The day after the Aurora left St. Genna Island, it entered the devil's north wind zone in the Oro Strait. The 10,000-ton giant ship also officially entered the bumpy mode.
The Oro Strait is the southernmost strait in the ice and snow wasteland. It is the only way to enter the northern ice and snow wasteland from the Evandara Islands. Only when he came to the Oro Strait by boat did Zhang Tie truly understand why the only way to enter the ice and snow wasteland was by boat. Airships did not work here. The most direct reason was the terrifying devil's north wind belt in the Oro Strait.
During this year at Qianlongtang, Zhang Tie still learned something. At least, Zhang Tie had read from the geography book of the mainland about the reason for the formation of the Devil's North Wind Belt in the Oro Strait - this is the subpolar lowland in the ice and snow wasteland. The strong air convection and cyclone formed by the air pressure belt and the subtropical high pressure belt of the Evandara Islands.
The terrifying north wind comes from the communication between different air pressure zones on the planet. Because this communication never stops, the terrifying north wind that ravages the Oro Strait also never stops. Driven by such a strong north wind, the water in the Oro Strait forms the fastest ocean current in the entire Hawaiian subcontinent - the "Wasteland Drift". It is also because of this perennial north wind that the sky above the entire Oro Strait , has also become a forbidden area for airships.
In this era, no airship can pass through this devil's north wind belt. Maybe the aircraft before the cataclysm can, but for the airship, the huge body and limited height of the airship in the air are very difficult for this terrifying north wind. The wind belt is no different from a kite in the sky. Once any airship approaches here, it will only be blown southward by the north wind here, and will not be able to fly to the ice and snow wasteland.
The devil's northerly wind belt in the Oro Strait not only made this strait a forbidden area for all air transportation in this era, but also made it difficult for Zhang Tie's Aurora to move forward in the sea. The Aurora's normal speed is close to 18 knots. On the second day, amid the oncoming waves of more than ten meters high, the speed of the entire ship suddenly dropped to about ten knots.
While on the ship, Zhang Tie learned that the giant ship departing from St. Genna Island would have to bump on the sea for seven days before reaching Eskil City in the southernmost part of the ice and snow wasteland. Eskil City is the link between the ice and snow wasteland and Ewen. A window for communication between the Dara Islands and the outside world, it is also the only city in the entire ice and snow wasteland. Compared to the infinite vastness of the ice and snow wasteland, it is on the pioneer map. Eskil City is not even a sesame seed on the pie.
The ticket Zhang Tie bought was for the ordinary cabin of the Aurora. For people who are going to be bumpy at sea for seven days, it is of course impossible for everyone to stay in the cabin, so there are some things on the ship for everyone to have some fun during these seven days. Place, for example. Restaurants, bars. And a casino!
The time on the boat was boring. In addition to polishing his skills and practicing in the Realm of Soul Tribulation, Zhang Tie occasionally walked out of his cabin to get some air, eat something, and see what the Oro Strait was like.
During the few days on the ship, Zhang Tie met several new friends - Sam. Gerry, and Ile.
Sam and Gerry are two pioneers and good friends. After hearing the news about the discovery of ruins and the Star of God in the ice and snow wasteland. Come to the ice and snow wilderness together to get rich and try your luck. Yiler is an out-and-out small businessman who specializes in trading fur goods and food between the ice and snow wasteland and Evandala.
The ordinary cabin where Zhang Tie lives is connected to three other ordinary cabins. In addition to having its own independent space, it shares a small passage and a bathroom with the other three identical ordinary cabins, which is a bit like a school dormitory. Meaning, after staying on the ship for two days, Zhang Tie got to know the other three people.
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Under the impact of the powerful mental power, the purple bright spot made a loud noise in Zhang Tie's consciousness like a dam breaking. The purple brilliance on the bright spot flew everywhere and disappeared into Zhang Tie's body. As the purple brilliance dissipated, a little red starlight began to appear at the bright spot, and then burned like a torch.
In the warmth emanating from this bright spot, Zhang Tie felt as if part of the darkness shrouding his body had been dispelled. The fifteenth joint on the spine starting from the tail vertebra was like an opened Like a metal lock, it made a snapping sound, and a tingling and tingling feeling similar to that experienced during sexual intercourse emanated from the central nervous system of the spine and was transmitted to Zhang Tie's brain, making Zhang Tie almost I couldn't help but hum it.
The fifteenth bright spot on the spine was finally opened by Zhang Tie relying on his own mental power.
