Immortal Suiyue looked very young, roughly the same age as Lu Yang. Among the Five Ancient Celestials, the Immortal Fairy ranked first in vitality, and Immortal Suiyue ranked second.
His innate origins far surpassed those of other immortals.
Arriving at the immortal realm, Immortal Suiyue saw the crisscrossed gomoku stones scattered across the board, and the corner of his eye twitched. He dearly wished he could flip the board over.
*You three really are something—leaving me alone to suffer while you sneak off here to take it easy.*
Then he detected the anomaly in the immortal realm. In particular, sensing the aura of the Immortal Fairy coming from the future, he sucked in a cold breath, filled with lingering fear.
"It's a good thing I didn't bring ███ along. Immortals of the past and future gazing upon each other across countless ages—nothing like this has ever happened in history. Especially for ███, who controls ████, the moment they met, a grand annihilation would likely occur, overthrowing both past and future!"
Immortal Suiyue wasn't entirely certain what would happen if two Immortal Fairies met; what he described was merely a high-probability event. There was also a chance that nothing would happen at all, and the two would chat and laugh merrily.
But who would dare gamble on such a possibility?
A resonant grand annihilation—if they lost that gamble, everyone would be finished.
Immortal Suiyue bit his fingertip. As golden blood flowed from the tip of his finger, he closed his eyes and used the immortal blood to paint a celestial eye between his brows.
The third eye opened. The golden celestial eye had a vacant gaze, looking like it was blind. In truth, this was because the gaze of this third eye was cast not upon the present, but upon the future.
Vaguely, he could see an elegant silhouette standing in this immortal realm in an unimaginably distant future, yet he couldn't even make out her appearance clearly.
"There's severe interference!"
"Hm? Who is this?"
He sensed someone standing next to the Immortal Fairy, but this person was far too weak, not qualified to appear before him across space-time.
He could sense a small piece of Jianmu hanging over the chest of the person standing beside her—a part of his own body.
*Did the future me trust him so much that I gave him a piece of Jianmu as a token?*
*Or was the future me sealed, and I sent this little cultivator to find the Immortal Fairy?*
Immortal Suiyue frowned, speculating silently without voicing his thoughts.
"How did it go? What did ███ say?" Immortal Jiuchong asked hurriedly.
Immortal Suiyue shook his head. "No good. The Spatiotemporal Celestial Eye alone isn't enough."
The Spatiotemporal Celestial Eye was a celestial eye he had refined using his Suiyue Dao fruit to observe the past, present, and future. It had always proved invincible, yet to his surprise, it failed this time.
"Is the distance too great, or is something interfering in between?"
Immortal Suiyue didn't hesitate for long and summoned his Suiyue Dao fruit.
The Suiyue Dao fruit, interwoven with endless spatiotemporal laws, manifested. It bobbed up and down as if drifting upon an ocean of time, stirring up ripples of time.
"Don't look."
Just before the Suiyue Dao fruit revealed itself, the Immortal Fairy covered Lu Yang's eyes.
The Suiyue Dao fruit was the ultimate form of spatiotemporal laws. Never mind Lu Yang being merely at the Golden Core stage—even someone at the Tribulation Transcendence stage would suffer mental breakdown and confusion after a single glance, reduced to a muddled, stuporous state under the influence of the Suiyue Dao fruit.
The Suiyue Dao fruit contained far too much. Cultivators could not absorb such a massive deluge of information; under an informational scouring of this magnitude, one's spiritual platform would collapse.
With the help of the Dao fruit, Immortal Suiyue finally saw the Immortal Fairy's face clearly. Immortal Ying Tian and the other two also saw the Immortal Fairy through the temporal channel that had been established.
Before Immortal Suiyue even had time to rejoice, cold sweat broke out on his brow, and he shouted loudly, "Not good, the spatiotemporal channel can't hold out much longer!"
Among everyone present, he felt it the most keenly. Some presence had severed the temporal channel between him and the Immortal Fairy—no, more accurately, something had cut off all connection between the era he existed in and the future!
What was it?!
"███, what are you trying to say?!"
The Immortal Fairy realized something was wrong as well and said in haste, "I was assassinated..."
*Boom—*
The channel shattered. Under the influence of an inexplicable power, the spatiotemporal channel broke apart, and the connection between both sides was cut.
Immortal Suiyue stumbled back two paces and was supported by Immortal Ying Tian and Immortal Kirin.
"Are you all right?"
Immortal Suiyue shook his head. Steadying his breath, he circulated his Suiyue Dao fruit, restoring himself to peak condition in the blink of an eye. "Nothing major."
Besides, now was hardly the time to worry about his physical state.
He glanced around and said coldly, "You all heard clearly what Immortal just said, didn't you?"
"Assassinated... Are you kidding me? That's impossible!" Immortal Kirin crushed a chess stone, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Among the five of us, Immortal is the hardest to kill. Any random person reciting her name can resurrect her. Who could possibly have the means to kill her?"
Yet the fact was laid bare right before them; they had to believe it whether they wanted to or not. Though Immortal enjoyed playing around, she would never joke about something like this.
They had considered that the Immortal Fairy might have run into trouble in the future and needed their help, but at most they assumed she had been sealed and needed them to break the seal.
Never had they imagined that the Immortal Fairy could be murdered.
If resurrection were simple, the Immortal Fairy certainly wouldn't have brought this up. This meant that in the future, not only did the Immortal Fairy fall, but she also could not be resurrected!
"Didn't you hear? It was an assassination. Who knows if there's some method beyond our imagination that can prevent her from resurrecting." Immortal Ying Tian tapped his finger against the table.
"Assassinated, but she didn't name the killer. Does that mean even Immortal didn't know who the culprit was?"
The four wondered: Could it be that the Immortal Fairy knew the culprit was among them and held back from saying it out of fear of leaking the killer's identity here?
They quickly dismissed that possibility. Given their trust in the Immortal Fairy, if she named the killer, there would be no doubt whatsoever. Would the three of them charging together fail to take down a single culprit?
Impossible.
Someone had assassinated the Immortal Fairy, and she didn't even know who the killer was.
"How far away is Immortal from us?" Immortal Ying Tian asked. Once the time was determined, many things could be arranged.
"I can't say for sure. The channel shattered too fast before I could confirm it. But what is certain is that it's at least ten thousand years into the future."
"Why did the spatiotemporal channel shatter?" Immortal Jiuchong frowned. If the channel were still intact, they could have gathered more information. At the very least, knowing the exact timeframe would have been good.
Immortal Suiyue's face was ashen. "There are two reasons. First, space-time possesses a corrective nature. Information from the future cannot be transmitted to the past, as that would cause spatiotemporal chaos. With my Suiyue Dao fruit, that is an issue, but not an insurmountable one; it can be overcome. The key is the second reason."
"Something affected the stability of space-time and severed our connection to the future where Immortal is!"
"What could be stronger than your Suiyue Dao fruit?"
Immortal Suiyue snorted coldly, displeased by Immortal Kirin's remark. "It's not that it's stronger than my Suiyue Dao fruit! It's just that I used my Suiyue Dao fruit to deal with the corrective nature of space-time, so I had no energy left to spare for that thing!"
"What could it be that can also affect space-time?"
"I don't know, but anything capable of clashing head-on with my Suiyue Dao fruit can only be another Dao fruit!"
"There's also one most critical question: why didn't we resurrect Immortal in the future?"
Chapter 552