Chapter 1323: The Realm of the Man Behind the Scenes

"Fairy, do you still remember how to achieve Omniscience?" Lu Yang asked casually, as he wasn't even an immortal yet, so he didn't concern himself with such distant matters.

The Immortal Fairy gently shook her head. "I can't recall clearly." She could only remember this much.

"Alright," Lu Yang said, not showing much disappointment on his face, but a storm raged in his heart.

How had he not realized before that Transcendence and Omniscience were two completely opposite realms that fundamentally could not coexist?

A Transcendent severs karma, causing the world to forget them, truly disappearing from existence. An Omniscient being knows everything — all things, all matters, and all principles, with the past entirely within their grasp. This includes the existence of Transcendent beings!

Once an Omniscient being appears, they would know about the Transcendent one. The Immortal Fairy had said long ago that "knowing" itself could establish karma!

Theoretically, if an Omniscient being established karma with a Transcendent being, the Transcendent being would fall from their state of Transcendence!

No wonder he wanted to kill the Immortal Fairy. Once she achieved Omniscience, the mastermind would be in trouble!

Lu Yang speculated that the Immortal Fairy was in a mysterious state, on the verge of a breakthrough, and had no defenses against the mastermind, which allowed him to succeed easily.

Severing karma and cultivating to the Transcendent realm must have come at an enormous cost for the mastermind. This was evident from Gray Bean's destruction of the Xin Huo Dynasty and the suppression of 100,000 years of history to achieve Transcendence.

Severing history was certainly not easy. Was the blurred history before ancient times truly due to its antiquity and a lack of recording methods?

Lu Yang also recalled his spell, "Cheng Cun," speculating that it might have been used by ancient ancestors to standardize weights and measures.

Could it be that weights and measures had already been standardized once in ancient times, only for the mastermind to cause a historical discontinuity, obscuring history and creating chaos in measurements, before the Five Ancient Immortals re-standardized them?

The corrupted versions of ancient spells that had been passed down should also be the mastermind's doing.

Had Gray Bean, in her desperate attempts to achieve Transcendence, also realized this?!

Lu Yang shook his head. Gray Bean had fallen; no one would provide an answer now.

Lu Yang didn't know what a true Transcendent being was like; it was all theoretical. However, he could glimpse clues from Gray Bean, a half-step Transcendent.

Immortals possessed the characteristic of being forgotten, and Gray Bean's forgetfulness trait was even more pronounced. Those she encountered, if their cultivation was insufficient, couldn't remember her existence.

So, what would a true Transcendent being be like? Would their forgetfulness trait reach its limit, causing everyone, regardless of their cultivation, to forget anything they had ever done?

If so, the world forgetting the Immortal Fairy's existence was not a technique of the mastermind's Dao fruit, but rather an inherent characteristic of the Transcendent realm itself.

"How laughable that I kept trying to deduce the mastermind's Dao fruit based on this characteristic," Lu Yang scoffed inwardly. What karma Dao fruit? What 'word becomes law' Dao fruit? None of it was close to the truth. Such abilities weren't inherent to a Dao fruit at all; his deductions were wildly off.

Transcendence, Omniscience, and Dao Confluence – these three realms should be parallel. The power displayed by the mastermind during ancient times was definitely not one of evenly matched battles with the Four Ancient Immortals; instead, he should have utterly crushed them.

All this time, he had never used his full power!

This was because he didn't want to expose his true realm. If he did, the Four Ancient Immortals might deduce his origins. Therefore, the mastermind had disguised himself as a "powerful immortal" to prevent them from considering this possibility.

Forcefully killing the Four Ancient Immortals carried extremely high risks. If they realized they couldn't defeat the mastermind and tried to escape, the Immortal of Time could hide in the River of Time, the Immortal of Heaven's Mandate in heavenly tribulations, the Ninefold Immortal could transform into Yin and Yang energy, and the Qilin Immortal could become all things. These four seasoned veterans had numerous escape methods, and the mastermind might not have been able to find them all.

The mastermind was cautious and wouldn't take such risks.

Faking identities was something Gray Bean had also done. When she fought Meng Junzi in the Buddhist Kingdom, she claimed to be "the founder of the Qi cultivation system and the first immortal in ancient times," deceiving Meng Junzi.

This indicated that a false identity could prevent the establishment of karma, which was why the mastermind concealed his strength and appeared under the fake identity of Yao Sheng, the one whose "words became law."

The real Yao Sheng had been killed by the Immortal Fairy in ancient times. The Yao Sheng who appeared in Zhongshan Commandery was merely a false identity used by the mastermind.

Originally, Lu Yang had thought the mastermind was Jianmu, the predecessor of the Immortal of Time. Now, it seemed this deduction was also incorrect.

If his deduction had been correct, effectively knowing the mastermind's identity, the mastermind would have sensed it and acted long ago.

Who could it be...? Lu Yang hastily stopped this thought. It was tantamount to declaring war on the mastermind, and his nascent Dao fruit was not yet complete; it wasn't time to show his hand.

"Not just people, but events also cycle," Lu Yang mused with new insight.

This was an insight he gained when forming the nascent Tracing Dao fruit. Now, connecting it to the mastermind and Gray Bean, this understanding became even more profound.

The long-standing confusion that had plagued him was now resolved. However, Lu Yang did not feel at ease; the mastermind's power far exceeded his expectations.

"Fairy, should we move Mount Kunlun to the cultivation world?" Lu Yang suggested, seeing the Immortal Fairy lying lazily on the bed with a very contented expression.

"Moving is too much trouble. Let's just leave it here. After all, this is my territory anyway."

"True," Lu Yang nodded, saying nothing more.

Although this was the Immortal Fairy's cave mansion, there wasn't much to do there. After lying down for a while, the Immortal Fairy yawned and flew back into Lu Yang's mental space.

Having stayed in "Little Yangzi's" mental space for a long time, she found it more comfortable than her cave mansion.

After the four left Mount Kunlun with smiles and laughter, a dark figure appeared in the cave mansion, their eyes deep.

"I was careless. I didn't expect this boy's hometown to be Polaris."

"Fortunately, I wasn't completely careless." He smiled as he picked up a volume of cultivation insights, which contained the Immortal Fairy's understanding of achieving Omniscience.

In ancient times, he had wanted to destroy these cultivation insights. However, the Immortal Fairy at that time was already a half-step Omniscient being, burdened by too much karma, and even the characteristics of Transcendence couldn't completely erase her existence. This led to the furious intervention of the Four Ancient Immortals, after which Qinghe pushed Polaris away, causing him to lose the chance to destroy them.

When the Immortal Fairy realized this place was Polaris, he also sensed it. Thus, he entered the cave mansion before her and took these cultivation insights.

The cultivation insights stated that this immortal believed three conditions were necessary to achieve Omniscience:

Possess a Dao fruit related to karma, such as this immortal's Immortal Dao fruit.Be a being of two lives; this immortal once self-severed at the Half-Immortal realm to gain new life.Be entangled by karma.

White flames ignited from the corner of the book, rapidly spreading and consuming the cultivation insights, burning them completely, as if they had never existed.