Yan Nu thrust his long spear, but he could no longer find a trace of the Grey Emperor.
"What? I locked onto him."
Miaohan said, "He reset his information. You can think of it as a save state, one where he hadn't been locked onto by the ladle yet."
Yan Nu touched his chin. This made things a bit tricky.
This belonged to a mechanism that countered the ladle's trait, which was to let go only when the target died.
The Grey Emperor who had been locked on truly died, and the one who revived was his informational state before being locked.
In this situation, the ladle naturally had to lock onto the opponent all over again.
"I didn't expect him to come the moment I left..." Yan Nu curled his lip.
Luo Yan said, "He came the moment you left, and he left the moment you arrived."
"This fellow's Never Late is truly formidable."
Miaohan said with burning eyes, "Our previous attempt to scheme against him here was merely wishful thinking."
"He monitored us through Xuanzun, and then used the Never Late trait to guide events toward the outcome most favorable to him."
"Now he has succeeded, completed the Information Shielding, obtained the Information Perception, absorbed the conjoined Luo Yan, and he even destroyed the rice cooker."
"It can be said he achieved all of his goals."
The Grey Emperor's ability contained a force similar to the Heavenly Dao, capable of controlling fate.
He decided the result first; as long as it was truly possible to happen, all circumstances would evolve toward that outcome.
Of course, the scope of what was truly possible shouldn't have been too broad.
There were some things Yan Nu and Miaohan would certainly never do, and even the fate of Never Late could not