In an instant, the dozens of demonic beasts’ bodies flashed with light, actually advancing in rank.
This battle.
The entire top-floor room contained hundreds of sects.
Each sect had around a thousand disciples.
Of course, not all of these disciples were core members.
Within each sect, there were only a few dozen core disciples.
However, even so, there were tens of thousands of them.
The battle of tens of thousands of people made Chu Tian's vision blur.
On the demonic beast side, the tens of thousands had increased to hundreds of thousands, and further in the distance, countless more demonic beasts were rushing forward one after another.
Chu Tian conservatively estimated there were several million.
Fortunately, these sects had formations.
Therefore, the casualties were relatively low.
Otherwise, they might have been overwhelmed by this tide of sea demons.
However, even now, Chu Tian had not found the demonic beast that had made the sound.
Moreover, no particularly powerful individuals had appeared among the demonic beasts.
Only those that had advanced by devouring human bodies kept increasing.
As he continued to collect corpses.
The Life Tree’s radiant light grew stronger and stronger.
Chu Tian suddenly didn’t want this battle to end so quickly.
Looking at the increasingly listless sect disciples.
Chu Tian decided to give them some incentive.
If this battle ended now, he would collect even fewer corpses.
Therefore, Chu Tian slowed down his collection speed.
Allowing these disciples to occasionally obtain a demon core.
This scene caused the disciples’ expressions to brighten.
This feeling, as if killing a demonic beast and collecting a demon core each time, was even more captivating.
It was best to play a game like this.
If every monster dropped abundant loot,
The game would soon lose its appeal.
What made a game captivating was its uncertain drop rate.
Every time a monster was killed, right at its last drop of blood.
It easily made one’s heart race.
Because everyone was anticipating good equipment, items, and so on.
The atmosphere Chu Tian was creating now was precisely this.
Among the disciples, those who obtained demon cores would laugh excitedly.
Others would cast envious glances.
Therefore, they fought even more ferociously, all hoping that the monster they delivered the final blow to would yield a demon core.
At the same time, Chu Tian also let go of some corpses.
Giving the demonic beasts some sweet rewards.
This created a similar atmosphere within the other faction.
The sea demons who managed to snatch demonic beast corpses would cry out in excitement.
However, the more enthusiastically they cried out.
The greater their chances of being targeted by the sects.
Often, a demonic beast would die.
Its corpse would change hands multiple times, and even as the demonic beasts fought over corpses, they would attack their own companions.
Chu Tian stood at the bow of the ship, inwardly reveling.
This feeling was so exhilarating.
No wonder, back when he played games, many people wanted to be GMs.
The feeling of controlling and toying with others was truly damned satisfying.
The ferry set sail, charging forward amidst the encirclement of sea demons.
This charge lasted for three days and three nights.
The fighting also lasted for three days and three nights.
The ferry carved a bloody path through the endless sea demons.
Finally, the sea demons ahead disappeared.
The sea demons pursuing from behind also abruptly stopped, ceasing their advance.
In this battle, over the course of three days and three nights, Chu Tian witnessed the death of at least forty thousand people, all of whom were at least at the initial stage of the Venerable level.
In the Western Desolation, a Venerable level expert was so rare that whenever one walked among nations, the emperors of those nations would kneel and pay their respects.
Yet, on this ship, Venerable level experts were like ants.
The atmosphere in each sect was rather somber.
However, the disciples who died were all non-core members.
Not a single core disciple had died.
Many people returned to the ship.
This somber atmosphere quickly dissipated.
The disciples began to chatter amongst themselves, even boasting.
"Haha, I collected 1237 demon cores!"
"I collected 1928, this trip wasn't in vain!"
"I only collected a little over 800, and I killed a full ten thousand! How unlucky!"
"Don't talk about it, I killed no less than thirty thousand, maybe even twenty thousand, and only got over a hundred cores!"
"It's really strange, this is my 9th time on this ship, I've encountered beast attacks three times, and this is the first time something like this has happened!"
These young disciples were discussing.
The sect elders leading them had ashen faces.
These disciples didn't dwell on the deaths of those who had perished.
Because in their eyes, those non-core disciples were merely their servants.
Sect elders couldn't think that way, as every disciple, even if not a core member, required resources to cultivate.
A sect couldn't only cultivate core disciples.
This time, they had suffered heavy losses.
The demon cores they collected were simply not enough to compensate.
Even Helmsman Li found it very strange.
His expression was equally grim.
The crew members of their Yunshui Merchant House had also lost many lives this time.
Furthermore, the ferry, protected by formations and operating at full speed, had charged for three days and three nights.
The soul crystals consumed were enough for a round trip of a ship.
But fortunately, they had finally shaken off those demonic beasts.
However, they were also inwardly puzzled.
These sea demons, in the past, would fight them to the death and never give up pursuit.
That's why he had ordered them to stop and fight them from the beginning.
The objective was to annihilate all the sea demons, and if it weren't for the inability to collect demon cores.
He would never have ordered the ship to charge out.
After all, after sailing for so many years.
People had long since figured out the fighting habits of sea demons.
You couldn't escape; every time they attacked ships.
They would fight until the last one, and they would never exclude particularly high-level sea demons.
Their objective was to reduce the population.
Only when the population was reduced to a certain extent would they retreat.
However, almost every group of sea demons sent out to attack ships were unlucky cannon fodder.
But this time, they only ran for three days and three nights.
And those sea demons stopped pursuing.
What was going on?
Why was it different from before?
In the past, it would take at least seven days of fighting to completely eliminate these sea demons.
Looking at the sea demon formation that had been left far behind.
Gradually becoming a black dot.
A cheer erupted on the ship.
Everyone with lower cultivation levels let out a sigh of relief.
For these three days and three nights, they had barely slept.
They were afraid that those defending against the sea demons would not be able to hold on.
If that happened, they would all become food for the sea demons.
Everyone had spent three days and three nights in fear.
Lin Qiaoqiao had become so gaunt that her small face was sallow.
However, there were also those who were different, namely Chu Qiankun and Lin Qingyuan.
These two guys would come out daily for a stroll.
They would watch the excitement for a while and then return to sleep.
They didn't take it seriously at all.
However, they did notice Chu Tian standing at the bow of the ship.
Although they didn't go to meet him, in Lin Qingyuan's words, "With my elder brother here, you can all rest assured."
Chu Qiankun was genuinely carefree, not taking these sea demons seriously at all.
He also knew very well that the thief stealing corpses was Chu Tian.
With the sea demons gone, a great weight was lifted from everyone's hearts.