Chapter 476 Chongzhen's decisiveness, the first naval battle with the Japanese pirate fleet
"Blood of the witch god."
"This is the blood left behind by Pangu, the founder of this universe, after he unexpectedly died at the beginning of the universe in the ancient mythological era!"
Looking at the basin-sized drop of golden-red blood in front of him, Chongzhen remembered the ancestral teachings left by Zhu's great ancestor.
"Grandmaster Taizu has emphasized that after the Pangu Blood Pool in the Wu God Temple gave birth to the Wu Clan, the most powerful clan in the ancient mythological period, almost all of the Wu God's blood has been consumed. After countless years, not only has the blood pool completely degenerated and is about to disappear, but this is all that remains of the Wu God's blood."
"Old Master Taizu specifically reminded us that although the quality of the witch god's blood is supreme, it has been invaded by the evil spirits of heaven and earth during its long historical evolution. There are great risks after refining it into the body."
“Even though the former great ancestor had already reached the realm of soul refining, he was eventually killed by the backlash of the boundless evil spirit contained in the divine blood.”
"Even the great ancestor is like this, so I will inevitably be destroyed by the backlash of the evil spirit in the future."
"But the hundred years of time and powerful cultivation I have gained during this period are enough to achieve my wish, so there is no need to worry."
"Once I have made a breakthrough with the help of divine blood and saved the Ming Dynasty from the crisis, why should I fear death?"
"As long as the Ming Dynasty can continue to be passed on, that's good enough."
Emperor Chongzhen was indeed a man of determination. As long as he could save the Ming Dynasty, he was not afraid of life or death, and made the decision with a firm look in his eyes.
He ignored the vast amount of wealth and resources stored in the hall, and went straight to the dried-up and shriveled blood pool. He sat cross-legged beside the basin-sized drop of blood and began to calm down.
In other words, he has now become the master of this top-level innate artifact of the Witch God Temple. Thanks to the artifact's master-protecting function, he is immune to the oppressive aura emitted by the drop of the most powerful blood in the universe in front of him.
Otherwise, let alone slowly absorbing and refining it, he probably wouldn't even be able to get close to it.
Even though this drop of divine blood has lost only one percent of its power and has been contaminated by the evil spirit of the earth, no cultivator below the fairyland can get close to it.
Unless it is the current master of the Witch God Temple.
"The Emperor's Nine Transformations Sutra, practice!"
Chongzhen's face turned grim, and he resolutely followed Taizu's last words, practicing the exclusive skills cultivated by the Zhu emperor, taking in a strand of divine blood about the size of a hair, and began to practice the skills to absorb it.
"boom……"
It was not until a trace of divine blood entered his body that Chongzhen truly understood how violent and vast the energy contained in this divine blood was!
"Refine it for me!"
He felt as if his whole body was about to explode. He endured the piercing pain and concentrated on practicing the Emperor's Nine Revolutions Sutra passed down by his ancestors, trying his best to refine and integrate it.
The Emperor's Nine Transformations Manual is an inheritance that the Ming Dynasty's first emperor obtained when he acquired the Haotian Tower. Its origin cannot be traced, but it is definitely one of the most powerful techniques in the universe.
The first three stages of the technique correspond to the three major realms of body refining, qi refining, and spirit refining.
Despite Emperor Chongzhen's hard practice, he had only reached the peak of the first level and was then stuck at a bottleneck.
However, today, the bottleneck that had previously blocked his cultivation was instantly broken after a trace of divine blood entered his body!
"This divine blood... is too powerful, isn't it?"
Feeling that he had easily broken through to the early stage of Qi Refining Realm, Emperor Chongzhen was both pleasantly surprised and delighted. His aura surged, and after a moment he had refined and fused that trace of divine blood.
"Middle stage of fourth level of martial arts?"
"So easy?"
The breakthrough in his cultivation not only brought him a lot of longevity, but also made him full of energy. His every move was full of power, and his previous frail physique was gone forever.
"Come again!"
"Compared to the traitor Li Dingguo and those level six masters in the world today, I am still far behind!"
"Since this divine blood is so miraculous, and my main cultivation technique, the Emperor's Nine Revolutions Sutra, is so powerful, why should I be left behind?"
As soon as he refined a trace of divine blood into his body, Chongzhen felt that the drop of his original blood essence that had been lost previously had been replenished. Not only that, his whole body's energy and spirit reached its peak, and he was immediately overjoyed.
He finally understood how Taizu had risen so quickly.
He was not stupid. He could guess that the successful refining of such powerful divine blood was most likely due to his innate artifact, the Witch God Tower, which played a crucial role.
