Endless route

Chapter 274 44. Entering the Immortal Continent and riding a crane

The night breeze was blowing among the high mountains, and the warm and cool air came down from the heights of the valley, brushing against the remaining traces of water on their diving suits, making Zheng Yunjidao and others shiver.

There are lush vegetation in the valley, and the high mountains behind the stone monument block the moonlight, making everything in the mountains cast a dark shadow. Only the streams reflect the moonlight, and the silvery white winds flow down the mountain.

This place is filled with an ancient flavor.

"This valley is really big."

Ji Dao raised his eyes and looked around. The steep mountain behind the Qingchi Pavilion was over a thousand meters high. It was so black that there was only a jagged outline. It looked quite scary: "Master Xian, it seems there is no danger. I will pick it." Do you want to try wearing a hood?"

"Not urgent."

Zheng Yun reached out to the Yin soldiers and asked them to take off their diving masks, take a deep breath of the air here, and test the poison on themselves first.

Several people stared at the Yin soldiers.

After two minutes, no trouble was seen with the Yin soldiers.

"What kind of fairy continent is Wuhai Xianzhou?"

Zheng Yun turned his head to look at the stone stele. From the way of imprinting to the shape of the characters, the inscription looked careless and careless, just like an old man in the countryside erecting it with his children just to let future generations know the name of the place.

There is no other purpose.

This style has rarely been seen before, and is quite different from the Jianxian Division, because the latter usually kills without mercy or trespassers, always with a strong atmosphere of chilling.

But this line of text is undoubtedly the biggest clue at the moment. This place looks like the depths of a mountain that is inaccessible to people. The only human traces are pavilions, clear ponds, and stone tablets.

The only entry point is the stone tablet.

They could only study these few words.

Jidao touched his chin, stared at the stone tablet for a long time, and then held back a few words and said: "I haven't heard of it, but Wuhai Xianzhou should be as its name suggests. Wuhai means Wuhai."

"..."

Zheng Yun glanced at Ji Dao and walked around in circles to observe carefully. The sounds in the mountains were silent, with only the occasional cries of birds and animals coming. The atmosphere was peaceful and quiet, not like a dangerous place with ghosts and ghosts.

At least until now, they have not seen any danger, and they cannot imagine where the danger will appear.

Even the Immortal Gate is a pavilion set up in the open air, and the clear pool is like a spring pool in the mountains, with no guards or institutions. But this place is connected to the Immortal Gate, how could it be a peaceful place?

It's really weird.

They thought about thousands of possibilities, but they never expected that the situation on the other side of the Immortal Gate would be like this. Considering the importance Triton paid to the Immortal Gate, they didn't even build a small wooden house.

With such a simple appearance, the cold immortals, ghost figurines, and immortal corpses behind them all looked a little funny at the moment. They were stuck in place in the cold wind and could only drink the northwest wind.

Han Xian is not bad.

The jade lanterns are ethereal and undulating.

The Immortal Corpse was barely good, and had a smell just standing where it was, but the Ghost Figurine was awkward, lying straight on the edge of the clear pool, white and long, like a big maggot.

"Master Immortal, most of the names given by the ancients were realistic. I'm afraid there really is no sea in this Sealess Immortal Continent. The name of this place is Wubian Cliff, which is quite embarrassing." Jidao explained quickly.

"There is no sea..."

Zheng Yun thought carefully. The word Xianzhou was the ancient people's name for the continent. Xianzhou refers to the continent. And a continent without sea means that there is no ocean around the continent?

A continent is not surrounded by sea.

Doesn’t that mean there is no sea on the entire planet?

Is this a planet without seas? Is there such a planet on the Endless Passage? If there is no sea, then there is also no sea of ​​mist. Without the sea of ​​mist, there is no sea route...

How can this be.

The Endless Route is suspected to be a relic left by a marine civilization. All the planets along the way have oceans and oxygen. They are all habitable planets carefully selected from the vast number of planets.

Planets that do not meet the conditions have long been screened out. How could a planet without seas appear?

And since there is no Sea of ​​Mist, how did the ancients come here? If you want to build a fairy gate, you have to come here first.

"The probability that this planet does not have seas is very low, unless there are special reasons." Zheng Yun shook his head and rejected Ji Dao's guess.

Perhaps this place is a fork in the endless sea. It may not have a sea, but it at least has a big lake.

Or perhaps, this is E-10 after E-09. There is only one side of the foggy sea in E-09, and the endless route is completely broken there, making it impossible to enter E-10.

If the shipping route was blocked by the ancients, in addition to dismantling the Mist Sea mechanism, reclamation is also one of the methods.

Maybe this is E-10.

There was originally a sea, but it was later filled in by the ancients.

This is really unbelievable. There are myths and legends about Jingwei reclaiming the sea in the ancient East, but how could it be realized?

