Desperate Night

“Seventeen times.” You Can paused, his tone lowering, “My first mate died, half the crew dissolved, I had to come back.”

“All my men died, only I came back.” The Lightshadow Captain said calmly.

“Anyway, you're a captured hardened criminal, no pity if you die, but I'm different, I've been painstakingly cultivating for years...” You Can said in a deep voice.

“That's true. That's why you should learn from me.” The Lightshadow Captain said nonchalantly.

“Alright, enough said, I'm going to the supply base.” The Lightshadow's green turned gray, losing contact.

Leaving only Yu Hong and You Can.

“Captain Yu, how many times is this for you?” You Can asked.

“I don't remember, didn't count, but probably around five or six times.” Yu Hong replied.

“The further you go, the higher the risk. Be careful.” You Can instructed, “Regarding the wind disaster, around the tenth time, we usually encounter the Origin Disaster Tide, using its force to enter the Phoenix Eye area. The Phoenix Eye is quite dangerous, you need to do strength tests for the squeezing force in advance. The pressure inside is a hundred times greater than where we are now, it's very exaggerated. Be careful.”

“Thanks for the reminder!” Yu Hong said in a deep voice.

“No need to thank me, next, it's not easy for our two ships to make contact, do you want to trade?” You Can said with a smile.

“Trade what? What do you need?” Yu Hong was also moved.

“I just ran out of Human Pills for cultivation, do you have any crew members with good strength on your ship, want to sell them to me? The price is negotiable, I have all kinds of cultivation methods, supplies, materials, everything, and there are all kinds of slaves captured, you can choose whatever you want.” You Can said casually.

These words stunned Yu Hong.

“Human Pills? Could it be, you use people to cultivate your skills?”

“Of course, we are saviors, using some people to improve our strength is normal.” You Can said matter-of-factly. “Anyway, they aren't species from our native homeland, they are all alien races, their strength is about the same as wild animals, just hunting, don't mind it. I consume dozens of people every month, it's alright, I'm already being very economical.”

Upon hearing this, everyone on Yu Hong's ship shuddered.

Yu Hong's expression also darkened.

“Sorry, I won't sell my crew members.” Although he felt himself becoming more and more indifferent, he couldn't accept the practice of using people as cultivation materials and consumables.

This wasn't kindness, but the fact that he was also human, and felt a strong sense of discomfort.

“Well, don't rush. We are captains, looks like you are still young, can't accept it. You'll get used to it later. Let's not talk about this, do you have any rare materials there? You can also talk about what you collected in the Origin Disaster.” You Can said.

“Does the Heavenly Court of Spiritual Disaster ring a bell? I have some eyeballs from their Three-Eyed Dragon Head Generals. Do you want them?” Yu Hong replied.

“Eyeballs...? Uh, no thanks, I know about the Heavenly Court, it used to be a big force, but later it surrendered to the Spiritual Disaster. Anything else?” You Can continued to ask.

Yu Hong didn't hide anything, and introduced the materials he had one by one.

Unfortunately, You Can didn't seem to fancy any of them.

“Forget it, you are now sailing in the shallow safety zone, the materials you collect are also very ordinary, later, if you have the opportunity to go deep into the Origin Disaster, the resources collected in those more dangerous places will be more valuable. If you have the opportunity to encounter Black Hole Mountain in the Phoenix Eye, remember to collect a piece of Origin Matter for me. The value of Origin Matter is very high, I can exchange it for any materials you want.” You Can said.

“Okay,” Yu Hong replied, although the other party's values and worldviews were completely different from his, the other party had not shown any malice towards him at the beginning, and had even helped him.

So he couldn't completely turn cold on the other party.

“Okay, finally, settle the bill for my communicator computer.” You Can suddenly said.

“Huh?” Yu Hong was stunned, he thought the other party had given it to him, but soon, he reacted.

“Okay, I have some things here, pick one.”

A computer that can communicate over long distances in the Origin Disaster, it goes without saying that it is definitely precious. So he opened it up for the other party to choose.

“I have all those things of yours, there's really nothing I like.” You Can said frankly.

“Then what do we do? Put it on credit and give it next time?” Yu Hong was also helpless.

“That won't do, whether we can meet again next time is a problem. Being able to communicate doesn't mean we can meet again. It must be settled this time.” You Can said seriously.

He thought for a moment.

“Like this, the only things I like there are that Sword Spirit and that Nature God, you give them to me, and the transaction is complete.”

Yu Hong was stunned.

The Sword Spirit was obviously Chi Xiao, and the Nature God was definitely the Goddess Feisina who had just boarded the ship.

Feisina was okay, giving her away was fine, but Chi Xiao was Ku Chan's thing, although it was useless, it was also Ku Chan's partner! Impossible to trade.

What's more, he had just said that he wouldn't accept using people as a trade.

“One of them is a Sword Spirit, and the other is just a Nature God, they aren't our kind, is that okay with you?” You Can further reminded.

Obviously, he really took Yu Hong's words to heart. Seeming to be taking good care of him.

