"Otherworlder, the Time Immemorial Sect will hunt you down like the dog that you are!"
Elder Dan spat out as he continued to send messages for help through his medallion, but the sain ranked Grand Elder Amos could not find them!
Would this really be where the great Elder Dan faced his death? A terrifying thought passed through the Elder's mind as he looked at the other Transcendent Realm Elder and the disciples they protected. Their power could not stand against a Saint Realm individual, and thus it was very likely that they would face death in the hands of these unscrupulous otherworlders!
Elder Dan was unreconciled as his body shone brightly, ready to give it his all as he valiantly turned around to face the enemies while he gave the others a chance to escape.
"Elder Dan!"
"Elder!"
Heartfelt shouts rang out as the valiant Elder dashed towards the group of Magi, seeing Black Serpent's huge form chuckling as it opened its jaws wide to swallow him up.
'Sigh, forgive me Grand Elder.'
He let out a valiant shout as he prepared for death, but death would not be coming for him today.
OONG!
Space trembled as a small black dot appeared between the forces of Magi and Elder Dan, and from this small black dot, numerous Dragonoid heads erupted out.
It was a scene of horror as the terrifying heads were mixed with all sorts of colors, the only issue is that there were too many of them! They stretched out from the black dot endlessly in long lines as their poisonous jaws weaved in the space towards the terrified Magi who found out they could not move!
Around them, transparent cages were locking them in space, making them completely unable to move as the numerous Dragonoid heads attached to continuously strengthening necks neared them and snapped their jaws shut, forever swallowing their bodies.
"OOOOH!"
Black Serpent let out a wild shout as he tried to summon the Serpent Ancestor, but found to his horror that he could not activate his abilities. Without his knowledge, something else besides the tens of Dragonoid heads that had stretched out from the small black dot in space, rapidly constricting his large body as he felt himself losing control every second.
"Wai-"
CRUNCH!
Numerous bones cracked in throughout his body as the last thing he saw was enveloping darkness from numerous poisonous jaws.
Elder Dan's heart trembled as he viewed the monstrosity in front of him, not being able to move as he observed the tens of ferocious heads that were attached to powerful and even more numerous tentacles. An absurd monstrosity that only released these features from a single black dot in space had completely devoured the party of multiple Magi who held a Saint Realm Magus in the lead!
Elder Dan did not know what to do as he tried to calm his fear, seeing the many long heads eerily turn their eyes towards him as the tens of tentacles rapidly receded into the small black dot.
"Th-thank you, Esteemed Sir!"
Elder Dan stuttered out a reply as he felt the auras of the other Elders of the Time Immemorial Sect, quickly going to join them as they tried to get out this monstrosity's side as soon as possible.
The monstrosity, or really Noah, looked forth curiously as he wondered why the Magi he had saved before were hunting down cultivators. Seeing their voracious gazes as they hunted down those weaker than them, he simply moved and wiped them out as he tested one of his first Saint Ranked skills he synthesized during his month-long training.
From the combination of the Transcendent rank [The Calamitous Leviathan] and [Violet Immemorial Second Stage- Sands of Time], and later with the combination of the Transcendent+ [Violet Immemorial Third Stage-Cage of Time], he had been able to produce a skill that was proficient in controlling space while dealing a tremendous amount of damage from an obscene amount of heads and tentacles.
SAINT [Aberrant Saint] :: From a single point in space, the terror of a calamitous monstrosity blooms. Capable of growing up to 100 heads and tentacles that strangle and hold the user's enemies in powerful Spatial Locks the moment they are discovered as targets.
It was a powerful skill, one that he would soon be able to combine into a Saint+ skill the moment he made the time to train in the Time Space some more. His gaze was on the ability of Spatial Locks as he smiled first at the abundant amount of information he had found from the memories of the Devilish Time Unveiler.
Secrets about the powers of the World of Cultivation that very few beings knew, as well as a possible solution that would lead him to obtain the power that would allow him to break free of a space being locked down, something that had occurred twice to him now and nearly cost him his life.
He perused the memories of the beings from the Magus world first as he already looked ahead to future plans. They would involve one of the three Supreme Sects of the World of Cultivation, the sect where the Devilish Time Unveiler originated, and the place which would provide Noah with the power he was looking for!
Chapter 250 - Who are you, really?
Celestial Drax was moving through the trembling Devilish Abode with confusion and doubt. From the fluctuations of space, he could observe that this Devilish Abode did not have too long before it folded in itself and collapsed!
But this did not make sense, as it would make his mission unachievable. His master would never hand him a mission he could not accomplish, so there was a swirl of confusing thoughts as he wagered whether to teleport out of this space and abandon his mission of looking for the Cursed Item.
The Punisher by his side stood strong as his power was ready to burst out at any moment. Drax was about to give the command to continue searching the abode a bit longer, when another command traveled through space and struck his head as fast as lightning.
