"There is always a way out. Is this... the opportunity that the senior told me about earlier?"
Shen Xinghai was like an old monk in meditation, staring blankly at the floating sea of clouds in the sky, and uttered these words with a long sigh.
Zhu Erchong was confused and didn't understand what he meant. He scratched his head and said, "It's not... what kind of opportunity?"
Then he turned around and asked Master Su Yuan: "Senior, what did you say to him before?"
Master Su Yuan spread his hands and said, "I don't know either!"
Except for Wen Yun, no one knew what Shen Xinghai was mumbling. She pulled Shen Xinghai's arm and said seriously: "The Yunjing is going to be used to forge a sword for you. Why don't we wait a little longer..."
Just wait until next year and see if the cloud beasts will pull out a few more cloud crystals. Shen Xinghai has no sword to use now, and he has been tortured badly by the cloud beasts for this opportunity. How can he be wronged at this time
Shen Xinghai was not sad. He shook out all the cloud crystals from the mustard seed bag and pushed them in front of Cui Yu. He said with a hearty smile, "How much do you want? If you want to use them all for inlay, then take them all!"
Seeing that Wen Yun and Ye Shubai both frowned, he felt warm in his heart, and he bowed his hands and said seriously: "My senior brothers and sisters gave up their opportunities for me, how can I let them continue to suffer? It's just a mere cloud crystal. Compared with my fellow disciples, it's nothing but vulgar things!"
He turned around and looked at Cui Yu: "Fellow Daoist Cui Yu, now that we have the cloud crystals, can we start making the Nebula Shuttle?"
Cui Yu stared at the cloud crystals without saying a word.
Shen Xinghai's heart sank. "What's the matter? Fellow Daoist Cui Yu, is it possible that you don't have enough cloud crystals?"
If all else fails, we can only look for cloud beasts again and see if we can stuff dirt into their mouths to get them to poop out a few more cloud crystals...
“No need.” Cui Yu finally came back to her senses, took a deep breath, and seemed to have a clear understanding in her eyes: “No wonder you dare to challenge the Dongxuan Realm, it turns out you have a great background.”
"He has a great background?" Several sword cultivators looked at each other.
"Since you are not comfortable revealing your background, I will naturally not ask any more questions and will keep my mouth shut."
Cui Yu's expression became more respectful. He had already guessed that with such outstanding young disciples as Wen Yun and Ye Shubai, and the lavish layout that could be seen everywhere on the island, and now a bunch of top-level cloud crystals could be easily found, these people could not have really come from the lower world. They must be from some powerful hidden sect!
Yiren has finally found a great ally this time!
Wen Yun: I always feel that this birdman in front of me has made up something incredible in his mind.
Cui Yu carefully took out a cloud silk handkerchief, carefully wrapped a piece of cloud crystal and put it away. She pushed the rest back to Shen Xinghai with a painful feeling: "The Nebula Shuttle only needs one cloud crystal as its core energy. Fellow Daoists, please keep the rest."
Shen Xinghai was stunned and asked stutteringly: "So... So we don't have to take all of it?"
Cui Yu glared at him and said in a bad tone: "How can such a precious thing be wasted? One is enough, keep the rest and use them to make other magic weapons in the future."
However, Shen Xinghai could not hear the additional words. He hurriedly collected the remaining cloud crystals and held them in front of Ye Shubai.
Without him saying anything, Ye Shubai already knew what he meant. He took the Yun Jing and nodded: "It's enough to make a sword."
As soon as these words were spoken, Shen Xinghai's forced calmness and smile turned from false to real, and he smiled from the bottom of his heart.
Cui Yu, who was standing nearby, was puzzled when he heard this. He couldn't believe it: "Forging swords? Are you going to use all the cloud crystals to forge swords? This is a waste of natural resources! You sword cultivators are going too far!"
Wow, a whole piece of flamboyant tree is used to carve into a sword, and so many cloud crystals are used to forge swords. How generous these sword cultivators are!
However, the Winged Man's shouts were of no use, as the sword cultivators had already said goodbye happily and walked away.
The Winged People may like to brag about other things, but their craftsmanship in making magic weapons is indeed impeccable. Half a month later, Cui Yu, with bloodshot eyes, drooped his wings and came to Wen Yun.
He was so tired that he seemed to have no strength left. He could only say simply: "Ten people finally made the Nebula Shuttle."
Cui Yu struggled to open her hands that had been clenched all the way, and saw a delicate shuttle lying in her palm. It was as hard as crystal and as colorful as clouds. A gentle light was faintly visible in the middle part, like stars falling in the clouds. It was indeed worthy of the name "Nebula Shuttle".
