Chapter 253: Weeping Pine Naval Battle – Part 12
“Tsk, just a bit more.” The revealed person was not tall, their stature was slim, they were wearing a night gown, and their face was also covered with a layer of black cloth.
When Jian Gui saw him, his heart suddenly trembled.
The mysterious enemy he had forced out, with some unknown method, had managed to sneak so close to him without him noticing anything!
Perhaps due to his strong promotion or just being safe, he had indiscriminately used an offensive spell to force the other person to appear.
The gold level fighter’s aura also caused Jian Gui great fear.
Without any hesitation, Jian Gui ran and jumped into the top of the cave.
Necromancy – Soul Flying spell!
With this magic, Jian Gui, along with his equipment, turned into ghosts and drilled their way through the cave.
After leaving the cave, Jian Gui didn’t stop and directly flew into the air.
This was a good choice.
Although gold level fighters might have flying skills, it was comparatively rare. Not every gold fighter had a flying skill.
Lady Sea Snake was one on the battlefield that could also threaten Jian Gui in the air.
The magician was only silver level and wasn’t that threatening.
Jian Gui quickly soared to the sky and quickly climbed to 9 meters from the ground.
There were no traces of the mysterious black gowned man he had forced out.
“What’s going on?” Jiang Gui was growing increasingly vigilant.
A moment later, the space behind Jian Gui fluctuated as the black clothed man instantly appeared!
The black clothed man help a dagger that was ruthlessly jabbing towards Jian Gui’s lower back.
Jian Gui was caught unprepared, and his ghostly transformed body was damaged by the dagger.
He didn’t turn around, or even turn his head, instead he swung his arms backwards and tore apart a necromancy scroll.
An ash-colored soul wave in the shape of a cone exploded from the scroll.
But the mysterious black clothed man vanished again.
Jian Gui flew to where he had come from, healing while using defensive magic.
The black clothed man appeared again, once again behind him. His dagger was gold level and immediately shredded Jian Gui’s defensive magic and wounded him once more.
Jian Gui was attacked two more times, completely losing, and had no power to retaliate for a moment.
“The Shadow Plane!” Zi Di on the Deep Sea Monster Fish was watching the two gold levels fight.
The Deep Sea Monster Fish had a special module, the Space Lock (Base).
Once, the survivors in Snake Rat Island’s underground caves, had used it to look for a teleportation formation and had spent a vast sum building it.
With its help, Zi Di could see clearly.
Every time the mysterious black clothed man appeared, it would trigger a spatial fluctuation. Evey time his silhouette appeared, the spatial fluctuation would expose the vague image and aura of the Shadow Plane.
Zi Di immediately contacted Cang Xu, “Jian Gui is battling a gold level fighter, he is in grave danger.”
“I can see clearly that this gold level fighter is capable of traveling through the Shadow Plane, able to blink shift.”
“It’s up to you on what you’re going to do.”
When Cang Xu got this information, he and Qing Xin were watching the water ghosts besieging them slowly retreat.
“Qi Ling decided to withdraw?” Qing Xin was flabbergasted.
Soon after, Cang Xu and Qing Xin were safe again.
Cang Xu sighed, “Qi Ling didn’t have killing intent. Her attacking us and then conceding that she was the traitor could actually be regarded as a warning.”
“In fact, if she waited a bit longer, we and Xiao Wang Zi could have reached the second tombstone. Then, when the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell was fired, we would have likely died from it.”
“The pirates threatened her with her clansmen, this ghost magician clearly knows who the real enemy is.”
Qing Xin’s eyebrow deeply wrinkled, “Even if Qi Ling didn’t deal with us, we are still in a terrible situation.”
“The pirates are already on the island; their target is us.”
“Jian Gui over there cannot be counted on, what should we do?”
Cang Xu took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
He tried to identify his current location and found he wasn’t that far from Jian Gui.
Cang Xu thought deeply for a bit, then decided to assist Jian Gui.
He wanted both sides to suffer; that would be the most advantageous outcome for the survivors.
But now, Jian Gui was absolutely losing, and if it continued, the black clothed fighter might kill him.
The survivors didn’t want this.
Of course, Cang Xu gave another pretext to Qing Xin, “The key person in this battle is Jian Gui. We must help him as much as possible; only with his strength can we repel the pirates. Otherwise, we won’t be able to escape this place by ourselves.”
“Follow me!” Cang Xu led Qing Xin, and after flying for a bit, they reached the top of the tallest pine tree.
Standing there, he could see Jian Gui in the air.
Jian Gui was flying erratically while the black clothed fighter’s figure was flashing constantly around Jian Gui.
Every time he appeared, he would injure Jian Gui.
Jian Gui had turned into a ghost, he hadn’t been fatally wounded and had plentiful reserves, and was able to heal in a timely fashion, allowing him to persist until now.
“Can we really help?” Qing Xin shook her head, looking pale, “That is too risky.”
Cang Xu replied, “We don’t need to forge ahead, we can stay here and give Jian Gui space, so if Lady Sea Snake or Qi Ling appear, we can stop them.”
