Chapter 690: Vast as a River, Profound as an Abyss

A great secret from the mouth of the top pirate, an upper three grades mystery?

Su Mu’s eyes narrowed slightly, with a bit of contemplation, he nodded lightly. These sea pirates were inherently vicious and malignant, drenched in blood, and today they attempted to slaughter all the guests participating in the auction.

Since that is the case, Su Mu has no psychological burden in taking action, avenging blood with blood. Obtaining another secret from the small pirate leader is just a convenient byproduct.

However, everything depends on their own fate. If they die under the crossbow arrows, Su Mu can’t be blamed.

Thinking of this, Su Mu’s gaze shifted to Quan Feng, who was controlling the Divine Arm Crossbow in the dark corridor. This guy first ambushed big brother Baili Feng, then joined forces with three other major pirates to encircle and kill big brother, second sister, and himself.

This revenge was naturally irreconcilable. Today, Quan Feng came knocking on the door, saving Su Mu some trouble.

Feeling Su Mu’s solid gaze, Quan Feng’s heart under his chest suddenly froze, actually producing a suffocating feeling under this gaze, his scalp tingling as if being stared at by something extremely terrifying.

This feeling was not unfamiliar to him. When facing the top three among the thirteen pirates, facing those three old entities, he would have this kind of feeling, only this crisis felt slightly weaker.

“Who, who exactly is this person?!”

Quan Feng trusts his intuition very much. The person in front of him is extremely terrifying. At this moment, Quan Feng doesn’t care about anything else, infusing spiritual power into the token in his hand to send a message.

“Gang Leader Zhao, a formidable enemy has broken into the warehouse intending to seize the accumulated treasures of our gang, quickly come to my aid!”

Feeling the crisis, Quan Feng didn’t hesitate for a moment, immediately activating the special messaging token of the thirteen pirates to summon the remaining major pirate in the shadow hall.

“Boom boom boom!”

Another round of Divine Arm Crossbow volleys; the heavy entrance of the warehouse cave had already been torn apart, rocks were falling, the ground trembled, and the warehouse showed signs of collapse.

During this, there were two low roars filled with shock and anger, coming from the two remaining Hall Masters of sea pirates inside the warehouse. Normally these two spoke with authority and without dissent, but now their hair was disheveled and they were incredibly miserable.

One person’s right arm was cut halfway, torn alive by a crossbow arrow, and another’s waist and abdomen were split with a horrifying gash, their internal organs vaguely visible, suffering such wounds even if Su Mu doesn’t interfere afterward, these two will experience a significant decrease in strength even if they are lucky enough to survive.

“Where is the formidable enemy? Quan Feng, if you dare to deceive me, I’ll make you pay!”

Deeper down the corridor echoed heavy footsteps, followed by a boisterous laugh, as a broad-shouldered, bald-headed man with no eyebrows or hair, wearing ink-scaled armor, strode forward.

The man took a step forward, crossing nearly a yard in distance, much quicker than many people who were sprinting.

Upon seeing this seemingly ridiculous bald-headed man without eyebrows appear, Quan Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The newcomer is the fourth-ranked among the thirteen pirates, the Sea Tide Gang Leader Zhao Lei, only trailing behind those top three!

Although Zhao Lei has not yet taken the step beyond the fourth grade, he is very close. If it comes to cross-training martial arts skills, no one among the thirteen pirates surpasses him!

“Gang Leader Zhao, it’s him!”

Facing Zhao Lei, Quan Feng, also a member of the thirteen pirates, spoke with three parts respect as he pointed towards Su Mu inside the warehouse, Zhao Lei looked where Quan Feng pointed and initially a hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes, followed by a strong battle intent rising.

The more powerful the cultivator, the sharper the intuition. Just one glance, he could sense a significant threat from the unfamiliar figure inside the warehouse.

But in Zhao Lei’s view, threats are a double-edged sword.

Zhao Lei is ranked under three because he has been unable to advance to half-step Grandmaster. But no one knows that previously he was actually the second among the thirteen pirates, only later being surpassed sequentially by Liu Sha and Wang Heng.

Originally the second among the thirteen pirates, Zhao Lei has always kept his resentment within; how could he remain content under others? Thus, when Liu Sha proposed entering the Secret Realm early to probe the upper three grades mystery, Zhao Lei was instantly tempted.

Perhaps the Secret Realm could be his perfect chance to surpass those three above him!

For this reason, when Liu Sha suggested the Blood Array Ritual to sacrifice the guests, Zhao Lei was the first to agree. But now Zhao Lei sees another opportunity.

If he directly challenges the top three, those guys will certainly go all out; he might retreat unscathed, but he will surely pay a price.

In summary, Liu Sha and the others are too strong, exerting too much pressure on Zhao Lei; the person in front of him is just right. Battling such a formidable enemy might allow him to touch the half-step Grandmaster threshold.

“Who are you? Announce your name!”

Zhao Lei stepped forward, his whole body’s bones creaking, a thick metallic sheen flowing over every inch of his skin, with three large flowers rising from his crown.

Su Mu remained silent, which made Zhao Lei feel a sense of scorn.

“Hmph, arrogant! Today your Grandpa Zhao Lei will use you as his sharpening stone, just hoping you don’t die too quickly, depriving your Grandpa Zhao of satisfaction!”

With that, the three flowers atop Zhao Lei’s head bloomed, his powerful momentum was evident, with the cascading surging qi blood even surpassing Gongyang Jue back then, at this moment his entire body muscles transformed into an iron-like black hue, seemingly thoroughly fused with his ink-colored armor, emitting an even more terrifying aura.

Strolling by, the sea pirates controlling the four Divine Arm Crossbows couldn’t help but breathe heavily, their bodies slightly trembling as they stopped the action of loading crossbow arrows.

“Hell Prison Fist·Diamond Suppression Prison!”