Chapter 234: Refining the Immortal Carved Stone Boat

The Immortal Carved Stone Boat's speed seemed slow, but Xiao Long, aside from spatial law, had already reached his utmost speed; still, the stone boat quickly pulled away the distance.

Seeing the stone boat recede further, Xiao Long grew anxious and immediately decided to use spatial law.

But as her figure just flickered, the spatial law not yet fully exerted, a terrifying sense of confinement came from the surroundings!

It seemed that in this area, there was simply no way to use spatial law to move.

At Xiao Long's astonishment, the Immortal Carved Stone Boat had completely lost its trace.

She helplessly leapt out of the water, gazing at the direction the Immortal Carved Stone Boat disappeared, pondered a moment, then decided to first return to the treasure ship to find Chang Long and the others before speaking.

After the silver-light flashing dragon body soared in the sky for a while, the treasure ship's silhouette appeared on the sea surface below.

Xiao Long plunged down from the sky, and the moment her figure landed on the deck, the silver light flashed, turning into a human body.

"Xiao Long, where are Fang Xu and the others?"

Seeing Xiao Long return, Chu Mu hastily spoke.

Chang Long and Liang Shaohong also hurried to Xiao Long's side, curiously looking at her.

They had previously seen the movement/noise of the Immortal Carved Stone Boat's explosion.

Although the distance was great, that heaven‑destroying, earth‑extinguishing energy ripple still caused a considerable impact on this sea area.

If it weren't for Liang Shaohong's wisdom, after observing the Immortal Carved Stone Boat's explosion he would have ordered the treasure ship to move away from its original position.

At this moment, the treasure ship likely had already been caught up in the aftermath and destroyed in this vast sea.

Fang Xu and Gu Yusix went to search for the Immortal Carved Stone Boat.

In theory, when the Immortal Carved Stone Boat exploded, they should have been not far away.

The three of them set out together; why is it that only Xiao Long has returned now?

"They... probably were taken away by the stone boat."

Xiao Long thought for a moment, then spoke.

She is now also uncertain whether Fang Xu and Gu Yusix are still alive.

After all, the energy released by the Immortal Carved Stone Boat's explosion is too terrifying; although we know Fang Xu and Gu Yusix are strong, they absolutely cannot withstand it.

The reason she thinks Fang Xu and Gu Yusix might still be alive is because she believes they were inside the stone boat when it exploded.

In that case, they should be fine.

But now the stone boat has left.

Even if they are still alive, we don't know where the stone boat has taken them.

"Taken away by the stone boat?" Chu Mu and the others frowned upon hearing this.

"For now, let's not ask so many questions; let's chase after it." Xiao Long said.

She roughly knows the direction the stone boat disappeared; all she can do now is have the treasure ship pursue along that direction.

Perhaps the stone boat will pause in some sea area ahead, giving everyone a chance to catch up.

Liang Shaohong nodded, immediately turned the treasure ship's direction, and slowly proceeded forward according to Xiao Long's instructions.

The huge treasure ship sailed on the sea day after day.

When passing some islands along the way, Liang Shaohong had to let the treasure ship draw near to seek fresh water and supplies on the islands.

The supplies aboard had long been exhausted.

The highest cultivation among those on board was only the Elemental Martial Realm, not yet reaching the stage where one can forgo food and drink.

Meanwhile.

Inside the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, Fang Xu and Gu Yusix only discovered two days ago that the stone boat had left its original sea area.

During this period, the Immortal Carved Stone Boat exploded, and with its departure, there was not the slightest movement inside the boat.

Only when their figures appeared at the stone boat's control core did they, via a complex star map, realize the boat was moving swiftly.

"Senior, we still don't know when the Immortal Carved Stone Boat began moving."

"Now, we're not even sure whether we're still in the Heavenly Profound Realm."

Facing the complex star map, Fang Xu couldn't understand it, and was even less clear about the Immortal Carved Stone Boat's current position.

Gu Yusix leaned in, examined the star map for a long time, and said: "We should still not have left the Heavenly Profound Realm."

Pointing at a huge vortex on the star map, he then said: "If my expectation is not wrong, this should be the exit from the Heavenly Profound Realm."

"The owner of the Immortal Carved Stone Boat seems to have set a complete route for it."

Fang Xu looked at the vortex, then at the light dot representing the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, calculated a moment, and said: "At the current speed, at most three days remain before the Immortal Carved Stone Boat leaves the Heavenly Profound Realm."

"Within three days, we either leave the Immortal Carved Stone Boat and watch it depart the Heavenly Profound Realm,"

"or we hurriedly refine the stone boat's core to gain control of it."

Following the Immortal Carved Stone Boat out of the Heavenly Profound Realm is impossible.

After all, the Heavenly Profound Realm still has many unresolved matters; if we follow the stone boat away from here, setting aside the mess left behind...

Just speaking of Wan Yun and the others, I myself cannot rest easy.

