redvbooks Chapter 326 - 319: Rumors of Drifting Ship 001
Chapter 326 - 319: Rumors of Drifting Ship 001
The "Nine-Headed Sanctuary" skill from the Great Black Heaven Dragon has two stages.
Stage one is the Three-Headed, Six-Armed state. In this form, the body can expand up to 18 meters tall. The three heads and six arms command the powers of destruction, lava, toxic smoke, rock spikes, steam, earthquakes, consumption, perception, and regeneration. For every point of base Physical Strength and Endurance, this state can be maintained for one second.
Stage two: Dragon Transformation!
You briefly transform into a Nine-headed Giant Dragon. Physical Strength and Endurance are boosted by 500%, and physical toughness becomes comparable to that of a true dragon. The application of destruction and its derivative powers becomes effortless and intuitive. For every point of base Physical Strength and Endurance, the body can increase in length by one meter, up to a maximum of one kilometer!
Skills are merely a formality.
Power is what’s real.
Similarly, bathing in the blood of the Great Black Heaven Dragon had brought a delightful increase to his base stats.
[Attack Power: 369]
[Physical Strength: 391]
[Endurance: 351]
[Defense Power: 347]
[Spiritual Power: Unknown.]
His Spiritual Power was still unknown, remaining a mystery.
But that didn’t matter. ’Right now, there probably isn’t a single human in the Endless Ocean stronger than me. As for other creatures... I’ve never crossed paths with the other Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts. I wonder if any of them are on a completely different level of power.’
Furthermore, there was the horror breeding within the remains of the Creation Celestial Pillar. That had to be dealt with immediately!
No loose ends.
After killing the Great Black Heaven Dragon, Shi Ming had checked another small goal off his list. Next, there were three things he had to do.
First, settle the score with Lighthouse. The unequal treaty, the 2,000 Pure Dome Crystal bounty... now the tables have turned. It was time to get everything back, with interest!
Second, use his Holy Hall-level status to go to Mount Everest and use the Eye of the World to see just what had eroded and destroyed the Creation Celestial Pillar, and what kind of terror it had spawned!
Third, use the limit-broken Map of the Endless Sea to hunt other killable Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts!
Besides the Creation Celestial Pillar, which had been destroyed by some terror, and the Great Black Heaven Dragon, which Shi Ming had killed, there were five other Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts in the Endless Ocean. Although they usually kept a low profile, an active one like the Abyss Lord was an underlying threat. Moreover, to limit-break a King-level Wandering Ship, the flesh and blood of at least five different Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts were required.
’Go for the weakest one first.’
’If I’m going to make a move, the first target will be the Abyss Lord!’
’Killing the Abyss Lord would solve multiple problems at once.’
The Great Prophecy Technique of the Three-Eyed Golden Crow at the center of the Sea of Boiling could merge with the Eye of the World, allowing it to advance to its third stage! And to kill the Three-Eyed Golden Crow, the Abyss Lord was an obstacle that couldn’t be avoided.
But the Abyss Lord wasn’t some foe he could kill whenever he pleased. He first had to understand its weaknesses and how to kill it. Once a creature entered the Holy Hall level, it was protected by Origin Power, making it extremely difficult to kill. The only ways were to use overwhelmingly superior power to brute-force a kill, or to find a weakness in its Origin, like "internal corrosion" or "freezing and shattering its nine heads," and then execute a targeted strike.
The same was true for Shi Ming. As the synthesizer and owner of the "Disorder" Origin, it would be equally difficult for others to kill him.
After killing the Abyss Lord, if he wanted to devour its Origin and obtain its Holy Hall Skills, he would need to meet certain conditions.
For example, the conditions for the Nine-Headed Sanctuary were to resonate with the Destruction Origin and have Physical Strength and Endurance reach 500 points.
The threshold for the Creation Celestial Pillar’s Supreme Sanctuary was "Nine-Cycle Rebirth"—it required eight creatures to devour its Origin and die from the resulting explosion, one by one, before a ninth could truly absorb it.
He had to find out and meet the threshold for acquiring the Abyss Lord’s Pollution Origin beforehand. Otherwise, even if he killed it, he would be left staring at a treasure he couldn’t use, sitting on a gold mine he couldn’t tap.
After stabilizing his body’s condition, Shi Ming piloted the Sun-Shooter and ascended toward the sea’s surface.
