The Eye of the Sea is a very mysterious place. Here, the ground that should have been the bottom of the sea has turned into a whirlpool. If you pass through the whirlpool, there will be a calm open space - it is said that the place is not big, but at least it is enough for a sect to live and inherit.
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The strange thing is that not every place in the four seas has a sea eye. For example, although Yunmeng Daze is a vast area, there is no sea eye; the ocean with countless ice cubes floating in the north also has no sea eye. There are only the East China Sea and
Only the South China Sea has eyes, and only the eyes of the South China Sea have been carefully explored.
Wu Jie stared at the constantly rotating whirlpool, pondered for a moment, and then flew towards it.
Before he reached the front, he suddenly frowned and stopped.
There is a formation! There is a formation covering this whirlpool, blocking the way in and out of the Eye of the Sea!
This formation is extremely concealed. Even with his advanced cultivation, he didn't notice it until he got close to it, and even almost bumped into it. There are only a handful of experts in the world who can conceal the formation to such an extent!
Wu Jie concentrated his energy, separated his spiritual consciousness, and tried to observe the formation. Unexpectedly, as soon as his spiritual consciousness came into contact with the formation, he was slightly shocked, and a spiritual thought came from him.
This divine thought is not complicated, it is just a message that explains the origin of the formation.
It turns out that this formation was arranged jointly by six Supreme Patriarchs of the four great sects. It has two purposes. The first purpose is to prevent the monks or monsters below the realm of condensation from passing through; the second purpose is to
When monks or monsters pass by, report the news to the four major sects at the same time.
The reason for setting up this formation is because after the Changning Siren Rebellion, the monks who were investigating the matter found the Eye of the Sea, but found that the Eye of the East China Sea was unexpectedly vast, and there were countless sea monsters multiplying and reproducing in it. Everyone is right.
After deliberation, Mr. Su felt that neither execution nor forced eviction was appropriate, so they jointly set up this formation.
At the end of the spiritual thought, the senior who left the spiritual thought said seriously: The Sea Eye group of demons have done many evil things and will not change their surnames. They will be driven out of the world from now on! If they dare to invade the human world again, the four major sects will join forces.
Move out and wipe them out completely. But if they don't do evil again, future generations of disciples can't go on a killing spree after entering the Eye of the Sea.
Wherever there is water and soil, there is support for one person. This is the nature of these sirens. You cannot force it. Just as tigers want to eat sheep and sheep want to eat grass, this is the principle of the cycle of all things. If you don't like it, just go away. Don't act in the right way.
Codes are imposed on them.
Wu Jie carefully read this spiritual thought, pondered for a moment, nodded, and used his method. His whole body turned into a breeze, and he easily crossed the formation and entered the eye of the sea.
At the same time, the formations used by each faction to monitor the sea eye flickered. The elder responsible for observing the formations was suddenly startled, but immediately saw that the green energy was lingering, which was the method of Qingyang Temple, so he smiled and stopped interfering.
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When Wu Jie entered the eye of the sea, he saw only rippling water and a blur around him. After a while, countless water bubbles surged up, and his eyes suddenly opened up, revealing an underwater open space with no edge at a glance.
With a sweep of his mind, he discovered that the three sides of this place were not big, but only one side was extremely deep, and it was like a huge spiral tunnel, constantly rotating and extending downwards.
Wu Jie's spiritual will at this moment is no less powerful than most of the founders of Huandan. In just a moment, his spiritual will has swept across an area equivalent to a county in the world, but the ground in front of him is spiraling downward.
But there is no change, as if it is endless.
"I've never heard of Haiyan being so vast!" He couldn't help but secretly wonder, "The place inside, let alone one sect, would be enough even if there are a few more sects!"
"Yes!" Du Ruo's figure flashed, came out of the Book of Heaven world, and walked side by side with him, "I have never heard that there is such a vast world under the sea!"
Even in the water, the two escaped at an extremely fast speed. In a short while, they dived thousands of miles away. But unexpectedly, the spiral road on the seabed was not over yet!
What made Wu Jie secretly amazed was that the road seemed to be changing direction, gradually turning from downward to upward. They seemed to be moving along an arc-shaped spring.
