Most of the shallow ocean secret realm is made up of an endless sea.
There are only small patches of land near the edge of the barrier, and there are a few resources there, but they are so few that they are barely enough to fill a tooth.
The sect also prepared small boats for the disciples who went out to train, but Ji Mofan knew at a glance that the quality of these boats was questionable.
The workmanship is rudimentary, and the defensive runes depicted on it are sparse. If it were attacked by a few fish, this small boat would probably fall apart on the spot.
However, Ji Mofan was unsure whether everyone's boat would be in the same unfortunate state, since he could only see one kudzu root in the area he could see.
Besides that, there's an endless sea and a sky with indistinct boundaries.
Further probing with his divine sense, he could sense that there were people there, but because he was suppressed by the rules of the secret realm, Ji Mofan could only use the strength of the late stage of Qi Refining and could not determine whether the group of people were friend or foe.
He didn't want to attract Ge Gen's attention for the time being, otherwise it would be bad if the child didn't act well and others noticed something was wrong.
Ji Mo Fan did not take out any water transportation. Instead, he used a magic technique to hold his breath and silently pressed his body against the bottom of Ge Gen's small, dilapidated boat.
He felt there was something familiar about this scene...
By the way, back in Chaogui Village, he also followed the small bamboo raft that the villagers used as a sacrifice, and that's how he found that wicked, stinky fish.
Time has passed, and the scene is exactly the same again.
Xiao Gegen grew up in a fishing village. Even when he was still quite young, he would play in the water on the shore with small wooden blocks. As he grew older, he learned fishing skills with his father and brothers. It wasn't until an accident happened and his family's fishing boat was destroyed by a monster that he had to find another way to make a living.
He is an excellent swimmer and a skilled boatman. Now, with the help of spiritual power, he can practically ride the waves.
But this is not good news for Jimo Fan.
He now regrets not having snatched the water-repelling pearl from Fang Xian's hand when they last met.
Waves rushed in from all directions, and trying to use hand gestures to avoid the water was quite a brain drain.
Ge Gen was very obedient, always looking in the direction of the sun as he made his way toward the central island indicated on the map.
If they encounter monsters on the road, they'll fight them; if they find familiar natural resources, they'll gather them. Ji Mo Fan is quite satisfied with this about him. This child has secretly learned a lot about the wild behind his back, and he can recognize many rare resources and gather them in the correct way.
Moreover, while they have curiosity, it's not a bad thing. When they encounter something unfamiliar, they don't blindly touch it without knowing their own limitations. Instead, they write it down in a small notebook and look it up when they return to the Yun Cang Sword Sect.
Although he had explored two secret realms before, Ji Mofan had always stood by his side. This was the first time he had completed a training mission independently.
It's done quite well, provided there aren't any scumbags lurking in the shadows.
Sure enough, someone was planning to harm Kudzu in the secret realm.
However, without the soul lamp created by splitting the divine soul, their search was much slower than that of Ji Mofan.
With underwater vision obstructed, Ji Mofan could only see a small boat, slightly larger than Ge Gen's, rapidly approaching.
He projected his divine sense outwards, allowing him to see the situation outside clearly.
On the small boat were two cultivators, a man and a woman. The man was in the middle stage of Qi Refining, and the woman was in the late stage of Qi Refining. The man was seriously injured, and the woman next to him was also covered in blood. She was holding him and desperately rowing the boat closer to Ge Gen.
"Excuse me, could you please help me?" Although the woman was frantic and her face was pale, she still spoke with proper manners and etiquette, making people want to lend a helping hand.
“We were attacked by monsters. My companion was seriously injured, but I have no medicine left to heal him.”
"Can I buy some from you?"
Ge Gen was a kind-hearted boy, but not without a shred of caution. He didn't intend to make contact with the other party; instead, he rummaged through his storage bag, found two healing herbs, and tossed them into the other party's boat.
"I don't have many medicines here," he said. "Sister, please bandage up your brother first, and then hurry out to find a proper doctor."
"I...I don't know how to bandage..." The girl slumped in the pool of blood, her hands covered in blood, futilely pressing on the bleeding wound of the man beside her, trying to stop his life from slipping away.
"Young friend, I'm so... I'm terrified, my hands are shaking uncontrollably. Could you please help me...?"
Ge Gen hesitated.
His moral compass was struggling, but it was repeatedly suppressed by Ji Mofan's teachings during this period.
Kindness must be built on the foundation of absolute strength. Although the woman in front of him claimed that she could not move, Ge Gen could clearly feel that the spiritual power on her body was fluctuating, and she was obviously stronger than him.
If someone suddenly attacks him while he is treating them, he may not have a way to deal with it.
Although I'm also very worried that this older brother might actually die because his injuries won't get treated...
However, if he gets injured during his training in the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm, his master will definitely worry about him when he returns to the Cloud Cang Sword Sect after the training.
He didn't want his master's mood to worsen because of him.
"Bang."
A faint collision sounded in his ears, and Ge Gen snapped out of his hesitation, only to realize that their two small boats had been gently bumped by the waves because they were too close together.
"Bang!"
The towering waves surged up without warning, and the white mist spread out, affecting both sight and smell. Even the sense of touch became blurred due to the dampness.
Ge Gen clung desperately to the small boat beneath him, skillfully channeling his spiritual energy using his knowledge of water. The fact that the small boat hadn't capsized in the turbulent waves was already a stroke of luck.
Ge Gen was soaked to the bone. He struggled to lift his head out of the boat to get a better look at his surroundings and get away from there as quickly as possible.
A bad premonition crept in at that moment. Almost instinctively, he raised his hand and unleashed the Heaven and Earth Splitting Technique, slashing backward while simultaneously flipping his body to the side. He crashed into the water from the side of the small boat, barely managing to surface by clinging to the edge with one hand, only to be immediately slammed down by a head-on strike.
Kudzu's agility in the water is comparable to that of the best-swimming small fish. With its frog-like cheeks puffed out, it lowered its head into the water and nimbly paddled through the water, quickly disappearing far away.
On the contrary, those attacks that penetrated the water's surface were blocked by the surface tension of the seawater, and their power was greatly reduced underwater. Kudzu was not even hurt by a single hair.
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