Outside of Time

The story tells all Seven Blood Eyes disciples that once they encounter this strange scene at sea, do not take any action, do not touch it, and do not disturb it.

Xu Qing was silent.

With the records of Hai Zhi Guan emerging in his mind, he sat cross-legged in the Dharma Boat and looked up at the countless ferocious ghosts surrounding him, rising into the sky in groups amid bursts of sharp and ear-piercing roars.

"The focus of Haizhili's record is not the story itself."

Xu Qing looked at the sky, murmuring in his heart in the coldness of the surrounding world.

"But... its description of all this uses the word story, not legend."

"Compared to legends, the title story often represents a scene that actually happened." Xu Qing took a deep breath and stared in all directions.

Countless ghosts filled the sky and the earth, and as they continued to rise and fall, their voices became more and more shrill. This scene was enough to frighten the timid and make them tremble in horror.

But for Xu Qing, he was used to it.

He has seen the eyes of gods, lived in a dead city full of ferocious beasts and strange things for more than half a month, and has seen too much life and death in the slums surrounded by the darkness of human nature since he was a child.

The forbidden jungle and the Seven Blood Pupils have gone through hardships and baptisms. For him, it is not just these weird things that kill people, but anything in this world can kill people.

Therefore, a scene of this magnitude may cause fear to others, but to Xu Qing, he was very calm.

In this calm gaze, Xu Qing in the dark night, he seemed to hear the lingering sound of music faintly in the roar of these fierce ghosts rising into the sky.

Xu Qing closed his eyes and remained motionless, as if listening.

From a distance, both he and the Dharma boat were insignificant in the sea. They were gradually obscured by the hundreds of ghosts walking in the night.

Only the lingering sound became clearer and clearer in Xu Qing's ears, lingering for a long time...

A hundred ghosts walk at night, a hundred ghosts dance at night, and a hundred ghosts sing at night.

This night slowly passed amidst Zhao Zhongheng's nervousness, Xu Qing's listening, and Senior Sister Ding's curiosity about Xu Qing.

With the arrival of morning, the nocturne dissipated, Xu Qing opened his eyes, and there was still a faint lingering sound in his mind.

Senior Sister Ding put her beautiful eyes on Xu Qing and couldn't help but ask.

"Junior Brother Xu, have you been listening this night? Did you hear anything?"

Xu Qing ignored it, a little unhappy to be disturbed at this moment. He did not blink, still immersed in the slowly inaudible lingering sounds in his mind.

This made Senior Sister Ding even more curious, so she looked at Xu Qing, patted the storage bag with her right hand, and immediately took out a jade box and handed it over.

"Junior Brother Xu, there is a Clear Pill inside, which is very effective in nourishing the soul. I give it to you. Can you tell me the answer?"

Zhao Zhongheng on the Fengniao's eyes instantly widened, his breathing became rapid, and the flames in his eyes almost couldn't be suppressed. This pill was a gift he gave to Senior Sister Ding when he saw that he was impatient...

Now, Xu Qing is not happy, and Senior Sister Ding also gave a gift...

This scene made him completely crazy.

"Cheng Ming Dan?"

Xu Qing's attention was instinctively drawn to it. He knew the Chengming Pill, and he also knew that this pill was of great value and was rare in quantity.

So he was a little surprised, turned around, took the jade box, opened it, took a look at it, checked to make sure it was OK, and put it in his pocket.

Seeing Xu Qing accept it, Senior Sister Ding was very happy and looked at Xu Qing with a smile.

"Junior Brother Xu, tell me. I know that Haizhi once mentioned that not many people can hear the Nocturne of Hundred Ghosts. Only those with keen senses can hear it."

Xu Qing nodded, with a trace of reminiscence in his eyes.

"I heard the voice of my teacher teaching me the knowledge of plants and trees."

"Junior Brother Xu, you actually know how to use plants and trees, you're so awesome." Senior Sister Ding's face was full of admiration. As for Zhao Zhongheng on the Fengniao, his face showed disdain, curled his lips and whispered.

“Who can’t brag!”

Senior Sister Ding ignored Zhao Zhongheng who was eating the food. She was attentively beside Xu Qing, asking about the knowledge of vegetation.

For the sake of Cheng Ming Dan, Xu Qing reluctantly replied a few words, although he felt a little impatient.

On the way down, Zhao Zhongheng was obviously more anxious. In order to bring his senior sister back to him, he started to please her in various ways and frequently gave her gifts.

