If you want to pass on the blame, you have to do the whole thing.
For example, when it comes to corpses, it's best to just throw them to the cloud beasts to eat them.
Wen Yun couldn't be soft-hearted in this matter. She wanted to kill me, so why should I feel sorry for her death? She couldn't do such a saintly thing.
Originally, Master Su Yuan was worried that the cloud beasts didn’t eat humans, and the sword wounds on the corpses would expose them, so he wanted to trick the little fire dragon into taking a few bites to create the appearance of being bitten by a cloud beast...
The proposal ended with Charmander biting his head.
However, a conflict broke out among the group while dealing with the four corpses from the Dongxuan Realm.
Of course, the cause of the conflict was not that one of them suddenly wanted to become a saint, but because putting the corpse in the mustard seed bag would contaminate the other things inside, and none of them was willing to carry the corpse.
Among them, Charmander's roar is the loudest.
"I don't want it! I am the dignified Lord Fire Dragon, a descendant of the gods, noble and inviolable. How dare you ask me to carry a dirty corpse? Can't whoever killed the person carry it?"
Wen Yun pulled Ye Shubai to shirk responsibility: "Both of us are wearing light-colored clothes. If they are stained with blood, it will be very obvious and there will be a risk of being exposed."
"Then let the old swordsman do it. We are here to hunt him down anyway!"
"… "
In the end, Master Su Yuan couldn't win over these grandsons, so he rubbed his nose, resigned himself to carrying a pile of corpses, and followed Wen Yun and Ye Shubai into the rolling sea of clouds to look for the cloud beasts that were hiding in the depths of the sea of clouds.
The sea of clouds is extremely vast, with the city of Yunhai as its center. The further you go to the edge, the more remote and desolate it becomes. The endless clouds are so thick that they completely obscure your vision with white.
It took a full half month to find it.
"This is a place where birds can't even find a place to rest. How did you two get here?"
It is said that there are many people in the Cloud Sea Realm, but Master Su Yuan didn't even see a single person on his way here, let alone the Cloud Island.
Wen Yun smiled helplessly and replied, "Xiaobai has been occupying the top spot on the second floor since you left. Since he hasn't ascended yet, it's hard for him to go to the third floor. I've also reached the fourth floor, but it's hard to go any further right now. So I have nothing better to do, so I decided to count the cloud islands we have."
The little fire dragon flapped its wings and flew steadily in the clouds carrying a group of people.
It narrowed its eyes and laughed, "It was my suggestion. How can I not patrol my own territory? Look, the Cloud Island has been almost eaten up by the Cloud Beasts!"
Everyone looked in the direction pointed by the little fire dragon's fat claws, and sure enough, they saw a piece of cloud soil over ten feet wide floating in the air. It was surrounded by pits and marks of gnaws, and it looked extremely miserable.
"What a shame... Such a good island has been eaten up like this. These cloud beasts are really ferocious."
Master Su Yuan looked at the Cloud Island with pity. The next moment, he conveniently stacked the corpses on his back one by one on the Cloud Island.
He turned around and said in a relaxed tone: "Just put it here, right?"
Ye Shubai shook his head, and the next moment he swung his sword, cutting out cloud soil from the Cloud Island and covering those people.
Seeing Master Su Yuan looking at him in confusion, he explained seriously: "What if the cloud beast doesn't eat humans, but only eats cloud soil..."
Before he could finish his words, a white figure suddenly emerged from the white clouds nearby. Its speed was as fast as the wind. Before Wen Yun and the others could see its appearance clearly, it had already opened its ridiculously large mouth and swallowed the entire Cloud Island in one gulp!
After swallowing a mouthful of human flesh, the cloud beast seemed unwilling to give up and turned around to rush towards everyone!
Now Master Su Yuan finally saw the appearance of the cloud beast clearly.
It looks like a mass of solid mist with facial features and limbs. If it weren't for its terrifyingly large abyssal mouth and three rows of sharp teeth, it would be quite cute.
He laughed loudly: "Just now you rescued me, now it's my turn to show my sword!"
