Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

“Immortal Fairy, do you still remember how to break through to Omniscience?” Lu Yang asked casually. After all, he wasn't an immortal and hadn't considered something that far.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy shook her head. “I don't remember anymore.”

This was all she could recall.

“Alright.” Lu Yang showed little disappointment, but inwardly, colossal waves had surged. Why hadn't I realized that Transcendence and Omniscience are completely different realms? They fundamentally can't coexist!

Someone at Transcendence severs all karma, making the world forget them, as if they had truly vanished from the world. On the other hand, someone at Omniscience knows everything in the world, with every principle and every past event within their grasp, including the existence of the Transcendent person!

Once an Omniscient person appears, they'll know about the Transcendent person. The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had said long ago that “knowing” itself already established karma! In theory, if the Omniscient person establishes karma with the Transcendent person, the latter will fall from the “Transcendence” realm!

No wonder the mastermind wanted to kill the Immortal Fairy. As soon as the Immortal Fairy breaks through to the Omniscience Realm, the unlucky one will be him!

Lu Yang surmised that when the Everlasting Immortal Fairy was at the brink of a breakthrough, she was in a mystic state and unguarded against the mastermind, allowing him to succeed easily.

To sever karma, the mastermind must have paid an enormous price to reach the Transcendence realm. One need only look at Hui Doudou, who destroyed the Ember Legacy Dynasty and erased its one hundred thousand years of history to achieve Transcendence.

Creating a break in history isn't easy. The history predating the ancient era is shrouded in mystery, but is it truly because it was so long ago and there had been no proper means of recording it?

Lu Yang remembered his spell “To Inches” and deduced that primordial forebears might have used it to standardize measurements. Could it be that measurements had already been standardized in the primordial era, but when the mastermind wiped out that generation and covered up their history, that messed up the measurements? And only then did the Five Ancient Immortals standardize measurements again?

The primordial spells passed down are the wrong versions, and that should likely also be the mastermind’s doing. Did Hui Doudou try so hard to achieve Transcendence because she realized this?

Lu Yang shook his head. Hui Doudou has perished. No one can give an answer now.

He had no way of finding out what a Transcendent person was like. Everything was purely theoretical. However, he could glean some clues from Hui Doudou, who had reached Half-Step Transcendence. Immortals possess the oblivion trait, and it was even more pronounced in Hui Doudou’s case. Anyone she encountered wouldn't remember her existence if their cultivation wasn't high enough.

Then what will a real Transcendent person be like? Will their oblivion trait be at its peak, to the point that everyone will forget everything he has done, regardless of their cultivation level? If that's the case, the reason the world had forgotten the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s existence wasn’t the ability of the mastermind’s Dao Fruit—it was an inherent trait of the Transcendence realm itself.

“How laughable. I kept speculating about the mastermind’s Dao Fruit based on that trait.” Lu Yang mocked himself. Karma Dao Fruit? Law Follows Words Dao Fruit? None of it was remotely close to the truth. This ability was never one a Dao Fruit could possess. I had been utterly wrong.

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Transcendence, Omniscience, and Dao Union... these three realms should be parallel. The mastermind’s true power is certainly not what he had displayed in the ancient era when he fought the Four Ancient Immortals to a standstill. He should have completely overwhelmed them instead. He has never once used his full strength!

It’s because the mastermind didn’t want to expose his cultivation realm. If he had, the Four Ancient Immortals might have followed that thread and deduced his origins. That’s why he disguised himself as a “powerful immortal” to prevent them from thinking in that direction.

Forcibly killing the Four Ancient Immortals would have been extremely risky. When they realized they couldn’t defeat the mastermind, they fled. The Epoch Immortal hid in the river of time, the Heaven Mandate Immortal concealed himself in a tribulation, the Nine-Layers Immortal turned into yin-yang energies, and the Qilin Immortal transformed into all things.

Those four wily old foxes had countless escape methods; the mastermind couldn’t necessarily have tracked down every one of them. He was prudent and wouldn’t have taken such risks.

Hui Doudou had also faked her identity. When she fought Meng Junzi in the Buddhist Kingdom, she had claimed to be the “founder of the Qi Training System” and the “first immortal in ancient times,” fooling him.

This shows that false identities can avoid establishing karma, which is why the mastermind concealed his strength, presenting himself as Yao Sheng, the practitioner of Law Follows Words.

The real Yao Sheng had been killed by the Everlasting Immortal Fairy in the ancient era. The Yao Sheng who appeared in Zhongshan Commandery was merely a false identity used by the mastermind.

Lu Yang had once thought the mastermind was the Epoch Immortal’s Jianmu predecessor. However, that conjecture also seemed wrong. If my deduction was correct, it would be equivalent to knowing the mastermind’s identity, and the mastermind should have sensed it and acted long ago.

Who could it be...?

Lu Yang hastily stopped that line of thought. This would be tantamount to declaring war on the mastermind. My Incipient Dao Fruit hasn’t reached great perfection yet. It’s still not the time for any falling out.

“Not just people reincarnate; events do too.” Lu Yang gained a new insight. He had realized this when he condensed the Origin-Tracing Incipient Dao Fruit. Now that he had connected it to the mastermind and Hui Doudou, his comprehension deepened. The doubts that had troubled him for so long were resolved, yet Lu Yang didn’t feel at ease. The mastermind’s power exceeded all his expectations.

“Immortal Fairy, should we move Kunlun Mountain to the Cultivation World?” Lu Yang suggested upon seeing the Everlasting Immortal Fairy lounging on the bed with a blissful expression.

“Moving is such a hassle. Just leave it here. This is my territory anyway.”

“Fair enough.” Lu Yang nodded, saying no more.

Although this was the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s cave abode, there wasn’t much to do here. After lying down for a while, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy yawned and flew back into Lu Yang’s mental space. I’ve stayed in Xiao Yangzi’s mental space for so long that it feels more comfortable than my own cave abode.

After the four left Kunlun Mountain chatting and laughing, a pitch-black figure appeared in the cave abode, his eyes profound and unfathomable. “I was too careless. I never expected this kid’s hometown to be the North Star.”

“Good thing I wasn't entirely careless.” With a smile, he picked up a booklet of the Everlasting Immortal Fairy's cultivation insights on breaking through to the Omniscience realm.

He had wanted to destroy this book in the ancient era, but the Everlasting Immortal Fairy was already at the Half-Step Omniscient realm then. Her karma was too strong, and even the Transcendent trait couldn't fully erase her existence.

As a result, the Four Ancient Immortals flew into a rage, and Qing He pushed the North Star away, causing him to lose the chance to get rid of the booklet.

When the Everlasting Immortal Fairy sensed that this was the North Star, he realized it as well. Hence, he entered the cave abode before her and took this book.

The booklet read:

This immortal feels that there are three conditions required to become Omniscient:

White flames ignited from the page’s corner and spread rapidly, devouring the booklet until not even ashes remained, as though it had never existed.