Under the fairy stone lamp that was as dazzling as daytime, Mei Xue closed her eyes and drew the outline that she had once forgotten.
They were huge, streamlined warships equipped with various immortal arts and weapons. They were the decisive forces of the Myriad Seas Mountain Range.
The runic battleship was one of the greatest achievements of the Immortal Art Civilization in terms of weaponry. It was the main character of many battles in the Myriad Seas Mountain Range.
According to the different needs of combat, different forces of the Myriad Seas Mountain Range have rune warships of different styles. There are "Mortal grade" rune warships for ordinary people, and "Immortal grade" rune warships for Immortal Warlocks.
However, no matter what kind of runic warship it was, it could not move alone. It had to be connected to the center of the Hovering Mountain in order to obtain the power to move unhindered in the seas.
This was the unique characteristic of the Myriad Seas Mountain Range. All Laws were based on the 'mountains' and 'seas'.
Without the Hovering Mountain as the hub, the fleet would not be able to move.
A hovering mountain, even the smallest one, is a treasure in the hands of the Myriad Seas Mountain Range's major forces. Therefore, the world of warships has nothing to do with ordinary people. They are weapons of war only for elite navies and Immortal Warlocks.
The purpose of the Runic Battleship was to protect the Hovering Mountain, then attack the enemy and open up the sea route.
In fact, the Hovering Mountain itself could be seen as a super battleship, the ultimate weapon floating on the sea.
Just like the golden-furred, jade-faced, nine-tailed fox princess Qingqiu Jiuyue's personal Hovering Mountain, "Sky Blue", it was a powerful Hovering Mountain that could even resist the Netherworld Seed, a perfect crystallization of the Immortal Art civilization.
However, the weakness of the Hovering Mountain was also obvious. Its movement speed was too slow, making it an easy target. Once it was surrounded by a large number of enemies, it would be surrounded and killed like a slow-moving elephant.
In order to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening, the formation warships came into being and became the final line of defense to protect the Hovering Mountain. They were also the best weapon to charge and break through enemy lines.
After all, the Hovering Mountain could not be manufactured by humans. No faction would treat the Hovering Mountain as a consumable.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, even the two opposing sides were reluctant to destroy each other's Hovering Mountain.
After so many battles, the Hovering Mountains became more and more important.
Therefore, the naval battles of the Zhu Hai Mountain Range had now become the stage for the runic warships. The Hovering Mountain Range had also begun to be divided into two categories, the military and civilian.
Civilian Hovering Mountains would not be equipped with runic battleships. Although there were exceptions like the September Princess of Qing Qiu, who did not need a fleet of battleships to fight against the Netherworld Seed, the vast majority of Hovering Mountains would not be equipped with a terrifying super weapon like "Azure".
After experiencing a few major sea battles and suffering heavy casualties, the Zhu Hai Mountain Range had already started to abandon their previous method of using the highest grade Hovering Mountain as the hub to build a fleet of super large warships.
They began to build fleets around the small Hovering Mountains that could move quickly and carry out super mobile attacks.
In this way, the rhythm of the battle became faster and more varied, which also put a higher demand on the commander.
Because the energy of the runic battleships was completely supplied by the Hovering Mountains, there were only two ways to achieve victory in a battleship battle – to destroy all of the enemy's battleships, or to destroy the enemy's Hovering Mountains.
Now that the Zhu Hai Mountain Range had tacitly agreed not to destroy the Hovering Mountains, it was tantamount to completely depending on the performance of the battleships of the two sides.
Generally speaking, a battleship battle would end when two-thirds of one side's battleships were destroyed and all of the "Faerie grade" runic battleships used by Immortal Warlocks could no longer move.
Of course, it was not that there had never been a situation where the Hovering Mountains alone could destroy an entire battleship fleet. At the very least, the "Azure" that Mei Xue knew of possessed such terrifying strength.
But at the same time, in Mei Xue's memories, there were also terrifying battleships that could act alone and even take the initiative to hunt down the Hovering Mountains.
That was the legend of the Zhu Hai Mountain Range, the Azure Terror within the Endless Fog.
"Divine Phoenix …"
"Yang Yan …"
"Eight-foot mirror …"
"Bai …"
The silhouettes of the young girls in his memories flashed. It was a past that Mei Xue did not want to remember, but he could not forget. It was a dark history that he had never told anyone.
The only one who knew about his past was her, the Aurogon, who had undergone the spirit ritual with him and shared their memories.
Every name on it was left in Mei Xue's memories. He did not forget them just because he had cut off all of his relationships with his sword.
Because they were not only the lovers he once admired, but also the shield that protected him, the sword in his hand. At that time, when he was young, he was invincible, the nightmare of the seas.
At that time, his code name was "Mo". He was the deepest and most unfathomable king within the Endless Fog. He was the youngest and strongest undefeated king of the legendary fleet that had swept across the seas.
Except for a few people, no one knew that this extremely terrifying nightmare of the seas, the king of the seas named "Mo", who had never tasted defeat, was only 12 years old at that time.
