Chapter 48
Ever since the Wind and Thunder Sea disappeared, cultivators’ sword travel was no longer restricted by their cultivation level, and the Sea Dragon Boat became the second choice for cultivators below the Golden Core Stage.
Ji Tang followed the Wei Hai Palace team on his sword. Looking down, he saw that the number of dragon boats sailing in the sea was obviously much less than before.
Ji Tang: "Brother Xu, if this continues, will the sea dragon boat business be ruined?"
Xu Gaoce laughed and said, "It's just that there are fewer cultivators. Don't mortals still have to rely on sea dragon boats to travel back and forth?"
Ji Tang knocked his forehead and said, "How could I have forgotten about this?"
Xu Gaoce said gently, "It's not your fault. Before the Wind and Thunder Sea, although the common people could travel back and forth on the Sea Dragon Boats, they had no cultivation. Even though the Sea Dragon Boats had defensive formations, they still didn't dare to. Now that the Wind and Thunder Sea has disappeared, the common people have no worries, and the number of people traveling has increased, which has made up for the lack of cultivators."
Ji Tang was puzzled: "But why do I see that the number of sea dragon boats has decreased?"
Xu Gaoce: "You may not know this yet, but the Sea Dragon Boats have added a new route, and it doesn't go this way. Look at this route," he gestured roughly to Jitang, "It stops at Weihai Palace halfway. Only cultivators would come to Weihai Palace, but now many cultivators choose to fly on swords, so fewer people take this route, and naturally fewer Sea Dragon Boats."
Jitang understood, "I see."
The disappearance of the Wind and Thunder Sea is a good thing, as it allows the monks and the people to no longer be afraid and worried. However, the price of traveling back and forth safely on the sea dragon boat is too high.
Xu Gaoce pointed to her and said, "Senior Wang Shou's successor is waiting up ahead. We're here."
When Ji Tang heard this, he looked and saw a sturgeon shark with a blue back and white fins floating on the sea, waving its fins at them.
"What's it called?"
"Shark."
Jitang felt that the sturgeon shark beast clan's naming was somewhat arbitrary. Just like the sturgeon shark king beast was named Wuxun, the tribe member who was about to inherit the inheritance, Shaqi, also chose a character from the three characters of sturgeon shark beast as his name.
Aren’t there a lot of people with the same name?
While Jitang was distracted, Elder Qiu Runfang had already finished his conversation with Shaqi. They didn't stop, flying their swords at low altitude and continuing forward. Shaqi followed the team, sailing freely in the sea.
After walking for a while, Shaqi gradually slowed down and got closer to where Jitang was.
Jitang could see from the corner of her eye that Shaqi was looking at her with his round eyes.
She simply lowered her sword even lower, almost touching the surface of the sea.
Sharky came closer immediately.
Ji Tang felt the other party tentatively placing a wisp of spiritual consciousness on his head.
To be able to communicate through spiritual consciousness, Shark Qi’s cultivation level must be at least at the Out-of-Body Stage.
When a cultivator's cultivation level crosses two major levels, the one with higher cultivation level can forcibly place a strand of his spiritual consciousness into the sea of consciousness of the cultivator with lower cultivation level.
But except for those whom one trusts very much, or cultivators who have 100% confidence in themselves, few people would actually force their spiritual consciousness into it.
The sea of consciousness is extremely important to cultivators, being closely connected to their primordial spirit. Once the sea of consciousness collapses, the cultivator can no longer continue their cultivation, and even their life is uncertain.
Therefore, cultivators will put up one protective barrier after another for their sea of consciousness, using various methods and means, which are similar to protecting the golden elixir.
However, the spiritual consciousness of a cultivator with high cultivation level has no protection from the sea of consciousness. If he breaks into the sea of consciousness of other cultivators alone, there will be risks even if there is a huge gap in strength between the two, so no one will try it easily.
The process of probing spiritual consciousness into other people's sea of consciousness is a very offensive act, but it is not ruled out that some self-righteous cultivators are used to being superior and use this to highlight their strength and power.
In fact, Shaqi could have directly put his spiritual consciousness into Jitang's sea of consciousness, but he didn't, which made Jitang feel some good about him.
Jitang nodded.
After getting her consent, Shark Wizard slowly probed his spiritual sense into Ji Tang's sea of consciousness.
"You are Jitang."
"Yes, Senior Shark."
Shark: "You can just call me by my name. I'm not a senior."
Ji Tang: "Senior's cultivation is far superior to mine."
Sharky's round eyes seemed to bend a little, but because of their different races, it might not be noticeable even if his round eyes were really bent.
Sharky: "I've only just turned sixty-four. There aren't many of you younger than me, are there?"
Ji Tang was really surprised. "Sixty-four?! What's your cultivation level?"
Seeing her attitude change so quickly, Shaqi, not knowing if it was because he was in a playful mood, deliberately teased her: "Guess?"
"..." Ji Tang, who was thirty years older than it, didn't want to guess, "Anyway, he has to be in the Out-of-Body Stage."
Shark's tail swam a few times faster, and Jitang felt very proud of himself no matter how he looked at it.
It said: "I have touched the threshold of the distraction stage."
Ji Tang was so shocked that he almost fell off Ji Yao's sword.
Her cultivation level is at the late stage of Heart Movement. Even if she survives the nine heavenly thunders and enters the Spiritual Silence stage, she still has a whole level to cross before reaching the Golden Core stage.
But what about the Spirit Severing Stage? That required two major stages, the Nascent Soul Stage and the Out-of-Body Stage, and six minor stages to reach. The most terrifying thing was that Shark Wizard was only sixty-four years old!
It's a nightmare worse than a beast's.
