Ying Ruoli took two steps closer to Ji Yuan and whispered.
"Uncle Ji, this should be a boundary ferry. There are about hundreds of people on it. The restriction method is from the immortal sect. I don't know where it belongs."
"Um."
Ji Yuan responded and observed the flying boat in the distance. Although nothing could be seen on his face, he was actually full of curiosity.
Although there are restrictions on this flying boat, with Ji Yuan's Dharma Eye at this moment, he can still see that there are actually quite a few mortals on it.
Ji Yuan thought it was normal to see cultivators, monsters, and even evil spirits. Seeing a few mortals was not abnormal either. However, seeing at least one of the three people was a mortal, which was a bit strange.
You have to know that for ordinary people, just walking around a few neighboring counties in a country is considered to be traveling far away. This is the social environment. It is still very surprising to see ordinary people on the flying boat that ferries across the boundary. At least Ji Yuan was very surprised.
"Ruoli, I have never ridden a boundary ferry. Is it possible that there are always so many ordinary people on it?"
The dragon girl looked into the distance and shook her head.
"Uncle Ji doesn't sit often, and Ruoli is the same. I was born a dragon. If I want to cross the boundary, swimming in the sea or flying in the sky is more comfortable than this."
"True, but they seem to be very afraid of you?"
Ying Ruoli smiled lightly.
"Although I really didn't take this flying boat seriously, they probably misunderstood that the thunderstorm just now was caused by me. They thought I might be in some critical stage or in a bad mood, so they didn't want to provoke me."
Ji Yuan nodded. Dragons and snakes are still very difficult to deal with, especially in the vast ocean. Who knows if there are their lairs underground or if there will be many water monsters.
"They are saluting us, please salute us back."
"Um!"
Hearing Ji Yuan say this, Ying Ruoli responded, first took the pen handed to her by Ji Yuan, walked to the desk and gently placed it on the pen holder, and then followed Ji Yuan to bow towards the flying boat.
Seeing this scene from afar, the two real people on the flying boat who could see this scene clearly relaxed a little. Less trouble is always better, but they did not dare to delay and saluted again in the direction of the giant whale, but this time they were mainly facing Ji Yuan.
"Who is the person writing on the whale's back? The Chi Jiao Dragon Girl seems to be accompanying him?"
"I'm not sure if it's a dragon or not, but it looks friendly."
While the two real people were discussing, the other mortals who had insufficient or no cultivation at all could not see clearly what was happening in the distance. The dragon just now was so huge that everyone was very excited. Now they could see a big fish swimming below, but the person on its back was as small as a sesame seed, and they could not see what was moving at all.
"Master Chi, should we fly away immediately or get closer? Everyone on the boat wants to see that side."
A cultivator in charge of controlling the flying boat came over and asked. The two immortals looked at each other, then looked at the many curious people lying on the side of the ship, as well as the people lying and watching at the window of the cabin below, and thought for a moment and said.
“You can descend to a suitable distance and then slowly sail past them not far away, but tell the passengers on the boat not to shout or scream, and to salute the back of the giant whale when passing by.”
This time I met two people walking on whales in the East China Sea. One of them was a Chi Jiao, and the other was writing at a desk on the back of a whale. From any angle, they were definitely not ordinary people. It was time to pay them a visit and meet them, which would also satisfy some people's curiosity.
Therefore, in the eyes of Ji Yuan and Ying Ruoli, the huge boat in the sky was slowly descending, and as it descended, it was also slowly approaching this direction.
"Uncle Ji, do you want me to chase them away?"
Ying Ruoli asked, after all, Uncle Ji might want to perform a ritual, but Ji Yuan shook his head.
"Let them go. The time is perfect. There is no need to worry about other things. They will not disturb me. You should also pay more attention to the moment of practicing magic. It will be beneficial for your future transformation into a dragon."
Tonight, in addition to the usual Qingteng Sword practice of gathering pure energy and Ji Yuan's own practice, he also needs to temper the wolf hair brush in his hand. With the wolf hair brush in his hand and the aid of pure energy, Ji Yuan thinks he can try out some of the ideas in his mind, which may allow the Dragon Girl to see more clearly.
However, the giant whale general under his feet shouted in dissatisfaction.
"It's fine if this ship is flying in the sky, but it wants to surpass me on the sea, huh!"
After saying this, Ji Yuan clearly felt his body leaning back. The giant whale had already increased its speed, but the dragon girl stomped her feet heavily, and the giant whale general cried out in pain, "Ouch", and immediately became obedient.
"Tonight is New Year's Eve. Uncle Ji asked me to disperse the thunderstorm for something. Don't make things worse."
Ying Ruoli spoke coldly to General Giant Whale, and the latter naturally did not dare to talk back.
"Yes, yes, what Lady Ruoli said is right."
General Giant Whale didn't dare to stir the water anymore, and even went a little slower than before, just to keep things stable.
Ji Yuan ignored the farce and shifted his gaze from the flying boat in the distance to the starry sky above his head.
At this moment, the stars and the moon are shining together, and the sky is cloudless. It is not long to midnight.
He didn't need to calculate the time deliberately, he just needed to watch the changes in the energy of heaven and earth. He had seen the alternation of the old and new years many times. Different atmospheres and environments would have different changes. He didn't know what it would be like at sea at this moment.
