He tried to open his eyes, moved his fingers, and found that he was holding on to a broken board and lying on a cold, wet beach sand. His cheeks were covered with fine, wet gravel, which stung.
A gust of wind and waves blew, and the sea surface immediately stirred up waves. The cold sea water crashed over him one after another. The sea water with the fishy wind slapped his cheeks, and he smelled a bitter sea smell.
He felt as if his body had been smashed into pieces, his limbs were weak, and every part of him was sore. He didn't know how long he had been soaking on the beach before he woke up.
"Cough~!"
Ye Mo took a few mouthfuls of the salty and fishy sea water, coughed violently, and immediately felt a heartbreaking pain in his chest, like a fire.
He let go of the broken wooden board he was holding tightly in his hands. Feeling tired and sore, he pushed himself up and sat on the beach. The coarse cloth worn by a warrior was wet and clinging to his body, feeling cold and uncomfortable.
Ye Mo looked around blankly.
In front of him was an unfamiliar beach on the coast of Half Moon Bay, covered with white fine sand, with small shells and conches everywhere.
There was no one on the empty beach, and the silence was a bit eerie.
This is obviously an island. There seems to be a rolling hill in the center of the island, all covered with towering trees and deserted.
In the distance is the endless blue sea, the sky is blue and cloudless, the waves are calm, and a few seabirds are flying at low altitude, hunting for sea fish. It is getting late, and the golden afterglow of the setting sun casts a mysterious veil on the undulating sea.
"I should be on a large sea ship. Why did I pass out on this desert island...?"
Ye Mo shook his heavy head, trying to wake himself up and recall what happened before.
After a while, he recalled all the causes and consequences of his being on an isolated island.
He is the son of a civilian family in Wu Kingdom City. He is now eighteen years old and an ordinary warrior with no reputation. His father is an ordinary soldier in the Wu Kingdom Army and was killed in successive battles. After his father died, his mother also became ill from overwork.
Ended in depression.
Like many unknown warriors in the Wu Kingdom, Ye Mo's initial dream was a bit vulgar. He was looking forward to becoming a promising military general in the Wu Kingdom, buying a mansion in the royal city, and having fresh clothes every day.
Angry horse, if you can marry a beautiful girl, that would be wonderful.
However, achieving this dream is not easy.
The streets are full of ordinary warriors from the Wu Kingdom.
If you want to become a military general in the Wu Kingdom, you often need high-level martial arts, high-level exercises, and a large number of body-tempering herbs for cultivation to strengthen your body, energy, and blood. And these all require money, a lot of money.
A warrior who practices high-level martial arts can easily defeat several ordinary warriors.
However, Ye Mo had nothing.
He was just a warrior from a small family in King Wu's city. Not to mention good body-tempering herbs, he didn't even have a decent intermediate martial arts secret book.
The "Wave Cutting Jue" he practiced was just a low-level martial arts secret book.
Moreover, the power of the Wu Kingdom's court was controlled by the officials, dignitaries and wealthy families. Only their direct descendants had the opportunity to become the generals of the Wu Kingdom's court. Even the low-ranking generals in the army had long been promoted.
It was divided up by all the big and small aristocratic families.
A civilian martial artist like him has a very bleak future in the martial arts country.
Ye Mo's pitiful and vulgar dreams were all daydreams, and Yaoyao was hopeless. Dreams and cruel reality formed a huge gap, tearing his poor heart in half.
A month ago, a group of maritime merchants from the Donglai Kingdom came to the King of Wu Kingdom. These merchants hired a group of storytellers in the city to preach that there was a spiritual island in the East China Sea and a fairy village on the island. There were many fairy villages living in the fairy village.
Immortal cultivators. The pavilions in the fairy village are all made of jade, and there is also a panacea that can get rid of all diseases and make you immortal.
The storytellers exaggeratedly talked about the various benefits of those sea fairies.
"Legend has it that there is a fairy village on the Ling Island in the East China Sea. The fairy village is filled with clouds and mist all year round, and the spiritual peak reaches into the sky. From time to time, the immortals who live here shuttle through the clouds and mist, looming and difficult to find."
"As long as you go to sea with the merchants and find this fairy village on the sea, you will have the opportunity to worship the immortal cultivators in the fairy village as your teachers, become their disciples, and learn the great abilities of the immortals."
"Immortal disciples live in the Immortal Palace, practice magical powers, control flying swords, soar in the nine heavens, ride on spiritual cranes, and fly across the sea!"
