Cave Refuge

Two people with vastly different family backgrounds, if they wish to get along happily, inevitably, it's the one from the lower family condition who becomes the richer person's lackey, otherwise, it's the member from the slightly poorer family who must have an extraordinarily exceptional talent. Otherwise, the two individuals simply cannot coexist peacefully.

When Elder Jefferson asked Jason Jefferson how many high-end ingredients he planned to purchase, Jason hesitated only slightly before making a sweeping gesture, deciding to go all-in and put up seventy percent of his Mysterious Core reserves for the transaction.

Compared to the tedious application process required for every little thing, private enterprises like Jason's were much simpler, where Jason could be said to have absolute authority on board.

Because the transaction involved such a large amount of Mysterious Cores, Jason naturally was also present at the scene, and only after watching Dong Tianyu retrieve so many materials for the trade from the Storage Space did Jason overturn the original impression he had of Dong Tianyu in his mind.

However, for Dong Tianyu, what impression he made on Jason wasn't important. What mattered most during each transaction was how many Mysterious Cores the other party could provide.

The high-end ingredients produced in the Cave offered an accelerated effect on cultivation after consumption because they were planted in a Cave where the concentration of Spirit Energy was very high, absorbing and settling traces of Spirit Energy during their growth.

For this reason, when these ingredients were consumed, the Spirit Energy accumulated within them entered the consumer's body and was absorbed. With the long-term cumulative consumption, it would naturally and gradually enhance the consumer's cultivation talent and speed.

Thus, consuming high-end ingredients had a very obvious effect on others, but for someone like Dong Tianyu, who could spend extended periods cultivating in the Cave where high concentrations of Spirit Energy gathered, it did not make much of a difference.

In any case, eating more brought no improvement to himself; he might as well recycle the waste and sell it for Mysterious Cores—materials that could enhance the abilities of Companion Spiritual Treasures.

Dong Tianyu wasn't opposed to exchanging for materials that were useful to him. However, so far, aside from those rarities that could promote the Cave's growth progress, he had not discovered any items that could significantly affect his own cultivation.

After acquiring a substantial amount of Mysterious Cores, Dong Tianyu fed them all to his Companion Spiritual Treasure without keeping a single Core, even though Mysterious Cores had essentially become the mainstream currency.

But for Dong Tianyu, if he truly wanted to purchase something, as long as he knew the specific location of the item, it would inevitably end up back under Dong Tianyu's control, whether it was material or people, without exception.

As the transaction between the two parties concluded, the materials stored in Jason's Companion Spiritual Treasure were also all transferred to other ships. Everyone could leave from Jason's Companion Spiritual Treasure, allowing Jason to store his Companion Spiritual Treasure in his Sea of Consciousness.

Just as everyone joyfully left the cabin, the ship suddenly rocked violently from side to side as if struck by a fierce blow before the people in the cabin could quickly exit, desperate to find out the specific reason.

After everyone climbed onto the deck, they noticed, inexplicably, snake-like creatures which could not usually climb directly onto the deck from the water had seemingly become smarter, knowing to cooperate and leverage each other. Finally, using a collaborative method, they coiled several snakes into a ball and, using a mechanism similar to a catapult, flung the snake ball onto the deck.

This was why there were so many Venomous Snakes on the deck at the moment.

In reality, even though regular snakes had a very low chance of winning a direct confrontation against an average adult, if sneak attacks were considered, they were incredibly precise with their bites.

And though there were many snakes on the deck, with their imposing appearance, if the Guard Squad members took action, resolving the situation would not be difficult and wouldn't even take much time.

Indeed, when the Guard Squad members reappeared on the deck, it wasn't long before the snake-like creatures that had been on the deck were thrown back into the water one by one using weapons resembling the Fire-Tipped Spear held by the Guard Squad.

The reason those snake-like creatures quickly became subdued after being attacked by the Fire-Tipped Spear was that the metal spearhead of the spear was capable of electrifying.

Each touch of the Fire-Tipped Spear infused an electric current into the target's body. Although the current from a single infusion was not much, Dong Tianyu was accustomed to using the spear rapidly, and the attack speed did not decrease much. Therefore, under such a high frequency of attacks, very few enemy units could withstand for a long time.

The snake-like creatures on the deck, naturally having weak resistance, were essentially paralyzed with just one or two hits, and then they could be easily flung off the deck with a flick of the spear tip.

As for the snake-like creatures that were flung out, whether they got injured or could continue to live after being thrown off the deck was of no concern to the Guard Squad members, as long as there were no more monsters on the deck.

However, when Jason Jefferson came to his senses and looked at the now cleaned deck, he sighed helplessly.

Although those snakes suddenly crawling onto the deck posed a certain danger to the crew on the ship, the danger was not very high. Now, during a period of scarce supplies, although no one had directly eaten those snake-like creatures, anything edible to fill the stomach was good enough. For most ordinary people at this time, the main role of food was to sate hunger, regardless of taste, as long as it was filling.

Just as Jason Jefferson was preparing to lead everyone to leave, a sudden 'squeak squeak squeak' noise came from the water and onto the deck.

Seeing this creature with slender and muscular upper limbs, short and weak lower limbs, and a face exactly like the legendary water monkeys conjured in their minds, everyone was stunned. No one expected a water monkey to suddenly launch a sneak attack without any warning.

Fortunately, Dong Tianyu reacted quickly, and his Flying Swords instantly severed the creature's hands and feet, otherwise the water monkey might have succeeded.

Since he had already taken action, Dong Tianyu no longer kept hiding. The Flying Swords circled in the air, cutting off the limbs of any enemy that stepped onto the deck and then throwing them back into the water.

Watching Dong Tianyu's Mighty Divine show, everyone had a rough estimate of Dong Tianyu's strength.

Initially, the Guard Squad threw the snake-like creatures back into the water. Although a few died immediately on the deck from excessive force, the deck was relatively clean after dealing with the snake invasion, only requiring a simple cleaning of the blood.

However, when creatures similar to the water monkeys landed on the deck and had already noticed the few people standing there, preparing to attack, they were discovered by Dong Tianyu's Divine Sense. Thus, without any hesitation, Dong Tianyu chopped off their limbs.

Dong Tianyu's actions caused the blood spurting from the severed limbs of the water monkeys to splatter across the deck, making the originally clean deck filthy.

After the two attacks ended, some people quickly realized that these two attacks were almost identical to the creatures that had crawled out of the coffins they had opened earlier.

Initially, some people showed very worried expressions upon seeing this, but when they voiced their concerns, someone reminded them that they had only opened two coffins with monsters, so if nothing unexpected happened, they shouldn't suffer any more sudden attacks from other monsters.