Master of the Ghost Ship
Without a doubt, this is the core of this ghost ship.
It is both the core of the Tribulation Qi and the central hub of the Yin Qi.
After a moment of contemplation, the Hu Mang reached out and pressed its hand against the surface of the cocoon.
The moment his fingertips touched him, a cold current flowed from his fingertips into his arm, spread along his meridians to his chest, and then directly to his mind.
In that instant, he seemed to hear countless voices whispering at the same time—the last wisp of consciousness and memory left behind in the ghost ship by the water ghosts, sea beasts, and cultivators swallowed by the ghost ship flashed through his mind like fragments, chaotic yet carrying a strong desire to be heard.
Hu Mang gritted his teeth, steadied his mind, suppressed the noise, and then slowly probed his Divine Sense into the cocoon of Tribulation Qi, attempting to establish a connection with the core of the ghost ship.
He wants to steer this ghost ship, not be assimilated by it!
The Eye of the Tribulation Dragon the Hu Mang began to frantically absorb this tribulation power.
At the same time, his security uniform began to turn white visibly, at a rate ten times faster than before!
On the Hu Mang's skin, there seemed to be another layer of skin wriggling; that was the wriggling of ghost flesh.
His body temperature began to drop rapidly, and bluish ghost patterns began to appear on his skin.
This is undoubtedly a sign of transformation.
Hu Mang knew he was racing against time.
You either gain control of this ghost ship before it is completely transformed, or you become a sea ghost on this ship and remain forever in this dark seabed.
A massive surge of calamity energy flooded into the depths of the Hu Mang's consciousness, bringing not only power but also information.
A deluge of information, like a tidal wave, flooded into his mind.
He "saw" the source of the Dragon Blood Tide.
It was a Turbid Dragon sleeping deep in the East Sea, accumulating Sha Qi and resentment over the long years.
It is precisely because of this Turbid Dragon that it continuously absorbs Turbid Qi that the Thirty-Six Islands of the Eastern Sea became a sacred place for overseas cultivation.
He also "saw" a new Dragon Vein being conceived, a pure Sea Dragon Vein, formed from the Spiritual Qi of the ocean and imbued with the spiritual essence of heaven and earth.
He even saw countless "civil engineering colleagues" from Heavenly Gate reclaiming land from the sea on this Dragon Vein, laying arrays and pipelines, building spiritual power stations, and connecting that newly formed Dragon Vein with Heavenly Gate's energy network.
All of these actions were taken in order to stimulate the revival of the Sea Dragon Vein at a crucial moment.
At that moment, it felt an unprecedented rage.
To open up a Dragon Vein, you must first kill Dragon Vein.
And "it" is the one that was killed.
Once a new artificial Dragon Vein takes shape, the Turbid Qi descends and the Clear Qi rises, and its Dragon Vein consciousness will be absorbed by the new Dragon Vein.
So "it" unleashed the Dragon Blood Tide.
Therefore, it must fight to the death!
Hu Mang suddenly closed his eyes.
The Tribulation Qi surged in far too fiercely.
He did not temporarily sever the "Eye of the Tribulation Dragon".
At that moment, he suddenly understood the whole story. From the moment the Sea-Pacifying Divine Warship sailed into the Thirty-Six Islands of the Eastern Sea, it was all part of a massive plan.
This plan is called "Reclaiming Land from the Sea to Create Dragon Vein"!
Hu Mang now understood where the "panic consciousness" of the ghost ship came from.
It is a "Ghost Dragon Vein" evolved from a part of the Dragon Vein consciousness of the Turbid Dragon.
The Turbid Dragon transformed into endless Turbid Qi and erupted; it was the word "death."
Even if the artificial Sea Dragon Vein is successfully created, the Dragon Vein's consciousness will be absorbed by the new Dragon Vein, and it will still be dead!
It couldn't even leave the range of the Dragon Blood Tide.
Because the entire Dragon Blood Tide is like a maze of illusions.
"In that case, wouldn't those cultivators who were scavenging for treasure in the core area of Dragon Blood Tide be in deep trouble? Once the Turbid Qi erupts, these people won't even know how they died."
He was caught in a Turbid Qi eruption on Java Island and nearly lost his life.
But there is more than one volcano on the seabed of the East Sea.
"Judging from this, the Dragon Blood Tide can't possibly last seven days. The resentment of the Turbid Dragon can no longer be suppressed, and the Turbid Qi will erupt in the next day or two!"
Hu Mang immediately felt like he'd been screwed over.
His karmic entanglement with this Turbid Qi is inextricably linked.
I encountered it on my last voyage.
And on this voyage, we ran into it again!
Hu Mang's thoughts suddenly froze.
He looked down and saw the pale security guard uniform—no, it should be called a ghost skin now.
A chill that seemed to emanate from the depths of its bones began to envelop the Hu Mang's body.
The old man's security guard uniform finally reached its limit.
Now, when Hu Mang wears it, it looks like a complete ghost skin.
The grayish-white stains that had seeped through his security uniform began to appear on his skin.
At first, there were only a few scattered spots, like age spots, on the back of the hands and forearms.
