The Forbidden Path to Immortality - Chapter 110

Chapter 5: Galaxy

Deep in the night at sea, a streak of blood-red light ripped through the night sky, like a comet circling the heavens, leaving a long, ominous trail across the water before vanishing in an instant.

Li Xun was no longer in a normal human state.

A more accurate description would be: his body had become ethereal, his flesh and bones reduced to a formless shadow, shifting erratically with the wind.

Layers of surging “flames” clung to the surface, spitting out a constant stream of blood.

A shimmering, eerie light pierced through the shadows, a blood-red sheen.

Li Xun had never felt anything like this before. His body seemed to have transformed into a gust of wind, blowing freely across the vast expanse of the sky, unhindered by any hindrance, as if it could penetrate everything and connect with the heavens and the earth.

His mind seemed to have become infinite, sensing in a strange way the unique pulse of all things.

Particularly clear were those of living beings.

Through this special channel, Li Xun could even sense the faint, hidden life ripples of a fish hundreds of miles away, deep in the ocean.

Then, with a single thought, he easily severed the fish’s life force, like tearing a piece of thin paper.

“Wonderful!”

Li Xun, using this “Blood Shadow Demon Body” for the first time, toyed with it like a child finding a favorite toy, instantly enjoying himself.

Li Xun felt no hesitation. This kind of indulgence was a wonderful feeling he had never experienced before, and once he had it, it would be difficult to relinquish.

He laughed heartily, needing no reason, and amidst his laughter, he found his next target.

“Very strong reaction, speed… Huh? How can it be so fast?”

If Li Xun’s speed at this moment was astonishing, then the speed of this “new target” was simply inhumane!

From what Li Xun could sense, the speed was even faster than the flying sword’s transmission. If it weren’t for the intense reaction, Li Xun wouldn’t have considered it a living being.

With a shift in his mind, his sensing method shifted accordingly. The vital pulse of the “new target” quickly transformed into a series of tangible information, ultimately restoring it to a “real” human body.

Upon “seeing” the person’s appearance, Li Xun raised an eyebrow.

“Oh, this is truly a narrow road for enemies!”

In a flash, a silver streak of light flashed across the sea and sky behind him. It came so fast that Li Xun didn’t even have a second to think before it was right before his eyes.

With a roar of laughter, his uncanny figure swept through the air, illuminating half the sky with a blood-red mist. Though the silver streak was incredibly swift, in such a sudden encounter, there was no room for evasion or reaction.

Without a second thought, the silver light slammed straight into the center of the blood mist. In an instant, the radiance dimmed, as if a powerful acid had been spilled. Strange, crackling sounds echoed through the silver light.

“Oh my god! It’s the Blood Shadow Demon!”

Li Xun’s now-familiar voice called out.

Immediately afterwards, a portly figure suddenly emerged from the blood mist and plunged headfirst into the sea. A thick mist immediately rose above the surface, obscuring most people’s vision.

Unfortunately, Li Xun wasn’t using his eyes to see.

A shrill shriek echoed, followed by a groan from the seabed. A moment later, the fat man surfaced over ten feet away, his face pale, yet his gaze remained calm.

Li Xun grunted softly, his body transformed into a streak of blood light and charged forward. The fat man reacted quickly, his hand flexing and then extending, and he once again pulled out the Shocking Spirit Bell to block it head-on.

To the fat man’s surprise, the bloody light didn’t strike him head-on. Instead, it spun through the air, circling his fleshy body like a snake, and directly behind him.

The fat man turned his arm to block it with the bronze bell again, but before he could even turn his arm halfway, his entire body froze. A stream of true energy penetrated his body, transforming into countless threads that locked onto several of his key meridians.

The cunning fat man, who had just escaped the old Kunpeng demon, was now another’s captive, completely powerless to fight back.

Once Li Xun had subdued the fat man, he returned to his normal form. After a moment of adjustment, he smiled and said, “Perhaps this is retribution, isn’t it, Big Brother?”

The fat man had previously wronged him by calling him “Third Junior Brother,” and this time, he was borrowing his favor and calling him “Big Brother.” This was full of irony, but also served as a way of announcing his identity.

