July stood on the swaying gunwales, gripping her fishing rod tightly. Beneath the surface, an unknown creature tugged at the fishing line, the two vying for strength.
Seeing that July had actually caught something, Shi Qianqian's eyes narrowed, ready to summon her Seedling Turtle to kill its prey at any moment.
Crash!!
The next moment, July pulled out a zombie fish several meters long, chewing on the fresh flesh and blood on the hook, its green eyes fixed on the more fresh life on the boat.
Just as July was about to deal with her prey, the Seedling Turtle was already summoned into the air by Shi Qianqian!!
Buzz!
The power of time flowed from the little turtle's body, and the seedling on its back transformed into an iron whip that lashed out and struck the zombie fish's head hard. With a "bang," rotten flesh splattered everywhere, and the level 12 zombie fish died instantly. Then, the iron whip quickly extracted the crystal core from its body and threw it onto the deck.
Whoosh!
Before the Seedling Turtle landed, it was quickly taken back into the Beast-Taming Space by Shi Qianqian.
"Gurgle!" Although Shi Qianqian's movements were smooth and efficient, and she dealt with the zombie cleanly, July immediately got angry and turned around, making a gurgling sound. She didn't know whether to throw away the magma that had gathered on her wings or not.
That woman is awful. Read the latest chapters at s. cm!
"Fortunately, the catch this time is more normal," Luo Yu said.
"What do you mean?" Shi Qianqian asked, puzzled. Could it be that she could fish out something abnormal?
"July asked, 'Why did you steal the fish head?'" Luo Yu then brought up another matter.
You can't exactly tell them that you caught Abyss Species in July, can you?
Shi Qianqian said, "It's still holding a fishing rod, so it'll be more efficient for me to take action. What if we don't deal with the zombie fish immediately and the battle spills over to the area around the boat..."
Shi Qianqian's words made a lot of sense, but you can't reason with a fisherman. July took a deep breath, decided not to argue with him, took out a new piece of meat from the bucket, hooked it up, and continued fishing for the next target.
"... You're in charge of steering the boat well..."
A wave crashed in, causing the entire ship to rock and nearly throwing July into the sea. Unbeknownst to them, the Frost Moon was already sailing against the current. Luo Yu quickly told Shi Qianqian to get down to business.
This could easily make me seasick.
"Understood," Shi Qianqian Luo Yu picked up the zombie fish's crystal core.
This thing is like a marble—very light, cool, and hard. Although the Aberrant Corpse Beast are covered in viruses, their crystal cores contain pure energy. Currently, its main use is as an energy source, primarily in the crystal cannons of some warships.
The Crystal Cannon uses crystal cores as energy to fire energy cannons with power comparable to the superpowers of mutated beasts. When facing large sea monsters, the Crystal Cannon is the main means of wearing down the enemy before battle in order to conserve the pet's strength.
However, the manufacturing technology of crystal cannons is very difficult, and the skill level varies greatly. For example, crystal cannons manufactured on some ordinary islands may be several times less powerful than those manufactured on Dragon Boat Island, even with the same amount of energy.
In addition, Alliance Coin are also minted from crystal cores, so as always, "When the cannons roar, gold is worth a fortune."
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Mirror Moon Island. Mirror Moon Island is too poor. Not only does it not have mastered the technology to manufacture crystal cannons, it also does not have the money to use crystal cannons. At present, it mainly relies on Beast Taming and pets to fight against external enemies.
Next, in July, he continued fishing for zombies. Whenever he caught a zombie, he would throw lava at it and blow it to the head.
The zombies currently roaming the nearby waters are not high-level, mostly below level 10, with a small portion below level 20. Their racial level is equivalent to that of Common Species, so July can deal with them easily.
Shi Qianqian had initially wanted to see July make a fool of herself by refusing her help, since even if July defeated the zombies, collecting crystal cores was still a technical task.
The Seedling Turtle are specially trained; they can use vine whips to retrieve the crystal cores from a distance.
