Holy Bone

Chapter 422 The Old Man and the Sea (5k Chapter)

Since entering Desert Haizi, the ancient ship has been sailing smoothly.

The Desert Haizi in front of you has the typical characteristics of plateau lake water, blue and bluish, like a pure and flawless sapphire.

The vast and boundless sapphire is seamlessly connected with the blue sky and white clouds, and the sea and sky are lined up, giving people a vast expanse, just like standing in the center of heaven and earth, gazing at the ancient artistic conception of the sacred sky lake.

If Jin An hadn't seen the sea.

I would mistakenly think that this is the sea.

However, Jin'an admits that the lake here is very clear, and he can see the sand dunes, Populus euphratica, Haloxylon, Artemisia annua at a depth of 20 meters, and even the details of the sand, which is crystal clear.

At first the weather was fine, and everyone still had the mood to appreciate the holy lake, but this good mood was soon destroyed by the dark clouds coming from the sky.

"It's the trade wind! It's the January wind season, and it's going to be windy at night!" Yari shouted nervously.

The weather in the desert can change at any time, the sky is still clear during the day, and the wind starts to blow in the evening. When the day is completely dark, the winter wind reaches a higher height. Jin'an and the others have seen that Tianhu Lake also has its violent side.

"Yari, send a few people to the cabin to see how the camels and sheep are doing, and re-tie the camels and sheep, so as not to knock their heads in the cabin! And let those who can't swim hide Get in the boat and don't linger on deck!"

"You can ask people to find more ropes, let everyone tie the ropes around their waists, and then tie them to the ship building, so as not to be swept into the lake by big waves!"

Seeing that there were still people standing on the deck, Jin An underestimated the power of nature, so he hurriedly called Yali and asked him to call everyone back.

The largest source of water these desert people have ever seen in their life is only a river channel, how can they know the power of the sea when it is furious.

That is, even the boat can be photographed in two.

Not to mention weak people.

Although this is not really the sea, but it is the windy season of winter, and the violent wind and huge waves in front of him are no different from the anger of the sea.

At this time, the waves slapped on the ancient ship one by one, making the wooden boards groan under the weight, and the waves smashed into white foam when they hit the waves.

Even several times there were icy waves higher than the height of the ancient ship, and the water waves smashed fiercely at the bow, causing the entire hull to press down hard, causing people to fall over and over, making them unable to stand still.

How calm and gentle Tianhu Lake is during the day.

How fierce and brutal it is when the wind blows at night.

These are the two extremes.

Just like the temperature difference between day and night in the desert.

During the day, the sapphire-like lake water also turned into black water in the storm at this time. It was so deep that the bottom could not be seen. If anyone fell into the water at this time, he would definitely feel the fear of deep-sea phobia.

Inside the ship building, the aura of the divine talisman flickered on Jin An's body, like a bright lighthouse in the dark, giving people a sense of security in the dark. The divine light of the imperial water talisman protected the ship building, The turbulent water waves outside were isolated from the ship building, and the eleven people were all dry and refreshed, and the corners of their clothes were not wet by a single drop of water.

Looking at the power of the wind and waves that was still gradually strengthening, Jin An frowned slightly.

At this moment, Yali and the others looked at Jin'an's back in shock and disbelief. Even the water god can be conquered by Taoist Jin'an. How many skills does Taoist Jin'an know!
Every Han Taoist is as capable as Taoist Jin'an?

At this moment, in Jin'an's back, in their eyes, once again, being able to control Desert Haizi is not human power, but the power of gods.

In their eyes, Jin An's back was the back of a god.

vast.

mystery.

Majestic.

Raise your hands.

Even the sea can be subdued.

"Daoist Jin'an, why did we only see storms and waves along the way, but not Guchi Kingdom and mountains?" Yali was a little upset by the shaking of the ship, so he took the initiative to find topics to distract himself.

"Don't worry, there will be an end to Haizi in the Desert." Jin'an is really not in a hurry, he has even seen the Holy Mountain of Huahai, and it will be a matter of time before he finds the mountain of Zangshi Ridge.

This is just a huge lake where snow water flows, and it is not a real ocean, which has an end after all.

