716: Chapter 717 Master?

Before long, the immortal boat pierced through an invisible realm barrier and officially entered the Cold Moon Immortal Realm.

Upon entering this domain, Yue Liuli's remnant soul experienced a ripple of emotion.

The mountains and rivers still vaguely retained their former contours, but the flow of the Spiritual Veins had changed, and what flowed between heaven and earth was no longer pure Taiyin Moonlight.

Instead, it was a cold, mottled Immortal Qi, its quality inferior by several grades.

Countless buildings of unfamiliar styles had been erected across the land, with the flags of the Mystic Ice Pavilion hanging from the pavilions and palaces.

"The scenery remains, but the people have changed..."

Yue Liuli closed her eyes as a fleeting memory of the grand scene flashed by—the Ancient Taiyin Tree towering into the Chaos and the Moonlight Heavenly Pool reflecting the myriad heavens.

The stark contrast with the sight before her made her chest heave slightly, and her unease grew stronger.

As the immortal boat approached the former site of the Taiyin Immortal Palace, the expressions of several elite Mystic Ice Pavilion Disciples on duty in an Ice Crystal Watchtower three hundred miles away changed simultaneously!

"Alert! Unknown experts have appeared at the Ancient Plains!" a Disciple cried out in alarm.

"Report this immediately! They are approaching the core area at high speed!"

Another Disciple's voice trembled as he quickly crushed a communication jade talisman flashing with red light.

Through layers of encrypted channels, the news reached the core stronghold of the Mystic Ice Pavilion—the Ice Soul Hall—in an instant.

Inside the hall, the current Pavilion Master was discussing matters with several trusted Elders when he received the message and stood up abruptly.

His previous composure vanished, replaced by a trace of gravity and suspicion.

"To think someone would appear near the Ancient Plains. Summon all Elders in the sect at the Immortal King realm or above to accompany me there!"

"Dong— Dong— Dong—"

The dull and distant tolling of a bell instantly echoed throughout the Mystic Ice Pavilion's gate, carrying a long-absent killing intent that represented the highest level of alert.

Countless figures soared into the sky from various Immortal Caves and palaces, their auras chilling as they rapidly converged toward the Ice Soul Hall.

Aboard the immortal boat, Yue Liuli seemed oblivious to the commotion within the Mystic Ice Pavilion, or perhaps she simply didn't care.

Upon arriving at the former site of the Taiyin Immortal Court, Yue Liuli's Divine Soul was instantly shaken.

Where the billion-foot-tall immortal palace once stood, there was now only a vast plain; not even a single strand of residual Dao Rhyme could be found.

Although she had been mentally prepared and knew the palace likely no longer looked as it once did, seeing this empty scene with her own eyes still caused Yue Liuli's mind to reel.

The Taiyin Immortal Palace, which had once dominated the immortal domains and shone across billions of miles, had not left behind even a trace of its existence.

Her throat tightened as she tried to speak, but it only turned into a silent sigh. Her fingertips instinctively traced the void, as if she could still feel the patterns of the sect-protecting array from back then.

The composure she held as an Immortal Emperor in her past life remained, but a trace of irrepressible melancholy flickered deep in her eyes.

"In the end, it is gone..."

"Something is wrong!" At that moment, Gu Changge suddenly spoke while looking at the empty scene before him.

"What is wrong?" Yue Liuli turned to Gu Changge, her expression filled with a hint of confusion.

"Gu Changge had already stepped off the immortal boat, his gaze sweeping over the smooth indentation, deep as an abyss:

"Natural decay would leave behind a withered Dao Rhyme, and a breach by external force would leave Law remnants. This place has neither the aura of decay nor Dao wounds; it is as if it were simply taken away."

He paused, a sharp light flashing in his eyes. "This situation is somewhat similar to how the Taichu Divine Palace vanished."

Before he finished speaking, a faint silver-gray halo appeared around Gu Changge, and countless minute time runes flickered in and out of existence around him.

Without any superfluous movements, he simply raised his hand and pressed lightly against the void.

"Time Regression!"

In an instant, the wind in the entire area abruptly stopped. The flowing air and suspended dust were all frozen, and even the occasional sound of Cultivators' light-travel from afar came to a sudden halt.

Only silver-gray ripples of time remained, slowly spreading across the heaven and earth, pulling this land of erased history back into those sealed years.

The scene before them began to twist and retreat at high speed.

The marks on the ground shifted and changed, the thin Immortal Qi grew dense, and the contours of the mountains shed the vicissitudes of later ages. Thousands, tens of thousands, and millions of years of time flowed like a rushing river, crossing endless eons in an instant.

