I knew how to read the room too!
"The Xianzhou's full name is the Xianzhou Alliance. It has six flagship vessels drifting through the endless sea of stars, like unreturning divine arrows fired at the Hunt Lord's mortal enemy, the Aeon of Abundance... That's how the book describes it."
"According to the records in the Scroll of the Gods: The Executor, the Xianzhou fleet originally consisted of nine vessels. Now, only six remain: the Luofu, Xuling, Yaoqing, Zhuming, Fanghu, and Yuque."
"Legend has it that there was once an emperor on some planet who unified the world. In pursuit of immortality, he sent out these Xianzhou vessels to seek an elixir of eternal life."
"And what happened?" March 7th pressed.
"They found it, naturally. But it was not the kind of immortality they had imagined. The Aeon of Abundance granted the Xianzhou immortality, but also brought them a calamity known as mara-struck. This immortality was not a blessing, but a seed of disaster. As they aged, the immortal would inevitably fall into inescapable suffering. Thus, on the Xianzhou, the Aeon of Abundance is also called the Calamity Ancestor." Dan Heng spoke calmly.
"Even so, countless Outworlders from beyond still travel to the Xianzhou in search of a chance at immortality. And the Xianzhou has never welcomed such people."
"Why would immortality be a disaster?" March 7th did not quite understand, so she turned to Chen Luo.
"Don't ask me everything. Dan Heng understands the Xianzhou better than I do. But if I have to put it simply, immortality itself isn't a disaster, but Xianzhou immortality comes at a price. The immortality gained through Abundance naturally comes with an illness called mara-struck. Once you get it, you turn into a mara-struck creature lacking intelligence... like the zombies you fought in the