Chapter 1898: Chapter 1894: The Grand Conspiracy
With Ye Fan’s prior wisdom, he had thought that everything about the Great Cold Sect was merely a conspiracy, but he didn’t expect the conspiracy to be so direct.
Now that he had noticed the flaw in the matter, he returned with Ming Ye Shangren, Song Mei, Bing Xuan, and Bing Ting to the space-time fissure in the Left Domain Galaxy. As Ye Fan suspected, this fissure had completely disappeared, and everything about the catalytic cultivation had become dust in history.
"What’s going on? Why can’t we open the path to our Great Cold Sect anymore? What exactly have you done to our sect?" Song Mei started questioning Ye Fan upon discovering they couldn’t open the space fissure to return to the sect.
Ye Fan was deep in thought and didn’t bother to answer Song Mei. Ming Ye Shangren sneered, "Can’t you see? It’s clearly your Great Cold Sect’s own problem. Would Ye Fan care to kill any of you, who haven’t even reached ascension? From the beginning, your sect was plotting against Ye Fan!"
"Impossible! Our Great Cold Sect has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. In the course of these hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation, we had no idea there would be someone named Ye Fan here. Could someone have laid out this conspiracy hundreds of thousands of years ago?" Song Mei said.
This point was also hard for Ming Ye Shangren to explain. Ming Ye Shangren said, "Who knows! Perhaps Nuwa and Pan Gu, in the Ancient Times, had already foreseen what would happen today and orchestrated this entire conspiracy?"
"Hmph, spare me such talk, I don’t believe it. Ye Fan, you must give me an explanation!" Song Mei felt her worldview was overturned once again. Previously, being forced to believe that her sect’s cultivation outcome was just sending them to their deaths was hard enough, and now she had to accept the sect’s destruction. She couldn’t bear it because she was just an ordinary woman, not wanting to face such overwhelming pressure.
Ye Fan said, "Your Great Cold Sect was indeed created to target me specifically, and its history definitely hasn’t spanned hundreds of thousands of years! It has only been a few days!"
"What are you saying? Are you saying that our Great Cold Sect’s hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation was only a few days’ time? What kind of joke is this?" Song Mei couldn’t accept this claim, almost going mad, shouting at Ye Fan.
Ye Fan shook his head and said, "I never understood why there was a boundary between two timelines, but within the Great Cold Sect’s fissure, it coincided completely with cosmic time—one second for the universe meant one second for the sect... This was clearly illogical. Even a small spatial discrepancy would create temporal dissonance, causing time confusion! Now I understand, because this space was intentionally created by someone, completely isolating the two spaces. That turned the Great Cold Sect from a sect formed in only a few days into one with the cultivation legacy of hundreds of thousands of years!"
"What are you talking about? I don’t understand at all! Stop using such excuses to fool us!" Song Mei said sharply.
Ye Fan said, "Perhaps your Great Cold Sect really existed for hundreds of thousands of years, but it was isolated from the outer space... meaning, only a few days passed in the outside space, while hundreds of thousands of years passed in the sect’s space. During these hundreds of thousands of years, the sect was nearly completely isolated from the outside world. Even if someone stepped out, they would definitely be killed unless they were meant to find me... much like Bing Xuan, because she is also a pawn in this game!"
Bing Xuan looked at Ye Fan, her eyes unfocused. She couldn’t understand Ye Fan nor what he was saying.
Ming Ye Shangren furrowed her brow and said, "Ye Fan, are you saying the Great Cold Sect never existed at first, but after you arrived in the Left Domain Galaxy and started cultivating, someone set up the sect here, and it developed in an isolated space for hundreds of thousands of years? Then... how were these powers ensured, and how was the space within evolved?"
Ye Fan said, "If an ordinary person created this space-time, it would be impossible to accomplish these things. But unfortunately, the person who created it is an ancient being with immense power, one of Pan Gu, Fu Xi, or Nuwa. Their power can guarantee the evolution of such a space-time, and for them, this is trivial. Once the Great Cold Sect reached a certain point, space-time would return to normal, making those inside think they were synchronized with the cosmic space-time, but actually, it was all just a setup to lure me into this trap!"
By now, Song Mei and the other Great Cold Sect disciples actually understood what Ye Fan was saying, but they simply couldn’t believe it.
Bing Xuan said, "Master, could it be... could we just be created illusions? I... all my previous memories exist. My junior sister and I met Ye Fan the first time we stepped out of our space, wasn’t that too much of a coincidence? Could Ye Fan be telling the truth?"
"No, he’s a madman, you don’t need to believe his words!" Song Mei said sternly.
Ming Ye Shangren said, "I think Ye Fan’s words couldn’t possibly deceive you! Think about the results of your Great Cold Sect’s cultivation, not a single person ascended. Why? Because the realm of immortals hasn’t experienced any time-space dissonance with you. If any of you entered the immortal realm, you’d immediately be caught, because entering it means leaving your tiny space-time. That person would surely have ascended only a couple of days ago, wouldn’t Ye Fan have known everything then? So... your cultivation results can only lead to death, and it must be in a place unknown to anyone, likely the grave for your sect members!"
Ye Fan said, "Yes, it’s likely that an entire universe was created, and that universe led the Great Cold Sect to think it had left the sect to select female disciples. But actually, the universe itself only had one or two planets for selecting female disciples... like an illusion... Now I need to break this whole thing. I only need to enter this fast-evolving space to figure it out! The person who created all this was able to destroy the sect’s space-time before I arrived, but this illusion hasn’t been completely destroyed!"
As he spoke, Ye Fan suddenly extended his hand, and a force formed around him.
Ming Ye Shangren was the first to react, surprised, "Ye Fan, how can you possibly manipulate elemental forces, does this mean your cultivation... has been restored?"
Ye Fan did not provide any explanation to her. At this moment, he was simply invoking this elemental force to create a fissure in space-time.
Ye Fan shouted loudly, "Go," and the five disappeared simultaneously from the original spot, entering a place identical to before, but it was merely a space akin to an illusion.
