Chapter 557: From Metamorphosing Spirit Chicken to Beast-Taming Immortal Cultivation Chapter 556: Infiltrating the Interior

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Protagonist:

Yu Zhangsheng

Yu Zhangsheng chuckled lightly, "Who said you betrayed me? You're overthinking it."

Lu Sandao instantly went limp on the ground, letting out a breath of relief; the look in Yu Zhangsheng's eyes just now had truly scared him out of his wits.

"Boss Yu, then who do you say betrayed you?"

Yu Zhangsheng stood up, helping him up, "Heh heh, who said my meaning was that someone betrayed me?"

"What I suspect is that someone has been monitoring me all along; it's just that after coming out to sea, it became inconvenient for the other party to hide, so they lost track of us."

"Left with no choice, they only then sent people to search for our tracks. However, although this Beihai region is large, this merchant ship being discovered is only a matter of time."

Lu Sandao stood up, patting the dust off his back, and couldn't help but ask: "Then are we still staying on the ship? Won't we be discovered sooner or later?"

"Better to leave early; it would be a bit safer."

Yu Zhangsheng shook his head, "I don't plan to leave for the time being; out on the sea surface without supplies and cover, we can't go far either."

"Those Sheya Pirates are searching for us, right? Let them search well; when they come knocking, we'll take the opportunity to blend into their interior."

Lu Sandao exclaimed in shock: "Could it be that Boss Yu, you want to deliberately let them capture you?"

"Exactly. If the two of us barge in directly, we'll definitely be interrogated about our identities. But if we hide inside this merchant ship, we might just muddle through."

"In short, when the time comes, we'll have to act according to the situation. You must absolutely not drop the ball."

After Yu Zhangsheng and Lu Sandao finished their instructions, he also informed the other two Sub-Talisman True Lords of his purpose, having them prepare to cooperate.

If they really were found, they also must not resist to the death; if they can run then run, if they can't escape then surrender and preserve a life.

On a small island at sea, several pirates were cleaning up the messy weeds and deadwood around them.

They cleared out an open space, set up a simple small wooden table, and laid out all the food and wine they carried.

A burly man stumbled over, sat down on the ground in a bad mood, tore open a roast chicken and started gnawing on it.

"Damn it, this His Eldest Young Master's really is a bitter chore; we've searched at sea for several days and haven't seen a single human shadow."

Another person nearby also said: "Exactly, I think we don't need to search anyway; we can't find them regardless."

"Better to just dawdle around here for a few days; the boss will naturally give up."

The other surrounding pirates all meant the same, lying on the ground in disarray; some picked up wine jugs and started gulping.

The leading burly man also pondered: "Let the brothers rest on this island, then send out a few people every two hours to search a circle nearby."

"Best if we find people; if we don't, it still counts as us doing our best."

The other few all agreed, immediately drinking and making merry, very lively.

Night, firelight flickering, earth-shaking snores letting the entire sea island have no peace.

The leading burly man woke with a start, just about to go take a piss, when he suddenly saw a flicker of firelight drifting from afar.

"Someone!"

The burly man immediately woke his companions and crept toward that firelight.

At the merchant ship's bow, Li Zixin gazed into the distance at the sea surface, worried and anxious; these past few days he had been like this, but tonight was exceptionally tense.

Just as he was preparing to go back and rest, several black shadows on the sea surface suddenly appeared, rapidly approaching.

Li Zixin immediately wanted to shout for help, but those black shadows had already drawn near and struck him directly; he fainted instantly.

The black shadows immediately dispersed on the ship and began attacking the people on board.

Yu Zhangsheng, who had originally been meditating with eyes closed, abruptly opened his eyes; Lu Sandao beside him also stood up.

Ordinary people cannot perceive abnormalities in their surroundings, but for Sub-Talisman True Lords, they are extremely sensitive to every change around them.

Yu Zhangsheng had Lu Sandao go out to take a look and wake up the people on the ship.

Before long, the entire merchant ship began to fall into chaos; the two Sub-Talisman True Lords on the merchant ship also engaged in battle with the invading pirates.

At this time Lu Sandao also retreated back to the room and reported the situation to Yu Zhangsheng.

"Boss Yu, sure enough pirates discovered our tracks. Should we make a move?"

Yu Zhangsheng walked quickly to the door and asked in a low voice: "Don't make a move yet; let's see the situation first."

The battle outside didn't last too long; those two Sub-Talisman True Lords also didn't look weak, plus Yu Zhangsheng's prior warning, so they basically didn't put up much resistance and immediately withdrew.

