Whoosh! Whoosh!
The torrential rain suddenly began to fall, and the rotten planks amid the storm's onslaught emitted an intense, incessant creaking noise.
Almost instinctively, as if seeing a terrifying monster, the Ghost Ship Captain frantically waved the ship's anchor in his hand, trying to shake off the slippery tentacles on his arm and move away from Chen Qi's strike range.
Relying on his powerful strength, the Ghost Ship Captain took two blows to his chest and, pulling his arms free, quickly distanced himself from Chen Qi's attack range.
The Ghost Ship Captain stabilized himself and looked again at the human before him.
The dense raindrops kept hitting its cloak.
Yet, despite being in their domain, he felt no fear at all; instead, he was enjoying this grand thunderstorm!
Hoping this battle would be exhilarating... Chen Qi once again positioned his blade.
The Ghost Ship Captain's spectral flames blazed up again, and he slammed the anchor onto the deck:
"Skulls at the bow! Strategic retreat, all other skeletons, attack for me!"
The Ghost Ship was a single entity! In case of encountering an insurmountable enemy, they could instantly flee, which was the core tactic that had kept them arrogant for so long!
However, amidst the dense storm, no skeletons responded to its command.
It slowly turned its head and saw that the Ghost Ship was already covered with disgusting black mud.
Not only that, a sea monster with green algal hair sat at the bow, revealing its bloody fangs and continuously directing ten cloud-like creatures, blocking any skeleton trying to approach Chen Qi.
Some fish emitting ghostly fires were frantically sucking the green spectral flames of their Ghost Ship.
And the foolish near-sea overlord suddenly grew a brain and stopped confronting their Ghost Ship's cannons head-on!
Besides, in its perception, six slime-like creatures, wearing skull helmets and wielding little spine daggers, shouting "waku waku" as they stormed one cabin after another, defeating one elite skeleton pirate after another and penetrating into their Ghost Ship's engine room!
This group of little slimes treated its Ghost Ship like a castle in a fairy tale, overcoming every challenge!
Now, the entire Ghost Ship was already in chaos, with not a single skeleton able to heed his commands!
And at the center of all these anomalies was this human right before its eyes.
"Monster..."
At this moment, the Ghost Ship Captain could only describe the being before him with this word.
It firmly gripped the anchor.
It hadn't expected that just a brief pause had robbed them of the possibility to escape.
Since there was no way out, they would make a stand with their backs to the water!
The Ghost Ship Captain's entire body burst forth with seething spectral green flames, its spine fiercely expanded by the flames, making its already huge body swell even larger.
Next, it would absorb the energy from the core!
The Form of Green Fire!
Drawing the engine's power and consuming part of the regenerative power, it regained even greater strength and speed!
It no longer thought about the result of the battle nor the possibility of escape.
At this moment, the only way the Ghost Ship Captain could secure victory was to utterly crush the human before it!
"Human, to kill this ship, you must first kill its captain!"
"Since you wish to see, then witness it slowly, human!"
The Ghost Ship Captain's spine cracked loudly, and it gripped the chain of the anchor, swinging it like a hammer throw, smashing towards Chen Qi!
Bang! Amidst a massive thud, the Ghost Ship Captain and the anchor surged forward, looming over Chen Qi like a mountain.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Ghost Ship Captain's upper arms swung down, smashed sideways, elbowed, and headbutted in a series of attacks, as relentless as a fierce storm!
Any slight underestimation would be caught in this onslaught! Reduced to rubble!
"That's right!"
Chen Qi waved the Meat Cutting Bone Breaking blade in a storm-like flurry of slashes!
At this moment, having absorbed Yu Huo's furious rage, the Meat Cutting Bone Breaking had activated its Fury Blade mode, even the most basic slash possessed a power matching that of the Qi Blade Slash.
Even though he had absorbed the anger, Chen Qi still couldn't hide his excitement.
Nevertheless, the Ghost Ship Captain possessed the prowess of escaping from Third-tier Transcendents multiple times!
This indeed was a foe worth defeating! A worthy live combat practice!
Ding ding ding ding ding!
The anchor and the blade clinked crisply in the air.
"Die die die die die die!"
Like a resentful spirit, the Ghost Ship Captain continuously muttered deathly incantations.
At this moment, under the continuous barrage, the deck under Chen Qi had already split in all directions while the power of the anchor had broken through the defense.
A massive sense of drowning began to spread from his limbs!
The circulation of both breath and Qi Power became difficult—
Simultaneously, Chen Qi found his opportunity to attack!
In Teacher An's course, when facing someone adept in Spiritual Power induction, one must not rely solely on Spiritual Power perception but must depend on the physical senses.
Although he had learned it in his mind, the difficulty was indeed immense, and Chen Qi hadn't mastered it well.
Although he hadn't completely mastered this way of anticipation, he had learned how to use Spiritual Power to induce others!
And the Ghost Ship Captain before him, essentially possessing no physical senses, was all skeleton!
