Chapter 730: “Chaos” Comes From The Immortal Realm

Within the Tianxuan Mirror's space, Xu Bai’s mind churned as he listened to the metallic, mechanical voice coming from the mirror.

Even if the Tianxuan Mirror isn't the true body of the Xuantian Treasure Mirror, they must have an extremely close connection.

The Tianxuan Mirror came from the Xuantian Sect. Did the Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher come from there too?

Does he mean to avenge his sect's destruction at the hands of the Ten Immortal Dao Sects, all those years ago?

Then Xu Bai suddenly recalled that the Tianxuan Mirror had spawned secondary entities without pause for thousands of years.

Even with the Xuantian Sect long destroyed, the Execute Xuan secret art still detects the mirror's connection to it. Doesn't that prove the Tianxuan Mirror never fully escaped the Xuantian Sect's grasp?

So the Myriad Immortals Alliance spent all that effort hunting down the Xuantian Sect's Dharma King hidden in the Purple Firmament Sect for one reason: to seize full control over the Tianxuan Mirror.

And the root cause was that prophecy I made while disguised as a cultivator from the Heavenly Mechanisms Sect: "Tianxuan Soul-Locking, Xuanhuang unified."

Suddenly everything that had happened in this lifetime clicked into place.

Xu Bai could finally see past the surface, to the deep-seated reasons behind each event.

And now the Myriad Immortals Alliance greatly pushed for the Great Exploration Era, seemingly to force the Tianxuan Mirror to transform further. Does that mean the Alliance got its wish, and now controls the ultimate treasure the Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher left behind?

Xu Bai's gaze flickered.

He had once speculated that the true master hidden in the shadows of the Myriad Immortals Alliance was not any cultivator, but the Tianxuan Mirror itself.

But later, through a twist of fate, he learned of the Dao Imparters. From that, he deduced that the Dao Imparters and the Tianxuan Mirror held each other in check, jointly holding the reins of the Alliance.

Now it seems the cultivators won that struggle after all?

The figures of Shuo Feng and Lu Xichan flashed through Xu Bai's mind.

The Xuan family...

A sentence Lu Xuejing had said when she saw his true self echoed in his ears once more.

.....

"Which family are you from? Your face is unfamiliar! You wouldn't be a spy from the Five Elders Council, pretending to get close to Brother Shuo just to find out where the Tianxuan Mirror is, would you? You just don't look like a good person. Brother Shuo has never lied to me before..."

.....

Realization struck him like a bolt of lightning splitting the fog.

So that's how it is. Understanding settled in Xu Bai's eyes.

As the saying goes, "One party, no rivals" is the dream of a tyrant. "One party, no factions" is a fairy tale.[1] Not every cultivator stood with the Dao Imparters.

At the very least, based on what he knew now, the chief of the Strategy Array Hall, the Scarlet Snow Immortal Venerable, and the cultivators surnamed Xuan all sided with the Tianxuan Mirror.

The Dao Imparters were trying to use the Xuantian Sect’s methods to seize complete control of the mirror.

The cultivators loyal to the Tianxuan Mirror had to find a way to counter that. Perhaps they lacked the power to stop the Dao Imparters outright, so they chose another path: pushing the Tianxuan Mirror to complete its transformation, so it could resist the Xuantian Sect's secret arts.

But to make such a grand display, to mobilize the strength of nearly the entire Myriad Immortals Alliance to encourage cultivators to explore the White Mist—Xu Bai absolutely refused to believe this happened without the approval of the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s highest ruling class, the Dao Imparters themselves.

Unless, the order to explore the White Mist came from a will higher than theirs, one even the Dao Imparters couldn't defy. The Tianxuan Mirror would simply be leveraging that order to catch a favorable wind toward its own ascension.

And in this Xuanhuang world, the only one who can make the Dao Imparters lower their heads is...

Xu Bai's heart trembled violently as the chain of logic closed.

The Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher!

He didn’t leave? He’s still in the Xuanhuang World?

A suffocating pressure slammed into him. Xu Bai suddenly remembered that before the Great Exploration Era began, Liu San had already seen many cultivators from the Immortal Alliance venturing deep into the White Mist.

Back then, he had guessed the Alliance was searching for clues about "Chaos."

Now, connecting the pieces...

A wave of bone-deep dread washed over Xu Bai. That day, when I activated "Chaos," that vast divine sense that descended soon after... was that the Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher?

Then Xu Bai frowned slightly and refuted himself.

His performance that day had been flawless, but he didn't believe for a second he could have fooled the Dao Teacher's eyes.

Besides, too much time had passed between his activation of "Chaos" and the descent of that divine sense. If it truly were the Dao Teacher, a cultivator of his level would never react so slowly.

It must have been the "Chaos" unleashed during the clash with Ink Death that finally drew his attention.

Xu Bai's train of thought stopped cold.

Or perhaps... the Dao Teacher wasn't even in the Xuanhuang World at the time. My activation of "Chaos" might have been what lured him back...

This new notion sent another jolt of alarm through him.

He pondered the possibility over again and again, but could never rule it out entirely.

"Chaos" is powerful, it seems, but not something to use carelessly.

Getting away once was luck. If there's a next time...

Back when he had faced the Heavenly Physician, he had nearly failed to activate Return to Truth.

If the Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher, who had dominated the Xuanhuang World for millennia, appeared in person, Xu Bai had no confidence he could activate Return to Truth under his nose.

Better to save it as a last resort. Xu Bai cursed inwardly.

Another thought crossed his mind: assuming his guesses were right, if the Dao Teacher, who had already achieved eternal life and transcended worldly matters, remained so fixated on "Chaos"...

Could “Chaos” also be a True Immortal’s legacy?

Xu Bai's heart leaped at this possibility.

The scenes he had witnessed in the Lost Domain replayed rapidly in his mind.

The grotesque, horrifying corpses strewn across the ground. The stele carved with the word "Chaos" at the center of that domain.

A guess surfaced in his heart.

That cultivation world in the Lost Domain was destroyed because of "Chaos."

And that "Chaos" came from... the Immortal Realm!

As for why that contorted monster mistook me for Heavenly Severer, Old Man Fisher, and claimed the killer was the Heavenly Physician...

Xu Bai suddenly recalled what Sovereign Tapir Tertius had once said to Lu Ya.

Sometimes, even what you see with your own eyes isn't necessarily the truth.

Under the influence of "Chaos," mistaken identity isn't out of the question.

Back at Cloudwater Palace, when Heavenly Severer, the Heavenly Physician, and Heavenly Decree faced off, Heavenly Severer himself admitted to slaughtering everyone in the palace.

The same might have happened in the Lost Domain.

The Lifespan-Devouring White Mist is full of bizarre, anomalous phenomena. Hard to say whether "Chaos" plays a part in that too.

"Chaos" didn't just appear in the Xuanhuang World. It seems to have manifested in other cultivation worlds as well.

It may have even created boundless calamities.

That's likely why the Dao Teacher, the current Myriad Immortals Alliance, and the Five Elders Council are all so concerned about it.

While Xu Bai was lost in thought, Li Fan, who had also been staring blankly inside Longevity Valley, was shaken awake by Liu San.

"Young Master, so is the Tianxuan Mirror related to the Xuantian Sect?" he asked.

1. 所谓党外无党，帝王思想；党内无派，千奇百怪。Means no monopoly on power is truly absolute, and no organization is ever truly united. ☜

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