Chapter 1056: Submarine (1/2)
“We’ll just have to take this gamble.” Resolution flashed through Leng Xian’s eyes.
Sacred palace disciples were very willing to take risks if they had a goal in sight. If they failed, they’d lose only their cultivation and treasures. But if they succeeded, they would reap untold benefits.
“There’s another way, we can refine the stones into a tiny boat and take it across the sea,” Ying Luo suddenly suggested. “If we’re disguised as zombies, the real ones in the sea won’t sense the presence of the living and therefore, won’t attack us.”
Standing next to Leng Xian, her skin crawled when she looked at the bobbing masses of zombies. Since she was a young girl, she wanted to avoid diving into them if at all possible.
“That’s a thought, too.” Lu Yun nodded. “But we still need to find a way to get past the zombie kings in the zombie sea. And whatever we do, we need to hurry. The zombie sea is about to disappear.”
“I’ll be in charge of refining the ship.” Leng Xian waved a hand and collected a bunch of gray stones scattered over the ground.
“That’s enough for the ship, we should also mix other materials in with the stones. They may evoke disgust from the zombies, but they’re also very fragile,” Lu Yun quickly added.
“Mm, I see.” Leng Xian was a master refiner. Tongues of flame shot out from her hands and swiftly refined the stones in her hand. At the same time, a steady stream of ultimate ingredients poured into the pile of stones. Meanwhile, Lu Yun focused on refining talismans—Shapeshifting Talismans.
He didn’t have anything else with which to make living beings exude the aura of zombies; only the talismans could turn them into one. However, he remained a little uncertain if his talismans would be able to fool the sovereigns of the chaos.
Though Shapeshifting changed the fundamental nature of something, it was still a combat art. As such, there were flaws in combat arts and Lu Yun wasn’t willing to bet his life like this at such a crucial moment.
He quickly created four Shapeshifting Talismans—he wasn’t going to leave Wang Shu behind.
Ying Luo and Wang Shu shuffled around, having nothing to do. They first looked over at Lu Yun, then at Leng Xian. Ying Luo was standing next to Lu Yun while Wang Shu stood awkwardly off to the side.
“Wait!” Lu Yun quickly stopped Leng Xian when he saw that she was about to really refine a boat.
“What is it?” She’d already refined the prototype of a boat, but immediately ceased her actions when she heard Lu Yun.
“Don’t make a real boat. The zombie sea is going to keep shifting around and if I could see through it, so can others. A boat on the surface of the sea is too big a target and will be easily attacked.” He pointed a few times at the air and delivered a small piece of paper to Leng Xian. On it was drawn… an Earth submarine from the twenty-first century.
“Use a kind of material that can repair itself and hide the aura of those stones. Don’t overly expose us,” he said.
If they used a type of material that constantly repaired itself to hide the aura of the stones, they wouldn’t elicit automatic avoidance from the zombies. They would be able to lower the submarine quietly into the zombie sea, and once the zombies jostled the surface of the submarine, the aura of the stones would leak out.
That would make the zombies halt their attacks against the group, and when the material recovered to conceal the stones again, the submarine would be able to proceed through the zombie sea without causing a disturbance.
Lu Yun also refined Size Manipulation and Shapeshifting formation talismans. He wanted to make multiple layers of preparations, first to turn the submarine into a zombie and then to shrink it down as much as possible. That would conceal them from the eyes of others to the greatest extent of his abilities.