"Pure Yin spiritual energy!" someone suddenly shouted.
These words caused an uproar in the cabin!
There are many kinds of spiritual energy in the world, and the more extreme the attribute of the spiritual energy, the rarer it is. The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are the most common, followed by wind, thunder, and ice, while the rarest are the yin and yang elements.
The reason why Yin and Yang spiritual energy is so rare is that its birth conditions are extremely demanding in terms of timing and terrain. If they are even slightly off, they will evolve into spiritual energy of other attributes, or even vanish into thin air.
Following the simple principle that the rarer the treasure, the more precious it is, special regions that nurture yin and yang spiritual energy often also hide equally precious treasures.
As the Dafu gradually moved forward, the pure Yin spiritual energy in the surrounding environment became increasingly concentrated, and the dark blue flames became more and more dense.
In the helm of the Dafu, Hailan'er had already stopped trying to capture the light flame, staring ahead in shock. Beside her, Li Mu, who had been trying to look cool, also had his mouth slightly agape, looking somewhat pale.
Through the glass window, against a dark background, an endless, deep blue "ocean" slowly appeared before the three of them.
Countless eerie blue flames rose from the ocean and drifted and undulated freely in the water.
Beneath this ocean, as far as the eye can see, mountains of white bones, countless corpses and skeletons of creatures piled up and stretched to the horizon, finally disappearing into the darkness.
The Dafu "sailed" on this ocean of white bones, as if it had inadvertently stumbled into a strange and mysterious foreign land, mysterious, deathly silent, yet incomparably magnificent.
After a long silence, Hailan'er broke the silence, her expression terrified, and stammered, "What...what is this?!"
Hai Dafu pondered for a moment, then said solemnly, "This is probably the legendary ocean graveyard. We've hit the jackpot this time!"
Li Mu sensed his hesitation and immediately replied, "Boss, the pure Yin spiritual energy here is so abundant, there must be a pure Yin spiritual vein nearby. Our chance to make a fortune has arrived, we can't afford to miss it!"
Hai Dafu nodded slightly, "Don't worry, it would be a shame to fail to acquire talent! Now that we've come to this treasure land, we certainly can't leave empty-handed."
Moments later, the spirit whale let out its last mournful cry before its massive body completely lost its life force, and its corpse sank into the deep blue "ocean" below.
Seeing this, Hai Dafu's face lit up with joy. He immediately changed the formation and drove the Dafu to the surface.
Bang bang!
As the treasure ship rose to the surface, the whaling rope quickly tightened, dragging the massive whale carcass slowly towards the sea.
Halfway up the boat, Hailan suddenly slapped her father's arm, pointed to the edge of the window, and exclaimed in surprise, "Dad, look!"
Huh!
Hai Dafu looked over in response and suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
A dozen miles away, a vast shadow suddenly appeared, illuminated by the dim, eerie blue light.
This shadow was roughly cylindrical, about a mile in diameter, and thickened as you went down.
Hai Dafu was curious, so he drove the Dafu ship there.
As they drew closer, the shadow revealed its true form: a massive, towering, greyish-white coral reef. It had grown from the seabed thousands of feet deep, accumulating over countless millennia to reach its current size.
As Li Mu slowly approached the coral reef, he clearly sensed that the pure Yin spiritual energy was becoming more concentrated.
He was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Boss, can you feel it? This coral reef is most likely a Spirit-Accumulating Coral! The spiritual vein must be beneath it."
Hai Dafu was taken aback upon hearing this, but after a moment's thought, he burst into laughter and exclaimed, "It really is Ji Lingshan! It's like finding a needle in a haystack!"
The spirit tree, also known as the finger spirit tree, is naturally fond of spirits, and wherever it grows, there must be a spiritual vein present.
After millions of years of growth, the coral reefs broke through the sea surface to form small coral islands, which eventually evolved into spirit islands.
Many of the spirit islands in the Shattered Star Sea originated from this.
Hailan'er was also very excited, if this coral reef had broken through the sea surface and grown into an island.
That means the Hai family possesses a spirit island, and a rare pure Yin spirit island at that.
With the Spirit Island, the Hai family had a foundation to establish itself.
Thinking of the bright future, Hailan'er couldn't help but feel excited.
Fifteen minutes later, the Dafu suddenly broke through the seawater, and the huge hull surfaced.
As soon as the treasure ship surfaced, Zhao Sheng and the others couldn't wait to escape from the cabin and run to the deck to breathe in the fresh air.
After everyone calmed down, Hai Dafu directed them to begin retrieving the whale's carcass.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The seawater around the Dafu was blood-red, attracting wave after wave of marine predators such as sharks, only to be mercilessly slaughtered by the cultivators.
After three days and three nights of dismemberment, only a massive skeleton of the Spirit Whale remained, nestled close to the Great Fortune.
Not only were everyone's storage bags filled, but even the ship's warehouses were filled with spirit whale meat and spirit fat.
In the Shattered Star Sea, spirit whale meat is a highly prized ingredient rich in spiritual energy, making it very popular among Qi Refining cultivators. Spirit fat, on the other hand, has an even wider range of uses; it can be used as an auxiliary material for alchemy and weapon crafting, and is an indispensable ingredient in the production of special fire thunderbolts.
A single whale is a tremendous fortune.
If it were in the past, everyone on the Dafu ship would have been overjoyed.
But at this moment, there was no joyful atmosphere on the ship; instead, it felt very dull.
In the captain's cabin, Hai Dafu, Hai Lan'er, Li Mu, and Chen Lao Er sat together.
Hai Dafu stroked his red beard and asked with a serious expression, "Which one is it?"
Li Mu said in a gloomy tone, "Four of them. Skinny Monkey just jumped into the sea too!"
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Lao Er burst out cursing, "Damn it! What happened? He was perfectly fine yesterday, how come he suddenly jumped into the sea and committed suicide today?"
Everyone was supposed to get rich, and yesterday they were all smiles and looking forward to the future.
But the next day, the man silently plunged into the sea and committed suicide.
A cultivator would commit suicide without warning, and choose to suffocate to death.
This is a complete joke!
But when jokes happen again and again, anyone would feel a chill run down their spine.
Hailan'er was the most timid. She tugged at Hai Dafu's sleeve in fear and said in alarm, "Father, let's go quickly! This place is ominous. It will be too late if we don't leave now."
Hai Dafu hesitated. There was an unknown treasure hidden beneath this sea. If he left now, he might not be able to find it again.
Li Mu suggested, "Boss, this place seems very strange. Why don't we leave this area for now and see how things go?"
Remembering Xiaotian's instructions before we left, Chen Lao Er chimed in, "Captain, there's a graveyard of the sea beneath this stretch of water. I think the deaths of Skinny Monkey and the others are definitely related to it. We'd better leave first."
"In that case, let's—"