Jitang believed that she had never been lazy or paddled since she was a child, and had practiced seriously. But compared with Shaqi, she suddenly felt powerless and suffered a huge blow.
Shaqi saw Jitang almost drop his flying sword, and now he was catching it from right below.
"When I reach the Spiritual Severing stage, I will be able to transform into a human form. Then it will be much easier for me to get along with you."
Ji Tang was still dazed from the blow and said weakly, "I am from the Nightmare Clan."
Shark: "Nightmare Clan? Same thing. You look just as good as a human, um... you look better."
Ji Tang felt a little better and asked him for advice, "How did you manage to reach the late stage of Out-of-Body cultivation in such a short time? Do you have any secrets?"
Shark Qi swam back to her side, "There's no secret. It just depends on who's not afraid of death, who can withstand it, and then...it all depends on fate!"
What is the answer?
Ji Tang curled his lips. Since the other party didn't want to say anything, Ji Tang didn't ask.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Shaqi said, "I heard from Elder Qiu that the King Beast Ancestor asked you to find the heir of our clan before he blew himself up. Why didn't you join them in the search?"
Ji Tang: "I had urgent business to go back to Chenwuzhou. Now that the matter is settled, I came back to take a look."
Sharky: "So that's how it is."
Ji Tang: "Why, do you think I'm a man who doesn't keep his word?"
Sharky didn't hide it, "I used to think so, but now I know you're not."
Jitang felt amused, "You believe me just because I say one thing?" He wondered if Shaqi spent all his time on cultivation. It was too naive for him to believe others so easily.
Sharky: "Even if you're lying, I can't tell. So why don't I just believe it?"
Jitang thought it made sense, but it was she who labeled Shaqi based on a single first impression.
Ji Tang: "I still haven't asked Elder Qiu and the others how they chose you as the successor from your clan?"
Shark Qi was very proud, "My tribe has always respected strength."
Jitang asked: "Don't you have any elders or seniors in your tribe?"
Shark: "Of course there are, but they are all very old. Even if they inherited it, they might not be able to master it as thoroughly as I do."
Ji Tang thought to himself that what he said was really shameless.
They chatted back and forth all the way, and it didn't feel boring at all.
The place where Senior Wangshou inherited his legacy is on a small island extending from Haijinyunjian Island.
When Ji Tang was flying the sword, he estimated that the forest alone occupied two-thirds of the island. The sea water crisscrossed the island, making the land extremely muddy.
Senior Wang Shou was very far-sighted. Perhaps he thought that the future successor might not be able to reach the level of cultivation to transform into a human form, so he chose this small island.
Shark can swim along the sea to the island, and there will be no situation where he cannot get ashore after reaching the island.
Elder Qiu walked in front according to the location Jitang told him, and the other disciples lined up and followed behind in an orderly manner.
After walking for a while, everyone's shoes were covered with muddy and wet soil.
Ji Tang shook her feet and shook off a lot of mud, but a lot of it went into her shoes. Every step she took felt like she was stepping into the mud, sinking deeper and deeper. Soon her feet became extremely cold.
There are restrictions on the island set by the senior king beast. They cannot fly the sword, nor can they successfully call upon spiritual power and nightmare energy. Even Elder Qiu has to move step by step.
The place of inheritance is located in the center of the island. When they arrived, Shark had been waiting there for a long time.
No one except Shark can enter the place of inheritance.
Elder Qiu stepped forward and whispered a few words to Shaqi. Seeing that she had nothing to do here, Jitang came to the place of inheritance, bowed respectfully, and bowed three times.
She planned to walk around the inheritance site and pick out all the dead branches among the old and twisted branches.
It will definitely take a lot of time for Shaqi to accept the inheritance. Jitang is not in a hurry and watches very carefully.
When she walked towards the place of inheritance, her eyes paused at a gap in the weeds.
There looked like a ball of crumpled rice paper in there.
Jitang blinked hard, thinking it was unlikely.
There is a restriction on the island by Senior Wang Beast. If Ji Tang had not obtained the information from Senior Wang Beast, with Senior Wang Beast's cultivation level in the fusion stage, ordinary cultivators would not be able to find this place at all, let alone mortals.
She pushed aside the weeds and took out the things -
It was indeed a ball of crumpled rice paper.
Jitang didn't bother to tidy up the remaining dead branches. She ran outside with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
At this time, Shaqi had already entered the place of inheritance, and Elder Qiu was leading his men to rest and wait.
"Elder Qiu!" Jitang ran to Elder Qiu.
Elder Qiu was surprised. "What's the hurry? The mud has splashed up to your calves. If you have something to say, please speak slowly."
Ji Tang couldn't slow down. "Look at this!" She showed the ball of rice paper to Elder Qiu. "I found this behind the inheritance site."
She didn't need to say much, Elder Qiu understood Jitang's meaning the moment he saw the paper ball.
Her face was solemn as she opened the paper ball, and there was nothing inside except for the creases.
Someone had been here before them.
Elder Qiu called his disciples together and showed them the paper ball in his hand. "There may be other monks on the island. You will form teams of three to search separately. Keep a good distance between each team and don't stray too far away. If you find anything unusual, light the signal fireworks immediately. If you find anything unusual, do not act without authorization. Remember!"
Everyone took the order and quickly divided into teams and dispersed.
They form a team of three, which is just right. It is obvious that they have been working together for a long time.
Ji Tang originally wanted to go, but was stopped by Elder Qiu, "Ji Tang, you stay here with me and make sure that Sha Qi can successfully complete the inheritance."
Ji Tang agreed obediently, but he felt a little anxious in his heart. He could only hope that Sha Qi would complete the inheritance as soon as possible without any problems along the way.
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