thefictionvixens Chapter 85 Painted Boats and Flying Boats
Chapter 85 Painted Boats and Flying Boats
Chapter 85 Painted Boats and Flying Boats
Lu Ren thought they would take a plane, but then Bai Lu took out a gold-plated artifact and transformed it into a painted boat that was ten zhang long and four stories high.
Without waiting for a reply, everyone stepped forward, saying, "Let's go, let's go up."
"By the way, Haruki, let's stop briefly in Isoshu later."
"Is it to purchase the remains of a red-tailed duck for the white deer?"
"Oh, it's on my way."
"Should we go to Yanzhou Vocational School to register, and then we can leave?"
"Let's stay in Yanzhou for a while longer."
Everyone, including Jiang Yueying, seemed quite familiar with these floating pleasure boats, except for Lu Ren and his sister, who were just country bumpkins, still staring blankly up at the boat from below.
"Lu Ren, tell me, how much does this boat cost?"
"At least tens of millions, maybe even hundreds of millions."
"So beautiful—bro, when are you going to buy me one?"
"I call you 'sister,' so buy me one."
"Fine, go ahead and shout."
There are ladders extending down from the side of the boat, but they are only a few meters high. Even someone like Yu Zaowei, who is not a physical cultivator, can easily jump up to them, so almost no one uses the ladders.
Cultivators like Shen Yaoxing and Shan Qi, with their ethereal aura, flew directly up.
Only Jiang Yueying was honest and simple, preparing to climb the ladder, like a kitten climbing a tree, looking cute yet clumsy.
Like a claw machine, Lu Ren reached out and grabbed her off the ladder, then held her in his arms.
"Gah! What, what are you doing?"
"Hehe, I'll carry you up."
"No, no, ooh ooh ooh!"
Lu Ren jumped on and put her on the boat.
Jiang Yueying was so frightened that she pouted her triangular lips and tried to punch Lu Ren in the lower back with her wild fists, but Lu Ren rolled over and fell down again.
Then Lu Youhe was also promoted.
After everyone boarded the boat, it continued to rise higher and higher off the ground. Looking down, the Huangpu River appeared as a reflective old scar, cutting through two different textures of prosperity. The towering buildings resembled a metal sea rising from the ground, with sharp edges, stretching eastward to the busy estuary on the continental shelf.
Lu Youhe was a little excited. She had never been on an airplane, let alone a painted boat like this.
She leaned over the railing, and because she was shorter now, she had to stand on tiptoe to see what was below: "It's so high, the view is amazing! It's incredible, I've seen it on TV before, I never thought I could sit here."
Jiang Yueying leaned against the railing with her: "Yeah, I've never ridden in one of these small fairy boats before."
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"It's too high! What if the fairy boat breaks down and we fall out?!"
Jiang Yueying's face stiffened, and she looked at her with a bitter expression: "Youhe, no, don't say such terrible things."
Lu Ren grinned, "It's okay, I can fly now, I won't die from a fall."
The pleasure boat continued to rise, reaching a height of over a thousand meters before finally aligning with the sacred tree in the Shen clan's territory.
This sacred tree is amazing! It's taller than some mountains.
But several kilometers away, Lu Ren seemed to see a person at the top of the tree.
Not only were there people, but there was also a small wooden house on the very top branch of the tree.
At that moment, a white-haired girl was leisurely looking this way from a recliner in front of the wooden house.
He even made a gun gesture and pointed it at him, causing Lu Ren to smile.
He raised his hand and waved in that direction, intending to shout something, but that would seem a bit silly.
No wonder we never see Master around; it turns out he lives up here.
He's found out now. When he comes back next time, he'll try to climb up there too, and bother her whenever he feels like it.
How can we let our master live alone? As her disciple, I should definitely take better care of her.
Shen Yaoxing noticed him, looking puzzled, and asked, "Who are you waving at?"
Lu Ren was also taken aback: "Uh, didn't you guys see it?"
"What do you see?"
