In the fog, the captain of the Blackfin Crew clenched his fists tightly.
"Damn it! The Blood Lady is actually here. Are they abandoning their base? Originally, we could have presented Whale Father and Big Mom with two perfect gifts!"
"What should we do, Captain? Aren't we going to capture that hunter who attacked the Black Pig Shark? According to our investigation, he still has our Flesh Cleaver Bone Breaker on him! That should have been Blackfin's property..."
"Shut up! Now is not the ti! Can't you see the Blade Ship of the Blood Blade Pirates? Let's go."
"Don't worry. As long as they dare set foot on the sea, sooner or later, both the hunter and the witch will beco prisoners in our hands!"
The crew of the Blackfin Crew shouted in the fog, but their ship fled like a lost dog, completely ignoring the screams of the other two ships’ crew in the sea, leaving without looking back.
A fourth-tier legend, the Blood Lady’s slash...
Chen Qi and the Flower Witch were both disheveled in the wind.
The razor-sharp gale ravaged the ocean!
With just a snap of the fingers, two brutal slashes were made!
After the Dinsional Tide arrived, third-tier transcendent beings increased in number and power, but even so, fourth-tier legends remained as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
In the gaming forums, reaching fourth tier put a player among the absolute elite.
Weak third-tier transcendent beings were like weeds before experienced legends, only during the brief mont of activating their Release techniques could they temporarily match a fourth-tier legend’s strength.
But that was only a fleeting instant...
Chen Qi felt the roaring wind blasting past his ears.
The Blood Lady was not the first legend he had seen; before her, the captain of the Ice Demon Pirates, Shapeshifter Palu, and Big Mom Carola were also fourth-tier legends.
However, this was his first ti witnessing a legend actually strike.
The roaring power, the vibration transmitted to the heart, was terrifying.
The fragile and lancholic image of the Blood Lady grew even more towering in the eyes of Chen Qi and Fen.
No need to speed up anymore... Chen Qi walked out of the captain’s cabin and looked toward Fen on the deck.
Fen looked at the Blood Lady standing at the bow and patted her ample chest:
"Qi! Don’t be afraid! I’m here!"
A legend was like a massive beast above an ant; the fear of a fourth-tier Blade legend was engraved in their instincts.
A second-tier transcendent like Chen Qi could not withstand a legend’s oppressive aura at all.
"I'm not that scared..." Chen Qi patted Fen’s back and said softly:
"Don’t worry, we’ll be fine. We’re here to negotiate terms."
Above the bow, the Blood Lady’s lancholic face rarely showed a smile:
"Welco to Red Maple Island, Hunter sir and Witch miss! Please follow ."
The person receiving them was actually the current leader of the Blood Blade Pirates... Chen Qi and Fen felt sowhat honored.
Chen Qi steered the ghost ship, following the Blood Blade Pirates’ flagship through the thick fog until they finally arrived at the pier of Red Maple Island.
Red Maple Island, Blade Ship, brightly lit parlor.
In front of Chen Qi was a black table covered with various foods, mostly heavy-oil roasted pork and roasted lamb.
In the corner of the parlor stood several high-ranking Blood Blade Pirate mbers, whispering among themselves.
"Is that the successor of the Ice Witch—the Flower Witch?"
"The flowers on her head are really scary!"
"And the other one?"
"The Black Hunter. I heard the Blackfin Crew already knows his background."
"His aura seems only second tier. Can I fight him?"
"Shut up! He’s our benefactor! Do you dare to win?"
Knowing my background... Chen Qi frowned. In front of these senior Blood Blade Pirates, the mystery surrounding him seed to vanish.
Fen, on Chen Qi’s right, took the opportunity when he wasn’t paying attention to lean closer to him.
The first to arrive at the parlor was Mad Wolf Fenrir, who poured two cups of wine:
"My apologies, both of you. Recently, the Blackfin Crew has diverted manpower and sent new teams, so we haven’t had actual contact! On top of that, due to the 'Brewery' incident, this is the only simple contact information we can provide!"
In just a few days, the thick arms of Mad Wolf Fenrir had gained several obvious scars.
He then raised his cup:
"Thank you both for your help! Without you, the Blood Blade Pirates would have suffered enormous losses!"
Fen looked at the wine, frowning slightly.
Fenrir laughed heartily:
"Don’t worry, Miss Witch! Thanks to the Black Hunter’s subordinates, we have dealt with all the wine contaminated with Cup Poison!"
"Sorry to keep you waiting."