In fact, his greatest self-confidence comes from Erlang Zhenjun's Water Talisman.

Erlang God is the god of water.

This Desert Haizi can't trouble him.

Jin An was more worried about the camels and sheep in the cabin than whether he could find the Guchi Kingdom and the Holy Mountain.

Such a bumpy ride.

I don't know if the cabin is full of vomit.

Suddenly, in the sound of the raging wind and raging waves, there seemed to be some other voices mixed in. At first, if you didn't pay attention to it, you couldn't hear it at all. Later, everyone realized that it was a human cry for help.

"It seems to come from the sea! Someone fell into the water!" Someone exclaimed.

The others answered in a panic: "Could it be that some of us fell into the water?"

But everyone carefully counted the number of people, no more, no less, exactly 11 people, not any of them fell into the water.

"Is there anyone else who came here to look for Guchi Kingdom?" Yari asked nervously.

"Yari, Adan, come with me to check what's going on. The others stay in the ship building and don't run around." Jin'an ordered two people, then walked out of the ship building, and began to identify people on the raging wave deck. Which direction the sound is coming from.

Even as soon as Jin An left the ship building, there would be wind and waves pouring into the ship building, and the rest of Su Reti and the others would immediately become drowned and complain endlessly.

As soon as Jin An got out of the ship building, he recognized the direction of the call for help: "Go, it seems to be coming from the port side of the ship."

The desert Haizi in the raging wind and raging waves was as dark as ink, which made people feel a little frightened. The three of them tried hard to find someone on the dark water.

The area in the water is large, coupled with the poor visibility in the dark, and the waves fluctuate one after another, it is not easy to find someone.

"Jin'an Daoist is there!" Adan pointed to the area he was searching and shouted with vigor.

Jin'an and Yali turned their heads and looked over. Sure enough, in the undulating waves, they saw a person holding a log struggling violently in the raging wind and raging waves, trying to swim towards them.

Eager to save people, Yali and Adan didn't think too much, they found the ropes and coiled them into loops, and tried hard to throw them into the waves again and again.

After dozens of times of unremitting efforts, the man holding the log finally grabbed the noose and was rescued aboard.

It was only at this time that it became clear that the person who fell into the water was actually an old man.

The old man's cheek skin is hey, rough and weather-beaten. At first glance, he looks like a boatman who has been running boats all year round.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much benefactors, if not for a few benefactors who rescued me, Amur, I, Amur, would die in this storm today."

The old man was drenched and shivering in the cold wind. His face was pale and bloodless, and his lips were bruised from being soaked in the cold lake water.

As soon as he came up, he kept thanking Jin'an, Yali, and Adan. When he talked about his narrow escape, his tears flickered.

Jin An understood what the other party was saying only by relying on Yali's translation.

The old man had just narrowly escaped death, and kept thanking him all the time. At first, he didn't realize that the water waves didn't wet the three of Jin'an. It wasn't until he raised his head to look at the three of them that he noticed this detail, and he was taken aback. .

"This is the Taoist priest from the Han side..." the old man hesitated slightly.

This time he spoke the Chinese language.

Although the pronunciation is a bit awkward, Biari and the others still have awkward pronunciation when they speak Chinese, so they can barely understand the meaning.

Jin An thoughtfully glanced at the man who claimed to be Amur who fell into the water in front of him. He chuckled and offered to say, "It's very stormy outside, so we don't want to stand here and talk. Be careful not to be beaten by a big wave." Into this desert sea, let's go to the ship building first."

Hearing this, the old man Amur said with joy: "Okay, the Taoist priest is more thoughtful, and Amur is here to thank the Taoist priest again for his life-saving grace."

When Amur came to the ship building, it was natural that some mutual introductions were necessary.

Seeing that Amur was drenched and shivering from the cold, the kind-hearted Yali took out the extra clean clothes, untied the goat's milk from his waist and handed it to Amur. Amur, who had already changed into clean clothes, took the goat with gratitude. milk wine.

"Old Mr. Amur, how did you fall into the water?" Seeing that the old man's mood had stabilized a little, Jin An asked with a gentle smile.

The expression on his face was kind.

There was no defensive expression.