But to Li Xun’s surprise, the fat man, though unable to move his neck, still chuckled, “Wrong, wrong. I’m second in command, so if I have to call someone anything, I should call you Second Senior Brother!”

Li Xun was nearly immune to such slick rhetoric, especially after witnessing how the fat man had unblinkingly used his junior brother as bait for his own escape, dragging innocent bystanders into the mire. If he still treated the fat man like an ordinary person, it would be a recipe for death.

So, Li Xun ignored him and unceremoniously ripped off the two stained silver wings from his back, weighing them in his hand.

He remembered this treasure; back then, the little girl Lin Wuyou had used another such magical weapon to escape the ambush of two vagrants.

“So it’s the Night Demon, Shadowless. No wonder it escaped Kunpeng’s grasp with only minor injuries. Well, since it’s effectively scrapped, it shouldn’t be a problem for me to take it for research, right?”

The fat man nodded with effort, his movements stiff but filled with sincerity. “Of course, of course. Junior brother, you should take it. Not only this thing, but all these treasures on me. If you’re interested, Junior Brother, feel free to take them. Just calm down and let me go this time…”

Li Xun had truly learned something new this time. He had seen shameless people before, but never one so shameless, begging for mercy while still taking advantage of the victim.

Should he be said to be afraid of death, or to be fearless?

Li Xun examined it briefly and found the control mechanism of the Night Demon’s wings. His true energy penetrated, and the huge wings, after a strange gurgling sound, seemed to recover from the damage they had just suffered. With a humming sound, they shrank miraculously into a palm-sized metal sheet, a work of art truly exquisite.

Li Xun took it into his arms, and at the same time, he had some thoughts in mind. He asked tentatively, “Look at all the jewels and precious stones on you

. Your family is so wealthy, you must have a good background. This place is not far from the Tianxing Sea, are you from Qianfan City?” Before the fat man could respond, Li Xun rejected himself and said, “Qianfan City is full of simple craftsmen. There is no way they can produce something like you. Yes, Qianbao Pavilion, right?”

The fat man laughed dryly and nodded.

It was indeed Qianbao Pavilion!

This unique sect, whose purpose is to collect the rarest magical treasures in this world, is famous for its “Four Void Trainings” of Gold Void, Silver Void, Human Void, and Heart Void, so it is also known as the Four Voids Thousand Treasure Pavilion.

Among them, Gold Void and Silver Void mean that collecting should be done with taste, while Human Void and Heart Void, hey, seeing the fat man’s behavior, even a fool can understand the meaning.

“What’s your name?”

“I dare not. No need to mention it. My surname is Ji,

and I’m carrying on the family tradition. Ji is a good name!” It was a rare moment for the fat man to be so elegant, and it made people laugh even more. However, Li Xun would never forget the way he had sacrificed his junior fellow apprentice without batting an eyelid.

This wasn’t a moral complaint, but a pure sense of crisis concerning his own safety.

His feelings were reflected in his hands, and Li Xun couldn’t help but increase his strength. The fat man immediately screamed like a pig being slaughtered: “I’ll give you the treasure, don’t kill me!”

Li Xun just smiled behind him: “The treasures in Qianbao Pavilion are good, but killing people for treasures is definitely more profitable than exchanging treasures for lives. Besides, I’m really petty… What do you think, Senior Brother Ji?”

He said this extra sentence, and the fat man heard something and hurriedly shouted: “How can it be, this is a loss, a big loss! As soon as I heard you say that, Junior Brother, I knew we were kindred spirits. What business in this world is not negotiated? Junior Brother, please don’t kill me, if you kill me, you will miss a big deal!”

“Oh? Really?”

“Of course, of course! I know you are angry that I was not loyal enough just now, but we are both still alive, so it is not a deep hatred. Here, the magic weapon I have been carrying with me for the past few years is given to you to calm you down, and it can also be regarded as an apology from your brother.”

The fat man looked very generous, and it was thanks to him that he could speak so sincerely and vividly facing the empty sea in front of him.