"How come the eyes of the sea are so wide?" He was greatly puzzled. "How come no one of the ancestors in the past has noticed such a huge place?"
"Who knows... Anyway, it's very strange." Of course Du Ruo couldn't know the reason, he just agreed casually.
The two walked for a while, and saw that they were almost two thousand miles away. Many sea monsters had appeared nearby - of course, they were all low-level sea monsters, and it was impossible to tell that the two of them were hiding.
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At this moment, the front suddenly opened up and turned into a broad plain.
This plain is five to six hundred miles long, and the land is vast, with countless vegetation and creatures growing there. But when Wu Jie scanned it with his spiritual mind, he found that these vegetations and creatures, regardless of those who had already cultivated into demons, even those
Those who have not yet cultivated to become demons surprisingly have a trace of spiritual energy - this is incredible! You must know that the most important thing for everything in the world to become a demon is this first trace of spiritual energy!
In other words, these five or six hundred miles of great plains are almost entirely filled with monsters or potential monsters!
How much does this have to be?
In the battle on the sea outside Changning City that day, they killed tens of thousands of sea monsters. Later, it was said that someone counted and the number of corpses that could be distinguished alone exceeded 100,000.
Wu Jie recalled afterwards that he often lamented that in just a short period of midnight, one hundred thousand creatures died. And if these sea monsters were to grow up, they didn't know how many years it would take!
But when he saw her today, he finally understood that his sigh was silly and naive.
On this plain alone, there are at least a million monsters being gestated, and along the way, they may have seen tens of thousands of sea monsters... The number of monsters under the eyes of the sea is really great.
How terrifying!
No wonder the righteous elders set up that formation, and no wonder they were very wary of it - if a large group of sea monsters like this really started to wreak havoc in the world, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Wu Jie and Du Ruo sighed, and after a little search on the plain, they found that there were three roads leading in different directions. Just when they were about to find one, they suddenly felt something in their hearts, and at the same time they looked at a road on the edge of the plain.
In the plum blossom forest.
Strange to say, this seabed is completely immersed in water, but many vegetation and creatures on land also grow. For example, the plum forest should not appear in the water. But there have been too many similar situations along the way.
, they have long been accustomed to it, but they don’t take it seriously.
But just now, they felt a spiritual thought sweeping out of Merlin, as if they had discovered something, they were searching back and forth on the plain.
Looking at the intensity of this divine thought, it is evident that it is also at the level of Master Ning Yuan!
"I didn't expect that there is also the Ning Yuan Great Demon in the Eye of the Sea... Let's go meet him!" Du Ruo, who was already a little impatient, said with a smile, "If you want to know the details here and find the whereabouts of my nephew, it's better to
It’s faster to ask locals.”
Wu Jie nodded, and the two of them turned into two rays of light and arrived in front of Merlin in an instant.
This plum forest is well-proportioned and quite quiet. If you look closely, you will find that the arrangement of the plum trees is very interesting, and they vaguely echo the earth's veins. It is a very powerful formation!
Out of the mentality that doing more is worse than doing less, the two of them did not lift the concealment spell. They only went to the Merlin and sent out their spiritual message. Not long after the spiritual message was sent out, a light yellow light came from the Merlin, guiding Move forward with them.
With Wu Jie's ability, this formation is nothing. But as the saying goes, guests do as they please. Since the host is polite, he will not do such unreasonable things. He will follow Du Ruo and slowly follow the light.
Slowly moving forward, we came to the depths of the plum forest.
In the deepest part of the plum forest, there is a small open space. There is an elegant attic on one side of the open space, and some pavilions on the other side, which looks quite like a garden. At this moment, inside a pavilion, there is a handsome and elegant beauty.
The man toasted to their side.
Wu Jie and Du Ruo came to this person, cupped their hands and said, "Wu Jie, this is my sworn sister Du Ruo. The two of us came from the human world and came here to find our lost disciples. I don't know what to call my friend? Can you give us some?"
clue?"
The beautiful man showed no surprise, smiled slightly, and said: "I am the only one with a white name, but I am the spirit of the plum tree. Although there are countless creatures in our sea eyes, we have never heard of any disciples of human monks.
