Chapter 118 A lullaby, the birth of a grandmaster!

"Don't fire! Absolutely do not wake it up!"

Jiang Chen gave an extremely stern warning, a rarity for him.

He stood at the bow, staring at the Starry Sky Giant Turtle, which was as vast as a continent and pinned to the seabed by countless chains, his brows tightly knitted together.

Protected by the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, the ghost ship shut down all its engines.

Like a weightless fallen leaf, it drifted silently with the weak current toward the edge of the giant turtle's back.

Everyone held their breath.

They were terrified of making even the slightest sound, which might disturb this ancient creature enduring ten thousand years of torture.

Just as they were about to land successfully, an accident happened.

"Bang!"

The water curtain in the distance was suddenly shattered by a colossal beast.

It was a deep-sea blind Dragon, over a hundred meters long.

It seemed to have been frightened out of its wits by the aftermath of the battle between Jiang Chen and the Sea God Temple projection, and in its panic, it had fled into this hollow space at the earth's core.

This beast had no vision at all and relied entirely on sound waves to distinguish direction.

Unfortunately, the magnetic field here was extremely chaotic.

It blundered around like a headless fly, and finally slammed hard into the nose of the Starry Sky Giant Turtle, which was as huge as a mountain!

"Roar!"

The deep-sea blind Dragon let out a terrified shriek, its skull shattering and its brains spilling out on the spot.

But this collision caused a monstrous disaster.

"Woo—!!!"

The Starry Sky Giant Turtle was awakened by this sudden, excruciating pain!

It abruptly opened its pair of giant eyes, which resembled blue moons, filled with the madness and agony of being imprisoned.

"Rumble!"

The giant turtle let out a shrill, mournful cry, and its massive body began to struggle and roll violently!

This turning over was nothing short of an apocalyptic, world-destroying event.

The water vapor within the entire hollow space at the earth's core boiled instantly.

A terrifying internal tsunami, hundreds of meters high, rose without warning, like an insurmountable wall of water, and slammed down toward the ghost ship!

What was even more terrifying was that the "floating island" on the giant turtle's back was also shaking violently.

Countless giant rocks weighing thousands of tons, mixed with mud and uprooted ancient trees, fell from the sky like hail!

"It's over! It's all over!"

Little Fatty Chen was pale with fright, clutching the mast of the ghost ship for dear life.

"This wave is too big! The ship is going to capsize!"

Su Qingyue and Mu Qingxue immediately drew their weapons.

The two women moved left and right, attempting to use their ice and fire Sword Qi to cleave the falling boulders.

But in the face of this level of heaven and earth might, their power appeared like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

"Brother Chen! Wake up! Think of something!"

Little Fatty Chen looked at the hundred-meter tsunami about to crush the ship, his stomach churning, and he was almost ready to vomit his breakfast.

At this critical moment of life and death, Jiang Chen made a move that left everyone dumbfounded.

He didn't draw his sword, nor did he erupt with any earth-shattering Aura.

He simply placed the star dream emperor pillow in his hand onto the ship's helm.

Then, he slumped over the helm and closed his eyes!

【Ding! Extreme sea condition fluctuations detected.】

【Environment Rating: SS-Class (Deadly Giant Cradle).】

【System Evaluation: The amplitude of this cradle could scramble brains into a puree.】

【Passive skill automatically activated: Sleepwalking · Walking on Waves.】

"Hoo... hoo..."

Jiang Chen had actually fallen asleep in seconds, right in the middle of this apocalyptic scene!

Not only was he asleep, but as the ship rocked violently, he even began to snore!

"This... what time is it, and he's still sleeping?!"

Su Qingyue looked at Jiang Chen, so angry she nearly coughed up blood.

As it turned out, a miracle occurred.

At the very moment the hundred-meter tsunami was about to engulf the ghost ship, Jiang Chen, in his "sleepwalking state," turned the helm abruptly, his hands acting as if they had eyes.

