Chapter 269: Want to Eat Alone?
October, golden autumn.
Northern Nanhuangzhou, main city of the Seven Blood Eyes mountain gate.
The azure sky was clear, with only wisps of white clouds turning into long strands, as if a scholar were painting on the firmament with white rock, sketching a piece of beauty with a few casual strokes.
The earth was the same. The main city was filled with liveliness and prosperity, and the people coming and going couldn't help but have smiles melting in their hearts because the Seven Blood Eyes had already announced the plan to migrate this time.
Anyone who had paid spirit taxes for more than ten years within the Seven Blood Eyes could apply to go to the Wanggu Continent.
Teleportation fees were at one's own expense.
This was something countless cultivators in Nanhuangzhou dreamed of, not to mention the mortals within the Seven Blood Eyes.
While the city was filled with excitement, outside the First Port, seven large ships were lined up in a grand manner. These ships had a unified design, all purple, and each was a full three thousand zhang in size, like giant wheels.
They were incomparably luxurious, pasted with spirit jade pieces, paved with gold-inlaid boards, and the ship's bow stood with a huge blood child, emitting ferocity.
The stern had nine tails waving, strange and at the same time carrying a terrifying quality that made people's hearts shake.
There were even more incomparably complex formations permeating each giant wheel ship.
If someone who understood formations saw this, they would definitely gasp in shock, because the complexity of these formations meant that once any giant wheel fully activated its formation, it could instantly turn into a war fortress.
At this moment, on the shore where these seven giant wheels were located, Seven Blood Eyes disciples were boarding the ships.
Judging from their attire, every peak was represented.
Especially since these people were all extraordinary in temperament, and their cultivation fluctuations were powerful, causing the disciples watching from the surroundings to emit excited sounds.
"I saw the Second Prince of the First Peak. It is said that he went into seclusion after losing to Sheng Yunzi, and now that he has come out of seclusion, he must be powerful!"
"More than just him, look over there, that is the First Prince of the Third and Fourth Peaks."
"And the princes of the Second and Fifth Peaks have all appeared."
Amidst the discussion of the disciples on the shore, on the seventh giant wheel lined up among these purple giant wheels, the Captain curled his lips.
"Is this going for revenge? Before, they had to slack off and show weakness, but they all had anger in their hearts, so they are preparing to take advantage of this opportunity to go over and discuss to wash away their shame?"
"Little A-Qing, do you think we should also find Little Kun-Kun to take revenge? He still has an older brother; maybe he also has the Profound Dark Finger!" The Captain held an apple, took a bite, and looked at Xu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating beside him.
Xu Qing opened his eyes. As a listed attendee for this trip to the Seven Sect Alliance, he was actually more pointed out by Seventh Uncle to bring him along to familiarize himself with the Wanggu Continent in advance.
Not only him, in reality, every peak had similar arrangements. Basically, those going this time were the top few princes of each peak. As for the Seventh Peak, besides the Second Senior Sister not wanting to go, the other three all went.
Hearing the Captain's words at this moment, Xu Qing pondered. His mind conjured the image of Huang Yikun and the others, who had been released a few days ago because the matter of joining the Alliance had been decided, and he nodded.
"When he left, there were still some prison fees that hadn't been settled, and he wrote an IOU. This time when we go, we can go and ask for it." Xu Qing explained.
The Captain's eyes lit up, and he threw an apple to Xu Qing.
"That's right, this time we aren't looking for trouble; we are going to collect debts. By the way, Little A-Qing, have the others settled theirs?"
"They all wrote IOUs." Xu Qing's expression was as usual, speaking faintly.
"Haha, Little A-Qing, I appreciate this point of yours. You do everything with a justified reason. This point is the same as me. I feel we are both reasonable people, unlike Third, who buys and sells by force, too excessive. Eh? Where did Third go again?" The Captain was beaming and looked around.
"I guess he's either flattering the old man or going to other peaks to talk to female disciples. Let me tell you, from the moment he entered the sect, I didn't like him. I was thinking of setting him up with Second, and then thinking of watching Second beat him up every day."
The Captain had a regretful expression.
Xu Qing glanced at the Captain and didn't speak.
Soon, after the other peaks boarded the ships one after another, these seven giant wheels outside the port emitted rumbling sounds, slowly started, left the port, set sail on the Forbidden Sea, and headed for the Wanggu Continent.
This time, the visiting delegation was led by the Ancestor Blood Refining Child and Seventh Uncle. As for the Peak Masters of other peaks, they did not go, staying behind in the sect to prepare for the migration.
And Nanhuangzhou was incomparably far from the Wanggu Continent, so if it were just sea travel, it would take too long.
So just as these seven giant wheels left the Seven Blood Eyes port, they all blurred. With the help of the sect's formation power, the formations of each giant wheel coordinated and activated instantly. Amidst rumbling sounds, they vanished without a trace.
When they appeared, they were actually within the range of the Mermaid Clan's islands.
Here, the visiting delegation did not stop. With the auxiliary activation of the Mermaid Clan island's formation, they shifted again. When they appeared, they had already reached the Sea Corpse Clan's sub-island.
Just like that, after shifting several times with the help of the formation power laid out on the islands, the Seven Blood Eyes' visiting giant wheels soon arrived at the shore of the former Sea Corpse Clan mainland. From here, it only required one shift to reach the Wanggu Continent.
Even if they didn't shift, it would take at most three days of sea travel to reach it.
At this place, the Seven Blood Eyes disciples had one day of free time, and they could get off the ship.
Although it was a visit, they were full of curiosity about their own sect's taboo magic treasure. As the prodigies of each peak, destined to be the future representatives of the Seven Blood Eyes, they had even more need to understand their own taboo.