"There are countless fairies as beautiful as flowers serving as their attendants. They can turn their hands to make clouds and make rain. They are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Even the royal family, high-ranking officials and wealthy families of the Wu Kingdom can only covet, envy and worship them.
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"Since ancient times, countless warriors have set sail to sea with lofty ideals. They braved the risk of being swallowed by strong winds and waves to find the fairy village on Lingdao. They just wanted to get a word of advice from the immortal and embarked on the road of cultivating immortality."
"Although it is very risky, there are many successful warriors. As long as you spend fifty taels of silver to buy a ship ticket from a merchant, take a sea ship to the East China Sea to find the fairy village, all these beautiful things are possible. Money counts
What the hell, finding Fairy Village is worth everything!"
Inspired by storytellers, many warriors with bleak prospects in the Wu Kingdom, including Ye Mo, were so excited that they wished they could fly to the fairy village of Lingdao in the East China Sea to worship the immortal as their teacher.
But in the end, there were not many warriors who dared to make up their mind to go to sea with the merchants.
There is an old saying in Wu State, "It is better to go up the mountain than to go down the river." There are strong winds and waves on the river, not to mention the vast sea. The waves in the East China Sea are high and the wind is strong, and it is said that there are terrifying sea beasts running rampant. Nine out of ten people who go out to sea cannot come back.
Going out to sea on a sea ship is no joke.
According to legend, there are many powerful sirens and monsters in the East China Sea. They often attack ships sailing on the sea, eat the flesh of the crew, and even swallow the whole ship together.
Like a kind of sea monster named "Mirage", it is huge in size and can turn over mountains and seas when it turns over. It can turn sea water into clouds and mist, forming an illusory spiritual island fairy village on the vast sea.
Ships from afar thought they had found the fairy village of Lingdao, so they headed here one after another.
What awaits them is the "mirage's" huge mouth that can swallow an entire sea ship.
These terrifying legends of the East China Sea Sirens have scared away many tempted warriors from going to the sea to seek immortals.
Ye Mo did not hesitate, and immediately decided to follow the merchants to the East China Sea to find immortals.
He knew very well that a young martial artist like himself did not have much of a future in King Wu's City. High-level martial arts and body-tempering herbs were expensive and he simply could not afford them.
If this continues, in the end, he will have no choice but to give up martial arts training, do some small business to make a living, find a wife and raise a child, and then live a mediocre life in the market.
This is not what he wants.
Even though Ye Mo is just an unknown warrior in Wu Kingdom, deep down in his heart, he still wants to stand out!
If you want a mansion, you must have a horse and a beautiful wife!
I want to spread my wings and fly high into the sky!
Do whatever you want without any restrictions!
There are so many wants!
Ye Mo is only eighteen years old, and he doesn't want to stay in King Wu's city and be an unknown warrior all his life.
He wants to change everything.
He would rather take risks and go to distant and unknown foreign lands to find a way out for his pitiful dreams.
Even if it is the extremely dangerous East China Sea, we will not hesitate!
Ye Chen knew that if he continued to live aimlessly in Wu Kingdom, his whole life would pass like this.
He gritted his teeth and sold the only valuable old house in his family. He got one hundred taels of silver and spent fifty taels of silver to buy a ship ticket from those maritime merchants.
He spent the remaining fifty taels to buy a good Qingfeng sword from the weapons shop in the royal city, and bought several packs of high-quality healing herbs from the herbal shop to prepare for going to sea.
Then Ye Mo boarded the merchant's giant ship.
This huge sea-going ship departed from the fishing port of Donglai Kingdom, carrying more than a thousand warriors with dreams from various countries in the Kyushu continent, and set out to sea to find the mysterious and ethereal spiritual island in the East China Sea.
The ship drifted on the vast East China Sea for a month.
Just last night, the warriors in the ship were still chatting and laughing, talking about how they would become apprentices and learn immortal skills after finding the Fairy Village on Lingdao.
Some people say that after learning the magic of immortality, they go back to the big country of Kyushu to become a protector of the country. They are so majestic that one person is inferior to ten thousand people. Others say that after becoming an immortal, they have to marry a fairy as their wife and concubine, and have a child.
A bunch of babies caused the warriors to burst into laughter.
The good times did not last long, but suddenly, dark clouds rolled in from the sky outside the ship, and there was lightning and thunder.
The entire sea with a radius of hundreds of miles seemed to be plunged into a dark purgatory.
