The elders of Xianzhou are far from being as young as they look.
For thousands of years, they have used ancient formulas time and time again to retrace themselves, rejuvenate themselves, and maintain their youth. But retracing cannot be equated with eternal life.
Aging is still quietly accumulating on them.
Now, Lu Yuzhi and others are attacked by Master Yin's death energy, and the aging accumulated in the past years has also violently exploded.
The consequence is that the effect of this Death Word Jue is far better than imagined.
The three people in Xianzhou had white hair that was instantly stained by frost. Deep wrinkles quickly took over their faces.
The aura called decay emerged within their bodies.
"Ancient!" Lu Yuzhi, who had woken up, forced himself to calm down and quickly wrote an ancient character in the void with a slightly trembling hand.
The target is not an unknown enemy, but themselves!
Under the influence of "ancient" power, the rapid aging of the physical body was relieved to a certain extent.
But treating the symptoms does not address the root cause.
What exudes the power of retrospection in front of me is not the authentic calligraphy of the Immortal Seal. It is just a poor imitation. The extent of retrospection of the past state is far less than the speed of one's own aging.
And the death energy storm raging around them is getting stronger and stronger. If it continues like this, the four people present may soon turn into bones!
Under the influence of the dual power of the death energy storm and the ancient seal characters, Li Fan and Xu Gongding also suddenly woke up.
He looked horrified and at a loss.
"Let's go!"
Lu Yuzhi struggled to support himself and shouted at Li Fan.
Li Fan's long black and white hair had turned completely white. However, he looked at the direction in which the sealing ball disappeared and struggled a little: "But that gray chess piece..."
"My life is gone, but everything is gone!" Lu Yuzhi also had a look of reluctance in his eyes, but he still roared.
"Ah!"
Amidst the roaring sound, the wooden sword was unsheathed, temporarily alleviating the onslaught of death energy.
The sword light flashed, leading the four people to escape from the terrifying death aura in the sky.
The figures of the four people disappeared into the sky, and Baihua and Yin Shangcai slowly revealed their true colors.
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 energy storm.
As if out of control, the vortex in the black and white eyes was spinning faster and faster.
Master Yin had no choice but to close his eyes and calm down.
Baihua, on the other hand, followed Li Fan's instructions and fired out streaks of golden light to seal the ball they had just snatched.
"I don't know who the three people who were traveling with the Holy Master just now are?"
"The characters they typed seem to be exactly the same as the remaining true immortal power in the star sea..."
"But having said that, the Holy Master's acting skills are really good. If he hadn't taken the initiative to send a message to us to cooperate, I would have been deceived by him." Baihua's expression was subtle, and the sealing circle in his hand kept moving.
This sealing formation is extremely delicate, but with Li Fan's guidance, Baihua can barely complete the arrangement.
…
Beyond the Great Wall of Remnant.
The Xianzhou group that escaped were still in shock.
Even though they escaped from the scope of the death energy storm, there was still a small amount of death energy remaining in their bodies, which was constantly reducing their lifespan.
"Go back to the fairy boat first." Lu Yuzhi had become extremely decayed at this moment. He was like an old man in his seventies or eighties. He seemed to be about to reach the end of his life. Even these four words were all he had exhausted his strength to write.
Say it.
The performance of several others was not much better.
Li Fan, in particular, could only shake his head slightly, indicating that he was extremely weak and no longer had the energy to use his magical powers.
Among the four, only Nangong Lie is in relatively better condition.
He helped everyone and flew towards the fairy boat while releasing a distress signal.
After a cup of tea, Zhong Daogong hurried over with seven Xianzhou elders. In order to prevent it from being a ploy to lure the tiger away from the mountain, even if the life and death of the four elders were at stake, they did not mobilize in full force.
Zhong Daogong and others who came to support looked at the dying four people, shrouded in the aura of decay and decay, with serious expressions.
However, he also knew that saving lives was important, so he did not immediately inquire about the cause of the incident, but instead took the four people back for treatment first.
