King of the Fairy City

Ye Mo woke up.

He tried to open his eyes, moved his fingers, and found that he was holding on to a broken board and lying on a cold, wet beach sand. His cheeks were covered with fine, moist gravel, which stung.

A gust of wind and waves blew, and the sea surface immediately stirred up waves. The cold sea water crashed over him one after another. The sea water with the fishy wind slapped his cheeks, and he smelled a bitter smell of sea.

He felt as if his body had been smashed into pieces, his limbs were weak, and every part of him was sore. He didn't know how long he had been soaking on the beach before he woke up.

"Ahem~!"

Ye Mo took a few mouthfuls of the salty seawater and coughed violently. He immediately felt a heartbreaking pain in his chest, like a fire.

He let go of the broken wooden board he was holding tightly in his hands. Feeling tired and sore, he forced himself to stand up and sit on the beach. The coarse cloth worn by a warrior was wet and stuck to his body, which was cold and uncomfortable.

Ye Mo looked around blankly.

In front of him was an unfamiliar beach on the coast of Half Moon Bay, covered with white fine sand, with small shells and conches everywhere.

There was no one on the empty beach, and it was eerily quiet.

This is obviously an island. There seems to be a continuous hill in the center of the island, all covered with towering trees and deserted.

In the distance is the endless blue sea, the sky is blue and cloudless, the waves are calm, and a few seabirds are flying at low altitude, hunting for sea fish. It was getting late, and the golden afterglow of the setting sun cast a mysterious veil on the undulating sea.

"I should be on a large sea ship. Why did I pass out on this desert island...?"

Ye Mo shook his heavy head, trying to wake himself up and recall what happened before.

After a while, he recalled all the causes and consequences of his being on an isolated island.

He is a commoner son of a commoner family in King Wu City. He is now eighteen years old and an ordinary warrior with no reputation. His father was an ordinary soldier in the Wu Kingdom Army and was killed in successive battles. After my father died, my mother also became ill from overwork and died in depression.

Like many unknown warriors in the Wu Kingdom, Ye Mo's initial dream was a bit vulgar. He was looking forward to becoming a promising military general in the Wu Kingdom, buying a mansion in the royal city, and having fresh clothes every day. Angry horse, if you can marry a beautiful girl, that would be wonderful.

However, achieving this dream is not easy.

The streets are full of ordinary warriors from the Wu Kingdom.

If you want to become a military general in the Wu Kingdom, you often need high-level martial arts, high-level exercises, and a large number of body-tempering herbs for training to strengthen your body, energy, and blood. And all of this requires money, lots of money.

A warrior who practices high-level martial arts can easily defeat several ordinary warriors.

However, Ye Mo had nothing.

He was just a warrior from a small family in King Wu's city. Not to mention the best body-tempering herbs, he didn't even have a decent intermediate martial arts secret book.

The "Wave Cutting Jue" he practiced was just a low-level martial arts secret book.

Moreover, the power of the Wu Kingdom's court was controlled by the officials, dignitaries and wealthy families. Only their direct descendants had the opportunity to become military generals of the Wu Kingdom's court. Even the low-ranking general positions in the army have long been divided among the big and small families.

A civilian martial artist like him has a very bleak future in the martial arts country.

Ye Mo's pitiful and vulgar dreams were all daydreams, and Yaoyao was hopeless. Dreams and cruel reality formed a huge gap, tearing his poor heart in two.

A month ago, a group of maritime merchants from the Donglai Kingdom came to the King of Wu Kingdom. These merchants hired a group of storytellers in the city to preach that there was a spiritual island in the East China Sea and a fairy village on the island. There were many fairy villages living in the fairy village. Immortal cultivator. The pavilions in the fairy village are all made of jade, and there is also a panacea that can get rid of all diseases and make you immortal.

The storytellers exaggeratedly talked about the various benefits of those sea fairies.

"Legend has it that there is a fairy village on the Ling Island in the East China Sea. The fairy village is filled with clouds and mist all year round, and the spiritual peak reaches straight into the sky. From time to time, the immortals who live here shuttle through the clouds and mist, looming and difficult to find."

"As long as you go to sea with the merchants and find this fairy village on the sea, you will have the opportunity to worship the immortal cultivators in the fairy village as your teachers, become their disciples, and learn the great abilities of the immortals."

"Immortal disciples live in the Immortal Palace, practice magical powers, control flying swords, soar in the nine heavens, ride on spiritual cranes, and fly across the sea!"

