The Empress's No.1 Lackey-Chapter 1247 - 664: The Dragon-Slaying Fleet of a Thousand Years Ago (Part 2)
Jin Jian adjusted her glasses, sensing herself, and her face suddenly turned peculiar: "Here... my sense with the stars and moon has become intermittent, and my mana is greatly affected."
Zhao Douan’s heart sank, he exhaled, his expression odd: "It seems, things are somewhat unexpected. If I’m not mistaken, we’ve entered another space existing underwater. Perhaps this has to do with Anger Moon, or maybe this sea area only opens when the Sea God is angry and completely awake."
Of course, there’s another speculation, that he suspects this is related to the purpose of his trip.
He even faintly suspects that the changes in Silent Sea, the appearance of mysterious sea areas are all because of his arrival.
"Anyway, let’s first get on the island and take a look." Zhao Douan quickly made a decision.
Since we’re here... we must explore first, if it doesn’t work, try returning.
The two girls followed him steadfastly, Zhao Douan immediately controlled the Mystic Turtle Seal, driving the surrounding seawater, pushing the three of them swiftly to the shore.
The three dashed forward swiftly, almost unable to feel the wind, the sea surface as calm as a mirror, hardly rippling, reflecting the blue sky, displaying a glazed quality. And the three were like a knife, slicing a straight line across the sea surface, which closed up swiftly after their departure.
Zhao Douan wielded the knife, alertly gazing at the island, his expression suddenly changed as he clearly sensed the agitation of "Dragon Essence" within his Qi Sea.
It’s as if something is attracting the Dragon Essence, and that something is on the island.
This discovery made him all the more expectant and more certain that all these anomalies are related to the Grand Ancestor Emperor.
Before long, the three reached the shallows around the island, the shallows made up of white, pebble-like stones, even walking barefoot didn’t feel difficult.
Unexpectedly, there were some "trees" on the island, but they weren’t the usual terrestrial tree species, more like tropical beach plants, Zhao Douan even saw patches of coconut trees, making him wonder for a moment if he had traversed again to some Southeast Asian country.
"These trees are so big." Jin Jian, hands nervously clutching her magic wand, her trouser legs rolled up, exposing a fair strip of skin.
The young priestess looked up, walking amidst the giant coconut grove, her eyes full of astonishment.
Zhao Douan also discovered, the trees here were two to three times larger than normal, those closer to the sea not so much, but the farther they went in, the bigger the trees.
Giving the three a feeling of having accidentally stumbled into a giant’s country.
The Black-skinned Priestess’s face was tense, looking vigilant, this place’s quietness made her uncomfortable.
Indeed, the only commonality with "Silent Sea" is probably there’s no advanced life here either.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, Tuoba Weizhi seemed to guess something, the sound of a crisp crack in the quiet environment was extremely abrupt.
The three simultaneously stopped, looking down, then their pupils slightly contracted.
Under Tuoba Weizhi’s foot, surprisingly, was a human hand bone, now snapped by her!
The white skeletal remains were half-buried in the ground and white stone crevices, inconspicuous.
But upon closer inspection, the surrounding scattered limbs could be pieced together to outline human bones.
"This is a Martial Artist’s skeleton." Zhao Douan looked down, picking up a piece, observing before concluding: "Moreover, it’s from someone who died a long, long time ago."
Seeing the two girls puzzled, he patiently explained: "Cultivation Martial Artists, due to long-term martial arts practice, tempering their bodies, their skeletons differ from ordinary people, like being heavier, certain joints larger than average..."
This knowledge was acquired during the period of study in Martial Arts Hall.
"Hey! Money!"
Suddenly, Jin Jian exclaimed in surprise, the young priestess jogged a few steps, bent down, picked up a rusty coin between the stone crevices on the ground!
The coin was rusted somewhat severely, but it could still be identified as a standard copper coin.
