Chapter 25 Landing on the Island

  By noon, the wind had finally died down completely, and the Changfeng was badly battered, with half a shipload of seawater, floating on the surface like a washbasin.

  Yang Yue and Chen Hu risked their lives to cut the rope, saving the Chang Fu ship. All the sailors on board were extremely grateful, and as a result, they also treated Yang Yun with unusual courtesy.

  The sailors were busy identifying directions, repairing ships, and Yang Yue and Chen Huo couldn't stay idle either. Yang Yun and several others were passengers, and at this time no one was in charge, so Yang Yun slipped into the kitchen and started a small stove for herself.

  He held a steaming hot bowl of shark fin, but instead handed Meng Chao two mantou, "This shark fin is very useful for my cultivation method, so I won't share it with you. When we get ashore, I'll treat you to a meal."

  Meng Chao didn't mind at all and took over the steamed bun, starting to gnaw on it.

  The red-clothed girl looked on with disdain, "Clearly just being greedy and selfish, yet dragging it into the realm of cultivation techniques, truly shameless."

  Seeing Yang Yun walking over with a bowl of seafood, the red-clothed girl secretly pondered that if he was trying to curry favor with the fish fins, how she would thoroughly humiliate him.

  "Hey, there's another bun here, do you want it?" Yang Yun said with a smile.

  A flame suddenly burst forth from the red-clothed girl's head, although she had originally made up her mind that she would absolutely not eat the shark fin sent by Yang Yun. But unexpectedly, this guy didn't even have the intention of using shark fin to curry favor, and instead wanted to use a single steamed bun to get rid of her?

  "You can keep the mantou for yourself, just look at your naive face." The red-clothed girl said angrily after catching her breath.

  "Oh, so you look down on this mantou? Unfortunately, I won't share the shark fin with you. Never mind then." Yang Yun broke the mantou into pieces and threw them into a bowl, then delicately picked up each piece and chewed slowly in front of the red-clothed girl.

  "Mmm, delicious." He nodded his head in appreciation while eating.

  The red-clothed girl had gone almost a whole day without eating anything, and she hadn't yet reached the level of being able to go without food. Her stomach was growling with hunger like a burning fire. The aroma of shark fin soup wafted over, making her eyes nearly shoot out flames as she viciously plotted how to chop this disgusting guy into seventeen or eighteen pieces and throw him into the sea to feed the fish.

  Yang Yun saw that the situation was not in his favor, so he quickly pulled Meng Chao back into the cabin, and with a few swift movements, he vented his anger by slapping the door shut. If they were to fight, he knew he would be no match for him.

  Out of sight, out of mind; when the red-clothed girl saw Yang Yun, she dodged away, and the anger in her chest was somewhat suppressed.

  "Oh dear, I'm so silly. Why didn't I just go to the kitchen and get something to eat myself?" The red-clothed girl had always been waited on hand and foot, never having to lift a finger for herself, and it hadn't occurred to her until now."

  The girl in red ran into the kitchen, and with a wave of her hand, a golden leaf came out. She immediately received princess-like treatment, but unfortunately, that guy had already gone into the cabin and couldn't be seen.

  Yang Yun, sitting in the cabin, had already finished a bowl of fish fin soup. Warm currents rose from his stomach and flowed through his meridians like silk threads, finally settling at his wrists, fingers, and soles. In several empty acupoints, white light gradually emerged, and the influx of vital energy was a bit rapid. Yang Yun felt a slight tingling sensation in several orifices, which made him feel comfortable to the point of humming with pleasure.

  "It was just a bowl of shark fin, and it restored four or five tenths of my depleted spiritual energy. After finishing the whole thing, I estimate that I can still increase by three tenths compared to before. This time, I made a profit." Yang Yun's mood is great, "It seems that in the future, we should find more mountain delicacies and seafood to eat. A casual bowl of it is worth dozens of steamed buns."

  "Land ho!" came the shout from outside the cabin.

  "Lao Meng, let's go out and take a look."

  Yang Yun pulled Meng Chao to the deck, and indeed, in the northeast direction, there was a faint outline of an island. The Changfu ship was slowly heading in that direction.

  "Why are you heading in that direction? Isn't the mainland to the west?" A red-clothed girl appeared out of nowhere and asked.

  "Now there's only one sail left, and we can't find the route. Who knows how many days it'll take to get back? It's better to find an island to replenish some food and water first." Yang Yun casually explained, but in his heart he was wildly shouting with joy, "Hurry up, hurry up, we're going to get rich soon!"

  "Hmm." The red-clothed girl found it a bit strange that Yang Yun actually answered the question honestly this time. She hesitated for a moment, deciding not to use the sect's transmission talisman for now. This kind of long-distance transmission talisman was precious, but as soon as she activated it, her master would fly over to find her. It just felt like using it would be extremely embarrassing, like a lost child being led back home by an adult.

