Chapter 1340: Chapter 1339: The Realm of the Mastermind Behind the Scenes

"Fairy, do you still remember how to break through to All-Knowing?" Lu Yang casually asked, after all, he wasn’t even an Immortal, so he didn’t consider such distant matters.

Immortal Fairy gently shook her head: "I can’t recall."

She could only remember so many things.

"Alright." Lu Yang didn’t show much disappointment, but his heart had already stirred up towering waves.

How had he never realized before that Transcendence and Omniscience were two completely opposite realms, and these two great realms simply couldn’t coexist!

The Transcended individuals severed Causality, making the world forget them, truly disappearing from the world.

The Omniscient knew everything, all beings and events, past occurrences in their grasp, including the existence of the Transcended!

Once an Omniscient appears, they would know about the Transcended, and Immortal Fairy had long said that "knowing" itself could establish causality!

Theoretically, if an Omniscient and a Transcended establish causality, the Transcended would fall from the "Transcendence" realm!

No wonder he wanted to kill Immortal Fairy; once the Fairy breaks through to the All-Knowing realm, the unlucky one would be the puppeteer behind the scenes!

Lu Yang guessed that at that time Immortal Fairy was amidst a breakthrough, in a mysterious state, unguarded against the hidden enemy, thus he succeeded easily.

Severing causality, the puppeteer cultivated to the Transcendence realm, definitely at a great cost, as seen from Ashy Bean destroying the Fire Dynasty and hiding ten thousand years of history.

Breaking off history is no easy task; is the history before Ancient Times vague really because it’s ancient and lacks recording methods?

Lu Yang still remembered his magic skill "Shrink Inch," speculating it might have been used by ancient ancestors to standardize measurements.

Could it be that measurements had been unified once in ancient times, only for the puppeteer to disrupt the era, concealing history, causing measurements to be chaotic, necessitating the Five Ancient Immortals to unify measurements again?

The ancient magic skills passed down were incorrect versions, likely also the work of the puppeteer.

Did Ashy Bean try so hard to achieve Transcendence because she realized this?!

Lu Yang shook his head; Ashy Bean had fallen, and no one would provide answers now.

What exactly were the Transcended like, Lu Yang did not know, everything was just theory, but hints could be seen from Ashy Bean, a Half-step Transcender.

Immortals possess characteristics of being forgotten, and Ashy Bean’s being forgotten was even more pronounced; those she had encountered, if not of sufficient realm, couldn’t remember her existence.

What would a true Transcended look like, having forgotten characteristics to the extreme, everything they do, regardless of realm, would the world forget them?

This implies, the world forgetting Immortal Fairy’s existence wasn’t the puppeteer’s Dao Fruit method, but a characteristic intrinsic to the Transcendence realm itself.

"How ridiculous I’ve been, speculating on the puppeteer’s Dao Fruit based on this characteristic," Lu Yang laughed at himself inwardly; what Causality Dao Fruit, what Verbal Spell Dao Fruit, all far from the truth, utterly absurdly wrong.

Transcendence, Omniscience, Harmonization, these three great realms should be parallel; the power shown by the puppeteer should absolutely not match that of Ancient Times, not an exchange with the Four Ancient Immortals but rather overwhelming domination.

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

He had never used his full strength all along!

Because he did not want to expose his own realm, revealing the realm would possibly let the Four Ancient Immortals deduce his origin, so he fashioned himself as a "powerful Immortal," preventing the Four Ancient Immortals from contemplating in that direction.

Destroying the Four Ancient Immortals is highly risky; seeing they could not beat the puppeteer, Time Immortal hid in the river of time, Ying Tian Immortal hid in heavenly tribulations, Jiuchong Immortal transformed into Yin and Yang, and Qilin Immortal turned into all things; these old cunning four had many escape techniques, and the puppeteer could not necessarily find them all.

The puppeteer acts cautiously, not taking such risks.

Fabricating identities was also something Ashy Bean had done; battling Meng Junzi in Buddha Country, she claimed to be "the founder of the Qi Cultivation System, the very first Immortal from Ancient Times," deceiving Meng Junzi.

This shows that a false identity can prevent establishing causality, therefore the puppeteer had hidden his strength, showing as the false identity of the Verbal Speller Yao Saint.

The real Yao Saint was killed by Immortal Fairy in Ancient Times; the Yao Saint appearing in Zhongshan County was but a false identity used by the puppeteer.

Initially, Lu Yang thought the puppeteer was the precursor of Time Immortal, Firmament Tree, but now it seems this deduction is also wrong.

If his deduction was right, akin to knowing the puppeteer’s identity, the puppeteer, sensing it, should have acted long ago.

Who could it be...

Lu Yang hastily stopped this thought; it was akin to declaring war on the puppeteer, his own Dao Fruit Prototype was not yet consummated, it wasn’t time to turn hostile.

"Not only human reincarnation, events also reincarnate," Lu Yang had an epiphany.

This was his insight when condensing the Trace Origin Dao Fruit Prototype; now linking it with the puppeteer and Ashy Bean, his understanding deepened.

His long-held confusion dissolved, yet Lu Yang was not at ease; the puppeteer’s strength exceeded expectations.

"Fairy, should we move Mount Kunlun to the Cultivation World?" Seeing Immortal Fairy lazily lying on the bed, showing a very enjoyable expression, Lu Yang proactively suggested.

"Moving is such a hassle, just leave it here, it’s my territory anyway."

"That makes sense." Lu Yang nodded, not saying much more.

Though here was Immortal Fairy’s abode, there really wasn’t much worth staying for, Immortal Fairy lay a while longer and then yawned flying back into Lu Yang’s Spiritual Space.

Having spent a long time in Little Yang’s Spiritual Space, she found it more comfortable than the Abode.

As the four of them chatted and laughed, leaving Mount Kunlun, a dark figure appeared in the Abode, his eyes deep.

"Careless, I didn’t expect this boy’s old home to be North Star."

"Luckily, not completely careless." He chuckled picking up a tome of Cultivation Experience, insights by Immortal Fairy on breaking through to the All-Knowing Realm.

In Ancient Times, he had wanted to destroy this Cultivation Experience, but by then Immortal Fairy had been already a Half-step All-Knowing, with heavy Causality, even Transcendence characteristics couldn’t completely erase her existence, prompting the Four Ancient Immortals to furiously take action, and later Qinghe pushed away the North Star, losing the chance to destroy it.

Realizing this place was North Star, he sensed it first, thus he entered the Abode before Immortal Fairy, taking away this Cultivation Experience.

The Cultivation Experience read, I feel to become Omniscient, three conditions are needed:

To possess a Causality-related Dao Fruit, like my Eternity Dao Fruit.

To have lived two lives, I once self-severed in Half-Immortal Realm and was reborn.

Ensnared in causality.

A white flame ignited from the corner of the book, rapidly spreading, swallowing up this Cultivation Experience, burning it clean, as if it had never existed.