As if he didn’t feel the unkind eyes of the crowd, the Standing Monk continued, “This is a road of no return, if we go any further, we will enter hell, even Xuanwu died there, so what’s the difference between us barging in and sending ourselves to death? Out of the ten people, if one of them can survive, they must have been sheltered by the Buddha as well.”
Hearing this, the crowd all gritted their teeth and sharpened their fists, ready to walk over and teach the Standing Monk a hard lesson.
Huang Yichen also frowned straight away and walked over to Zhang Ruochen’s side, saying in a low voice, “Zhang Ruochen, where did this monk come from? Does he really have a premonition of something, or is he cursing us? If you know him, go tell him to shut up. If he continues to talk nonsense, I’m afraid he’ll be beaten up by the group of Market Realm warriors on the battleship.”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head and said, “This monk, his origin is not simple, listen to him continue.”
Ahead, a rocky island appeared, and from afar, one could see that the island was surrounded by cliffs.
On the island, not an inch of grass grew, only red stones and sand.
Monk Standing Ground’s eyes shrunk and he exclaimed in shock, pointing at the island, saying, “That is a sea grave where a half-saint was buried, moreover, the half-saint’s corpse, which seemed to have been affected by some kind of evil power, actually opened its eyes and was about to crawl out of the grave”
“Boom!”
Finally, someone couldn’t bear it anymore, and swung a fist over, striking the Tachi Monk’s head, knocking the Tachi Monk to the ground.
The person who struck was some evil martial artist from the black market.
This person’s name was Huo Guang, and he had a fierce-looking face. He was the grandson of Huo Wuji, and was already over fifty years old, yet he didn’t look that significantly older, only in his thirties.
Huo Guang stomped on the chest of the Standing Ground Monk, his eyes glowing with cold light as he said in a deep voice, “Bald ass, if you speak any more nonsense, believe it or not, I’ll cut out your tongue?”
Monk Lidi appeared to be very calm, lying on the ground, folding his hands and solemnly saying, “Amitabha Buddha! How could a monk talk nonsense? The poor monk swears to the Buddha that there is absolutely not a single delusional word.”
Huo Guang’s anger increased, his fists clenched tightly, and flame-like true qi surged out, wrapping his fists.
Only, before Huo Guang’s fists, had even landed, the Half-Saint level battleship shook violently as if it had suffered a heavy blow, nearly sending Huo Guang flying out.
The Ship Protector Formation, emitting a circle of white ripples, gave off an even more piercing light.
From afar, the light of the Ship Protecting Grand Formation was like a round of blazing sun suspended over the surface of the sea, wrapping the battleship in the centre.
“What’s going on?”
“Who is attacking the battleship?”
Some of these Market Realm warriors, panicked, looking around for traces of the enemy.
Zhang Ruochen’s expression became very serious as he secretly operated his true qi and carefully watched out.
To be able to knock a Half-Saint level battleship into shaking, it was definitely not something an ordinary enemy could do.
A Market Realm warrior exclaimed, pointing at the rocky island in the distance, saying, “Look, how come there’s a person on top of that island?”
Zhang Ruochen immediately looked over in the direction of the rocky island, and even though it was far away, he still saw at a glance that on the island, on the northwest side of a cliff, there was indeed a person standing.
One must know that that one island was not big, and there was not an inch of grass, so one could say that it was in full view.
There were no silhouettes earlier.
How did a person suddenly appear?
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, snapped shut and said, “That person, seems to have no head.”
Not only did Zhang Ruochen discover this, but those other Market Realm warriors also saw it clearly. That one person on the island did indeed have no head.
Huo Guang sneered, “It’s just a headless corpse, it’s probably someone pretending to be a ghost, trying to scare us and stop us from travelling to the Blood Spring Sea Trench to search for the Xuanwu Inheritance.”
He took out a six-foot long Silver Bone Star Bow and pulled the bowstring with his fingers, forming a full moon. A strand of true qi, gushing out from his fingertips, condensed into a Flame True Qi Arrow.
The arrow of the Flame True Qi Arrow pointed towards the headless corpse on the island.
Monk Standing Ground immediately stopped it, ”Scholar, calm down, don’t try to startle it, it has just crawled out of the sea grave and is absorbing the dead qi between heaven and earth. If you startle it, you will cause great trouble.”
Huo Guang stared at the Standing Earth Monk and said, “Bald ass, if you dare to say one more word, I will shoot you first.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the headless corpse and also developed a sense of foreboding, indeed, he felt a faint aura fluctuation on the sea surface. Moreover, the source of the aura fluctuation was none other than that headless corpse.
He was about to go and stop Huo Guang, but Huo Guang’s fingers had already loosened a step ahead of him.
The Flame True Qi Arrow, like a light shuttle, flew out.
Huo Guang’s cultivation had reached the Fish Dragon Third Transformation.
Combined with the fact that the Silver Bone Star Bow was also a rather powerful treasure weapon, the arrow he shot with all his might naturally had a powerful force that was enough to sink that small island.
The speed of the Flame True Qi Arrow was extremely fast, pushing the air to form an arc and emitting an ear-splitting air explosion sound.
