Plop!
Li Mu plunged headfirst into the Pacific Ocean.
He struggled and screamed, "Chen Nan, I curse your ancestors! Didn't you know that after gathering the Nine Cauldrons, cultivators turn into ordinary people?"
Chen Nan breathed steadily, like a leaf, lying on the surface of the sea, gently swaying with the waves, "If I knew that after gathering the Nine Cauldrons, cultivators would turn into ordinary people, do you think this would have happened?"
"Don't panic, it's no big deal."
"As long as you maintain your composure and don't lose your head in the face of danger, even if we fall into the Pacific, we won't drown in a short time."
Neither he nor Li Mu were ordinary people.
Their minds were firm.
At critical moments, they could remain unperturbed even if Mount Tai collapsed upon their heads.
Li Mu steadied himself in the sea.
Although he couldn't swim.
He had watched many videos about swimming instruction.
It was only because he had a traumatic experience of nearly drowning while fishing by the river at the age of three that he had developed a phobia and dared not learn to swim.
But now.
He had fallen into the Pacific Ocean and had no choice but to try what he had seen in the videos.
Hey!
Not bad.
He learned the doggy paddle right away, it was just a bit undignified.
Li Mu suddenly became excited, "Come, come, call me Master."
"If you call me Master, I'll teach you the doggy paddle."
Chen Nan gave him a look as if he were an idiot, "Even if I learn the doggy paddle, so what? You're not dreaming that we'll swim across the entire Pacific Ocean back to Great Xia, are you?"
Li Mu's expression froze, and he said unhappily, "If you're going to talk, can you not use that look like I'm an idiot?"
Chen Nan rolled his eyes at him again, "I have something to tell you. Five hundred miles behind us, there's a powerful typhoon. The wind force... it's at least level fourteen or fifteen."
"At our current speed, it'll reach us in an hour at the latest."
"If you don't want to die, hurry up and call for help."
Li Mu was completely panicked.
He quickly took out a special model of phone from his pocket, dialed a number, and then screamed, "Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick! Use satellite positioning to find my location and send people to rescue us."
"If no one comes in an hour, Chen Nan and I will be buried in the Pacific!"
This phone call.
Shocked the entire high command.
The special department immediately used satellites to lock onto the location of Li Mu and Chen Nan.
Seeing them lying on the water, and one doggy paddling, they were all astonished.
These two were incredibly powerful.
Why were they in the vast ocean?
Before people could react, someone saw a huge typhoon on the satellite map heading towards them.
"Quick, contact the nearby patrol fleet, we must rescue Chen Nan and Li Mu!"
"Rescue them at all costs!"
Whether it was Chen Nan or Li Mu.
They were both true national heroes.
The country could not afford to lose them!
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"Conserve your energy, can you stop doggy paddling?"
"If you drown from exhaustion, how can your brother stand by and do nothing?"
"If I were to rescue you, we might both die!"
Chen Nan floated on the sea, looking at Li Mu with annoyance.
Li Mu felt like crying but had no tears, "Is this my fault?"
"If you hadn't said there was a typhoon behind us, I wouldn't have been so scared!"
"Even if I want to stop now, I can't!"
Chen Nan sighed, "Don't worry, when you run out of energy, I definitely won't save you."
Li Mu cursed, "Chen Nan, I'm about to die before your eyes, and you refuse to help? Are you even human?"
Chen Nan said, "It's not that I don't want to save you, it's just that I know you're worried about your sister, Li Muya, and if you die, no one will take care of her. I was thinking, I could take care of your sister for you!"
"Please be human!" Li Mu took a deep breath and forcibly calmed himself down.
After choking on more than ten mouthfuls of seawater, he finally learned to do the backstroke.
Of course.
It wasn't exactly the backstroke.
He was just floating on his back, with his arms spread, maintaining an even breath to prevent sinking.
This method could be used for self-rescue after falling into the water, waiting for rescuers.
Li Mu looked up at the vast blue sky and suddenly laughed, "Although I never expected to become an ordinary person today, I feel like this is pretty good."
"This is true peace."
"Without cultivators acting tyrannical, the common people can return to their former lives."
Chen Nan nodded in agreement, "I don't like the life of the cultivation world either. It's boring and dull, far less real and interesting than life on Earth."
Li Mu asked pointedly, "Is it the life on Earth that's interesting, or the girls on Earth?"
Chen Nan cleared his throat, "Are the two things in conflict?"
Li Mu pouted.
Chen Nan suddenly said, "How is the search for capable individuals going?"
Gathering the Nine Cauldrons, protecting the common people.
Now he should also begin searching for reincarnated gods and elevate the task of rebuilding the Heavenly Court to the agenda.
If the Heavenly Court could not be rebuilt, then the stability of Earth would only be temporary.
Li Mu said, "I've had people establish a special agency for capable individuals, and they are searching all over the country. So far, we haven't found anyone."
"This matter can't be rushed, we have to take it slow!"
Chen Nan sighed.
He didn't know how many reincarnated gods there were.
As for when he could find them, even he had no idea.
Forty minutes later.
The originally calm sea surface changed.
Waves came from the east.
At first, they were only a meter high.
Then they became three meters.
Looking east.
It was a dark expanse.
A super typhoon was crushing towards them.
Just as they felt despair.
A long-range escort ship appeared in the west.
The conspicuous national flag brought a sense of relief to Chen Nan and Li Mu.
Li Mu's eyes welled up with tears, "Finally, we're saved!"
Ten minutes later.
The two boarded the long-range escort ship.
Then the escort ship began to return to port.
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Two days later.
Evening.
Chen Nan and Li Mu landed in Modu.
There were two reasons for coming here.
One.
Chen Nan intended to meet Ye Wanzhi here.
After all, they had once jointly developed a special medicine to cure hepatitis B, and had become intimate friends.
After returning to Earth for so long, she was the only woman he hadn't met.
Two.
When he returned earlier, Rockefeller Claude had called to say that Qualcomm had lifted the ban on Huawei, but the specific cooperation details still needed to be discussed.
Therefore.
He needed to represent Qualcomm and meet with the person in charge of Huawei to discuss cooperation.
Three.
Zhang Wei and Wen Huaiyu's family of three had also returned to Great Xia and came to Modu.
As agreed before, they had to have a good drink after returning.
"Call me anytime if you need anything!" After disembarking, Li Mu and Chen Nan said goodbye and parted ways.
Chen Nan then hailed a taxi and, following the address given by Li Muya, went to wait in front of the pharmaceutical company building where Ye Wanzhi worked until she got off duty.
It was already the end of the workday.
"Huawei Pharmaceuticals?"
Seeing the four prominent characters on the office building.
Chen Nan frowned, "Could it be a subsidiary of the Huawei Group?"
Just then.
A graceful figure walked out of the building.
It was Ye Wanzhi.
Before Chen Nan could step forward, he saw a young master in his twenties, holding a bouquet of flowers, appear before Ye Wanzhi.
Chen Nan looked dumbfounded.
It seemed like he had too many love rivals!
He then thought.
With so many confidantes, wouldn't there naturally be many love rivals?