Chen Lin stood at the stern, but his eyes remained fixed on the statue at the bow.
He was not alone. All fifty or so people aboard were looking at it.
The statue, with its human head and snake body, had come to life. Waves of invisible energy radiated from it, propelling the ship forward.
The ship picked up speed, and the figure's hair began streaming in the wind. In this dim, unfamiliar environment, it created an intense sense of oppression.
"Where are you taking us?"
At last, someone could no longer hold back and asked aloud.
But there was no response.
The awakened statue kept its eyes on the way ahead. Aside from saying a single sentence when the ship set off, it had made no other move.
It had spoken in the Ancient Cultivator Language, and the cultivator questioning it had used the same language. It could certainly understand; it simply refused to respond.
Other cultivators tried asking in several different languages, all to no avail.
Among these fifty-odd cultivators, there was no shortage of high-level experts, including several in the void refinement realm. But this was, after all, the interior of the Immortal Palace, and under such bizarre circumstances, no one dared act rashly.
Chen Lin was no different. He watched the statue's movements while studying the cultivators aboard.
His gaze casually swept over three figures standing to one side.
By coincidence, those three were Dong Yunqiu and her companions!
They had clearly been ahead of him, yet they had boarded this ship after him, just before it set sail.
This made Chen Lin suspect that the Black Light Gate he had taken was not the only route onto the ship. Other passages might also lead here.
After some thought, he looked at a nearby Nascent Soul