accident with the Sea Dragon Boat be related to this thing?"

Su Jinzhou's face was solemn, he said nothing, his eyes fixed on Lan Mang.

The dragon boat floats in the sea, and the wailing it makes is terrifying.

They were helpless at sea, and the only sea dragon boat they could rely on was about to capsize. If the sea dragon boat sank again, and they encountered the sturgeon shark king beast again, would they be able to escape?

One of them cannot use spiritual power, and the other can only mobilize a tiny amount of nightmare energy. Aren't they just asking to be slaughtered?

Su Jinzhou's mind was working fast, and he was already thinking about how to use his spiritual power to fly his sword to bring Jitang back to Weihai Palace.

Jitang suddenly said: "Look!"

Su Jinzhou looked in the direction of the sound and saw several rays of light coming out of the dark clouds in the distance. They were in the shape of swords - those were swords blessed with spiritual power. Someone was coming riding on the swords!

Su Jinzhou's tense expression finally relaxed a little. Fortunately, things had not yet developed to the worst point.