Mythical Three Kingdoms-Chapter 1430 - 1378: Cognition Determines Development

However, to get a stationary ship moving, it still takes some time. Meanwhile, Taishi Ci’s ship’s ram is charging at the Kushan ship’s side with a speed of more than ten meters per second, giving Taishi Ci a significant advantage to sink the opponent’s ship without damage.

"Sink for me!" Taishi Ci, ignoring any noble demeanor, excitedly shouted out.

"Lakrin, there’s no time, don’t dodge, prepare for a legion attack directly!" The captain of another Kushan ship shouted to the nearby ship captain, Lakrin, upon realizing there’s no way to avoid the collision.

Unlike the Han Dynasty, which still held a semi-barbaric understanding of the ocean, the naval forces of Kushan and Rome had developed various combat techniques, and their years of maritime experience endowed them with decisiveness!

Hearing the shouts from the other side, Taishi Ci laughed madly in his heart, but when he was at most a hundred meters away from them, a legion attack of over a hundred meters suddenly erupted from the enemy’s ship, with Taishi Ci only sensing a slight disturbance before the attack appeared.

At the moment the deep blue light blade exploded from the enemy’s large ship, Taishi Ci instinctively reacted, with his legion talent and Inner Qi suddenly bursting forth, simultaneously thickening the originally thin Cloud Qi above his head several times.

The hundred-meter legion attack arrived in an instant, and Taishi Ci’s Sky Piercer struck downward, and the Central Plains Navy, already integrated, unleashed the same legion attack with one strike from Taishi Ci.

Although the opponent’s attack was prepared, and Taishi Ci’s was merely instinctive, the strong unified will brought by the legion talent added a powerful belief to the legion attack, allowing it to withstand the opponent’s attack even when the Inner Qi was inferior.

"Returning the favor is courtesy!" Taishi Ci shouted as he struck, and following the direction of his legion attack, the effect of his legion talent manifested, spontaneously launching a second legion attack.

Compared to the first legion attack, which was over a hundred meters long, the second, spontaneously formed by Taishi Ci’s legion talent, barely reached fifty meters. Seeing this, Taishi Ci understood that this was likely the limit of his legion talent.

Nevertheless, it was enough. After the opponent suddenly unleashed a legion attack, their side reflexively countered it, managing to fend off the opponent’s attack and even launching another, albeit with half the power, which was sufficient to defeat the enemy.

As expected, Lakrin withdrew part of the ship’s self-stored Cloud Qi, mixed with the sailors’ Inner Qi, and suddenly unleashed a powerful legion attack, unexpectedly halting Taishi Ci’s assault.

However, Lakrin did not anticipate Taishi Ci also producing an equally matched legion attack under such circumstances, successfully blocking his own attack.

What terrified him more was that as the gap appeared after the collision of both legion attacks, a slightly smaller legion attack shot through between them and struck fiercely.

With a loud bang, Lakrin and many sailors were shaken off the ship by the attack that struck the ship’s side.

The blue ship’s defense only consumed part of the attack, while the remaining light blade cut a huge gash into the Kushan ship’s side, allowing seawater to flood in wildly.

"Charge and finish them off!" As the horn sounded, Taishi Ci’s ship collided again with the heavily attacked enemy ship, while the water mist from the legion attack still hovered.

The already heavily damaged ship had its dragon bone fractured in this high-speed ram, sending everyone overboard.

Taishi Ci now had no time to consider the blue light seen on the enemy’s ship during the second legion attack; he was more anxious to destroy the two remaining enemy ships, now understanding the significance of their legion attack!

"What is that?" At the moment Kushan Navy’s legion attack erupted, Yano Lian, who was miles away and could no longer see his fleet due to Earth’s curvature, turned back suddenly, his Inner Qi Manifestation strength allowing him to sense such a large Inner Qi disturbance.

"Not good, we’ve been tricked!" Yano Lian instantly reacted, his anger flaring as he looked at the two battle ships ahead, "Alright, alright, order everyone to prepare for an attack, I’m going to intercept them!"

After so much probing, Yano Lian had confirmed that the ships ahead had no Inner Qi Manifestation experts, nor did they possess the autonomous defense formed by nurturing and strengthening ships using Heaven and Earth Essence.

More importantly, the enemy’s Cloud Qi was still accumulated like the land forces, rather than treating the ships as nurtured Divine Weapons for reliance, as nurturing produces effects based on human needs—the city can constrain several times the Cloud Qi of regular inhabitants!

Thus, Yano Lian hadn’t realized the bait potential of the targets pursued ahead, as in his view, navies not understanding this were undeserving of being called navies, merely a rabble.

Similarly, seeing Gan Ning and others as rabble, Yano Lian was angered when his rear army was attacked, although he wasn’t worried at all about defeat by those who didn’t understand ship defense or ship Cloud Qi separation.

With that, Yano Lian leapt off his ship, flying toward Gan Ning’s two ships, intending to chop down the mast of Gan Ning’s ship to teach them a lesson.

Without Inner Qi Manifestation Rank experts and lacking knowledge of Cloud Qi collection using nurtured ships, the mere Cloud Qi formed by the five hundred people aboard the ship was insignificant against the Inner Qi Manifestation suppression. Even if well-trained, its impact on Inner Qi Manifestation would still be minimal.

Currently, this was also the reality of the Central Plains Navy, with even Eastern Wu perceiving ships as moving walls, unlike Rome and Kushan, who saw them as weapons, large-scale weapons.

Thus, this side’s ships remained at a level similar to land forces, while Kushan and Rome had developed true maritime combat techniques due to their focus on the ocean.

Just as in this era of Inner Qi, weapons become more effective the more they are used and tend to develop in the direction of human needs.

Kushan’s nurturing direction was storing Cloud Qi: ships creating ship defense, small fleets collectively forming small fleet defense, a conglomerate of small fleets forming large fleet defense, all three layers sharing the burden of attack.