The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 405: Chapter 405: Suspended Fairy Mountain_1

On the vast ocean, the Black Canopy Magic Boat sailed unhurriedly within a specific area.

Shen Mo sat in the cabin, the Soul Refining Flag exuding a heavy blood light as it hovered beside him. His Mana was continuously infused into the Blood Flag through an imperceptible connection.

Controlling fifty Class III Demon Soul Generals was like casting a huge fishing net, slowly combing through a thousand miles of ocean.

Even though the Demon Soul Generals couldn’t stray too far from the Soul Refining Flag, each could emanate its own sense. When combined, the area they could probe increased significantly.

Their efficiency far exceeded that of Shen Mo and the others conducting a meticulous point-by-point search.

Since he was only using them for searching and not engaging in intense fights, it didn’t consume too much of Shen Mo’s Mana.

Even in the extremely barren wilderness of the open sea, he could replenish the supply consumed by the Soul Refining Flag merely through breathing exercises.

However, Shen Mo still had to swallow a Ganoderma Marrow Pill every half-day because, while controlling the Demon Soul Generals, he was also practicing his cultivation method to enhance his own cultivation.

The Elixir he took was to fill the void of Spiritual Qi and True Yuan in his Spirit Sea that occurred when his cultivation advanced.

Jiang Lingfeng and Ming Yu also sat to one side in the cabin, either controlling the direction of the Black Canopy Magic Boat, studying forging techniques, or practicing cultivation methods to enhance their cultivation.

As days passed, the large net formed by the Demon Soul Generals quickly swept over most of the three thousand-mile expanse of the sea surface, not neglecting the waters below.

If, after one sweep, they still found no trace of Yuan Chengshan, the Hall Master of the Immortal Welcoming Hall...

Then Shen Mo and the others would have to dive into the deep sea and search again using the same method.

However, Shen Mo felt it was unlikely that Yuan Chengshan’s talisman message to the sect had been sent from the deep sea.

In the extreme depths, not only would one’s sense be affected, but even Sound Transmission Talismans would be blocked, making it extremely difficult to send messages back, as if one had stepped into another realm.

One day, Shen Mo was cultivating as usual while searching with the Demon Soul Generals.

Suddenly, he noticed a change in the Soul Refining Flag. He had lost contact with one of the Demon Soul Generals.

”What happened?”

Jiang Lingfeng, who had just completed a Grand Circulation of her cultivation method, noticed the change in Shen Mo’s expression and couldn’t help but ask.

”Wait a minute, let me check what’s going on first,” Shen Mo said.

As he spoke, Shen Mo took the Soul Refining Flag and shook it. Amidst the surging blood light, he recalled the Demon Soul Generals that had been sent out.

”Forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine...”

A moment later, Shen Mo finally confirmed that one was indeed missing.

It was a mid-stage Class III Demon Soul General, originally a late-stage Class II hanged ghost he had refined in the Abandoned Ghost Country.

After being Demon-corrupted by a minor Heavenly Demon Soul General and becoming a mutated Demon Soul General, it had undergone several promotions to reach the mid-stage of Class III.

Its strength was not to be underestimated; even if it encountered a ferocious peak Class III Sea Beast, it could struggle for a while.

Even if defeated and its Soul Body shattered, it would return to the Soul Refining Flag.

But just now, this hanged ghost Demon Soul General had disappeared without Shen Mo noticing, and it couldn’t even be re-condensed from the Soul Refining Flag...

This was enough to prove that there was something exceedingly strange in the area it had been searching.

”Senior Sister Jiang, turn the boat around. Northwest, five hundred miles,” Shen Mo immediately instructed Jiang Lingfeng.

Jiang Lingfeng nodded, controlling the Black Canopy Magic Boat, and sped towards the place where the hanged ghost Demon Soul General had disappeared.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the Black Canopy Magic Boat had advanced three hundred miles. Just then, Shen Mo suddenly heard Jiang Lingfeng exclaim.

”Junior Brother Shen, look...”

”Hmm?”

When Shen Mo turned his head, he was shocked to find that Jiang Lingfeng had completely disappeared.

He extended his sense, but within a radius of 160 to 170 miles, he couldn’t detect her presence. Even the Sound Transmission Talisman couldn’t reach her.

”Ming Yu... did you use ’The Smallest and The Largest’ to take Senior Sister Jiang into The Smallest Space?” Shen Mo’s gaze fell on the Clam Girl Ming Yu, but he quickly realized something was off.

If she had used this Skill, she would have also entered the space. Even if she then came out alone, leaving Jiang Lingfeng in The Smallest Space, she herself would have disappeared momentarily. But Shen Mo hadn’t detected any movement from Ming Yu at all!

As expected, Ming Yu looked just as confused and shocked. When Shen Mo questioned her, she shook her head in bafflement.

”Brother, I didn’t use any Skill.”

”Just now, Senior Sister Jiang was standing right in front of me, and I kept my gaze on her.”

”But when she called out to you, she just disappeared. There was no sign of her using any magic.”

”It’s as if... someone with a more sophisticated spatial Skill took her away...”

Hearing this, Shen Mo nodded, his thoughts racing.

Senior Sister Jiang’s sudden disappearance, the disappearance of the hanged ghost Demon Soul General, and Yuan Chengshan’s disappearance—these three events must be related! Among the three of them in the cabin, if there was any difference, it was that Senior Sister Jiang had the highest Cultivation Realm, and her sense could extend the farthest, over 250 miles. As for himself and Ming Yu, the range of their senses was far inferior to hers. Moreover, Senior Sister Jiang’s unfinished words also proved that she had been the first to ’see’ something, and in the next instant, her figure had bizarrely vanished.

After piecing things together, Shen Mo had a vague guess.

He had Ming Yu take control of the Black Canopy Magic Boat, while he readied his commonly used magic artifacts, Elixirs, talismans, and other items on his person.

Then he added, ”Ming Yu, do not look towards the northwest, nor extend your sense beyond a three-mile radius.”

”If I disappear like Senior Sister Jiang... immediately stop the magic boat and wait here.”

”If we haven’t returned after a month, and the Sound Transmission Conch also fails to reach us, then avoid this dangerous place and take a detour to leave.”

”Return to the Riverside Sect and inform the Sect Master and the others about this matter.”

After instructing Ming Yu, Shen Mo still felt it wasn’t secure enough. He took out a Sound Transmission Talisman and informed Peak Master Zhou Shili of the situation beforehand, as a precaution.

After these preparations, the Black Canopy Magic Boat slowly sailed towards the predetermined location.

After sailing another seventy or eighty miles, Shen Mo’s sense suddenly ”saw” a large mountain.

To be precise, it was an Immortal Mountain enveloped in golden radiance, floating above the sea.

Just as he was about to use ’Bright Vision’ to examine it more closely, in the next instant, the entire golden Immortal Mountain seemed to rush towards him, rapidly magnifying in Shen Mo’s eyes like a terrifying beast charging head-on.

In less than the blink of an eye, Shen Mo found he was no longer on the Black Canopy Magic Boat; his feet now stood on mountain rocks that resembled gold.

To be captured and brought to the mountain merely by seeing or perceiving it... What kind of bizarre Skill is this?

Shen Mo glanced around, confirming he was indeed on the Suspended Fairy Mountain he had seen earlier. Outside, the boundless sea stretched on.

Though inwardly alarmed, he now also understood how Jiang Lingfeng had disappeared from the Black Canopy Magic Boat earlier.