After a while, in Ji Yuan's wide-open Dharma eyes, a faint light appeared between heaven and earth. Everything that was originally blurry in Ji Yuan's eyes seemed to become clear in an instant.
Patches of gray air rose between heaven and earth, but two auras accumulated within them. It was this transformation of the auras that made the world in Ji Yuan's eyes become exceptionally clear.
There is no impact of humanity on the vast East China Sea, and the transition between the old and the new is still shocking.
The gray air that emerged between heaven and earth was like a city, and began to distinguish between clear air and turbid air. The clear air accumulated and rose, while the turbid air dissipated as it descended, "tearing open" a new space.
The fresh air of the New Year emerges, and the curtain of the New Year is opened among them as the clouds rise to the sky.
At this moment of transition between the old and new year, the Dragon Girl was only slightly aware of the change in the weather, but she did not feel too much, not to mention General Giant Whale and most of the people on the flying boat in the distance.
But in Ji Yuan's eyes, it was indeed a change in heaven and earth that shocked everyone every time he saw it.
Unless he was completely unconscious, Ji Yuan would not miss this moment every year. It was the same this time. He stretched out his hand and waved it, and the Qingteng Sword immediately rose into the air, soaring into the sky in an instant, and rushed into the new year's fresh air that was about to dissipate between heaven and earth.
"Zheng..."
The clear sound of a sword rang out from far away in the sky.
It was still night between heaven and earth, but to those with sensitive spiritual perception, it seemed as if there was a flash of silvery light.
The Green Ivy Sword skillfully cut off a small piece of the New Year's fresh air and returned to the sea surface with it. At the same moment, Ji Yuan reached out and grabbed the pen, twisting the pen tip towards the sky a few times, allowing the wisps of cloud air brought by the Green Ivy Sword to wrap around the tip of the pen and then penetrate his body.
This change only took a few breaths, but for Ji Yuan it was like a long and satisfying practice.
At this moment, Ji Yuan's posture of twisting the pen and shaking it in the air changed again, as if he was writing something quickly towards the sky, in this way, any remaining fresh air was wasted and entangled on the tip of the pen.
"Focus on the tip of the pen and observe the difference between the turbid and pure air of heaven and earth."
Ying Ruoli was slightly stunned, and quickly adjusted her mind, focusing her attention on the tip of the wolf-hair brush in Ji Yuan's hand. The giant whale general who was originally swimming quietly below also had a flash of inspiration in his mind. One of his eyes turned sharply and watched with an uncomfortable but best possible perspective.
The wolf-hair brush tip is so good at writing that streams of clear air gather like invisible ink, outlining fleeting words. This is a kind of heavenly scripture that cannot be preserved.
Even with Ying Ruoli's level of Taoism, she could only see a quick flash, but in this flash, it was as if her mind was shattered and the strange scene in her eyes changed, as if she saw the moment when the clear and turbid of heaven and earth separated into two parts a few breaths ago, and the curtain of the new year was opened.
"What's this… "
Ying Ruoli muttered to herself in a daze. She wanted to take a closer look, but the wolf-hair brush in Ji Yuan's hand had stopped writing in the air.
It was different for General Giant Whale. He could not see the Heavenly Scripture which only existed for a few breaths as clearly as the Dragon Girl, but he could feel the changing mood of the clear and turbid air in it. Now he looked completely drowsy, and even his swimming seemed to be swaying from side to side.
From the perspective of the people on the ferry boat in the realm, whether they were cultivators or mortals, or even the few spirits and monsters among them, none of them could see the wonders in Ji Yuan's eyes, nor could they see the heavenly talisman on the tip of the pen as clearly as the dragon girl. They were even far inferior to General Giant Whale who was close to the water and could see the moon first, even if it was just a moon in the water.
But they could not see the heaven and earth, but through seeing people, they felt a more exaggerated and more indescribable feeling.
Before counting the breaths, the old year turns into the new year.
No matter it was the cultivators, mortals, or spirits in the flying boat, they all felt that on the back of the giant whale in the distance, with a stroke of one of their brushes, that place seemed to turn into a vast expanse, blurry as if infinitely far away, yet extremely clear as if within reach.
This allows even mortals to clearly see the scene on the back of the giant whale, as if they were there close by.
There was a strange feeling that was both clear and turbid intertwined. Except for that place, all the surrounding scenery appeared gray as if by illusion. Then, within a few breaths, all the vague feelings disappeared without a trace, leaving only a ray of green light at the tip of the pen wielded by the man in green on the whale's back that lingered for a long time.
"What happened just now?"
On the flying boat, an immortal asked his senior brother in a daze. He knew that something extraordinary must have happened, but he didn't know what it was.
The yellow-robed immortal beside him was also in a daze for a long time, but he was muttering something.
"All the cleansing of the world that we felt just now was caused by the stroke of that person's hand. The immortal scripture says that at the turn of the old year, there is a turbid and clear image that permeates the world, and all kinds of wonderful changes are contained in it. It is the root of life. Could this person be..."
The man in yellow robe was stunned for a moment, then blurted out a sentence.
"Wash the brush and practice the old year's dirty energy, and write the new year's fresh energy. This master is washing his brush and practicing with the pure energy of heaven and earth!"