Another early morning, Xu Zihuang, who was sitting cross-legged on the Demon Whale, had finished practicing all night.
The Magic Whale is not a large ship and cannot anchor to fix its position.
Drifting by the wind and waves on the sea one night, he was taken to the junction of the offshore area and the deep sea area. With the golden pupil martial spirit, he could easily judge these changes through the changes in the color of the sea water and the internal currents with his subtle observation skills.
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After sailing at sea for more than a month, his clothes and face were still spotless. There was no fatigue or vicissitudes after a long sea voyage.
Looking at the rising sun, Xu Zihuang took a deep breath, tied his long black hair behind his back with a hair tie, and then took out the map of this sea area from the storage soul guide.
Judging by comparing the sea chart and the direction of the rising sun, he should now be in the southern waters of the Star Luo Empire. After sailing west for a while, he would enter the southern waters of the Sun and Moon Empire.
The powerful sea soul beasts living in the deep sea restricted the development of the two imperial navies.
Neither the Sun Moon Empire nor the Star Luo Empire are very good at naval warfare. But this does not mean that they do not have any measures on the sea. Both sides have a navy where they meet in the southern sea. However, the number of the navy is not large enough.
, which roughly has the strength of a soul mentor group of 500 people.
Relatively speaking, the navy of the Sun and Moon Empire is stronger. Although it is not as good as the top soul mentor group of the Protector's Hand of the Sun and Moon Empire, the advantages in soul guidance technology are there after all.
The navy in the south of the Sun and Moon Empire is called the Nanhai Soul Engineer Group. The leader of the division is a powerful eighth-level soul engineer. There are four hundred-meter-level ships under his command, and there are even more small escort ships.
The ship is equipped with many powerful soul guides, and its combat effectiveness is considerable.
The reason why Xu Zihuang knew this very well was because Wang Yao and the others had carefully inquired about the detailed information of this South China Sea soul mentor group.
The original Nanhai Soul Engineer Group was actually controlled by his father. However, after Xu Tianran and his son came to power, they quickly replaced them with his own cronies.
Moreover, he learned from Keke not long ago that Orange is currently training in this South China Sea Soul Instructor Group. With his excellent commanding and combat capabilities, he has repeatedly made military exploits in the battle against sea soul beasts, and has now reached the rank of commander.
The captain of one hundred soul mentors. With a captain like this, there are only five people in the Nanhai Soul Mentor Corps, and their status is second only to the division commander of the Nanhai Soul Mentor Corps.
In order to avoid trouble, Xu Zihuang planned to bypass the navies on both sides in this sea area where the offshore and deep sea meet. Then he would take a large ship from Haiyue City, the southern city of the Sun and Moon Empire, to Yueshu Island.
Starting from the southern waters of the Sun and Moon Empire to Yueshu Island, it will take at least nearly half a month to sail, and it will go deep into the sea.
He has basically completed the purpose of going out to sea to experience this time. Naturally, there is no need to venture deep into the sea alone. The possibility of encountering powerful sea soul beasts is secondary, mainly because his sailing experience is not that rich.
Navigating around the continent at least has the coastline as a reference, but if you go deep into the sea, it is not easy to identify the direction.
Xu Zihuang carefully determined the position and then lowered the sail. The sea breeze blew on him and stirred a few strands of purple hair on his forehead and temples.
The sailing conditions at sea are indeed a bit rough, but he has never been harsh on himself when it comes to daily needs.
Today's breakfast is still made from local ingredients. A few randomly caught sea fish are boiled in clean water to make a sweet white soup and served with some fresh vegetables. With the development of soul guidance technology, the current storage soul guidance device can be used for storage.
ingredients while maintaining their freshness.
The staple food is pan-fried salmon. Looking at the endless deep blue sea and tasting the delicious food, the boring mood seems to be relieved a lot.
While eating breakfast, Xu Zihuang released his soul shield to avoid several sea soul beasts whose cultivation level was over eight thousand years but not ten thousand years old. The distinction between offshore waters and deep seas is not only based on the depth of the water, but also the depth of the water.
The obvious difference is that the sea soul beasts living there have different levels of cultivation.
The main cultivation levels of the sea soul beasts that move in the offshore waters are generally at the hundred-year or millennium level. But once you get close to the deep sea, including the sea area where the offshore sea and the deep sea meet, you may encounter a ten thousand-year soul beast.
These sea soul beasts, whose cultivation level is less than 10,000 years, have limited perception ability after all, and they did not detect the existence of the Demonic Whale and Xu Zihuang.
After sailing for about an hour, he officially entered the southern waters of the Sun and Moon Empire. Just as he changed direction and prepared to land at Haiyue City, a coastal city in the south of the Sun and Moon Empire, a man with a cultivation level of about five thousand years appeared.
The sea soul beast suddenly entered the range of his mental perception.
