Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 14: Trapping! Second-level Fire Iguana Cub
hiss~
The Flame Wave Fire Iguana, which successfully caught up with the demon-hunting ship, spewed beast fire towards the hull. The crimson fan-shaped flame waves emitted a terrifyingly high temperature, but could not break through the water-blue cover in a short time.

"Fight back!"

Several class leaders led everyone to pick up various long-range weapons to fight back against the second-level lizard monster, but they basically could not cause any damage and could only continue to anger it.

"This scale skin is really strong. I can use it to make second-level inner leather armor or vestments. Hehe~"

The boatload of Qi-refining cultivators showed no fear despite the formation, and even began to discuss the utility of this second-level monster.

Although demon beasts have intelligence compared to wild beasts, it is very limited. A first-level demon beast has the same intelligence level as a human child and knows how to seek benefits and avoid harm.

The second-level monsters have divine consciousness, great intelligence, and a strong ability to receive information from the outside world. They can have the intelligence level of human teenagers, but that is only the intelligence level, not the cognitive level.

The second-level monsters that often live in the wild have not been baptized by civilization, nor have they had in-depth contact with humans, a race that is naturally intelligent and cunning. Therefore, even second-level monsters still think about problems in the most primitive way, and their intelligence level is far inferior to that of human teenagers.

In this way, the Sea Hunter pretended to be defeated and escaped with the defense shield, while continuing to counterattack without any pain to anger the Flame Wave Fire Iguana. In less than a quarter of an hour, he lured it to an open sea area far away from the island.

"The psychic cannon is ready to fire!"

"The demon hunting fork can be launched at any time!"

hiss~
The Flame Wave Fire Iguana felt that the shield was becoming thinner and thinner, and it might break through at any time. It tried to fly into the air again and use gravity to hit the demon hunting ship.

"Shoot at a high angle!"

"boom!"

"Boom!"

The only two second-level attack methods on the demon-hunting ship seized the shooting angle provided by the opponent's flying, and almost simultaneously counterattacked the oncoming Flame Wave Fire Iguana.

The incident happened suddenly. The psychic cannon successfully hit the target. Although it failed to break the defense, it did stop its flying momentum abruptly. The hunting fork with a relatively slow trajectory was about to pierce it, but the lizard demon used a life-saving method to successfully avoid it.

"Hi~"

The lizard demon roared in anger and was about to launch a more fierce attack when it was silently hit by a silver-white sword light!

puff~

The sword flashed across its neck, and the second-level lizard monster's head and body were separated!

The three-foot-long silver-white flying sword successfully killed the Flame Wave Fire Iguana, which was stopped by the psychic cannon and forced back by the Demon Hunting Fork.

Kill with one blow!
Jiu Ye had not taken action because on the one hand he needed to stay away from the island to avoid attracting other Flame Wave Fire Iguanas, and on the other hand he was waiting for the opponent to be most relaxed so that he could strike a fatal blow.

"Amazing!!!"

The whole ship cheered. The stronger Jiu Ye is, the safer the sea hunters will be; the stronger Jiu Ye is, the higher the benefits for everyone.

If Jiu Ye were to fight this monster head-on, it might take quite a bit of effort to defeat it, and it's still uncertain whether he could kill it. However, with the cooperation of the monster-hunting ship and a group of Qi-refining monks, the difficulty for Jiu Ye to kill monsters of the same level has been greatly reduced.

"What a great coordination! The timing of the attack is so precise!"

This was the second time that Lin Qianfan saw Jiu Ye kill a second-level monster, but he still had some memories of it and still felt that Jiu Ye's move was clean, neat and very beautiful!
Soon, Jiu Ye collected the monster corpse that was about to fall into the sea. The monster was of normal size and could be easily put into a second-level storage bag.

"Activate the water mist concealment formation and hide. I'll be back soon."

Jiu Ye, whose spiritual power was not greatly consumed and was in a relatively good condition, transformed into a faint silver light and headed towards the small island.

"What's on the island?"

"I'm not sure, but there must be something that the lizard demon cares about, otherwise it wouldn't chase us relentlessly and even beat us all the way just because we killed some ordinary fire iguanas." Deliberately provoking it was only part of the reason. The real reason that caused it to chase us should still be on that island.

