Chapter 906

He He Lingchuan was awakened by a seagull. On the table were the leftovers from last night. A thieving-looking seagull jumped in through the window, eating meat in big chunks and fish in big mouthfuls.

He He Lingchuan was startled awake by the sound of it knocking over a cup, and then, he clutched his head and let out a low cry—

His head hurt so much.

The seagull was startled by him, cawing as it flew away from the scene of the crime, not forgetting to pack a few pieces of dried meat.

He He Lingchuan opened his eyes and only saw its carefree departing back.

It wasn't a hangover; he hadn't drunk any alcohol last night.

This kind of pain was several times more severe than a hangover, just like someone holding an awl and knocking into his brain, and his body's reactions were not agile, his limbs as heavy as if filled with lead.

What was going on? Last night he had entered the Panlong world.

Every time he returned from the Panlong world, he was full of energy and high spirits.

Why was it an exception this time?

He carefully recalled his experience last night, which was just escorting Lu Xun back to Yuheng City from Bai Sha Port, and on the way, there was a fierce battle with Fu Fu Shanlie, and he himself was not lightly injured.

Hmm, not lightly injured?

Could it be because of this battle? Not to mention being injured, he had died countless times in the Panlong world; which time was he not resurrected at full health?

Just as he was pondering, the door was kicked open with a bang, and Dong Rui strode in: "The sun is hitting your butt, and you're still not up? Isn't there serious business to do today?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, he was startled by He He Lingchuan's complexion: "Wow, what did you do last night, your face looks so ugly?"

He He Lingchuan's face was pale with a greenish tint, and he still had two dark circles under his eyes, making him look sallow and haggard.

Was this someone who had just woken up? This was a drug addict who hadn't slept for ten days and nights, and was still out chasing chickens and stealing fish every night, right? Thinking of this, Dong Rui couldn't help but mock: "Did you find five girls at once at Jinhuan Pavilion? You've got some ability!"

"Your limit is only five?" He He Lingchuan looked at him with a look of disappointment in his lack of ambition. "Your shortcoming... is a bit short."

"Pah!"

He He Lingchuan took out medicine for nourishing the spirit and replenishing Qi from his bosom, swallowed four or five in one breath, and only then climbed up to pour water to drink.

Just as he stood up, he felt lightheaded, and his right shoulder also ached faintly.

No way? He subconsciously pressed his right shoulder; there was no wound, but this pain was very real.

Was it psychological or nerve pain? "Are you okay?" Dong Rui was a bit suspicious. "You look like a ghost, it seems you should lie down and sleep for seven days and nights before getting up." Instead of going out to sea to ride the wind and waves.

"Too much nonsense."

He He Lingchuan went to the latrine, and on the way, he pinched out the God Bone Necklace, gnashing his teeth at it: "Is it you, heartless and ungrateful, who canceled my soul protection?"

He thought over and over again; there had been no strange encounters in the past few months, and the sudden change in the rules of the Panlong world could only be related to the trip to the Panlong Desert two or three months ago!

He shook the necklace: "I fed you both the artifact lid and the god's clone, why are you working against me instead?"

The God Bone Necklace, of course, had no reaction.

After he finished washing up and walked out, He He Lingchuan's haggard look was also seen by everyone.

Qiu Hu asked strangely: "What happened to the Lord?" Overnight, what happened?

Zhu Zhu Xiuer was thoughtful: "Have you had your soul hooked?"

He He Lingchuan's heart stirred: "How so?"

"You have achieved success in cultivation, and you haven't fought with anyone, so you shouldn't be in this state of fatigue and internal and external wilting." Zhu Zhu Xiuer said, "You have so many enemies, could it be that someone attacked your soul at night? For example, a nightmare."

He He Lingchuan's heart stirred.

Only he himself knew that a nightmare couldn't do anything to him at all. And he held a nightmare in his hand; that thing knew the most about souls, so why not just ask it?

Dong Rui also nodded on the side: "Right, right, your situation is 'soul injury', most likely someone is cursing you in the dark."

"I know, let's handle the serious business first."

He He Lingchuan was the leader of this team, and as soon as he spoke, the others immediately shut up, including Dong Rui, who no longer tangled with this topic.

"Where are we going now?"

He He Lingchuan felt a bit of pity; originally he wanted to find a restaurant first to gorge on seafood. Inland cities take "freshly caught" as a signboard, but here it was just everyday food.

At Daofeng Port, if the seafood wasn't jumping alive before being put into the pot, you could spit in their faces.

But his head was splitting with pain now, and he had no appetite.

He looked at the time, thought for a moment, and asked Qiu Hu: "Can you row a boat?"

Qiu Hu shook his head honestly, and Tao Ran took over on the side: "I can, my family used to fish by the lake."

He had just returned from Does Bailie.

"Then go to the port and charter a boat, one that is fast and sturdy." He He Lingchuan turned to Dong Rui, "You stay on the shore."

"Ah?" Dong Rui was immediately unhappy, "Why?"

Old partners who had shared joys and sorrows for so long, going out to sea to play without him, was that right? "Where we are going, your physique is too weak, you can't hold up." This guy was just a shut-in, usually didn't exercise much, and his physical strength was far inferior to He He Lingchuan and the others, let alone Zhu Zhu Xiuer.

Dong Rui pointed to his own nose: "I'm weak?"

The many dead souls under his hands disagreed!

This time it was Zhu Zhu Xiuer who spoke: "There are some wind and waves on the sea, and you'll vomit to death."

