Seeing his severed arm restored, Nefei regarded it as nothing less than a miracle.
But when he recalled what Chen Cheng had just said, even a Legendary capable of bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh from white bones could not stop the war. Despair rose in his heart.
Yet when he looked at his restored arm, remembered Chen Cheng's final instructions, thought of the uncles and elders who had watched his brother and him grow up, and those famine refugees from the inland, a thought of resistance arose within him.
When an ordinary man flew into a rage, blood would splash five paces away. Too much had happened in too short a time, sending Nefei's blood rushing to his head as he made the decision to rebel in an instant.
He knelt on the ground and heavily kowtowed three times toward the direction in which Chen Cheng had vanished, saying:
"My lord, rest assured. Nefei will never betray your expectations in this life."
By then, Chen Cheng had already followed the route records he had gleaned from Nefei's mind and flown toward the open sea.
"I wonder if it's safe to leave him there. It should be fine, right? Those are all their secret routes."
Chen Cheng murmured under his breath as he took out the treasure ship from his Spatial Ring.
Standing atop the treasure ship, he still did not possess enough Divine Power to waste on traveling, which was why he had needed to ask about the sea route at the nearest fishing town.
Once he truly reached the open sea, Chen Cheng could sail according to the offshore routes he had memorized from Jelina's World Sea map.
This time, Chen Cheng handled the dharma vessel with effortless ease. It rode the wind and cleaved