Yu Hong was silent for a moment.

“Sorry.” Although he wasn't a saint, he still couldn't bring himself to do such a cruel thing.

“...” There was no sound from the Scarlet Cloud.

Obviously, Yu Hong's repeated refusals had already made You Can dissatisfied.

This kind of silent pressure made the Goddess Feisina and Chi Xiao next to him shudder involuntarily.

The two stared at Yu Hong, fearing that he would blurt out an agreement to exchange.

After a long while, the Scarlet Cloud transmitted sound again.

“Thousands of years... I, You Can, have lived for so long, and it's the first time I've met such a difficult guy.” The enthusiasm in his tone also cooled down.

“Since there is nothing to trade, then return my things, we'll trade next time if we have the opportunity.”

“Don't spout such nonsense!” You Can was furious. “I'll ask you one more time, will you return the thing or not?”

“Like this, I have another ability, you should need it.” Yu Hong suddenly thought of another point.

“I can temporarily enhance the physical qualities of any living thing many times over. If you need it, you can use this as a condition for the transaction.”

“Is it the radiation energy of the Light Disaster on your ship? I need strong human materials to use as Human Pills for cultivation! You're giving me Origin Disaster-enhanced people to use? Are you trying to kill me!?” You Can was finally enraged.

“I really didn't know there would be a problem!” Yu Hong frowned and quickly explained.

“Return the thing, now!” You Can roared.

Yu Hong was helpless, he could only fold the laptop, wrap it in internal energy, open the door, and throw it out.

The laptop rotated and flew towards the Scarlet Cloud ship, and before it was even halfway there, it disappeared with a 'chi' sound, as if teleporting, and appeared at an entrance on the side of the Scarlet Cloud.

“Now, immediately, get out of my sight!” You Can's mental power penetrated the Blackspirit, and he roared.

“I...” Yu Hong wanted to say something.

Suddenly, a thirty-meter-long ice spear suddenly appeared in front of the Scarlet Cloud.

The tip of the spear flickered with colorful halos, and the surface shone with golden runes like plating.

“Get out!!”

Chi!!

In an instant, the spear burst out, instantly appearing not far in front of the Blackspirit, directly hitting the Blackspirit's external formation.

Boom!

With a loud noise.

The terrifying force slammed the entire safe house, causing it to rumble and shake violently.

The formation on the surface of the safe house wailed for a while, and it looked like it was about to collapse.

Yu Hong's expression sank, and his Tai Ling Gong permeated outwards, instantly forming a small ball of red-purple vortex, blocking the tip of the ice spear.

Buzz!

The two huge forces clashed violently.

One second later.

The two forces exploded at the same time.

Red-purple and white-gold halos burst out and spread out in a chaotic manner. Exploding with a huge thrust, throwing the safe house far away, flying towards the depths of the unknown wind disaster.

“Pure brute force is actually a bit stronger than me...” Yu Hong's expression changed slightly, he had only just broken through the seventh level of Tai Ling Gong, and he had actually encountered an opponent similar to him.

This was too coincidental.

In the instant of the fight just now, he didn't use too much power at the beginning, and when he later realized something was wrong, he quickly increased his full power, only to find that the other party, like him, was also increasing his power later.

So a simple attack like a venting turned into a small test of strength between the two sides at a long distance.

The result was that the other party's brute force was amazing, but his internal energy was more powerful.

If they really fought, it would depend on other comprehensive factors.

“Next time, next time I'll have a good fight with him, being so irritable at every turn, that's not good.”

At this time, he continued to release internal energy, stabilizing the Blackspirit, and then checked the surrounding environment.

The ship was in a shallow-colored wind disaster torrent, the colors here were much lighter than before.

One by one, colored vortexes of various sizes constantly appeared and disappeared in front.

Obviously, he was about to enter the next world at any time.

Yu Hong immediately calmed down, covered the Blackspirit, and naturally rushed into a vortex and disappeared.

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Inside the Scarlet Cloud.

A five-meter-tall bald giant, wearing snow-white heavy ice armor, was sitting on a throne condensed from ice, his blue eyes filled with deep anger.

“Blackspirit. Captain Yu, I've remembered you!”

You Can roared in a low voice and raised his right hand.

His arm was wrapped with a strange red-purple semi-transparent energy body.

The energy body was like a ribbon, tightly wrapped around him, corroding his body, no matter how he used the power of ice to remove it, it was useless.

“Undying Realm...! Old guy, I misjudged you!! Good, good... Next time, you wait, I'll ask my grandfather to take action, I'll definitely let you know that Undying is not something you can do whatever you want with!!”

Crack.

In a crisp sound, fine cracks began to appear on You Can's arm.

The place where the Tai Ling Gong was wrapped had begun to turn red and purple further.

The great pain made him unable to help but howl loudly.

“Quick! Go back to the clan quickly!!”

The surrounding crew members looked at each other and quickly turned the ship, quickly sailing in the direction away from the wind disaster.