Xu Zihuang looked up to the west with a feeling, and saw several dazzling golden light spots reflected on the sea in the distance.
What reflects the golden light spots are pieces of dark brown scales. The texture of the scales is smooth and transparent, and there are strange golden textures inside. A total of thirteen scales overlap to form a whole tortoise shell.
The owner of the tortoise shell is a turtle-like soul beast with a sharp head like an eagle's beak.
"Tortle turtle?" Looking at this turtle-like soul beast, Xu Zihuang raised his eyebrows in surprise.
In the memory of his previous life, Xu Sanshi's seventh soul ring was fused with a golden tortoiseshell that had a hundred thousand years of cultivation. The golden tortoiseshell is not like the emperor's auspicious beast, the three-eyed golden eagle, which can affect the luck of the entire Star Dou Forest.
It exists as an auspicious beast, but it is also known as an auspicious beast. Among turtle soul beasts, it is like an emperor.
According to legend, this golden tortoise shell has the inheritance of the golden bloodline among soul beasts. It does not hate humans as much as other soul beasts, but is close to human soul masters who have great luck. In ancient times, it was a symbol of auspiciousness.
And even if it is just an ordinary tortoise shell, its status among turtle soul beasts is extraordinary.
The hawksbill turtle tribe has been able to adapt to both the ocean and the land environment at the same time. Xu Zihuang is not surprised that there is a tribe in the ocean.
But the tortoiseshell turtle in front of me is really too special. The golden lines on its back mean that it has a trace of golden blood.
The hawksbill turtle swam quickly on the sea surface, its mental fluctuations were a bit chaotic, and it looked like it was avoiding danger. In a blink of an eye, it came to Xu Zihuang, and one person and one turtle met each other.
Xu Zihuang did not take action against the tortoiseshell. He was not someone who took pleasure in killing. As long as it was not a sea soul beast that actively attacked it, he would not take action at will under normal circumstances.
Besides, this tortoise shell didn't have any value that made him take action. The scales on the back of the tortoise shell were of high value. It was a top decorative item in the collection and was highly sought after by the nobles. But from his perspective, it was nothing.
The hawksbill turtle seemed to sense that Xu Zihuang had no ill intentions towards it, so it retracted its head and continued to swim hurriedly towards the deep sea.
Not long after the tortoiseshell left, a warship appeared in Xu Zihuang's sight again.
The warship is fifty meters long and twenty meters wide. The hull is covered with a thick layer of iron-gray armor. There are also soul cannons placed on the deck.
At this time, there were dozens of people standing on the deck. The leader was a young man in his twenties. The young man was less than 1.8 meters tall, and his figure could not be called strong. His skin was dark and wheat-colored.
But his hair is half white and half red, which gives people a very weird look.
The young man pretended to be aloof and crossed his arms across his chest, looking forward. When he noticed the Magic Whale and Xu Zihuang standing at the front of the Magic Whale, a hint of surprise appeared in his cold and arrogant brown eyes, and then he
He snorted very disdainfully.
Going deep into the sea alone, he was either relying on his own strength or having a mental problem and not knowing how high the sky was. In his opinion, Xu Zihuang was obviously the latter.
A young man who looks like he is only sixteen or seventeen years old, has a soul master-level cultivation level that is unparalleled. Not everyone can be like him. His martial soul has undergone a benign mutation, and his talent has made him look proud of his peers since he was a child.
A lean, dark-skinned middle-aged man came to the young man's side. The middle-aged man had a flat nose and small eyes, and his appearance was really hard to compliment. But his aura was the deepest among the people on the deck, and the others were all the same.
He respectfully made way for him.
Jin Hong, a lean man, narrowed his eyes slightly and looked into the distance as sharply as an eagle. After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and reminded in a deep voice: "Young leader, that tortoiseshell has escaped to the deep sea area. If you continue to chase, it is likely to be killed.
If you are in danger, go and meet the leader first. The leader has given instructions in advance. This mission is extremely important and there cannot be any mistakes."
The young man sighed inexplicably.
"I know, Uncle Jin. It's just a pity. I originally wanted to use the scales on the back of the tortoise turtle to make a chart covering the entire Yuenan Islands and give it to grandpa. In this case, there is nothing I can do, but I can't be so white.
Let’s take a trip.”
As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand.
A sturdy young man behind him showed a cruel smile with understanding, took out a dark metal barrel from the turret on the deck and handed it to the young man.
The young man raised the barrel with a smile, filled it with a fixed soul cannon and aimed it at the Demonic Whale, but the coldness and jealousy deep in his eyes were frightening.
"Things that are an eyesore should disappear from this world. If you want to be resentful, then resent the injustice of this world. A waste with only a good skin has no right to live in this world."
Jin Hong did not say anything to stop the young man, as long as it did not affect the overall situation.
