Chapter 260: Shadow Monk
The Deep Sea Monster Fish
The Anti-investigation and Prophecy and Deceptive Disguise spells had just finished being replenished.
The survivors began to swim up to the surface one after the other.
The dragonman youngster was the last to depart.
Zi Di opened the captain room’s door and met with the dragonman youngster alone.
“Lord Commander, everyone’s Deceptive Disguise and Anti-investigation and Prophecy spells have been replenished, this is the subsequent financial report.” Zi Di handed the dragonman youngster a list.
The dragonman youngster quickly skimmed through it.
Converted into gold coins, it cost 180 gold coins.
Compared to the first time, it cost an additional 15 gold coins.
This was mainly due to the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell.
The Deceptive Disguise spell’s cost cannot be calculated, because the main thing it used was the god level material – Pearl Bubbles.
“Not bad.” The dragonman youngster was still, “We have a few hundred thousand gold right now, and in the short term, replenishing these two spells isn’t an issue.”
Zi DI immediately shook her head, “Lord Commander, you’re thinking about it wrong.”
“The more of the Pearl Bubbles we use, the less there are, they cannot be replaced with normal materials.”
“Although we have a lot of capital, we need to spend money in a lot of areas!”
“For example, when we reach Ice Sculpture Island, we need to purchase a silver level magic ship, that will cost a huge sum.”
“Another example, your Lordship’s and Zong Ge’s cultivation also need constant investment.”
“This time, the main reason why the Anti-investigation and Prophecy cost 15 more gold coins is because you two have grown stronger.”
The stronger the survivors got overall, the more it would cost to conceal themselves.
This was obvious. To cover up an ant, one only needed a finger. But to cover up a tree leaf, one needed at least an open palm.
“Your bloodlines are the most exceptional, therefore in the future, the cost of the Anti-prophecy and Investigation spell will continue to rise.”
When the dragonman youngster heard this, he shook his head, “No you are overlooking Xiao Guai.”
The big guy Xiao Guai’s bloodline had been tested to be at least legend level.
Zi Di nodded, “I forgot about that.”
Ther dragonman youngster smiled, “Understandable, after all with Xiao Gui’s lowly strength and us hiding him away on the ship most of the time on the ship’s bow house, and not showing himself rashly, his sense of presence has always been small.”
“But I believe that as long as our guidance is fruitful and he is able to cross over the most crucial first step, he will be able to truly cultivate and be able to show his extraordinary svelte.”
The dragonman youngster had high expectations for the big guy’s future.
“That is the reason why.” Zi Di plainly looked at the young man, “Commander, you must be prudent and cannot be negligent.”
“Don’t be fooled by our current funds and become lax.”
“Our finances have a massive systemic problem.”
“We will be spending ever more in the future, if we don’t operate properly, it might become a vicious circle and we’ll be unable to make ends meet.
“At the moment, we need to set up a steady flow of income. Perhaps, we can try to sell our medicine on Ice Sculpture Island.”
“In addition to that, looking for a suitable location to covertly build an alchemy factory to produce munitions will also work for us.”
The dragonman youngster nodded, he looked deeply at Zi Di, “My ability in this aspect cannot in a million years compare to yours.”
“Luckily we have you, I believe that our financial situation will be very healthy.”
As he said that, the dragonman youngster stretched out his palm to Zi Di.
Zi Di softly placed her palm above his, a minute gap between their palms.
She was a ghost, and if they didn’t maintain distance, she would go through the dragonman youngster’s palm.
To be regarded as this important by her beloved, Zi Di’s mouth could help but rise as her heart filled with happiness and she softly said, “Don’t worry, I will manage our assets well.”
In a ghostly mist covered the entire sky, specters were howling on the ghost ship.
A fierce battle was taking place.
A large number of ghosts were crazily shuttling through the crushed hull; they had a single enemy, the black clothed fighter who could use the Shadow Plane.
The black clothed man had boarded the ghost ship in the boundless ghost fog and did an assassination when he first appeared.
Cang Xu had died by his hand.
But to him, it had been a failure.
Because his target was his equal, Jian Gui!
“That life aura mislead me. Jian Gui’s magic tome? Although a small trick, it…”
The black clothed man’s brows deeply wrinkled as he constantly pondered.
“Why am I still not able to detect Jian Gui’s location inside the ghost ship?”
“He has obviously been marked by my battle skill.”
Yi Ying was very puzzled.
At this moment, three ghosts found him in the corner and threw themselves at him simultaneously.
A heavy shadow suddenly spurted up next to Yi Ying, and like ink, it flowed around him, causing him vanishing instantly from where he stood.
Appearing once again, he found himself in another cabin.
Although three ghosts that attacked him were not his match, Yi Ying didn’t want to fight them.
