Chapter 111: Chapter 111: Hunting for Living Souls, Venturing Deep into Dongning
「Several days later.」
「Donglong Island Harbor.」
The majestic, jet-black hull of the Ghostly Flood Dragon was being loaded with supplies for a long voyage.
On the docks.
Luo Qing’e threw herself into Su Ye’s arms. Tilting her head back, she asked for a kiss.
"Co back soon..."
"I will," Su Ye soothed Luo Qing’e.
At that mont,
a silver Escape Light appeared on the horizon, streaking closer.
Luo Xiyin landed on the docks.
She wore a simple white dress, her long silver hair cascading down. Her beauty was as cold as ice, like a goddess from a snowy mountain!
Seeing the Ancestor land, Luo Qing’e grew a little bashful and turned to bow.
"Ancestor..."
"There’s no need for such formalities..." Luo Xiyin’s tone was cool.
But when she looked at Luo Qing’e, a complex emotion flickered in the depths of her eyes.
Was it guilt, or jealousy, or sothing else she couldn’t put into words?
"Mr. Su and I have so matters to discuss... Please, co with ."
Luo Xiyin extended the invitation to Su Ye with grace and poise.
Inside a courtyard house at the harbor, the two were alone.
With a thought, Luo Xiyin activated her Divine Sense and set up a restrictive spell.
Then, her eyelashes fluttered. She took a delicate step forward, and a simple, elegant fragrance, like orchids, wafted from her.
Luo Xiyin moved closer to Su Ye and gave him a light peck on the lips!
"Huh..." The soft, warm touch surprised Su Ye, and his eyes widened slightly.
This was the first ti Luo Xiyin had ever kissed him.
"Have a safe journey..." Luo Xiyin took half a step back, averting her gaze shyly.
"I plan to enter seclusion for a while to try and break through the bottleneck to the Mid-stage Foundation Establishnt."
"When you return, we can cultivate the Six Desires Secret Scripture together again..."
Luo Xiyin had been stuck at the Mid-stage Foundation Establishnt bottleneck for nearly ten years.
It was only natural that the bottleneck had started to loosen recently after the improvent of her Divine Sense.
「A short while later.」
Luo Xiyin and Su Ye left the courtyard house.
After exchanging a few more words with Luo Qing’e,
Su Ye rode an Escape Light and landed on the deck of the Ghostly Flood Dragon!
The black sails were raised high. The majestic, jet-black hull of the Ghostly Flood Dragon, exuding an intimidating aura, set sail for the open sea!
’The hunt... has begun!’
...
「Two months later.」
The Ghostly Flood Dragon sailed the seas, riding the wind and cleaving the waves.
Its brass cannons swiveled, and a Blood Fla Streaming Light shot through the air, sinking a pirate ship that was attacking another vessel nearby!
The marauding cultivators aboard were all incinerated by the Blood Fla, reduced to withered bones!
At the sa ti, the bloody glow on the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s hull grew a few shades deeper than before!
[Enemy ship sunk. [Tide Hunter] EXP
150]
[Naval battle won. [Tide Hunter] EXP
220]
[Class: Tide Hunter Lv. 9 (1534/4500)]
"Thank you, Mr. Su, for saving us from our dire plight..."
The surviving cultivators from the rchant ship, led by a white-bearded old man, thanked him profusely.
’So I’ve beco a "Mr." now, without even realizing it...’ Su Ye chuckled, feeling pleased.
"Please, you must accept this gift as a token of our gratitude..."
The white-bearded old man was shrewd with age and knew the customs, handing over a Storage Pouch.
Su Ye swept it with his Divine Sense. It contained two hundred Spirit Stones, nothing rare.
To him, it was a negligible amount.
But for a small rchant ship like this one, it was more than half, nearly sixty percent, of their capital...
"Hm, I appreciate the thought, but you can go."
Dressed in a black robe, Su Ye waved his hand dismissively, his expression impassive, indicating that no reward was necessary.
Life was not easy for low-level Loose Cultivators; they struggled just to survive.
Su Ye was no saint and had no intention of changing the overall state of the Cultivation Realm.
Still, what was the harm in showing a little kindness now and then and performing a small, effortless good deed?
The white-bearded old man grew flustered and pleaded with him again and again.
Finally, he confird that Su Ye was not just being polite.
