It's clearly a crossover game, but the system insists it's a pirate game.

Rats have their ways, and shrimp have theirs.

It might be difficult for others to find the thief Sikong Zhaixing, but for Chu Liuxiang, who is also a master thief, finding him is incredibly easy.

However, although he had found the person, he didn't immediately take Sikong Zhaixing back. Instead, he went to a restaurant, ordered food and drinks, and then, looking at Sikong Zhaixing, recounted the whole story before saying, "How did you manage to provoke such a difficult person?"

Sikong Zhaixing took a sip of wine, but his mouth still tasted bitter: "The brats were carrying gold in the middle of the city. I couldn't help but want to teach them a lesson, but I didn't expect those two to be so troublesome. The strange thing is, whenever I was running away, something unexpected would block my way, forcing me to choose a different direction. Otherwise, how could those two brats catch up with me?"

The King of Thieves was frustrated. The news that he had been chased to the brink of ruin by two greenhorns who were new to the martial arts world had already spread throughout the land. His reputation, built up over many years, was now destroyed in an instant!

Now it's even worse. His reputation and face have been tarnished by the younger one, and now an older one has come along, threatening him with his friend's woman right off the bat, saying he wants to talk to him. But how can that end well?

Can he handle someone who can't even handle an old bedbug?

But he still had to meet this person; he couldn't let that old scoundrel get away with it. If he had a way out, he wouldn't be coming to him.

After finishing their heavy drinking session, the two returned to the ship. Seeing the men Chu Liuxiang had brought, Zhou Ye laughed and said, "Commander Chu, you really know how to time things! Aren't you afraid that if something unexpected happens, I'll kill them all?"

Chu Liuxiang's lips twitched. He didn't believe Zhou Ye was joking with him. That look in his eyes... was definitely murderous!

"Master Zhou..."

"No, I'm not some kind of chivalrous hero, Sikong Zhaixing. I don't blame you for stealing money from my two fools; on the contrary, I should thank you. This has given them some experience in the ways of the world. That little bit of money is nothing to my Zhou family; consider it a lesson learned. But... my Zhou family doesn't want to be taken advantage of, don't you think?"

Sikong Zhaixing sighed and repeated what he had said while drinking to Zhou Ye. Zhou Ye maintained a smile throughout, and only after Sikong Zhaixing finished did he laugh and say, "I don't believe it!"

Chu Liuxiang was about to speak when Zhou Ye silenced him with a single look.

Sikong Zhaixing also got anxious: "I'm not lying, Zhou... Patriarch Zhou, you old stinker, I really am not lying. You don't know, I originally wanted to run west, but every time I was about to shake off the two young masters, something unexpected would happen, forcing me to change direction and end up running south."

"Then tell me, what kind of accidents were they?"

Speaking of this, Sikong Zhaixing's expression changed: "The first time, when I was about to enter a bamboo forest, the bamboo forest suddenly broke in half, as if someone had slashed it. I was so scared that I quickly changed direction. Another time, I had just stolen a horse, but after running for only two hours, the horse's head shot into the sky. I was scared again and could only use my lightness skill to keep running... When the two young masters caught up with me, I even made a special trip back to take a look..."

At this point, Sikong Zhaixing's lips turned white: "That bamboo forest... it's gone. All the strange things I encountered before are gone... the bamboo forest has become flat land, and the horse carcass I buried is also gone..."

"Look, is this how it is?"

Zhou Ye swung his knife at the shore... But what shocked the people on the boat the most was that they didn't see where Zhou Ye pulled the knife from. It wasn't until they saw Zhou Ye put the knife back into his sleeve after swinging it that they had time to look at the shore.

There used to be a small grove of trees, but now that grove is gone. All the trees, regardless of size, have been cut in half.

"Yes! That's it! That's exactly what that bamboo grove looks like!"

Sikong Zhaixing was excited at first, but after a while he shook his head: "No, not all of them are the same. Patriarch Zhou's strike was very loud. I could hear it even from far away."

Zhou Ye's strike was made without any internal force; it was a pure slash using brute force, a sword technique from the One Piece world that the system had rewarded him with.

If the other party doesn't share the same system as you, or is a master who came from the pirate world, then there's only one possibility.

A master who can project sword energy or saber energy!

Such people are not few in the martial arts world, but they are not few either. However, none of them should have any connection with Zhou Ye. If they coveted the Zhou family's wealth, would such a master bother to scheme against them? What they should do is simply take their knives or swords and attack Zhou Ye directly.

Do not!

wrong!

There is another possibility!

organ!

Someone used a mechanism to create this strange noise, then guided Sikong Zhaixing's movements, and then guided Wuque and Xiaoyu's routes. So, it's very likely that the other party wasn't targeting them, but rather... Shenshui Palace?

What's inside the Divine Water Palace?

Aside from the hot-tempered Jellyfish Yin Ji, the most valuable thing should be the Heavenly Divine Water. But when I went with Jellyfish Yin Ji to get the divine water, I didn't hear Jellyfish Yin Ji say that the divine water was missing.

So what was he aiming for?

Seeing Zhou Ye sitting there motionless, Chu Liuxiang was fine; he calmly had the three girls escort him into the cabin. However, Sikong Zhaixing didn't dare to move at all. Although she could see at a glance that Zhou Ye had no true qi, just based on that amazing slash just now, even the King of Thieves didn't dare to run away.

"Alright, that's settled here, I'll be leaving now."

After Zhou Ye finished speaking, he disappeared from the spot. The two thieves, who were famous for their lightness skills, couldn't figure out how he left.

Sikong Zhaixing's body went limp, and she sat down directly on the deck, panting heavily. Chu Liuxiang also sat down, outwardly calm, but inwardly he was panicking.

"Old bug, that guy doesn't have any true energy, does he?"

"Yes."

"Where did that sword energy and that terrifying lightness skill come from?"

"I don't know either……"

"Well, I guess I've passed one hurdle?"

"Yes, you're incredibly lucky to have survived. We should celebrate! Come on, let's drink!"

While they were drinking, a man dressed in black, with only his eyes showing, quietly sneaked into the secret chamber in the Divine Water Palace where the Heavenly Divine Water was stored. After searching around, he was completely dumbfounded!

What about Tianyi Divine Water?

How come there's not a single drop left?

Did someone beat me to it and steal all the holy water?

But if it was stolen, why is the Divine Water Palace so quiet?

In other words, it's because the Water Mother Yin Ji isn't here. If she were, she'd be furious, blaming everyone for not just stealing, but selling everything for two hundred taels of silver...