The pitch-black backdrop of the universe had been dyed into a nightmare-like, grotesque swirl of colors.
A vast swarm of Silent Immortals charged toward the labyrinth.
A dense storm of spells. To some of the Celestial Favored Clan responsible for defense, at such a density, there was no need even to aim.
But reality made some of the Celestial Favored Clan's eyes nearly pop out. Those spells passed precisely through the Silent Immortal horde as though they were letting water through, with most of them missing—or striking targets that could not be harmed even if struck.
"Fools! Silent Immortals naturally plunge their surroundings into chaos. How can you judge them by ordinary reasoning?"
Some of the more experienced Celestial Favored Clan berated their kin. "Without the ability of foreknowledge, you cannot even judge the battlefield!"
Several light-hours away, Wang Qi watched the battlefield in confusion.
Sure enough, they can't hit them.
He thought.
Causality had long since been rewritten on a greater level.
In the past, most of the Celestial Favored Clan had believed that the Silent Immortals' ability was to invoke the natural tendency of immortal power toward disorder and chaos. This fit their practical experience well.
But now, did that not also amount to an operation of "reverse-modifying history"?
The Silent Immortals' "tendency toward disorder" was an ability to select the future in reverse. It was a method that directly struck countless critical nodes in the circulation of spiritual power in the "past," causing cultivation bodies to collapse in a chain reaction.
From the perspective of normal temporal order, it simply appeared as "tending toward disorder."
This was a power shared by all Silent Immortals.
As for immortals who had realized that past and future converged into one before becoming Silent Immortals, they were even more formidable in