Witch, I'm really not the Deep Sea Ancient God!

This really was a straightforward and crude way of digging... Chen Qi quietly watched Levin dig for treasure.

It was the first time he had seen such an unadorned way of treasure hunting.

As the guide said, the difficulty of obtaining this treasure was extremely low. It could even be described as effortless.

The only challenging part was crossing the dangerous sea area.

If you were well prepared in advance, even with the strength of the First Order, you could cross the flying fish shoal.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Levin wiped the sweat off his forehead and struck down with the shovel:

"Captain, it's almost there!"

The shovel hit something hard with a crisp "ding" sound.

With a joyous look, he carefully scraped away the surrounding sand, revealing the rusty outline of a coded iron chest.

"Captain, leave the rest to me!"

Levin then squatted down and entered the code, smoothly opening the chest.

Bang!

With a crisp sound, gold coins spilled out from the chest. In addition, there was a large stack of papers, a fiery red rune stone, and a special Hammer Phase skill card.

This haul! It really was a treasure! Levin rubbed his hands excitedly.

Logically, at this moment, as the initiator of the action, he should preside over the distribution of the treasure!

But now, Levin felt a sense of unease.

Throughout the journey, the ship clearly had no people, yet strange noises inexplicably echoed.

And there was green ghost fire, too!

Without a doubt, the second-tier aura released was only a facade for fishing!

Levin rubbed his hands and said softly:

"Captain, take a look first. Actually, regarding how I found this treasure, I have something to tell you..."

"??"

Chen Qi was slightly surprised, Levin's mouth unexpectedly loosened up like this.

He walked over to inspect the contents of the chest.

There weren't many gold coins, only half a million in Shell Coins, and these were standardized bank gold coins.

In addition, there was a high-order Hammer Phase skill card "Steam Engine." Mechanize the body to transfer Qi Power into the engine to deliver scorching hot Steam Fists!

This skill required the mechanization of the body and Chen Qi had no interest in the mechanical school for now.

In Chen Qi's opinion, this skill, whether in terms of versatility or strength, was not as practical as the physical hardening of Hammer Phase.

This is a weapon rune stone... Chen Qi took the long rune stone out of the chest.

On the stone, a large number of fiery red runes were carved.

[Rune of Casting Fire:

Nature Form: Blade

Description: Long sword, ignite the flames!

Effect: It can add a layer of fiery runes to the outer layer of a weapon. When Spiritual Power is infused, the runes will ignite, enhancing the weapon's attack power and granting a special casting fire effect.

Casting Fire: The temperature of this flame is extremely high and has stronger lethality against metal. Under the manipulation of Spiritual Power, the temperature can further increase.

Note: Normally, this rune stone is only suitable for melee weapons and cannot be stacked with other runes.]

Rune stone, a weapon enhancement component... Chen Qi stroked his chin.

A third-order Hammer Phase rune craftsman could forge such special tools to enhance weapons.

But the stronger the weapon, the higher the quality requirements for the rune stone.

Casting Fire—Chen Qi looked at the rune.

Casting Fire, with just a slight infusion of Spiritual Power, could ignite a raging fire. Even for a third-order Transcendent, this was quite a remarkable flame.

Chen Qi carefully touched the stone, faintly feeling a scorching temperature.

The quality of this rune stone was quite high!

Chen Qi distributed it simply:

"This rune stone belongs to me. That Hammer Phase skill card is yours."

"No problem, Captain!"

Levin was overjoyed. Although he looked like a Blade Phase warrior, he was actually a Transcendent dedicated to the Hammer Phase path.

This was undoubtedly good news for him.

Then Chen Qi bent down, picking up the large stack of papers from the ground.

"This is..."

Chen Qi's eyes brightened.

The papers were covered with encrypted text. Only from the numerous distorted sea beast drawings could it be vaguely seen that these were some confidential research documents.

Navy research documents, interesting, and they were studying distorted sea beasts...

Among them, there were images of the Deep Sea Hunter and his nemesis, the Blue Beast...

Chen Qi quickly scanned through these documents.

Although most of the text was encrypted, part of the research content could still be inferred.

Simply put, it involved using materials from the cracks to cause mutations in sea beasts and humans.

According to Shell Country law, unless one was a fourth-rank Cup Phase Transcendent, research on biological fusion and mutations was strictly prohibited.

Upon seeing these research documents, Levin swallowed hard.

These research documents were the real treasure on this island, a treasure buried for over twenty years!

Does he understand these documents... Levin's heart began to pound:

"Captain, these documents..."

"These documents could be sold to the Blood Blade Pirate Group, the Sea God Pirate Group, or even the Black Whale Pirate Group. Any of them would be enough to exchange for a Skill Card of a release technique."

Chen Qi spoke preemptively.

Undoubtedly, these documents were absolutely qualified as a treasure.

With the Crack Tide approaching, just this one document was enough to attract competition from numerous parties.

Even though it was banned, both the Black Whale Group and the Sea God Pirate Group had conducted extensive research.

The value of these documents was enough for a pirate group to nurture an ordinary person into a third-order Transcendent.

No wonder some players could rise through ranks by relying on this treasure!

But how did Levin get hold of the whereabouts of these documents?

Chen Qi had a vague sense of foreboding:

"Levin."

"Yes, sir!"

"How did you know about this?"

Levin swallowed hard:

"Captain, sir, I am a freelance Hunter. It was a chance encounter. While on a mission to find a cat, I ran into an old man who claimed to be the former deputy leader of the Blood Blade Pirate Group and a former Navy admiral. He hoped I could dig out these documents and deliver them to the current leader of the Blood Blade Pirate Group...

He told me that, aside from that piece of paper, everything else was my reward."

Navy admiral... Chen Qi looked at Levin.

This kid stumbled upon a fortuitous encounter.

Levin raised his hand obediently:

"Although it sounds ridiculous, I really met a powerful legendary old man. Unfortunately, he was already withering away, his body long invaded by crack disease, unable to move an inch.

So he entrusted me, and then he died, leaving nothing behind.

The Blood Blade Pirate Group hates deceivers and is ferocious. I suspected the old man might be tricking me and feared the pirates would fight me for the treasure, so I wanted to find someone to dig it up first, to verify its authenticity..."

Chen Qi thought briefly.

Even a Fourth Rank Legend could not escape the erosion of time. Even if they did not fall to the Lantern Death God, they might become incapacitated for life due to diseases brought by the cracks.

Like the Flower Witch, even if she advanced to Fourth Rank Legend, she could remain bedridden for life due to the Blood Flower disease.

Levin raised his hand:

"I swear, Captain, if I lied even a single sentence, may I be struck by Storm Thunder and tortured to death by the four strong men of Black Mine City!"

He wasn't lying... Chen Qi smiled faintly and asked:

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

Levin took a deep breath and gathered his courage:

"Well, sir, there's one more thing..."

"Say it."

Levin spoke with effort:

"Sir, although this is just my personal speculation, if we traverse this sea area, we might be pursued by the Blood Blade Pirate Group and the Black Whale Group.

Recently, they seem to be stationed in this region. Our return journey might be quite unsafe!!"

Levin's palms were sweating. His intuition told him he was in extreme danger now.

The wind blew over the deserted island from afar.

"I know."

Chen Qi stood up. As they sailed towards this island, the radar on his ship faintly detected a dangerous aura.

"It seems we're not particularly lucky..."

Chen Qi looked into the distance.

On the horizon at dusk, he seemed to hear the roar of warships and the cries of predators from beneath the sea.