Song of Adolescence

Chapter 261 Cloud Step Wind Riding

Lei Wujie glared at him as if he was crazy. “Are you crazy?”

“I’m just going to use the sword. As long as I don’t use my internal strength, it’s fine. Give me your sword,” Xiao Se responded firmly.

“You make it sound easy. That iron crystal snake is really strong. With a careless sweep, it’ll crush you to death,” Lei Wujie said anxiously.

“Do you have a better idea?” Xiao Se retorted.

Lei Wujie frowned then shook his head.

Xiao Se walked right past him and took the Heart sword from his hand. Tang Lian reached out and stopped him.

“Move aside.”

Tang Lian sighed. He took out a medicine bottle and poured out the Crimson Tears he obtained earlier onto the blade of the sword. “Don’t overexert yourself. It’s just a snake. If we try a little harder, I’m sure we can think of another way.”

The iron crystal snake swept its tail over once again.

Xiao Se took a flying leap and stepped onto the snake’s tail.

Sikong Qianluo’s frown deepened and she tightened her grip on the Silver Moon spear.

Xiao Se’s steps became incredibly fast. He exerted his Cloud Step Wind Riding skill to its extreme as he ran towards the head of the snake.

The iron crystal seemed to be able to perceive someone stepping on its body and started to thrash about frantically.

But Xiao Se\'s steps were extremely agile. He tipped his toes and jumped, landed, dodged, jumped up again and landed again. He was already standing on top of the snake\'s head.

Mu Chunfeng’s eyes were wide with awe. "Is there really such a miraculous lightness skill under Heaven?"

"Die." Xiao Se swung the long sword and stabbed it right into the two red lumps. The long sword only penetrated three feet and the iron crystal snake immediately tensed as straight as a pole. Then it started to writhe even more frantically. Xiao Se, who was standing on top of the snake’s head, swayed left and right. He wanted to exert his Cloud Step Wind Riding skill again, but in the end, he was physically exhausted and could only grab onto a piece of the snake’s scale in a death grip so that he wouldn’t be thrown off.

"Not good." Lei Wujie took a step forward.

Tang Lian was also ready to move.

Even Mu Chunfeng had a plan.

But none of them were faster than that silver spear. Sikong Qianluo wielded her silver spear and flashed over in an instant. She smacked down at the snake’s tail that was thrashing about and swept up using the recoil from that force. "Xiao Se, jump!"

Xiao Se gritted his teeth and leaped towards Sikong Qianluo.

"This scene…" Mu Chunfeng frowned slightly.

Lei Wujie scratched his head. "I keep getting a feeling that the roles of these two people are reversed."

Sikong Qianluo grabbed Xiao Se in a hug, his robe flying, presenting a rather beautiful picture. Except once they turned around, a wave of disgusting stench wafted over. The iron crystal snake had opened its mouth wide and that wide-opened maw was facing them.

"That’s so gross." Sikong Qianluo extended the Silver Moon spear and pressed it down on the iron crystal’s upper jaw, taking advantage of the momentum to retreat backwards. With her spear in one hand and Xiao Se in the other, she landed steadily beside the others.

"Shijie, steady!" Lei Wujie exclaimed.

Sikong Qianluo braced her spear on the ground. The brief spat of action lasted only a moment, but it was extremely thrilling. She was panting heavily, her entire body dripping with sweat.

Because of the dripping sweat, her clothes clung to her skin.

Because of her heavy gasping, her slightly plump breasts were heaving.

Tang Lian hurriedly turned aside. Lei Wujie blushed slightly in his face and didn’t dare to take a second look. Mu Chunfeng had yet to fully comprehend Sikong Qianluo’s true power and couldn’t help but stare a little longer. But in the end, he was still a gentleman and averted his gaze.

But Sikong Qianluo was still holding a person in her arms.

Xiao Se.

In the past, Xiao Se was able to rebuke high-ranking nobles in the imperial court, and later, he could defeat grandmasters in the martial world. Just now, when everyone else had run out of ideas, he cut down the iron crystal snake with a single sword. But, at this moment, he suddenly seemed to be completely at a loss. His arm seemed to have brushed against something.

Something a bit soft.

Well, he naturally knew what it was.

Sikong Qianluo finally caught her breath and asked him, "You okay?"

Xiao Se nodded. "Okay."

Sikong Qianluo let out a long sigh of relief, and was finally at ease.

Because she was finally at ease, she recovered her usual mood and then, she realised. She realised that Xiao Se\'s arm was touching a place that shouldn\'t be touched.

"If you’re okay, then what are you doing! Get lost!" Sikong Qianluo flung Xiao Se to the ground.

"I\'m going to see if that snake is dead." The iron crystal snake was still twitching on the ground when Sikong Qianluo retreated. But now, it seemed to be completely still. Tang Lian leaped a few times towards it.

"I\'ll go grab my sword." Lei Wujie also walked forward.

Mu Chunfeng sighed. "If I’d known this would happen, I shouldn\'t have brought them here." He was referring to the two black-robed snake chiefs. Then, he shot a message signal towards the sky to notify Tian Mozhi to send people over.

Tang Lian lightly touched the scales on the iron crystal snake’s body and exclaimed, "How could a snake\'s scales be so strong? Just how long has this snake lived?"

Lei Wujie drew out his sword and saw the corpse of the black-robed snake chief under the giant snake. He sighed. "They really shouldn\'t have come. This snake has exceeded their knowledge of snakes."

"They were from Xi’nan Town and had been raising snakes for a living since they were young. On this trip, they were not only helping me to catch the snakes but the more important goal was to see this legendary iron crystal. They just didn’t know that they would have to leave their souls here." Mu Chunfeng shook his head.

Tian Mozhi quickly arrived with more men. The miasma on Crystal Island was too dense so they got a few people to transport the bodies of the two snake chiefs over to Golden Snake Island and they found a piece of high ground to bury them. The remaining people brought their tools and started to scrape off the scales from the iron crystal snake, piece by piece so that they could extract the snake’s gall.

The others and Mu Chunfeng returned to the Golden Cross. Tian Mozhi had already prepared a small boat with food and water for about seven days.

Mu Chunfeng sighed. "Are you really going to the boundary of the sea? They say that nobody comes back from there."

"Somebody did. My shifu returned from there before." Tang Lian looked into the distance and added slowly, "And he may be there right now."

"Once you get there, you’ll have no nautical chart. How are you going to navigate?" Mu Chunfeng asked.

Lei Wujie was taken aback for a moment. "We just keep going east, right? Do we still need to navigate?"

"You just need a gentle breeze and you won’t even know if your boat got turned around. You keep going east but where is east? Maybe you’ll sail an entire day but have gone a hundred miles the opposite way." Mu Chunfeng shook his head.

"Then how do you navigate?" Lei Wujie was puzzled.

"We have a compass on the boat, and people have been to Three Snake Islands, so there’s a nautical chart. Naturally we had no problems during this journey. But where you’re going…" Mu Chunfeng frowned slightly.

Xiao Se spoke softly, "I once learned a little astronomy. I can navigate."

Mu Chunfeng nodded. "Well, if you know astronomy, then of course, there will be no problem. In fact, in case anything happened on the Golden Cross, I also hired an astronomer."

"Your little skill at astronomy is going to be quite useless."

A gentle voice came from behind and everyone turned their heads, immediately stunned.