Chapter 38
Jitang slept until noon the next day, and when he woke up he smelled the faint fragrance of pastries.
Her voice was nasal: "What kind of delicious food is this..."
A laugh rang in her ears. She turned around and saw that it was her senior brother. She hurriedly tried to stand up, but Su Jinzhou quickly pushed her back.
"Don't move, you're covered in wounds."
Ji Tang: "Brother, when did you sleep next to me?"
Su Jinzhou: "Yesterday. Does your body hurt?"
Jitang shook his head and said, "Maybe I just woke up and don't feel any pain yet." Then he suddenly laughed.
Su Jinzhou saw her smile and his eyes curved up as well: "What are you laughing at?"
Ji Tang: "We two are lying here, unable to move. We can only turn our heads to the side to talk. We are in the same boat. It's funny when I think about it."
Su Jinzhou said helplessly: "You have a good attitude. You are still cheerful even though you are injured like this." He raised his hand to take the plate of pastries on the bedside table.
Ji Tang: "Brother, please slow down."
"Well," Su Jinzhou put the plate between them, took out a piece of cake from it and put it to Jitang's mouth, "Eat it."
Jitang took a bite, and while chewing he couldn't help laughing. As a result, he started coughing violently after just a few laughs.
Su Jinzhou was so anxious that he propped himself up and looked at her. Just as he was about to mobilize his spiritual power to help her calm down, his blood surged in his body and he suddenly tasted blood in his mouth.
Ji Tang coughed until his cheeks flushed red. He finally stopped coughing. Seeing blood at the corner of his mouth, he hurriedly helped him lie down. "I'm fine, I just choked. Did you use your spiritual power? Lie down quickly!"
Su Jinzhou: "It's you who's doing this. Don't move. Lie still."
"I just find it funny to think about you feeding me. How did you get hurt again?" Ji Tang was annoyed. "Blame me. Just eat and enjoy. Why are you laughing?"
Su Jinzhou: "It's not good to eat while lying down. Be good and don't choke again."
Jitang nodded.
At this time, the man who had been standing outside the door and watching for a while coughed, attracting the attention of the two.
He first checked Su Jinzhou's injuries and asked, "Do you still want to live?"
“…” A hint of helplessness flashed in Su Jinzhou’s eyes.
Man: "Still moving?"
Ji Tang: "I will definitely not move!" She promised, "I absolutely believe in him!"
The man glared at her: "You are not someone who can be taken care of!"
Jitang nodded like a little chicken, "I was wrong."
The man was angry but couldn't vent his anger. He couldn't get angry at a little girl who was so obedient as to admit her mistake.
He made everyone drink the medicine one by one, then sat down beside the bed and spoke in a rush, "This is Sturgeon Island. I'm Jin Fengning, a cultivator from the Wei Hai Palace on that island. You're all in my palace's clinic now. The male cultivator who rescued you is now able to get out of bed and move around, so it's time for dinner. Do you have any other questions?"
Su Jinzhou nodded gratefully, "May I ask which monk saved us?"
Jin Fengning was surprised: "You don't know? That kid named Xue something."
Su Jinzhou: "Xue Ziyuan?"
Jin Fengning: "That's the name."
Su Jinzhou knew the answer and asked, "Senior, how far is Sturgeon Island from Haijinyunjian Island?"
Jin Fengning: "If you take the sea dragon boat, you can arrive in two days. However, after Sturgeon Shark Island, you will no longer be affected by the wind and thunder sea area, so you can reach it in half a day by flying on a sword."
"What was that sea monster that attacked us?"
"It's the Sturgeon Shark King Beast. Sturgeon Shark Island is named after it. My Azure Sea Palace has guarded it for millennia. It lives in the deep sea year-round, no longer feeding on living creatures, but instead absorbing the deep sea's spiritual energy. Even we rarely see it. Since I arrived on the island, I haven't heard of a sea dragon boat sinking. I don't know why you disturbed the King Beast this time. Or perhaps you made too much noise in the sea and cast a spell that disturbed it?"
Ji Tang was surprised: "Guarding a sea beast? Senior, what is its cultivation level?"
Jin Fengning: "Fusion stage."
Ji Tang gasped, "This is so powerful..."
Jin Fengning: "The Sturgeon Shark King Beast has long been intelligent. If it were to reach the Tribulation Crossing Stage, it would be able to ascend to the Immortal Realm in its beastly form. It wouldn't care about you juniors at all. But I don't know what happened this time that made it angry. You're lucky to have encountered the King Beast and returned safe and sound."
Ji Tang: "Senior said it doesn't eat living things, but I see blood between its teeth, and there are also a lot of fish bones and fish meat residues?"
