Chapter 477: Chapter 399: Submissive to the Righteous Dao, Ruthless Against the Demon!

Hearing Su Yuan’s irresponsible words, Captain Jin and the others were completely stunned.

How did it all become their responsibility again?

If it weren’t for your incompetent commands earlier, would we have lost two Golden Core cultivators and been chased by the Dragon City Navy?

"What, do you have objections?"

Su Yuan’s gaze turned cold.

The pirate leaders had to lower their heads, saying they dared not.

Although they harbored thoughts of a thousand cuts for Su Yuan in their hearts, the other party’s words did have some truth.

If they didn’t achieve any battle results, they wouldn’t have any justification with the Blood Soul True Monarch.

First, achieve merit, and after everything settles, then complain to the True Monarch.

Driven by this mindset, the pirate leaders quickly mobilized their subordinates and prepared their warships for battle.

But what the leaders didn’t expect was that even though their fleet and the Dragon City Navy were still far apart, the cannons on the other side had already fired.

"Raise the cannon muzzle by five centimeters!"

"Archers, move five steps left!"

On the deck of the Dragon City Navy flagship, Qi Hanyan, riding a tall horse, was issuing some seemingly irrelevant orders with vigor.

Wang De, Ying Ding, Qi Junxiang, and other civil and military officials dared not neglect them and promptly relayed the orders.

After the cannon adjustments, Qi Hanyan gave an order, and the main cannons of a dozen warships fired!

Beams of light formed by violent spiritual power poured out from the muzzles, crossing hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye, hitting Wei Chenghai’s Giant Snake ship.

Accompanied by the rumbling explosions, the Giant Snake was directly blown into two pieces, sinking to the sea’s bottom amid the crew’s screams.

With a round of concentrated cannonfire and no protection from Golden Core masters, at least seventy percent of the pirates on the Giant Snake perished, making the Dragon City Navy’s results quite impressive.

The pirate leaders, however, wore expressions as if they’d seen ghosts.

"What’s going on? How does a mere county government navy have such terrifying firepower?"

"Even the regular army stationed at the government port doesn’t have such fierce firepower..."

A pirate captain looked shocked.

Su Yuan, expressionless and looking like he was watching a show, was secretly amused.

These pirates underestimated the Celestial Law World’s official military strength.

They used to think the official army was worthless, just a bunch of weaklings pecking at each other because the payment wasn’t right.

After all, in the Immortal Official System where everyone is greedy, if a million spirit coins meant for military expenses actually resulted in a tenth of that being used correctly, it was already good.

Yet Su Yuan allocated every last bit of a million spirit coins into military construction, introducing the best cannons from the East Continent, the top-tier military-grade Fire Spirit Stones; how could the navy’s firepower not be strong?

By comparison, even if the pirates got money, they mostly squandered it on pleasures; what could they arm their pirate ships with?

A pure crushing situation.

With rounds of concentrated cannonfire raining down, the pirates’ formation was starting to scatter, leaving only the pirate flagship with a Golden Core cultivator holding its ground.

After suffering a round of bombardment, Captain Jin and others realized they couldn’t sit around waiting to die, gritting their teeth and dragging their flagship towards the Dragon City Navy for a boarding battle.

They believed the official army to be mostly weak, no match for pirates who lived on the edge.

However, the result left them despairing.

Facing immense losses after boarding the Dragon City Navy’s ship, they encountered soldiers whose eyes were as fierce as tigers, more ruthless than imaginable.

"Soldiers, a Qi Cultivation Stage pirate’s head is worth five hundred spirit coins, a Foundation Establishment Stage pirate’s head is worth five thousand spirit coins, the more you kill, the more you earn!"

Qi Hanyan shouted to the soldiers, riding a white horse.

In the next second, the battle cry shook the heavens from the ship.

With the bounty in mind, the soldiers’ morale soared to the extreme, charging into the enemy lines like ferocious tigers.

Forget about the Dragon City soldiers; even the pirates, upon hearing their own bounty worth, felt like cutting their own mates’ heads off for the reward.

Unfortunately, the opposition didn’t offer surrender terms.

Seeing the one-sided slaughter of the pirates, Captain Jin and others regretted choosing the boarding battle, wishing desperately to slap those soldiers to death.

But these Golden Core cultivators couldn’t make a move; they were held back.

Wang De and Qi Hanyan together restrained Captain Jin, Lin Yonghua, and Qin Jin.

Among these three, two were injured, making restraining them not too hard.

Aside from these three, only two Golden Core captains were left on the pirates’ side, who were easily restrained by Chen Nuoyi.

Using "restrain" might not be accurate; in truth, Chen Nuoyi was chasing these pirate leaders around, leaving them no choice but to run with their heads covered.

After mixed fighting, the pirates suffered heavy losses, many fine heads were taken away, leaving only bloody corpses behind.

Under this enormous disadvantage, the already severely injured and weakest Qin Jin finally couldn’t hold on and was captured alive by Qi Hanyan.

