Chapter 973: Ba Huang Province

"We can leave!" Lin Pheng couldn't believe it at first but then a smile gradually appeared on his face. He felt so relieved and breathed in deeply.

"Emperor, let's do it now then." said Lin Pheng smiling. Qiong Qi nodded and said, "Give me some time. Besides, if I repair that boat, we need the girl to remove her connection to the boat. So she will have to give it up. You should go inform her about that."

"Me?" Then, Qiong Qi added, "If I fix that boat, we can't give it back to her. It will be yours. It's good for your safety as well. In Ba Huang Province, you will often face dangerous situations and possessing a variety of items may just save you."

Lin Pheng remained silent, he had to agree that having a boat might just be a good idea.

"I'll talk to her." said Lin Pheng. The girl had helped him a few times. If she hadn't been there to talk to the captain of the purple jade ship, the patriarch of the Xiao Yao Sect would have come aboard and killed him. Now, her two bodyguards tried to rape and kill her, and now Lin Pheng would take her boat, That must not have been fun for her.

Lin Pheng went to see the girl. Qiong Qi looked at Lin Pheng from the back, his eyes were twinkling. He hadn't known Lin Pheng for a long time, but he knew that Lin Pheng was a sensitive person. That attitude might hurt him in this world of cultivation.

The girl had broken the boat and Lin Pheng had saved her. If they fixed her boat, keeping it was absolutely normal. If Lin Pheng hadn't been there, Qiong Qi would have immediately removed the girl's connection to the boat without asking.

Lin Pheng arrived in the cave. The woman who was healing herself opened her eyes and asked indifferently, "Is something wrong?"

"I came to talk to you about your boat. We can fix it." The girl was surprised and said, "Really?"

"Yes." nodded Lin Pheng.

"Please fix it, I'll be so grateful."

"I will fix it, but we need to remove your connection to the boat." said Lin Pheng.

The girl frowned but understood what Lin Pheng meant. She nodded, "Alright, if you can fix it and take me back to Ba Huang Province, you can keep it."

"Alright. Continue healing yourself." said Lin Pheng as he left again.

Three days later, Lin Pheng was swimming in the river. He jumped out of the water and went to the center of the island. There were abstruse energies surrounding the boat now.

"Yan Di, did you fix the boat?" asked Lin Pheng.

"It's your boat now, you just have to learn how to control it, you'll know if it's fixed then." said Qiong Qi.

Lin Pheng released his awareness and the boat gradually became bigger.

"Such a boat must be incredibly expensive." whispered Lin Pheng. That boat had probably been created by an incredible cultivator. It required knowledge in certain crafts and illusion spells.

"Of course. To create such a boat, a cultivator needs to be strong, physically and mentally." said Qiong Qi. Lin Pheng nodded and made the boat become even larger.

"That boat works on abstruse crystals and it consumes a lot of them. So be prepared."

"I understand." said Lin Pheng nodding.

At that moment, someone's voice came from behind them. Qiong Qi and Lin Pheng turned around and saw the young woman.

"You fixed it?" Her eyes were twinkling. Lin Pheng had only broken through to the second Tian Qi layer, so she didn't believe it. She was convinced he was hiding his cultivation level. He had probably just broken through to the fourth or fifth Tian Qi layer, but he was able to defeat cultivators of the sixth Tian Qi layer.

The most surprising part was that Lin Pheng, with the strength of the Tian Qi layer, had managed to fix the boat. Even some Zun cultivators wouldn't have managed to fix it.

"I have some tools which allowed me to fix it." said Lin Pheng. He couldn't tell her Qiong Qi had fixed it.

Nobody could know about Qiong Qi's secrets.

Even though the young woman didn't really understand, she couldn't ask much. Lin Pheng had secrets and that would have to be normal.

"Thank you for saving me. My name is Yang Zi Ye. You know who I am, I belong to the Yang Shi clan from the northern part of the Ba Huang province. I hope you can take me home safely." said the young woman to Lin Pheng.

"My name is Lin Pheng. You helped me too." said Lin Pheng nodding. "I'm going to Ba Huang Province as well. We can go together."

"Alright, we need to be careful though because the pirates are still looking for me. We won't necessarily encounter them, but still. Once we're in Ba Huang Province, we'll be safe because the pirates won't go there."

"Who are those pirates? Do they want to mix their blood with yours too? They even prepared an ambush to kidnap you." asked Lin Pheng. He had sent Tang You You and the others to the Island of the Nine Dragons, he was wondering if they were okay.

"The pirates consider themselves as the rulers of the Huang Sea. Some traders also go to the Island of the Nine Dragons to do business there. They have precious treasures and the sea is so vast that it is difficult to find them."

"They want to kill me because some things happened between my clan and them. But they also want to mix their blood with mine, you are right." explained Yang Zi Ye. The pirates just seemed like a normal group of influence, they didn't seem to be evil or anything. Hopefully, You You and Jun Mo Xi shouldn't have any problems with them. Were they in Ba Huang Province already?

Lin Pheng hoped his friends were alright.

"Let's go." said Lin Pheng as they jumped onto the boat.

The boat was surrounded by abstruse energies as it crossed the sea with incredible speed.

Lin Pheng looked around and felt tiny in the middle of that sea. He also felt like he was still too weak.

They continued sailing. There was no storm and no pirates in sight. Seven days later, land was in sight. It was Ba Huang Province!