Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

"How did you get like this!"

Gudu felt even more aggrieved.

Even a small aftershock caused it tons of damage, almost threatening its life.

Jiang Bai quickly took out a fragment of the Water of No Form and stuffed it into its hand.

It improved a lot after absorbing some pure water.

Walnut yawned.

Using this move also took a lot of effort from her.

However, the high cost is worthwhile.

If she were to encounter a situation like being surrounded by corpse monsters again, she could burn them all to ashes in an instant.

Chapter 533 Weak, pitiful, and helpless

As the ship continued to move forward, the deck cooled down.

Yidou lay back down on the deck to rest, and fell asleep the moment he closed his eyes.

"How long will it take to get there?" Hu Tao asked.

Jiang Bai opened the map and estimated his current location.

"At the current pace, it will take another two days."

He used the wind element as a power source, which was much faster than simply relying on the sea breeze and ocean currents. Other ships couldn't even see their tails, and they traveled day and night without stopping. Two days would be more than enough to cover the remaining distance.

"Okay, I'm going to sleep now. Wake me up when it's time to eat."

Yi Dou woke up in about two hours; his mental strength recovered very quickly.

After waking up, I felt refreshed and full of energy again.

Jiang Bai continued to explain to him the training methods for elemental power.

"Mental strength determines the total amount of elements you can control, but to make elements as easy to control as your own arms and your mind, you still need to train your control."

Jiang Bai gave Yi Dou a demonstration.

He leaped into the air with a bent knee, and the rock element quickly gathered into a platform. He stepped down, and the small platform quickly dissipated. He used this momentum to continue leaping upwards.

With each step he took, rock elements steadily appeared beneath his feet.

It can travel through the air without wind, relying solely on the rock element.

However, you can't stop. Once the rock elements gather, they will fall due to gravity. You have to seize the moment when they appear and step on them to gain leverage. This requires extremely high control.

Yi Dou's eyes gleamed. "This move looks like it was tailor-made for me!"

He could already imagine himself showing off this skill in front of his underlings, and their amazed expressions.

He tried it out himself, jumping on the deck first. However, due to the heavy load, he only jumped half a meter, while the rock he conjured appeared two meters in front of him.

Realizing what had happened, he tried to condense again, but he misjudged the position and tripped over his own geomancy creation, falling flat on his face.

The splash made the entire stone boat shake.

He climbed up from the deck, looking dejected, with a large bump on his forehead.

"How come it's completely different from what I imagined?"

"Because thinking is one thing, doing is another."

It is precisely because there is a gap between imagination and reality that those who can do things that only exist in imagination are considered outstanding.

Yi Dou seemed to be deep in thought.

He hadn't really thought about these things before.

How did you do that?

"Just use it, keep using it."

Jiang Bai snapped his fingers, and a lifelike walnut statue appeared beside him.

"You can imagine yourself as a sculptor, and elemental power is your carving knife. If you can condense whatever you think of into elemental power, like I can, then you've achieved a minor success."

Ichidou also imagined what Hu Tao would look like, but the resulting sculpture was very abstract. Only the nose and eyes were visible. If it weren't for the statue having pigtails, it would be impossible to recognize that it was Hu Tao.

Yi Dou rested his chin on his hand, frowning: "Why is it that what I imagined to be the boss turned out like this?"

"It's just like painting. You see a painting, you know what it looks like, but if you want to paint it completely, you have to practice, keep practicing."

"Practice slowly. You can start with simple things. When you can instantly and perfectly condense whatever you think of in your mind, you can graduate."

Ichidou nodded seriously and began practicing.

Traveling and exercising at the same time, time flies by.

The closer Jiang Bai got to Qinglai Island, the more he could sense the activity of the lightning element on the island.

Thunderstorms even occur from time to time in the waters surrounding Qinglai Island.

"Is this Thunderbird's resentment that strong...?"

Jiang Bai gained a new understanding of these remnants of demons. Whether it was the giant serpent or the thunderbird, even though they had been dead for thousands of years, these remnants were beyond the tolerance of ordinary humans.

Liyue is arguably the place with the most demons, but the remnants left behind by the demons who died in the demon war have been mostly cleaned up by the guardian yaksha.

In order to cleanse away these remnants of demons, only one of the five guardian yakshas under the Emperor's command remained: Xiao. Even Xiao was susceptible to karmic retribution if he was not careful.

The demon gods loved each other, yet were forced to fight each other, leaving only seven survivors.

However, due to the contract, the old man could not reveal the reason for the war between the demons.

Jiang Bai looked up at the high sky, hoping to find the answer above the clouds.

As they drew closer, the entire Qinglai Island came into view.

"Jiang Bai, look over there!" Hu Tao pointed to the distant sky with some amazement.

Over there, purple lightning illuminated the sky, the clouds transformed into a giant vortex, pebbles floated in the air, and countless bolts of lightning surged within it.

The scene was so shocking, its power instilled a sense of dread and made one want to get away.

However, the three people on the boat were no ordinary people. They were all very interested in the sight and wanted to get closer.

"Let's go! Let's go there!"

Looking at the three excited people, Gudu on the deck looked aggrieved.

