Above the Great Dao
Chapter 238 - 128 Displaying Divine Skills, The Past Events of Western Capital

Chapter 238: Chapter 128 Displaying Divine Skills, The Past Events of Western Capital

"But after all, they are just children, inferior to me in terms of cunning and strategy," thought Li Xiaozheng to himself.

He then felt a bit annoyed at himself for being foolish enough to compare himself with two children. As a governor, being laughed at for such a comparison if word got out was not a pleasant thought.

"Entering the Ghost God Domain, one is influenced by the domain, and the strength of the stone ship’s Ghost God Domain lies in petrifying everything."

Li Tianqing looked towards the stone people in the river channel and said, "They are the ones who were petrified by the expansion of the Ghost God Domain. To be petrified is to die."

These people were the ones who had repeatedly triggered the stone ship’s Ghost God Domain, leading to their deaths in the river channel.

The instant the stone ship’s Ghost God Domain was activated, everyone within the domain would turn to stone, unless their cultivation was formidable enough to withstand the domain!

Chen Shi looked at Li Xiaozheng, and Li Tianqing did the same.

Li Xiaozheng finally realized that he did have some usefulness, and with a look of pride, he said coolly, "I have already achieved Divine Descent, and I am just a step away from the Void Refinement Realm of the God Refining stage. I am valued by the Li Family and serve as the governor of Xin Xiang Province..."

Chen Shi interrupted him, "Governor, can you protect us and Black Pot against the Ghost God Domain to prevent us from being petrified?"

Before Li Xiaozheng could finish, he felt displeased but still replied, "I cannot completely eliminate the influence of the stone ship’s domain, but I can greatly slow down our petrification."

"How much can you slow it down?" Chen Shi pressed.

"Three-quarters of an hour!"

Li Xiaozheng smiled and said, "Do not underestimate these forty-five minutes; they could save our lives."

Chen Shi nodded slightly, took the Sailor Token from Li Tianqing, carefully examined it, found nothing special, then handed it back to him, saying, "Tianqing, what is your cultivation now?"

"Golden Core Second Transition, and soon I will reach the Golden Core Third Transformation. What about you?"

"I am also at Golden Core Second Transition. Come the autumn examinations, I should reach Fourth or Fifth Transition. By the way, have you heard from Xiao Jin?"

"No. Has she contacted you?"

"No. Women are so heartless."

"Indeed."

The two boys empathized with each other as they chatted and walked forward.

Li Xiaozheng followed them with a smile, speaking to Black Pot, "I became the governor of Xin Xiang Province not because of my good reputation, but because my cultivation is strong, and I have many tricks up my sleeve. In the Li Family, apart from the Clan Leader and a few elders, I am second to none."

"Woof?" Black Pot expressed confusion.

Li Xiaozheng smiled slightly and leisurely said, "So, I am quite useful, more so than you."

Black Pot tilted its head, pondered for a moment, not understanding why the governor was competing with it.

I’m just a dog, what are we competing for? It was utterly baffled.

It quickly went up to one of the stone people, lifted its hind leg, and urinated on the stone person’s leg. It then looked back at the governor as if to show off before running away.

If the governor were to urinate on a stone figure as well, it would be a challenge, an attempt to steal its position, and it would be unforgivable!

It thought to itself that they must fight this out for dominance.

Li Xiaozheng didn’t understand the dog’s behavior and followed Chen Shi and Li Tianqing.

Black Pot looked at him with some disdain.

This man wanted to vie for position with it but didn’t dare to confront it head-on.

Coward!

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing approached the stone ship, climbed onto the riverbed, and looked out at the ship.

The place where the stone ship was moored used to be a dock, but time had passed too long, and the dock had decayed, leaving only a pile of rubble.

There were even more stone people around the stone ship, each with an expression of fleeing and fear, as if they had encountered something terrifying.

Among them were many from the Li Family of Quanzhou who had met their end here as well.

At this moment, many people surrounded the ship, a dense crowd.

There must have been several battles here, with many shattered stone people on the ground, evidencing that the major families wanted to monopolize the Great Ming Treasure Ship and thus tried to eliminate others. But with too many experts from the family clans present, no single family could consume the ship alone, so now they had put aside their hostilities to jointly explore the Treasure Ship.

Li Xiaozheng looked at those petrified corpses, smiling, "Xia, Yan, Zhang, Yang, Gao, Xu, Jiang, Fei, Zhai, Cui, Ma, Gu, and our Li Family, these Thirteen Families, have almost all sent people. With so many dead, it only serves to enhance my prestige."

He couldn’t help feeling proud; the Thirteen Families hadn’t even boarded yet, and a third were already casualties. And this was all thanks to his Golden Cicada Shell Shedding strategy, otherwise why would the old foxes of the major families be willing to spend so much effort to explore the Treasure Ship?

On the outermost side, more than ten people with horses and carriages had turned to stone, yet those ten or so people seemed to be unharmed.

Above their heads hung a massive copper mirror, weighing thousands of pounds, unbelievably suspended in the air without any support.

Dazzling light shot out from the copper mirror, illuminating the stone ship.

Chen Shi looked from a distance and vaguely saw figures walking in the light.

Wherever the mirror’s light shone, the people within the light walked to there.

"Such Spell is truly ingenious!" Chen Shi exclaimed.

Elsewhere, another dozen people were protecting an elderly man with white beard, hair, and eyebrows, who was floating in the air and actually sleeping next to the stone ship. Even though he was in deep sleep, white smoke flew out from between his eyebrows, forming a cloud. Four or five people climbed onto this cloud and floated towards the stone ship.

The cloud emerging from the old man’s forehead was like incense smoke, endlessly sustaining the cloud without dispersion.

Chen Shi was curious and asked, "Mr. Li, if this great dream Skill were to be disturbed, would the Spell collapse?"

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