When the tingling feeling radiating from his spine completely disappeared, Zhang Tie took a long breath and stood up from his bed, stretched his body, and casually put away the pyramid crystal in his hand. Arriving within the space of the Black Iron Castle.
Zhang Tie felt it and found that the strength of his body seemed to have increased a little, and the feeling between his limbs was more coordinated. The position of the sea of qi in the lower abdomen where the soul fire originally entered the body, which is where the bright point of the shrine was illuminated, seemed to It also feels a little more light and agile, as if someone had dug out a few stubborn rocks from the originally solid mountain belly.
Since starting to ignite the fourteenth bright point, Zhang Tie felt that every time he lit a bright point, there would be slight changes in the sea of qi in his lower abdomen.
If he was in Black Flame City, he would definitely not know what such a change meant, but at this moment, he understood that this was a prelude to gradually opening up the body's Qi sea, a ninth level that ignited at least thirty-four bright points. The biggest difference between a strong warrior of level 10 and a strong warrior of level 10 who has ignited at least fifty-five bright points is that in addition to igniting all the bright points on his spine, a strong warrior of level 10 also opens up a sea of qi. .
Sea of Qi - the sea of fighting spirit, which is the source of a warrior's strength.
The difference between a tenth-level strong warrior who has opened up the Qi Sea and an ordinary ninth-level warrior is decisive. The disparity in combat power and physical fitness can be seen from the number of obvious differences between the two sides. That has exceeded The combined combat power of first-level warriors to eighth-level warriors, that is, from this time on, the gap between each level began to truly become a chasm that was insurmountable for ordinary people. It was at this time that the value of some of the top awakened ancestral bloodlines of the Chinese clan slowly became apparent.
Zhang Tie knew that there was still a big gap between his current strength and that of the tenth-level strong warrior who had opened up the Qi Sea. For a long period of time in the future, almost two years, I will not be able to open up the Qi Sea.
Forty bright spots, each bright spot has seven layers of barriers, which adds up to 280 layers of barriers. One leak-free fruit can break three layers of barriers. After all, even if there are no accidents, the leak-free fruit will There is no other consumption. If you only eat the fruit without leakage, you need to eat at least ninety-three to advance to the tenth level.
Ninety-three unblemished fruits take ninety-three weeks to grow. That adds up to six hundred and fifty-one days, almost a year and ten months.
At this moment, I don't have any clue about the most critical advanced training between level nine and level ten. The content of training after level nine, especially the part about igniting the bright spot. Even on Qianlong Island, it is a secret among secrets. In addition to requiring huge family contribution points. The level must reach level nine, and you need to go through strict review before you are eligible for contact learning. So far, I have not met the conditions in several aspects, so naturally you are not qualified for contact.
It is very possible to be promoted from level seven to level ten within two years. This speed is already a rocket for others. But for Zhang Tie, it still feels a bit slow, because the so-called ninth level and tenth level are in the eyes of many real masters. This is the initial stage of cultivation. This is what his master told him.
Zhang Tie knows very well that in the later stages, as the number of bright points that need to be ignited for each level of advancement increases geometrically, the effect of the Wuliu Fruit on his advancement will slow down relatively slowly, and the Holy War is already imminent. Well, after the Tianhan City incident, Zhang Tie had a vague hunch that the brutality of this holy war and the cards the demons could play might exceed everyone's expectations...
Calculating the time carefully, I have not entered the Black Iron Castle for more than two weeks. After these two weeks of accumulation, there should be two more unleak fruits on the small tree in the Black Iron Castle. .
Zhang Tie stretched his body a little in the narrow cabin, and was about to enter the Black Iron Castle in one go, eat the two flawless fruits, and break the six-layer barrier of the sixteenth bright point on the spine. , his mind had just moved when someone knocked on the cabin door where he was.
"Bang bang bang, Peter, are you there..."
As soon as he heard this voice, Zhang Tie gave up the idea of entering the Black Iron Castle, smiled helplessly, and then opened the hatch.
Outside the cabin door, stood two guys who were both eighteen or nineteen years old, looked only a little older than Zhang Tie, and were also dressed like pioneers. The one on the left of the two guys is slightly fatter and has conspicuous lavender hair. The guy on the right is a little thinner and slightly taller. His skin is brown, he has black hair, and his nose is quite high. The two eyes were shining brightly.
"Are you really here?" The slightly fatter guy shouted when he saw Zhang Tie opening the door.
"Is something wrong, Sam?" Zhang Tie asked in a good-tempered manner, showing no intention of being unhappy at being disturbed.
