The ancient giant bear hiding in the world of immortal cultivation

Chapter 490 The Spirit-Catching Ship

Several days later, Wang Wu reappeared outside Qing Shuang City.

This place is different from Dragon Head City, so not only mortals, but even cultivators below the first rank, no, earth immortals below the third rank, are not allowed to appear here.

Because they are not qualified.

In a sense, Qing Shuang City is like the immortal realm that mortals talk about...

The foundation of the entire Frost City resembles a giant mushroom, with its enormous wings spreading out to firmly seal off the entrances and exits to the inner domain of the Frost Domain. Without breaching this place, there is no way to enter the inner domain.

It is very safe.

Naturally, neither mortals nor cultivators inside can get out unless they cultivate to the third level of Earth Immortal, in which case they can 'ascend to heaven in broad daylight'.

Qingshuang City was built on top of this giant mushroom, taking up the entire area, with cliffs on all sides, leaving no gaps at all.

There are no city gates or exits. In fact, the entire area within 150,000 li of Qing Shuang City is covered by dense array formations and restrictions. More than 200,000 years have passed since the first array was deployed. Moreover, every few hundred years, a Taiyi True Immortal, who is in charge of the city's defense, will add new arrays according to his own ideas and preferences.

Now, this has become a well-deservedly infamous Shit Mountain Formation. Apart from those few old guys who are in charge of this matter, even Frost Lord can't find a way out of here.

Fortunately, there is still the sky.

A giant ship is currently moored here.

It doesn't look very big, only a few thousand kilometers in circumference and a few hundred kilometers in height. The 1,800 long sails of the Three Calamities stand tall and upright, seemingly filling the entire world.

This is currently the only spirit-capturing ship in the Frost Domain, a celestial artifact used to track the twenty-four solar terms.

The head manager of the spirit-catching ship is also a third-rank elder of the Hidden Origin Society, and Shuang Jun's younger sister, whose name seems to be Shuang Liuyun. She is currently at the seventh level of the Taiyi realm.

In fact, the Frost Lord family owns at least two-thirds of the entire Frost Domain, while the remaining one-third belongs to the Hidden Origin Society.

However, the Shuangjun family is very low-key, and no one from the Shuangjun family was seen in the Lu Tong incident.

The important departments of Frost Domain have always been firmly controlled by the Frost Lord family.

For example, the industries of the Outer Heavens, and this spirit-catching ship.

Looking back now, Wang Wu, the former lord of the Frost Domain, feels rather embarrassed.

Lu Tong, Zhuang Bufei, and Feng Muhan all strongly recommended that Wang Wu join the Frost Domain Spirit-Catching Ship. From their travelogues, it can be seen that the four of them have served on the Spirit-Catching Ship for at least five thousand years. Feng Muhan, for example, served on the Spirit-Catching Ship for twelve thousand years, accumulating countless merits before being chosen by the Frost Lord to become his disciple.

Now, after five hundred years and following the twenty-four solar terms, the spirit-catching ship has returned to Qing Shuang City. Some of the spirit-catching team members have accumulated enough merits to exchange for relevant positions in the Frost Domain, and may even become disciples of the Frost Lord.

It is worth mentioning that Shuangjun has a total of 24 core disciples, and as many as 100 registered disciples.

Some of his nominal disciples were not even recognized by Shuangjun himself.

Because it was run by her family.

At this moment, Wang Wu stood in the middle of a group of people. The three leading figures were Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhan, and Qu Shenglian. Then there were five Taiyi cultivators and fifteen Dixian cultivators who were preparing to board the spirit-catching ship. He was one of them.

The new identity he used was personally arranged by Zhuang Bufei.

Wang Wu could only accept such hospitality.

"Ow!"

With a series of dragon roars, a total of twenty-four giant dragons flew out from the spirit-catching ship. They were all wrapped in huge chains, like anchors, and landed on the dragon-locking pillars on the city wall of Qingshuang City, quickly coiling around them.

The twenty-four giant dragons are also recorded and described in the travelogue of Lu Tong and his companions.

These are all lower-ranking dragons from the Azure Dragon clan, or sinful dragons who have committed serious crimes. These sinful dragons are then exchanged or sold.

This is also the norm in the cultivation world.

It's as if heretics are more hateful than pagans.

A constellation of life-like stars shines brightly, and there are records of it...

In short, these twenty-four giant dragons are one of the core standard features of the spirit-catching ship.

At this moment, as the twenty-four giant dragons stabilized the chains, the massive spirit-catching ship finally lowered its three calamity sails and slowly descended.

Upon approaching, an astonishing pressure surged forth, much like the feeling of an ordinary mortal facing a massive planet hurtling down at high speed—quite awe-inspiring and terrifying.

Among Wang Wu's group, only Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhan, and Qu Shenglian were completely unafraid of this pressure.

Even Wang Wu couldn't control himself and stumbled back several steps.

He had to desperately activate the first and third sequences, and with the covert support of the second sequence, in order to maintain his balance.

In contrast, the other fourteen Earth Immortals were not only thrown more than ten feet away, but they also had difficulty getting up. They could only lie on the spot like insects, with no ability to resist at all.

The five Taiyi cultivators, however, were basically in the same state as Wang Wu, with two of them even performing slightly better. Just then, the spirit-capturing ship was pulled to a position less than a hundred feet above Qing Shuang City.

