Chapter 103: 【Myriad Transformations XX Palace】
A huge light screen suddenly appeared, and after only a few seconds of silence, it was immediately filled with a barrage of comments:
“Everyone, don’t panic, the Six-Clawed Black Serpent isn’t as strong as we thought!”
“Indeed, there’s a reason why the warship was sunk this time.”
“The Floréal-class frigate of France is a second-class frigate, positioned for long-range patrol and economic zone enforcement. Its armament is only for pirates, smugglers, and other low-intensity threats, and it’s not suitable for high-intensity combat.”
“For economic reasons, the Floréal-class frigate is built to merchant ship standards, with only a few parts that meet military regulations. It’s not a real warship, and it’s also equipped with lightweight weapons. Whether it’s the main gun or the two machine guns, they’re all for dealing with sea targets. It has no anti-submarine capabilities, making it difficult to deal with underwater targets.”
“The Exocet anti-ship missile equipped by the Floréal-class frigate is useless against the Six-Clawed Black Serpent. This missile is designed to target surface warships and can only strike enemies exposed on the water’s surface. Not to mention that the Six-Clawed Black Serpent spends most of its time underwater, even if it surfaces, the active radar seeker of this anti-ship missile uses the metal structure of the enemy ship to lock onto the target, and it can’t lock onto a creature like the Six-Clawed Black Serpent at all.”
“In the end, the frigate was too arrogant this time. It should have waited for other support to arrive before launching a siege against the Six-Clawed Black Serpent. Otherwise, with just one surface warship, if the Six-Clawed Black Serpent dives underwater, it wouldn’t be able to chase it.”
“Who would have thought that the first wave of shots from the naval gun wouldn’t be able to take it down? That’s a 100mm caliber naval gun.”
“Naval guns aren’t omnipotent either. Although the caliber is large, the barrier effect of the water is greater after it enters the water. The kinetic energy of the armor-piercing shells decays rapidly, making it difficult to cause much damage. If it’s loaded with high-explosive shells, it will explode when it first hits the water surface, and it will also be difficult to hurt the Six-Clawed Black Serpent underwater.”
“Now that I think about it carefully, the Six-Clawed Black Serpent isn’t as strong as we imagined, because it was also injured in the first wave of naval gun fire. It can be seen that although its scales are strong, they also have their limits. If it had released a torpedo when it charged towards the frigate, it should have blown it up directly.”
“There’s no way, who let the Floréal-class not have torpedoes?”
“Actually, I’m still not optimistic about whether warships can kill the Six-Clawed Black Serpent. The main reason is that this thing’s skills are very outrageous. It’s okay to freeze the sea surface and defend against machine guns, but later it was able to stick near the warship and use freezing to hinder the warship’s progress, thereby launching an attack. Think about it, whose warship can let it get so close and mess around? Not to mention the ice spikes later, which shows that this guy also has long-range attack capabilities.”
“Send a few submarines over there, can’t they win against it in underwater combat?”
“The Floréal-class was sunk, and it’s probably hard to find it now.”
“If Qi God had a way, that would be great.”
“Even if he had a way, he wouldn’t know we need it.”
……
This was the first time that not many people were talking about Qi Xuan during the live broadcast. The main reason was that the impact of this incident on the netizens was too great. They were full of confidence beforehand, and they were still planning what to do with the corpse after killing it. Who would have thought that the Six-Clawed Black Serpent would reverse the situation in the blink of an eye? This simply slapped everyone in the face.
The shock was undeniable.
The impression was undeniable.
But no matter how much attention they paid, it was useless.
The Floréal-class was sunk, and the television broadcast was also cut off. There were no other warships near the target waters for the time being. It was estimated that it would be difficult to find the Six-Clawed Black Serpent in a short period of time.
After discussing for a while, the netizens gradually focused their attention on Qi Xuan in the light screen.
It could be seen that Qi Xuan was very quiet today, and Sunday was also very quiet.
The man and the pig didn’t continue to explore forward, nor did they fight with any ferocious beasts. They just stood quietly in front of a pile of campfire… roasting meat.
To be precise, it was roasting Dragon Meat.
What was being roasted was the Golden-Eyed Winged Dragon that was shot and killed in the live broadcast last night.
