Chapter 23: Fusang Sacred Tree

The bow of the ship was already crowded with people and the atmosphere was lively.

Everyone was excited.

"That is definitely the Fusang tree in mythology, the sacred tree where the Golden Crow lives." Gao Huan said with certainty.

He was very serious, not as cheerful as before, and had not yet gotten over the grief of his father's murder. However, his profound knowledge of myths and legends did not allow him to remain silent, so he had to stand up and explain the incomprehensible phenomenon to everyone.

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Li Weiyi stood behind the crowd and looked into the distance.

Deep in the sea, there grow two huge mulberry trees that support each other. Their trunks are rugged and their lush branches stretch straight to the sky.

The bronze ships were probably hundreds or even thousands of miles away from them.

Because the trunks of the two mulberry trees are very faint, just like the feeling of looking at the moon in the early morning from hundreds of thousands of miles away. This situation will only occur when the distance is far enough.

Li Weiyi once looked at the snow-capped mountains from hundreds of miles away and knew the vague feeling caused by the distance.

The distance between the two mulberry trees in front of them was definitely far more than hundreds of miles. The height of the trees was several times the height of the snow-capped mountains when looking at them from afar, as if they were connected to the sky.

"The trunk of the tree is probably thicker than the body of the snow mountain, and its height... I don't know how many tens of thousands of meters."

If not for the fact that every leaf of the two mulberry trees was quite bright, like thousands of leaf-shaped moons, Li Weiyi would even have suspected that what he saw was a mirage.

As the bronze ship sailed against the wind and waves at a rapid speed, the distance between them was shortened a lot.

The tree trunks on the horizon became clear, and even the grooved wood grain could be seen.

There was thick fog on the sea.

The fog was filled with golden flowers of all sizes, without leaves, only dense white roots immersed in the water.

These golden flowers emit a refreshing fragrance.

The larger ones are more than ten meters in diameter, while the smaller ones are only the size of a fist. They all emit brilliant light, like thousands of magic lamps floating in the sea, making the sea as bright as a sea of ​​stars.

Gao Huan temporarily forgot his grief and his face flushed with excitement: "It's the Xihe flower!"

"The Xihe flower and the Fusang tree live together forever, both growing in the Tanggu Sea."

"Xihe swallows the flames of the Golden Crow and blooms. Mortals who eat it will be burned, while small monsters who eat it will turn into giant monsters."

"Finally we know where we are now!"

"It's Tanguhai."

"Tanggu Sea is the intersection of the three realms of the human world, the underworld, and the divine world. Legend has it that the sea is as vast as 1.5 million miles."

Some people don't believe it: "You can brag as much as you want, one and a half million miles. Is the distance between the earth and the moon really one and a half million miles?"

"The distance between the Earth and the Moon is approximately 380,000 kilometers. It's kilometers, not miles." Cai Yutong changed her clothes, put on sunglasses and a mask, appeared next to Li Weiyi, and interrupted.

Gao Huan felt that no one could question his authority in the field of myths and legends, so he asked earnestly, "Is one and a half million miles incredible? Do you know how big the world where Chixian Shenzhou is located is?"

"It is recorded in Lüshi Chunqiu that within the four poles, the distance between east and west is 500 million and 97,000 miles, and the distance between north and south is also 500 million and 97,000 miles. You are short-sighted and still think like an ordinary person. I won't argue with you."

"Are we still on Earth? We are now in the netherworld, in the ghost wasteland."

"Gu!"

"Gurgle!"

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In the direction of the Fusang tree, the sea water turned golden red, as if there was endless divine flame burning on the seabed.

The seawater in the outer sea area began to boil, and bubbles as big as water tanks emerged. Soon, the mist became thicker, covering the entire bronze ship in a vast expanse of white.

“Crash——”

Deep in the thick fog, a giant three-legged bird flapped its wings and flew out from the bottom of the sea where the two sacred mulberry trees were located.

The brilliance bursting out from it illuminated the white mist in the scientific expedition team members' vision with a variety of colors.

"It's the Golden Crow... See it? That's the Golden Crow! It turns out that the Golden Crow does not live on the Fusang sacred tree, but builds its nest on the seabed under the Fusang sacred tree." Gao Huan was very excited, proving once again that he was right.

Although the records in mythological books contain errors, they are by no means groundless.

"The Golden Crow corpse in the tomb forest feels like a baby bird. It is much smaller than the one that flew into the sky." Li Weiyi said.

The golden crow flew out from the bottom of the sea, its wings like clouds hanging from the sky, probably tens of thousands of meters wide.

Each flap can create waves ten feet high.

