Chapter 520: Returning to the Island
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the ancient times of Chinese civilization, ‘jade’ had always been a scarce and precious item. There had been a saying since ancient times—”gold is valuable, but jade is priceless.”
It was because real jade could only be produced in Lantian. The minerals were depleted, and it was sporadic. For this reason, since ancient times, some of the warm and gentle stone materials were also crowned the name ‘jade’ and became one in a broad sense to meet the demands of collectors.
Unfortunately, to ordinary people who posed as a man of culture among men of letters, such confusion between jade and stone could work as those jades of later ages—for example, the Kunlun Jade, Burmese Jade and so on—had ingenious cutting skills that were not inferior to its predecessors. However, to Taoist pract.i.tioners who cooked the jades to become their bait and carved them into weapons, jade and stone had a vast difference. One was an excellent aid to help in their cultivation and power, while the other was just worthless junk. This difference was the reason why they would ambush Zhang Lisheng. When they discovered that the Noah World had the same mineral deposit as Lantian jade mine, they did what they had done regardless of the risk and cost. This was to ensure that the jade mine was used by the Gate of Dao.
Unfortunately, this risk ended in failure. As a result, their own men revealed the original intention of the Gate of Dao. Thus, they ended up losing terribly.
To their surprise, when they were feeling extremely regretful, Zhang Lisheng suddenly released a generous message that disregarded past grudges through Tina. For this reason, the Gate of Dao’s members who had already been prepared for the worst scenario immediately returned with goodwill. All sorts of strange gifts were quickly sent across the ocean and appeared in front of the young man.
Just like this, from the countless of war trophies obtained by killing wizards in the grudges between the Gate of Dao and Gate of Witchcraft, a small part of the essence mysteriously fell into Zhang Lisheng’s hands. This made it feel like the G.o.d of destiny was making fools of everyone. Even the Taoist priests would do anything just for their interest.
Unfortunately, when the young man obtained those inherited witchcraft magical items, secret weapons, secret methods, the condition of his body had been changing from everyday and was becoming more out of his control.
Anxious, he roughly glanced at these unexpected gains and packed them correctly on the plane, s.h.i.+pping them to New York.
After that, he only spent a day in the new port and loaded the 10,000 Atlantis translating devices prepared by Maddie and the gifts from the Gate of Dao onto the cargo s.h.i.+p of Shrimp B1 Island Comprehensive Development Company. Thereafter, he hurriedly crossed the world’s barrier and rushed towards the land enveloped by his faith.
He then pa.s.sed through the intensifying light curtain set by the Atlanteans, which made it dangerous for them to go in and out now. Thus, the young man who hid in the bathroom once again felt a sharp burning pain. Although its intensity was lesser than when he had his full vitality, it was also enough to prove that he had been reconst.i.tuted as a threat in their defense system.
“Awesome! This is awesome! Speaking of it, I really need to thank those Gate of Dao’s elders whose souls got shattered. Otherwise, I don’t know how many h.e.l.lfire tribes my expeditionary army must conquer before I can seize this opportunity of becoming a Grand Wizard…” Looking at his scorched skin, Zhang Lisheng, who was wearing a black hoodie, covered his head and placed his hand into his pocket before walking onto the deck.
It was already early winter now, so the sun was cold although the sun was s.h.i.+ning down.
Looking at the rippling blue sea, the young man took a few deep breaths. He pondered for a while before turning around to shout at the steering cabin of the s.h.i.+p, “Captain Rubeck, Captain Rubeck. Can you come out for a while, please?”
“Of course, doctor! Is there anything you need?” The captain of the s.h.i.+p had the highest power during the voyage according to the international standard. However, in the face of the call from the big boss, the impressive-looking middle-aged captain who had a height close to 190 centimeters, with two bushy, black mustache while wearing a white captain hat, appeared to be very respectful.
It was this kind of obedient submission that was rare among navigators, who were adventurous and not afraid of authority, that made Charlie, who was in charge of handling everything on Earth on behalf of Zhang Lisheng, hired him.
“It’s like this, captain. I’m eager to return to the Wizard Li tribe to continue the mission of the Shrimp World No. 2 commissioned by the federal government. Can you dock the s.h.i.+p directly to the native port?”
“Dock a-at the native port?” Rubeck stuttered with widened eyes, “T-Then, doctor, would the escorting littoral combat s.h.i.+p go too?”
The littoral combat s.h.i.+ps at both sides of the vessel were the private escorts wars.h.i.+ps ordered by the LS Group exclusively for the development of the foreign world. This was done when President Paul signed his first presidential decree. It was a mandate to open the Shrimp World No. 2 for the public once he entered the White House on his previous term and revised the National Defense Act. This private escort was owned by the LS Group, but the sailors who drove the wars.h.i.+ps were all federal soldiers.
The LS Company paid the salaries of these active soldiers to the military of the United States according to the contract, which would then be issued by the military. This kind of operation was uncommon in the Western world. Before the emergence of the foreign world, it had only existed in military and security industries, in which it had only gradually become popular after the revision of the National Defense Act.