OONG
"Come back!"
Golden fluctuations erupted as a thin light of light descended down the young Celestial's head and he received his head. He was shocked to hear his master's voice ring out with such sternness, and did not waste a single second a golden light wrapped both him and the punisher, their figures turning into golden particles of light as they disappeared.
They both appeared on a location known by very few not too far from the World of Cultivation where a vibrant blue gateway was standing vibrantly. The young Celestial Drax pulled out a medallion that activated the mechanism, allowing both him and the Punisher to be sent to the location they called home.
In the peacefully rotating star that was one of the core bases of the Celestials, the young Celestial Disciple appeared before his master again as he sank to his kneed right away.
"I have failed my task, Grandmaster!"
He kept his head low as he atoned for not achieving what he was assigned to do, while the Grandmaster in front of him looked forward with a mysterious expression.
"Someone has interfered with the workings of fate."
Shocking words were the only thing the young Celestial heard as what he heard shook him to his core! An interference with the workings of fate? That was something that very few could do!
He held skills like the Eye of Fate that could somewhat influence fate for a brief period of time, but he could never hope to interfere with the workings of fate with his level of power. So what exactly did his master mean?
"The things I foresaw were changed entirely, to the point where even you lost your life."
The Grandmaster continued to speak slowly as his aged body that let out maddening levels of power stood up to water the colorful Medicinal Plants all around the mystical monastery they were on. His aged voice turned serious as he continued.
"The one responsible for the interference is extremely adept, as they are causing the unraveling of Order from very small but important changes. I have only just begun using the Celestial Eye to observe the possible future changes and…"
He stopped watering the Medicinal Plants as his eyes gazed towards an unknown location deep on the planet they stood on.
"...in many of the possible futures, there
is a rise of a new {Infernal Lord} that will disrupt much of the Order and Balance we have strived to keep."
BOOM!
It felt like an explosion occurred in the mind of the young Celestial as he stood up and looked forward in shock, the words coming out of the Grandmaster being so shocking that even someone of his level was terrified.
An Infernal Lord?!
"This cannot be allowed to happen. I will begin sending messages soon to assemble our forces, with our first action being the recruitment of more powerhouses and moving up the Infernal Hunt a hundred years earlier than planned."
The aged Grandmaster said the words slowly as his attention fully turned towards the shocked disciple.
"This unraveling occurred in the World of Cultivation, and the traces of the one being used to alter fate might still be there. When things are in place, you will be accompanied by your fellow disciples back into this World, where you all will participate in the Infernal Hunt through our proxy there."
The young Celestial Drax felt his heart shake as he faced the gaze of his master, quickly rising up as he placed his right hand above his left chest and affirmed the words he just heard.
"Yes, Grandmaster. For Order and Balance!"
The words of his master continued to pass through his mind as his heart trembled at the thought of their significance. A rise of a new Infernal Lord! This was a terrifying thought, as even the current ones that were active in the Realms of Hell were tyrannical beings that only brought destruction to anything they set their eyes to.
To prevent the rise of any new Infernal Lords, there was a commitment among many of the major powers in the Universe to routinely conduct a dangerous Infernal Hunt in the First Realm of Hell where almost all the current Infernal Lords had their beginnings.
He had never gotten the chance to go to one before, but this chance had been moved up by a whole century because of the alteration of fate. His mind thought back to the World of Cultivation that he had just left, as he looked forward more than ever to get back to it. Chaotic undercurrents were beginning to flow slowly, and he would be one of those at the very center of it!
Celestial Drax's gaze was strong and confident as he took his leave from the monastery to prepare.
The Grandmaster looked at this disciple as his dangerous eyes flashed with golden light, his gaze turning to the skies as he pierced through the layers of space and observed a world quite a distance away.
'Which imbecile would interfere with fate at such a crucial juncture?'
Many thoughts and possibilities passed through the mind of the Grandmaster as he thought of the Cursed Item that would have served to bring even more order in the Universe, and this item being lost in the wind once more.
'Hmph, no matter what schemes are concocted in the dark, what are they but mere distractions when it comes to our power?'
A golden light of confidence shone throughout the monastery as the Grandmaster thought this simple thought, the surroundings releasing a burst of essence and glowing gold as if agreeing to his thoughts!
Confidence!
Utter and absolute confidence!
This was a sort of confidence that only came to those who believe in the surety of their power as the existence of the stars in the stellar space.
'Any who try to destroy Order will fall, this time will not be any different.'
The Grandmaster took his radiant Watering Can that released a rainbow-colored liquid filled with an overabundance of essence as he went back to watering the numerous Medicinal Plants peacefully, a scene of peace playing out on one of the Celestial Stars.
Chapter 251 - Who are you, really? II
Back in the World of Cultivation, a multitude of thoughts bloomed in Noah's mind as he delved into the memories of the beings from the Magus World, his eyes being opened up once more to the many things he did not know of in this universe.