But soon, those small dots gradually expanded and connected, forming irregular grayish-white patches that covered his arms, neck, and even part of his cheeks.
The texture of those patches was completely different from normal skin; it felt like the skin of a corpse that had been dead for a long time.
When Roof Leak, it pours!
The Hu Mang couldn't even feel pain anymore.
Because most of his physical body had been transformed into a ghost.
"Oh shit!!"
Without saying a word, Hu Mang opened the "Eye of the Tribulation Dragon" again and began to forcefully contact the consciousness of the ghost ship by absorbing the power of calamity to improve his realm.
Or rather, forcibly devour!
If he can't persuade the other party, he'll be killed by them.
"I don't care whether you've developed consciousness or not, but you should know that in this situation, you're a dead man!"
"Once you're polluted by the Turbid Qi, forget about Xi-Yi, you won't even be able to become a bastard!"
"Without you, I'd be devoured and turned into a ghost; without me, you'd just be another pathetic loser!"
"In this situation, only through our cooperation—where I absorb enough Tribulation Qi to evolve it into a higher realm, allowing me to lead you out of the Dragon Blood Tide —can we both survive!"
The Hu Mang's Divine Sense, like a sharp blade, pierced fiercely into the cocoon of Tribulation Qi, colliding with the ghost ship's chaotic and enormous consciousness.
In that instant, a storm-like buzzing sounded in his mind, and countless fragmented images and thoughts surged in his consciousness, but he gritted his teeth and imprinted his will word by word into that chaos.
"I almost forgot to tell you, buddy, I've always dreamed of becoming the Pirate King!"
As he spoke, the Hu Mang's palm suddenly pierced through the Tribulation Qi and grabbed the ship's rudder!
The ghost ship shuddered suddenly, and the water ghosts that were supporting the bottom of the ship all stopped in their tracks, even their whimpers ceased abruptly.
Then, a massive, tidal wave of cold air surged into the Hu Mang's mind along the ship's rudder.
As the consciousness of those enormous ghost ships entered their bodies, the grayish-white stains began to writhe like living things, peeling away layer by layer from the surface of the fabric to reveal the brand-new material underneath.
A deep, dark red pattern, like congealed blood, began to emerge.
The texture of the fabric also changed from a smooth, fleshy feel to a heavy, textured canvas feel.
The seaweed and shell debris clinging to the clothes fell off, replaced by new decorations.
The collar is turned up in a stand-up style, with a dark gold trim along the edge; several brass buttons are visible on the shoulders and cuffs; the waist is cinched in, creating a clean cut and outlining sharp lines.
Hu Mang had no idea what ancient ship captains wore.
He had only ever seen modern captain's uniforms.
Therefore, this "new security guard uniform"—no, it should be called the new captain's uniform—has a strong sense of déjà vu.
It was covered in blood-red markings, making it look quite sinister.
This is the same color as the Dragon Blood Tide.
Especially when the Hu Mang touched its right eye, it indeed felt the familiar "eye patch."
This is no ordinary "eye patch," but an enhanced version of the Yin Eye, or rather, the Eye of the Ghost King.
Through the blindfold, he could clearly perceive every corner of the ghost ship.
More importantly, he could sense every movement and change of the Yin Qi in the surrounding sea.
He could sense which direction the Sha Qi surging from the seabed fissures was converging, which area the Spiritual Qi fluctuations of the Dragon Blood Tide were intensifying, and which direction the auras of the sea monsters and cultivators hidden in the darkness were moving towards.
This information, like countless streams, flowed into his mind through the Eye of the Ghost King, forming a complete, real-time updated map of the sea in his consciousness.
Even more remarkably, he could control the entire direction of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, causing the gray-white demon path to no longer expand chaotically, but to extend according to his will.
Hu Mang laughed heartily, then suddenly turned the rudder, which creaked and groaned, causing the keel to rumble with a deep, rumbling sound, like a sleeping beast finally awakening.
The still water ghosts suddenly came to life, their steps perfectly synchronized, slowly turning the boat and heading in the direction indicated by the Hu Mang.
"My men, watch how your captain leads you through a Yin-Yang Road!"
Early on the third day, all the cultivators from the Thirty-Six Islands of the Eastern Sea who were still fishing in the Dragon Blood Tide, whether human or demon, inner island cultivator or outer island cultivator, whether fishing in the core area or picking up scattered goods on the periphery, received a supreme order from Penglai Island, which is the legendary Penglai Command.
The Dragon Blood Tide mutation is imminent, evacuate immediately!
This abrupt and unsubstantiated news caused dissatisfaction among both humans and demons.
This Dragon Blood Tide only happens once every ten years, and you're already telling us to retreat after just three days?
Even if you're a sacred place in the East Sea, you can't stop me from making money.
Therefore, not only did the Rogue Cultivator of the East Sea ignore this order, but even some of the guest elders of the East Sea Immortal Islands, and even the island lords of the outer islands, disregarded it.
After all, the Spiritual Qi inside the Dragon Blood Tide is so violent, it's normal for the signal to be bad, right?
Thus, in the morning after the Penglai Command was issued, there were only a dozen or so Golden Core cultivators surrounding Ao Tianhai.
The quantities don't match at all!