However, Liu Yi had already seen the majestic earthly qi in front of him from afar.

There won't be an island ahead, but a continent. Otherwise, it would not be possible to cultivate such a huge and dignified earth qi.

But after a day, the first thing they encountered was an island.

It is a high mountain that extends from the bottom of the sea, at least thousands of miles in size. Lush vegetation fills every piece of land on the island.

Everyone cheered, even though they didn't know that there was land ahead. But such a large island is enough for them to repair and replenish supplies by the way.

And according to the law of Da Chu, if this island is not inhabited. Nor did anyone find out that they could even occupy it themselves if it was recorded on the charts.

You can even apply for financial support from the imperial court or the private sector to establish a foreign domain here.

Of course, this is ideal.

Soon, however, the dream was awakened. Before they could get close to the pirates, a violent drum beat came.

Soon after, black-pressed canoes rushed towards the fleet from all over the island.

Obviously, this is not going to be another welcome move.

Great Chu expanded outward, though not too much to encourage such things as slaughtering natives.

But if this happens, you won't be soft!

Wang Ran looked at the natives in the distance who were wielding rudimentary weapons and swarthy bodies painted with colorful oil paint, and were speechless for a moment.

"Be careful," Liu Yi shouted, "Don't underestimate them." See, there's a stranded steamship on the shore......"

Wang Ran's heart was shocked. Raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked over.

Sure enough, I saw a large steam ship in the distance, although it seemed to be smaller than that of my own fleet. However. But it was really half-sunk on the reef on the shore.

Is this place quirky?

Wang Ran secretly said in his heart, just by relying on these savage-like guys. But how can you sink a steamship?

Or was it simply the ship that sank on its own?

In any case, the natives were already shouting and screaming and rushing over.

Although the Yi Zi is the smallest of the three ships in the fleet. But it's also a ship of 4,000 materials. The head and tail are also about three feet, and compared to the indigenous canoes, they are behemoths.

It is even more fully armed, even if it is a baggage ship. But since he went to sea to the other side and carried out such an important task, the force above will definitely not be weak.

It was under the orders of the captain of the Yi Zi. Hundreds of sailors had already rushed to the deck and began to attack in a condescending manner.

Crossbow arrows rained down.

Da Chu has spent more than 2,000 years in expansion. Military equipment has also been progressing all the time and has not stood still.

Although the tech tree is different, gunpowder and muskets were not born.

However, the manufacture of this crossbow has reached the pinnacle.

Lewi had seen these crossbows, and they were all made of steel. It's the bowstring. It is also made of steel wire.

Compared with the Fan Yi era, it can shoot a crossbow with three hundred steps. At this time, there are more than that. It has even been invented specifically for masters, which is extremely powerful. Able to shoot a crossbow from a distance of 1,000 steps.

It is equipped on these sea ships, and according to the rules of going to sea, they are all standard bows and crossbows that can be equipped in the army.

Although the range is only about 100 paces. However, this kind of crossbow can be fired in bursts. Whether it's winding. Or launch, it's very easy and fast.

Basically. This bow crossbow is in the hands of skilled soldiers and can fire three rounds in a minute. And there are even some powerful characters, who can even send five shots in a minute.

It can be imagined that at this time, hundreds of crossbows were all fired at this time, what kind of situation it was.

When I just got close to the ship, I didn't even have good eyes and couldn't even see people's faces clearly.

One by one, the natives screamed and fell into the water. Soon the blue waters turned red. Even the canoe they rode in could not stop the power of the crossbow, and it was shot with thousands of holes.

The blood in the water quickly attracted sharks. One by one, the dorsal fins are exposed from the water, and they quickly come over and bite.

The natives were almost stupid and panicked. It seems that he wants to retreat.

Under the generational gap of this technology, they almost have no power to fight back.

However, as the drums on the shore became more and more intense.

Not only did these natives stop their panic, but they also pounced on Yi Zi again.

"Look, look...... Those sharks ......."

