Divine Brilliance

After firing 800 energy destroying crossbows for close to 2 hours, they slowly calm to a halt. Those cannon barrels crafted from expensive spiritual metal were all blistering hot red. Even Gu Liekong had purposely lowered the rate of firing after the peak of the beast flood. However all things added together, they had consumed 50 thousand grade 6 crystals in total!

Pretty much using up all the grade 6 crystals that they had obtained from the beast tomb. They even had to use up 200 odd grade 7 beast crystals before they managed to survive.

However, the results of the battle were great. The beast wave that was surging aggressively had calmed down, the canyon was filled with the corpses of beasts.

Most of the beasts were directly smashed into dust by the energy destroying crossbows, However, there were still many who were left.

The 1800 cloud ships under Zong Shou were all perfectly fine. When they crossed out from within the canyon they only felt that a bloody stench pierced their noses and the deathly energy was much thicker. There were threads of cold Ying energy which made their bodies feel cold.

Zong Shou was still standing on the deck, his face filled with extreme pain. It was indeed worthy of being heart pained. Close to 50 thousand grade 6 beast crystals were consumed. Which was about 500 grade 7, 5 million grade 4 beast crystals?

Just to plot against those 4 thousand cloud ships whose values were much lower, it was indeed totally not worth it.

Chai Yuan’s son Chai Zhou didn’t understand, persuading at the side, “The ruler doesn’t need to be like this! To get away peacefully, we had to consume such amounts. Our Gantian Mountain has still earned this time. Although the beast corpses here are damaged, the beast crystals on beasts grade 4 and above are all strong and aren’t easy to be destroyed. If we clean it carefully we can gather up around 3 million of them. We will still make profits.”

Zhao Yanran and Xuan Yunlan at the side were speechless. As for Gu Liekong, Zhu Junhou and Ling Fakong, they looked towards Chai Zhou with empathy in their eyes.

What an innocent kid. He was still kept in the dark even now. Didn’t he notice that the eyes of the ruler were laughing?

Although Hu Zhongyuan didn’t know the exact situation, it wasn’t that his intellect is better than Chai Yuan. But because he knew Zong Shou’s personality well and he was just faking it. There was no pain in the rulers face…

“This time, it is because of my greed which caused your highness to use up so many resources.”

Jing Tao Zhenren sighed, his white brows furrowing, “Unfortunately my position in the sect is too low. If not I would compensate your highness for your losses. This time, I feel guilty. How about this, count it as I Jing Tao owe you a favor?”

Zong Shou’s heart jumped when he heard it, knowing that his acting had gone overboard. He profiting from it and still wanting more. That was the type that was hated by all. He waved his sleeves and smiled, “Zhenren doesn’t need to do that! I should thank you. If it wasn’t for that cloud shocking illusionary token how would I be able to get the inheritance of that senior? Just this heaven and earth-bag is enough to make up for the losses this time. It’s more than enough!”

Jing Tao nodded slightly, liking Zong Shou more and more.

Thinking about before about what that Long Ruo said, he couldn’t help but laugh. His highness is so magnanimous and intelligent. How is he as bad as what that Long Ruo said?

It was said that his highness wanted to join Lingyun Sect several months earlier but Long Ruo rejected him. It seems like he has a deep bias against him.

Just as he was thinking about it, the black fog in front was illuminated by those balls of light.

Then numerous ship wreckages appeared in front of all their eyes. Looking out it was densely packed, no one knew how many there were, blocking up the entire entrance to the canyon.

Thus the entire fleet, 1800 cloud ships went silent. In just a moment there was a total commotion.

“I recognize that. It’s the cloud flag of Taoyun City. Those ships, they are from those 3 cities. Weren’t they already ditched by us? How did they appear here?”

“How pitiful, there should be around 3 thousand ships destroyed? Did they all get crushed here?”

“Isn’t that the flagship of Yue Guanyun? The seven-tooth giant ship that cost 80 thousand grade 7 beast crystals to craft was destroyed just like that?”

Hu Zhongyuan and Chai Zhou were silent. No matter how slow they were, they slowly understood what had happened now.

The reason why the cloud ships from these 3 cities were all destroyed here probably had something to do with Zong Shou.

Zong Yuan had a smile at the corner of his lips. He wasn’t the first out of all of them to notice but he wasn’t the last.

Jing Tao Zhenren’s face turned green and white. His heart bumped, instantly numerous pictures flashed across his mind and formed a picture.

All of a sudden he didn’t know what to do. He also wasn’t sure whether or not he had fallen for a plot.

It wasn’t much if Zong Shou schemed against him. He had been through numerous storms and the things in front of him wasn’t much and he could accept this hit.

The key was that from today on the situation in the west of Donglin had lost balance!

