610: Is Gestalt collapse coming again?

Dao Ba gave Shen Bei a crash course on the 'Great Pillar that Forever Guards the South Sea'.

Shen Bei clicked his tongue in wonder.

He hadn't expected such secrets to exist within the underground world.

Indeed, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling a thousand miles.

However, South Sea Taoist Lord... why does it sound like the same person as Burial Sea Secret Lord?

It seems that anyone with 'Lord' in their title is an extraordinary figure.

Without needing to think much, anyone with such power must be a Great Cultivator of Divine Power Realm.

A mysterious and unfathomable Realm.

At the same time, Shen Bei was skeptical about the claims of a True Dragon.

He had been messing around in the underground world for so long, and he had indeed seen a Dragon.

But it wasn't a True Dragon; it was a one-stop service at a Goulan.

In the wilderness of the underground world, there were indeed many flying Vicious Beasts.

Most of them were enlarged versions of birds.

He had never seen the slender, legendary form of a Dragon.

Not even the form of a Western Dragon.

So, when Dao Ba mentioned a True Dragon, Shen Bei largely believed it to be false.

But Shen Bei still asked, "Have you seen it?"

This mysterious guy came from the Great Wilderness.

Although the Great Wilderness was a place all Cultivators yearned for, not everyone who could enter and exit the Great Wilderness was a formidable existence.

There were also small fry.

Like Dao Ba.

This situation was like a game from the 60s, with a 70s expansion pack.

Would your level 60 equipment be useless?

You could still hack down level 65 monsters.

If he had seen a True Dragon, it was more likely to have been in the Great Wilderness.

If that were truly the case, then the Great Wilderness would be an existence almost beyond imagination.

But at this moment, Dao Ba shook his head.

"At that time, True Dragons were in hiding, but there were still a very few True Dragons in existence. Whether the South Sea Taoist Lord killed a True Dragon or not, the legends say so, anyway."

Dao Ba wasn't entirely sure; these were all just legends.

"Can we only enter from here?"

"No, the Town Sea Archway and the Seventy-Two Heavenly Pillars are arranged in a line, blocking the chaos from spreading further towards the Great Wilderness. North of the Heavenly Pillars is the South Sea, and south is the Dead Sea. Entering the South Sea from the Paifang is the safest route; the pirates active in the South Sea don't dare to approach here."

"Aren't we pirates?" Shen Bei chuckled wryly.

Speaking of the Ghost Ship's origins, Prince Wei was quite good at saving money.

From the name, you could tell who was piloting this ship.

Look at the Lin family's large ship, called Lin Feng Hao.

Shuanggou's mount was called Sea Eagle.

And there were other various large ships, all with very positive names.

The Ghost Ship, however, used to be a pirate ship. After being captured by Prince Wei, its name wasn't even changed; it was given directly to Zhen Li to serve as his mount...

The Ghost Ship was a genuinely fierce pirate ship. Those who could survive in the Dead Sea were on a completely different level from those who could only operate in the calm South Sea.

So, there was nothing wrong with Shen Bei calling himself a pirate.

People who knew the Ghost Ship only recognized the ship. No matter who was on board, as long as they were on the ship, they were assimilated by the Ghost Ship and became pirates.

Although the people on the Ghost Ship now were at least two or three levels weaker than before, its reputation was still there.

"Captain, you're mistaken. Ever since the Dead Sea and the South Sea were separated, the Dead Sea belongs to the Dead Sea, and the South Sea belongs to the South Sea. The Ghost Ship has never caused trouble in the South Sea. Coming to the South Sea is only to process various harvests. The Ghost Ship can sail in the Dead Sea, so it will inevitably have many things that the South Sea doesn't have. Here, it's quite popular with many people."

"You know quite a lot..." Shen Bei sighed, this new First Mate was truly convenient and worry-free to use.

"This is recorded in the navigation log left by the previous First Mate." Dao Ba took out the book with the metal cover.

"Where did you find it?" Shen Bei wondered. He had specifically looked for it before, but he hadn't expected this item to be with the First Mate instead of the Captain...

"In the previous First Mate's room, locked in his chest. Time was limited, so I only finished reading eighty years of the navigation log. I didn't have time to read further back."