Finally, the image suddenly froze—

The vast, deathly silent plain vanished, replaced by a magnificent scene of prosperity shining across billions of miles.

The Ancient Taiyin Tree, towering into the Chaos, blotted out the sun, its leaves flowing with the Laws of the bright Taiyin Moonlight.

Beneath the tree, the Moonlight Heavenly Pool shimmered, reflecting the stars of the myriad heavens. Immortal Qi swirled around the pool as countless Cultivators dressed in moon-white immortal robes bustled about, the weakest among them being at the True Immortal realm.

The four ancient characters for 'Taiyin Immortal Palace,' imbued with Dao Rhyme, hung in the sky with majestic grandeur, while phantom images of ten thousand spirits paying homage flickered around the palace's periphery.

Yue Liuli looked at this familiar yet distant scene, her throat tightening slightly. The melancholy in her eyes deepened, and her fingertips tightened. This was exactly the Taiyin Immortal Court at its most glorious, just as she remembered it.

Xiao Bai's breath hitched as she whispered, "This is the ancient Taiyin Immortal Palace? It is truly grand!"

Gu Changge raised his hand to press down, causing the temporal image to freeze slightly. His eyes were as deep as an abyss. "Keep watching. The key is the moment the Immortal Court vanished."

As soon as he spoke, the image began to flow again. Within the originally prosperous Immortal Court, a slight commotion suddenly broke out.

Many figures could be seen moving and gathering quickly, some in a state of panic...

The scene shifted, and a blurry figure appeared abruptly and without warning at the very top of the Taiyin Immortal Court, directly above its core hub.

The figure was shrouded in a hazy halo, their face completely obscured.

But simply by standing there with hands behind his back, he exuded a natural, supreme aura that crushed eternity, looked down upon the myriad heavens, and reigned above all else.

This aura pierced through the blurry temporal image, violently striking the minds of every onlooker!

Yue Liuli's Divine Soul shook violently. That blurry figure...

In her mind, a long-forgotten memory instantly surfaced—a blurry, white-robed figure she had caught a fleeting glimpse of outside the Taichu Divine Palace, whose aura was indifferent to the world.

She hadn't paid much attention to it then, but now, the two figures were slowly overlapping within her Divine Soul.

The blurry figure waved a hand toward the vast, magnificent, and thriving Taiyin Immortal Court below.

The massive Taiyin Immortal Court, along with the Spiritual Veins, mountains, and rivers within a radius of billions of miles, and even the panicked Elders and Disciples...

...were actually lifted slowly at this moment, turning into a streak of light and vanishing into a simple, ancient bead in his hand.

In just a few breaths, the Taiyin Immortal Palace, which had dominated the Ancient Immortal Domain and passed down through endless ages, completely vanished from beneath the sky.

All that remained was a smooth, level patch of land, perfectly matching the scene before Gu Changge and the others.

The figure looked at the empty ground, paused slightly, and seemed to glance in a certain direction.

Then, with a movement, he dissolved into the light, even the hazy halo vanishing along with him, as if he had never appeared.

The silver-gray temporal ripples slowly receded. Gu Changge withdrew his hand, the time runes around him gradually dispersing as the air and dust in the world began to flow once more.

Everything returned to its original state, leaving only this empty plain silently recounting the erased past.

It was as if the heart-stopping Time Regression and the appalling disappearance from just now were all merely an illusion.

Yue Liuli stood dazed, her eyes vacant, her expression a blank void of bewilderment.

Who was this person? What was their purpose? What were their methods? She knew none of it.

"It wasn't destroyed; it was taken away..."

Suddenly, a spine-chilling conjecture grew uncontrollably in her heart!

Her voice was extremely dry, carrying a tremor she herself hadn't noticed.

"Such methods have long surpassed the scope of an ordinary Immortal Emperor. Could it be that all those vanished supreme legacies of the ancient times are related to him?!"

She whipped her head around to look at Gu Changge, her eyes filled with unspeakable horror and a desperate need for confirmation.

But at this moment, Gu Changge was not looking at her.

He remained standing still, his gaze fixed intently on a certain point in the void where the temporal image had just vanished, as if trying to pierce through eternal ages and brand that fleeting figure into the depths of his Soul.

After a long while, his thin lips moved, and his voice was extremely soft—so soft that only he could hear: "Master?"

Just then, a harsh shout filled with shock, anger, and trembling rang out.

"Stop! Who goes there, to dare trespass into this Forbidden Ground?!"