Time flowed backward at this moment.
Chu Sheng's eyes gleamed as he quickly saw True Cultivation and True Person Demon-Subduer before the self-destruction. Yet True Cultivation was already absent from this scene.
He had been erased.
In the past, present, and future, no one but Dao Lords would remember him. Any Karma connected to him, unless it was tied to a Dao Lord, would be reversed as well.
Which raised a question.
"Why were you unaffected?"
Chu Sheng stared fixedly at True Person Demon-Subduer in the scene. His appearance matched, his Karma matched, his cultivation matched—no matter how he looked at him, he was merely a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
If there was anything unusual, it was the Primordial Spirit fire spilling from between his brows, impossible to conceal. Yet he was currently possessed by True Cultivation; it was only natural for him to have the light of a Primordial Spirit. No—could this be deliberate concealment? Had a Dao Lord disguised himself as this Foundation Establishment cultivator?
A Dao Lord disguising himself as a Foundation Establishment cultivator was nothing remarkable.
There were even Dao Lords who knelt before Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The problem was that a Primordial Spirit was difficult to hide. No matter how flawless the disguise, with the Primordial Spirit sitting there, it might fool other Dao Lords, but it could never fool him.
That was why True Cultivation was needed.
True Cultivation was merely a smokescreen. In essence, he was a shell, a means of disguising True Person Demon-Subduer and concealing the Primordial Spirit that should have been impossible to conceal!
The darkest place was beneath the lamp.
At that moment, Chu Sheng rapidly calculated every possible scheme. At last, his gaze abruptly shifted toward the black-robed figure not far away.
Was it him?
Chu Sheng raised a