The hull of the ghost ship tilted eighty degrees to the right at an extremely bizarre angle, completely defying fluid mechanics!

"Whoosh!"

The bottom of the ship actually skimmed against the vertical water wall of the tsunami, like a surfboard, and rode the inertia of the current straight up to the crest of the wave!

"My god! This is unscientific!"

Little Fatty Chen, hanging from the mast, was suspended in mid-air along with the ship, and with a "wow" sound, he vomited a rainbow.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Giant rocks fell from the sky one after another.

Jiang Chen kept his eyes closed, his hands moving rapidly on the helm.

His body rose and fell with the waves, like an elf merged with the raging sea.

Hard to port! Hard to starboard! Emergency brake!

The ghost ship wove crazily through the stormy waves and meteor shower in an incredible "S" trajectory.

Each time, in the nick of time, it perfectly avoided all fatal impacts.

"This cradle rocks pretty well..."

Jiang Chen mumbled incoherently in his sleep.

"It just makes my head spin a bit, sleeping makes me dizzy..."

Hearing his sleep talk, everyone had black lines on their foreheads.

Big brother, this is a tsunami! You call this a cradle?!

Although Jiang Chen's driving technique was miraculous, this was not a long-term solution.

The Starry Sky Giant Turtle's struggle was becoming more and more violent.

The eight black chains nailed to its limbs were pulled taut, digging deep into its flesh.

Blood poured from its body like a waterfall, dyeing the water below red.

The more it struggled, the brighter the runes on the chains became, and the deeper the pain it suffered.

"It's in so much pain..."

Iliya knelt on the deck, covering her ears with her hands, tears streaming down her face.

"It's asking for help... It says it's so tired, it just wants to rest..."

As a fellow beastkin, Iliya could clearly hear the desperate wails from the depths of the giant turtle's Soul.

Hearing Iliya's cries, Jiang Chen, slumped over the helm, furrowed his brows tightly.

He snapped his eyes open, exiting his "sleepwalking state."

In those pitch-black eyes flashed a trace of deep compassion and fury.

"Those bastards from the Sea God Temple..."

Jiang Chen gritted his teeth, looking at the blood-sucking runic chains.

"Torturing it for ten thousand years, not even letting it get a wink of sleep."

He released the helm, picked up the star dream emperor pillow, and strode to the very front of the bow.

"Don't be afraid."

Jiang Chen said softly, facing the raging wind and waves.

"Leave it to me. It's just... it hasn't had a good sleep in too long."

As he finished speaking, Jiang Chen raised the pillow in his hand high.

The Nightmare Heart within his body began to beat wildly, like the beating of war drums!

"Domain Expansion!"

Jiang Chen took a deep breath and released all of his Mental Energy without reservation.

"Nightmare Domain · Maximum Power — Requiem!"

Hum—!

A purple-gold ripple of Mental Energy, like a nuclear explosion, swept out in all directions with the ghost ship as the center!

This Mental Energy had no lethality whatsoever.

It was like a gentle spring breeze, gentle to the extreme.

The purple-gold light instantly enveloped the incomparably massive Starry Sky Giant Turtle.

In the giant turtle's Sea of Consciousness, Jiang Chen's Mental Energy transformed into a pair of warm hands.

He did not fight the giant turtle's madness, but instead, gently and softly stroked its Soul.

He wove a boundless, beautiful dream in the giant turtle's mind.

In the dream, there was no cold deep sea, no blood-sucking chains.

No endless pain, and no greedy faces from the Sea God Temple.

Only a warm starry sky and a tranquil sea where it could roam freely.

"Sleep... good child."

Jiang Chen's voice resonated gently in the depths of the giant turtle's Soul.

"It's safe here, no one will hurt you again."

"Close your eyes and have a good dream."

The Divine Beast, which had lived for over ten thousand years, its eyes originally filled with bloodshot madness, suddenly froze.

