Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 192 Rebirth Amidst a Rain of Blood
Within the canopy of the verdant sacred tree, the enormous red and green heart, though chained and nailed to the trunk by a spear, beat rapidly.

Amidst this exceptionally dense and enormous heartbeat, Cheng Lang and the others had already flown to directly above the heart using the wings granted by the Night Raven Messenger.

For Cheng Lang, who was flying for the first time, this was definitely a novel experience, but at this moment, it was definitely not the time to properly enjoy the fun of flying.

Gently maneuvering his wings, Cheng Lang landed on his pounding heart, then pulled a dagger from his waist and plunged it fiercely into his heart.

Instantly, the surging blood flowed down the dagger and was absorbed by the Night Raven Messenger suit.

Almost simultaneously, the others also plunged their weapons into their hearts.

Among them, Shenba was the most outrageous. He actually used his huge scythe to cut a large, frightening wound and then jumped into it.

Not content with that, he quickly cut himself into more wounds and waved his arms, beckoning Cheng Lang and the others to come and "take a bath."

Apart from Yun Ji, who had already filled the Night Raven Messenger's potion, the others naturally wouldn't refuse.

As they drank blood, Yun Ji charged toward the dwarves who had climbed onto her heart, striking them down one by one with a speed that was hard to keep up with.

Gently patting Cheng Lang's arm beside her, Yun Hai shook the blood pump in her hand as soon as he looked over.

Seeing this, Cheng Lang nodded and took out a blood pump, inserting it directly into the wound he was using for bathing.

The moment the two blood pumps pierced the flesh, the heart abruptly stopped beating and then began to shrink at a visible speed!
At the same time, the surrounding chains began to rattle and vibrate rapidly.

Amidst this trembling, the leaves of the ancient sacred tree, which had already reached into the clouds, began to wither, followed by the falling of its verdant fruits like rain.

At that moment, Gerta finally lit the large powder keg in his arms and threw it forcefully into the treetop.

"boom!"

The explosion, though not particularly violent, rang out the instant the gunpowder barrel passed through the tree canopy. Propelled by the explosion, the glass jars filled with spores, which were glued to the outside of the gunpowder barrel with asphalt, also burst open, spreading like a cloud of colorful smoke down and enveloping the thick tree trunk.

In the blink of an eye, a multitude of colorful mushrooms sprouted from the tree trunk. Gerta also gave Yavso an OK sign from afar, who was soaking in the heart—a gesture she had learned from their captain.

Just as these beautiful mushrooms began to spread wildly on the tree trunk, almost all the leaves and fruits on the canopy, and even the parasitic vines, withered and fell off.

Even so, the heart continued to beat heavily at an exceptionally slow pace.

With each thud, the tree trunk below emitted a frightening creaking noise, and even visible vertical cracks appeared.

"Captain, I think the Verdant Sacred Tree is ready to be ignited!" Yun Ji made a crazy suggestion at this moment.

Because he was holding the Night Raven Messenger's feather pendant in his mouth, Cheng Lang was unable to respond verbally.

However, this did not stop him from giving an OK sign and throwing the bottle of fish oil to the other party via an invisible whip.

Taking the boat bottle, Yun Ji made a throat-slitting gesture towards the dwarves, then flew down from the heart with the feather pendant in her mouth again, sprinkling the fish oil on the dwarven mechs, elves, and the increasingly withered tree trunks and even the attached vines.

"Bang! Bang!"

With two gunshots rang out in succession, the fish oil was ignited, and flames erupted from the bodies of the dwarves disguised as elves, the dwarves who were not disguised, and even the mixed-race sailors of unknown origin. As they ran frantically, the tree canopies that were being splashed with fish oil were gradually set ablaze.

"I'm full!"

Shenba was the first to spit out the feather pendant it was holding, and then it wielded its huge scythe to attack the enemies whose necks were bound to thorns by Cheng Lang's invisible whip rope.

"Mine is ready too."

Yun Hai then spat out the pendant, and then pulled out a blood-red dagger, cut off her thick braid, and stuffed it into the huge wound that Shenba had just made.

Almost simultaneously, Cheng Lang and Yafuso also spat out the feather pendants they were holding and then removed their blood pumps.

"Stay away!"

As Yun Hai spoke, she threw her blood-red dagger in as well.

"boom!"

In the deafeningly loud explosion, a large chunk of this heart was blown open.

However, as they peeled away the pieces of flesh, they discovered that inside the heart was another metallic object—which looked like a heart itself.

