The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

As the wooden boat under him kept getting closer to the center of the battle, Zeng Wenyu also vaguely saw a huge monster leaping out of the water and attacking someone flying in the sky. That person was of a strong build, and Zeng Wenyu was sure that it must be Long Tan.

The huge creature didn't seem to be able to fly. After jumping out of the water and attacking Longtan once, it re-entered the water. At the same time, Zeng Wenyu felt the wooden boat suddenly rise high, and then tilt forward. He felt a sense of falling. If he hadn't held the edge of the boat tightly with one hand and Xiao Meng on his shoulder with the other hand, they would both be thrown out of the boat.

While Longtan was dodging the attacks of those huge monsters in the air, he threw spells from his hands to fight back, which made those monsters even more angry. They jumped out of the water more and more frequently, and in increasing numbers. Thanks to this, Zeng Wenyu's wooden boat was pushed farther and farther away by the waves raised by those huge monsters when they entered the water, gradually moving away from the center of the battle.

Zeng Wenyu, who had been swaying in the waves for half an hour, finally relaxed. Now he was far away from the center of the battle, and the water surface was almost calm. The weak ripples were not enough to make the boat sway, but continued to push him to the side.

"Huh... Fortunately nothing happened," Zeng Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief. There were only ordinary fish and shrimps under the water here. All the huge creatures had been attracted away by Longtan over there. He looked at Xiao Meng beside him, "Xiao Meng, do you know what those monsters are? What's the situation in this lake?"

"I don't know. The clan leader uncle just said that this place is very dangerous. Those were all summoned by the Demon Emperor from a certain space in the past. They are different from the water monsters here."

"Senior Huanxin doesn't know either? But the outlines of those huge creatures look familiar to me. I wonder if they are..."

Zeng Wenyu didn't finish his words, Xiao Meng stretched out a paw to cover Zeng Wenyu's mouth, and pointed to the front with the other paw: "Brother, don't talk, there is something over there!"

Even though he was far away from the battlefield, the fog around him was only a little thinner than before. Zeng Wenyu could only see several huge black shadows suddenly appearing in front of him, and those shadows were coming towards him.

Sitting quietly in the wooden boat, Zeng Wenyu watched the dark shadows in front of him getting closer and closer to him. Those dark shadows looked like huge ships, slowly coming towards his wooden boat.

Originally, Zeng Wenyu thought that these huge ships were Hua Zong's ships, but they lost their way in the fog. However, after getting a little closer, Zeng Wenyu felt an eerie atmosphere emanating from those ships, and there was no sound coming from those ships, the silence was so frightening.

A cold breath spread along the large ships, and Zeng Wenyu suddenly felt cold all over. This was not a physical cold, but a cold that came from the soul. Zeng Wenyu even felt as if his soul was frozen, and his whole body was shaking involuntarily.

In the thick fog, Zeng Wenyu seemed to see a large number of dead people. There was not a single intact part of their bodies, and broken limbs were everywhere. As the boat moved, rotten flesh on their bodies kept falling off, and a large amount of blood flowed down their bodies onto the boat, and then from the boat into the water.

There were a lot of fish and shrimps following the boats. They chased the boats, swallowed their blood, and fought for the rotten flesh and blood.

The big ship was getting closer and closer. Zeng Wenyu's body was no longer shaking. He felt like his soul was being torn out of his body. He seemed to be able to see his body, and his body was right in front of him, sitting on the wooden boat, passing between the big ships on both sides. On his shoulder, Xiao Meng was looking at him anxiously, as if saying something, but he could not hear it at all.

In a daze, he felt as if he was walking onto a ship. The ghosts on the ship were all looking at him, but there was no malice in their eyes. They just stared at him as if they wanted to see through him.

In a trance, those ghosts seemed to say something to Zeng Wenyu, but Zeng Wenyu couldn't understand it at all. He just felt that there were many people talking in his ears, but the voices were loud and small, noisy, and he couldn't understand a thing.

Those ghosts didn't care whether Zeng Wenyu understood what they said or not. They just kept speaking in Zeng Wenyu's ears in words he couldn't understand until the wooden boat completely passed through the middle of the big ships. A man who looked like the leader walked out from among them and reached out to push him.

"Huh...ha...huh...ha..."

Gasping for breath and raising his hands with force, Zeng Wenyu felt his body. This time, the noisy sounds in his ears completely disappeared. Zeng Wenyu was covered in cold sweat. He turned his head and looked back. The big ships were covered by thick fog again, turning into a huge black shadow, gradually disappearing into the distance.

"Brother, brother, how are you?" Xiao Meng's voice rang in Zeng Wenyu's ears. "Just now, no matter how Xiao Meng called you, you didn't respond. Brother, what happened to you just now?"

"No...it's okay, I just seemed to have been to those boats," Zeng Wenyu was still breathing heavily, "By the way, Xiao Meng, did you feel anything wrong just now?"

"No... But brother, you said you were pulled onto those boats just now? That was too dangerous, brother, you almost couldn't come back!"

"The ships..."

"That's a ghost ship, a unique thing on this lake. It's said that the Demon Emperor summoned it from the underworld. Over the years, the souls of humans who strayed here were taken away by those ships. Brother, you're so lucky to be back!"

"Is it a ghost ship summoned from the underworld?" Zeng Wenyu recalled the feeling just now. It was really like the feeling that his soul was taken away, but he didn't know why those souls let him go. The leading soul even pushed him back into his own body.

"Yes, brother. The Demon Emperor has banned the ghost ships. They won't target the demons here, but they will never show mercy to the humans who strayed here. A few years ago, when I passed by here with the clan leader uncle, I saw a group of humans who strayed here met a ghost ship. When the ghost ship left, they were like zombies and eventually fell into the lake and became food for the guys in the lake. The team leader uncle said that their souls were taken away by the ghost ship."

"Have their souls been taken away... But I don't seem to see any souls that were forcibly left on the ghost ship. Could it be that... their souls have been assimilated by the ghosts on the ghost ship?"