It's just that Senior Sister Ding mostly refused coldly, and occasionally she reluctantly accepted it because she had no other choice. However, she never made any move to change boats. Instead, Xu Qing's boat often heard laughter like silver bells. This made Zhao Zhongheng The evil fire burned the internal organs.

Especially in the next few days on the road, Senior Sister Ding laughed more than she had in a year when she met him. Even many times, he saw that it was Senior Sister Ding who took the initiative to find topics for Xu Qing and asked about plants and herbs. , but Zhao Zhongheng clearly knew that Ding Xue had no interest in medicinal materials.

And if Xu Qingruo didn't speak, she would give gifts as a fee for the consultation, and those gifts were all given by him.

This scene made Zhao Zhongheng feel a little dazed for many times. He vaguely felt that all this was so familiar. He and Senior Sister Ding seemed... somewhat similar.

This discovery made Zhao Zhongheng feel sad, but he was unwilling to give up on him, so he could only brace himself and try hard to blend in and keep in sync.

Even in order to attract the attention of Senior Sister Ding, Zhao Zhongheng simply exploded in cultivation along the way, constantly catching various sea beasts and inviting them to taste them. This method did have some effect, which made Zhao Zhongheng's heart come alive again.

Until noon on the third day, Xu Qing's Dharma Boat and Fengniao were moving forward on the sea, when suddenly a sharp neighing sound came from the sky.

Xu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged on the boat, opened his eyes and saw a false-toothed bird flying in the sky. It had huge and slender wings, more than two feet long, and its green body was stained with mud. What attracts attention is its amazing beak, which looks like two huge iron pincers. You can imagine that its bite force must be terrifying.

At this moment, the sea was as calm and peaceful as a huge black mirror. From a distance, seabirds appeared frequently in the sky.

The Pseudomonas is just one of them, and many small black spots can be seen in the distance. They are different types of seabirds, looking for prey at noon.

At this moment, the false-toothed bird hovering in the sky seemed to have identified Xu Qing and the others as its prey, so it followed them all the way. However, it seemed that it also sensed the crisis, so after circling for a few times, it left.

Xu Qing looked up at the false-toothed bird in the sky, and then looked down at the calm sea. There was a flash of light in his eyes, but he ignored it.

But Zhao Zhongheng on the Fengniao had a look of joy in his eyes and shouted with a smile to Senior Sister Ding who noticed this scene in the sky.

"Senior Sister Ding, there is a book about this false-toothed bird that seems to taste good. I'll help you get it off and we'll eat it at noon."

"Junior Brother Xu, do you want to eat a pseudodontia for lunch?" Senior Sister Ding stood up, looked at the pseudodontia in the sky, and smiled sweetly at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing still had some favorable impressions of Senior Sister Ding. Her eagerness to learn reminded him of his past self. Although he had many inquiries about vegetation knowledge, they were all paid, and the items given were worth almost two hundred spirit stones.

At the same time, Xu Qing has gained a deeper understanding of the two core disciples of the Seventh Peak in front of him after spending the past few days together, but he will not hastily deny all the core disciples just because of the performance of these two people.

Core disciples are also human beings, and as long as they are human beings, they cannot have the same character. Some are smart, some are stupid, some are alert, and some are reckless.

Therefore, among the core disciples, there are some who are simple, and there must be others who are as evil as the gray robes who walked out of the ferocious environment at the foot of the mountain. Xu Qing felt that it was because he had few contacts with the core and did not see it.

In fact, Zhao Zhongheng is not bad, he is just stupid. As the captain said, he is a fool.

Senior Sister Ding is not stupid, she is just too well protected, which is a bit inconsistent with this troubled world, but it is precisely this that further proves that she has a great background.

This can also be confirmed by Zhao Zhongheng's attitude and Xu Qing's attitude.

Especially when he thought about how the other party's hand was always on the storage bag during the Hundred Ghost Night Parade, Xu Qing could conclude that the other party must have amazing life-saving means, so her elders felt free to let her go to sea.

So Xu Qing gave a reminder.

"The sea is too calm, something is wrong."

"Cowards!" Zhao Zhongheng on the Fengniao sneered when he heard this. He raised his hands and waved, intending to use his magic to capture the False Tooth Bird.

But at this moment, the false-toothed bird in the sky that was about to leave seemed to have noticed Zhao Zhongheng's intention, so it became aggressive. After turning around in mid-air, it changed its direction and no longer left, but its body suddenly accelerated. , like a meteor falling from the sky, roaring diagonally from behind the three-person boat.

