Chen Qi waved his finger with so difficulty.
Smack! Smack!
At this mont, the sea was turbulent with raging waves and violent tentacles, while Fen, rich in spiritual energy, beca the primary target of the attacks.
Seawater condensed into pillars, then transford into tentacles that fell from the sky, slapping down one after another.
Although the tentacles' striking speed wasn't fast, their overwhelming numbers made even Fen feel sowhat strained as she dodged back and forth.
Fen said with so irritation:
"Qi, can you control these tentacles?"
"First ti, I need so ti to adjust..."
Chen Qi struggled to adapt to this sensation. He couldn't precisely control each tentacle's specific movents yet, only give so general commands:
"Fen, stop moving for now."
"???"
Fen froze montarily at Chen Qi's words, and in that mont of hesitation, a semi-transparent tentacle suddenly shot out from the sea, tightly wrapping around her waist.
"Aiyo!"
No way... Fen looked down.
Chen Qi smiled slightly:
"Let practice this skill, just for a little while."
As he spoke, Chen Qi raised his finger, and the semi-transparent tentacle lifted Fen high into the air.
Unlike his Ember's Touch, the tentacles created by the Deep Sea Compression Ball were semi-transparent ones condensed from seawater when integrated with the ocean.
"..."
Fen blinked her green eyes, tilted her head, her soaked green hair gently resting on her shoulders as she looked at Chen Qi with slight speechlessness.
Why does it feel like... he really enjoys this skill? Fen couldn't help but feel a trace of doubt.
Chen Qi smiled without speaking, simply gently raising his finger. In the sea, water gathered high like a whirlpool again, forming a pillar of seawater ready to tap her head.
These tentacles' power was sufficient against second-tier supernaturals, but against her, they still lacked considerable firepower.
Useless... Fen smiled confidently, preparing to rely on brute force to shatter Chen Qi's skill.
However, the next second, she suddenly felt a toxin continuously seeping into her body through the tentacle's skin!
[Death Poison], a highly effective venom that drastically reduces physical attributes while simultaneously generating painful sensations.
Additionally, there was pleasure!
Pain and pleasure intertwined!
Death's Whip and Bind Lv2, Chen Qi's basic tentacle skill, allowed basic tentacle attacks to carry both [Death Poison] and [Pleasure Poison], with these toxins being most effective when entangling the target.
The toxins slowly entered her body.
Fen's expression showed so surprise as she struggled vigorously. Under the slight effect of the toxins, she actually couldn't break free from this trash fish sea tentacle's binding through brute force alone.
Damn it... Fen was just about to reveal her true strength.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The next second, another tentacle fell from the sky like a club, striking three tis on her head.
The sound was remarkably loud!
What a good head!
At this mont, Fen finally couldn't take it anymore.
"Gua!"
The next instant, Fen, unable to bear the humiliation, used an instant self-destruction spell to violently explode the tentacles away, then perford a backflip in mid-air before landing gracefully.
"Qi..."
Damn it... Fen straightened her long hair as vines grew around her feet, wanting to make Chen Qi experience this feeling too.
Chen Qi said with full helplessness:
"No choice, around here, I can't find any other practice opponents."
As he spoke, he retracted his finger, withdrawing all the tentacles in front of them. These tentacles once again turned into special spiritual energy within the seawater, ultimately condensing into a palm-sized compression ball.
Return!
Chen Qi caught the ball with his hand and stored it in the waist pouch of his hunter outfit.
Testing complete.
Chen Qi summarized that although in the eyes of Deep Sea Hunters this was just a bath scrubber, for him, it was undoubtedly an extrely powerful divine artifact.
Its most serious drawback was the low strength of individual sea tentacles, far inferior to the strength of Ember's Touch.
However, it had two major characteristics.
First, extrely low energy consumption. It could absorb energy from seawater, requiring minimal spiritual energy expenditure.
Although its combat capability on land was weaker, on the ocean, with its extrely low energy consumption, these tentacles seed inexhaustible and constantly renewable.
Second, advantages in quantity and size. The tentacles could reach up to twenty ters in height with a five-ter radius, continuously growing tentacles at full capacity.
Although in one-on-one combat, they could only play a supporting role.
In situations of one against many, they could effectively prevent interference from miscellaneous soldiers and also deliver effective strikes against ships on the ocean.
Additionally, Chen Qi discovered that the sea tentacles grown from this compression ball could coordinate with so of his [tentacle-type] skills.
It could be said that this skill greatly enhanced his safety in mariti combat.
Not bad... Chen Qi finished his summary, then reached back and grabbed the poisonous vine preparing to ambush him from behind.
Vine technique? Such petty tricks? Still trying to sneak attack ?
