Fish Cried, a Thousand-Zhang Tributary
The hundred-foot-tall fish, propelled by the force of its attack, burst out of the water and, upon falling back in, stirred up a hundred-foot-tall wave. This wave, controlled by a force, surged toward the Tower Ship as if Tower Ship on capsizing it.
But Yoyo maneuvered the Tower Ship, rising and falling with the waves with remarkable stability.
Seeing that one plan had failed, the giant fish devised another. It raised its enormous tail, which had just sunk into the water, high and was about to slam it down on the Tower Ship.
With Yoyo control of the water flow, the Tower Ship was propelled forward hundreds of feet in an instant. The massive tail slammed into the river with a loud crack, creating a wave hundreds of feet high that surged toward the Tower Ship.
With Yoyo light leap, Youyou landed at the stern of the Tower Ship, staring angrily at the large fish with wide eyes. A ray of light emanated from the two horns on her small head, and before the giant wave could even reach the Tower Ship, it was pulled back by a powerful force.
The giant fish turned over amidst the surging waves, surfaced, and stared at the Tower Ship and its crew with its exaggeratedly dead fish eyes.
Wu Chu and the others were just watching the show. After all, the scene only looked a little scary, but for them, this big fish was no different from a snack to go with drinks.
Young Yi ran out of the cabin, carrying Great Bow, and looked at Wu Chu. "A Chu, can I kill it? We've eaten this kind of fish before; it tastes pretty good."
Wu Chu coughed lightly and said, "Have you forgotten the agreement with the aquatic creature again? Just give it a beating to let it know how treacherous the world is, there's no need to kill it."
At this moment, Yoyo turned her head and said "Yo" to the young Yi, as if to say: Don't try to steal my monster!
Then a huge wave surged up on the river, carrying the big fish out of the water and into the air, where it flew at least several hundred feet high.
Then, water spheres several meters in size flew out from the giant waves, shooting towards the large fish in the air like machine guns. The fish, which had just fallen from the sky, was blasted by these water spheres and was unable to fall back into the Great River. No matter how much it struggled, it could only twist and turn in the air.
Only when the big fish was hit by the water ball and large tears welled up in its eyes, whimpering as if begging for mercy, did Yoyo let it go and throw it back into the water.
Wu Chu stared in disbelief, somewhat puzzled. Fish could actually shed tears?
In his understanding, fish, because they live in water, don't need tears and therefore don't have tear glands. But now...
Did fish in the Primordial World era not have developed tear glands?
Or is this fish not actually a fish, but some kind of mammal?
The large fish, once released back into the water, twisted its body and disappeared into the vast, turbid current.
At this moment, Yi and Kua Cai seemed to be seeing Yoyo for the first time, looking at it with admiration. Yi even reached out and ruffled Yoyo's little head, saying, "Although I've seen you playing in the water before, I never expected you to be so amazing. Yoyo, why don't you become my mount? I'll take you across this Primordial World in the future..."
Yoyo snorted and spat at it—a real spit of water that soaked Yi completely, as if to say: You're dreaming!
Yi wiped his face, bared his teeth and yelled, "Don't you dare run away!" He chased after Yoyo like lightning, wanting revenge, but how could he catch up Yoyo this little divine beast?
For a moment, laughter and cheers filled the air on the Tower Ship.
Wu Chu silently said to Yibao in his heart, "Yibao, recreate this scene on your phone later! This is the embarrassing history of the future sun-shooting hero, Da Yi. When they become famous and known throughout the world, show this to them, hehehe..."
"Aren't you bored?!" Yibao complained to Wu Chu, but her actions were incredibly quick. A few seconds later, she said, "Okay! It's been restored to your phone."
Wu Chu silently took out his phone, opened a short video, then turned the phone's volume to silent and watched it with a chuckle.
After enjoying it, I saved it to a folder on my phone.
This folder contains a lot of embarrassing stories about people, such as Kua's Frog-Kick Swimming Style and Dog-Paddle Swimming Style when he was learning to swim, and when he was beaten up by Old Round... However, Old Round can no longer beat Kua like before, because Kua's cultivation level has improved much faster than Old Round's.
Wu Chu thought that he could find some time later to see if Old Round could learn his <Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique>. Perhaps after Old Round learned the <Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique>, he could activate and strengthen the bloodline of his ancestor Zhu Yan, and gradually return to his ancestral roots. At that time, his cultivation would definitely grow wildly.
After this minor incident, they continued downstream. In just a few Great River, they were attacked by wild aquatic creatures no less than three times.
After sailing on the Great River for several days, Hong Yun, feeling bored, gradually began to learn how to fish. However, he didn't put bait on his hook; he just held the fishing rod and pretended to fish, looking like he was waiting for someone to bite, while chatting with Wu Chu.
A few days later, Hong Yun suddenly said to Wu Chu, "Let's sail over there. There's a thousand-foot tributary that flows into the Great River. The water there is clear and green, and the scenery is quite beautiful."
Sailing on this Great River, which is thousands of miles wide, is truly magnificent, but it can also be incredibly boring, as it's not much different from traditional seafaring.
Under Yoyo's control, in just over half a day, the Tower Ship had crossed the vast river and entered a tributary that was only a thousand feet wide.
A river a thousand feet wide still looks quite large, but compared to the main stream that stretches for thousands of miles, it appears slender and insignificant.
Sure enough, the water of this tributary was just as Hong Yun had described, clear and emerald green, with towering peaks on both banks reaching into the clouds, majestic and beautiful, and a sense of tranquility immediately washed over you.
In the dense forests on both sides of the river, one can hear the cries of monkeys and deer, and the songs of birds.
Everyone was immediately drawn to the serene scenery. In comparison, although the main Great River was magnificent, this tributary was indeed more captivating.
As they sailed into a river, towering trees with red leaves filled the dense forest on both sides. The reflection of these trees in the water made the entire river appear to turn red as well.
Upon seeing this, Wu Chu silently took out his phone and checked it, discovering that by following this tributary upstream, one could actually reach Heavenly Nether Valley, which was thousands of miles away.
The distance to Heavenly Nether Valley is even farther than the distance from Purple Jade Mountain to Qingqiu.
The place whose name appears on the map must belong to someone whose cultivation level is at least at the Golden Immortal level. It's just unknown who the master of that Heavenly Nether Valley truly is.
However, with the two Daluo Immortals, Houtu and Hong Yun, present, Wu Chu didn't mind meeting this 'neighbor' he had never met before.
And so began their voyage, which lasted for more than a decade.