Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 516 - 490: Spirit-Catching Ship

A few days later, Wang Wu’s figure appeared outside Cyan Frost City again.

This place is unlike Dragon Head City, so not to mention mortals, even cultivators below First Grade—actually, it’s not allowed for Earth Immortals below Tier Three to appear here.

Because they are not qualified.

In a sense, the inside of Cyan Frost City is almost like the Immortal Realm that mortals speak of...

The entire foundation of Cyan Frost City resembles a giant mushroom, with its vast cap spreading out, firmly sealing the entrance and exit of the Inner Domain of the Frost Domain. Without breaking through here, don’t even think of entering the Inner Domain.

It is extremely safe.

Naturally, the mortals and cultivators inside also don’t think about coming out unless they reach Earth Immortal Tier Three to achieve ’Ascension in the Daylight.’

Cyan Frost City is built atop this giant mushroom, occupying it completely, with cliffs on all sides, leaving no gap outside.

There are no city gates, no exits; in fact, the entire fifteen-thousand-mile radius of Cyan Frost City is densely covered by array restrictions. From the deployment of the first array to today, it has been over two hundred thousand years, and every few hundred years, a Taiyi True Immortal responsible for city defense adds new arrays according to their thoughts and preferences.

Up to now, this has become the infamous Shit Mountain Array, where even the Frost Monarch would have difficulty finding a way through, other than those few old folks specialized in this matter.

Fortunately, there’s still the sky.

At this moment, a giant ship is docked here.

It doesn’t look very big, just a few thousand kilometers in circumference and a few hundred kilometers high, with one thousand eight hundred Three Calamities Long Sails standing tall, seemingly filling the heavens and earth.

This is currently the only Spirit-Catching Ship in the Frost Domain, an immortal artifact, used to chase the Twenty-four Solar Terms.

The chief of the Spirit-Catching Ship, also a Third-Grade Elder of the Hidden Origin Association, is the Frost Monarch’s own younger sister, apparently named Shuang Liuyun, currently possessing the strength of Taiyi Seventh Tier.

The entire Frost Domain primarily belongs to the Frost Monarch family, at least two-thirds of it, while the remaining one-third is held by the Hidden Origin Association.

However, the Frost Monarch family is quite low-key. They didn’t appear in the previous Lu Tong incident.

And the important sectors of the Frost Domain are always firmly held by the Frost Monarch family.

Such as the enterprises in Outer Heaven, and this Spirit-Catching Ship.

Wang Wu, the Lord of the Frost Realm, finds it quite awkward to think about it now.

Lu Tong, Zhuang Bufei, and Feng Muhai all strongly recommended Wang Wu to join the Frost Domain’s Spirit-Catching Ship. From their travel notes, it is known that the four of them served at least five thousand years on the Spirit-Catching Ship, with Feng Muhai serving twelve thousand years, accumulating numerous merits before being noticed and taken as a disciple by the Frost Monarch.

Now, after five centuries, this Spirit-Catching Ship has chased a full circle of the Twenty-four Solar Terms and returned to Cyan Frost City. Some members of the Spirit Capture Team with sufficient merit accumulation can exchange it for positions related to the Frost Domain’s management and even become registered disciples of the Frost Monarch.

It’s worth mentioning that the Frost Monarch has a total of twenty-four core disciples, while the number of registered disciples exceeds one hundred.

Some registered disciples are not even recognized by the Frost Monarch herself.

This is managed by her family.

At this moment, Wang Wu stands among a group, with the leading three being Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhai, and Qu Shenglian, followed by five Taiyi, fifteen Earth Immortals preparing to board the Spirit-Catching Ship, among whom he is one.

Using a new identity, personally arranged by Zhuang Bufei for him.

Such hospitality that Wang Wu could only accept.

"Awo!"

With a chorus of dragon roars, twenty-four giant dragons flew out from the Spirit-Catching Ship, wrapped in massive chains like anchors, landing on the Dragon-locking Pillars on the city walls of Cyan Frost City, quickly coiling around them.

Information about these twenty-four dragons is also recorded in the travel notes of Lu Tong and the three others.

They are all lower-class dragons from the Cyan Dragon Race, or Sinful Dragons who committed great crimes. These Sinful Dragons are thus traded out or sold off.

This is the norm in the Cultivation Realm.

Just like how heretics are more despised than pagans.

Like the luminous stars among life, documenting such matters...

In short, these twenty-four dragons are one of the core configurations of the Spirit-Catching Ship.

At this moment, with these twenty-four giant dragons stabilizing the chains, the enormous Spirit-Catching Ship finally withdrew the Three Calamities Long Sails and slowly descended.

As it approached, an astonishing pressure surged forth, akin to the experience of a mortal witnessing a massive star hurtling down at high speed, extremely shocking and terrifying.

Among Wang Wu’s group, only Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhai, and Qu Shenglian remained unfazed by this pressure.

Even Wang Wu had to take several steps back uncontrollably.

He had to desperately circulate the First Sequence and Third Sequence, with secretive support from the Second Sequence, to stabilize himself.

Meanwhile, the fourteen other Earth Immortals were not only thrown dozens of feet away but even struggled to get up, reduced to crawling like insects without the slightest ability to resist.