Through the efforts of authentic [ancient] characters and many life-extending magic weapons, several people were finally able to temporarily escape the crisis.
Three days later.
Li Fan stood in the small courtyard, looking a little dazed.
"Only about ten years left to live."
"One trip out and half of it was lost!"
Hearing this, Lu Yuzhi smiled bitterly: "My situation is similar to yours. Less than half a hundred..."
The faces of Nangong Lie and Xu Gongding were also extremely ugly.
If such a big thing happened, the Presbyterian Council would definitely investigate it carefully. They would tell the truth about their experiences.
Zhongdao Gonghaosheng comforted them and tried to use various methods to extend their lives.
But all had little effect.
"snort!"
The small courtyard became quiet for a while, and suddenly Nangong Lie slammed the stone table in the courtyard: "We suffered a great disaster, and by the way, four gray chess pieces were robbed..."
"What a shame! He, Zhong Daogong, should lead everyone there immediately, not to mention seeking justice. At the very least, he should find out the details of the murderer."
"It's good now. It's been so long, and he didn't make any movement at all. When I asked him, he said it quite nicely. Why should we consider it in the long term... Bah! I think this is what happened to them when they saw that our time was approaching.
Finally, I'm scared!" Nangong Lie vented his dissatisfaction.
Lu Yuzhi frowned: "But what Elder Zhong said is correct. The death energy storm is indeed too strange and terrifying. Even if I come back to my senses and think about it these days, I still can't find a way to confront it head-on.
The four of us suffered heavy losses, and Xianzhou 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 the truth. This death energy appeared too suddenly, and it is obviously coming towards the gray chess pieces in our hands."
"Don't forget, there is still one in the fairy boat. Maybe, the unknown enemy will hit the door at any time..."
Li Fan's words caused everyone present to fall silent for an instant.
Xianzhou has always put the overall situation first.
They can still distinguish between temporary grudges and the overall interests of Xianzhou.
"The enemy is coming fiercely!" Lu Yuzhi sighed, his eyes full of worry.
In order to deal with this unknown enemy, Xianzhou soon held a joint meeting of all elders.
As a witness to the incident, Li Fan also attended.
Zhong Daogong first made a concluding speech: "The opponent must be coming for the gray chess piece. Now, the gray chess piece in our hands has lost some of its sensitivity to other chess pieces. It should be the one that was kidnapped by the opponent.
Four."
"However, there are two doubts."
"First, how did they clearly locate the location of Elder Lu Yuzhi and his party."
"Secondly, what method did they use to block the induction of our gray chess pieces?"
"As for the death energy storm used to attack..."
"After searching for fairy boat records, we have found some possibilities."
Zhong Daogong's words immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Seeing Daosheng cough lightly, he explained: "Death and vitality are in opposition and dependent on each other. After the great destruction, most areas fell into the darkest star sea of silence. Theoretically, it is impossible for such a huge death to exist.
Angry."
"So we speculate that the source of this death energy should be a certain world of immortal cultivation."
"And if they can use the expendable death energy as an offensive weapon, the amount of death energy they have in their hands... is absolutely unimaginable." Seeing Daosheng's tone was a little heavy.
Upon hearing this, Elder Xianzhou quickly raised his doubts.
"The star sea catastrophe, all realms have been destroyed for a long time. Where can they collect so much death energy?"
“Totally unreasonable!”
Zhong Daogong sighed: "This is the crux of the problem. I'm afraid these dead energy have been accumulated by the other party since ancient times, before the star sea suffered disasters."
"The other party is probably like us, a civilization that has survived from ancient times to the present day."
"Being able to predict and avoid the attack of the True Immortal's seal characters; knowing the gray chess pieces created by the True Immortal very well, we were caught off guard. From the beginning to the end, the opponent did not show up..."
"Judging from their various performances, this unknown civilization is only slightly stronger than our fairy boat."
After Zhong Daogong finished speaking, the meeting fell into an eerie silence.
