Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend

Chapter 785: Chapter 652: Little Zhiyo’s Warning

The gazes from the people of the Mu Family gave Ye Lingyue great satisfaction.

With the effect of the Dust Avoidance Array in place, Ye Lingyue didn’t even need to worry about the sandy dust storm-like particles blinding her on the river’s surface.

”Good job, Feng Xun, you even understand this kind of array? I want to learn too; can you teach me?” Ye Lingyue was exuberantly joyful and couldn’t help but hug Feng Xun, pretending to be angry.

Feng Xun’s mouth curled up, pinching Ye Lingyue’s nose.

”You’d actually have to be able to learn it for it to matter. You even find the account books in the account room bothersome, let alone the complex reasoning and calculations of arrays, which are even more complicated than learning martial arts. An ordinary person, even after studying for decades, would only grasp the superficial aspects.”

”So, you’re implying I’m all brawn and no brains. You must be unwilling to teach me—you’re not that old, yet you’ve already mastered arrays.” Ye Lingyue was discontented, mumbling a complaint.

However, Feng Xun didn’t continue the subject.

Arrays... He had studied them for far more than just a few decades.

”Besides being an Array Master, how many other things are you hiding from me? Spit it out.” Ye Lingyue failed to notice the depth in Feng Xun’s eyes.

Feng Xun was slightly taken aback, his eyelids drooping, concealing the discomfort in his eyes.

”Ling Yue, what if I told you, me and...”

Just as Feng Xun was about to speak, Ye Lingyue’s expression suddenly changed, alertness setting in.

”Little Zhiyo just reminded me, there’s a rapids section up ahead with a large number of quicksand whirlpools. We need to be careful.”

Ye Lingyue had a Spirit Contract with Little Zhiyo, and Little Zhiyo, along with Long Baobao and the others, were leading the way and had evidently already entered the rapids section.

Since they had already entered the rapids section, Little Zhiyo didn’t have the time to elaborate, only warning Ye Lingyue to be cautious.

Sure enough, shortly after Little Zhiyo’s warning, the flow of sand beneath the boat picked up speed significantly.

If it had been like a babbling stream when they first entered the sand river, now the sand river had swelled into a roaring rapids.

On the surface of the sand river, spiral-shaped, dark yellow whirlpools appeared, each over ten feet wide.

Those were the quicksand whirlpools.

Anyone who had been in and out of the desert knew that apart from the lack of water, another lethal danger of the desert was the quicksand.

There were various kinds of quicksand, and the most deadly was the intermittent quicksand whirlpool. It might, one moment, lie dormant under your feet like a docile sheep, and the next moment, suddenly spring to life, pulling you into a deathly abyss.

The quicksand whirlpools in the Rift Valley Sand River were exactly like that.

The length of this unknown rapids section was split by countless quicksand whirlpools.

The whirlpools continuously swallowed everything, and Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun even saw some broken bits of Four-direction Boats and some corpses spinning within them.

The corpses were mostly unrecognizable and, by the looks of it, were recently the bodies of contestants who had perished trying to traverse it for the World’s First Refining.

Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun no longer had the relaxed expressions they had when they first entered the sand river.

After entering the rapids, controlling the boat became very difficult, like a dead leaf being swept away by the rapids after being brushed aside by the autumn wind.

To facilitate control, Feng Xun had no choice but to immediately modify the array on the boat, adding a ”Thousand-Pound Array” to the light hull.

The boat stabilized significantly, and the quicksand, which kept trying to drag the boat into the whirlpools, could no longer do so.

However, the speed at which the Four-direction Boat traveled also slowed down a lot; if no actions were taken, they would probably not be able to traverse this rapids section in a whole day.

”Ling Yue, you keep an eye on our surroundings; I’ll row the boat,” Feng Xun instructed.

”No, the boat is too heavy; we need to think of another method.”

Because the Thousand-Pound Array had been cast, the boat was very heavy, and Ye Lingyue did not want Feng Xun to exert too much Qi.

She looked out over the river surface and finally set her gaze on the banks of the Rift Valley Sand River.

The sand river was located in the depths of the rift valley, and the banks on both sides were its cliff walls.

These cliff walls were steep and uneven, with jagged rocks everywhere, not a blade of grass growing on them, looking very barren.

Yet when Ye Lingyue saw these cliff walls, her eyes lit up.

”Feng Xun, work with me. When I control the Corrosive Soul Chain, withdraw the ’Thousand-Pound Array’ from the boat’s body immediately.”

Ye Lingyue already had a plan in mind.

Following her gaze, Feng Xun quickly glanced at the cliff walls and immediately understood Ye Lingyue’s intention.

The two exchanged a glance, their tacit understanding clear without words.

Ye Lingyue selected a wall with the appropriate height and distance. With a thought, her Divine Sense stirred, and instantly, two Corrosive Soul Chains, condensed from spiritual power, went ”thud thud” as they shot precisely towards the cliff walls hundreds of meters away, like driving stakes.

The Corrosive Soul Chains burrowed into the cliff walls with a ”puff.”

The moment the Corrosive Soul Chains embedded into the cliff walls, Feng Xun immediately withdrew the ”Thousand-Pound Array” from the Four-direction Boat.

As the Array was removed, amidst the turbulent flow of quicksand, the Corrosive Soul Chains capable of withstanding a thousand pounds of force suddenly tightened, like taut beef tendons, or as if two powerful trackers were pulling the boat from the front.

The Four-direction Boat shot out like a pellet launched from a slingshot, soaring several zhang above the sand river and speeding forward over a hundred feet in an instant, leaving several swirling whirlpools of quicksand behind.

As the boat began to descend, Feng Xun quickly reactivated the ’Thousand-Pound Array.’ Upon contact with the sand once again, Ye Lingyue controlled the two Corrosive Soul Chains to hit the cliff walls a hundred yards away.

Like swinging on a swing, the Four-direction Boat swung farther and farther with the cooperative effort of Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun, and they finally crossed the perilous rapids section that stretched a mile or two without incident.

Under such circumstances, controlling the Corrosive Soul Chain was truly a first for Ye Lingyue, and by the time the boat had stabilized again, she was drenched in sweat.

Feng Xun wiped the sweat from her forehead with concern.

”We finally made it past. I wonder how many people have been lost to that section of rapids.” Throughout their journey, Ye Lingyue had come to realize that the Four Directions Ferry from which they had departed was not the only ferry.

Apart from their Four Directions Ferry, there must have been other such ferries, with countless boats entering this Rift Valley Sand River.

Just that rapid section, spanning a mile or two, had taken them an entire day.

In another two hours or so, night would fall.

And all along the way, they had not encountered a single Fierce Beast of the sand river.

This meant that Ye Lingyue and her group had not even entered the downstream of the Rift Valley Sand River.

In the upper, middle, and lower sections of the Rift Valley Sand River, beasts of unclear Grade abounded.

”You rest for a bit; the next stretch of the river is relatively calm,” Feng Xun remained vigilant, not detecting any anomalies in their surroundings.

Indeed feeling a bit tired, Ye Lingyue simply laid her head on Feng Xun’s body and closed her eyes for a brief respite.

When she woke up, the sky was dotted with stars, and it had turned completely dark.