And this is not the end. Seeing that Li Xun did not show any impatience, he took advantage of the situation and spoke excitedly: “As for us brothers, we hit it off from the moment we met. We have a long way to go. If we can put aside this grudge today, you will have a senior brother like me who is a great god of wealth in the future. It will be convenient for you to hang around in this world, right?”

Seeing that the fat man was getting more and more enthusiastic and his tone was getting louder and louder, Li Xun became more interested in his status in Qianbao Pavilion. He couldn’t help but asked with a smile: “What position does senior brother hold in Qianbao Pavilion?” “

Hehe, I’m not afraid of you laughing at me, junior brother. Senior brother has been very lucky in recent years. I have been promoted all the way. Now I have been promoted to the position of Qianbao Pavilion Master!”

…

No matter how stable Li Xun’s mind was, there was a very brief blank in his mind after hearing such an answer.

He reacted suddenly, trying to increase his force. However, as his fingers closed, the fat flesh behind the fat man’s neck vibrated strangely, and his body, generating its own resistance, completely dissipated Li Xun’s influx of Burning Blood Essence.

His sturdy right leg shot back, sharper than any divine weapon. Even more devastating, before the leg struck Li Xun’s abdomen, the fat man’s piercing and chilling spiritual power had completely locked onto him, rendering his limbs completely inert.

This was no less powerful than the strike Li Xun had used to restrain him earlier. If he hadn’t dodged it in time, Li Xun had no doubt the fat man’s kick would have split him in two!

The two figures suddenly separated, and the fat man tumbled forward like a ball of flesh. Just a little ahead, the impressive Buddhist beads on his wrist shattered, one fragment even striking his fat face, leaving a shallow mark.

The fat man quickly turned, crouching low, and for the first time, looked Li Xun squarely in the eye.

Li Xun’s fingers brushed across his abdomen, revealing a small tear in his outer robe. While it didn’t injure his flesh, it did leave him feeling a slight chill.

This was truly bad news. Li Xun didn’t even have time to regret it; his increasingly sensitive and restless heart responded for him.

Unaccustomed to the Blood Shadow Demon Body’s fighting style, Li Xun naturally attacked from that stance.

However, perhaps due to his previous complete demonic transformation, his explosive power was only slightly slower than in the Blood Shadow Demon Body, still shocking! Despite the fat man’s vigilance, the dazzling blood flashed before his vision flashed, and the blow had already struck him.

“Ha!”

the fat man exhaled, his already corpulent body swelled even further. A torrent of energies erupted from within, forming a massive wall between the two men.

Given the enormous speed gap, this was far more effective than any kind of shielding.

Li Xun collided with the wall of energy, his body instantly unbending, perfectly dissipating the force and dissipating the immense impact.

Simultaneously, the opponent’s vital energy pulses passed through the wall, unfolding before his eyes like a long scroll.

This was naturally far more complex than the structure of a fish, but Li Xun possessed an inexplicable intuition that allowed him to effortlessly discern the crucial “nodes” where the opponent’s vital energy converged. Immediately, his burning blood essence ignited!

“Stop, cease fighting!”

the fat man Ji, who claimed to be the master of the Qianbao Pavilion, shouted, but all he received in response was a thumbs-down from Li Xun.

As his thumb pressed against the air wall, the fat man’s already small eyes shrank to the size of a pinhole. He gasped and cried out in shock, “Blood God Tribulation Finger! Holy crap!”

Instantly, the air wall disintegrated—not by a greater force shattering it, but by a strange, eerie force penetrating its interior, instantly vaporizing the vital nodes that held it together, causing it to completely collapse from within.

This “decomposition” was highly contagious, transmitting through almost any medium to any connected object, prompting further decomposition.

Compared to this terrifying, all-consuming pressure, the so-called “Blood God Tribulation Finger” unleashed by a tiny insect a while ago was nothing but a joke!

As the direct bearer of the impact, the fat man naturally felt it most deeply. His portly body once again transformed into a pinball, tumbling backwards.

During this process, he had already grasped the Shocking Spirit Bell and, before Li Xun’s second blow arrived, struck it with a powerful blow.