"Alright, you read it. Organize the useful things, and I'll find time to look at them." Shen Bei gave up on his plan to read it slowly himself. Dao Ba had been reading for so long and had only gone back eighty years. Who knew how many years of records were in this log; he might have to read until who knows when.

Not long after, messages came from Lin Feng Hao and Sea Eagle, saying that after entering the South Sea, they would each go about their own business and leave Shen Bei to his own devices.

The people of Lin Feng Hao were good at exploration, so they probably acquired many rare items along the way. The people of Sea Eagle were good at hunting. Although there were many Vicious Beasts and demonic creatures in the Dead Sea, those were all below the surface, some even in the deep sea. These things were worth a lot of money in the South Sea.

After all, when they went out, if there was anything good, they would naturally break away from the team to enjoy it alone.

As for the Ghost Ship, its greatest wealth was probably the crew members on board.

Some of them were from the prison, and some were wanted criminals who had committed offenses. It was unsafe on land, so they boarded the ship.

For sailing, whether they had committed crimes or not didn't matter, as long as they were obedient.

Initially, when these people saw Shen Bei, they were all startled. Even those who lived reclusively had heard of Shen Bei, the Team Leader of the Night Watchers.

These criminals felt they had been tricked by Ran Xiaoran. If it weren't for the Ghost Ship being a pirate ship, who would come here!

Wasn't this walking into a trap?

They all wanted to run back to their original ships, but Shen Bei explained that the Night Watchers were a thing of the past, which finally stabilized this group of laborers.

After these people escaped the South Sea, the probability of them being caught was very low. To capture them, the first requirement was to successfully cross the Dead Sea, and those official people didn't have the Youling Pirates' warships or their strength.

At this moment, the three ships all put on white sails. From the outside, they looked no different from ordinary large ships. They sailed all the way under the Town Sea Archway. This stone Paifang, which looked small from a distance, was truly like a Heavenly Pillar.

The front of the Paifang had disappeared into the clouds, with only two thick grey stone pillars visible, piercing into the clouds.

"Captain, we are now going to Kong Ming Island to resupply." Dao Ba said.

Shen Bei nodded.

As the number of crew members Ran Xiaoran had tricked over increased, food was rapidly depleting.

They indeed needed to resupply.

Entering the South Sea, the sea surface was calm, and in the distance, the faint shadows of islands were visible on the horizon. There were also some large and small sea vessels dotting the surface.

They hoisted a flag with a rudder pattern. Indeed, the journey was very calm; no one came to provoke them.

The sky gradually darkened. On the distant horizon, faint specks of phosphorescence shimmered, drifting with the waves.

"Lanterns?"

Initially, Shen Bei thought his aphasia was acting up again.

But when he focused his vision and looked intently, he was slightly stunned. Looking closer, sure enough, they were indeed lanterns emitting an orange-red glow, no different from the large red lanterns hung in front of homes on the earth's surface during the New Year.

Only these lanterns were floating on the sea, slowly approaching the Ghost Ship with the rise and fall of the waves.

"Captain, hard to port immediately! Avoid these, these are Headless Lanterns!" Dao Ba's face was grim, and he roared at the top of his lungs.

The Ghost Ship's speed was not slow. By the time they saw the lanterns clearly, the ship was not far from the lantern cluster, and they could also see small boats on the sea, fleeing the lantern cluster at high speed.

Shen Bei personally took the helm, controlling the entire Ghost Ship. He immediately went hard to port. The rapidly moving hull slowly tilted. Just as it seemed about to capsize, it finally completed the turn, veering to the side to avoid them.

As the Ghost Ship veered to the side, the small boats on the sea without lights couldn't avoid them in time.

After a lantern approached a small boat, it leaped up.

Except for having no handle on top, the tassels beneath the lantern were no different from ordinary lanterns. Through the body of the lantern, a blurry flickering light was faintly visible inside, swaying slightly as the lantern leaped.

"Damn it, what are these things?"

Shen Bei was secretly astonished.

If creatures on land could still be within imagination, these things in the sea were a bit eerie.

"Careful!"

On the deck, someone shrieked.