Ji Liguang looked in the direction he was looking, but saw nothing. He said, "Is it because we're so far from the ground that we're hallucinating?"
Shen Yaoxing thought for a moment and asked, "Did you see someone over there?"
"My master has a little wooden cabin up in the treetop over there. Didn't you all see it?"
"Your master—"
Jiang Yueying remembered the white-haired woman from the day before yesterday—she was a senior with a somewhat lively personality.
Ji Liguang rolled his hand up like a telescope and looked in that direction: "I didn't see anything. They probably didn't want us to see it, so they used some kind of trick."
Yu Zaowei asked with some curiosity, "Xiao Lu's master—how come he's on the Shen family's sacred tree?"
"Because she was originally an elder of the Shen family, a very frightening old woman, so old—waa ...
Before Ji Liguang could finish speaking, he was suddenly pulled away by something and flew off the immortal ship.
Shan Qi, her childhood friend, was startled and immediately tried to fly out to save her: "A-Li!"
However, after Ji Liguang was pulled out, he did not fall down, but flew into the sky at an extremely fast speed.
The girl's screams faded into the distance, and her figure slowly became a dot.
All nine people on the ship looked up at her, and then she disappeared into the air, vanishing without a trace.
Lu Youhe was stunned. "Sister Ali—flew away."
Bai Lu asked, "Will she come back for dinner?"
Longyou asked with some worry, "Will everything be alright?"
Shen Yaoxing squinted: "I don't think so."
"Ah Li, oh, so terrible, boohoo."
Lu Ren also had a headache. He glanced back at the white-haired girl who was waving her hand in the air a few kilometers away from the treetop.
He forced a smile and said, "My master—he's quite fond of joking."
About ten minutes later, a small dot in the sky gradually became clear, and the blonde girl descended from the sky, eventually landing back on the fairy boat.
"Hey, look over there, isn't that Ji Liguang?"
"It seems so, they're back, they're back."
But when they returned, their appearance had changed; they became very kind, as if their souls had been cleansed.
She bowed respectfully towards the Linjiang River, saying, "Thank you, senior, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to train Ali."
The people on the fairy boat who were "Listen to the Dragon's Roar" changed their gaze towards Lu Ren.
They've flown dozens of kilometers in their fairy boat by now. If someone can still have this level of mental power across such a distance, just how powerful is this person's master?
Since Ji Liguang had returned, no one paid much attention and went about their own business.
The fairy boat has a wind-sheltered barrier, so you won't feel any wind on the deck, but it's still more comfortable inside.
Shen Yaoxing hadn't seen several of her former companions for a long time, so they had a lot to talk about.
Lu Youhe called everyone "brother" and "sister" in a very sweet voice, while Jiang Yueying found a corner to squat down and play her handheld game console.
Ji Liguang reminisced with Shan Qi, with Bai Lu nearby.
"Miss White Deer, there are many things about Xiaoshan that you probably don't know, but I know them all. Would you like me to tell you about them?"
"Shanqi has told me about his past, and I often hear him mention Miss Ali. I am always grateful for Miss Ali's care."
"Is that so? I never expected Xiaoshan to actually find a girlfriend. He's always been such a crybaby, haha—"
"He cries easily now, but it's quite fun to make him cry and then comfort him."
"That's right—"
"But sometimes I'm very bold. Even though we've only known each other for a few months, I'll just rush up and confess my feelings. I can be quite manly sometimes."
"Is that so?
Shan Qi scratched his head, looking embarrassed, and told them to stop talking about him.
Shen Yaoxing, who was drinking tea to the side, secretly glanced at Ji Liguang out of the corner of her eye. Ji Liguang looked like her beloved toy had been taken away and she was about to cry.
Bai Lu should be able to see through Ji Liguang's little scheme, and is deliberately teasing the child right now.
This Shanqi seems to be a tuner from the Tiandushan clan, possessing the talent "damage transfer," which allows teammates to share health bars and jointly bear injuries.
This talent aligns well with Shi Tieshan's "Talent Balance of Suffering".
