It was a massive black ship, pitch-black like ink, its appearance quite peculiar, resembling a skull.
Yet when Ye Chen gazed at it from afar and truly saw it clearly, he couldn't help but change his expression drastically.
Because this so-called black ship was, more accurately, a gigantic skull, black to an utterly pure degree, not reflecting the slightest hint of light.
It was unknown what creature's skull it was, so enormous that it appeared to be at least a thousand zhang in size, perhaps even larger, emanating billowing black mist that blotted out the sky and sun.
Visible to the naked eye, the dense thunderbolts, wind blades, and yin baleful energies of the Chaotic Sea all silently dissipated and vanished upon nearing the area of the black mist, as if devoured, disappearing without a trace, ceasing to exist.
"It's it, it has appeared again..."
Among the three powerful living beings in this sea area that had encountered and battled Ye Chen, the one with blood-red eyes brimming with infinite slaughter suddenly flashed with a glimmer of intelligence, crying out in terror as if it had encountered the most fearsome thing imaginable, filled with boundless dread.
Ye Chen was startled. The living beings of the Chaotic Sea possessed no true sentience, retaining only bestial instincts and slaughter. Yet upon encountering this mysterious black ship, they actually uttered such words.
Clearly, this giant ship was absolutely extraordinary.
"What is it?" Acting decisively, Ye Chen transmitted his voice via voice transmission, urgently inquiring of the few living beings before him that had regained a sliver of their wits.
The slaughter in the blood-red eyes of the few living beings vanished, replaced by endless confusion. They shook their heads, speaking intermittently: "Don't know... seems like... a ship... that slays... immortals..."
A ship that slays immortals!?
Ye Chen was greatly shocked. Regardless of anything else, merely involving the word "immortal" indicated this ship was absolutely extraordinary.
Because tales of immortals originated from the mysterious and ethereal Primordial Immortal Realm. A ship that slays immortals—didn't that mean this pitch-black skull-formed giant ship before him could slaughter immortals?
Just thinking about such information was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
But immortals were rumored to exist on the same level as mythical Emperors and Sovereigns. Even the Slaying Immortal Great Emperor had created the eternally forbidden divine ability, the Eight Slaying Immortal Forms, for the purpose of slaying immortals. How could it be simple or ordinary?
Everything was filled with endless mysteries, straining one's mind.
Woo-woo—
The massive black-bone giant ship rode the waves, bringing with it billowing black mist that dyed the entire sky and earth into darkness. All chaotic phenomena were erased, ceasing to exist, leaving only endless blackness.
The few living beings of the Chaotic Sea trembled with terror from the depths of their souls, utterly devoid of their previous bloodlust. Their first instinct was to flee, putting as much distance as possible between themselves and this place, with no intention of lingering for even a moment.
Ye Chen, skilled and bold, and besides, this was only a Dao body with his true body already prepared to flee, was intensely curious about what this black-bone giant ship truly was and whether it was truly related to "immortals." He immediately activated his Eyes of the Heavens to look over.
Suddenly, Ye Chen's expression filled with disbelief and horror, for he saw a scene that shook the world.
That so-called black curtain was not simply utter darkness. More accurately, it was a vast, boundless, and immense world—a dark world.
There was no shining sun, moon, or stars, no light, only an endless expanse of black earth, like a vast, boundless underworld.
The black earth was unimaginably vast. Even with Ye Chen's Eyes of the Heavens straining to see into the distance, he vaguely glimpsed a heart-shaking scene: in the starry sky of that world, only scattered stars dotted the expanse. The vast majority had been shattered in the void, leaving only massive remnants of stellar wreckage, devoid of their original radiance.
Upon the vast black earth, countless intersecting chasms and abysses stretched for who knew how many li. Numerous stars had fallen upon the earth, embedded within it.
There were also the ruins of shattered ancient cities, among them grand Divine Cities no less magnificent than the Dark Night Ancient City or Tian Sheng City, all collapsed and desolate, devoid of all life.
Even more, countless corpses lay strewn about. Some had long decayed, leaving only stark white bones. Others remained undecayed through the ages, still visible in their state from the moment they fell.
Some were small, while others were larger than stars.
What shocked Ye Chen most was that he actually saw the corpse of a True Dragon, truly immense beyond measure—stars were no larger than its scales. It lay upon the black earth, stretching for who knew how many tens of thousands of li, a True Dragon that had truly grown to maturity.
But it had long since perished completely, its life force extinguished. Vaguely, one could still sense the endless dragon's majesty that once shook the myriad realms, capable of shattering the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, subduing all living beings.
However, the dragon corpse had clearly experienced some kind of great battle, nearly severed into several sections, covered in wounds with exposed white bones, bearing the most severe lethal injuries. Even its blood had turned pitch black.
Vaguely, one could envision the True Dragon in battle, confronting a supreme existence, ultimately perishing, its Dao extinguished.
What kind of place was this? Why were there such terrifying scenes? Even a True Dragon had fallen in battle here, with endless corpses strewn about, star rivers shattered, and the world devoid of light. Ye Chen was both deeply shocked and puzzled, but the astonishment in his heart never ceased.
The black-bone giant ship emitted a loud woo-woo sound, continuously advancing. Now Ye Chen finally understood: this ship was far larger than imagined—astonishingly, inconceivably huge.
Because this ship was not actually within the Chaotic Sea at all, but rather in another desolate, devastated world, piloting that world as it sailed through the Chaotic Sea.
The ship before his eyes, the dark world before him, was merely a corner of that world revealed. Ye Chen even saw that around the giant ship, massive stars orbited, appearing dim and lightless, which was why he hadn't been able to see them clearly earlier.
What kind of giant ship was this, to be so magnificent, majestic, and enormous?
Suddenly, Ye Chen saw the other side of the ship's hull. Surprisingly, there was a vivid crimson glow shimmering upon it—blood, staining the ship's body, still appearing as bright red as rosy clouds, as if freshly splashed, radiating surging blood light.
Every drop of blood seemed like a vast sea of blood, emanating world-shaking, majestic fluctuations of blood energy, and one could seemingly sense a pure aura transcendent above all else.
That was the aura of an immortal.
This was the blood of an immortal.
Two massive blood-red characters were inscribed upon the black-bone giant ship—
Slay Immortals!
So heart-shaking, so startling and eye-catching.
"It is the Ship That Slays Immortals, an invincible ancient ship that has truly slaughtered immortals." Suddenly, a voice sounded by his ear. Ye Chen started, turning to see a long-unseen, familiar figure appear.
Old Yan!