Chapter 29: After the deed is done, we need to go to sea
Chapter 29: After the deed is done, we need to go out to sea
A few days after this windstorm, all the residents on Liuli Island were instructed to check every household to see if there were any breakages in the island protection array.
The way of checking is also simple, Liuli Mansion will issue a spiritual talisman, as long as the talisman will be hung in the home for a few days and nights, to observe whether there will be a red light can be.
As for other kinds of remote corners of the island, there are also specialized people responsible for one by one.
“The Island Protector Formation’s three hundred and sixty-seven thousand eight hundred nodes, make sure that there are no abnormalities in each node.” Under the Immortal Master’s will, and also for the sake of self-life safety considerations, everything within the Liuli Island was suspended, prioritizing the maintenance of the Island Protecting Grand Formation.
In the past, the Immortal Master would coordinate the overhaul of the Grand Formation, but this time, it was rumored that the Spirit Stones that kept the Grand Formation in operation were about to be consumed, so the Immortal Master returned to Ten Thousand Immortal Islands to fetch the Spirit Stones.
Li Fan also got the spirit talisman.
He hung the talisman at home, and after carefully sensing it, he could faintly detect an invisible fluctuation spreading out from it.
After expanding outwards for some distance, it turned back as if it had encountered some obstacle.
As the fluctuation returned, the talisman lit up with a blue light.
A few breaths later, the blue light went out.
The fluctuations resumed and continued to be generated.
The cycle begins again.
“The self-inspection of the grand formation takes three hundred and sixty flashes of the spirit symbol as a small cycle, and another three hundred and sixty small cycles as a large cycle. As long as there is no red light coming out of a big cycle, it means that the big formation is fine.” Li Fan recalled the other party’s instructions in his mind when he was given the spirit talisman.
“This Island Protector Formation is so huge yet incomparably fine, it’s really hard to imagine how it was constructed.”
“Ten Thousand Immortal Island is said to be the place where the vast majority of Immortal Cultivators in this Cong Yun Sea area gather. Mysterious and unusual, even Steward Zhao doesn’t know much about it.
“I only know that after the mortals on the island are able to wash away the miasma and draw qi into their bodies, an immortal master will descend and take them to Ten Thousand Immortal Island.”
“It seems that’s where I’m aiming for in this life.”
But things had to be taken one step at a time, the first thing was to take the quota for the sea-going flotilla, thus having the opportunity to enter within that body purification spirit pool.
Li Fan had waited over for hundreds of years, so naturally, he wasn’t in a hurry for this moment.
Time passed quietly in the apprehensive prayers of the islanders.
Five days later, the results that made all the people on the island breathe a sigh of relief came out.
The Island Protector Formation was not broken.
And with the return of the Immortal Master with enough Spirit Stones, the island’s inhabitants finally put their hearts down completely.
Life on Liuli Island gradually returned to normal.
In the following months, from time to time, victims from other islands came to Liuli Island to take refuge.
Those that survived were only a few, the vast majority of the people on their island had died in the windstorm not long ago.
After learning that Liuli Island had an Immortal Master in attendance, a strong look of envy appeared on the faces of these victims.
The Cong Yun Sea was vast and boundless, with countless islands of various sizes.
Only those islands with special resource outputs would have Immortal Masters.
Li Fan wasn’t idle during these months.
Insisting on practicing the Xuan Huang Qing Xin Mantra every day, he had finally reaped the rewards.
Name: Li Fan
Realm: Mortal
Physical Age: 41/88↑
Mental Age: 504/1119↑
Both physiological age and mental age limit had increased once again, although not by a large margin, it made Li Fan feel energized.
Since then, Li Fan cultivated even more diligently, practicing the Clear Heart Mantra every day except for meals.
So another month passed and Li Fan finally waited for the news sent by Steward Zhao. The windstorm in Cong Yun Sea had completely disappeared, and the next time the fleet sailed out to sea was imminent!
Three days later, Liuli Island Pier.
The sea boat of Liuli Island was a little bit bigger than the second form of the Taiyan Boat, and it was two to three hundred meters long.
A dozen or so large ships were arranged in order and moored on the sea, looking quite spectacular.
Because of the windstorm, the fleet had stopped for a long time. Liuli Island also owed a lot of supplies that needed to be surrendered.
So the island master ordered the fleet to go out in full force this time.
This is a rare big scene, we must know that in the past, for safety reasons, there are only one or two flotillas at the same time to go out to sea.
The pier was full of residents who came to watch the spectacle.
Occasionally, when they saw someone they knew on the boat, they waved enthusiastically.
Li Fan followed Steward Zhao’s men and boarded a sea vessel named “Cang Yuan”.
Many of the crew members were like Li Fan, who was going out for the first time. Their faces were all filled with excitement, and their eyes were filled with the hope of getting rich overnight.
On the other hand, those old crew members were just the opposite.
Not only did they not have the slightest bit of excitement, instead, their faces were full of sadness, and they could not stop complaining: “I don’t know what kind of madness the island owner is having, and what kind of test he is going to conduct. The fleet with the least harvest on this voyage will be designated as unqualified, and will be disqualified from future voyages! How can this be!”
“Hey, don’t mention it. It’s not the windstorm that’s causing this. I’ve heard privately that the Coral Island in the south, because the island protection array was broken, the entire island was razed to the ground. And those supplies that their Coral Island needed to hand over fell on our Liuli Island.”
“What is this called! How can we live in the future days then!”
“It’s said that it’s only temporary, just make up for what you owed before.”
There was a wave of lamentation from the crowd.
“Look at all of you, you’re all such wimps! Why don’t you think of the good things? Wasn’t there a reward for the first place? The harvest was raised from thirty percent to fifty percent!”
“Fifty percent! What a concept! If I can get one, I won’t need to sail for the rest of my life!”
Just then, a bronze-skinned man walked over and cursed at the crew.
“Boss, just don’t dream about it. Still first place, you don’t know about our fishing craft, which time we didn’t barely finish the fishing mission.”
“Right, in my opinion, this is our last time out on the sea!”
“Why don’t we not go back, being a free and easy pirate is so enjoyable!”
Obviously, the crew members had a good relationship with the Hanzi, and not only were they not afraid after hearing the scolding, but they were all up in arms.
Hearing the crowd’s nonsense, the Hanzi was in no hurry.
Instead, he crossed his arms and looked like he had it all figured out.
“What, boss, you have an idea?” The crew members, who knew Han extremely well, saw this and asked.
The hanyou said smugly, “Don’t worry, there are capable people on board this time. Keep everyone fully loaded.”
After saying this, he pointed at Li Fan who was standing behind him.
“Just him?”
“White and clean, ever been to sea?”
The crowd of crew members fixed their eyes on him, and were instantly somewhat disappointed, shaking their heads in disbelief.
“You bunch of blind ones, you don’t know the nobleman! This is a great talent that Steward Zhao specially invited, and will soon take over our ship! You all be polite!” The hanyou angrily rebuked, seemingly very angry.
Hearing what the Han said, the Cang Yuan ship exploded.
The bronze-skinned hanyou, on the other hand, turned back to look at Li Fan, quietly revealing a hint of a conspiratorial smile.
(End of chapter)