There was an abundant amount of information, but the one holding most importance was the reason why the Saint Ranked Black Serpent was leading a force of Magi to kill and obtain the bodies of Cultivators
Black Serpent belonged to one of the central powers of the Magus World. Shockingly, this central power actually held grand designs of power that involved the use of the bodies of cultivators!
Noah connected the things he continued to peruse through his memories with a being he had recently come in contact with, the Celestial who was given the mission to obtain the Dagger of Time that he had taken for himself.
The Celestial had come with a protector that was known as a Punisher, and those like the Devilish Time Unveiler knew more information, like the fact that the Punishers were all beings of the Elven Race turned under the command of the Celestials with no will of their own.
Shockingly, one of the powers of the Magus World was trying to build up a force similar to the Punishers, with their research allowing them to use the bodies of Cultivators as the base for their new creations! It was a grand scheme that was already underway, with many Transcendent Rank puppets in the hundreds already being made successfully, and those of higher rank slowly increasing.
Noah pondered these new set of events as they did not take center stage of his attention even now, his mind already set on getting his hands on the powerful skill that would allow him to always escape whenever he wished, even with spatial locks in place. This was one of the first steps he was taking as he gradually, and carefully, increased his power. This would require him to spend some time in one the most powerful sects on the World of Cultivation, the Profound Astral Sect.
This Sect was the origin of the Devilish Time Unveiler, and also the place that held a skill which even the Devilish Unveiler did not get his hands on before he left the sect. Coming to the subject of the old schemer, Noah gave another look at the many Saint Ranked cores and skills that burst out of him. Even though the schemer used to be at the rank above Saint in his prime, he was only at the Saint Rank when Noah killed him, and the rewards reflected that.
If he had waited for the Devilish Time Unveiler to achieve his wishes and obtain his cultivation at the Void Fimmerment Realm, only a repeat of horrendous events would occur again.
Many of the skill books were the skills he had seen the Devilish Unveiler use himself, and they would only serve as great addition of skills he could use to combine with his [Abberant Saint] as they were of the space attribute.
This wasn't to mention the cores and skills obtained from the recently defeated Saint Ranked Magus, which gave skills that fit the attack attribute of the future skills he planned to combine.
Many of the things he had planned for were falling in place, with the addition of even more that he hadn't thought about before. He remained careful as his figure teleported from the Devilish Abode, having roamed in it as long as he could but still not being able to find the other target he was looking for, the Celestial Disciple.
He appeared above a large mountain that was surrounded by multiple peaks, the location of the Main Peak of the Karmic Sect that he had been led to when he first arrived in the World of Cultivation.
He had already used [Insight] to test the possibilities of events when it came to the mysterious Sect Master Inuit who had always been his helper, and yet he still did not understand enough information about him. The results from [Insight] were a huge surprise to him, as they portrayed what he was watching now in an eerie fashion.
In the Karmic Sect he had seen before that was filled with thousands of disciples training and moving about on each of the peaks surrounding the main peak, there was only silence and quietness.
The peaks surrounding the mountain he was standing on looked deserted, as if nobody had been there to begin with. Even the main peak he stood on only held a single elevated platform that stood out, everything else surrounded by trees and vegetation.
The Karmic Sect that he had seen with his own eyes, as well as many of its disciples, was nowhere to be found!
In the only elevated platform that stood out, a single aged old man with
a calm smile was sitting down in deep meditation. Noah's entrance seemed to have caused a change as the wizened Sect Master Inuit opened his blank eyes towards Noah.
Having seen some of the possibilities through [Insight], Noah was not too worried, as this was also the same being who had saved him from certain death in the Lost World of Atlantis. He just wanted to understand his motives. He gazed at the serene face of the being he knew as 'Sect Master Inuit' as he asked.
"Who are you, really?"
A bright smile bloomed on the face of the old man in front of Noah as his blank eyes focused on him.
"I am only an old thing, a nobody that is still trying to follow some principles."
Noah nodded at the usual obscure answer as he also sat down and asked.
"You knew of what would happen in the Devilish Abode?"
A nod came as the 'Sect Master Inuit' waved his hands and allowed a teapot with two steaming cups of tea to appear between the two of them.
"Yes. It was something you had to go through yourself without any help. You were able to do it successfully, and thus we have been able to initiate a change that will only perforate into something grander as time passes. I could not force my influence in it too much, as that would have been a cause for an entirely different set of results."
Noah sipped on the fragrant tea in front of him as the old man continued.
"There are no save points or take-backs from now on though, and it all lays on your shoulders. The tools you have should be more than enough for you to proceed with a certain degree of certainty and success though, otherwise I would not have bothered."
As they were talking, Noah noticed the figure of the old man gradually becoming more and more transparent, as if he would fade away at any moment. He looked at this as he asked.
"You won't even tell me who you are or what exactly you want?"
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