Chapter 809: Smooth Communication (2/2, please subscribe)

The ropes used for hoisting sails danced like pythons, encircling Fang Yue completely.

But Fang Yue showed no fear whatsoever, merely watching the helmsman calmly.

"Helmsman, why must it be a fight to the death? There's every possibility we can cooperate, isn't there? Bringing us to Jingcheng—is it really that difficult?"

"Tian Jian wants you to go to Blazing Fire Sect. He said that if the people are safely delivered to Blazing Fire Sect, Tian Ruichi will help me break free from the Han Jiang Giant Ship, using that damaged Soul-Communing Jade Pendant!"

"You see, the result you want—we can give it to you directly, skipping the middleman. What's wrong with that?"

"Very wrong. Your credibility and Tian Jian's credibility are not on the same level."

"... What makes you say so? If Tian Ruichi reaches Blazing Fire Sect and doesn't help you, wouldn't the result be the same?"

"Won't help you? Just ask Tian Ruichi—if it were his master's order, telling him to do this to me, would he defy his master's command?"

Fang Yue's brow furrowed slightly, his grip loosening a little. Only then did Tian Ruichi get a bit of breathing room, and he looked at Fang Yue in frustration.

"Brother Ye, what is this..."

"Brother Tian, first tell me—if what the helmsman says is true, what would you do?"

"I would naturally obey my master's order and help the helmsman out of his difficulty."

Hearing this, the helmsman revealed a satisfied cold smile, looking at Fang Yue with contempt.

"As long as it's Tian Jian's order, you'll obey anything?"

"Yes!"

Tian Ruichi answered without the slightest hesitation.

"Then if Tian Jian ordered you to kill us?"

"... I would act, but afterward I would take my own life to atone."

Tian Ruichi's candor and approach left Fang Yue momentarily speechless.

But the helmsman's expression shifted.

He certainly didn't want anything to happen to Tian Ruichi.

His heart stirred slightly...

The surrounding ropes suddenly whooshed toward Fang Yue.

But the ropes had only extended halfway when a self-rotating black ring suddenly emerged behind Fang Yue, synchronizing as it extended black silk that sliced through every last rope—yet he himself didn't even lift an eyelid.

But before Fang Yue could speak.

Creak, creak...

The ship began to tilt to the right, and in no time it had already tilted about 30°. If this continued, the hull would capsize and everyone would fall into the Han Jiang!

Fang Yue's expression shifted, and he said loudly.

"Helmsman, we're on your ship. You have ten thousand ways to leave us without a burial site, but do you know—after you kill us, would Tian Ruichi still use the Soul-Communing Jade Pendant to save your life!"

Creak!

The hull stopped tilting, fixed at a 45° angle and motionless—the facts proved that the helmsman had near-absolute control over the Han Jiang Giant Ship.

And after the ship stopped tilting, the helmsman looked at Tian Ruichi.

The latter also looked at the helmsman with equal gravity, slowly shaking his head.

"No! Brother Ye is my life-saving benefactor, and the others on the ship are also my friends. If the helmsman kills them, even if I jump into the Han Jiang and take my own life, I will absolutely never help the helmsman with anything!"

"Not even if it's your master's order?"

"Before I even reach the shore, I will jump into the river and kill myself!"

"..."

The helmsman said nothing more, but the tilt of the hull gradually righted itself.

His demeanor seemed to age many years in an instant, and he let out a deep sigh.

"Originally things could have been very simple. I take you safely to Blazing Fire Sect, we each get what we need, and never have anything to do with each other again. Wouldn't that be good? Why did it have to come to this?"

Blazing Fire Sect was a dragon's den and tiger's lair arranged by others; if it could be avoided, no one was willing to go.

The Jingcheng docks were the group's original destination.

Seeing the helmsman in this state, Fang Yue couldn't help but smile.

"Does this mean the helmsman agrees to cooperate?"

"... Properly teach Tian Ruichi how to operate the Soul-Communing Jade Pendant. Once we reach the Jingcheng docks, I want you to fulfill your promise immediately!"

Fang Yue exchanged a glance with Qingchen and the others, then nodded in unison.

"No problem!"

The moment the three finished speaking, the helmsman's face suddenly changed drastically, his skin trembling as though a few layers of wood shavings had flaked off the helm.

"Helmsman, what's wrong?"

"Helmsman, why that expression? Going back on your word?"

The helmsman looked at the three with an ugly expression and said only three words: "Hold on tight!"

Before Fang Yue and the others could grasp the specific meaning of those three words, a powerful sensation of being pushed forward suddenly erupted from behind.

The massive Han Jiang Giant Ship was as though it had gained two extra motor engines propelling it from behind—the tremendous thrust drove the Han Jiang Giant Ship into a mad, frenzied forward charge.

This sprinting speed had never been displayed before. Even when the black-robed man had cleaved it with a single sword, the Han Jiang Giant Ship had never shown such maneuverability!

It was only at this moment that Fang Yue realized the full-speed sprinting Han Jiang Giant Ship was absurdly fast—more outrageous than a superyacht!

"Give me the Ghost Stone! We only have thirty seconds to shake it off! Otherwise, everyone including me is done for!"

The helmsman's fierce roar snapped Fang Yue back to his senses.

Qingchen beside him reacted fastest, immediately starting to feed the Ghost Stone and shouting for everyone else to come out and help.

Tian Ruichi's expression was panicked, but he still immediately pulled out his family fortune to help.

Fang Yue, meanwhile, went against the flow of those rushing out of the cabin and running toward the bow, heading straight for the stern.

【Don't go!】

He had only run halfway when the words on the parchment surfaced in his mind.

Trusting the parchment, Fang Yue immediately stopped in his tracks and asked in a low voice.

"Parchment, what exactly is chasing us? Even the helmsman is this panicked, saying we'll be completely done for if we can't shake it off within thirty seconds."

【My name is Fang Yue, and I've run into trouble—trouble on a scale I've never seen before.】

【What's pursuing the great ship of Han Jiang from behind is a… Demon!】

【To be precise, it's a Demon's corpse!】

【The might of the remains still cannot be withstood by anyone!】

【Neither immortal nor demon—keep your distance, and only then may you survive!】

【I didn't know how terrifying a Demon was, and I rashly rushed to the stern and glanced at the Demon corpse.】

【Just one glance…and I lost everything.】

【Life, consciousness, memory, Origin…everything vanished in the collision of that single glance!】

【What kind of Demon was that? What level of Demon? The question echoed in my mind as I sank into eternal darkness.】

【I died.】

A Demon's corpse?

A Demon's corpse?!

Fang Yue's eyes went wide.

This was his first time encountering a Demon.

Demons correspond to Immortals!

Immortals had long vanished from Qing Guo; Fang Yue had only ever met one living Immortal—Mei Yu—and after that, never another.

And Demons were the same—also vanished from Qing Guo.

Fang Yue never imagined he would encounter a Demon's corpse here on Han Jiang!

Just a corpse, and a single glance was enough to kill him on its own…

Could this thing still even be called a Demon? And wasn't this a Transcendence-level Weird?

Fang Yue was confused. Demons and Transcendence-level Weirds didn't seem to be the same thing. But they were both Weirds—what the specific difference was, Fang Yue had no idea.

The pressing matter now was how to deal with that nameless Demon corpse at the stern!

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