As for the other merchant ship crew, they put up even less resistance; all surrendered.

Li Zixin knelt despairingly at the bow, knowing this time it was truly over.

At this moment, that burly man also came before Li Zixin, grabbed Li Zixin with one hand, took out a portrait and asked: "Do you recognize this person?"

Seeing the face on that portrait, Li Zixin immediately recognized him; it was definitely Yu Zhangsheng.

Li Zixin felt a turmoil of emotions for a moment, but still shook his head and said: "Don't recognize him."

His only hope right now was Yu Zhangsheng; how could he possibly betray him.

"Hmph! Best if so."

The burly man shoved Li Zixin aside and said to the other subordinates: "Capture everyone and take them back; move all the goods away."

And at this moment, Yu Zhangsheng had also been secretly observing the situation; seeing the timing had arrived, he had Lu Sandao beside him act according to plan.

The two directly hid inside a pre-arranged deck mechanism, concealing themselves.

The passing pirates all completely failed to discover the two.

The ship's crew had all been controlled and locked in the hold; Li Zixin was also bound hand and foot, unable to move.

Having received no news of Yu Zhangsheng all along, it made Li Zixin despair completely, thinking Yu Zhangsheng had already secretly slipped away on his own.

"Alas, back then I really shouldn't have, shouldn't have been greedy ah."

The cabin was filled with wailing; Li Zixin leaned against the wooden planks, still having no thought of resistance whatsoever.

The crew were locked inside like this for a full day and night; everyone had already been tortured until they no longer looked human.

No food to eat, no water to drink, even going to the toilet was a problem; the cabin had long since become a place unfit for people.

Fortunately at this moment, the ship also docked at the shore.

Several pirates opened the hatch; a stench rushed at their faces; a few of them frowned, pinching their noses, ordering the people inside to come out.

But after a day and night of torture at sea, and with nothing to eat, the people inside had long since lost all strength.

The pirates could only pull out whips and give them a thorough whipping; only then did the crew prop themselves up and leave the cabin.

Li Zixin walked out of the cabin in a daze and saw a huge island; all around was a stretch of mist.

No one knew the location of this place; Li Zixin felt utter despair in his heart — it seemed he would be trapped in this place for the rest of his life.

After everyone in the cabin had been seized onto the shore, Li Zixin only then discovered that it was not just their batch of people who had been captured.

The pirates had not come in just one ship this time; the people delivered earlier were also quite numerous.

All were confined in a clearing by the shore.

Before long Li Zixin was shoved into the clearing and, together with the crew, thrown a lump of sticky stuff of unknown nature.

"Probably food." Although it was this disgusting, in the past he would absolutely never have eaten it.

But right now he was already a prisoner, and had gone a day without eating; he was already starving with his front sticking to his back, so he couldn't care about that much anymore.

Steeling himself, he ate the thing in his hand.

After eating, his stomach churned; Li Zixin forcibly suppressed the urge to vomit and looked around, but did not discover any trace of Yu Changsheng and Lu Sandao.

Could it be that both of them had already escaped and were not caught? Li Zixin knew that the two Violet Palace True Lords Yu Changsheng had arranged to protect them had fled right when the battle started, and he did not blame the two of them.

Under those circumstances, fleeing was only human nature; moreover, he had not given any reward at all — it was all just verbal promises.

Only, Yu Changsheng had not been captured, which gave Li Zixin a sliver of hope.

Suddenly, a familiar figure walked past in front of him; Li Zixin always felt he had seen this person somewhere before.

Only this person wore a face mask, so his features could not be seen clearly; but he was dressed in pirate clothing, and soon disappeared from Li Zixin's sight.

And that person was none other than Yu Changsheng, who had infiltrated this island after a slight disguise.

After sensing the ship had anchored, Yu Changsheng sneaked in; then he and Lu Sandao each found a lone pirate and stripped the clothes off his body.

After a simple disguise they forced their way in.

This pirate island's defensive measures were practically non-existent; they penetrated deep inside without the slightest effort.

Lu Sandao had also slightly altered his appearance at this moment, and said in a low voice to the person ahead: "Boss Yu, now that we've barely managed to blend in."

"What do we do now? This Snake Tooth Pirate Gang's Hidden Mist Island is no good place."

Yu Changsheng had no good plan at the moment either; entering and leaving this place, understanding nothing, how could he possibly come up with a way out.

"The current plan is to gather intelligence; first get a clear grasp of the situation here, then decide."

The two entered the island interior; pirates came and went everywhere, yet no one discovered anything abnormal about the two of them.

