Chapter 698: Capturing the Divine Bone

Snow Bird Harbor.

Inside a private house, there was a vast space.

This was where the fishman youngster used Divine Domain Descent.

Even if the magician tower hadn’t been blown up, it wouldn’t be able to detect the divine domain inside here.

Therefore, this place was very secure.

Of course, that wasn’t to say no magician tower was able to threaten the divine domain, as it would depend on its quality, level, and so on.

Hun Tong, Da Dou, the big guy, Hong Zhu, and Cong Mang got together.

The fishman youngster’s body glistened with blue light.

The blue light was striking at first, then soon waned, allowing the fishman youngster to transform back into a dragonman form.

Although the young man used the Bloodcore to change his form, he simultaneously used deception divine spells.

This was intentional.

In everyone’s eyes, it would unavoidably form a false conjecture: the fishman form was the young man’s true identity, while the dragonman appearance was a disguise.

This conjecture coming about was quite natural, especially because everyone present had been empowered with deception divine spells before.

It went without saying for Hun Tong, as deception divine spells had aided his spying on Tan Mo’s Treasure Chest and after making landfall on Snow Bird Harbor.

Cong Mang and his pirate gang had snuck into Snow Bird Harbor under the protection of deception divine spells.

Da Dou and Hong Zhu had seen the big guy unleash divine spells and were very familiar with the aura of that divine power. At the same time, during the Snow Bird Harbor Battle, they wantonly plundered the city palace while under the protection of deception divine spells.

The dragonman youngster didn’t explain anything and allowed them to hypothesize on their own.

The dragonman youngster slowly sat down.

As he moved, the divine domain space instantly condensed a high and expansive chair from divine power.

The chair slowly rose from the ground, gradually forming a throne.

The dragonman youngster sat with his limbs spread wide across the throne, looking down apathetically as he examined everyone.

“Was that Long Fu’s true identity?” Hun Tong had mixed emotions as he gazed up at the cold and detached dragonman youngster.

Hong Zhu had a similar impression as him.

Hong Zhu had worked with the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps on Two Eyes Island. During the beast tide invasion, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps established close ties and friendships with many silver level experts.

At this very moment, the dragonman youngster’s strange posture and expression shattered Hong Zhu’s old memories.

She knelt down and used a reverent and appreciative tone to shout, “Lord Long Fu, you are Hong Zhu’s lifesaving benefactor. I request to join the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and ask that you accept my vow of loyalty and devotion! From now on, your orders shall be my objectives!”

Hong Zhu knelt down and did so candidly!

Everyone present was unsurprised.

This was the world of the strong.

Powerful transcendents naturally had enormous charisma in attracting subordinates.

The stronger one was, the more charisma they had.

Because in history, countless examples taught the world and formed a universal consensus – experts were the true foundation of any power or organization. Only by following the strong could one achieve twice the result with half the effort, save the gains of victory, and have enough to brave dangers.

With the fishman form, the young man displayed the beauty of an expert and had deeply shaken everyone present.

Da Dou, Hun Tong, and Cong Mang had all seen how effortlessly the fishman youngster had swept away three gold levels and cleaned up the entire battlefield.

If the three gold levels were that shaken, then the silver level Hong Zhu would be even more so.

It wasn’t just awe; the young man had also saved their lives.

After all, the fishman youngster’s divine spell aura was identical to the big guy’s Divine Descent divine spell.

Combined with the big guy’s deferential bearing right now, as well as the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ authority, Hong Zhu already realized that within the unknown god’s subordinates, the fishman youngster was of higher status than the big guy!

There was also prior friendships, and Hong Zhu had plundered an immense profit from the entire city palace this time too…

These things combined made Hong Zhu willing to submit to the dragonman youngster cheerfully.

The dragonman youngster looked down at Hong Zhu, faintly laughing, “On Two Eyes Island, I could tell that you were an excellent treasure hunter, Hong Zhu. Because you had a pair of bright eyes that could find what the most valuable treasures were.”

The dragonman youngster ended with that, then swept his gaze over the others with deep intent.

But Da Dou and the others all had different expressions, none declared their position like Hong Zhu.

As for the big guy, he was no longer under Divine Descent and his bright eyes were fixed on the dragonman youngster, the corner of his mouth open in a silent and foolish laugh.

Seeing his father again made him extremely happy.

But due to the dragonman youngster’s repeated warnings, he stood aside not moving or speaking.

“Xiao Guai is obedient.”

“Xiao Guai will listen to father!” The big guy constantly cycled that thought in his mind.

The dragonman youngster turned back around, looking at Hong Zhu again, “Let me see what you gained from the city palace.”

Before Cong Mang’s Vegetable Pirates stormed the city palace, Da Dou and the other two had ransacked it.

Hong Zhu suddenly stood up excitedly, “Lord Long Fu, this time…we had an extremely generous harvest, an incredible haul!”

She stuttered somewhat in excitement.

Hong Zhu took out what she had taken and piled it up on the ground.

Da Dou also emptied his Packing Bag’s contents onto the ground.

The big guy was still looking foolish.

