"It's daytime here?" As Lu Yang stepped into the immortal war ruins, a sudden flash of white filled his vision. It was a dense, hazy white mist, as though darkness could not come anywhere near this place.
"Completely normal. Don't let what you saw from the outside fool you. This place is actually a small world isolated from the outside, far larger than the patch of thick mist you saw out there."
"Tsk, that fight was certainly fierce. Not a single thing was left behind." Immortal Fairy sounded somewhat dissatisfied. The battle between Immortal Kirin and his opponent had been so violent that everything around them had been reduced to dust and nothingness. Now it was impossible to tell where they had originally been or what had started the fight.
"Wait, no, there's something over there. Head deeper in," Immortal Fairy directed, and Lu Yang obediently made his way further inside.
The deepest part was where the clash had been fiercest, crisscrossed with traces of Dao fruits. Even Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators would not dare approach or look directly at this area.
"To the right. Yes, right here."
Following Immortal Fairy's guidance, Lu Yang crouched down and picked up a jade bracelet from the ground.
The jade was as smooth and fine as congealed fat, lustrous and translucent like a bright, pristine moon, carved with a lifelike dragon.
"This is the dragon-pattern bracelet! It's Xiao Ling's!" Immortal Fairy exclaimed in surprise.
"Back then, Immortal Kirin asked Immortal Ying Tian to forge two immortal artifacts. One was the jade flute Lianyi often played, and the other was the dragon-pattern bracelet Xiao Ling wore on her wrist."
Only because it was an immortal artifact had it survived the battle.
"Why would Xiao Ling's possession be here? It was her favorite item, something she only took off when she slept... From the looks of it, Immortal Kirin's techniques were primarily defensive. Could it be that an immortal from the Xinhuo Dynasty wanted to obliterate Xiao Ling, and Immortal Kirin fought him over it?"
Immortal Fairy murmured. Put that way, everything made sense.
Although Ao Ling was the strongest half-immortal, she was still no match for a true immortal. If an immortal from the Xinhuo Dynasty sought to obliterate her, she would have found it difficult to resist.
Immortal Kirin had arrived just in time to wage a colossal battle against the foe, destroying everything in the process.
During the clash, Xiao Ling's dragon-pattern bracelet had been left behind.
"Fairy, since Senior Ao Ling is also a half-immortal, she would have needed to use the Art of Playing Dead to endure the passage of vast ages in order to see you, right?"
"Right."
"Then could this place be where Senior Ao Ling was slumbering?"
Immortal Fairy gave a start. "That's it! It wasn't that Xiao Ling was no match for him—the enemy tried to kill Xiao Ling while she was asleep!"
Lu Yang suddenly recalled something Daoist Lord Wanfa had mentioned: a close friend of his had learned of the Xinhuo Dynasty's existence and was slain by an immortal while in deep slumber!
How uncanny the resemblance between their methods!
Lu Yang asked gingerly, "Fairy, do you think Senior Ao Ling could have..."
Immortal Fairy shook her head and declared with certainty, "Impossible. The dragon-pattern bracelet can ward off attacks from an immortal. Even if Xiao Ling took it off, should she come under an immortal's assault, the bracelet would still automatically protect its master.
"Even though the bracelet's energy is completely exhausted, it hasn't shattered. That proves that although Xiao Ling encountered danger, the bracelet blocked it all. Immortal Kirin must have moved her somewhere else.
"Normally, I could track Xiao Ling's location through the dragon-pattern bracelet, but Immortal Kirin severed its connection to her. The severance was remarkably clean, not forced through brute strength. Only Immortal Kirin and Immortal Ying Tian, who forged the bracelet, could accomplish that—and there are no traces of Immortal Ying Tian fighting here, which means Immortal Kirin was the only one battling at this spot.
"This shows Immortal Kirin didn't want anyone to locate Xiao Ling through the bracelet."
Chapter 840