Although unwilling, Arima had to bend under the leaves this time.
"Che, hope you don't encounter any dangers." Arima's provocative tone had Noire chuckle secretly, the sarcasm is just too obvious.
Regardless, he opened his eyes after clearing out his thoughts, he then stood up from his position and stretched his hand at Arima.
"Everything ready?" Noire asked, tilting his head with a smile. In fact, he was a little surprised that Arima didn't send a subordinate to retrieve the flying treasure, what could be the reason?
"You have everything in this spatial ring, you can check for it if you wish," With a sneer, Arima tossed a silver space ring at Noire, which the latter accepted with a smile before pouring his spiritual sense inside it.
After a moment of investigation and confirming the authenticity of the materials, Noire nodded before extracting the spiritual treasure.
The treasure looked like a large boat equipped with defensive array formations in addition to concealment functions. The boat looked small, about the size of Noire's current dragon. However, that means that the Qi Crystal consumption should also be moderate.
Whilst Arima was secretly looking forward to seeing their reactions, he was lowkey dumbfounded.
Noire's expression was that of dissatisfaction. On the other hand, Anastasia had a glimmer of curiosity flashing over her mature face, but nothing exaggerated.
For Yinfer, she absolutely had no change of expression whatsoever. She inherited the memories of a Core Continent Phoenix, she wouldn't place such a toy in her eyes. Moreover, Yinfer is still in a trance of weighing the pros and cons of transferring the Phoenix Palace to the so-called Divine Inheritance Island.
The boat is spacious enough to accommodate ten people with enough room for three people to sit side by side. However, Noire sat cross-legged by himself on one edge of the boat whilst Yinfer sat quietly next to Anastasia.
At first, it was uncomfortable, Anastasia didn't know why Yinfer sat beside her when she's usually all over Noire, but she didn't care much, she simply brought out some Qi Crystals to initiate the formation and coordinate the direction of flight per the information Arima provided.
Huuu~
The boat began to emit faint buzzing noises as the small number of medium grade Qi Crystals turned into powder inside the formation.
Then, the boat launched forward like a shooting star, leaving a crimson ray in its wake due to the tremendous speed.
In a few short breaths of time, the boat had already left the immediate quarters of the Luhei Province.
....
On the boat, Noire sat in reflection to adjust his breath, completely detaching himself from the scene, leaving Anastasia and Yinfer to have their own opportunity to talk and bond, if they wished.
"Do you regret it?" Yinfer suddenly asked, startling Anastasia.
"Regret what?" Anastasia asked in return, a little confused as to why she received such a question.
For a brief moment, the two of them met a direct gaze from one another.
Yinfer's big blue eyes seemed to host a mysterious abyss of wonder and wisdom, making a sharp contrast with her childish-looking face and petite body.
Anastasia's eyes lacked the luster of enthusiasm and joy as if her dark pupils long turned into a crack in reality, these vertical pupils seemed to disdain everything.
Yinfer didn't need to look long into Anastasia's eyes to figure out she asked the wrong question...
"Ah, I see..." Yinfer said before closing her eyes gently. "I should have been specific, you seem to regret a lot of things, it's building up inside your eyes, if you don't let it out soon, you'll end up becoming a blind woman."
"Oh..." Anastasia gasped lightly before giving a dejected chuckle, to think she's receiving advice from a child who hatched just a few months ago.
"Are you concerned about me?" Anastasia asked a moment later. But, inside her heart, she was counting just how many times she made a decision that she shouldn't have.
"No," Yinfer shook her head lightly.
"Your only purpose of coming is to be useful for my senior brother, if you regret following us, just scram before you become a burden."
"..." Anastasia turned dead silent after receiving such words.
Noire almost coughed up blood from how decisive and heartless Yinfer is, he even hates the fact he's actually liking her personality.
Anastasia, on the other hand... She was in a stupor attempting to process the past few moments.
'So the reason she sat next to me is this...'
Anastasia began to see Yinfer in a new light, treating this petite woman like an innocent child is a fatal mistake.
Here she thought Yinfer was trying to comfort her... Heavens!
....
Swoosh~
"Ooooh! The Ocean Waves are very turbulent here! Oh! Senior brother look! That's a Leviathan! It's massive!"
Roar!
"Ahhhh! It's coming this way!"
Rumble...
Kacha!
....
"Those people are absolute monsters..." Said a purple-robed youth, he was now standing on the surface of a human-grade boat of a similar size to Noire's. However, this one was a bit more luxurious and exuded a fresh vibe.
On the boat was a group of five.
Three male martial artists and two female ones.
Presently, both female martial artists sat by either side of a scholar-looking youth who seemed to be in deep meditation whilst the remaining two male youths were watching the spectacular scenery in the distance.
They weren't alone however, many youths, middle-aged men, and even old monsters were eyeing a large flying treasure that resembles a three-layered pagoda.
On the very bottom layer near the Ocean's surface stood a tall, handsome young man with an air of arrogance around him.
Besides him was a cheerful ordinary-looking young girl, she had long pink hair that remained unsettled in the winds.
Her large emerald eyes watched with relish as her senior brother's thunder rained down on a massive Leviathan.
The loud rumbling of thunder and the miserable howls of the sea monster left everyone speechless, especially with the sharp contrast of this woman's enthusiasm about the monster's fate.
"Heavens... high-grade thunder elemental mastery is frightening..." Whispered the companion of the aforementioned youth as they watched the sadistic display of power.