That’s not to say it’s impossible. The ancients knew that fairy gates need water to activate. All fairy gate clear pools have mechanisms to control the flow of water. If there is water, the fairy gates will be open, and if there is no water, the fairy gates will be closed.

Since the ancients mastered this rule, when they wanted to close the Sea of ​​Mist, their first reaction was probably to fill in the sea. As long as there is no water in the sea, the navigation route will be naturally cut off.

Reclamation...

It is indeed unimaginable, but other than this possibility, is there any other way to make a sea disappear? What exactly does the word Wuhai in Wuhaixianzhou mean?

"Observe around, there may be clues nearby." Zheng Yun led the team out of Qingchi to search around.

A sealess fairy continent made them guess here for a long time, but there was no other way. They couldn't go around the planet to find out whether there was a sea in person.

If the diameter of this new ball is extremely large, even if a plane comes over, it won't be possible to find out the truth within a few months.

In this case, we can only guess...but I can't guess anymore now, so let's look for clues.

There is no human trace in this valley, as if this place has been forgotten long ago. The ground is covered with grass and trees, and there is not even a path between the valleys. It can be seen that no one has passed through this place for a long time.

This fairy gate may have been abandoned. After the ancient city of Nanze was buried, no one has ever been to this valley again.

Zheng Yun walked to the stone monument and looked up to look at it. He saw that the stone monument had been exposed to wind and rain, and was covered with cracks and some bird droppings.

"The grass looks familiar."

Ji Dao glanced around for a few times and suddenly saw a piece of grass. So he squatted by the grass, pulled out the grass and observed it carefully. After a while, he suddenly exclaimed: "This looks like a wild ginseng."

"What wild ginseng?"

Zheng Yun walked up to Jidao.

"It's the most common wild ginseng. Master Immortal, our ancestors must have been here." Jidao raised the wild ginseng and said.

"Indeed."

Zheng Yun nodded.

Just like there are locust trees on the Jinhuai Road, even if those old locust trees lose their leaves every day because they are not acclimated to the soil and water, they are also intangible cultural heritage, representing the continent that Orientals visited in ancient times.

Wild ginseng has the same meaning.

It is an invasion of alien organisms.

The only possibility for discovering Earth's specialties on unknown planets is that they were brought by humans, and they are quite adaptable to the environment.

"Open the fairy gate and invite the crane."

Zheng Yun made a decision immediately.

This place is called Wubianya. I am afraid that it is at least a thousand miles of mountains. There are countless mountains and mountains. If you want to look for traces of people in this place, you may not be able to find them for several days using conventional means.

Let the crane come and fly straight up to the top of the mountain. You can see at a glance whether there is anyone in the distance for thousands of miles.

The gravity of this planet is also very low, probably only slightly higher than the Heavenly Palace. It is not difficult for the crane to take off, but one must be careful about whether there are strange birds in the mountains, lest the crane be torn alive.

"Good idea, I'll go right away."

Jidao quickly took the black jade pillow and returned to Qingchi. After taking a few steps, he suddenly paused and said, "Master Xian, this place should be your own territory. How about we change clothes?"

"You want to show off?"

Zheng Yun said something about breaking the rules and regulations.

Although this kind of valley is quiet and deserted, looking along the way gives people the feeling that there may be ordinary villages and towns around it, or there may be abandoned places that are isolated from the world.

Similar to the situation in Hongwu Ancient City, the people here don't know what year it is in the outside world, and they still retain the ancient calendar and habits. They don't even know that the Ming Dynasty has been destroyed long ago.

In this case, if they put on the official uniforms of the Immortal Supervisor and then appear riding cranes, that scene... Ji Dao must have thought about it this way, he just wanted to have fun.

"Hehe." Ji Dao smiled.

"Let's ask Xianhe to check the situation first." Zheng Yun was worried and did not agree, but asked Jidao to prepare quickly.

They are still too optimistic at the moment. No one knows what is going on here. It will be extremely dangerous if it becomes a fairy continent like Hongwu Ancient City or Jiushan Continent.

Zheng Yun thought deeply for a moment, and Jidao finally walked out of the fairy gate with the crane and two little Taoist priests.

"Master Immortal, let them go and take a look first."

Ji Dao pointed to the little Taoist priest and spoke.

"Okay." Zheng Yun nodded.

The little Taoist priest was overjoyed and immediately rode on the back of the crane. In the eyes of others, the crane held its neck high and spread its wings and ran forward. After running for more than ten meters, it took off into the wind.

They had walkie-talkies with them.

Can deliver information to Zheng Yun Jidao at any time.

Watching the crane soar into the sky and disappear into the night, Zheng Yun and Ji Dao discussed for a moment about the meaning of Wuhaixianzhou, but Ji Dao only said that he had never heard of it.

I have basically heard of Xianzhou and Jidao, which are mentioned in ancient books. I really don’t know about Jidao, a lost place similar to the ancient city of Hongwu, but the situation is completely different when it comes to Xianzhou.

