"Has your immortal body finished taking shape?" Lu Yang asked. The immortal body Years Immortal had spent three hundred thousand years condensing had felt far more powerful than the one Lu Yang had temporarily condensed.
"It only finished taking shape a little over ten years ago," Years Immortal said with a smile. He was now at the height of his power.
"Then do you know Tang Chuanwu?"
"Tang Chuanwu? Oh, the child I saw might suffer a deadly calamity in the future, so I gave him the ability to turn back time."
"To test the mastermind's reaction?" Lu Yang asked.
Years Immortal glanced at Lu Yang in surprise, then smiled. "That's right."
"Although I didn't see clearly who ambushed me back then, the mastermind also couldn't be sure whether I'd seen clearly. So I gave Tang Chuanwu the ability to turn back time, letting the mastermind know I was still alive. The mastermind would inevitably try to find me, and in their haste, they might expose a flaw."
Lu Yang thought, So that's how it was. When he'd first suspected the user of the Dao Fruit of Time, he'd wondered if they were using Tang Chuanwu to send a message to the mastermind.
And what message could that be? Years Immortal was telling the mastermind, I'm still alive.
Afterward, Lu Yang had learned the origin of the Token for Seeking Years Immortal and used the Dao Fruit's suppression of Dao Fruit embryonic forms to find Years Immortal.
The suppression of a Dao Fruit over a Dao Fruit embryonic form wasn't something one could simply evade by hiding in a small world. If it were that easy, Qilin Immortal would have hidden in a small world long ago and let Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi become immortals in the outside world.