As Master Su Yuan spoke, he swung his sword towards the cloud beast, but to his horror, the cloud beast that was cut in half by the sword energy was completely unharmed, and after a moment it gradually solidified into a complete form.
"They can't be killed by ordinary means, and there's no need to kill them."
Wen Yun explained hurriedly and patted Charmander's head.
The latter immediately understood and flapped its wings hard, but a strong wind blew out from between its wings and blew towards the soft white cloud beast. Its four small claws flapped a few times in the air, but it was finally unable to resist the strong wind and flew into the sea of clouds in a circle.
The traces of the four people from Dongxuan Realm also disappeared under the layers of sea of clouds.
The reason why there are no humans in the depths of the Cloud Sea Realm is because of the existence of cloud beasts.
They appear and disappear mysteriously in the depths of the sea of clouds, are extremely fast and have great lethality. They usually hide in ordinary clouds and mist, and even masters in the Ascension period find it extremely difficult to spot them. Instead, if one is not careful, they will be devoured by these ferocious beasts and completely disappear in this beautiful white.
Master Su Yuan put away his sword with lingering fear, and looked around for a long time. After making sure that there were no cloud beasts around, he finally relaxed completely from the shadow of being hunted.
He smiled and looked at his two disciples: "Since we have wiped out all the traces, then we can just work hard in Yunhai Realm. When this matter fades, I will go and get some people over, and our sect will be in good shape..."
"wrong!"
At this point, the faces of the three of them changed drastically.
"Senior, where is the person you picked up?!"
Just now they were so busy dealing with the people from Dongxuan Sect that they even forgot that two people were sent here!
Master Su Yuan scratched his graying hair and said anxiously, "We were bumped into by the Dongxuan Sect earlier. I was worried that they would be in danger, so I sent them to the Cloud Sea Realm in advance. I think they should be waiting for us on a certain Cloud Island now, right?"
It's good that I wasn't hit and killed by the people from Dongxuan Sect. I can breathe a sigh of relief. As long as I'm within the Yunhai Realm, everything will be easy. The sword practitioners of Qingliu Sword Sect all have a strong sense of survival. When encountering danger, they know to stay hidden and not run around.
Thinking of this, she asked curiously, "Which two fellow disciples are here?"
Master Su Yuan waved his hand and said indifferently: "Oh, the draw decided that it was Zhu Erchong and Shen Xinghai."
Unexpectedly, after he mentioned these two names, Wen Yun and Ye Shubai's faces suddenly turned ugly.
He thought that the people he brought were not to the liking of the two people, so he patiently explained: "It's not that I don't give face, but the three of you from the Tenth Peak said that you want to stay in the sect to guard..."
"That's not it, Senior."
Wen Yun took a breath, smiled bitterly and explained in a low voice: "If it was only Senior Brother Zhu Erchong, it would be fine, he has always had good luck, but as for Senior Brother Shen... his luck has always been a bit mysterious."
"mysterious?"
"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, he must be in trouble now, and according to convention, it should be a big trouble."
Shen Xinghai was indeed in trouble.
When Wen Yun found Zhu Erchong, he was dozing off on a small cloud island. When he was awakened, he immediately wiped the saliva from his mouth with his sleeve.
But there was really no one around him, and no other figure was seen.
Zhu Erchong looked at everyone in a daze. Seeing that Master Su Yuan had come back alive, he immediately smiled and said, "Senior, you are not dead!"
This made Su Yuan Zhenren very angry: "You are the one who is going to die!"
He touched his head and laughed, his eyes fell on the other two figures behind the old swordsman, his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "Eh? Master Ye, Junior Sister Wen? Why are you here too? By the way, listen to my excuse, I haven't been sleeping all the time, I just waited too long and wanted to rest for a while..."
Before Zhu Erchong could finish his argument, Wen Yun hurriedly jumped onto Yun Island and grabbed him: "Senior Brother Zhu, where is Senior Brother Shen?"
"Junior Brother Shen?"
