In a hidden corner of a certain region stood an enourmous pond filled with a silver-colored liquid.
Usually, no living beings approached the pond, seemingly unaware of it's existence even though it was visible in plain sight.
But unlike normally, a certain living being was swimming inside of that pond right now, a small white fox.
Rather, a former white fox, which after several years of being immersed inside of the silver liquid, had it's fur completely transformed into a silver color.
Of course, this was not a superficial transformation caused by the color of the liquid, but something else entirely.
Even so, the small fox continued leisurely swimming inside of the pond with it's eyes closed, seemingly unaware of the fact that it's transformation had already ended.
At the same time, at the edge of the pond stood a Nine-Tailed fox, watching the little fox continue leisurely swimming.
Suddenly, the level of the pond started slowly but surely dropping at an incredibly slow pace, invisible to the naked eyes.
The moment the nine-tailed fox sensed the level of the liquid begins dropping, it suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, having a weight lifted off it's shoulders.
"Looks like she succeeded," mumbled the nine-tailed fox as it began waiting for the little fox to finish absorbing as much of silver liquid as she could.
As such, year after year, the level of the liquid inside of the pond continued dropping, only stopping thirty-three years later.
Thirty-Three Years later,
Looking at the now huge hole in the ground, where a pond used to exist, as well as the small silver fox inside of it, which had just finished absorbing the last bits of liquid, the nine-tailed fox suddenly raised it's head, staring at the clouds gathering in the sky.
In merely a few moments, hundreds of clouds had gathered inside of the previously empty sky, with the small silver fox standing at the center of the clouds.
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For a number of years, Xu Yue had stood cross-legged, immersing herself in her Dao, making it more and more powerful, but suddenly, Xu Yue opened her eyes, as confusion suddenly flashed through them.
"Did something important happen?" mumbled Xu Yue as she suddenly began staring into empty space.
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As Xu Yue began divining what had happened, as well as using the Dao of Fate to increase the power of her diving, seven beings suddenly flashed through her eyes, causing a smile to suddenly appear on her face.
"Geniuses which I can't divine the future of?" mumbled Xu Yue as she suddenly focused on one of the beings, the one she was third most familiar with.
In another location,
As he sat crosslegged, Ling Chen stared at Li Fengfeng and Xia Jingfei as the two of them stood opposite of each other.
Even though these two decided to no longer pursue conflict with each other some time ago, that agreement was soon thrown aside by them, as frequent battles began between the two geniuses.
Of course, even though these two fought, they knew that they had to restrain themselves, otherwise they might destroy the void ship they had been traveling with, as such, their battles were not too devastating.
Because of this, Ling Chen, Lin Fan, and Lin Yun simply watched from the sidelines, using these battles as entertainment, and right now, such a battle was just about to erupt, but suddenly, Ling Chen stopped paying attention to it.
'Is someone spying on me?' thought Ling Chen as he suddenly felt as if someone was watching him, but for some reason, Ling Chen could not find anyone, not even using his extremely powerful spiritual sense.
Suddenly, inside of Ling Chen's sea of consciousness, the Five Treasures Padoga slightly shook as an old man walked out of it before waving his hand.
'Thank you,' mumbled Ling Chen as an extremely faint shield suddenly appeared around him, causing the feeling of being seen through to disappear.
Without responding to Ling Chen's words, the old man walked back inside of the Five Treasures Pagoda, before melding into it.
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Even though her vision of Ling Chen was suddenly blocked, a large smile still littered Xu Yue's face.
The moment before Xu Yue had her vision of him, something had entered Xu Yue's sight, a five-storied pagoda.
Suddenly, a jade slip appeared in front of Xu Yue, causing her to pick it up and look through it with her spiritual sense.
One perk of being part of a power with an extremely long history was often overlooked by cultivators, information.
As she looked through the list of True Immortals that had ascended from the Three Thousand Regions, after merely a few minutes, Xu Yue had found what she had needed.
'True Immortal Li Liang, Dao of the Five Elements, ascended nearly six billion years ago,'
Looking through the information of this True Immortal, Xu Yue couldn't help but smile, although she did not have any disputes against Ling Chenm having some more knowledge just in case was never a bad idea.
Of course, although she also had a large background, Xu Yue did not want to offend Immortal Li Liang, since he was still alive.
The reason Xu Yue knew he was alive was very simple, the fact that information about this True Immortal was still known in the outside world.
As killing a True Immortal required a special method, as soon as an immortal died, not only would all information about them be erased from existence, sometimes even things they left behind or that they had done would also be erased.
This was the reason so few true Immortals were known in the outside world, with one being present around several hundred million years, as they were the only ones that survived, this was also the reason there were so few True Immortals from billions of years ago, as most of them had already been killed.
Of course, factions as powerful as the Origin Sword Sect have much more information not only about those True Immortals that were still alive but also about those that had died.