Boom, boom, boom—

Another thunderclap roared. After converting the lightning into Tyrant Sky-Thunder, the overloaded Silly moved its single hand, transforming the lightning into a flood dragon. Upon striking the opponent's domain, it generated a series of tremors.

"Very well, I didn't expect you to possess such strength. Today, I am not your match, but don't be too arrogant. The power of the Black Stone Duchy is not something that a mere one or two Saint-domain level combatants can shake."

After uttering a harsh threat, Reno, the [Storm Law Saint], who admitted defeat, wore a gloomy expression. A spatial ring on his finger flashed, and a magic scroll instantly appeared before him.

Without the slightest hesitation, the magic scroll was directly activated. In the next moment, silver light flickered, and before Silly could even react, the figure of [Storm Law Saint] Reno had already disappeared.

"Spatial teleportation?" From high in the sky, Ye Mo, hidden within the array, exclaimed. During his earlier investigation, he discovered that the magic scroll the opponent had taken out was actually a spatial teleportation scroll, and of a high rank, barely reaching the fifth tier.

To use such a precious item so readily, truly befitting a marquis family with hundreds of years of inheritance.

"Let's go, Youyou. That person has left. We'll go and join up with Silly."

After saying this, Ye Mo, with Bai You, dispelled the array and swiftly flew towards Silly.

Zzzzz—

Electric light flickered. Under Silly's control, the turbulent thunder element in the surrounding atmosphere began to calm down, and the [Sky-Thunder] domain that had been deployed earlier was also retracted.

The [Wrath-Thunder Crown] on its head was dispelled as if it were shattering crystal, and its unruly gaze also softened after exiting the [Sky-Thunder Tyrant] form.

"Silly, you were truly excellent this time. I didn't expect your current strength to be truly capable of contending with, and even suppressing, a first-stage fifth-tier for a period of time," Ye Mo said with a smile as he flew to Silly's side and playfully knocked on its soft belly with his fist.

In the battle just now, after Silly unleashed its full power, the strength it displayed had completely suppressed that [Storm Law Saint].

It could be said that the opponent only had some ability to resist.

But even so, Ye Mo did not arrogantly believe that Silly was capable of defeating a fifth-tier powerhouse. After all, upon reaching the fifth tier, in addition to the domain, there was another very important aspect: the soul.

There was nothing to say about the domain for the time being. After the amplification and suppression characteristics within Silly's domain broke through to Lv5, it was already a completely king-level domain.

Even if the domain could not exert its full power due to cultivation and the intensity of its basic attributes, Silly's domain's extremely high quality was enough to cope with the conventional domain of someone like the [Storm Law Saint] from just now.

What was important was the soul. After a transcendent broke through to the fifth tier, their spiritual power would undergo a qualitative change, thereby condensing a complete soul.

After possessing a complete soul, when a fifth-tier powerhouse deployed their domain, they could rely on the power of the complete soul to absorb and convert the power of heaven and earth. In this way, as long as the soul and body could withstand it, then the energy of each fifth-tier could almost be called infinite.

Of course, in addition to the soul and body needing to withstand it, if too much of the power of heaven and earth was absorbed, it could easily lead to an overflow, reducing the concentration of the power of heaven and earth in one area, making it thin.

But this situation was almost not worth considering for a fifth-tier.

Because of this, every fifth-tier powerhouse was an extremely enduring transcendent. In their battles, unless the difference between the two was too great, it would probably take a day of fighting to determine life and death.

On the other hand, a fourth-tier, even if they possessed a domain and could extract a certain amount of energy from the surroundings to restore themselves, often consumed even more energy due to the great power of their skills and moves. If they were to go all out, it would be considered very excellent to last for an hour.

Therefore, in the previous battle, Silly seemed to have a great advantage, but in reality, Silly's threat to the [Storm Law Saint] was very low. At most, it could only injure the opponent, and if they were to continue fighting, Silly would undoubtedly be defeated due to its recovery speed.

In other words, if the previous [Storm Law Saint] had persisted for a few more hours, Silly would probably not even have the strength to fight back.

But it was a pity that the opponent still retreated under Silly's outstanding performance.

But thinking about it, it was normal. After all, if one was constantly being beaten and believed that the opponent was also a fifth-tier, then who would be in the mood to continue being beaten? If one's own consumption was too great, and the opponent had some trump card, it was possible to fall here.

