Chapter 72: Chapter 72: Yaoguang’s Spirituality, Marrow Silver’s Broken Mast
"A desperate situation?"
Gazing at the dark storm clouds in the distance, Su Ye took a deep breath!
The world around him seed to fall silent. The only sound was the ever-louder, surging beat of his own heart!
"Double the ship’s lines, reduce the sails!"
"Maintain course and brace for impact! We’re... heading into the storm!"
The Communication Talisman flashed.
Aboard the Flying Serpent, Luo Qingjun gritted his teeth and chose to trust Su Ye.
Soon, the Golden Sword Orchid and the Flying Serpent turned their hulls!
They steered toward the imnse, dark storm clouds that lood like a mountain range!
Compared to the colossal storm, even these two three-masted spirit vessels seed utterly minuscule!
"Bring it on! Let the gales and downpours co!"
Su Ye spread his arms wide, his robes whipping in the wind!
Just before entering the storm, he turned his head, glanced at the Marrow Silver, and sneered.
"Co on! Do you dare follow?!"
...
RAT-A-TAT-TAT!
A torrential downpour descended!
Incredibly violent gales howled, tearing at the sails!
The sea, as if enraged, churned and surged!
Amidst this vast, heavenly might, the Golden Sword Orchid and the Flying Serpent pitched and rolled violently!
Under pursuit from the Marrow Silver and the White Iron Island Fleet,
they had chosen to sail into the storm, hoping to use the natural environnt to weaken the strength of their pursuers!
BOOM!
A monstrous wave swept in, washing over the deck of the Golden Sword Orchid!
"Hold fast to the lines!" Su Ye yelled at the top of his lungs!
An incredibly swift current, carrying imnse force, slamd into them!
Silver Gang Qi flickered across the surface of Su Ye’s skin as he used his full power to enhance his physical strength.
However, even with the strength of his second-level Body Refining, augnted by his attributes, he still found it sowhat difficult to cope.
’It’s not just the force of the current. Within these waves...’ A realization dawned on Su Ye.
Cultivating the Azure Dragon Force required tempering oneself in underwater whirlpools.
Therefore, he was very familiar with the flow of water.
But what he felt within this massive wave was completely different from any ordinary current!
This wave contained a vast and violent will.
It was a will that could suppress a cultivator’s Magical Power and spiritual soul!
’The vast might of the heavens...’
Su Ye raised his head and muttered to himself.
This storm was tinged with a trace of the Yaoguang Sea’s primordial spirituality!
In this Cultivation World, places brimming with Spiritual Qi would, over countless years, easily give birth to spirituality.
When this spirituality encountered a beast, it would enlighten it into a demonic beast; when it encountered a plant, it would transform it into a Spirit dicine...
And this entire Yaoguang Sea possessed infinite Spiritual Qi!
Even mighty cultivators at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul realms were but a drop in the ocean compared to the Spiritual Qi of the entire Yaoguang Sea!
Naturally, this ocean had also given birth to its own primal spirituality!
However, its vastness was both a blessing and a curse.
Because the Yaoguang Sea was simply too vast and boundless, this primal spirituality had never been able to develop into true intelligence.
But even in its unenlightened state, it still possessed a powerful spirituality!
Storms, tsunamis, whirlpools...
When natural disasters like these, born of destruction, reached a certain magnitude,
they could trigger the violent and feral side of the Yaoguang Sea’s primal spirituality!
And due to the profoundness of its very essence,
even a trivial ’glimpse’ was enough to suppress a Qi Refining cultivator!
Therefore, within this storm,
crew mbers below the Mid-stage of Qi Refining could barely use their Magical Power!
They could only cling desperately to the ship’s lines, grit their teeth, and refuse to let go.
Otherwise, if they were swept into the sea by the current, there was absolutely no chance of survival!
Even Foundation Establishnt cultivators wouldn’t dare to cross the storm with their physical bodies!
In a storm containing the will of the Yaoguang Sea, their Magical Power would be rapidly depleted.
Then... they would be torn to shreds!
And this was in the relatively peaceful waters of the archipelago!
