Free Web NovelChapter 2038: Chapter 2038: On the Brink! Underworld Ghost Sea! It Wasn’t Our Fault!
These few Creation Realm Cultivators were very confident they could get Mu Jinyu under control.
Back when they first boarded the ship, they had indeed guessed: why hadn’t Mu Jinyu been killed by the Zhenhai City Lord, and was still alive?
They were worried that Mu Jinyu had actually defeated the Zhenhai City Lord!
But that guess was really a bit outrageous.
They had never seen anyone at the Life and Death Realm defeat someone at the Chrono Light Realm!
So they speculated it must be that Mu Jinyu had paid the Zhenhai City Lord a huge sum, and with some power backing him up from behind, only then did the Zhenhai City Lord refrain from killing Mu Jinyu, seize all his possessions, and instead spared his life and let him compensate a massive loss.
And in order to proactively make up for his mistake, after paying compensation, Mu Jinyu had even taken the initiative to buy the last three tickets on the sea ship heading to the Central Domain, and bought a VIP room as well, to curry favor with the Zhenhai City Lord.
Therefore, the Zhenhai City Lord had been in a pretty good mood at that time, and even told them to go thank Mu Jinyu.
However, since the Zhenhai City Lord needed to remain over in the Eastern Region, he would be somewhat scrupulous about the force behind Mu Jinyu, and thus spared his life without going too far.
But now that they had already left the Eastern Region and were about to reach the Central Domain, what did they have to fear from the force behind Mu Jinyu?
If Mu Jinyu behaved himself, they wouldn’t mind having him hand over a huge pile of Source Stones and then taking him to serve as an Advanced Level Servant by the side of some Immortal Clan powerhouse!
But since Mu Jinyu refused to behave, then they weren’t afraid of the power behind him at all, and could simply kill him outright and take everything on him!
"Money moves the human heart"—that saying holds true anywhere.
"Oh? Then why don’t you come and try?"
Hearing the threats from these Creation Realm Cultivators, Mu Jinyu’s eyes turned cold as well, and he spoke in a deep voice.
He hadn’t expected these people to be so bold, to actually dare threaten him like this, coveting the Source Stones on him!
Even he hadn’t wanted to kill them just because they were going to the Foreign Race side to be dogs; yet they treated him like this...
This made Mu Jinyu start to feel that he really had been far too merciful!
So much so that they no longer put him in their eyes at all!
"Boom!!"
Just as the two sides were facing off, Murderous Aura overflowing and a great battle about to erupt at any moment—
All of a sudden, the entire ship began to shake violently, as if, just like that day, it had accidentally rammed into Sea Beasts again!
"What’s going on?"
"Has something happened?"
"Aren’t we about to reach the Central Domain? How could something still go wrong?"
"That’s not right! Go take a look!"
"..."
The hull trembled fiercely; many people nearly couldn’t even stand steady. Everyone looked at each other, terror rising on their faces.
Even those Creation Realm Cultivators who had been planning to threaten Mu Jinyu into handing over his Source Stones had all changed expressions at this moment, losing any interest in fighting Mu Jinyu.
If they could safely reach the Central Domain, then threatening Mu Jinyu in advance and stripping him of all his good stuff was of course no problem at all!
But if they couldn’t make it to the Central Domain smoothly, if danger arose along the way and there was a chance they might fall, then what use would all the good things they took from Mu Jinyu be?
So...
The pressing matter right now was to first figure out what exactly had happened to their sea ship to make it shake so violently.
Soon, everyone left their seats and cautiously made their way to several windows in the hall, peeking out through the curtains.
At once, all their faces turned deathly pale, drained of all color!
Some with weaker nerves were so frightened they fell straight on their butts to the floor, trembling all over!
"The... Underworld Ghost Sea..."
"How could we be this unlucky, to accidentally enter the Underworld Ghost Sea!"
"..."