The dragonman youngster glanced at him, then used a divine spell to transmit his voice into his mind.

The big guy yelped, then began to take out his stuff too.

Gold coins were the most of it and was heaped into a small hill.

These were gold coins of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom and were obviously money circulated inside its markets.

“Most of them were from the tax money storehouse.” Hong Zhu aptly presented.

The dragonman youngster indifferently nodded, of course he knew as his attention had been divided the entire time, participating through Divine Descent on the big guy.

But he didn’t show it.

He had already revealed a few secrets and wanted the rest to remain hidden.

The dragonman youngster wanted others to think that the big guy was receiving Divine Descent from a god and not from a gold level like him.

The level of deterrence between the two was like the difference between heaven and earth.

Because it was inside the divine domain, the dragonman youngster didn’t need to do inventory, with merely a glance, he could see the amount of gold coins was precisely 276,587 coins.

It was obvious this was a massive sum of money.

The small hill of gold coins firmly clutched Cong Mang’s eyes, as a pirate, he was most fond of these little cute things.

But very quickly, his eyes were drawn to a pile of ice cubes to the side of the gold coin hill.

These ice cubes were of different sizes, with the largest being the size of a teapot and the smallest the size of a child’s fist.

But their shape was consistent, all of them looked like a heart.

“Ice Hearts, these are actually Ice Hearts!!” Cong Mang exclaimed in his mind.

It was the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s special local resource.

Ice Hearts had broad uses. People could swallow it raw; it could be used as a main ingredient for magic medicine (Ice Head Flower medicine was the most well-known type) and could also be made into all kinds of alchemy items (the Ice Headband was a classic product).

“Wasn’t it said the Ice Heart output was very low? How could Snow Bird Harbor have so many?” Cong Mang’s doubt was shared by Da Dou and Hong Zhu.

When Da Dou and Hong Zhu noticed them, they were quite amazed, almost believing they were seeing things.

The main reason was that there were so many Ice Hearts.

With regards to this, the dragonman youngster knew the truth, and as if seeing everyone’s doubts, he stated, “The kingdom’s Ice Heart output has actually always been very high.”

“But the Ice Sculpture Kingdom deliberately falsifies information and puts on a façade that the Ice Heart has a low output.”

“Secretly, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom controls the Ice Hearts more stringently than the armor prohibition.”

“These Ice Hearts are not completely transparent; at most some are translucent and are not of the highest quality. The highest quality Ice Heart is in the Royal Family’s hands and is never circulated.”

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord personally told him this secret.

Everyone understood this.

The Ice Sculpture Royal Family amassing wealth while keeping a low profile was something they could comprehend.

To be more precise, the Ice Hearts were a type of elemental heart.

Elemental hearts were a rare material that were better than elemental crystals. Apart from the Four Great Elemental Planes, elemental hearts always had an extremely low output.

Ice Hearts, to be more accurate, should be called Ice Elemental Hearts.

The lowest quality of these Ice Elemental Hearts was the silver level, with a few being gold level.

They were very valuable.

More crucially, was that there was demand but no supply. Under normal circumstances, even if one had a lot of money, it was very difficult to purchase so many on the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s marketplace.

To the side of the Ice Hearts was a large stack of antiques. There were oil paintings, statues, and famous weapons from across Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s history, which only had ornamental value.

Cong Mang was uninterested in these things.

The Vegetable Pirate Commander’s scholarly knowledge was next to zero.

Compared to the others, Hong Zhu had a higher insight, even higher than the dragonman youngster’s. To her, these antiques were extremely valuable, no less than a small mountain of gold coins!

Hong Zhu sighed, “Snow Bird Harbor City Lord had a very deep noble demeanor, he had so many art pieces put up inside his city palace.”

“But we were able to quickly gather all of these things in a short time, it was all thanks to this bone!”

Hong Zhu raised her hand a bit.

Her palm opened, and inside it sat a bone.

The bone was deathly pale, and looked irregular, making it rather difficult to glean which part of the body it belonged to.

The bone did not have any transcendent aura, and it looked like an ordinary and common thing.

Coing Mang fixed his eyes on the bone, then suddenly thought of something, shuddering out, “Could that be the Fourth Pirate King’s Greed God Bone?”

The dragonman youngster grasped at nothing, teleporting the Greed Gone Bone to him.

After he grabbed it, he used a Charming Blue divine spell to examine it. A moment later, the Greed God Bone emitted an extremely faint gold level aura.

The dragonman youngster was puzzled.

At the time, when part of his mind descended on the big guy, he saw how solemnly cared for this divine bone was and knew this “ordinary” bone was anything but ordinary.

At the time, Hong Zhu reacted faster than him and quickly identified the divine bone’s history.

The Greed God Bone’s function was that it could detect and point towards any valuables within a range.

It was a supreme implement to a treasure hunter.

As a treasure hunter, Hong Zhu of course yearned for it day and night.

This was the reason why she could so quickly identify it.

Because she saw an ordinary bone being so seriously kept, that was the first answer she associated with it.

Neither Hong Zhu nor the dragonman youngster knew why Snow Bird Harbor City Lord had such a rare thing in his treasury.