Otherwise, at the moment the divine blood entered his body, he would most likely be too weak to be replenished and exploded to death on the spot.
There is always a way to overcome something, and this is true at all times.
Although this divine blood contained great hidden dangers, for Emperor Chongzhen, it was equivalent to no hidden dangers.
He was already aging prematurely, and previously knew that he would not even be able to make it past sixty. Now that he has been able to add a hundred years to his life, coupled with the powerful strength he has acquired, what else could he be dissatisfied with?
Taizu's starting point back then was far worse than mine is now, but in the end he was able to rule the world. Even if I am not capable enough, I can prevent the Ming Dynasty from perishing and keep it going.
This is the confidence that sprouted in Chongzhen's heart after he experienced the magic of the witch god's blood.
He gathered his mind and absorbed another bit of the witch god's blood. He continued to endure the severe pain coming from his body and began to refine and absorb it...
In the dark and godless temple, as more and more divine blood was refined by Chongzhen, the aura emanating from his body became more and more powerful.
No one knew that the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty was becoming increasingly powerful at an incredible speed.
The world today, which is already in chaos, is destined to be full of variables and deviate from the established historical track.
Ever since the Ming Dynasty moved south, the future has been unpredictable since Emperor Chongzhen accidentally acquired the treasure of the Wushen Temple...
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Under the blue sea and sky, a fleet of twelve treasure ships is carrying out a routine maritime blockade patrol.
This is Pan Jinghua, the new deputy commander of the First Fleet of the Restoration Army, who is personally leading the cruise.
After the reorganization, the First Fleet of the Fuxing Army was commanded by Huang Lan and stationed in Jiaozhou Bay and Dengzhou Port.
Deputy Commander Pan Jinghua led 150,000 soldiers and garrisoned in Yuegang, Fuzhou, which was the former base of Zheng’s army, Yuecheng.
In order to cut off the Ming Dynasty's aristocratic families' connections with overseas, great efforts were made to revive the navy.
If the aristocratic families of the Southern Ming Dynasty were allowed to continue to trade with the white barbarians overseas, it would pose a huge threat to the Restoration Army.
Only by cutting off the trade ties between the two, as one grows stronger while the other declines, will these aristocratic families in Jiangnan inevitably decline. Otherwise, they will become powerful and difficult to control.
No one knew better than Li Dingguo how abundant overseas resources were, enough to quickly make up for the shortcomings of these Jiangnan aristocratic families.
That kind of situation was definitely not what Li Dingguo wanted to see.
Now that the Fuxing Navy has dominated the southeastern coast, the first thing to do is to blockade this sea area and dispel the enemy's unrealistic ideas.
"Commander, we have spotted an unknown fleet a hundred miles ahead of us!" At this time, the sentry standing on the top of the mast of the flagship Dabao ship suddenly discovered the enemy.
"Oh?"
Pan Jinghua said with some surprise, "Continue to keep a close watch!"
"Order the fleet to speed up and approach the target as quickly as possible!"
He gave the order coldly, "Under our continuous attacks and blockades over the past few months, there are still fleets that are recklessly setting sail. They are courting death!"
Over the past few months, their Second Fleet has been patrolling intensively at sea, discovering and intercepting no less than a hundred merchant fleets, causing a severe blow to the smuggling trade in the southeastern coastal areas and obtaining a huge amount of spoils.
The Jiangnan aristocratic families, realizing that something was wrong, were already in a state of panic and seemed to be retreating, not continuing to challenge the might of the Renaissance Navy.
However, now an unknown fleet has been discovered, which makes Pan Jinghua very annoyed.
These greedy aristocratic families have not learned their lesson yet and are clearly not hurt.
Although the current naval vessels of the Fuxing Army are still the treasure ships captured in the past, they have all been personally modified by Li Dingguo using the Human Emperor Cauldron, and their performance has been greatly improved.
So far, Pan Jinghua has not found any enemy treasure ship whose performance can match his own.
With the fleet's sudden acceleration and lightning speed, the distance of just a hundred miles was quickly crossed.
Even if the enemy fleet fled for their lives at sea after realizing the approaching crisis, it was of no avail. They could only watch their own fleet being rapidly approached by the Restoration Army's naval fleet.
"This is……"
When the enemy fleet was less than twenty miles away, Pan Jinghua, who had already reached the peak of level five, discovered that this daring fleet had many abnormalities.
First of all, the shape of the other party’s treasure ship was different from that of the Ming Dynasty, and also different from the treasure ships of the white barbarians, and it was also not the pig-belly ship style of Goguryeo.
"This is a pirate ship!"