It just went through a life-or-death crisis not long ago, and now it's going to such a terrifying place. Can't it consider its feelings?

It's just a slime!

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It turned away and became withdrawn.

As the ship sailed to the outskirts of Qinglai Island, perhaps due to the excessive concentration of lightning element, most of the land on Qinglai Island appeared bluish-purple, and even the plants growing on the island were stained bluish-purple by the concentrated lightning element.

Jiang Bai originally wanted to go directly to Tianyun Pass, but the thunderstorms there were too dense, and the lightning element was so concentrated that just getting close to it caused a slight electric shock.

The only place to land on the island is Pinghaizhai.

Pinghaizhai is a relatively large island, but it is very desolate. Apart from some crabs and snails on the beach, there are hardly any wild animals to be seen.

And this island, devoid of human habitation, became the territory of monsters.

Jiang Bai, piloting the boat, stopped at the shore and looked up at the sky.

Even though the terrifying, swirling thunderclouds were gathering above Tianyun Pass, the oppressive aura was still clearly felt on the island.

However, compared to Tianyun Pass, the thunderstorms here are much gentler, and the lightning element is not as concentrated.

Standing on solid ground, Yi Dou was in a great mood.

He pointed at the thunderclouds over Tianyun Pass and arrogantly declared, "Thunderbirds, are they! This great one is here!"

As soon as he finished speaking,

boom--

A bolt of lightning struck directly down.

One dou (a unit of dry measure) and my scalp tingled.

Geo element quickly gathered overhead, blocking the lightning bolt.

He wiped the sweat from his brow. "Phew, that scared me to death!"

"Take it easy, lightning loves to strike people like you who stretch out their arms."

Jiang Bai, having experienced the thunderstorms on Bayun Island, was quite experienced.

Chapter 534 Shrek vs. the Floating Spirit

Hu Tao glanced at her sideways and said, "You seem to have a lot of experience."

"When I first arrived at Bayun Island, the thunderstorms were relentlessly striking me. Luckily, it only thunders here and doesn't rain. I felt like I was going to grow mushrooms from all the thunderstorms over there..."

Jiang Bai felt that the situation on Qinglai Island was much better than that on Bayun Island.

It was just a thunderstorm; there was no evil spirit pollution, nor was there the continuous rainfall like on Ba Yun Island.

The wandering samurai we met on the island had their reasons for coming here.

However, now that the evil spirit of Bayun Island has been resealed by the general and the war is over, the island is clearly more habitable than this one.

"The map I bought only shows the general location and orientation. We've just landed and there are still a few hours before dark, so let's wander around for a bit."

Walnut climbed to a high place, keeping an eye on the thunderstorm that might strike at any moment, while looking down at the surroundings with curiosity.

When you're out having fun, it's not important whether you visit tourist attractions or not. What's important is going to places you've never been before, seeing scenery you've never seen before, and experiencing unique local customs and culture.

Everything was new and exciting, even the earth itself seemed to shimmer with an unusual hue.

It was also Yidou's first time here. He carefully climbed up the hill, avoiding the thunderstorm.

The weight on his body made climbing very difficult, and the mental exertion required to maintain the stone boat's existence made him appear as if he had kidney deficiency, despite being tall and strong.

"Master! Look at this!"

Jiang Bai curiously grabbed a strange monster and ran over.

This monster looked like a large fruit, with four large leaves on its head. Crackling lightning crackled around it, and a single eye under the leaves glared fiercely at Jiang Bai, its gaze seemingly intent on killing him.

It tried to teach this human a lesson with the leaves on its head, but all four leaves were held in Jiang Bai's hands. It could only swell up angrily like a balloon, condensing thick lightning, trying to make Jiang Bai look bad.

Jiang Bai punched it, interrupting its spellcasting. The balloon deflated instantly. If it had a mouth, it would have bitten Jiang Bai directly.

Jiang Bai held its four leaves and lifted it in front of Hu Tao.

"Master, look! It's a creature I've never seen before!"

"This is called a Floating Spirit. Like a slime, it's an elemental creature, and they usually appear in groups of three to five. These creatures are very rare in Liyue, and they are more dangerous than ordinary Hilichurls or anything like that. They also have a violent temper."

"They have no intelligence and will instinctively attack any creature that comes near them indiscriminately. They can even self-destruct. If several floating spirits self-destruct together, you can die here if you're not fast enough."

"That dangerous?"

Jiang Bai was somewhat surprised.

He initially saw the thing floating under a tree and thought it was a fruit, but when he went over to take a look, the thing slammed right into his face and he grabbed it.

She kept trying to shock him after that, but never succeeded.

Hu Tao glanced at the floating spirit, who was about to explode with anger.

"It's dangerous for ordinary people, but it's more dangerous when it comes to you."

Jiang Bai chuckled, "That's true."

Can it be eaten?

Hu Tao crossed her arms and supplemented Jiang Bai's general knowledge:

"It is essentially just a mass of elements. After it dies, it will disappear as a mass of elements, leaving behind an energy core full of elemental power. Scholars have named this core the floating crystal nucleus."

"Then it seems we can't eat it."