The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

On the fourth day of the seventh month, Yaoyue received the devastating news that there were no fresh fruits and vegetables left on the ship—it wasn't that Chu Luren hadn't brought any; some of them had indeed spoiled.

Yueyue would certainly not eat spoiled fruits and vegetables!

"Are you playing me?" Yaoyue's skin was crystal clear, and it looked like it was about to turn transparent.

"Huh? You mean...vegetables? Well, there's nothing we can do about it. We're at sea after all. Just bear with it a little longer, and we'll have everything by the time we get to Ling Snake Island," Chu Luren said without a hint of guilt.

"Then why didn't you tell me sooner?" Yaoyue stepped forward.

"No way, no way? There are really people who don't know this? Is it common knowledge for going to sea?" Chu Luren asked dramatically.

Yaoyue's face suddenly turned red, while Chu Luren's face turned pale.

This is what Lianxing told Chuluren—if it's something "insignificant," and her sister is angry, she can be made even angrier. This way, Yaoyue will realize that her mood has fluctuated and then take the initiative to calm down.

Of course, this only applies to things that are "insignificant" to her; otherwise, Yaoyue would only "pacify" the person who angered her first!

The reason why Yaoyue blushed was because her internal energy was not flowing smoothly—Chu Luren hadn't expected it either. It was just a sentence, why was it worth getting so angry?

Sensing the murderous aura and chill from Yaoyue, Chu Luren's face turned pale.

“After that… I’ll only drink water!” Yaoyue said coldly.

"There's not much water left, and the other two barrels are sweet wine... cough cough, wine is less likely to spoil, you know that, right?" Chu Luren said, forcing himself to speak.

Yaoyue closed her eyes, calming her anger; the murderous intent and chill faded away.

Just as Chu Luren breathed a sigh of relief, Yaoyue opened her eyes again and said indifferently, "On the day there is no clear water, I will drink your blood first."

Chu Luren: ...

"Brother Chu, look, what a beautiful sunset!" Xiao Zhao, who hadn't heard what Yao Yue and Chu Luren had said before, came over from the other side of the cabin and pointed to the direction of the setting sun in the west.

Two days later...

There was indeed no water left on the boat, and Chu Luren didn't believe it either. His own blood... wasn't it even more pungent than wine? Could Yaoyue really drink that much?

but……

Before Yaoyue could even choose between blood and wine, a drastic change occurred that even the Chu Lu people hadn't anticipated...

Chapter 690 Storm

The seventh day of the seventh month in the eighth year of the Tiansheng era was the Qixi Festival.

Chu Luren, Huang Rong, Xiao Zhao, Yao Yue, and Zhao Min were on the boat... showing no signs of grudges.

Whether or not we celebrate holidays is no longer important; what matters is... being on the ship!

Recalling the strange and beautiful blue-red sunset that Xiao Zhao saw a couple of days ago, perhaps it was an omen...

typhoon!

The transition from summer to autumn is indeed the season when typhoons are most frequent in the East China Sea. However... perhaps because the probability is low, or perhaps because his martial arts skills are high, Chu Luren neglected to be wary of the power of heaven and earth and did not pay much attention to it before.

However, when the low pressure actually arrived, Chu Luren panicked a bit, but by then it was too late to escape...

Looking out at the sea at this moment, it's as if you're facing layers upon layers of flowing mountains.

Because of the excessive turbulence and the towering waves on the sea, with no land nearby to refer to, even martial arts practitioners could not distinguish up from down, let alone left from right.

Sometimes it felt like the entire sea was standing upright in front of me, then I realized the ship had almost capsized; sometimes I saw the ocean hanging overhead, then I was just being pounded on the deck by waves...

At this moment, Chu Luren used his true energy to maintain the Kun fish protective shield on the ship!

It wasn't to escape the typhoon's reach, but simply to use the splashing water on the waves to avoid being swept to the seabed or scattered.

The Kun fish may indeed be quite large, but in the face of the vast ocean, it is nothing special.

Moreover, if it were a real whale, they could simply dive to the surface, but the Chu Lu people couldn't allow the ship to sink.

If this were under the raging sea before him, his Kunyu aura shield would probably shatter in just a few breaths, followed by the destruction of the entire ship!

