Chapter 1344 Li Fan's Self-Defense
The elders of Xianzhou are not as young as they look.
For thousands of years, they have repeatedly used ancient incantations to trace back to themselves, regain youth, and maintain youth. But tracing back to the past cannot be equated with immortality.
Aging is still quietly accumulating on them.
Now, Lu Yuzhi and others were attacked by the death energy of Master Yin, and the aging accumulated over the past years also erupted violently.
The consequence is that the effect of this death tactic is far better than imagined.
The three people on Xianzhou had white hair, which was instantly stained with frost. Deep wrinkles quickly occupied their faces.
An aura of decay surged within their bodies.
"Ancient!" Lu Yuzhi, who had come to his senses, forced himself to calm down, and with his slightly trembling hands, he quickly wrote an ancient character in the air.
The target is not the unknown enemy, but themselves!
Under the influence of the power of "ancient", the rapid aging of the body was alleviated to a certain extent.
But this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental one.
The force of retrospection in front of him was not the real seal script of the True Immortal. It was just a poor imitation. The extent of retrospection of past states was far less than the speed of aging.
And the death storm raging around them was showing signs of intensifying. If it continued like this, the four people present would probably soon turn into a pile of bones!
Under the influence of the dual power of the death storm and the ancient seal characters, Li Fan and Xu Gongding also woke up suddenly.
He looked terrified and at a loss.
“Go!”
Lu Yuzhi struggled to hold on and yelled at Li Fan.
Li Fan's long black and white hair had completely turned white. However, he looked at the direction where the seal ball disappeared and struggled: "But that gray chess piece..."
"If I lose my life, I'll lose everything!" There was reluctance in Lu Yuzhi's eyes, but he still roared.
“Ahhh!”
With a long howl that seemed to vent his anger, the phantom of a wooden sword came out of its sheath, temporarily alleviating the onslaught of deathly aura.
The sword flashed, carrying the four people away from the terrifying deathly aura.
The figures of the four disappeared into the sky, and only then did Baihua and Yin Shang slowly reveal their true faces.
It was not an easy task for Master Yin, who had just absorbed the Yin-Yang Pearl, to suddenly control the outbreak of such a large-scale death storm.
As if out of control, the vortex in the black and white eyes spun faster and faster.
Master Yin had no choice but to close his eyes and calm down.
Baihua, according to Li Fan's instructions, shot out golden light and sealed the ball that had just been snatched.
“I don’t know who the three people who just walked with the Holy Master are.”
"The characters they typed seem to be exactly the same as the remaining True Immortal power in the sea of stars..."
“But having said that, the Saint Master’s acting skills are really good. If he hadn’t proactively sent a message to ask us to cooperate, even I would have been fooled by him.” Baihua had a subtle expression, and the sealing magic circle in his hand did not stop.
This sealing formation was extremely sophisticated, but with Li Fan's guidance, Baihua was able to barely complete the arrangement.
…
Outside the Great Wall of the Remnant World.
The group of people on the immortal boat who escaped were still frightened.
Even though they escaped from the range of the death storm, there was still a little bit of death remaining in their bodies, constantly reducing their lifespan.
"Let's go back to the Immortal Boat first." Lu Yuzhi had become extremely weak at this moment, like an old man in his seventies or eighties, and seemed to be about to reach the end of his life. Even these four short words were said by him with all his strength.
The performance of the others was not much better.
Li Fan, in particular, could only shake his head slightly, indicating that he was already extremely weak and no longer had the energy to use his magical powers of escape.
Among the four, only Nangong Lie was in relatively better condition.
He led everyone and flew towards the fairy boat while sending out distress signals.
After a cup of tea, Zhong Daogong and seven elders of the Immortal Boat hurried over. In order to prevent it from being a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain, they did not go out in full force even though the life and death of the four elders was at stake.
Zhong Daogong and others who came to support looked at the four people who were dying and shrouded in the aura of decay and decline with serious expressions.
However, he knew that saving lives was the most important thing, so he did not immediately ask about the cause of the incident, but instead took the four people back for treatment first.
Through the efforts of the authentic ancient characters and many life-extending magic tools, they finally managed to temporarily escape the crisis.
Three days later.