They had obtained an entire beast tomb whilst the fleet from those 3 cities were pretty much all destroyed. Millions of elite soldiers were lost. The situation in the west of Donglin was going to instantly change.

This responsibility was not something that he could handle.

Zong Shou looked below silently. After a long while, seeing Jin Tao Zhenren slowly come back to his senses, he asked with fear on his face, “Zhenren, this should be the fleet from Taoyun City. What should we do?”

Jing Tao Zhenren’s throat was blocked up by a depressing feeling. He pretty much wanted to scold Zong Shou. Looking at the cloud ships below, 60% of them were destroyed by the beasts whilst 40% were actually from the energy destroying crossbows! They were your biggest enemies, so what should you do, Zong Shou?

However just as he was about to scold out, he forcefully suppressed it. So what if he scolded out? The order was given by him. He even said that he would take up responsibility. Zong Shou did remind him before the matter and he was even the one who recommended to enter to look for that corpse harboring pinnacle sword grass. No matter what, it had nothing to do with Zong Shou.

Furthermore, he had indeed obtained a large number of benefits from the whole thing.

He couldn’t help but take in a deep breath, Jing Tao Zhenren’s face was expressionless, “The matter today has nothing to do with City Lord Zong. Looking at the situation, all the beasts and evil spirits within 200 miles of this beast tomb have been wiped out. The essence of Hailing Plains has been lost here. Probably in a hundred years, there won’t be any beast or evil spirit here that could get to grade 7. City Lord has done a great deed this time! As for the fleets of those 3 cities, they can’t blame you. During the war, it is unavoidable to have unexpected casualties. If someone asks about it in the future, Jing Tao will speak for the city lord…”

Zong Shou smiled. What he waited for was this word from Jing Tao. However looking at the old man’s desolate expression, he couldn’t help but feel sorrowful.

This person’s personality was not bad. He was just unfortunate to be sent by Long Ruo onto his ship.

The feeling of bullying an old honest person didn’t feel good. He felt like he was just a bad person.

After he said those words, Jing Tao Zhenren had no more face to continue to stay on the deck. He waved his sleeves and left, stepping into the cabin.

Zhao Yanran finally burst out laughing, looking at Zong Shou with a weird expression, “You seem to be pitying him? I don’t understand your personality. He was greedy and asked for it. How can he blame others?”

Zong Shou shook his head slightly and knew that Zhao Yanran was already using that spiritual seed to peek into his mind.

As for what he was thinking, naturally, she wouldn’t know. However, she knew about his rough mood.

He was lazy to bother about her, directly saying towards Zhu Junhou and Gu Liekong, “Let the people clean up the canyon. Check if those 3 people are dead yet?”

Both of them bowed, acknowledging the order. Then the entire fleet was like a bunch of worker bees, getting back to work.

Blood flowed like a river in this place, the fishy stench surged into their noses. However, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in charge of cleaning up all had high morale and were all pumped up, all of them were willing. Especially Hu Zhongyuan and the others who were all excited and pumped up.

At this moment, even a blind person would know that those 3 cities were badly hurt this time.

Losing 2 million elite soldiers, who knows how much compensation they had to pay to them. The lost of combat power was also something that needed several years to make up for.

And also those 4 thousand cloud ships were the treasures of those cities. After losing them, they needed to rebuild them once more. That would at least take months or even half a year. It meant that these 3 cities along with their subordinate cities wouldn’t be able to hunt beneath the cloud ocean within a year. Taoyun City, who focused on cloud ocean trading was still okay. As for Blazing Flame and Yunxia Cities, they would be unable to recover within a year.

People would lose confidence and those losses are impossible to be measured.

Before this, they thought that Zong Shou came here only for the beast tombs. However, they didn’t think that Zong Shou’s true goal was actually to plot against the 4 thousand cloud ships that followed behind!

The bad situation that Gantian Mountain City was facing was turned around within a night.

Instead, it was these 3 cities that needed to be fearful against Gantian Mountain City!

Those bottom level soldiers who were clueless were still okay. As for the generals of the higher levels, anyone who could see through a bit of the situation looked towards Zong Shou, their gazes filled with huge amounts of worship.

…With such a great ruler, Gantian Mountain would be able to rise once more! No! Now, the strength of Gantian was no weaker than when Zong Weiran was alive.

Those city lords who followed along were all absent-minded like they were in dreamland.

They rushed over this time determined to live and die together with Gantian Mountain. They felt that it would be good enough if they could have some gains such that they could continue to survive.

Who knew that those 3 cities who were so aggressive and strong would end up like this? On the contrary, it was they who returned with all the spoils.

This newly appointed monster king who was just a little older than 14 had the Midas touch.

With the 3 powers, 4 thousand cloud ships suffering a disastrous defeat, once this spreads out, even the entire situation of Donglin Cloud Continent was going to change!