Forge your destiny and become an immortal, starting with hunting demons in the deep sea.

Chen Ye couldn't help but take a deep breath. Although this strength wasn't anything special, for those cultivators who were truly talented, fighting against those of higher levels was not impossible.

But for a low-level cultivator like Chen Ye, this is extremely rare!

His original plan was to continue waiting in the room for the enemy to come, but now it seems there's no need for that anymore.

Being cautious is a good thing, but it depends on the situation.

If the fleet is indeed successfully hijacked, those vicious hijackers will not spare him just because he is an outsider to the Gong family.

With a thought, Chen Ye's Jade Pattern Spear danced around him like a nimble fish. Then, he strode out of the room.

However, as soon as they stepped outside, they saw two Jie Xiu besieging a member of the Gong family.

Chen Ye also recognized this member of the Gong family; it was Gong Yi, who had invited him to Langxian Tower for fun on Qingjue Island.

However, perhaps because his vital energy had been drained by the female cultivators of Langxian Tower, he was now pale and swaying as he faced two Tribulation cultivators whose cultivation was one level lower than his. He was almost unable to withstand their attacks.

Just as a scimitar weapon from a cultivator was about to strike Gong Yi.

"Whoosh!"

A piercing whistling sound suddenly rang out, and the Azure Pattern Spear pierced through the air, first knocking away the curved sword, then turning the spearhead, the sharp blade spitting out a cold light, and piercing straight through the man's chest!

"what!"

He screamed in agony, but his heart was shattered. Although he could feel the pain, there was nothing he could do.

The other cultivator, due to poor visibility, did not notice that it was Chen Ye who made the move.

He only vaguely saw that a gun-like magical weapon killed his companion, and thought it was a cultivator in the late stage of the Spirit Condensation Realm using his divine sense to control the weapon!

The man was so frightened that he turned and fled. He even stuck a treasured speed talisman on his leg because he felt he wasn't fast enough.

Unfortunately, he only guessed half of it correctly.

The Azure Pattern Spear was indeed controlled by divine sense, but not by a late-stage Spirit Condensation cultivator; rather, it was controlled by Chen Ye.

His spiritual power is even stronger than that of a late-stage Spirit Condensation cultivator!

Before the cultivator could run a few steps, the Azure Pattern Spear easily caught up with him and smashed his head with a single blow!

"Phew... Brother Chen, thank you so much."

Having narrowly escaped death, Gong Yi sat on the ground, panting heavily, large beads of sweat streaming down his forehead.

"You should probably avoid those brothels in the future," Chen Ye said, half-jokingly, seeing his depleted kidney energy.

"Hehe, Brother Chen, you don't understand. The pleasures of those female cultivators who have practiced the Art of Union... tsk tsk tsk, they're absolutely wonderful!"

Gong Yi chuckled and said that he could give up drinking and gambling, but he absolutely could not give up lust.

Chen Ye shook his head; this child was completely hopeless.

"Damn it, you're Zhou Li!"

Just then, a loud shout suddenly came from a room not far away.

Gong Chengyuan?

Chen Ye's expression shifted, and he immediately stepped closer. The wooden walls had already been torn apart by sword energy, and he could clearly see the situation inside the room even from the outside.

Inside the room, Gong Chengyuan held a mid-grade magic sword in one hand, while his other arm hung limply down, as if struck by some blunt object.

Opposite him stood a young male cultivator dressed in a light blue robe.

This person looked at least four or five years younger than Gong Chengyuan, but the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from him were the same as Gong Chengyuan's, both being cultivators at the seventh level of the Spirit Gathering stage!

The young male cultivator had a mocking smile on his lips.

"Brother Chengyuan, I heard that your meridians have become solidified since your last injury, and your cultivation level has regressed for the rest of your life. But your regression is too fast! You can't even use a high-grade magic weapon anymore?"

"you!!"

With his scars exposed, Gong Chengyuan was enraged. The last shred of reason in his mind was overwhelmed, and he swung his longsword at Zhou Li in a furious slash!

If the Zhou family hadn't sent people to confuse the crew, how could he have ended up in this state?

This person's words were full of mockery, how could Gong Chengyuan not be angry? To have one's cultivation path cut off halfway is worse than being born a mortal without spiritual roots!

Seeing this, Zhou Li knew his plan had succeeded. He calmly used his movement technique to dodge the sword, and then condensed spiritual light in his hand to summon a short demon bone pestle.

This short pestle was made from some part of a demonic beast, its entire body as black as ink, with a ring of grotesque, rounded bumps extending from the joint at the very tip. It was aimed at Gong Chengyuan's armpit and smashed down hard!

Click!

With a sharp crack, as if several ribs had broken, Gong Chengyuan groaned and collapsed to the ground in agony, like a boiled shrimp.

"Hmph, you're such a piece of trash, I really don't know how you managed to kill that kid Zhou Heng."

Zhou Li snorted coldly. He wasn't there to avenge Zhou Heng. It was just that the Zhou family was large and the internal competition was fierce. In order to get preferential treatment from the family's resources, in addition to having decent personal qualities, one also had to make contributions to the family.

Killing a core member of the Gong family would earn him 500 family contribution points, which was a considerable sum for him.

"You can go die now."

Zhou Li lost interest and was about to end Gong Chengyuan's life with a single blow when, unexpectedly, the severely injured Gong Chengyuan suddenly unleashed a strong surge of spiritual energy.

brush!

The next moment, Gong Chengyuan suddenly leaped up from the ground. At this moment, his cheeks were flushed, his spiritual power was extremely violent, and his eyes were even more bloodshot.

"die!!"

Gong Chengyuan let out a deafening roar and swung his sword in a sweeping motion the instant Zhou Li was stunned.

Pfft~~

A violent sword aura, almost solidified, was instantly unleashed. Although Zhou Li's robes possessed considerable defensive capabilities, they were still sliced ​​apart by this sword aura under the influence of Gong Chengyuan's frenzied spiritual power.

"Ah~~"

Zhou Li felt a sharp pain in his arm. He instinctively tried to raise the demon bone pestle to fight back, but found that his arm and the pestle had fallen to the ground.

"You're a madman!"

As Zhou Li endured the excruciating pain and retreated rapidly, he cursed loudly.

The Gong family are all lunatics! Even though their cultivation can no longer be improved, they still take those pills that burn away their lifespan potential!

Actually, if you look at it from a different perspective, you can understand why Gong Chengyuan did this.

Burning lifespan? In his current condition, he can only live for thirty or forty years at most. What difference does a dozen or so years make?

Depleting potential?

Gong Chengyuan's path of cultivation has been cut off, but Zhou Li, at the age of twenty-seven, is at the seventh level of the Spirit Gathering stage, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will surely reach the peak of the Spirit Gathering stage before the age of fifty.

Trading a cultivation failure like him for a hidden seed from the Zhou family is a bargain, an absolute bargain!

At this moment, Zhou Li, having lost an arm, had no will to fight. He only wanted to quickly return to the Jiexiu ship, gather the other clansmen who had come to retrieve his arm, and perhaps, after it was reattached, he would still have a chance to break through the secret treasure.

But to his surprise, just as he retreated to the doorway, a sharp blue light, like a venomous blue-scaled snake that had been lurking for a long time, pierced his back with lightning speed!