Su Ye had once read a travelogue in the Luo Family’s Scripture Pavilion.
According to the travelogue, in the distant seas, storms containing vast amounts of the ocean’s violent spirituality possessed all sorts of strange and wondrous powers!
Even a Golden Core cultivator attempting to cross with their physical body could perish within one!
Only the strongest, most durable spirit fleets could traverse the storms and conquer the perils of the ocean!
...
Of course, the Dongning Sea Region wasn’t a particularly perilous stretch of water.
The storms that ford here weren’t overwhelmingly powerful.
The Golden Sword Orchid had superior performance and a sturdy hull.
And the Flying Serpent was, at the very least, a high-grade spirit vessel. Furthermore, its Ice Crystal Pods were full, giving it a very high deadweight.
Though they were in a sorry state, the condition of the two spirit vessels was still relatively stable.
’Now, we just have to see if our opponents dare to follow...’
Gripping a ship’s line, Su Ye wiped the rain from his face.
His eyes glinted as he stared toward the stern!
Soon, that familiar pale silver hull, accompanied by the shadows of two other sails, appeared in Su Ye’s field of vision.
’As I thought... they followed after all!’
’But cutting the number of pursuers down to three is good enough!’
What Su Ye had truly been wary of was the massive Qi Family fleet trailing behind the Marrow Silver!
With the Marrow Silver latched onto the Golden Sword Orchid’s tail and the Qi Family’s absolute nurical advantage, Su Ye would have most likely t a bitter end right there!
However, this storm had leveled the playing field for Su Ye, erasing that nurical disparity!
Because most of the ships in the Qi Family fleet were mid-grade spirit vessels!
For them, sailing into a raging storm carried an extrely high risk of their keels snapping and their hulls disintegrating!
...
RUMBLE!
Lightning flashed and thunder roared.
A bolt of lightning that seed to connect heaven and earth struck the sea’s surface, briefly illuminating the storm-wracked night!
At this mont, the two fleets were locked in a desperate chase!
Two high-grade spirit vessels were harassing the Flying Serpent,
while the Marrow Silver, the fastest of them all, was relying on its power as a supre-grade spirit vessel and hadn’t reduced its sails at all!
Because of this, it had almost caught up to the Golden Sword Orchid!
SWISH!
Several Crossbow Arrows shot past the deck of the Golden Sword Orchid!
"Aargh!"
A crewman was unfortunately struck by a Crossbow Arrow, died instantly on the spot, and fell into the sea.
Su Ye manned a ballista and returned fire.
He loaded, drew the string, and pulled the trigger!
But just then, a wave struck, and the entire Golden Sword Orchid shuddered violently!
The Crossbow Arrow lost its aim and regrettably missed.
Su Ye’s expression remained calm as he quickly loaded a second Crossbow Arrow and began to take aim.
On the violently pitching spirit vessel, amidst the surging wind and waves, Su Ye stood in the wash of water like a reef, silently loading the ballista!
"Hooo..."
After finishing loading, he didn’t fire imdiately.
His Spiritual Sense surged, and Su Ye felt as if he had beco the Golden Sword Orchid itself, rising and falling in the storm.
He was making contact, feeling it, adapting!
BOOM!
Another massive wave crashed down. The bow of the Golden Sword Orchid dipped, nearly level with the sea’s surface!
Then, it began to rise rapidly again!
Just as it was rising!
’Five, four, three, two, one... Now!’
Su Ye pulled the trigger!
SWISH!
The Crossbow Arrow shot forth like a teor, tearing through the night sky!
This Crossbow Arrow, fired amidst the violently turbulent waves, precisely struck the mainmast of the Marrow Silver!
CRACK.
The mainmast let out a cracking sound.
Of course, the mainmast of a supre-grade spirit vessel was incredibly tough. A single ballista shot was not enough to snap it.
’But... this is a storm!’ Su Ye’s gaze was fierce.
A violent gale howled!
With a loud BANG,
the mainmast of the Marrow Silver, with its sails raised high, suddenly snapped!
Like a towering ancient tree, it ca crashing down amidst the panicked cries of the Qi Family cultivators!
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