Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 989 The Sea
On October 25, the seventh year of the Warring States Period, there was a little breeze on the sea.

A large group of practitioners stood on the shore, many of them saw the sea for the first time, their eyes showed surprise, and they greedily breathed the sea breeze.

"Is this the Sea of ​​the Dead?"

Ying Baoyue looked at the huge water area in front of her. Although she already knew that this was not a real sea, it was a free lake close to the inland where fresh water and sea water meet, but this water area was connected to the real sea, and the blown The sea breeze is already quite salty.

Seeing the turbulent sea, the practitioners from the inland areas were a little apprehensive.

"If this is the Dead Sea, why didn't you see Xiaoyao Island?" Gui Chen asked standing beside Ying Baoyue.

Guichen has been imprisoned in the village for a long time, and this is the first time he has seen the sea. Although he is afraid, he and Ying Baoyue have seen the magnificence of the Lancang sea once, and he is somewhat immune to this kind of scene. At this moment, he only cares about this The focus of the duel round.

The sea is not the most important thing. The key to winning this round is who can cross the sea the fastest, land on Xiaoyao Island, and find the token that Soochow put in the forest of the dead.

"Where is the island? Why can't I see it?"

There are also many daring practitioners looking for traces of the island with their eyes, but they can only see the rolling sea water, not even a black spot.

"Xiaoyao Island is a full ten miles away from the coast where we are standing now." Zhao Guang raised his hand and pointed, "It's probably in that direction. It's too far away, and the waves are too high, so naturally it's invisible."

Ten miles.

Ying Baoyue looked at the map in his hand, and indeed saw a small dot in the wavy line symbolizing the sea.

When they arrived at the beach, each examinee received such a crude map made of oiled paper, on which some simple locations were drawn to prevent candidates from getting completely lost.

On such a large sea, if you lose your direction, it is basically difficult to come back.

The coast is ten miles away from Xiaoyao Island, which is 5000 meters in modern units, which is only a straight-line distance.This means they have to swim at least 5000 meters to get ashore.

Not to mention there is still a tough battle ashore.

Ying Baoyue looked at the blue waves rolling in front of him, and thought that swimming 5000 meters in such a turbulent deep sea was something only a practitioner could do.

The first round in Southern Chu was to enter the deep mountains, while the first round in Soochow was to go to the deep sea. Ying Baoyue felt that it was too difficult to be an orthodox practitioner on the mountain and sea continent. First, he had to conquer the mountains, and then he had to conquer the sea.

But not everyone has the courage to conquer the sea. For practitioners born and bred inland, even though they know that they will not drown, they still feel fear in their hearts when they look at the bottomless sea.

"Why is this sea water black?"

"Hey, this proves that the sea is deep! I heard that ordinary people are forbidden to enter the sea, and they never return!"

"Really? Then there won't be any beasts here, there won't be... water monsters, right?"

The altar behind everyone was still preparing, and the practitioners were watching Wang Yang, whom they saw for the first time, talking about it, and many practitioners who were not familiar with water skills had already started to tremble.

Including the teenagers from Southern Chu.

"The waves won't kill people, right? The sea fish inside won't eat people, right?" Chen Zichu stared at the surface of the Sea of ​​the Dead, feeling that the name was becoming more and more ominous.

The Sea of ​​the Dead The Sea of ​​the Dead, could it be that people like them become dead when they enter?
There are many mountains in Southern Chu, but there is no shortage of water. Chen Zichu also went to the seaside of Lancang to play.But the blackened sea in front of him was far less peaceful than the big lake inland, and he was terrified to see it.

"Fortunately, you are still a sixth-level cultivator," Zhao Guang patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "There are indeed man-eating fish in this sea, but they won't get close to practitioners."

"This is not a cloud forest," Zhao Guang spread his hands, "there won't be so many beasts with realms."

There are only three most dangerous places on the mainland, and the Sea of ​​the Dead is not one of them.

It really made Zhao Guang say that he felt that the Lancang Sea at the junction of Southern Chu and Qin was even more terrifying, and always felt that he seemed to have seen some huge monsters there.

"That's good," Chen Zichu let out a long breath, but Ying Baoyue spoke quietly.

"But in the middle-level ceremony in previous years, the number of people who died in this round was the most?"

Zhao Guang's expression froze, and the next moment he took a deep breath, "Many of them lost their way in the sea, and finally died of freezing and starvation."

"Of course, there are also cannibalism."

Zhao Guang's voice was deep.

This was just like the first round of mountain forest battle in the Southern Chu Primary Ceremony. Many people died not at the mouth of wild beasts in the mountains, but at the swords of people around them.

However, the first round of the elementary ceremony was a crowd battle. Practitioners could still hug together to keep warm and follow their stepson, but when it came to the middle-level ceremony, everyone could only fight on their own.

Everyone can walk, but not everyone can swim well.

"Looking at your appearance, Zichu, I'm afraid you don't know how to squirt water very much," Zhao Guang said with a smile.

Chen Zichu nodded with lingering fear, and there was laughter all around. Chen Zichu's ears were hot, and he pushed Ji Jiashu violently, "We people in Nanchu are not very good at it! Master Chunhua is not good at it, why should we?"

Ji Jiashu nodded helplessly, and Chen Zichu looked at Ying Baoyue again with hopeful eyes, "The former Qin Dynasty is farther north than the Southern Chu, so Her Royal Highness wouldn't know that either?"

However, he didn't expect that Ying Baoyue shook his head and smiled when he heard the words, "I'm very good at it, I knew I would teach you a lot in Nanchu."

You are very good at it, Zhao Guang looked at Ying Baoyue and felt disgusted, you can soak in the Lancang sea and roll with the giant snake!

Wait, how could he have such a memory?
Such a thought flashed by, and Zhao Guang always felt that he seemed to have vaguely remembered something.

He shook his head and smiled.

"I see, when we get into the water, we all just have to follow the princess closely, so that we can definitely arrive with all of us."

Back then, Princess Qianqin led the Qianqin team out of the mountains first, but no one knew about it. There were still many people in the Qianqin team looking at her eagerly.

Ying Baoyue's eyes flickered slightly.

"Don't do that," she said with a smile, "I don't have a good sense of direction in the sea, so I might lead everyone astray."

She deliberately amplified her voice so that everyone could hear it.

"You gentlemen!"

At this moment, Dongfang Yi's resounding voice came from the altar behind the crowd, and the crowd immediately fell silent.

Everyone turned to look at an altar set up by the sea. On the top of the altar sat the King of Soochow, and besides Dongfang Yi stood two officials dressed as scribes.

One was Wang Jiuyuan, whom everyone had met at the Great Court Meeting, and the other was the first time everyone had met the other official.This person was of medium build, and he didn't look as elegant and handsome as Wang Jiuyuan. His face was red and black, and there were traces of wind and sand blowing on it. Only a pair of eyes were very shrewd.

He didn't look like a pampered high-ranking official in a mansion, but he looked more like a businessman who traveled far and wide.

(End of this chapter)