And with the three’s attention turned to their feet, they quickly found, that scattered across the island were many coins.
The vast majority were copper coins, varying in size, different styles, seemingly from different eras.
Unfortunately, most were severely rusted, their value greatly depreciated.
Yet this sight excited Jin Jian, the young priestess adjusted her glasses, entered "Treasure Hunter" mode, like a small radar, started frantically digging around in the soil.
Soon, Jin Jian’s finds included silver ingots, later gold coins!
Yes, gold coins!
This discovery stunned Zhao Douan, because, in six hundred years of Great Yu, gold coins hadn’t been minted. The most recent gold coins in history were minted during the Da Qi Dynasty, but not many.
"So, these coins are from Qi Country times? No, there’s Yu Country ones too." Zhao Douan rubbed away some not so severely rusted copper coins, confirmed the eras.
Then, even more astonishing things happened.
As they continued deeper, Jin Jian started picking up pearls, jade, agate, precious rare materials, weapons... even magic artifacts...
"Remember the Red Coral Island Master once said, the intelligent fish in the ocean gather treasures, deliver them to Silent Sea, to worship the Sea God... Could it be these treasures are accumulated over time?"
Zhao Douan analyzed calmly.
Then, looking at Jin Jian, who was almost crazed with joy, plumply filling her pocket, he said speechlessly: "Let’s go, our goal isn’t just these things."
"Oh..." Jin Jian reluctantly stopped her actions, continued walking, albeit reluctantly glancing back every few steps, clearly full of attachment.
By now, the three had entered a massive coral forest.
Surprisingly, there were clumps of corals on this island... brightly colored, almost forming a forest.
This scene was truly preposterous, but the three were already numb to the island’s oddities.
Yet when they walked out of the coral cluster and saw the huge sunken ship tilted on the ground ahead, they were still stunned.
A gigantic, ancient, warship-like sunken ship, just laying there on the ground.
The hull was dilapidated, but still retained the appearance of bygone days, and around the warship appeared large amounts of human bones, armor, weapons...
There was even a solitary, erect "battle flag"!
The flag had long since tattered, leaving only a bare flagpole.
"This is... a Qi Country warship?!" Zhao Douan hesitated, quickly determining its age from these characteristics.
However, he wasn’t too sure, because although the armor, warship styles had typical Qi Country traits, they didn’t match the six hundred year old Qi Country weapon styles seen in La Garden.
"This seems to be... an even older ship, middle Qi Country, even early Qi Country ships..." Tuoba Weizhi suddenly stared dazedly at the sunken ship, softly spoke.
Zhao Douan promptly looked at this "Qi Country Crown Prince".
Tuoba Weizhi held her head somewhat painfully, the Black-skinned Priestess’s eyes bewildered: "I can’t remember, only vaguely have such an impression, but don’t know why I know this."
This knowledge, she originally didn’t know, but for some reason surfaced in her mind.
Zhao Douan’s heart moved, guessed it might be the Crown Prince’s residual "knowledge", stirred up and revealed.
He wasn’t unfamiliar with this, initially crossing over, had also inherited many memories from the original host.
"Middle early Qi Country? Wouldn’t that be, approximately a thousand-year-old warship?" Zhao Douan hesitated.
A thousand years ago, did Qi Country send out warships? What were they fighting for then?
Looking far ahead, the sunken ships weren’t just one, farther there were others.
Suddenly!
Zhao Douan remembered previously the Old Heavenly Master told him, the East Sea once had a corpse of a dragon.
It was the last known dragon corpse on the continent.
And the dragon’s time of death, roughly a thousand years ago.
An astonishing speculation abruptly emerged.
"Could it be... a thousand years ago, Qi Country sent out a large fleet, came to East Sea to slay the dragon?!"
"Was the last dragon killed by Qi Country?!"
Zhao Douan was deeply shocked by this conjecture.
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Correcting typos post-update. Slowly completing worldview... historical timeline...