The campfire crackled, and the Dragon Meat, marinated overnight, was roasted until it sizzled with oil. It made a group of people feel hungry in the morning.
While roasting, Qi Xuan suddenly took out a bucket of Silver-Winged Wasp Honey, used a brush to dip in the honey, and began to apply it to the surface of the roasted meat.
Seeing this scene, the netizens who had just experienced the auction couldn’t hold back:
“Damn! Is Silver-Winged Wasp Honey meant to be wasted like this?!”
“What a sin!! Who the hell told you to use honey to brush the roasted meat?!”
“Although I understand that brushing the roasted meat with honey can neutralize the greasiness, lock in moisture and oil, and also add color and shine… but can you use ordinary honey?!”
“Do you know that high temperatures will destroy the activity of honey?! Ten milliliters can be sold for three hundred million, how many billions will you waste after brushing it? How can you brush it?!”
“Please, don’t throw away the brush after brushing it, okay? Let me lick it, okay? I’m willing to do anything.”
……
The netizens were envious, jealous, and hateful, and they were almost red-eyed.
But no matter how they were frantic, Qi Xuan still brushed the honey unhurriedly, and at the same time, he smiled and said to the camera:
“Look, the Dragon Meat looks really beautiful after being brushed with this honey, and it smells very fragrant. If you also hunt a Golden-Eyed Winged Dragon in the future, remember to brush it with Silver-Winged Wasp Honey when roasting it. The taste will definitely be very good.”
In the face of his suggestion, a dense stream of profanity from different language families floated across the screen.
At this moment, netizens from all over the world, regardless of their country or race, achieved a great unity in their ideas.
The morning’s live broadcast was spent easily in repeated roasting of meat and casual chats, and occasionally taught some Ancient Seal Script.
But soon after the live broadcast ended, new shocking news came again—
A Panama-type bulk carrier was sunk after encountering the Six-Clawed Black Serpent!
A Panama-type bulk carrier is the largest bulk carrier type that can pass through the Panama Canal, with a length of two hundred and forty-seven meters and a tonnage of over sixty thousand tons. It is often used to transport coal, grain, etc., and is an economical ship type for the Pacific Ocean route.
Considering that bulk carriers have a low freeboard and a slow speed, and the ships do not have strong armed forces, they are often targets for pirates. It is not surprising that they were sunk after encountering the Six-Clawed Black Serpent.
But it set another record, which is the largest tonnage ship sunk by the Six-Clawed Black Serpent so far.
As the news of the bulk carrier’s attack spread, more and more information was also dug up.
Connecting the location of the bulk carrier’s attack to the battle location of the Floréal-class frigate in a straight line, and tracing back along the way, except for a very small number of fast ships, the vast majority of civilian ships were all sunk.
Among them, there were even two frigates that were also heading to the Island.
The news spread, and the world was once again shocked.
People were not only shocked by its astonishing destructive power.
They were even more shocked by its wantonness.
It seemed that from the sinking of the Floréal-class frigate, it no longer feared ships that were larger than it.
Now, it was even bold enough to directly attack a bulk carrier of tens of thousands of tons!
In addition to the shock, military warships deployed nearby by various countries rushed to the scene of the incident, including the aircraft carrier strike group of the Lighthouse Country’s Third Fleet in the Pacific.
The whole world was watching this battle that was about to break out between humans and ferocious beasts.
Half an hour later, the Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the Lighthouse Country was sunk.
Then, the Mogami-class frigate of the Island Country was damaged, and at the same time, it launched a close-in defense missile to injure it.
Finally, the Kilo-class conventional submarine of Big Mao, through multiple torpedo saturation strikes, successfully heavily damaged it, and it was suspected to be killed.
As for why the kill was not confirmed, because the Six-Clawed Black Serpent quickly dived after the attack, leaving the sonar detection range, and far exceeding the diving depth of the submarine.
Unable to track, and unable to determine if it was alive.
Other warships that arrived later continued to deploy unmanned deep-sea submersibles and autonomous underwater vehicles and other equipment to the sea area in an attempt to track the Six-Clawed Black Serpent.
But because too much time had passed, there were no more discoveries for the time being.
