Chapter 105: Ye Xinglan of the Rose Society

Chapter 105: Chapter 105: Ye Xinglan of the Rose Society

Gu Tianming looked at his son, his originally stern tone softening considerably.

"Finish this quickly."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yixuan gave a slight nod.

He bowed slightly, his tone respectful.

"Understood, Father."

"Consider this monster’s Crystal Core my congratulatory gift for your breakthrough to Level 6 Vessel."

As soon as the words fell, Gu Yixuan’s gaze darkened.

The gentleness about him was instantly replaced by a violent aura of thunder.

"Hum—"

He reached back and grasped at the empty air.

A Purple Lightning Spirit Snake Sword entwined with purple electric light instantly appeared in his hand.

Gu Yixuan stepped off the command platform.

"Boom!"

A thunderclap resounded out of nowhere in the pitch-black night sky.

A thick bolt of purple lightning descended from the heavens, striking Gu Yixuan with precision.

Bathed in the lightning, he resembled a thunder god descended to earth.

"The Young Master has made his move!"

On the deck below, several female guild members clad in tight combat suits all raised their chins.

They stared fixedly at that absolutely domineering figure in mid-air, their eyes filled with fervor and worship.

Intense emotional fluctuations made their breathing rapid, the taut fabric over their chests rising and falling dramatically.

Some of the women were even so excited their legs went weak, completely forgetting they were still on a perilous battlefield.

Hovering in mid-air, Gu Yixuan fiercely swung the long sword in his hand.

"Thunder Sword Control, Slash!"

A purple sword beam dozens of meters long came crashing down.

Carrying a violent, imposing force, the sword beam accurately blasted toward the Thousand-Tentacle Nightmare.

"Sizzle—"

As the lightning swept past, those tough tentacles instantly vaporized from the high temperature.

The Thousand-Tentacle Nightmare let out a shrill cry of pain.

Its previous regenerative ability was utterly destroyed before this thunderous power.

The cuts that would have healed in mere seconds were now charred black.

Overflowing electric arcs continuously danced across its skin and flesh, emitting a piercing sizzling sound.

No matter how desperately the monster compressed and contracted, not a shred of new skin grew on that dead flesh.

But this Level 5 monster was not so easy to kill.

Driven into a corner, its massive body contracted violently inward.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

All its eyeballs exploded simultaneously.

An Abyssal Mental Shockwave erupted outward in a ring-shaped frenzy.

Xuanbing and Anying, being the closest, bore the brunt.

They froze for a moment, not even having time to deploy their defensive Skills.

"Pfft!"

The mental impact slammed heavily into their chests.

They both spat out a mouthful of blood in unison, flying backward like kites with severed strings, seriously injured.

Gu Yixuan, at the core of the attack, also grunted.

His handsome face paled slightly, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

"Young Master!"

The guild members below cried out in alarm, their faces filled with worry.

Gu Yixuan reached up and wiped the blood from his mouth, not retreating.

Instead, a trace of mad excitement flashed in his eyes.

"Trying to drag me down with you?"

Gu Yixuan gritted his blood-stained teeth, swung the sword’s edge with one hand, and laughed loudly.

Ignoring the churning of his qi and blood, he gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands, pouring all his thunder attribute into the long sword.

The entire Purple Lightning Spirit Snake Sword blazed with intense purple light, its brightness almost blinding.

"You’re not qualified enough!"

Gu Yixuan pushed through the shockwave, forcing his way directly above the Thousand-Tentacle Nightmare.

He raised both hands high, arching backward in mid-air into an exaggerated power-striking posture.

"Die!"

The longsword, wreathed in furious thunder, plunged straight into the center of the monster’s massive skull.

Purple lightning erupted violently within the Thousand-Tentacle Nightmare’s body.

The destructive force even pierced through its side and into the seawater below.

The savage power smashed a vacuum vortex dozens of meters deep into the ocean’s surface beneath it!

This previously arrogant Level 5 monster didn’t even have time to let out a wail before all its tentacles stiffened and died.

Its enormous body was ultimately pinned through the sea by Gu Yixuan in an overwhelming display of force!

...

The scene shifts.

Over a hundred nautical miles away from Lin Ji, in another stretch of sea.

Near a desolate island shrouded in black mist, there lay a hidden cove.

