Only then did the “BANG! ” of a distant gunshot finally echo from afar.
On the train, they watched the figure shooting into the distance step on a bullet, suddenly accelerate again, fire continuously, then flash and push off the bullet beneath their feet to leap forward.
A polyline spread out.
{Everyone, please invest in me. }
Zhao Anlong’s eyes grew steady and determined, a faint smile lifting the corner of his mouth.
“This guy, and he chooses now to ask for that investment… and what’s worse, I can’t not help. “
He immediately dispersed this moment’s financing scene across a wider sea.
{What’s going on. }
{It’s Zhao Anlong again. Hey, who’s that. }
{Wait, what does that beam of light up ahead mean! }
{We’ve just entered the Scroll Sea. They’re on the edge of Mutao Land. }
Boom!
Waves burst along the path on the sea surface.
{Who is the master of this financing scene! This guy… he can sprint in mid-air?! }
Yang Zicang’s figure launched again, his black pupils tinged with a faint, restless orange glow.
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-｛Distributor Mr. Leh increases the price of the glorious prelude I am now nurturing by 1000%.｝
Joshua’s trail of light rapidly closed in view, as if about to tear through the sea, drawn back into a beam—but in the next instant, it shot forward with a whoosh.
That bullet, floating and seemingly suspended in mid-air ahead, was enveloped by the temporal sequence it had itself amplified. Within the trajectory of the ‘Dispatch’, it stalled for barely a few microseconds. Yang Zicang placed his foot upon its surface.
Boom!
It abruptly erupted, unleashing a wave of explosive sound. As it expanded, the figure upon it suddenly descended in a slight arc, carving a breathtaking velocity trail across the vast sea.
{What is that guy doing, chasing the light spot in front?! }
｛Sword Thirteen invested 400,000N for me.｝
｛Lin Xue invested 20,000N for me.｝
｛Time Travelers’ Group invested 150,000N for me.｝
Amidst the chorus of voices, Yang Zicang rapidly closed the distance with Joshua ahead.
Joshua tapped the staff’s base lightly on the Path of Light, seeming somber as he stepped forward.
Ahead, the silhouette of a dilapidated building swiftly emerged. Approaching at high speed, it revealed its formidable form against the seawater, as if dragged in, exposing a mountain-like presence that inspired awe.
In a single step, Joshua and the light trail beneath him entered the other side of the cave within the reef mountain.
The towering mountain and the ancient, crumbling ruins embedded within it emanated a chilling sense of dread.
Everyone, following Yang Zicang’s perspective, saw that streak of light accelerate away across the sea on the other side of the cave. A ferocious gurgling sound came from within the cave, bristling with sharp reefs.
{Be careful, there are sea beasts with high bloodline rings inside. }
Yang Zicang had just approached when suddenly a thunderous roar exploded. Seawater surged, and pebbles rolled down from the structure.
“Woooo——“
The wind of the train’s passage came swiftly.
{Leave this to us, you give chase! }
{Invest for Chairman Yang! }
The voices of the people on the train echoed through the Financing Model.
Several sea monster heads, exuding an aura of terror, emerged from the sea. On their suction cups, sharp fangs, and shells tougher than human weapons, various phantoms lit up, the same kind that radiated only from those with Stellar Yuan and high bloodline.
Voices of mental investments continued to come in.
Yang Zicang had only barely slowed his pace when the train behind him rapidly caught up.
｛The Backgroundless Fire Merchant Group invested 10000 N in me.｝
｛James invested 30000 N in me.｝
Three million Timings had already passed.
Yang Zicang’s heart stirred with a slight flutter.
“White Shadow Mind Dragon!“
The White Shadow Mind Dragon behind him instantly enlarged its body and enveloped him, then broke the sound barrier once more, shooting forward.
Boom!
Just as these monsters turned their bodies, waving their tentacles and clawed limbs like octopi, the illusory train crashed headlong into them.