Seeing that everyone's eyes were attracted by the Nebula Shuttle, Cui Yu immediately felt her strength return. She was both proud and emotional: "I never thought that I could make a high-level magic weapon like the Nebula Shuttle. Even among the Winged People, only two seniors could make such a treasure. I relied on it to be promoted to a weapon refining master!"
Cui Yu originally thought that this name would shock everyone in the room, but this group of ignorant swordsmen remained indifferent.
They even caught another point—
"What? You mean you can't be sure you can succeed when you do it? So what you said before was just bragging."
Cui Yu brushed the matter off as if nothing had happened: "Oh, isn't this a success? This is called prediction, not bragging! Well, now that the Nebula Shuttle has been delivered, who among you can verify its power?"
Hearing this, Master Su Yuan, who had been itching to take advantage of the situation, immediately stepped forward and took the Nebula Shuttle from Wen Yun.
He said earnestly: "How can we let the child take risks in such a dangerous matter? Let me do it!"
Wen Yun: “Tsk.”
Since the ancestor wanted to play, Wen Yun couldn't stop him and could only give the first round of test flight qualification to Master Su Yuan.
"The Nebula Shuttle only needs a tiny bit of energy to drive, so the Ascension cultivators don't need to spend most of their energy on flying. Instead, they can use all of their energy to wrap around the lower-level cultivators. This way, they can carry more people and travel faster in the void."
Cui Yu had just finished explaining when Wen Yun suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared straight ahead, only to see Master Su Yuan, who had just ascended to the sky, flew away almost instantly. Not long after, he appeared in front of everyone again. From beginning to end, there was no fluctuation of the laws of space, proving that this was indeed not teleportation, but real extreme speed!
Much faster than Ye Shubai!
Master Su Yuan was holding a brick in his hand. Zhu Erchong was the first to recognize it and said in disbelief: "Isn't this the floor tile of Yunhai City?!"
"That's right." Master Su Yuan weighed the brick in his hand and said proudly, "I just went to Yunhai City. How was it? Come on, eh?"
How could a round trip from Yunhai City to Yun Island be so fast
"Hiss!" Everyone took a deep breath.
Cui Yu finally saw the shock on the faces of these sword cultivators and felt satisfied.
Of course, she did not forget to take the 5 million yuan in labor fees from Wen Yun when she returned. After the discount, Cui Yu earned 4 million yuan with tears in her eyes, which made Zhu Erchong, who had only earned 2 million yuan before, jealous. He even had the urge to give up sword-making and start refining.
Sword practitioners all love to pursue extreme speed, and this Nebula Shuttle simply fulfills their dreams.
Not to mention Master Su Yuan, even Ye Shubai couldn't hold back and flew around Cloud Island twice in the Nebula Shuttle.
After everyone has had enough fun, it's time to get down to business.
Wen Yun returned the Nebula Shuttle to Master Su Yuan and said seriously, "Senior, Xiao Bai and I still need to complete the layout of Cloud Island. This time, I will trouble you to go to the cultivation world again."
Master Su Yuan agreed with a smile: "How difficult is that? I will make a few more trips and I guarantee that I can bring the entire Qingliu Sword Sect back to you."
He was eager to try out the Nebula Shuttle with his hand. Without even waiting for Wen Yun and the others to say goodbye, he flew away with a whoosh. Only the sound of his joyful laughter could be heard from time to time.
Zhu Erchong was very envious when he heard this: "I also want to play with the Nebula Shuttle for two months."
Wen Yun reminded quietly, "In two months, Senior Brother Bao and the others will all be here. If they have already reached the Nascent Soul stage in the lower realm, but you, Senior Brother Zhu, have been in the upper realm for so long but are still at the Golden Core stage..."
Before Wen Yun could finish his words, Zhu Erchong had already picked up his sword in horror and ran after Ye Shubai.
"Brother Ye... No, Grandmaster Ye! Let's go practice sword fighting now!"
Cui Yu has refined the top-level magic weapon, the Nebula Shuttle, and can barely be considered to be among the ranks of weapon-refining masters.
There are actually quite a few weapon refining masters in Yunhai City. Every large clan has one. However, there are only a handful of weapon refining masters in the entire Yunhai world, and their status has almost soared to the top. So even though Cui Yu's title of master is still a bit exaggerated, more and more people are coming to him to ask him to refine weapons.
The giant who lived next door was very envious. He pulled his beard and muttered, "My casting skills are better than my son's. Why don't they come to me?"
Unable to hold back, he lowered his head to look at Wen Yun: "I heard that your Taoist partner recently got a good piece of material and is forging a sword? You didn't even come to see me, do you look down on me?"
There is no doubt that this news was spread by the gossipy Wingman.
Wen Yun suppressed his laughter and comforted the giant: "It is the custom of our sect for elders to forge swords for the younger generation. I will definitely look for you next time."