A powerful, distant bell pierced Li Xun’s ears. This was his first time facing the shockwaves of the Shocking Spirit Bell head-on. He finally understood why the fat man had used it to resist the old Kunpeng demon.

The bell’s sound was strange. Although his flesh, blood, and qi had almost merged into one, and he had sealed his acupoints and meridians, the bell’s sound penetrated every pore, even resonating through the external atmospheric vibrations. The frequency was so variable that it was impossible to resist, and the vibrations made his mind dizzy.

With just this one daze, the fat man fled several miles away, still shouting from afar, “Junior Brother, don’t be angry. I was wrong. Isn’t it okay to be wrong?”

Li Xun frowned, truly baffled.

This cunning fat man was clearly formidable, and in terms of pure cultivation, he was undoubtedly superior to him. He had only just gained the upper hand thanks to the Blood God’s uncanny tactics. If the fight had continued, the tide might have turned.

This fat man must have known what was going on, but why did he have to do this?

Li Xun was, after all, a man of reason over impulse, and he preferred to use his head to solve problems. After a brief consideration, he finally paused, only to move a little closer, staring at the fat man’s fat face with a faint smile.

“Master… Ji? I remember the head of your pavilion was Zhu Liang, wasn’t Master Zhu? When did Second Brother take over?”

Fatty Ji pretended to wipe his sweat and leaned towards Li Xun with a smile.

“That was a long time ago. Just five days ago, my senior brother resigned and wanted to give the position of Pavilion Master to me. But a few shopkeepers in the Pavilion had some objections, so they sent me an errand, asking me to find a treasure at the bottom of the East China Sea as a qualification.

“Who would have thought that I would run into the old monster Kunpeng, and even the helpers sent by those shopkeepers were lost. Oh, the loss is huge, huge!”

Li Xun could hear many different meanings from the easy words of Fatty Ji.

Just like the fat man casually sacrificed his fellow disciples, the so-called resignation, errand, and even helpers always gave people a gloomy feeling, making people taste the strong conspiracy and bloody smell.

A slight sneer appeared on his lips, but he temporarily accepted the fat man’s statement. However, the fat man’s behavior soon made his eyelids jump.

Taking off clothes, taking off shoes, searching pockets… after doing a series of things, in a blink of an eye, the fat man was only wearing a short coat and half a pair of shorts to cover his body, and his hands were full of various things piled up like a mountain. At this time, the fat man had already come close to Li Xun, and the two were only a few feet apart, which was already an extremely dangerous distance.

Li Xun took a glance and knew that the fat man had at least seven or eight extraordinary magic weapons in his hands, which were of inestimable value.

“You are…”

“Nothing, senior brother, I keep my word. Junior brother, if you can stop and let me go for once, all these treasures on my body will be yours!”

The fat man laughed, looking very handsome, but turned around and showed some embarrassment.

“Hey, I originally had a string of sandalwood beads, but unfortunately, I just used it to dispel your pulse control technique, and it’s now useless. And… shame on me! That Soul-Shocking Bell is one of my tokens of leadership of the sect. Junior brother, please be magnanimous and spare me this!”

Li Xun coldly observed the fat man’s impressive performance, his identity becoming 80% certain.

The method he had just used to break free from the restrictions was the “Wedding Dress Method,” a representative technique among the Thousand Treasure Pavilion’s various methods. With this skill, this fat man must be a high-ranking figure, if not the Pavilion Master.

After thinking about it, he nodded and smiled: “Senior brother, you always keep your word. I admire you. However, since you said that we are the same kind of people, we should all understand one thing, that is, showing kindness without any reason… right?”

“Junior brother, you worry too much…”

The fat man still greeted people with a smile, but when he met Li Xun’s icy eyes, he burped and quickly changed his words: “Well, okay, to be honest, I do have some considerations!

“The first one is to avoid disasters and avoid troubles. Junior brother, you have seen that the old monster Kunpeng will not let me go in the future. It is not easy to hide my identity and temporarily avoid the limelight. How can I make a strong enemy again…

“Hehe, junior brother is a little worse than Kunpeng now. People like you who can cultivate the Blood God Son to the “Blood Shadow Demon Body” are the first in nearly ten thousand years. Don’t provoke me, don’t provoke me!”

