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

"Buzzing~"

At this moment, a buzzing sound suddenly rang out. Chen Ye turned his head and saw that the Queen of the Devouring Pattern Bees, along with her swarm of bees, was crawling on the corpse of the Black Armored Poison Spider and devouring its flesh and blood.

After such a long period of careful care, coupled with a large amount of blood and flesh feeding, the overall strength of the striped bee colony has increased considerably.

In particular, the queen bee's two wings, which Chen Ye had previously broken, had grown back. Not only that, but her stinger also seemed to be more poisonous.

Once stung, even cultivators at the ninth level of the Spiritual Cultivation stage find it difficult to endure the pain and itching sensation.

At this moment, the queen bee firmly held onto the broken venomous tail of the black-armored venomous spider, and any other striped bees that dared to approach would immediately be torn apart by the queen bee.

Clearly, although these demonic insects are not very intelligent, they still know that the poison sac in the severed tail is a good thing!

"Alright, go back to your spirit insect pouches and eat."

Chen Ye was too lazy to wait for the Devouring Bees to finish devouring the Black-Armored Poison Spider. He unleashed a burst of spiritual power, threw the spider's corpse into his spirit insect pouch, and sent it with a thought.

The queen bee immediately spread her wings and shook them. As if receiving some kind of command, the swarm followed the queen and flew into the air, a dark mass that all rushed into the insect sac.

Chen Ye carefully put away the spirit insect pouch, then took Zhou Maolin's storage bag, used his divine sense to break through the remaining marks on it, opened it, and sure enough, found what he wanted inside!

Blood coral!

This first-grade top-quality spiritual plant resembles a small sapling, only a little over half a meter tall, but with numerous branches and a crimson color throughout, like glass.

"This is good stuff!"

A smile appeared on Chen Ye's lips. He immediately put the Crimson Coral into his storage bag and roughly checked the other items as well.

Nearly two thousand spirit stones, which is neither a lot nor a little for Zhou Maolin's cultivation level, along with several bottles of cultivation pills, talismans, and the broadsword he uses, bring the total value to over three thousand spirit stones.

In addition, Chen Ye also found a small pile of gold-type ore in the storage bag, which was probably used by Zhou Maolin to feed the Black Armored Poison Spiders. But now that master and servant died on the same day, there was no need to worry about it.

After putting the storage bag into his pocket, Chen Ye went into the cargo hold to check. At this moment, the ice wall formed by the second-tier talisman had dissipated, and Chen Ye had also put away the Vortex Blade Wheel.

However, after the series of destructions, the cargo hold was riddled with holes, and the items inside were in complete disarray.

Chen Ye found a few small but valuable items and put them into his storage bag before leisurely leaving the cargo hold.

Upon reaching the top of the stairs, one could see Manager Gong Yi waiting there with seven or eight crew members.

Upon seeing Chen Ye emerge, the group's expressions turned slightly strange, but they still hurriedly approached him.

"Captain, all the cabins on board except the cargo hold have been searched. A total of ninety-four people have been killed, not one of them was spared."

Gong Yi proactively reported that when Chen Ye went down to the cargo hold earlier, he had already eliminated the late-stage Spirit Condensation crew members on the demon-catching ship. The remaining people were all low-level cultivators, and Gong Yi and the others were fully capable of dealing with them.

"Very good. Clean out the cargo hold. Take everything you can, except for those demon corpses."

Chen Ye nodded and said that the Mo Jiao was only a medium-sized demon-catching ship with limited space. In addition, two more water control arrays were added to increase the speed of the spirit ship, so even the frost array in the cargo hold was removed.

Although the corpses of demonic beasts can be stored for longer than those of ordinary wild animals, they will rot in about ten days at most, which also suggests that Chen Ye has no intention of returning to Jinwu Island in the short term.

"yes!"

Gong Yi's expression turned serious, as if he had thought of something again, and he asked.

"By the way, Captain, what should we do with this demon-hunting ship?"

"It sank!" Chen Ye said without any hesitation.

"It sank...sank?" Gong Yi's eyes widened. The Zhou family's demon-catching ship was a large spirit ship, worth at least ten thousand spirit stones. It sank just like that?

"Not bad. Bringing this ship will significantly reduce the speed of the Ink Dragon. If you feel it's a pity, you can continue to plunder the Zhou family's ships next time you encounter them."

Chen Ye said in a relaxed tone that he had already learned the exact location of the other Zhou family ships from Zhou Maolin. If he had that time, he could have seized a few more ships and everything would have been fine.

"yes!"

Gong Yi also figured it out. This ship wasn't his, so even if it sank, it would be the Zhou family's loss. Why should he feel bad about it?

After Chen Ye left, Gong Yi led several of his men to the cargo hold, and as soon as they entered, they could smell a faint burnt smell in the air.

"Hiss... I knew it! Boss Chen definitely has some kind of weird fetish. Look, this corpse is all burnt..."

"Where did that thigh go? Do you think Boss Chen gave it to...?"

"Shut up, all of you! Don't talk about the captain behind his back!"

Gong Yi turned around and shouted, and the two talkative crew members immediately shut their mouths and dared not utter another word.

In fact, Gong Yi was also a little suspicious. He would never believe that Chen Ye didn't have any secrets. Otherwise, how could he have broken through from the third level of the Spirit Gathering Realm to the seventh level in just three years?

"Could he have practiced some kind of evil cultivation technique?"

As his gaze swept over the mangled corpse, Gong Yi thought with immense worry, "I've heard that my cousin Yuechan seems to have a good impression of Chen Ye. I hope she's not a trap..."

After a while.

On the Mo Jiao.

Thirty-three crew members stood neatly on the deck.

When the Mo Jiao left Jin Wu Island, it had a total of forty crew members. After the battle just now, three people died and four were injured.

However, for cultivators, as long as the injury is not a serious one like losing a hand or foot, it won't have much of an impact.

The four injured people simply took healing pills and returned to their respective cabins to rest; they were otherwise unharmed.

In front of Chen Ye was a pile of nearly a hundred storage bags, all of which had been taken from the Zhou family cultivators. Not one was missing; they were all there.

Chen Ye quickly checked the storage bags and, seeing that the markings on all the bags were intact, nodded to himself. It seemed these crew members were reasonably sensible; however, those who needed a warning still needed to be given one.

He glanced at the crew members before speaking.

"The Mo Jiao's voyage is for our master to acquire cultivation resources. As the captain, I, Chen, will distribute rewards based on your performance, and those injured or killed will receive corresponding compensation. However, anyone who dares to embezzle funds will face my ruthlessness!"

Chen Ye paused, and the vortex blade wheel hovering beside him suddenly burst out with a dazzling cold light. Under the control of his divine sense, it shot towards the Zhou family's demon-catching ship like an arrow released from a bow!

boom!!

Even without the array's enhancement, the demon-catching boat was still far stronger than an ordinary fishing boat, but it could no longer withstand the bombardment of the top-grade magic weapon. The lower side of the boat was shattered by the vortex blade wheel, and seawater rushed in!

Click!

Just a few breaths later, with a loud cracking sound, the Vortex Blade Wheel flew back rapidly, while the demon-hunting ship, already riddled with holes, was slowly swallowed by the cold seawater, accompanied by the dust and broken planks.