The Sea God's mounts? Just right for towing!
The Black Dragon stayed deep in the old forest for seven or eight days.
The weather changed in an instant; the once golden sun overhead was completely swallowed up by rolling black clouds. The surrounding sea was as black as if it had been filled with two ounces of thick ink, and the waves were getting higher and higher, crashing against the thick iron hull of the ship with a loud clanging sound that made one's ears tingle.
"Sir! We can't go any further!"
The bearded deputy gang leader clung tightly to the mainmast with both hands, his legs trembling like noodles, and he screamed at the top of his lungs in a hoarse voice:
"This area is called the Ten Thousand Demons Trench, the most dangerous forbidden zone in the sea! Legend has it that 100,000-year-old great white sharks roam there in packs, devouring people. Even the Spirit Hall's warships were left with nothing but scraps of wood! Let's turn back! If we go any further, we'll all end up as snacks for the sea monsters!"
"Shut your stinking mouth."
Ling Yun stood atop the cast-iron dragon head at the bow of the ship, his hands still tightly tucked into his short-sleeved pockets. The cold, harsh sea wind, carrying coarse salt foam, lashed his face, but the young man didn't even blink.
Just then...
Whoosh--!
Suddenly, the calm sea surface ahead, barely three feet deep, was pierced by long, pale white streaks of water, each two or three feet long!
Dozens of sharp, grayish-white dorsal fins, like guillotines, emerged from the inky black water, completely surrounding the large black ship. Beneath the water, countless long white bellies, each pair of blood-red beastly eyes staring intently at the living people on board, their mouths filled with three layers of sharp, white, barbed teeth.
The first iron gate surrounding Sea God Island, the Demon Soul Great White Shark Swarm!
The lead one, seven or eight zhang long, with a dark blue metallic sheen, was none other than the Grand Commander, a close relative of the 100,000-year-old Demon Soul Great White Shark King. It lashed out at the sea with its massive tail, creating a black wave three zhang high, and opened its blood-red maw to bite down on the iron dragon head of the Black Dragon!
If it were any other passenger, seeing such a treacherous sight in the deep sea, they would have cried out for their parents and jumped overboard to escape.
But on the deck of the Black Dragon, the style was completely different.
"Damn! What a huge pot of fish head and tofu soup!"
Ma Hongjun's small eyes widened, and he almost drooled into the sea. He pulled out two large iron detonators he had smuggled from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Inner Treasury, lit the fuses with a touch of pure yang fire at his fingertips, and threw them down with a strange cry:
"You little brats! Try my specially made firecracker!!"
Boom! Boom!!
The gunpowder exploded in front of the great white shark's mouth with a deafening roar. The powerful black powder mixed with shredded iron filings created a muffled, earth-shattering sound underwater, instantly blasting the two close great white sharks belly up, their mouths gushing blood and steaming!
"Boss Dai, Tai Long! Cast the hooks, don't let these fat fish get away!" Ma Hongjun jumped up and down excitedly on the side of the boat.
"Coming right up!!"
Dai Mubai and Tai Long each carried a section of cast iron anchor, with thick, oil-soaked hemp ropes wrapped around their waists. With a flick of their arms, the anchors whistled through the air and plunged straight into the mouth of the lead great white shark!
That great white shark, the leader of the group, had never suffered such humiliation. In this deep sea, they were always the celestial warriors representing the sea god, patrolling the Sea God. Today, they encountered a group of strangers who were not only unafraid of them, but also used gunpowder to blow up their mouths and iron hooks to pull their gills?!
"Roar--!!"
The Grand Commander roared in fury, unleashing a violent surge of Soul Power from his body, intending to capsize the entire black ship into the trench!
"What are you yelling about? Do you think I'm deaf?"
A lazy voice rang out from the top of the wave.
Ling Yun moved.
He didn't even activate his Martial Soul; he simply stepped off the iron dragon's head and Frillish treaded on the crest of the churning, raging waves.
The top-grade Head Soul Bone between the boy's brows flashed slightly, and his Spirit Connection Realm Divine Sense, like an invisible giant iron hoop, suddenly covered the Mo Lan seawater within a radius of several miles!
In the vast ocean, Ling Yun's Dark-type essence, combined with his absolute control over the Water Flow, makes him practically a supreme living Yama.
"Waterfall, water rope binding!"
Ling Yun pressed his right hand down and gently tapped his fingertips together.
Splash!
