Major Revelations of Exiled Immortal 19: Time Travel Without Reincarnation Reversal-The Time Paradox of Exiled Immortal Predating A Record of a Mortal's Cultivation: Immortal Realm Arc

Summary: A Record of a Mortal's Cultivation had released its Immortal Realm Arc. Looking at Wang Yu's introduction, it contained the words "time travel, reincarnation reversal," and Wang Yu himself had abandoned his usual steady, straightforward approach in favor of the strangest and most unexpected opening imaginable. Though many people were mocking it now, when Wang Yu finally revealed the true answer, it would surely leave quite a few people thunderstruck! But this article only wished to say that before Wang Yu adopted this writing method, Tan Hua's Exiled Immortal had already used this "time travel without reincarnation reversal" approach seven years earlier, laying before us an enormous time paradox. This article would unveil this earth-shaking mystery one by one.

I. Zhang Xiao Hua and Xiao Hua: Entangled, Indistinguishable Protagonist Identities

Zhang Xiao Hua, the protagonist of Forgetting Each Other in the Jianghu, the first part of Exiled Immortal, entered the Dao through martial arts in the mortal world and found the proof of his godhood—the story of the Demigod Body and the space behind his head;

Xiao Hua, Zhang Xiao Hua at the end of the first part, who had crossed realms and been transported to Xiaoyu Continent, was subjected to soul-searching by two old split-spirit monsters because of his Demigod Body and lost his memories, just like Han Li in A Record of a Mortal's Cultivation: Immortal Realm Arc. Taken in by his master, Xiao Yuehong, he was renamed Xiao Hua, a homophone of Xiao Hua. Later, his sect was destroyed, and from then on True Person Xiao used Xiao Hua as his true name.

As the protagonist of Light Escape, the second part, Xiao Hua appeared twice in Forgetting Each Other in the Jianghu, the first part:

The first time was in the words of Yue Mingxin's Primordial Spirit projection: "Better to forget each other in the Jianghu than to moisten each other with spit, Xiao Hua, True Person Xiao... Only today did this concubine understand... your words..." For specifics, please refer to "Forgetting Each Other in the Jianghu, Chapter 1142: Spring Dreams Leave No Trace, Autumn Curtains Retain Only Fragrance."

The second time was with Ya, who shared one dream and two souls with another—namely Di Shitian, a Demon Realm devil general. Facing Zhang Xiao Hua, Ya suddenly cried out hysterically: "Xiao Hua? True Person Xiao... You... how did you come here?" ("Forgetting Each Other in the Jianghu, Chapter 1213: Volume One Finale—Forgetting Each Other in the Jianghu")

This was precisely where Tan Hua's arrangement and Exiled Immortal's charm lay. Through the Heavenly Prison, the Time Light Crystal, and the soul cultivators' Nanyuan Beizhe, the protagonist went to an alien world tens of thousands of years in the past. The karma produced by the people there affected the protagonist's present. Tan Hua, what an enormous leap of imagination it took to play out this journey through time and space.

II. Earth Core, Mount Yao Immortal Mansion, Heavenly Phoenix, Visitors from Beyond Heaven, and True Person Xiao's First Entry into the Ruins of Shenzhou

Earth Core, Mount Yao Immortal Mansion, Heavenly Phoenix, Visitors from Beyond Heaven, and the rest were all unresolved pits in Forgetting Each Other in the Jianghu. Yet Tan Hua used the hint of "True Person Xiao's First Entry into the Ruins of Shenzhou" to foreshadow "True Person Xiao's Second Entry into the Ruins of Shenzhou," which would fill the pits of Mount Yao Immortal Mansion and Heavenly Phoenix; "True Person Xiao's Third Entry into the Ruins of Shenzhou" would fill the pit of Earth Core. Then True Person Xiao would Become a Saint Against the Light, become the Primeval God, become the first ray of light, and fill the huge pit of Visitors from Beyond Heaven. In fact, Visitors from Beyond Heaven was precisely "True Person Xiao's Fourth Entry into the Ruins of Shenzhou"!

In the chapter "Familiar Starry Sky" from Light Escape: Four Great Continents, Xiao Hua used the Time Light Crystal to travel to his hometown from countless eons ago—the Ruins of Shenzhou—and left behind the Dao Lineage of the Incense Transmission Sect there. This Dao Lineage of the Incense Transmission Sect was also what Yue Mingxin discovered in the first part. Some readers had wondered why the Incense Transmission Sect's Dao Lineage stood above that of the Misty Sect and Divine Blade Sect. This was the reason.

III. Primordial Spirit Projections and the True Selves of Those Projections

This was how Tan Hua presented his time paradox to us:

1. Xiao Hua was transported from the Moon God Ruins to the Ruins of Shenzhou, at a time countless eons in the past;

2. Yue Mingxin, Yang Haoya, Huan Wuxin, and Di Shitian—namely Ya—were transported to the Ruins of Shenzhou an unknown number of trillions of years after Xiao Hua's transportation!

3. Several tens of thousands of years after the four of Yue Mingxin were transported over, Zhang Xiao Hua was born. Other than Di Shitian, who continued her name as a member of the Devil Race, the other three, including Yue Mingxin, had perished, leaving behind only Primordial Spirit projections!

4. Several hundred years after Zhang Xiao Hua was born—his twenty thousand years of closed-door cultivation in the Heavenly Prison amounted to only a little over a hundred years outside—he came to the realm where Yue Mingxin and the others all were, then formed karma with them, filling in the pits from the first part.

IV. Heavenly Prison, Star Moon Palace, Time Light Crystal, and Ghost Prairie

The Heavenly Prison was Exiled Immortal's freshest setting. Its fragments of time from the Primordial Divine Realm, along with the Time Light Crystal encircling the Four Great Continents, formed a place from which even the Dragon God, Maitreya Buddha with his six-turn golden body complete, and the Happy Heaven Demon could not escape. With the Star Moon Palace left behind by a great power of the Divine Realm, Xiao Hua encountered a whole series of extraordinary fortunes and opportunities. This was also what made Exiled Immortal different from other cultivation novels, including A Record of a Mortal's Cultivation, leaving readers' eyes shining and making them slap the table in amazement!

V. Stone Bracelet, Light Reversion, Light Escape

The lightweight stone bracelet was the foundation of Zhang Xiao Hua's cultivation. It was an object left behind by a great power of the Divine Realm, capable of light reversion, allowing things to flow back to where they began. The origins of Zhang Xiao Hua's Big Dipper Divine Fist and Light Escape, which allowed him to dwell within light, both lay here. Zhang Xiao Hua's Becoming a Saint Against the Light meant becoming the first ray of light, becoming the Primeval God. Thus, time travel in Exiled Immortal was only natural and inevitable, and there would be much more time travel in Exiled Immortal to come.

In short, we had not yet seen Han Li's time travel in A Record of a Mortal's Cultivation: Immortal Realm Arc, but Tan Hua had already laid out Xiao Hua's time travel in Exiled Immortal seven years ago, when he was writing the first part of Exiled Immortal. By the time of Light Escape, the second part, he had already made the protagonist lose his memories. Thus the current Cultivation of the Godly Manual: Immortal Realm Chapter naturally unfolded in a smooth, straightforward manner. But I believe that the cultivation system of immortal marks in the Immortal Realm of Cultivation of the Godly Manual, with its vast framework and rigorous structure, might not dare claim to be the best among current cultivation novels, but it would certainly be refreshing and striking!