260: Chapter 260 Gray Fog

On this day, Lin Qing and Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao were drinking again.

Although he looked quite relaxed, his Divine Thought was unfurled at all times; after all, there was too little public information about this sea area, and he could not afford to be truly careless.

Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao was drunk to the limit once again, her face flushed red and her eyes hazy.

"Come on, let's keep drinking!"

This time, however, Lin Qing did not briskly raise his wine jar. His brows furrowed slightly as he sensed a wall in the distance whose height and expanse were unknown, blocking his Divine Thought.

Lin Qing directly sent a voice transmission to everyone.

"There's a situation!"

Xiaobai instantly came to an abrupt stop in mid-air, while the three individuals, including Grandmaster, who were studying a Cultivation Technique quickly fell silent and went on guard, and Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao also immediately circulated her spiritual power to dispel the alcohol Qi within her body.

Lin Qing came to the deck and looked far into the distance, and the others also imitated his actions one after another, gazing into the distance and constantly sizing things up.

Yet Lin Qing's Divine Thought covered too vast a range; the wall he sensed was completely out of their line of sight.

Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao and the others couldn't even reach it with their Divine Thoughts; only Xiaobai had detected something amiss.

Its Divine Thought was only slightly weaker than Lin Qing's. Coupled with the time that had passed from Lin Qing's discovery to his warning and Xiaobai stopping, Xiaobai had flown forward a distance during this interval, thus it too had sensed that wall.

"What should we do?"

Xiaobai asked. Although Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao and the others were still unclear about the situation at the moment, no one spoke up to ask, knowing that this was a special moment and they could not distract Lin Qing.

"Let's move laterally first to see what's going on."

Naturally, everyone had no objections, so Xiaobai began to move laterally. Only at this time did Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao speak up to ask:

"Lin Qing, what's wrong?"

"There is an invisible wall in the distance blocking my Divine Thought."

Lin Qing did not hide it, mainly to see if anyone among Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao and the others knew about this thing.

"The end of the world?"

Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao spoke somewhat uncertainly, and Grandmaster hastily negated her.

"Impossible. The end of the world is very far away; at our speed, it would take at least two or three years of flying to reach it."

This world was not lacking in adventurous people. In order to see if there was another continent on the other side of the sea, quite a few Cultivators had explored outward in the past.

Regrettably, they did not find another continent; what faced them were sturdy world barriers.

"Oh no, Lin Qing!"

Just as Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao and the others were discussing, Xiaobai suddenly let out a cry of alarm. Naturally, Lin Qing also sensed it—that invisible barrier was rapidly approaching them.

"Fall back quickly!"

Xiaobai had long since prepared for a retreat and started moving the moment Lin Qing spoke, yet the speed of that barrier's movement was simply too fast.

"It's too late!"

Xiaobai shouted out loud once more. The moving speed of that barrier not only far exceeded their flight speed, but it was even faster than Lin Qing's teleportation.

Because Lin Qing could only teleport five million miles at a time, and every time he initiated a teleportation there was a wind-up of a few breaths, Lin Qing's speed was limited even with teleportation.

Soon, that barrier appeared within everyone's line of sight. It was a patch of fog, but unlike conventional fog, it wasn't white, but gray.

Furthermore, just by looking at it, everyone felt a sense of dizziness washing over them.

In barely a few breaths' time, everyone was swept into the gray mist, and their Divine Thoughts completely lost their utility.

Fortunately, the gray mist had no special effect on the naked eye; everyone's vision was in the same state as being in ordinary fog.

"Look quickly!"

Hua You pointed in the direction from which the gray mist had struck and said. In reality, everyone's gazes had also been locked onto that side all along.

They saw a piece of land appear not far away, but because their Divine Thoughts were affected, they could not determine whether it was an island or a continent.

This clearly came along with the gray mist, because when they were outside just moments ago, this place was clearly still an ocean.

"Lin Qing, I feel a bit uncomfortable."

Just as Lin Qing was preparing to lead everyone onto the land to take a look, Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao spoke up.

Lin Qing hurriedly looked over. At this moment, Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao was flushed red all over. That wasn't surging Qi and blood; rather, the blood inside her body was seeping outward, and she couldn't even stand steadily, as if she might collapse the next moment.

The Grandmaster at the side hurriedly held her up, placed a hand on her wrist, and prepared to investigate.

Generally, this kind of Divine Thought shielding blocked the outward projection function of Divine Thoughts. Under normal circumstances, Divine Thoughts could circulate within the body; for example, if one placed a hand on someone else's head, they could also execute soul-searching and other Spells driven by Divine Thoughts.

However, just as Grandmaster initiated it, he discovered something was amiss. The flow of Divine Thought within his body was also extremely sluggish, and his skin was beginning to turn red as well.

"Not good, something is wrong with me too."

Zhang Wang and Hua You at the side had cultivation levels similar to his, and they reacted at almost the exact same time.

Lin Qing hurriedly stepped forward and placed his hands on them. His Divine Thought was likewise affected to some extent; although it wasn't serious right now, he could feel the severity continuously deepening.

Right now, Lin Qing hardly had time to think things through carefully. Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao's cultivation was too low; in mere fleeting moments, fine beads of blood had already seeped out from her body.

Having no time to analyze the cause, Lin Qing directly mobilized the Will of Life, pouring it all into Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao's body to keep her alive first.

What Lin Qing didn't expect was that this subconscious action of his proved unexpectedly effective, and Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao's condition visibly improved.

Lin Qing hastily followed suit, infusing the Will of Life into the bodies of Grandmaster and the others. Naturally, he did not ignore Xiaobai either; its cultivation was higher and it hadn't reacted yet, but if he left it unattended, something going wrong would only be a matter of time.

Grand Aunt-Master Qing Yao patted her chest with lingering fear. She had genuinely walked the line of death just now, and the attack had come too fast; if not for Lin Qing stepping in, she wouldn't have survived at all.

"Qing'er, do you know what's going on?"

Grandmaster asked with some worry. Although Lin Qing had temporarily brought the situation under control, after all, this was not a long-term solution. They still needed to find the root cause to truly resolve the problem.

Lin Qing nodded.

"It should be the Death Will, and it's very strong."

Everyone frowned. Knowing where the problem lay, they seemed to have no way to resist. Did they have to rely on Lin Qing to sustain their lives all along? This would drastically affect Lin Qing's mobility.

Projecting the Will of Life outward was something Lin Qing could do, but the Will of Life and the Death Will opposed each other. The range of his Will Domain was heavily affected, to the extent that it couldn't even cover Xiaobai's entire body.

Fortunately, Xiaobai was Level 11, and Level 11 was called the Void-Returning Realm. The body in the Void-Returning Realm possessed the characteristic of voidness, allowing Level 11 existences to utilize this trait to alter their body size.

"Xiaobai, shrink a bit."