The fleet was delayed for another two days in the canyon before they set off again.
2 days of clearing out the items from the corpse mountain and blood ocean. The total value was as Chai Zhou had estimated, reaching 3.6 million grade 4 beast crystals.
As for the losses of the 3 cities of Taoyun, it was also calculated. A total of 3800 cloud ships sunk, less than 10% of them survived.
Based on a 3 tooth cloud ship, it could carry at least 400 soldiers. At least 1.4 million elite soldiers were slaughtered by the beasts.
The only thing that made everyone feel pity was that Yue Guanyun, Feng Nu, and Xiong Ba were nowhere to be seen. Who knows if they were alive or dead, whether or not they managed to escape.
However, Zong Shou didn't care much. He didn't hope that his plan would be able to keep the 3 of them.
As the lord of a city and also controlling several provinces of land, he definitely had some trump cards. Even if he couldn't win against those grade 7 beasts, it wasn't a problem for him to let them escape.
After leaving the beast tomb that was swept clean, the group of ships didn't go anywhere else.
At this moment, the space of each ship was filled with precious beast corpse materials. Just as they were worried that a long night would cause problems, they were afraid that something would happen. Which was why everyone had the same opinion, that they weren't willing to waste any more time under the cloud ocean.
Zong Shou was also a little worried that Yue Guanyun and the others would have some tricks up their sleeves when they escaped. These few people were all crafty and cunning people. They were just careless which was why they fell into his trap. When they reacted, they might have a way to fight back. Which was why they followed their wishes and swiftly returned.
Actually, when they were below the cloud ocean, apart from hunting beasts, they could also use it to train troops. It allowed the soldiers under them to be trained in life and death battles. Every year, numerous people would advance because of this. However, at this moment, they obviously didn't have the time nor the conditions. Especially when the arrows that were sent over were all used up. The grain was also thrown away to make more space to store beast corpses.
When they returned, the ships were several times sunk. However, their speed didn't slow down by much. All the ships used beast crystals without caring about consumption to activate the floating spiritual formation to increase their speed.
Zong Shou also didn't stay in his own palace. That place had already been occupied by Xuanyuan Yiren.
He had spent a lot of money to renovate the palace, and now it had become Xuanyuan Yiren's pill room. In the beast tomb, they obtained numerous materials that even the Pill Fountain Sect didn't have. This caused Xuanyuan Yiren to be impatient and want to try to refine some extremely rare spiritual pills.
That place was filled with smoke the entire day, but Xuanyuan Yiren didn't allow him to watch from the side to avoid being distracted.
Therefore, Zong Shou could only stay on the deck for the whole day.
Under the huge umbrella, Zong Shou gritted his teeth with a "crack" sound. He bit down on a longan-sized pill in his mouth and crushed it into powder. Instantly, he felt a refreshing sweetness in his mouth. There was also a rich fragrance that seeped into his nose. It caused Zong Shou to be totally intoxicated. Following which his soul power shook, his mind was unusually vigorous.
Excited and awake, Zong Shou's mind merged these two totally abnormal states into one.
Looking at the few soul stones in his hand, his gaze became even sharper. It was like he could see through the structure and flaws of the beast soul within.
This was a beast soul stone that was specially chosen out of numerous soul stones, the Broken Mountain Bear's.
At this moment, Zong Shou was prepared to raise the grade of his protector beast known as Little Monster.
When Little Monster was alive, it was grade 6. After it was refined into a spirit beast, it dropped to grade 5. It was a demon eye silver bear that mutated from the Broken Mountain Bear.
What Zong Shou needed to do now was to choose suitable beast soul stones and use a secret technique to make it swallow. Naturally, in terms of quantity, there was a requirement. Soul stones of the same grade wouldn't exceed 20 times. As for surpass-grade soul stones, he only needed 3.
Soul beasts advancing was just so simple. As long as one had enough money and was able to control it, then it was really easy to raise its grade.
However, this time, the Broken Mountain Bear's soul stones that he obtained from the beast tomb had over a hundred grade 6 soul stones. There were even 2 grade 7 soul stones. Naturally, he had to strive for perfection. The lowest goal was for it to awaken its consciousness once more.
"Zong Shou, what you ate just now was the Ice Soul Intent Pill?"
The one who asked was Zhao Yanran. As she said that, she looked beside Zong Shou. A pill bottle was placed on the table. Zong Shou would consume one every 15 minutes.
Before this, Zhao Yanran didn't pay much attention to it until she noticed that the color and fragrance of the pill was similar to the famous pill from Pill Fountain Sect. Only then did she pay attention to it.
At this moment, Zong Shou felt his chest and abdomen turn cold. This was one of the side effects of the Ice Soul Intent Pill. However, along with the lightning glow exploding, the coldness disappeared and turned into a comfortable warmth.
When he heard that, he raised his head in shock, "You recognize this pill?