"Watch out!" Xiao Zhao grabbed Huang Rong just in time, and with a clever "Great Shift of Heaven and Earth," swung her around and flung her back.

At the same time, he remained firmly attached to the boat and was not thrown off.

Although Zhao Min possessed the strengths of many schools of martial arts, in reality... she only learned the basics from various sources, and her martial arts skills were the worst on the ship. At this moment, she was tied to the ship by Yaoyue using a piece of white gauze sleeve.

Chu Luren wasn't sure either. If he were alone, no storm could harm him. But now he had to protect the entire ship. Without the ship, no one could protect several people on the high seas.

At this moment, Chu Luren was using the "Three-Part Returning to Origin Qi," which was not as powerful as simply using the Northern Darkness True Qi, but it had the characteristic of continuous internal energy circulation and "almost" no consumption.

However, this so-called "no consumption" only means that the true energy that is released can be absorbed back, and there is ultimately a limit. Moreover... the power of heaven and earth is not like an ordinary martial arts enemy. Chu Luren can absorb the true energy of his opponent with "Return to the Void". Faced with this raging storm, Chu Luren simply cannot cycle back and forth without consumption!

They've held out for almost half an hour...

Anyone who witnessed this scene would have to admit their admiration – this was protecting the entire ship and battling a typhoon for half an hour at sea.

In the entire martial arts world, Chu Luren's martial arts skills are not even in the top ten. However, in the typhoon, there are definitely no more than ten people in the world who can do what he has done.

However, Chu Luren was also nearing his limit at this point, having already consumed 50% of his internal energy.

Although there is still half left, it can only last for another 15 minutes at most, and it is very likely that it will not be able to continue!

This typhoon clearly won't pass in fifteen minutes; what Chu Luren is hoping for now is...

"Yaoyue!" Chu Luren called out, but Yaoyue was still sitting cross-legged in meditation in the cabin.

It wasn't that Yaoyue was pretending to be profound at this moment—since she had said she would protect Chu Luren, she wouldn't give up "easily," unless someone was too hateful or too infuriating...

Moreover, the issue now is not about protecting the Chu Lu people. Even Yao Yue wouldn't dare say that she could survive at sea without a ship, without knowing how far she is from land!

Inviting the moon into meditation now is to prepare for something big, and it's a "plan" that the two of them discussed when they clearly sensed the low pressure in the atmosphere.

"Let's begin..." Yaoyue opened her eyes at this moment.

"Hold on tight!" Chu Luren exerted all his strength, causing the Kun fish protective shield covering the ship to no longer splash and leap, but instead plunge into the sea like a swimming fish.

The Kunyu Qi Shield briefly pushed aside the seawater, but because it was stretched too far, even though it wasn't purely supported by true qi, but by various methods of deflecting force, it could only last for a few breaths at most.

After all, it's a space of several hundred cubic meters. Even if it were stuffed into calm seawater, it would still create hundreds of tons of pressure. And now, the shallow sea is churning under the typhoon, and the tearing force is beyond human comprehension...

However, in just those two breaths, Yaoyue suddenly spread her arms upwards, and an extremely cold force spread along the Kunyu aura shield, instantly freezing a layer of ice on the outside of the shield!

The seawater kept tearing at it, but the layer of ice only grew thicker and thicker, eventually freezing into a thickness of about three feet—and at the same time, as it was being twisted and broken, it solidified into an exceptionally cold three-foot-thick layer of ice.

If this large block of ice were placed in calm fresh water, the cold air would likely freeze several times its volume of water before it slowly thaws.

In this way, the five of them found themselves in a space encased in solid ice...

Chu Luren first spat out a mouthful of blood, then stabilized the situation, keeping the ship... or rather the ice body, underwater!

This mouthful of blood was the backlash from using the Kunyu Qi Shield to withstand the tearing of the seawater under the storm—in a single breath, Chu Luren suffered considerable internal injuries.

Now it's much easier; we don't need to tough it out. This three-foot-thick ice is quite resistant...

As long as the Chu Lu people use the Kun fish-shaped aura to borrow force, deflect force, and use skillful techniques, they can keep the Kun fish-shaped piece of solid ice flowing downstream and prevent it from floating to the surface.

Although the deeper places are under greater pressure, they are less affected by the storm.

Otherwise, being shaken around in an "icebox" would be unbearable...

