Chapter 286

"Brother Kai! There's no time to lose; let's set off now! With so many of us, our harvest will definitely not be small."

A young, chubby boy jumped off the ship and said flatteringly to Qin Kai.

Qin Kai didn't reply, his gaze sweeping toward the other ships docked on the island, the corners of his mouth curling into a sneer.

"Stupid! How much money can picking spiritual herbs on the island be worth? We are pirates; how could we honestly do this kind of manual labor?"

"I have a good idea now. Do you see those ships on the shore?"

Qin Kai revealed a sinister smile: "We'll just push all the ships down."

"As long as those people have no ship to sit on, they can only take our ship. Otherwise, once the Heavenly Island sinks, they can only die here. They have no other choice at all."

"Hehe! At that time, they can only board the ship if they hand over seventy percent of their harvest on the island."

"No! I want them to use seventy percent of their net worth as the fare to board the ship. Whoever disagrees can just wait here to die!"

"At that time, we can easily scrape up the wealth of everyone on the island. Everything they harvest on the island will be a wedding dress for us. Isn't that much more profitable than picking some spiritual herbs?"

Qin Kai revealed an extremely sinister smile.

Hearing this, the chubby boy's eyes immediately lit up, and he gave a thumbs up, praising: "High! Truly too high! How come I didn't think of such a brilliant idea? Brother Kai is still the smart one!"

"Let's do it! Whoever doesn't hand over most of their net worth won't be allowed to board the ship! I want to see who dares to be a miser. Haha, this time we're really going to get rich!"

Although he was laughing out loud, he was speechless in his heart.

Pushing all the ships off the island—he really managed to think of that.

It was simply too damn malicious; he was rotten to the core. Who on earth did the captain give birth to such a wicked seed with? He was simply rotten through and through.

Qin Kai nodded with a smile and continued: "But this matter cannot be done recklessly; it must be carried out only when there are only a few days left."

"And do it cleanly; you must not let anyone know it was us."

"Moreover, there are some factions we cannot afford to offend. Some ships can be pushed, and some cannot. Once we provoke people we shouldn't, we are very likely to incur public anger and then be attacked by everyone."

"So, you should be able to tell which ships can be pushed and which cannot, right?"

Qin Kai looked seriously into the chubby boy's eyes and said.

The chubby boy felt bitter in his heart. Since Qin Kai said this to him, he definitely wanted to hand this matter over to him to do.

This was truly a deadly errand. If something went wrong with this matter, what good fruit would he have to eat? He would be torn to shreds by the angry ten thousand Gu cultivators.

He felt immense pressure at this moment, but he could only bite the bullet and respond with a smile: "Brother Kai, rest assured, leave this matter to me. I guarantee I will handle it beautifully without leaving a single trace."

"I have a Heaven-Reaching Giant Toad that can use the Giant Transformation Technique, which can push all the ships down. I have never revealed this top-grade Gu worm to anyone. I guarantee others won't be able to find out it was our Red Demon Pirate Group."

"As for this priceless top-grade Gu worm, for the sake of insurance, I can only let it die. It will never appear before the world again."

The chubby boy revealed an expression of heartache. This top-grade Gu worm definitely couldn't be kept; he had no other choice. At this moment, he could only deliberately say that this top-grade Gu worm was very expensive so that the organization would reimburse him.

"Very good! It's just a mere top-grade Gu worm. If it dies, it dies. Compared to our harvest this time, the value of this top-grade Gu worm can only be counted as a cow's hair."

"Rest assured, I will reimburse you for this top-grade Gu worm, and I will compensate you double, and record a merit for you. You must not mess this up for me."

Qin Kai patted him on the shoulder, his tone sounding like encouragement and also like a threat, and then finally walked away with a large group of pirates.

The chubby boy wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurriedly followed...

At this time, on the other side, Long Xuan looked at the spiritual fruit tree that had been chopped down by someone on the ground, his brows slightly furrowed.

The fruits on this spiritual fruit tree had already been picked by someone, but while that person picked the fruits, they were malicious and didn't benefit themselves, chopping down the spiritual fruit tree and extinguishing its vitality.

This spiritual fruit tree could clearly have produced more spiritual fruits after a hundred years, but that person knew they couldn't get them, so they simply destroyed it, not letting future generations get them either.

He had already lost count of how many spiritual herbs he had seen along the way that had been maliciously destroyed in vitality.

There were simply too many Gu cultivators with dark hearts; there were too many selfish people in this world.

At this moment, he finally understood why so many spiritual herbs and spiritual insects had gone extinct in this world.

The thinness of heaven and earth spiritual energy was only one aspect; the most important factor was human intervention. There were too many selfish people who clearly had already obtained opportunities but still destroyed the roots, unable to bear seeing future generations do well, which accelerated the extinction of various spiritual herbs.

"It's truly hard to imagine. If Gu cultivators were selfish to this extent, the spiritual herbs on this island should have gone extinct long ago. Yet, there are spiritual herbs everywhere today."

"The situation doesn't conform to common sense. How come I feel that the spiritual herbs here weren't born naturally, but rather planted artificially? The purpose of planting so many precious spiritual herbs is just to attract a massive number of Gu cultivators to come."

Long Xuan revealed a thoughtful expression. This island was becoming more and more bizarre, including those four huge waterfalls that defied common sense; they didn't look like they were born naturally, but rather manufactured artificially.

Because there was one waterfall in each of the east, south, west, and north directions, the distribution was simply too even. How could naturally born waterfalls be so regular?

Added to the fact that the treasures in the Divine Mechanism City could never be taken away, Long Xuan could now be one hundred percent certain that there was definitely a conscious living being here on the Heavenly Island. This living being had lived for a long time, and their lifespan might be infinite.

This living being might be human, or it might be non-human, but no matter what it was, since it could live for so long, it was definitely an extremely terrifying existence, absolutely not something the Gu cultivators on the island could contend with.

The presence of a mysterious, unknown living being on the island undoubtedly increased the danger of the island, making Long Xuan unable to help but furrow his brows.

At this time, the crew members beside him had already scattered, going separately to pick spiritual herbs. Only Di Xin was still standing side by side with him.

She turned her head to look at Long Xuan and said, "You didn't guess wrong. The spiritual herbs here were indeed all planted artificially, and it's even possible they were planted by a large batch of puppets in the city. The purpose is precisely to attract more Gu cultivators from outside."

"At the same time I picked up that Endless Jade, I also picked up a letter. The letter contains a large amount of secret information about the Heavenly Island."

"You might not believe it if I say it, but in the very center of the Divine Mechanism City, there is a crystal coffin. Inside the coffin is an ancient human soul, and he has lived for endless years."

"And even if another several hundred thousand years pass, he will absolutely not die. Because of his existence, the Heavenly Island will cycle infinitely. No matter how many times it cycles, the treasures on the island will never be taken away."

(End of chapter)