"Hehe, this time I accidentally hunted a second-level monster. This year is another bumper harvest!"

The monster hunting ship is a collective with common interests. Although it was Jiu Ye who killed the second-level lizard monster, everyone's role cannot be ignored, so everyone has a share. The value of this Flame Wave Fire Iguana is far more valuable than the several storage bags of Fire Iguana monsters that everyone has killed.

This is not a simple conversion ratio issue of the number of spirit stones, but a problem that first-level resources are difficult to exchange for second-level resources. If you do not have sufficient status and position, it will be difficult to exchange for suitable second-level resources even if you have a large amount of first-level resources.

A quarter of an hour later, Jiu Ye came back quickly.

"Set sail and go around the southwest of the archipelago. Let's take a day off today and observe the situation. If everything goes well, we'll continue the monster hunt from the southwest tomorrow morning."

There are also two ways to drive a second-level spirit ship. It can be driven directly by medium-grade spirit stones or by the spiritual power of a foundation-building cultivator. It will be adjusted according to the specific situation. When Jiu Ye is not around, there will naturally be someone to drive the boat for her.

Afterwards, Jiu Ye took out a nest of colorful little lizard monsters that had obviously hatched not long ago, had not yet reached the next level, but had not yet entered deep hibernation.

"Take good care of it, don't kill it. It's a second-level bloodline after all. Then send it to the West Coast Market for auction."

"Wow, I was wondering why this second-level lizard demon was so angry. So that's why. It turns out it gave birth to a litter of pups and is raising them on the island. I don't know who got the advantage."

There were six newborn lizard monsters in a litter, but they had two distinct colors. In addition, the big lizard monster abnormally raised them on this outer island, so it was highly likely that they were hybrids from different fathers.

"Anyone want to contract a second-level spirit beast? The price is very good!"

Then everyone on the boat gathered around to see what was happening.

"It's truly rare, a rare direct descendant of a second-level demon beast. Boss, how many spirit stones do you plan to take?"

"If it's your own contract, just give it as you see fit."

"Forget it, this is all I'm going to live like this, I might as well auction it off and sell it for spirit stones."

The crew members of the monster hunting ship can obtain the first-hand resources at a low price first, but they must use them for their own legitimate purposes, otherwise they have to pay according to the market price. After all, the purpose of the monster hunting ship going out to sea is to obtain resources/spiritual stones, so naturally they will be used for themselves first.

Lin Qianfan was also a little interested. Who doesn’t want a spirit beast partner that can assist in battle?
But after thinking about it for a while, Lin Qianfan gave up.

The bloodline ceiling of this fire iguana monster is too low. Even if it successfully breaks through to the second level by injecting resources, it is just an ordinary second-level spirit beast. It does not have any particularly outstanding advantages, nor does it have much hope of breaking through to the third level. Its future is limited.

Haven’t you seen that there hasn’t been a single third-level lizard demon in the entire Fire Iguana Islands for thousands of years?
Any spirit beast companion with bloodline potential below the third level is not within Lin Qianfan's consideration range, as it is a pure waste of resources.

"Myna, are you interested?"

"Hehe~ I'm interested, but I'm short of money."

When Myna was trying to reach the late stage of Qi Refining, he spent almost all the money he had saved from years of sailing in order to buy elixirs to break through the realm.

"Although they are direct descendants of the second-level bloodline and indeed have much better talents than other ordinary fire iguana monsters, becoming a second-level spirit beast is still not easy. It requires continuous investment of a large amount of resources. It would be better to use these resources to support one's own path."

"Oh? You know him so well?"

"Of course, one's own path is the foundation of cultivation! External forces are only auxiliary, and we must not let them hinder the true path."

In the end, no boatman chose to buy the contracts at a low price, but instead planned to auction them all off.

It is definitely not a wise move to try to cultivate a second-level spirit beast when your own path is unclear. After all, people who can work as boatmen on the monster-hunting ship have more or less various limitations. Why would you add to your troubles if you don't even understand your own path?

　I drew a few maps by hand, but they are a bit ugly. What software can I use to optimize them?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)