Chapter 1240

Three days later, Barriman handed over all the materials to Gu Ding and his crew as promised, without taking a single cent.

After receiving all the materials, the Gu Ding Pirates quickly said goodbye to Barriman and left Black Gold Market.

For the next ten days or so of the voyage, everyone in the Gu Ding Pirate Crew was in a busy state.

Although the Sovereign King Palace and the major sacred lands did not know where Gu Ding and his crew were under Neptune's control, Gu Ding and his crew could not hide forever.

Everyone was working hard to improve their strength.

Lilliath, Biggie, and the others went into closed-door training after receiving some new information about rule sigil from Neptune. They were inspired to learn more about it.

The two True Sage Kings, Neptune and Becca, were invited by Gu Ding to join the True Sage King Palace.

The True Sage King Palace did not limit the strength of the invitees. It only stipulated that the invitee must be a True Sage King.

However, it was useless for those who had not reached the level of a True Sage King to receive an invitation card as they could not activate the card.

In the True Sage King Palace, Gu Ding took the two to familiarize them with the environment of True Sage City on the first day.

The next day, he used anonymous challenges to train the two for a day, and on the third day, he sent them to the ring.

Many of the old people who had been abused by Gu Ding were ready to regain their dignity after seeing the two newcomers.

As a result, both Neptune and Becca received more challenge letters than Gu Ding.

"Both of you finish all the fights in the ring, then come back to me to check your results." Gu Ding assigned this task to the two of them, then left them in True Sage City.

That's right, Gu Ding was using the same method that Angelina used on him. He, Mikko, and Neptune's cultivation was not in the same direction, so naturally, he could not give them practical guidance in their cultivation. This method allowed them to quickly learn from battle, which would allow their strength to rise rapidly.

The competition in the arena was not the same as the sparring between comrades on the spaceship. In every battle, everyone would give their all in order to win. This was because the higher the experience points, the higher the authority, the more free information resources, and the richer the cultivation resources that could be exchanged for experience points. This kind of competition was a virtuous cycle that would make the strong stronger, and the weak would be eliminated.

After leaving the two of them in the arena, Gu Ding returned to the spaceship and began to concentrate on nurturing the Life Divine Weapon in his body.

Although he had already become a lesser Lord, and had even risen to the level of a peak lesser Lord in one go, the nurturing of his Life God Weapon still required time. Overgod experts could only unleash their battle prowess to the fullest when they fought with their Life Weapons. Therefore, nurturing his Natal Divine Weapon was his top priority.

Another main reason was that the improvement of a Lord's cultivation was closely related to the evolution of their Destiny Divine Weapon. The Embryonic stage corresponded to a Lesser Main God, the Semi-Complete stage corresponded to an Intermediate Main God, the Complete stage corresponded to a Higher Main God, and the Transcendent stage corresponded to an Extreme Main God.

If Gu Ding wanted to further break through to Intermediate Lord-Level, not only would he need to nurture his Life God Weapon, but he would also need his Life God Weapon to go through its embryonic stage and move toward the semi-finished stage. His Life Divine Weapon had to complete its evolution before he could advance. These were the rules governing the advancement of Sovereigns.

No one in the Gu Ding Pirate Crew had been idle these days.

The Ocean Emperor was so busy that he split himself into four clones.

One was working with Robert to create a war factory and experimenting with creating the first generation of artificial warriors.

One was imitating the structure of the Fortune Blood Fruit and creating similar artificial blood fruits.

One was handling the spaceship's navigation and route, as well as other daily issues.

The last one was fighting in the arena with Beca in True Royal City.

Just as everyone was busy, Ocean Emperor's clone in the cockpit suddenly frowned and an image popped up in front of him.

It was a news article with the title "The Gu Ding Pirate Crew's Coordinates Exposed!!!"

The article described in detail how Barriman got drunk at a party the night before and accidentally revealed to people that he had met the Gu Ding Pirate Crew. He even projected a group photo for everyone to see.

The accompanying photo was a photo taken secretly. Although it was a little blurry, one could vaguely make out the faces in the photo.

Many people on the Internet accused the media of deliberately hyping up the photo and saying that it was fake. Otherwise, why would it be deliberately blurred?

However, Neptune knew very well that the photo was real. It was just that the person who took the photo seemed to have a shaky hand, causing the photo to be very blurry.

"D * mn drunkard!" Neptune cursed angrily.

He immediately sent a message for everyone to gather and prepare for a meeting to discuss the matter.

Everyone who was in a state of shallow retreat immediately came out.

Most of the members had gathered at the conference table, but Robert, Dockett, Faust, and Biggie were not present.

Neptune did not call for Robert because he was busy with the final touches of the war factory. The only explanation for the other three not being present was that they were in a state of deep retreat and could not see their wristwatches.

After eating the Fortune Blood Fruit, Dockett and Faust were in a state of saturation with the Rule Fragments in their bodies. They could break through to True Sage King level at any time.

Biggie's deep seclusion was a little unexpected.

"The others probably won't be able to come. Say what you want, Neptune." Gu Ding gestured for Neptune to begin.

Neptune immediately projected the news page.

Everyone was stunned when they saw it.

"I told you, this guy isn't reliable!" Lilliath snorted coldly. She hated Barriman.

"It might just be a drunken slip of the tongue. It might not be intentional." Gu Ding chose to believe Barriman. Although he did not know Barriman well, Gu Ding felt that there was no need for him to betray him.

Neptune was about to speak when he suddenly frowned and said to Gu Ding, "Barriman called our temporary number from before. Do you want to answer it?"

"Answer it. Let's hear what he has to say." Gu Ding nodded.

Neptune immediately accepted the call, and Barriman, who was dressed in pajamas, was projected.

Seeing the Gu Ding Pirate Crew sitting in a circle, Barriman guessed that Gu Ding and the others were probably in a meeting about him.

After looking around, Barriman looked at Gu Ding. "You should already know about the incident that was exposed by the media …"

"What are you trying to say?" Although Gu Ding trusted him, he did not look too good.

"I'm really sorry about this. I really didn't mean it. I went to a friend's party last night and drank too much. Seeing everyone talking nonsense, I couldn't help but say it out loud. It wasn't until I woke up and saw the news that I knew something had happened … "