Chapter 629: Sakura, Hai Ruo, Invisible Breath (2700 Words)

The white fallen leaves are like cherry blossom petals, drifting in the night wind on the island, like snowflakes in winter in Oran, bringing a beautiful atmosphere.

However, Lin Lan in Musashi's arms had no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery.

He was still immersed in Musashi's explanation just now, recalling the introduction of Nagato in the game.

As a powerful battleship ship girl, this cute fox-eared loli once had a heavy responsibility, which was to gather the souls and the power of faith in the Great Divine Tree through the so-called ritual.

Because of this, Nagato, as the son of God and the flagship of the Sakura Empire, was used by the ambitious Akagi at that time.

However, when he thought of this, he thought of the great sage of the Sakura Empire, or the heavy cruiser ship girl Yunxian who was materialized by the heart of Hai Ruo.

Hai Ruo was a magical meteorite once owned by the Sakura Empire camp. It has magical abilities like a magic cube. Nagato can directly use the ritual to create ship girls with the power of faith collected by the Divine Tree.

It sounds beautiful, but Hai Ruo is an absolute double-edged sword.

Because this kind of creation, in addition to being able to devour the power of faith to create a ship girl, actually seals a strange giant beast called the invisible "breath" inside.

As the great sage Yunxian who was incarnated by the heart of Hai Ruo, the concept of the ship girl Yunxian had not yet been formed at that time.

She has always been hiding in the barrier inside the Great Divine Tree with the help of Nagato, relying on the power of faith gathered by the Great Divine Tree to maintain the barrier that seals the breath.

But this kind of seal will eventually be broken, just like the seal of the Demon King's Army by the generation of brave Yuki thousands of years ago.

After all, the breath and the mysterious enemy X are inextricably linked.

Although the game officials did not explicitly say that the breath is the mysterious enemy X, Lin Lan remembered that in the game's Sakura Empire event, the black giant boss transformed by the breath was called "X Penumbra".

In short, in order to solve the threat brought by the breath, the great sage finally obtained the ship suit with the help of Nagato and Musashi, officially transformed into the ship girl Yunxian, and completely defeated the breath in Hai Ruo.

Since then, Hai Ruo has become an ordinary stone.

In addition, the Sakura Empire shipgirls joined his port area and found that he, as the commander, could directly build new shipgirls with the Mind Cube, so there was no need to continue to use the sacred tree to gather the power of faith to sacrifice to Hai Ruo.

Nagato was able to live the happy life he had always dreamed of, just like the normal shipgirls.

As long as the commander was there, the son of God would no longer be troubled by those responsibilities.

However, recalling this, Lin Lan remembered a problem that had been bothering him since the original game plot.

That is, he remembered that the plot of that event mentioned that the reason why Yunxian, as the heart of Hai Ruo, was able to cut off her connection with Hai Ruo and become a real shipgirl was because she wanted to meet him again as the commander.

But the game plot before that event did not mention when he had met Yunxian.

It can only be said that the riddle plot of Huangji is still adhering to the principle of confusing people.

"Commander, the barrier set up by the great sage is in front of us. Wait a moment, I will open the entrance immediately."

At this time, Musashi's words interrupted Lin Lan's memories.

And Lin Lan realized that he and Musashi had passed through the woods and came to a rugged path leading to the mountain in the short time when he was distracted by his memories just now.

After being put down by Musashi who stopped walking, he moved his body which was a little sore due to the strong wind pressure while looking at the environment in front of the two of them.

In front of him was a naturally formed mountain on an island.

Looking up from the foot of the mountain, this natural mountain with its top even passing through the clouds is far more magnificent than the artificial hills on the Xinyang artificial island.

He looked at the entrance of this winding mountain road. In addition to a few clusters of bushes blooming with white flowers, there was also a white giant rock more than three meters high on each side of the road.

The red hemp rope with paper talismans was wrapped around the two giant rocks and connected together, as if to declare that this road up the mountain was off-limits to idlers.

Musashi walked slowly to the red rope in front of the mountain road and closed his eyes.

Lin Lan watched as several white light spots emerged from the paper talisman on the hemp rope and gradually detached, condensing in front of Musashi to form a mysterious octagonal formation.

As Musashi raised his hands, the surroundings of the octagonal formation were like waves, silently spreading layers of white light patterns in the air, as if a stone was thrown into the water.