Gu Yusix nodded and said: "This star map should be the core of the stone boat."

"However, refining it seems not that simple."

The star map before them is excessively intricate; although Gu Yusix guessed it is the core of the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, he does not know exactly how to refine it.

"Let me try."

Fang Xu came forward, looked at the complex star map, hesitated a moment, and decided to first try using a bit of soul power.

Actually, having learned from Gu Yusix's prior mistake, using soul power at this time is quite unwise for him.

But if he wants to refine the star map, without using soul power he has no way to start.

He can only take a chance and try.

The power of the Mystic Water Soul had just surged from the sea of consciousness, preparing to probe the stone tablet etched with the complex star map, when a terrifying suction suddenly appeared out of nowhere!

The next moment, Fang Xu felt his divine soul in his sea of consciousness locked by a terrifying force!

That terrifying force restrained most of his movements, frantically tearing at his divine soul.

At this moment, his sea of consciousness could not protect his divine soul at all; a large amount of soul power was being torn by that terrifying suction and spilling out of his sea of consciousness!

Gu Yuxi, seeing this, also imitated Fang Xu's earlier method, directly slashing out a soul sword light, instantly severing the soul power that Fang Xu had been sucked out!

The suction vanished; Fang Xu hurriedly endured the pain of his soul being torn, gathered his divine soul, and then tightly sealed his sea of consciousness.

Too terrifying!

If he were alone right now, he estimated he would have already had his divine soul sucked away by the stone boat, becoming a walking corpse.

Unable to externalize his soul power, he could not examine this stone slab...

Gazing at the stone slab, Fang Xu suddenly froze!

Unable to use his soul power, he suddenly thought of an ancient and mysterious refinement method—blood recognition!

Although this only existed in old web novels from his previous life, it now seems very reasonable!

Thinking of this, he didn't care whether blood recognition would work, directly pricked his fingertip and squeezed a drop of fresh blood onto the stone slab.

Gu Yuxi beside him was dumbfounded.

"Fang Xu, what are you doing..."

Before he could finish speaking, that drop of blood on the stone slab was instantly absorbed by the slab.

Immediately afterward, the entire stone slab suddenly burst forth with a terrifying purple aura!

That purple aura twisted and gradually coalesced into a human face.

After the face formed, an even more terrifying pressure emanated, making the surrounding space seem to instantly solidify.

Fang Xu and Gu Yuxi before the stone slab could not even move their eyes; their divine souls lost the ability to think.

After the purple face formed, two beams of purple light shot from its eyes, slowly gazing at Fang Xu.

Under the gaze of the purple light, Fang Xu at that moment felt as if completely stripped bare; all his secrets were gradually revealed before the purple face.

But just as the purple face prepared to probe deeper into Fang Xu's sea of consciousness for more secrets, the black seal that had long been coiled in his sea of consciousness suddenly moved.

The black seal slowly rotated once, then drifted straight out of Fang Xu's sea of consciousness.

The purple face noticed the seal, seemed to freeze for a moment, then actually showed a surprised hint of fear.

Immediately afterward, before the purple face could comprehend the black seal, a huge spatial rift suddenly appeared in the sky outside the Immortal Carved Stone Boat!

From the spatial rift, the Void expert who had helped Fang Xu many times slowly appeared.

Inside the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, the purple face sensed the external disturbance, made no move, and the boat atop its head suddenly turned transparent, directly displaying the outside scene before it.

Gazing at the figure in the void rift wearing an imperial crown, the purple face furrowed its brows.

After a strange fluctuation, the two seemed to be conducting some kind of communication.

The purple face gradually dissipated, and the surrounding pressure that had restrained everything also slowly faded.

Fang Xu and Gu Yuxi had already recovered at this point.

They were unaware of the Void expert's appearance.

The recovered Fang Xu glanced anxiously at the stone slab before him, preparing to speak and persuade Gu Yuxi to leave this place.

Suddenly he realized there seemed to be some kind of connection between himself and the Immortal Carved Stone Boat.

At first, he thought it was an illusion.

But when a thought stirred in his mind, the Immortal Carved Stone Boat actually stopped; Fang Xu then realized, this Immortal Carved Stone Boat had been refined by him!

Gu Yuxi also sensed something amiss, hurriedly looking at Fang Xu and saying, "Is this... what you did?"

"Probably." Fang Xu said, and a thought to make the Immortal Carved Stone Boat turn around arose again in his mind.

Afterward, the Immortal Carved Stone Boat actually slowly turned its course, heading back toward the sea they had come from!

Fang Xu laughed.

Gu Yuxi, meanwhile, wore a face full of astonishment.

This terrifying stone boat was actually refined by Fang Xu!

Next, his plan to search for the Heavenly Radiant Realm fragments could now be put on the agenda.

"It's Xiao Long's treasure ship."

Inside the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, after Fang Xu preliminarily refined the stone boat, he could already sense a treasure ship slowly approaching on the distant sea surface.

