The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"According to the information about civilization and history recorded on the divine stele, the Soul Refining Water is located on this island."

"Brothers! Prepare to land!"

"Hmph, the end of the Dark Artifacts has come!"

A dozen or so bandits, standing atop the giant whale, led by Huozi and Nanfeng, headed straight for the small island ahead.

Huozi leaped up, spun 720 degrees in mid-air, and slapped down hard.

A flaming palm appeared out of thin air and grew as soon as it was exposed to the wind.

Fire Brother was engulfed in flames, which converged on the palm, causing it to grow larger and larger until it transformed into a giant palm tens of meters long.

"Bang!!"

With one slap, a handprint was burned onto the giant whale's head.

"MetalSeadramon! Charge at full speed towards the island ahead and land directly!!"

Nanfeng was taken aback. "How did it become a Steel Seadramon again?"

The giant whale let out a strange cry.

Huozi slapped it again.

"What do you mean, 'stranded'! What are you afraid of! We're not even afraid of self-destruction, and you're afraid of stranding! This whale is so big, can't you have some initiative?!"

Nanfeng was surprised, "You can understand what it says? Besides, if it gets stranded, it can't move no matter how much it tries to move."

Huozi didn't care about any of that.

Using a whale's head as a horse's rear end and the Giant Flame Palm skill as a whip, we march forward with a thud.

Forced by Huozi's tyranny, the giant whale dared not resist and could only rush onto the island, leaving itself stranded on the beach.

The bandits jumped off the giant whale.

"Waaah—"

The giant whale struggled and writhed on the sand.

Huozi said to Nanfeng, "Help it, blow it back into the sea."

Nanfeng was speechless. "You could have just flown us here from the deep water! Now you want me to blow? My wind skill is only of excellent quality, it's not enough to blow us away!"

Huo Zi scratched his head. "Oh right, I can't remember."

Nanfeng, Kujou, Kuzuki, and the other clones: "..."

Forced by Huozi's tyranny, Nanfeng still gave it a try.

After the second job advancement, Nanfeng upgraded from the Calamity Mage class to the Calamity Sorcerer.

Previously, environmental resonance was required to upgrade a class skill to a forbidden spell version. Now, this prerequisite is no longer needed. All of his class skills will automatically upgrade to forbidden spell versions once mastered.

However, if the environment can resonate, the effect will be enhanced, so it is still possible to form a passionate combo with Huozi Ge.

However, his forbidden spell was slightly counterfeit.

True forbidden spell prefix skills are all legendary-level skills—skills with prefixes are all legendary-level skills, such as the ultimate skills, special moves, and finishing moves that appeared before.

Some of Nanfeng's forbidden spells are low-quality skills such as common, good, and excellent, which are advanced through talent.

Therefore, the effect is somewhat discounted, and the extent of the discount depends on the quality of the skill itself.

But even with a discount on the forbidden spell, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse.

"Forbidden Spell: Three Thousand Whispers of Wind!"

A fierce wind suddenly rose from the ground, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound, and blew wildly towards the sea.

The sand on the beach was ripped up ten layers high, and the seawater surged up with huge waves.

"ah!!!"

Apart from Huozi, who was on guard and stood behind Nanfeng, the other dozen or so bandits were caught off guard and were blown into the deep water on the spot.

"You idiot, Nanfeng! Couldn't you at least tell me before you did it?!"

"I'm never going on missions with Brother Huo again!"

"I keep getting lost! I get eaten by a whale! I keep drowning! The game experience is terrible!"

"I can't... glug glug... swim... glug glug..."

The southerly winds increase blue light consumption, thus stirring up even stronger winds.

But the whale only moved one meter toward the sea.

"See! You can't blow it anymore!"

Fire Brother breathed fire from his hands and flew up again. This time, he waved his hands, and two fiery palms appeared in the air.

This is the extra talent he gained after his second transformation into a Flame Martial Grandmaster: Flame Duet Dance.

The effect is that all of his class skills can achieve a dual effect when released.

It's not that the power is doubled, but rather that it's like making a copy, allowing for an extra one.

The only cost is that the copied skill requires half the original mana, like a second cup at half price.

"I'll take the picture!!"

Two heavy slaps landed on the whale's head, leaving two more handprints.

The force of the blow, combined with the power generated by the gale, successfully lifted the giant whale and sent it crashing into the sea.

Nine of the bamboo and nine of the sticks were swimming toward the shore, the one who could swim dragging the one who couldn't, making a very awkward situation.

As a result, when we were almost in the shallow water, a shadow appeared overhead.

A giant whale crashed down.

"Ah!!! Brother Huo, I'm so pretty..."

"Bang!!"

The biggest splash in history.

The giant whale returned to the sea, letting out joyful calls in the water and spouting high columns of water from its nostrils.

Huozi waved goodbye to it from the shore.

"Go! Go Merry! Ride freely on the sea!!"

South Wind: "How did it become the Going Merry again?"

Huozi: "Remember to pick us up after you've eaten, the Soul-Devouring Pearl isn't on this island!!"

Nanfeng: "I knew it..."

Huozi: "Alright, we can go find the Soul Refining Water now."

As the two turned around, they discovered that a group of strange people, numbering probably over a hundred, had appeared on the shore.

These people were barely clothed, only covering their vital parts. They looked roughly like humans, but their heads were enormous, taking up a third of their entire bodies.

She has a small upper body, but her legs are very thick.

This makes the person look like a barbell.

These are the "humans" in the Soul Cultivation Illusion, jokingly referred to by professionals as "barbell people."

These bell-bearers had feathers in their hair, paint on their faces, and wore simple clothes woven from leaves. They carried spears made of wood and stone.

They are the indigenous people of this island, commonly known as the natives.

Not all barbell people are as backward as they are in civilization; they also have countries and societies, but their social structure is similar to that of ancient Earth.

Upon seeing Huozi and Nanfeng turn around, they all knelt down on the ground.

"Gods! Gods have come to our rescue!"

"My lord, please save our Arturk Island!"

"Please! Please! We are willing to sacrifice young girls and beautiful maidens to you!"

Huozi's team has already figured out the situation on this island through the divine stele.

A female spirit cultivator recently descended upon this place. She is using these islanders to practice her skills and has already caused the deaths of many people.

The Soul Refining Water was made by her.

Huozi and his group came to the island to find this soul cultivator.

The islanders witnessed them pushing the giant whale back into the sea and naturally regarded them as gods.

The soul cultivators in this illusion are only strong in abilities related to the soul. In fact, their physical combat strength is at most similar to that of a level 30 first-stage professional with moderate equipment cultivation.

They could destroy the soul of such a huge whale in one move, but even the strongest in this world couldn't push it back into the sea.

Jiu Tong and the others climbed back onto the shore and, seeing this, immediately shouted.

"Don't worry! We are gods descended from heaven to save you! Sacrificing young boys and girls is out of the question, but we might consider beautiful maidens..."

Kujo tapped Kujo's headgear.

"You must be really hungry! How could you bring yourself to eat someone who looks like a barbell?"