As if obeying a royal decree, the surrounding seawater instantly solidified into four high-pressure, deep blue water dragons as thick as thighs, tearing through the water's surface and precisely wrapping around the neck, pectoral fins, and long tail of the 100,000-year-old great white shark, tying them into a tight knot!
No matter how desperately the ferocious creature struggled and bit, the high-pressure water cable rotated at an astonishing speed, constricting its flesh so deeply that it couldn't break free even a fraction of an inch!
Immediately afterwards, Ling Yun moved like Gui Mei and landed steadily on the top of the giant great white shark's head.
He lightly stomped his right heel on the center of its skull, and a hidden force like a high-pressure water drill traveled straight through the skull to the central nervous system. The deep-sea overlord shuddered violently, and endless terror finally appeared in its two blood-red eyes.
"Behave yourself."
Ling Yun put his hands back in his pockets, looked down at the huge thing below, and spoke in a casual tone, like disciplining a disobedient donkey in the countryside:
"The boat is moving too slowly, it's making me late for lunch. You're quite sturdy, and you're strong too."
Ling Yun kicked its nose and waved to Dai Mubai on the Black Dragon:
"Boss Dai, throw down the thick iron chains from the hold! Put reins on these big white fish and have them pull the towpath!"
The bearded vice-captain and the old pirates on the ship nearly popped their eyes out of their sockets on the deck.
Using the Sea God's guardian Sea God... as livestock to pull a cart?!
Dai Mubai and Tai Long didn't care about any of that. Amidst their loud laughter, several large iron chains swung down and neatly fastened to the great white sharks that Ling Yun had subdued.
Ling Yun stepped on the great white shark's forehead, flicked his fingers, and Water Blade ripped through the waves.
Those unfortunate great white sharks let out a strange cry of pain, and could only Crunch their teeth and swallow it down. They swung their huge tail fins and, like bridle-riding horses, desperately dragged the Black Dragon through the deep-sea waves!
The originally slow-moving three-masted black ship, dragged relentlessly by these deep-sea monsters, sped up like an iron arrow released from a bow, cutting through the waves and leaving a white, crater-like trench a hundred feet wide in the sea!
Ning Rongrong sat under the parasol on the deck, her hair flying wildly in the wind, her little hands still tapping away on the abacus:
"That saves us ten jars of tung oil for starting fires! These big fish pulling the boat will save us fifty gold coins a day in fuel costs!"
After crossing the Ten Thousand Demons Trench, as you continue forward, the dark sea suddenly becomes eerily silent, sending chills down your spine.
The waves stopped rolling, and the wind died down.
In the deep sea beneath the Black Dragon, a black mountain range stretching for tens of miles suddenly rose up!
The sea level rose violently, and a large portion of the ocean was lifted into the air!
A terrifying behemoth, ten times larger than the entire Black Dragon, slowly emerged from the water. Its blind left eye churned with blue-purple destructive lightning, and its entire body emanated an ancient, almost divine, aura as it stared intently at the rapidly approaching small black ship.
The million-year-old ruler of the deep sea, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King!
The Demon Soul Great White Shark, which was being pulled by the large ship, was so frightened that it froze on the spot, sinking into the water like a lump of mud, not daring to move an inch.
The bearded deputy gang leader rolled his eyes and fainted on the deck from fright.
"What... what kind of monster is this...?" Ma Hongjun dropped the dried grilled fish in his hand with a thud, and his legs trembled.
A hint of cruelty and contempt flashed in the eyes of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. Spit Up a water vapor storm that pierced the sky and earth from its huge blowhole, and opened its abyss-like maw, about to swallow the arrogant iron ship whole.
But Ling Yun stood at the bow of the boat, not even raising an eyebrow.
He didn't even tell everyone to hide.
He just tilted his head and whistled at Ning Rongrong: "Rongrong, where are those jars of strong Shaodao Liquor we found on the Sea Demon Pirates ship earlier, the ones with ten times the amount of crazy ghost peppers and garlic?"
"Here, here!" Ning Rongrong hurriedly carried three large black clay wine jars out of the captain's cabin.
Ling Yun took both hands out of his pockets and grabbed at the air.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three clay jars exploded in mid-air, releasing an extremely strong and pungent garlic smell mixed with the eye-burning red oil of raw ghost peppers. Ling Yun then used his Divine Sense to manipulate the jars and simultaneously applied high-pressure water force to forcefully twist them open!
Call--!
