Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

"Purple blood? Blue blood? Sea demon? What is this?" Erza leaned over and saw the translated text on the notebook. She was very confused. Isn't blood red? Blue blood seems to be only found in a creature called horseshoe crab. As for purple blood, it seems that no creature known to date has blood of this color.

"Huh? There is a space under the altar," Erza had just finished speaking when she seemed to have discovered something. The air in the space dissipated again, and the information that came back was that there was a tunnel-shaped space under her feet.

However, she and Irene searched around but couldn't find any seal on the passage. Erza, who was a little impatient, was ready to blow up the altar directly, but was stopped by Li Xuan.

“What if the passage inside is set up with a mechanism that will automatically destroy itself if it is not opened through the altar sacrifice, then the matter regarding the trial ground will be over.” Li Xuan did not say this casually. In his Golden Crow Divine Eyes, he could see that there was indeed a tunnel leading downwards under the altar, but it required the altar to be opened. If the altar was blown up directly, the passage would automatically collapse and bury the tunnel.

"As for purple blood, there is a carnivorous crocodile on the island where the Corey Pirates have their base. As for blue blood, there is a carnivorous animal, the patterned piranha, on the island where the Kidd Pirates have their base. As for the essence of the ocean, there is no record of it." Irene quickly found her target based on the information she had obtained from the book just now.

"Let's go back and ask Aduro first to see if he has any information on this." After saying this, Li Xuan and the other two left the square and returned to the patriarch's stone house. They picked up Aduro, who was sleeping on the ground, and invaded with their divine thoughts.

As for why he didn't directly search Aduro's memory to obtain information, it was because Li Xuan's mental power was too strong. The moment he searched Aduro's spiritual sea, he would directly destroy Aduro's spiritual world, and all his memories would then become chaotic.

Aduro, who was manipulated again, quickly revealed the information that Li Xuan and the other two were interested in.

He didn't know about the essence of the ocean, but the person he replaced, the real chief of the fisherman tribe, knew it, Aduro said, reaching into his clothes, took out a booklet and handed it over.

Li Xuan inhaled his internal energy and a booklet flew over to him. It had only a dozen pages and contained some pictures, movements and text descriptions.

Irene's book translator translated the text in the booklet.

Chapter 222 Silent Killing

"'Fisherman's Spirit'?" Erza saw the description in the translated book and looked at it curiously.

After reading it, he showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"So that's how it is. This is the essence of the ocean. After hard training, the Fisherman Chief produced the Fisherman's Spirit. Combined with the purple and blue blood, this fulfills the requirements of the altar sacrifice." After figuring it out, Erza prepared to let Aduro use the Fisherman's Spirit.

Unfortunately, Aduro doesn't know how to do it, but he has seen it.

According to him, he designed a plan to put the Fisherman Chief into a crisis. The Fisherman Chief showed the spirit of the Fisherman, but then disappeared for some unknown reason. Aduro took this opportunity to capture the Fisherman Chief, otherwise he would never have been able to trap him and eventually forced him to commit suicide.

After hearing Aduro's explanation, Erza felt a little discouraged again. After all this time, the clue was right in front of her, but unfortunately she couldn't find it.

"Erza, don't be so anxious. This Fisherman's Qi is not something difficult to appear." After reading the description of Fisherman's Qi, Li Xuan thought about it for a while, then simulated the process in his mind, and finally came to the conclusion that this is not the internal Qi of water attribute.

At that moment, a ball of blue water elemental energy appeared in his hand.

"Aduro, look at what I have in my hand and see if it's the Fisherman's Aura," Li Xuan revealed the water elemental aura in his hand.

Aduro nodded and said, "This is the spirit of the fishermen, many times stronger than that of the fisherman leader."

He also asked Aduro about the Kidd Pirates. When he heard that the captain of the Kidd Pirates had the ability to attract lighter metals, Li Xuan thought he was the one who was killed by someone with a knife because he was more powerful than God and avoided him even gods did.

