Chapter 418 The Ancient and Modern Recorder (29)

Endless seas of clouds appeared around Su Chen, yet what coiled about him was not lightning but countless crystalline, glittering threads.

Karmic ties… grudges… merits and faults… destiny…

All the affairs of living beings took concrete form at this moment.

Su Chen closed the Book of Karma in his hands.

He had understood one thing.

To become a True Immortal was to leap beyond the Five Elements, existing outside past and future.

In other words, once one became a True Immortal, one possessed uniqueness across the nodes of past, present, and future on the current timeline.

True Immortals already possessed the characteristic of immortality, yet that immortality was still incomplete. It was limited to a single spacetime. Different spacetimes held different possibilities. All the shattered fragments of spacetime were the countless possibilities that had evolved from the shattering of that once-complete spacetime.

Why had Su Chen never heard of an Immortal King being born, yet later a Lord of Primus had appeared?

The countless possibilities that evolved from the shattered spacetimes had given everyone a chance.

A so-called Immortal King was unique across spacetime. It was not that one proved the Dao of Immortal King and thereby became one; rather, one was already an Immortal King, and thus could become an Immortal King!

Originally, there had been no variables, and none could exist. That was why so many True Immortal giants simply idled away their days until they lost themselves. They knew that no matter what they did, they could never become Immortal Kings. In the eyes of Immortal Kings, their struggles were nothing more than farces.

Knowing the truth, they fell into despair.

Yet now the complete spacetime had shattered. The uniqueness of Immortal Kings had developed a flaw. The original closed loop of beginning and end had undergone a change, causing spacetime to lose its uniqueness. True Immortals who originally could never have proven the Dao of Immortal King now possessed a path forward.

Across infinite spacetimes and infinite timelines, variables might arise that allowed one to become an Immortal King. That was why the Lord of Primus had sought out Su Chen. Because Su Chen possessed a future identity as an Immortal King, he would become one. Yet that Immortal King could not be considered a true Immortal King; he could only be regarded as a false one, for he would be killed by a great enemy and perish on this timeline.

A true Immortal King was unique across all spacetimes of the past, present, and future. Even in weakness, the future self who had already become an Immortal King would come to assist the present self in completing the closed loop of the Immortal King logic. Yet the future self had never appeared to help complete that loop. This led Su Chen to consider one possibility.

A struggle for the Dao!

He possessed a future of becoming an Immortal King, and naturally, other True Immortals who cultivated the Dao of Karma also possessed the possibility of becoming Immortal Kings… Therefore, an Immortal King who had proven the Dao of Karma had blocked the version of him from another timeline and even sought to eliminate him. Fortunately, he still possessed a backup. The existence of the Lord of Primus had helped him resolve the crisis.

His repeated deaths were no coincidence. Someone did not wish him to successfully prove the Dao of a Karma Immortal King… This was an opponent from the future, seeking to reverse the logic for another Immortal King who had lost the struggle for the Dao against him, and to seize his Immortal King Dao Fruit. Such methods could only be accomplished by an existence above the Immortal King realm.

Yet that existence, for all his calculations, had miscalculated one thing… Su Chen possessed the Reverse Fate Scripture. Even if he were eliminated in advance, he would still return. Across the countless spacetimes that derived from this, he would still become an Immortal King. That existence simply possessed sufficient patience to eliminate him again and again.

In this life, he had not died… In truth, he had already died. Someone had simply acted to alter his life and death, intercepting a thread of vitality for him from the hands of that terrifying existence behind the scenes. The future self who would become an Immortal King had also entrusted the Lord of Primus to help intercept the variables.

Having understood everything, he faced the tribulation gathered from the karma of the heavens. He did not resist it. Instead, he formed his fingers into a blade and lightly drew it across himself.

"Sever the cause and seize the fruit… Today I shall achieve the Dao."

At that moment, Su Chen's figure completely vanished. The gathered karma of the heavens and the condensed punishment suddenly lost their target. Everyone who had ever seen Su Chen forgot him entirely…

In a distant time, the young girl in the ice and snow squatted on the ground, lost and bewildered.

Just now… what had she been doing?

The old man behind her wore the same blank expression.

The two of them returned to the carriage and continued onward.

Inside the Record Pavilion, everything was empty. In the end, it became the History Pavilion.

Having become a True Immortal and traveled beyond spacetime, Dongfang Yunxiao seemed to realize that he had forgotten something.

At the foot of the mountain, the briefly glimpsed masked figure completely vanished from his memory…

Across the many spacetimes Su Chen had walked, there was no longer any trace of him. Only a Book of Karma remained, held in Su Chen's hands. He stood at the summit of countless different spacetimes and different timelines, becoming an "error" recorded above all things.

At the same time, at the forefront of an unknown spacetime, a figure wearing a bronze mask slowly appeared. He held an ancient book and crossed the surging torrent.

In that place, a human silhouette gradually coalesced.

"You… how can you still have reached this step?"

Su Chen smiled.

"Your path began here, so it shall end here!"

Su Chen raised his hand and lightly flicked a finger.

A crack suddenly appeared in the Dao heart of the false Immortal King who sought to achieve the Dao. Terror filled his eyes. No matter how hard he struggled, that simple finger felt like Mount Tai pressing down upon a single straw. He was suppressed at once.

His heart was filled with boundless regret and simultaneous dread. He knew the terrifying consequences of this person completing the closed loop once more!

"I am the Immortal King! I am the true Immortal King!"

He was utterly unwilling!

Su Chen paid him no attention and began to trace the prior causes.

"So that is how it was…"

Su Chen narrowed his eyes. Having already become an Immortal King, his status stood above that of True Immortals. He could already easily alter the process by which a True Immortal achieved the Dao. A True Immortal could not be killed.

Yet… Su Chen was now an Immortal King of the Karma Dao, while this person was merely a True Immortal of the Karma Dao. Since there was no way to kill him, he simply rewrote the other's experience of achieving the Dao and turned it into someone else's fruit. For an Immortal King of a direct Great Dao, it was nothing more than changing a name.

Su Chen saw that after his twentieth reincarnation, he had not died directly. Instead, he had been reborn into a small world.

After the battle to besiege the Imperial Extremity Immortal King, the timeline had contracted. Because the Imperial Extremity Immortal King had been defeated, Su Chen easily recovered all his paths… and thus he had lived until that great war…

The scene shattered. The matter involved far too much. A True Immortal could not fully trace it to its roots. When Su Chen attempted to continue examining it, an invisible force blocked him. The great enemy of the past was directly erased and vanished.

As for that great enemy… he had once been defeated by Su Chen, then voluntarily pledged himself to "Scourge" in hopes of proving the Dao of Immortal King. Taking advantage of that great war, "Scourge" had acted against Su Chen, cutting him down and directly altering the experience of his path to the Dao. Unfortunately… Su Chen's fate did not rest in a single lifetime. The repeated attempts to erase him had ultimately given others the chance to rescue him!

Su Chen looked ahead.

He had returned. It was time to once more rush to the battlefield!