At that mont, the Blood Lady entered the parlor, lifting her long gown as she sat down.
Chen Qi looked at the Blood Blade Pirates’ leader, whose husband had been missing for a long ti.
The Blood Lady was over 1.7 ters tall, dressed in a deep red long robe. Her bright red hair was very long, almost reaching her waist.
However, despite being so close, Chen Qi did not sense the fierce killing intent expected from a fourth-tier transcendent.
On the contrary, there was a kind of lancholy, loneliness, sadness, and inferiority.
Her hair was sowhat ssy, dotted with freckles, and tear stains lingered at the corners of her eyes.
In short, she looked like a pitiful, beautiful widow who had lost her husband...
Chen Qi said:
"Hello, Blood Lady."
The Blood Lady forced a sad smile:
"Hello, Hunter sir and Witch miss. It is an honor to et you both."
A small nervous flower blood above Fen’s head:
"No! The honor is mine!"
The Blood Lady smiled with effort:
"Miss Witch, when I was young, my father told about your teacher, the Ice Witch, standing alone on the reef, rcilessly slaughtering the Twelve-Tentacles deep-sea titan to protect Moonstone City."
Fen asked in confusion:
"You know my teacher?"
"Of course. Our Blood Blade Pirates have so history. We not only know the Ice Witch, but if it weren’t for her defeat of the Twelve-Tentacles, I wouldn’t be alive today...
Also, I know your identity, Black Hunter sir..."
"?"
Chen Qi was startled.
Soone knew his identity! A curious flower popped above Fen’s head.
Could she finally uncover Chen Qi’s true background!
Chen Qi stared into the Blood Lady’s bright red eyes.
She knew about my Deep Sea Affinity?
He was currently wearing Ember's Touch; theoretically, very few should recognize him.
The Blood Lady said softly:
"One of the treasures of the Deep Sea Hunters, Ember’s Touch. Many thought this flesh armor had completely disappeared, but unexpectedly, to see this special flesh armor again today!"
"And the Flesh Cleaver Bone Breaker of the Azure Beast, along with the Dinsional Tide, has brought these two pieces of equipnt back simultaneously... However, over ti, few know the origin of your equipnt."
Exposed. Is this really the Blood Blade Pirates’ leader? Such insight... Chen Qi couldn’t help but be surprised.
"Well, I was quite lucky to obtain this equipnt."
She actually knew the origins of these two pieces.
Once the origin of Ember’s Touch was known, the terrifying truth about the tentacle monster would no longer exist.
"I see!"
Fen secretly rejoiced and stealthily touched Chen Qi’s small tentacles.
The Deep Sea Hunter’s flesh armor! I knew it, Chen Qi couldn’t possibly be so deep-sea monster!
Fen continued:
"Um, Blood Lady, do you think the Black Hunter has any other identity?"
Fen hoped the well-inford Blood Lady could fully expose Chen Qi.
What other identity... The Blood Lady was dumbfounded and fell into thought:
"Miss Witch, isn’t he your subordinate?"
The Blood Lady always thought the Flower Witch held a very high position and assud the Black Hunter was the Flower Witch’s servant.
A small pink flower imdiately blood above Fen’s head:
"No, not ..."
Why was the witch so flustered? Did I say sothing wrong? The Blood Lady pressed further:
"Aren’t you his superior? His master?"
The second-tier aura on Chen Qi led the Blood Lady to assu the Flower Witch was his master.
In her eyes, third tier held absolute dominance over second tier, and the Flower Witch could easily pin Chen Qi to the ground and beat him without any chance of resistance.
"???"
Chen Qi was stunned.
His master actually ca?
That’s too much, Blood Lady!
Unlike others, in front of such a top-tier powerhouse, the tentacles on Chen Qi’s body could not create any mysterious aura at all.
No, that ans they are on equal footing... The Blood Lady nodded.
It seed she had misjudged Chen Qi’s strength and status.
But now was not the ti to pry into an ally’s secrets.
"Sorry, my mistake. Fenrir, please bring out the files and that long-sealed Blade Release book..."
"Understood, madam!"
Fenrir took out a special ‘lock’ backpack card and from it pulled out a stack of translated docunts and a book engraved with the Blood Blade symbol.
The Blood Lady placed the translated files on the table:
"Hunter sir, the files you gave us last ti were from a navy researcher, who was also my father."
"Researcher? Your father?"
Chen Qi stroked his chin.
The Blood Lady sighed:
"Yes, Hunter sir, the predecessor of the Blood Blade Pirates was the navy. Among the founders were so once-famous naval heroes.
