Chapter 545: Shielding

Sensing that someone was peering at them across time, the atmosphere in the Immortal Realm suddenly grew tense.

"Could it be that the Immortal of Time wants to see how long we'll play chess before using the Dao Fruit of Time?" the Immortal Qilin said with a strange expression, though he also felt that taking several months to make a single move in Five-in-a-Row was a bit excessive.

The three Immortals fell silent for a moment, all feeling that this was indeed possible.

"Fairy, can they see us?" Lu Yang was truly startled. He was separated from the three Immortals by 300,000 years, and what he was seeing was merely a reflection of history. To be able to detect his presence under such circumstances was simply too terrifying, wasn't it?

The Immortal Fairy glanced at Lu Yang. "Don't flatter yourself. It's that they sensed *my* presence."

If the three Immortals could have detected Lu Yang with his cultivation base, they would have sensed him from the very beginning of the historical reflection.

Not to mention that Mr. Tian Kui, whose cultivation was far higher than Lu Yang's, hadn't caused the three Immortals to react at all.

"As for 'seeing,' only the Immortal of Time can see us in the future from the past. The three of them, including the Immortal Ying Ying Tian, only sensed something vaguely; they couldn't even sense who exactly was watching them."

Even so, Lu Yang felt that Immortals were terrifying enough.

So, not all Immortals were like the Immortal Fairy.

The Immortal Fairy suspected that Lu Yang had highly disrespectful thoughts about her, but she had no evidence.

The Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong pondered for a moment, considering another possibility.

"It might not be the Immortal of Time. It's possible that an Immortal from later generations saw us across endless years. After all, at the speed you two play chess, we three have to stay here for a hundred years, which is enough to generate a reflection of history."

"You mean an Immortal saw our historical reflection?"

"Indeed, that is a possibility. Nowadays, there are only four of us Immortals, and a whole bunch of semi-Immortals, none of whom are promising enough to become Immortals. It would be perfectly normal for a few Immortals to appear in the long years to come."

The three laughed heartily; if a few more Immortals appeared in the future, perhaps they could share the suffering brought by the Immortal Fairy.

"Hey, Immortal Jiu Chong, Ying Ying Tian, Qilin, can you hear me?" the Immortal Fairy shouted, releasing her aura and attempting to transmit it across.

When she first watched the historical reflection, the Immortal Ying Ying Tian hadn't sensed her either; it was only when she unconsciously leaked her aura while saying she wanted to punish the mastermind behind the scenes that the Immortal Ying Ying Tian sensed her existence.

"This aura..."

The Immortal Ying Ying Tian and the others instantly became vigilant. This aura was flickering, like incense about to burn out, nearly non-existent, yet they could still sense the other party's existence based on this faint trace.

"This aura is ███!"

The three reacted simultaneously.

The Immortal Fairy had beaten them from childhood to adulthood, and after becoming Immortals, they were blown up all day long. Even now, they were hiding here because of the Immortal Fairy.

They couldn't be more familiar with this aura!

Huang Dou Dou, it was definitely Huang Dou Dou!

Immediately, cold sweat broke out on their backs. They hadn't spoken ill of Huang Dou Dou just now, had they?

Phew, they probably hadn't.

"Can you three hear me?"

The Immortal Fairy tried several times, but seeing that the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong and the others still didn't react, she shook her head and gave up with regret.

It seemed they couldn't hear her speak.

Lu Yang frowned. After the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong and the others noticed the future Immortal Fairy, they should have spoken the Immortal Fairy's name, but he only saw the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong opening his mouth with no sound, and the lip movements didn't match the Immortal Fairy either.

"That's a brutal shielding."

In this context, replacing the Immortal Fairy with the Immortal of Time was a huge loophole that even a fool could see through; shielding it directly and crudely was actually more convenient.

"Don't you find it strange? ███ has been releasing her aura constantly. Is there something she wants to convey to us?"

The Immortal Ying Ying Tian frowned, fiddling with a chess piece in his hand. He thought the Immortal Fairy had seen their historical reflection by accident and, out of a desire to tease them, had released her aura.

If that were the case, releasing it once would have been enough; why release it so many times in a row?

Was she addicted to playing, or did she want to convey information, but the time gap was too long to transmit it?

If it were the latter, why have the Immortal Fairy transmit the information? Wouldn't it be more effective to have the Immortal of Time do it?

Wait, could it be that an accident occurred in the future, and the Immortal of Time couldn't transmit information?

"Immortal Jiu Chong, go call Time over and have him see what the situation is. I suspect ███ has something to ask of us!"

"Also, don't let ███ know about this," the Immortal Qilin added. No one knew what would happen if the past and future Immortal Fairies met—whether it would open a time tunnel, or if they would vanish on the spot in a massive explosion; no one knew.

"Alright."

Without the Immortal Ying Ying Tian and the Immortal Qilin needing to say more, the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong could think of these things himself.

The Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong turned into a streak of light, tearing through space. One step covered thousands of light-years. He crossed countless galaxies and arrived at the North Star, which was managed by the Immortal Fairy.

On the North Star, immortal energy swirled; even a mortal could prolong their life and eliminate all illnesses by taking a single breath.

He saw countless cultivators kneeling by the river, kowtowing three times and bowing nine times to the statue of the Immortal Fairy standing by the bank, before respectfully scooping up a bowl of river water.

This was a specialty of the North Star: the Child-Mother River and the Twin River.

When he arrived at the Immortal Fairy's immortal mansion, he saw the Immortal Fairy exchanging cooking tips in the kitchen with the Immortal Qilin's two wives, while the Immortal of Time sat restlessly, likely looking for an excuse to escape.

"Oh, Immortal Jiu Chong is back. Finished chopping the Wutong wood?" The Immortal Fairy poked her head out, her face covered in flour, smiling as she peeked from the kitchen.

The Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong was so startled he froze on the spot.

He had tried his best to shield his aura, but he hadn't expected the Immortal Fairy to discover him anyway.

"Finished, but it took quite a bit of effort." He was someone who had seen great storms, so he reacted quickly, putting down the Wutong wood he was carrying on his shoulder.

"Thank you for your hard work, Big Brother Immortal Jiu Chong." The Phoenix Clan genius giggled and moved the Wutong wood into the kitchen, after which continuous dragon roars and phoenix cries came from the kitchen; no one knew what they were cooking.

The Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong said loudly, "When Ying Ying Tian and Qilin, those two lousy chess players, were playing, I don't know who cheated, insisting they hadn't made that move just now. Time, you go over and help settle the argument."

The Immortal of Time looked at the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong with gratitude. *Good brother, it wasn't in vain that I let you have the glory of being the first to become an Immortal. *

"Alright, I'm going."

Immediately, the Immortal of Time realized something was wrong. He saw the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong's solemn expression; it didn't look like he was helping him escape, but rather that there was something else he needed help with.

What could require his help while specifically bypassing the Immortal Fairy?

The Immortal of Time vaguely realized that something had happened.

The two Immortals who had become Immortals first crossed the infinite galaxies and returned the way they came, moving even faster than the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong had on his own.

On the way, after hearing the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong's description, the Immortal of Time's expression turned solemn, and he didn't say a word.

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