Most of the torches that the villagers originally held were now extinguished, and many were soaked like drowned rats. The crisis seemed to have passed, but the cold was becoming more and more biting.
"Hiss... It's so cold. Mage, can we leave now?"
"Master, has the monster been scared away?" "It's freezing to death! It's freezing to death!"
The wizard was also rubbing his hands and twisting his clothes, but at least he had the spiritual energy protecting his body so he wasn't shivering from the cold.
"Let's go, the monster has been scared away, let's leave quickly!"
"Everyone, get moving, get moving..." "Hurry up, go home, it's freezing!"
"Master, the monster just now called for the master to show up. Is there another wizard nearby?"
"That's my master. This master has long seen that the monsters in your eastern part are not simple, so I specially invited a master of the same level as my master to come down the mountain to help. Now the monsters are running away, and my master has gone to chase them. Everyone just rest assured!"
A group of people ran back in a noisy manner. They were very powerful and impressive when they came, but they were in disarray when they went back. Most of the extinguished torches were lost.
"Watch your step, you might trip and fall, don't go near the shore!"
"Everyone, please pay attention to your relatives and friends to see if anyone is left behind~~~"
Some elders in the team shouted from time to time.
Zhang Fu, Liang Pingle and others were also running tremblingly, and when they heard such words, they suddenly realized something.
"Oh! Where's Mr. Ji?"
Zhang Fu roared, causing the Liang and Zhang families to stop in their tracks.
"Quickly look around to see if Mr. Ji is there!" "Yes, yes, yes, let's take a look!"
"Mr. Ji~~~Mr. Ji, are you there~~~" "Mr. Ji!"
The two families looked around, and were surrounded by villagers who were running back with hunched backs. A few torches lit the road ahead, but they were not bright in the crowd, and they didn't see Ji Yuan for a long time.
Before long, almost everyone had overtaken them and was running to the front.
There were four people in total from the Zhang and Liang families, including father and son, who looked at each other. Only Zhang Fu had a torch in his hand, which barely illuminated a small space around him, but it was also swaying in the sea breeze.
The direction we ran back was completely dark, and it looked like there was some ferocious beast lurking in the sea.
After gritting his teeth, Zhang Fu's father, a famous boat captain in the village, spoke.
"Let's go back and look for it again!"
After hesitating for a moment, the few people followed Lao Zhang and ran back to the previous torch formation.
Under the illumination of Zhang Fu's only remaining torch, the surrounding shores were littered with discarded wet torches, and the waves in the surrounding sea were roaring "clattering..." without stopping.
The sea in the distance was pitch black. Zhang Fu used a torch to shine down on the coast, but could not see anything except the white waves.
"If this falls..."
"Mr. Ji~~~~Mr. Ji, are you there~~~~Go back to the village quickly~~~~"
"Mr. Ji..."
A few people shouted a few more times towards the shore and the sea, but the only responses were the whistling wind and the crashing waves. The torch in Zhang Fu's hand also began to flame, and it looked like it wouldn't last much longer.
"Hiss... It's so cold! We are all wet, we can't be in the wind all the time!"
"Well, maybe Mr. Ji has already run ahead, but we just didn't see it?"
"It's possible..." "Well, our torches won't last long, let's go back quickly, maybe Mr. Ji is waiting for us!"
"Yes, Mr. Ji is a living person. He has traveled all over the country and visited so many places. He will definitely be fine..."
Seeing that the light from the torches of the large group in front was getting farther and farther away, the few people who were cold and scared hesitated for a moment, but finally took a step forward and followed.
At this moment, Ji Yuan was walking on the waves. It seemed that he was walking slowly but actually he was moving rapidly on the sea. The speed was not much slower than that on land.
If it were Ji Yuan before he perfected his five energies, although he could do something similar, it would not be so easy. Instead, it would seem laborious and far less convenient than flying directly or controlling the waves.
But now, Ji Yuan has a sense of the five elements inside and outside. When he taps his toes, it touches the tide like a bullet. The ups and downs of the waves do not affect Ji Yuan's speed at all. Not only does he consume very little mana, but he also feels like a fairy.
The giant whale in the distance was swimming frantically underwater away from the shore, while also diving frantically into deeper water.
Ji Yuan fell behind and did not enter the water. He followed him all the way to an area estimated to be dozens of miles overseas.
At this time, the giant whale, which was already hundreds of feet under the sea, began to slowly float to the surface. As the water on the sea surface slid down its back, the huge back was exposed again.
The giant whale's eyes looked far away toward the coast, its tail bent back and forth, and the fins under its body could not reach the middle and back part of its body. It could only control a gust of water to pass over the lower side of its middle and back spine.
There is a small spot there that hurts so much that it hasn't subsided yet, especially at that moment just now, it was really painful.