As soon as he talked about his falling into the water, Amur couldn't help but sigh: "Master Jin'an, you are able to appear in the desert basin in this season, and you are also here for the country of Guchi, the country of the undead, right?"

"To be honest, I'm also looking for Guchi Kingdom."

"However, I am more unlucky than Daoist Jin'an and you. The storm at night was too strong. The boat was overturned by a big wave, people fell into the water, and everyone else on the boat was also lost... Now it seems that I am the only one who survived."

Amur said in a depressed mood: "If I hadn't been holding on to the wood desperately and floating on the sea, I would never have been able to wait for Daoist Jin'an and your boat."

"Oh?" Jin An let out a little surprise.

"You also found clues to Guchi Kingdom?"

"Didn't you say that Guchi Kingdom is hard to find? Why do I hear that many people have found clues to Guchi Kingdom?"

When he heard Jin An's question, Amur glanced at Jin An in surprise, as if he was surprised to say that you really didn't know anything and ran deep into the dangerous desert to find the country of Guchi?
Amur thought about it for a while, but he didn't know what he was thinking, and then said truthfully: "Everyone knows that the ancient rivers in the desert basin have dried up, and several ancient countries have perished for thousands of years. The world also knows that the desert basin is a dry place with no water. No living life can survive in the desert basin. Until one day, a living person, without water or camels, miraculously walked out of the desert basin alone. No one knew where he came from, nor No one knows how he got out of the desert basin, there are rumors that that man is the only resurrected dead person who escaped from hell..."

"After that person walked out of the desert basin, he began to spread various clues to attract more people to enter this desert basin in search of the kingdom of the undead god... Daoist Jin'an, you really don't know about this?"

Speaking of this, Amur once again looked at Jin'an in doubt.

Jin An frowned and shook his head: "I really don't know."

Gee.

Amur looked at Jin'an, and then at the ordinary people in the ship building, their faces turned pale by the cold lake water, and they were amazed.

"If you don't know the news, Daoist Jin'an, how did you find this place? There were people looking for the entrance of Guchi Kingdom before, but no one found the real entrance. I'm a little interested in your journey, Daoist Jin'an. How did you find the Guchi National Huahai Sacred Mountain that others have been unable to find for thousands of years?"

Jin An was still thinking about the shocking news brought by Amur. Faced with Amur's curiosity, he just responded vaguely and casually: "It's just a coincidence and good luck."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head and stared at Amur: "So you have found the real entrance to the Holy Mountain of Huahai. Is there really a mountain in this desert sea?"

Unexpectedly, Amur shook his head: "It's not time yet."

"time?"

"What time?"

Jin An urged to ask.

Amur smiled mysteriously at Jin'an, his lips were blue and purple from the cold, and there seemed to be some other meaning hidden: "When the collapse of the sky and the crack of the earth occur at the same time, the entrance to the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom will really open when the sea level drops."

Listening to Amur playing charades, Yali and other people who have been standing by and listening curiously, couldn't help but wondered at this moment: "What do you mean? Why can't I hear it so hard."

"That's right, why did the sky collapse and the earth shatter to open the entrance? Could it be that there is a god living in Guchi Kingdom?"

Jin'an already guessed the answer, he looked at Amur: "I understand what you mean, you want to say that the entrance to the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom is not on the sea, but in the sea, so the old Mr. Amur said to wait , and the entrance will be exposed when the seawater drops by half.”

Amur opened his mouth and smiled, revealing a mouthful of uneven black and yellow withered teeth: "Yes."

Yali and the others still didn't understand. They were confused. Jin'an glanced at the dark night outside where the raging waves were still beating the sky, and patiently explained: "The holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom is covered by yellow sand all the year round. It’s just an ordinary sand dune. Unless we dig one by one, we can know which sand dune is buried under the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom. The point is, I only now want to understand that the sea here is not just a desert sea, but also refers to the collapse of the sand sea to reveal the mountains.”

"Yari, do you still remember the collapsed sand dune we saw on the way back to the Xiaoqiu National Camp? The sand dune was unstable and collapsed due to the erosion of the river channel. For the same reason, the wind and waves here are so strong, covering the surface of the desert mountains. The sand layer will collapse sooner or later, the sky collapse refers to the collapse of sand dunes, and the ground fissure refers to the exposure of mountain rocks."