“This ship has too many ghosts, if I waste battle qi to destroy those insignificant things, I will fall into the other side’s tactics.”
“The most crucial thing is to find Jian Gui’s real body!”
Yi Ying was strong, and in an open contest, he could suppress Jian Gui.
But now, Jian Gui had “disappeared”.
The only thing Yi Ying was certain about was that “Jian Gui was somewhere on this ghost ship”.
Thump.
At that moment, there was a loud sound.
The entire ghost ship’s hull suddenly tilted and nearly capsized!
The main culprit was Lady Sea Snake’s magic pet; the gold level sea snake had used its gigantic and sturdy head to ruthlessly smash the ghost ship’s bottom.
“Support has finally arrived.” Yi Ying was unperturbed.
He had found the ghost ship first, and had informed Lady Sea Snake soon after, her gold level sea snake coming in to provide assistance came at no surprise to him.
The sea snake had made matters even worse for the necromancers.
“Generalissimo, attack! You must entangle the magic snake on the seafloor; don’t let it destroy the ghost ship!” Xiao Wang Zi wobbled about as he gave orders in a flurry.
Although the ghost ship was silver level, it had the undead school’s advantages and was able to withstand the gold level sea snake fairly easily.
But now, most of the ship’s ghosts were occupied with dealing with Yi Ying and were barely able to resist the gold level sea snake.
The undead three headed sea serpent plopped into the water and began to fight tooth and nail against the gold magic snake.
Its three snake heads attacked from different directions, biting at the gold magic ship’s body.
The gold magic snake yelped and wanted to turn around to deal with the undead sea serpent, but then it received Lady Sea Snake’s order.
The gold sea snake vigorously used all of its strength to pull itself onto the ghost ship and wrapped its immense snake body around it, beginning to strangle it!
The undead three headed sea serpent sprayed negative energy and attacked the gold magic beast with all it had, but good things didn’t last forever as Lady Sea Snake quickly shot it with magic.
The undead three headed sea serpent was turned sluggish and stiff by water path magic, and its offensive was greatly affected.
The ghost ship couldn’t bear the heavy load and echoed with groans.
Its hull had been inherently corroded by negative energy to utter decay, and now with a gigantic snake strangling it, large stretches of ship planks were splintering, and massive amounts of cracks were forming on both sides of the ship.
When Jian Gui saw this, he had no choice but to transfer ghosts to attack the gold sea snake.
The unending ghosts of tremendous scale enveloped the battlefield in a cold eeriness.
The gold sea snake had many ghosts flooding into its body, suffering intense negative energy erosion, its memory quickly became chaotic and its mind delirious.
The gigantic sea snake gradually went limp, winning the ghost ship valuable time to take a breather.
“Ku Feng, please engage the black clothed fighter for a time.” Jian Gui’s voice transmitted to Ku Feng’s ears.
Ku Feng immediately obeyed, abandoning Xiao Wang Zi and rushing into the ship cabin, towards Yi Ying.
As a silver level with strong blade techniques, he would be able to resist Yi Ying for a short time.
Very quickly, Yi Ying sensed Ku Feng’s movement.
He sneered, and instead of dealing with Ku Feng, he blink shifted again, this time behind Xiao Wang Zi!
Xiao Wang Zi turned pale with fright, he didn’t have enough time to run away before Yi Ying stabbed him.
Then at the moment Yi Ying had succeeded in that, Jian Gui appeared, and with lightning speed, he jumped into Yi Ying’s body!
Yi Ying’s figure instantly collapsed, turning into a dense shadow.
As it turns out, the one Jian Gui attacked was actually his disguised clone.
“So, you finally appeared!” Yi Ying’s real body appeared behind Jian Gui and used a battle skill on Jian Gui’s back.
Jian Gui wailed in anguish, and his ghost body was heavily damaged.
He used Xiao Wang Zi as bait, but in the end, Yi Ying had beaten him at his own game.
Jian Gui had been injured to start with, and with these wounds added on, he was nearing the edge of death!
He hurried to use a movement trump card and vanished.
But this time, Yi Ying saw it and made out clues.
The gold level transcendent slightly changed color, “So that’s how it is!”
“Jian Gui turned into a ghost and merged into the ghost ship.”
“He became the ghost ship, in other words, the ghost ship is him.”
“It’s no wonder the mark I left him only appeared on the ghost ship.”
“From a certain point of view, he has become this ghost ship’s ship spirit.”
Realizing the truth, Yi Ying couldn’t help but expose a smile of triumph.
No matter how Jian Gui was hiding, it as no use. It was merely struggling at death’s door and delaying the time before defeat and death.
Even if Yi Ying couldn’t find him, so long as he dealt with the ghost ship and destroyed it, he could force Jian Gui’s main body to separate from it and appear once again.