Chen Qi slightly released killing intent and Spiritual Power, misleading the Ghost Ship Captain.
The Ghost Ship Captain, as if seizing an opportunity, pressed its body forward.
Then, at the moment its attack missed, Chen Qi slightly shifted his body and thrust his long blade forcefully into the opponent's spine.
Chen Qi gripped the knife with both hands, lifted forcefully, and tossed the Ghost Ship Captain into the air.
Simultaneously, the tentacles behind him also entwined the Ghost Ship Captain, binding him in mid-air!
This moment of suspension was the Ghost Ship Captain's time of death!
Chen Qi gathered all his Qi Power into the blade, then his whole body sprang like a bowstring, unleashing his power!
Blade of Fury!
Cutting All!
With a loud whooshing sound, Chen Qi suddenly unleashed an upward slash.
Accompanied by the black fire that tore through the raindrops, the Ghost Ship Captain's body was severed into two halves and fell to the ground.
Accompanied by the sound of breaking bones, the entire ocean instantly quieted down.
"No, no..."
The ghost ship captain's head kept making struggling sounds on the deck.
Gurgle, gurgle—
The hard skull head rolled once again to Chen Qi's feet.
"Huff..."
Chen Qi exhaled a breath of Qi Power, as with his current strength, defeating the Ghost Ship Captain by relying solely on his own power was still somewhat strenuous.
However, no matter what, the ultimate victor was him.
Bang!
Chen Qi stepped on the skull head.
The Blade of Fury's Cutting All not only enhanced strength but also suppressed the recovery of flesh and bone!
The power of this strike was even stronger than he had imagined!
Even though the Ghost Ship Captain possessed strong regenerative abilities, he couldn't use them.
And soon, his Deep Sea Water Elf Brave Squad would remove the core from the engine room.
The Ghost Ship Captain's skull head twitched, born from the crack, it retained its unruliness from when it was alive.
But at this moment, in such a humiliating state, it had no strength to resist, only endless regret…
If it had encountered this monster a bit later, had faced the near sea overlord later, by the time its ghost ship had absorbed enough power, perhaps the outcome might have been different… The Ghost Ship Captain's skull head stopped talking, silently accepting its fate.
"Hey, little skeleton, where did you put the backpack card you got earlier?"
Chen Qi stomped firmly on the head with his foot.
He remembered that the Ghost Ship Captain had previously snatched Siren's backpack card.
The Ghost Ship Captain didn't speak but silently rolled.
It looked at a corner of the ghost ship, revealing a flicker of fear and anticipation.
"Wait?"
Not right!
Chen Qi faintly felt a sense of ominous foreboding.
In this corner of the ghost ship's deck, there was a faint presence of Spiritual Power.
Could there be another master?
And this person even managed to completely evade his Spiritual Power sensing!
Chen Qi immediately looked in the direction of the corner; the battle had drained him significantly, and he now lacked the strength for another fight.
If another Ghost Ship Captain arrived, he might even consider abandoning the Territory of the White Tree.
What exactly was it... Chen Qi looked worriedly towards the corner.
However, contrary to his expectations, he didn't encounter another skeletal general.
In the corner, there was only a barrel.
Under the fierce windstorm, the barrel was knocked over and rolled across the deck.
What is this thing? Chen Qi tilted his head, stunned.
"Ah, ah, ah, ah!"
Painful screams came from inside the barrel.
With a snap, the barrel's lid hit the side of the ship, and then a young, blonde woman rolled out of it.
She had her eyes tightly shut, dressed in a tailored white work blouse, a pair of snug brown leather pants, and waterproof long boots, the attire of a trendy elite white-collar woman from Moonstone City.
However, at this moment, she showed none of the vigor that the outfit suggested, appearing utterly disheveled under the heavy rain.
"Damn it, going to be made into sashimi by the Ghost Ship Captain…"
"Calm down, calm down…"
Suddenly falling out of the barrel, she stuck out her rear end, making strange noises, then curiously turned her head.
At this moment, she had imagined what it would be like to become a skeleton specimen by the Ghost Ship Captain.
But contrary to her expectations, she did not see the fiercely formidable ghost ship captain she had imagined.
In painful struggles, she tried hard to slowly open her eyes.
Her eyes met directly with the Ghost Ship Captain's skull hole.
That ghost ship captain's expression, almost as disheveled as hers!
Why is the Ghost Ship Captain reduced to just a head?
What happened?
"Eh?"
The rain beat down on her rear end, and she faintly felt something even more terrifying was on this ship.
What to do? Can she run? Can she still hide?
She mimicked the wriggling black mud on the ground, twisting and turning, pretending to be the wriggling black mud.
But the eyes on that skull head kept staring at her!
After a complex psychological battle, she slowly raised her head to look at the captain's boots above her and the owner of those boots, trying hard to squeeze out a voice from her throat:
"Sir, good evening…"
It's not evening yet, Peril... Chen Qi smiled slightly:
"Miss, good afternoon."