"There are countless fairies as beautiful as flowers serving as attendants. They can turn their hands to make clouds and rain. They are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Even the royal family, high-ranking officials, and wealthy families in Wu Kingdom can only covet, envy, and worship them. ”

"Since ancient times, countless warriors have set sail to sea with lofty ideals. They braved the risk of being swallowed by strong winds and waves in search of the fairy village on Lingdao, hoping only for a word of advice from the immortal to embark on the path of cultivating immortality."

"Although it is very risky, there are many successful warriors. As long as you spend fifty taels of silver to buy a ship ticket from a merchant, take a sea ship to the East China Sea to find a fairy village, all these beautiful things are possible. Money counts What the hell, finding Xiancun is worth everything!”

Inspired by storytellers, many warriors with bleak prospects in the Wu Kingdom, including Ye Mo, were so excited that they wished they could fly to the Fairy Village of Lingdao in the East China Sea to worship the immortal as their teacher.

But in the end, there were not many warriors who dared to make up their mind to go to sea with the merchants.

There is an old saying in Wu State: "It is better to go up the mountain than to go down the river." There are strong winds and huge waves on the river, let alone the vast sea. The waves in the East China Sea are high and windy, and it is said that there are terrible sea beasts roaming wild. Nine out of ten people who go out to sea cannot come back.

Going out to sea on a sea ship is no joke.

According to legend, there are many powerful siren monsters in the East China Sea. They often attack ships sailing on the sea, eat the flesh of the crew, and even swallow the whole ship together.

Like a kind of sea monster named "Mirage", it is huge and can turn over mountains and seas when it turns over. It can turn sea water into clouds and mist, forming an illusory spiritual island fairy village on the vast sea.

Ships from afar thought they had found the Fairy Village of Lingdao, so they headed here one after another.

What awaits them is the "mirage"'s bloody mouth, which is huge enough to swallow an entire sea ship.

These terrifying legends of the East China Sea Sirens have scared away many tempted warriors from going to the sea to seek immortals.

Ye Mo did not hesitate and immediately decided to follow the merchants to the East China Sea to find immortals.

He knew very well that a young martial artist like himself did not have much of a future in King Wu's City. High-level martial arts and body-tempering herbs were expensive and he simply could not afford them.

If this continues, in the end, he will have no choice but to give up martial arts training, do some small business to make a living, find a wife and raise a child, and then live a mediocre life in the market.

This is not what he wants.

Even though Ye Mo is just an unknown warrior in Wu Kingdom, deep down in his heart, he still wants to stand out!

If you want a mansion, you must have a horse and a beautiful wife!

I want to spread my wings and fly high into the sky!

Do whatever you want, no restrictions!

There are so many wants!

Ye Mo is only eighteen years old, and he doesn't want to stay in King Wu's city and be an unknown warrior all his life.

He wants to change everything.

He would rather take risks and go to distant and unknown foreign lands to find a way out for his pitiful dreams.

Even if it is the extremely dangerous East China Sea, we will not hesitate!

Ye Chen knew that if he continued to live aimlessly in Wu Kingdom, his whole life would pass like this.

He gritted his teeth and sold the only valuable old house in his family. He got one hundred taels of silver and spent fifty taels of silver to buy a ship ticket from those maritime merchants.

He spent the remaining fifty taels to buy a good Qingfeng sword from the weapons shop in the royal city, and bought several packs of high-quality healing herbs from the herbal shop to prepare for going to sea.

Then Ye Mo boarded the merchant's giant ship.

This huge sea ship set out from the fishing port of Donglai Kingdom, carrying more than a thousand warriors from various countries in the Kyushu continent who were full of dreams, and set out to sea to find the elusive spiritual island in the East China Sea.

The ship drifted in the vast East China Sea for a month.

Just last night, the warriors in the ship were still chatting and laughing, talking about how they would become disciples and learn immortal skills after finding the fairy village of Lingdao.

Some people say that after learning the magic of immortality, they go back to the big country of Jiuzhou Continent and become a protector mage. They are so majestic that one person is inferior to ten thousand people. Others said that after becoming an immortal, they would marry a fairy and have a lot of children, which caused the warriors to burst into laughter.

The good times did not last long. Suddenly, dark clouds rolled in and thunder and lightning flashed in the sky outside the ship.

The entire sea with a radius of hundreds of miles seemed to be trapped in a dark purgatory.