The entire mass of scalding hot and extremely spicy red liquor transformed into a long, slender, tricky, high-pressure crimson water arrow that spun at an incredible speed, shooting straight and solidly into the large Water Spout on the head of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, which was just about Sturdy take a breath!
Three large jars of aged garlic with ghost peppers, straight to the lungs!
The next second.
The entire ocean looked as if ten thousand kilograms of gunpowder had been ignited!
That colossal creature, which had roamed the deep sea for hundreds of thousands of years, suddenly bulged out its single eye, which was covered in bulging blood vessels! A bizarre cry, both extremely painful and utterly comical, escaped its throat:
"Aww----!!"
Achoo!!
A deafening sneeze exploded across the sea!
The tsunami shook the black silt from the seabed into the air! Tears streamed down the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's face from its eyes, its massive body thrashing and convulsing violently in the sea, thick smoke and the smell of garlic hissing from its blowholes!
Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!!
This ferocious sea monster let out a dozen earth-shattering sneezes, its skin trembling from the spiciness, and it no longer cared about eating that little broken boat.
While crying and cursing underwater, it frantically swung its tail, turned around, and plunged headlong into the depths of the deep trench, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Riding the tsunami-like waves stirred up by the Demon Whale King's sneeze, the Black Dragon slid across the most dangerous deep-sea minefield with a whoosh, like riding a slide!
Half an hour later.
Sea God Island, in front of the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar.
The Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, one of the Sea God's Seven Sacred Pillars, stands tall in the very center of the Sea within the Sea, radiating a sacred and peaceful pale golden light.
Sea Horse Douluo wore a magnificent black robe with gold patterns, his hands tucked into his sleeves, facing the Sacred Pillar with his eyes closed, sitting cross-legged. Dozens of solemn and devout yellow-robed Sea Soul Master stood around him.
This is a sacred and pure land left by the gods. For thousands of years, all the land-based Soul Master who have come here to undergo trials have gone through countless hardships and dangers, drifting ashore covered in blood, and kneeling tremblingly before the Sacred Pillar to pray for divine blessings.
Sea Horse Douluo wore a mysterious smile, preparing to welcome the next batch of ascetic cultivators who had miraculously survived the raging waves.
"Report! Lord Sacred Pillar! Something terrible has happened!!"
A yellow-clad sea patrolman tumbled and scrambled from the direction of the beach, so startled that he lost his hat and crashed onto the steps with a thud.
"Outside... a huge black ship has stormed in!!"
Sea Horse Douluo frowned slightly, slowly opened his eyes, and spoke in a dignified and cold voice:
"What kind of behavior is this, all this panic? The outer perimeter of Sea God Island is guarded by the Demon Soul Great White Shark, and the Demon Whale King dwells in the deep sea. What kind of madman could possibly cross this vast ocean..."
Before he could even finish speaking...
Boom!
A deafening roar shook the earth and the sacred golden beach!
The entire Sea Horse Sacred Pillar shook violently twice, its golden light flickering erratically.
Sea Horse Douluo suddenly raised his head, his majestic and handsome face instantly freezing, his chin almost hitting the instep!
On the sacred, pristine white sand beach, twenty great white sharks, their bodies steaming and their mouths chained with thick iron chains, were struggling desperately in the shallow water like Old Huang pulling a plow.
Behind them, a three-masted iron ship, flying a black shark tooth skull flag and with half a dried salted fish and cured meat hanging on its deck, used its momentum to ram the black iron dragon head directly into a deep pit on the beach of Sea God Island!
The heavy anchor crashed into the shallows with a loud thud.
A crisp sound of an abacus rang out on the deck, particularly jarring:
"The Black Dragon has docked! Two mooring lines were damaged; 30% of the pirates' wages will be deducted! The entire crew must disembark and inspect the cargo!!"
Immediately afterwards.
Under the dumbfounded gaze of dozens of Sea God Island Soul Master.
With his hands in the pockets of his dark blue shorts and half a dried shrimp still dangling from his mouth, Ling Yun stepped onto the dragon head at the bow of the ship, leaped off the deck, and landed with a thud on the marble steps.
The boy patted the sea salt foam off his trousers, glanced up at the golden Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, and slowly grinned with a wicked, mischievous smile:
"This pillar is carved quite beautifully, and the jade material looks solid."
Ling Yun turned his head and gestured with his chin towards Dai Mubai and the fat man carrying Agarwood boxes behind him. "Boss Dai, unload the goods. I've brought you guys to this god's den to scout things out."