What Yaoyue had frozen was just ordinary three-foot-long solid ice. Because the Chu Lu people's Kun fish aura shield had blocked the seawater, the ice that had frozen was also in the shape of a large fish.

When Chu Luren applied his skillful technique, it felt as if the ice fish was occasionally waving its fins and tail with true energy, as if it were coming to life.

Although the buoyancy was too great to dive deep, at least it didn't completely float to the surface and kept floundering underwater—which was exactly the location the Chu Lu people wanted to be.

The pressure isn't as great as in the deep sea, and you don't have to face the storm head-on...

Yaoyue's face was also pale at this moment. She had been gathering her strength for a long time for this move, and now she couldn't muster the energy for a moment.

As for the air, there's no need to worry—there are at least several hundred cubic meters of space here, and one cubic meter of air is enough for an adult to breathe for 2-6 hours…but the amount varies greatly depending on physical condition and circumstances.

Everyone present was a martial artist. Although they were very tired and had to exercise a lot to maintain their balance, as long as they calmed down and adjusted their breathing, they could last for several days in a few hundred cubic meters of air.

This typhoon can't last that long. Instead of worrying about the air quality, we should worry about whether the Chu Lu people can control the situation and how long the ice fish can last...

Chapter 691 Sudden Enlightenment in the Sea

With the three-foot-thick ice formed by the Moon Invitation, the Chu Lu people no longer needed to withstand the pressure and tearing of the seawater. They only needed to control the Kun fish's protective aura to sink, and the pressure immediately decreased significantly...

Even so, it is still difficult, and once it is thrown onto the sea, this solid three-foot-long ice might not be as effective as a pure "Kunyu Qi Shield" in the storm.

Previously, the Kun fish's aura was on the sea surface, constantly using its own strength to ensure it wouldn't be swept into the seawater, giving Yaoyue time to gather her power.

Three feet of solid ice is merely rigid and inflexible. Even if it doesn't break, for those inside, it's like being stuffed into a bottle and then shaken violently—the bottle might be fine, but the person inside is unlikely to be.

In order to make better use of the three-foot-thick ice, the Chu Lu people must do their best to keep the "ice fish" underwater.

If Chu Luren were at his peak, things would be easier, but now...

Not only was his internal energy greatly depleted, but he had also just suffered a backlash, so he was now essentially suffering from serious internal injuries, and the power he could exert would be further reduced.

As for Yaoyue, after defying the heavens by creating three feet of solid ice, she has now entered meditation again and recovered.

The other three women were barely able to protect themselves—mainly in this cold environment!

The temperature on the ship now is like the dead of winter in the Northeast. With the warm clothing on board, an ordinary person would probably have their nose frozen off.

Needless to say, even though Chu Luren and Yaoyue were not in good condition, they were able to ignore the low temperature.

Fortunately, Huang Rong, Xiao Zhao, and Zhao Min were not ordinary people. Even Zhao Min, whose internal strength was the weakest, could be considered third-rate. Before her internal strength was exhausted, she could still use her internal energy to keep warm.

Huang Rong's internal strength actually surpassed Xiao Zhao's—after all, she had been taught by Chu Luren, who had taught her the Nine Yin Manual early on, and had also taught her many other internal skills for reference. At this point, her internal strength had reached a certain level.

Xiao Zhao's strength in battle stemmed from her rapid mastery of the "Great Shift of Heaven and Earth," which was close to the third level.

At this time, keeping warm became Huang Rong's forte. Her Nine Yin Internal Skill, with its balance of Yin and Yang, allowed her to take care of Xiao Zhao and Zhao Min.

Chu Luren was truly working non-stop without rest. He had just been severely injured by the backlash, and he was still carefully maintaining his balance—ensuring that the "ice fish" wouldn't be thrown onto the surface of the sea or shake too violently.

and……

The crisis at this point doesn't end there—there's no need to worry about the air, though; a few hundred cubic meters of air are more than enough to breathe...

If nothing unexpected happens, the "ice fish" will break apart before the air runs out!

Although the three-foot-thick ice was solid, it was constantly being attacked—the seawater that touched it froze layer by layer under the cold of the ice, but this layer of floating ice could be peeled off at any time.

It looks like this ice fish, constantly shaking off its scales made of broken ice.

We can hold out for a few more hours at most!