Chapter 833

Upon seeing the Time-Seeking Immortal Token, Lu Yang was stunned for a moment.

What is going on? Is the Time Immortal nearby?

Lu Yang landed, and the Time-Seeking Immortal Token became increasingly hot.

He looked around; after the successive self-destructions, the Xitian Temple had become a ruin, with only the Mahavira Hall remaining—though it was teetering, it had not collapsed.

Is there something strange about the Mahavira Hall?

Lu Yang walked straight toward the Mahavira Hall, and the gradually rising temperature of the seeking token confirmed his guess.

Master Ming Yu secretly thought things were looking bad and anxiously followed behind Lu Yang: "Immortal Venerable, Immortal Venerable, you cannot go there."

Lu Yang turned a deaf ear, ignoring Master Ming Yu's dissuasion, and walked to the front of the Mahavira Hall, where a voice came from within.

"Ming Yu, this person is an old friend of mine. I shall reminisce with him; you go ahead and handle the aftermath."

"Yes." Upon hearing that voice, Ming Yu's attitude underwent a 180-degree turn; he no longer blocked Lu Yang and turned to leave.

Having just experienced a great battle, people were in a state of panic, and he indeed needed to step forward to stabilize them.

Lu Yang heard the voice from inside the Mahavira Hall, and his heartbeat quickened slightly.

This was the voice of the Time Immortal; the Time Immortal was right here.

But if the Time Immortal was in the Mahavira Hall, why hadn't the Immortal Fairy discovered it earlier?

Lu Yang put the Azure Edge Sword into his identity jade token and walked into the Mahavira Hall.

Stepping into the hall, a refreshing fragrance rushed to his nose—it was a scent mixed with sandalwood and lotus. The space inside the hall was spacious, and in the very center was enshrined a huge golden Buddha statue, standing several tens of meters high, with a compassionate face and eyes slightly closed, as if contemplating the truths of the world.

The surroundings of the Buddha statue were decorated with exquisite murals depicting many stories from the World-Honored One's life, each painting vivid and captivating.

The golden Buddha statue opened its eyes and stepped down from the lotus platform, while its body shrank, becoming the height of an ordinary person. Although its expression remained compassionate, its face had changed, looking like someone in their early twenties.

The golden Buddha statue examined Lu Yang carefully, its gaze fixed on the wooden token on Lu Yang's chest: "You just used the embryonic form of the Immortal Dao Fruit; where did you get it?"

"Time, you are still alive?!"

The Immortal Fairy's voice rang out from Lu Yang's body, and she excitedly emerged from within him.

Seeing the Immortal Fairy, the Time Immortal was equally incredibly excited: "Immortal, you really have been resurrected?"

"Mm, it was Little Yangzi... Lu Yang who resurrected me!"

Little Yangzi? The Time Immortal was stunned for a moment; what kind of strange nickname was that?

Immediately, the Time Immortal looked at Lu Yang, his expression solemn, and he uttered two words with gravity: "Thank you."

"It's, it's nothing, it was just a coincidence."

Although every time he first met Jiang Lianyi, Ao Ling, and Ying Tian Xian, they would solemnly thank him upon learning that he had resurrected the Immortal Fairy, this kind of treatment still made Lu Yang feel somewhat unaccustomed.

"A coincidence is enough." Things they had strived for for a hundred thousand years without success, Lu Yang had achieved. Regardless of whether it was a coincidence, this was a tremendous favor.

Seeing the wooden token hanging on Lu Yang's chest, the Time Immortal recalled the past and sighed in his heart. Back then, when he saw a part of himself on Lu Yang through the time channel, he had guessed whether his future self had met with an accident.

He had been extremely careful, yet in the end, his guess was confirmed; he really had met with an accident.

"By the way, Time, how are you still alive?"

The Time Immortal had a strange expression; was this the question one should ask upon meeting?

However, thinking of the Immortal Fairy's personality, asking such a blunt question was within reason.

"How much do you know about the Salary Fire Dynasty?"

