Why?
At the Dao Inquiry Assembly of Chenping Continent, the Dao Inquirers from Kongshan Sect at Heavenly Summit Mountain were Lin Xinyang, Chu Xiyao, and Qin Yue?
But what about himself?
No, that's wrong, wait a moment...
Chen Yan's spiritual sense continued to explore Heavenly Summit Mountain, but he didn't detect a single trace of one person's true qi on the mountain—
Lin Qifeng.
His so-called convenient master was not on Heavenly Summit Mountain.
If the Dao Inquirers from Kongshan Sect at Heavenly Summit Mountain were Lin Xinyang, Chu Xiyao, and Qin Yue respectively...
Chen Yan recalled a rather distant memory.
It was from his very first life after transmigrating into this cultivation world, before he had ever save-scummed.
In that life, Chen Yan had muddled through his entire existence, merely an unknown outer sect disciple of Kongshan Sect.
During that life's outer court competition, Chen Yan had been eliminated in the second round. Lin Qifeng had not accepted him as a disciple, Chen Yan had never been drawn into Qingchan Peak's internal struggles, and he had certainly never discovered the list that Grand Elder Qi had been transmitting to the outside world through Song Mingde.
Cheng Ziying died in the Outer Court Cataclysm when she was nineteen years old.
From then on, Fu Qian's faction on Qingchan Peak weakened, Bai Qiming's faction officially seized power, and Qin Yue assumed the position of Qingchan Peak's Chief Disciple.
As for Lin Qifeng, he continued serving as an Outer Court Elder until twenty years later, when Yun Yichen recalled him to Kongyuan Mountain and gave him a sinecure there.
In that life, throughout Chen Yan's nearly century-long existence, the cultivation world of Chenping Continent was calm and uneventful.
He had always believed that to be true at the time, but the current Chen Yan understood perfectly well that the truth was not so.
The cultivation world of Chenping Continent had never been calm and uneventful.
It was simply that, as an unknown outer sect disciple of Kongshan Sect, he had never been qualified to touch any of the waves.
For cultivators without talent, living out one's life so mediocrity was actually a rare blessing.
But this timeline he was currently witnessing should be wrong.
Not just based on Mr. You's theory either.
The cause and effect that Kong Yang had glimpsed was that the Black Flood Dragon would cause Kongshan Sect's destruction.
Similarly, Li Haoran had also glimpsed a corner of this destruction causality.
But in this timeline, Kongshan Sect would not be destroyed by the Black Flood Dragon.
This indeed was an erroneous timeline that should have been negated long ago, and precisely because of this, after dying in the Fallen Sword Mountain Range, he had save-scummed back to when he was fifteen years old to correct Heaven's Dao.
Of course, whether any individual's life trajectory changed, or whether Kongshan Sect continued or was destroyed, all of this was entirely irrelevant.
The most crucial matter was that if he hadn't intervened—
Then the "Cause of Calamity" would never be borne by anyone.
The immortal path of Chenping Continent would never recover.
Chen Yan understood very well the importance of his existence to Heaven's Dao, to Chenping Continent.
Just as his thoughts were racing, a sudden change occurred.
An invisible tremor spread outward from him, quietly expanding.
It was not sound, yet it transcended sound, directly shaking the most fundamental underlying laws that constructed this world.
Chen Yan saw that the previously crystal-clear scene of Heavenly Summit Mountain below suddenly began to ripple and distort slightly, as if a stone had been thrown into a reflection on water.
The shouts of the cultivators, the sounds of fists and techniques from the arena platform, also became intermittent and blurred, as if separated by a thick layer of crystal glass.
Tiny, almost imperceptible cracks began to spread across the scene of Heavenly Summit Mountain.
The laws of heaven and earth were shattering.
The laws were shattering even more thoroughly than the apocalypse he had witnessed after the Great Chaos of the Immortals before Fusheng City.
Like a vortex, heaven and earth split apart, transforming into an existence that Chen Yan could not comprehend at all.
It was a chaotic flow of time that seemed impossible to describe with language, along with countless intertwined and flickering threads of cause and effect, chaotic yet carrying some sort of order.
Immediately after, Chen Yan suddenly felt an indescribable pressure.
It was as if the weight of the entire world was pressing down on him, about to completely crush this speck of dust.
The surrounding scenes began to distort and fade at an accelerated pace.
The chaotic flow of time grew faster and faster.
Like a resplendent ribbon of light in the heavens above, countless threads of cause and effect flickered within that chaotic time stream.
Chen Yan heard the bronze bell's chime again, which in his memory almost represented the word "Finality."
The bronze bell's sound echoed between heaven and earth.
Once, twice, three times...
Nine times in total.
The chaotic flow of time began to gradually stabilize and restore order, and the threads of cause and effect also began to re-solidify.
A flash of white light surged, shaking Chen Yan's spiritual sense.
His "consciousness" returned to the space between heaven and earth, still standing above the heavens, overlooking the scene on Heavenly Summit Mountain.
It was still the Dao Inquiry at Heavenly Summit Mountain.
But this time, compared to the last, some changes had occurred.
Chen Yan's spiritual sense detected on Heavenly Summit Mountain a fluctuation of true qi that he was all too familiar with, and the cultivation method it was operating was—
The Hidden Immortal Art!
Standing above the heavens, Chen Yan saw "himself" standing on the arena platform.
And the person standing opposite "himself" on the arena platform, Chen Yan also remembered well.
Ye Xiu.
Violent dark-blue true qi tinged with blood surged up, accompanied by a mournful wail like crying.
"Mysterious Yin Weeps Blood, All Phenomena Share the Sorrow!"
Ye Xiu's voice rang out.
Just as his thoughts were racing, a sudden change occurred.
Immediately after, Chen Yan's consciousness suddenly began to resonate with "himself" on the arena platform.
He could hear "his own" heartbeat and breathing, could even feel his own weak and insignificant Martial Spring churning from back then.
"His own" consciousness suddenly rose, just like Chen Yan now, standing above the Nine Heavens.
But "himself" did not detect his own existence.
Chen Yan knew what would happen next. He had a very deep impression of this first enlightenment of his.
A point of Clear Light shot out, and then Ye Xiu's violent, boundless true qi melted like snowflakes meeting the blazing sun.
The final winner would be himself, while Ye Xiu would be severely injured and brought back to the Water Mirror Pavilion by Xiao Bo'an.
But on the arena platform of Daoyan Arena, "his own" actions did not move as Chen Yan's memory dictated.
He just stood there, completely motionless.
Then, he was torn into a mist of blood by Ye Xiu's violent true qi.
"...What?"
Chen Yan was completely dumbfounded. Then, he began to feel his own Martial Spring, his qi sea, including his meridians, rapidly disintegrating.
In the end, they transformed into spiritual energy of heaven and earth, dissipating into the world.
...
[Reincarnation Ended.]
[This Reincarnation Rating: A+ (Just stood there doing nothing, waiting to die, right?)]
[Accumulated Cultivation: Mid Unity realm]
[Reincarnation Reward: The Emptiness Annihilation Art, and a two-sub-realm increase in cultivation level]
[Reincarnation settlement complete. Host will return to the previous reincarnation record point, inherit the accumulated cultivation from this reincarnation, and restart life.]
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