Xuanxia

Chapter 299: Ghost Gate Waterway
We’ve arrived at the Ghost Gate Waterway.

Hua Wuying and Hua Xiaolan were both curious and wanted to lean over to take a look.

But the next second, they heard Yuan Ye's urgent shout!
"do not move!"

He didn't even dare to turn his head, and said in a nervous voice: "If you move, the boat will be unbalanced and it will be difficult for me to control the oars!"

After hearing this, the two of them had no choice but to sit back in disappointment.

Outside they are extremely majestic practitioners, but at this moment, they must listen to the boatman.

There was only a breeze on the lake, but the water was turbulent beyond imagination. The boat kept shaking, and the things in the hut began to fall all over the place, constantly bumping into Hua Wuying and Hua Xiaolan.

The two of them were... a little nervous.

The boat was shaking more and more violently, as if it would capsize at any time, with large amounts of lake water splashing in continuously. The two people who had lived on land since childhood had never seen such a scene. Looking at the boundless lake outside the boat, they both felt a sense of life and death.

We have just entered the ghost gate!
"Brother Yuan!"

Hua Wuying asked loudly: "Is this normal?"

"unusual!"

Yuan Ye yelled, "The water is rushing fast today!"

His legs seemed to be rooted to the deck, and no matter how the boat swayed from side to side, he stood firmly.

But his hands that were controlling the oars were already tense to the extreme, his muscles were stretched as hard as stones, veins popped out, and the joints of his hands were white.

"Both of you!"

Yuan Ye gritted his teeth, turned his head and shouted: "Do you still want to go forward?! If I had encountered this situation before, I would never dare to go forward! It's too dangerous!"

Hua Wuying was about to speak when he suddenly heard Hua Xiaolan coughing violently.

She held onto the shed with one hand and covered her chest with the other, coughing in agony.

Maybe she was not used to the shaking boat, or maybe she just had an illness, blood began to seep out of her skin again, and in a blink of an eye, the blood dyed her clothes red. She was no longer able to support herself, and she closed her eyes, and was about to faint and fall.

Hua Wuying's pupils condensed and he quickly took action and pulled Hua Xiaolan over.

If she fell in this small hut and hit her head on the corners of the boxes, she would not have to go to the Lingjing Sect and could just go back to the Wandu Mountain to have a feast...

"Say it quickly!"

Outside, Yuan Ye urged anxiously, "Are you coming back or not?"

Hua Wuying looked at Hua Xiaolan, who was bleeding and unconscious in his arms, and gritted his teeth: "Go back..."

But halfway through his words, he suddenly felt a pain in his arm.

That was Hua Xiaolan opening her eyes and pinching his arm hard.

"Junior Sister Hua?!" Hua Wuying was shocked.

"No, I won't go back..." Hua Xiaolan looked at him weakly, but her tone was firm: "There is not much time left, I can't wait..."

"Junior Sister Hua!" Hua Wuying frowned, "Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Don't joke with your own life! If something happens to you now, what's the point of obtaining the immortal grass?!"

"...I can die, but..." Hua Xiaolan tightly grasped Hua Wuying's sleeve: "I have countless fellow disciples in Wandu Mountain...It's too late...We must be quick...We can't wait..."

Hua Wuying was shocked: "Wandu Mountain? Fellow disciple? Aren't you curing your own illness?!"

But Hua Xiaolan could no longer speak. She closed her eyes and fainted.

The boat was shaking more and more violently. Hua Wuying held the shed with one hand and held Hua Xiaolan with the other, his heart racing.

Yuan Ye just said that the rainy season will come in a few days. The water flow in the Guimen Waterway is particularly turbulent. If it is like this today, if it is like this tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the rainy season will come in a few days. How can we go to the Black Mountain Islands?
As for what Hua Xiaolan said...

Hua Wuying thought about how he had guessed a few days ago that she wanted to collect rare herbs to treat diseases, but she said that his "guess was not entirely correct."

"So she wasn't running around for her own treatment, but for her fellow disciples from Wan Du Mountain?"

"There must be changes in Wandu Mountain. She did this for the sake of the sect..."

He looked at Hua Xiaolan... Although she was unconscious, her brows were still furrowed in pain, her little face was extremely pale, and cold sweat mixed with blood oozing from her skin.

She traveled thousands of miles despite all the injuries, not for herself at all.

Although the two had only been together for a few days, Hua Wuying had already vaguely discovered that Hua Xiaolan was not really a witch.

But why? Why did she behave this way when she could have done otherwise?

Could it be that, as she said, when traveling in the world, the worst thing to do is to show weakness?
"Brother Yuan!"

Hua Wuying shouted in a deep voice: "If we continue to move forward, can you hold on?"

"Yes, we can hold on! But we have to dock at the island ahead, and it will take more time on the road!" Yuan Ye shouted in surprise: "You really want to go forward?!"

"Go forward!"

Hua Wuying gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not going back!"

Yuan Ye also gritted his teeth and said, "Alright!"

It was not known whether he was afraid of being poisoned or he also wanted to go deeper into the Montenegro Islands, but once he made up his mind, the fear on the young boatman's face gradually faded, and instead he showed an extremely determined look.

"Damn it..." He said angrily, "I don't believe it. This time I'm going to smash this hell door!"

The small boat was still shaking in the rapids. As the waves grew bigger, the boat was even thrown high up and smashed down heavily several times.

Hua Wuying was worried about affecting Yuan Ye's control of the oars, so he didn't dare to move. He could only hold Hua Xiaolan tightly, protecting her with his arms and body to prevent her from being hit by the flying materials around.

The water splashing from outside the boat kept splashing on him. He had no idea whether the boat was moving forward or not, nor did he know whether the boat would capsize when the next wave came. He could only half close his eyes and struggle to hold on.

It seemed like not much time had passed, but it also seemed like a long lifetime had passed before the boat seemed to hit something and stopped heavily.

Hua Wuying was startled, thinking that he had hit a reef, but when he suddenly looked up, he saw a shallow beach in front of the deck.

Yuan Ye had already dropped the oars, spread out his arms and threw himself on the shallows, gasping for breath, and it seemed that even every hair on his head had become limp.

"We've reached the shore..."

He finally understood: "But in the next few days, I don't know how many times I will have to go through such dangerous situations..."

Hua Wuying was a little dazed, his body seemed to be still recovering from the violent shaking. Just as he was about to stand up, his head felt dizzy and he fell back down. He even felt like vomiting.

Even after opening my martial arts skills and embarking on the path of cultivation, I still get seasick...

So he simply stopped standing, and after carefully helping Hua Xiaolan back to her seat, he leaned against the wall of the shed, looking sideways outside the boat.

The sky was still cloudless, the sun was shining brightly, and there was a gentle breeze.

I'm afraid no one can understand why the lake could be so dangerous in such good weather.
"It's almost noon."

Hua Wuying looked at the scorching sun in the sky and smiled bitterly: "It's been more than an hour."

Soon, he seemed to have thought of something and murmured, "Yes, today is the third day after the first round of the Hidden Dragon Hundred Heroes Competition. It is noon again, and the second round of competition... should begin."

(End of this chapter)