Just when the crowd thought that the island would sink, a bizarre scene appeared.
Only to see, that one headless corpse standing at the edge of the cliff suddenly turned around, stretched out a hand, and pressed it towards the void.
“Boom!”
The Flame True Qi Arrow exploded in mid-air, turning into a fist-sized rain of fire that crashed into the sea.
The seawater made a giggling sound and boiled.
In the headless corpse’s abdomen, it let out an odd cry, forming a powerful sound wave that erupted with the rocky island as its centre.
“Rumble!”
The seawater was lifted up, forming a ring of tens of feet high water waves that surged out.
The water wave lifted up, and the rocky island revealed the underwater part.
It was only at this moment that the crowd saw that the shape of that one island actually really resembled a grave.
In front of the grave, there was also a huge stone monument, only that the monument had been submerged by the seawater earlier and no one had seen it.
Huo Guang was already stunned by the scene in front of him, chills kept rising on his back, and he couldn’t help but take a step back.
The rest of the Market Realm warriors, also looked at each other in disbelief, many of them looked towards the Standing Monk, and said in their hearts, could it be that the monk was really a crow’s mouth, and all of it was said by him?
“It it’s gone,” someone said in a shocked voice.
Zhang Ruochen pointed above his head and said, “It’s not disappeared into thin air, but, it’s above our heads.”
Sure enough, that headless corpse, at some point, was actually hovering above the Half-Saint level battleship.
It was wearing tattered robes, and the flesh and blood on its body, in many places, had rotted, revealing parts of its bones.
“Boom!”
The headless corpse dropped downwards and punched out.
That fist force, which had only just erupted, hadn’t even landed yet, and the Market Realm warriors on the battleship were like suffering from five thunderbolts, as a large portion of them collapsed to the ground, bleeding from seven holes and twitching non-stop.
Even the experts of the Fish Dragon Realm felt a huge pressure, their legs kept trembling, as if they were about to kneel on the ground.
Could it be that it was really the corpse of a Half-Saint?
“Boom!”
Fortunately, the headless corpse’s fist was blocked by the ship guard formation and didn’t actually land.
Even so, the Half-Saint level battleship sank violently downwards, almost sinking to the bottom of the sea.
“That’s a half-saint evil corpse buried here in the ancient times, one set of ship guard formation can’t block it, immediately open the second set of ship guard formation.”
Situ Fenglan was, after all, an expert who had experienced great storms and waves, even though he had encountered a Half-Saint Evil Corpse, he was still calm and composed, calmly instructing the formation masters on the ship to turn on the second set of ship-guard formations.
At the same time, the strongest attack formation on the ship, the Fire God Grand Formation, operated under the urging of nine million spirit crystals, launching a counter-attack on the Half-Saint Evil Corpse.
Seeing the strong defence and attack power of the Half-Saint level warship, those Market Realm warriors, finally let out a sigh of relief.
Ao Xin Yan said, “What a terrifying monster, fortunately, the Half-Saint level battleship was strong enough to block it, otherwise, I’m afraid all of us would have died here.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at the Half-Saint Evil Corpse that kept launching attacks, his mood did not relax, and the look on his face, instead, became more grave.
Ao Xin Yan saw that Zhang Ruochen’s expression was different, so she asked, “Team Leader, do you think that the Half-Saint level warship can’t stop that one Half-Saint Evil Corpse?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “The reason why the Half-Saint level battleship is so powerful is because, on the battleship, there are hundreds of formations laid out, each of which is working in conjunction with each other, so it has a powerful defence and attack power.”
“However, in order to activate these formations, a large amount of spirit crystals must be spent.”
“Once the spirit crystals on the battleship are depleted, then a Half-Saint level battleship is just an ordinary ship.”
Ao Xin Yan said, “Is the group leader worried that the battleship will run out of spirit crystals but still fail to repel that Half-Saint Evil Corpse?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “The reason why the Half-Saint Evil Corpse was able to survive until now is because, after the Half-Saint died, the Saint Soul in its body, transformed into the Half-Saint Light.”
“The Half-Saint’s Light was in turn affected by the Blood Spring Trench’s death aura and underwent some evil changes. It is because of this reason that a Half-Saint Evil Corpse can use the Half-Saint Light to absorb the aura of heaven and earth and transform it into a constant stream of attack power.”
“If the Half-Saint level warships, before the spirit crystals run out, cannot kill the Half-Saint Evil Corpses, our next situation will be quite dangerous.”
Hearing Zhang Ruochen’s explanation, not only did Ao Xinyan, Huang Yichen, and the Orange Moon Star Envoy become nervous, but even the Evil Dao martial practitioners of the Black Market had their faces change drastically.
If they lost the shelter of the Demi-Saint level warship, who would be able to block that Demi-Saint Evil Corpse?
“Pah!”
The green-robed Star Envoy coldly glared at Huo Guang, slapped him across the face, and scolded, “Reckless fool, if it wasn’t for you messing with that Half-Saint Evil Corpse, how would we be in a desperate situation? If the Half-Saint level battleship is breached, you’ll be the first to be thrown out to feed it.”
