Ling Tian and Ahri walked around the deck of the ghost ship. Along the way, more than a dozen ghosts attacked them, and the outcome was as expected – they were all mercilessly eliminated by Ahri.
Ahri happily swung her Wind Thunder Hammers, like playing whack-a-mole, one hammer for each ghost. Ling Tian, holding the Crimson Flame Treasure Sword, didn't even get a chance to make a move.
"At the stern, there's a large cargo hold. There's a big problem in there. The secret of the ghost ship must be there!"
Ling Tian said to Ahri after scanning the ghost ship with his Heavenly Eye divine ability.
"Then what are we waiting for? This meow can't hold back its primordial power anymore!" said the energetic Ahri.
The two walked side-by-side towards the cabin door, only to find that all the doors were tightly locked.
Ahri raised her hammer, ready to smash the door directly, but Ling Tian stopped her.
"Ahri, I told you to read more books, but you never do. Books say that the effect of force is mutual.
Although this hammer is a top-grade item and very sturdy, it's a pity to use it to smash these things.
Besides, can these doors stop the two of us?"
Ahri tilted her head and thought, "That's true!"
As they spoke, the two of them disappeared from the deck. The next moment, they appeared inside the cargo hold, ten meters below the deck!
There was not a trace of light in the cargo hold, but ghostly blue will-o'-the-wisps floated everywhere.
The floor of the cargo hold was sticky, it was dried blood, and the air was filled with a nauseating smell of blood, forcing Ahri and Ling Tian to seal off their sense of smell.
The ground was littered with corpses and severed limbs. Even more bizarrely, in the very center of the cargo hold, dozens of human heads were arranged on the ground, forming a strange formation.
Between these human heads were strange patterns formed by a large amount of blood!
"What... what is this ghostly thing?" Ahri said, suppressing the urge to smash the thing in front of her with a single blow.
"This is... a Bone Array!"
As soon as Ling Tian saw this thing, the formation about it from the Spirit Realm space appeared in his mind.
Thousands of years ago, when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant on Earth, there were many powerful cultivators, including many evil cultivators.
Among these evil cultivators, many were skilled in formations, but they were more skilled in very sinister formations like Yin Gathering Arrays and Blood Fiend Arrays.
Of course, to construct a formation, many materials were needed, such as jade, obsidian, and some rare heavenly treasures, such as the blood and bodily tissues of some spirit beasts.
It was unknown which exceptionally talented evil cultivator suddenly thought that since spirit beasts could be used as materials, the vital essence and blood within the human body could also be used as materials for constructing formations, and the true essence and Samadhi True Fire within the human body could also provide energy for the formations.
Although the vital essence, blood, and energy within a single human body were limited, as long as there were enough corpses, a formation could be constructed.
Thus, this fellow put his idea into practice, and he actually succeeded. Moreover, he discovered that Yin Gathering Arrays and Blood Fiend Arrays constructed with the bones of people who were unjustly killed even had better effects than other materials.
This opened up a new world for those evil formation masters. They killed everywhere, resulting in many massacres, which also became a major catalyst for the righteous path alliance to jointly eliminate them!
These formations constructed using the bodies of humans or spirit beasts were called Bone Arrays!
Later, as evil cultivators were heavily suppressed, and these cruel Bone Arrays could expose their whereabouts, these formations were almost lost, and evil cultivators who mastered the construction of such formations would not act easily.
According to the records of the righteous path alliance, such Bone Arrays had not appeared for several hundred years.
But tonight, in this dark ship's cabin, Ling Tian saw this thing again.
"Bone Array, evil cultivators! What a grand display."
Ahri understood Ling Tian's thoughts through telepathy.
"This is a煞 Gathering Array, which can gather Yin and Fiend energy. Especially out at sea, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is very abundant, providing a large amount of energy for this formation.
And they just massacred so many crew members and ability users, creating a large number of wronged souls. These wronged souls will soon be refined into powerful ghosts by the煞 Gathering Array!
These ghosts have controlled this ship, drifting on the sea, and even the ship's current propulsion is provided by this bizarre Bone Array."
"What is this thing made for?"
"Of course, it's for slaughter. This thing will continuously produce ghosts, and these ghosts are all wronged souls. They will have a desire to kill anything that is alive.
A ship like this drifting at sea, as soon as it encounters other ships, it will pounce like a shark that has smelled blood, and then the ghosts will kill everyone on board, turning that ship into a ghost ship as well.
Think about it, if this sea area is filled with ghost ships, then no other adventurers would dare to come here. You know, at sea, many ability users cannot exert their full strength no matter how powerful they are."
"So that's how it is. Then, let's destroy this harmful thing."
"Okay, that's a must."
"How should we do it?" Ahri asked.
"Set it on fire," Ling Tian replied.
"Okay." As Ahri spoke, a handful of explosive talismans appeared in her hand.
"Uh, Ahri, although we're not short of money or talismans now, it's still too wasteful to use talismans to deal with these things!"
Ahri stuck out her tongue. She was used to throwing talismans lavishly and hadn't really considered this issue.
"Then what should we do?"
"Use gasoline, or alcohol!"
In the Spirit Realm space, there were several very special areas where several huge water spheres floated in mid-air, each with a volume of tens of cubic meters.
Within these floating water spheres were large amounts of gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene, alcohol, methanol, pure water, and even lubricating oil.
Ling Tian had accumulated these things gradually by raiding other people's warehouses and lairs in mid-air previously, and they hadn't cost him any money.
Just then, the appearance of the two attracted the attention of more than a dozen ghosts in the entire ship's cabin. The ghosts closest to them rushed directly towards Ling Tian.
Ahri charged forward, swinging her two hammers, making a whistling sound!
The electrical light on the hammerheads even formed a circle of light due to the high-speed rotation of the hammers!
Those unlucky ghosts, after being touched by the electrical light once, became completely immobile and emitted white smoke. After being touched twice, they were directly enveloped by the electrical light and turned into ashes!