Li Fan stood in the courtyard, looking a little dazed.
"I only have about ten years left to live."
"Half of them were lost after one trip!"
Hearing this, Lu Yuzhi gave a bitter smile: "My situation is similar to yours. I am less than fifty years old..."
Nangong Lie and Xu Gongding also looked extremely ugly.
Such a big thing happened, the elders will definitely investigate it carefully. They told their own experiences truthfully.
Zhong Daogong comforted them and tried his best to prolong their lives by various methods.
But the results were minimal.
"snort!"
The courtyard was quiet for a while, and suddenly Nangong Lie slammed the stone table in the courtyard: "We have suffered a great disaster, and even the four gray chess pieces have been snatched away..."
"This is a great shame and humiliation! Zhong Daogong should lead the people there immediately, not only to seek justice, but at least to find out the details of the murderer."
"Now look, such a long time has passed, and he hasn't made any movement. When asked, he said something nice. Something about needing to take the long view... Bah! I think they are scared after seeing the end of us!" Nangong Lie vented his dissatisfaction.
Lu Yuzhi frowned, "But what Elder Zhong said is not wrong. The death storm is indeed too strange and terrifying. Even though I have come to my senses and kept thinking about it these days, I have not found a way to confront it head-on. The four of us have suffered heavy losses, and the Immortal Boat cannot suffer the same blow again in a short period of time."
Li Fan also nodded in agreement: "Although it is helpless, it is indeed true. This death energy appeared too suddenly, and it is obviously coming for the gray chess piece in our hands."
"Don't forget, there is still one in the Immortal Boat. Who knows, the unknown enemy may come to attack at any time..."
Li Fan's words silenced everyone present.
Xianzhou has always put the overall situation first.
They can still distinguish between temporary grudges and the overall interests of the immortal boat.
"The enemy is coming with great force!" Lu Yuzhi sighed, his eyes full of worry.
In order to deal with this unknown enemy, Xianzhou convened a joint meeting of all elders shortly afterwards.
Li Fan, as an eyewitness to the incident, was also present.
Zhong Daogong made a summary speech first: "The other party must be coming for the gray chess piece. Now, the gray chess piece in our hand has lost some of its sensitivity to other chess pieces. It should be the four pieces that were abducted by the other party."
"However, there are two doubts."
"First, how did they clearly locate Elder Lu Yuzhi and his group?"
"Secondly, how did they block the sensing of our grey chess pieces?"
"As for the death storm used for the attack..."
"After searching the records of the Immortal Boat, we have found some possibilities."
Zhong Daogong's words immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Jian Daosheng coughed lightly and began to explain, "Death and life are mutually dependent. After the great destruction, most areas fell into silence in the dark sea of stars. Theoretically, it is impossible for such a huge amount of death to exist."
"So we speculate that the source of this death energy should be some immortal cultivation world."
“And being able to use the expendable Death Energy as an offensive weapon, the amount of Death Energy they possess... is absolutely unimaginable.” Jian Daosheng’s tone was a little heavy.
Upon hearing this, the elders of Xianzhou quickly raised their doubts.
"The Star Sea Catastrophe, all worlds have been destroyed for a long time. Where can they collect so much dead energy?"
“That’s totally out of character!”
Zhong Daogong sighed: "This is the crux of the problem. I'm afraid that this dead energy has been accumulated by the other party since ancient times, before the star sea suffered a disaster."
"The other party is likely to be a civilization that has survived from ancient times, just like us."
"He was able to predict and dodge the attack of the True Immortal's seal characters. He was very familiar with the gray chess pieces created by the True Immortal and caught us off guard. From beginning to end, the opponent did not show up..."
"From their various performances, this unknown civilization is stronger than our Immortal Boat."
After Zhong Daogong finished speaking, the meeting fell into a strange silence.
All the elders had frowns on their faces, and no one knew what they were thinking.
Li Fan broke the silence. He sighed, "I didn't expect that in this seemingly dead sea of stars, besides Xianzhou and Daqi, there are other brilliant civilizations."
The elders of Xianzhou all focused their eyes on Li Fan.
Seeing Daosheng narrow his eyes, he asked, "Daoyou Li, is it possible that the unknown enemy that attacked you is your hometown, Daqi?"