The "Damage Transfer" feature transfers damage received by teammates to Shi Tieshan, who then reflects the damage back to the enemy.
From a professional perspective, this cultivator is a better fit for the team than I am.
Where did Lu Ren go?
Noticing that someone seemed to be missing, Shen Yaoxing looked around and confirmed that they were indeed gone.
On the deck, Lu Ren, wearing the Soul Locking Ring, was doing push-ups with the weight on him, his clothes already soaked with sweat.
Just then, besides his heavy breathing, a light footstep approached.
His gaze was low, and he could only see a pair of plain-colored cloud-patterned shoes embroidered with golden silk birds, which gracefully walked up to him.
Although many modern people wear Hanfu as everyday clothing, among them, only Shen Yaoxing was dressed in this elegant, refined attire.
Her embroidered shoes stopped a meter away, and the hem of her silk skirt fell down, blocking her view.
"While I admire hard-working people, there are still more than half a year until the big exams. Being too stressed will only hinder growth."
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2965, 2966 — Lu Ren counted in his mind as he replied, "It has nothing to do with the big exam, I just want to break through to the Flame Realm as soon as possible."
Shen Yaoxing sighed and said, "Reaching the bottleneck of the Candle Illumination level in just two months after becoming a professional, who can progress faster than you?"
"—Miss, this is the first time I've ever seen an employee voluntarily work overtime, when the manager told them to get some rest earlier."
She squatted down in front of Lu Ren, resting her chin on her hand as she watched him do push-ups, and said, "Something's not right—you seem unusually energetic?"
"————" It sounds a bit strange to say that I want your great-grandmother to live a little longer.
Lu Ren did have some worries.
This trip is to complete the task assigned by my master, which is crucial to whether she can extend her life.
Lu Ren suddenly asked, "Has the young lady ever read any novels about being reborn into the past?"
"You've mentioned him before, isn't that Xiao Yan?"
"That's a time-travel novel, not a rebirth novel. Rebirth is about going back to the past to make up for regrets."
"I haven't read it. I don't read novels much. Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"
"People grow when they encounter major hardships, but the price is inevitably the loss of very important things. So they will always regret their past laziness and think, if only they had tried harder, could they have made up for everything? This is the core appeal of rebirth novels."
Shen Yaoxing, not understanding why he was bringing this up, asked in confusion, "So?"
"Perhaps one day, we will encounter an extremely difficult enemy, let's call him Enemy A. When we fight Enemy A, we are not strong enough and we are outmaneuvered. As a result, Youhe was brutally murdered and dismembered by Enemy A, and his body was even used to feed dogs. I regretted this for decades in my previous life."
But now I've been reborn, and I know I'll encounter Enemy A, who cruelly murdered Youhe, later on. Although Enemy A hasn't appeared yet, in order to deal with Enemy A, I've chosen to work even harder now.
"This time, after training even harder, I easily defeated enemy A when he reappeared. This was something that I regretted for the rest of my life in my previous life, but it turned out to be so easy to resolve."
"If I imagine every enemy in the future as Enemy A, and every time I defeat an enemy I feel like I'm saving my sister and preventing that regret from happening in my past life, I suddenly feel very happy and inexplicably have more motivation to train."
Upon hearing this, Shen Yaoxing covered her face and chuckled, finding this guy always inexplicable.
She asked, "So, is there something that you'll regret? It's not like Xiaoyouhe is really in danger, is it?"
"If I knew what it was about now, I probably wouldn't dare to slack off for 24 hours a day."
After Lu Ren finished doing three thousand push-ups and warmed up, he stood up, wiped his sweat, and prepared to practice his sword for a while.
He looked down and saw that the fairy boat had sailed somewhere, with a huge fog below.
The thick fog stretched to the horizon, seemingly thousands of miles away, making them appear as if they were floating on a sea of fog.
He quickly remembered what it was; he had seen this fog many times before.
This is precisely the entrance and exit to the virtual realm, the Misty Age Zone.