The eerie scene in the ship's cabin left the people of the Five Sects bewildered and suspicious.
Several breaths passed, yet the Earth Immortals still hadn't recovered. Among the younger disciples under their command, one really did have a thought flash through his mind. He spoke up: "Could this bizarre scene be the Dao calamity described in the books?"
The others heard him and quickly racked their brains, trying to figure out what exactly a "Dao calamity" was.
Fang Shu's gaze shifted slightly. He had read about it in books.
They said that in the Outer World, strange phenomena that could not be explained by Daoist arts occasionally appeared. No one could fathom them while they were happening, and once they ended, they left everyone utterly baffled.
Their effects could be as great as changing the heavens and reshaping the earth, or making rivers flow backward and snow fall in summer.
Fang Shu silently pondered, A Dao calamity like this does bear some resemblance to the scene when the Five Sects' leaders perished...
Before he could think much further, Cloud Guest the Earth Immortal spoke in a low voice: "No! It couldn't be a Dao calamity. For one thing, this would be far too much of a coincidence to happen aboard this ship.
"Even if it had happened, the ship would at most have wandered through the sky, becoming a ghost ship like a roaming spirit. It wouldn't have gone from one of our Five Sects of Mount Lu to the next, picking people up."
The others nodded at his words.
Jin Yan the Earth Immortal and the others agreed. "Brother Cloud Guest is right. It couldn't be such a coincidence."
"If it wasn't a coincidence, then was it deliberate?"
Jade Face the Earth Immortal narrowed her eyes as she