Li Xun just sneered.

Seeing that he couldn’t beat him, the fat man could only continue talking: “You are thinking a little further ahead. Ha, junior brother, you should know that practicing the magic skills of the Blood God Son is really not tolerated by the world. Of course, with your strength, you can go all over the world, but if you just rush around, how can you enjoy the fun of this world?

“Today, you and I have the good fortune to meet each other, and we feel like old friends. If you don’t mind, I, as your senior brother, am willing to provide you with some places to enjoy yourself, which can also enhance our friendship, right?”

After hearing this, Li Xun’s mind was clear. This fat man was indeed cunning. Although he was dazzled by the Blood God Son and thought he was a “stranger”, he could immediately think of winning people’s hearts and making plans for the future. His vision was first-class and long-term.

“And…”

Fatty Ji seemed addicted, but this time he lowered his voice, looking very nervous. “And, Junior Brother, you really don’t know where to strike. Luckily, we didn’t make any noise just now, otherwise we’d be in trouble again!”

“Huh? You need to choose a place to strike? Where is this?”

Li Xun didn’t understand this reasoning. He looked around, only to see the endless sea. After arguing with Fatty for a while, the sky was already slightly bright, and he could barely distinguish east, west, south, and north. Other than that, there were no other landmarks.

Fatty Ji shook his head and said, “When I heard you say ‘Tianxing Sea’ just now, I knew you had misjudged the location. According to my estimation, this should be outside the East China Sea, at least 180,000 miles away from the ‘Tianxing Sea’. Hey, this is not a sea, it’s a river!”

“River?”

Li Xun frowned, and mentally calculated the distance he had flown that night.

Yes, he was traveling in the form of a blood shadow demon body, and his speed was at least twice as fast as normal. He flew for half the night, which was enough to cover a normal day’s journey. So this place is already…

“If my guess is correct, this is already the territory of Xingji Sword Sect, where the most erratic “Galaxy” is located among the six forbidden areas.

“These days, the two major sword sects are fighting each other in full swing. The Mingxin Sword Sect is still okay, but that old man Tianyuan is notoriously unreasonable. He controls the “Galaxy”

to float back and forth every day, and his disciples are also flying everywhere. If we are not careful, we might get trapped in it… Hey, are you listening, junior brother?” “

Li Xun came back to his senses after hearing this, but he did not deliberately conceal it. He just nodded and said, “The Milky Way is the creation of heaven and earth, and it is a projection of the stars. Its movement is based on the movement of the stars. Under the pull of the star power, shifting, expanding and shrinking are common things, which may not be controlled by Tianyuan independently.”

The fat man was surprised when he heard this, and then he said happily, “Junior brother is really knowledgeable. It seems that he has some attainments in forbidden techniques. With such ability, why don’t you follow me, your brother, and hold the title of guest official in our pavilion, which can save you a lot of trouble…”

Before the last syllable of the word “trouble” disappeared, Li Xun suddenly felt that about dozens of miles away, the breath of several creatures suddenly appeared and flew straight towards this side.

The fat man was clearly less perceptive than Li Xun, still blabbering on. Li Xun glanced at him and said gravely, “Someone’s flying over here!”

The fat man’s face tensed, as if he had used some trickery to quickly spot the newcomer. “Damn it! This smell is definitely from the Xingji Sword Sect. Old Tianyuan’s disciples share his temper, and even if they’re right, they can’t argue. Junior Brother, should we hide?”

Li Xun knew from his expression that the fat man’s conflict with the Xingji Sword Sect wasn’t simply explained away by a fear of trouble.

However, Li Xun had a plan in mind, and he actually agreed to the fat man’s invitation. The two of them immediately submerged beneath the sea’s surface. Their dive wasn’t deep enough, but they could still conceal their presence and conceal their aura by reflecting light and shadow. Their methods were surprisingly similar.

