My Simulated Road to Immortality-Chapter 1457 - 1295_2

Chapter 1457: Chapter 1295_2

The following is a long wait.

As time passed, everyone still did not see the figure of Li Fan returning.

The light of hope slowly went out.

Just when Zhong Gongdao thought that Li Fan had also failed and perished, preparing to send out the last search team.

A figure boldly flew past the Watchers stirring the waters in the pot.

...

Descending from the sky, returning to the Mystic Immortal Boat!

It was Li Fan!

Although the Watchers were above, the members of the Immortal Ark did not dare to make noise. Yet, their expressions fully conveyed the excitement they felt within.

After losing nearly five hundred core members of the Immortal Ark, they finally saw the hope for escape.

They welcomed Li Fan back to the center of the Elders like the stars holding the moon.

Without rest, Li Fan quickly described the scenes and experiences he encountered outside, using his finger as a pen and speaking rapidly.

“Nine Yin-Yang Beads?”

“Each containing endlessly Ice sealed corpses?”

…

The scenes depicted by Li Fan left the members of the Immortal Ark aghast.

The Elders at the Immortal Axis Institute furrowed their brows slightly, seemingly reminded of something.

After calling Zhong Gongdao over for a discussion.

Zhong Gongdao gathered everyone: “Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps we have found a way to escape from here!”

“The mission of this Watcher…”

“Should be to collect different [Specimens].”

Zhong Gongdao’s expression was not one of joy at having found a way to survive, but rather very somber.

“Different specimens? What do you mean, Elder Zhong?” The crowd showed a puzzled expression.

Zhong Gongdao: “It’s better for Jian Dusheng, the head of the institute, to explain the situation.”

Everyone’s attention then focused on Jian Dusheng, the white-haired and venerable head of the Immortal Axis Institute.

With a reminiscing expression, Jian Dusheng wrote to explain: “During the great era of ancient Cultivating Immortality, the Star Sea was flourishing, the life within the Immortal Cultivation Worlds was vibrant. But our Mysterious Merchant Immortal Vessel, always willingly floated in the Star Sea, without a fixed abode…”

“People always think that Mysterious Merchants chase profit, hence they travel between worlds seeking excessive gains. However…”

“Having a fixed world as a base, would that not benefit commerce even more? The lives of all aboard the Mystic Immortal Boat depend on one Immortal Boat. At that time, although the Star Sea was not fraught with crises as it is today, inevitably, there would still be Tribulations encountered amidst constant Escape in the Star Sea.”

“But we still prefer to drift upon the Star Sea, instead of choosing one realm to reside in.”

“The reason being that the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel was built by a group of Cultivators who escaped from a Cultivation World with Watchers.”

Jian Dusheng wore a wistful expression, looking at the shocked expressions of all present, and continued to write: “Cultivators treat Mortals like cattle and domesticate them. The Immortal World might behave even worse towards Cultivators.”

“Almost every thriving Immortal Cultivation World shows traces of surveillance by the Immortal World. Even the remote, Nameless Cultivation Worlds, no one can guarantee that suddenly Immortals won’t come down to intervene. What exactly the ancestors of Xuan Huang discovered that made them flee from their Hometown is unknown. But one thing is certain, it was out of fear of the Immortal World and not being treated like cattle that the ancestors of Xuan Huang decided to live within the Immortal Boat.”

“When the Immortal Boat was at its most prosperous, the population did not exceed one million. Perhaps because the number was indeed too small, over long periods, there was indeed no intervention from the Immortal World powers.”

Jian Dusheng shifted the topic to the reason for making such an inference: “From what Zhao Xian saw, those Ice sealed inside the Nine Yin-Yang Beads should be Cultivators that have existed in the Xuanhuang World from ancient times to the present.”

“Not that they are dead, but that they have existed.” Jian Dusheng particularly emphasized this point.

“So before, when disciples tried to use methods of concealing their life force to escape, it was of no use.”

“The most reliable method to escape from this Xuanhuang Watcher is to disguise oneself as one of the Cultivators already existing within those nine Ice-sealed Yin Yang Beads.”

…

The members of the Immortal Ark had varying expressions.

Visit fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm for the best novel reading experi𝒆nce.

After all, it was an existence that had controlled the Immortal Boat for thousands of years since the Broken Immortal Tower. Out of trust in the Immortal Axis Institute, everyone decided to try this method.

Fortunately, when Li Fan previously explored, his Divine Sense swept over the endless Ice sealed Ocean and recorded enough features of the Cultivators.

After a successful disguise, the first group of Cultivators set off.

Not as openly as Li Fan had, but with extreme caution and measured steps.

And the invisible Watcher truly turned a blind eye to them.

A total of thirty people in the group, all successfully escaped from this nightmare-like giant pot.

The feasibility was verified, and the people aboard the Mystic Immortal Boat accelerated the pace of escape.

Once all the members of the Immortal Boat had escaped, the Watcher’s action of stirring the waters of the giant pot finally came to an end.

It seemed to stretch out its palm and slap the pot fiercely.

In the midst of the loud vibrations, the giant pot slowly shrank.

The Watcher kept slapping repeatedly, and the pot continued to get smaller and smaller. Eventually, it turned into a small, transparent crystal bead.

Within the small bead, the original contents of the pot turned into a serene expanse of water.

The Watcher, having completed all this, stood still for a moment in a daze. After a while, it seemed to remember its mission.

With the sound of thundering footsteps, it left this space.

The members of the Mystic Immortal Boat, holding their breath and watching all this, only exhaled after confirming the Watcher had truly left.

However, to prevent attracting the Watcher back, everyone still communicated with gestures.

“Elder Zhong, we have checked, this is a closed space, there are no exits around.”