One had to know that just as walking on the ground left footprints, swimming through water left ripples.
Everything in existence was constantly interfering with one another.
Even shifting through the Void Emperor would inevitably leave fluctuations in space, though such fluctuations would travel at light speed and rapidly disperse and distort.
Yet they could still be used to trace coordinates in reverse.
Even if someone deliberately disrupted and smoothed away those fluctuations, for an exceedingly brief instant before they completely settled, minute fluctuations usable for calculating coordinates would remain.
However, Taiyin furrowed his brow tightly, unable to find any trace of fluctuations.
He made a prompt decision and immediately performed the Taiyin Silver Mirror Retracement Method.
A silver mirror appeared in the Void Emperor, beginning to pierce through space and retrace time.
This Silver Mirror Retracement Method was a reverse application of the Moon Phase Divination Method. It did not divine the future, but reflected the past to gather information.
The scene from not long ago began to emerge within the mirror.
Taiyin saw Fang Zheng arrive in this small world and speak with several Flood Dragons. He saw him place down Bedrock and blood.
Then, he vanished into thin air...
In other words, Fang Zheng's sudden disappearance had not been spatial displacement, but a true disappearance into thin air.
Taiyin stared at the pool of blood beneath his feet, his brows deeply knitted. "Where exactly did young friend Fang Zheng go?"
Taiyin knew very well that even someone on the same level as his current self, who had lived into his fourth life, could never snatch Fang Zheng away right under his nose.
If someone truly could take Fang Zheng away while the fully revived Taiyin Moon Blade and the Human Emperor Seal's divine spirit observed the entire time, it meant that this mysterious entity's power vastly exceeded his imagination!
If that was not the case, and Fang Zheng had indeed vanished into thin air, then Taiyin had a troubling premonition.
After several days together, Taiyin understood that Fang Zheng was not life in the conventional sense.
From the Immortal Ascension Road until these past few days of companionship, Taiyin had learned many strange things about him.
For example, Fang Zheng's body possessed no continuity. In mere instants, bodies like frozen statues continuously leaped from one action to another, forming what appeared to be a continuous shape.
To ordinary mortals, Fang Zheng's movements appeared continuous. But even to martial artists with only a little skill, Fang Zheng was a bizarre being made of frozen statues.
Even Taiyin could not capture any intermediate process between the changes of each frozen body.
If there was no continuous transition between those frozen bodies, between one action and the next, and they simply vanished directly, it was probably like this.
Thus, based on his observations, the most likely possibility was that Fang Zheng had disappeared on his own.
"Could it be that he returned to that Block World?" Taiyin guessed inwardly.
"Yet young friend Fang Zheng has shown no sign at all of wanting to leave."
"Given his personality, he should not have left without saying goodbye. Did something happen to him?"
During his conversations with Fang Zheng several days ago, Taiyin had become very familiar with Fang Zheng's personality and abilities. He also learned of that mysterious Block World and Fang Zheng's fear of its monotonous boredom.
If Fang Zheng had truly returned suddenly to that dull and tedious Block World, he would certainly find every possible way to leave again.
For instance, he might constantly try striking that so-called Hell Gate with lightning, attempting to open a new white portal and leave.
With a faint sigh, Taiyin raised his hand and put away the Bedrock blood pool beside him. He withdrew the moonlight that had frozen space-time, unsealing this frozen small world.
Watching the three Jiang family members suddenly return from their halted state to normal and bow to him, Taiyin fell silent for a moment before saying to the Sun Holy Emperor:
"If Fang Zheng tries to leave Block World again, then perhaps the new world he reaches will no longer be our world..."
Taiyin's expression calmed as he strode outside. "Come, Sun Holy Emperor. Fang Zheng's sudden disappearance has changed the original plan."
"We can no longer continue resurrecting the Great Emperors of past ages. To protect the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, things will have to become more troublesome."
"Mm." The Sun Holy Emperor nodded.
His tone was steady. "Since the plan has changed, let us go and formulate an entirely new plan."
"However, now that those Forbidden Zone Supremes have an unlimited supply of immortal energy, they likely will not continue launching Dark Turmoils."
"If the altered plan cannot eliminate all those creatures who devour living beings while protecting the universe, we can only first gather allies and wait cautiously."
A cold gleam appeared in Taiyin's eyes. "If there were no need to protect all living beings, you and I could join forces and kill every one of them."
"But during battle, the countless lives of the universe would be difficult to watch over. We can only adapt by remaining unchanged and wait until they attack the Immortal Ascension Road before considering further..."
Time passed. Above the Big Dipper Star, a massive rift brimming with immortal light suddenly tore open in space.
At once, all the life forbidden zones on the Big Dipper Star opened, while paths of golden light gathered from forbidden zones throughout the rest of the universe.
As the infinite power of faith gathered from across the universe spread through the air, Mount Sumeru on the Big Dipper Star rose entirely from the ground, supported in the palm of a Buddha figure radiating golden light.
That was Amitabha's Divine Self. Having waited through ages upon ages, he would fulfill the promise he had once made and lead all Buddhists into the Immortal Domain.
Within the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, a figure wearing a bronze mask, his gaze dim and vacant, watched the distance.
Across the entire universe, aside from a few Supremes such as those in the Underworld, more than thirty Forbidden Zone Supremes had gathered at the Big Dipper Star.
Taiyin, the Sun Holy Emperor, Gai Jiuyou, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, the Void Emperor Corpse Medium Yellow Emperor, the Hengyu Emperor Corpse Medium Shennong... all the allies Taiyin could find throughout the universe who were willing to protect living beings were here as well.
Taiyin's side and the Forbidden Zone Supremes' side confronted one another calmly, each remaining wary of the other.
Taiyin did not want the battle's aftershocks to damage the universe, while the forbidden zones did not wish to suffer damage to their condition before successfully attacking the Immortal Ascension Road.
Though more than a dozen Forbidden Zone Supremes, including the Light-Dark Supreme, Longevity Heavenly Venerate, and Stone Emperor, wore cold smiles and wished to immediately settle their grudges of ten thousand years, they were likewise stopped by the other Forbidden Zone Supremes who had not devoured living beings.
Both sides tacitly agreed that all grudges would be settled after the Immortal Ascension Road.
Whether they succeeded or failed...
The instant the great rift opened in space, over thirty Forbidden Zone Supremes charged into it together.
Endless light of destruction spread as the newly appeared great rift was forcibly torn wider.
The Law Mighty Pass at the entrance to the Immortal Ascension Road was directly pierced through by that destructive immortal light. The empty expanse of space behind it was also forcibly carved with a path by that destructive power.
A brilliant Great Dao took shape. The power unleashed jointly by over thirty Supremes constructed a supreme path from Great Dao Runes, leading directly into the distance and piercing toward that mysterious faraway place.
Only then did all the Supremes waiting for the immortal road to open step inside.
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