Jiang Ding silently watched the starry sky.
The rotting, twisted mountain had vanished without a trace. Not a shred of causal memory of it remained among living beings. Even his own memories came under a subtle attack, wavering as something tried to erase what he knew of it. The defense of the Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul held, and the attempt failed.
"That being..."
"It wasn't a creature of the present age..."
Jiang Ding murmured to himself.
He had already begun exploring time and higher-dimensional space. As one of the mightiest beings of this age, he was long past the stage of a bewildered fledgling.
The enemy just now had come from history, from a time in the past!
Such beings faced extreme danger in the present. Its time, space, and matter all bore them ill will... No, "ill will" was wrong!
That was too subjective, too emotional.
Rather, the time, space, and matter of the present exerted immense pressure on beings from history. They were like balloons ten thousand meters beneath the sea, bearing crushing pressure at every moment. The slightest change, and the present's time, space, and matter would burst the balloon, killing whatever was inside.
That was what the rotting, twisted mountain endured at every moment.
In the peculiar environment of the present, it was not invincible.
Unless...
Jiang Ding frowned.
The next moment, he linked his soul to the Myriad Laws Nexus and sent the Myriad Laws True Immortal Heir a message.
"Myriad Laws,"
"What is the Undying Mountain Forbidden Site?"
The Myriad Laws True Immortal Heir and the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden were not entirely enemies—not before they met in earnest.
Over the past million years and more, the two had collaborated on many immortal-path research projects. Both had gained a great deal