Seen from a distance, its silhouette cuts through the air currents formed in the sky, setting off bursts of sonic booms, which shows that its speed is astonishing.

"Well done." Zhao Zhongheng laughed, jumped up, left the boat in mid-air, and was about to take action.

Xu Qing's expression changed, and he became alert. He stood up and looked at the sea behind the boat. He saw that there was an area of ​​several tens of feet. At this moment, as the roar of the false toothed bird approached in the sky, it was rolling violently.

It seems that there is something under the sea, approaching the surface of the sea quickly!

A cold light flashed in Xu Qing's eyes, and he made a quick seal, and in an instant his magic boat turned into a protective posture.

And at the moment when this posture was formed, through his dragon whale, he suddenly saw a huge creature approaching behind the boat at an alarming speed, arriving from the bottom of the sea in the blink of an eye, and breaking through the water in an instant.

boom!

Amidst the loud noise, the sea surface behind the Dharma boat directly exploded within a hundred feet.

A huge head that was pitch black and covered with scales, like a dragon or a crocodile, broke out of the sea with unprecedented ferocity and ferocity.

The fishy smell instantly filled the air, and the waves rolled violently. The head opened its mouth wide and swallowed the incoming pseudo-toothed bird in one gulp!

The Pseudodontosaurus seemed very big, but compared with the open mouth, it was like a small snack. It was swallowed completely by the dragon-crocodile-like mouth in an instant. With a roar, the head fell back into the sea. .

The waves rolled up into the sky, roaring and spreading in all directions, making Xu Qing's boat and Zhao Zhongheng's Fengniao like two leaves on the sea, rolling back involuntarily, but the former was in order, and the latter was on the verge of losing control.

Zhao Zhongheng's expression changed drastically in an instant, and his expression showed shock.

At this moment, he was already flying in mid-air. Fortunately, his speed was not very fast. Otherwise, once he got close to the pseudotooth bird, he might not only be swallowed by that bird.

The intense palpitations brought about by the line between life and death made him, whose whole body was soaked by the rising sea water. His face turned pale and he quickly retreated to the Fengniao. Until his feet landed on the deck, his body could not help but tremble.

As if they were afraid that if they retreated too slowly, the terrifying mouth would appear again in the sea below.

However, his basic qualities as a disciple of the Seventh Peak still allowed him to instinctively control the boat and gradually regain control of his boat.

"That's... a plesiosaur. Senior Sister Ding, come to me quickly. We need to leave this area immediately!"

As the waves rolled, Zhao Zhongheng stood on the swaying Fengniao, while controlling the boat, he spoke urgently.

"Shut up, if you hadn't acted stupidly to irritate the plesiosaur, it would have flown away, how could it attack! It is recorded in the sea records that the plesiosaur's favorite meat is the plesiosaur. Obviously the snake neck The dragon was attracted by the false-toothed bird in the sky. If you don't act carelessly, the plesiosaur will definitely go away with it. "

Senior Sister Ding looked ugly. To the disciples of the Seventh Peak, although plesiosaurs are not the strongest among the hunters in the Forbidden Sea, they may live in the Forbidden Sea filled with endless heterogeneity, and they are also known for their ferocity. , and each head is difficult to judge based on the strength of its cultivation.

After all, with its huge body, unless there is a clear gap in combat power between them, the victory will most likely belong to the other side.

Zhao Zhongheng wanted to defend himself, but when he opened his mouth, nothing came out. He could only reply bitterly.

"Maybe it will go away soon..."

Senior Sister Ding's quality was obviously much better than that of Zhao Zhongheng. Even though her mind was turbulent at this moment, her whole body cultivation was still running. She even took out a blue long sword and was ready to take action at any time.

At the same time, his right hand was placed on the storage bag, as if he could take out his trump card at any time, and he looked at the sea warily.

Compared to the two of them, Xu Qing was much calmer. He had noticed that something was wrong with the sea before, so he put the boat in a defensive posture in advance.

At this moment, the big waves were rolling, and the roaring waves were like giant hands, slamming hard on Xu Qing's Dharma boat, causing his Dharma boat to keep moving away in the waves.

But overall, the stability of Fazhou is very good, so it did not lose control, but retreated in an orderly manner with the help of waves.

At the same time, his calmness also made Senior Sister Ding relax, and her eyes gradually became sharper.

"It didn't leave!" Xu Qing's eyes flashed and she spoke in a low voice.