As for why it became like this, when Mei Xue recalled it, he felt that perhaps it was just a strange dream that he had. Everything in the dream was so real – except for himself.
Clearly, he had only gone to work in that "strange fleet" to gather enough money to study in some remote Immortal Arts Academy.
It was just that the place where that "strange fleet" recruited people was a little strange. The young girl who was in charge of waiting there looked at him with an expression that was a little too surprised, as if she had not seen anyone enter for hundreds of years.
However, the recruitment advertisement of that "strange fleet" was clearly floating in mid-air. Anyone who was not blind could see it.
Then, he met them.
The first to accept him gently and "connect" with him was the Divine Phoenix.
The one who "hugged" him very reluctantly, Yang Yan.
The cold Eight-Foot Mirror that did not show any expression even when "kissing" him.
She was very, very dependent on him, but would always do things that he did not understand, such as "swearing" with him.
Of course, she was also the young girl who rejected his confession.
"You're still too young. When you grow up, how about a hundred years?" That was the Divine Phoenix's smile.
"Who wants to be with you!
Wait a hundred years! "That was the angry Yang Yan.
"Is this an order?" That was the Eight-Foot Mirror's answer.
"Brother, the wind is very noisy today …" Alright, he did not understand what Bai was thinking.
Shaking his head, Mei Xue sealed the unbearable past in his heart again, leaving only the part about naval battles.
Originally, he thought that the knowledge that he had learned and used back then would never be of use again.
That foggy past was already far away from him. He did not expect that there would be a day where it could be of use again.
Although he had specialized in commanding battleships at that time and achieved undefeated results with the combination of "Divine Phoenix", "Yang Yan", "Eight Foot Mirror", and the ultimate trump card "Bai", he naturally knew some things about naval battles. He even knew the manufacturing methods of many special equipment.
He was almost certain that the system of these equipment was completely different from the ones that were currently popular in the Zhu Hai Mountain Range. This was because these were items from that "strange fleet". They were powerful equipment that had shown great power in the many battles that he was in charge of.
If he had the heart, he could have made a fortune just by manufacturing these equipment. He would not have to live a simple life like he did on Tiantai Mountain.
However, Mei Xue did not want to think about what happened back then. He did not want to have anything to do with that "strange fleet" anymore.
For him, anything related to that fleet was a taboo.
But in the dead of night, he sometimes could not help but think about the people who fought with him and advanced in the fog with him. He wondered how they were now.
Divine Phoenix, who loved to take care of people, Yang Yan, who had a fiery personality, the cold eight-foot mirror, and Bai, who no one could understand … The fleet that never stopped in the Fog World should be cruising the blue ocean as usual today, chasing after their enemies.
However, that had nothing to do with him. He should not have gone to that world in the first place, so it was the right thing to do to leave before it caused more changes.
That world did not belong to him.
"Well, that's about it. I should be able to manufacture them tomorrow."
After listing out all the equipment that could be manufactured in his memory, Mei Xue wrote down the budget at the back.
Although this amount could scare a bunch of people to death, he was sure that Huang Fei would definitely buy them all. Clearly, the encounter with the Nine Gloom Seed had brought him too many bad memories.
Mei Xue knew better than anyone else how powerful the Nine Gloom Seed was. If he had not borrowed the power of "Sky Green" back then, he definitely would not have had the slightest chance of winning.
However, if he had any of the "Divine Phoenix", "Yang Yan", "Eight-Foot Mirror", or "Bai", he might have been able to deal with the Nine Gloom Seed.
That was how powerful they were.
They were the strongest in the seas. They were not "Mortal" or "Celestial", but the higher "Legendary" level.
They were not bound by anything. They were legends that could dominate the seas with their own power.
Any one of them had the power to match or even annihilate the Nine Gloom Seed.
It was precisely because of this that they were worthy of the title of 'legend'. Every single one of them was surrounded by countless people. They were the legends of the mountains and seas that would never fade, the legends of the everlasting azure ocean.
However, that was not Mei Xue's power. He could only use them better and unleash 100% of their power.
Mei Xue felt that he did not deserve to be with such great existences. He did not know how he could do such a thing, but he was 100% sure that it was not his own power.
Therefore, even if others praised him and hinted that he could have more ideas, Mei Xue never felt that it was something that he should have.
The nightmare of the seas called "Mo", the undefeatable king that controlled the "Divine Phoenix", "Yang Yan", "Eight Foot Mirror", and "Bai", was just a mistake that Mei Xue had made when he went astray.
Mei Xue knew that such a world did not belong to him. Therefore, after realizing his mistake, he chose to escape from there and completely leave the world that he should not have entered.
Then, it was his path of learning at the Tiantai Mountain Immortal Arts Academy.
To him, this was the life that he wanted, the world that he liked.
The "Mo" in the nightmare of the seas disappeared just like that, because it was originally an illusion. It was a mistake that a twelve year old boy had unintentionally made.