Among these pirates, messy types made up the vast majority; the two of them looking like this counted as fairly normal.

Lu Sandao was utterly familiar with this sort of environment, even taking the initiative to greet others, just like returning home.

Night.

Also the time when pirates were most excited; the tavern was already packed to the rafters.

Yu Changsheng and Lu Sandao also randomly found a place to rest and ordered some aged wine.

At this moment, a clamor of voices attracted the two's attention.

A tall, burly, bald-headed man suddenly burst in and roared at the drinkers: "Everyone here, all of you come with me."

Many people, seeing that bald giant, wore expressions of terror; they sobered up considerably at once and followed him.

No one dared refuse the bald man's demand; all stood up one after another.

Seeing this, Yu Changsheng and Lu Sandao exchanged a glance and followed along.

The bald man led the people to the edge of the island and directly brought everyone onto a pirate ship.

They also seized a portion of the previous captives and sent them all onto the ship.

Yu Changsheng and Lu Sandao silently observed, and were also somewhat unable to figure out what this bald man intended to do.

But among those captives, Yu Changsheng also saw a familiar figure.

Li Zixin was conspicuously among them, covered in wounds from head to toe; in less than a day he had already been tortured to this state.

Yu Changsheng sighed deeply in his heart; this time he had indeed implicated him, but right now he was not suited to reveal himself to rescue him; he planned to first observe what exactly that bald man was going to do.

After the personnel were assembled, the bald man roared, ordering his subordinates to take their positions, and set sail outward.

At this time, Yu Changsheng also noticed a talisman in the bald man's hand.

When this talisman passed through the mist, the faint colored light it emitted could disperse the surrounding mist, guiding out a path.

This made Yu Changsheng immediately realize: it seemed the talisman was the only way to pass through this mist.

In the dense fog, shadows kept flashing by; but upon encountering the bright light emitted by the talisman, they all scattered away.

When the surrounding mist gradually thinned considerably, Yu Changsheng only then gradually saw the outside situation clearly.

All around was still a vast ocean; but looking behind, he could no longer see anything at all — even the mist floating on the sea appeared and disappeared intermittently.

Were it not for the path still clearly visible where the colored light shone, Yu Changsheng would almost have thought he had suddenly been teleported to this place.

"Unexpectedly the Snake Tooth Pirate Gang actually possesses such a method? Truly marvelous."

"If I could obtain this method, wouldn't that let the Wanxiang Sect be in an absolutely safe place?"

Yu Changsheng immediately took an interest in this secret art, thinking about how to get his hands on it.

By now the outside world had already turned bright; the bald man led the people continuing toward a certain direction; after half a day, an island gradually came into view.

Small islands like this are extremely numerous in the Beihai Yu, and are the best venues for these pirates to temporarily exchange.

The bald man ordered his subordinates to dock the ship on the island, then immediately drove all the captured people off the ship.

Before long, several dozen people were all tied up and thrown on the island's sandy beach.

The bald man also stood in place waiting, while Yu Zhangsheng temporarily took no rash action, first watching to see the bald man's purpose.

The bald man waited with some impatience, directly lying down on the sandy beach and falling asleep.

Lu Sandao also came over at this time, muttering in Yu Zhangsheng's ear: "Boss Yu, don't know what these people want to do, want to take the chance to make a move on them, finish them off?"

Yu Zhangsheng was also hesitating; if he acted now, it would indeed be a good opportunity.

But having waited so long, if he didn't see what that bald man wanted to do it would indeed be a bit of a regret.

Just as he was contemplating, several black shadows suddenly drifted over from the distance.

Very quickly several figures rapidly approached, and a huge noise also made that bald man immediately wake up in alarm.

"Xu Chen, long time no see."

The leader wore white robes fluttering, lightly shaking a feather fan in hand, the very image of a Shijie Young Master.

Seeing him, the bald man also immediately welcomed him respectfully, not daring the slightest neglect.

Yu Zhangsheng saw it in his eyes, and before he could make any move, that bald man pointed at Yu Zhangsheng's location and said: "You people over there, still not bringing all the people over."

The people behind Yu Zhangsheng immediately turned around, and he also followed along to seize people.

Transporting all those captured crew members to this location.

The white-robed leader, upon seeing the people, couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.

"Not bad, the people here are still considered healthy; last time you sent people, they were all half-dead."

"Sent back not long after, a batch died; hope this time it won't be like that."

The bald man laughed hehe, "Young Master Ling, rest assured, this time absolutely no problems will arise." (Chapter End)