Heading to the East Blue

After Ye Feng and Avril arrived, they discovered that the shipbuilding company's manager had already been waiting for them.

When the manager saw Ye Feng arrive, he immediately walked over and said, "As you instructed, I've already put your ship in the water."

Ye Feng nodded and replied, "Got it!"

After a brief pause, the manager looked at Ye Feng and said, "Sir, I know the ship you asked me to build is a manually powered vessel. It needs manpower to move across the sea, and it also needs someone to steer it. If I'm not mistaken, you're only five or six years old, right? What are you going to use to pull the ship?"

Ye Feng smiled and said to the manager, "Just watch."

He turned and walked straight toward the sea. Upon reaching the shore, he crouched down, bit his finger, and dipped his hand into the water. Two or three minutes passed.

The sea remained calm, so the shipbuilding manager beside him said, "Sir, would you like me to find someone to haul the ship out for you?"

Ye Feng said nothing. At that moment, a Sea King in the water caught the scent of blood on the surface, and a pair of enormous eyes emerged from the sea.

The manager immediately ran behind a rock to hide. There was no need to guess what that creature was—it was a Sea King.

Ye Feng watched as the Sea King that had surfaced from the water opened its bloodthirsty jaws and lunged at him. His aura abruptly changed, and he glared at the Sea King with incomparably sharp eyes.

The Sea King froze in place, glaring back at Ye Feng. Just as it was about to cower back into the sea under Ye Feng's overwhelming aura—

Ye Feng smiled at the Sea King and said, "Since you're here, don't even think about leaving. Come help me with something."

Then Ye Feng called to the shipbuilding manager hiding behind the rock, "We still have a pile of luggage at the inn beside your company. Please bring it aboard the ship for us."

Half an hour later, everything had been moved onto the ship. Avril was currently arranging her new room aboard the vessel, while Ye Feng stood atop the Sea King's head as if he were riding a dog pulling a sled.

After opening the sea chart he had bought and confirming that this was the East Blue, he stomped on the Sea King beneath his feet and pointed in a direction. "Hey, time to work. Swim in the direction I'm pointing, and hurry up."

That Sea King had originally been the ruler of these waters, yet now it was being used to pull a ship. It was simply too humiliating. No, not humiliating for a person—for a fish.

Seeing how slowly it was swimming, Ye Feng took out his sword and rubbed it against his finger. "I heard sashimi has been especially delicious lately. Should I give it a try?" Then he shouted toward the ship, "Little sister, how about grilled whole fish and sashimi for dinner tonight?"

Avril shouted back from the ship, "Sure, Brother! I've wanted sashimi for ages. I even bought chili sauce!"

When the ruler-class Sea King heard that Ye Feng and Avril intended to turn it into sashimi and grilled whole fish, it immediately shot forward like a rocket, desperately swimming in the direction Ye Feng had pointed.

A day later, they finally saw the legendary Reverse Mountain—the "Red Line." Beyond it lay the East Blue. Ye Feng lay in a deck chair aboard the ship and said to the exhausted Sea King, "Alright, you're done here. You can go play now. See you next time, bye-bye."

Sure enough, when the ruler-class Sea King heard that the ship's owner was finally going to release it, it scrunched up its enormous fish head and violently sprayed out a huge stream of water, venting all the resentment it had built up over the past few days.

Ye Feng smiled at the Sea King, which had just been half-dead but was now lively again. "What, you don't want to leave? Then pull the ship a little longer."

Another day passed, and they finally reached their destination. Ye Feng turned toward the iron chains tied around the Sea King and swung his sword twice. The two chains were instantly severed by the sharp sword technique.

He said to the Sea King, "Bye-bye. I hope we meet again next time."

The Sea King immediately swam forward like mad, not caring where it was going. It had only one thought in its mind: get away from this demon as quickly as possible.

Ye Feng walked into Avril's room. As soon as he pushed open the door, he found that his little sister was indeed still curled up beneath the covers, sound asleep. He opened the cabin window, then used both hands to yank away the small blanket covering Avril. A gust of cold wind swept in, and Avril flailed her hands around as though searching for her blanket.

After closing the window, Ye Feng sat down beside the bed and said to Avril, "We're here. Stop sleeping already. Keep sleeping and you'll turn into a little sow."

Still wearing her pajamas and looking half-asleep, Avril stared at her brother, who had barged into her room and yanked away the blanket that had been covering her.

All traces of sleepiness vanished. She glared angrily at Ye Feng and said, "Brother, why did you come into my room? Don't you know that men and women shouldn't touch?"

Ye Feng glanced at Avril's still undeveloped body and replied flatly, "What is there for me to look at on that flat little body of yours?"