He immediately controlled the stone boat to slowly float to the surface.

Opposite, everyone on the treasure ship was now standing on the deck.

When the Void expert appeared earlier, they had only seen a terrifying thunderstorm and had not noticed the existence of the spatial rift.

After that strange thunderstorm dissipated, the crowd gazed into the distance, considering whether to change course.

An aura that made Chang Long and Xiao Long feel palpitations suddenly appeared!

Before they could react, a huge stone boat suddenly surfaced!

"Good heavens!"

"Immortal Carved Stone Boat!"

"Slow down!"

"Stop!"

On the deck, seeing the suddenly appearing stone boat, everyone shouted in fright.

Liang Shaohong even more hurriedly flashed back to the helm, preparing to maneuver the treasure ship to avoid it.

However, the Immortal Carved Stone Boat at this moment merely drifted quietly on the sea surface, showing no sign of rushing forward.

The crowd curiously watched the stone boat.

Suddenly they noticed two figures gradually appearing at the prow of the stone boat.

It's Fang Xu!

Xiao Long exclaimed.

Chu Mu and the others also discovered that what appeared at the bow of the Immortal Carved Stone Boat was indeed Fang Xu and Gu Yuxi.

On the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, Fang Xu saw that everyone was safe and exchanged a glance with Gu Yuxi, saying, "Senior, let's go back."

Gu Yuxi nodded.

The two leapt from the stone boat, and in the next instant their figures appeared on the treasure ship.

Fang Xu, big brother!

Chu Mu rushed over and tightly embraced Fang Xu's body.

Since the eruption from the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, half a year has passed.

Over the past half year, the treasure ship has been sailing eastward, long leaving the waters known to Liang Shaohong.

As time passed, the two never received any news.

Chu Mu's mind had long been filled with all sorts of bad thoughts.

At this moment, upon seeing Fang Xu still alive, she naturally felt very excited.

Gently patting Chu Mu on the back, Fang Xu comforted her, saying, "Sorry to have worried you, I'm fine."

Chu Mu slowly released her hands, her eyes bloodshot as she looked at him.

Fang Xu, what's going on?

Looking at the Immortal Carved Stone Boat stopped far out on the sea surface, Xiao Long asked, enduring his discomfort.

Fang Xu said nothing, directly waving his hand at the Immortal Carved moment.

In the next instant, the Immortal Carved Stone Boat, like a sea-going leviathan, sank again into the seabed.

Seeing this, everyone was stunned.

You... can control it?

Xiao Long looked at Fang Xu, his face full of disbelief.

Beside him, Chang Long also gaped in shock, his face showing disbelief as he stared at Fang Xu.

Let's go, let's head back first.

Fang Xu didn't directly answer their question, instead ordering Liang Shaohong to change course and head back first.

Liang Shaohong also had many questions at this moment, but since Fang Xu didn't intend to speak and he didn't dare ask further, he directly ordered the ship's bow turned, sailing toward the position of Three Mountains Island.

After spending half a year's time, everyone finally returned to Three Mountains Island.

After disembarking from the treasure ship, Fang Xu looked at Chang Long and said, "Go back once and have the seven elders come to Vast Sea City."

Chang Long nodded, directly transformed into his dragon form, and flew toward the Death Sand Sea where the entrance to the Heavenly Radiant Realm is located.

In Vast Sea City, Liang Shaohong returned home, and a sudden idea popped into his mind.

Alone, he paced in the hall for a long time, seeming to finally make a decision, he directly left the Liang family and arrived at the residence where Fang Xu and the others lived.

This residence belongs to the Liang family.

After Fang Xu and the others returned, although they had originally planned to stay temporarily at an inn, Liang Shaohong refused, quickly had people clean this residence spotless, and invited Fang Xu to stay.

Young Hero Fang, I...

Upon seeing Fang Xu, Liang Shaohong found the words he had been about to say suddenly escaping him.

Fang Xu looked at his hesitant expression and smiled lightly, saying, "If you have something to say, just say it directly."

Liang Shaohong took a breath, suddenly dropped to one knee, clasped his fists, and said, "Young Hero Fang, I am willing to represent the Liang family in pledging loyalty to you; I hope you will accept!"

"Loyalty to me?" Looking at the kneeling Liang Shaohong, Fang Xu gave a faint smile and asked, "Do you know what pledging loyalty to me entails?"

Liang Shaohong froze upon hearing that.

He didn't quite understand what Fang Xu meant by that.

Seeing his puzzled expression, Fang Xu laughed and rose to his feet, saying:

"Pledging loyalty to me is practically making an enemy of the whole world."

"Even the heavens constantly seek to eradicate me at all times."

"Now, do you still intend to bring the Liang family to pledge loyalty to me?"

Liang Shaohong was dazed.

He didn't know whether Fang Xu's words were true or false, even suspecting that this might be a test.

But since it concerns the fate of the Liang family, he had no choice but to be cautious.