Crocodile Cheng is the only grandson of the leader of their Demon Crocodile Pirate Group. Even with his status in the Demon Crocodile Pirate Group, it is difficult to say anything.
The most important thing is that in the perception he has developed over a long time, killing is simply an ordinary thing.
With the stimulation of soul power, the barrel in Crocodile Cheng's hand began to tremble slightly. A strong black halo circulated on the surface of the barrel.
"Boom -" a violent roar sounded, and a dazzling black light burst out from the metal tube, shooting out towards the Magic Whale.
However, the young man standing proudly on the Demon Whale did not show a frightened expression as he imagined, and the indifference in his deep purple eyes seemed to be invisible mockery.
What Crocodile Cheng saw next was four balls of blue flame spitting out from behind the Demon Whale at the same time, actively facing the ball of black light at an astonishing speed.
At the critical moment, Xu Zihuang tiptoed, and the fusiform Magic Whale sank deeply into the sea water.
The black light also hit the sea surface, and the sea surface with a radius of nearly 100 meters stirred up waves tens of meters high, and strong winds swept in.
The blue light passed through the sea water and formed a solid trace of light. The attention of everyone on the deck was attracted by the Magic Whale shuttled through the sea water.
Jin Hong seemed to sense something, and raised his head suddenly, his eyes focused.
The reaction ability to avoid the fixed soul cannon head-on is not something that any soul master can possess. He realized that the young man in front of him might not be simple.
The rest of the people also followed Jin Hong's line of sight and looked over. They saw a young man with black hair and purple eyes falling from the sky and landing steadily on the railing in front of the warship deck, with a cold voice.
"The Demon Crocodile Pirates Group, Crocodile Cheng, right?"
Xu Zihuang actually recognized Crocodile Cheng from the beginning. It’s not that Crocodile Cheng has any extraordinary qualities that deserve his attention, but that he has an amazing memory. As long as he has met him once, it is basically difficult to forget him.
Moreover, Crocodile Cheng’s facial features are too obvious.
Seeing the calmness and calmness in Xu Zihuang's eyes, the veins on Crouch Cheng's forehead twitched slightly. Anyone familiar with Crouch Cheng knew that their young leader was on the verge of breaking out.
Several pirates from the Demon Crocodile Pirate Group showed their fierceness and were about to take action, but were stopped by Crocodile Cheng.
"you know me?"
Crocodile Cheng looked at Xu Zihuang coldly. Xu Zihuang avoided his attack, which made him feel betrayed. If Xu Zihuang hadn't recognized his identity, which made him feel a little confused, he would have taken action long ago.
It was crushed to death.
In this sea area, no force dares to openly oppose their Demon Crocodile Pirate Group. Even the officials of the Sun and Moon Empire have nothing to do against them.
Xu Zihuang smiled calmly,
"None of this is important. You just need to know that none of you can leave here alive today." His voice was very calm, completely stating the facts.
"Boy, are you looking for death?! Who do you think you are?!" Crocodile Cheng's face turned cold, and his brown eyes changed drastically at this moment. One pupil turned into ice blue, and the other
It turned into fiery red.
Two yellow, two purple and one black, five optimally matched soul rings rose instantly from his feet, and the breath of extreme cold and heat swept outward from his body.
A huge two-headed snapping turtle appeared behind him, with one head in ice blue and one in fiery red.
Ice and fire two-headed snapping turtle. This is Crocodile Cheng’s martial spirit.
Dozens of pirates behind Crouching Cheng also released their own martial souls. Their soul power cultivation levels ranged from two-ring great soul masters to five-ring soul kings. Their martial souls were also all kinds of strange. However, most of them were sea souls.
division.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. There was no doubt that as long as Crocodile Cheng gave the order, they would step forward and tear Xu Zihuang into pieces without hesitation.
But before they could make any other moves, their eyes were filled with panic.
Black, black, black, black, black, red. Every time a soul ring appeared from Xu Zihuang's side, the look of fear in their eyes became even more intense. Especially when they saw the strange blood-red soul ring.
At this time, breathing seemed to have become stagnant.
The middle-aged man Jin Hong, who was originally calm, also changed his expression drastically.
However, the next moment he saw strange silver ripples covering a large area of the sea including the warship. Except for him and Gu Cheng, everyone exploded into a ball of blood mist.
"Bang, bang, bang--" The dull sound of a human body exploding resounded on the deck, and blood even splashed onto Crocodile Cheng's cheek. He was a little unaware, and his face was bloodless.
Jin Hong just reacted and wanted to gather his soul power to release his martial soul to resist, but he was wrapped around his body by a golden and silver tentacle emerging from the void.
Even though he was a soul saint, he had no ability to resist in the face of this tentacle. The golden lines on the tentacles flashed, and he felt that his soul and consciousness were about to be crushed by the terrifying force of the explosion.
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Xu Zihuang landed on the deck and walked step by step in front of Crocodile Cheng.