devil's son

After leaving the sea tomb, Dongsheng and the others did not return to the island immediately, but found a few good places, dived to catch seafood, and played until the afternoon before returning with a full load.Not affected by the sea tomb at all.

After returning to the island, it was time to eat and play. After nightfall, Xu Rong came to the island again.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Zheng." Xu Rong clasped his fists and bent over to say hello.

"I thought you wouldn't come again tonight, but I didn't expect you to have a thick skin." Zheng Yunyao sarcastically shook the red wine glass in his hand.Dongsheng was sitting next to him, quietly enjoying the fruit after the meal, his usual expressionless face could not detect any emotion, but his big black eyes seemed particularly deep.

After a few contacts, Xu Rong is now able to understand the strange modern accents of Dongsheng and Zheng Yunyao. After all, his face is not as thick as Zheng Yunyao's, and his face covered by the beard is almost burning, and he lowers his head slightly. Not daring to look directly at the two of them, he said in embarrassment, "What do you mean by this, sir? I don't quite understand it."

"You're still pretending to be stupid, right? Do you know that those ghost algae almost killed us today?" Zheng Yunyao said coldly, "I think you should have heard the word 'for the tiger'? We kindly help you , but you deliberately tricked us into the sea tomb, in my opinion, you are a ghost who specially harms people for ghost algae!"

Dongsheng stuffed a piece of dragon fruit into his mouth, and said coldly, "Go, I'll let you go this time, and you'd better not show yourself in front of me from now on, otherwise, don't blame me for doing justice for the sky!"

Xu Rong turned pale with fright. They have drifted on the sea for hundreds of years, and finally met someone who is willing to send them back to their homeland, just like a drowning person who has finally picked up a piece of driftwood. Can he let go?Must not!

"It's true that I was at fault in this matter, and I hope the two gentlemen calm down." Xu Rong bowed and apologized.

"Okay, you don't need to say anything, let's go." Zheng Yunyao waved his hand impatiently.

"Two gentlemen, please listen to my explanation. I didn't deliberately conceal the existence of ghost algae, but I really have a last resort." Xu Rong lowered his figure again and again, pleading.

"Why?" Dong Sheng sneered, "Since you are willing to explain, then tell me first, what exactly is hidden on your ship, and why is it still alive after hundreds of years?"

Xu Rong suddenly raised his head, Danfeng stared round, looked at Dongsheng in shock, and blurted out: "How do you know? You went to the boat?!"

"I promised to help you guys, so of course I will do what I said, but unfortunately you let me down too much." Dong Sheng said coldly.

Xu Rong was a little flustered, he didn't expect the two people in front of him to actually have the ability to pass through the terrifying ghost algae and reach the sunken ship.At first, Dongsheng promised to help them return to Middle-earth, and he was actually very happy.But Piandongsheng also said that they could send their bones back to Middle-earth for burial, which was an irresistible temptation for him and all of them.

With a single thought, greed arises everywhere.

It has not only its own obsessions in its mind, but also the strong obsessions of hundreds of soldiers on board, and it cannot restrain these obsessions at all.

It knows that Dongsheng and Zheng Yunyao are not ordinary people. It can see the golden light of merit and virtue on Zheng Yunyao's body, but it can't see the depth of Li Dongsheng at all. However, it can feel that Li Dongsheng is very powerful, and he is by no means an ordinary Taoist middle man.

Maybe, Li Dongsheng can really deal with those terrible ghost algae?

What if Li Dongsheng knew there were a lot of ghost algae and refused to go there?

Xu Rong struggled for a long time, but finally couldn't match the obsession in his heart, and chose to remain silent.

"...If I really intend to kill you, why don't you just lead me into the ghost algae?" Xu Rong really didn't want to kill Dongsheng and the others, so he just brought them to the edge of the sea tomb.Although it doesn't know Dongsheng's true ability, it believes that since Dongsheng is not an ordinary Taoist, it is absolutely not a problem to recognize ghost algae.

Xu Rong is not a member of the Taoist sect, even though he has been dead for hundreds of years, he still knows little about the methods of the Taoist sect. He thinks that although those ghost algae are ferocious, the people of the Taoist sect have no way to deal with them.

In fact, in the final analysis, Xu Rong's fluke was also born of obsession.

It didn't know that Dong Shengyi was so bold that he directly asked people to drive the yacht to the top of the sea tomb, and got into the water without saying a word, and almost didn't let the ghost algae tear the yacht alive.It also doesn't know that now that the Taoism is in decline, many inheritances have been cut off long ago, that is, Dongsheng can still retreat with Zheng Yunyao, and it was his Taoist 'master' who was buried in the bottom of the sea long ago and used as fertilizer for ghost algae.

And it never expected that Dongsheng would actually be able to break through those terrible ghost algae, go straight to the depths of the sunken ship, and find that thing on the ship.

"I said that if you really want to explain, you can explain it well. You have something on the boat." Dongsheng stuffed a piece of mango into his mouth and said.

Xu Rong let out a long sigh, feeling his mouth full of bitterness, but until now, if he kept hiding it, there would be no chance for Ye Luo to return to his roots in the future.The Zhu family dynasty has long since perished, and its beloved monarch no longer exists. It is meaningless for it to persist any longer.

That thing caused all of them to die at sea, drifting on the vast sea for hundreds of years, now, let's use it for a chance to return to their homeland.

"That's a dragon's heart, used to refine the elixir of life." Xu Rong slowly told what happened back then.

It turned out that the real purpose of Zheng He's trips to sea several times back then was neither to show off his national prestige, nor to find the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, but just like the first emperor who sent Xu Fu to sea, just to collect materials for the elixir of life.