These files are research on the deep sea, an experintal docunt about artificially creating deep-sea titans.
Earlier, the Black Pig Shark you encountered was also a special experintal subject."
"Artificially creating deep-sea titans?"
Fen couldn’t help but exclaim.
Deep-sea titans were terrifying beings on par with, or even surpassing, fourth-tier legends!
Creating titans artificially was one of the gravest sins!
Even the Goldenfinch Kingdom regarded it as taboo within taboos.
"The research goes beyond that. The scale of this study is far larger than I know, and this project was called the Black Blood Operation."
The Blood Lady sighed helplessly:
"The navy once researched forbidden deep-sea creatures, but with the arrival of the White Tower Federation’s knowledge hunters, even possessing such knowledge was punished.
Everyone involved in this navy project was slaughtered. Only a few powerful navy personnel and lucky ones survived. These precious research docunts eventually vanished without a trace.
The once-glorious research base was also wiped out by Beiguo’s Steam Hand Workshop, turning it into forbidden wasteland."
"Of course, so deep-sea monsters survived, becoming terrifying existences in the ocean..."
As she spoke, the Blood Lady suddenly looked at Chen Qi:
"Hunter sir, perhaps in the eyes of so navy high-ups, you are a monster born from research. After all, many in the Sea God Pirates escaped from this research as experintal subjects."
Navy’s sea beast research... Chen Qi instantly felt a surge of hostility.
According to the Blood Lady, even if he did nothing, he might still be relentlessly pursued by the navy.
At this point, the Blood Lady placed her right hand over her chest, slightly bowed, and saluted Chen Qi:
"Sir, these docunts are very important to the Blood Blade Pirates. Thank you again."
"The Blood Blade Pirates will never forget their benefactors, Fenrir."
Fenrir handed Chen Qi a book engraved with the Blood Blade symbol.
This was... Chen Qi was secretly shocked as he took the book.
It was not thick, but exuded a special aura.
Most eye-catching was the vivid blood-red mark in the center of the book—a delicate Blood Blade pattern, with fresh blood seeming to linger on the blade, radiating a chilling coldness that sent shivers down one’s spine.
"What is this?"
Chen Qi feigned curiosity.
The Blood Lady whispered:
"The Blade Release book allows you to master a Blade Release technique. This book is a treasured item of our Blood Blade Pirates.
Therefore, I want to offer this book as paynt. The moves recorded inside are enough for you to kill a defense-specialized third-tier transcendent with a single strike."
Chen Qi vaguely felt the envious gazes of those standing by the parlor walls.
Release techniques, as ultimate moves, were much harder to learn than ordinary skills.
Usually, such special rewards were only given to third-tier transcendent mbers with outstanding battle achievents in the organization.
Chen Qi swallowed hard.
He had obtained a Blade Release technique book at second tier, and it was a highly sought-after Blade affinity.
The only regret was that he wasn’t Blade-affinity himself!
Fen looked at the book in Chen Qi’s hands and muttered:
"Um, Blood Lady, the Black Hunter isn’t Blade..."
The Blood Lady imdiately explained:
"The moves in this book don’t require Blade affinity, only combat power and mastery of aura. Of course, rest assured, while universal, the power definitely matches Blade Release."
Chen Qi flipped through the Blade Release book.
This technique required battle desire, aura, and furious emotions...
A Blade Release technique perfectly matching his current state.
Chen Qi closed the book:
"Thanks..."
The Blood Lady lowered her head:
"No, compared to your help, this book as a reward is far from enough."
No, it’s pretty good! A universal Blade Release technique could be the highlight of any auction... Chen Qi carefully placed the book into his backpack card.
Suddenly, the smile on the Blood Lady’s face faded, becoming lancholy again.
"Both of you..."
Her voice trembled slightly, and she gripped her skirt tightly.
Fenrir saw the Blood Lady’s sorrowful expression and couldn’t help but clench his fists.
Chen Qi and Fen spoke in unison:
"What’s wrong?"
The Blood Lady hesitated for a long ti:
"To be honest, there is a matter I want to entrust to both of you."
"Entrust..."
The Blood Lady sighed:
"Yes, a matter that, I fear, only the two of you can accomplish."
Only we two can accomplish it... Chen Qi’s expression turned serious, a cold sweat trickled down his neck.
"Only the two of us can accomplish it..."
What is it? Only we two can accomplish it? A curious little pink flower blossod above Fen’s head, her imagination running wild.
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