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Chapter 1739: Space Travelers
The outside realm was incredibly vast—infinitely bigger than the Land of Reincarnation. As strong as Qing Buyi was and as loud as his voice was, it reached less than a hundred millionth of the outside realm.
However, word traveled fast in the realm, much faster than his voice could. His threat was swiftly disseminated and met with derision by some, indifference by others.
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Of course, Lu Yun remained completely unaware of what happened in the outside realm. He only knew that he wanted to stick his thumb up to Qing Buyi’s roar to the outside realm. Mo Yi, the Dao King, and Lin Mo looked blankly at each other when they heard the furious proclamation.
“Who… are Qing Buyi and Chen Xiao?” the Dao King asked dumbly.
“I don’t know,” Mo Yi shook her head. “They seem to be well acquainted with me…”
“I saw them in the thirty-three loops, but I always automatically ignored them,” Lu Yun frowned tightly and addressed the demon in the Tome of Life and Death. “Do you know them?”
As the guardian of this land and overseer of the operations of reincarnation, the demon of immortal dao held the right to initiate the great devastation, ending this cycle to start the next. He possessed all of his memories from every loop so he wouldn’t lose himself.
“Chen Xiao? Qing Buyi?” The demon was immensely enjoying his days inside the treasure. Here, nothing in the Land of Reincarnation was his responsibility. It was also a real world within the Tome of Life and Death. Using the Imperial Seal for his home, the demon constructed the world in an orderly fashion and even created some simple life forms.
While his actions might be boring and dull to others, he was highly entertained by them and never grew tired of what he was doing.
“They’re very strange.” The demon manifested as a middle-aged man in black robes. He sat on the Imperial Seal in deep thought. “They were very normal in all of the previous loops—troublemakers and good-for-nothings in Nephrite Major of the world of immortals. But in this loop, they suddenly became aberrations.”
“Sudden aberrations like me?” Lu Yun blinked. The demon had mentioned only three anomalies before, he hadn’t said anything about the two.
“No, you’re an anomaly within the cycle, but those two have exceeded this Land of Reincarnation and become existences I can’t see through.” The demon frowned. “I once considered getting rid of them since they’re unstable factors, but their primary bodies left long ago and have gone to the outside world. What you see now is projections of their will.”
“When did they leave?” Lu Yun raised his brows.
“When you and Qing Yu followed the Bridge of Forgetfulness into the fourth realm.” The demon thought further. “There’s something very different about those two. I would’ve overlooked them if you hadn’t asked me.”
Lu Yun nodded and asked no further.
“Don’t ask around about me or Chen Xiao.” Qing Buyi landed from the air. “And don’t worry, no one will stir up any trouble in the next eight hundred years. But you need to be careful and protect her, even at the cost of your own life!” He glanced at Mo Yi. “The future of darkness that Mo Yi and Ah Zhi derived three years ago is just a trick from the reincarnation inspector. You can ignore it.
“Everyone’s destiny follows a trajectory, but destinies are not fixed in stone. The fate of a realm cannot be calculated. The dao of destiny is that of living beings, not of a world or realm.” A very solemn expression was present on his face. “As for Chen Xiao and I… we’re space travelers, that’s all I can say.”
Lu Yun nodded and committed the term to memory. The demon also listened blankly; he had no idea what space travelers were. Mo Yi and the Dao King were impassive, and Lin Mo had already returned to Fairylands.
“Alright, that inspector won’t interfere with your thoughts anymore, not with me standing guard here. If he does, I’ll kill him.” Qing Buyi looked in a certain direction in the void, a place where a tiny ripple was dissipating.
“Do I know this reincarnation inspector?” Lu Yun asked.
“Yes,” Qing Buyi nodded. “You call each other brother, which is why he’s only slightly interfered with a lot of things and never really taken action. It’s what he did with Mo Yi and Ah Zhi’s calculations.”
“My brother…?” Lu Yun blinked rapidly, going through a short list of names in his mind.
Wu Tulong, Dongfang Hao, and Zi Chen had once been his closest friends. They’d all entered the Firmament Prison together to reform the void cultivation realm and Dongfang Hao had later on become the heir to the divine race. He’d put Wu Tulong and Zi Chen under his control, but that had ended when all karmic repercussions were resolved in full. Every one of them was their own person now, and Dongfang Hao was the new ruler of Exalted Major.
Apart from them, it would be the Six Royals that Lu Yun had befriended in the chaos. Ying Luo, Wang Shu, You Huoran, Li Xue, and Wei Yuan. These days, they were pivotal characters in the sacred land of immortal dao in the chaos, second to only the palace monarchs. Their cultivation had long since reached the third realm and they were true kings.
The chaos was no longer at odds with the Hongmeng, so they didn’t need to pierce through the barrier to ascend to the third realm. While the worlds were flawed, they continued to expand and assimilate the second and third realms.
There was one more aside from them—Jin Gushen!
He was still training under the Metal Potentate after being taken away. He remained separate from all of the struggles of the third realm, and it was because of him that Lu Yun had shown mercy to the potentates. The Metal Potentate truly viewed Jin Gushen as his disciple and taught him with care.
Lu Yun had a few other friends as well, such as Hua Feng, Ling Weiyang, and Bai Zhaoju. He assessed all of the possibilities, but couldn’t identify who the inspector might be.
“Alright, don’t beat your brains out over it. You’ll know if the inspector wants you to know.” Qing Buyi smiled and waved the young man off. He’d won another three hundred years for his brother-in-law thanks to the Esteemed Nebula’s incursion. It wasn’t that Qing Buyi didn’t want to be more involved, but that he couldn’t be.
The outside realm was too vast and there were too many powerhouses. He could handle one or two people, but it would be courting death if he set himself against the entire realm. One could not hold back a flood, so he could only vie for as much extra time for Lu Yun as he could.
Eight hundred years wasn’t a long time; it was just a nap to those stunning heavyweights.