Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 551: Concealment

Sensing someone peering at them across time, the atmosphere in the immortal domain instantly grew tense.

“Could the Epoch Immortal be checking how long we’ll keep playing before using his Epoch Dao Fruit?” The Qilin Immortal’s expression turned peculiar, though he also had to admit that taking months to make a move in Five in a Row was excessive.

The three immortals fell silent, each finding this possibility plausible.

“Immortal Fairy, they can see us?!” Lu Yang jumped in fright. Three hundred thousand years separate us, and I’m simply observing a historical projection, yet they could still detect my presence. Isn’t that too terrifying?

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy side-eyed him. “Don’t flatter yourself and stick gold to your face. They sensed my presence.”

If the three immortals could detect Lu Yang’s cultivation, they would have noticed him the moment the historical projection began. Furthermore, Teacher Tiankui, whose cultivation far surpassed Lu Yang, hadn’t elicited any reaction from the three immortals.

“If we’re talking about ‘seeing,’ only the Epoch Immortal can peer across time and see the future us from the past. This trio just vaguely sensed something, but they can’t identify who’s watching them.”

Even then, Lu Yang found immortals terrifying enough. So not all immortals are like the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy suspected Lu Yang was mentally disrespecting her, but she had no proof.

The Nine-Layers pondered, then proposed another theory. “It may not be the Epoch Immortal. Future immortals could have seen us across time. After all, at the pace you two play chess, we three will be stuck here for a century. That’s plenty of time for a historical projection to form.”

“You mean an immortal has seen our historical projection?”

“Indeed, that’s possible. With only us four immortals now and a bunch of incompetent half-immortals failing to ascend, it’s perfectly normal for a few more immortals to emerge over the eons.”

The three burst into laughter. If a few more immortals emerge in later generations, perhaps they could share the pain brought by the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

“Hey! Nine-Layers! Heaven Mandate! Qilin! Can you hear me?” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy yelled, releasing her aura waves, attempting to transmit them over.

The Heaven Mandate Immortal hadn’t detected my presence when I first watched the historical projection. It was only when I mentioned punishing the mastermind and accidentally leaked my aura that he noticed me.

“This aura...”

The three immortals immediately became vigilant. The aura was faint like a candle on the verge of burning out. It was barely perceptible, but they could still sense the other party’s presence from that lingering wisp of aura.

“This aura is ███!”

Recognition flashed across their visages simultaneously.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had beaten them since childhood and detonated them after immortal ascension, and she was also the reason they were currently hiding here. They couldn’t be any more familiar with this aura!

Huang Doudou! It’s definitely Huang Doudou!

Cold sweat drenched their backs. We didn’t say anything bad about her just now, right?

Whew. Probably not.

“Can you three hear me?” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy made several attempts, but eventually shook her head and gave up in disappointment after the lack of response from the three immortals. Seems like they can’t hear me.

Lu Yang frowned. When the immortals noticed the future Everlasting Immortal Fairy, they’d probably said her name, but I only saw the Nine-Layers Immortal open his mouth—no sound came out, and his lip movements didn’t match the words “Everlasting Immortal Fairy” either.

“The concealment is truly brutal.” Replacing the “Everlasting Immortal Fairy” with the “Epoch Immortal” in this context would have been a major loophole; even a fool would notice something wrong. A direct and crude concealment is the cleaner solution.

“Don’t you find it strange?” The Heaven Mandate Immortal frowned, rotating a chess piece between his fingers. ███ has been releasing aura waves all this time. Is ███ trying to communicate something to us?”

He initially assumed the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had inadvertently seen their historical projection and wanted to tease them by releasing her aura waves.

But if that’s the case, releasing her aura once would be enough. Why do it continuously? Is she just carried away by toying with us, or is she trying to send us a message but is unable to do so due to the vast gap in time?

If it’s the latter, why is the Everlasting Immortal Fairy the one transmitting the information? Wouldn’t the Epoch Immortal be a more effective messenger?

Wait, could an accident have happened in later generations, preventing the Epoch Immortal from passing on the information?

“Nine-Layers, call Epoch over. Tell him to check what’s going on. I suspect ███ needs something from us!”

“Also, don’t let ███ know about this,” the Qilin Immortal added. No one knows what will happen if the Everlasting Immortal Fairy from the past and future meet. Will a tunnel of time be forced open, will they be annihilated on the spot, or will a huge explosion occur—no one knows.

“Alright.” The Nine-Layers Immortal needed no further explanation from the other two immortals. He could figure out these matters himself too.

The Nine-Layers Immortal transformed into a streak of light and ripped space apart. With each step equivalent to tens of thousands of light-years, he crossed countless galaxies and arrived at the North Star, managed by the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

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The North Star was wreathed in immortal energy. A single breath could extend the lifespans of mortals and sweep away their illnesses.

He saw numerous cultivators kneeling by the river, performing elaborate kowtows to the Everlasting immortal statue erected at the riverbank. After that, they respectfully collected a bowl of river water. This was a specialty of the North Star—the Mother-Child River and the Twins River.

Arriving at the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s immortal abode, he saw her exchanging culinary arts with the Qilin Immortal’s two wives in the kitchen. The Epoch Immortal shifted in his seat uneasily, likely racking his brain for an excuse to escape.

“Hmm? Nine-Layers is back? You’re done chopping wutong wood?” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy peeked out from the kitchen with a grin, her face caked with patches of flour.

The Nine-Layers froze on the spot. I tried so hard to conceal my aura, yet she still detected me.

“I’m done chopping. It took quite a bit of effort.” As someone who had weathered storms, he swiftly reacted, putting down the wutong wood on his back.

“You’ve worked hard, Big Brother Nine-Layers.” The phoenix prodigy cheerfully hauled the wutong wood to the kitchen, whereupon the kitchen emitted constant sounds of dragon roars and phoenix cries. It was unclear what meal they were preparing.

The Nine-Layers Immortal shouted, “The two lousy chess players, Heaven Mandate and Qilin, kept crying foul, insisting they hadn’t made their move. Epoch, go over there and help be their judge.”

The Epoch Immortal gazed at the Nine-Layers Immortal with gratitude. Good brother, it was worth letting you claim the honor of being the first to ascend to an immortal.

“Sure, I’ll head over now.”

Soon, the Epoch Immortal sensed something amiss upon seeing the Nine-Layers Immortal’s grave expression. It doesn’t look like he’s helping me escape, but rather, he needs my help for something.

What could he possibly need my help with? And he deliberately avoided the Everlasting Immortal Fairy?

The Epoch Immortal vaguely realized something had happened.

The first two immortals retraced their path and crossed countless galaxies, their speed faster than the Nine-Layers Immortal’s alone. After listening to the Nine-Layers Immortal’s recount along the way, the Epoch Immortal’s expression grew somber, and he fell silent.