The life and death of the Six-Clawed Black Serpent became a mystery, and this also became a lingering shadow in everyone’s heart.
In the afternoon, as soon as the live broadcast room opened, the netizens fiercely swiped the barrage:
“If it’s really killed, that’s fine, and it’s acceptable if it’s still alive, but what’s the deal with not being sure? Couldn’t they have fired a few more torpedoes at the time?”
“I won’t say that the Kilo-class’s six torpedo tubes only have two that support the launch of anti-submarine torpedoes, just the loading of the torpedoes after launch also takes time, it’s not like you have a thought, and the torpedoes will biubiu launch themselves.”
“In fact, the Kilo-class’s ability to heavily damage the Six-Clawed Black Serpent is already an unexpected result. After all, it doesn’t carry heavy torpedoes, and the warhead is only 205 kilograms in equivalent, and the attack depth can only reach four hundred meters underwater. Not to mention the mythical creature like the Six-Clawed Black Serpent, even if you deal with an ordinary sperm whale, you may not be able to blow it up on the spot.”
“Indeed, the Six-Clawed Black Serpent is completely different from ordinary ferocious beasts. Not to mention its thick scales, its freezing ability and the ice spikes it launches remotely are both quite threatening, and can even be used as defensive weapons. When it encountered the attack of the Mogami-class close-in defense missile, it relied on freezing the seawater to detonate the missile in advance, greatly reducing the damage.”
“The Six-Clawed Black Serpent has sunk now, it has wounds on its body, and the water pressure is so great, it should not be able to survive, right?”
“Who knows? After all, this guy is not a ferocious beast in the natural world, and it can’t be judged by common sense. If it dives to five thousand meters and is still jumping around, it’s not impossible.”
“Damn it, a mere Island beast has made various countries look so bad, and they even had the nerve to say they would sweep the Island before.”
“There’s no way, who let this guy dive directly into the Pacific Ocean? The Pacific Ocean is so big, it’s hard to find it, okay? If you let it stay on the Island and not move, it can be bombarded by missiles in minutes, and it will be blown to pieces.”
“What’s the use of saying so much? It has already dived into the sea, and the warships can’t stay nearby every day, and they can’t guard it. If they can’t find its corpse for a day, the Pacific Ocean route will not be peaceful for a day.”
“Is there any way to find it?”
“Currently, various countries have sent a lot of unmanned underwater vehicles, acoustic detectors, and other equipment down, but to be honest, even if all the sea detection equipment is put down, it’s still difficult to track it. After all, the Pacific Ocean is really too big, and the deep sea is originally a strange world to us. As long as it hides in any trench, you can’t find it at all.”
“That’s right, so it’s even more tricky. If we had known this would happen, we should have let the fleets of various countries find a way to surround it, at least to make sure it could be killed before taking action, so that it wouldn’t be like this now, and we would have to be worried every day in the future.”
“If it’s just uncertain whether it’s alive or dead, that’s all, but what I’m most worried about now is that this Six-Clawed Black Serpent might continue to grow. It was only twenty or thirty meters long, and now it’s almost fifty meters. If time drags on, and it grows to five hundred meters or even five thousand meters in the future, I’m afraid that even an aircraft carrier won’t be of any use. That will be a real big problem!”
“What can we do then? Qi God is in the sky and can’t come down, otherwise, relying on his superb martial arts and various methods, maybe even in the sea, he can dive down and have a good fight with it, and at the very least, he can find a way to track it.”
“Don’t mention these things, Qi God doesn’t even know the trouble we’re having here, look how happy he is eating, he’s eating in the morning and still eating in the afternoon.”
“When I talk about this, I can’t hold back. We’re fighting and struggling here, and Qi God is drinking and eating meat on the Floating Continent, only lacking two dancers to dance for him. Comparing the two, it’s really getting more and more angry, who will smash his barbecue grill?”
“Haha, if you really get the chance, do you dare to smash it?”
“Smash first and then beg for mercy, Qi God should spare me.”
……
In the live stream room, Qi Xuan was indeed continuing to roast meat.
There was no way, because the honey-roasted meat was so delicious at first, he couldn’t stop once he took a bite, and he thought he might as well roast it all.
