"Did you hear that sound just now?"
Wang Feng realized something was wrong, he pulled back the quilt and sat up, leaning his face against the cabin wall, and made a "hush" sound to the other three people. He listened carefully and indeed heard nothing, so he frowned.
“… The sound has stopped.”
"Could I have heard it wrong? What if the fish jumped up and hit the boat head-on?"
"That female voice that Ma Liu just mentioned..."
"Nonsense, there are no women on the sea. Apart from the Imperial Master, there are only four of us and the Great Toad Immortal!"
Zhang Ti nodded thoughtfully and his eyes suddenly widened.
"Could it be that... Immortal Toad is a female?!"
Before he could finish, Wang Feng slapped him on the head and glared at him fiercely: "As bad as Ma Liu. By the way, Ma..."
He turned his head and stopped talking, then saw Ma Liu staggering out of the cabin door.
"What's wrong with him?"
"have no idea."
The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what was going on. Someone whispered, "Could it be that woman's voice..."
"Oh no, I'm possessed!"
Wang Feng gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and rushed out. Behind him, Zhang Ti and Zhao Tang grabbed each other's robes and hurried to catch up. At this time, on the deck outside, the Toad Taoist who was squatting behind the fence and vomiting heard the "splashing" sound of water. Puzzled, he leaned over to take a look. The clear moon shone silver light, the sea surface was surging, and a layer of white mist gradually floated up.
The Toad Taoist blinked his eyes, and a black shadow scurried past from below the darkness, reflecting the ripples of the moonlight.
"What a big fish..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the water surface exploded with a splash, raising a high column of water. A long black shadow jumped out of the water, and the toad leaned back and jumped up close to its mouth and nose. The faint sound of teeth biting could be heard, and he was so startled that he sat down on the deck. When he raised his head, he saw a black shadow with a half-human upper body rushing into the moonlight, and the fish scales on the lower body sparkled in the cold moonlight.
The half-man, half-fish black shadow tumbled and fell in the moonlight. The moment it approached the deck, it revealed its scarlet eyes and opened its wide mouth. It let out a low growl and bit the toad on the deck.
The next second, the growl turned into a terrified scream of "Ah!!", and in the sight below, there was a huge toad head, with its mouth full of fine teeth opened, and transparent liquid flowed down the corners of its mouth. Before the half-human, half-fish figure could react, a long scarlet tongue flashed through the air like lightning, wrapped around the falling fish, and in less than half a breath, went straight into the big mouth.
Thump thump thump…
Footsteps rushed out of the cabin, and the three scholars who caught up with their companions grabbed Ma Liu who was struggling at the cabin door, trying to drag him back into the cabin. At this time, they saw the Toad Taoist sitting on the deck over there. His head had become very big, with his back to them. No one knew what he was doing, but they heard a gurgling sound, as if he was chewing something.
"Master Toad?" Wang Feng swallowed and called out softly.
Over there, the Toad Taoist with his back to the enemy slowly turned around. On his huge head, a fish tail was sticking out of the toad's mouth, swinging wildly and cracklingly. He suddenly froze in place, maintaining the posture of 'you hold my arm and I'll push against his butt', not daring to move.
Well…
Looking at these four people and the figure of his disciple who was slowly walking out behind them, the scarlet in Toad's eyes faded away. He lowered his eyes to look at the fish tail dangling around his mouth, stopped chewing, opened his mouth and spit on the ground.
"Huh!"
A half-human, half-fish figure, with a large pool of saliva, stuck to the deck with a "paji" sound. The sticky liquid stuck to various parts of the body, pulling it into silk threads, making it difficult to move.
The Toad Taoist coughed twice, turned his head to the side and looked up at the sky.
"Ahem... It was it that jumped into the air just now. You know my master, so how could I be greedy for it? I just jumped around so much that I couldn't help myself for a moment."
The four scholars then realized that Lu Liangsheng had walked behind them without them noticing, "Master..."
Lu Liangsheng nodded, raised his right hand, and pressed his fingertips on Ma Liu's brow. A gray misty cyclone overflowed from the back of his head, and was then pinched by the scholar's fingers and dissipated instantly. He glanced around the deck, threw Ma Liu to the three people behind him, and turned his face slightly.
"All of you go to the cabin, and don't come out if you hear any noise."