After confirming that there were no other clues, Li Xuan and the other two left the fishermen's tribe and returned to the yacht.

"Argo, Sakuya, the two of you have to work hard and drive the speedboat to the island base of the Corey Pirates and the Kidd Pirates and bring back a crocodile with purple blood and some piranhas with blue blood," Li Xuan instructed the two maids after returning to the yacht.

"Yes, Master x2"

After receiving the order, the two maids came to the room where the speedboat was placed in the cabin, drove the speedboat, left the yacht in the night, and landed on the island strongholds of the Corey Pirates and the Kidd Pirates respectively.

At the Corey Pirates' stronghold, a blinding light flashed, followed by a few screams, and then everything returned to calm.

A golden snake shadow of over a hundred meters long slowly dissipated. In the center was Argo, who had just completed Li Xuan's order. At this time, there was a crocodile with purple blood in her necklace. The famous Corey Pirates Group has now turned into more than a hundred stone statues.

Argo searched the treasure house of the Cori Pirates slowly and found a large amount of unrefined gold and silver and a large amount of banknotes, but nothing worth noting. He left the Cori Pirates' base and drove the speedboat back to the yacht.

On the other side, the base of Kidd's Pirates.

"Time-Stop", the dagger flew out.

"Time-Flow", knife in the throat.

"What...person, uh", in a huge cave, Kidd, who was at the top, had all his hair standing on end. He only had time to utter a few words, and then covered his throat which was pierced by a dagger. He tried hard to remove the dagger through the power of metal control, but it was in vain. He fell to the ground unwillingly after a few seconds. At the last moment before his death, he vaguely saw a blurry figure at the entrance of the cave.

Sakuya Izayoi used the power of time to instantly kill more than a hundred people from the Kidd Pirates in the cave. There was no fluctuation on her face, as if she had just stepped on a group of ants.

After catching a few blue-blooded piranhas, Sakuya Izayoi also checked the treasure room of Kidd's Pirates. The gold, silver and jewelry were not touched at all. She only took away a few parchment scrolls, turned around and left the cave full of corpses, and drove the speedboat back to the yacht.

"Oh? Parchment scroll. Well done. Sakuya, think about what gift you want and tell me when the time comes." Li Xuan let go of Argo who had just been rewarded. When he saw Sakuya Izayoi come in, in addition to taking out the container containing piranhas, she also brought back a few parchment scrolls. He said to the little maid with a smile.

Argo was a little unwilling to accept this, because the treasure room of the Corey Pirates was too poor, and there was nothing that could arouse the young master's interest. Naturally, he had nothing else except the regular favor of the young master. However, Izayoi Sakuya could find these parchment scrolls.

In places like West Africa, parchment scrolls are generally used to record important events.

Noticing Argo's reluctance, Li Xuan smiled, reached out and rubbed her from behind, "Argo, you're great too, keep going next time."

Feeling the comfort from his young master, Argo's face turned slightly red and he nodded, "Argo understands, young master, please don't worry."

Erza had already pulled Irene together to open the parchment scroll that Sakuya Izayoi brought back and started reading it.

There are five scrolls in total, all containing secrets and treasure information.

"Sakuya, how is Kid's metal manipulation ability?" Li Xuan leaned on the little maid, enjoying the massage from her, and asked.

Izayoi Sakuya thought for a moment before speaking, "Very weak."

It was only after Sakuya Izayoi thought about it carefully that she remembered that Kidd seemed to have indeed controlled a metal knife a second before he used the power of time, but he died by his own dagger the next second. So Sakuya Izayoi didn't actually know how to comment on it. She could only say, "very weak."

After hearing Sakuya Izayoi's evaluation, Li Xuan hummed and said nothing more.

"Huh? Lord Xuan, the information on this parchment scroll is quite interesting. It should be the source of Kidd's abilities and records of some other abilities," Irene said with some surprise after reading a parchment scroll.