“In addition…” As Cang Xu said that he used a communication device to contact Jian Gui, “Lord Jian Gui! Then other person is using the Shadow Plane to be elusive. Do you have a Dimensional Anchor magic scroll?”
“So that’s what’s happening!” After Jian Gui was told, his eyes flashed.
However, he didn’t have a Dimensional Anchor magic scroll and was unable to seal off local space.
“That doesn’t matter, I have another way!” Jian Gui flew towards the coastline.
The mysterious black clothed person chased after him, and although they didn’t know what Jian Gui was doing, they still used everything they had to stop him.
By the time Jian Gui reached the sea surface, his injuries had at least doubled.
He reached a hand under the water and called, “Come, my warship!”
A moment later, the ocean surface bubbled up and waves rapidly broke into a whirlpool.
A dozen seconds later, the whirlpool expanded to a radius of a hundred meters.
From the whirlpool came a derelict ship.
This ship emitted strong negative energy, its verdigris hull was utterly decayed, and its sails were ragged.
A great number of undead lifeforms were dithering across the ship.
It was an astonishing silver level ghost ship!
Jian Gui landed on the ghost ship, with the mysterious black clothed person right behind him.
A moment later, Jian Gui’s entire being merged into the ghost ship and completely vanished.
The mysterious black clothed man blankly stared, he sensed that Jian Gui had become the ghost ship under his feet!
Necromancy spell – Ghost World Transversal.
A moment later, a large quantity of strange fog appeared around the ghost ship.
The black clothed person’s face changed, because from the fog, he sensed the aura of the Ghost World!
The fog quickly concentrated into a pitch-dark color.
The ghost ship under the black clothed person seemed to gradually merge with the fog as it faded from reality into nothing, vanishing from where it stood.
“Cang Xu, many thanks for your warning.” Jian Gui suddenly transmitted.
But this time, he wasn’t using a communication device.
Cang Xu and Qing Xin quickly turned around to look at the source of the voice, then saw the ghost ship sailing across a river through the baseless and thick fog.
The ghost ship continued to transmit Jian Gui’s voice, “Don’t resist, I will pull you onto the ship. The other side has come prepared; you cannot stay here.”
After that was said, Cang Xu and Qing Xin felt a powerful force sucking them in.
After a moment’s hesitation, Cang Xu didn’t resist it and allowed Jian Gui to pull him onto the ghost ship’s deck.
Qing Xin immediately did the same.
After the two boarded, Jian Gui pulled in Xiao Wang Zi and Ku Feng too.
Jian Gui had clearly informed them ahead of time and they were more prepared than Cang Xu and Qing Xin for this.
Xiao Wang Zi once again sat on the back of his “generalissimo”.
Most of the skeletons he had recovered also stood back up too.
After picking them up, Jian Gui didn’t stay any longer and sailed the ghost ship away from Weeping Pine Island.
The heavy curtain of ending fell over the Weeping Pine Naval Battle, which involved the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, the pirate alliance, and the necromancers, when Jian Gui decided to retreat.
“Lord Wei Ying, the target?” Lady Sea Snake used a communication device to contact the mysterious black clothed person.
The black clothed person, Wei Ying, was indifferent, “Nothing could be done, the other side used the Ghost World Transversal spell, using the Ghost World to escape. If I used the Shadow Plane to break into the Ghost World, I would be entering Jian Gui’s trap.”
“The ghost ship can drift through the Underworld River, but I am a living person, if I go into the Underworld River, I will die!”
Lady Sea Snake looked embarrassed, “But if that happened, then we lost our target, and this operation has failed!”
Wei Ying slowly shook his head, “Letting them escape really is a failure. But not a complete one, my battle skill will continue for at least a week. I don’t believe Jian Gui can maintain Ghost World Transversal forever, as long as he anchors to the Main World, he will leave behind traces that we can track down.”
Elsewhere, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
“What? You lost contact with Cang Xu?” The dragonman youngster was stunned.
Zi Di helplessly replied, “He was saved by Jian Gui, and entire ghost ship entered the Ghost World and has completely vanished.”
The dragonman youngster’s heart filled with worry.
Zi Di then said, “Cang Xu left behind some stuff on the Iron Lump, Lord Commander, did you find them?”
The dragonman youngster nodded, “His gains from the undead gathering, some of it was stored in a ship cabin, along with his secret letter.”
“I have already read the letter.”
“In the letter, Cang Xu listed a few possible situations. The current one is accounted for.”
“According to the letter, if mutual destruction is not achieved, Cang Xu will help Jian Gui. In that case, he will hide by Jian Gui’s side for a time, strive to gain his trust, and seek to obtain more information.”
“Afterwards, he will look for a chance to move alone, separate himself from Jian Gui, and rejoin us once again.”
Cang Xu proved himself a valued confidant of the dragonman youngster. He had planned many things in advance.
After all, many plans were things he couldn’t communicate to another in front of Qing Xin.