“Kill!” Zhao Anlong shouted loudly.
The people on the boat, clutching swords and blades, leapt down, and various attacks collided with the creatures lurking within the ruins on this stretch of sea.
……
On the boundless sea, though it was hard to see each other, from a higher perspective, tiny boats were scattered across the deep blue, gem-like surface.
At this moment, many on the boats witnessed this fusion expanding and spreading.
The figure of a man, seemingly running on the seawater, gradually caught the attention of the men and women on the boats as they alerted one another.
“He just charged straight through that ruin which devoured the lives of so many.“
“How can he be that fast?“
On one of the boats, a figure with faint rings of light flickering in their eyes watched the connected scene.
“Boss Wang Xiong, this guy seems to be that newcomer who’s been making a big stir on land lately—the lucky one.“
“To ride the waves of the times and repeatedly stand at the forefront without falling. You don’t seriously think that’s just luck, do you?“
The jacket-clad man beside Wang Xiong thought for a moment, then let out a self-mocking chuckle.
Next to the man, a slender yet sharp-looking woman whispered, “Captain, why is he able to run on the sea?“
Wang Xiong pondered and replied, “He… is stepping on bullets to move forward?“
“What!” The jacket-clad man widened his eyes in shock, refocusing his gaze ahead.
In the frames of the Mental Link, he carefully observed the figure’s surroundings. Finally, after a second or two, he saw that the man on the sea had indeed raised a dark, heavy Mauser pistol again.
Bang!
The moment that bullet left the chamber, it nearly fell behind him. But the next second, they all saw a faintly flickering model fold line gleaming atop it, and then the bullet exploded with a boom, forming a visible sonic boom ring, and zipped forward with a swoosh.
{What is he doing! }
{This guy can accelerate bullets beyond the speed of sound?! }
{Holy shit, that bullet is already ten meters ahead of him… twenty… Why! Hey! What is he doing! }
The glowing bullet surged twenty meters forward. At that very moment, Yang Zicang pushed off the ground with his foot, his body once again breaking through multiple sonic booms with a roar, darting beneath the bullet and stomping down on it.
The bullet suddenly accelerated again.
This timing might be enough to take down one person ahead. But… it’s still not enough.
Not enough to do what was planned!
Ten million—ten million units of timing!
Otherwise… this rare, unrepeatable opportunity created by fate would be wasted!
“Please invest in me. What I need to catch up to are those with a Holy Sword-level investment and high bloodline ring counts! “
{Holy Sword-level investment? }
{No way, Chairman Yang!!! }
He gritted his teeth…
Yang Zicang’s voice spread once again across the sea:
“The owner of the seventh grid cell can, in the investment of a Birth Heroic Flash, simultaneously return… Iridescent Brilliance dividends to all investors who meet the ratio! “
Even if it is deception, I will always find the next chance for you to have a Heroic Flash that births brilliance!
After a second of silence in the model, a commotion roared forth like a mountain shaking the sea.
In an instant, dense and numerous temporal investments flooded into Yang Zicang’s model!
……
Amid the thick fog of the Painted Scroll Sea.
Luca and his group, shivering with their heads down, craned their necks and peeked toward the misty passage opened by the turbulence.
“No… no way… “
“What the hell was that just now? “
“Can’t you see for yourselves! ” A voice came from among them.
Only then did the group, whose ears had just been bombarded by gale winds and sonic booms, get the energy to notice the faint threads spreading and rippling from their chests.
Luca watched the scene in silence, then his mouth trembled more and more violently.
“H-h-he… th-th-th-that… “
One of the people beside him shouted, “Isn’t he that guy from the other ship last time? “
The Crossing Man slapped Luca on the arm beside him.