When he said this, Jin An's voice paused slightly, and his eyes flashed brightly: "If I guess correctly, the desert mountain range that was regarded as a holy mountain by the Guchi Kingdom should extend to the depths of the desert. It is a small mountain range in the well-known Kunlun Mountains. Kunlun Mountain has always been believed to be a holy mountain, so it makes sense for the Guchi Kingdom to regard a small mountain range in Kunlun Mountains as a holy mountain."

Although what Jin An said was a bit complicated, Yali and the others finally understood it this time.

Yali smashed it and said, "Entering the Guchi country is so troublesome and hidden. I don't know how those businessmen who went to Guchi country to do business 1000 years ago endured it."

Amur laughed when he heard the words: "Brother Yali, you are wrong this time. The ancient river channel that flowed through the desert basin more than 1000 years ago has not disappeared. It was actually very convenient for businessmen at that time to go to Guchi country to do business. It takes as much effort to find the holy mountain of Guchi country as it is now, and the cargo ship can sail along the way. Now because the country of Guchi disappeared, the ancient river channel also disappeared, so we can only rely on the only vague clue of the "Holy Mountain of Huahai" to find it in the desert. Find the location of Guchi Kingdom."

Oh?The corner of Jin'an's mouth turned slightly and he glanced at the old man Amur in front of him: "Mr. Amur seems to know a lot about the ancients 1000 years ago. I almost wondered whether Mr. Amur lived for more than 1000 years. business."

Jin'an's words made Amur smile, and then he shook his head with a normal look: "Master Jin'an was joking."

Jin An's serious face: "I'm not joking."

Amur glanced at Jin An, but didn't dare to answer for a while.

Haha, Jin An suddenly laughed: "Okay, stop joking with Mr. Amur, I was indeed joking before."

Amur: "?"

If it weren't for the fact that he was still living under the fence, he would have already yelled at Jin An for being ill.

Jin An stopped joking, and curiously asked a question in his heart: "Mr. Amur, you and your people found this desert Haizi, then where did you find the boat that can enter Haizi? Don't say that you carried it all the way. Ship into the desert."

At this time, the boat was still bouncing violently up and down with the waves.

A person who has only lived in the arid desert all his life, how could he have suffered such a crime? Yali and the others have been suppressing the turmoil in their stomachs, and their spirits are listless.

On the other hand, Amur is not like a person in the desert. He is like an old river and lake who has been sailing on the wind and waves all year round. How did this big ship come here? Could it be that it also carried the ship all the way into the desert?"

Amur looked at Jin'an.

Jin'an looked at Amur.

The two suddenly laughed at the same time.

The treacherous and cunning Jin An showed an innocent and bright smile on his face: "Old Mr. Amur may not believe it, but I am born with supernatural powers. I really carried a boat from Kangding Kingdom all the way out of Yangguan and into the Western Regions. Carry the boat in here."

"?"

"!"

Amur stared blankly.

He's seen brazen.

But I've never seen one with such a thick skin.

These words are obviously full of nonsense, you are fooling the ghosts, who would really believe your nonsense.

"Daoist Jin'an really likes to joke." Amur was almost suffocated by Jin'an's words and vomited blood. He held back for a long time and only said these few words.

Jin An: "How funny?"

Amur: "?"

Amur didn't intend to take Jin'an's words anymore. He found that the Han Taoist priest in front of him seemed to be out of his mind, so he asked himself and answered, "Our boat is a wooden boat made of cut poplar wood."

Speaking of this, Amur suddenly lowered his voice mysteriously: "Master Jin'an, I see that your ship is very similar to those old merchant ships that sank in the dry ancient river. When you found this old antique ship, did you find it? What special movement, it looks a little unclean?"

When he spoke in a low voice, he turned his head and looked around, as if he was guarding against someone who would eavesdrop, and what he was guarding against was the ancient ship under his feet.

"What special movement? Have you ever seen a ship exactly like ours?" Jin An became interested.

(End of this chapter)