Chapter 714 - Greedy Nature!
Chapter 714: Greedy Nature!
They sped along.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at Wu River!
It was already late at night. The cold wind was bone-piercing, and there was no starlight in the sky. However, at that moment, Wu River was filled with countless people. As far as the eye could see, there were people everywhere.
Even Ye Chen could not help but frown, “Why are there so many people?”
“You know nothing about this, do you?”
Luo Shuiyao snappily smiled and said, “Even Shang Santian covet the ghost ship, let alone others. Therefore, every time the ghost ship appears, it will cause the entire world to be shaken, and countless people will rush towards it.”
Ye Chen asked, “Didn’t you say that we can’t board the ship without the netherworld token?”
Just as Luo Shuiyao was about to speak, Xiang Heng, who was at the side, suddenly stretched his hand and pointed into the distance. He cried out in alarm, “Look, it’s a ghost ship!”
Everyone immediately looked in the direction of his finger and saw a huge, ancient merchant ship standing on the river surface. Thick black energy lingered the ancient ship, like iron chains condensed from black gas.
The ship was huge, about two hundred square meters. There were two lanterns hanging on the mast, and the light emitted by the lanterns was so white that it was a little green. The ship was brightly lit, and the doors and windows were wide open.
What greeted their eyes were carved beams, painted pillars and a brothel. It was nicely decorated. There were piles of gold ingots that were dazzlingly bright. It was as extravagant as an ancient emperor’s dragon ship sailing south…
“Gold, there’s a lot of gold on the ship!”
“Hahaha, I’m rich! Don’t you dare fight me for that!”
“…”
Someone stared fixedly at the mountain of gold on the ship. His eyes were filled with greed. Without even thinking, he jumped from the shore to the river and rushed towards the ghost ship.
He was a Martial Dao master!
After him, a few other figures rushed out as well, heading straight for the ghost ship. They were afraid that they would fall behind and the gold would be taken by others.
Greed was human nature!
The person at the forefront finally approached the ghost ship. He could no longer hide the excitement on his face. He suddenly stomped on the ground and jumped up, as if he wanted to jump onto the ship.
However, at that moment, the smile on the man’s face froze, and his eyes bulged like he had seen something scary.
“Ah!”
He cried out in pain as all the flesh on his body exploded. Blood splattered everywhere, and he turned into a skeleton within a blink of an eye. The skeleton suddenly fell into the river.
A Martial Dao master died on the spot!
Whoosh…
The people on the shore were in an uproar. No one could clearly see how that person died. It happened too suddenly and strangely.
Seeing the man’s death, the people behind him were shocked as well. They stopped in their tracks, clearly shocked by the man’s death.
“I refuse to believe that you’re trying to pull a fast one on me!”
One of the old men’s expressions changed several times, then he sneered and instead of retreating, he increased his speed and jumped on the ghost ship.
This person was much more powerful than the previous man. Just as he was about to land on the bow of the ship, a large skeleton hand attacked from behind.
The skeleton hand pierced through his body.
The old man’s body instantly turned into a skeleton, and the culprit who killed him was the skeleton that had first fallen into the river.
Another Martial Dao master died!
The people on the shore were completely silent. Meanwhile, the people who were closest to the ghost ship ran towards the shore, their faces pale.
Even though they knew that the ghost ship was extremely dangerous, many did not expect that in just a few breaths of time, two people would die consecutively!
Although gold was good, one had to be alive to take it!
On a small hill, Xiao Yuanjing witnessed everything with his own eyes. With a cold expression, he said, “They’re courting death!”
Right at this moment, a young man by his side stretched his hand and pointed before him, and he said in a low voice, “Young Master Xiao, they’re here!”
Xiao Yuanjing looked in the direction he was pointing at and saw Luo Shuiyao, Ye Chen, and the rest.
Xiao Yuanjing’s gaze paused on Ye Chen for a few seconds as he said coldly, “I can’t do anything to you in China. I’ll kill you on the ghost ship!”
At the same time, Ye Chen looked over as if he sensed something. Coincidentally, he met Xiao Yuanjing’s gaze. The two of them looked away after they locked eyes. Even so, there was a faint collision of two killing intents.
Luo Shuiyao and the rest followed his gaze and noticed their group as well, “I knew it, they’ve arrived long ago!”
Other than Bai Shaoyu and the rest, Xiao Yuanjing also had a few new faces around him. Those must be people from the other major ancient families.
“Look!”
At that moment, someone shouted.
Everyone discovered that the body of the ghost ship was flashing with red light. The red light was the blood that sprayed on the ship when the two people died.
However, the blood was currently boiling. It disappeared within a blink of an eye as if it had been absorbed by the ship.
“This ship is sucking human blood?”
“Ghost ship, this is really a ghost ship!”
“Curse Power, this is a ship that has been cursed!”
“…”
Countless people were shocked. Even Martial Dao masters could not resist the Curse Power. Judging by that, one could tell just how terrifying this ship was.
‘Curse Power?’
Ye Chen frowned secretly when he saw that.
“Mr. Ye?”
A surprised voice sounded.
Ye Chen lifted his head and looked over. He saw an old man in a Daoist robe walking over quickly with three people behind him.
He asked in surprise, “Why are you here?”
It was Yuan Qitai from Banshan, one of the four tomb raiding sects that he had encountered when he was looking for the Geographical Vein in Shennongjia.
“Mr. Ye, it’s really you!”
Yuan Qitai said excitedly, “I thought you weren’t coming!”
Before this, he had taken the initiative to invite Ye Chen to board the ghost ship with him. However, he was rejected that time. He was disappointed because of that.
He only noticed Luo Shuiyao and the rest next to Ye Chen when he was done talking. He tried to ask, “Oh, Mr. Ye, who are these people?”
Ye Chen smiled lightly, “They’re my friends!”
Yuan Qitai hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to ask something, he suddenly noticed Xiang Heng looking at him with an indifferent expression. His gaze was filled with endless might and disdain.
‘Martial venerable! He’s actually a martial venerable!’
A storm brewed inside of him. He said a few more words to Ye Chen before leading the way.
An old woman behind Yuan Qitai said with a cold smile, “This Mr. Ye and his friends sure are arrogant. How dare they ignore us?!”
“That’s right. Our four tomb raiding sects were once glorious. Who would’ve thought that we would be looked down upon like this?!” Another man in a bamboo hat was extremely furious.
“Watch your words!”
Yuan Qitai’s expression changed. He looked around and said, “Do you know that the people around Mr. Ye are all martial venerables?”
“What? Martial venerables?”
“Doesn’t that mean Mr. Ye…”
The three of them were shocked!
Yuan Qitai heaved a long sigh, “The last time I saw Mr. Ye, he was already a peak master. I can’t believe he became a martial venerable in just half a month. He’s a monster!”
“Not necessarily!”
The old woman from before chuckled and said, “Although the people around him are martial venerables, that doesn’t mean that he’s also one. What if he only followed those martial venerables here?”