“We have just a few minutes left. A very bad future is starting to become clear. “
“What? “
“There are now two possibilities. One is that we get swallowed by another demon-like train in four or five minutes. The other is to run away right now! “
“But… ” Luca looked over with confusion. “Now we have no idea where this sea even is—how are we supposed to escape? “
“There’s still a way! “
Taking tense, shallow breaths, the Crossing Person on board said:
“Everyone, prepare to accelerate immediately. I—I want to try and see if I can make another investment like before. “
“What investment? “
No sooner had the words left his mouth than Luca slammed his palm across the man’s face. “A fool like you doesn’t deserve to question Vice Captain Long about anything from now on! “
Luca turned around nervously and grabbed the Crossing Person’s shoulders. “From now on, it’s up to you. You absolutelymustget this ship back safe! “
The Crossing Person nodded heavily, then stumbled to the stern of the broken ship, his eyes staring vacantly yet intently across the surface of the sea.
……
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｛Lin Xiaofeng invested 21920 N in me.｝
｛Wang Sixuan invested 45000 N in me.｝
{This isn’t just exceeding the speed of sound anymore. Look at the trail that sonic boom left in the air—it stretches far in an instant. }
Three million two hundred thousand, three million eight hundred thousand… the timeline…
The train had already been left far behind.
Yang Zicang focused on the light point ahead, one that seemed to draw close before instantly being pulled away into the distance again.
A silhouette in that trail of light seemed to turn its head to look back.
“I see. ” he murmured. “Another new face. “
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-｛Distributor May Valkyrie expressed interest in pre-purchasing the dawn of glory that I am currently nurturing.｝
｛Zhang Yunchang invested 100000 N in me.｝
Three million eight hundred and fifty thousand!
He saw clearly, the man ahead moved his hand slightly, and another faint light appeared from the exploration staff.
“This distance, just a little more… just a little more… “
｛My seventh grid has burned 10,000N of the time sequence principal.｝
Four million in the time sequence.
Yang Zicang’s breath caught for an instant.
“Almost enough to catch up. “
｛I, the Great Quadrilateral, begin a fourfold amplification.｝
Bits of faint, ethereal, and illusory light began to converge on the body’s surface. Like earthy yellow infused with streaks of orange, it then… lit up a few more, and still more, brilliant green light particles!
One million he invested into the next bullet, and the numeric value of the three hundred thousand time sequence silently plummeted to zero within the halo of the model on his chest.
｛The long time I have condensed begins to display the value that has been utilized.｝
In the next instant, a thick, intense green flame burst from his body!
The exploded emerald green, like a cataclysm, instantly pulled an agile and elusive path through the pitch-black seawater.
A myriad of anxious cheers suddenly erupted within the Financing Model.
Thousands of pairs of eyes watched that emerald green chase the faint gold ahead, closing the gap in an instant.
Dense thoughts of investment will surged forth.
……
In the nearby sea, the figure of a sailboat was gradually being overtaken.
“We see them! ” The people on the ship shouted, waving their arms at the gold on the sea level and the burst of green light racing closely behind it.
“The accumulation of Chronos can be… this formidable. “
“It’s the Seventh Seat! ” someone shouted enviously to the person beside them. “This is the Seventh Seat! “
“It’s already the eighth! ” exclaimed a man whose face was flushed with excitement as he gripped the railing of a sailboat amidst cheers. “That is the green light our Chairman only got after expanding his Stellar Yuan over ten million! “
Just then, Yang Zicang felt as though a gaze was fixed upon him. But it vanished quickly.
……
“You wretched thing! “
Joshua, standing on the Path of Light above the sea surface, glanced back again.
“You… have seen my experience of failure… ” Kai Amb’s voice weakened. “The point of… my regret… “
“Forgive me, but the regret coordinates came from those two escaping sailors returning from the sea. “
A green light bloomed above the ocean. Joshua turned back once more, only to see that speck of emerald rapidly dilating in his field of vision as it hurtled towards him!