As the two men disappeared, a distant sword chant echoed across the sea. Li Xun, a master swordsman, knew from the moment he heard the chant that the swordsman possessed a profound level of cultivation. The oscillation between his true energy and the sword created a vibration like the sound of a bell striking jade, a testament to the purity and clarity of his cultivation.

With such a level of cultivation, controlling Qi to fly was a piece of cake, and flying with a sword was truly effortless.

The sword chant died down over the sea where the two had just landed, and several more figures followed from afar. From the mere sound of their swords, it was clear their cultivation was far inferior to the first.

Soon, they converged on the sea, and one of them spoke up, “Brother Yunxing, did you see that guy who just rang the bell?”

The one known as Yunxing, presumably the one who had first arrived on a sword, responded, “I’ve never seen him before.”

His voice was resonant, like the sound of metal and stone, and quite impressive.

Li Xun knew the people of the Xingji Sword Sect well. Hearing Yunxing’s name, he knew this was a disciple highly valued by Elder Tianyuan, renowned for his decisiveness in killing. In the Tongxuan Realm, he was as famous as the Seven Swordsmen of Lianxia, a true figure.

After Yunxing’s reply, he fell silent, and the surrounding juniors and younger generations fell silent as well, demonstrating the true significance of Yunxing’s position within the sect.

After a while, Yun Xing was heard saying, “The Yang energy is getting stronger, and the stars are shifting. In about two hours, the galaxy will move here. Even if there are any other figures, they will not be afraid of him. Disperse!”

The others all nodded in agreement, and only the voice that had asked the question earlier shouted, “Brother Yun Xing, what about the one ringing the bell…”

“Yes, I know.” Yun Xing replied calmly, “It must be that fat man from Ji Bu Bu. However, this person’s identity is different from before. Even if we find him, we can’t do anything to him for the time being.

We should be more careful with the person who fought with him.”

“The one who fought?”

“This person has a strange aura and is not on the right path. The current situation is complicated, and there are many who want to take advantage of the chaos. We must be careful when we proceed. Well, Fatty Ji stole our sect’s star chart to become the leader of the sect. If we don’t ask for it back now, it would be a huge benefit to him. Now is the time for him to help.”

These words penetrated the seawater and reached Fatty Ji’s ears. Fatty Ji was a very clever person. As soon as he heard the words, his heart moved. He felt that Yun Xing’s words had a hidden meaning. With a blink of an eye, he turned to look at the person beside him.

“Master… Eh? Where is he?”

In the dark seabed, Li Xun had already silently dived dozens of miles away.

When he sensed Yun Xing’s presence, Li Xun knew that the aura appeared so suddenly, it must be some special forbidden method or barrier. If it was placed here, where else could it be but the Milky Way?

Unexpectedly, this episode on the road saved him a lot of time. So, the immediate focus wasn’t on tangling with the strange, fat man. Li Xun let go, immediately disengaging himself and finding a secluded spot to refresh his energy and change into his “Spirit Bamboo” attire.

Li Xun had never before experienced his strength plummeting by nearly half in the blink of an eye. It was a novel experience, but certainly not a pleasant one.

He frowned, practicing the almost forgotten Lingxi Jue over a dozen times before finally managing to lighten his heavy body.

Yin Sanren emerged, handed him the Qingyu Sword, then frowned slightly, saying, “Be careful. If you engage in a fight now, it’s easy to overestimate your abilities. It’s best to focus your mind and proceed steadily and cautiously to protect yourself.”

Li Xun appreciated this rare act of “consideration.” He nodded, peering through the water to gauge the light outside. Then, with a slight gesture to Yin Sanren, he turned and swam towards the direction where Yunxing had first appeared.

Out of safety concerns, the thirty or forty-mile journey took him a good half an hour. When he figured he was close, he slowly ascended.

But barely above the surface, the sky above him suddenly darkened. An inexplicable vibration rippled through the water, instantly freezing him.

Instinctively, the thought flashed through Li Xun’s mind: “The galaxy is shifting!”

Without experiencing such a scene firsthand, one could never imagine what it felt like to be enveloped in a thousand-mile-wide shadow, slowly moving overhead.