Its massive body, upon contact with this purple-gold soothing power, miraculously stopped struggling.

It felt a long-lost warmth.

It was the first time in ten thousand years it had felt pure kindness, devoid of any malice.

"Woo..."

The giant turtle let out an extremely long, extremely soothing sigh.

It was like an exhausted traveler finally lying down on a soft bed.

It slowly, gradually, closed those eyes that resembled blue moons.

Its huge limbs hung down weakly, letting the current support its body.

It was asleep.

It had fallen into the most peaceful and sweetest slumber in ten thousand years.

At this moment, Jiang Chen, standing at the bow, was shaking violently.

Soothing the Soul of a ten-thousand-year-old Divine Beast required an incredibly terrifying consumption of Mental Energy.

His Sea of Consciousness was bearing an unprecedented load, as if it might collapse at any moment.

But Jiang Chen did not back down.

He gritted his teeth and desperately maintained the operation of this beautiful dream.

Just at the extreme moment when his Mental Energy was about to bottom out, the giant turtle's ancient, vast Soul, in order to express its gratitude, actually proactively separated a wisp of its purest Star Origin and fed it back into Jiang Chen's Sea of Consciousness!

Boom!

This ancient Divine Beast Origin was like the last straw that broke the camel's back (in reverse), completely shattering the final shackle on Jiang Chen's Mental Energy!

Crack!

A crisp breaking sound came from Jiang Chen's mind.

He felt as if his Soul had detached from his physical body and sublimated to a whole new dimension.

His ocean of Mental Energy instantly expanded more than tenfold!

The original purple-gold Mental Energy completely transformed into pure dark gold at this moment.

This was a qualitative leap!

Great Grandmaster Realm!

Jiang Chen's Mental Energy, at this moment, officially stepped into the [Great Grandmaster Realm Level 1] that countless Martial Artists looked up to!

"Hoo..."

Jiang Chen let out a long breath, the dark gold light in his eyes slowly receding.

Feeling the terrifying, abyss-like, and endless Mental Energy in his mind, a satisfied smile curled at the corners of his mouth.

"This nap, it was worth coaxing."

As the giant turtle fell into a deep sleep, the tsunami in the hollow space at the earth's core also subsided.

In its sleep, the giant turtle's body instinctively floated upward.

Its broad back, which was the legendary "floating island," completely emerged from the water and presented itself before everyone's eyes.

"Bang!"

With the push of the final wave, the ghost ship slammed onto a silver beach on the giant turtle's back.

The hull shook violently and finally came to a stop.

"Survived... we didn't die!"

Little Fatty Chen slid down from the mast, collapsing on the deck, weeping with joy.

Su Qingyue and Mu Qingxue also breathed a long sigh of relief and put away their weapons.

"Let's go, time to get our loot."

Jiang Chen tucked the pillow under his arm and was the first to jump off the ship.

Stepping onto the soft sand, feeling the breeze blowing on his face, everyone looked up at this legendary floating island covered in exotic flowers and plants.

As a result, when they saw the scene on the island clearly, everyone was stunned.

This was not some primeval forest at all!

What met their eyes was a vast expanse of extremely ancient, yet metallic-looking ruins!

Rusted reinforced concrete skeletons, shattered glass curtain walls, and some metal wreckage that looked like huge antenna receivers were tightly entangled by dense vines and moss.

This architectural style was completely different from the federal architecture of the current high-martial world.

Instead, it looked more like...

"This... what is this place?"

Su Qingyue widened her eyes, pointing at a half-collapsed metal building not far away.

"These buildings... why do they look like an ancient technology research institute?"

Jiang Chen looked at the ruins full of modern Earth civilization flavor before him.

In those eyes that had just broken through to the Great Grandmaster Realm, monstrous waves were stirred up.

"This style..."

Jiang Chen swallowed, his heartbeat accelerating sharply.

"Something's not right."