Of course, Jian Gui also knew that he had exposed the truth.
Therefore, after merging with the ghost ship, he began to cast with all he had.
Necromancy spell – Ghost World Transversal!
Space fiercely fluctuated, and the ghost ship separated itself from the Main Plane once again, appearing above the Underworld River.
The gold sea snake howled in agony.
It had been wrapped around the ghost ship and landed in the Underworld River.
In a split second, it was soaked in the Underworld River’s water, the severe corrosion turned its flesh into nothing, leaving only some gloomy white snake bones behind.
Yi Ying crossed his arms and sneered, despite being able to blink shift away, he didn’t choose to do so, instead he followed the ship into the Ghost World.
But this time, he was inside the ghost ship and hadn’t fallen into the Underworld River.
“The same trick, do you think it’ll work again, Jian Gui?” Yi Ying ridiculed with a smile.
Jian Gui weakly replied, “If you kill me or sink this ghostship, then you will die too!”
Jian Gui was at the end of his rope and was forced to use mutual destruction to coerce the enemy.
However, Yi Ying raised his head and burst into laughter, “Jian Gui, why don’t you take a look at this?”
He took out a sacred emblem and put it on his chest.
Jian Gui growled, “The Gloom God’s sacred tool – the Shadow Monk Sacred Emblem?”
“You are a pure human, yet you believe in an elven god?”
Yi Ying was solemn, “I believe only in the Gloom God, the master of the Shadow Plane!”
“Without my God’s bequeathed pity, how could I reach my current heights?”
“With this sacred emblem, I can leave the Ghost World at any time and return to the Shadow Plane.”
“I win, Jian Gui.”
“You lost this battle due to my God’s power!”
Jian Gui sank into silence.
The moment he was unable to drive away Yi Ying from the ghost ship when he teleported to the Underworld River was the moment that decided the outcome of the battle.
True victory would have been if Yi Ying followed the teleporting ship, and without its protection, been immediately absorbed into the Underworld River.
But Jian Gui lost his only chance.
Bang.
Ku Feng kicked open a cabin door, rushing back over.
Xiao Wang Zi was standing to the side, like a foolish fowl. He had been severely injured, his backbone had nearly fractured, and he had lost half of his ribs.
But more importantly was his psychological trauma.
When he heard Yi Ying and Jian Gui talking, he realized Jian Gui had lost, causing his fighting spirit to subsequently be utterly lost too.
“We’re done for!” Xiao Wang Zi wanted to cry, but there were no tears.
Ku Feng took out a long blade to protect Xiao Wang Zi, his eyes locked onto Yi Ying.
Yi Ying merely glanced at him, and stood still, not bothering to engage him.
Outside the ship, the gold sea snake let out its last dying rasp.
When its body directly touched the Underworld River, it suffered boundless negative energy corrosion and quickly turned to snake bones, it had no strength to get out of it.
Yi Ying was still expressionless.
It was not his magic pet.
Furthermore, the battle had already been determined, the gold sea snake had made its contribution.
Yi Ying continued, “I haven’t attacked yet, I want to give you a single chance, Jian Gui.”
“Sign a magic contract, serve me.”
“I can spare your life.”
Xiao Wang Zi’s body trembled, he who had lost all will to fight suddenly got a new hope.
Xiao Wang Zi was scared of death.
Despite being undead.
He was more afraid of never seeing his father and mother again.
Therefore, he wanted to survive.
But his open mouth didn’t say anything, because he knew that Jian Gui was the one who decided his end.
Ku Feng coldly snorted and was unmoved.
Compared to Xiao Wang Zi, he was one who endured millstones and was an experienced fighter.
Meanwhile, Cang Xu’s corpse was already cold, he was laying on the floor his corpse swaying along with the ship.
After a good while, Jian Gui hoarsely replied, “Serve…so you wanted to capture me alive.”
Yi Ying smiled, “A living necromancer is naturally far more valuable than a dead one.”
“No need to doubt my sincerity, everyone knows that even the Sheng Ming Empire’s great noble clans are also covertly cultivating necromancers.”
Jian Gui went silent again.
The ghost ship was sinking.
The Underworld River’s water was flowing through gaps in the hull.
The ghosts inside the ship were fluttering in a panic, all avoiding the river water.
But as more river water poured in, some ghosts were taken in by the Underworld River, and they absent-mindedly sank into the river, and were assimilated by it.
Very swiftly, the Underworld River’s water also permeated the cabin where Cang Xu’s body way.
The river water touched Cang Xu’s corpse, rapidly rising from his feet and ankles, then into the hole in the middle of his back, permeating into his body.
A moment later, Cang Xu suddenly opened his eyes and sat back up.