The Age Of Doom: I Can Deduce Countless Ages Of Immortal Cultivation

Chapter 55: Backlash

"Impossible! This is impossible!"

Chen Zunyan's expression was indescribable when he saw the appearance of the seventh hexagram.

The sixty-four hexagrams of the next day determine everything in the world between the six hexagrams, and under the reversal of yin and yang, there are infinite possibilities.

But now he actually saw the seventh hexagram, a hexagram that transcends fate.

Could there be someone in this world who transcends fate?

Before Chen Zunyan could react, all the profound rhythms around him rushed towards the shattered seventh hexagram.

"My Six Dragons Returning Pendant."

Mu Yuchuan also had an endless shock in his eyes when he saw the pendant shatter.

He couldn't divine hexagrams, but he knew the rules of cause and effect.

The Six Dragons Returning Pendant was refined by a True Immortal. Even a battle at the Mahayana stage would never cause it to shatter.

How much cause and effect did it bear?

"What is going on?"

Wang Jingyan was also full of astonishment when he saw the shattered seventh hexagram.

Although he didn't understand the way of cause and effect, after many years in the Dharma-ending era, he knew a thing or two about hexagrams.

As far as he knew, there should only be six hexagrams.

Just as Si Yuan was about to ask a question, the other hexagrams also began to change.

The six jade pendants covered with yin and yang energies continuously shattered at this moment, one shattered into two, two into four, four into eight...

The originally six-hexagram pattern completely shattered, and infinite yang hexagrams evolved at this moment.

Those were the treasures refined by the True Immortals in the Immortal Court, and at this moment, they shattered into endless fragments of light, and then disappeared in an instant.

Everyone fell silent.

Then Chen Zunyan felt a majestic breath suddenly descend into his mind from the void. With his Mahayana cultivation, he had no resistance against this power.

He knew what that power was!

It was the power of cause and effect.

The Six Dragons Returning Pendant couldn't bear the cause and effect on Zhang Qingyuan's body at all, and all the cause and effect calculated this time should be borne by him!

When Chen Zunyan's eyes were filled with horror, his thoughts suddenly entered the endless realm of cause and effect.

At this moment, various scenes about Zhang Qingyuan appeared in his eyes due to the contact with the power of cause and effect.

Because of the contact with the power of cause and effect, he could catch a glimpse of the future.

But he didn't want to see it at all!

After various scenes floated in Chen Zunyan's mind, his waist-length white hair fell down, and his Mahayana cultivation continuously dissipated. Fine wrinkles appeared on his fair face.

The cause and effect he was peering into regarding Zhang Qingyuan had already surpassed him.

"Stop! Stop it!"

Chen Zunyan's divine thoughts kept impacting in his sea of consciousness.

At this moment, he only hoped to cut off his divine thoughts and seek a glimmer of hope.

But... under the vast cause and effect, his resistance was meaningless.

Even if he cut off his divine thoughts, he still saw it.

He saw a statue sitting on the sky above Yuanzhou, and the back of this statue was a strange structure resembling an eye, overlooking the earth.

Zhang Qingyuan stood on the statue, holding a strange mask, and countless immortals came from all directions on the earth. Thirty-six virtual roads descended from the sky, and behind him, countless palaces were illuminated by infinite light and shadows...

Chen Zunyan only saw Zhang Qingyuan's lips move, as if he said something!

He only heard one sentence!

"All is being annihilated at this moment!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the vast territory of Yuanzhou, spanning millions of miles, instantly collapsed. Mountains crumbled, rivers ceased to flow, and countless plants withered and died.

And he also saw his own fate.

He stood among the crowd of people led by Mu Yuchuan. At this moment, their techniques and artifacts emerged in great numbers, and countless melodies appeared in the void, illuminating the land with boundless radiance.

But under the statue of Zhang Qingyuan, they were nothing more than fireflies compared to the bright moon.

Chen Zunyan also saw his own fate.

In an instant, he and Mu Yuchuan and the others aged. His white hair fell down, his flesh and blood were devoured like worms, and his cultivation was extinguished at this moment.

And this was the price he paid for peering into the future.

The consequences of death came prematurely upon him.

Chen Zunyan's consciousness suddenly returned to his body, but he couldn't see anything because his eyes were now in a state of chaos.

At this moment, when Mu Yuchuan and the others saw Chen Zunyan's appearance, a chill rose in their hearts.

Chen Zunyan's originally fair skin turned waxen yellow and wrinkled. His white hair fell down and turned into ashes before reaching the ground. His flesh and blood dissolved, unable to support his oversized robe. His once sturdy body became nothing but skin and bones. His pupils became cloudy, and his cultivation at the Mahayana stage dissipated in an instant.

This was the price to be paid for peering into the future.

Chen Zunyan knew that he was already powerless to change his fate, but there was still a glimmer of hope for Mu Yuchuan and the others.

He exerted all his strength and shouted hoarsely to the outside world, "Quickly stop Zhang Qingyuan's exhibition!"

"After the arrival of the statue that overlooks all things, everything will return to annihilation!"

"And your fate will be the same as mine!"

Before the words fell, his emaciated body was torn apart by countless worms, and in an instant, he turned into a pile of bones.

Chen Zunyan, a cultivator at the Mahayana stage, fell at this moment.

Mu Yuchuan and the others, who witnessed this scene, felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

How powerful must the force of causality be that even a Mahayana stage cultivator and a quasi-immortal artifact could not bear it?

Fear arose in the hearts of Mu Yuchuan and the others.

Chen Zunyan had lived for countless years, and even the True Immortal powerhouses might not have been able to calculate his fate. Even when the Dharma-ending age arrived, he could find a way to break through. But this time, he perished simply by using the Six Yao divination.

In the divination methods he knew, the Six Yao was only considered intermediate, and he had not divined many things with it.

Yet, just a glimpse of the future caused his downfall.

What had happened in the future?

Mu Yuchuan and the others fell into silence.

"Zhang Qingyuan of your Qingxiao Sect seems to have really unleashed something extraordinary."

Wang Jingyan looked at the dissolving bones and couldn't help but murmur.

Mu Yuchuan and the other elders of the Qingxiao Sect exchanged glances, seeing the incredulity in each other's eyes.

Because before the Dharma-ending age, Chen Zunyan had almost calculated Zhang Qingyuan's inevitable death without paying any price.

But now?

Zhang Qingyuan not only didn't die, but the force of causality on his body directly killed a Mahayana stage cultivator.

What had happened to Zhang Qingyuan?

Accompanying this doubt was the fear arising from Chen Zunyan's final words.

After the arrival of the statue that overlooks all things, everything will return to annihilation!

And your fate will be the same as mine!

Mu Yuchuan looked at the ashes and bones that had turned into nothingness, feeling a chill all over his body.

Everyone in the Xuanzhen Palace fell into silence at this moment. They stared at the empty cushion, unable to imagine what kind of power could cause a Mahayana stage cultivator to perish like this.

(End of this chapter)