Hunting Sea Soul Beasts (4)
"That's the ship I booked."
Romantina pointed to a medium-sized ship about twenty meters long not far away, with a mermaid statue at the bow, and said excitedly.
According to her, it was the Mermaid, and the captain was a bold woman who perfectly matched Zhou Qing's sexual preferences.
"What the heck!" Zhou Qing frowned. "Can you please not describe it so ridiculously? What do you mean by 'fits my fetish'?"
What kind of woman does he like?
Pretty!
Enthusiasm!
Of course, you have to have a hot body!
But--
This is clearly the standard for all normal people, isn't it?
Romantina chuckled to herself as she led the three of them to the Mermaid, where the captain personally disembarked to greet them.
The captain looked young, only about eighteen years old, but according to her, she was already thirty. She just had the secret to looking young, so she didn't appear old.
And her attire—
It's practically naked!
Her lower body was covered by trousers that looked like they were woven from silk, while her upper body was covered by two seashells Entangling around some light pink gauze, along with her long, water-white hair, which together concealed her two key areas.
Not to mention Zhou Qing, even Tang San was dumbfounded, feeling that the women in this Sea City were too open.
"You're the friends Tina was talking about, right?"
The captain puffed out his chest and grinned as he looked at Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, three guys who were almost adults in height but had faces that resembled children. "Are you all from commoner backgrounds? You're all quite robust."
"We're all ordinary people. Our hometown has partnered with other villages to establish a farmers' Vegetable Market, allowing us to exchange goods and services. As a result, everyone's lives have improved, and since we all have the talent for cultivation, we've naturally developed quickly." Zhou Qing didn't dare to be careless, describing the situation in a way that was half true and half false.
The reason Zhou Qing was cautious was because he sensed a barely perceptible fluctuation of Soul Power on the captain's body.
Ordinary people wouldn't notice it, but Zhou Qing could see it clearly at a glance, and this trace of Soul Power fluctuation was extremely profound... The opponent's Soul Power Level was at least at the Soul King stage!
Thinking back to Heidel in the original story, he was a pirate who harbored extreme resentment towards nobles and was ultimately wiped out by the Shrek Seven Devils.
However, judging from the fact that he was able to stay in the area around the port of Vast Sea City, he must have been doing a legitimate business, and it is impossible that he was constantly doing things like "robbing the rich to help the poor".
Otherwise, the powerful and wealthy in Vast Sea City would have to find a way to wipe out Heidel first.
However, it's possible that Heidel has some connection with the city lord of Vast Sea City, and might be helping him deal with some foreign nobles who could threaten his interests...
Right now, this captain may be handsome, but he could be a similar character to Heidel, disliking the nobles and ordering the other sailors to tie them up halfway through the journey.
There's no reasoning with that!
On land, if he, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina joined forces, they could certainly put up a fight against a Soul King.
Once at sea, it's someone else's territory, plus there are other sailors, so it's not necessarily a good chance of winning.
"Vegetable Market in an inland village? I've never been inland before." The captain seemed quite curious about the inland area, but he quickly pulled himself together and called everyone to board the ship.
There were seven or eight sailors on the ship, both men and women, who made no attempt to conceal the fluctuations of their Soul Power. They were all Soul Scholar, with Soul Power Level ranging from level four or five to level seven or eight, and ages ranging from twenty to forty. Without any fortuitous encounters, no matter how much they cultivated in the future, they would at most become a One-Ring Soul Master.
It's only slightly higher than the average Soul Power level of most ordinary people on the mainland.
In fact, as long as one awakens Martial Soul, one possesses Innate Soul Power, since the released Martial Soul also needs Soul Power to maintain it.
However, for most ordinary people, their Innate Soul Power is so low that even Crystal Ball cannot detect it.
When these commoners use their Martial Soul to work, they exhaust their Soul Power and then wait for it to automatically recover. This is essentially a form of cultivation, only it is far less efficient than meditation.
Therefore, throughout the entire continent, every commoner who has awakened Martial Soul possesses Soul Power. However, even upon reaching adulthood, their Soul Power level remains at only one or two levels, making it difficult to improve further.
However, this situation also made Zhou Qing doubt whether he had guessed wrong before. The captain was not actually a pirate like Heidel, but just a Soul Master who liked to adventure on the Great Sea.
Among Soul Master, there are indeed some who dislike fighting but prefer exploring the unknown, enjoying the thrill and excitement of adventure.
In Zhou Qing's view, adventure is the more normal career path that Soul Master should pursue, rather than combat.
The latter is nothing more than a game of power.
As the sailors lowered the anchor and hoisted the long sails, the large ship slowly sailed away from the harbor.
Although the Rubik's Cube Octopus, a type of Soul Beast that is less than a thousand years old, lives in shallow seas, it is not something you can encounter just a few kilometers out to sea. You have to go to the area where Sea Soul Beast live.
Fifty kilometers west of Vast Sea City lies a sea area called the Reef Sea Area, a paradise for Ten-Year and hundred-year-old Sea Soul Beast.
Soul Beast of the millennium level also occasionally appear in this sea area.
Therefore, this place can be considered the "ocean forest" where the local Soul Master of Vast Sea City hunt Soul Beast and obtain Soul Ring.
It took the Beauty Lady half a day to reach this area of the sea.
Half a day was enough to extinguish Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina's novelty about the Great Sea; they just wanted to quickly hunt a Rubik's Cube Octopus and then return home.
"Have we arrived yet, Captain Ariel?"
The captain of the Mermaid is named Ariel.
"This is the Reef Sea Area."
Ariel pointed to the black reefs on the sea surface, which were of various shapes, some disc-shaped, some blade-shaped, and some intersecting, and introduced them to Zhou Qing, "Legend has it that this Reef Sea Area is the trace left by the Sea God after a great battle with another Deity who represents light, which is more than 20,000 years ago!"
Deity representing light?
Upon hearing Ariel recount the legend of the Sea God, Zhou Qing's first thought was of the Angel God.
It's not impossible that a war Deity caused the seabed rocks to shift, leading to a volcanic eruption, which then suddenly cooled down, resembling a reef.
"Among these reefs, what kind of mineral are those blue ones?"
Tang San discovered that some of the rocks resembled blue crystals. When washed by seawater, they would ripple in the sunlight, creating a phenomenon similar to water ripples. He couldn't help but feel a little curious, thinking that they might be special crystal minerals nurtured in the ocean of the Douluo Continent.
He needed this special ore to research Soul Tool!
"It is Sea Heart Stone, containing Life Energy, but unfortunately, only plants can use the energy to grow. Humans and other Sea Soul Beast cannot use it, so no Soul Master would specifically go to collect this kind of Sea Heart Stone."
Ariel pointed to one of the Sea Heart Stone from which a tree had grown, its trunk twisted and thick, but its branches were thin and short, and its roots were coiled.