The Rose Society’s Level 4 Wave-Rider Sister Ships were quietly anchored and concealed here.

At this moment, the atmosphere aboard this warship, crewed entirely by women, was oppressively tense.

"Woo..."

In the darkness, stifled sobs could be heard intermittently.

On the deck, over twenty women huddled tightly together.

They clutched various weapons in their hands, their eyes filled with terror and unease.

Their combat suits, soaked through with seawater, clung tightly to their bodies, outlining alluring curves, but no one had the heart to appreciate them now.

The recent Midnight Beast Tide had been nothing short of a nightmare for their ship, which lacked heavy defenses and area-of-effect firepower.

At the center of the gathered women stood a woman wearing a purple veil.

She wore a deep purple form-fitting dress, its hem fluttering sharply in the sea breeze.

The dress wrapped around her devilish figure in an extremely provocative manner.

Even with the veil, one could sense her exquisite, bone-deep gentleness and nobility.

Yet, the deck beneath her feet was a scene of utter chaos.

"Drip... drip..."

Several mangled female corpses lay scattered in pools of blood.

Beside them were the bodies of a few Level 4 Sea Monsters—the Ghost-Shadow Thorn Turtles—not large in size but extremely agile and deadly.

These monsters resembled enlarged, mutated turtles, their scythe-like sharp forelimbs still adorned with the flesh and blood of Rose Society members.

"Guild Leader..."

A girl with a ponytail, her eyes red-rimmed, called out in a trembling voice.

This woman in the purple dress was none other than the leader of the Rose Society, Ye Xinglan.

Ye Xinglan did not speak. She simply took a silent step forward.

"Rustle—"

Accompanied by the soft sound of fabric rubbing, she crouched down with extreme elegance.

Due to the tightness of her dress, this motion caused her already full and rounded hips to instantly tighten, outlining a breathtakingly perfect curve.

This extremely provocative posture, set against the backdrop of bloodstained ground, exuded a bizarre and deadly allure.

Ye Xinglan extended her fair, slender fingers and probed around inside the bodies of the Ghost-Shadow Thorn Turtles.

"Plop!"

She deftly dug out several faintly glowing LV4 Crystal Cores, shook off the bloodstains, and stored them in her Spatial Pouch.

After completing this task, Ye Xinglan slowly stood up.

She tilted her head slightly upward. Beneath her veil, those gentle, autumn-water-like eyes now held an unshakeable chill.

She gazed at the blood-red moon in the sky, which had somehow turned crimson, her chest rising and falling faintly with each breath.

"Clean up the deck."

Ye Xinglan’s voice was extremely gentle, yet carried an undeniable authority.

"Burn the sisters who have fallen."

She paused, her tone tinged with a hint of barely concealed weariness and sorrow.

"Collect their ashes and place them in the ship’s Hall of Heroes. When we find a place to settle down in the future, we’ll take them home."

"Yes, Guild Leader."

The women around her suppressed their grief and began silently clearing the battlefield.

Ye Xinglan sighed and turned her gaze toward the depths of the desolate island.

In the darkness there, something even more terrifying and heart-stopping seemed to be lurking.

With the Rose Guild’s current depleted forces, venturing recklessly deeper would likely mean none of them would make it back.

"The things on this island are too dangerous... We can’t handle them alone!"

Ye Xinglan silently calculated in her mind.

She raised her wrist and opened the Logbook of Navigation.

Her eyes fell once again on the recently published promotion rankings.

She didn’t even consider the top three major guilds.

Those guilds, which devoured people without spitting out the bones, would only turn the women of the Rose Guild into tools for their desires if they cooperated.

Ye Xinglan’s slender, jade-like fingers hovered for a long time between the fourth name, [Chen Wan (Lone Wolf Player)], and the fifth, [Lin Ji (Survivor Team)].

"This Chen Wan is a lone wolf, with a reclusive personality. We’ve invited her to join many times before and failed. It’ll probably be hard to persuade her to help."

Ye Xinglan bit her red lip slightly, her gaze gradually firming.

"Lin Ji... Survivor Team."

"To reach fifth place in this situation, he must hold some extremely powerful trump cards."

Finally, Ye Xinglan took a deep breath.

That slender finger tapped firmly on Lin Ji’s name.

Then, she clicked the flashing [Private Chat] button.