Lu Ming was delighted as soon as he released his divine sense.
He had already detected the auras of Huang Tianbao and the others.
With a flash of his body, Lu Ming appeared not far from them.
He then saw Huang Tianbao carrying Big Yellow on his shoulders, searching for him.
“Eldest Senior Brother... Where are you?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, are you dead yet?”
Hearing this, a dark line appeared across Lu Ming’s forehead. If he was dead, could he even answer him?
At the same time, he couldn't help but grumble to himself:
He's my own, he's my own. This is my actual junior brother.
Lu Ming looked closer at Big Yellow on Huang Tianbao's shoulder. The dog was covered in wounds, its aura extremely weak.
Its tongue lolled out of its mouth, swinging back and forth with every bounce of Huang Tianbao's steps.
Meanwhile, Huang Tianbao was completely unharmed.
Seeing Big Yellow's miserable state made Lu Ming's teeth ache with sympathy. For a moment, he didn't even know what to say.
“Eldest...”
Just then, Huang Tianbao spotted Lu Ming as well.
“Eldest Senior Brother, are you okay?”
The worry on Huang Tianbao's face instantly turned to joy upon seeing Lu Ming.
Lu Ming lowered his half-raised hand.
“Your Second Senior Brother is injured this badly, could you maybe treat him first?”
Lu Ming pointed at the weakly breathing Big Yellow.
“Ah! I forgot...”
Huang Tianbao gasped. He hurriedly pulled a recovery pill from his storage bag, pried the dog's mouth open, and stuffed it inside.
Once the recovery pill was swallowed, Big Yellow's wounds began to heal at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Watching Huang Tianbao stuff a recovery pill into Big Yellow's mouth while still carrying it on his shoulder...
Lu Ming couldn't help but feel a pang of bleakness. If he ever got injured in the future, would he be treated like this too?
Shaking his head helplessly, he took out another spirit boat.
Though this spirit boat wasn't as grand and imposing as the previous one, it was still decent.
Seeing the spirit boat Lu Ming brought out, Huang Tianbao scratched his head and muttered sheepishly:
“How did I forget that I could have just taken out a spirit boat...”
With that, Huang Tianbao leaped onto the spirit boat.
Thud...
With a toss of his hand, he dumped Big Yellow straight onto the deck.
“Ugh...”
Big Yellow, who had only just regained consciousness, didn't even have time to register what was happening before its head slammed into the deck, knocking it out cold once again.
Lu Ming's mouth twitched at the sight. Poor Big Yellow.
Huang Tianbao watched as a fist-sized bump swelled up on Big Yellow's head.
“Waaah... I didn't do it on purpose.”
“Eldest Senior Brother, you have to keep this a secret for me. I'm afraid Second Senior Brother will beat me up when he wakes up...”
Huang Tianbao looked at Lu Ming with a pitiful, pleading expression.
Before Lu Ming could say anything—
“Oof... Woof...”
Right at that moment, Big Yellow woke up again.
Seeing Big Yellow stir, Huang Tianbao immediately asked with a look of deep concern:
“Second Senior Brother, are you alright?”
Big Yellow shook its head. “Everything else is fine, but my head really hurts.”
As it spoke, it couldn't help but rub its head with its paw.
“Holy crap... Why is there such a huge bump?”
“Yeah, how did you get such a huge bump?”
Huang Tianbao muttered along, looking utterly heartbroken.
He acted as if this had absolutely nothing to do with him.
Seeing Huang Tianbao's performance, Lu Ming found it rather amusing.
He shook his head and said to Big Yellow:
“Alright, it's far from your heart, you won't die...”
Big Yellow grumbled:
“It's a good thing my skull is sturdy, otherwise I would have been knocked into a complete idiot.”
Huang Tianbao also breathed a sigh of relief.
“What happened to you guys after the spirit boat shattered?”
Hearing Lu Ming's question, Big Yellow felt a lingering fear as it recalled the storm. That tempest had been far too violent.
It then explained:
“After the spirit boat broke, I immediately activated my spiritual shield and protection magical artifacts... In the end, my spiritual energy ran dry, and I passed out...”
As for what happened after that, it had no idea.