The giant was still mumbling, still dissatisfied, but he didn't have time to say anything because the voices from the tree house next door gradually became louder and actually came towards this side.
"Oh, it looks like someone is not satisfied with Yiren's craftsmanship and came to me for work!"
However, the visitors were not looking for the giants to forge weapons.
After Cui Yu explained the purpose of this group of people's visit, Wen Yun raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Are you looking for me to rent an island?"
"Yes, I just wanted to find a master from the Wing Clan to repair my magic weapon. I accidentally heard that this island belonged to Fellow Daoist Yun, so I shamelessly came to ask for a meeting."
The person who came was an extremely short and thin old man, with a pair of very long eyebrows above his eyes. His eyes were curved and squinted as if he was smiling, and his pointed chin and mouth made him look like a mouse.
Wen Yun felt that this person looked familiar, and recalled: "Daoyou, have we met in Yunhai City before? You are..."
Before Wen Yun could say what he was thinking, the old man opposite him was already moved: "Oh, Brother Yun has a good memory! I am the elder of the Fox Clan. When I was on the first floor of Yunhai Tower, it was all thanks to Brother Ye's mercy that my old bones were not injured. When I came out, I specially thanked you two. I didn't expect that you two still remember me!"
Fortunately, I didn't guess that he was from the Spirit Rat Clan. Wen Yun quietly concealed the shame on his face and quietly looked towards Ye Shubai, but found that there was no ripple on this person's face, which almost said "I don't know this person". He was worthy of being the person who couldn't even recognize the voice of his own apprentice.
Well, Xiaobai and I both have bad memories, so let’s not make fun of each other.
Wen Yun had no choice but to step out and greet the guest: "Yes, of course I remember that you are a fellow Taoist from the Fox Clan. I wonder why you are here this time?"
"It's embarrassing to say that our fox tribe is one of the original races of the Cloud Sea Realm. We originally had some ancestral property, but our ancestors had several generations of useless and ridiculous people who squandered all the family property, so that we had to mortgage even our own Cloud Island. We rely on fighting for Cloud Island in the Cloud Sea Tower to settle down. Unfortunately, I have no ability, and my ranking in the Cloud Sea Tower has been declining... Now I can only barely stay at the bottom of the first floor, so the Cloud Island I was allocated is also one of the smallest ones, barely enough for us fox tribe members to settle down."
The fox elder's eyebrows drooped further, his eyes were narrowed, but he looked more like he was sad, and his tone was extremely depressed: "It just so happened that the roof leaked and it rained all night. At midnight the day before yesterday, a group of cloud beasts rushed over and ate up our Cloud Island! It's strange to say, although our place is a little far from Yunhai City, it is definitely not remote. Cloud beasts shouldn't appear here."
Since ancient times, there has actually been a balanced relationship between cloud beasts and cultivators. Humans live on the cloud islands surrounding Yunhai City, while cloud beasts live in the remote and deep depths of the sea of clouds. Although there are also beast trappers, the two maintain a tacit understanding and do not invade each other's territory.
As for the group of little cloud beasts...
Wen Yun had enough reasons to suspect that this was an individual case attracted by Shen Xinghai's strange physique.
The fox clan elder sighed, hunched over and bowed again: "My fox clan has lived in the Cloud Sea Realm for generations. We have nowhere to move to, and now we are crowded on a small cloud island. This time, I have sacrificed my reputation to come here, just to ask Brother Yun to give us a place to stay."
The old man quickly added, "We won't take advantage of you. How about we just rent it at the market price?"
It is not affordable to live in Yunhai City for a long time, and most of the other Cloud Islands belong to other races or families, who will never rent them out. Among the independent cultivators, the one who owns the most Cloud Islands now belongs to Wen Yun.
Seeing the fox elder looking at him pitifully, Wen Yun's heart softened, and he quickly helped him up, saying gently: "It's okay, how many people are there in your tribe?"
She thought that there were now hundreds of houses built on the island, so it shouldn't be difficult to accommodate the foxes.
"Not many, just over 50,000 foxes. Most of them are working as helpers in Yunhai City to earn source crystals."
"..." Wen Yun was silent for a moment, and quickly gave up the idea of letting them come to this Cloud Island.
But she is now a wealthy woman in the Cloud Sea Realm and has many Cloud Islands under her control. She can just choose a larger island to rent to the fox clan.
After choosing a Dayun Island which was a little far away from here, the fox clan elder thanked Wen Yun repeatedly, wiped away his tears and left.
However, she did not expect that after the Fox Clan, people came to visit Wen Yun one after another in the following days, all for the purpose of renting Cloud Island. However, she and Ye Shu had a terrifying number of Cloud Island under their control, which were idle and useless, so they were just right for renting out.
