Cave Refuge
Chapter 783 - 512: Jade Ship Evolution_2
It was just two attacks, totaling around thirty people, and the sunk costs had already been invested. If they gave up at this point, and later found out that they were just one step away from success, only to fail due to their misjudgment, it was estimated that the people present would be infuriated to the point of vomiting blood.
With this thought, everyone ultimately agreed to go all out with their armed forces on the third attempt.
If they succeeded, they would charm a succubus, but if they lost, they’d end up as male models at sea.
Once everyone had agreed to this proposal, the inner harbor of Lakeside City suddenly became much busier, as a group of people left the Lakeside Base in a grand procession.
At this moment, Dong Tianyu had just finished clearing the containers on the deck of the Wave Rider and was about to store the Wave Rider into the storage space when he suddenly sensed someone spying on him.
Following the direction of his sixth sense, Dong Tianyu located the observer. It was unclear whether the observer had seen Dong Tianyu look in his direction, or was merely entertaining himself with wild guesses.
In any case, when Dong Tianyu looked over, the person, whether guessing or truly able to see that far, casually lifted his water cup in a mock toast to Dong Tianyu.
Due to the great distance between them, Dong Tianyu could only observe the person vaguely and could not scrutinize him closely.
However, Dong Tianyu managed to mark the observer within his maximum range, so he would instantly recognize him if they ever came close again. Then, he would know who the stalker was.
Since he had just sensed it, Dong Tianyu wasn’t sure if the observer had seen him retrieve the containers. Regardless, it was easy to explain.
But if the observer discovered that Dong Tianyu had deliberately stored the Wave Rider into the cave, it would complicate matters significantly.
To avoid causing any incidents, Dong Tianyu could only start the Wave Rider, planning to store it in the storage space once out of the observer’s sight.
What Dong Tianyu hadn’t anticipated was that, despite having already thwarted the opponent’s two attacks, those people had arranged a third attempt to throw their lives away.
Using Divine Sense, Dong Tianyu noticed that there were over two hundred people on the opposing ship, and even the weakest among them were martial artists of the Inner Breath Realm.
Watching the ship quickly approach his position, Dong Tianyu scratched his head in resignation.
Although those people weren’t a threat to him, if it were on land, Dong Tianyu would need a long time to kill them all if he only used his Sword Control Technique, even if the enemies fought to their last breath.
But at that moment, on the water, especially standing on his personally crafted magical weapon, the Wave Rider, which was created quite some time ago, the formation inscribed on it was far from weak.
The attack formation originally engraved on the Wave Rider was intended for enemy ships; using it to kill people before was seriously underutilizing its potential.
This time, facing the opposing troop transport, he finally found a suitable target to test the power of the attacking formation.
After the enemy entered the range of the Wave Rider’s attacks, Dong Tianyu immediately activated the pre-engraved attack formation.
At that moment, the calm and sunny weather suddenly, inexplicably began to churn up fierce winds. As the troop transport drew nearer, the wind grew into a tempest quickly.
However, not long after, the apocalyptic scene that had manifested, just like an exploded balloon, vanished without a trace.
As the weather returned to normal, the troop transport that was charging at Dong Tianyu unexpectedly shattered into pieces without any warning.
For some unknown reason, the body of the troop transport, along with the armed personnel on board, regardless of where they hid on the ship, was cleanly sliced into uniformly sized cubes.
Upon discovering this result, Dong Tianyu was noticeably stunned; although he had anticipated the troop transport would be easily defeated, he didn’t expect these people to be so utterly vulnerable, lacking even the thought of resisting.
In fact, Dong Tianyu was mistaken; the reason was simple: individual weapons and strategic heavy weaponry are not the same.
Dong Tianyu could also use the Wind Blade technique; being at the Golden Core Stage, he could use it effortlessly.
Even so, Dong Tianyu usually didn’t like to use it, mainly because it wasn’t as cool as using the Sword Control Technique, and its power wasn’t too strong.
However, the effect of the Wave Rider’s usage just now was starkly different from Dong Tianyu’s. To be honest, even if Dong Tianyu exhausted all the Spirit Power in his body, he could not achieve the effect of the Wave Rider’s recent attack.
To be more precise, every time Dong Tianyu released a Wind Blade, only one Wind Blade would appear to attack, whereas when the Wave Rider activated its attack formation to strike the target, it was as if the opponent was being attacked by thousands of Wind Blades simultaneously.
Additionally, the individual lethality of these Wind Blades was much stronger than when Dong Tianyu used them, which is why such a result occurred, a single attack completely shredding the opponent to pieces.
Following an aquatic creature that bumped into a troop transport ship to make eating easier, the ship seemed to break free from its physical restraints and collapsed instantly.
After the troop transport ship collapsed, the aquatic creatures that had initially left came back to gather in this area; the boiling lake surface gave the impression of unsolicited bait encountering the grand feast of a set trap by an Immortal.
During the third deployment of reinforcements, some members in the conference specifically looked for suitable observation points, wanting to observe the entire process from start to finish to ascertain the cause of the lost contact.
It was during this time that Dong Tianyu noticed someone observing him from a distance.
The person responsible for the observation had never imagined that the Wave Rider’s attack method would not be the conventional gunpowder weapons seen in modern society.
The person observing saw a faint cyan light emerging from the side of the ship when the Wave Rider activated the formation.
Wind Blades, in fact, originally had no color since wind is formless and shapeless, so wind does not have a constant state.
The visible form of Wind Blades was just a trick created by the users to confuse others, but for some reason, the correct method of usage had not been passed down; instead, those originally deceptive methods had spread.
No need to mention these any further; after the observer watched the whole process, when he came back to his senses, he didn’t realize that his back was already soaked with sweat.
When he finally calmed down completely, preparing to report to his superiors, he just stood up and immediately fell to the ground, his body going limp.
He never expected that he would be so frightened by the earlier scene that he became completely weak.
Once the other parts of his body stopped trembling, he struggled to come to the Conference Room and reported the entire process he had witnessed.
When the others heard that the Wave Rider possessed weapons capable of controlling Wind Blades for attack, their eyes sparkled with greed as they incessantly inquired about various details.
Little did they know, Dong Tianyu had not stayed in the same spot, but instead, he was piloting the Wave Rider and continued his voyage.
Once the person observing him had left, Dong Tianyu immediately stored the Wave Rider in the Storage Space and released his Companion Spiritual Treasure.
Looking at the Jade Ship beneath his feet, Dong Tianyu directly poured a whole box of Mysterious Cores onto the ship.
As the Mysterious Cores fell on the ship, they were like the ginseng fruits in "Journey to the West" that burrow into the earth when they touch it.
The moment these Mysterious Cores made contact with the body of the ship, they instantly entered into it.
At this moment, Dong Tianyu did not hesitate, and continuously poured box after box of Mysterious Cores onto the ship.
As the Mysterious Cores were continually absorbed by the ship, the Jade Ship’s size also began to gradually increase, yet the structure of the Jade Ship remained unchanged.
When Dong Tianyu dumped the ninth box of Mysterious Cores, the Jade Ship had expanded to its maximum size.
Accompanied by the ’creaking and collapsing’ sounds, the originally huge Jade Ship gradually shrank down into an egg-like size. With his previous experience, Dong Tianyu calmly sent the Companion Spiritual Treasure into his Sea of Consciousness to incubate.