Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 126 Captain Magellan, how about a deal?

His gaze locked onto the lantern maker who was almost overhead from the Trinidad, a cold glint flashing in his eyes:

"You're using us as targets to draw fire, and I happen to need a target to test whether I have a chance to get this ship."

Even if we take a step back and assume they want to take advantage of me, Master Wang, and steal the elixir of immortality?

No way! "

The secret and orthodox method of the Five Emperors' Golden Coin Sword in the "Treasure Record of the Toad Palace" has been passed down for sixty years without anyone being able to master it.

There will definitely be plenty of open and covert struggles when we return to Yingzhou this time.

This secrecy was precisely what made it Wang Cheng, the "Crown Prince of Jinghai," his exclusive specialty, distinguishing him from Wang Fugui, the "Hundred-Household Officer of Dazhao."

He even publicly held a mutual praise session, which was also part of his plan.

"Young Master, you are so strong!"

"He's even stronger than Huang Tou'er, who's six or seven years older than him."

Only when the platinum sword light dissipated did the crew of the Conch Ship awaken as if from a dream, their mouths agape in disbelief.

Wang Cheng's biggest secret is known only to a very few confidants and close friends.

Most of the crew members on the ship did not know that Wang Cheng was the same as Wang Fugui. They only knew that before this trip, their own [Mirage General] had suddenly found the young ship owner who had been missing for many days.

They initially thought the young captain was weak and alone, and that returning to Wufeng Banner would inevitably involve open and covert attacks. They were all determined to protect the young captain and help him inherit the old captain's position, clean up the mess, and regroup, even if it meant risking their lives.

This was also a major reason why they gave up trying to seize the elixir of immortality.

Unexpectedly, the young captain, who had remained unassuming on the ship, was actually the strongest among them, saving the entire ship with just a slight move.

"I can never repay the kindness of the old and young ship owners!"

They watched that departing figure, their eyes shining with an almost frightening intensity.

Only the Tanka people, who have experienced hundreds or thousands of years of oppression and humiliation, and who have encountered the darkest moment of Prince Jing's death, know what the light in their eyes is called.
That's called: Hope!
"Although the first generation of suns has set, the second generation of suns is already rising."

The most crucial principle for following your lord to accomplish great things is: being able to win!
The ultimate power in the world is violence, and violence is the fundamental source of power.

If you seize power by bullying orphans and widows during a change of dynasty, that's called: illegitimate rule.

The previous dynasty was tyrannical, and you punished the guilty to relieve the people's suffering. You started from scratch, and although you recruited good ministers and fierce generals, you conquered two-thirds of the entire country. All the other fierce generals combined were not as good as you. This is what is called: the mandate of heaven!
As long as the founding monarch is the most capable fighter, you can kill whoever you want from your group of old brothers without having to worry about anyone else's opinion.

As long as the second generation is the most capable, even if they only have 800 men, they will have the confidence to emulate the two Taizong Emperors and Wenzong Emperors and shout: "800 men it is!"

Once one truly ascends to a high position, the most outstanding quality of a leader becomes "being willing to share money."

All of them had seen the current number one genius of the Twenty-Four Guards, "Ghost God Jealous," and the second-best genius, "Ghost God Shocked," in Moon Harbor.

They felt that their young master, at the age of eighteen (by Chinese reckoning), was absolutely capable of holding the second-highest rank and even aspiring to the top position.

"Kindness!"

"loyalty!"

The crew members' eyes were red, and they kept making empty promises to themselves, feeding themselves until they were stuffed.

The delegation from the other direction was far enough away from the battlefield that the fleet turned in time. Even when a few Yunmeng Ghost Masters reached the delegation, they were unable to shake this massive fleet.

With everyone working together, the dead were quickly suppressed.

Vice Envoy Jiang was a disciple of the School of Mind, and his teacher, Grand Secretary Xu, was a disciple of Wang Bo'an, the sage of the School of Mind.

Wang Sheng was a first-rank Confucian scholar during his lifetime, and after his death he was transformed into a ghost and deity and enshrined in the Confucian Temple, so his legacy is naturally extraordinary.

Faced with the sporadic deaths, this high-ranking official, a Confucian scholar of the Mind School, used a technique called "Literary Ascension Technique" to recite sacred teachings:
"Flowers blooming and withering are nothing to worry about; all things are in the mind!"

A hazy boundary suddenly appeared around him.

When the enemy attacks him, swords, spears, axes, and halberds are like illusions, unable to harm him in the slightest; but when he wields the scroll in his hand, it is like wielding a heavy hammer, and a single blow can turn the enemy into mincemeat.

Wang Cheng's body remained on the sidelines, silently observing the unique skills of the people on the boat.

Luo Wenlong ignored the approaching dead bodies and focused his gaze on the immortality elixirs on the Trinidad.

"Grand Secretary Yan is already eighty-one years old. The ruler of the country has spent his whole life seeking immortality and enlightenment."

I don't need to collect all five temples' sacred flowers; as long as I can offer them one kind, I can guarantee the Luo family's future prosperity and wealth.

You must never let such an opportunity slip by.