Because Xianzhou is the name given to each continent by the ancients in the early days of exploring the endless sea route, and it is recorded in the oldest ancient books. No matter what happens in later generations, what cities or other cities are built, it will not affect this name.

Moreover, Tiangong can even find drawings of abandoned places like Hongwu Ancient City, but it knows nothing about Wuhaixianzhou.

It's also a weird situation.

People can't help but think that maybe Wuhaixianzhou was the name that was changed later. It was not called Wuhaixianzhou before.

At the same time, Ji Dao also highly agreed with Zheng Yun's guess that this place might have really been filled with sea, because the word "reclamation" was not difficult in the Ming Dynasty, which had all kinds of magical means.

The depth of Xianhai Lake in Tiangong is very shallow, and the water depth near Xiandao Islands is only more than 60 meters. It will not take many years to fill such a shallow sea.

The key is to look at the terrain.

A vast sea like the Pacific Ocean cannot be filled even by all mankind, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty wants to fill it. But if it is a shallow sea, there is still hope of filling it with hard work.

"Master Immortal, this place may be a dead end." Ji Dao analyzed carefully: "If this planet really has no sea, then it is a deserted land in the cracks. Not only can it not be entered from E-09, but it is also impossible to enter from here. It's like a buffer zone to get to E-11."

"Indeed."

Zheng Yun nodded.

Ji Dao's guess is very reasonable, and if this is the case, then the possibility that this is the Shengui Xianzhou is very low, and the other side of it is the real Shengui Xianzhou.

"Master Immortal, I found a strange place. There is a valley in the northwest. There are boats in it, but those boats are broken and stranded at the bottom of the valley."

The little Taoist priest's voice sounded on the intercom.

"How far away?"

Zheng Yun asked immediately.

"About thirty kilometers. Also, I just saw some fires in the south. There might be a village."

The little Taoist replied immediately.

"Master Immortal, thirty kilometers is not close. It will take a long time for us to walk. Why not take the crane? They have already explored the path. There is not much danger in the crane flying."

Ji Dao immediately persuaded.

Zheng Yun has always been reluctant to ride on the crane because he thinks the crane is too dangerous and would be in trouble if something happens. But in this situation, the fastest way is to ride on the crane.

"Fine."

Zheng Yun nodded in the same way.

Jidao smiled, immediately returned to the Tiangong Temple, and led out the largest and most fairy-like crane in the Tiangong Crane Garden.

Not long after, several more cranes came out of the fairy gate. These cranes were obviously different. Not only were they much larger, but their feathers were also smoother, smoother and as white as immortals.

"Master Immortal, I brought a crane saddle. It's a bit inappropriate for us to wear diving suits and carry oxygen bottles..." Ji Dao said with a smile, and quietly mentioned the matter of changing clothes.

"Change it."

Zheng Yun couldn't resist Ji Dao.

This guy has been holding back in Tiangong for too long. Ever since he came out of Tiangong, he has never shown his abilities in front of outsiders. He even rarely wears ancient clothes and keeps a very low profile every day.

Several people changed their clothes in front of the Qingchi. Zheng Yun only chose a simple white dress, which was nothing special except that the fabric was excellent. At the same time, Ji Dao was asked to change into his ordinary Taoist robe.

When Ji Dao heard this, his expression immediately dropped. After waiting for a long time, he still had nothing to do. It would be better not to change at all.

After changing clothes, the two walked to the crane. Zheng Yun looked up at the crane, still feeling a little uneasy. Fortunately, Jidao put on a crane saddle, and the crane also bent down in cooperation.

Climb onto the crane's back.

The crane immediately stood up. Zheng Yun's toes were more than three meters above the ground, making him quickly grab the saddle rope.

Ji Dao also climbed onto the crane, and then with a soft chuckle, the two cranes spread their wings and rushed forward, stepping on the river and stream, and the wind around them suddenly became much stronger.

Sitting very securely.

Much more stable than ordinary horses.

Before Zheng Yun could react, the crane had already lifted its feet off the ground and soared into the air. The whole process was silky and smooth. In a short time, it was flying high into the sky and vertically upward along the valley.

The things under his feet were getting smaller and smaller before his eyes. The crane flew along with the trend of the valley, until it was completely higher than the valley, then it headed northwest, chasing the little Taoist priest and others.

Soaring over the mountains.

The cold wind blew around my body.

Thirty kilometers flew by in a blink of an eye.

Zheng Yun and Jidao soon saw the valley mentioned by the little Taoist priest, but they did not expect that there were not just one or two ancient ships in the valley, but hundreds of them tightly packed together.

These ancient ships are all open ships.

They were piled up in one place as if they were abandoned.

Every ship was badly damaged, but they were not aging naturally, but were seriously injured. Some ships' masts were broken, some ships' keels were broken, and a large number of ships were broken into two pieces.