Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2559: Chapter 40: Great Wilderness Sect

Along the journey before, seeing so many high-level leaders from various Sects, Sect Leaders, Elders, and the Corpse Dao Young Master, Mo Hua always harbored calculations and would feel the urge to kill.

But at this time, traveling with ordinary boatmen, eating and living together, he felt a purity of goodwill and perceived a simple kind of ”human nature.”

The turmoil in Mo Hua’s heart, in contrast, lessened a lot, and his understanding of the ”common people” became a bit clearer.

”People...”

Mo Hua was slightly stunned, his expression thoughtful.

After that, the sand ship continued to sail, with wind and sand covering the sky.

Mo Hua, in this way, forgot about his Cultivation, forgot about his identity, and worked diligently like an ordinary low-level Body Cultivator. When hungry, he ate, and when tired, he slept.

During the day, leaning on the ship’s edge, he watched the vast expanse of the Sand Sea, and at night, standing on the deck, he gazed into the stormy, dim night, feeling a sense of peace in his heart. The Evil Qi and malice in his Life Chart diminished significantly.

This continued for half a month, and the voyage was relatively smooth.

There were no major disasters, just occasional small troubles.

The most common encountered were sand monsters.

Sand monsters are a collective term for the Monster Beasts that inhabit the Sand Sea.

Cultivators below Feather Transformation cannot fly or travel in the overwhelming Sand Sea without a sand ship, let alone cross it safely.

But these sand monsters are different.

Compared to Cultivators, sand monsters are inherently more adapted to the environment of the Sand Sea and survive and reproduce through generations relying on the protection of the Sand Sea.

The limbs, mouths, feet, feathers, tails, and so on of sand monsters have all specifically mutated to adapt to the Sand Sea.

Mo Hua had seen a sand monster resembling a pangolin, soil-yellow, freely roaming and floating in the Sand Sea.

He also saw a sand bird demon with a brown long beak, similar to a falcon, flapping its wings and gliding through the Sand Sea.

Moreover, there were various other sand monsters with strange scales and claws.

Mo Hua had never seen them before; seeing them with his own eyes now, he couldn’t help but marvel at the infinity of the world and the wonders of creation.

It seems that these sand monsters are the true masters of the Sand Sea.

While humans, are merely uninvited guests in this Sand Sea.

Of course, since these are ”Monster Beasts,” they naturally inherit the fierce nature of Monster Beasts and are extremely unfriendly to Cultivators.

Besides, Cultivators are originally one of their ”food” sources.

Along the way, various shapes and sizes of Second Grade sand monsters lurk in the Sand Sea, suddenly emerging and attacking the sand ships, making it impossible to guard against.

Ordinary Cultivators cannot distinguish them and are caught off guard.

But luckily, these veteran sailors have been living on the Sand Sea for years, skilled from years of navigating the sands. Often, they would forewarn almost with ”foreknowledge” before sand monsters showed up.

Then the sand ship either bypassed them or hunted them with harpoons, everything orderly.

Mo Hua secretly admired this.

His Divine Sense was incredibly strong, naturally aware of the movements of these sand monsters lurking in the Sand Sea, leaving no trace.

Yet these sailors weren’t highly cultivated, nor were their Divine Senses strong. Their ability to recognize the sand monsters integrated with the Sand Sea relied entirely on honed eyesight from years of navigating the harsh winds and sands and instincts developed over time.

Mo Hua felt a sense of amazement.

Indeed, anyone able to make a living in the Cultivation World on their own, regardless of their Realm or Cultivation, has a remarkable skill.

At times, those of noble backgrounds indeed have great talents.

But even among the obscure, there are no shortage of capable individuals.

The more he traveled and the more people he met, the stronger this feeling grew in Mo Hua.

Besides sand monsters, occasionally there were also some shipwrecks and wind-eroded reefs in the Sand Sea.

If struck unintentionally, it would damage the ship.

Therefore, these wind and sand ”reefs” require extra caution.

Lastly, there are the sand pirates.

Sand pirates, roughly equivalent to mountain bandits, are bandit cultivators living off robbery, riding rafts like hyenas and vermin scurrying around the Sand Sea. When they see a vulnerable fleet, they launch attacks, killing and looting.

Sand pirates are also those ruthless desperados.

Furthermore, sand pirates are even fiercer than mountain bandits.

Mountain bandits, when defeated, can retreat into the mountains.

But if sand pirates are defeated, falling into the Sand Sea is deadly, so once they make a move, they must fight to the death.

Along Mo Hua’s journey, he also saw some sand pirates.

But these sand pirates were only small groups, few in number, watching from afar, not daring to attack their fleet, and soon dispersed.

These risks were for the experienced sailors to handle.

Mo Hua, when available, would delve into researching the structure of the sand ship.

The sand ship sails through the Sand Sea, grinding over sand, moving forward like a ship slicing through waves on the water.

However, the sand ship is not like an ordinary ”ship.”

An ordinary ship will float on water even without doing anything.

However, a sand ship must use the bones of sand monsters as its keel and their hides as sails to navigate in the Sand Sea without sinking.

Mo Hua previously thought it was like this.

The late Manager Wang from Little Post City also told him this.

But after actually boarding the sand ship and observing its operation, Mo Hua realized that the bones and hides of sand monsters could only allow the sand ship to temporarily float and resist erosion by the wind and sand.

The most crucial element was still the Formation.

This is a very special Formation.

Without this special Formation, the sand ship wouldn’t be able to float long-term on the Sand Sea, nor could it travel across it.

Outsiders don’t understand the internal structure of sand ships, so they assume that the bones and hides of Monster Beasts form the core of the sand ship’s navigation.