"The Salary Fire Dynasty? We've met Lianyi, Little Ling, and Ying Tian; we know just about everything regarding the Salary Fire Dynasty."

"You've met Ying Tian? Where is he now?"

"He lives in the Ancient Ring small world, and the Ancient Ring is in the hands of a disciple of the Laurel Immortal Palace."

"So that's how it is. When I obtained the Heaven-Opening Axe, I thought he had met with an accident. As long as he's alive, that's good."

"Since you've met Ying Tian, you know just about everything regarding the Salary Fire Dynasty. Whatever he knows, I know; there's nothing left to tell."

"I heard from Ying Tian that you were ambushed during the late period of the Salary Fire Dynasty. Who did it?"

The Time Immortal shook his head gently: "I don't know, but it must have been one of the three of them—Ying Tian, the others. Someone among them was possessed by the mastermind!"

"You can use the Time Dao Fruit to perform time regression; who could ambush you?"

Recalling the scene from thirty thousand years ago, the Time Immortal slowly exhaled, his expression solemn: "My Dao Fruit was interfered with, making it impossible to perform time regression. I suspect the mastermind's Dao Fruit is also related to time."

The Immortal Fairy was puzzled: "Also related to time? How is that possible? You possess a time-type Dao Fruit; how could he also have one?"

"I don't know about that; this is just my intuition. Perhaps other Dao Fruits can also influence time regression."

"And then?"

"After I was ambushed, I was severely wounded, and my Jianmu body was beyond saving. I had no choice but to abandon the Jianmu body, have my soul leave the body, and leap thousands of years through time, arriving at the Great Qian period. However, I didn't stay in Great Qian, but chose to head to the Western Regions."

The Year Beast can leap through time, so the Time Immortal naturally could as well.

"With my physical body gone and only my soul remaining, if I were to run into the Annihilation Immortal or the mastermind, I wouldn't even have the strength to fight back."

"In order to reshape my true body, I established a Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions, hiding within the Buddha statue in the Mahavira Hall of this Xitian Temple. Only the successive abbots of the Xitian Temple knew of my existence."

"This Mahavira Hall is constructed using the power of incense, forming a small world within, which can evade the perception of the Annihilation Immortal."

It was perfectly normal for the Mahavira Hall to have flourishing incense, so it wouldn't arouse suspicion.

"In the Buddhist kingdom, I advocated that Buddhist cultivators should beg for alms to shape golden bodies for the Buddhas. Through subtle influence, this became one of the cultivation methods for Buddhist cultivators."

"The act of Buddhist cultivators shaping golden bodies for the Buddhas generates the power of incense, and as the Buddha, I absorb this portion of incense."

"During this period, I accidentally picked up Ying Tian Xian's Heaven-Opening Axe, using it as the Xitian Temple's treasure to conceal my existence."

"Whenever the Xitian Temple encountered danger, I would divine the future and let them use the Heaven-Opening Axe at the most appropriate time to overcome the crisis."

"I observe that this young friend Lu Yang's immortal body is also condensed using the power of incense, but it cannot be maintained for a long time, nor can it leave the Buddhist kingdom."

"This kind of body cannot withstand high-intensity combat." Speaking of this, the Time Immortal paused, his eyes looking at Lu Yang with great envy.

"Of course, that is on the premise that young friend Lu Yang does not have the embryonic form of the Immortal Dao Fruit."

"In order to shape a permanent immortal body, I have been accumulating power."

"The accumulation of incense is a long process, and waiting is very boring, so I would randomly perform time leaps—leaping a few years, a dozen years, or decades is all possible. Every time I leaped to a time node, I would have the abbot of the Xitian Temple tell me what had happened over those years."

"Until just now, during a time transition, I sensed Ming Yu calling me, saying that the Xitian Temple was in a great crisis. I also sensed the fluctuations of the embryonic form of the Time Dao Fruit and the embryonic form of the Immortal Dao Fruit at the other end of time, which is why I leaped to the current time node."