“Yang Zicang! “
In Joshua’s enraged roar, the Kai Amb in his grip suddenly stirred with intense fluctuations of breath. Suppressed Stellar Yuan aura twisted and manifested, opening another Path of Light beside Yang Zicang.
“Kai Amb! ” Joshua shouted; the silhouette in his hand trembled and vanished. “What do you intend to do?! “
The instant Yang Zicang thrust his sword at Joshua, the newcomer’s silhouette appeared behind Yang Zicang.
Ambassador Kai spoke not a single word, nor did he have time to speak. His eyes were consumed solely by pent-up fury and the raging blaze of wrath about to be unleashed.
His hand rose, and beneath the sea surface, surging energy swelled with a tumultuous roar.
Yang Zicang thrust his sword toward Joshua.
But in that moment, Joshua let out a light sigh, tapped his staff with his hand, and a trail of light appeared at his feet as if prepared long in advance.
Ambition Fueling Kai’s face shimmered with intertwined gold and green radiance. “Hah! ” With all the Stellar Yuan he had amassed in preparation along the way, he unleashed a ferocious blast at this very moment.
Yet in the instant the seawater erupted, that bullet, which had already surged forward, somehow turned its path and crashed toward Ambition Fueling Kai’s heart. As it neared his skin, the bullet, now rapidly positioned over ten meters away from Yang Zicang, suddenly flickered with a glint of emerald green.
“Haha! ” It was as if such an attack had been long foreseen.
Ambition Fueling Kai’s figure flickered, appearing along the trail of light on the other side of the surging sea.
Ambition Fueling Kai, still radiating a carefree grin, and Joshua, randomly and frenetically evading Yang Zicang’s strike, suddenly saw beside the exploding seawater countless nimble, leaping fish burst through the surface.
Like a swirling hurricane, they also carried flamboyant flames of gold and crimson light, chaotic and violent, crashing toward the two on the sea!
Over this collapsed expanse of seawater, it was instantly shrouded by countless dense, darting little figures.
“These fish! “
Before the fear could even unfurl on Joshua’s face, that stalwart figure flickered at high speed and appeared beside him.
Ambassador Kai, without a moment’s hesitation, grabbed the scouting staff from the still-shocked Joshua, gripping it tightly as he intended to unfold a curtain and whisk the young man away, only to find nothing manifesting before him.
“You? “
Thump, thump! Two fish exploded against Ambassador Kai.
“This is… a clash between one scouting staff and another… so… “
A chill ran down Joshua’s back as a sword thrust out from the exploding seawater, piercing straight into his heart.
Ambassador Kai, with a gaping wound clean through his chest, turned to look at Joshua, his expression shifting dramatically as if he had heard the most terrifying news.
“Retrograde… ” Joshua, his head slightly dizzy, strained to activate his hidden technique. In the next instant, the sword, along with the wound, retracted back.
“It failed. I’m sorry. “
The scouting staff in Joshua’s hand was rapidly illuminated by a scorching, radiant glow. Just as the sword thrust out again, Joshua murmured regretfully, “My lord. “
Then, gripping the scouting staff in Ambassador Kai’s hand tightly, his figure twisted and vanished over the sea as if dragged away by a trail of light.
Yang Zicang leaped out of the sea and pierced Chargé d’affaires Kai’s chest with a single sword stroke. Countless fish crashed into the burly man’s body, shattering into patches of blood-red, glowing marks.
A small ring-shaped halo, no larger than a ring, fell from the dense, leaping fish toward the sea surface under Chargé d’affaires Kai’s fading gaze, bobbing and drifting with the waves.
Yang Zicang gently touched it.
｛I have touched the Ring of Life in gestation.｝
｛I have obtained 420 N.｝
To the “Fog People, ” there are not many years left.
Just an aborigine with bloodline abilities? But his earlobes are not pointed.
Standing on a few fish, the now concealed Yang Zicang thought, “So, this man is a powerhouse who has already reached the Five Rings and is nurturing the Sixth Ring? “
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