Zhu Erchong blinked, then realized belatedly: "I fell on this island with Junior Brother Shen before. We waited here for several days but Senior didn't come back. We were all wondering if he was dead, and we cried a lot..."
Su Yuan Zhenren said expressionlessly: "I am really disappointing to you that I am not dead."
"Hey, don't worry about it. Isn't it because I'm too worried about you? Look at you, you're fine. Aren't you not cursed to death?"
"roll!"
Zhu Erchong quickly dodged and hid behind Wen Yun, then he began to explain Shen Xinghai's whereabouts.
It turned out that the two of them were pushed by Master Su Yuan and fell straight onto this cloud island... To be precise, this size is no longer worthy of being called an island. It is probably just a piece of remaining cloud soil.
The two had not yet ascended, and they were unfamiliar with this sea of clouds. There were constant strong winds in the sea of clouds, and they could not even fly, let alone fly up to save Master Su Yuan. They could only stay here and wait.
However, just ten days ago, a strange white beast with great spirituality suddenly arrived at the Cloud Island where they were staying.
"You know what, the spirit beasts in the Cloud Sea Realm are really adorable. Their soft and white appearance is much more beautiful than Junior Sister Wen's spirit pig..."
Zhuerchong's whisper was heard by the little dragon, and it bit him expressionlessly.
"Mmmmm! I know I was wrong. The spirit pig is the prettiest, and you are the prettiest, right?"
Zhu Erchong, who had escaped from the dragon's mouth, wiped the ammonite on his head with his sleeves, and continued with a very aggrieved look: "Junior Brother Shen saw that little beast flying freely in the sea of clouds, so he wanted to tame it and ride it to the sky to save you, so he asked me to wait here for you to come back, and he took the rope and tied the little beast and flew away. I don't know where."
Master Su Yuan asked three questions in a row: "Although I am very touched, does the flying beast you mentioned have very short and small legs? Can it swallow half of the Cloud Island in one bite? Is it very similar to ordinary clouds and mist?"
"Yes! How did you know, Senior?"
Wen Yun: “…”
Ye Shubai: “…”
It was confirmed that what Wen Yun expected was correct. Shen Xinghai was really doing something stupid again this time.
At this time, Shen Xinghai, who was being missed by everyone, was drifting in the wind.
He had an extremely thick rope tied around his waist, and the other end of the rope was tied tightly to the neck of the cloud beast.
Coincidentally, he originally just wanted to give it a daring try, but he didn't expect that he could actually catch the cloud beast with a rope just by throwing it casually!
However, what happened next was beyond his imagination.
Although this cloud beast was still small, its speed was not slow at all, especially for Shen Xinghai who was only in the Golden Core Stage. He knew nothing except the whistling sound of the wind and the white shadows that kept passing by his eyes. As for calling for help? Sorry, if he opened his mouth, the cold wind would blow in, so he dared not speak at all.
So much so that when he was just dragged away by the cloud beast, he regretted wanting Zhu Erchong to save him, and as a result, the words "Senior brother, save me" that were about to come out of his mouth turned into "Ah ah"!
Zhu Erchong, who was behind Shen Xinghai, was still excited as if he had caught the cloud beast. He waved his hands on the cloud island and shouted happily: "Junior Brother Shen, you don't have to shout, I know you are very happy!"
Happy Hammer Happy!
Shen Xinghai only felt that he was being pulled by a cloud beast like a kite, flying in the clouds, sometimes high and sometimes low. Apart from the dizziness of the world spinning around, he had no other thoughts.
As for the idea of taming the cloud beast? Sorry, Shen Xinghai gave up the idea long ago after he experienced the speed of the cloud beast after taking off.
But he had given up, and the cloud beast had no intention of stopping, and was still running wildly in the clouds.
Shen Xinghai's face was stiff and numbed by the wind. Between the two options of untying the rope and falling directly into the sea of clouds to his death or continuing to be led and flying like a kite, he chose the latter.
"God has given me a great mission, so what does it matter if it's cold and rainy? Wait for me... Ugh!"
