Immortal Nexus, Overseas.
Perfected Lord Feixue gradually sobered up from the haziness, and then only felt a slight pain in her head. The familiar feeling made her uncontrollably furrow her brows.
Here we go again...
Similar situations had occurred to her many times. As time went on, she gradually understood the reason— she had once again learned something she shouldn't know.
Reviewing her past memories, she set off from the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, passed by the Overseas Immortal Alliance, met Mu Changsheng, received his proactive pledge of allegiance, accepted a copy of the [Scripture of Spiritual Resonance and Response], assigned them the task of keeping an eye out for Hongyun, and then left with a swagger. There were no mistakes or omissions anywhere.
Oh right, that [Scripture of Spiritual Resonance and Response].
Perfected Lord Feixue took out the jade slip and swept it with her mind. It contained only the content of the cultivation method and absolutely nothing else. There seemed to be nothing wrong with it either.
But Perfected Lord Feixue knew in her heart that something had changed.
Her memory had been modified.
"Old bastard..."
Thinking of this, Perfected Lord Feixue instantly couldn't help but grit her teeth. Her chest was filled with endless anger, yet in the end, she could only let out a somewhat dispirited breath of turbid air.
People must rely on themselves.
A phrase she often hung on her lips and spoke in her heart, now made Perfected Lord Feixue feel incredibly ironic. Yet the more it was like this, the firmer she became instead.
It was good that it was ironic; it was good that it was ridiculous. Only this way could it constantly remind her.
Only this way could she firmly remember the humiliation. Perhaps her life was indeed not her own to control, her cultivation not her own to control, her memory not her own to control.
However, her will was free.
Absolutely unyielding!
The next second, Perfected Lord Feixue stood up, but suddenly froze. Because within her sea of consciousness, she saw a foreign object that she had absolutely no impression of.
It was a cluster of grayish color, within which a crimson light shuttled back and forth, accumulated but unreleased, seemingly not yet the right time. Yet it made the emotions in Perfected Lord Feixue's pupils almost boil over. Fortunately, her reaction was astonishingly fast; by the time all the emotions were revealed, they had already transformed into pent-up anger and grief.
"Boom."
The next second, she simply struck out with a palm, landing it on the overseas region, instantly causing tens of thousands of miles of sea to tremble. Consequently, the [Ravine Stream Water] even cast down endless brilliant light.
She taking on a posture as if venting her anger.
Just like this, after a long time had passed, she dispersed the many wonders, took a deep breath, restored her appearance to be as unrippled as an ancient well, and took a deep look above her head.
That minuscule figure remained the same as before.
Without any reaction.
Hahaha!
Perfected Lord Feixue hurriedly lowered her head, pursing her lips slightly, her throat bobbing up and down, holding back the laughter that almost blurted out, leaving only a heart full of joy—
Old bastard, you have your day too!
How could Perfected Lord Feixue not understand? This grayish color and crimson light were definitely a chess piece placed on her by some mighty figure, and it had deceived the Primordial Saint!
It truly was an unexpected pleasant surprise.
No, hold it in, I can't laugh out loud yet.
Perfected Lord Feixue took a deep breath and decided to continue searching for the Great Sages of the Monster Race overseas. It was just that her originally deathly silent soul was now rippling with waves.
Right at this moment.
Boom!
A deafening loud noise came from the bottom of the mortal world. Death qi soaring to the heavens surged from the end of the sea, and a deep, deathly silent, gloomy color condensed into a line.
Then it tore open.
At this moment, Qi Refining cultivators were completely oblivious, Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones revealed terror on their faces, seemingly sensing an impending catastrophe, and only Golden Core Perfected Lords cast their gazes over.
Perfected Lord Feixue similarly looked up.
For a moment, she even saw that the high and mighty minuscule figure also seemed to briefly shift his gaze away due to this sudden, earth-shattering upheaval.
The Netherworld opened wide?
Almost simultaneously, on the Dao platform of [Da Luo Heaven], Lu Yang, who was excitedly shadowboxing because he successfully schemed against the Primordial Saint, also calmed down again.
"It's [Sky-shrouding], he escaped!"
Lu Yang stroked his chin, a bizarre smile on his face.
One must know that this lifetime was different from the lifetime before the last. In this lifetime, he hadn't come into contact with the old Dragon Lord, so he hadn't given [Sky-shrouding] an excuse to escape.