Taking the parchment scroll handed over by Irene, Li Xuan read the information on it.

There has always been a common legend in the northwest African continent that the power of gods is hidden in the sea. It is possible that it exists in every corner of the sea. As long as the pirates are lucky enough, they can gain the power to subvert order.

Kidd's power was obtained on a deserted island in North Africa. At that time, Kidd was in a mechanical ruin. He found a glowing sphere inside. After touching it, the sphere instantly entered his body.

Later, Kidd gradually gained the power to control metal. Although it was only metal knives, Kidd found that this ability would become stronger as he became stronger. Since then, he has been looking for this power.

The Fisherman Tribe was the place of power he found on the parchment scroll.

Chapter 223: The Sea Poisonous Beast in the Trial Ground

Fisherman's Power, this is the information obtained from one of the five parchments that Kidd obtained through searching and looting over the past decade.

The Fisherman's Tribe has always had a kind of Fisherman's Power, which has been passed down from generation to generation by the patriarchs. Those who obtain the Fisherman's Power can move in the sea as if on land, or even be more agile than on land.

For a pirate, this is an irresistible temptation.

Therefore, Kidd sent out his deputy captain very early, infiltrated the Fisherman Tribe to act as an insider, and even cooperated with insiders and outsiders to trap and kill the Fisherman Chief. Unfortunately, no clues about the Fisherman's power were found afterwards, and the information sent back by Aduro was also intermittent.

The remaining three parchment scrolls record a stone that can emit fire, a spring that greatly increases strength, and a pair of shoes that can fly with the help of the air.

Li Xuan took a few glances and said, "Put it in the storage room. We can play treasure hunt game with Asuna and the others later when we have free time."

After collecting the purple and blue blood creatures, Li Xuan and his companions returned to the island where the fisherman tribe was located, and brought the two kinds of blood back to the altar in the square.

Purple and blue blood poured out one after another, and then the water element in Li Xuan's hand condensed and fell into the stone bowl in the middle.

"Swoosh", a white light emerged from the altar, quickly rushed into the sky, condensed into an illusory human figure, and then the figure swooped down and crashed into the altar.

"Boom", the sound of huge stones moving, the altar slowly moved to the side, revealing the covered passage.

Erza took out the exploration tools, a super flashlight with thirty-six bulbs. The white light emitted by the flashlight illuminated the dark passage as if it were daytime.

"Mr. Xuan, there is a hidden passage, let's go down quickly." Erza took a panoramic photo of the passage, and then walked down first, with Li Xuan and Irene following behind her.

The passage was below the altar and the space was not small. Li Xuan and the other two did not feel crowded inside. There were opposing oil lamps on the stone walls on both sides of the passage. A ball of ordinary red flame jumped up in Li Xuan's hand and landed above the oil lamp.

"Hua La", the oil lamps on both sides of the entire passage began to gradually light up, and the entire situation inside the passage could be seen clearly under the firelight.

There are many patterns on the stone wall. One of them is a person kneeling facing the sea. Then a glowing person rises from the ocean. This glowing person hands a book to the kneeling person. Then the kneeling person is guided to the altar. By killing piranhas and crocodiles, he obtains purple and blue blood. Then the kneeling person learns the essence of the ocean from the book and opens this trial place.

Going further back, the person in the pattern obtained a round object after passing the challenge of the trial land. After eating it, the kneeling person can walk freely on the water, go deep into the ocean without any hindrance, and fight marine creatures.

Then there are two differences in the pattern, one is fighting against marine life, and the other is gaining the support of marine life.

Seeing this, Erza was confused, "Humans have gained the support of marine creatures? Isn't this the same as Aquaman in the movie?"

Irene thought of a more reasonable reason, "It should be because of the Power of the Fisherman. There should be two results for those who obtain the Power of the Fisherman. One is to fight with marine creatures, and the other is to gain the support of marine creatures."

Li Xuan took a look and continued walking forward, "Keep going, the answer is just ahead."

