Chapter 664: The Dragon Slaying Fleet Thousand Years Ago
"Catch me later, and I'll take you all down into the Sea of Silence."
Zhao Duan jumped off the boat, but did not dive immediately. Instead, he swam forward on the sea for a while.
Soon, he noticed that the surrounding sea was shrouded in thick sea fog.
Looking back, the ship led by Zhang Yanyi had "disappeared" because it was blocked by sea fog.
In front of him, there were only Tuoba Weizhi and Jin Jian who had also followed him.
Both girls had tense expressions on their faces. As life forms on land, they had an instinctive fear of the seabed.
On the one hand, Ji Hai undoubtedly penetrated deep into the realm of the [Sea God], and everyone was suppressed.
On the other hand, for them, the underwater environment itself will weaken their combat effectiveness. Whether it is the light of the stars and the moon felt by Jin Jian, or Tuoba Weizhi's brute force, they will be further suppressed.
"Haha, don't worry, I'm not unprepared."
Zhao Duan saw the worry of the two women, smiled slightly, flipped his hand, and an ancient blue-black seal slowly rotated in his palm.
Black Turtle Seal!
"After we get into the water, this magic weapon can help us get rid of the seawater." Zhao Duan explained.
It was because he had this magical weapon that he had the courage to go into the sea.
After saying this, Zhao Duan did not delay any longer and turned around and said:
"Okay, catch me."
Tuoba Weizhi didn't hesitate. He stretched out his soft arms and hugged Zhao Duan's waist directly, with his face almost touching his back.
"...There's no need to hold on so tightly."
Zhao Duan felt the softness on his back, and his heart was moved at first, but when he thought that the other party was the reincarnation of "Prince Qiguo", he suddenly lost interest and felt very awkward.
"Oh. Master."
The dark-skinned little priest seemed to have no idea what shame was. He settled for the next best thing and grabbed Zhao Duan's clothes at the back of his waist with both hands.
Jin Jian followed suit and used his little hands to do the same, grabbing Tuoba Weizhi's cloak.
"Dive!"
Zhao Duan announced like a train conductor, and then holding the Black Turtle Seal, he dived into the Silent Sea.
According to the descriptions of local indigenous people, there is a dead body of water under the Sea of Silence.
However, after Zhao Duan sank, the first thing he felt was the cold sea water pressing towards him from all directions.
He did not rush to activate the Black Turtle Seal, but let his body continue to sink.
I opened my eyes and tried to look underwater, but the light on the seabed was unexpectedly dim and my field of vision was less than five meters.
As he continued to dive, the surroundings became darker and darker, which made Zhao Duan feel that something was wrong. In such an environment, Jin Jian's magic would be greatly suppressed.
However, just as he was hesitating whether to surface and replace Ji Yue, suddenly, a huge suction force suddenly surged from the bottom of the sea!
Zhao Duan was caught off guard. He felt as if countless hands were pulling him and rapidly sinking to the bottom of the sea. He was shocked and tried to struggle, but he had no leverage in the water. Without hesitation, he immediately activated the "Black Turtle Seal".
As a flash of lightning passed through the surface of the Black Turtle Seal, a huge "bubble" quickly enveloped him and the two women behind him.
The seawater was squeezed out.
However, the power of the Black Turtle Seal was unable to resist the suction force.
And the light coming from above also dimmed rapidly.
Zhao Duan was in a trance, feeling as if he was floating in space. There was silence all around him. He seemed to be abandoned by the whole world, and a strong sense of loneliness and depression surged in his heart.
But just when he was getting anxious, the three of them felt as if the world was spinning!
Then, Zhao Duan felt that he began to "float" rapidly!
It seems to be accelerating to the surface!
The darkness above my head began to recede rapidly, replaced by brighter and brighter light.
"Has the Black Turtle Seal taken effect?" Zhao Duan was confused and rushed out of the water!
——
“Crash!”
The oppressive darkness disappeared!
Fresh air rushed into his lungs frantically. Zhao Duan opened his eyes and was surprised to see a blue sea and a blue sky in front of him!
There is no gloomy sea fog or rolling thick clouds.
There is no light gray muddy sea surface.
He was floating in the azure sea, with a clear, cloudless sky above his head. The sun was not visible, but there was evenly distributed bright light on the sea.
And right in front of the sight, an island emerged from the sea!
"What the hell is this place?!"
Zhao Duan was stunned.
Silent Sea?
East China Sea Eye?
The dead "underwater world"?
