Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 221 The Seafaring Chart to Find Immortal Abode
Jiang Xiaopeng was the first to speak, "Friends, we have already inspected this ship. We have confirmed that there is no danger on board and there are many rooms. Although the appearance of this ship is somewhat strange, I think it is possible. Imagine, if the ship was anchored near a small island, and the people on board went ashore to enjoy the land, the ship could have been swept away by the waves..."
Speaking to this point, Jiang Xiaopeng couldn't continue. The probability of this was too low, almost impossible.
"Amitabha, this humble monk believes that this ship was deliberately sent into the Tianhai Sea by someone," said the smiling monk with a serious expression.
"Smiling Monk, you should speak with a bit of reason and possibility. Although what Brother Jiang said is almost impossible, there is still a chance. What you're saying is too far-fetched. Would someone be crazy enough to send an empty ship into the Tianhai Sea? What would be their purpose?" The dark-faced burly man, Pu Qian, snorted.
The smiling monk looked at Pu Qian in surprise and said, "Purpose? Naturally, to give me a fright! Didn't you get a fright? Think about it, if the person who sent the ship into the sea saw us looking scared and cautious, wouldn't it be hilarious?"
Mo Wuji suddenly thought this monk was a clown. The key was that he had such a serious expression, as if it were really the case.
Pu Qian looked at the monk speechlessly and said, "That's right, I was scared."
The monk clapped his hands and said, "See, I was right! It seems that the fellow who sent the ship into the Tianhai Sea has achieved his goal. How insidious and venomous! If this insidious and venomous person is seen by this humble monk, I will definitely tear him to pieces! Amitabha, goodness, goodness. This is my fault, I have actually violated the precept of anger. I can only tear him into a thousand pieces at most, monks are compassionate, can't do any more."
Mo Wuji interrupted the monk's babbling, "Everyone, why are you all here? And so coincidentally, everyone was caught in the sea due to natural disasters?"
Everyone fell silent and no one responded to Mo Wuji's words. It seemed that everyone had a purpose for being here and didn't want to reveal it.
Mo Wuji simply said, "I came here because of a sea chart, which indicated the existence of an Immortal Abode..."
The reason he said it directly was because Mo Wuji had long suspected it. The sea was vast, especially the boundless Tianhai Sea. For everyone to meet each other after experiencing a shipwreck in such a place, it was definitely not just a coincidence.
"Ah..." Zhuang Yan exclaimed first, and then quickly added, "We also got a sea chart, which said there was an Immortal Abode..."
Qi Wenxuan wanted to stop Zhuang Yan, but it was too late. He had to follow Zhuang Yan's words and said, "That's right, we indeed came to the Tianhai Sea to try our luck because we got a sea chart."
The expressions of the others became strange. The dark-faced burly man suddenly grabbed a map and threw it on the ground, "Damn it, I've been tricked!"
The map lay on the ground. Mo Wuji glanced at it and found that the approximate location was similar to the map Jing Lengbei had drawn for him, but some key points were different. For example, the location of the Immortal Abode was different, not only different, but also significantly so. Mo Wuji believed that even if Jing Lengbei couldn't remember the details or was careless, she wouldn't have misplaced the location of the Immortal Abode.
After the dark-faced burly man threw out the map, the others took out their maps one after another. Sure enough, all the maps were identical.
Jiang Xiaopeng said with a grim face, "It seems that someone wants to use this method to lure us to this place. As for who wants to lure us here and what their purpose is, we don't know yet."
Mo Wuji didn't take out his sea chart, and no one asked him to. It was obvious that whether Mo Wuji took out his sea chart or not was irrelevant.
After saying this, Jiang Xiaopeng suddenly remembered something and looked at Mo Wuji, asking, "Brother Mo, how did you know there was a problem with the sea chart? Where is your sea chart?"
Mo Wuji pretended not to hear Jiang Xiaopeng's words and looked at the vinegar jar girl, who was cautiously hiding behind Gouzi, and asked, "Vinegar Jar Girl, in the kitchen, everyone thought there was no problem, why were you frowning?"
No one expected Mo Wuji to suddenly talk to the vinegar jar girl. It could be said that among everyone here, the vinegar jar girl had the least presence. However, because of Mo Wuji's words, everyone ignored Jiang Xiaopeng's question.
"I, I don't know..." the vinegar jar girl stuttered, her tone somewhat flustered.
Gouzi quickly stood up and cupped his fists towards Mo Wuji, "Fellow Daoist Mo, my granddaughter is very timid and never has any opinions anywhere. I think you must have seen it wrong."
Mo Wuji said calmly, "I didn't see it wrong. Vinegar Jar Girl, if you don't want to speak, I won't force you to. Of course, I won't stay here. Everyone is keeping things to themselves, staying here won't allow us to cooperate properly."
