Chapter 635: Self-Evidence

Chen Yan stood calm and silent, watching the former steward of Tianji Continent who now stood before him in this pure white space, reacting with near-madness.

Zuo He's reaction to Bai Chen's fall was far more exaggerated than when he had learned of Tianji Continent's collapse, or even his own death.

This made Chen Yan somewhat confused.

Why?

Why exactly would Bai Chen's fall drive Zuo He to such despair?

The Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void and the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity, these two Uncarved Simplicity Realm cultivators who could fully represent this domain's heavens across two eras, seemed to share some unspoken understanding.

Before Tianji Continent was born, this domain's heavens had been called Yuxu Continent, ruled by Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void.

And from what came later, until the time Yuxu Continent was renamed Tianji Continent, the Sage of Imperial Void seemingly never lost control over this domain's heavens.

The transition of this domain's heavens from Yuxu Continent to Tianji Continent had proceeded in an extremely stable manner.

It was even possible that the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void and the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity had profound knowledge of each other.

After Yuxu Continent became Tianji Continent, Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void, had left this domain's heavens, departing perhaps for the chaotic flow of time, or perhaps for other places within the vast myriad worlds similar to this domain's heavens.

Looking at this timeline, after Tianji Continent was reset, Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void, should never have met Zuo He, the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity, again.

And all the schemes and plans Bai Chen had set up on Chenping Continent were because he had once calculated the cause and effect that belonged to him upon his own person.

For an Uncarved Simplicity Realm cultivator, this cause and effect spanning over sixty thousand years could be regarded as a part of his "corpse."

In other words, Zuo He was completely ignorant of all of Bai Chen's actions.

If that was the case, perhaps he could obtain some intelligence he could use from the wisp of divine sense belonging to Zuo He, the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity, within the consciousness sea of Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void's corpse, which had already become completely blank.

But the prerequisite was that he had to wait for this wisp of the Sage's remnant consciousness to calm down emotionally.

"Hahahahaha..."

Zuo He continued laughing maniacally, until the moment his gaze met Chen Yan's.

When the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity's judging gaze collided with Chen Yan's line of sight, Chen Yan only felt his dao resonance erosion suddenly accelerate drastically.

If an Immortal Ascension cultivator's dao rhyme could withstand one hundred thousand years of normal erosion, then in that single breath just now, Chen Yan's dao rhyme had been worn away by three thousand years.

This sudden change caused Chen Yan to immediately look away, and even his palms began to sweat instantly.

Dao resonance erosion was absolutely impossible to reverse.

Even re-entering the Cycle of Reincarnation and save-scumming anew could not restore the dao rhyme that had been eroded in previous cycles.

Although only a wisp of Chen Yan's divine sense was currently within the consciousness sea of Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void's corpse, the dao resonance erosion inflicted by the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity's gaze just now was reflected flawlessly back onto Chen Yan's main body.

Chen Yan could sense the current Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity's killing intent toward him.

This was a mad act of completely abandoning everything, only wanting self-destruction, dragging the entire world down as his burial companion.

But Zuo He, within the consciousness sea of Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void, could find nothing besides Chen Yan to serve as his burial companion.

This was the greatest crisis Chen Yan had faced since being trapped in the death loop at the Kongshan Sect's outer court Training Grounds, tortured and killed over and over again by Huo Mu.

Because Zuo He did not intend to directly extinguish Chen Yan's wisp of divine sense.

Or rather, even if he directly crushed Chen Yan's divine sense that had infiltrated the consciousness sea of Bai Chen, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void's corpse, it still wouldn't kill Chen Yan. At most, it would only cause a slight tremor to Chen Yan's foundation.

But eroding dao rhyme was different.

This was where Zuo He's true killing intent lay.

He had to do something.

Realizing this, Chen Yan hurriedly made a bow toward the young man in dark black daoist robes who had fallen into madness not long ago:

"Sage, the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void's fall is not a defeat, but a resolution he chose for himself!"

Chen Yan's voice remained extremely calm, and his composure seemed to have some effect.

Hearing this, Zuo He slightly restrained the madness and killing intent on his face, but the terrifying aura of destruction within Bai Chen's consciousness sea still stirred restlessly.

The light in the pure white space flickered unpredictably. The now masterless consciousness sea of the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void also began to waver due to the emotional fluctuations of Zuo He, the Ultimate Sage of Heaven's Extremity, as if it might collapse at any moment.

"Continue."

Zuo He's voice was incomparably cold. It was hard to imagine that this extremely indifferent and calm voice belonged to the same person who, just moments ago, had been laughing maniacally as if wanting the entire world to be buried with him.

"The Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void's fall itself was one of his plans."

Chen Yan continued:

"Currently on Chenping Continent... that is, the Tianji Continent after the Sage of Imperial Void pacified its calamities, several strands of his cause and effect are scattered about. These are the seeds the Sage of Imperial Void left behind in this world."

Zuo He still simply stared at Chen Yan before him, seemingly waiting for him to continue.

"Not only that, on present-day Chenping Continent, Heavenly Summit Mountain, the former number one immortal cultivation holy land, is also the Sage of Imperial Void's legacy."

Chen Yan continued:

"And approximately eighty thousand years ago, a reincarnated body of the Sage of Imperial Void appeared on Chenping Continent, establishing one of the largest cultivation sects on the continent today."

After another few breaths of silence, Zuo He finally spoke, directing his question at Chen Yan:

"How do you know that a reincarnated body of the Sage of Imperial Void once appeared on Chenping Continent?"

The overwhelming pressure radiating from the young man in dark black daoist robes showed no sign of diminishing. Chen Yan knew that every word he spoke now might be dancing on the blade's edge of death.

If his dao rhyme truly eroded away completely, what would happen?

True death, or being reassembled like a shattered soul and cast into another unfamiliar era?

Chen Yan didn't know, but he had no desire to find out right now.

"Because I have seen the living Sage of Imperial Void. When I passed through the Heavenly Summit Mirror back to the era of Tianji Continent, I recognized the Sage of Imperial Void's aura and cause and effect."

Chen Yan answered.

"Is that so?"

Zuo He said flatly:

"Then, how do you intend to prove it?"