Thus, after the giant wheels stopped, streaks of figures flew out from the seven giant wheels, heading straight for the Seven Blood Eyes' taboo in the distance. Xu Qing gazed into the distance, and that astonishing bronze ancient mirror fell into his eyes.
There were also the fourteen Corpse Ancestor statues below, towering into the clouds. Any one of them emitted the aura of the vicissitudes of time. The most bizarre thing was the seven closed eyes standing on them.
After the birth of the Seven Blood Eyes' taboo, half of the Sea Corpse Clan's territory naturally belonged to the Seven Blood Eyes without a drop of blood, and the Sea Corpse Clan also bid farewell to history from then on, becoming an affiliated tribe of the Seven Blood Eyes, for generations to come. As long as the Seven Blood Eyes' taboo stood for one day, their fate would not change.
Miaochen was released back; he was of no use.
And now, no one paid attention to the Sea Corpse Clan. The gazes of all forces in the Yinghuang Prefecture were all cast on the Seven Blood Eyes, which was the first to forcibly promote from a lower sect in the Yinghuang Prefecture in ten thousand years.
"Little A-Qing, I still have some private matters to see an old friend. Sigh, it was because of her back then that I was able to escape this place. You actually guessed who it is, right? So it's not convenient for you to accompany me this time. I'm leaving first, Little A-Qing. Senior Brother trusts you; don't tell outsiders."
The Captain searched the surroundings rapidly and, finding that people on other ships had all gone to the taboo magic treasure's location, transmitted a message to Xu Qing and headed straight for the distance after getting off the ship with a solemn appearance.
Xu Qing raised his head and swept a glance, stood up, and chased after him with an expression as usual.
"Why are you following me?" The Captain noticed Xu Qing's arrival and was instantly vigilant.
"I also have a private matter." Xu Qing said calmly.
The Captain blinked and put on a sudden realization look.
"You are going to kill that Miaochen, right? I've already found it for you. Go quickly." The Captain said, throwing a jade slip to Xu Qing.
Xu Qing caught it, put it in his bosom, and continued to follow the Captain forward.
"Xu Qing, why are you still following me?" The Captain was a bit anxious, faintly revealing a guilty conscience.
Xu Qing didn't speak, his gaze swept across the surroundings, then his body swayed, landing in a relatively hidden canyon on the ground, and looked at the Captain.
"Eldest Senior Brother, take it out. We only have one day, we must hurry. Let's eat here."
"Eat what?" The Captain's eyes widened, and he retreated a few steps.
"Eat the nose, of course. I went to the museum last night and found the nose was gone. Didn't you take it? Or do you want to eat alone?" Xu Qing asked in surprise.
The Captain was silent, then blinked and laughed.
"Haha, sure enough, nothing can hide from you, Little Junior Brother. That's right, that's right. My plan was for us to eat together. I was just playing a little joke on you."
The Captain coughed, swept his eyes around, and after enduring the heartache, took out an object from his storage bag.
With a bang, it landed on the ground.
This object was none other than the nose of the Corpse Ancestor statue.
When it was in the Seven Blood Eyes, it was just an ordinary stone, but here, as soon as it appeared, it emitted astonishing fluctuations. Divine charm flowed within, and the aura was even more astonishing.
Xu Qing's eyes lit up. He immediately went over and sat cross-legged, his cultivation base operating wildly. Both canopies erupted simultaneously, and the Golden Crow manifested above, sucking fiercely toward the nose.
Seeing this, the Captain was anxious. In reality, what he was worried about was Xu Qing absorbing it too fast, so he thought about coming out to secretly suck away the majority, and then throwing the rest to Xu Qing.
Now that his plan was seen through, and Xu Qing was swallowing so viciously, he hurriedly went over and hugged it, his eyes red, going all out to absorb it.
Just like that, while the princes of other peaks were all sighing at the magnificence and majesty of the Seven Blood Eyes' taboo, Xu Qing and the Captain were secretly having a feast.
Within Xu Qing's body, under this absorption, terrifying power gathered instantly. The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor and the Shadow also rushed out to absorb it together.
"Excessive, too excessive!" The Captain was even more anxious. He simply used his teeth, biting onto the stone. Seemingly feeling it wasn't enough, he didn't know what method he deployed, but he actually grew mouths all over his body to eat at the same time.
Amidst the echoing crunching sounds, the two of them constantly used their respective methods to crazily absorb it.
Within Xu Qing's body, the magic apertures opened the ninety-third one instantly. It didn't end; soon the ninety-fourth, ninety-fifth, opened one after another.
You have to know that the power required for his magic apertures to open now was dozens of times that of the beginning, but they were still opened one by one, which showed how terrifying the power contained in this nose was.
Just like that, time passed. Soon one day passed. When the princes of each peak of the Seven Blood Eyes had mostly returned to the ship, the magic apertures here had opened to one hundred and one!
And this Corpse Ancestor's nose was now forty percent gone, all swallowed by the Captain.
The remaining part was still there, but the divine charm within it was less. If one wanted to absorb it, one needed a higher cultivation base to do so. Otherwise, one would have to be like the Captain and eat it into one's stomach.
Xu Qing hesitated for a moment. He felt he should be unable to digest it, so he waited a while longer. Until the Captain had swallowed half of the entire nose with difficulty, Xu Qing immediately made a move and put the nose away.
The Captain burped, his stomach bulging high, lying there splayed out, his whole person exuding a sense of weakness.
"Ate too much... Little A-Qing, help me up, I can't get up."
Happy National Day, everyone~
Little Mengxin calculated, the monthly ticket list this month must be incomparably fierce, shaking the heavens and earth, resounding through the clouds...
Extra update, asking for a base monthly ticket for protection. ===== CHAPTER 270 =====
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