Liu Yi had already seen that it was the shark in the water, and in the sound of those drums, it was as if he had heard the order, and he rushed towards Yizihao.

At one time, there were no more than a thousand of these indigenous canoes, but there seemed to be tens of thousands of sharks with dorsal fins exposed nearby.

The sea is full of dense dorsal fins, which look very creepy.

"I'm coming!"

After going to sea, Wang Ran, who had never had the opportunity to express himself, was in good spirits at this time.

He took out a bottle and dripped a few drops of ink-black juice into the sea. I saw that it was only two or three drops of liquid, spreading rapidly.

All the sharks that came into contact with the venom immediately turned their bellies upside down and floated on the water.

The liquid spread extremely fast, expanding to a few hundred meters around the Yi Zi in the blink of an eye.

As long as the sharks pounce on the black water, death is the only fate.

However, this is not the end of the story. With Wang Ran's voice, those black seawater waters seemed to be alive, and they took the initiative to pounce towards the farther shark school.

It's just a short time to stick incense, waiting for the other two ships to come closer. There is not a single shark at sea left.

Even if it touched a little sea water, such as the splash of water during rowing, the natives who fell on it also fell crookedly one by one.

And these canoes, when rowing, want not to touch the water. It's just impossible.

For a moment, the huge sea was quiet. No one thought of it. As soon as Wang Ran made a move, he was so terrifying.

The next moment. "Bang bang ......" sounded chaotically. The belly of the shark floating in the sea exploded, and black liquid splashed everywhere.

The black range on the sea surface has expanded more than tenfold, covering hundreds of acres of sea.

"Gu Master, it's Gu Master......" Li Fang, who was standing on the steamboat, saw this scene, and they all muttered to themselves in shock.

I didn't expect that Wang Ran who came from the Demon Slayer Division. is actually a Gu master, and he is actually such a powerful Gu master.

Back then, when there was still Southern Xinjiang, the use of Gu was what those Southern Wilderness Witches were good at.

With it, the Southern Wilderness was conquered by Great Chu. Most of the witches have merged into Middle-earth. This kind of ability to use Gu has already been introduced to Middle-earth.

Moreover, it was valued by the imperial court. The people are restricted from using Gu. However, the official Gu art has been further developed.

In the war expansion of the Great Chu dynasties, it played a great role. And the power of those Gu techniques is even more than a hundred times stronger.

Those who master these Gu techniques are called Gu masters. These people can be said to be tactical weapons in the army. It's about the same as a master who has practiced into a fire cloud sky.

Before going to sea, Xu Yi and Li Fang also wanted to hire a Gu master to go to sea with them.

However. But it was very difficult. So much so that they returned empty-handed, but they didn't expect that one had been silently hidden on their ship.

Liu Yi didn't have anything to be shocked about, in the battle to kill the evil god. I have already seen Wang Ran's ability to use Gu.

He knew very well that Wang Ran was not a pure Gu master, but a warlock. That is, there are many kinds of things, but nothing is good.

But. Even this half-Gu Master actually has such a powerful Gu poison on his body. But it was beyond Liu Yi's expectations.

"It's Kuroshio, albeit powerful. But the effect is too restrictive. It can only be used in seawater......" Wang Ran explained.

Liu Yi nodded, around Da Chu. This kind of Gu technique is really useless.

It is a weapon of mass destruction used in the military. Private ownership is strictly prohibited.

I don't know where Wang Ran got it from, but everyone has secrets, and Liu Yi has no intention of getting to the bottom of it.

In Qin Shiyue's memory, Liu Yi also knew that there was a Gu poison called Red Tide, which could be used in fresh water. More powerful.

It used to be of great use in foreign wars. Shengsheng turned the rivers near a city that was stubbornly resisting the Great Chu army turned red.

All the aquariums died, and countless fish and shrimp turned their bellies. Let the entire big city with a population of hundreds of thousands think that this is a heavenly punishment from heaven, and the hearts of the people will collapse and surrender.

In comparison, the Kuroshio, which is used in seawater, is much more restrictive. At the very least, if people are sitting in a big boat, there is no threat at all.

