It's this chicken head mask, really distracts people.

"Dong—"

With a soft thud, Zhou Qing landed steadily on the deck.

"Mr. Ji..." Jin Mantang's Adam's apple moved, his voice dry to the point of absurdity.

He instinctively wanted to bow, but his knees were stiff and rigid.

Zhou Qing waved his hand, his voice slightly weak, "Shopkeeper Jin, just call me Mr. Ji."

Saying this, he glanced at Luo Lingling, who was slowly walking over holding an old hen, and nodded slightly, his eyes showing a trace of fatigue.

"I need to rest, the upcoming journey will rely on you all!"

Zhou Qing looked at Jin Mantang, his tone light yet indisputable.

"Yes! Rest assured, Mr. Ji!"

Jin Mantang responded quickly, his heart filled with both reverence and gratitude.

If not for the person in front of him who made a move, he and the Cloud Whale might have already been buried in the Sea of Shadows.

At this moment, how could he dare to slack off even a bit?

Zhou Qing said no more, turning to walk towards the cabin.

Meanwhile, Luo Lingling immediately looked at Jin Mantang and said flatly, "Shopkeeper Jin, the array has also been repaired, so let's set off."

"Yes!"

Not daring to delay, Jin Mantang immediately looked at the remaining dozen people and ordered loudly, "Full speed ahead! Leave the Sea of Shadows!"

Everyone moved excitedly, the sails of the Cloud Whale swelled, the spirit array buzzed, breaking through the waves, and sped off into the distance.

And Luo Lingling quickly chased after Zhou Qing...

...

A few days later, Zhou Qing finally completely recovered.

And Luo Lingling, who was in the same cabin and guarding him, also finished organizing the storage bag Zhou Qing handed to her over these days.

Many items that were of no use were all packed and given to Jin Mantang.

Jin Mantang naturally bought them at the highest price, although he did not have enough cash at the moment, he patted his chest and promised that once they reach the main base in the Imperial City, he would definitely settle the account without missing a cent!

"One person against nine Divinity Transformation Realm Perfection, and each one is ruthless, yet you weren't hurt at all, just exhausted!"

Looking at Zhou Qing opening his eyes, Luo Lingling couldn't help but say.

Zhou Qing smiled, "Why, does senior sister hope I'm injured?"

Luo Lingling rolled her eyes at him, "Stop talking nonsense! I just feel... knew you were formidable, but didn't expect you to be this formidable."

She paused, with a hint of curiosity in her eyes, "What is your limit?"

Zhou Qing shook his head, "I don't know, I've never tried, this time I already gave it my all!"

Luo Lingling asked no further, suddenly giving a mysterious smile, handed over a storage bag, "Here's a surprise for you."

"This time the luck was good, among the nine big leaders and five tributors from the Duobao Trading House, their storage bags collected a total of twelve top-grade wood attribute spirit stones."

"As for other four attributes, there are forty-five in total, and three hundred sixty-eight normal top-grade spirit stones."

After hearing this, Zhou Qing was shocked, quickly taking the storage bag to check.

"It really is..."

Luo Lingling continued, "Those miscellaneous items, Shopkeeper Jin estimated they could be worth over five hundred top-grade spirit stones."

She added with a bit of regret, "What a pity you killed Tu Qianyue, this guy murdered the Thirteenth Prince, wanted by the Royal Family."

"If you could have brought back his body or primordial spirit, you could claim a large bounty."

Zhou Qing, however, appeared indifferent, after all, this had completely exceeded his expectations, one must know how to be content.

Speaking of Tu Qianyue, Zhou Qing's expression slightly condensed.

Through soul search, he did learn some unexpected situations.

Over in the Imperial City, Xuanyuan Shuo managed to obtain a corpse of a fourth-level array master from a certain border area, along with a large number of handwritten notes.

Thus, establishing an array master hall, currently only for Royal Family members for cultivation, seemingly intending to train array masters exclusively belonging to their own.

Zou Lun agreed to assist Tu Qianyue because Tu Qianyue deceived him into believing he could obtain these Royal handwritten notes.

In fact, Tu Qianyue merely captured a few noble disciples cultivating at the Array Hall, and after the soul search, cobbled together a few scraps of information.

Fundamentally of no practical value.

Zhou Qing pondered.

If his guess was correct, that corpse should be the one he and Second Uncle, along with Xuanyuan Shuo, found in the Peng Emperor's Cave Mansion: Master Situ Jiuyao's corpse.

At that time, he made a show of offering three incense sticks, then took advantage of the Corpse-Touching Sticker to obtain the insights Master Situ had during his past epiphanies, directly condensing a large amount of spirit seals.

When Xuanyuan Shuo saw this scene, he hypocritically said, the fourth-level master was killed by the Peng Emperor; it was his negligence, he wanted to personally bury him, for people to pay respect.

Unexpectedly, he had ulterior motives.

Zhou Qing sighed.

As for those notes, he had long since comprehended them, including Master Lin there who was almost finished researching them.

"The reason I was able to comprehend four thousand spirit seals so quickly, apart from the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, the rest were Master Situ's notes, helping me avoid many wrong paths."

"Including Shen Hanyi, number six, back then also consulted Master Situ, not to mention the opportunity gained through the Corpse-Touching Sticker, what they did was truly unethical!"

Zhou Qing mused to himself.

He still remembers, under the Corpse-Touching Sticker, three last wishes were triggered.

[Wish one: Hope someone can avenge me, and kill the Peng Emperor.]

[Wish two: Hope someone can bring me back to the Celestial Fate Sacred Dynasty, and be buried in the Wind Erosion Ancient Sect.]

[Wish three: Hope someone can help me reclaim the Five-Colored Array Disc, which took me over three hundred years, little by little, to take from the ruins.]

This old man's ultimate wish was to return to his roots rather than die in a foreign land being researched like this.

Later, he shook his head to dispel these distractions, looked at Luo Lingling, "Senior sister, apart from wood, fire, and water attribute spirit stones, how much do you need? I won't be able to use all of these at once."