"What is this?" Cheng Lang asked Yun Hai loudly.

"I don't know!" Yun Hai looked completely bewildered. "I didn't know this existed!"

"captain!"

Just then, Gerta, in the distance, shook another gunpowder barrel he was holding.

"Snapped!"

Cheng Lang simply snapped his fingers, and an invisible whip-like rope wrapped around the gunpowder barrel, flinging it over and accurately throwing it into Yun Hai's blasted wound.

"Leave the enemy to us," Yun Hai said, charging towards the surrounding enemies.

"Can I destroy things as I please?"

As Yafso asked her question, she had already opened the small leather bag at her waist.

"No need to hold back," Cheng Lang said, already lighting the powder keg.

"Great!"

Yafso let out a cheer, immediately untied her belt, and beckoned Shenba to help her cut a wound from a distance, then unscrewed the caps of several small glass bottles, each no bigger than a thumb, and threw them in.

"boom!"

After another explosion, more chunks of flesh were torn away, and everyone gradually saw that the ends of the chains were connected to the huge metal heart, while the spear seemed to be just for show.

Jumping into the ruptured wound and examining the enormous heart, Cheng Lang shouted, "Ye Di! Lord Ye Di!"

"do what!"

Nightshade, with two dwarves hanging from its mouth, jumped up and asked impatiently, then forcefully flung the two dwarves into the clouds.

"Do you have a way to make it happen?"

"cannot!"

"I'll treat you to a meal."

"cannot!"

"This will also benefit Fog Shadow," Cheng Lang said loudly, covering his ears. "Aren't you sure you want to give it a try?"

"I can't bring Mist Shadow here."

As Ye Di spoke, he turned and pounced on the surrounding enemies, taking a bite out of the heart along the way. But after only two bites, he spat it out in disgust.

"Let's try anything, even if it seems hopeless!"

Seeing that Ye Di had no intention of helping, Cheng Lang simply took out his whip and lashed it at the metal heart.

Unexpectedly, this time, the toxin in the whip was able to be injected into the metal heart and then completely withdrawn.

Moreover, with his release and retraction, a huge crack appeared in the metal heart.

"Come and help!"

Cheng Lang, shivering with pleasure that almost made his eyes roll back, let out a shout before injecting the venom from the whip into the metal heart once more.

"Crack!"

With a distinct cracking sound, the metal heart split open, creating a gap large enough for Shenba to crawl into.

"How did you do that?" Yun Hai asked loudly. "Good question!"

As Cheng Lang spoke, he rushed towards the crevice.

At a glance, everyone noticed that inside the metal heart, there was a smaller heart suspended like in a box game, a heart pierced by a spear.

It even resembles the heart of a ship, connected by a large number of thick blood vessels!
"I bet that's the real heart of Poseidon!"

As Yun Hai spoke, he touched the blood pump and turned it forcefully, causing a large amount of blood to spray out.

"Blood Rain."

Yun Ji, who had just returned, murmured unconsciously.

"This prophetic poem is really accurate."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he imitated the other person and turned the blood pump to pump out the blood stored inside, whose identity was unknown. Then, he and Yun Hai pressed the blood pump into the heart one after the other.

In an instant, the heart withered and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into a stone.

"puff"

With just a light touch, Cheng Lang's withered heart turned to dust, while the spear flew into Yun Hai's hand.

"Looks like this is my reward," Yun Hai said, taking the spear.

"You'd better come out quickly!"

Before Cheng Lang could speak, Shenba gritted his teeth and urged, "Crack."

Looking back at the shrinking crack on the metal heart and Shenba struggling to hold it up, Cheng Lang and Yun Hai quickly slipped out.

"Boom!"

Almost the instant Shenba let go, the crack on that heart closed up instantly.

Even with the force of the closing mechanism, the metal heart managed to break free of the surrounding chains.

"careful!"

Cheng Lang quickly manipulated the invisible whip ropes to bind everyone's waists and suspend them from the tree trunks. Meanwhile, the heavy, massive iron chains smashed down in various places, also throwing a considerable number of enemies to the ground.

Looking at the metal heart again, it had shrunk to the size of an adult's fist.

However, before it could fall, it was bitten by the big cat Ye Di. Then, the big cat jumped straight towards Cheng Lang and turned into a black cat doll the moment it landed in his arms. The metal heart shrank to the size of a bean and hung around the doll's neck.

It seems we've both gained something.

Yun Hai used the shrunken spear as a hair bun to hold back the half of her black hair. She glanced with interest at the lush sacred tree that was now engulfed in flames, then turned back and said, "Captain, I guess we'll meet again."