Chen Qi narrowed his eyes, turned around, and smiled slightly at Fen.
A small gray flower of guilt sprouted on Fen's head as she rubbed her hands:
"Qi, you know what? This isn't a sneak attack, it's a floral aspect vine that can give you a pleasurable massage. You've been helping gather herbs recently, working hard..."
Do you think I'd believe that... Chen Qi clapped his hands and led Fen to a more concealed location.
Now that Fen's herb gathering was complete and his body was half recovered.
It was ti to prepare for the next step.
Since this place had produced such a massive tentacle tsunami, for safety's sake, Chen Qi and Fen found an unnad small island and leaned against coconut trees to discuss subsequent plans.
Chen Qi split open a coconut and handed it to Fen:
"Fen, we should just about start preparing for action."
"Really starting now?"
Fen took the half coconut and said with so concern.
Chen Qi leaned against the coconut tree and thought about it. His next goals were, first, to enhance his own strength, and second, to help Fen officially beco a legend.
The Fog Sea was filled with dangers, and currently, he didn't yet have the qualifications to enter the Fog Sea.
If Fen could advance to beco a true 'Flower Witch', becoming a legend...
These days, Fen had been making tonics whenever possible, feeding them to him. Thanks to Fen's various tonics, his body had recovered extrely quickly.
Chen Qi even felt that Fen cared more about his body than he did himself.
Thanks to the tonics, despite his overexertion and injury condition, his constitution had actually increased by 5 points.
And this was with Fen being rely an 'Alchemist'!
Chen Qi didn't dare imagine how powerful his body would be under the nourishnt of a legendary floral aspect alchemist's potions!
By then, even Haige, one of the supernovas and a dicine user, probably couldn't compare to him.
"Then, shall we set off imdiately?"
Fen asked curiously.
"No."
Chen Qi shook his head.
The Moon Island Flower was located deep within the Dragonflower Archipelago. To obtain it, they not only had to defeat the nurous golems controlled by the Moon Island Flower but, most importantly, had to beware of the legendary Dragon Tar King Jie.
As one of the Seven Sea Pirates, the Dragon Tar King was a very troubleso opponent...
Chen Qi frowned. With their current strength, he and Fen weren't even matches for Dragon Tar King Jie's flying thunder dragon group.
To pluck a legendary herb from his backyard, they had to wait for an opportunity—wait for the Dragon Tar King to leave! Wait for the opportune mont of war!
More importantly, Chen Qi estimated that with his current strength, facing the Dragon Tar King's flying dragons was still too risky.
He had to complete a major equipnt upgrade and comprehensive skill upgrade before this opportunity arrived.
Chen Qi currently had a full thirty deep blue fires.
And the Shadow Weaver summoning card could summon a shadow weaver to help him forge new equipnt, consuming approximately twenty deep blue fires.
The other deep blue fires required reliance on a blacksmith and large amounts of forging materials.
Simply having deep blue fires wasn't enough to upgrade equipnt.
The troubleso part was that the 'deep blue fires being stolen' incident had spread throughout the sea. Finding a trustworthy blacksmith would require so luck.
Additionally, the shadow weaver he summoned needed wriggling shadows to forge items, so he also needed to purchase large quantities of wriggling shadows.
These things had to be bought with money, lots and lots of money.
Short on money... Chen Qi couldn't help but shake his head:
"Fen, let's return to Haibao Number One, wait for an opportunity, and anwhile prepare for battle."
Haibao Number One had abundant supplies and many money-making opportunities.
"Haibao Number One?!"
Fen clutched her head in distress. Whenever she thought about the nurous bounty hunters at Haibao Number One, she felt a headache coming on.
"..."
Chen Qi looked at Fen's current attire.
Currently, Fen wore a dark green cloak with alchemist robes underneath. With this appearance, entering Haibao Number One again would inevitably lead to discovery.
"Just change clothes, with an identity—there are many adventurers of unknown origin from the Witch Sea..."
Chen Qi drained the coconut juice in one go, contemplating their subsequent actions.
...
Three weeks later, noon, Haibao Number One mobile dock.
Nurous rchant ships docked beside the mobile dock, forming a dense small mariti city.
In the distance, three large cargo ships and passenger liners slowly approached, carrying goods from around the world. Their massive hulls moved steadily through the waves like giants of the ocean, echoing the mobile dock from afar.
Another round of loading and unloading was about to begin. On Haibao Number Three's deck, hundreds of dock workers watched the scene before them, wiping sweat from their brows.
The bald lead dock worker shook his head and sighed:
"Such a pity, what trouble. Won't get to eat the last al at the Water Spirit Restaurant today."
