Xi Heng didn't know why the other party suddenly mentioned this, so he just shook his head and replied:
"Not consider."
"Why?" Chen Fenghuo asked, "Have you never been disappointed? Do you still firmly believe that there is a fairyland on the other side of Chonghai?"
"On the contrary." Xi Heng said simply:
"I have been just giving it a try since the beginning. It would be great if I could find the fairyland, but it doesn't matter if I can't."
"If you are not so sure, why haven't you hesitated?"
After living together for such a long time, Chen Fenghuo also vaguely realized that Xi Heng's mentality was indeed quite different from that of ordinary people.
"Even if it's just one try, you have to use all your life's efforts." Xi Heng said:
"If we don't do this, and turn back halfway when we get frustrated, there will always be something missing and regrettable."
As long as you have tried your best, it doesn't matter if you can't find the immortals. At least you will have no regrets.
But if you turn back before reaching your limit, no matter what the reason is, you will always feel constrained in your heart.
The moment you decide to return, the immortal's trace may already be a day's journey away at sea.
Just walk a little further and you will be there.
"Is it worth risking your life just for this lack of regrets?"
Chen Fenghuo obviously couldn't understand:
"Even if you are a Hua Jin warrior, it would be difficult to survive if your ship sinks at sea."
"Of course it's worth it." Xi Heng chuckled:
"If this isn't worth it, there aren't many things in the world that are."
After hesitating for a moment, the other party asked again: "Are you not afraid of death?"
"Not afraid." The answer was understated.
"Why aren't you afraid?"
"In short, I'm not afraid." Xi Heng yawned.
"But if you are not afraid of death, why are you looking for a way to live forever?"
"I'm not afraid of death, I'm just seeking immortality." Xi Heng felt like he was talking nonsense.
But after thinking about it for a while, I realized that there is some truth hidden in this sentence.
The Goddess of Red Sky thought about it over and over again, but still couldn't understand Xi Heng's train of thought.
After a moment, he just sighed softly: "The demon is indeed a demon."
Xi Heng smiled slightly and didn't respond.
After a moment, the Goddess of Scarlet Sky gave a final reminder:
"Even if you didn't hesitate, after being at sea for so long, the fleet suffered disasters and many casualties... Many of your men must have already thought about retreating, and it may not be long before they will put their actions into action."
"Kill anyone who dares to take action. This will also save food." Xi Heng's thoughts are simple and honest.
Chen Fenghuo opened her mouth, she wanted to give some suggestions to calm and stabilize the situation.
But I never thought that Xi Heng would say this directly.
"Using killing to stop the chaos may lose the support of the people, and it may cause greater trouble later," she advised.
"Then kill more." Xi Heng said bluntly: "Until no one dares to resist anymore."
Chen Fenghuo pursed his lips. The good impression he had accumulated from living together for dozens of days suddenly disappeared after hearing what he said today, and his voice gradually became low.
"The work of the demon..."
She gradually understood that no matter how much the other person looked like a human, no matter how beautiful the person was.
But in essence, the person in front of him is still an evil monster who does not take human life seriously.
Xi Heng didn't waste any more words with this person.
The world in her eyes is quite different from that in the eyes of ordinary people.
……
Three more days later.
Before the boatmen could slack off as predicted by the Goddess of Red Sky, the sailors hijacked the ship.
Xi Heng's fleet encountered even greater trouble first:
At first, one morning, a thick fog suddenly rose on the sea.
Being in the thick white fog, the visible range is less than ten meters. Looking forward, I can't see anything.
The thick fog obscured people's vision, and even the sound of water breaking through the waves under the boat began to become strange.
The captain at the helm shouted loudly and ordered the boatmen to fold the sails and slow down the speed.
He dipped his fingers in water and carefully felt the wind direction and strength.
However, I found that the sea breeze would change direction from time to time in the thick fog, which was really strange.
Before, no matter how strong or weak the wind was, its direction would never change so quickly.
And the changes are almost irregular and chaotic, making it difficult to understand.
"I'm afraid the ocean currents will be the same..."
With his experience as an old captain, he felt a little uneasy and raised his hand to ask the boatman to slow down the boat.
He frowned and stared at the sea fog for a long time, and faintly heard some gurgling sounds from it.
It seemed like some gas was slowly coming out from under the water.
The captain walked back to his cabin, hoping to find some records of such strange sea conditions in the maritime atlas he brought with him.
The footsteps became faster and faster, the rough five fingers pushed open the cabin, and the heavy legs stepped into it.
Before he could open the bookcase, he just pushed open a latch with his hands, and immediately saw something that made him panic.
On the square Bagua plate, the Sinan magnetic spoon, which should have been stable and safe, was slowly rotating.
The handle of the spoon, which was supposed to always point to the south, was rotating spontaneously when the ship was stable.
The captain gasped and left the room immediately without having time to think about anything.
Xi Heng was in the cabin. After a simple wash in the morning and eating two pieces of dried fruit snacks, he heard a hurried knock on the door.
"Come in," she said casually.
