Sect: Starting with Comprehending Thunder Skill Chapter 1446 - 608: Entering the Boundless Gate, Carrying Out the Mission

"That’s good! I have total confidence in Master Chen’s abilities!"

Li Yunjing responded with a smile, thinking to himself, "The trouble is already staring us in the face, yet you have no clue, I really ’trust’ you a lot."

After the goods were loaded onto the ship, Li Yunjing signaled his people to go into the cabin to guard the cargo and take shifts to rest.

Just as Li Yunjing was stepping into the cabin, he suddenly stopped.

He appeared to casually lean against the cabin door, but his gaze once again turned toward the reef.

"Is Steward Li interested in the ship?"

The old man surnamed Chen suddenly turned around, his bony fingers pressed against the cabin wall, "Would you like this old man to show you around?"

"I’m just curious about the structure of this spiritual boat."

Li Yunjing laughed heartily, "After all these years, I haven’t even bought a single spiritual boat!"

The spiritual boat quickly left the port, with Li Yunjing standing at the stern, watching the docks slowly fade into the distance.

After traveling about a hundred miles, the sea breeze brushed his face, and Li Yunjing squinted his eyes, his gaze still fixed on the location of the reef behind them.

If there wasn’t something bothering him, he really wanted to see what was going on there!

He had a nagging feeling something wasn’t right.

His spiritual sense had never been wrong, so Li Yunjing specifically sent out a "Myriad Li Communication Talisman" to inform Yue Wuya of the situation.

Whatever might be at that reef, with Yue Wuya’s intervention, they surely wouldn’t escape.

"Steward Li seems quite interested in that patch of rocks?"

Master Chen appeared behind him at some point, holding a gourd of wine.

"I heard that rare sea beasts often frequent that area of reefs, I’m thinking of seeing if we can hunt some on the way back."

Li Yunjing laughed.

"What a coincidence."

Master Chen suddenly lowered his voice, "Just yesterday, I received news that a rare ’Thunder Pattern Electric Ray’ has been spotted there."

He spoke while pulling out a piece of blue-glowing scale from his chest, "I picked this up on the reef this morning."

Li Yunjing took the scale, feeling a slight tingling sensation in his fingertips.

This wasn’t just any electric ray scale; it was clearly a crystallization of leftover thunder element magic!

"What a treasure indeed!"

He feigned surprise, "Elder Chen, could you please explain further?"

As they were speaking, the ship suddenly shook violently.

The calm sea unexpectedly began to churn, and the sky was suddenly shrouded in dark clouds.

"Not good! It’s a storm!"

Master Chen’s face changed drastically, and he turned to shout at the crew, "Lower the sails! Activate the water-repelling array! Steer clear of this area!"

But Li Yunjing was staring at the distant sea, his pupils constricting.

That was not a naturally forming storm at all!

Faint blood-colored runes swirled within the clouds, clearly indicating an array stirred up by human hands!

"Everyone, be on guard!"

Li Yunjing shouted abruptly, "Something is wrong with this storm!"

Before he finished speaking, a bolt of blood-colored lightning struck the bow of the ship, igniting an eerie blue flame on the deck.

"Boom!"

Another bolt of blood thunder struck down, shaking the protective barrier violently.

Li Yunjing suddenly sensed something and swiftly turned his head to look beneath the sea.

Dozens of dark shadows were rapidly approaching!

"Prepare for battle!"

Finally noticing something amiss, Master Chen shouted loudly, forming a hand seal, just about to deploy a divine technique, when suddenly the sea surface sparkled with treasure light, forcing seven or eight cultivators in blood robes to surface.

Seeing this, Master Chen gritted his teeth, "It’s the Blood Slaughter Gang’s pirates!"

Before he finished speaking, a blood arrow suddenly shot down from the clouds, aiming straight for Master Chen’s throat!

"Heh heh heh! Master Chen, last time you narrowly escaped. Who would’ve thought, less than half a month later, you’d dare venture out again! You really don’t take our Blood Slaughter Gang seriously!"

A hulking man in blood-red robes laughed wildly, perched amidst the dark clouds.

Master Chen quickly retreated as the blood arrow grazed his nose and embedded itself into the deck, melting a bowl-sized hole through the three-inch thick profound iron planks.

The ship tilted violently, and Master Chen used the momentum to throw out seven "Dragon Trapping Nails," which, upon plunging into the sea, raised a ten-zhang-high wall of water, blocking the nearest pirate’s advance.

"Blood Slaughter Gang Leader, need you be so aggressive?"

Master Chen wiped cold sweat from his brow, and the wine gourd in his hand suddenly shattered, revealing three-inch long penetrating nails within.

He flicked his wrist to shoot out eighteen penetrating nails, each one wrapped in a vicious gust aimed directly at the blood-robed cultivators’ foreheads.

In an instant, the Blood Slaughter Gang’s Foundation Establishment Realm pirates were killed no fewer than eighteen.

"Old Chen, today you won’t escape even with wings!"

A Blood Slaughter Gang leader, the blood-robed man, descended and landed on the main mast of the flagship, waving a command flag to send a blood rain pouring down: "You offended me and still want to live?"

His gaze swept over to Li Yunjing, suddenly sneering, "And you, this ’Wuya Sect’ kid, sorry, it’s just your bad luck!"

"Good! Good! Good!"

Master Chen trembled all over, emitting a chilling laugh, "Since you leave me no choice, then today I’ll fight you to the death! Boys, all hands, slay the pirates!"

"Yes, Master!"

On the spiritual boat, Master Chen’s men, with solemn expressions, all started fighting back against the surrounding pirates’ attacks.

"Everyone from the Acquisition Department, get out here and help fight the pirates! These pirates have no regard for rules; they’re giving us no way out. If we want to survive, we must fight them to the death!"

Li Yunjing called out, pretending to shout.

In truth, he was observing the situation around, looking for a suitable opportunity to make his move.

After all, he was temporarily disguised as a small cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Realm Sixth Heaven.

Such a junior cultivator suddenly making a move and killing a Golden Core Realm tribulation cultivator would require a reasonable explanation.

After Li Yunjing gave the order, the people of the Wuya Sect emerged with pained expressions, forming a battle array.

They had no issues with their new superior, just silently lamenting their bad luck, having just ventured out to sea only to encounter pirates.

And pirates with grudges against Master Chen at that!

It was truly a matter of life and death.

As their superior said, if they didn’t fight back with all their might, they would all die!

After all, it was the Blood Slaughter Gang Leader who said so!