The high-speed rotating storm in the distance formed a huge water column as high as a thousand feet, like a dragon drawing water, sucking in the huge sea ship.
The terrifying storm shattered the confidence of all the warriors on the ship.
Everyone on the ship was frightened, and an atmosphere of fear, helplessness, and despair enveloped the entire ship.
Ye Mo heard the sound of masts and decks exploding. They were lifted high by the storm and shattered in the air.
Huge sea ships are as fragile as tissue paper in the face of big storms, easily torn apart.
The warriors on the ship fell into the water one after another, and countless heart-rending cries for help rang out on the ship and on the sea. The thunder was rolling and the waves were surging. When the disaster was approaching, everyone struggled to survive.
Ye Mo only remembered that at the moment when the huge ship was torn apart by the storm, he jumped into the sea, swam desperately in the water to get away from the sinking ship, and hugged a broken wooden board on the sea in a blur, and then
Fainted.
After he woke up, he lay on the beach of this isolated island.
Ye Mo looked at the vast sea and was stunned for a while before shaking his head with a wry smile.
"What bad luck!"
"I spent all my savings and bought a boat ticket to follow the merchant ship to the East China Sea to look for the fairy village on the sea. Fortunately, the fairy was not found, the storm destroyed the ship in the sea, and I was washed up here.
Island."
"However, I actually floated to an island alive and was not directly drowned by the big waves. It can be regarded as a great blessing among misfortunes. That ship carried thousands of warriors from all over Kyushu, but I don't know how many people can be like that.
I am so lucky to survive this storm and not become the food of a fish in the sea."
Ye Mo felt frightened when he thought about the big storm last night.
Fortunately, he grabbed a broken wooden board after jumping into the sea, which prevented him from sinking to the bottom of the sea and becoming food for sea fish.
"How do I get out of here? Do I have to be trapped on this island for the rest of my life?"
Ye Mo smiled bitterly and sat on the beach for a while, gradually regaining some strength.
"By the way, my Qingfeng sword, herbal medicine, and ancient paintings."
Ye Mo remembered something important and quickly touched his body with both hands. He felt the hard sword hilt on his back and a coarse cloth package on his waist.
fine.
The Qingfeng Sword is still there!
"Qiang!"
Ye Mo pulled out the Qingfeng Sword from behind.
This sword is made of high-quality fine iron and has been repeatedly forged hundreds of times. It is extremely sharp and radiates cold light. It can be called a treasure weapon.
Ordinary young warriors in the Wu Kingdom can only use iron swords at most. Even high-level warriors rarely have such good high-grade weapons.
For this trip to the East China Sea, he specially spent forty-five taels of silver to purchase this sharp sword at the weapons shop. He also tied the sword firmly to his back with a thick rope. Fortunately, it was not lost in the shipwreck.
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Ye Mo sheathed the Qingfeng Sword.
Opening the coarse cloth package around his waist, there were several packages of healing herbs and a very simple ancient painting scroll inside. These packages of healing herbs were bought for five taels of silver, and they were all wrapped in oil paper, so there was no need to worry about them.
Soaked by sea water.
Neither the Qingfeng Sword nor a few bags of precious herbs were his top priority.
What Ye Mo cares about most is the one-foot-long ancient painting scroll.
Ye Mo still remembered that his mother once said that when she gave birth to him, this fairy village picture came out of nowhere. It had been around him since he was born, and it was extremely mysterious. This was his lifeblood and could not be
There is a loss.
This painting is very simple, and the handle is made of a rare gray material.
Unfolding this foot-long ancient painting canvas, a fairy-like ancient painting scroll of a fairy village was painted on it.
Ye Mo has carried this ancient painting with him since he was a child. The texture is very strange, it is soft cloth, but it cannot be damaged in any way. Fire and swords cannot leave marks on it.
“It’s good that the ancient painting scroll is not lost!”
Ye Mo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the ancient painting was fine.
He sold all the things in his house, and this was the only thing he had left. An ancient painting with a fairy charm was the only thing he could keep as a souvenir.
Ye Mo thought for a moment and wrapped the ancient painting around his waist inside his clothes to avoid losing it.
"First go to the beach and search around to find some food. I can be washed up on this island, and some food on the ship may also float here. After all, it is food for more than a thousand people, and it is full of food.
A cabin, if you float a little bit, it will be enough for me to eat for a while.
By the way, let's see if there are any other people who survived. There are thousands of people on this giant ship, most of them are warriors. There must be others floating on the island alive. Find other warriors and discuss with them how to leave the island.