As a result, he found that he still overestimated himself. The man and the pig started eating with gusto, but in the end, they couldn’t eat anymore after eating a little more than half a dragon.
Now, even if Qi Xuan threw a piece of Dragon Meat to Sunday, this silly pig would grunt for a long time before gnawing off a piece of meat skin.
Damn it, useless.
Who said the Giant-Toothed Demon Pig could eat?!
However, Qi Xuan could understand this situation.
After all, it was a Third Rank Golden-Eyed Winged Dragon, and the essence contained in its body was extremely rich. An ordinary person could feel full for several days after eating a small piece the size of a fingernail. In addition, he also used the already high-quality Silver-Winged Wasp Honey to apply it. With the two combined, even if he had 【Refining Essence】 in hand, he almost couldn’t refine it now.
The good news was that after this large amount of food, his body, which had been stagnant, was once again greatly strengthened, and he had now reached the limit of Qi Refining Stage 6, exceeding his own Minor Realm by a whole level, a proper humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Now, even if he encountered a Second Rank Peak Demon Beast, he might not lose to those guys in a pure physical fight.
Seeing that he really couldn’t finish eating, Qi Xuan simply didn’t eat anymore.
He put away the remaining half of the roasted Dragon Meat, using it as dry food for the next period of time. He could always finish it.
Seeing the Dragon Meat disappear, Sunday, who had been grunting and half-dead before, immediately stood up with high spirits.
The man and the pig looked at each other, and they both saw an idea in each other’s eyes—
Eat and drink to digest.
“Giddy up!”
Qi Xuan mounted the pig.
Sunday galloped away.
It was called galloping, but that was in the eyes of ordinary people. For Sunday, this speed could only be considered a walk.
Seeing the man and the pig running freely in the forest, the netizens were all envious:
“This is really the life of my dreams! Riding a horse galloping on the prairie, although it’s not a prairie, and it’s not a horse, but it’s very similar!”
“Others can only ride a small bicycle to take a walk after eating and drinking, but this guy is good, he really treats the pig as a Mercedes.”
“You just say whether Sunday runs fast or not?”
“Fast is definitely fast, one buttock can throw me out and make me half-dead.”
“So if you don’t have enough strength, even if you give you a mount, you can’t ride it.”
“Ah ah ah ah ah! When will Qi God start teaching Martial Arts?! He wouldn’t have forgotten about this, would he?!”
“It’s not considered forgotten, right? Didn’t he teach several hundred Ancient Seal Script today?”
“Don’t mention the Ancient Seal Script, my head hurts when I mention it, I didn’t have such a hard time when I learned English back then.”
“Come on, those foreigners are the ones who are having a hard time. Most of the Ancient Seal Script can correspond to Chinese Characters one by one, and the word order and intonation are also easy to understand. It’s the turn of those foreigners, get ready to pass the three tests.”
“By the way, have you noticed the information revealed in the words taught today?”
“What information? I was busy paying attention to the war between the warships and beasts today, and I didn’t have time to watch.”
“It’s the Heavenly Palace plaque. According to today’s words, three of the five words on the plaque have been put together, and what’s written on the plaque should be 【Myriad Transformations XX Palace】.”
“What does 【Myriad Transformations】 mean?”
“I’m not sure. There are many professors of linguistics on the internet who have given corresponding speculations. The words 【Myriad Transformations】 may be a code name, a title, or an adjective, or even the name of some Martial Arts. The specific meaning depends on what the two missing words in the middle are.”
“But even if we know, it seems useless, right? We can’t get in, and we don’t even know where the Heavenly Palace is.”
“At least we can increase our understanding of the Heavenly Palace. Maybe with Qi God’s subsequent exploration on the Floating Continent, he will discover a lot of information related to the Heavenly Palace. I always feel that the Heavenly Palace is the core of the entire Floating Continent, and its existence is closely related to the Floating Continent, including the Sun Collapse last time, which also caused it to undergo great changes. What if we think about it in reverse?”
“You mean, the Heavenly Palace needs to expand at a certain point in time, and it needs to manifest itself outside, so the sun of the Floating Continent will collapse?”
“This is just a speculation currently given by the academic world. It doesn’t rule out the possibility. Therefore, the research on the Heavenly Palace is of paramount importance. Even just a few words on the plaque are enough for us to ponder for a long time.”