The heat and light bursting out from it, even after being blocked by the bronze ship's defenses, still stung the eyes and made the skin burn.

A researcher was very curious and threw out a steel bar as thick as a thumb.

The steel bars flew out of the bronze ship's outer defense barrier and were baked red by the terrifying heat before they fell to the sea surface, showing signs of melting.

Everyone was stunned.

Is it so scary outside at this moment?

The temperature in the air must have reached thousands of degrees. No wonder it can burn the sky and boil the sea.

Is this the power that the legendary destructive bird Golden Crow can unleash? After the adult Golden Crow flew into the air, it looked back at the bronze ship sailing on the sea and saw the body of the young bird on the ship. But it didn't dare to get close to it, as there was a breath on the ship that made its soul tremble.

It had never sensed this aura from any living being in this world.

So horrible!

It flapped its wings and flew high into the sky above the clear sky, heading west.

Soon after, it turned into a scorching sun in the sky.

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The deck area, in the sea of ​​tombs and steles.

Not far from the corpse of the young Golden Crow, under a tombstone, a skeleton dressed in red palace clothes was also looking at the Golden Crow flying away in the sky.

Her long hair was as black as silk and fell to her feet.

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She was just standing there casually, but full of temperament and aura. Even if she was just a skeleton, one could still imagine her peerless beauty when she was alive.

In the deep bone sockets of her eyes were two balls of spiritual flame the size of fingers.

She looked at her skeletal arm, which was covered with strands of blood, and the bones were constantly generating life energy. She whispered, "That boy must be the descendant of the ancient clan mentioned in the legend. Only the blood of the ancient clan can revive the corpse, make the bones grow flesh, and bring the dead back to life, returning to the order of the Yang world in the law of life."

"Unfortunately, I only completed half of the marriage ceremony with him before he escaped."

The white skeleton in red looked at Qi Shanshan, who was captured by her and was still unconscious, and said to herself: "First, hide the skeleton into her body, borrow her flesh and blood shell and life breath, and avoid the law of life between heaven and earth that prevents the reversal of life and death."

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Ever since the bronze ship sailed through what Gao Huan called the "Tanggu Sea", there were day and night on the sea in the next few days.

Many scientific expedition team members speculated that there were many golden crows living at the bottom of the Tanggu Sea. They transformed into the sun and flew from east to west, making day and night appear in this world.

In fact, no one knows which is east and which is west.

They all judged the direction based on the previous knowledge that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and believed that the bronze ship was sailing in the north.

The Fusang tree had long disappeared, and the bronze ship seemed to be sailing to another sea area in a continuous space jump. There were no more horrible ghosts in the sea.

There is no wind at sea and the sea surface is as smooth as a mirror.

The seawater was crimson in color, which was very abnormal. When it was scooped up with buckets, it looked like blood, and even filtering could not remove the color, so no one dared to drink it.

Of course, I just don’t dare to drink it now…

Because the generators couldn't be repaired at all, and the food that was difficult to store had almost all rotted. Since yesterday, food and water have been rationed, from three meals a day to half a meal a day.

Another day passed.

Coffins appeared sporadically on the sea, coming from nowhere. They were sailing in the same direction as the bronze ship, leaving long tails on the calm sea.

This world always gives people a feeling of heavy yin energy, which cannot be dispelled by the Fusang tree or the Golden Crow.

The original "sea of ​​souls" was like the place where the souls of all the dead on the planets in the universe returned to. Now this "sea of ​​blood" is like the place where the blood of all the living beings in the universe returns to.

In the afternoon.

There were giant birds flying across the sky, hunting in the sea with loud cries. There was also a group of strange birds with sickle-like beaks like seagulls, which pecked open the coffins floating on the sea and shared the rotten meat and bones in the coffins.

With signs of life, everyone on board was in a good mood and quickly forgot the sorrow and fear of the previous few days.

They all speculated that they were not far from the shore.

It’s so inspiring. As long as we can reach the shore, we can survive.

In the past few days, except for the area around the White Bone Demon's Tomb, Li Weiyi searched the bronze ship but could not find any trace of Qi Shanshan.

"Was he really eaten by the bone demon?"

Li Weiyi had already guessed this, because the most dangerous thing on the ship now was the ghost.

No matter what, he had to go and investigate.

In his heart, he wanted to repay Qi Shanshan's favor and no longer be bound by her. At the same time, he also had a sense of crisis, always feeling that the white-bone demon would crawl out of the grave sooner or later.

Instead of waiting for death, it is better to take the initiative to solve the hidden dangers.

But before that, he had to improve his own combat power first, as he didn't want to rashly die.

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(End of this chapter)