Chapter 1057: Powerful Ship Cannon

"Kid, you listen well!"

The Senior Brother known as Tian Dao hoisted his broadsword and headed back into the room inside.

He Pingsheng was left speechless.

Just as Tian Dao had taken two steps, the entire great ship suddenly shuddered. The violent swaying caused him to lose his footing, and he fell to the ground with a *thud*.

Before He Pingsheng could react, he heard a cacophony of noise erupting all around him.

Various shouts and curses rang out.

These sounds were all from disciples in seclusion who were dissatisfied at being interrupted.

He Pingsheng ignored these noises; he turned his head abruptly to look at the pitch-black night sky outside, his spiritual sense simultaneously spreading out with a roar.

*Boom... *

A massive cyan fireball was suddenly ejected from the front right side of the great ship, slamming fiercely toward the hull.

The fireball was several *zhang* in size, containing extremely pure energy.

Fortunately, the exterior of the ship possessed a defensive light-membrane array shimmering with five-colored divine light, which blocked that pure fire-attribute energy.

Yet, although the defensive array blocked the force of the strike, the violent shaking of the hull was unavoidable.

The Tian Dao Immortal, who had just climbed up from the ground while cursing, was flipped over onto the ground again by this sudden tremor.

"I'll screw your grandmother..." Tian Dao cursed as he stood up again. He looked at He Pingsheng and said, "Did you practice some kind of standing technique?"

He Pingsheng looked bewildered: "What standing technique?"

Tian Dao asked, "If you didn't practice a standing technique, how could you keep your posture unchanged through two consecutive attacks!"

That was true; when the hull shook violently just now, He Pingsheng's body had remained almost completely motionless.

The first time was because he was leaning against the ship's rail, having support and a path for the force to dissipate; the second time was because his spiritual sense had swept out and provided a warning.

It wasn't as magical as the guy Tian Dao imagined.

"Everyone, head to the deck!"

At this moment, the voice of the Earth Immortal Elder known as Zhi Niang came through.

Everyone filed out of their rooms and gathered on the deck at the front.

"Elder!"

"Elder..."

Everyone bowed toward Zhi Niang.

Zhi Niang said, "Everyone... our ship has encountered an attack from unknown demonic beasts... but there is no need to worry too much!"

"This Palace has already seen them; they are merely a few Earth Immortal-stage demonic beasts that don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"First batch of disciples, take your positions immediately!"

"Prepare to kill the demonic beasts!"

To operate the attack array on the ship, at least thirty disciples were needed to manage the array simultaneously!

He Pingsheng's ranking was number seventeen, so he was among the first batch of disciples to operate the array.

"Yes..."

The thirty people hurried to their positions instantly, according to their individual comprehension of the formation.

He Pingsheng was positioned squarely at the very front of the ship.

Because the array core he had to guard was right there.

As immortal essence and spiritual sense were input into the array core, a crimson light membrane was suddenly propped up on the immortal ship.

The immortal essence within the thirty immortals surged into it like a raging tide.

The crimson light membrane expanded, illuminating the void within a thousand *zhang* radius.

The avian demonic beasts circling in the surroundings also revealed their true forms.

He Pingsheng saw a two-headed great bird covered in black feathers directly in front of the ship, flying while glaring viciously in this direction.

"This is a Two-Headed Kui Eagle..." Zhi Niang's voice came from behind.

"This is a second-tier demonic beast, equivalent to our human Earth Immortal cultivation, but its attack and defense power far exceed that of humans of the same rank!"

"Everyone, be careful!"

"Give me power!"

Zhi Niang's body flew high into the air, controlling the position of the array disk. After absorbing the immortal essence energy from the thirty disciples, she gathered this essence into the array, which then spun crazily, compressing the essence onto one of the ship's cannons.

"Go... die..."

Following Zhi Niang's roar, the cannon erupted, firing a cyan-blue sphere composed of pure energy!

The sphere moved at extreme speed, blasting toward the Two-Headed Kui Eagle to He Pingsheng's front left.

Although the Two-Headed Kui Eagle was fast, it had no time to react to such a sudden attack. It was struck by the massive energy sphere and torn apart in an instant.

*Splatter... *

A rain of blood fell.

The offensive crimson light membrane on the hull gradually dimmed.

This single strike had completely drained the immortal essence from the thirty disciples.

Of course, He Pingsheng was naturally different; he had only drained one of his *dantian*.

Just as everyone thought the black Two-Headed Kui Eagle had been slain, suddenly, more ghost-like demonic beasts emerged from the darkness.

There were more!

And not just one.

"Get down quickly!" Zhi Niang said. "Second batch, come up! First batch, hurry and gather immortal essence to refill your *dantian*!"

Under normal circumstances, the immortal ship could be powered by immortal crystals.

But in critical moments, attacks could not rely on immortal crystals, because the energy supply from crystals was too slow to meet the demand for rapidly activating the array and cannons.

He Pingsheng hurriedly followed the first batch of cultivators off the field, and the second batch of cultivators took their place.

*Boom... *

In just over a dozen breaths of time, the second shell was fired accurately!

The second Two-Headed Kui Eagle was blasted into fragments.

Then the third!

The fourth!

The fifth!

After He Pingsheng swallowed a top-tier 【Heavenly Spirit Pill】, it took about half a stick of incense for the immortal essence in his body to be replenished.

But He Pingsheng's brows furrowed tightly.

He felt the situation was somewhat strange.

The attacks of these Two-Headed Kui Eagles were very weak; they kept circling nearby, yet they came to die one by one.

This was highly suspicious.

Second-tier demonic beasts with Earth Immortal cultivation—they might have slightly lower intelligence, but that didn't mean they were stupid.

Attacking the enemy not by swarming them, but by coming to die one by one?

That wasn't normal.

"Senior Uncle!" He Pingsheng raised his head and shouted at Zhi Niang, "These Two-Headed Kui Eagles seem to be controlled by someone... this doesn't make sense!"

"Senior Uncle, be careful!"

Before Zhi Niang could speak, dozens of disciples lashed out at He Pingsheng.

"Who is this?"

"A third-layer disciple, what the hell does he know?"

"Which courtyard is he from, coming here to show off?"

Some were just mocking, but others were already angry at He Pingsheng: "Can't you see we're working here... don't cause trouble, or I'll kill you later!"

Even Zhi Niang frowned and said, "Junior Nephew He, I can understand that you are afraid because you haven't seen these things before... but... don't talk nonsense!"

"Let's eliminate these big birds first!" ===== CHAPTER 1058 =====