"Mr. Su, your integrity is truly noble! I am eternally grateful!"
In the Cultivation Realm, it was common for Law Enforcent Ships to demand rewards after dealing with raiders.
And that was one of the better outcos.
Near so of the more lawless market towns, Law Enforcent Ships would even moonlight as raiders, killing the survivors to silence them and seizing all their goods.
...
After parting ways with the rchant ship, Su Ye closed his eyes and sensed the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s condition.
’[Soul Abyss Blood Prison], twelve thousand living souls...’
’Not bad...’
A smile tugged at the corner of Su Ye’s mouth.
Creatures killed by the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s Blood Fla, or those ’fed’ to it by Su Ye...
...would have their living souls and flesh refined into the [Soul Abyss Blood Prison], becoming ’living souls’ themselves.
It was worth noting that the number of living souls in the Soul Abyss Blood Prison didn’t strictly correspond to the number of kills. Instead, it was calculated based on the total ’soul strength’ and ’flesh quality’ obtained.
For example, a Late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, with their powerful Spiritual Sense and flesh rich in Spiritual Qi, could be refined into more than ten living souls.
anwhile, a sea beast, though low in intelligence, possessed a massive amount of flesh and could also be refined into a dozen or so living souls.
During the battle at Donglong Island, the Ghostly Flood Dragon destroyed the ’Blood Copper’ and ’Soul Gold’ and slaughtered over two hundred elite cultivators from the Qi Family!
During this recent period, Su Ye had been fighting raiders and hunting beasts.
Combining the two, he had added two thousand living souls to the [Soul Abyss Blood Prison]!
Su Ye could clearly feel it.
As the number of living souls increased, the [Soul Abyss Blood Prison] grew stronger.
The strength of the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s hull and the power of its Arrays had both been enhanced to a certain degree!
’Because the Ghostly Flood Dragon used a wonder of heaven and earth—Sea Successor Remains—for its perfect advancent, it has the potential to grow.’
’Until it becos a Tier-3 spirit ship, it only needs to devour living souls to raise its grade!’
’Right now... by my estimate...’
’Once the number of living souls in the [Soul Abyss Blood Prison] reaches the hundred-thousand mark...’
’the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s spirit ship grade will advance to Tier-2 Mid-grade!’
A look of anticipation appeared in Su Ye’s eyes!
His greatest advantage was his ability to use the panel to perform [Harmony] with his spirit ship, allowing him to ignore bottlenecks.
And during the Foundation Establishnt Stage, this advantage was even more pronounced!
It was completely normal for Foundation Establishnt cultivators to be stuck at critical bottlenecks like the Mid-stage or Late-stage for over ten, or even several dozen, years!
In fact, most Foundation Establishnt cultivators could only rely on their long lifespans, grinding away for decades to barely break through to the Mid-stage Foundation Establishnt.
By then, they would be old and withered, their two-hundred-year lifespan nearly exhausted, with no hope of ever reaching the heights of the Late-stage Foundation Establishnt in their lifeti!
’But for ... collecting a hundred thousand living souls, even if I have to be careful about the consequences and can’t just slaughter indiscriminately, will take ten years at most...’
’Ten years...?’ Su Ye raised an eyebrow and couldn’t help but laugh.
’By that point, I probably won’t have even finished accumulating the Magical Power for the Early-stage Foundation Establishnt...’
Peak of Early-stage Foundation Establishnt.
According to the records in the Taiqing Cold Jade Skill, one needed to accumulate a full sixty drops of Liquid Magical Power.
Because he had switched Cultivation Techniques to the higher-quality, more condensed Taiqing Skill’s Magical Power,
Su Ye’s Magical Power reserves had been slightly depleted.
His cultivation during this period had only served to replenish what he had lost.
Currently, his Qi Sea Dantian still held thirty drops of Liquid Magical Power.
His Divine Sense, on the other hand...
...had been nurtured and strengthened through his cultivation of the Six Desires Secret Scripture, reaching a range of forty-five zhang!
This was close to the fifty-zhang range of a Mid-stage Foundation Establishnt cultivator’s Divine Sense.
...
After that,
Su Ye steered the Ghostly Flood Dragon eastward, heading deep into the Dongning Sea Region to hunt beasts and track the Sea Successor Mutant Species!
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