Chapter 310: Blood Ship (2/2)
The delegation was the ones who felt the worst. They did not know much about ships or sailing, but they knew that they had to get away from here, they could not stay here for a long time.
”Don't fret,” one of the soldiers chuckled. ”We are sailors, and we know about building ships. Even the ship we sailed before was built by us.”
”Aren't you sailors? Not carpenters?” one of the members of the delegation asked curiously, but the sailors just laughed. ”We are cultivators, and to build a ship, you need strength and speed. Normal carpenters can't build ships as fast as we can.”
There was a pride in his voice as he spoke, and right after, they began to run through the city towards the forest behind them.
The forest which had been green before was now red and blue; the trees were much stronger than they had been before.
After a few days, the red and blue wood had been turned into a magnificent ship. The ship before had been the brown shade of trees, but this one was now blood red and dark blue.
While they had been busy working on the ship, Xue Wei had been occupied speaking with the only Berserker still alive.
She had been shocked when she awoke from her stupor induced by mind infestation, but after thinking it through, she quickly decided to pledge her allegiance to their delegations.
”Let us set out,” the delegation did not wish to stay on the Berserker's island any longer.
Having said this, all of them were eager to get away, and thus, they boarded the ship. Lin Xiao and the King were both feeling much better now than before, their wounds were also more or less healed, and they were ready to continue the travels.
Everyone boarded the ship, and as they began sailing, they soon found that this red and blue wood had a great ability to draw in the essence of the heavens and the earth, making cultivation even faster.
”The blue trees have been tainted by your blood, right?” Hei Gou asked with a low voice when they were seated in the corner of the room.
Xue Wei looked around and nodded his head, ”should be,” he answered, ”I don't know what this blood river has done to the forest, nor do I know what my blood has done either, but it is without a doubt a treasure for cultivation, since the heaven-and-earth essence is absorbed so fast.”
Bai Tianyi looked at the wood beneath their feet and started contemplating. After a bit of time, he answered, ”I think that the river of blood and the lake of blood from the Berserker's lost city was mixed with various herbs and treasures to make it easier to absorb. These medicines and treasures made it possible for the trees to absorb the blood fast.
”At the same time, this blood is making the trees much stronger than before; in fact, I think that if the trees had not been cut down, they would have evolved into spirits.”
Xue Wei was quite surprised when he heard this. Spirits were something that was created by nature, so to have made it possible for spirits to be created much faster, that was indeed a magical thing.
The ship was rushing through the sea, the front cleaving the waves as easily as a hot knife went through butter, and the boat was even steadier than before.
After the episode on the island with the Berserkers, the people onboard the ship were much more alert. When they docked in some other islands, they were all cautious and did not trust the citizens at all.
Like this time flowed by, they experienced nothing too exciting on the sea, a day turned to a week, and a week turned to a month.
During this month all of them, even the sailors, were eager to cultivate in the dense heavens and earth essence that was present onboard the ship.
During this time, Hei Gou had a breakthrough to the first layer of the Heavenly Knight rank, Bai Tianyi was at the ninth layer of the Sky Knight rank, and Lin Xiao was also at the first layer of the Heavenly Knight rank.
Xue Wei was at the ninth layer of the Sky Knight rank with his Qi levels and the ninth layer of the Sky Knight rank with his spiritual energy.
Although he and Bai Tianyi had the lowest rank, they were the ones they wanted to fight the least. Especially Hei Gou had felt the bloodline suppression from Xue Wei, and all the other delegation members from the Demon Phoenix Continent felt the same whenever they sparred against him.
He was not someone who was simple to fight against, and thus, he fought against the delegation members of Yan Dalu, and also the human sailors who were of higher rank.
This fateful day, just as they thought it would be a day like any other, they realized that it was not. A big ship came rushing towards them, the speed so fast that it had to be fueled by a person with an excellent cultivation base, even if Xue Wei and the others fueled the blood ship, as they had named the new ship, it would not be able to outrun it.
After experiencing the episode at the Berserker island, they were all rather alert and suspicious of others, hence when they saw the rushing ship, they all felt apprehensive and worried.