The high-speed rotating storm in the distance formed a huge water column as high as a thousand feet, like a dragon drawing water, sucking in the huge sea ship.

The terrifying storm shattered the confidence of all the warriors on the ship.

Everyone on the ship was terrified, and an atmosphere of fear, helplessness, and despair enveloped the entire ship.

Ye Mo heard the sound of masts and decks exploding. They were lifted high by the storm and shattered in the air.

Huge sea ships are as fragile as tissue paper in the face of big storms, easily torn apart.

The warriors on the ship fell into the water one after another, and countless heartbreaking cries for help rang out from the ship and on the sea. The thunder is rolling, the waves are surging, and when the disaster approaches, everyone strives for survival.

Ye Mo only remembered that at the moment when the huge ship was torn apart by the storm, he jumped into the sea, swam desperately in the water to get away from the sinking ship, and hugged a broken wooden board on the sea in a blur, and then Fainted.

After he woke up, he lay on the beach of this isolated island.

Ye Mo looked at the vast sea and was stunned for a while before shaking his head with a wry smile.

"What a bad luck!"

"I spent all my savings and bought a boat ticket to follow the merchant ship to the East China Sea to look for the fairy village on the sea. This is great, the fairy was not found, the storm destroyed the ship in the sea, and I was washed up here. of the island.”

"However, I actually floated to an island alive and was not directly drowned by the big waves. It can be regarded as a great blessing among misfortunes. That sea ship carried thousands of warriors from all over Kyushu, but I don't know how many people can be like that. I am so lucky to survive this storm and not become the food of a fish in the sea. "

Ye Mo felt frightened when he thought about the big storm last night.

Fortunately, he grabbed a broken board after jumping into the sea, which prevented him from sinking to the bottom of the sea and becoming food for sea fish.

"How do I get out of here? Do I have to be trapped on this island for the rest of my life?"

Ye Mo smiled bitterly and sat on the beach for a while, gradually regaining some strength.

"By the way, my Qingfeng sword, herbal medicine, and ancient paintings."

Ye Mo remembered something important and quickly touched his body with both hands. He felt the hard hilt of the sword on his back and a coarse cloth package on his waist.

fine.

The Qingfeng sword behind him is still there!

"Clang!"

Ye Mo pulled out the Qingfeng sword behind him.

This sword, made of top-grade fine iron and forged hundreds of times, is extremely sharp and emits cold light, which can be called a precious weapon.

Ordinary warriors in Wu Kingdom only use iron swords at most. Even high-level warriors rarely have such good top-grade weapons.

For this trip to the East China Sea, he spent a heavy sum of 45 taels of silver to purchase this sword from the weapon shop. He also tied the sword firmly to his back with a thick rope. Fortunately, it was not lost in the shipwreck.

Ye Mo sheathed the Qingfeng sword.

He opened the coarse cloth package around his waist, which contained several packets of healing herbs and a very simple ancient painting scroll. These packets of healing herbs were bought with five taels of silver, and he wrapped them in oil paper, so there was no need to worry about them being soaked by sea water.

Neither the Qingfeng sword nor the several packets of precious herbs were his most important.

What Ye Mo cares about most is the one-foot-long ancient painting scroll.

Ye Mo still remembers his mother once said that when she gave birth to him, this fairy village picture didn't know where it came from. It has been around since he was born, and it is extremely mysterious. This is his lifeblood, and it cannot be lost.

This painting is very simple, and the handle is a rare gray material.

Unfolding this one-foot-long ancient painting cloth, there is a fairy village ancient painting scroll painted on it.

Ye Mo has carried this ancient painting with him since he was a child. The texture is very strange, soft cloth, but it cannot be destroyed in any way. Fire, swords and knives cannot leave marks on it.

"It's good that the ancient painting scroll is not lost!"

Ye Mo was relieved to see that the ancient painting was fine.

He sold all the things in his house, and this is the only thing he left. A very fairy-like ancient painting is also the only thing he can keep.

Ye Mo thought about it and directly wrapped the ancient painting inside his clothes around his waist to prevent it from being lost.

"First, go to the beach and search around for something to eat. I was washed up on this island, and some of the food on the ship might float here. After all, that's food for more than a thousand people, and there are several full cabins. If I just float a little bit here, it will be enough for me to eat for a while.