Zhang Lisheng was not familiar with the wars.h.i.+p commander who escorted him. Still, he knew that his own power should be able to intimidate the two colonel-ranked officers who did not have much power in the government. For this reason, he smiled faintly and said, “It doesn’t matter if the escort s.h.i.+p is willing to follow or not, since we’re already safe by the time we reach the Shrimp B1 Island’s offsh.o.r.e. Don’t worry about my prestige among the natives. There won’t be any problems.”
“O-Of course, there won’t be any problem. You’re one of the leaders in the hearts of those natives… I-I’ll inform the captains of the two escort s.h.i.+ps, the ‘Big Brown Bear,’ to divert and change their navigation.” Upon seeing the young man’s gaunt face that looked like a drug addict hidden under his cap, Rubeck suddenly felt his heart clenching without warning. Quickly, he nodded, “Which native port are we diverting to, doctor?”
“The Giant Wood Harbor at the south of the Shrimp B1 Island. It’s the largest port of the entire island, so you’ll be able to recognize it in just one glance.”
“Alright, doctor! We’ll reroute to Giant Wood Harbor,” Rubeck confirmed and hastily turned around to walk into the steering cabin.
After that, just like Zhang Lisheng had expected, in the name of the federally mandated mission, the s.h.i.+p sailed across the US army campsite on the Shrimp B1 Island. It sailed directly to the Wizard Li port.
When they reached the destination, the incredible size and prosperity of the giant wooden port made the sailors on the cargo s.h.i.+p stunned.
Unfortunately, they did not get too much time to appreciate this vast and extremely huge port that had a unique foreign world taste. Then had then unloaded the container that Zhang Lisheng claimed to be experimental equipment. However, they were already driven away by the native warriors riding on the dragon-headed hawk monster out of the port.
Watching the ‘Big Brown Bear’ disappearing from the sea, the young man who was standing on the wood that was harder than steel sighed with great relief. While he was taking in a deep breath, all of the Wizard Li tribesmen within his sight had already crouched down on the grown humbly like gra.s.ses in the storm. They then began reciting their prayers.
In the praise that resonated through the clouds, Zhang Lisheng waved his arms and summoned two ma.s.sive arms from the ocean to tear open the container beside him. After finding a two-meter square metal box and opening it with a pa.s.sword, he took out an exquisite plastic box the size of a matchbox that had been taken apart. He then took out a soft earplugs that was seemingly made of silicone.
After fiddling with it for a while, the earplugs issued a prompt sound saying, “10,000 target unit has been synchronized!” Excitement filled his face as he looked down at the Wizard Li headman kneeling devoutly at his feet and pointed at those small boxes, “Tugra, it’s good that you’re here in the Giant Wood Harbor. These are 10,000 amazing items that are filled with endless knowledge and can make the Wizard Li tribesmen understand the mainland languages. Putting these in your eyes and ears will give a shocking amount of wisdom to an ordinary person. Send these to Aruba and let him find 10,000 of our most versatile and creative craftsmen to form a ‘theology academy.’ They can then digest the knowledge and let all Wizard Li tribesmen benefit from my gift.”
He wanted to let the ignorant natives confuse between theology and science to think that all the wisdom they had gained depended on the gifts that G.o.ds bestowed. Zhang Lisheng had already planned this out beforehand. It was also because of this that he would purposely instruct Maddie to leave out the content of sociology when he told her to input knowledge into the translating devices.
Upon hearing the young man’s words, Tugra, who had learned the enormous power contained in the knowledge from the drastic change of the tribe, certainly did not understand the intention in the young man’s heart. Burying his head deeply in the soil, he said with grat.i.tude, “Yes, dear Great G.o.d. The gifts that you bestowed to the Wizard Li tribe will forever be perceived and praised by the Wizard Li tribesmen for generations.”
“Since all of you praise me, I’ll bestow glory and honor to all of you too…” Zhang Lisheng deliberately said. Looking at the Gate of Dao’s gifts in the container, other than those Atlantis translating devices, he said hesitantly, “The other things in this iron box contained magical and dangerous power. Tell the men to hide them in dry, room-temperature caves and seal them up. I’ll use them later.”
When they finished ordering so, the young man suddenly felt that his body had become slightly more c.u.mbersome. Without waiting for the Wizard Li headman to answer, he walked to a huge treehouse near the beach in the distance.
Halfway through, he felt that it was getting harder for him to walk as his body gradually lost consciousness, as though he would fall to the ground at any time.
Fortunately, contrary to his physical loss of control, Zhang Lisheng’s mind was still dominant. With a change of his thought, a giant condensed from water vapor appeared in the air and lifted him on its shoulder before striding towards the bark house.
It was in the evening when the Wizard Li headman return to report upon his completion of the task. The young man’s body had returned to normal by that time. Sitting on the animal skin, he listened to Tugra, who was kneeling on the ground, reporting loudly. “Great G.o.d, when Aruba received the sacred gifts that you bestowed, he was fanatically happy about it! Without even wasting any second, he immediately went to summon those old craftsmen. I’ve also sealed those amazing items you brought in the caves of the Grey Snake Mountain in the west of the tribe and sent two thousand elite warriors to camp and guard there.”
A satisfied smile could be seen on Zhang Lisheng’s face.