Du Yu slowly lay down on Baxia's shell. Beside him, Shiranui Asuka was still spewing vomit like a little fountain.
"A-Xiang... how long are you going to keep throwing up...?" Du Yu asked slowly.
"Senior Du Yu, I'm fine. Don't worry about me-bleurgh!!!" Shiranui Asuka wiped her mouth while Shiranui Jinkuro kept patting her back, his face full of heartache.
"Hey, A-Xiang's brother..." Du Yu said. "Has A-Xiang always gotten this seasick?"
"Yes. Little Asuka has been unable to board a boat since childhood. Whenever she does, she vomits terribly." As Shiranui Jinkuro answered Du Yu, he quietly asked Shiranui Asuka, "Feeling any better?"
Du Yu lowered his head and patted Baxia's shell. "Big sea turtle, can you fly?"
"Fly?" Baxia thought for a moment. "I cannot fly..."
"Well..." Du Yu asked with some concern, "How much longer until we meet the Dragon Ancestor?"
"About three or four days."
"Three or four days? That won't do." Du Yu looked back at Shiranui Asuka. "A-Xiang's body can't take that. Your service is terrible. You can't even deal with seasickness. I ought to dock your pay..."
"You cannot do that!" Baxia cried anxiously, then asked, "This... 'seasickness'... what is it?"
"Seasickness means you feel like throwing up when you're floating out at sea," Du Yu said. "Can't you find some way to fix it?"
At that, Baxia hurriedly nodded. "If you do not wish to float on the sea, I do have a way."
"What way?"
Baxia did not answer. Instead, the great turtle secretly exerted strength, though no one knew what for.
"Look!" Xiao Nian noticed the change in the water and pointed beneath the surface with a startled cry.
Everyone looked. Baxia's four legs, submerged in the water, were slowly lengthening. Soon, they reached the seabed like four long, slender