The scene he saw was completely different from the information he had learned in advance.
"No, this can't be the bottom of the sea... The sky is completely different."
"Could it be... this is a hidden space? Is it the true residence of the Sea God?"
Zhao Duan's thoughts were in a mess, and he looked around vigilantly, holding the seal tightly in one hand, while a sword suddenly appeared in the other hand.
After he sank into the Silent Sea, he unexpectedly entered such a strange and mysterious sea area!
“Crash!”
At this time, the sea water beside him churned, and two heads emerged one after another... no, to be precise, two huge bubbles.
After the bubble floated up, it quickly burst. Tuoba Weizhi, with his black hair and black eyes, and Jin Jian, who had a silly look on his face, looked around in confusion.
"Is this the bottom of the ocean?!"
The two women were stunned and even forgot to paddle. In shock, they lost the support of the bubbles and began to sink.
Zhao Duan stretched out his hands, pulled the two women out of the water, and said solemnly:
"How do you feel?"
Tuoba Weizhi was stunned for a moment and said, "Very good."
Jin Jian adjusted his glasses, sensed himself, and his expression suddenly became strange:
"Here... my connection with the stars and the moon has become intermittent, and my magic power has been greatly affected."
Zhao Duan's heart sank. He exhaled and said with a strange expression:
“It seems that things are a little unexpected.
If I'm not mistaken, we've entered another dimension beneath the sea. Perhaps this has something to do with the angry moon. Perhaps this sea only opens when the sea god is angry and fully awake.
Of course, there is another guess, which is that he suspects that this is related to the purpose of his trip.
He even had a vague suspicion that the changes in the Silent Sea and the emergence of the mysterious sea were all due to his arrival.
"Anyway, let's go to the island and take a look first." Zhao Duan made a decision quickly.
Now that we are here... we have to explore first. If it doesn’t work, we can try to return.
The two women followed his lead. Zhao Duan immediately controlled the Black Turtle Seal, manipulated the surrounding sea water, and pushed the three of them to the shore quickly.
…
The three of them were speeding forward. There was almost no wind here. The sea was as calm as a mirror, with almost no ripples, reflecting the blue sky, presenting a glass-like texture.
The three of them were like a knife, cutting a straight line on the sea surface, and then healing rapidly after they left.
Zhao Duan held the knife and looked at the island vigilantly. Suddenly, his expression changed slightly. He clearly sensed the restlessness of the "Dragon Soul" in his Qi Sea.
It was as if something was attracting the dragon soul, and that thing was on the island.
This discovery made him more and more expectant and more and more certain that all these changes were related to Emperor Taizu.
Soon, the three of them landed on the shallows around the island. The shallows were made of white pebble-like stones, and it was not difficult to walk on them even barefoot.
There are actually some "trees" on the island, but they are not the common tree species on land, but a kind of tropical beach plants.
Zhao Duan even saw rows of coconut trees, which made him feel dazed and wonder if he had traveled through time again and arrived in some Southeast Asian country.
“These trees are so huge!”
Jin Jian held her staff nervously in her hands, and her trouser legs were rolled up, revealing a small piece of fair skin.
The young priestess looked up as she walked among the huge coconut trees, her eyes filled with shock.
Zhao Duan also discovered that the trees here are two or three times larger than normal. Those near the sea are okay, but the further in you go, the bigger the trees become.
The three of them had a strange feeling as if they had accidentally entered the land of giants.
The dark-skinned priestess had a tense expression and looked alert. The silence of this place made her feel uncomfortable.
Well, the only thing here in common with the "Sea of Silence" is probably that there are no advanced life forms.
“Crack!”
Suddenly, Tuoba Weizhi seemed to step on something, and the crisp cracking sound was extremely abrupt in the quiet environment.
The three of them stopped at the same time, looked down, and their pupils contracted slightly.
Under Tuoba Weizhi's feet was actually a human hand bone, which was broken by her!
The white bones were half-buried in the cracks between the ground and the white stones, and were inconspicuous.
But if you look closely, you can piece together the outline of human bones from the scattered limbs and arms around it.
"This is a warrior's skeleton." Zhao Duan lowered his head, picked up one in his hand, and after observing it, he came to the conclusion:
"And they are the bones of people who died a long, long time ago."
Seeing that the two women were puzzled, he patiently explained:
"A martial artist's body is honed by years of martial arts training, so their bones are different from those of ordinary people. For example, they are heavier, and some joints are thicker than those of ordinary people, etc..."
