CHAPTER 661: CHAPTER 118: A WARM EMBRACE

Just when everyone thought Yue Jinghua would fall into the sea helplessly.

A cyan light appeared next to her.

Within the cyan light, the figure of a man appeared.

He was a stranger, none of the people beside Yue Jinghua had ever seen him before.

The chilly sea breeze lifted his ankle-length hair, and the cyan robe adorned with mysterious and ancient magic patterns was extraordinarily splendid.

The onlookers couldn’t see the man’s exact features from afar, but even from a great distance, they could feel the mysterious and astonishingly powerful Dark Power emanating from the man in cyan.

Who is he?

The same question crossed everyone’s mind.

Only Qian Luo keenly sensed a certain aura.

From the suddenly appearing man, she detected a Summoner’s power similar to Yue Jinghua’s, yet far stronger than their master’s.

The man stood in mid-air, reached out with his long arm, and embraced Yue Jinghua in his arms.

This was the first time Yue Jinghua felt the warmth of Qing Pu.

The tangible, real warmth; his arms, broad and warm.

His soft hair brushed past her chin, tickling her, and a dry, pleasant fragrance wafted over.

Feeling the warmth, Yue Jinghua turned her head, she lifted her face, but due to the height difference, she could only see the beautifully contoured chin of Qing Pu.

She strained to look up, trying to see Qing Pu’s expression at this moment, but she could only see his high nose bridge, his faint lips, and at the corner of his eye, that teardrop-shaped mole glistening like blue glass in the sunlight.

"What would you do if I were gone?" With a touch of sentiment, and a bit of complaint, Qing Pu’s words, mixed with his moist breath, hit Yue Jinghua’s face.

As if possessed, Yue Jinghua shivered, her originally stiff body, at this moment, became as soft as a puddle of water.

At the same time, she also realized a major issue.

"Qing Pu, your body? Aren’t you..." Before Yue Jinghua could finish, Qing Pu lowered his head.

Golden eyes reflected Yue Jinghua’s astonished face.

The person beneath him, her delicate face slightly reddened by the sea wind, and her dark eyes misty due to the sea breeze.

In his heart, something softened slightly, an indescribable numbing sensation flowing through.

His hand suddenly loosened, and without a word, he disappeared.

Yue Jinghua only felt a lightness beside her, too late to use her Dark Power, splash of water flew, salty seawater poured into her nostrils and mouth, and her body fell into the vast sea.

"Damn it, no gentleman’s manners at all, letting go without a word," Yue Jinghua inadvertently swallowed a few mouthfuls of seawater.

Shortly after, the people who arrived called forth the Lake King Dragon, lifting Yue Jinghua out of the water.

When they saw Yue Jinghua was safe and sound, Shalman, with swollen eyes, looked around suspiciously, "Huh, I thought I saw a man just now, where did he go?"

If it weren’t for that man, Yue Jinghua would most likely have suffered at least a concussion.

But where did that man disappear to?

"What man, your eyes must be playing tricks," Yue Jinghua wiped her face, cursing Qing Pu internally, then glanced at her wrist. The wound had already healed.

If it weren’t for the faint grassy scent unique to Qing Pu still lingering on her body, she might have thought that everything just now was an illusion.

What’s with Qing Pu’s body?

After calming her unsettled emotions, Yue Jinghua surveyed her surroundings.

The sky was clear and boundless, the sea breeze was piercingly cold, and the loud crashing of the waves filled her ears – between heaven and earth, there were no waves.

Long Rui’s Lake King Dragon floated in the sea.

"Qian Luo, where have we teleported to?" Falling into the sea was definitely better than landing in a crocodile’s mouth or next to a cliff.

Apart from the sea, there were no points of reference around.

Yue Jinghua looked around, but couldn’t spot any significant landmarks.

Over her head, several seagulls with white feathers and red claws hovered, the only clue that they were near some body of water.

"I can’t be certain either. It’s my first time using the Dragon Riding Array, so I couldn’t set a specific destination. As for the teleportation distance, it also depends on the strength of the Dark Power contained within your blood," Qian Luo, having already revealed his true form in front of everyone, no longer hid himself and ascended into the air, flapping his bat-like wings while circling around.

Yue Jinghua checked her body; aside from a slight dizziness due to excessive blood loss, everything else was normal.

"This is... this is Fandi Port," after some observation, Shalman finally confirmed it.

Just moments ago, a seagull with white feathers and a rainbow beak flew over her head, which she recognized upon closer inspection.

"I recognize this kind of seagull, it’s a Rainbow-Beaked Gull, a tropical seabird that only appears in the Southern Fandi Sea," within the territories of the Dragon War Empire, there are many mountains but few seas, the only sea area being the Southern Fandi Sea that connects east to Fandi Port and west to the Xuan Beast Ridge.

This water area, vast and boundless, could not be a lake. Given the abundance of Rainbow-Beaked Gulls, it must indeed be Fandi Port.

"We’ve teleported to Fandi Port? Qian Luo, well done, this teleportation is powerful enough, covering thousands of miles from Dawo Village to Fandi Port. If Long Jiuzun knew we arrived here before them, he might vomit blood in frustration," Yue Jinghua was naturally cheerful, and seeing Fandi Port cleared away her dissatisfaction with Qing Pu earlier.

The expressions of the others were also strange, not because they doubted whether they were really in Fandi Port, but because they were surprised by Ji Yun and others, and even more confused about the power of the Dragon Riding Array and Yue Jinghua’s own cultivation level.

Earlier, Qian Luo had mentioned that the higher one’s cultivation, the better the performance of the Dragon Riding Array.

Just a few drops of blood had transported them from Dawo Village to Fandi Port; what level had Yue Jinghua’s cultivation reached?

Now, not only Ji Yun and Qing Zizhu, but even Long Rui had to look at Yue Jinghua with new eyes.

Fortune came from misfortune as they were teleported directly from Dawo Village to Fandi Port, becoming the first from the Northern War Army to reach the destination.

Amid their surprise, the group quickly realized a problem.

They had thought that they were just outside Fandi Port in the open sea, and after traveling a bit on the Lake King Dragon, they would soon see land.

However, even after Long Rui guided the Lake King Dragon for a while, water stretched endlessly before and behind them.

In the nearby waters, there was no port or ships in sight.

"Didn’t the Jian Rider say when we set off that Fandi Port is south of the Empire and also the busiest port in the entire Empire? How is it possible that we haven’t seen a single fishing boat after half a day?" Long Rui wondered.

Moreover, it was currently summer, a time when fishing and merchant vessels should be busiest.

Seeing this, Ji Yun rode his Flying Dragon into the sky and after flying about for a while, he finally made a discovery: "To the northwest, there is a fishing boat."