Chen Jiuyang suddenly thought of something and looked at Bai Riyue and Qi Wushuang. "Brother Bai, Brother Qi, the ship has set sail, and we have already escaped the danger of the white mist. You can disembark now. Fellow Daoist Luo and I still need to complete our Dao Fruit figures on the ship."
Bai Riyue and Qi Wushuang exchanged glances and said, "Indeed, we were just about to leave and were about to bid farewell to Brother Chen."
Then, Qi Wushuang and Bai Riyue flew up together, preparing to leave the ship and plunge into the heavy rain.
But in the next moment, Chen Jiuyang's expression changed: "How is this possible!!!"
He saw that Qi Wushuang and Bai Riyue were unable to leave the ship, as if they had hit something invisible.
At this, Qi Wushuang and Bai Riyue's expressions completely changed.
"There's something wrong with this ship!"
"We can't leave!"
Chen Jiuyang frowned and said, "Let me try."
Immediately, he soared into the air, his expression momentarily dazed, and he fell back to the deck.
Chen Jiuyang's brows were tightly furrowed: "I should be in front of 'Zhuang Wu'."
"..."
There was no reaction.
"Unable to leave..." Chen Jiuyang's face also turned completely grim.
He could feel that the divine power of his 'Wu' and 'Yuan' origin Great Dao had not disappeared.
Luo Xingchen frowned and said, "Let me try."
Her figure flickered, and a power avatar of 'Luo Xingchen' emerged from within her.
Then, this avatar 'Luo Xingchen' jumped onto the deck and leaped down. Luo Xingchen raised an eyebrow and said, "I'm out."
Immediately, her expression changed drastically, and she said in a deep voice, "It's gone! I can't sense it anymore!"
Chen Jiuyang quickly asked, "Can your perception sense what caused it to disappear?"
Luo Xingchen's expression was grim, "I don't know, it's just gone. The sense of it vanished in an instant. I don't know if it was destroyed or devoured."
Chen Jiuyang's brows were tightly furrowed, but his heart was relatively calm.
The 'Zhuang Wu' Dao Fruit asked him to retrieve the 'Sanhua' life source, so it was not as simple as it appeared on the surface. Boarding this ship must have been a test.
Otherwise, why would the 'Zhuang Wu' Dao Fruit so easily allow him to refine the power of an origin Great Dao?
Chen Jiuyang was one step away from becoming a Martial Red Dust Immortal.
"Splash!!!"
Under the pouring rain, on a ship without a captain, cultivators with not low cultivation and ordinary people alike encountered inexplicable and bizarre events.
As Chen Jiuyang was pondering, Bai Riyue suddenly exclaimed, "Did someone else disappear?"
Hmm?
This caught Chen Jiuyang's attention. He saw that another servant of Wu Shuang'er had indeed disappeared!
Suddenly...
Chen Jiuyang's expression changed slightly, and his heart was startled. While they were communicating, another mortal had disappeared.
"Something's not right! It's not just the mortals who are missing!" Qi Wushuang said in a deep voice, "Even we cultivators are missing."
"The people who boarded the ship earlier were not just the four of us, but also a Martial Saint and two Great Saints!"
"Now, they have all vanished..."
Chen Jiuyang suddenly turned his head and saw that the cultivators who had boarded the ship earlier had indeed disappeared.
This was becoming quite perilous.
Living people were vanishing without a trace, and their senses were bypassed.
This...
It was truly chilling and terrifying.
After all, they were quasi-emperors, or even emperor realm experts.
Bai Riyue said in a deep voice, "This won't do. We must find a way... this strange devouring might be related to cultivation..."
"If this continues, we might also disappear out of thin air."
Luo Xingchen suddenly said in a deep voice, "Could it be related to this rain? Why wasn't there any rain before we boarded, and the rain only started after we boarded?"
Qi Wushuang said, "Regardless, with the four-nine killing intent, there must be a sliver of life. The possibility of survival lies on this ship. Our souls might be obscured. Let's immediately search the ship to see if we can find a safe way to survive, and then consider leaving this ship."
Chen Jiuyang nodded in agreement without hesitation.
He had a premonition that staying on the deck would become increasingly dangerous. To break the deadlock, he had to find clues immediately.
Qi Wushuang said, "Similarly, we cannot act alone. Let's form pairs. This way, we'll at least have each other's support."
"Alright," Luo Xingchen said, "I'll be with Brother Chen. We'll search from east to west, from top to bottom. You two are responsible for the other side."
Upon hearing this, Qi Wushuang and Bai Riyue had no objections.
Up to this point, Chen Jiuyang and the others were in a daze, not even knowing what had happened, and several people had already vanished into thin air.
Chen Jiuyang said, "To prevent accidents, Wu Shuang'er, you should also immediately split into two teams and act with us."
Wu Shuang'er and the remaining six mortals exchanged glances and said, "Okay."
Then, Wu Shuang'er followed Chen Jiuyang and Luo Xingchen off the deck and began to explore the interior of the ship.
"Wooooooo~"
From somewhere within the ship, a mournful and eerie whistling wind sounded. Candles were lit throughout the ship.
The candlelight flickered, casting dim and uncertain shadows. Outside the ship, the sound of undulating waves made the interior appear even more gloomy and chilling.
Suddenly, the middle-aged merchant man following behind Chen Jiuyang let out a terrified roar, his eyes wide and unseeing, and he stammered, "Look, look ahead!"
Chen Jiuyang only looked up and saw a rope hanging from a beam inside the ship, with a person hanging from it.
As the ship swayed, the corpse also swayed gently.
Chen Jiuyang looked at the hanged corpse and suddenly frowned. This corpse seemed somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't recall.
After carefully examining the clothing, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the merchant. He saw that the style of the merchant's clothes was very similar to the style of the hanged corpse's clothes.
Before Chen Jiuyang could speak.
"Wooooooo~"
A chilling, eerie wind swept through. The hanged corpse suddenly struggled, its face contorted and ghastly pale, emitting a chilling laugh:
"Die, die, die, die!!!!"
Wu Shuang'er and the others were instantly terrified and their bodies went limp. However, Chen Jiuyang and Luo Xingchen remained calm. Luo Xingchen raised her hand and casually pointed, unleashing a torrent of powerful Dao energy that directly pulverized the corpse into dust.
Luo Xingchen said, "It seems to be an ordinary vengeful spirit, not worth mentioning."
Chen Jiuyang, however, frowned. With Luo Xingchen's Dao power, her cultivation realm must have already entered the Emperor realm. Such a casual strike, containing enough power to destroy a small star, had left no trace on even a wooden beam of this ship.
"This ship... is not right..."
Before Chen Jiuyang and Luo Xingchen could think further and move forward, Wu Shuang'er exclaimed, "Another... another person is missing!"
"Hmm?"
A cold and eerie sensation surged into Chen Jiuyang's heart. In full view of everyone, another person had disappeared!