"If you want to find something in the air, the best way to find it is definitely with flying birds." Shi Liuli said calmly.

"Oh?" Xu Yinglian asked in surprise, "Why are they flying birds? Could it be that the birds in the East China Sea are spiritual and can understand human language, and are actively helping you search for ruins in the sky above the East China Sea?"

"That's not the case." Shi Liuli smiled lightly and said calmly, "Master Qiongying doesn't know. The East China Sea is so vast and boundless that even a bird would die of exhaustion and fall if it flew for a long time without a place to land."

"Therefore, birds in the East China Sea know the distribution of islands better than we do. Even when they are looking for food or migrating, they will only fly between two islands and will not fly around randomly."

"Oh." Qiu Changtian pretended to be enlightened. "That is to say, if the birds fly in large numbers in a certain direction, but there are no islands in that direction as far as we know, there is a high possibility that there are hidden aerial relics."

Xu Yinglian: ...

She frowned and questioned again:

"The ruins we are looking for are six thousand feet high in the sky! What kind of bird can reach such a height?"

"Oh, Kun birds, sea cranes, storks, and many other birds that I don't know about, should all be possible." Shi Liuli replied.

Xu Yinglian was once again humiliated. Although she had read a lot of books since she was young, none of the books she read were detailed enough to mention a bird that could fly six thousand feet high.

"I do have a question." Qiu Changtian asked curiously, "The East China Sea is so vast, even if we want to monitor the flight directions of all the bird flocks, it's not feasible, right?"

"That's easy." Shi Liuli said calmly, "There is absolutely no way there could be any aerial ruins in the sea area near Penglai. Otherwise, they would have been excavated by the monks thousands of years ago."

"The further east you go from this sea area, the more remote it becomes. The scope of exploration by the Penglai monks is smaller, but the corresponding number of islands is smaller as well."

"It is said that when you reach the easternmost point, there are no islands within a thousand miles, and therefore no birds... Only aquatic monsters live there. Am I clear?"

"That is to say." Qiu Changtian suddenly realized, "As long as we continue to move eastward, the possibility of the existence of the ruins will increase, but the scope of investigation will gradually narrow."

"That's right." Shi Liuli smiled slightly, "If my guess is correct, the ruins should be in the very remote eastern sea area."

"Why?" Xu Yinglian asked with a frown.

"Because if the ruins are very large, it is difficult not to be discovered by the people below, even if it is six thousand feet high." Shi Liuli said calmly, "Since Donghua Sect is a large sect that masters thunder magic, there must be thousands of cultivators entering and leaving every day. As long as they are seen by cultivators from outside, there will definitely be traces left."

"So it must be in a remote place in the far east." Qiu Changtian nodded.

Xu Yinglian became more and more displeased and asked again:

"But if it is too remote and no bird can reach it, how can we find it?"

"If it is really that remote, it would be very inconvenient for the sect's cultivators to go in and out of the outside world." Shi Liuli analyzed, "It would take several hours to fly on a sword to reach Shenzhou each time. Who can bear it?"

"If I were the headmaster of the Donghua Sect, I would definitely choose one of them. It must be remote enough to prevent the whereabouts from being leaked, but not too far from the Shenzhou Continent..."

She concluded:

"It seems to me unlikely that there is a place where birds cannot reach."

"It's very easy to verify this." Qiu Changtian said with a smile, "Just go and look for it, and you can confirm it."

Xu Yinglian was so angry. He was obviously my husband, but he played a trick with Shi Liuli, and I felt like an outsider!

While Shi Liuli wasn't paying attention, she glared at Qiu Changtian fiercely.

Qiu Changtian:?

Oh, the girl is jealous.

But the look of my junior sister who is hesitant to speak is quite cute. It's good for her to eat more vinegar to kill bacteria and disinfect.

The three of them flew on their swords together and followed Shi Liuli towards the eastern sea.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Qiu Changtian calmly looked around and confirmed that he had arrived at an uninhabited sea area.

Xu Yinglian's face was as gloomy as water. He wanted to get angry but didn't know how, so he could only sit there and keep silent.

Shi Liuli had a calm expression, as if she didn't see anything - but Qiu Changtian knew that she definitely saw it.

"Okay." She suddenly stopped and said, "Let's look around here."

"How to find it?" Xu Yinglian asked coldly.

"Wait a moment." Shi Liuli took out six copper coins.

Oh, Miss Shi's coin divination is here! Qiu Changtian was secretly cheered up.

"Is this... astrology?" Xu Yinglian asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Shi Liuli replied indifferently.

Seeing that she had no intention of explaining further, Xu Yinglian was too lazy to ask more questions and just continued to watch how Miss Shi performed.

Shi Liuli took the six copper coins in his hand, threw them upwards, then caught them casually, opened his palm to take a look, and threw them into the air again.

She repeated this process six times in a row, catching each time with one hand, catching six coins at the same time. Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian stared at her in amazement, as if they were watching a magical acrobat.

"Okay." Shi Liuli finally said, "Continue to the southeast and stop when you see Kun."

"Kun?" Xu Yinglian asked in surprise, "Are you sure there is a giant monster like Kunpeng in the East China Sea?"

"It's not Kunpeng, it's Kun." Shi Liuli corrected her, "A latent dragon in the wild means it has not yet transformed into a roc."

"Wouldn't that be dangerous?" Qiu Changtian asked hurriedly.

Xu Yinglian raised his eyebrows and was about to say something sarcastic to vent his anger when he suddenly noticed something strange.

Why did senior brother subconsciously believe that Shi Liuli's calculation results were correct without any doubt, and then think on this basis?

Hmm? Something is wrong...

She decided not to reveal it yet and to observe it carefully.

The three of them turned and headed southeast.

About two quarters of an hour later, Xu Yinglian suddenly asked:

"Hasn't appeared yet? How long will it take?"

"Soon." Shi Liuli replied, "Didn't you notice that the surrounding area is particularly calm?"

Xu Yinglian looked around and found that everything was indeed calm.

There was no wind, no waves, and the sea was as flat as a field, with only slight ups and downs.

There were many birds circling in the sky, but they just kept circling and had no intention of landing... Of course, there was indeed no land for them to land on.

Xu Yinglian held his breath and waited for a moment. Suddenly, the sea water below parted to both sides, and a huge whale floated up, pushing away the sea water.

The surface of the whale was bumpy and covered with many colorful and strange barnacles.

The seabirds immediately chirped with joy, landed on the whale's back in groups, and began to peck at the barnacles.

"After they have eaten their fill, we will follow them and see where they return to roost." Shi Liuli said with a smile.

Xu Yinglian had a blank expression on his face, and he recalled that on the way to this place, there were indeed not many islands nearby.

So, that’s it?

Okay, I admit that Shi Liuli is indeed a master of calculation, but did Senior Brother Gou know this a long time ago?

When did he become so familiar with Shi Liuli? Kunlun and Penglai were so far away, he...