Chapter 250: Black Paper Boats (1/2)
Zhao Shenguang used to be Chen Xiao and Qing Buyi’s sidekick, once upon a time. He’d managed to climb to the seat of celestial emperor only because of his connection to them. How, then, did he dare act against the Chen Clan?
A portion of Qing clansmen were being purged as well. Taking all of his actions together, it was evident that something had happened to Qing Buyi and Chen Xiao.
Lu Yun didn’t have a particularly strong relationship with either of the two men, but they’d gone to the Endless Desert in western Nephrite to search for the fruit of the Ancient Tree of Life and he certainly hadn’t wanted them to run into any danger.
If they still don’t show up after I get the Skydragon Pearl, I’ll make a trip myself! the young man decided.
Upon the blood sea, eleven fortress ships remained, aside from Li Youcai’s. The rest had been torn to pieces by the monsters. The ships’ passengers were immortals from the Lu and Chen Clans, and the strongest among them were golden immortals. The ships weren't of good quality; in fact, they were several steps down from the one Qing Han had sailed in the beginning. These were barely first-rank treasures.
Lu Yun couldn’t just let these people die, though. The Lu ancestor had saved him from the Qing dao immortal, then backed up Aoxue when she blockaded the Qing Clan’s doors. There was no further enmity between his clan and himself.
As for the Chen Clan… when Qing Han had been shunned by his clan, when he’d been viewed as a source of misfortune by the entire capital, the Chen Clan had still called the lad one of their own and taken him in. Plus, Qing Yu was there as well!
Boom!
Lu Yun summoned a large fortress ship with a wave of his hand. The ninth-rank treasures arrayed upon it roared their might, repelling endless waves of sea monsters with blast after radiant blast.
“Get on!” he called out. Using the ship’s spirit key, he unleashed the vessel’s manifold arsenal of weaponry to cut a swathe through the bloody sea. The passengers on the dilapidated ships took to the sky on their swords, eager to avoid a brutal death at the sea monsters’ hands.
They were at the sea’s edge. Though monsters teemed here as well, they were far fewer in number compared to deeper in, and weaker, as well. They were peerless immortals, at most!
In the depths of the bloody sea lived countless dao immortal monsters. There, peerless immortals were little better than ants. If Lu Yun had dared bring out his ship there, he would’ve been torn to pieces in an instant. Here, however, the fortress ship thrived.
At the same time, he sent out the nine bloodcorpses to form a Great Formation of Heavenly Fiends out of thin air, summoning a colossal shadow that rampaged amid the waves. However, Lu Yun astutely noticed that the fiend summoned this time exhibited a strange anxiety.
Indeed, the demonic shadow that could slay peerless immortals in a single strike was afraid of the bloody sea. In these waters, it fought at only two-thirds strength. If Feinie hadn’t been its summoner, and if the Tome of Life and Death hadn’t powered the formation, the formation wouldn't have been able to call the shadow at all.
Still, a fiendish shadow that was at seventy percent was more than sufficient. His fortress ship sailed slowly through the air, headed toward the other eleven.
“That’s Lu Yun! It’s his fortress ship!” Upon a Lu Clan ship, Lu Qingshuang immediately recognized the friendly vessel. “Lu Yun disappeared for a year and three months. Everyone thought he was dead, but I guess this is where he’s been!”