novelsmap Chapter 327 - 320: Lighthouse’s Compensation! The Three-Eyed Golden Crow’s Prophecy
Chapter 327 - 320: Lighthouse’s Compensation! The Three-Eyed Golden Crow’s Prophecy
’Nirvana?’
’This King-level Wandering Ship, number 001, is named Nirvana?’
’A coincidence? Or was it intentional?’
’Above the Holy Hall Tier is the Nirvana Tier. Could naming this King-level Wandering Ship "Nirvana" signify the pursuit of a higher level of power?’
’According to the Eye of the World, it’s no longer on the Endless Ocean and wouldn’t notice events on this planet. Beyond the ocean is the starry sky... Could it have already traveled to the stars? Or perhaps, did it originate from the stars in the first place?’
’Are the Wandering Ships technological "aid" from other civilizations?’
’Is the payment for this aid that gambling-like "Celestial Net Protocol"?’
’And what is the wager?’
Elder Zhou himself was bound by the net and couldn’t reveal the specific contents of the protocol, which Shi Ming understood. Elder Zhou only hinted that Wandering Ship 001 could project its power onto the Endless Ocean by relying on "the net," but doing so required an immense price.
Of course, 001 wouldn’t be the one paying it; the price would be paid by the person who requested its intervention.
...
The conversation lasted over an hour. From this helmsman of Da Yu, Shi Ming learned many more secrets from the past thirty years of the Wandering Era and the Great Flood Era, along with a well-intentioned reminder from Elder Zhou:
to do everything possible to escape the shackles of "the net,"
and to avoid getting too entangled with it.
Of course, Elder Zhou had no way of knowing that Shi Ming had been free from the Celestial Net’s constraints from the very beginning. The three missions on the Black Tortoise’s back had caused the Celestial Net Chip in his Brain Domain to vanish completely. Apart from himself, no one could restrain him.
The net could not bind him.
When the conversation ended, Shi Ming left the Kunwu.
Elder Zhou stood on the deck of the Kunwu, watching the young man’s retreating figure. With the help of the Destiny Golden Toad, it was as if he could see more of the Endless Ocean’s future.
The Destiny Golden Toad was right; he truly was Da Yu’s golden fortune.
Just his mysterious Wandering Ship alone—one that could ignore the Lighthouse King’s abilities and send the Great Black Heaven Dragon flying with a direct hit—revealed more secrets than could be spoken aloud!
’He’s worth betting everything on!’
’Fortunately, I already placed my bet!’
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The Lighthouse floated on a calm, rippleless sea.
For the past three days, not a single Governor had been able to rest well.
Unlike the Governors, the people of the Lighthouse had escaped the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s attack, and their gratitude toward Shi Ming was beyond words.
In the Lighthouse’s various tabloids, praise was lavished upon him with words like "hero," "savior," and "superman." The Lighthouse itself was a Wandering Ship that had always revered individual heroism. Shi Ming’s actions perfectly aligned with the values its people had held for hundreds of years, casting him as a lone hero in an extreme environment—a world-saving superman!
Normally, the Lighthouse would have suppressed this trend of thought without hesitation.
But now?
Are you kidding?
In the Endless Ocean today, who would dare provoke him?
If they could do it all over again, never mind becoming his enemy, those opportunistic Governors understood better than anyone what should and shouldn’t be done! They would even be willing to lose all dignity to fawn over him, to lick his boots!
But no one could predict the future.
History could not be rewritten.
After three days of deliberation, the Twin White Towers organized the so-called "remuneration." This was the payment for killing the Great Black Heaven Dragon and saving the Wandering Ship from peril. After all, Shi Ming had clearly stated that his aid was not free; he required a satisfactory reward as well as interest on past grievances:
1. 100,000 Pure Dome Crystals. However, the Lighthouse could not produce this many Energy Stones at present and could only deliver them in installments.
2. The wondrous item "Star Dome Curtain." This was the highest-grade treasure the Lighthouse could offer, ranked 8th on the list of wondrous items. Although it had sustained some damage while fighting the Great Black Heaven Dragon, it would recover after absorbing the power of the stars.