All the elders frowned, not knowing what they were thinking.
Li Fan broke the silence and 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 Dao Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly, he asked: "Friend Daoist Li, is it possible that this unknown enemy attacking you is your hometown Daqi?"
This is also a question that all the elders of Xianzhou have in mind.
Seeing Daosheng ask the question at this moment, everyone stared at Li Fan, wanting to hear his answer.
"Da Qi?" Li Fan obviously didn't expect to ask Dao Sheng like this.
"How could..." He subconsciously denied it at first.
But soon, he seemed to realize something, frowned and fell into deep thought, and suddenly stopped talking.
After a long time, Li Fan spoke again and said softly: "First of all, one thing I can be sure of is that there is absolutely no surveillance method of Daqi on me. I will never be an internal agent of Daqi..."
"I can't provide any evidence. But you have been with me for such a long time, so you must know what I am like."
Li Fan paused and said proudly: "To tell you something that you may not listen to, if I am really a Daqi spy and my target is the gray chess piece. When I was helping to rebuild the Immortal Boat protective array, I was alone in the sea of stars.
With the escape technique, I can just steal it and escape."
"There is no need to spend so much time on it."
The meeting became quieter.
No one refuted. Most of them were silent about Li Fan's statement, but there were still a few people who looked at Li Fan with a little suspicion.
Li Fan's self-defense continued: "Besides, when we were attacked, we were planning to continue to the depths of the Great Wall of Remnant World to collect more. If I was really an inside agent, why didn't I wait to find more before notifying me to take action?
Catch them all in one fell swoop?”
"After the thing is done, why should I return to the fairy boat?"
"At that time, the other three immortal boat elders were all extremely weak. Without the help of my escape skills, I am afraid they would have died long ago. Wouldn't it be bad to let them just disappear and do things without anyone noticing? Why spend so much money?
Zhou Zhang?"
Li Fanyue said that there seemed to be anger in his heart.
He snorted coldly: "If it weren't for the fact that at the end of my life, I came into contact with Xianzhou, and I already regarded Xianzhou as my destination, I wouldn't talk to you so much."
"If I want to leave, who of you can stop me?"
None of the elders of Xianzhou could speak out to refute.
After all, the phantom of the wooden sword can ignore almost all restrictive powers, which is really incredible.
Zhong Daogong hurriedly came out to smooth things over. He chuckled and said comfortingly: "Young Taoist Li don't have to be so excited. We absolutely trust you, but we know very little about the great enlightenment behind you. Naturally, we will have doubts."
Li Fan's anger subsided slightly.
He thought for a moment and replied cautiously: "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 huge 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 be able to spare him!" Li Fan was very worried.
Said with conviction.
Zhong Daogong nodded slightly and temporarily stopped asking.
"I have put forward some conjectures about the beginning and end of this attack. Let's talk about it and discuss it with everyone."
"The gray chess piece has been lying peacefully in the Immortal Boat's secret hideout for so many years without any incident. Now it is suddenly attacked..."
"Excluding the possibility that someone deliberately leaked the secret, perhaps too many chess pieces were gathered at once, which attracted attention."
Zhong Daogong said loudly: "This unknown civilization may have been looking for traces of gray chess pieces for so many years. But because there are no gray chess pieces in hand, it cannot be searched through induction."
"But in the process of our collection, the number of people gathered allowed them to find traces. Therefore, the exposure was attacked..."
The elders present all fell into silence after hearing this.
It sounds a bit bizarre, but it is the only reasonable explanation at present.
"If my guess is true, then what we need to worry about 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 horny armor of the fairy boat will undoubtedly always provide the opponent with the approximate position of the fairy boat..."
"This is obviously unacceptable to us."
The expressions of the elders of Xianzhou changed at this moment.
"The top priority is to resolve this matter first."
"Or, peel off the horny armor and separate it from the fairy boat. Simply discard the gray chess piece."
"Or, find a way to block the induction between gray chess pieces." Zhong Daogong concluded.