The captain quickly opened the door, half-knelt down and clasped his fists after entering, and said nervously:
"Your Excellency! The fog at sea has been lingering for a long time, and the currents and wind directions have become strange. I panicked and went back to my room to check, but I found that the Si Nan was ineffective!"
"Ineffective?"
"The Si Nan magnetic spoon is turning, and it no longer distinguishes north from south or east from west! It is moving steadily forward without turning the rudder, but it is pointing to the south one moment and north the next."
As he spoke, he became more and more flustered:
"If this continues, we will have difficulty determining our position at sea, and I'm afraid we will never be able to return..."
"Can the compass also fail?" Xi Heng blinked, stood up and walked to the porthole, looking at the thick white fog outside.
When she got up early this morning, it was just ordinary morning mist that would dissipate after a while.
But now it seems a little strange.
"The failure of the magnet should be due to the abnormal magnetic field in this area. We just need to keep sailing and pass this area... I just don't know how big this strange place is. Will it be difficult to tell the direction and we will keep circling inside and never be able to escape..."
Xi Heng pondered for a while, then turned around and said:
"If the fog has dissipated, perhaps we can use the sun, moon and stars to determine our direction. Let's ignore that for now and just sail in the direction opposite to the suction of the vortex."
"The fog is so thick, I don't know if it can ever dissipate." The boatman sighed.
"It will definitely pass, don't worry."
Xi Heng comforted him casually and asked the other party to leave. He went to the deck to command the ship to continue moving forward.
After the people left, the Goddess Chitian, who was reading a book, looked up at the thick fog outside the window and remained silent.
"Now, you don't have to worry about what you said before." Xi Heng suddenly said.
The ship had lost its direction, and other small boats had to follow the big ship slowly.
No one would think of rebelling or secretly taking the ship away at this moment.
Even if you want to do something, you must first unite together and find a way out.
"You still have the mind to joke and have fun..." The Goddess of Red Sky looked at the seemingly endless thick fog with a serious look.
"With this kind of celestial obstruction, what can you and I do?" Xi Heng spread his hands.
"By using a huge fire method to burn the sky, perhaps the fog can be eliminated in a moment." The Goddess of Red Sky really has a way.
Xi Heng hadn't thought of this, and nodded: "Then go down and give it a try."
She then found the Blazing Spirit Sky Technique, and pulled out the Fire Surge Technique, which had the largest range, and took out the blue-green spirit stone. She pinched her fingers and chanted a spell to draw the magic pattern on the back of her hand, and then left the cabin.
After arriving on the deck, Xi Heng passed by the confused crew members in the white mist and stepped to the bow.
The curved wooden dragon head opens its mouth at the bow, as if showing its power.
The girl stepped on her toes and her feet landed steadily on the dragon's head.
She took out the spirit stone and placed it on the back of her hand. She stretched her palm forward and chanted:
"In the Great Scarlet Sky, a thousand-foot-high flame hangs down, with a sound of slicing and slicing, and the remaining light is endless, covering my body and calling it to me!"
The magic patterns on the skin glowed faintly along with the spirit stone.
After she finished chanting the spell, she let out a light cry, and a beam of fire suddenly shot up from the palm of her hand into the sky and plunged into the extremely thick white fog.
raging--
The raging fire let out a howling sound and blossomed into the shape of a flower in the sky.
Due to air obstruction, the raging fire spread out layer by layer as it rushed, failing to fly too high, and ultimately ended up looking like a flaming tree canopy.
The intense heat burned the mist, making a hissing sound in the air.
The sailors and boatmen on the rear deck thought they had seen a miracle and knelt down to pray.
Hundreds of units of spiritual energy fueled the fire to continue expanding and igniting, burning for more than ten seconds.
The blazing fire, tens of meters wide and tall, burned the mist in front of the eyes so much that it disappeared.
When the whistling sound stopped, the flames gradually shrank and dissipated in the air, and the fog in the sky in front of the ship had also dissipated a lot.
But, it’s not enough.
Xi Heng looked up at the sky. Although his field of vision had expanded a lot, all he could see was still a vast expanse of white.
The fog at a height of tens or nearly a hundred meters has become quite thin.
But this distance alone is not enough to touch the extreme of the fog.
Not to mention, wanting to see the sun through the fog to determine the direction.
Today, the surrounding area is still covered in white.
"The flame needs to be even bigger." Xi Heng said to himself:
"One hundred units of spiritual energy is obviously not enough, and one thousand may not be enough either. But several thousand or tens of thousands are possible?"
Thousands of units of spiritual energy should be enough to spread the spreading flames hundreds of meters further and cleanse the entire sky.
"But it's such a waste to use so much spiritual energy just to see the direction once."
For Xi Heng, every unit of spiritual energy is refined from the flesh and blood of an entire person.
It's a bit of a waste to use it to disperse the white fog.
And even if you see the direction for a moment, it won't be long before you get lost again in the fog.
Xi Heng shook his head.
"Let's wait until the ship can't escape the whirlpool no matter what, and must use magic to escape in one fell swoop, then use this method to determine the direction..."
