My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 729: Chapter 694: Against the Life and Death Formation

The power of the Elixir of Immortality was gradually being absorbed, and Huang Fusong’s complexion slowly returned to its original state.

He looked around at the densely packed ice-coffins, pondered for a moment, and replied, “Although these ice crystals are arranged in a disordered manner, merely piled up with no apparent pattern, my years of experience with array techniques suggest this place might be…”

As he spoke, he took out a set of Array Breaking Jade Discs, projected an array of lights in front of everyone, and began to calculate on the spot.

In the light array, countless ice coffins that they had seen before had turned into black dots, which were located and recorded. Then, the view point of the field gradually rose, and the number and speed of the black dots increased rapidly.

It was faintly visible from the light array that these ice coffins were not all squeezed together but were indeed bound by some force and arranged according to unknown rules.

“We can’t see the full picture yet. We might only see what array formation is veiling this mystical realm after we have fully explored this place.” Huang Fusong was staring at the light array and, after a long time, he shook his head in regret.

“Well, let’s not stand around then. Let’s get going. If we stay here for too long, we don’t know what strange things will happen.” Dong Fangyao called out, and the three of them continued to explore the remaining unknown regions.

After an unknown amount of time had passed.

“Stop!” Dong Fangyao suddenly raised his hand, blocking them from moving forward.

“Brother Dong Fang, what did you find?” Asked Li Fan, looking around but found nothing incorrect.

Dong Fangyao looked perplexed, as if he was listening, discerning something.

After a moment, he turned his eyes to the area below the Black Sea of Death’s Silence.

“There seems to be something alive in the sea. It’s like…”

“A kind of Demonic Beast?” Dong Fangyao hesitated.

Huang Fusong, upon hearing this, immediately gave a start: “That’s impossible. This sea is entirely composed of Death Silence; not to mention ordinary Demonic Beasts – even cultivators like us who accidentally fall into it and get touched by the Death Silence, can’t survive for long.”

Li Fan was also gazing at the calm Black Sea surface, as if pondering: “The extreme of death, and yet to live again…”

“I trust Brother Dong’s judgment,” he began tentatively, “If there really is a creature from the Black Sea living here all year round, perhaps our hope of escaping lies in it. Brother Dong, you can communicate with Demonic Beasts. Why not try to communicate with it?”

Dong Fangyao hesitated for a moment but eventually nodded. A strange noise came from his throat, modulating high and low. It was as if a real ancient monster was roaring.

Before long, ripples started to appear on the sea that had been calm for millennia.

“Is there really a living creature?!” Huang Fusong exclaimed in surprise.

Dong Fangyao, however, cursed under his breath: “Damn it, this damned creature doesn’t understand my language; instead, he was scared off!”

“No problem, we will just follow it. Brother Dong, lead the way!” Li Fan instructed in a solemn voice.

Dong Fangyao immediately reacted and quickly detected the movement of the exotic beast beneath the Black Sea, and eagerly followed suit.

Li Fan and Huang Fusong closely followed behind him.

The speed of this unknown exotic beast was not fast, so the three of them were able to follow at a leisurely pace.

During the pursuit, Li Fan noticed that the number of ice-coffins in the surroundings seemed to be gradually decreasing.

“It’s here, it suddenly disappeared!” Suddenly, Dong Fangyao halted and turned back to look at Li Fan and the others.

Li Fan flew upward a distance and looked around.

Countless ice coffins, like tiny dots, formed lines like black dragons, stretching out from the horizon.

From all directions, they converged here.

These lines were like the Leylines, which circulated and gathered all the Death Silence of this mystical realm here.

It was so dense that it was on the verge of a qualitative change.

Huang Fusong also came to Li Fan’s side and, after careful observation, noticed some clues.

“Here, it seems to be the location of the array’s ‘eye,’ which veils the mystical realm.” His face was full of solemnity.

“The array’s eye? Does that mean that we can get out from here?” Dong Fangyao asked joyously.

However, Huang Fusong shook his head: “We still don’t know the full picture of the array. We can’t make a definitive conclusion yet. It is possible that we could escape from here, but it is also possible…”

“…to trigger the array’s self-defence mechanism.” Li Fan added to Huang Fusong’s sentence, “The scale of the array formation here is rarely seen in the world, especially its vague connection with the laws of life and death – it’s extremely bizarre. Even a Unity-Path expert might not be able to survive the attack from this array.”

Huang Fusong looked at Li Fan, with a trace of surprise flashing in his eyes: “Brother Li, you also have a deep understanding of array formations?”

“Just a little,” Li Fan nodded slightly, acknowledging it.

“So what’s next, waiting here? I feel that I’m also affected by the Death Silence, my vitality is slowly dissipating. I can’t believe I’m starting to feel backaches and muscle pains.” Dong Fangyao grumbled, hesitated for a moment, and then consumed another Elixir of Immortality.

“Damn, that’s much better.” He absorbed the medicinal power much faster than Huang Fusong, and instantly came back to life.

“We need to understand the entire formation.” Li Fan looked at Huang Fusong, and they both agreed.

“We need to speed up.” Huang Fusong was just talking when he coughed softly. His face was grim, and he reluctantly swallowed the Elixir of Immortality to slow down the dissipation of his vitality.

They had not encountered any danger in the mystical realm apart from their vitality being devoured for a long time, and the amount of Elixir of Immortality was running low. Therefore, they were able to speed up and fly as fast as they could.

After Huang Fusong swallowed the last elixir pill, they finally completed the complete mapping of this grand formation.

“It’s a divine masterpiece, a divine masterpiece.”

Huang Fu Song stared at the image projected on the Array Breaking Jade Disc’s light curtain, lost in thought and muttering to himself.

Even Li Fan was captivated by the sophistication of this unknown grand formation.

According to common sense, given Huang Fusong’s Array Mastery, he would have been able to discern the basic usage of the array, even extrapolate the remaining parts of the array, without having to see the full picture.

But…

In front of this extraordinary grand formation built with billions of sealed cultivators, their learning and experience were of no use.

Without seeing the complete array diagram, this grand formation was like a mysterious dragon hidden in the depths of the mountains, shrouded in clouds and mist. Only a glimpse of its scales and claws were seen. If you did not know the existence of the “dragon” in advance, there was no way to determine what it really was.

Until the last part of the array revealed itself to them.

The final array sequence instantly connected with what they had seen before. Like finishing off the dragon with a dot in the eye, making the grand formation divine and complete.

This formation was extraordinary, and words could hardly describe it.

It seemed to encompass the wonder of heaven and earth and could reverse the law of life and death.

Li Fan and Huang Fusong lost themselves in the sketched array diagram in front of them for a long time. They were dumbfounded and speechless.

Could they really escape through the array’s eye?

They weren’t sure.