Chapter 874: I Do

At midnight, the mist over the sea began to rise.

And just at this moment, a gigantic ship’s bow emerged from what was once an empty sky.

Immediately following, an empty ship fully revealed itself from the cloud and mist, growing clearer, vast and mysterious, intricately carved, entirely unlike anything from the human world, truly astonishing.

On the empty ship, a woman in a golden robe stood with her hands behind her back at the front of the ship, her eyes bright and sharp, with a demeanor resembling a divine soldier, exuding an undeniable aura of sharpness.

This kind of aura was not unfamiliar to the ‘Profound Gold Temple,’ one of the Central Plains Five Elements Forces, as this was indeed the power of the ‘Profound Gold Temple.

No.

To be precise, the woman was wielding a higher level of power.

With the appearance of the woman in the golden robe, many who were still hesitating and doubtful at first suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, because this indeed seemed like the presence of a supreme influence.

A refugee elder from the original Profound Gold Temple, fearing this opportunity might slip away, stepped forward first, clasping his fists toward the woman in the golden robe, then respectfully said, “Jin Mu of Profound Gold Temple, greets Senior.”

The woman in the golden robe looked at him with a strange expression, as if wanting to see through him.

This elder named Jin Mu felt a chill under her gaze, yet did not understand why.

Fortunately, the woman in the golden robe merely glanced at him, then lowered her eyes, and surprisingly returned a salute, saying, “Please board the ship.”

Jin Mu felt both honored and overwhelmed, so without asking more questions, he rose and flew aboard the ship.

Soon after, another person stepped forward, but this time it was not from the Profound Gold Temple, but a woman in white from the Mirror Flower Water Moon Tower within the ‘Water Forces of the Five Elements Forces.’

The woman in white spoke after stepping out: “Junior Bai Moru of Mirror Flower Water Moon Tower, may I ask if there is a supreme influence of Mirror Flower Water Moon Tower in the Immortal Realm?”

The woman in the golden robe replied, “There is, please board the ship.”

Bai Moru, the expert from Mirror Flower Water Moon Tower, respectfully saluted once more, then asked, “May I dare to ask why Senior is willing to recruit us? After recruiting us to the Immortal Realm, then what?”

Her question expressed the doubts of everyone present.

But the woman in the golden robe simply said, “After entering the Immortal Realm, typically, one is sent to the corresponding sect, then goes to Spirit Town to practice.”

She paused briefly, thought for a moment, then said, “As for the reason? Firstly, it is to fulfill the conditions proposed by Senior; secondly, our Immortal Realm indeed needs expansion, recruiting more disciples.”

Fulfill the conditions proposed by Senior?

Bai Moru was taken aback, asking, “May I ask which Senior it is? And what conditions did he propose?”

The woman in the golden robe glanced around, sensing there were still hidden onlookers, then said, “Senior’s last name is Xia, as for the rest, it remains unknown. The condition proposed by Senior Xia is for us to accept his friends. And anyone willing to come and board the ship at this moment is considered his friend.”

Bai Moru: …

The hidden onlookers: …

And at this moment, a man in red clothing flew out from the woods, landed, and cupped his hands, saying, “May I ask Senior, if we are not friends of Senior Xia, what then?”

The woman in the golden robe replied indifferently, “If you’re not, then do not board the ship.”

The man in red gritted his teeth, “If it turns out we’re not, then what?”

The woman in the golden robe did not respond.

Her surname was Dugu, named Xuanjin, the true figure behind Profound Gold Temple, the Supreme Profound Sect elder who harvested once every five hundred years.

In fact, before the empty ship arrived, Dugu Xuanjin already understood the origin of this event, aware of that terrifying senior’s abilities and intentions.

The Alien Star Secret Envoy stated, the senior’s surname was Xia, and this surname entirely aligned with the Sect Leaders’ guesses about the senior’s identity.

The god from tens of thousands of years ago, the god who had just awakened from slumber, was highly likely to be a member of the Great Xia Royal Family.

After all, those sleeping in the Divine Tomb were mostly elites of Great Xia.

By the time of Shang, due to imperial changes, they grew even scarcer, those who existed entered East Sea Immortal Realm, afterward… perished during that great upheaval there.

As for the cause of the upheaval, it was simple.

Merely some elders still fancied going to the Divine Tomb.

Such foolish thoughts naturally led to self-destruction.

Everyone knew, resources were finite, and so the people of the Divine Tomb devised the Yin Yang Diversion scheme, thus creating the world of the Immortal Realm.

But now the fruit was ripe, yet waking them was not necessarily needed, since there was only so much fruit, more mouths meant less share.

Nevertheless, the people of the Immortal Realm also knew… eventually, there would be awakeners from the Divine Tomb.

Those awakeners would inevitably view the Immortal Realm as traitors.

And now, such an awakener had appeared.

But this awakener, definitely could not honestly and straightforwardly board the ship.

On this point, neither the Supreme Profound Sect nor the Five Spirits Alliance found it unexpected.

Yet this awakener seemed to possess a peculiar ability — Human World Transformation.

In other words, he could take on the appearance of anyone.

Thus, “many friends” became logical, for this senior from ten thousand years ago in the visage of Xia aimed to blend in, sneaking into the East Sea Immortal Realm amongst these individuals, starting from an ordinary disciple.

The top of the Immortal Realm almost immediately realized this upon hearing “many friends,” so their requirement for the empty boat to head west at this moment was simple, to take everyone aboard, properly arrange them, and later, once in the Immortal Realm, they would identify Senior Xia from among them.

The man in red, hesitated…

And just then, amidst the thickening fog, several booming thunderclaps suddenly resounded, with subtle zapping arcs of electricity, a massive sinisterly-looking empty ship appeared from another side.

Standing at the bow was a bald man, he patted the ship’s side, his voice booming, “This is the ship of the Five Spirits Alliance, that side is the Supreme Profound Sect’s ship, little ones, don’t board the wrong ship.