3. Supplies and support with a value of 200,000 Pure Dome Crystals.
4. Disband the Holy Hall Research Institute and cease all research on Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts.
5. Trellin is to voluntarily resign from his position as Chief Governor and hold accountable those who must be held accountable. This includes, but is not limited to, the Snow Country Empress, Catherine, who fled to the Columbia Sea, and Captain Jinshan, who posted a bounty of 2,000 Pure Dome Crystals.
6. The signing of an Endless Ocean peace treaty.
They say information travels slowly across the ocean, but in just a few days, the situation had changed abruptly.
The various factions that had been stirring restlessly—including, but not limited to, certain secret organizations and ambitious individuals—no longer dared to make a move.
Wandering Ships that trafficked slaves and those that reveled in burning, killing, and looting tucked their tails between their legs and vanished completely.
This was deterrence!
When Shi Ming was still an S-class Awakened, he had some deterrent power, but it wasn’t strong. Now, he had become the first Holy Hall-level Awakened. He only needed to stand there, motionless, and all dissenting voices would disappear on their own.
Moreover, he was not only powerful but also had no attachments.
Zero weaknesses!
Or rather, the strong do not show their weaknesses to others.
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「Deep in the Sea of Boiling.」
The Three-Eyed Golden Crow rested upon a dead tree on the seabed. It had been terrifyingly quiet recently, seeming less like an S-class sea beast and more like a trembling, ordinary creature.
The Abyss Lord rested in the deeper parts of the seabed.
Right now, the Three-Eyed Golden Crow was the Abyss Lord’s air conditioner and gatekeeper.
But it didn’t dare to complain in the slightest. On the Endless Ocean today, humanity’s power was snowballing, growing larger and larger. It was said that the newborn insect deep within the Great Rift Valley of the Sea of Silence had also been completely suppressed and forced into an eternal slumber.
In terms of strength, it was far inferior to that insect.
By relying on the Abyss Lord, perhaps it could still gain some benefits. As for the fragments of the future its third eye had once seen... the future wouldn’t be false, but the fragments weren’t clear. Who knew how many years it would be before they came to pass?
No creature could live forever.
Every sea beast would die.
’Live in the present, don’t be afraid.’
The Three-Eyed Golden Crow closed two of its eyes and began to doze on the rotting branch.
Suddenly, it awoke with a start for no apparent reason!
Its third eye on its forehead, which had not opened for a long time, twitched. Its passive skill, "Great Prophecy," activated, abruptly bringing a new revelation!
It was a scene—
Endless black insects blotted out the sky as a nine-headed black dragon descended from above. The Abyss Lord, which dwelled deep in the Sea of Boiling, had its enormous eyeball disintegrate. Its tens of thousands of vile tentacles were torn to shreds before it perished amidst a sea of red flowers, its ancient life extinguished.
This was not the entirety of the prophecy.
After slaying the Abyss Lord, the vicious dragon did not stop its evil deeds.
Instead, it turned its eighteen cold, draconic eyes upon it!
...
The scene glimpsed by its third eye this time was incomparably clear!
Moreover, the Three-Eyed Golden Crow had a premonition that this scene would soon come to pass—
This almost made it fall from the branch.
Immediately, an emotion called fear completely enveloped it. Not even its Great Sun Wheel, the embodiment of ultimate yang, hardness, and intensity, could dispel a shred of this feeling. The more the Three-Eyed Golden Crow trembled, the clearer the prophetic vision in its third eye became, and the more terrified it grew.
’No, I can’t...’
’I can’t just sit here and wait for death!’
’But a prophecy from fate cannot be told to any other living being!’
’Otherwise, I’ll suffer fate’s backlash.’
At that moment, the Three-Eyed Golden Crow hated that it had obtained the skill "Great Prophecy Technique." It meant it could only watch silently in terror as death approached, unable to do anything to prevent it.
It had tested this with other prophecies before.
The result was always the same: no matter what it did, no matter how it tried to escape,
the prophecy would always come to pass!