This is the knowledge I acquired during my study in the Martial Arts Hall.
"Hey! Money!"
Suddenly, Jin Jian cried out in surprise. The young priestess trotted a few steps, bent down, and picked up a rusty coin from the cracks in the rocks on the ground!
The coin was severely rusted, but it was still visible that it was a standard copper coin.
As the three of them turned their attention to the ground, they soon discovered that there were many coins scattered across the island.
The vast majority are copper coins, of various sizes and styles, and seem to be from different eras.
Unfortunately, most of them are severely corroded and their value has plummeted.
However, this scene stimulated Jin Jian. The young priestess pushed up her glasses and turned on the "treasure hunter" mode. Like a small radar, she began to dig for food frantically in the soil.
Soon, silver ingots appeared among Jin Jian's prey, and later gold coins appeared!
Yes, gold coins!
This discovery stunned Zhao Duan. You know, Dayu hadn't minted gold coins for six hundred years. The most recent gold coins in history were minted during the Great Qi Dynasty, but there weren't many of them.
"So, these are coins from the Qi Dynasty? No, there are also some from the Yu Dynasty."
Zhao Duan removed the rust from the surface of some copper coins that were not severely corroded and confirmed the period.
And then, something even more outrageous happened.
As they continued to go deeper, Jin Jian began to pick up pearls, jade, agate, precious and rare materials, weapons... and even magical instruments...
"I remember the Red Sand Island Master once said that the enlightened fish in the ocean would collect treasures and bring them to the Silence Sea to offer sacrifices to the Sea God... Could it be that these treasures were accumulated over time?"
Zhao Duan analyzed calmly.
Then he looked at Jin Jian, who was sticking out his butt and almost going crazy with joy, and had stuffed his waist pockets bulging, and said speechlessly:
"Let's go, our goal is not just this little thing."
"Oh..." Boss Jin Jian stopped unwillingly and continued walking, but he looked back every few steps, obviously full of reluctance to leave.
At this time, the three of them entered a huge coral forest.
There are actually clusters of corals on this island... and they are so colorful that they almost look like a jungle.
The scene was outrageous, but the three had become numb to the strangeness of the island.
However, when the three walked out of the coral reef and saw a huge shipwreck tilted on the ground in front of them, they were still shocked.
A huge, ancient shipwreck that looked like a warship lay on the ground.
The hull was tattered, but it still maintained its old appearance. Moreover, a large number of human bones, armor, and weapons appeared around the warship...
There is even a straight and abrupt "battle flag"!
The flag had long been tattered, leaving only a bare flagpole.
"This is... a warship from Qi Nation?!"
Zhao Duan was stunned, and quickly determined the year and month from these characteristics.
However, he wasn't too sure.
Because although the styles of these armors and warships have typical Qi characteristics, they are different from the Qi weapons styles seen in Layuan six hundred years ago.
"This seems to be... a ship from an even older time, from the middle or even early period of the Qi Kingdom..."
Suddenly, Tuoba Weizhi stared blankly at the sunken ship in front of him and said softly.
Zhao Duan suddenly looked at the "Prince of Qi".
Tuoba Weizhi covered his head in pain, and the dark-skinned priestess looked confused:
"I can't remember clearly. I just have a vague impression of it, but I don't know why I know this."
She didn't know this knowledge, but it appeared in her mind for some reason.
Zhao Duan's heart moved, and he guessed that it might be the remaining "knowledge" of the Prince of Qi, which was stimulated and surfaced.
He was not unfamiliar with this. When he traveled through time, he had inherited a lot of the original owner's memories.
"The early period of Qi State? Doesn't that mean the warships were built about a thousand years ago?" Zhao Duan was stunned.
In the past thousand years, has Qi State ever sent warships out to sea?
What were they fighting for then?
At a glance, there is more than one shipwreck ahead, and there are others further away.
Sudden!
Zhao Duan remembered what the old Taoist priest had told him before, that there was a dragon's corpse in the East China Sea.
That was the remains of the last known dragon on the entire continent.
The dragon died about a thousand years ago.
An astonishing guess suddenly emerged.
"Could it be that... a thousand years ago, the Qi Kingdom sent a large number of warships to the East China Sea to slay the dragon?!"
"The last dragon was killed by Qiguo?!"
Zhao Duan was deeply shocked by this speculation.
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Typos will be corrected later. I'll fill in the worldview bit by bit...historical timeline...
(End of this chapter)
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