Modern World's Martial Dao Human Immortal

Chapter 287 Harvest

From afar, Xu Nianhua was exerting his full power to use an Escape Technique.

A Blazing White Golden Core-level plunder target...

This was a big fish.

Often, one could obtain tens of thousands of Pure Yang Great Pills from a single one of them.

If the big fish was particularly plump, reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands was not strange.

Bagging such a big fish was essentially equivalent to half a year's income for their Black Dragon Thieves.

In such a situation, to prevent the fish from slipping away, he had not only come himself but also brought several of the family heads with him.

However, as the six of them drew closer to their target...

Especially when the combat power readings on the combat strength detector appeared, Xu Nianhua felt that something was amiss.

This big fish seemed quite fierce!

Although they could take it down, it would inevitably come at a cost.

But in a short moment, Xu Nianhua had already made a decision.

The fiercer the fish, the more delicious it was when caught, the more valuable it became.

What did it matter if there was a cost to pay?

In a place like the Sea of Turmoil, as long as the Black Dragon Thieves could make a substantial profit, even if all the other family heads perished, he could replenish the ranks quickly.

Without ruthlessness, one cannot stand firm.

On Northern Sea Star, where all channels were monopolized by the big sects and all resources were cornered, leaving no room for advancement, there was never a shortage of cultivators who would harden their hearts and take the plunge.

"Be careful later on, go all out at first contact, and aim for a Fatal Kill... otherwise, his dying struggle will certainly bring us casualties," Xu Nianhua said, watching the third family head approaching quickly, as well as the fierce big fish chasing right behind him, and began to quickly assign tasks.

"Understood!"

"Big Family Head, it's up to us."

"With such strength... we must be fully alert to deal with it!"

Several people responded at the same time.

Xu Nianhua nodded and was about to say something else, but he saw that an object suddenly appeared in the hands of the prey chasing behind the third family head.

Right after, that object was hurled directly by him, like a flaming meteor, crossing the third family head with unbelievable speed and appearing in front of them in an instant.

"This is..."

Xu Nianhua was keenly aware that this was no good thing and immediately wanted to activate his Divine Sense to order everyone to retreat.

But the next second...

A horrific bright light mixed with flames that devoured everything burst forth from the object.

In that instant, the destructive power that was formed made Xu Nianhua feel as if he was directly facing the self-destruction of a Deep Blue Golden Core!

At that moment, he also finally recognized the origin of the object.

"Red Refining Divine Fire Thunder!"

It was a Red Refining Divine Fire Thunder, made from a Flame Demon Heart, a one-time lethal weapon that even a Deep Blue Golden Core could not withstand!

Xu Nianhua let out a cry of terror.

His own Deep Blue Golden Core erupted inside his body, forming a powerful energy barrier that desperately protected him, with over a thousand acupoints in his Star God Physique emanating starlight, enhancing the glow of the blue barrier.

Even so, he still couldn't escape the onslaught of the energy torrent that resembled the self-destruction of a Deep Blue Golden Core.

He, along with the five other Blazing White Golden Cores accompanying him, was completely engulfed by the explosive energy wave.

...

On the other side, seeing Xu Nianhua and the other family heads, who were finally close at hand and about to unite with him, the third family head, who had been fleeing for his life using Forbidden Techniques and was almost at his wits' end, couldn't help but show uncontainable joy.

"Big brother..."

He opened his mouth, shouting loudly, filled with the relief of a narrow escape in his Divine Sense.

But right after...

It seemed something flew past.

Then, the thing that flew past...

Exploded.

An energy release equivalent to the self-destruction of a Deep Blue Golden Core-level erupted, instantly forming a Destruction Torrent that covered hundreds of miles, completely swallowing up the Black Dragon Thieves' Big Family Head, the second, the fourth, and everyone else who had come to unite with him.

That bright light, those flames...

Suddenly caused the third family head, who thought he had made a miraculous turnaround and was about to escape, to stand frozen on the spot, dumbfounded.

Surely ordinary Deep Blue Golden Cores wouldn't be able to withstand such a terrifying release of energy, right?

This time, the Big Family Head had taken out almost all the high-ranking members, apart from the sixth who was away.

So...

The Black Dragon Thieves...

Were finished?

Just because he had called for help, he had drawn practically all the Black Dragon Thieves out, who hardly ever acted together, and then, just happened to encounter a Blazing White Golden Core with a treasure capable of a Fatal Kill, wiping out all their leaders in one fell swoop!?

"No! No! No!"

The third Family Head let out cries of unwillingness and disbelief.

The next moment, the You Long Sword suddenly accelerated, opened up space, and struck fiercely on the already depleted third family head.

His painful, reluctant, and incredulous cries were abruptly silenced.

...

"Whoosh!"

Alkaid, who arrived at this void with the Two Realms Ruler, reached out and picked up two Spiritual Treasures and a Storage Treasure.

He glanced at the leaders of the Black Dragon Thieves who had been obliterated by the Red Refining Divine Fire Thunder without leaving behind corpses and frowned slightly.

"In pursuit of a Fatal Kill, I might have gone a bit too far."

But there was no helping it.

After all, Tong Yan was a renowned cultivator with a combat strength of 760,000, and he might have possessed some secret technique to save his own life. Alkaid couldn't afford to give him the slightest chance to survive his Fatal Kill.

Otherwise, if they had truly clashed head-on...