Among the five Taiyi, most of them could maintain a state similar to Wang Wu’s, and two even seemed to perform slightly better.

At this moment, the Spirit-Catching Ship was already being drawn to the top of Cyan Frost City, less than a hundred feet away.

This Spirit-Catching Ship itself seemed to have an extremely powerful floating force, requiring twenty-four giant dragons to pull the chains taut, with their veins bulging and even drawing blood, barely countering this floating force, otherwise it could fly away at any moment.

"Why don’t I see Lu Tong?"

A voice lightly drifted down from above; Wang Wu did not look up, but in his mind, he envisioned a woman in purple who bore a seven-point resemblance to the Frost Monarch.

"Replying to Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun, Lu Tong has committed a grave crime and has been captured and sent to the Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower, where he has been severely punished."

"Dead? How unfortunate, my poor sister, finally took in a promising disciple, only for him to meet such an early demise. I heard from afar that she had been promoted to Second-Grade Elder and joined the Hidden Origin Elder Council; I was quite happy for her, but then—sigh, where is my sister now?"

"Replying to Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun, our master is in seclusion recuperating, but we do not know the exact location."

"You don’t know? Then forget it, I had planned to catch up. Bailu, Xia Zhi."

"Disciple is here!"

"Why haven’t you met your two senior brothers and one senior sister?"

"Yes!"

At this moment, a man and woman, both Taiyi, emerged from behind Frost Red Leaf, jumped down from the Spirit-Catching Ship, and greeted Zhuang Bufei and the others.

But Zhuang Bufei and the others wore strange expressions; more disciples, but they couldn’t decide these matters and had no control over it. With so many disciples under their master, two more hardly mattered.

"You three needn’t look so, these are not disciples chosen for your master, but two new direct disciples I’ve taken. Their potential and talent, and their Realm attainments, are close to those of Lu Tong back then. No matter, telling you is of no use, I had intended to show off to my sister."

"By the way, is this all the Frost Domain has fostered in the past five hundred years? Really treating my Spirit-Catching Ship as nothing; take all those fourteen away, and bring those six up."

Zhuang Bufei quickly said, "Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun, this is inappropriate. The outposts of the Frost Domain have already vanished outside; to train these Earth Immortals, only your Spirit-Catching Ship can do so. For the future of the Frost Domain, please have mercy on them this time, Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun."

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

"Disciple doesn’t dare!"

"Don’t dare yet speak out of turn; there are reasons I won’t take them. Now, this round of the Twenty-four Solar Terms tracking contest has three more competitors, making the competition fiercer and more dangerous. With their meager strength, they would only be sent to their deaths. Or, you three can each pick two to join my Spirit-Catching Ship, and I might consider it."

"Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun jests, we obey our master’s orders to guard the Frost Domain and dare not leave without permission."

"Isn’t there a Wang Wu, appointed by my sister as Lord of the Frost Realm? Why doesn’t he come to see me?"

"Replying to Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun, Lord Wang was seriously injured earlier and is also in seclusion to heal."

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

"Wait, Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun, according to the rules, every five hundred years, the Frost Domain has to supply the Spirit-Catching Ship with Taiyi True Immortals and Earth Immortals, but every fifteen hundred years, a Taiyi True Immortal who has served five thousand years on the Spirit-Catching Ship must return to the Frost Domain. The time has come, Junior Martial Uncle Liuyun, see—"

"See what? Those people don’t want to leave, what can I do about it? If you have what it takes, let my sister come to take them!"

"Go!"

As they spoke, Shuang Liuyun somehow produced a whip charged with Yang Thunder, swinging it in the air. A burst of thunder rumbled, and the twenty-four giant dragons released the Dragon Coiling Pillar and flew back to the Spirit-Catching Ship. Almost simultaneously, the Spirit-Catching Ship also soared into the sky, its speed astounding.

Wang Wu stood on this Spirit-Catching Ship, feeling that in just a few moments, it had already ascended tens of thousands of miles. The propulsion was very strong, and it seemed this was not the ship’s full power.

It continued to ascend until it pulled up to nearly a million miles all at once, then it leveled out and slowed down. Looking outside, Wang Wu found it quite interesting; standing on Cyan Frost City’s vantage point, they indeed ascended nearly a million miles. Logically, they should be in high altitude now.

But in reality, looking outside, this Spirit-Catching Ship was flying close to the ground.

He could see mountains, forests, rivers, lakes, and various life forms outside.

This land should form a 35-degree angle with Cyan Frost City, but there was no sign of falling water or stones.

This was basically a feature of the Multi-Realm Cultivation Realm; there was no way to travel through it in one go, and it was hard to record with conventional methods.

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

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

Wang Wu glanced at this Xia Zhi, pondering the wonders of life.

Indeed, this was an old acquaintance, Xu Taiping.

Since their last parting, in less than three hundred years, after receiving the Foundation Establishment Array from Wang Wu, Xu Taiping’s cultivation progress was astonishing, and now he was at Taiyi First Tier. Of course, it may also have been due to joining Shuang Liuyun’s tutelage, contributing to his advancement.

But undoubtedly, it was his qualifications and potential that caught Shuang Liuyun’s attention.

And he was even given a new name, Xia Zhi.

Bailu and Xia Zhi clearly indicated an intent to recruit twenty-four disciples.