Chapter 1193: The Sea of Ruins Hidden Mysteries

Although he had already decided to search for news about the greatness of the Star Sea from amongst this other surviving civilization, Sacred Fetus Li Fan didn’t take the risk of going directly to the door.

After all, he had traveled across half of the Darkest Star Sea, and his strength had been substantially weakened in order to resist the erosion of the Void Black Dot Strange Disease and the constant cutting of his divine soul.

If he failed to pry for information and was inadvertently captured alive by the other party, would that be a big joke?
“Since there is a civilization living here, there should be a way to avoid all kinds of strange erosion in the void. I’ll first lurk in secret, slowly recover my strength, and then make plans.”

In an instant, the Sacred Fetus Li Fan had already made up his mind.

First of all, he made a point towards the center of his eyebrow, and set up a restriction in his already weak soul. If there was a slight mistake, he would be able to liberate himself and scatter his soul in a flash.

After that, Li Fan hid his body and began to explore the sea of relics.

He didn’t follow the sneaky silhouette from earlier because he was afraid that it was the other party’s plan to lure the enemy in. Sacred Fetus Li Fan chose another direction and turned his head to explore deeper.

“This void is full of crises, if there are cultivators hiding, they would definitely need to be protected with formations, prohibitions, and the like. All we need to do is find these scents and we’ll be able to follow the trail. My level of formation dao is a few generations ahead of the Xuan Huang Realm, so I should have no enemies here as well.”

Originally, Li Fan was thinking like this.

But after searching the ocean of relics for more than ten days in a row, he did not find any scent of a civilization such as a formation. Not even a trace of life was sensed.

So much so that Sacred Fetus Li Fan was somewhat skeptical that the shadow that he had encountered before was not an illusion on his part.

But he did not give up easily, as if he were a patient hunter, always lurking in the shadows, waiting for his prey to appear.

Another seventeen days passed, finally giving him something.

A small group of three cultivators in total, wearing strange armor, walking against their backs, very cautious.

The way they appeared was also a bit out of Li Fan’s expectation.

The dead relics floating silently in the void changed their orientation for a while, and then a passageway appeared out of nowhere.

After the three of them stepped out, the dead relics returned to their original position, and the entrance to the passage closed.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes and looked around, taking in the remains of all the nearby cultivators.

After a few moments, he came to a sudden realization.

“Wonderful! It’s not an isolated formation, but rather, it was transformed on the basis of these natural floating relics, almost completely blending in with the surroundings.”

“What’s more crucial is ……”

Sacred Fetus Li Fan slowly approached these floating relics.

“These objects from the Broken Immortal Cultivation Realm are, more or less, tainted with the power of some True Immortal Seal Characters. As a result, they have formed a natural protection that can shield the cultivator’s divine sense from perceiving them to the greatest extent possible. This is also the reason why I searched hard before but still did not find their hiding place ……,” Li Fan instantly realized.

In fact, the subtlety of this formation was average, but after mixing and introducing the power of those True Immortal Seal Characters that led to the destruction of the worlds, it had risen more than one level. Even with Li Fan’s current level of formation dao, there was no good way to crack it.

Of course, if he ignored the possible side effects of those relics and tried to forcefully break the formation, he could still do it. However, this would go against the intention of lurking and gathering information.

Li Fan looked at the entrance to the hidden passageway and finally put away his intention to force his way through.

Instead, he followed behind those three people, carefully observing all the way.

Aside from wearing odd armor, there was no other difference between these three cultivators and the people of the Xuan Huang Realm in terms of how they looked.

They seemed to have gone out this time in order to search for supplies in this sea of relics.

What they needed, however, seemed a bit strange to Li Fan.

There didn’t seem to be anything in common, from pieces of magic treasures, to pieces of building ruins, or perhaps there were also some dead bones of cultivators, all of which were the targets of their collection.

Instead of loading them directly into the storage ring, they used a black rope, tethering them together and pulling them behind them.

“This scene ……” Li Fan froze slightly.

Rather, it reminded him of the scene where Transmission of the Law used a golden chain to carry the world debris in the void. “It’s hard to believe that there is some connection?”

After a small half-day, when the relics chained behind them had reached as many as twenty or more, the three cultivators seemed to be in disagreement.

But in the end, they gave up on this search under the leadership of the first one.

Taking the supplies with them, they turned around and flew towards the entrance of the passageway.

Seeing this, Li Fan also quietly followed.

There seemed to be a bit of a boundary to the range that these three cultivators had gone out and left, not very far from their hiding place. Soon enough, they reappeared in front of the hidden passageway again.

Only to see the armor of one of them suddenly and regularly flashing with a burst of light.

Li Fan sensed that a wave of its subtle rhythmic fluctuations emanated from the armor.

As if he had touched some mechanism, the location of the surrounding dead relics quickly changed, and the circular entrance quietly appeared.

The three cultivators jointly pulled and dragged the twenty-odd items and flew into it.

Li Fan also concealed his figure, wanting to follow along and enter.

Unexpectedly, just as he arrived at the entrance of the passageway, an ear-piercing alarm suddenly sounded.

Li Fan’s heart jumped and attached his pre-prepared distraction to one of the items.

His own body, however, hurriedly fled backward and far away.

Because of the presence of the distraction, the sound of the alarm did not disappear with the departure of the Sacred Fetus Li Fan.

The three cultivators looked around very nervously, but after finding no signs of foreign invasion, they turned their attention to the items they had collected this time.

After a short deliberation, they separated the items and tried to substitute them one by one.

Eventually, they found the one that had Li Fan’s distraction attached to it.

Instead of choosing to destroy it, they threw it out with force towards the depths of the relic ocean.

The source of the threat disappeared and the warnings stopped.

Only then did the three turn around and return.

Not far away, looking at the slowly closing entrance to the passage, Li Fan ultimately did not choose to break in.

“A bit interesting, the alert means actually managed to discover me.”

Eyes flashing, he arrived next to the relic that had been thrown out.

“There really is something fishy, from the surface, the influence of the True Immortal Seal Character still remains. But in reality, the power attached is already minimal.”

“For such a long time, my feeble distraction didn’t even suffer any damage ……”

Retracting the distraction back into his body, Li Fan casually picked up the relic and scrutinized it once again.

It seemed to be a token flag magic treasure, but the flag had already decayed, leaving only a bare flagpole.

The spirit was lost, and it could no longer utilize its original ability.

“What are they collecting these things for?”

(End of chapter)