Who Let Him Cultivate?!

Spreading rumors was a matter that could not be traced to the main culprit for the time being, so Yingtian Immortal set it aside for now, preparing to reveal what Fairy Eternity did not know.

"Startling Swan, step outside for a moment, if you were to hear what I'm about to discuss, it could put your life at risk," Yingtian Immortal warned.

"Yes, Master," Startling Swan was very obedient and left the Ancient Ring's small world.

"And Lu Yang, young friend, you should also leave..."

"You mean the matter of another me? Lu Yang already knows about it," Fairy Eternity felt there was no need for Lu Yang to leave.

Yingtian Immortal suddenly realized, "That's right, you should be aware, or else you wouldn't have been attacked twice by the Silent Extermination Immortal."

"Since you've already come into contact with Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi, and Lu Yang, young friend, is in the initial stage of Spirit Transformation, I presume you have already undergone the Thunder Tribulation and seen the Immortal Sense I left behind.

I assume you both already know what happened from the time you, Fairy Eternity, fell, until the establishment of the Fire Dynasty," Yingtian Immortal said.

"There is no need to discuss that part of the story then; let's start from the end of the Fire Dynasty period," he proposed.

"When we thought we had successfully resurrected you, we realized that the one brought back to life was not all of you but the version of you from the time when you had the outline of the Annihilation Dao Fruit.

Nevertheless, resurrection in any form was a good thing, so we didn't ponder on it too much and even shared many post-ascension matters with that version of you," Yingtian Immortal recounted.

"That version of you, just like the real you, was extraordinarily talented with remarkable cultivation speed. She soon passed the Immortal Ascension Tribulation and achieved the Annihilation Dao Fruit, choosing the title 'Silent Extermination Immortal' for herself," he continued.

"Our resurrection of you was also driven by a desire to use your power to overcome the hidden mastermind behind the scenes," Yingtian Immortal admitted.

"After clashing with the hidden mastermind, we discovered they were incredibly powerful, their combat strength not the slightest bit inferior to yours, almost as if they had reached the pinnacle of the 'Immortal' realm," he explained.

"According to my conjecture, that hidden mastermind's Dao Fruit is likely the Causality Dao Fruit, which is extremely troublesome," Yingtian Immortal theorized.

"It was this very idea of defeating the hidden mastermind that led the situation to become uncontrollable," he declared.

"The Silent Extermination Immortal believed that to defeat the hidden mastermind, one must reach the level beyond an Immortal, which is 'Transcendence'," he revealed.

Lu Yang remembered Fairy Eternity mentioning realms above that of an Immortal—these theoretical realms of "Transcendence" and "Omniscience" that no one had ever reached.

"To achieve Transcendence, one must sever all ties of causality; everyone who is aware of her existence would create causality with her," Yingtian Immortal disclosed.

Lu Yang nodded; Fairy Eternity had discussed similar content with him when he met the second Great Yu National Preceptor.

"Therefore, for the Silent Extermination Immortal to achieve Transcendence, she needed to kill everyone who knew of her existence, including everyone from the Fire Dynasty and us, the Four Immortals," Yingtian Immortal revealed the grim conclusion.

"At the onset of the battle, as the Silent Extermination Immortal had only recently ascended and her combat strength was not yet remarkable, but as she killed more and more people, her strength soared uncontrollably," he recalled.

"If the four of us, along with the Left Historian Immortal who, though not much of a fighter, was still an Immortal, joined forces, the Five Immortals together would have been enough to suppress the Silent Extermination Immortal," Yingtian Immortal claimed.

"You must have heard from my Immortal Sense that it was around that time when the Time Immortal was assassinated, and the only one capable of that was the hidden mastermind," Yingtian Immortal mentioned.

Lu Yang nodded; only a being like the hidden mastermind could assassinate the Time Immortal.

"I heard from the Immortal Sense of Yingtian Immortal that after the fall of Time Immortal, the remaining Four Immortals no longer joined forces against the enemy. Why was that?" Lu Yang asked, sensing an inconsistency in the story.

