Chapter 553: Analysis of the Four Immortals


    "Why haven''t we resurrected the Immortal Fairy in the future?"


    Heavenly Immortal Ying posed the question, and the Immortal Realm fell silent. The four immortals said nothing.


    Indeed, this was the biggest question. If others couldn''t resurrect the Immortal Fairy, couldn''t any one of them do it?


    It''s just a matter of reciting a name. If they wanted to do it, who could stop them?


    "It''s not just the Immortal Fairy. You, me, all four of us might have a problem!" Jiuchong Immortal said coldly. This was the only possibility.


    Although this exined the previous question, a bigger problem now faced the four immortals.


    What exactly had happened that even the five ancient immortals were affected?


    "Could it be that the four of us are also gone?" Kylin Immortal suddenly said, feeling a chill in his heart at his own words.


    After all, it was possible. If the Immortal Fairy had fallen, theoretically, they could be taken out too."You''re talking about the worst-case scenario, but that''s unlikely," Time Immortal shook his head and analyzed.


    "The Immortal Fairy was assassinated, which means the assassin''s strength might be less than or equal to hers, but not overwhelmingly so. In such a scenario, as long as the four of us stick together, the assassin wouldn''t be able to kill all of us."


    "Time, since you said the assassin used a Dao fruit to sever our connection with the future, can you determine how far into the future the severance extends?"


    Time Immortal frowned, "I can try, but the chances of sess are slim. Give me a moment."


    Time Immortal activated the Time Dao fruit again. Chaotic energy surged as his true form transcended time and space, looking down upon the entire continuum. He found the future clear and unobstructed.


    "How is it?"


    "As I expected, it doesn''t work. The future is too clear."


    "What about the severance you mentioned?"


    Time Immortal looked at Kylin Immortal as if he were an idiot, "This is why I tell you to pay attention during our discussions."


    Kylin Immortal was furious. He had been tricked twice by Time Immortal''s Time Dao fruit and was no longer afraid of his methods. Did he really think he couldn''t beat him?


    Despite his mockery, Time Immortal exined, "The future is uncertain. What I see is just the most likely scenario. The closer the future is to the present, the higher the probability; the further away, the lower the probability."


    "Suppose the future I see is ''Future A,'' the most likely scenario where the Immortal Fairy isn''t assassinated."


    "The scenario where she is assassinated is ''Future B.'' When I spoke with the Immortal Fairy earlier, I used the Time Dao fruit to establish a connection with Future B. The severance I mentioned is the severance of my connection with Future B, not with Future A, C, or D."


    "So, the Immortal Fairy might not be assassinated?"


    "No, the future is a straight line with no branches. The Immortal Fairy will definitely be assassinated. It''s just that from the perspective of the Time Dao fruit, this possibility is very low and thus unobservable."


    "Only when I cultivate the Time Dao fruit to the point where I can observe all futures will I discover the point of severance."


    Although this line of inquiry was a dead end, the immortals were not discouraged and continued to analyze the situation.


    "Only an immortal can harm another immortal. The fact that the Immortal Fairy was assassinated means the assassin is an immortal. Besides the five of us, are there any other immortals?"


    Jiuchong Immortal, the most knowledgeable in this area, said, "ording to my research, I was the first to be an immortal. Then the four of us followed in session, with the Immortal Fairy being thest. There is no sixth immortal."


    "In that case, there are two possibilities for the assassin," Heavenly Immortal Ying said, holding up two fingers.


    "One is that someone will be an immortal in the future and has extremely high talent."


    "The other is that there is already a sixth immortal among us!"


    Everyone was stunned.


    "That''s impossible! The phenomenon of bing an immortal is so terrifying. How could a sixth immortal hide it?" Everyone had experienced the tribtion of bing an immortal, a cataclysmic event that even a blind person could see. It couldn''t be hidden.


    "The tribtion of bing an immortal indeed can''t be hidden. But if the person has cultivated a Dao fruit of causality or fate, they could use the power of the Dao fruit to conceal their existence. Why not?"@@novelbin@@


    Concealing oneself and forgetting oneself would also mean forgetting the terrifying tribtion of bing an immortal.


    An immortal who controls the Dao fruit of causality might not be an immortal above immortals, but that doesn''t mean they can''t be an immortal.


    "This also exins the severance that Time Immortal mentioned. Using the Dao fruit of causality to sever the causality between the present and the future."


    "Or using the Dao fruit of fate to sever Huang Doudou''s fate of survival, changing her fate from life to death. Since we know too much about the future, Huang Doudou''s fate of death would be affected. Hence, the severance prevents us from knowing too much!"


    "There are also other Dao fruits we don''t understand. There are many possibilities."


    In fact, they didn''t know much about the Dao fruits of causality and fate. These were all theoretical scenarios.


    Without condensing aplete Dao fruit, no one knew the exact power of a Dao fruit.


    For example, the Immortal Dao fruit. In its embryonic form, Huang Doudou could only use it to restore her state or move between statues.


    Who could have thought that once she condensed aplete Immortal Dao fruit, Huang Doudou could self-destruct at any time and be resurrected just by someone reciting her name?


    "Or there might be a third possibility for the assassin. For now, I can''t think of it," Heavenly Immortal Ying shrugged. Coming up with two possibilities in such a short time was already impressive.


    The other three immortals also shook their heads, unable to think of a third possibility for now.


    "Should we tell the Immortal Fairy about this?" Kylin Immortal asked. Heavenly Immortal Ying and Time Immortal pondered the feasibility.


    "Absolutely not!" Jiuchong Immortal was the first to object.


    "Given the Immortal Fairy''s personality, if she knew she would be assassinated in the future, she might say, ''I''ll just kill myself first so I won''t be assassinated,'' and thenmit suicide on the spot, waiting to be resurrected in the future!"


    "She might even do something more shocking!"


    Kylin Immortal: "..."


    Heavenly Immortal Ying: "..."


    Time Immortal: "..."


    That did seem like something Huang Doudou would do.


    Heavenly Immortal Ying stretchedzily, "Let''s prepare slowly. I don''t think the Immortal Fairy will be in trouble anytime soon. Time, you came out under the pretext of being a referee. It''s about time you went back, or the Immortal Fairy might get suspicious ande looking for us, which would be disastrous."


    Thinking of the meals made by the Immortal Fairy and Kylin Immortal''s two wives, Time Immortal felt a sense of resignation.


    "Well, what can I do? I''m just unlucky," Time Immortal sighed, dragging his body back to the North Star as if resigned to his fate.


    "By the way, you three will probably y chess for a hundred years. Make sure to erase the historical shadow of us meeting the future Immortal Fairy. If the assassin sees the historical shadow, it would reveal that the future Immortal Fairy can still be resurrected."


    "You really are cunning," Heavenly Immortal Ying praised with a thumbs-up.


    "This is called leaving no stone unturned!" Time Immortal retorted angrily.


    PS: For the story of ying chess for a hundred years, see Chapter 350.