It was impossible to face the Demon Corpse head-on.
At the end of the day, Fang Yue was only at the middle human level.
His actual combat strength could reach the human-level peak, nearly cloud level. With the sheepskin scroll, he could briefly attain rain-level strength.
But against the Demon Corpse, even rain-grade experts probably wouldn't be much use.
Just look at Old Helmsman: he'd stayed calm when facing the rain-grade Black Robed Person, but his expression had changed drastically when the Demon Corpse came after them.
This Demon Corpse had to be far stronger than any rain-grade expert.
After thinking it over, Fang Yue couldn't help asking,
"Is there anything you can do to get us out of danger, sheepskin scroll?"
[Make the Cold River Giant Ship go faster. The distance between us and the Demon Corpse keeps shrinking. At this speed, I can already foresee your death, and the details are starting to become clearer!] [Fang Yue, do something! Get the ship moving!]
The sheepskin scroll had once said that the closer Fang Yue came to death, the clearer its predictions became, revealing more details.
Since the sheepskin scroll was saying this now, that meant he was close to death.
His heart leapt into his throat. Fang Yue rushed back to the bow and shouted, "Speed up! Old Helmsman, that thing behind us is still gaining!"
"This is as fast as I can go! We need your help!"
Old Helmsman sounded just as tense as he shouted back.
The chaos on board soon drew Lin Ling and the others over as well.
"Little Ye, what's going on?"
"What happened? Brother Ye, why's the ship suddenly speeding up? Is this some kind of Akina Mountain remake—Akina Sea? This speed, this force pushing me back—I feel like I'm