"I haven't seen you out of the cabin since yesterday afternoon. It's almost moldy here. Gerry and I were about to go to dinner, so I came to call you!" After saying this, Sam stared at Zhang Tie's face. He looked at his face carefully and said, "Why is your face a little red? Could it be that you are sick?"
"Ah, no, I'm just sleeping!" Zhang Tie said with a haha. He had just ignited a bright spot, and the body's Qi and blood were stimulated, so his face would look a little red in a short period of time, as if he had just finished doing it. It's the same as sports, but there's no need to make this kind of thing public, so as not to irritate these two guys.
Sam is only at the fourth level now, and Gerry is a little better, and has just entered the fifth level. This level is already considered extremely outstanding among pioneers of their age.
"sleeping?". Gerry looked mischievously into Zhang Tie's room, which was so small that it could only accommodate a bed and a table. A strange smile appeared on his face, "It's not like a person is doing strange things in the room. Well, I know, it’s really boring to be alone, and you can’t help but get excited when you’re excited about something like that. I understand, I understand, but staying in a room alone for too long can be bad for your health. !”
"What did you say?" Zhang Tie asked with some doubts.
Then Gerry held an empty hand and moved it up and down, doing a movement that ninety-nine percent of men would understand, "If it's really boring, let's go to the casino after dinner. I heard it's there." There are a lot of beauties. That guy from Yiler won more than two gold coins in the casino yesterday, and almost earned back half of his boat ticket. He went to the casino again early this morning, and now I see him back. Woolen cloth!"
Zhang Tie laughed and scratched his hair. He didn't expect that he would be misunderstood by practicing alone in the room for too long. Well, this is indeed a bit strange. Why not go out for a walk and get some fresh air? Wherever the fruit of the tree is, it will be the same when you come back to eat it at night. There will be no leakage of the fruit and it will not escape.
"Okay, let's go!" Zhang Tie said, and then locked the hatch of his room, and then walked out of the narrow strip connecting their rooms with Sam and Gerry, ** Stepping onto the inner channel of the anti-slip patterned steel plate under your feet, you come outside.
"I heard that the VIP room upstairs is much better than ours. The room is almost the same as a private room in a high-end hotel. There are carpets on the corridor floor. There is also a club in the VIP area? I met the bartender in the club yesterday. I saw one, a big blonde girl, and she was wearing bunny ears..." Sam said enviously as he walked, "When we get rich, we can also try to live in a VIP cabin! That way every day You won’t be as tired from running around now!”
Gerry suddenly laughed, "When you have money and are willing to spend ten or twenty gold coins to build a boat, will you still have to run around all day to open up wasteland?".
"Yeah, why should we go pioneering when we have money!" Sam also reacted immediately and patted his head. "Gerry, what kind of life do you want to live if you have money?"
"When I have money, of course I will get a bunch of big beauties to keep in the castle. They will work as seeders every day, striving to reproduce and create a great family!"
Zhang Tie also smiled. These two guys were quite cute.
"Peter, what about you?"
"Me?" Zhang Tie pointed to his nose.
"Yes, even if we are pioneers, we still have to have dreams!"
dream? Zhang Tie thought about his dream of lying on a pile of gold coins when he was dying and watching a bunch of beautiful women shed tears in front of him. He shook his head in his heart. Everyone has thought about such a day, but in this fucking era , I still think about how to survive is the right way.
"If I can live safely, my dream is similar to Gerry's!" Zhang Tie said honestly.
"Ha, you are too pessimistic. Do you just want to survive? The casualty rate of the pioneers is not very high. And this time in the ice and snow wasteland, if there are really urban ruins, we only need to follow the large army Just take action and get a share of the benefits, it should be fine!" Sai Mu comforted Zhang Tie and said.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you if something happens!" Gerry patted his chest proudly.
"Thank you!" Zhang Tie said with a smile.
"We are friends!"
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Facts have proved that Zhang Tie's so-called idea of "living in peace and stability" is not superfluous at all, especially in this era, especially on this mysterious sea.
A few people just had a very ordinary dinner in the ordinary restaurant on the ship. The whistle on the Aurora suddenly sounded at a certain rapid and short frequency. It was very harsh, like an alarm. When they heard the sound, whether it was Zhang Tie, Sam or Gerry, they were a little confused at first about what the sound meant.
However, before a few people could ask anyone for questioning, a distorted voice that was extremely frightened screamed in the restaurant.
"Level 1 alert. A very large dangerous creature has been discovered and is approaching the ship. Please grab something around you that can stabilize your body..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the hull of the Aurora shook violently, and many tableware in the restaurant flew to the ground... (...)