This is also the question in the hearts of all the elders in Xianzhou.
Seeing Daosheng asking this question, everyone stared at Li Fan, wanting to hear his answer.
"Da Qi?" Li Fan obviously didn't expect Jian Daosheng to ask this.
"How can that be..." He subconsciously denied it at first.
But soon, he seemed to realize something, frowned, fell into deep thought, and stopped talking abruptly.
After a long while, Li Fan spoke again and said softly: "First of all, one thing I can be sure of is that I have absolutely no surveillance methods from Daqi. I will never be an insider from Daqi..."
"I can't produce any evidence. But you have been with me for such a long time, you must know me well."
Li Fan paused and said proudly, "I'm going to say something you may not like to hear. If I was really a spy of Daqi and my target was the gray chess piece, when I was helping to rebuild the Xianzhou protective formation, I could have directly stolen it and escaped with my unique escape technique in the sea of stars."
"It doesn't have to be that much trouble."
The meeting became even quieter.
No one objected. Most people were silent about what Li Fan said, but there were still a few people who looked at Li Fan with a little doubt in their eyes.
Li Fan continued to defend himself: "Besides, when we were attacked, we were planning to continue to go deep into the Great Wall of the Remnant Realm to collect more. If I was really an insider, why didn't I wait until I found more, and then notify them to take action and catch them all in one fell swoop?"
"After the matter is accomplished, why should I return to the Immortal Boat?"
"The other three elders of the Immortal Boat were all extremely weak at the time. If it weren't for my escape technique, they would have died long ago. Wouldn't it be better to let them disappear from the world without anyone noticing? Why go to so much trouble?"
As Li Fanyue spoke, anger seemed to be building up in his heart.
He snorted coldly: "If it weren't for the fact that I had come into contact with the Immortal Boat at the end of my life and had already regarded the Immortal Boat as my final destination, I wouldn't have wasted so much time talking to you all."
"If I want to leave, who can stop me?"
None of the Xianzhou elders could refute.
After all, it is truly incredible that the phantom of the wooden sword can ignore almost all restrictive forces.
Zhong Daogong came out to smooth things over. He laughed and said, "Daoyou Li, there's no need to be so excited. We absolutely trust you, but we know very little about the Daqi behind you. So naturally we have doubts."
Li Fan's anger subsided a little.
He thought for a moment and answered carefully: "There are many factions within Daqi. I am only familiar with the research of Master's lineage..."
"However, I have never heard of anyone in Daqi having such a huge amount of death energy."
"Besides, my face is quite famous in Daqi. If the other party is really from Daqi, he will never dare to attack me! Otherwise, even if I die, my master will not forgive him!" Li Fan said with great confidence.
Zhong Daogong nodded slightly and stopped asking questions temporarily.
"I have put forward some speculations about the whole process of this attack. Let me share them with you all."
"The gray chess piece has been lying peacefully in the secret storage of the Immortal Boat for so many years, and nothing has ever happened. But now it has suddenly been attacked..."
"After ruling out the possibility of someone deliberately leaking the information, perhaps too many chess pieces were gathered at once, thus attracting attention."
Zhong Daogong said loudly: "This unknown civilization may have been looking for traces of the gray chess piece for so many years. But because they don't have the gray chess piece in hand, they can't search through sensing."
"But as we were collecting, the number of people gathered and they found traces. So they were exposed to the attack..."
All the elders present fell silent upon hearing this.
It sounds a bit strange, but it is the only reasonable explanation at the moment.
"If my guess is true, then what we need to worry about right now is the attack on the immortal boat by this unknown civilization." Zhong Daogong's tone suddenly changed.
"The gray chess pieces can sense each other. The one that turns into the keratin armor on the outside of the immortal ship can undoubtedly always provide the opponent with the approximate location of the immortal ship..."
"This is obviously unacceptable to us."
The elders of Xianzhou all changed their expressions at this moment.
"The most urgent task is to resolve this matter first."
"Or, peel off the keratin armor and separate it from the immortal boat. Simply abandon the gray chess piece."
"Or, find a way to block the induction between the gray chess pieces." Zhong Daogong concluded.
The Xianzhou elders looked at each other.
For a while, we were caught in an argument.
(End of this chapter)
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