Chapter 259: Cang Xu Dies
Cang Xu once more opened Jian Gui’s magic tome.
The first part of the ghostly transformation section was the Water Ghost Refinement spell.
In this oceanic environment, refining water ghosts was undoubtedly the most practical choice. From how the book’s contents were arranged, one could glimpse the author’s, Jian Gui’s, pondering.
“Is it worth refining a water ghost?” Cang Xu calmly analyzed.
He thought of Qi Ling’s water ghosts.
The water ghosts had dealt enormous casualties to the Lightning Pirates.
Especially when Qi Ling used an intermediate level Soul Send spell with her silver level water ghosts, allowing her to control key members of the pirates.
Cang Xu personally experienced how strong those water ghosts were.
“But it doesn’t suit me right now.”
The reason was very simple; water ghosts were partial towards attacking.
They were not individually strong, they needed numbers.
Provided they were a group and fighting at sea, their combat effectiveness was usually decent.
Magician Qi Ling’s group magic and utilization of the Soul Sending spell really was sharp.
But now, Cang Xu was facing a gold level enemy. There was a two life level difference between him and them, Qi Ling’s group magic would be ineffective.
Cang Xu constantly thumbed through the magic tome’s pages.
Suddenly, he froze.
Dragon Spirit Refinement spell!
Gigantic dragons were one of the strongest lifeforms in the world, and dragon spirits were absolutely one of the strongest ghosts too.
Cang Xu couldn’t move his eyes away.
“If I had a dragon spirit, even only a silver level one, it could temporarily hold back the mysterious black clothed person. Even an iron level one, could last a few seconds.”
A few seconds was a fundamental change!
Because Cang Xu was on the ghost ship, and a few seconds was enough for Jian Gui to react and lend a helping hand.
However, Cang Xu lacked the most important material to refine a dragon spirit.
He needed a dragon soul, the purer the better, while sub-dragons were second level quality.
“Lord Jian Gui, do you have a dragon soul on you? I can buy it at a high price!” Cang Xu asked again.
But Jian Gui didn’t have one, “Pure dragon souls are very rare, I don’t have such a good thing.”
Cang Xu thumbed through the tome once more.
“Ghost Horse Refinement spell?”
He quickly shook his head.
Even if he could refine a ghost horse to be his mount, his speed could never compare to the mysterious black clothed figure’s blink shift.
“Shield bearer ghost?”
This was a type of protection ghost.
Cang Xu had seen how they were used from the advanced soul aspect inheritance he had received.
One of them was after a necromancer turned themselves into a ghost, they could entrust themselves to a shield bearer ghost.
When that happened, then a ghost would be in a ghost.
Cang Xu could get the shield bearer ghost’s defenses.
“A silver level shield bearer ghost, almost no offensive use, all of its potential is spent on defense.”
“If I use it this way, then against the mysterious black clothed person, I can struggle at death’s door for a second more.”
Cang Xu’s brows wrinkled.
Because he knew this option was barely passable.
The mysterious black clothed person not only had a gold level life level, but also three pieces of high end gold level equipment.
When his powerful dagger stabbed Jian Gui, the latter of whom was a direct inheritor of the undead, it put him into peril and seriously injured him.
Even with the shield bearer ghost, it would only be a difference of two to three blade strikes to Cang Xu at most.
“The Death Substitute Refinement spell?”
“That could do!”
When Cang Xu saw it, his brows finally smoothed out, and his mind shook.
He instantly envisaged a few good tactics of playing dead and fleeing for his life.
Looking again at the content after it, Cang Xu returned back to the “Death Substitute Refinement spell” part of the magic tome.
“This is the one!”
Cang Xu made his decision.
He immediately used the magic tome on one of his silver level ghosts.
Ding.
A few second later, the ghost looked like a tiny firework that exploded, then died.
Cang Xu took a deep breath.
His cast failed!
This was within Cang Xu’ expectations.
The silver level ghost being used as a material probably didn’t have the pertinent bloodline; therefore, the refinement spell failed and killed the ghost.
Luckily, Cang Xu wasn’t affected that much.
Because he was casting with the magic tome, not with himself.
This was the benefits of a casting item!
Without any hesitation, Cang Xu immediately used it on a second ghost.
Ding.
The second silver level ghost was also blown up.
Another failure!
Cang xu felt distressed.
Silver level ghosts were something that were hard to obtain.
“If Zi Di were here, it would be better.”
“No, her medical tests still have a way to go before they can be used on undead lifeforms.
“Only one silver level ghost left”
Cang Xu stopped trying to refine a Death Substitute ghost.
The reason was that the pages with the Death Substitute Refinement spell had gone gray after those two casts, it couldn’t be used a third time and needed to be “recharged” again.
“What to transform the final ghost into?”
Cang Xu quickly pondered, rationally altering his strategy, and became conservative.
He decided to refine a shield bearer ghost.
On the third try, he finally succeeded!
After transforming the silver level ghost, it looked like an old turtle-man, its body was stooped, and its back and even its buttocks were covered with an enormous shield. The elliptic shield was very similar to a turtle shell.
“Good, next is the use the intermediate Soul Sending spell!”
Cang Xu used the magic tome again.
But a moment later, a shadow suddenly appeared!
“Found you!” The mysterious black clothed man sneered as he abruptly appeared behind Cang Xu, his dagger stabbing towards him.
By the time Cang Xu reacted, his heart was already stabbed by the dagger.
“Eh? You’re not him.” The mysterious black clothed man stared at him, then shadow covered his body, and he vanished once again.
Plop.
Cang Xu’s body fell onto the floor.
His eyes opened wide, and his last thought facing death’s door was the mysterious black clothed man thought he was Jian Gui, this showed that Jian Gui had used him as bait!
“It’s no wonder I was given his secondary magic tome!” Cang Xu’s life aura quickly dissipated into nothing.
His body had been transformed by his hands into a living dead person. But he was a bottom iron level undead lifeform, and he would certainly die from an all out assassination from the black clothed man!
Cang Xu was no exception.
He died.
The Deep Sea Monster Fish.
The survivors had gathered in the alchemy cabin, even the big guy was crammed in the hallway outside the cabin.
The alchemy formation slowly ceased, and the dragonman youngster walked out.
“Next.” Zi Di controlled the formation.
Zong Ge grunted his compliance and stepped into the formation.
Buzz.
Soon after, the formation activated again and replenished Zong Ge’s Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had gotten through Ice Sculpture Island’s first inspection and hadn’t reached their destination yet.
Taking advantage of this gap of time, the survivors camouflaged themselves and quietly returned to the Deep Sea Monster Fish to fill in the gaps in their Deceptive Disguise and Anti-investigation and Prophecy spells.
These two magics were wonderful, but were not constant, they needed to be replenished every so often.
The dragonman youngster watched the formation operate, his mind worried about Cang Xu, “He hasn’t replenished these magics, if it is exhausted near Jian Gui and the others, then it will very troublesome. I hope he can return soon.”