"I, I..." the vinegar jar girl stuttered even more.
Gouzi also sensed that the vinegar jar girl seemed to have something to say, and said straightforwardly, "Vinegar Jar, just say what you have to say, everyone here is working together wholeheartedly."
Perhaps reassured by Gouzi's guarantee, the vinegar jar girl finally said, "The large vat in the kitchen is full of fresh blood, I saw that everyone thought it was normal, so I didn't dare to say anything..."
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. There was only one large vat in the kitchen, and everyone had opened it to look at it. It was indeed rice inside.
"Nonsense, there was clearly rice in that vat, where did the..." Gouzi's reprimanding words were only halfway through before he stopped. The vinegar jar girl had been with him all along, and was very honest, so she couldn't be lying.
Mo Wuji's divine sense had scanned the rice vat in the kitchen again. There was indeed rice in the rice vat. He focused his divine sense even more, completely penetrating into the rice vat.
A bloody smell was immediately detected by his divine sense. The original rice suddenly turned into a vat of fresh blood. The vinegar jar girl was right.
Mo Wuji's face changed immediately. His divine sense scanned the dry firewood again. After his divine sense completely penetrated them, the dry firewood also changed, they were all bones. He sent his divine sense into each room again, and the rooms were no longer clean, but full of cobwebs. Some broken clothes were scattered everywhere, and there were various human bones under the beds.
Returning to the main cabin, it was also full of dust. Behind him was a skeleton, leaning against a bench, looking terrifying.
Rebuked by Gouzi, the vinegar jar girl dared not speak.
"Let's go take a look again," Jiang Xiaopeng stood up and said, completely unaware that he was stepping on a bloodless palm.
Mo Wuji could hear from his tone that his voice was trembling, indicating that he was indeed a little worried.
"No need to look, what the Vinegar Jar Girl said should be true. This ship is very strange, I'll go up first." After Mo Wuji finished speaking, he stood up directly, left the cabin, and headed for the deck.
"Hmph, taking a little girl's words as truth? I'll go grab some rice from that rice vat first. So timid, why bother looking for treasure?" Meng Zhi, who hadn't spoken the whole time, snorted, stood up, and quickly went down to the lowest level of the kitchen again.
"Brother Meng, wait, let's go together," Jiang Xiaopeng called out behind him, but at this moment Meng Zhi had already left.
Qi Wenxuan and Zhuang Yan hesitated for a moment, then followed Mo Wuji onto the deck. Gouzi believed in the Vinegar Jar Girl's words and also stood up and followed Mo Wuji onto the deck.
Only Jiang Xiaopeng, Qi Susu, the monk, and the dark-faced burly man remained in the cabin.
"Would you all accompany me to take a look?" Seeing that Meng Zhi had disappeared, and even the sound of his footsteps could not be heard, Jiang Xiaopeng became a little wary.
"Amitabha, this humble monk has no objections... This humble monk suspects that the owner who released this empty ship might be hiding in the rice vat," the smiling monk stood up with a serious face, as if his guess was 100% accurate.
The dark-faced burly man Pu Qian also stood up and said, "I also think this is unlikely. Since Brother Jiang has invited, naturally we should go."
After the four agreed, they quickly entered the inner cabin and headed for the kitchen.
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"Brother Mo, is what the Vinegar Jar Girl said true?" Although the Vinegar Jar Girl was also nearby, Zhuang Yan still asked with a somewhat pale face.
Mo Wuji nodded, "That's right, it should be true."
"Then why do we see different things?" Zhuang Yan asked in an even more frightened tone after hearing Mo Wuji's affirmative answer.
Mo Wuji pondered for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, apart from the ship itself being real, most of the things inside this ship are fake. It's very likely a kind of illusion array, this illusion array is causing us to lose our normal thinking and vision."
It wasn't very likely, Mo Wuji was certain that there was an illusion array inside the ship. He had been studying Chu Xingzi's array dao for quite some time. Although he hadn't delved into illusion arrays, he had come into contact with most of the arrays.
"What Brother Mo said is very likely true, Vinegar Jar would definitely not lie about this," Gouzi added with a solemn expression.
Mo Wuji looked at the raging wind and waves outside the ship, and was still hesitating whether he should leave the ship now. Since someone used the Immortal Abode map to trick them here, would they let him leave peacefully?
"Brother Mo, I wonder what your plans are now?" Qi Wenxuan had already seen that he didn't know how strong Mo Wuji was, but his insights were definitely not bad.
Mo Wuji was just about to answer when his expression suddenly changed. Of the five people who had gone down into the cabin, one was now missing. The first one to go down, Meng Zhi, had disappeared, and even his divine sense had scanned the entire ship, but he couldn't find Meng Zhi anywhere.
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