The Secret Art of the Sakura Empire.

Seeing this spectacular scene, Lin Lan instantly remembered this word.

This is not like the holy domain barrier created by mirror technology, but a genuine, mysterious barrier born from the Secret Art of the Sakura Empire.

Musashi did not let him wait too long, and soon, everything returned to nothingness.

"Huh, Commander, the entrance to the barrier has been opened, but there are some things that happened today, I think I need to discuss it with the commander first."

The purple-haired fox girl turned around and stretched out her hand to Lin Lan.

Lin Lan could probably guess that Musashi wanted to discuss with him about the Demon King's Army today, so he held Musashi's warm hand, and the two walked side by side along the mountain road into the mountain.

The fresh and cool mountain breeze blew in their faces, and the bright stars and the bright moon in the sky provided enough lighting for the two of them.

"This should be the interior of Snow Sakura Island, but I didn't see your temporary port area and other people along the way except for the pier on the seaside. Is the temporary port area on the mountain?"

Lin Lan took the lead in opening the topic, but Musashi just chuckled and answered for him:

"Hehe, the temporary port area can't be chosen on the mountain. In order to save time, I just took you to the shortcut in the dense forest. The temporary port area where everyone usually lives is next to the river on the island."

Okay, Lin Lan thought about it, and that's the truth.

The whole mountain is likely to be blocked by the barrier just now. If you have to go down the mountain like that every time, it's too cumbersome.

Moreover, setting up the temporary port area on the mountain will seriously affect the ship girls whether they are transporting supplies or attacking.

"We don't need to go to the top of the mountain. The place where the sacred tree was planted by the great sage is at the shrine on the mountainside. We will arrive soon."

Musashi's voice sounded again. The purple-haired fox girl first explained the location of the destination to him, and then suddenly changed the subject and asked him:

"But Commander, do you... remember what was originally suppressed in the sacred tree barrier?"

This battleship ship girl with a prominent status in the Sakura Empire took Lin Lan's hand, turned her head, and looked at Lin Lan meaningfully in her golden eyes that flashed a dim luster in the night.

Her tone was different from her usual calmness, but was slightly serious.

Lin Lan understood that Musashi was getting straight to the point.

So he nodded and gave the answer directly:

"Invisible Breath."

After he said the name, he felt that the palm of Musashi's hand was slightly exerted for a moment.

However, Musashi was not surprised that he knew the answer. He stared at Lin Lan's face and continued with some emotion:

"That's right. Most people in Sakura Empire, including Akagi, have never known about the connection between Xi and Hai Ruo."

"Since you do know what happened in the Great Divine Tree Sanctuary at that time...it's easy to explain what happened today."

Musashi had long known that Lin Lan had been in a world called Blue Star and had contacted and communicated with them through the port area established in the game.

But for them, this was not the point.

After all, the commander's sincerity towards them and their love for the commander could not be faked.

After expressing his feelings, Musashi's tone returned to seriousness again:

"In fact, we Sakura Empire have already applied the imitation technology of Hai Ruo's nature to ship equipment, especially my sister Shinano, and Hakuryu, Shimanto and their new scientific research ship equipment, even more so."

When Musashi said this, he paused for a moment and said to Lin Lan seriously:

"Today, the black substances on the monsters of the Demon King's Army used for experiments shown by Siren are different from the breath of the breath, but I can be sure that they are of the same origin."

"If it is the companions of other camps, even if they watch the substances of the Demon King's Army from afar, both their minds and bodies will inevitably be negatively affected to a certain extent."

"The reason why other people did not feel uncomfortable today is that all of our Sakura Empire's ship equipment is equipped with a new generation of improvements obtained from Hai Ruo to resist the negative effects of the invisible breath."

After hearing all this from Musashi, Lin Lan's pace has unknowingly slowed down.

He really didn't know before that the ship equipment of the Sakura Empire's ship girls actually had this unique effect.

But he suddenly remembered the next second that in the game's Fool's Balance event, the warship girls of each camp were indeed affected by the pseudo-god with the aura of a mysterious enemy and could not move.

Among the warship girls of each camp present, including the meta warship girls of Embers, except for him as the commander, the only one who was not affected was Shinano of the Sakura Empire.