Atop the mountain of corpses, the young man in cool white daoist robes still sat in a languid posture.

He gazed down the mountain of corpses at the handsome young man in plain white daoist robes who slowly stepped out from the shadows, and a smile curled at the corner of his lips:

"One just left, and now another arrives."

Chen Yan looked up at the one seated atop the mountain of corpses, who wielded the last thread of sage authority in this world, the "remnant thought" contained within the cause and effect left in the world by the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void.

He knew who the person was that Bai Chen had said had just left.

Li Haowen.

But Chen Yan did not care.

Because Li Haowen's destiny and cause and effect would ultimately guide him toward the direction he should go.

"So, what have you come here for?"

Bai Chen spoke up and asked:

"Let me guess first. Could it be that you've come to take my cause and effect?"

"Exactly."

Chen Yan replied.

"No."

The Sage of Imperial Void refused Chen Yan's request very bluntly.

"Back then, was it not you, Sage, who told me to collect all four segments of your cause and effect? Yet now, why do you refuse?"

Facing the Sage of Imperial Void's refusal, Chen Yan appeared extremely calm and indifferent, simply asking in a placid tone.

"I told you to collect the cause and effect so that you would gather the other three segments, then bring them here... The last sage authority of this domain heavens is currently wielded by this remnant will of mine. If you want to take this segment of cause and effect away, that is also possible, but first you must become a Sage, or find a Sage from Chenping Continent and have them take over this thread of sage authority that I worked so hard to preserve."

Bai Chen answered.

This was indeed an oversight on Chen Yan's part. He had never considered such a possibility.

"So, how goes the collection of the other three segments of cause and effect?"

The Sage of Imperial Void continued to ask.

"The segment of cause and effect within the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, and the segment within the Extreme Abyss, I have already entrusted someone to retrieve."

Chen Yan said.

"Entrusted someone?"

Bai Chen was silent for a brief moment, then revealed a somewhat peculiar smile:

"Now, I'm even starting to wonder if I have been overestimating you, True Person Chen."

"The person I entrusted is Immortal Venerable Fusheng... or rather, Venerable Fusheng."

Chen Yan said calmly.

"Then that's fine."

Bai Chen, seated atop the mountain of corpses, gave a slight nod, and continued:

"Venerable Fusheng is indeed a rare heaven-gifted talent. His emergence in this domain heavens can absolutely be called a blessing for this domain. If the laws of heaven and earth in Chenping Continent were complete, his future prospects would be beyond measure.

"Especially when he touched the threshold of the Uncarved Simplicity Realm and was noticed by an existence beyond this domain heavens, and used illusion arts and his Dao Basis to establish Fusheng City, thereby shedding his skin like a cicada to escape... The cleverness of that maneuver is such that even when I evaluate it from the perspective of an Uncarved Simplicity Realm cultivator, I find it extraordinarily ingenious."

The Sage of Imperial Void seemed not to stint on his praise for Mr. You.

The one who had once reincarnated as Kongshan Sect's first Ascended Steward, True Person Kongmiao, Yan Yunhe; and several hundred years ago reincarnated again as Kongshan Sect's Grand Elder, Ruan Tingzhu. The Sage of Imperial Void had naturally come to understand the vast majority of events that had occurred throughout Chenping Continent's history.

What's more, Heavenly Summit Mountain, the foremost sacred site of cultivation in Chenping Continent's history, was also a legacy left behind by this Sage.

"Personally, I would say that what is most admirable about Venerable Fusheng is that he was able to touch the threshold of the Uncarved Simplicity Realm through his own exploration alone, without any inherited tradition whatsoever."

Chen Yan replied.

Hearing this, the Sage of Imperial Void smiled again and shook his head:

"Indeed. Venerable Fusheng, who touched the threshold of the Uncarved Simplicity Realm through his own exploration alone, is remarkable. But looking across the Three Thousand Worlds governed by Lord Qingluo, which Sage did not touch the Uncarved Simplicity Realm through their own exploration?"

The Sage of Imperial Void's words caused Chen Yan to pause slightly.

Immortal Venerable Fusheng was, in Chenping Continent's seven-million-year history, thus far the undisputed foremost great power.

But which Sage could not single-handedly dominate a domain heavens?

And from the Sage of Imperial Void's words, Chen Yan also obtained considerable information.

That is, the Nine Realms Below Immortality possessed a complete cultivation system. So long as the cultivation system was sufficiently superior, it could allow later generations of cultivators to achieve twice the result with half the effort by relying on the experience of their predecessors.

But the Immortal Ascension Realm and the realms above it had no cultivation system to speak of.

Every Immortal Ascension cultivator walked an entirely different path to immortality.

Although the essence of the Great Dao is that all roads lead to the same destination, the Immortal Ascension Realm and the realms above it could only be advanced by the cultivator's own groping exploration, with no experience to draw upon.

But Chen Yan was different.

Ever since his first life, when he cultivated to the mid-stage of the Qi Circulation Realm, all the way until he became the mid-stage Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator he was today, it could be said that all of his cultivation was obtained through the rewards of the Cycle of Reincarnation.

But just how far could the rewards brought by the Cycle of Reincarnation take him?

Returning to Void Realm, Uncarved Simplicity Realm, Creating Illusion Realm... even higher?

A Creating Illusion Realm Lord could single-handedly dominate Three Thousand Worlds, yet even just the vastness of Chenping Continent still left Chen Yan, who was already an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator, awestruck.

The Primordial Beginning Realm, which was higher than the Creating Illusion Realm, and the Immortal Heaven Realm...

This was not something Chen Yan should be contemplating right now.

Today's Chenping Continent was about to face a catastrophic disaster. If he could not successfully weather this calamity, Chen Yan did not know what he would be facing.

Perhaps this was Chenping Continent's fated end, and he would also be completely annihilated along with Chenping Continent.

Perhaps he would once again travel to some completely unfamiliar era.

Who could say?

"Since the segment of cause and effect located in Chenping Continent's Western Region, within the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, and the segment located in Chenping Continent's Northern Region, within the Extreme Abyss, have already been retrieved, then what of my final segment of cause and effect?"

Bai Chen asked.

The Sage of Imperial Void's cause and effect spanned several million years in total.

And that segment of "Cause of Calamity" which Chen Yan had placed eight thousand years ago was the shortest portion among Bai Chen's four segments of cause and effect.

Yet if one wished to use the Heavenly Summit Mirror to project the reflection of the Sage of Imperial Void's past, allowing him to return to this current era in his prime form, then even just that "brief" segment of cause and effect lasting over sixty thousand years was absolutely indispensable.

But it was precisely this "brief" segment of cause and effect, the most insignificant to a True Person, that was nonetheless enough to sever Chenping Continent's path to immortality for a full eight thousand years, and cause Immortal Ascension cultivators, including Mr. You, to avoid it like the plague.

"This junior naturally knows where that segment of cause and effect currently is."

Chen Yan said in a flat tone.

"Where?"

The Sage of Imperial Void, seated atop the mountain of corpses in a languid posture, slowly asked.

"...The Abyssal Tower."

Chen Yan answered.

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