As the commander of a naval fleet, Pan Jinghua was certainly not ignorant. Although it was the first time he saw the Japanese treasure ship mentioned in the intelligence, he was able to identify it at a glance.
"These Japanese pirates are simply asking for their own death! How dare they come and provoke our Fuxing Army!"
Pan Jinghua still has fresh memories of Japan, which the commander-in-chief had mentioned many times before.
He clearly remembered the undisguised murderous intent in the commander-in-chief's eyes when he mentioned Japan.
"Fire and sink them immediately!"
"Leave behind a pirate treasure ship and take prisoners on board!"
Pan Jinghua sneered and immediately ordered an attack.
The Japanese pirate fleet in front of us consists of three high-quality treasure ships and thirteen medium-quality treasure ships.
Among the countries along the southeastern coast of the world today, Japan's treasure ships have the worst performance.
Even the pig-belly ships of the Goguryeo Dynasty were superior to the treasure ships of Japan in all aspects of performance.
Even though the number of treasure ships of the Fuxing Army's fleet is not as large as that of the enemy, it has two top-grade treasure ships and ten high-quality treasure ships.
With the strength of this squadron of the Fuxing Army, it is enough to compete with the white Hu fleet that is several times larger than itself, so it is easy to capture this Japanese pirate fleet.
If Pan Jinghua had not wanted to leave some people alive for interrogation in order to find out the ins and outs of this Japanese pirate fleet, it would not have taken much time for him to directly order the sinking of all the enemy fleets.
Although the Restoration Army is now in a period of rest and recuperation, this does not include the Restoration Navy.
The Fuxing Navy was actually busier than usual during this period.
After all, it is not easy to blockade the distant sea southeast of the Ming Dynasty.
This requires the three fleets that have already been formed, and the entire army to be deployed in large numbers in turns.
In recent months, the three major naval fleets, each with more than 300 treasure ships of various levels, have split into hundreds of squadrons and launched a large-scale military operation in the distant sea southeast of the Ming Dynasty.
After several months of hard work, they finally succeeded in completing the initial blockade of the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty, severely dealt a heavy blow to the overseas smuggling activities of various aristocratic families in Jiangnan, achieved major results, seized a huge amount of supplies and a large number of treasure ships of all levels, and reaped a lot of rewards.
"boom!"……
Following Pan Jinghua's order, the soldiers of the Fuxing Navy took advantage of the range of their own psychic cannons, maintained a distance of fifteen miles from the Japanese pirate fleet, and began a concentrated fire attack with psychic cannons!
This operation is necessary.
After all, this fleet of Japanese pirates is made up entirely of armed merchant ships, equipped with a large number of psychic cannons and spiritual crossbow carts.
If the distance is too close, the artillery fire from the other side should not be underestimated and can pose a considerable threat to the Restoration Army's naval fleet.
Pan Jinghua, who is very experienced in combat, would certainly not make such a low-level mistake. The correct approach would be to maximize his own advantages.
"Rumble..."
The hot psychic shells fired from hundreds of psychic cannons continuously bombarded the protective light shield of the Japanese pirate fleet's formation, and soon achieved results.
Although the Japanese pirates on this fleet reacted quickly and activated a protective formation immediately after discovering the approaching Fuxing Army fleet, the defensive strength of their formation was limited and could not withstand the continuous concentrated fire attacks.
After only two rounds of concentrated fire from the soldiers of the Restoration Army, the protective light shields of the thirteen Japanese pirates' medium-quality treasure ships could no longer hold and shattered.
Amid screams of extreme panic, the Fuxing Army launched another wave of concentrated fire attacks. Hundreds of psychic shells accurately covered the thirteen mid-quality treasure ships of the Japanese pirates!
"No!"
"This is the Renaissance Navy that I have never met before! How can they be so strong?"
"It's over! Our fleet is finished!"
"There are no more than ten fleets of this size in our Shimazu family. The loss this time is too great! What's more, there are a lot of goods on board that are ready to be traded with the Ming Dynasty families!"
"Rush over and engage in close combat! Die together with them!"...
Amid the screams and curses of the Japanese pirates, the thirteen medium-quality treasure ships that had lost the protection of the formation were all blown up on the spot.
The broken hull and the remains of the Japanese pirates flew all over the sky, then fell onto the sea and were submerged by the rolling waves.
Even the dozen or so Japanese pirate leaders at the Qi-refining realm on the ship who were ready to die did not jump into the sea to escape, but chose to live and die with the treasure ship. Their courage is truly commendable.
Thousands of Japanese pirates died almost simultaneously, dyeing the sea water in the area where the battlefield was located slightly red, and the scene was in a mess...
(End of this chapter)