"Let's go, we'll go back. Today's performance has been enough. From now on, the fame of me, Captain Blood Moon, will probably spread throughout the surrounding countries," Ye Mo said to Silly with a smile, feeling a sense of exhilaration in his heart.

Today, after letting Silly reveal its fifth-tier strength, no matter which force it was in the future, they could not ignore his Blood Moon Pirate Crew.

As for Silly, the protagonist of today, seeing the excited appearance of its master, it also scratched its head and became happy.

… … … …

In the following days, as the guardian of the Black Stone Duchy, a figure who had been famous on the sea a hundred years ago, the [Storm Law Saint] Reno, personally admitted that Captain Blood Moon's pet was a fifth-tier Saint-domain magic beast, the entire Black Stone Duchy was in an uproar.

Even the Kingdom of Light, the Bernard Duchy, the Fire Lion Duchy, and the Wasteland Duchy, which was far from the ocean, had people who knew that the legendary figure Captain Blood Moon had appeared in the Black Radiance Sea.

The appearance of every new fifth-tier was shocking news for all countries and for everyone. Moreover, the strength of that new fifth-tier was extraordinary. Relying only on its pet, it could contend with the veteran Saint-domain [Storm Law Saint].

And because the newly emerged fifth-tier powerhouse was the captain of the Blood Moon Pirate Crew, and also the first pirate with fifth-tier cultivation in hundreds of years, whether it was in taverns or mercenary guilds, Captain Blood Moon had been respectfully referred to as the Blood Moon Pirate King.

Regarding this title, the pirates wandering outside the Blood Radiance Sea all recognized this statement. After all, the only fifth-tier pirate, if he was not a king, who would dare to call himself a king?

But just when everyone was shocked by the newly emerged Pirate King, another piece of shocking news for the countries spread from the islands in the eastern region of the Black Stone Duchy.

And the core location of this incident was the territory of the Black Stone Duchy's strongest earl back then—Emerald Isle.

In the eyes of many nobles of the Black Stone Duchy, Emerald Isle, as the territory of the Black Stone Duchy's strongest earl back then, had always possessed a considerable reputation.

However, after the Earl of Emerald Isle and many strong people who followed the earl were killed by pirates, and the Earl Carl who inherited the title had ordinary abilities, even if one of their family members was the Duchess of Black Stone, in the eyes of everyone, the Emerald Isle family was already considered to be in decline.

But who could have imagined that in just over a month, the Earl of Karl, whom everyone had dismissed, would establish the Frontier Trade Association and begin selling resources harvested from the Frontier Sea?

Originally, establishing a trade association would have been a minor matter, as other nobles established trade associations all the time.

However, this Frontier Trade Association was truly extraordinary, actually selling various resources that could be considered rare in the Black Stone Duchy, and even in the countries of the continent, at low prices, causing a sensation throughout the entire duchy.

If it hadn't been established for such a short time, it would have been reasonable for it to spread throughout the entire continent.

Even if the grade of the resources sold wasn't too high, their rarity and the huge quantity of resources were enough to shock all trade associations.

This also made many nobles jealous, and countless people tried to investigate the source of the Frontier Trade Association's goods.

After all, the news that the resources were obtained from the Frontier Sea was not enough to satisfy others.

Even though the Frontier Sea was mysterious, with unexplored areas everywhere, the fleet forces that went there were not limited to Emerald Isle alone, so how could it be possible that only you obtained rare resources, and in such large quantities?

Therefore, it was normal for it to arouse the greed of many nobles.

After all, with the current strength of Earl Karl, the lord of Emerald Isle, he was unable to suppress the desires of other nobles.

But this time was different, the news that shocked the nations was related to Earl Karl.

The Blood Moon Captain, who was previously revered as the Pirate King by everyone, actually launched a large-scale attack on Emerald Isle again. This news instantly spread to the surrounding islands, and countless people moved away from the Emerald Isle family's territory in order to be further away from that Saint-realm expert, the Blood Moon Pirate King.

But what happened afterwards shocked everyone. The Emerald Isle family, which everyone thought would be easily plundered or even destroyed, actually had their Earl Karl invite a necromancer whom he called a collaborator.

