txolops Chapter 81 A Bold Idea: Robbing the Island!
Chapter 81 A Bold Idea: Robbing the Island!
Although the crew had already witnessed Chen Ye's strength firsthand, this scene still made them shudder!
Just now on the demon-catching ship, Chen Ye alone killed nearly a quarter of the Zhou family's crew members, many of whom were cultivators at or above the sixth level of the Spirit Condensation Realm.
This thunderous strike alone is enough to deter those with ulterior motives.
After taking stock, the looting of the Zhou family's ships yielded more than 14,000 spirit stones, not counting those obtained from Zhou Maolin's storage bag. After all, as the captain, Chen Ye was the captain, and unless he mentioned it, who would dare to ask?
Although this number sounds like a lot, when averaged out among the more than ninety Zhou family crew members, each person only "contributed" a little over one hundred coins.
Including other talismans, pills, weapons, and various plundered seabed resources, the total value should be around 21,000 spirit stones!
It should be noted that the Gong family's demon-hunting ships usually bring back only three or four thousand spirit stones each time they go out to sea, at most five or six thousand. When has it ever been so generous?
As for the 50/50 split agreement between Chen Ye and Gong Lingxuan, the crew members were unaware of it, and even within the entire Gong family, only a few core members such as Gong Yuechan knew about it.
Chen Ye allocated a portion of the spirit stones and magical artifacts as rewards for the crew, while he took most of the valuables and returned to the top deck cabin alone. He felt it was best to keep some things safe himself.
Night fell in the blink of an eye.
The Mo Jiao had sailed away from the area where the great battle had taken place and was now sailing alone on the vast ocean.
Inside the spacious room.
Chen Ye stood in front of a tub of prepared spiritual bath, took out the Crimson Blood Coral from his storage bag, carefully broke off a branch about the length of a finger, then used his spiritual power to condense a blade and sliced it into even thin slices, which he then scattered into the wooden tub.
It is said that physical cultivation consumes a lot of resources, and Chen Ye believes that this is indeed true. One dose of spiritual medicine is worth forty spirit stones, and that is after he used the token of the Gong family and got an 80% discount.
For this voyage, Chen Ye prepared thirty doses of body-tempering elixirs. Even if he took a spiritual bath every three days, it would only last for three months at most!
Of course, Chen Ye could also choose a cheaper way to cultivate, such as extending the intervals between medicinal baths and simply practicing techniques to improve his physical strength.
However, if that were the case, it would probably take Chen Ye countless years to cultivate his physical body to the level of a high-grade magic weapon or even a top-grade magic weapon!
Therefore, if something can be solved with spirit stones, then use spirit stones...
With all the medicinal herbs prepared, Chen Ye circulated his spiritual power to activate their properties. The originally clear bath water quickly transformed into a body-tempering liquid with a dark golden hue, and faint streaks of bright red, like blood, could also be seen!
That's due to the changes produced by the Crimson Coral. This spiritual plant doesn't have any special effects when used alone, but it can greatly enhance the medicinal properties and improve the efficiency of body tempering.
Chen Ye took off all his clothes, revealing his strong physique. His muscles were perfectly defined, each one extremely even, as if they contained boundless power.
He stepped into the medicine barrel, and with a wave of his hand, the spirit-gathering array flags placed beside him automatically arranged around the medicine barrel. The array activated, and rich spiritual energy instantly filled the space within a ten-foot radius.
The combination of spiritual bathing and spirit-gathering array enhances cultivation results!
Immersing his entire body in the spiritual bath, Chen Ye activated the Vajra Body Forging Technique, then focused his mind and looked into his sea of consciousness.
[Subject: Chen Ye]
[Remaining life span: 812]
[Realm: Seventh Level of Spiritual Cultivation (71/700)]
[Cultivation Techniques: Tidal Spirit Guiding Technique: Mastery 358/1600, Vajra Body Forging Technique: Proficiency 21/1600]
【法术：禁妖诀小成：43/1800，镇魂术小成：314/800，炎煞诀精通：193/400，灵灭指小成：269/400，金光术精通：71/100，幻雾术小成：146/200】
【技能：敛息精通：45/50，御水精通：38/50，辨灵精通：43/50】
The Vajra Body Forging Technique is a spiritual cultivation method. Chen Ye consumed more than two hundred years of his lifespan to master it.
However, during his time at sea, Chen Ye had been hunting monsters from time to time. In addition, the Black Armored Poison Spider he had killed earlier at the peak of the first tier provided him with a full 120 years of lifespan.
Therefore, the lifespan that was consumed was not only replenished, but actually increased.
Chen Ye glanced at the cultivation techniques and spells he had mastered. Among them, the Spirit Guiding Technique and the Body Tempering Technique were his main cultivation techniques. To comprehend them would require too much lifespan and would not bring any obvious changes in a short period of time, so there was no need to touch them for the time being.
As for spells like Spirit Annihilation Finger, Flame Fiend Technique, and Soul Suppression Technique, they don't consume much lifespan but can quickly increase one's combat power. It's worth considering practicing them all and at least improving the proficiency of each one!
"An 800-year lifespan is more than enough, and besides, we're at sea now, so we can replenish our energy whenever we want. There's no need to be overly frugal..."
Upon realizing this, Chen Ye immediately began to study the cultivation method.
[Flame Fiend Technique - Minor Success, consumes one hundred years of lifespan!]
[Soul Suppression Technique - Mastery, consumes two hundred years of lifespan!]
[Spirit Annihilation Finger - Great Completion, consumes 150 years of lifespan!]
[Illusionary Mist Technique - Mastery, consumes one hundred years of lifespan!]
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A month later.
The waves surged, and the crimson blood stained the seawater. The fish and beasts in the sea, attracted by the smell of blood, craned their necks in anticipation, hoping for a drop of flesh and blood.
On the deck, corpses, some incomplete, others with wide-open, angry eyes but devoid of color, were scattered everywhere.
This is a Zhou family demon-hunting ship that was plundered. Of the seventy-five crew members on board, seventy-four died, and the remaining one is the captain, a core member of the Zhou family.
Although he was not dead yet, he was in a state of wishing for death but unable to die.
Inside the dimly lit cabin, Chen Ye opened the spirit insect pouch and let the Queen of Devouring Patterns, who had completed her mission, fly inside. In front of him, a male cultivator with all four limbs severed lay in a pool of blood.
He spoke in a hoarse, broken voice.
"I...I've told you everything I know. Please...see me off..."
"it is good."
Chen Ye nodded slightly, his gaze calm, and flicked his hand to unleash a Spirit Annihilation Finger.
boom!
A bloody hole exploded in the male cultivator's chest, but there was no resentment in his eyes, only a gradually fading sense of relief.
For the past month, Chen Ye has repeatedly targeted the Zhou family's demon-hunting ships. This is the fourth ship he has plundered, and the information he has obtained from these core members of the Zhou family is almost identical!
There is indeed only one secret guard on Yunrui Island!
Furthermore, this cultivator's injuries had not yet healed, and every three months he had to escort a cargo ship loaded with spiritual herbs and plants back and forth to Bizhu Island, the main island of the Zhou family.
As Chen Ye recalled the details of Yunrui Island that he had just extracted from this person, a bold idea suddenly came to mind!
"It seems that raiding the Spirit Island isn't entirely out of the question..."