Once the group snapped out of their fright, they all began wailing and howling as if the sky were collapsing.
Their entire beings were filled with despair and helplessness!
The Underworld Ghost Sea was a very special sea region within the Forbidden Dead Sea!
No one knew its exact location. Some had encountered this sea region when setting out near the Western Regions, and some had bumped into it near the Northern Region!
Some had even run into it near the center of the Forbidden Dead Sea!
It was as if it roamed everywhere within the Forbidden Dead Sea!
But the Netherworld Dead Sea did not appear year-round; it basically only surfaced once every few hundred years!
It was said that the last time the Netherworld Dead Sea appeared was seventy years ago!
By rights, the next appearance of the Netherworld Dead Sea shouldn’t be for at least another hundred years!
So after they crossed the most dangerous area of the Forbidden Dead Sea, with only five or six days left before reaching the Central Domain, they had felt they were already safe and would surely arrive in the Central Domain smoothly!
They hadn’t even considered the matter of the Underworld Ghost Sea!
Who could have thought that this Underworld Ghost Sea, which wasn’t supposed to show up again for over a hundred years, would appear early and cause them to blunder directly into it!
If they had known in advance that the Underworld Ghost Sea would appear, they would definitely have been far more cautious and careful; then perhaps they could have avoided accidentally entering it.
But because they didn’t know the Underworld Ghost Sea would appear, they’d gone and held a celebration banquet in advance right here, and no one bothered to pay much attention to the ship’s navigation, resulting in them mistakenly entering the Netherworld Dead Sea just like that.
They knew very well that anyone who accidentally entered the Netherworld Dead Sea could only escape if they were an Emperor Level existence!
Even King Level existences had once entered it by mistake and then completely vanished from the human world, with not a single trace left behind!
So after discovering they had blundered into the Underworld Ghost Sea, how could they not cry in bitterness and feel that life held no hope?
"The Underworld Ghost Sea?!"
Hearing their anguished cries, Mu Jinyu’s expression also changed slightly.
Since he was preparing to cross the sea to reach the Central Domain, he had naturally done his homework beforehand and had heard of the terror of the Underworld Ghost Sea!
He hadn’t expected their luck to be this bad—that the Underworld Ghost Sea would suddenly appear early, and they would charge straight into it!
"Fuck!"
Mu Jinyu couldn’t help cursing, then quickly walked over to a window with fewer people and looked out!
He saw that the sea outside had already become pitch-black, with almost no trace of light.
Only a few eerie, ghastly green Ghost flames were drifting in the distance!
And the sea surface that had always appeared calm and rippleless was now surging violently after they strayed into the Underworld Ghost Sea, as if they had run into a tsunami!
This was also why their ship had begun to constantly shudder!
"Damn it!!"
"Hurry and find the crew, have them turn back!"
Mu Jinyu swore angrily, then strode out of the hall toward the bridge, wanting the crew to quickly see whether they could escape the Underworld Ghost Sea!
Wang Qingxue was so frightened that her face was pale, completely at a loss what to do.
Hearing Mu Jinyu’s words, although she felt it probably wouldn’t help, she still followed him and ran out!
Very soon, they all reached the bridge.
They saw several crew members, faces twisted in pain, yet also filled with powerless remorse!
"Turn back now! Turn back, hurry!!"
Mu Jinyu urged them, shouting!
"There’s nothing we can do! Our ship is already out of control; it’s moving forward on its own now!"
One crew member said helplessly.
"Why didn’t you keep watch? Why did you sail into this place?!" Upon hearing this, Mu Jinyu felt a wave of weakness, his whole body turning cold, and he sighed!
"We didn’t sail into this ourselves, nor did we slack off and let the ship stray in by mistake! When we saw the Underworld Ghost Sea, we immediately changed course to leave, but for some reason the Underworld Ghost Sea directly Shifted over to us and dragged us straight into it!"
One crew member spoke in a voice filled with unbearable anguish.