At this point, the pirates’ side was in complete rout and couldn’t stop the collapse. Paying a huge price to disengage from battle, Captain Jin and others gathered their remnants and disorderly retreated.

Meanwhile, the Dragon City Navy and Phoenix Soaring Pirate Gang relentlessly pursued them, forcing the pirates to flee for their lives without a moment’s breath.

After fleeing for five to six hours, from night to day, the pirates finally managed to barely shake off their pursuers by relying on their knowledge of the Sea of Law.

Of course, this was all just what Su Yuan wanted them to see.

With him and Motis as double agents, they couldn’t escape at all.

The only reason for sparing these pirates is just to let this cat-and-mouse game last a bit longer.

"Finally... finally got rid of those two demons."

Aboard the Gold Hunting Ship, Lin Yonghua collapsed almost in exhaustion, covered in blood, completely devoid of the demeanor of his past leadership.

The other two pirate captains also gathered on the Gold Hunting Ship, looking at the defeated remnants around, sighing deeply.

"See, I told you all wouldn’t make it."

At this moment, Su Yuan, seated at the main seat, started with his sarcastic remarks.

"Previously, you even attempted to blame the Saint Heir for poor command, but just now the Saint Heir didn’t even utter a word more, yet you were defeated ten times worse than before."

"Without exaggeration, you’re simply the worst batch of pirates I’ve led."

With Su Yuan’s sarcastic remarks stirring things up, Lin Yonghua and the pirate captains instantly turned red with anger.

A tall, hot-tempered captain stood up, pointed at Su Yuan, and shouted angrily:

"You brat! You really think that just because you were luckily accepted as a disciple by the True Monarch, we wouldn’t dare touch you?"

Another captain also shouted sternly:

"I advise you to watch your mouth, or I’ll cut your tongue out!"

Su Yuan’s mocking smile slightly retracted, his gaze gradually turning icy.

"Who gave you the nerve... to speak to the Saint Heir like that?"

In an instant, the air on the deck of the Gold Hunting Ship froze, the temperature dropping several degrees.

For some reason, the two pirate captains felt an unprecedented terror from the young man before them... even greater than when facing that freak Feng Xuanxiang.

But their dignity as Golden Core Cultivators would not allow them to bow in apology.

One pirate captain opened his mouth, wanting to say a few soft words.

But it was too late.

In the next moment, a pressure, overwhelming and irresistible, descended from above.

Caught off guard, they crashed to their knees with a loud bang, their knees sinking deep into the heavy deck, unable to even lift their heads.

Feeling the immense power of the Celestial Spirits and Earthly Fiends above them, the two pirate captains were in utter shock.

Was this the method of Su the Saint?

It wasn’t any worse than that of Feng Xuanxiang!

And just now, Su Youlin and Saintess Mo... Is it already so common for Foundation Establishment geniuses to defeat Golden Core cultivators?

"Remember, the Saint Heir verbally commanding you is already the greatest respect."

"But respect is mutual. If you don’t respect me, I’ll use absolute power to subdue you, making you thoroughly become my dogs."

Su Yuan sat on the chair, looking down at the two kneeling before him, voice cold.

His fingers tapped on the armrest, as if indicating that any further attempt at rebellion by the pirate captains would be met with instant, thunderous retaliation.

At this moment, the dignity of a Golden Core Cultivator was reduced to nothing.

The two pirate captains nodded hurriedly in agreement.

However, they couldn’t suppress a sense of grievance in their hearts.

Come on, if you’re this strong, why don’t you go attack Feng Xuanxiang, Su Youlin, and the other Righteous Dao talents?

If you were willing to take action, would the battle have turned out like this? 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Good at internal conflict, but inept externally, is it?

Attributes of a lousy leader, you embody them all.

At this point, Su Yuan continued:

"After this battle, you bunch of failures are no longer opponents for Feng Xuanxiang and Su Youlin, with no chance for a shore raid."

"In my opinion, your only use left is to hold up Feng Xuanxiang and others as long as possible, so they don’t interfere with the Blood Sacrifice Ceremony."

"If you can’t even accomplish this simple task, then there’s no reason for you to live."

Captain Jin and the others exchanged glances, but could only follow orders.

Honestly, compared to the abstract things Su the Saint did before, his current task seems quite down to earth.

After assigning the task, Su Yuan looked at Motis, who hadn’t expressed an opinion, and smiled:

"Now that the sea affairs are settled, should we return to report back?"

Motis nodded slightly, bringing out the White Bone Flying Ship to leave with Su Yuan.

Inside the flying ship, Motis spoke with a hint of complexity in her tone:

"Su Yuan, you really are a master of playing dumb. If I were as adept at leading as you, Wu Sheng would have died a hundred times over."

Su Yuan chuckled:

"It’s not too late to learn now."

Motis didn’t continue the topic, just said:

"When facing the Blood Soul True Monarch, I’ll do my best to protect you."

"Hopefully, things will develop as you said, and the Blood Soul True Monarch won’t harm you."