Doing this well will earn you the emperor's favor, which is a hundred times more useful than offering amnesty to those powerful warlords.

Unroll a scroll, and another "Luo Wenlong" emerges from it. Then, splashing ink on a blank scroll, a yellow crane quickly flies out.

A gust of wind blew up, and Luo Wenlong in the painting immediately rode away on a crane, approaching the Trinidad, where the fierce battle was raging, one after the other, with Wang Cheng.

The Franco warship was engaged in a fierce battle with the Yunmeng Ghost Master and couldn't spare the time to deal with these few little bugs, so they actually got close to them.

Unlike Luo Wenlong and the lantern maker who flew high in the sky, Wang Cheng's evil spirit had already transformed back into an evil spirit and was hiding in the shadows underwater.

The customs associated with the Crown Prince, who is on a mission to inspect the heavens, are derived from the royal ship that sends off the king, and are very similar in nature to these ghost ships.

Evil spirits are all human phenomena without self-awareness. Wang Cheng has never seen an evil spirit with intelligence like a ghost.

Infiltrating the Yunmeng Ghost Master did not arouse the hostility of the 100,000 dead.

As the distance closed, it became clear how valuable this ship truly was.

[Rare find: The Trinidad, a flagship of the ocean-going fleet and a national treasure]
Having accomplished a groundbreaking feat, they have acquired the skills necessary to fulfill their responsibilities, and as time goes on and their reputation spreads, their abilities will only grow stronger.

In the near future, it will surely become a legendary warship capable of suppressing a small or medium-sized country!

The Garden of Abundance: The cabin is a self-contained world where vegetables and grains can be grown and livestock raised, so there is no need to worry about starving or dying of scurvy during ocean voyages.

Circumnavigation: If all five ships can be gathered and the circumnavigation fleet reorganized, then every node in the voyage can be located, leading a massive ocean-going fleet back there, easily establishing a colonial empire.

At the same time, the ship itself can also be teleported independently and randomly, but it cannot carry a large fleet.

It can be used once a day.

Symbiosis: The natural affinity between liver flower and wood allows it to integrate with the warship, becoming the brain of this war machine and bringing the entire ship to life.

It devoured all the crew members on the ship and became symbiotic with them.

Obsession: Eating, eating, eating! He can consume wood-attribute ghosts and evil spirits to replace his liver and absorb the nutrients needed for development.

"This flagship embodies the most legends, and is clearly much stronger than the two ships that have already been captured."

The mere act of 'teleportation'—turning tail and running at the first sign of trouble—is enough to leave countless pursuers bewildered.

Wang Cheng became even more cautious.

The dragon robe he wore, which was connected to his natal star official [Jiaomu Jiao], was of the wood element.
If you accidentally get tangled in it, the joke could get really bad.

While Wang Cheng was still looking around for flaws, the white-haired lantern maker had already started working. Riding on a dragon lantern, he waved his hand and released many Kongming lanterns with human heads on them.

The lamp is painted with human faces and is inhabited by evil spirits. A hemp rope covered with talismans hangs down from the lamp, wriggling like a series of flexible tails.

"Go to me!"

They rushed toward the "Five Temples Divine Flower" from all directions, with ropes extending to try and snatch one of the flowers.

A low, eerie cry suddenly emanated from deep within the warship.

Most of the cannons and vines were fighting the demon master, and only a few vines could be transferred back for defense.

call out!call out!call out!call out!
Vines danced wildly, and one by one, Kongming lanterns resembling human heads were whipped into pieces in mid-air, exploding into sparks.

But the lantern maker spared no expense in releasing hundreds of sky lanterns, yet a few still managed to slip through the net. A rope dangled down and coiled around the nearest liver flower, which was now no more than three inches away.

"Successful!"

The lantern maker's old face, which had just shown a hint of excitement, suddenly froze.

A figure leaped high onto the deck, like an arrow, stepping on tree branches and leaping onto the treetop. With a flash of sword light, the figure sliced ​​the human-headed Kongming lantern in two.

He turned and thrust repeatedly, the direction, angle, and force of which seemed to have been precisely calculated, blasting the remaining fish that had slipped through the net into oblivion in mid-air.

The momentary pause allowed Wang Cheng, who was hiding in the shadows, to see his appearance clearly.

He was thin, with a weathered face, wearing a triangular captain's hat, and holding a slender Franconian swift sword.

What I just used was the Franco-style martial art – Swift Sword Technique: Supreme Art!
However, his condition was clearly abnormal. A green vine was stuck in the back of his neck, and his skin had turned woody, making him look like a "ginseng fruit" growing on a tree.

Only a faint glimmer of light remained in its eyes, along with a deep sorrow, suggesting that even after being assimilated by the elixir of immortality, it still retained a human consciousness.

[Rare find: Ferdinand Magellan, the world's first circumnavigator]
Obsession: Freedom!

Wang Cheng was overjoyed upon seeing this.

"A flaw! One obsession is eating, the other is freedom. This multiple-choice approach is my opportunity."

"Captain Magellan, I want to make a deal with you."

(End of this chapter)