Chen Lin awoke to find himself still aboard a ship.
This gave him a terrible shock. He had clearly escaped into the Gale Wind Layer earlier, so how had he returned to the ship after suddenly losing consciousness?
Had he been hallucinating?
Startled and suspicious, he immediately examined his surroundings and soon noticed something wrong.
He was still aboard a ship, but it was not the original Sea-Crossing Ship. Instead, it was a great vessel as black as ink!
"What's going on? How did we get here? What happened?"
Zhao Mengru slowly awoke, immediately noticed something was wrong, and grabbed Chen Lin in a panic to question him.
Before Chen Lin could answer, the other Foundation Establishment cultivators also woke up.
Only then did he discover that, aside from the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had escaped into the Gale Wind Layer, quite a few Qi Condensation cultivators were also aboard. Moreover, this ship had no upper or lower decks, only a single, empty deck.
There was also a Giant Black Drum at the bow. The earlier drumbeats must have come from it.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, have you discovered anything?" Zhao Hetang approached Chen Lin and asked.
Zuo Zhiling, Liang Shuozhen, and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators also gathered around, looking at him expectantly.
Since Chen Lin had been the first to awaken, everyone had seen him examining their surroundings when they woke up and assumed he had never lost consciousness.
Chen Lin gave a bitter laugh. "I woke up only a little earlier than you did. I was here when I opened my eyes. But this ship is very strange. Not only is it sailing without anyone controlling it, look at the sea outside!"
Everyone looked over at his words and immediately discovered that the seawater within nearly a thousand