However, Shi Qianqian's smile quickly vanished.
Because she discovered that this little penguin could also use a fishhook to hook such tiny crystal cores from inside zombies into a nearby bucket.
"I don't understand." Seeing her surprised expression, Luo Yu calmly nodded. It was understandable that she couldn't understand; he couldn't understand it either. After all, July's talent in this area was outrageous. On her first try with a fishing rod, she could hook the trash on the table and throw it into the trash can?!
Shi Qianqian grew increasingly silent as she watched, feeling that this penguin's skill in manipulating the fishing rod was no less than that of Seedling Turtle manipulating vines...
Could this also be caused by acupuncture?
The Frost Moon sailed further and further away, and the journey was relatively calm, but this tranquility did not last long.
"Something seems to have happened..."
Shi Qianqian suddenly realized something was wrong. Because July had been using fresh flesh and blood as bait, it had initially only attracted one or two zombies, but gradually, centered around the Frost Moon, more and more zombie sea beasts seemed to be gathering around...
"Luo Yu, my Seedling Turtle has discovered a large number of zombies!"
Shi Qianqian, as expected of Beast Taming educated in a big city, although her strength is average, her pet's abilities are very well developed. One pet can perform multiple functions. The vines that extend from the sapling on the back of the Seedling Turtle enter the sea, just like an underwater eye, sensing everything.
"The Seedling Turtle turtle can sense the concentration of elements in its surroundings. Just now, the virus concentration in the water has spiked dramatically; a large number of zombie sea monsters should be gathering here soon..."
"There must be at least a hundred of them, and we're about to be surrounded by zombies... What should we do? Should we speed up and see if we can shake them off, or...?" Shi Qianqian took a deep breath.
With such a large number, even if they are all Low-Rank Ordinary Species, dealing with them would be quite troublesome.
"Since this is training, let's fight." Luo Yu began searching for weapons. At the same time, he said to July, "Stop fishing, prepare for battle."
"Take care of it at sea if possible, and try to avoid letting too many animals board the ship."
"Then let's fight." Shi Qianqian nodded, and soon, her Seedling Turtle jumped into the water. Although it wasn't aquatic, the Seedling Turtle was very good at swimming.
Meanwhile, Luo Yu also summoned the Empress.
Although Honey Water Bee have water-based abilities, they are still bees and are not good at underwater combat. Fortunately, Honey Water Bee and Honey Water Bee Ghost are two different species. Ghosts, as a special species born in the Sea of Ghosts, can dive.
Buzz!
The Empress also flew into the sea.
Soon, the Seedling Turtle and the Bee Empress saw all sorts of zombie sea beasts gathering towards the ship from all directions.
"Gurgle!" The Seedling Turtle stretched out their vines directly from the seawater, strangling and bursting the zombies.
Meanwhile, the Bee Empress began to traverse the water, using her Spear of the King to blast the heads off the zombie sea monsters one by one.
"You only have one pet beast, isn't it dangerous for you to participate in the trial?" Right now, July is still protecting Luo Yu, but Shi Qianqian's Seedling Turtle has already entered the water to fight, leaving her alone on the boat.
"So I developed the summoning speed first. With just a thought, it can teleport to my side and protect me," Shi Qianqian said. "Besides, don't underestimate me. Did you think that my strength was all there was when I fought you?" Shi Qianqian retorted, unconvinced by Luo Yu's continued astonishment, not wanting to be outdone.
"If the Seedling Turtle wanted to, level 20... that's not even the limit of its Time Acceleration. Currently, it can only raise itself to level 30 at most, but it can't Endurance level for long. If we had raised ourselves to level 30 immediately, the outcome might not have been so certain."
Level 30?
Luo Yu was stunned. Wouldn't that mean his level had doubled?
I underestimated the power of time; isn't this cheating?!
There were too many zombie sea monsters underwater. Although their overall level was not high, even the Seedling Turtle and the Bee Empress were no match for them.
