Chapter 417: Tusk Island (1/2)
Chapter 417: Tusk Island
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The island ahead was about 3000 to 4000 miles away. Given that all those on the Void Traveller were experts with amazingly sharp vision, they could see the island in that distance clearly.
”We'd better be careful. That island is giving off a compelling Fierce Qi, maybe some Grand Demon or Evil are hiding there. If it discovers us by accident and reckons that we are invading its territory, there will be another hard fight!” A monk of the Bigwheel Temple said in an anxious tone, as he stared at the distant island that was floating on the sea, shaped like a tusk of a Primordial Fierce Beast.
”It's better than landing in the sea. When we're on shore, even if on an island, the methods we can use are much more plentiful than those we have when in the sea. Restraints upon us are much less, too. We have so many men and Pure Yang Celestial Devices, so how could we fear them!” Yu Nantian had been fighting back his fury for a long time, now he coldly contradicted the monk of the Bigwheel Temple with a tone full of rudeness. That monk had never be treated like that, but he knew it was not a good time to unleash his anger, so his face was of not a good color.
Having caught all this in his eyes, Zhou Bao found it funny and his mind gave a small jolt. ”Nice, staying on an island is always better than in the air and in the sea. Let's first get on the island and take a look!”
Hearing Zhou Bao echoing his view, Yu Nantian nodded. Then, without asking anyone else for more opinions, he directly propelled the Void Traveller to fly towards that island in the sea.
This island was not large. It seemed to be more of a chain of volcanoes that stretched from the seabed to the sea surface than an island. Peaks of those volcanoes were like sharp tusks of Fierce Beasts, piercing right through the clouds while spraying dense grey smoke. The parts of those volcanoes revealing above the sea level were not big at all, but Zhou Bao knew that the rest that was hiding in the seawater shall at least be as sizable as the Misty Mountain of Jin or the Borderline Mountain. Perhaps it was even more vast and had more branches of mountain ranges.
It would also certainly have loads of marine Demonic Fire dwelling on the branches of those gigantic volcanoes in the sea.
The speed of the Void Traveller was several times slower than before. In the past, it would merely take a few seconds for it to travel thousands of miles. However, it flew for a whole hour before approaching that island.
”Something might be wrong!”
When they got increasingly close to that island, rich smells of sulfur ran into their nostrils and made them felt sick. However, in addition to those pungent smells of sulfur, wafts of extremely ferocious spirit brought even more fear to these experts on the Traveller.
Void Traveller continued to decelerate and finally came to a halt. Yu Nantian's expression was also undecided. How could he not have sensed the dangerous spirit exuding from the island? No, he definitely could have. However, at this moment, he was all in for it. If he refused to take a rest and readjust the Void Traveller, it could never carry them flying across the vast Sea Area. Even if it scraped to achieve so, at such a slow speed, how many years would they have to fly?
The Void Traveller needed a secluded place to replenish the pneuma, and so did he. After all, flying like this with no shield or protection was truly too risky.
If they descended downright on the sea, that would amount to courting their own death.
It seemed that within a radius of thousands of miles from this area, only this island could serve a place for him to take a break. Thus, even if he saw huge evil beasts on the island, he would have to hurtle to it without hesitation, let alone face the ferocious atmosphere being emanated.
Thinking of this, he made up his mind. Patting on the gunwale of the Traveller, it started to function again, carrying them flying towards the unknown island.
The 16 men on the spaceboat all tensed up. They unbiddenly clenched their fists and gripped their weapons, ready for an upcoming combat.
As the spaceboat approached the island, grey smoke in the environment started getting denser. All the smoke was erupted out from that crater, which enveloped the entire island. Considering the smoke was thin, it was possible to catch a clear sight of the island from afar. However, when they draw nearer, they found out that the smoke was not easy to penetrate through. Soon after the Void Traveller approached the island, its surrounding golden light attracted lots of grey smoke, which firmly wrapped the golden light as if it had intelligence. No matter how hard Yu Nantian tried, he just could not get rid of it.
”The smoke is not formed by nature!”
Great Dark Lord Du said so with a cold face as if he sensed something fishy.
It looked like that the grey smoke shrouding the whole island was ejected from the peak of those tusk-shaped volcanoes. However, in actual fact, the grey smoke went under the control of a mysterious force after being shot out, which continuously hung above the island to form the first shield of this island.
If the Void Traveller had been in its full bloom, it would have removed the smoke effortlessly. However, unfortunately, the Void Traveller's pneuma was significantly undermined, so it had already done a good job when it managed to protect the body of this space boat from being tainted by the grey smoke. Yet, it was indeed impossible for the Void Traveller to shake off the smoke.
Gradually, the entire Void Traveller was wrapped in smoke. If they let this be, they will not have a clear view of the road ahead.
At this moment, a monk from the Snow Mountain Great Wheel Temple stood up and walked to the gunwale. He raised his hands slightly and a jet of cyan light flashed out, flying at high speed. This light was pretty thin at first, but when it went outside the Void Traveller, it was swiftly enlarged, conjuring a small-scale whirlwind. Once this whirlwind appeared, it swept through the surrounding airflows and expanded itself. Finally, it grew into a tornado that enclosed the entire Void Traveller.
At the center of the tornado, the Void Traveller was still running stably. This tornado did not even impose any effect on it. However, shortly after that, all the grew smoke attached to the golden light of the Void Traveller was dispersed by the wind and vanished.