  "In a few days, if we still can't land, it won't be too late to use it again."

  The girl in red thought that she was out to gain experience anyway, and although the boat was very uncomfortable, as long as they didn't encounter a storm like yesterday's, safety shouldn't be a problem.

  Yesterday the storm was amazingly big, but today it turned into a gentle breeze. Fortunately, the wind direction is eastward, and after drifting for more than an hour, the Changfu No. finally sailed to the outer edge of the island.

  They found a place with suitable water depth and dropped anchor, then the captain gathered people to go ashore and explore.

  Yang Yun volunteered to go ashore, the sailors on the boat had to work overnight to repair the ship, and there were not enough hands, the captain didn't expect Yang Yun and others to be of much help, thinking that they would not make trouble if they went ashore.

  Yang Yun, Meng Chao, Yang Yue, Chen Hu, the red-clothed girl, and three other sailors got on a sampan and rowed towards the island.

  They chose a beach as their landing place, with mountains rising gradually to the north and a forest to the east.

  They pulled the raft ashore and tied it up, then several people discussed what to do next. Yang Yue and a few sailors went to find water in the forest, while Yang Yun insisted on climbing the mountain, with Meng Chao following him. The red-clothed girl hesitated for half a day, thinking that if they found water in the forest, they would have to carry it back bucket by bucket. Although she wouldn't have to lift a hand, just standing there watching seemed a bit awkward, so she decided to climb the mountain too.

  Actually, Yang Yun originally wanted to go to the forest, but when he looked up, he saw a cave on the half mountain waist, and had an idea in his heart. Anyway, there was Second Brother on the side of the forest, if he found treasure, he wouldn't be left out, so he might as well go to the cave to try his luck.

  At first on the precipitous mountain rocks climbing, three people immediately divided out of level.

  The red-clothed girl was like a nimble deer, leaping and bounding between the rocks, soon leaving the other two far behind. Meng Chao climbed very steadily, sometimes using his tiger claws to assist him when he encountered difficult terrain, his speed extremely stable.

  Yang Yun was exhausted and panting, having to stop from time to time to catch his breath. There were several difficult passes that he had to ask Meng Chao for help before he could climb over them.

  "Hey - how useless are you? Climbing a mountain and getting tired like this, not even as good as an ordinary person."

  The red-clothed girl had already climbed halfway up the mountain and then lightly jumped down, sitting on a high rock, smiling brightly as she watched Yang Yun struggling at her feet.

  Yang Yun rubbed his nose and sighed helplessly with a bitter smile.

  What's the point? Climbing a mountain is just that, it's not like fighting against a shark, do I have to exhaust myself and waste all my hard-earned spiritual energy? As for the Moonlight True Qi, it only has the effect of increasing physical strength at the sixth level, and it can't be used for attacking until the ninth level, just like martial arts techniques. Without several years of practice, it's basically useless.

  "Cut---I'm doing this to exercise my body, if you have the ability don't use your true energy." Yang Yun said with a sour tone.

  "Why don't you use your true energy? If you use it up, just recover it and that's fine."

  Yang Yun felt sad and wanted to cry. The essence he had accumulated was like fuel, and as soon as he used the Quiet Yuan Refining Essence Technique, it was all burned up. Where would he get a refill from?

  "Hey, don't just stand there watching the excitement, go over there and grab that rope, pull me up."

  "This girl is not in the mood to help you, so just train slowly." The red-clothed girl tapped her foot and rose up like a swallow, after several jumps, Yang Yun could only see her back when he looked up.

  "Alas, it's indeed difficult to raise only daughters and young children. The ancients were not deceiving me, was it Old Meng?" Yang Yun turned her head to ask Meng Chao.

  Meng Chao smiled slightly, not saying a word, but in his heart, he compared the red-clothed girl and Zhang Xiaojie. Hmm, the red-clothed girl's appearance was even better than Zhang Xiaojie's, but when it came to being gentle, virtuous, and elegant, she couldn't compare to Zhang Xiaojie, who was still the best.

  The road ahead was rough, with mud and gravel falling down from time to time, covering Yang Yun in dust.

  "That wild girl has such sharp ears! She must have heard what I said just now, otherwise why would Meng Chao's place be so rarely visited?" Yang Yun thought to herself.

  After much difficulty climbing up the mountain waist to that cave entrance, unexpectedly outside the entrance was a flat large stone platform. Looking inside, Yang Yun took in a breath of cold air.

  I didn't expect this cave to be so deep! It's pitch black and you can't see the bottom at all.

  Yang Yun only felt embarrassed at this time, he thought that the cave on the mountain was very shallow and did not prepare a torch.

  Do you want to go in and take a look? Yang Yun hesitated, he felt that the possibility of hidden treasure in this cave was not great. Think about it, the sailors on the Longfuhao came ashore to replenish their food and water, and after repairing the ship they left immediately, how would they have had the leisure to explore this deserted island's cave?