Chapter 54 Exploring the Way
The question of survival was laid bare before the three young men, and it was urgent.
Adversity makes birds progress.
After Ji Rong and Gu Qingqing rejected Ji Zhuang's plan to return to his old ways, the three of them discussed the feasibility of living on air and dew.
Although Gu Qingqing was certain that Ji Rong had the ability to leave, when she came in back then, she clearly felt the pressure and suffocation, and almost suffocated. She had a feeling that the Gangfeng Dew outside was not so easy to consume.
In the afternoon, Wu Yue and Xuanwu rushed over and sat on the ground outside the cave.
Ji Rong had already heard about this group of shamans from Gu Qingqing, so she immediately asked her brother to take out a handful of spirit grains, hand them to the shaman, and asked her, "Can you grow this?"
The witch's eyes lit up when she saw the handful of seeds.
She had seen this seed in the ancient texts of the witch clan; it was a kind of spiritual food that grew in places rich in spiritual energy.
Consuming it regularly can strengthen the body, nourish the vital energy, and restore vitality. If it could be cultivated, the Wu tribe would have no worries about growing strong and prosperous!
However... they have no land rich in spiritual energy, let alone spiritual fertilizer.
The witch looked at the spirit grain in her hand, glanced at Ji Rong and the others, and thought to herself, "I do have some spirit fertilizer, these three should be enough, but the spiritual energy..."
Thinking of this, Xuanwu immediately spoke to Wuyue in front of Ji Rong and his party.
Seeing the two witches discussing the feasibility of planting spirit grains without any hesitation, Ji Rong thought that these two witches were really simple-minded, and thought to herself that there was indeed a reason for the decline of the witch clan.
After discussing it, Wu Yue and Xuanwu agreed that the planting plan for the spirit valley was feasible. Wu Yue looked at Ji Rong with great enthusiasm and said, "As long as this fellow Daoist bird drives the spiritual vein to walk around the cultivated spiritual fields a few times a day, what need is there to worry about spiritual energy?"
"How do you know I have a spiritual vein?" Upon hearing this, Ji Rong took a step back. She looked at the giant in front of her, whose blood and energy were declining and whose hair was white, and calculated the success rate of entering with her claws from different angles.
Wu Yue immediately sensed that the bird cultivator's aura had changed, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Fellow Daoist, you may not know this, but not long after you arrived, your spiritual veins struck the seal on our island here."
The seal and restrictions on this island were created by my ancestors, and those who inherit them, like myself, can sense them.
The witch nodded and said, "Back then, it was after I discovered it that I told the Great Witch Yue, and the Great Witch Yue saw it after he went out."
"Then, the high shaman tried many times and finally confirmed that it was yours before bringing you in to connect the spiritual vein."
Ji Rong was greatly surprised; the seal was incredibly powerful.
She had repaired the spiritual veins, and although those veins were only as thin as a hair, it made her realize that spiritual energy is all-pervasive.
What kind of power did the ancestral witch of this witch clan possess to create such a seal that isolates spiritual energy and life?
"Could it be that the creatures on the island, including myself, are actually maggots that the Primordial Goddess has multiplied into countless generations?"
Ji Rong was disgusted by her own thoughts. She shook her head a few times, spread her wings, and said helplessly, "You have no source of spiritual energy here. It's so small and consumes energy every day. It's already a miracle that it still exists. How can you expect it to create spiritual fields?"
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With no hope of finding a new spiritual seed, Ji Rong's decision to rely on the wind had to be put on the agenda.
Ji Rong asked Wu Yue to take her out, but Wu Yue was in a dilemma. His lifespan was about to end, and his successor, Xuanwu, was not ready. He needed to give him some time.
Wu Yue expressed this meaning in a lengthy and subtle manner.
Ji Rong pondered this repeatedly before finally understanding its meaning.
Impatient, Ji Rong spread her wings and glared at Wu Yue with her chicken eyes, saying, "I don't want you to use that Life-Burning Technique to take me out. I want you to show me the way. I'll go by myself."
Wu Yue readily agreed and led Ji Rong to the outer edge of the seal. He cupped his hands to Ji Rong and respectfully said, "This... fellow Daoist, how shall I address you?"
Ji Rong patted her face with her wing: "My surname is Ji."
“Fellow Daoist Ji,” Wu Yue pointed to the air in front of him and said, “this is it.”
Ji Rong looked in the direction Wu Yue was pointing. The area was shrouded in mist and the blue waves rippled, just like any other sea area. It was impossible to tell anything about it.
She turned to Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing and whispered, "You can't tell anything from this. If I fly away, how will I know when I'll come back?"
Gu Qingqing posed this question to Wu Yue, who unfolded the tortoise shell he was holding and said, "I determined the direction based on divination."
Ji Rong asked Wu Yue to find her a long, thick hemp rope.
She thought, "Since I'm already here, I might as well at least scout things out."
Wu Yue gave the order, and soon Xuanwu arrived carrying several rolls of thick hemp rope. Ji Rong asked Xuanwu to connect the rolls of rope, then put one end on her foot and the other end on Ji Zhuang's foot, and then flew towards the seal.
As Ji Rong approached the seal, she discovered that although it could not be seen with the naked eye, it possessed an extremely strong repulsive force.
As soon as she got close, it was as if she had sunk into a quagmire, unable to move.
As Ji Rong's body went deeper inside, the spiritual energy within her body began to leak out uncontrollably.
Her skin began to tighten, and as soon as she had half her body inside, she could smell a faint odor of decay emanating from her body.
Having come this far, there was no turning back. Ji Rong held her breath and plunged in suddenly.
"Hiss~ Zzz," the hemp rope on her feet, as if it had aged, broke as Ji Rong tied it.
Ji Rong immediately sensed something was wrong. She took deep breaths, but couldn't get anything useful.
Like a fish out of water and onto land, her lungs were compressed, and her chest cavity was almost deformed.
Just when Ji Rong felt she was about to suffocate, countless tiny roots began to emerge from the spiritual lake beneath her spiritual platform, which had shrunk to the size of a mung bean.
They emerged from Ji Rong's pores and probed into the tiny spiritual veins beneath her feet, desperately drawing in spiritual energy.
With the feedback of spiritual energy, Ji Rong was like a drowning fish thrown into a bucket; she finally caught her breath and stumbled forward.
"Whoosh~" In the blink of an eye, Ji Rong rushed out, only to be quickly swept up and thrown down by the raging gale.
After tumbling several times in the air, Ji Rong desperately flapped its wings and barely managed to steady itself.
She opened her mouth wide, inhaled a gust of wind and swallowed it, then hurriedly looked back, her eyes filled only with the vast seawater rippling in the wind.
Ji Rong stared wide-eyed, looking east and west, but could no longer find the sealed island.
"What I feared most has come to pass."
Unable to find the island, Ji Rong was so anxious in the air that she didn't even have a place to stomp her feet.
She flew while drinking the wind.
During the day, they searched aimlessly at sea, and when the sun was about to set, they would just find a place to rest, and soon they lost their way.
Two days later, Ji Rong felt that everything around her was sealed, and she was exhausted from flying.
Feeling as if two pieces of flesh had been ripped from her heart, Ji Rong slumped onto a deserted island, facing the setting sun, tears welling up in her eyes. "I was so stupid," she murmured, "If I had betrayed my brother and Gu Qingqing, why would I have gone back to this island? Ah! I was so stupid..."
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