Shen Xinghai was trying to comfort himself in his mind, but he never expected that the mad cloud beast seemed to be tired of running, and accidentally ran in the wrong direction in the sea of clouds, and suddenly braked and crashed into a cloud island.
Seeing this, Shen Xinghai immediately suppressed the nausea that was rising up in his heart, turned over and swung his knife to cut the rope tied around his waist!
"Bang!"
Due to inertia, this poor swordsman was launched like a cannonball onto a mountain on the Cloud Island. After smashing a large hole in the mountain, he collapsed stiffly in the hole, unable to move at all.
With the corner of his eye, he vaguely saw the little cloud beast grinning at him and shaking its head, as if it was challenging him, but also as if it was afraid of something and did not dare to catch up.
Finally, it dug the ground with its hind legs, turned around and dived into the sea of clouds.
The untied rope around the neck floated farther and farther away like a ribbon.
Saved.
Shen Xinghai lay flat in the cave, unable to even move a finger. He only felt the rocks above his head moving and his body spinning.
At this moment, the ring on his hand glowed slightly, which alleviated the nausea in his head.
"Thank you very much."
He took a deep breath, struggled to stand up, tremblingly took out the magic wand from the mustard seed sac, and performed a clumsy healing spell on himself.
The healing spell was cast, and the bleeding of the external injuries on Shen Xinghai's body stopped instantly. Unfortunately, his level was still too low, and the injuries to his internal organs were still serious. He felt a terrible pain in his chest every time he took a breath.
Shen Xinghai climbed up tremblingly, holding on to the rock wall, and moved outside step by step.
He walked very slowly.
By the time he finally groped his way up the cliff to the halfway point, he was already exhausted and didn't have any strength left. He could only lean against a red-leaf tree and gasp for breath.
Shen Xinghai had no idea how many days he was dragged by the cloud beast and where he was flying to.
He only knew that he almost lost this time.
At this moment, the communication jade slip on Shen Xinghai's waist suddenly lit up.
He opened it, and from the other end came Zhu Erchong's excited shout: "It's connected! It's connected! Junior Brother Shen must be near us! Junior Brother Shen, we searched the entire sea of clouds and finally found you!"
The communication jade slip cannot be used if the distance is too far. Now that it can be used, it means that Shen Xinghai must be near them!
Soon, the jade slip of communication fell into Wen Yun's hands.
The girl's clear and mellow voice was a little urgent: "Brother Shen, where are you now?!"
Shen Xinghai replied weakly: "On a floating island..."
"What are the characteristics of the island? What is around you?"
Shen Xinghai looked up and looked around, and gave a cautious answer: "There are mountains here, many red trees, and white grass. Oh, and there are clouds floating around me, which is very strange."
Wen Yun: “…”
This is indeed very rare in the world of cultivation, but these features are not unique to the Cloud Sea Realm. If I remember correctly, every Cloud Island looks like this
Forget it, now they can only search the surrounding area to find Shen Xinghai.
"Just stay where you are and don't move. We'll come find you right away!"
Shen Xinghai agreed obediently this time. He had really learned his lesson this time and didn't want to suffer and drift with the others anymore.
If he has a choice, he wants to be an honest man in the future.
However, when the communication jade slip was cut off, Shen Xinghai looked up and wanted to see the figures of Wen Yun and others in the distance, he found that the situation around him was a little strange.
Why were the clouds near the island getting thicker and thicker, even the sunlight at the zenith was almost completely blocked out, and gusts of cold wind were blowing towards him one after another. Shen Xinghai barely held onto a tree to avoid being blown away.
He realized something was wrong and subconsciously squinted his eyes to check it carefully.
As a result, I found something wrong when I took a look.
But he saw that the thick clouds in the distance were moving, not being blown by the wind, but approaching him silently!
Deep in the clouds, a rope floats in the air, half hidden and half visible.
Shen Xinghai's face changed drastically, and he roared at the cloud beast: "Shameless! You actually went back and asked people to beat me up!"