239 Chapter 239 (1/2)

Zhang Dong had hoped that with his ship's enhanced speed he could just safely return home with haste. This wouldn't be that easy though as a certain person was already waiting for his arrival.

It was a classical ambush with multiple flying ships waiting for them. The people that were here were from the Limitless Sword Society without the aid of any other faction. The ships from the Demon Subduing Sect didn't seem to be there anymore. Probably their leaders decided to evade this battle after the strange happenings during the banquet. It seemed that Zhan Jie had other plans for the United Element Sect.

Even though there was only one faction here, Zhan Jie wasn't the only nascent soul master that arrived. There were two other people floating slightly behind him and both of them radiated nascent soul might.

Zhang Dong was standing around in the ship's bridge. The whole crew from the ship was looking at the screens and they could see the ships that they left in the dust closing in.

”Those two behind him are only early stage masters, can I leave them to you, Captain?”

He asked while looking at the rough-looking cultivator. The man looked like an old fisherman, his skin was tanned and his face looked scratched up. He also had an eyepatch over his eye and Zhang Dong totally didn't only choose him for his looks to be the ship's captain. He had some skills to back up that look of his.

”Leave it to us, Patriarch! The Argonaut is more than enough for the likes of them!”

Zhang Dong nodded while moving outside, before leaving he just gave one last order.

”You are free to remove the limiter, use the main cannon if you have to.”

The man just saluted, the whole flying ship started buzzing. It was time for everyone to head to the battle stations.

Outside Zhang Dong could see canons rising up and appearing on the main deck. These were all manned by train cultivators and all could fire condensed spirit bullets.

Those cannons were already large in scope but they all paled compared to the monster that was hiding inside. The ship's main cannon would only be activated when it was required, the power drain was quite staggering.

While the whole ship was transforming the enemy cultivators weren't passive. The leader from the other sect started shouting out the moment he noticed that Zhang Dong was leaving the confines of his ship.

”There you are, face me Zhang Dong!”

”You are even dumber than I had anticipated. Are those two behind you your backup plan? I guess you are at least smart enough to get some help.”

Zhan Jie went red in the face while the two elders behind him moved closer.

”I don't need their help to take care of someone like you! Elders destroy that ship and bring me that woman, I need to hear the truth from her!”

Zhang Dong realized this man's genius plan. He probably thought that he was indeed part of the Divine Fist Sect.

The only worry that Matt had now was if the person from the Yggdrasil Sect was as daring as this guy here. He was one thing, but that old man wouldn't be able to go against a late stage cultivator. Though without him activating the teleportation beacon he wouldn't be able to help him.

For now, he had to worry about himself first. He was still up against three nascent soul cultivators. This reminded him of the fight against the Dark Palm Sect. That time he was lured into a trap and almost killed due to ignoring the weaker cultivators. This time around he would be more careful, he also wasn't alone, he had some backup.

Even before the fight could start the massive Argonaut gave out a strange sound. It started radiating energy and the cultivators around the area could feel it rising. The seemingly low graded heavenly treasure started giving out telltale signs of a middle graded one. It also didn't seem to be stopping just there as the power levels continued to rise.

”Well then, I hope those two can take care of themselves…”

Zhang Dong smirked while his sword appeared in his hand. Lightning covered his body and he just shot forward, his sword strike was met by Zhan Jie that was forced back while his fellow sect elders looked on with horror. They couldn't follow Zhang Dong's speedy movements at all.

As they turned around to aid their leader they were met with another problem. A barrage of Qi bullets flew right towards them as the massive flying ship started attacking. The Argonaut 1 wasn't just aiming for the two nascent soul targets, it was aiming for every ship in the area.

The two fast-moving human targets managed to dodge in time but that wasn't true for the slow-moving ships. Their shields weren't strong enough to resist the concentrated fire and they started exploding. The cultivators inside started to quickly abandon their ships as they escaped outside.

”How could this be…”

The two nascent soul masters found themselves dodging a barrage of fast-moving projectiles. They could feel that if they got hit by one of them they would be in serious trouble.