He would have emerged victorious, but it certainly wouldn't have been as quick and clean as it was now.

"Well, there's nothing left of the war spoils, but there's still a bounty of 300,000... Plus, the combined bounties on the other heads of the Black Dragon Thieves amount to several tens of thousands. It's quite a hefty gain, it's just..."

Alkaid looked at the scene where no corpse had been left behind and shook his head, "I have recorded this process with a Shadow Retaining Stone, so I suppose it won't affect the bounty collection."

After a moment, he thought of something and looked up.

"From the time this third leader discovered me to the time Tong Yan and his people came to reinforce, it was only such a short time. Based on the time to estimate the distance..."

He once again employed the Nine Transformations of Heavenly Movement and in no time had traveled thousands of miles.

"It should be this area."

Having reached the calculated area, Alkaid spread out his Divine Sense and began to search carefully.

After searching a thousand-mile radius, the result...

...nothing unusual was found.

Not satisfied, he searched more meticulously, combing through the space inch by inch.

As he searched for the main base of the Black Dragon Thieves and took inventory of the war spoils, Xu Nianhua followed and reported, "True Person, I have gathered the resources from that fleet... Their total value is about eight thousand Pure Yang Great Pills."

Alkaid nodded but made no response, continuing his search throughout the space.

This search lasted for three entire days.

After three days, he finally noticed something.

Though his Divine Sense was powerful enough to rival that of the Hollow Void, it was the acute spatial awareness of the Void's Son that ultimately led him to detect the anomaly.

In a certain sea area, the flow of space was noticeably abnormal.

Perceiving these anomalies, Alkaid spent another ten days, and through his masterful knowledge of formations, he managed to uncover the subtle irregularity.

A half-month later, at a certain moment, Alkaid, who had caught onto something crucial, abruptly drew his sword.

With the precise control of spatial ripples inherent to the Son of the Void, he unleashed a thunderous Rip the Sky with One Strike with the You Long Sword.

Under this strike, the sea surface below seemed to be parted by an invisible force, tearing a massive chasm that spanned hundreds of miles.

However, after the trench was opened, what appeared before him was not the seafloor but a Flying Boat hidden beneath the sea's surface.

A gigantic Flying Boat nearly six thousand kilometers in length, almost fully sealed.

"Found it!"

Alkaid was somewhat surprised.

These Black Dragon Thieves really knew how to hide.

Even if a true Hollow Void being passed overhead, they would never detect anything unusual about this area.

It was only because he was absolutely certain that the Black Dragon Thieves' base was here, searching inch by inch, that even so, it took him a full month to ferret out their main base.

As he pulled out the Flying Boat, the Black Dragon Thieves left on board seemed to realize their dire situation and quickly started the Flying Boat, attempting to break free.

And feeling the spatial ripples stirred by the activating boat...

"A Dao Artifact!?"

Alkaid was startled.

But very soon, relying on his extraordinary insight as a Fifteenth Level Artifact Refiner, he deduced that this was not a true Dao Artifact.

It was a top-tier Spiritual Treasure that, limited by the refiner's skills and despite using a vast amount of precious materials, ultimately failed to transform and fell short of becoming a Dao Artifact.

Judging from some of the refining methods used on this boat...

The Artifact Refiner was far from a true Thirteenth Level Artifact Refiner, not even at the peak of the Twelfth Level.

Roughly somewhere between 40% to 50% towards the Twelfth Level.

"What a waste of materials."

Alkaid waved his hand, and the Heaven-Sealing Stele was immediately deployed.

The next moment, the space around the Flying Boat was completely sealed by the Heaven-Sealing Stele, as if turned into amber.

After immobilizing the Flying Boat, the You Long Sword in Alkaid's hand autonomously flew up, like a flash of gold penetrating the space sealed by the Heaven-Sealing Stele.

Under his precise operation of the two great treasures, the You Long Sword turned into a real dragon of Sword Qi, moving through the Flying Boat at an unbelievable speed, and guided by a powerful mind, struck down the cultivators inside, the strongest of whom was only in the Sunburst Golden Core Realm.

In a matter of a dozen breaths, the entire Flying Boat had become a land of the dead.

Immediately after, he landed directly on the Flying Boat and, using his vastly superior knowledge in Artifact Refining compared to the owner of the ship, began to refine and subdue this top-tier Spiritual Treasure.

"This Artifact Refiner intended to turn this Flying Boat into a Doomsday Ark that could ensure the survival and escape of the core members of a Sect in the face of any danger..."

This feature was somewhat similar to the Void Disk.

However, compared to the Void Disk which excels in traversing space, this Flying Boat was more accommodating for living and leisure purposes.

While it didn't seem more than six thousand kilometers, the internal space was expanded several times through the use of space, and the actual capacity increased nearly a hundredfold.

With such a volume, it would be a piece of cake to accommodate millions of people.

If only the most basic living space was provided, it could even pack several tens of millions of people.

"If I had this Flying Boat instead of the Void Disk back then... we would definitely have been able to take many more people with us."

Alkaid pondered, and quickly subdued the Flying Boat.

He planned to find time to attempt transforming the Flying Boat into a Dao Artifact.

If he could achieve this transformation, once he reached the Hollow Void, he could try fusing the Void Disk with this Flying Boat, and perhaps manage to refine a Superior Dao Artifact-level starship capable of acting as a mobile mountain gate. Read latest stories on My Virtual Library Empire