A fifth-tier Saint-realm necromancer, that lord, in front of everyone, directly summoned a Saint-realm Golden Skeleton King to fight against the Blood Moon Pirate King's pet, a Saint-realm Magic Bear.

In the end, witnessed by everyone, he successfully repelled the Blood Moon Pirate King's pet.

This meant that another fifth-tier Saint-realm existence had appeared in this sea area, and not just an ordinary Saint-realm, but a fifth-tier who could be considered a strongman among Saint-realms.

After all, if the summons or pets possessed fifth-tier strength, then if the other party took action personally, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to consider it two fifth-tiers.

Moreover, the strength of the Blood Moon Pirate King's giant bear pet had already been proven by the Storm Law Saint, so there was no need to say more about the strength of the Golden Skeleton King, who could contend with it without losing ground.

After such shocking news spread, almost immediately, many nobles in the Black Stone Duchy sent people to Emerald Isle to send gifts to Earl Karl, or to that necromancer lord behind him.

After all, although this newly emerged fifth-tier Saint-realm's profession was the dark profession of necromancer, he was standing behind Earl Karl no matter what, so naturally there were many who wanted to curry favor with or get to know this fifth-tier.

It was normal for a fifth-tier expert to receive such treatment.

The reason why not many people sent gifts to visit the fifth-tier Blood Moon Pirate King was mainly because the other party was a pirate and an enemy of the Black Stone Duchy. Sending people there would not only provoke the Black Stone Grand Duke, but they might also be robbed by the other party.

After all, that one was a pirate.

In this way, in just a few weeks, in many countries throughout the continent and nearby seas, whether in taverns or other places, discussions about the Blood Moon Pirate King and the Saint-realm necromancer were everywhere.

For a time, in terms of fame, even some old-brand Saint-realms couldn't compare to these two newly emerged ones.

Especially since Emerald Isle and the Blood Radiance Sea were not far apart, with two hostile Saint-realm experts so close, the degree of discussion was even higher.

However, also affected by this, the East Sea area of the Black Stone Duchy was currently a place not controlled by the Black Stone Grand Duke, after all, neither the Blood Moon Pirate King nor the Saint-realm necromancer behind Earl Karl were easy to provoke.

Therefore, in this vast East Sea area, in the eyes of all merchants and civilians who came here, there were only two masters, one was the Blood Moon Pirate King, the King of Pirates, and the other was suspected to be the mastermind behind the Frontier Trade Association, the Saint-realm necromancer behind Earl Karl.

Under such circumstances, according to common sense, how dare other merchants come to a sea area with the existence of a Pirate King.

But the truth was the opposite, because after the Blood Moon Pirate King unified many pirates, he formulated strict pirate rules, among which, regarding the handling of passing merchant ships, it was similar to the toll fees collected by the major nobles in the past, not killing people, not plundering, but collecting money according to a certain percentage.

The money collected was divided into two types, one was the protection fee that foreign merchant ships needed to pay after entering, after paying, the pirates would escort them for a distance, and give a token proving protection. If they were attacked by others afterwards, the pirates would take action for them.

The second was the toll that merchant ships needed to pay after leaving this sea area, not much, especially for merchant ships with tokens proving that they had paid the protection fee, the toll was even less.

In this way, although it seemed that merchant ships needed to pay fees to come to this sea area, in reality, not only was the safety higher, but they also earned more money than going to other places.

After all, those nobles were much crueler than these pirates who followed the rules.

Because of this, more and more merchant ships came here, turning the islands of the entire East Sea area into a gathering place for trade. According to the words of the merchants coming and going, almost everyone believed that a city of wealth and trade would definitely be born here.

And as for the specific location, without a doubt, it must be the Emerald Islands.

Although under the special rules formulated by the Pirate King, the safety factor of the entire East Sea area was greatly improved, what really attracted so many trade associations to come was still because the Frontier Trade Association was on Emerald Isle.

Whether it was rare resources or high-grade spirit crystals, they could be purchased here at low prices, and if they were bartered for goods, as long as the items were within the list given by the other party, the money paid would be even less.

In this way, for the trade associations that came here, as long as they could grab the various resources sold by the Frontier Trade Association, and then sell them to various countries on the continent, the profits they earned would not be low.

With such an easy way to make money, how could it not attract large and small trade associations from various countries to come?

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