Chapter 18: A Fish Leaps from the Abyss

Chapter 18: The Abyss Leaps by the Fish

What kind of reaction Kou Hong Dao Xuan Zi would have when he returned to the Immortal Cultivation World and realized that the two of them were practicing the same technique, Li Fan no longer cared.

At this moment, he had already taken care of everything and piloted the Tai Yan Boat to the top of the Market Abyss.

As a matter of common sense, one should wait until the white mist dispersal day every fifteen years before exploring this Market Abyss.

However, now that Li Fan was 71 years old, he would have to wait another 14 years until the next white mist lifted.

By that time, he would be 85 years old, and he would be at the end of his life, and it would be hard for him to even walk, not to mention piloting the Tai Yan Boat.

So it would be better to explore the reality of this Immortal Overwhelming Formation earlier.

Anyway, there is nothing left for him in this life, and he can open the next life at any time.

Maneuvering the Tai Yan Boat, Li Fan slowly descended towards the bottom of the Market Abyss.

Without divine sense to probe the path, he could only use his sight to recognize the direction.

The fog enveloped the area and everything around him was white, giving Li Fan a feeling of extreme unreality.

The surroundings were also extremely silent, only the sound of his own breathing could be heard.

With his attention highly focused, he continued to fly downwards.

Suddenly, as if it had hit something, the body of the Tai Yan Boat began to shake violently.

Li Fan immediately tensed up.

It seemed to be being squeezed by a huge invisible force, and a sound similar to metal friction came from outside the Tai Yan Boat.

Fortunately, the defense formation was activated in time, and a faint golden curtain of light enveloped the Tai Yan Boat.

The body of the boat gradually became stable, and that somewhat creepy noise also disappeared.

Only the constantly distorting and changing protective light screen was telling of the horrific pressure from the outside world.

“After the astral wind layer, below is the phantom light layer.” Li Fan recalled Kou Hong’s earlier introduction about this Immortal Overwhelming Formation.

The Immortal Overwhelming Formation was mainly designed to prevent banished mortals from returning to the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

The astral wind layer was littered with strong winds.

The wind blades could easily tear through a mortal’s torso, and even Foundation Establishment cultivators had to protect themselves with their spiritual energy and deal with it carefully.

Below the astral wind layer was the phantom light layer.

Seven-colored light like satin flowed around at this layer of the abyss.

When mortals saw it, they would fall into endless illusions.

Below the layer of illusory light was the Upside Down layer.

When one enters this layer, one feels that heaven and earth have changed, and one cannot distinguish between up and down, left and right.

In addition, the surroundings are all white, without divine sense to recognize the direction, it is bound to be lost.

After the Upside Down layer, there is the Flowing Fire layer.

Tens of thousands of flying stars and streams of fire flew at high speeds in this layer of space without any regularity, smashing everything in front of them to smithereens.

There was also a thick white fog as cover, making it difficult to defend against.

Below the layer of streaming fire was the layer of arcane ice.

From this layer, the fog gradually thinned out.

There was nothing else in the arcane ice layer, all there was was the extremely low temperature.

If there was no corresponding means of protection, it was feared that one would be frozen into ice as soon as they entered.

Below the Xuan ice layer was the thunderstorm layer.

Ten thousand thunderbolts emanating a destructive aura roared at this layer of the abyss without a moment’s pause.

Finally, there was an empty space that was several times more expansive than the previous six layers combined.

According to Kou Hong, there was no danger in this layer, just a darkness that was on the contrary palpitating.

After passing through the dark layer, one would be able to leave the Immortal Extermination Formation and head to the Immortal Cultivation Realm. Li Fan carefully controlled the Tai Yan Boat and spent half an hour before finally crossing the astral layer.

As soon as he entered the Illusory Light Layer, under the illumination of the flowing light that filled his eyes, Li Fan was plunged into a heavy illusion.