Jin Fengning frowned. "That's impossible. It hasn't eaten anything alive in thousands of years. Even if it had left something behind, it would have been corroded long ago. How could it remain between its teeth? Do you see much blood between its teeth?"
Ji Tang: "There are a lot, and the fish bones and meat look very fresh, as if they died not long ago."
Jin Fengning: "How could this be? This shouldn't be..." He stood up and walked out.
Ji Tang sighed slightly, and suddenly felt a sweetness on his lips. He subconsciously opened his mouth and put the uneaten cake into his mouth.
She learned her lesson this time and swallowed it before saying, "Brother, eat too."
Su Jinzhou hummed, ate one himself, and fed another to Jitang. "Are you thinking about your seventh brother?"
Ji Tang: "Well, his body can't hold out for much longer. We are in this situation now. Qing Yue must be very worried. So far, we only have news about Tong Ying Hua. It will take time to find Yan Chui Ying. I am worried that it will be too late."
Su Jinzhou: "Don't worry, we will do our best and leave the rest to fate."
Ji Tang tilted her head slightly. Su Jinzhou was about to bring the cake to her mouth. She shook her head and said, "I'm full."
Su Jinzhou: "That's fine. You're still injured, so you shouldn't eat too much."
Jitang smiled at him.
She knew that Su Jinzhou was not as calm as he appeared. That was his younger brother. He wanted to find Yan Chuying sooner than Ji Tang did, but now he had to comfort her instead.
She is so immature.
Ji Tang slowly moved his hand over and patted the back of Su Jinzhou's hand, "Brother, let's heal our wounds quickly and find some herbs to bring back as soon as possible."
Su Jinzhou pressed her hand down with his backhand, "Okay, don't move."
In the afternoon, Xue Ziyuan came into the house.
"I heard from Senior Jin Fengning that the two Daoists had woken up, so I came to see you." He also brought a basket of fruit and placed it on the table, "What do you want to eat? I'll get it for you."
Su Jinzhou nodded to him and thanked him, "Thank you for your help this time, my junior sister and I are extremely grateful."
"You're welcome, fellow Daoist," Xue Ziyuan said with a smile, "Meeting is fate. Besides, I wasn't far from you at the time, and I only brought you to the surface after seeing the sea beast being lured away."
Su Jinzhou: "Is your injury better, fellow Daoist?"
Xue Ziyuan waved his hand. "It's nothing. To be honest, I've been weak since childhood, and I haven't made much progress over the years. I wasn't injured when I fell into the sea, but I was attacked by a sturgeon shark when I came ashore. It was an ordinary upper-class species, at most about the same level as us in the Kaiguang period. I was careless for a moment and was ambushed by it, which is why I was injured. Now you can see that I can run and jump, and I've almost recovered. The monks who are good at medicine in Weihai Palace are very skilled."
Su Jinzhou: "That's great, fellow Daoist, you should run less and cultivate more."
Xue Ziyuan smiled and nodded, "It would be awkward for us to just call each other brothers. Why don't we just call each other brothers?"
Su Jinzhou: "Okay, Brother Ziyuan."
"Brother Jinzhou!" Xue Ziyuan looked at Jitang, "Jitang, uh, Jitang sister."
Jitang laughed, "Maybe I'm older than you."
Xue Ziyuan: "I just turned ninety this year, how about you?"
Jitang: "Ninety-four."
Xue Ziyuan bowed: "This is really true, Sister Jitang... Senior Sister is better. Although we are not from the same sect, she is better than the same sect. I am taking advantage of this."
He changed his tune quickly.
Xue Ziyuan: "Brother Jinzhou, Senior Sister, I plan to leave for Haijinyunjian Island tomorrow. The entrance examination for Qingxuan Lipo Mansion disciples is almost here. See you on the island then."
Su Jinzhou: "Okay, we wish Brother Ziyuan good luck in his exams."
Xue Ziyuan laughed heartily and said, "Good brothers, I'll treat you to a big meal then!"
Five days later, Su Jinzhou and Ji Tang prepared to leave.
They thanked Jin Fengning and the female cultivator Jiang Ruiwei who changed Jitang's medicine again and said goodbye to them.
Jiang Ruiwei repeatedly told Su Jinzhou not to use his spiritual power, and told Ji Tang to use nightmare energy within his ability.
Ji Tang asked with concern, "Senior, how is the investigation of the Sturgeon Shark King Beast going?"
There was a large amount of blood between the king beast's teeth, and the fresh fish bones and fish meat all looked strange. Perhaps the king beast was not disturbed by the sea dragon boat, but had been abnormal before.