“It’s coming soon, it’s coming soon. Judging from Qi God’s teaching progress, it should be in the next few days at most, and we should know what the whole plaque says.”
“I hope this can play a certain role in helping us decipher the secrets of the Heavenly Palace—!”
“—!!”
……
Almost at the moment when the netizens’ thoughts were interrupted, a beam of icy blue light suddenly burst out, flashed in front of them, and filled the entire light screen.
At this moment, everyone only felt a chill all over their bodies.
They inexplicably remembered the scene of the helicopter being shot down by the Six-Clawed Black Serpent.
It was the same at the time, the strong blue light suddenly magnified in front of their eyes, all the scenes were abruptly interrupted, and then there was nothing.
Now, the same scene was staged again, could it be that…
In the next second, the netizens who were still worried that Qi Xuan would repeat the mistakes of the helicopter immediately found that the light screen lit up again.
Qi Xuan was sitting on Sunday, not only was he not blown up on the spot by the blue light as everyone thought, but he even looked completely unharmed.
Only the expression on his face was cold and rigid, filled with a hidden anger.
Qi Xuan was indeed angry.
Because that attack came extremely abruptly. If it weren’t for the Warning Talisman issuing a warning in time, allowing him to avoid it a moment in advance, he would have been seriously injured just now, and it was even possible that he would have died on the spot.
This was not because his newly strengthened body was not strong enough.
But because the enemy this time was even stronger than he had imagined.
The opponent was not only Third Rank, exceeding him by two Minor Realms, and he was also very unscrupulous, secretly attacking him, who was a little lower in rank. Under normal circumstances, who the hell could stop it?!
Just as he was filled with anger, the opponent who launched the sneak attack slowly revealed its huge figure from the forest.
Seeing the opponent appear, all the netizens on Blue Star who were watching the live broadcast couldn’t help but exclaim.
Because the ferocious beast that was secretly attacking Qi Xuan was also a Six-Clawed Black Serpent!
But unlike the one in the Pacific Ocean, the one in front of him looked only about forty meters long, and its scales were dark green, not light gold. Even the six claws under its belly didn’t look as sharp as the one in the Pacific Ocean, and it couldn’t even tear through armor at will.
And the single horn on its head was also obviously much smaller than the one in the Pacific Ocean, probably only two-thirds the length.
But even so, just its huge size, just the dark blue ice spikes it shot out, and just its cunning sneak attack were enough to prove the difficulty of this Six-Clawed Black Serpent, which was definitely no less than the one in the Pacific Ocean.
Even more so.
After all, Qi Xuan didn’t have powerful weapons like missiles and torpedoes.
A group of netizens were anxious and urged in the light screen:
“Run away! Qi God! You can’t beat this kind of monster at all!”
“Strong in military force, and not stupid, and even masters skills, we can’t fight it head-on!”
“Leave the green hills, and don’t be afraid of running out of firewood. We’ll make preparations and then find it to retaliate, just like we killed the Golden-Eyed Winged Dragon!”
“Yes, it’s not shameful to run now, and Sunday is still running fast, find a narrow mountain path, and you won’t have to worry about getting rid of it!”
“Perform the mountain-piercing like last time, get rid of it first! When you’re safe, then settle the score with it!”
……
Qi Xuan naturally couldn’t see the netizens’ advice, but even if he could see it, he didn’t plan to run.
The outside world had underestimated the degree of hatred this Six-Clawed Black Serpent had for him.
The Demon King Fruit was successfully taken away by him, and this Six-Clawed Black Serpent must have held a grudge against him. That’s why it frantically searched for him after breaking through to the Third Rank, and launched a sneak attack after finding him.
If he ran away today, not to mention whether he could escape.
Even if he escaped, he didn’t know where he would be attacked by ice spikes next time.
It wasn’t every time that he had this kind of good luck.
Being secretly watched by a Third Rank, if he didn’t find a way to solve it, he wouldn’t be able to sleep well tonight.
Qi Xuan slowly took out the spear, which was two meters long and made of the spine of the Golden-Eyed Winged Dragon.
Facing the huge creature that was close at hand, he pointed the spear diagonally and said calmly:
“Come.”