Hearing the sound of water splashing, he swept the four people in with a flick of his robe sleeve without waiting for them to speak. Almost at the same time, he raised his other hand, and a palm lit up with the light of the imperial edict, and pushed it towards the right side of the ship. The air vibrated, and in the darkness, a black shadow exploded directly with sparks, flew back into the sea, and set off a wave that splashed onto the deck.
At this time, the surrounding sea surface was stirred up with several bangs... waves, and dense black shadows jumped out of the sea. The Toad Taoist over there turned into a human form, shook his wide sleeves, and said sideways: "Liangsheng, please step back. Your master hasn't exercised for a long time."
Between the white beard, the thick lips opened slightly, and a wisp of purple air spurted out of the mouth, circling a few times like a living thing, and flew out of the boat, spreading like clouds, circling along the leaping half-human, half-fish black shadows and diffusing over. The moment it touched the black shadows, shrill screams rang out. The scales on the body and the upper body of the person hissed and turned a dark purple like ink. Pustules appeared on the skin, squeezing out thick white water. The scales and the flesh underneath were turned over one by one, and fell off in large flakes.
Before the mermaids could jump onto the deck, they fell back into the sea one by one like dumplings.
Those who were lucky enough to survive threw themselves onto the deck, but were caught by the Toad Taoist's long tongue and smashed onto the deck with a bang, flesh and blood flying everywhere. Then they were thrown far away, and in the moonlight at the end of the sight, they could faintly pick up a splash of water.
"A bunch of little monsters, really don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is."
The Toad Taoist twisted his arms and then breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the mermaid he had spit out earlier on the ground, he walked over excitedly and was stopped by Lu Liangsheng who was standing by.
"Master, please leave one for now. I can use it."
"Use? How?" Toad looked at his apprentice in confusion. The scholar squatted on the ground and fixed the mermaid with his saliva. He spread his hands and called for sea water to wash the body covered with mucus. Only then could he see clearly the mermaid that the person in front of him had talked about.
His hair was like water grass, he had thin eyebrows and long eyes. The so-called long eyes meant that his eye sockets were much longer than those of ordinary people, almost reaching the temples. His pupils were slightly blue, and his mouth was wide. In his struggling and growling voice, his sparse fangs could be seen. His overall appearance looked like a woman.
Lu Liangsheng touched the other person's skin, which was smooth and greasy, and there seemed to be a layer of mucus on it. Hmm... I don't know if it was because the master's saliva was not washed clean. The lower body was a fish tail, covered with dense scales, extending all the way to the waist.
It was inconvenient for the scholar to touch other parts of the body. It was not much different from the chest of an ordinary woman, except that it was covered by water plants and shells, revealing a deep groove.
From this point, Lu Liangsheng could judge that the other party was intelligent. After all, knowing shame was something that ordinary beasts could not understand, so he asked:
"Perhaps you understand what I am saying?"
“Hiss~~”
The mermaid growled, turned away, flapped its tail and tried to jump out of the boat, but was slapped by the scholar's outstretched hand, and its whole body froze.
"I'm sorry."
Lu Liangsheng reached out and grabbed Lao Lu's side. A blanket flew out from the bookshelf. He wrapped the mermaid up, carried it on his shoulders into the cabin, found a separate cabin and threw the mermaid in.
"Liangsheng, have you been influenced by that little Taoist priest? I think the little ghost girl is pretty good..."
"Master, what are you thinking about?"
Guessing that there was a misunderstanding about what Toad Taoist had just said about "use", Lu Liangsheng walked out with a smile, conjured two cups of hot tea and handed them to his master.
"I left her here to communicate with her in another way. If possible, maybe it won't take long before we can find out the exact location of Guixu without having to keep sailing east."
Back in the cabin, Toad Taoist took a sip of hot tea and sat on the stool: "What's the solution?"
"He can read minds!"
Lu Liangsheng blew away the hot air, took out "The Magical Power of Yin and Yang in Heaven and Earth" from his sleeve pocket and put it on the table. The oil lamp lit up, illuminating the pages and turning them over, revealing the contents recording his telepathy.
“… it means knowing the partiality of the mind of others, greed, anger, delusion, etc., and being free from the mind of greed, anger, delusion, etc.… knowing the concentrated mind and the scattered mind, the small mind and the big mind, the calm and uncalm mind, the liberated and unliberated mind, all as they really are.”
The lights flickered and the scholar frowned slightly.
This seems to be the magical power of Buddhism... How did Lu Yuan get these things in the past? Never mind, let’s not worry about it for now, let’s practice it first and use it later.