After interrupting his nightmares nine times at sea, Mo Qiong had carried the wood carving around for so many days without having another nightmare.
Mo Qiong seemed to have no reaction to the thing anymore.
However, he had gained the ability Cannot Drown. Thinking about it carefully, if the nightmares were a kind of ritual, he might have already completed some sort of ritual.
The Pirate King back then had buried it overseas, so this was probably the reason.
It was easy to imagine that he had been wiped out by the Great Ming Dynasty army not long after burying the wood carving and crown. If the wood carving had any other use, that pirate would have carried it with him.
He would not have buried it so far away, where the Ming army might discover it.
Perhaps he had still held onto the fantasy that he could survive the Ming army's extermination, return to the buried treasure, dig it up, conceal his identity, and live a wealthy life.
Whatever the truth of history was, it could no longer be verified. Mo Qiong could only rely on guesswork.
Regardless of the facts, now that the wood carving had reappeared, Mo Qiong felt that it had no value to him anymore. On the contrary, it could even bring him trouble.
The wood carving itself was a hot potato. Since he had already given it away and had not retrieved it immediately, Mo Qiong did not intend to remain involved with it.
The only reason he had gone to get it back was that he did not want the discovery of the wood carving's influence spreading to implicate him.
After all, once it was discovered that everyone who had touched the wood carving reacted to it and Could Not Drown, the so-called