The three of them walked through a passage that was probably several hundred meters long. There were no traps along the way, and they arrived at the end of the passage.

At the end of the passage was a huge cave, and a lake appeared in front of the three people. A stone sculpture more than ten meters high was in the center of the lake. The stone sculpture looked a bit like the glowing man on the stone wall of the passage. There were many fish over one meter long, black in color, with hair on their backs swimming in the lake.

"It's a sea poisonous beast. This kind of marine creature is found in the death vortex zone of the Bermuda Sea. How could it exist here? It's probably being raised by people." Irene looked at these black fish carefully and identified them.

The sea poison beast is a marine creature unique to the Bermuda death vortex. It is covered with highly poisonous substances. If a normal person is bitten by it, the venom will flow to the heart within ten seconds. There is no cure. It is a creature that many shipping groups are reluctant to encounter.

The sea poison beast has a strong desire to attack and swims very fast. It can even jump four or five meters out of the water. After leaving the water, it can survive in a dehydrated state for more than ten days.

When Li Xuan and his two companions stepped into the cave, they not only saw the lake, stone sculptures and poisonous sea beasts, but also many human remains floating on the lake. Judging from their clothing, they were basically the same as those of the fishing tribe.

"These should be the people who failed the trial, and what they want is in the hands of the stone sculpture." Li Xuan took a quick look and saw the situation in the cave. In the hands of the stone sculpture was a stone table more than one meter long, with a blue heart on it, beating from time to time and emitting a blue light.

The footsteps of the three people entering the cave attracted the attention of the sea poisonous beasts. Several nearby sea poisonous beasts jumped directly out of the water and opened their mouths full of sharp teeth towards Li Xuan and the other two.

The poisonous sea beasts here were raised here by the ancestors of the Fisherman Tribe and used as a test for the tribe leader. In the past, their speed and poison would cause huge damage to the trial participants, but the three people who came today were obviously different.

Li Xuan stretched out his hand and a golden hand of internal energy appeared in the air, grabbing several flying sea poisonous beasts and crushing them into fish cakes.

The death of these sea poisonous beasts did not scare away other sea poisonous beasts in the lake, but instead provoked more sea poisonous beasts to attack.

However, it had no effect on Li Xuan. Li Xuan slapped dozens of sea poisonous beasts that jumped up behind him like slapping flies.

The death of hundreds of sea poisonous beasts calmed the other sea poisonous beasts in the guild. There was still a fierce look in their eyes, but they did not jump up to attack again. Instead, they dived into the lake, waiting for the people to climb up the stone sculptures before launching a sneak attack. In the past, when they could not win, they would use this method to launch sneak attacks and interfere.

Unfortunately, Li Xuan and his two companions were not like those people from the Fisherman's Tribe who had gone through numerous hardships before they had cultivated a little water elemental internal energy. The big hand in the air disappeared, and a golden flame bird took shape in Li Xuan's hand, danced in the air for a few times, and dived into the lake.

In less than ten seconds, hot steam began to rise from the originally cool lake and bubbles began to appear.

The temperature of the golden flame bird directly heated up the lake, and the water was boiling. After a few minutes, the cooked sea poisonous beasts floated out of the lake with their stomachs turned upside down, and their numbers increased.

Chapter 224: Tangerine Fruit? Sea Monster

After waiting for about ten minutes, and seeing that no poisonous sea beasts had floated up, Li Xuan flew up holding Erza and Irene's slender waists and landed on the palm of the stone statue.

As for why he didn't fly at the beginning, Li Xuan said, "You want to live after offending me? The sea poison beast has already killed itself."

The heart on the stone table is beating slowly, emitting blue light.

"What is this? A heart? It's still beating," Erza said with curiosity on her face. She reached out and rubbed the tool in her hand. The heart felt soft and tough.

Even though Irene had read many books and secrets, she couldn't tell where this heart came from.

It was also the first time she saw such a strange situation, a heart that survived independently.