Zhu Erchong, who was in charge of collecting rent, had a constant smile on his face these past few days. There was no other way. He felt happy when he thought of Yuan Jing. Even if Ye Shubai frowned and asked him to practice for two more hours, he was still smiling foolishly.
Ye Shubai shook his head helplessly, put away the Phoenix Wood Sword and walked to Wen Yun. He looked down at her who was deep in thought and said softly, "Recently, the cloud beasts have suddenly crossed the border in large numbers. Something is not right."
"Well, three of my cloud islands have also been attacked. I heard from Cui Yu and the others that the beast hunters in Yunhai City have been very excited recently and have all gone out to capture cloud beasts."
Wen Yun frowned slightly and looked up at the town at the foot of the peak. With the recent construction boom, the outline of a city has already taken shape there.
There was a layer of cloudy rain hanging over the river that circled the city, and rain was falling. Others could not see anything strange, but she knew that they were the cloud beasts who were working to earn cloud soil. They were very respectful of Wen Yun, and except for the time when they ate Shang Wuyang's arm, they never acted recklessly again and stayed on the island obediently to help.
Wen Yun had already set up a monitoring array on the island, so he naturally knew that they had not left.
That’s why Wen Yun felt strange.
Cloud beasts are rare to begin with. From what the fox elders and the winged people said, we learn that because cloud crystals are so popular, the job of beast catcher was particularly popular in the Cloud Sea Realm. As a result, cloud beasts have been almost extinct in the past thousand years. Even if they do appear, they are all in the remote depths of the Cloud Sea.
The cloud beasts that always avoided people seemed to have lost their minds and started to flock to where people gathered? No matter how I thought about it, it didn't seem right.
Wen Yun was worried that the little cloud beasts would be captured by beastmen, so he flew over to them and said in a gentle voice, "There are beastmen around recently, you should hide first."
The little fire dragon that was spitting fire and burning bricks nearby turned over, covered its belly and said in fear: "Don't hide in my stomach this time. They are so bloated inside that I can't even eat snacks."
Wen Yun was helpless: "The formation on the island has been set up, just hide on the peak and don't let outsiders see it."
The little fire dragon was relieved and continued to lie lazily on the ground and spit fire.
The leading little cloud beast squeezed out from the clouds, shook its little tail, bit off a piece of cloud soil from Wen Yun's hand, and bleated softly.
Little Red translated without even looking up: "It said it heard about the cloud beast causing trouble."
"Mee!"
"They also said that they, the cloud beasts, have a ancestral precept that they cannot easily leave the sea of clouds..." When the translation reached this point, the little fire dragon turned around suddenly and asked curiously: "Then why did you guys run out?"
The Little Cloud Beast sprayed a stream of water at the Little Charmander, then flew over and was about to bite the latter's tail. However, Little Red was not a pushover either, and she skillfully swung her tail to knock the Little Cloud Beast away.
Wen Yun quickly caught the little cloud beast, which rubbed against her chest and bleated in grievance.
After Charmander muttered angrily, "You just act pitiful...", he continued translating honestly.
"It said it wanted to go back to the bottom of the Cloud Sea to see what happened to its tribe. You don't want to work on the island anymore, you want to escape!"
Wen Yun ignored the second half of the little fire dragon's words, stroked the cloud beast's soft head, lowered his head and asked it: "Did you originally live under the sea of clouds?"
After getting a positive answer, Wen Yun asked again: "Then can you take me to the bottom of the sea?"
The little cloud beast seemed to hesitate, but finally nodded its little round head twice.
Wen Yun's heart moved and he turned to look at Ye Shubai.
Without her even having to speak, Ye Shubai said softly, "I'll go with you."
Wen Yun was surprised: "Do you know what I want to do?"
Ye Shubai didn't think anything was wrong, and answered naturally: "No matter when, where, or why, I will be with you."
This answer was really irrefutable. Wen Yun had no choice but to state his thoughts: "I do want to find out why the cloud beast is abnormal, but there is something more important."
"Shang Wuyang doesn't give me the feeling that he is the kind of character that can be easily solved. According to the setting of the story, villains like him are not easy to kill. Moreover, in the story, falling off a cliff will lead to an adventure. We must kill him in the cradle before he gets that adventure!"
Ye Shubai listened carefully to Wen Yun's analysis and did not refute it. He just couldn't help asking: "That makes sense, but I don't understand why you feel that we are living in a storybook?"
Wen Yun was speechless for a moment. It was difficult for him to explain to Ye Shubai about Senior Brother Shen and his ring, as well as his obvious Long Aotian protagonist temperament.
She could only vaguely evade the question: "As the saying goes, I want to see the body of Shang Wuyang if he's still alive or dead. I want to see Shang Wuyang's body."
Yes, I just want to see that guy’s body.
What if he's not dead
Then give him another blow and turn him into a corpse.