Two days later.
Near Crystal Island.
A Crystal Skeleton Ship sailed along the coastline, seemingly searching for a target.
When it reached a suitable spot, the ship drew closer.
"Right here!" Captain Yang Yi ordered.
"Everyone ashore! Hurry and determine whether the surrounding islands are ships or islands. If they're ships, search for bodies aboard them. We'll salvage them all together later!"
An enormous number of crystal House Mice immediately leaped from the deck into the sea and swam toward the surrounding islets.
Yang Yi went onto Crystal Island with Xiaoji, intending to salvage some of the Otherworldly Demon corpses there that could be converted into Crystal Diamonds.
This was more efficient, because claiming ships took time. It would be faster to tow them to one place later, connect them, and claim them all at once.
While the ships were being searched, Yang Yi and Xiaoji could also head onto the island to salvage living statues, without holding up either task.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunshots rang out continuously from the island.
Yang Yi did not venture far inland, exploring only the coastal areas, especially places with plenty of living statues.
Once he confirmed that a statue could not be converted into crystal, he blasted it apart.
"This guy's really tough. Three shots, and he still hasn't shattered!"
Three large holes had appeared in the chest of a tall, muscular crystal human statue wearing exquisite armor. Cracks covered its surface, yet it stubbornly refused to shatter.
Yang Yi had initially taken a liking to the armor, but when he tried to pry it off, he discovered that the man and the armor had already fused together. The system information also identified it as a Crystalline Human Statue.
So he switched to destroying it with gunfire, lest the statue endanger the