In the illusion, he had successfully escaped the Immortal Extermination Formation, and after arriving at the Immortal Cultivation Realm, he had coincidentally obtained a volume of rare techniques. In just a hundred years, however, he had refined into a Golden Dan.

After that, he cultivated all the way, and it was a straight path. A thousand years later, he ascended to the heavens.

When he arrived at the Immortal World, Li Fan started cultivating from the lowest level of Immortal Officials, and eventually became an Immortal Emperor who was proud of the Immortal World.

Afterwards, Li Fan broke the spatial barrier of the Immortal Realm and ascended to the Divine Realm.

Starting from a miner in the God Realm, after ten thousand years, Li Fan cultivated to the God King Realm and became the most powerful existence in the God Realm.

After that, Li Fan went through a lot of trouble and ascended to the Swire God Realm, becoming the bottom-level caretaker of the Swire God Realm.

And again, he painstakingly started from scratch.

Such a condom for an unknown number of layers ……

Finally, the illusionary realm collapsed.

Li Fan came to his senses, and all the previous experiences quickly receded in his mind like an ebbing tide, leaving only some shallow traces.

A little speechless about his previous encounters in the illusionary realm, Li Fan stabilized his mind and continued on.

His brain was dizzy and lost its direction, Li Fan knew that he had come to the Upside Down Layer at this moment.

Surrounded by endless white mist, the Tai Yan Boat was like a drop of water in the ocean, not knowing where to go up, where to go down, not knowing where to go.

Originally, he thought that the journey of exploring the formation in this world would end here, but Li Fan was surprised to find that a sense of intuition came from the Tai Yan Boat, telling him where to go.

Li Fan followed the guidance of the Tai Yan Boat and it didn’t take long to leave the Upside Down Layer.

Next, having tasted the sweetness, Li Fan did not deliberately manipulate it at all, but only provided the power to allow the Tai Yan Boat to fly in this Immortal Overwhelming Formation on its own.

Flowing fire, arcane ice, thunderstorms ……

These places seemed to be exceptionally treacherous, but the Tai Yan Boat’s unhurried flight always managed to brush shoulders with one destructive crisis after another.

With no danger along the way, Li Fan arrived at the last layer, the darkness layer, so smoothly.

“Yes, this Tai Yan Boat was specialized in migrating mortals a thousand years ago. The Great Migration Era lasted for hundreds of years, so this flying boat definitely wouldn’t have made just one round trip. Judging from how broken it is, perhaps the migration work didn’t stop for a hundred years. It must be that the cultivator in charge of this matter feels that every time he has to personally maneuver it is a laborious thing, so he left a secret door in this Tai Yan boat, allowing it to automatically pass through the Immortal Overwhelming Array……. “Li Fan was pleasantly surprised, but he suddenly figured out why this trip would be surprisingly smooth.

The Taiyan Boat quietly traveled forward in the darkness.

Thinking that the Immortal Cultivation World that he had been looking forward to for a hundred years was not far ahead, even with Li Fan’s city, he could not help getting excited at this time.

Suddenly, in the incomparably silent darkness, a pale, ancient, distant, and profound cry inexplicably rang out.

This odd sound spread throughout the entire layer of darkness in an instant, reverberating continuously within it.

Li Fan’s heartbeat instantly stopped, as if he had encountered some kind of heavenly enemy, and the blood in his body instantly became ice-cold.

The screams were getting closer and closer, in the twinkling of an eye, it surrounded the tiny Tai Yan Boat in general, coming from everywhere in all directions.

Suddenly, the sound disappeared.

It became silent again.

The surroundings were still dark, but it was as if the darkness was already different from what it had been before.

Li Fan felt a sudden creepiness.

He knew that the Tai Yan Boat, had been swallowed by some kind of existence.

“Bang!”

The protective light shield of the Taiyan Boat shattered in an instant, and the body of the Taiyan Boat then began to disintegrate.

The charging progress began to plummet in this instant.

Looking deeply into the darkness of the outside world for one last glance, Li Fan silently chanted.

“Return the truth!”

(End of chapter)