In other words: "The [Sky-shrouding] of this lifetime openly and brazenly disobeyed the Primordial Saint's command and escaped directly from the Netherworld. Strange, where did he get the guts..."
Suddenly, Lu Yang's gaze focused slightly.
He could see that within the gloomy color standing at the end of the overseas region, a figure was rushing out of the door. His originally downward-facing stature also reversed along with it.
And with his appearance, a full five Dao Fruit stars were lit up above the celestial vault, jointly surrounding him. At the same time, a Great Dao was audaciously taken out of the Netherworld by him, going straight into the [Sea of Bitterness]. With the two combined, it instantly making his stature climb to the absolute highest point of the mortal world.
However, that was all there was to it.
The achievement [Sky-shrouding] was proud of, the stature of the Heaven Treading Realm, the cultivation that was number one in the world—at this moment, they couldn't make him feel the slightest bit relaxed.
What seeped into his bone marrow was only bone-chilling coldness.
A chess piece with no utilization value, yet possessing such high cultivation, enough to become a [Variable] that influenced the grand scheme—how would the Primordial Saint deal with this?
[Sky-shrouding's] movements came to a grinding halt.
Those long, narrow eyes that were hidden in the mist all day long abruptly widened. What entered his sight was only a fair finger that was getting closer and closer, gradually magnifying.
Bang!
[Sky-shrouding] exploded into pieces on the spot... However, before that, having long anticipated the ending of possibly being dealt with by the Primordial Saint, he had already shouted that crucially important name—
"Di Muni!"
Instantly, the Great Karmic Net responded. The World Honored One, who stood lower, gained the upper hand by striking later, and completed the most crucial reception before the Primordial Saint made a move.
[Sky-shrouding's] figure disappeared.
Taking his place was a young Daoist with the appearance of a phoenix and the posture of a dragon. [Sky-shrouding's] past karma was shattered, and brand new karma surfaced.
Perfected Lord Lingxiao of Eastern Sovereign!
Lu Yang was not unfamiliar with this. This was [Sky-shrouding's] true title. He had previously been kept hidden in the World Honored One's hand, equivalent to one of his lives.
The next second, Perfected Lord Lingxiao of Eastern Sovereign took a deep look at the heaven vault. He seemed to see the minuscule figure sitting high in the [Paramita], but didn't dare to delay for even a moment. Following that, his figure flashed and abruptly disappeared from the spot.
As Lu Yang expected, he probably escaped into [The Mortal World].
At this point, heaven and earth lost their voice.
Not a single Perfected Lord dared to speak. Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones lost their recent memories out of thin air. As for Qi Refining cultivators and mortals, they hadn't seen anything from the very beginning.
Only Lu Yang knew the inside story.
But precisely because of this, he was even more surprised:
This isn't right. This time, when [Sky-shrouding] came out of the Netherworld, why was he so resolute, burning his bridges, and actually taking [Inversion] out all at once?
In the lifetime before the last, although [Sky-shrouding] left the Netherworld, he didn't take [Inversion] away, using this to indicate that his heart was still in the Netherworld. This was why he wasn't immediately obliterated by the Primordial Saint. But now, he looked back without hesitation, taking even [Inversion] away together. This was what drew the Primordial Saint to make a move.
He did it... on purpose!
His experience in the Netherworld is different from the lifetime before the last! Why is it different? Is it the World Honored One? Or who communicated with him to make him make such a decision?
Putting aside the identity of [Sky-shrouding] and returning to the orthodox origin...what did he want to do? With this thought, Lu Yang's gaze suddenly shifted slightly.
Speaking of which, when did [Sky-shrouding's] true body, as Perfected Lord Lingxiao Eastern of Sovereign, exist?
Instantly, Lu Yang's eyes shone brightly.
He achieved the Dao before the World Honored One attained the Dao and altered karma!
He is actually, just like Feixue, a person from the first history! It's just that he killed his self from the second history and replaced his identity, which is how [Sky-shrouding] came to be!
He had to admit, after such a set of operations, he deserved to attain the [Great Forest Wood].
But having spent so much effort back then, why did he now proactively retrieve his identity in the first history, which is now the false history? Could it be that his intention also lay in the false history?