With Wang Ran's whistle, the black tide in the sea quickly retreated. Then it turned into a few drops of liquid again and returned to Wang Ran's bottle. He carefully put it down.

The sea water regained its blue color, and if it weren't for the fact that there were many tattered corpses floating on it, the scene just now seemed to be just an illusion.

The steamer waved its flag and headed for the big island. Three ships, in a zigzag formation, approached the shore.

In the dense forests of the island, the rousing drums did not know when to stop. In the face of several ships, they rushed over violently, and the silence was terrifying.

However, in this silence, there is an invisible tension that pervades. The mountain rain is about to come and the wind fills the building, so that the air seems to be frozen.

"Roaring ......"

Until a loud roar sounded, countless birds and birds flew up in the mountains and forests of the island, as if they had encountered some danger.

"What the hell is it that makes such a terrifying scream?" Xu Yi and Li Fang glanced at each other, secretly shocked in their hearts.

However, it doesn't matter what great things are on the island. They also have to break in, and it is impossible to return in vain. There are not many supplies in the fleet.

Da Chu did not encourage the massacre of those natives. In fact, many times, Da Chu prefers to deal with these people with walking corpses who do business.

Because, talent is the greatest wealth, because as long as talent will create zào wealth.

That kind of slaughtering plunder is nothing more than fishing for the sake of fishing. Package deals.

In fact, although Dachu now has an economic crisis of overcapacity.

However, Da Chu was not without a way to deal with it, as early as the era of Taizong Fan Yi, he left an answer.

In the Great Chu dynasties, when this kind of problem was encountered, it was solved by all means.

Expand, have children, increase the population.

In a word, expand the market. If there is overcapacity, find a way to expand the market.

The easiest way to expand the market is to increase the population. And it's about increasing the number of people with purchasing power.

The market is made up of people with purchasing power, not dead people, let alone slaves......

In fact, the more than 2,000-year history of expansion of Great Chu already has a complete set of mature colonial models. Very efficient.

And it's the indigenous, under this system. After two or three generations, they will also become the people of Great Chu who speak the language of Middle-earth.

There are only natives like the one in front of you, who are-for-tat with Da Chu and have bad intentions. will be regarded as an enemy by Da Chu, and will carry out a cruel war until its hostility is destroyed!

And the slaves of Da Chu also came like this.

Even, in the policies of the Great Chu for nearly two hundred years, the use of slaves has long been discouraged.

Because for Da Chu, productivity is not the most important. And the market is the most important thing.

Slaves had no purchasing power and were not part of the active ingredient of the market......

However, no matter what Da Chu's policy says. At this time, in the face of these hostile guys, Da Chu insisted on subduing it forever.

Not to mention, the fleet had to replenish supplies ashore.

As Yi Zihao first docked to investigate, Liu Yi was the first to set foot on the shore.

Then I heard the sound of "clicking" trees breaking, and a behemoth rushed down the mountain, and everywhere it passed, the trees and vegetation of its magical size were all broken as fragile as toothpicks.

"It's a snake, what a big ......"

The legs of the countless sailors on the Yi Zi were weak, and from the cracks in this dense forest, it could be seen that a huge and incredible giant python rushed down from the mountain.

The big tree hugged by countless people was broken by a light yì in front of this giant python.

Liu Yidu raised his eyebrows, such a big snake must not grow naturally. It's definitely already a success.

"Pick up your crossbows," Ley's steady, calm voice seemed to have a hypnotic power: "Get ready to fight!"

Many sailors woke up from their dreams and hurriedly raised their crossbows.

But seeing that at this time, Liu Yi pounced on the giant python first.

However, it was the cannonballs that were faster than Lewy. Hearing only the sound of "boom", a black shadow had already shot from dozens of meters away from Liu Yi's side. Then it landed in the middle of the mountains and forests.

"Whoa......," the snake let out a scream, and the behemoth's body, apparently hit by a cannonball, rolled around in the forest. (To be continued......)