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Ye Mo pondered. He touched his shriveled belly and felt hungry. He might have been unconscious for at least half a day.
He looked around, patted the sand off his body, adjusted the package around his waist, and walked along the beach with the Qingfeng Sword on his back.
There are no obstacles on the beach and the view is wide, making it easy to find other surviving warriors. If you are lucky, you might be able to find sea fish on the shallow beach and have a good meal.
Tens of feet away from the beach, there are rolling mountains, huge and gloomy woods and dense shrubs and grass.
Ye Mo is not familiar with the situation on the island yet, and does not want to easily enter the dense forest and bushes. There may be poisonous snakes, scorpions, insects and ants hidden inside. His Qingfeng sword can kill wild beasts, but it cannot deal with tiny insects and ants.
If you are bitten by a snake, scorpion, insect or ant, you will definitely die on this uninhabited desert island.
It is much safer to walk on the beach sand without these worries.
He looked around from a distance. The island looked very big. Just looking at the long beach coastline, I was afraid that the island was more than ten miles long.
Ye Mo walked along the beach for several miles.
Suddenly, I saw some broken shipwreck planks ahead.
"Wreck! Maybe you can find something to eat!"
Ye Mo couldn't help but feel happy, and ran over in large strides, reaching a pile of shipwrecks.
I remember that there were many large wooden barrels in the cabins of seagoing ships, which contained food such as rice noodles, bacon, pickles, wine and vinegar seasonings, for the warriors to eat on their way to sea.
Ye Mo rummaged through the broken wood of the shipwreck and found several broken large wooden barrels, but when he opened the lids of the barrels, he found that they were all empty, not even the soaked rice noodles were left.
He looked helpless.
In addition to some ship fragments, there were also a few empty wooden barrels. Not to mention a bag of dry food, there was not even a dregs of food.
At this time, a group of seabirds flew over Ye Mo.
"Seabird?"
Ye Mo was stunned, "Since there are seabirds here, then there should be seabird eggs in the water plants on the beach! There is no perfect path!"
He woke up with a start and immediately searched carefully in the grass near the beach.
Seabirds generally lay eggs in areas with dense aquatic plants.
After a while.
Ye Mo held a nest of seven or eight colorful seabird eggs in his hands and almost burst into tears.
"Finally something delicious to eat. It's not good to eat them raw. Let's have some fragrant roasted seabird eggs!"
After a while, Ye Mo found some dead wood, dry moss and dead branches and leaves from the periphery of the dense forest.
Bury the seabird eggs under the sand on the beach and pile them with wood branches.
I dug a small hole in the dead wood and put the dry moss collected there.
Then he used a very hard branch to rotate and rub against the trunk at high speed. With the strength and speed of his mid-term warrior, sparks soon appeared at the junction of the branch and the trunk.
Dry moss burned.
Immediately, Ye Mo put the pile of dead branches and leaves on top, and the fire gradually increased, and a bonfire was raised.
Ye Mo took a branch and dried the wet warrior's shirt.
Soon, the seabird eggs buried in the sand below were cooked.
He quickly dug out the seabird eggs and broke the shells, and a warm aroma immediately hit his nostrils.
He devoured half of the seabird eggs in two or two mouthfuls.
“It smells so good!”
Ye Mo licked his lips and wiped away the residue from the corners of his mouth with his hands.
I couldn't bear to eat the remaining half of the seabird eggs.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Ye Mo went to the outskirts of the dense forest and chopped off some branches with his Qingfeng Sword, then built a tent against a big tree on the beach and covered it with withered grass.
After half an hour, a very crude "tent" was built.
Night has completely fallen.
The tent was only a few feet away from the campfire, not far away. Some dead wood was added to keep the campfire burning to prevent wild animals from approaching the island.
After finishing it, Ye Mo got into the tent and slept.
At night, there are stars.
"Even on a desert island, I can still continue to practice martial arts and make myself stronger."
"There are a lot of trees on the island, and we can build a big raft. I am practicing my martial arts while building the raft. After preparing enough dried meat, I go out to sea and continue to look for the immortals in the Donghai Fairy Village."
"As long as I don't die, sooner or later I will be able to find Donghai Fairy Village! My dream and my future, I will not give up!"
Ye Mo was lying in the tent, looking at the slowly burning bonfire, holding the Qingfeng Sword in his arms. Although the island was in trouble, his desire to find the immortal was not extinguished at all, but became more intense.