Qin Feng took the treasure and examined it carefully. He could feel a powerful and strange energy contained within the bead, completely different from plant-type magical treasures. He didn't know the bead's specific use, but he understood that treasures in this space likely resided within the bodies of monsters.
Killing monsters meant obtaining their treasures, which would save him a lot of effort in searching for their lairs. In normal circumstances, he would have gone on a rampage in this space, killing all the monsters to claim their treasures, as these treasures would transform into his own strength upon reaching level 1000.
However, he was not in the mood for that now. He only wanted to quickly improve his strength to rescue Ye Shen.
Moreover, he already had many treasures. His storage ring was full, and even his second storage ring was nearing its capacity. Once his strength improved by another realm and he rescued Ye Shen, he could always return to this space later. To save Ye Shen, he had even placed the plant-type treasures on the ship. It was questionable whether these treasures could continue to grow in this space. If they couldn't absorb the spiritual energy of this space, they would wither, rendering all his efforts in the previous space a waste.
With this thought, Qin Feng walked to the ship's cabin and carefully inspected the plant-type magical treasures. He could sense that these treasures were still absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy and showed no signs of wilting. However, Qin Feng could feel that their growth rate had significantly slowed down, absorbing much less spiritual energy than in the previous space. Whether these treasures could mature remained uncertain. But for now, Qin Feng had no other options and could only take things one step at a time.
Thus, Qin Feng returned to the core area of the battleship. He sat cross-legged to cultivate, consuming a pill to accelerate his progress. He still possessed many spirit stones in his storage ring. At his current realm, these spirit stones offered little help, but any assistance was better than none. Qin Feng took out all the spirit stones and began cultivating with them in hand, absorbing all the spiritual energy within to speed up his cultivation.
At this moment, several super Red Alert soldiers, while diving, discovered a few monsters tailing the battleship. They hadn't attacked yet, unsure of the battleship's nature. However, judging by their size, they appeared to be power-type monsters, larger than whales in the ocean.
To these monsters, the Red Alert soldiers were like ants, barely worth their notice. The steel battleship, similar in size to them, quickly captured their attention.
Upon receiving this news, Qin Feng paid no mind. From his experience fighting the previous monster, he knew these monsters had low intelligence. As long as the trailing monsters dared to approach, he would activate the Gatling guns to drive them away. Dealing with such giant creatures underwater was not ideal for the super Red Alert soldiers, as the water resistance would diminish their strength.
Even if they could inflict damage on these behemoths, it would be a waste of considerable effort and time. Qin Feng deemed it not worthwhile, so he ignored them and continued cultivating to improve his strength.
Several days passed. With the continuous consumption of pills, Qin Feng's strength finally showed some progress. He had advanced from the early Nascent Soul stage to the middle Nascent Soul stage, which took him three days. Qin Feng knew that at this pace, it would take him at least several months to reach the Void Refinement stage.
Although it only took him three days to advance from the early to the middle stage, Qin Feng understood that each subsequent minor stage would be exceptionally difficult, requiring several times the time. Moreover, his advancement to the middle stage was aided by pills. At this rate, he wouldn't be able to return to the cultivation world and save Ye Shen's physical body in a short period.
He had to find a way to increase his speed. However, according to the records in the nameless heavenly book, every step of cultivation was arduous, with no shortcuts. To rapidly improve his cultivation, he could only cultivate diligently, step by step. He couldn't enhance his strength significantly in a short time. For now, he could only improve his overall strength, which meant expanding his Red Alert army.
The pills he was currently refining were meant to enhance his combat power and increase his spiritual energy absorption rate. But now, he had to change his approach. He needed to refine body-refining pills and train super Red Alert soldiers!
Just as Qin Feng was about to do so, he suddenly sensed a crisis beneath the sea.
Several super Red Alert soldiers who were diving detected numerous underwater monsters heading towards the battleship. They had increased from a few to dozens. Over these three days, the monster population had steadily grown. They were only active around the battleship, not approaching or attacking it. However, their increasing numbers clearly indicated an impending assault.
If these massive monsters attacked simultaneously, it would be quite troublesome. The battleship's close-in weapons systems couldn't handle attacks from dozens of monsters from underwater at once. The steel battleship could be capsized.
Thinking of this, Qin Feng became somewhat angry. He had intended to pass through this space quietly without engaging these monsters. But these monsters had actively sought him out, intending to cause trouble. He couldn't tolerate it.
Therefore, Qin Feng decided to take the initiative, which would also serve as a test of the steel battleship's combat capabilities.
He quickly commanded the Red Alert soldiers on the ship to control the weapon systems and fired a torpedo towards the monster swarm.
The torpedo moved extremely fast, rapidly heading towards the monster swarm.
The monsters, accustomed to their speed, paid little attention to the small torpedo. Its small size, in their eyes, represented weak power. They completely disregarded it. However, the situation changed when a torpedo struck one of the monsters.
The immense power instantly killed the monster, and the powerful shockwave scattered the remaining monsters. In that instant, even the monster swarm was stunned. They didn't understand what had happened, only feeling a blast that left them dizzy.
But the attack was not over. Torpedoes were fired one after another, and missiles, under Qin Feng's control, also launched towards the monster swarm. Various weapon systems, including close-in weapons, joined the assault.
The monster swarm suffered heavy losses instantly.