Chapter 693: Chapter 468: The Material of the Hull_2
Next, he abandoned the idea of a metallic hull. If Zachary lacked a Cave, he would have chosen a metallic hull without any hesitation.
Although it is said that no martial art can withstand a swift attack, that is said of people, not ships.
If the quality and grade of the material are similar, a wooden hull can be faster than an iron one, but it won’t leave the latter far behind.
Furthermore, in naval battles, what matters is the weaponry on the ships. Unless the wooden hulls are of legendary level, their speed in water won’t exceed that of the weapons for those below the legendary class.
Naval combat differs from land: once a ship is damaged, unless it quickly returns to dry dock, sinking is the only fate that awaits its crew.
In the current situation, with water levels a hundred meters above what they were before the disaster, most places lack not just land but also islands to dock at, forcing everyone to adopt a mode of survival on water.
In this mode, the ship is fundamental to survival. Hence, without a Cave as an escape path, even Zachary, with his Golden Core Stage cultivation level, would only choose a metal hull.
After all, even if he reached the Mahayana Realm, he couldn’t rely solely on Sword Flight to stay in the air indefinitely, although with increased cultivation level, the energy consumed by Sword Flight actually decreases.
However, a reduction doesn’t mean the absence of consumption, and in the air, Zachary can’t meditate to cultivate. So without a Cave as a fallback, he would undoubtedly choose a metallic hull.
Now that he had a Cave as an option, defensive capabilities were no longer his priority. The various abilities brought forth by a jade hull became his best choice.
Of course, after choosing the hull material, neither the ship’s speed of travel nor its defensive power is fixed, as both can improve with the ship’s level and the material’s grade.
Any material’s hull will see an increase in speed and defense and may even acquire special abilities as it upgrades.
After all, the legendary fire-attributed Fusang wood and the legendary Mithril, known for their energy transmission, exemplify the wood and metal hulls, respectively. Once upgraded to these materials, attaining special abilities for the ships is a straightforward thing.
Therefore, the upper limits of different materials’ hulls are basically similar; the difference lies in the priorities of the three types of hulls.
Whether it’s a wooden, metallic, or jade hull, if the overall level of the ship is high enough, it is an overwhelming force against any lower-grade material.
After much deliberation, Dong Tianyu finally decided to opt for a jade hull.
Once he resolved in his heart, the blood-colored liquid that had merged with the small wooden boat suddenly enveloped it entirely.
Before long, the blood-colored liquid began to dry up, and like cracked and parched earth, it started to fragment and slowly fall off the ship’s body.
Witnessing this, Dong Tianyu instinctively used his Divine Sense to wrap up the blood-colored fragments and then directly extracted them from his Sea of Consciousness.
Seeing the twisted patterns remaining on the desiccated blood-colored fragments, for some reason, he felt an involuntary surge of disgust in his heart.
After calming his emotions, Dong Tianyu noticed some peculiarities, so he stored most of the blood-colored fragments into his Storage Space.
He then took out a single fragment and introduced it into the Cave to make use of the Cave’s disassembling ability, hoping to analyze its composition from what he would learn from the decomposition.
However, when Dong Tianyu used the decomposition ability of the Cave to break down the blood-colored fragments, the decomposed fragments were unexpectedly restored into an indiscernibly fine blood-colored energy.
Just as Dong Tianyu saw this indiscernibly fine blood-colored energy and thought he could utilize it a second time to enhance the material of his Companion Spiritual Treasure,
Dong Tianyu, as the master of the Cave, suddenly realized that this trace of blood-colored energy had started to actively devour the surrounding Spirit Energy.
Upon noticing this, Dong Tianyu did not attempt to stop it, but rather waited quietly, wanting to see if, after the blood-colored energy expanded to a certain extent, he could then transfer it into his Sea of Consciousness.
He wanted to see if it could be absorbed once again by his Companion Spiritual Treasure. If the blood-colored energy could be absorbed, enhancing the material of the Companion Spiritual Treasure, then it would be as if Dong Tianyu had found a bug in a game that allowed for infinite material farming.
Since there were many blood-colored fragments still in the Storage Space, Dong Tianyu did not want to waste time. As soon as the blood-colored energy expanded to the size of a fist,
Dong Tianyu planned to wrap the mass of blood-colored energy with his Divine Sense and then transfer it into his Sea of Consciousness to see if the blood-colored energy he cultivated could be absorbed once more by his Companion Spiritual Treasure.
However, when Dong Tianyu wrapped the mass of blood-colored energy with his Divine Sense, he was surprised to discover that this energy not only devoured the surrounding Spirit Energy to grow but also devoured Divine Sense.
After several attempts, Dong Tianyu discovered that the mass of blood-colored energy was not absorbing Spirit Energy or Divine Sense but was continuously corrupting and assimilating the surrounding energy.
Subsequently, Dong Tianyu immediately segregated another small independent space within the Cave and transferred the blood-colored energy into this new isolated space.
Perhaps the volume of the independent space that Dong Tianyu separated out was just right, for it did not take long before the blood-colored energy filled the entire space, and then, to Dong Tianyu’s astonishment, the energy burst through the space, reversing and engulfing the independent space itself.
However, as soon as the blood-colored energy devoured the independent space that had contained it, like a match ignited only to be extinguished by a gust of wind, the energy only existed for a fleeting moment before it was obliterated by the Chaos Qi outside the independent space.
Having witnessed the entire scene, Dong Tianyu realized that if he had not cultivated his Divine Sense, these blood-colored fragments would have continued to accumulate and remain within his Sea of Consciousness.
Furthermore, whether it was Dong Tianyu or others, after learning that the Blood-Colored Treasure Box could enhance the material of a Companion Spiritual Treasure, even if they knew that upgrading the treasure would leave some dry blood-colored fragments in the Sea of Consciousness, they would not care.
Although the Sea of Consciousness is the most important private area for everyone, it is precisely because of this that people would not easily share details about their own Sea of Consciousness with others, let alone invite others to observe it.
Moreover, only Dong Tianyu, who possesses Divine Sense, can use it to observe the inside of the Sea of Consciousness. A normal person, even after obtaining a Companion Spiritual Treasure, could only vaguely sense the Sea of Consciousness and not examine it in detail.
For this reason, Dong Tianyu understood that under normal circumstances, after the ship’s material had been enhanced, those dry blood-colored fragments that fell within the Sea of Consciousness would be hard for the owner to detect.
Although it was through using the Cave’s decomposition ability that Dong Tianyu was able to extract a trace of blood-colored energy from the fragments, if the survivors repeatedly enhanced the material of their Companion Spiritual Treasures, resulting in a significant accumulation of dry blood-colored fragments in the Sea of Consciousness, it is not guaranteed that blood-colored energy won’t appear.
Once the blood-colored energy manifests in the Sea of Consciousness, then according to the scenario just witnessed, an individual’s Sea of Consciousness would undoubtedly be devoured by the blood-colored energy, and this type of attack that strikes at the source, most people would have no means of defense.
After realizing all this, a sense of powerlessness surged within Dong Tianyu’s heart.
Because even if Dong Tianyu were to tell everyone about this, let’s not discuss whether others would believe him; even if they all did believe, it would be no use.
This situation is like making the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual public to the entire martial world, where everyone knows that to cultivate this technique, one must first be castrated; if you practice it, you might endure some damage to your body, but if you don’t, it could be fatal.
