Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 552: Spacetime Passage

The Epoch Immortal appeared extremely young, looking about Lu Yang’s age. Among the Five Ancient Immortals, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy ranked first in vitality, while the Epoch Immortal came second. His innate foundation far surpassed that of other immortals.

When the Epoch Immortal arrived at the immortal domain and saw the haphazard Five in a Row pieces scattered across the board, his eyelid twitched, and he nearly flipped the chessboard. You three are something else, abandoning me to suffer alone while you run off here to enjoy yourselves.

Then, he sensed an anomaly in the immortal domain, particularly the aura of the Everlasting Immortal Fairy from the future. He inhaled sharply as he shuddered from the lingering fear.

“Fortunately, I didn’t bring ███ over. Never in history has an immortal from the past and future gazed upon each other across time, especially not ███, who wields ████. I’m afraid a great annihilation would occur the moment they meet, overturning both past and future!” Even the Epoch Immortal couldn’t predict what would happen if two Everlasting Immortal Fairies met. He had theorized a highly probable outcome, though it was also possible that nothing would happen and that the two could even chat amiably. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

But who would dare gamble on such a possibility?

If a great annihilation is triggered, losing the gamble would mean it’s game over for everyone.

The Epoch Immortal bit his finger, revealing the golden blood flowing within. He closed his eyes and painted an immortal eye between his brows with the immortal blood.

The third eye opened, golden and hollow, like a blind man’s gaze. But in truth, it was because this immortal eye’s gaze wasn’t on the present but the future. He could faintly discern a graceful figure standing in this immortal domain in some distant future, but he couldn’t make out her features.

“There’s severe interference!

“Hmm? Who’s this?”

He sensed another presence beside the Everlasting Immortal Fairy. But this person is too weak to be qualified to appear before me across space and time. Yet I can detect a small piece of Jianwu wood–a part of my body—hanging in front of this person’s chest.

Did my future self trust him so much to give him a piece of Jianmu wood as proof? Or was my future self sealed away, and he sent this little cultivator to find the Everlasting Immortal? The Epoch Immortal frowned, keeping his speculations to himself.

“Well? What did ███ say?” the Nine-Layers Immortal pressed urgently.

The Epoch Immortal shook his head. “Not enough. The Spacetime Immortal Eye alone is still not enough.” The Spacetime Immortal Eye was an immortal eye he had refined with his Epoch Dao Fruit. It had never failed him—until now.

“Is it because the distance is too long, or is something in between interfering?”

Without hesitation, the Epoch Immortal summoned his Epoch Dao Fruit, which was woven with boundless laws of spacetime. It swayed up and down gently, as if it was floating on the ocean of time and generating ripples of time.

“Don’t look.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy covered Lu Yang’s eyes just before the Epoch Dao Fruit fully materialized.

The Epoch Dao Fruit was the ultimate form of spacetime rules. Let alone a Golden Core cultivator like Lu Yang, even a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator would lose their insanity at a single glance, their mind clouded from the influence of the Dao Fruit.

The Epoch Dao Fruit encompassed too much; cultivators couldn’t withstand such an influx of information. Their spirit platform would crumble under its torrent.

With the Dao Fruit’s aid, the Epoch Immortal finally glimpsed the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s face clearly. The Heaven Mandate Immortal and the other two immortals also saw her through the time passage constructed.

Before the Epoch Immortal could rejoice, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he yelled, “Oh no! The spacetime passage can’t last much longer!”

Among everyone present, he sensed it most acutely. It’s as though some entity has severed the temporal channel between me and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy. No, more precisely, something has cut off the connection between my era and the future!

What could it be?

“███, what were you trying to say?!”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy also realized the danger and blurted out, “I was assassinated—”

Boom!

The channel shattered. Under some unfathomable force, the spacetime passage collapsed, breaking off all connection between both parties.

The Epoch Immortal staggered two steps back and was steadied by the Heaven Mandate Immortal and the Qilin Immortal.

“Are you alright?”

Shaking his head, the Epoch Immortal stabilized his breathing and activated the Epoch Dao Fruit. In the blink of an eye, he had recovered fully. “It’s not a big problem.” Besides, my condition is the last of our concerns now. He swept his gaze across the group, his voice icy. “You all heard what Everlasting said just now, right?”

“Assassinated...? What kind of joke is that? That’s impossible!” The Qilin Immortal crushed a chess piece in his grip, his eyes filled with disbelief. “Of the five of us, it’s the hardest for Everlasting to die. Anyone can resurrect her just by speaking her name. What method could possibly kill her?”

However, the truth lay bare before them; they had to believe it even if they weren’t willing to. Everlasting loves mischief, but she’d never joke about something like this.

They had considered that the future Everlasting Immortal Fairy had run into some trouble requiring their assistance, but they reckoned the worst scenario was that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy was sealed and needed them to remove the seal. Never had they imagined that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy would be killed.

If the Everlasting Immortal Fairy could be resurrected easily, she wouldn’t have mentioned this matter. This implied that in the future, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy not only perished, but also could not be revived!

“Didn’t you hear? It was an assassination. Perhaps there is some method beyond our imagination that could prevent her resurrection.” The Heaven Mandate Immortal tapped the table.

“She said she was assassinated but didn’t mention the culprit. Does this mean that even Everlasting doesn’t know who did it?”

The four pondered. Could the Everlasting Immortal Fairy have known the culprit was among us and withheld the information for fear of exposing their identity?

They quickly eliminated this possibility. Given their trust in the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, if she had named the culprit, the other three would have attacked without question. How could three not take down one culprit? That was impossible.

Someone had assassinated the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, but she doesn’t know who it is.

“How far away is Everlasting?” the Heaven Mandate Immortal asked. Pinpointing the time will allow us to make preparations.

“I can’t be certain. The passageway collapsed too quickly. But it’s definitely at least ten thousand years in the future.”

“Why did the spacetime passage crumble?” The Nine-Layers Immortal frowned. Had the channel remained, we could have gleaned more information. At the minimum, confirming the exact timeframe would have been good.

The Epoch Immortal’s face turned ashen. “Two reasons. First, space and time have a corrective trait—future information can’t be transmitted to the past, for this will result in temporal and spatial chaos. With my Epoch Dao Fruit, this problem becomes manageable. But the second reason is critical.

“Something has affected the stability of space and time, severing our connection to Everlasting’s future!”

“What could be more powerful than your Epoch Dao Fruit?”

The Epoch Immortal snorted coldly, displeased with the Qilin Immortal’s remark. “It’s not more powerful than my Epoch Dao Fruit! I’ve simply focused on using the Epoch Dao Fruit to deal with the self-correcting nature of spacetime and have no extra energy to pay attention to that thing!”

“What thing could have influenced space and time?”

“Not sure. But anything that could clash with my Epoch Dao Fruit head-on must be another Dao Fruit!”

“And the most important question—why didn’t our future selves resurrect Everlasting?”