It’s not easy for you to come all the way here, so let’s have a couple of drinks and rest for a while, and then we’ll ask someone who’s well-informed.”
Wu Jie and Du Ruo looked at each other. Unexpectedly, the name of the Ning Yuan Great Demon was the same as that of his sworn brother Lin Lushan. They immediately felt a little fond of him. In addition, this man was polite and easy to talk to, so he sat down with a smile.
Inside the pavilion.
But they soon regretted it - this "unique" gentleman looked handsome and charming, but his way of thinking about problems was quite strange. He often considered problems from an angle that ordinary people could not think of, and often said
He said something that made people stunned and didn’t know how to respond.
If they hadn't seen that this person was very sincere and had no intention of making fun of or being hypocritical, they would have turned against him and started to fight!
For example, just now, when Wu Jie mentioned that he was a disciple of Qingyang Temple, Duxiu shook his head and said, "I have also heard that there is a Qingyang Sect in the world, but I didn't expect that you are called a big sect in the world, but you don't even have enough disciples."
"Huh?" Wu Jie was stunned, not understanding why he said this.
"Qingyang Qingyang, supposedly all the disciples in your sect should be the incarnation of Qingyang - but I think you two are neither green nor sheep... Could it be that you are the so-called 'blind recruitment expansion' in the legend?"
Wu Jie didn't know how to answer for a while. He choked and asked, "Where did you hear this idea of 'blind enrollment expansion'?"
"When I was still a plum tree, I planted it in the house of an old scholar. The old scholar liked studying ancient books most. For a period of time, he often held an ancient book and meditated under my tree, thinking hard, and from time to time he said some very interesting things.
I’ll write down the interesting words.”
After successfully changing the topic from the question of "Why are the disciples of Qingyang Temple not Qingyang?" Wu Jie secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but become curious: "Is that ancient book still there?"
"He is long gone. Later, the old scholar made his daughter-in-law pregnant, and he was so ashamed that he hanged himself. His son was deeply ashamed of this worthless father and burned all the books he collected."
Wu Jie was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"By the way, you two call each other brother and sister. Are you brothers and sisters?" Duxiu's thoughts jumped so fast that it felt like he couldn't catch up. He was still talking about the past, but he jumped to the next level without any warning.
In this regard.
"Although we are not biological siblings, we share the same love." Wu Jie picked up the wine glass and answered with a smile.
"Oh! This is not good!" Duxiu shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, a real sister is not as good as a direct sister. Why do you do the opposite?"
Du Ruo didn't know what was going on, but Wu Jie completely spit out the sip of wine he just drank before he could swallow it.
"Where did this 'common saying' come from!" He couldn't help shouting, "Why haven't I heard of it!"
"Of course it was what my old master said - fellow Taoist, monks don't lie. Don't think that I'm easy to lie just because I live under the sea!" Duxiu shook his head repeatedly, "I can see from your appearance that you are clearly a liar.
Those who have heard this saying and fully understand its meaning - those who have not heard it and do not understand it should be like your sister."
Wu Jie turned around and met Du Ruo's eyes.
Du Ruo's eyes were full of curiosity, and he almost didn't ask.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the thought of drawing his sword and hacked Duxiu to death, and asked in a deep voice: "Then do you know what this means?"
"Actually, I don't know. I just know that when the old master said this, my friends often either spit out wine like you or laughed." Duxiu said with a smile, "The old master had many words, and they seemed to be all
It comes from that book. He doesn’t understand it very well, and I certainly don’t understand it very well. It’s rare to meet someone who understands, so please give me some advice!”
He spoke sincerely, and stood up and bowed deeply.
Wu Jie felt dumbfounded and scolded the person who compiled that book over and over again in his heart.
I think that person is probably the disrespectful Hua Siyuan. Although this time-traveling senior has great supernatural powers, his habits of speaking and doing things are really a bit unconventional. For example, when he wrote such a book - no matter how you look at it, it is...
What a disaster to the world!
At the very least, he has successfully harmed the junior Wu Jie.