Zhao Yanran's heart instantly tightened. As expected, it was this pill! This was a grade 3 Ice Soul Intent Pill whose effects could be compared to grade 4. It was really famous in the cloud world. As long as one was a cultivator, who wouldn't recognize it? Looking at the situation, it was of exceptional quality.
Just now, Zong Shou would consume one every 30 minutes, eating it like it was a sugar pill. It was simply a waste of this supreme grade spirit pill.
Zong Shou took the pill bottle and waved it in front of her, "You want to eat?"
Zhao Yanran was instantly tempted. Even Xuan Yunlan's brows rose up. Such a grade of pill, just one could benefit one greatly. Who wouldn't want it?
In the next instance, Zong Shou laughed, keeping the pill bottle and tossing it to Ruoshui, "This thing is really expensive. If I give it to you just like that, Yiren would scold me. It is better if I use something to exchange for it. Xue, open your mouth! This thing is really delicious … "
Chu Xue opened her mouth in shock. Following which an ice blue pill was tossed into her mouth. As expected, it was really sweet. She couldn't help but look towards Ruoshui greedily. Ruoshui broke out into a laugh, pinching Chu Xue's nose. Without enough cultivation, one couldn't eat too much.
The corner of Zhao Yanran's eyes twitched. She felt that this Zong Shou was asking for a beating.
She was also envious. This fellow was really lucky. Looking at this Ice Soul Intent Pill, the fire in it still hadn't subsided. It was obviously made recently and the materials were most probably taken from the beast tomb. It was most probably made by Xuanyuan Yiren. His fiancee was a top pill master and he wouldn't need to worry about pills in the future.
Unfortunately, she wasn't a guy, if not she would snatch it!
After teasing Zhao Yanran for a while, Zong Shou retracted his thoughts, picking up a talisman pen and starting to draw talismans on the soul stones.
Just as he was slowly focusing, his brows furrowed as he looked into the distance. Only to see a hundred thousand feet away, a few ships were sailing over from the thick fog.
Sōmorime's eyes instantly squinted, thinking to himself that was Yue Guanyun and the others counterattacking? Their speed was really quick!
Not long later, numerous cloud ships appeared in front of his eyes. They gave off a huge aura. However, looking out, there were close to six to seven thousand of them.
The ships were mostly broken, who knows where they got the materials from, sewing and patching them up. They looked really weird, making one wonder whether or not they would instantly collapse in the next moment. The warriors on the ships were the same. There were all sorts of armor and weapons, but each of them gave off a strong aura.
"… These are the wind bandits!"
Zong Shou relaxed slightly. It wasn't that there were no humans living in the Cloud Ocean.
They were all sinners who were chased down by the dynasties. They were able to survive in such a dangerous environment. They were all called sinners. Some people even formed groups and plundered fleets under the sea of clouds. They entered and exited the black fog, sometimes charging up to the cloud ocean to snatch resources. They came with the wind and used the wind to leave. They were really unpredictable which was why they were called the wind bandits.
However, these people weren't within the agreement that the sects couldn't kill one another.
Shaking his head slightly, Zong Shou gave Gu Liekong a hand signal that he didn't need to show mercy. The latter understood. Moments later, thousands of ships formed up in an orderly manner. Just as those spaceships were charging over in a disorderly formation, the spaceships were charging over. Those 800 energy destroying crossbows shot out once more!
The entire space was lit up by the white light such that one could see everything clearly. A moment later, nearly six hundred of the seven thousand plus cloud ships exploded and fell from the sky.
The entire battlefield was instantly deathly silent. Following which, those wind bandit ships were in chaos as they crazily fled in all directions.
"It should be a coincidence. If they knew that you had 800 energy destroying crossbows, they would have fled as far as they could. That Yue Guanyun and Xiong Ba wouldn't have done such a useless thing. "
Zhao Yanran's tone turned into a mocking one, "Do you need to be so nervous about some random people? Why do you need to use the energy destroying crossbows? What is even weirder is that the commander is merciless, but he actually has compassion in his heart … "
Zong Shou laughed and was too lazy to bother. Following which, from the corner of his eyes, he saw tens of ships. The people on them all had snow white hair, their bodies were muscular and strong, even stronger than the iron tiger race.
"That is the snow lion race of the lion race?"
Zong Shou's brows furrowed as he recalled something in his memory. He couldn't help but stand up, "Chase them! It is best if they don't notice … "
Gu Liekong in the distance was startled and didn't understand. A thousand cloud ships, to hide their tracks wasn't easy. However, he still sent the order down. Just as all the wind bandit ships were far away. The entire fleet suddenly changed directions.
Ling Fakong and Zong Ling instantly did something. Balls of black mist started to spread out, covering the entire fleet within.
The snow lion race ships in front seemed to be fleeing in panic. They didn't pay attention to what was behind them, directly drilling into a mountain range.
After a short moment, a 'city' that was several thousand feet tall and built on top of a mountain appeared before everyone's eyes. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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