The Immortal Who Disappeared

Seeing the cult leader's puzzled expression, Lu Yang was even more puzzled than him.

"Immortal Immortals, the belief of your Immortal Cult is called shamelessness."

The cult leader frowned. "The Immortal is indeed our faith, but from what you're saying, he's here with us?"

"Of course. After the Immortal Immortal was resurrected by your Immortal Cult, he only had a soul and no physical body. He needed to find a suitable body, so you summoned all the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators of the Immortal Cult to compete. I was the one who ultimately won and met the Immortal Immortal under your guidance."

"Then the Immortal Immortal was beaten up in my mental space, and my senior sister also contacted the imperial court to wipe out your Immortal Sect. You few were refined into 'eunuchs' by my senior sister."

The more Lu Yang spoke, the more the sect leader frowned. Lu Yang would never lie to him about something like this. Was his memory playing tricks on him, or was Lu Yang's memory playing tricks on him?

The cult leader summoned Master Liu, Master Gao, and others to verify with them whether the Immortal Immortal had actually appeared in the world.

From the two barbecue masters to the three alluring ghosts, everyone denied ever seeing the immortal being.

"As far as I remember, the reason for summoning all Foundation Establishment of the Immortal Cult to compete was to select young talents as reserves for the Immortal Cult's leadership. You did indeed win that competition, and I was just about to present you with an award when the imperial court stormed in and arrested the entire Immortal Cult. Subsequently, a few of us were refined into 'Chang Gui' by Lord Yun Zhi and are forced to atone for our sins here."

"Throughout the entire process, there were no immortal beings."

"You've been telling me to expand and strengthen the barbecue restaurant, to open chain stores all over the continent, isn't that the goal set for you by the Immortal Immortal?"

The cult leader denied it again. "That's not the case. I felt that instead of wasting my life here aimlessly, I should find a goal. So I asked Fellow Daoist Lu Yang for help in opening the barbecue restaurant. That's how Fellow Daoist Lu Yang came to the Nine Nether Sect and asked them to help us open a chain of stores."

Lu Yang then thought of another piece of evidence proving the existence of the Immortal Immortal: "What about your Immortal Immortal statues? Before, your Immortal Immortal statues were very blurry, and you couldn't even tell if they were male or female. After the Immortal Immortal appeared, you replaced all the statues with the real appearance of the Immortal Immortal, and the statues were even holding a copy of the <Criminal Law>."

"That's not how it happened. One day, I was in deep meditation, and in a hazy vision, I saw an immortal being walking towards me. He was holding a book of criminal law and said to me with a kind face, 'I have done very well, we have all done very well, and in a few days he will be truly born.' When I woke up, I realized that this was an immortal's message to me in a dream, a predestined connection, which is why I replaced the statue."

"Before that day even arrived, your Ask Dao Sect and the imperial court confiscated our Immortal Sect's property."

The Immortal Immortal frequently appears at the barbecue restaurant, and everyone on the entire commercial street knows him. However, they don't know his identity. Lu Yang asked the shops next door, and they also had no recollection of the Immortal Immortal.

Lu Yang also found several senior brothers and sisters who were passing by. They were regulars at the barbecue restaurant and all said they had never seen the Immortal.

"Are there really no immortal beings?" After asking around, Lu Yang began to suspect that his memory was faulty and that someone had implanted a non-existent memory into him.

"Fairy, wake up, something's happened." Lu Yang shook the sleeping Immortal Fairy awake.

After the celebration ended, the Immortal Fairy, citing physical and mental exhaustion and overworking her brain, fell into a deep sleep in her mental space.

Lu Yang couldn't figure out what could possibly tire the Immortal Fairy out of sitting in the stands the whole time, except for acting out a scene with him.

"What are you doing~" the Immortal Fairy muttered upon hearing the shout, drawing out the last syllable.

With great determination, she opened her eyes a crack, glanced at Lu Yang, then turned back to sleep.

"Let this Sect Master sleep a little longer..." she said, closing her eyes.

"The immortal immortal has disappeared."

"What the heck? The third leader has disappeared?"

The Immortal Fairy sat up abruptly. Their Immortal lineage consisted of three people: she was the head, Lu Yang was the second-in-command, and the Immortal Immortal was the third. All three were at the half-immortal level, making them extremely powerful. Now, however, they were missing one of the Immortal Immortals...

It seems the average cultivation level is also around half-immortal?

It seems the third-in-command isn't that important.

"Wait a minute, how could he just disappear like that?"

The Immortal Fairy's reaction actually relieved Lu Yang. It seemed that it wasn't a problem with his own memory, but rather that everyone's memories of the Immortal Fairy had been erased and replaced with other memories.

Lu Yang recounted in detail how he discovered the clues and the results of his investigation so far.

"Hmm, that's interesting. It sounds like you've been affected by a karmic Law Technique, but such a small thing is nothing to me. With my protection, you haven't been affected at all."

"Causal Law Technique?" Causality is obscure; at Lu Yang's current level, he doesn't need to understand it.

"A person is connected to the world from the moment they are born—no, it should be said that from the moment their soul is born in the womb."

To better explain, the Immortal Fairy conjured up a blank sheet of paper and drew a circle on it.

"This circle represents you right after you were born."

Another circle was drawn not far from the original circle.

"This is someone else."

A line connects the two circles.

"After you were born, if someone saw you, then you formed a karmic connection with them. Similarly, if you saw someone else, then you two formed a karmic connection as well."

"You are strangers, and your karmic connection is very shallow. He glanced at you and quickly forgot about you, and then the karmic connection between you two ceased."

"If you were born with superhuman strength and broke someone's leg, they would definitely never forget you, and your karmic connection would be strengthened."

As he spoke, the line connecting the two circles became thicker and darker, making it very conspicuous.

"As you grow up and meet more and more people, the more causal relationships you form with this world."

"Your childhood playmates, your fellow disciples and elders after entering the Ask Dao Sect—these are all beings with whom you have close karmic connections."

"Some cultivators choose to retreat from the world to cultivate because they accumulate too much karma in the mortal realm, and too much karma is detrimental to cultivation."

"When everyone forgets your existence, the karmic connection between you and these people ceases to exist, which is the situation the Third Master is facing now."

Lu Yang hadn't noticed before, but now that this is mentioned, Lu Yang realizes that since the Immortal Immortal descended to earth, he has only had so much contact with his surroundings.

The Immortal Immortal was born and came into contact with the higher-ups of the Immortal Cult. He then came into contact with himself, the Immortal Fairy, and the Senior Sister. After that, he came to the Ask Dao Sect and came into contact with the people of the commercial street and the disciples of the Ask Dao Sect.

Once these traces of contact are severed, and cause and effect are broken, and everyone forgets or replaces them with new memories, that person will have no connection with the entire world.

"Of course, considering the Third Master's cultivation level and how completely they've forgotten, the causal Law Technique I know wouldn't be able to achieve this. Either your era has developed more powerful causal Law Technique, or someone has borne a causal Dao Fruit or something similar."

The second update will be at 11 PM.