He had stored a portion of the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s remains in his inventory. He marked the locations of the parts he couldn’t take, planning to return with the Dayun to transport them later. These were priceless treasures; every 100 grams could be exchanged for countless Pure Dome Crystals.
As he reached the shallow sea layer, his Spiritual Power detected that Lighthouse and Kunwu had been waiting here the whole time.
Shi Ming could understand why Lighthouse was waiting.
’But why is Kunwu here too?’
He thought for a moment and had a good idea why.
WHOOSH! The Sun-Shooter burst out from the surface of the sea.
The Dayun, which had been waiting for a long time, welcomed its master back. He took control of the Dayun and steered it toward the nearby Kunwu.
As for Lighthouse?
Let them wait!
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"Brother Shi, by killing the Great Black Heaven Dragon, you’ve become the greatest hero of the Endless Ocean and an eternal friend of Da Yu. I am Zhou Huaijin, the Navigator of Da Yu."
Elder Zhou extended his right hand solemnly.
"You flatter me, Elder Zhou. I am Shi Ming."
Even having reached the Holy Hall level, Shi Ming understood that humanity would always need friends and allies. Besides, the Endless Ocean still held many secrets that couldn’t be uncovered even with the Eye of the World, secrets that only a veteran Navigator would know.
He remembered Elder Zhou making a brief appearance at the celebratory banquet after the hunt for the Moonlight Ripple Beast.
On the surface, he appeared to be a hale and hearty man in his fifties, but he was actually a powerful S-rank Awakened who possessed the 10th-ranked S-rank Awakened Skill.
Veiled in Dust.
This skill was quite unique. It could forcibly adjust his own stats and Awakened Skills to be identical to another Awakened of the same rank. Alternatively, it could forcibly adjust a target’s stats and Awakened Skills to be identical to his own, with the exception of Veiled in Dust itself.
In terms of actual combat power, he was even stronger than Rong Bing.
Yet he had always acted with a low profile, keeping his true strength hidden.
Very few people knew his true power.
Everyone present was extraordinary, so the disparity in power didn’t create a communication barrier. After exchanging pleasantries, Elder Zhou dismissed his attendants, drank half a cup of tea, and asked directly:
"Brother Shi, have you heard of King-level Wandering Ship No. 001?"
’001?’
Shi Ming only knew that the number one S-rank Awakened Skill was called "Desperate Celestial Kingdom." He didn’t know much about King-level Wandering Ship No. 001, not even its name.
The Eye of the World hadn’t provided much information on it either.
Elder Zhou set down his teacup.
"Over 30 years ago, the great flood submerged most of the land. Project Kindle and Project Ark both failed. At a moment of utter despair, a young man arrived on a ship less than 30 meters long. He brought with him the so-called construction methods and supporting technology for ’Wandering Ships,’ as well as a large meteorite."
"That meteorite was the essential material for building the Wandering Ships."
"Without it, a ship is just a ship. It could never be called a survival fortress, let alone a King-level Wandering Ship stretching for over ten kilometers."
"He didn’t simply gift the meteorite to us. Instead, he used a strange object called the ’Net’ to cover the meteorite, splitting it into 100,000 smaller pieces."
"Among them were six Core Stones."
"188 Sailing Stars."
"756 Sailing Hearts."
"38,920 Sailing Crystals."
"60,130 Sailing Stones."
"Every one of those small meteorites was integrated with the Net, which is what people now commonly call the Celestial Net."
Shi Ming sipped his tea, listening quietly.
It was like listening to an old man recounting a story from the past.
"The young man said he was willing to help us build havens at sea, but that human nature was complex and couldn’t withstand such a test. He said chaos would surely reign after the apocalypse. Therefore, every survivor who boarded a Wandering Ship had to have a chip generated in their Brain Domain under the influence of the Celestial Net, subjecting them to terminal control."
"And in fact, he was right."
"The Celestial Net System allowed a basic sense of order to be preserved in the apocalypse."
"When the strong had something to fear, they couldn’t just do whatever they wanted."
"The weak were also given a chance to survive."
"..."
"After 100,000 Wandering Ships were built and the wager-like ’Celestial Net Protocol’ was signed, he and his ship vanished without a trace."
"That King-level Wandering Ship, ranked No. 001, is named ’Nirvana’."