"I look forward to that day," Cheng Lang replied. "Do you need me to let you go?"

"certainly"

Yun Hai nodded. "I suggest you flee towards Dwarf Mountain. We'll meet again someday."

As she spoke, she had already put the feather pendant in her mouth.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Lang immediately released the invisible whip.

However, he did not expect that after maintaining its flight posture, Yun Hai would turn the blood pump in its hand again and spray the blood inside onto the ground.

Seeing this, Cheng Lang had a sudden realization, and then smiled, "Shenba, you take charge of flying with Mr. Gerta. We'll fly towards Dwarf Mountain."

“As you wish, Captain.” Shenba immediately agreed.

After everyone had their own feather pendants in their mouths, Cheng Lang also broke the whip rope. As he flew away from the lush sacred tree that had turned into a torch, he also turned the blood pump in his hand, splashing a massive amount of blood onto the land of the Elf Kingdom.

As they flew further and further away, a torrential downpour of blood rain strangely enveloped the entire territory of the Elf Kingdom.

Under the wash of this blood rain, the trees that had withered not long ago began to sprout again. However, the silver-haired elves were horrified to find that as the blood rain washed over them, their silver hair turned black at a visible speed, and their pointed ears returned to normal.

"They haven't changed! They are dwarfs!"

In the Elf Kingdom, members of the royal guard shouted and, in an instant, pointed their weapons at their former comrades.

"I heard the whispers of the dead! It's my mother! It's my mother!"

Above ground, a once-pointed-eared creature exclaimed in surprise and enthusiastically hugged a large wine bottle beside it.

At the foot of the tree where the lush green cannons are mounted in the occupied Sunshine City.

The man in the robe, who had met Cheng Lang and others once before, looked up at the blood raining down on his head, then tore off his mask, revealing the appearance of Viscount Shenfei.

Before that mask of hypocrisy could even fall to the ground, his silver hair and pointed ears also began to change.

He touched his face, then plucked a hair from his head and examined it. He drew his rapier and shouted, "Let's go! Destination: the Elf King's City! We're going to rescue the kidnapped Grand Duke, for justice!"

"For justice!"

Accompanied by shouts, more and more elves, even dark elves, revealed their true forms and charged towards the royal city amidst the rain of blood.

"Boom!"

Amidst a deafening roar, the lush sacred tree, which had been ablaze for a full day and night, collapsed completely, seemingly by chance, crushing the tree-shaped structure where the Elf King's city was located.

"So the sacred tree of evergreen is gone?"

At the summit of Dwarf Mountain, Yun Ji put down her binoculars and sighed. They had flown all the way here and had just witnessed the collapse of the verdant sacred tree.

Who still remembers that prophetic poem?

Cheng Lang, sitting cross-legged next to the base of a cannon, asked, "When they flew here, all the cannons on this mountaintop had already been pushed down the mountain. They don't know who did it."

"The web of fate is now complete; the guilty elves flee into the realm of beasts, while the free souls hide in the miners' lamps."

The web of fate has been woven; the pirates who came ashore made a grave mistake, while the silver-haired elf became a laughingstock.

The web of fate has been woven, but the weaver has become trapped in his own cocoon, while the black termites have drunk their fill of sweet dew.

The web of fate is complete; the second heart has transformed into a rain of blood to nourish the continent, and the one who brought the rain deserves reward.

At the summit, Yafso loudly recited the prophetic poem she had received.

"It seems everything has come true."

Cheng Lang sighed, "The biggest mistake we made was setting the sacred tree on fire, wasn't it?"

“I don’t think it’s wrong,” Shenba said nonchalantly.

“I’m more curious about the reward than those insignificant mistakes,” Yun Ji said.

"Let's talk about this when we get back to the ship."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he stood up and said, "Let's go. It's a long way back."

"There will be no more evergreen sacred trees."

Yun Ji glanced one last time in the direction of the Elf King's City, then turned and followed Cheng Lang.

Unbeknownst to them, a new bud had already sprouted from the remaining roots of the collapsed, verdant sacred tree amidst the crimson rain of blood.

Unbeknownst to them, a rumor had already spread throughout the Elf Kingdom that was driving some people crazy: Princess Rika had participated in and orchestrated the attack on the Elf Duchy—she had even caused terrifying mushrooms to sprout all over the city!
Unfortunately, the fake princess, who was on the verge of tears and exhausted from running around, had no way to refute the argument.

(End of this chapter)