The ancient elixir recipes produced by Taoist warlocks were considered ridiculous by people at the time, but Emperor Yongle firmly believed in them, and spared no effort to find the materials recorded in the elixir recipes.If you can't find it in the land of Middle-earth, you will go overseas to find it.

Since ancient times, there have been endless legends such as "there are fairy mountains on the sea" and "Penglai fairy island". Ming Chengzu was not the first emperor who sent people to the sea to search for immortals, nor was he the last.

The time Xu Rong participated in was also the last time that Ming Chengzu sent Zheng He to sea when he was alive.At that time, Ming Chengzu's body had been declining day by day, and he urgently needed to take the elixir to prolong his life.During the more than ten years of Ming Chengzu's reign, he has already collected most of the materials on Dan Fang, and some of the materials that have not been collected can also be replaced by other materials, except for the two main ingredients that cannot be replaced.

One of them is the dragon heart.

And before Xu Rong and the others went to sea that time, the sorcerer who convinced the emperor had already predicted that there would be a dragon in the sea.

Only a few high-ranking generals knew about these news at that time, so that they could slaughter Jiaolong and arrange troops.With Xu Rong's official position and seniority, he shouldn't have heard any news, but he has an uncle who is one of the senior generals who knows all the inside information.That clan uncle had no son, so he always treated Xu Rong as his own son, took him by his side and nurtured him carefully. He knew very well that this trip was dangerous, so he didn't want Xu Rong to go there.

But Xu Rong was young and energetic at the time, sharpened his head and wanted to make some achievements.In order to dispel his thoughts, the uncle of the clan had no choice but to tell him the truth about going to sea, so that he could understand with reason and move with emotion.But Xu Rong didn't believe in evil or ghosts at that time. He felt that the theory of flood dragons and immortality were nothing but lies of sorcerers to deceive the emperor.

With its persistence in every possible way, it finally embarked on the road to sea.

The route they took was not the same sea route as it saw in the documentary that night, but one thing in the record was right, they did encounter an unprecedented storm.As for whether the others turned back midway, it didn't know. It only knew that they gathered tens of thousands of people to successfully slaughter the weird-looking dragon, and after getting the dragon's heart, they got separated from other ships.

They lost their way in the dense fog, and because of the dragon's heart, their boats were constantly attacked by various sea fish and sea monsters. They fought back desperately. In the end, he panicked and rushed into the sea tomb, and finally became the food and nourishment of those ghost algae.

At first, the sea tomb was far smaller than it is now. It was the heart of the flood dragon, which continuously provided vitality for the ghost algae and allowed them to grow rapidly.On the other hand, the energy radiating from the Jiaolong's heart attracted a large number of sea creatures to the sea tomb, and those sea creatures eventually became food and nourishment for ghost algae, without exception.

"...We are cursed by that dragon heart. No matter where we flee, as soon as the sun breaks, we will return to the place where the shipwreck is, and return to the sea tomb. Before meeting the two gentlemen, I I don’t know how many years I have been up and down on this vast ocean, we are getting weaker and weaker, and the time of sleeping is getting longer and longer. If the husband refuses to send us back to our homeland, we may only be buried in this boundless forever It's in the sea." Xu Rong's eyes were filled with blood and tears.

"Didn't lie?"

Dong Sheng's words choked Xu Rong's tears back, and Xu Rong said sullenly: "No, if I tell a lie, the sky will be struck by lightning, and I will die!"

Zheng Yunyao snorted: "But you are dead, Dongsheng, I think it's better not to believe its nonsense."

"Then punish us to be buried in the deep sea forever, and never return to our homeland!" Xu Rong finished anxiously, and then hurriedly added: "If the two gentlemen are willing to send us back to our homeland, everything on board, including the dragon heart, will be destroyed." It belongs to the two gentlemen." After finishing speaking, Xu Rong looked at Dongsheng and Dongsheng anxiously, for fear that they would say no.

For a collection of obsessions, there is no other oath that can be more credible than it swears with obsession.

There is no record in the historical records that Emperor Yongle went out to sea to find the ingredients for the elixir of immortality, but Dongsheng had heard a few words from his grandfather.

As a member of the Taoist sect, Li Jiu has a complete Taoist inheritance, and it is not surprising that he knows some inside stories that have been deliberately forgotten by history.

It's a pity that Dongsheng has always been lacking in curiosity, Li Jiu just mentioned it casually, and said a few vague words, Dongsheng listened casually, and didn't take it to heart at all, let alone asked carefully.If Xu Rong hadn't mentioned it today, he would have forgotten about it.

However, even if the dragon is a mythical beast in legend, it has been killed by humans after all. It has been hundreds of years, why can it still maintain such a strong vitality?

Is Dragon Heart really magical enough, or is there something else in it?

Dongsheng's intuition is more inclined to the latter.

"That dragon heart is a bit interesting, for its sake, I'll help you one more time, but..."

"But what?" Xu Rong's ears almost pricked up.

Dongsheng ate a few pieces of mango slowly, and after whetting Xu Rong's appetite, he said slowly: "The ghost algae is huge and very difficult to deal with. I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to clean up and get you out in a while. skeleton."

Xu Rong was like a big dog that hadn't eaten a bone, the whole ghost was wilting.

"but……"

Xu Rong suddenly raised his head to look at Dongsheng, only to hear him say in a cold voice, "However, I can find a way to send you back to Middle Earth for a look."

Xu Rong was so excited that his voice was a little trembling: "But, is it possible? But we can only come out at night! In one night, can we really go back to Middle Earth?"

Probably because they were too excited, the ghost soldiers appeared on the beach one after another, hundreds of people all looked at Dongsheng eagerly.

"What? You don't believe me?" Dongsheng was still eating the fruit casually, without any change in tone, but Xu Rong and the ghost soldiers were shocked.

"Believe, believe, how dare we not believe, sir!"