The spirit-catching ship itself seemed to possess an extremely powerful levitation force. It took twenty-four giant dragons to pull the chains taut, their veins bulging and even drawing blood, to barely resist this levitation force; otherwise, it might have flown away at any moment.

Where is Lu Tong?

A faint voice rang out from above. Wang Wu did not look up, but he had already sketched in his mind a woman in purple who looked seven parts like Shuang Jun.

"Reporting to Uncle Liuyun, Lu Tong has been arrested and taken to the Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower for committing a serious crime, and has been executed."

"Dead? That's such a pity. My sister had such a hard life. She finally found a promising disciple, but she died so young. I heard from afar that she was promoted to a second-rank elder and joined the Hidden Origin Elder Council. I was so happy for her. But alas, where is my sister now?"

"Reporting to Uncle Liuyun, our master is in seclusion to recuperate from his injuries, but we do not know exactly where he is in seclusion."

"Don't know? Never mind then. I was originally planning to catch up with you around the time of White Dew and Summer Solstice."

"The disciple is here!"

"Why aren't you going to greet your two senior brothers and one senior sister yet!"

"Here!"

At this moment, a male and a female Taiyi appeared behind Shuang Hongye, jumped off the spirit-catching boat, and bowed to Zhuang Bufei and the other two.

Zhuang Bufei and the other two all had strange expressions. They were sending disciples, but they couldn't make the decision or control it. Anyway, their master had so many disciples, so two more wouldn't make a difference.

"You three don't need to look like that. These aren't disciples chosen by your master, but rather two new personal disciples I've taken in. Their potential, talent, cultivation, and level are almost on par with Lu Tong back then. Never mind, there's no point in telling you. I was planning to show them off to my sister."

"Speaking of which, this is all the trash the Frost Domain has produced in the past five hundred years? What do they take my spirit-capturing ship for? Forget the fourteen, bring the six on board instead."

Zhuang Bufei hurriedly said, "Uncle Liuyun, this is not appropriate. The Frost Domain no longer has any branch altars in the outside world. If we want to train these Earth Immortals, your Spirit-Catching Ship is the only option. For the future of the Frost Domain, please be merciful and help them this once."

"Little Zhuangzi, are you teaching me how to do things?"

"Disciple dare not!"

"I dare not speak nonsense. There is a reason why I did not bring them. Now, in this round of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms tracking competition, three more teams have joined, making the competition even more intense and dangerous. With their limited strength, they would only be throwing their lives away. Or, you three could choose any two to join my spirit-catching ship, and I might consider it."

"Uncle Liuyun is too kind. We are here to guard the Frost Domain on our master's orders and dare not leave without permission."

"Isn't there another guy named Wang Wu who was appointed Lord of the Frost Domain by my sister? Why hasn't he come to see me yet!"

"Reporting to Uncle Liuyun, Lord Wang suffered a serious injury and is currently in seclusion to heal."

"Hmph! I don't believe your nonsense! I'm leaving!"

"Wait, Uncle-Master Liuyun, according to the rules, every five hundred years, the Frost Domain supplies the Spirit-Capturing Ship with Taiyi True Immortals and Earth Immortals. However, every fifteen hundred years, a Taiyi True Immortal who has served on the Spirit-Capturing Ship for five thousand years must also return to the Frost Domain. Now that time has come, Uncle-Master Liuyun, what do you think—"

"What am I looking at? Those people don't want to leave, what can I do? If you're so capable, let my sister come and take them away!"

"go!"

As they were speaking, Shuang Liuyun pulled out a whip crackling with Yang lightning from somewhere, swung it in the air, and with a thunderous roar, the twenty-four giant dragons released their grip on the dragon pillars and flew back to the spirit-capturing ship. Almost simultaneously, the spirit-capturing ship also took to the air at an astonishing speed.

Standing on the spirit-catching ship, Wang Wu felt that in just a few moments, the ship had already soared tens of thousands of miles high. Its power was very strong, and he felt that this was still not the full power of the ship.

It continued to climb, rising nearly a million miles in one go, before turning smoothly and slowing down. At this moment, Wang Wu looked out and found it quite interesting. From the perspective of Qing Shuang City, they had indeed risen nearly a million miles, which should have put them in high altitude.

But in reality, when you look out, the spirit-catching ship is flying close to the ground.

You can see the mountains, forests, rivers, lakes, and various life forms outside.

This landmass should be at a 35-degree angle to Qingshuang City, but there is no sign of flowing water or falling stones.

This is basically the characteristic of this multi-repair immortal realm; there is no possibility of reaching the end in one go, and it is difficult to record using conventional methods.

At this moment, the Taiyi True Immortal named Xia Zhi walked over and nodded politely.

"Fellow Daoists, my master wishes to meet you all."

Wang Wu glanced at the summer solstice and thought life was truly wondrous.

That's right, it was actually an acquaintance, Xu Taiping.

Since their last parting, less than three hundred years have passed. After receiving the Foundation Establishment Formation from Wang Wu, his cultivation has made astonishing progress. He is now at the first level of Taiyi. Of course, this may also be due to his advancement after joining Shuang Liuyun's sect.

But without a doubt, it was his talent and potential that caught Shuang Liuyun's eye.

They even renamed him Xia Zhi.

White Dew, Summer Solstice—it sounds like they're preparing to take in twenty-four apprentices.

(End of this chapter)