Chapter 892: Riding the Wind and Waves
Now that Qingyang agreed to set off immediately, everyone was happy. The scattered cultivators gathered around and thanked Qingyang for saving their lives. Then they handed the copper mace and the object-storing talisman they had searched from the blood-clothed man Yang Mu to Qingyang. Then Master Shi Han asked everyone to check the spirit ship together.
Before, the blood-clothed man regarded this valuable spirit ship as his own possession. When attacking the spirit ship, he reserved his strength, so the spirit ship was not damaged. Master Shi Han checked it and found that everything was normal, so he organized people to start the spirit ship and prepare to set off.
All sixteen cultivators boarded the spirit ship, and then the spirit ship trembled and began to move forward slowly. At the same time, a light curtain rose from the side of the ship, covering the entire deck. This light cover mainly plays a protective role. It can block the strong wind when the speed of the ship is too fast, and also protect the cultivators on the ship, so as not to accidentally fall from the ship into the sea.
At first, the speed of the spirit ship was not very fast, but as time went on, the spirit ship gradually accelerated, almost reaching 600 miles per hour, which was much faster than Qingyang's Yufeng Gourd.
600 miles per hour, 7,000 miles per day, if there is no accident in the middle, it is 2.5 million miles a year. It takes at most ten years to reach the ancient wind continent from Zhongshayu, which is more than 20 million miles. It can save more than half of the time compared with other spirit ships. More than ten years is not a short time. With this calculation, it is not expensive for Master Shihan to charge 10,000 spirit stones.
The slender spirit ship rides the wind and waves in the sea, leaving everything behind. At such a fast speed, ordinary Jindan cultivators can't catch up, not to mention that the blood-clothed man has to go back to Qingyan City to ask for help. Even if he rushes over now, he can only follow behind and eat dust.
In the vast sea, although there are many survivors of demon beasts, most of them are just ordinary or low-level demon beasts. The only ones that can interfere with the spirit ship are some demon cultivators above the Jindan level. However, the number of high-level demon beasts is extremely rare. How could they just happen to hit them? So as long as the spirit ship starts, they are basically out of danger.
After Liu Wei's death, the grouping on the spirit ship was slightly adjusted. The sixteen people were still divided into eight groups, but the fourth-level Jubei Sanren and the first-level Fu Yunxiao were separated. Fu Yunxiao was paired with Master Shi Han, and Jubei Sanren was paired with Master Heisang. After the fierce battle before, everyone was considered to have shared the hardships. It was a pity that the two Jindan cultivators took the initiative to take more responsibilities.
As for Qingyang, his task was still carried out in rotation by Xiying and Xiao Yuhan according to the prior agreement, and no one raised any objections to this. Not to mention that Qingyang paid the spirit stones for Xiying and Xiao Yuhan, just based on this contribution, Qingyang deserved some preferential treatment.
There is such an advantage of traveling with many people on a flying spiritual instrument. Everyone takes turns to control it, and the speed of the flying spiritual instrument can be maximized.
The spiritual ship sped along at an astonishing speed, but the deck was very stable, just like on land, which did not affect the monks' meditation and practice at all. Especially after entering his own small room and sealing off the formations and restrictions outside, except for the slightly smaller space, the rest was no different from the environment of Qingyang's practice room in Wantong Pavilion Danyuan.
It can be seen from this that Master Shi Han's level of refining is very high. It is also a blessing to have such a skilled refiner as Master Shi Han on the road. If there is any malfunction in the spiritual ship during the journey, it can be repaired in time without delaying too much time.
After the casual cultivators are divided into groups, they will take turns to control the spiritual ship according to this time in the future, and Qingyang will return to his small room and start his days of closed-door practice.
Qingyang had no idea how many days like this he had lived through in the past few years. He was familiar with everything. He returned to his room, closed the formation, cut off the outside world, sat cross-legged in the middle of the quiet room, took a Yangyuan Pill, and practiced the Five Elements Forging Immortal Technique while refining the pill.
The pill was refined and turned into energy that spread into the meridians of the whole body. After being tempered by the technique, it turned into true essence that nourished the meridians and Dantian, and finally merged into the Dantian to become Qingyang's cultivation. The pill became smaller and smaller, while Qingyang's cultivation was slowly increasing until the pill disappeared. After adjusting for a while, Qingyang took another pill and started the second round of refining and absorption.
Such days were extremely boring. Without a certain amount of perseverance, it would be impossible to persist. Many people with a lively temperament had good qualifications, but their cultivation could not improve because they could not calm down and their cultivation efficiency was not high. It was better for Qingyang to take pills like this, and the speed of improving his cultivation was relatively fast. For those poor casual cultivators, who did not have spirit stones to buy enough pills, they could only absorb and refine spiritual energy from the outside world to improve their cultivation, which was simply a torment.
In the days that followed, Qingyang had been practicing in seclusion. Things in the outside world had nothing to do with him, and he would not be disturbed by trivial matters. He only needed to focus on improving his cultivation.
Of course, it was impossible to be calm all the time. There were not only various monsters in the sea, but also winds and waves that ordinary people could not resist. There were all kinds of dangers that could be imagined and unexpected. There were also many difficulties and obstacles along the way, which sometimes interrupted Qingyang's cultivation.
In the most serious case, the spirit ship collided head-on with a group of monsters. Among them, there were four monsters in the Jindan realm alone, nearly ten monsters at the foundation-building level, and hundreds of other monsters at the Qi-refining and meridian-opening levels, which surrounded them in the middle.
After a melee, not only was the spirit ship severely damaged, but more than half of the cultivators on board were seriously injured. The old servant Zhou An even lost his life to protect the young master Zhou Yufan. Fortunately, everyone understood the principle of being in the same boat. They knew that once the team was broken up on this vast sea, they would eventually reach the Ancient Wind Continent alive. The scattered cultivators fought to the death and finally defeated the monster tribe.
Qingyang could not stay out of such a battle. Because of the existence of the alcoholic bee colony, he was even the main force of the whole battle. It was with the alcoholic bee colony that the leading golden elixir monster was trapped, buying time for others to achieve the final victory.
After that battle, the entire team stayed in a nearby safe haven for nearly a month. First, they were recovering from their injuries. So many people were seriously injured, and there were not enough people to operate the spirit ship. Second, the spirit ship was seriously damaged and had to be fully inspected and repaired.
There are many other similar incidents, which occur one or twice almost every year, but the intensity is slightly less, and there are no more casualties among the monks. This is a completely unfamiliar waterway, and it would be strange if there were no problems along the way.