By the way, see if there are other survivors. This huge ship has thousands of people, most of them are warriors, and there must be others who floated to the island alive. Find other warriors and discuss with them how to leave this island!"

Ye Mo thought. He touched his shriveled belly and felt hungry. He was probably unconscious for at least half a day.

He looked around, patted off the mud and sand on his body, sorted out the package on his waist, and walked along the beach with the Qingfeng sword on his back.

There are no obstacles on the beach, and the field of vision is wide, so it is easy to find other surviving warriors. If you are lucky, you may find sea fish on the shallow beach and have a good meal.

Dozens of feet away from the beach are rolling mountains, huge and gloomy forests and dense bushes.

Ye Mo was not familiar with the situation on the island, and he did not want to enter the dense forest and bushes easily, as there might be poisonous snakes, scorpions, insects and ants hidden there. His Qingfeng sword could kill wild beasts, but it could not deal with tiny insects and ants. If he was bitten by a snake, scorpion, insect or ant, he would definitely die on this deserted island without people.

Walking on the beach sand was much safer, without these concerns.

He looked around from afar. The island looked very large. Just looking at the long beach coastline, the island was probably more than ten miles long.

Ye Mo walked along the beach for several miles.

Suddenly, he saw some broken ship wreckage planks in front of him.

"Ship wreckage! Maybe we can find something to eat!"

Ye Mo was delighted and ran over to the pile of ship wreckage.

I remember that there were many large wooden barrels in the cabin of the ship, which were filled with rice, flour, bacon, pickled vegetables, wine, vinegar and seasonings, etc., for the warriors to eat during their voyage.

Ye Mo searched among the wreckage and found several broken barrels, but when he opened the lids, he found that they were all empty, not even the soaked rice and flour were left.

He looked helpless.

In addition to some ship fragments, there were also several empty barrels. Not to mention a bag of dry food, there was not even a grain residue.

At this time, a group of seabirds flew over Ye Mo.

"Seabirds?"

Ye Mo was stunned, "Since there are seabirds here, there should be seabird eggs on the beach grass! There is always a way out!"

He woke up and immediately searched carefully in the grass near the beach.

Seabirds usually lay eggs in places with dense grass.

After a while.

Ye Mo held a nest of seven or eight colorful seabird eggs in his hands, and almost burst into tears.

"Finally there is something delicious to eat. It's not good to eat raw. Let's have a fragrant roasted seabird egg!"

After a while, Ye Mo found some dead wood, dry moss and dead branches and leaves from the outskirts of the dense forest.

On the beach, he buried the seabird eggs under the sand and piled up wood and branches.

He dug a small hole in the dead wood and put the dry moss he picked up on it.

Then he used a very hard branch to rotate and rub the tree trunk at a very fast speed. With his strength and speed as a mid-stage warrior, sparks soon appeared at the junction of the branch and the trunk.

The dry moss burned.

Then, Ye Mo put the pile of dead branches and leaves on it, and the fire gradually grew bigger, and a bonfire was lit.

Ye Mo took a branch and dried his wet warrior shirt.

Not long after, the seabird eggs buried in the sand below were roasted.

He quickly dug out the seabird eggs and broke the shells, and a warm aroma immediately hit his nostrils.

He devoured half of the seabird eggs in two or two mouthfuls.

“It smells so good!”

Ye Mo licked his lips and wiped away the residue from the corners of his mouth with his hands.

I couldn't bear to eat the remaining half of the seabird eggs.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Ye Mo went to the outskirts of the dense forest and chopped off some branches with his Qingfeng Sword, then built a tent against a big tree on the beach and covered it with withered grass.

After half an hour, a very crude "tent" was built.

Night has completely fallen.

The tent was only a few feet away from the campfire, not far away. Some dead wood was added to keep the campfire burning to prevent wild animals from approaching the island.

After finishing it, Ye Mo got into the tent and slept.

At night, there are stars.

"Even on a desert island, I can still continue to practice martial arts and make myself stronger."

"There are a lot of trees on the island, and we can build a big raft. I am practicing my martial arts while building the raft. After preparing enough dried meat, I go out to sea and continue to look for the immortals in the East China Sea Fairy Village."

"As long as I don't die, I will find Donghai Fairy Village sooner or later! My dream and my future, I will not give up!"

Ye Mo was lying in the tent, looking at the slowly burning bonfire, holding the Qingfeng Sword in his arms. Although he was in trouble on the island, his desire to find immortals was not extinguished at all, but became even stronger.