Qingqiu.
A forbidden place of the Fox Clan.
Tall grass swayed, and one nine-tailed fox after another slept among it.
A stream babbled and leaped along, winding like a ribbon.
In midair.
Pei Ling stood in the air. His black robe snapped in the wind as blood gushed from his seven apertures and his aura grew unsteady. "Ling Yi," standing beside him, looked calm. It was only a minor injury in the Illusion Realm; with Immortal Emperor Pei's Dao Heart, there was no need to mind it.
In the void, the enormous nine-tailed fox Kuang watched Pei Ling fail to execute the immortal technique, its expression faintly bewildered.
Then Kuang reacted at once. Its gaze fixed on Pei Ling, suddenly filled with confusion.
This was a stretch of time that had already been chosen!
Everything should have happened exactly as the River of Time flowed...
But why had it failed?
As its thoughts raced, Kuang quickly realized that there was something wrong with this Human.
Under normal circumstances, no matter how obscure, profound, or difficult an immortal technique was to cultivate, as long as this Human had even one chance in ten million of successfully cultivating it, the changes in the River of Time would make failure impossible!
The River of Time would erase every possibility of failure, leaving only that one-in-ten-million chance of success.
In other words, as long as this Human performed an immortal technique, he was bound to succeed!
But the current situation...
This Human had a zero chance of successfully cultivating that immortal technique!
Not one in ten million—not even one in a hundred million!
That was why he had failed when he tried to perform it!
And yet, this was strange!
In the future recorded in the River of Time, he had clearly been able