Li Xun had once imagined that the Dharmakaya of the old demon Kunpeng, soaring ninety thousand miles, its wings like drooping clouds, clutching mountains and seas, soaring through the weight of the mountains and disappearing into the azure sky, was already the pinnacle of grandeur and soaring.

But now, he began to understand that when a behemoth, abandoning speed and clearly displaying every detail of its movement, its pressure was far greater than that.

What impressed Li Xun most was the dramatic shifts in the vital energy of heaven and earth during this process.

These shifts weren’t caused by atmospheric distortions caused by the displacement of massive objects, but rather by the convergence of billions of shifting qi within a unified “frame.” Their interplay and influence created a turbulent flow of vital energy.

This differed significantly from the Southeast Forest Sea’s “Water and Fire from the Same Origin” forbidden technique. The difference lay in the fact that the Southeast Forest Sea converged its various energy channels for the benefit of Wuyin Pavilion, with Wuyin Pavilion serving as the central hub, governing everything. It was a structure governed by a crisscrossing “outside, inside, and outside.”

In other words, it manipulated natural forces through human intervention, with most of the manipulation occurring through acquired processes, though these traces of these processes were skillfully concealed within the natural environment.

The Milky Way, on the other hand, was a creation of nature, its natural evolution synchronized with the evolution of the stars, like the tides of the ocean, its flow largely driven by natural forces.

The settlers here, such as the Xingji Sword Sect, had merely modified the natural environment and established forbidden techniques. Their acquired plasticity was far inferior to that of Wuyinxuan. However, in terms of the profound transformations and the immense power they accumulated, they surpassed Wuyinxuan.

This was felt most deeply by Li Xun, who had close contact with them.

Fortunately, Li Xun wasn’t in the path of the “galaxy”‘s shift; he was only slightly on the edge, and the galaxy’s movement happened to be opposite to his own. Otherwise, he would have been sucked in by its immense gravitational pull.

The sensation lasted only half an incense stick of time before fading.

With a “whoosh,” he lifted his head out of the sea, gasping for air to relieve the pressure on his heart.

Once his breath had settled, Li Xun craned his neck to get a closer look at the so-called “galaxy,” but… was it foggy?

A thick fog had risen over the sea at some point, a strange one. Even with Li Xun’s eyesight, he couldn’t see beyond a few miles.

Furthermore, the dust particles within the mist appeared to be tumbling and swirling, but in reality, they were entangled and intertwined, a phenomenon quite unlike ordinary fog.

“It’s likely a reaction to the aftermath of the fluctuations in the galaxy’s vital energy,”

Li Xun quickly explained based on forbidden techniques. Furthermore, he meticulously observed something else.

“This mist is like a web, a spider’s web! The energy connections within it are extremely fragile and sensitive. If we accidentally disturb them…”

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, a powerful aura swept through from miles away. Its radiant true energy rubbed violently against the tiny dust particles within the mist, then, through the mist’s excellent conductivity, reached a distant location.

As expected!

Li Xun no longer cared to speculate on the identity of the individual; he was simply intrigued by the changes in the mist caused by their passage.

While the energy structure within this mist was naturally different from that within the galaxy, it was a shared lineage, providing valuable insights into his deductions.

Adding to this, the fragmentary sense he had gained during the galaxy’s shift, his calculations were enriched.

Furthermore, Yunxing’s casual mention of the time it took for the galaxy to shift—though only an approximate figure of “two hours”—informed by his location at the time, revealed a wealth of insights.

Li Xun filtered this rare information through his mind, confirming his memory was correct before nodding with satisfaction and diving again.

Today’s harvest was very rich. If the next few days could be like today’s, perhaps within ten days or half a month, he could sketch out a rough map of the forbidden techniques surrounding the galaxy. With a little more luck, he might even be able to…

Before the second half of his thought could fully unfold, Li Xun’s body suddenly stiffened.

Because, before him, a pair of bright, sparkling eyes suddenly appeared. Under the slightly dark sea, they were green, eerie, yet familiar.

“Cat… Cat?”