Jin Fengning looked quite tired, probably because he hadn't had a good rest in the past few days. "Things are a bit complicated, and my palace needs to make a long-term plan."
Seeing that he didn't want to say more, Jitang stopped asking.
After leaving Wei Hai Palace, Ji Tang took Su Jinzhou and flew to Hai Jin Yun Jian Island on his sword.
After arriving safely on the island, the two headed straight for Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion.
Their target was not the copper-flower fields in Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion, but the salt-blowing oriole that grew in the same environment.
Jitang took out his collection of herbs and showed it to Su Jinzhou, and then the two of them went to search separately.
They searched from day to night but couldn't find a single Saltblown Warbler.
They had limited time and were all injured, so to be on the safe side, they only searched outside the territory of Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion, but they couldn't find any herbs after searching for such a long time.
Ji Tang looked towards the direction of Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion and said, "We can only try our luck and go to Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion to have a look. Brother, you can't use your spiritual power now, so just wait outside and I'll go in and look for you."
Su Jinzhou was worried and thought for a moment, "Why don't we pay a formal visit?"
"In what capacity?" Ji Tang asked, "We didn't bring a letter from Emperor Xuanzong, so he definitely won't recognize us."
"There are exceptions to everything, let's go."
They arrived outside Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion and were stopped by a guarding cultivator. He bowed politely and asked, "What brings you two fellow Taoists to Baicao Xiaoyao Mansion this evening?"
Su Jinzhou and Jitang returned the gift.
Su Jinzhou said, "Fellow Daoist, my junior sister and I are disciples of the Suxuan Sect of Chenwuzhou. We have come to the island to travel and practice cultivation. We would like to visit your mansion. Please let me know."
The other party looked at the two of them and asked, "Excuse me, do you have any memorials to visit?"
Su Jinzhou smiled bitterly, "When we were entering the Wind and Thunder Sea on a sea dragon boat, something unexpected happened. The sea dragon boat sank into the sea, and we were seriously injured, and we lost the letter of visit. Now I can't use my spiritual power, and my junior sister can only control the sword and cast some low-level and simple spells. We were delayed on the way, so we visited at night. I am sorry to bother you."
The other party looked at the storage bags on their waists and asked, "Is the folding paper lost?"
Su Jinzhou: "Yes, it's lost. Can you check it out, Junior Sister?"
Jitang walked forward, took off the storage bag, and handed it to him together with Su Jinzhou's.
"Excuse me." The male cultivator used his spiritual sense to probe into the storage bag and found some spirit stones and a few magic weapons inside, nothing else.
He withdrew his spiritual consciousness and returned the storage bag to the two people. His expression relaxed a little. "You said something unexpected happened when we passed through the Wind and Thunder Sea. What was it?"
Su Jinzhou told the whole story truthfully. If they wanted to investigate, they could easily find out, and he had nothing to hide.
The male cultivator said, "Okay, fellow Taoists, please wait here. I'll be back soon."
Su Jinzhou: "Thank you very much."
While waiting, Jitang spoke to another disciple, "Fellow Daoist, is that the copper-flower field ahead? I've only heard of it before, but this is the first time I've seen it. I didn't expect it to be so beautiful."
The male cultivator met Ji Tang's smiling eyes and felt a little embarrassed. "Yes, my mansion has the largest copper-flower field on the island. It is indeed a beautiful sight."
"If my senior brother and I were allowed in, I would really like to visit the Tongying Flower Field."
"That won't do. The copper-flower is extremely poisonous. It's easy to get poisoned if you get close to it. Even the disciples in my mansion don't dare to get close to it easily."
Ji Tang was a little disappointed, "So that's how it is..." She lowered her head, her shoulders drooping, looking small and pitiful.
The male cultivator couldn't help but say, "Although you can't get close, it's fine to look at it from a distance. The copper flower field is huge, and you can see it clearly from anywhere."
Ji Tang was pleasantly surprised: "That's great! Oh yes, I also heard there's a herb called Saltblowing Oriole, which grows beautifully alongside Copper-flowered Flowers. Are there any in the Copper-flowered Flowers field?"
The male cultivator had no doubts. "Don't plant them together. That flower has its own special cultivation area and has higher requirements for the soil."
Ji Tang's eyes were full of stars. "I wonder if I can see the salt-blowing warbler? Is it as beautiful as the copper-blooming lily? It's a pity that the copper-blooming lily is highly poisonous, otherwise I really want to pick one and use it as a hair ornament..."
Su Jinzhou didn't say anything and just watched her act.
Jitang winked at him.
Su Jinzhou curled his fingers slightly, resisting the urge to touch her head, and the smile in his eyes was almost unable to be concealed.
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