Lu Ming nodded. The reason he had been able to hold out was because his spiritual energy reserve was exceptionally vast.
Up until now, he had never once encountered a situation where his spiritual energy ran completely dry.
Then, he curiously asked Huang Tianbao, “What about you?”
He couldn't understand why this fellow looked perfectly fine.
Huang Tianbao blinked.
“After the spirit boat's shield shattered, I held up my spiritual shield. Just as I was swept away, I ran into a massive sea turtle. It slammed into me and knocked me right out of the storm's radius! After that, I started looking for you guys...”
“Eldest Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, you have no idea! That turtle was absolutely humongous...”
Hearing Huang Tianbao's words, Lu Ming and Big Yellow both gaped in disbelief.
How could this guy's luck be so absurdly good?
Both of them had nearly died in the storm.
Yet this fellow was completely unscathed.
Huang Tianbao, who was still in the middle of describing the scene, noticed that no one was responding to him.
He looked up and saw Lu Ming and Big Yellow standing there with their mouths wide open.
“What are you guys doing with your mouths open? Catching flies?”
Thud! Thud! Thud!
“Ow! Ouch! Ow...”
Without a second word, Lu Ming and Big Yellow pounced on Huang Tianbao and gave him a thorough beating.
Why did they all go through the same storm, yet he got to walk away completely fine?
“Senior Brothers, why are you beating me up?”
With a bruised and swollen face, Huang Tianbao looked at them with an expression of deep resentment.
Lu Ming straightened his clothes.
“If I don't beat you, my mind won't be at peace...”
Big Yellow stuffed another recovery pill into its own mouth.
“Exactly. My mind wouldn't be at peace...”
Huang Tianbao blinked as he looked at his two senior brothers. What kind of reason was that?
He had never heard of such a thing!
Afterward, Lu Ming and the others searched the vicinity for several days for Wang Defa and the rest, but found nothing.
He took out their soul tablets and checked; none of them were dead...
Since they were still alive, Lu Ming gave up on searching for them.
It would be fine as long as they all met up in the Central Province.
Lu Ming took out his positioning compass, found the correct heading, and resumed their journey.
During their travels, Lu Ming first forged a batch of protection magical artifacts.
Afterward, he drew several protective talismans.
As for when he had learned how to draw talismans, even Lu Ming didn't know.
It was just that on one particular day, he suddenly felt a sudden urge to draw talismans, and then he just knew how...
Lu Ming was no longer surprised by his occasional sudden epiphanies.
After all, as a protagonist, wasn't it perfectly normal to suddenly awaken a few skills?
On this day, Lu Ming was in his room drawing talismans.
Suddenly, he felt several waves of powerful pressure locking onto their spirit boat.
By the time he stepped out of his room, he discovered that they had somehow ended up on the seabed.
Exactly how Huang Tianbao had managed to steer the spirit boat to the bottom of the sea wasn't the most important detail.
The important thing was that they were currently surrounded by three Unity-stage demon beasts leading over a dozen Soul Transformation-stage demon beasts.
The three Unity-stage demon beasts were dozens of feet long, their bodies entirely covered in fine, dark-green scales that gleamed with a cold, ghostly light underwater.
On their hideous, massive heads, their narrow, dark-gold eyes stared with a freezing, savage gaze.
Before Lu Ming could even speak upon seeing the demon beasts' appearance—
Huang Tianbao came running over, holding the Sea Beast Compendium...
“Eldest Senior Brother... Second Senior Brother... Look! They are Ink Flood Dragons! Look at the head, look at the body, they're exactly like the ones in the book. And it's one male and two females...”
He pointed at the three leading Ink Flood Dragons as he spoke.
“Let me see. Well, what do you know? They really are...”
Big Yellow craned its neck to look at the book, then looked back up at the leading Ink Flood Dragons.
Upon hearing this, the three leading Ink Flood Dragons instantly surged with fury, their powerful auras roiling.
Dammit, you didn't even recognize us, yet you dared to provoke us?
The male Ink Flood Dragon in the middle was especially beside himself with rage.
However, taking a deep breath, he managed to hold back.
No, he couldn't attack. He had finally managed to cure his infertility.
He had managed to have three eggs with his two wives, and those eggs were still in their hands.
He had to endure...
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