"Yeah, truly unfortunate. The restaurant even sells low-price healing potions, but I didn't manage to get any. If I had enough healing potions, I could break into a D-tier dinsional rift, get a second-rank profession card, beco second-tier, and get married..."
"Stop dreaming. D-tier rifts are deadly. Better try to persuade the Water Spirit Restaurant's owner and proprietress not to run away."
"How can they not run? Recently, the seas are about to change dramatically. The navy keeps suffering defeats—our Haibao Number One might even beco Blackfin Crew captives. Those two, though lucky third-tiers, must be scared stiff."
The two dock workers sighed deeply, involuntarily turning to look at Chen Qi and Fen standing before the Haibao Number One hall entrance.
Chen Qi stood before the hall, opening his backpack card to inventory the good materials he'd recently acquired.
These days, besides operating as the restaurant owner, he spent most of his ti completing missions as a hunter and searching for equipnt upgrade materials.
During this period, he had acquired spider silk, wriggling shadows, sea dragon scales, lamp dust, and more.
These materials cost Chen Qi five million at once, plus recent food and beverage business earnings, plus selling large quantities of materials, plus so potions made by the Flower Witch, plus the shell coins from accepting hunter missions.
Altogether, it consud the astronomical price of fifteen million shell coins.
Buying equipnt materials was a bottomless pit. The once wealthy Chen Qi suddenly found his wallet deflated.
"No money left, but fortunately, the harvest is abundant..."
Chen Qi sat on the window-side rest chair in Haibao Number Three's hall dock, taking another look at his new equipnt.
By summoning the little shadow weaver, he had already forged a new piece of equipnt 'Ember Boots' and upgraded his main weapon.
[Ember Boots:
Affinity: Shadow, Blade
Function:
Basic Passive: Increases 30 points of equipnt agility, enhances all movent skills by 20%.
Hidden Shadow (Active): This equipnt can reduce your spiritual energy signature by 50%, and can eliminate your footsteps by condensing small shadows inside the shoes.
Ember Protection (Passive): When the wearer enters combat mode, activates the sole's fla mode, further increasing agility by 20%.]
The Ember Boots consud five deep blue fires in total.
The other was the most important weapon upgrade—'Flesh Cleaver Bone Breaker'!
[Flesh Cleaver Bone Breaker (Ember Upgrade)
Affinity: Blade
Description: A long blade upgraded through quenching with deep blue fire combined with dragon scale powder.
Function:
Flesh Severance (Passive): Greatly increases basic attack power. The blade becos extrely sharp, gathering deep blue fire. When the blade strikes the opponent, it erupts with deep blue fire capable of lting steel, tearing through the opponent's blood and flesh, while causing indelible anti-healing effects.
Fury's Might (Passive): This blade is already a legendary qi force technique weapon. All qi force techniques channeled through this weapon gain 30% power bonus and additional blade affinity damage.
Blade of Fury: When activating Blade of Fury, transforms the long blade into a two-ter blade burning with scorching flas. This power increases all your attributes by 20% and generates substantial blade affinity fury emotions, greatly enhancing your technique power.
The Blade of Fury upgrade consud considerably—fifteen deep blue fires all at once.
Chen Qi glanced at the Blade of Fury at his waist. Beneath its scabbard, the blade glead with so deep blue sharp patterns.
This blade was now an extrely powerful piece of equipnt even for legends.
Unfortunately, the shadow weaver's summoning ti was limited. He couldn't have all equipnt forged by the shadow weaver.
The remaining ten deep blue fires would be difficult to spend... Chen Qi shook his head.
"Qi!"
At this mont, Fen—with Water Spirit No. 2 on her head, wearing a white mask, and dressed in server attire—hurried over.
These days, Fen in disguise had been working as a server at Chen Qi's restaurant.
With Water Spirit No. 2 on her head, few paid attention to her mask.
Fen anxiously handed a newspaper to Chen Qi:
"Qi, quickly look at today's newspaper! Sothing big happened!"
Hmm? Chen Qi curiously took the newspaper and hurriedly scanned it.
The newspaper's headline had two major news stories.
#Captain Blackeye takes action, defeats major slave rchant Yue Xiao, saves special populations with Sea Beast Disease, unexpectedly discovers Deep Sea Hunter treasure, replaces Dya who was brutally beaten by Black Hunter, becoming the new supernova!#
Captain Blackeye, why do you still have screen ti? No, why can you find Deep Sea Hunter treasure... Chen Qi grumbled to himself, then continued reading.
#Navy headquarters attacked! Two warships, ten chas, all destroyed! Over five thousand navy personnel injured! One of the witch relics falls into Blackfin Crew hands!!#
Chen Qi excitedly tightened his grip on the newspaper:
"The formal war between the navy and Blackfin Crew has erupted earlier than I imagined."
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