If the Empress had summoned her knights, the pressure might have been less, but since the goal at the moment was to train the Empress herself, she didn't do that.
Soon enough, one of the stragglers leaped out – a zombie frog hopped onto the deck, eyeing the two men with bloodlust.
"Gurgle!"
In July, he was about to condense magma to dry it, but Luo Yu stopped him.
"You reacted too slowly, July. You should have thrown them out and blown their heads off before they even boarded the ship."
"What if we throw it now and damage the ship?" Suddenly, Luo Yu produced an umbrella. He twisted the handle, and it transformed into a sword hilt, from which an iron sword was drawn.
He stepped forward and with a powerful chop, severed the head of the lunging zombie frog in two.
"I think you should try acupuncture too."
"Look, I often use acupuncture, so low-level zombies like this can't get close to me at all," Luo Yu said, shaking off his filthy umbrella-sword.
Shi Qianqian:???
How can you take your umbrella apart?!
Why did you hide the knife in the umbrella? Couldn't you just take the knife directly?
Luo Yu said, "It's my habit to carry an umbrella with me. Carrying other weapons would be too bulky, so I simply combined them together."
Shi Qianqian was speechless. Pets using fishing rods as weapons, owners using umbrellas as weapons—neither of them was normal.
However, Luo Yu's ease in killing the zombie frog, as well as his speed and reaction time, did indeed surprise Shi Qianqian. If Luo Yu were Intermediate Level Beast Taming Master, he would already be able to rely on the power of his pets, which would be understandable.
But you have to understand, Luo Yu is only Junior Level Beast Taming Master right now, but she already feels that she's no weaker Intermediate Level. Is the acupuncture really that effective? The two cheaters who were using zombies to practice on the ship are still immersed in their own art.
Little did they know, in the distance, a small boat was watching them intently. On board were only two people: a thin young man and a burly, imposing man.
The burly man circled his eyes with his fingers, as if he could see very far. "Brother, there's a ship that's been surrounded by zombies. Should we strike while the iron is hot and kill them?"
"What kind of ship?" the thin young man asked.
"Judging from the ship's design, it seems to be a ship from Mirror Moon Island, but there weren't many people on board, just two young people."
"Observe it more carefully."
"Holy crap, bro, this is incredible! There are two pet beasts fighting a horde of corpses under that ship. One is a turtle, I think it's a time-based beast, and the other is a ghost-type pet. These two are no ordinary people. Although they're only Junior Level Beast Taming Master, their pet beasts are very rare."
"A time-based... ghost pet?" the skinny young man exclaimed in surprise. "Are you sure you're not seeing things?"
"You definitely didn't see wrong."
"Bro, wanna pull off a heist? It's been ages since we've had a sale. If we steal that time-manipulation pet, we can definitely make a fortune, way more than we would as sea thieves."
"Really just two Junior Level Beast Taming Master?"
"That's right, in the nearby waters... there's only this one ship. Bro, I bet it's two people sneaking out to date without their elders knowing. After all, they have ghost pets and can sail a ghost ship, so they thought it would be safe."
"Then why didn't they escape in a ghost ship when they encountered zombies surrounding the ship?" the thin young man asked. "They didn't take the zombie sea beasts seriously. They were just some low-level zombies. Their strength is indeed not simple, but we are two Senior Level Beast Taming Master. Are we afraid of two children?" the burly man said.
"Brother, don't worry about it."
"Don't you believe in my reconnaissance skills? Even King Level expert can't escape my eyes. It really is just the two of them; they got lucky." After the burly man finished speaking, the thin young man also observed for a moment and indeed found that there was only this one ship. Finally, he nodded.
The burly man exclaimed with delight, "Concealment Snake!"
"Move the boat closer!"
As he finished speaking, a sea serpent, almost invisible and blending into the seawater, pulled an equally invisible small boat closer to the Frost Moon.
At the same time, the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile, hidden in the deep sea, raised its head, and above the sea of clouds, the woman in a cheongsam who was reading a book on a flying fish also closed her book.