Just like an ordinary person who would shake his hand off if something suddenly pricked his hand, the giant whale was also shaking wildly, but he had a greater sense of crisis and immediately fled towards the open sea.
After running for a while, he didn't feel any breath chasing him, so he carefully floated to the surface to investigate.
There was pitch black in the distance, no sound and no fire.
'It seems that I have been let off?'
The giant whale swam around for a few circles, hesitant as to whether to leave and go to other waters.
'He's willing to help a mortal. He must be the kind of immortal who likes to meddle in other people's affairs... It's rare to meet him, but he doesn't seem to be easy to talk to...'
After hesitating for a while, the giant whale felt hungry, so it dived into the water, opened its huge mouth and sucked in water.
The waves on the water surface did not seem to change much, but the water currents were surging underwater. Countless big and small fish were unable to swim away and were brought from afar by the currents and sent into the giant whale's mouth like siphon drainage.
The mouth of this giant whale was like a bottomless pit, accepting all fish, shrimps, crabs and other creatures. It took a full ten breaths, which would take an ordinary person more than a dozen times, for it to finally close its mouth.
“Crunch, crunch, crunch…”
A friction sound came from the belly of the giant whale.
Although Ji Yuan couldn't see the situation underwater clearly on the sea surface, he could feel the momentum when the giant whale opened its mouth, as well as the changes in the breath of countless fish, shrimps and crabs that were sucked in.
No wonder the fishermen along the coast can’t catch any fish. It’s not that they were scared away by evil spirits, but that they were eaten by the giant whale general. It comes in waves and eats them one after another. The fishermen can’t catch any fish.
After finishing the meal, the giant whale was not greedy, or rather, it was full, and floated to the surface again, still staring in the direction of the coast where it had escaped before.
Ji Yuan finally stopped waiting and appeared and spoke.
"General Giant Whale, what do you still miss about this coast?"
The voice came from beside him, and it startled the giant whale.
"Oh my god..."
As he swam, he saw a "little thing" standing on the sea not far away. It was not riding the water and waves, but was rising and falling with the waves, as if it was as light as a feather.
"You, are you the master who just shot someone with a hidden arrow?"
"Your words are so harsh. How can you call it a hidden attack? It's just a small punishment. You have the ability to eat fish. Why do you have to stay on the shore? Fishermen along the coast can hardly survive."
Ji Yuan asked with a disdainful smile, and then asked another question.
"Also, you call yourself the Giant Whale General. Whose water palace are you from? Where are the soldiers under your command?"
At this moment in the deeper waters, the giant whale was a little braver.
"Of course I am the Giant Whale General! My mother gave me the title! As for the soldiers I have, humph, there are not many I like, so I will not take them with me. I have my reasons for going to the coast, what does it have to do with you?"
Ji Yuan thought about it for a while, then smiled and said to the giant whale.
"That makes sense. What if you still want to know?"
"Why? If you want to know, I'll tell you. Then where's my dignity as General Giant Whale?"
Ji Yuan stretched his hand towards the sky very seriously and grasped the Qingteng Sword that appeared above his body.
"This sword is wrapped in green vines and has a sharp edge. It is an immortal sword. It can kill monsters like you without even unsheathing it. Why did you tell me? Of course you were forced to do so by the tyranny of your power!"
As he spoke, Ji Yuan gently pulled out one-third of the blade of the Qingteng Sword. A stream of snow-refined seal streaked across the surrounding sea area. The starlight in the sky seemed dim, and a biting cold like a needle pricked across the sea. The entire huge body of the giant whale froze.
This was the first time in his life that he faced the power of the magic sword. Just by seeing part of the blade of the magic sword, all kinds of illusions emerged uncontrollably in his mind.
Like silver light slashing down to cut him into pieces, like flying swords circling around to cut his bones, like ice being released to freeze him, and like sword light pressing down to crush him... ...
Ji Yuan was just trying to scare him, but the giant whale couldn't bear it all of a sudden. He was a typical example of a fat and timid person, and he spoke loudly in panic.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me. You will regret it if you kill me. I will wait for Master Mo along the coast! I am waiting for Master Mo!"
Ji Yuan sheathed the Qingteng Sword, his heart moved slightly, and he frowned and asked.
"Master Mo? Which Master Mo? Where did he come from? Is he a water creature from the inland waters?"
"Yes, yes, Master Mo is a highly skilled black dragon that must pass by here every year. This time, I traveled a long way and waited for more than a year, but I still didn't see him! I'm not a demon that likes to harm people! I'm really not!"
"Mo Rong!"
Ji Yuan's mind moved, and this name naturally emerged. It was the Mo Jiao who died after escaping back to Dazhen that year.