I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

”If you knock off the salt blocks from the Salted Angel and grind them back home, you can also make seasoning salts.”

”Unlike ordinary salt, the salt blocks on the Salted Angel can enhance the flavor of ingredients and provide additional attribute bonuses.”

”Judging from the value of ingredients, the Salted Angel’s ingredient value is at least in the Level 4 Adventuring Sea Area, whereas the Human Head Grass, because of its special Spiritual Value boost, is at least in the Level 5 Adventuring Sea Area.”

After understanding the uses and effects of the Salted Angel and Human Head Grass as ingredients,

the following tasks became simpler.

Opened one black iron box after another, picked the Human Head Grass, knocked off the salt blocks from the Salted Angel...

After a busy round, the ”Gray Sparrow” had new ingredients stocked.

The happiest of all was Xia Youwei, as new ingredients always equated to new culinary creations.

Seeing everyone happily enjoy her culinary creations is the greatest spiritual satisfaction for the ”Gray Sparrow”’s chef.

”So, I was right, wasn’t I?” After the hustle, Shang Siteng remarked while sitting back in the dining room.

”With your captain talent, we’ll never run out of tasks on the Water Planet.”

Listening to her remark, the other Contracted Spirit Girls nodded in agreement.

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Level 5 Anomaly Sea Area.

There were nine warships in total, dropping anchors, anchored on the sea surface.

They seemed to be waiting for someone and were in no hurry to enter.

”Bai Wuheng, is he still coming or not?”

”It’s been fifteen minutes past the agreed time, he isn’t the kind to be late. Did something unexpected happen?”

”Unexpected? What could happen in this desolate Level 1 Sea Area? Could a Sea Legend appear and kill him?”

”Luo Feng, watch your words.”

Soon, another captain who was closer to Bai Wuheng interrupted.

The middle-aged man called Luo Feng snorted coldly but ultimately said no more.

Ten minutes later, a warship slowly approached from the distance.

When the captains, who were growing impatient, saw the ship and the person standing on its deck, their frowns relaxed.

”Brother Wuheng, you finally arrived. Nothing unexpected happened on the way, right?”

”A slight mishap occurred, but overall it’s not a big deal,” Bai Wuheng said apologetically with a nod and a smile.

”My ’White Camel’ had a fuel furnace malfunction and needed to be repaired at Spring Breeze Port.”

”So I switched to another warship. Of course, you needn’t worry about its performance, it can absolutely handle this exploration mission.”

Upon hearing Bai Wuheng’s explanation, the other captains withdrew their scrutinizing gazes from the ship’s hull.

”What’s its name?” Luo Feng asked curiously.

Bai Wuheng looked at him, smiled, and said, ”You can call it the ’Nightwalker’.”

The ”Nightwalker,” in the captain’s cabin.

Jian Beifang had his feet propped up on the table, a wide-brimmed hat covering his entire face, slight snores emanating from beneath the hat.

He seemed perpetually drowsy.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, then David’s face, with its distinctive octopus-like mustache, appeared at the entrance.

”Lord Beifang, we’ve reached our destination,” he announced.

”Mm,” Jian Beifang removed his wide-brimmed hat and stretched lazily.

”I can feel that the surrounding sea area exudes a dangerous aura; it should be an ’Anomaly Sea Area’.”

Anomaly Sea Area.

It signifies an anomaly exists within the sea area, and unlike ordinary Level Sea Areas, such areas carry greater risks.

And sometimes, greater risks mean greater opportunities.

The causes of Anomaly Sea Areas are no secret.

It might be the result of an adventurer conducting a mysterious sea ritual here, summoning an unknown terrifying presence.

Or perhaps known creatures on the Water Planet have shifted their areas of activity.

As for now...

Jian Beifang’s lips curled into a smile, ”I’m really looking forward to this harvest.”

The boundless sea.

Bai Wuheng and the ”Nightwalker” sailed to the forefront of all the ships.

”Level 5 Anomaly Sea Area, huh.”

He glanced at the towering, tumultuous waves ahead.

There, towering tsunamis concealed the view, even pressing down the clouds in the sky.

”Are you all ready?” Bai Wuheng asked.

Upon receiving a chorus of affirmative responses, he waved softly, and the ”Nightwalker” was the first to sail in, followed closely by the other nine warships.

There is no clear dividing line between different sea areas.

Only after the ships navigate through can they truly experience the stark difference.

If the waves seen earlier were overwhelming,

Then upon entering the Level 5 Anomaly Sea Area, Bai Wuheng’s immediate impression was that the entire sea of the Water Planet was being upheaved, rushing towards them!

Amid such waves, the ten warships seemed like ten insignificant ants.

Luo Feng looked up at the doomsday-like scene, opening his mouth but forgetting to utter a sound.

”Is this really the Level 5 Sea Area?”

”Why does it feel even more terrifying than a Level 6 Sea Area to me?”

Bai Wuheng, bracing against the gale and huge waves, walked step by step to the prow. Pressing down on his white robe with his right hand, he spoke in a voice that ensured everyone could hear:

”This is the ’Anomaly Sea Area’!”

”According to the intel I’ve received, this sea area becoming an anomaly sea area has to do with the ’Sky’.”

”Therefore, the Wind Element is extremely dense here, raising such terrifying monstrous waves.”

After Bai Wuheng finished speaking, behind him, two sailors from the ”Nightwalker” bracing against the intense wind brought forward the pre-prepared food.

Having previously understood the condition of this anomaly sea area, Bai Wuheng certainly came prepared.

As the sailors carried the trays, a gust of wind blew open the white cloth covering them, revealing inside many white solid buns.

These solid buns, cooked by chefs into various strange shapes, were then, at Bai Wuheng’s signal, all dumped into the waves ahead.

On the Water Planet, not only tools, but also some special ingredients can have peculiar abilities when cooked into food.

The solid buns may look plain, but they were procured with great effort by Bai Wuheng.

Their effect was simple: ”Calm the waves.”

”Wave-Calming Buns: +5 Hunger Value, +5 Spiritual Value.”

”Special effect: When thrown into the sea, reduces 50% of the waves in the immediate area.”

Besides, the ”Nightwalker”’s Ballast Stones were also replaced with the pre-prepared ”Wind-Stabilizing Stones” before entering the Level 5 Anomaly Sea Area.

With the cooperation of the two, the raging waves and terrifying hurricane gradually subsided before Bai Wuheng.

At this moment, everyone also saw simultaneously, in the calming waves, a breathtaking sight.

That was, a bird!