Witch, I'm really not the Deep Sea Ancient God!

Chen Qi took a sip of wine.

The Shadow Tide turning into a crack also had a few benefits.

First, there were the inspiration points.

By killing certain monsters, one could gain inspiration points within the crack.

However, once a crack was cleared, it would close, so unlike in the Black Blood Empire, in Shell Country, the actual monster grinding spots were very scarce.

After upgrading his Steel Qi and Blade Breathing Technique, Chen Qi had depleted his inspiration points, leaving only five hundred.

Now, Chen Qi's inspiration wasn't even enough to upgrade the Blade Casting and Body Refining Technique in his hand.

Once he entered the Third Rank and began learning higher-order skills, the cost in inspiration points would be a huge figure, and daily tasks wouldn't cover it.

In the Shadow Tide, the vast number of Shadow Beast monsters were savory inspiration points, missing this chance was equivalent to missing out on a massive amount of inspiration.

Second, there was no limit on the number of people in a crack, which meant the difficulty of the crack would be significantly reduced.

This meant that the Shadow Tide would become a typical unrestricted multiplayer crack, where even a First Order Transcendent might have a chance to make significant gains.

With the current scale of Sea God Island, the final number of participants could exceed ten thousand.

Simply put, the collapse of the crack would be a nation-wide, monster killing, and leveling up ultra-rare instance.

Of course, the title of a B-level crack still deterred most people, after all, B-level cracks were capable of killing legends.

At the moment, accompanied by Chen Qi's intelligence, the chatter in the tavern was incessant, with the topic all revolving around "Shadow Tide".

Certainly, the information about this B-tier crack stunned everyone, and many Hunters, in order to survive, even chose to pay a penalty fee to opt out of the crack.

As a cadre of the Sea God Pirate Group on Sea God Island, Captain Sea Snake said gravely,

"Everyone, calm down! This matter is of great importance! It's just a Shadow Tide. We at Sea God Island have a vast array of tentacle defenses, a strong Seahorse squad, and thousands of heavy cannons! And our island's Third-tier supernova!"

At that time, Sea God Island's Bishop will also personally defend against the enemy. This Shadow Tide is nothing to fear!"

In the tavern, several ferocious-looking Third-tier Hunters said,

"You just want to use us as cannon fodder, right?"

"I hope your defenses aren't just for show!"

"It would be best if you could provide a precise scale of the disaster. If someone hadn't risked their lives to gather intelligence, we'd die without even knowing what we were facing!"

The crowd stared fiercely at Captain Sea Snake.

Captain Sea Snake was surrounded by the crowd.

Great, the NPC I'm supposed to collect rewards from is surrounded... Chen Qi had no choice but to put down his glass and find the person in charge of the tavern to collect his reward.

The chubby person in charge of the tavern, with a smile, handed Chen Qi a bag filled with three million Shell Coins and a dark Skill Card:

"Newcomer of the Lamp Phase! Welcome to Sea God Island. We have many scouting tasks, but we're desperately short of people. Come again next time~"

Scouting tasks are always understaffed... Chen Qi took the bag and the dark Skill Card in his hands.

[Black Wave Slash Lv1
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Learning requirements: Slight Shadow Phase insight, mastery of Qi Power Transformation

Effect: During the blade's slashing process, transforms Qi Power into a black, sharp, flowing wave, then condenses it into a slash.

Note: Learning this will permanently enhance slashing power.

Note: Upgrading this skill requires 5000 inspiration points, and consumption of a large amount of Black Sea Grass.]

An active slashing skill... Chen Qi fell into thought.

Among the many blade techniques, Black Wave Slash was quite a formidable skill; after upgrading to level two, it could enhance agility and strength.

Upon reaching level three, it could even unlock a powerful final battle technique.

Black Wave Slash was a strong skill among Third-tier skills, but the prerequisite was reaching Lv3.

After the Third Tier, powerful skills, aside from regular skill requirements, also needed a large amount of resources.

Black Wave Slash was no exception, to learn it one must consume Black Sea Grass to adjust one's blood.

Seeing this, the tavern's person in charge clasped his hands together and squeezed out a smile:

"Sir, if you need Black Sea Grass, you can exchange it using Contribution Points."

"I understand," Chen Qi said as he pocketed the Skill Card.

Good things are always expensive.

The method of acquiring Black Sea Grass was controlled only by Sea God Island.

It could be said that the Sea God Pirate Group, although rewarding him, also bound him using a special method of "tie-in sales," as the Skill Card they provided often required the group's resources to study.

Many freelance Hunters hesitated to leave because they couldn't exchange for the resources needed by the Skill Card.

If Chen Qi didn't continue doing tasks, he wouldn't be able to fully utilize the power of Black Wave Slash.

However, Chen Qi didn't mind too much.

He came to the Sea God Pirate Group with the goal to surpass Melanie, the protagonist of Witch Sea, and decisively put her beneath him.

Thus, right from the start, Chen Qi's thought was to take everything!

And upgrading Black Wave Slash to Lv3 was also a must.

Chen Qi clapped his hands and then walked over to Melanie to greet her,

"Miss Hunter."

The Lamp Keeper's dust in his hands needed to be made into a card as soon as possible.

On this island, there should be other Cardmakers.

But finding a Cardmaker faster than Melanie would be difficult.

Melanie dismounted from the bar stool:

"Hunter, what is it? Our White Tower's ship is quite large, would you like to come take a look?"