Duxiu couldn't help but feel elated when she saw that Wu Jie could understand the words that she didn't understand in the past. She shamelessly pestered him and asked him to explain them one by one. But it happened that many of those words were of the category. Although she could smile knowingly when saying them, she was quite embarrassed to explain them.
...Wu Jie was so entangled by him that he had no choice but to shout: "Fellow Taoist! There is no such thing as asking someone in vain. If you want me to answer your question, at least you must be sincere!"
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"Sincerity? I would like to worship you as my teacher..."
"Don't! Don't! Don't!" Wu Jie was so frightened that he almost ran away - if he had such a disciple by his side, he would probably have a nervous breakdown in a few years. He shook his head hastily, "I'm here to find my disciple.
, are not here to recruit apprentices!”
"Is there a big difference between finding an apprentice and accepting an apprentice? They are all the same apprentice anyway." Duxiu said with a smile, "I dare not say anything else, at least the appearance is not bad, and the cultivation level is not bad. If you go out with the master, you will definitely not
It will lose the teacher’s face.”
"Yeah, it's not as simple as losing face..." Wu Jie sighed in his heart, but couldn't show it on his face, "My apprentice has been separated for decades, and he never sees his body when he is alive or dead... As the Taoist saying goes
We are just like father and son. I really won’t worry if I don’t find his whereabouts!”
"Oh, it turns out he is your illegitimate son!" Duxiu laughed, "A wife is also a wife, and a father and son are naturally father and son. I understand! Don't worry, I will help you find him right now!"
As he spoke, he turned into a ray of yellow light and disappeared, not even giving Wu Jie a chance to defend himself.
Wu Jie was about to explain quickly, but he didn't expect him to leave so neatly. He was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to do.
Next to him, Du Ruo laughed so loudly that he almost rolled to the ground.
Although she couldn't understand those words that only time travelers could understand, she still understood the word "Madam Ru" - Madam Ru was concubine, and many wealthy families in Kyushu had concubines. Although their names were different, the core meaning was that they were concubines.
However, her status is the same as that of her wife, so there is a saying that "if a wife is a wife, she is also a wife"
It's just... from "like a lady" to "like a father and son..." What a weird way of thinking is required to confuse these two completely different words!
Wu Jie sat down slumped, poured himself a glass of wine, and drank alone silently, allowing himself to relax for a while.
But before he could drink the wine, a yellow shadow flashed, and Duxiu flew back: "Fellow Taoist, I was in a hurry just now, and I forgot to ask your disciple's name, and whether he is a boy or a girl.
, what does it look like?”
Wu Jie sighed deeply, put down his wine glass, and silently asked the sky.
"Brother Duxiu, has anyone ever said something like, 'I really want to hack you to death'?"
"You are indeed an expert! How did you know?"
Wu Jie nodded, then shook his head, realizing that it was foolish to argue with him, so he could only sigh and cast a spell to change Qin Jing's appearance.
"This is my apprentice, named Qin Jing. He was lost in the battle on the East China Sea more than 40 years ago."
Duxiu, who was smiling all over his face, was stunned. After a moment, he jumped up suddenly: "You...are you Wu Jie who burned down the East China Sea more than 40 years ago?!"
Wu Jie was also stunned. Unexpectedly, the other party knew about him.
He nodded blankly, and Duxiu suddenly looked full of admiration and bowed down deeply: "Senior! Senior! Please accept me as your disciple! In just forty years, you have actually gone from the level of refining Gang to the level of just one step away.
We are about to return to the realm of elixir... Please give me some guidance, even if it is only one-tenth of your speed, I will be satisfied!"
Wu Jie was stunned again. He originally thought that since Duxiu was a sea monster, he would regard him as an enemy, but he did not expect this to be the result.
"I'm here to find my apprentice..."
"I understand! Don't worry! I'll go find your apprentice right away!" Duxiu vigorously patted his chest with determination on his face, "Even if I can't find him whole, I'll put him together piece by piece for you!"
After saying that, he turned into yellow light and flew away.
When he flew far away, Wu Jie came back to his senses - what does "putting it together piece by piece" mean? Wouldn't that be death?