At that time, Lu Yang had found it quite strange, feeling as if something was missing.

"My Immortal Sense was not aware of the intermediary process, hence there are some inconsistencies in the story," Yingtian Immortal admitted.

"At that time, considering the possibility of the hidden mastermind's sneak attack, we designed an Array Method, the core of which was us, the Four Immortals," he elaborated.

"If any one of us were attacked by outsiders, the other three would be instantly transported to the scene to fight the enemy together."

At this point, Yingtian Immortal's voice grew even more somber, "But when Time Immortal was attacked, the array method did not activate."

"This means that the assailant of Time Immortal was none other than one of us three!"

"With the methods of the secret attackers, it's entirely possible that one of us had already been possessed before Time Immortal met with misfortune!"

Lu Yang and Fairy Eternity were both startled upon hearing this.

"Had we chosen to join forces against Silent Extermination Immortal at that time, we would have inevitably been ambushed by the secret attackers, and none of us would have survived!"

"Therefore, after realizing this issue, the Kirin, Jiuchong, and I no longer trusted each other, and even stopped meeting altogether, each fighting our own battles."

"Meanwhile, Silent Extermination Immortal has been looking for our whereabouts in order to advance to transcendence."

"Perhaps the moment she kills me, the Kirin, Jiuchong, and Ao Ling, and no one knows of her existence, will be when she achieves transcendence."

"Silent Extermination Immortal seems to be able to locate those who know of her existence through causality."

"We then discovered that as long as we hid inside a 'Small World' level space, Silent Extermination Immortal would not be able to find us."

"I remember Ao Ling was hiding inside the Dragon Ball, which has a Small World level space inside. As soon as Ao Ling left the Dragon Ball, Silent Extermination Immortal immediately found him."

The space of Lu Yang's Green Peak Sword is also of Small World level.

Most Small World level spaces are fixed in one place and cannot be moved, which are the top-level secret realms.

Objects like the Ancient Ring, Dragon Ball, and Green Peak Sword are all Immortal Artifacts, extremely rare.

"Hiding in the Small World, not only must the body hide in it, but also the Spiritual Sense must not be projected outside, lest Silent Extermination Immortal detects it."

"After I hid in a certain secret realm, I could only learn about the outside world through cultivators who entered the secret realm. However, secret realms are not always open, and the cultivators' knowledge is not comprehensive."

"So I refined this Ancient Ring that contains a Small World, allowing cultivators who stumbled into the secret realm to take the ring. I guided the cultivators in cultivation, and in return, they had to tell me everything they saw and heard."

"From that cultivator, I learned that a Nascent Soul cultivator had appeared in the outside world, with extraordinary combat power, a Nascent Soul capable of fighting on its own, and a tree tablet on their chest, which sounded very much like a cultivator you, Fairy Eternity, had nurtured."

"Moreover, through the time passage, although I couldn't see the appearance of the cultivator standing beside you, I felt the presence of a Firmament Tree Tablet on his chest."

"I thought you, Fairy Eternity, had been resurrected and went directly there."

"But upon arrival, I discovered that it was a trap set by Silent Extermination Immortal!"

"Silent Extermination Immortal was so powerful at that point that I stood no chance, and after a battle, I fled with severe injuries."

"I was so grievously wounded, however, that the Dao Charm of the Annihilation Dao Fruit wreaked havoc within me. In order to survive, I desperately performed the Corpse Detachment Method."

"The outcome was that while I was still severely injured, I managed to erase the Dao Charm of Annihilation, sparing my life, but the downside was that I lost my physical body. My body gained its own Spiritual Wisdom and sought to devour me."

"I had to run away and hide in the Ancient Ring's Small World to heal, while also searching for a suitable cultivator to continue informing me about the outside world."

"Three hundred thousand years passed, and the Ancient Ring came into the possession of this child, Startling Swan."