Chapter 143 Blood-Level

Many people became doomsday survival fanatics, buying large quantities of supplies, which led to a sharp rise in the prices of various necessities, causing a temporary shortage.

Fortunately, after the craze passed, prices were brought under control to some extent.

Even so, Qing Chen lost confidence in the currency of Hua Country. Rather than let it depreciate significantly, it was better to exchange it for various supplies.

Expanding the underground warehouse of his house, buying food, supplies, weapons, tools, and other resources, Qing Chen faintly felt that a great storm was coming.

Given the backdrop of money losing its value, if Jing Yan needed money to buy something, Qing Chen wouldn't mind helping out.

But Jing Yan refused.

Money matters can sour even the best friendships.

Besides, he wasn't short of money. He had earned a lot during his time running the studio.

It's just that he really didn't know what the studio was like now, since he had disappeared suddenly, rather than leaving with any preparation.

Sighing, he only said that he might need Qing Chen's help in reality in the future.

Of course, that was for later. He hadn't even broken out of prison yet, so he didn't need Qing Chen's external support.

After Fang Yue entered seclusion, the others took on the responsibility of ship security.

However, the main role was still played by Captain Duo.

Compared to when Fang Yue was around, Captain Duo was now more focused than ever.

Because he understood the distribution of strength on the ship, Captain Duo knew that when Fang Yue couldn't stand up, any crisis could wipe them all out.

He didn't care about the others, but Tian Ruichi absolutely couldn't die, since the Soul-Entrusting Jade Pendant was still in his hands.

As for Captain Duo himself, apart from encountering existences like Demon Corpses, other dangers, while threatening his safety, were not so serious.

With his resources, as long as he was willing to abandon the passengers, escaping was not a problem, and he had done it more than once. As the only giant ship capable of crossing the Cold River, he had some privileges, some willfulness, and those in the capital didn't dare to do anything about it.

However, with the gradual development of those experimental small boats at the Cold River Wharf, his position was also in jeopardy.

This was also one of the reasons why Captain Duo was so eager to regain his freedom and enter the Soul-Entrusting Jade Pendant.

Time passed quickly, and the night sky above gradually changed from Yin-Yang Moon to Half-Moon Eclipse.

Then from Half-Moon Eclipse to Half-Moon Red Moon.

Time passed quickly, and after two days and one night.

When the morning sun rose...

Creak.

Fang Yue's door slowly opened.

As soon as he pushed open the door, the pungent smell of blood rushed to his face, putting Fang Yue into a state of combat readiness, his nerves on edge.

But soon, he saw the blood-covered Special Envoy Guard beside him, his eyes wide with excitement.

"Lord Ye, Lord Ye! Welcome Lord Ye out of seclusion!"

Saying that, he half-knelt down, and Fang Yue immediately helped him up.

"Tell me, what happened on the ship?"

"Reporting to Lord Ye, it's the Weirds! The Weirds from the bottom of the lake climbed onto the deck. The other lords are fighting bravely. I was ordered to guard this place and not leave for half a step!"

Fang Yue's heart skipped a beat, and he asked nervously, "What level of Weirds?"

Why were they so foolish? Didn't they say that if they encountered danger, they would immediately call me out of seclusion! Why did they face it alone!

This was the Cold River, and the Weirds of the Cold River... judging from the examples Fang Yue had encountered, he didn't even dare to think about it.

But the guard's answer stunned him.

"Reporting to Lord, they are Blood-level Weirds!"

Blood-level...

Fang Yue was a little dazed.

He hadn't encountered Weirds of this level for some time.

Blood-level was equivalent to the Congenital Realm!

Fang Yue could easily solve a large group of these low-level Weirds, and they posed no threat at all.

However... for Lin Ling and others, it was a considerable trouble.

Plus, the heavy smell of blood...

After asking about the location of the others, with a shift of his body, Fang Yue rushed to the deck.

"Burst Point Seven Stars!"

As soon as he reached the deck, he heard a familiar shout.

He saw Lin Ling in front of him, the whites of his right eye already turned pitch black, overflowing with black blood.

Like a celestial being descending to the mortal world, he jumped high from the mast and pierced seven Weirds that looked like big-headed flies with one spear.

The Weirds were as tall as a person, with thick hands and feet, six wings, and a body as plump as a fly's abdomen. The most conspicuous thing was naturally the compound eye shape of a fly.

Seven such disgusting big-headed Weirds were strung together like kebabs, their bodies pierced, making fierce buzzing screams, spewing out large amounts of dark green blood, and finally crashed to the ground, shaking the deck from side to side.

And beside Lin Ling, Qing Chen and Jing Yan stood back-to-back, one holding a bow and shooting arrows wildly without any accuracy, the other nervously shaking his hands, waving wildly at the buzzing, approaching big-headed fly Weirds.

At this time, Tian Ruichi, who didn't know where he came from, would pass by the two of them, cutting the Weirds in half with one sword, and then smoothly rushing to the distance.

The other guards moved and fought, centered around Tian Ruichi.

It could be said that the real core of the entire battlefield was two people.

One was Tian Ruichi, whose swordsmanship was superb. Every strike was a different swordsmanship, sometimes even exchanging and fusing one or two kinds of swordsmanship, faintly giving the feeling of one person being a small sword formation, quite similar to the Kongbing Sword Technique.

From the performance, it would not be an exaggeration to call it Little Kongbing Sword Technique.

Of course, the essence was completely different.

One was the nature of martial arts, which was fusion, a single person's extreme sword formation, and even the direction of integrating other martial arts.

One was a semi-sword spirit, whose swordsmanship was superb, and who could use various swordsmanships freely. From the performance, it looked like he had fused several kinds of swordsmanship, but in reality, he was just using several kinds of swordsmanship alternately, and doing some moves fusion, which was two different concepts from the core of Kongbing Sword Technique.

Besides Tian Ruichi, the one who killed the most fiercely on the field was Lin Ling.

With [Pseudo-Weird Transformation] activated, black blood overflowed from the corners of his eyes, and his strength soared, killing these Blood-level Weirds and causing them to retreat steadily. He was like Zhao Zilong who charged in and out seven times, charging into the Weirds, and then out of the Weirds, his body stained red with blood, but all of it was dark green blood, none of his own blood, like a God of War descending!

In this kind of unrestrained and exhilarating battle, Lin Ling showed a long-lost smile, a heartfelt, cheerful smile.

Ever since Gu Yue Village was destroyed, he had not fought Weirds properly.

What he encountered on weekdays were either existences that he couldn't beat, or existences that he didn't even have the qualifications to touch.

Until now, he had finally met opponents of the same level, and he could let go and fight!

This kind of Musou-like feeling, even if Lin Ling didn't understand the concept of Musou, felt extremely cool.

After all, in the *Blue Sea* game world, there was no concept of average distribution of monster levels.