"... Where on earth are you going?"

"To a natural Yin Sha earth vein. Can you withstand the Yin Sha Qi?"

Dong Rui thought for a moment and didn't make a sound.

He He Lingchuan asked the little monkey on his shoulder, "Lingguang, can you make pills to offset the influence of Yin Sha?"

Lingguang scratched the back of its head: "It can only reduce the invasion damage of Yin Sha by about seventy or eighty percent, but the pill's effect only lasts for three hours, and it can only be taken once more. To take it again, it will be after twelve hours."

That was a total of six hours of effectiveness. "Okay, prepare the medicine."

His exclusive pharmacist had returned, making things much more convenient. During the previous sea voyage, Dong Rui's seasickness, guests' acute illnesses, and sailors suddenly vomiting blood were all handled by Lingguang.

Fortunately, Daofeng Port was rich in materials, and the medicinal herbs Lingguang needed were not obscure, so the group gathered them after visiting two medical clinics.

As for He He Lingchuan, he took the opportunity to find a place to rest and accidentally dozed off, but he didn't dream.

His head hurt, and sleeping didn't make it much better.

Soon, Lingguang finished refining a furnace of pills, called "Sha-Splitting Pills".

By this time Zhu Zhu Xiuer had already arrived, and Tao Ran had also rented a boat, so the group readily left Dong Rui behind and set sail from the port.

Target: West.

This was a large fishing boat that could carry twenty or thirty people, and the bottom of the cabin could hold fish and sleep people, but the fishy smell was terrible, and no one wanted to go down.

Relying on Tao Ran alone couldn't move it, and the others had to help a bit.

The wind and waves on the sea were high, and Tao Ran was also a bit flustered, but fortunately, everyone had high comprehension, and under his guidance, they soon handled it properly.

On the distant horizon, the outline of an island was revealed, and He He Lingchuan pointed to it: "Go there."

Right, the outermost island of the Yangshan Archipelago, which actually faces Daofeng Port across the sea, not far away.

Tao Ran rowed while saying: "Young Master, when I went to charter the boat just now, the boatman heard that we were going to the Yangshan Archipelago and urged us to stick to the coastline, never to go deep into the archipelago, and it's best to reach Heiye Island before dark to rest, otherwise it's very dangerous."

This was the original words. The boatman wasn't worried about them, but about the chartered boat.

When the evil spirit came out, it would also overflow to the sea surface. Among the Yangshan Archipelago, only the outermost few islands were not affected by the evil spirit, and Heiye Island was one of them, and also a place for travelers to rest and resupply at night.

"Often boats encounter storms and are swept deep into the archipelago. Those boats rarely come out again."

He He Lingchuan smiled it off: "Don't listen to him, sail directly to Longji Island."

Otherwise, why did he come? "... Yes." The Young Master really didn't take the usual path.

The scenery on the sea, He He Lingchuan and the others had already seen enough of it during the long voyage.

The sea is all water, and after watching it for a long time, it doesn't change.

However, the islands were lush and green, like pearls dotted on the sea surface. The boat slowly approached, seeing the island's scenery in various poses, with cliffs and precipices, and white waves chasing the sand. The wind blew the trees, and various seabirds circled back and forth, full of vitality.

This place had beautiful scenery, and a pure trip for tourism would also be worth it.

But everyone soon discovered that the deeper they went into the archipelago, the fewer birds there were, and the quieter it became around them.

Even the sea surface had no waves, and the air was filled with a sense of solemnity.

"Behind the small island we just passed, two boats are hidden." Qiu Hu suddenly said, "They have been following us all the way."

There were no merchant ships in these waters, so it could only be pirates eyeing them.

The islands were staggered and the vegetation was dense, which was a natural hiding place. Pirates came and went freely here.

They might not necessarily rob them, but they wanted to observe what He He Lingchuan and the others were doing.

He He Lingchuan knew in his heart: "Ignore them, continue forward."

After traveling hundreds of zhang further, the outline of the mountain range on Longji Island was vaguely in sight, and the two pirate ships behind them dared not follow anymore and stopped in place.

Further ahead, the evil spirit was thick; were these people ignorant or just planning to send themselves to death?

Anyway, they didn't follow anymore and turned back.

He He Lingchuan looked back and couldn't see the shadow of a second boat on the empty sea.

Only their small boat was sailing lonely toward Longji Island.

At this time, a large group of dark clouds drifted in the sky, blocking all the sunlight shining on the sea, not a single bit leaking down.

At this moment, they were less than two hundred zhang away from Longji Island.

Zhu Zhu Xiuer suddenly said: "Look there!"

Everyone looked in the direction of its raised front paws and actually saw wisps of gray mist drifting from ahead, spreading outward along the water surface, and would soon cover the boat.

The gray mist seemed to be wrapped in thick ominousness, making every cultivator's back stand up with goosebumps.

The instinct of living things warned them: Danger!

Was this the Yin Sha Qi? He He Lingchuan decisively ordered: "Take the pill."

Including Lingguang, everyone took out the Sha-Splitting Pill and swallowed it in one gulp.

With the might of heaven and the evil of earth in front, it was best to maintain respect.

Dozens of breaths later, the gray mist rolled in, covering the entire small boat.

Without the blessing of sunlight, the temperature of the water surface dropped sharply, and everyone felt the cold invasion of Yin, as if facing a karst cave that never saw the sun all year round.

In just this short while, the side of the boat actually frosted over.

(End of chapter)