Chapter 182: Foreseeing the Future

Lu Yang followed the Immortal Fairy in learning the words of antiquity, jerky terms stumbling from his mouth one after another.

After repeating them a few times, Lu Yang could utter the phrase quite smoothly.

"Speaking of which, to resurrect you, Fairy, does it work whether your name is chanted in the ancient tongue or in modern speech?" Lu Yang recalled that when he revived the Immortal Fairy, he had spoken in the tongue of the present day.

"Hehe, as I've said, this immortal’s Dao Fruit is 'Immortality.' Immortality means enduring through eternity; how could it be constrained by a mere difference in language? Though, this is something even the Heaven-Matching Immortal and the others don't know." The Immortal Fairy smiled with a hint of roguishness, willing to share this little secret with Lu Yang.

"Don't you go telling anyone else about this. I'm only telling you because you resurrected me and let me reside in your body for so long!" the Immortal Fairy exhorted him.

"That goes without saying!" Lu Yang patted his chest in assurance.

Lu Yang began to earnestly study the art of predicting the future, sitting cross-legged as he meticulously comprehended this great spell, this grand divine ability that was renowned even in ancient legends.

Lu Yang rarely asked the Immortal Fairy for guidance, deeply afraid she might guide him astray, but when he encountered places he truly could not fathom, he still had to ask.

Watching Lu Yang gradually approach the core of predicting the future from the sidelines, the Immortal Fairy felt a secret surge of alarm; this indicated that Lu Yang was not far from mastering it.

Though she claimed that Lu Yang's natural talent for spells was inferior to hers, that was merely because she was embarrassed to admit his talent surpassed her own.

She certainly hadn't been able to learn time spells during the Foundation Establishment stage.

At the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, having already mastered a spatial spell like the Close Yet Worlds Apart, and now on the verge of mastering a temporal spell like predicting the future—describing Lu Yang as a monstrous genius would not be an exaggeration in the slightest.

The Immortal Fairy quickly cast this matter to the back of her mind. After all, spells were not her greatest strength; since that was the case, why compare her shortfalls to Lu Yang's strengths?

Lu Yang chanted the solemn ancient words, pressing his middle and index fingers together, and shouted aloud: "Predict the Future!"

"A success?" The Immortal Fairy was astonished; he learned remarkably fast.

Golden runes manifested around Lu Yang, dissipating into the void. After roughly three minutes, the golden runes emerged from the void and returned to Lu Yang's body.

Lu Yang's eyes gleamed like bright gold; he had successfully seen the future!

"I saw... myself from two minutes ago?!"

Lu Yang saw himself from two minutes ago, standing starkly with his arm raised, waiting for the feedback of the golden runes, looking rather foolish.

The corners of his eyes twitched slightly. Theoretically speaking, he had learned to predict the future, successfully foreseeing events that would happen one minute after casting the spell.

But looking at reality, he needed to wait three minutes to know the result.

"What ghost of a use is this!" Lu Yang grumbled.

Lu Yang felt it was probably because he had not yet mastered it proficiently.

"Practice more."

Lu Yang reflected on his actions just now, searching for where problems might have occurred, patching up the loopholes, and cast it once more.

He waited three minutes for the spell to unfold, seeing events from a minute and a half after the casting.

"...At least there is progress," Lu Yang comforted himself, raising his spirits.

"Keep it up!" the Immortal Fairy encouraged from the side.

"Again!"

After the Five Elements Sect departed, the senior brothers and sisters had taken turns battling Lu Yang, thumping him continuously until dawn, before finally burying him in the grove of Heavenly Gate Peak.

Having cleared the Fairy's trial, Lu Yang cultivated diligently from the crack of dawn.

Time marched on, from dawn all the way until dusk, as the sun turned to the moon, and moonlight poured over the Dao-Querying Sect like a tide, draping it in a mysterious veil.

Heaven does not betray a conscientious heart; through repeated cultivation, constantly finding problems, researching problems, and solving problems, the predictable future grew longer and longer, infinitely approaching the three-minute threshold.

Suddenly, Lu Yang felt a resonant boom in his mind, as if something had been blasted open, stepping past the three-minute threshold in a single bound to predict the future.

Lu Yang’s eyes shone with golden brilliance, resembling two candle flames in the night, exceptionally conspicuous.

"What did you see?" the Immortal Fairy asked excitedly.

Lu Yang’s expression turned peculiar: "I only saw a fragment. Eldest Senior Sister was leaving the Prisoner Peak, and I ran up to her, saying that I must learn from Master, to become just like his unreliable self, spending all day doing nothing but eating and playing, neither cultivating nor doing proper work. Eldest Senior Sister revealed a faint smile, held me, patted my back, and said she would support me in the future."

"For real?" The Immortal Fairy was greatly shocked. What kind of bizarre future was this?

"It feels like the truth!" Lu Yang was also bewildered.

"Why do I feel like something isn't quite right?" The Immortal Fairy's eyes darted about as she egged him on, "The Time Immortal once said that the future cannot be changed. Since you saw it, it means this is definitely what will happen in the future."

"The only way to verify the truth is to go test it!"

Lu Yang felt the Immortal Fairy made sense and set off toward Prisoner Peak.

At this moment, Yun Zhi had just emerged from Prisoner Peak, her knuckles stained with blood. Although she maintained that same expressionless countenance, anyone familiar with her would know she was currently in a good mood.

Yun Zhi had successfully extracted a vast amount of information about the Immortal Sect from the mouths of the two vice-leaders, including the location of the Immortal Sect headquarters.

Yun Zhi saw Lu Yang rushing over eagerly: "Little Junior Brother, is there something the matter?"

Lu Yang flashed a brilliant smile and said, "I must learn from Master, to become just like his unreliable self, spending all day doing nothing but eating and playing, neither cultivating nor doing proper work."

Rumble—Cra-crack—

The originally clear sky was suddenly densely shrouded in dark clouds for some reason, lightning flashing and thunder roaring as raindrops the size of beans began to pelt down.

"Oh, it's raining. I knew there would be moderate rain tonight!" The Immortal Fairy was smug, finding her weather forecast to be quite accurate.

Lu Yang noticed that after he finished speaking these words, Eldest Senior Sister shifted from expressionless to a faint smile. Although it was a smile, coupled with the lightning and thunder in the sky and Lu Yang's own intuition, this smile exerted an immense pressure upon him.

It was a crisis of life and death!

Lu Yang swallowed his spit, his consciousness hastily retreating into his mental space, asking covertly, "Fairy, when cultivation reaches a certain boundary, can emotional changes affect the weather?"

"They can."

Lu Yang finally knew why the Dao-Querying Sect, which rarely saw rain year-round, was raining today.

He had infuriated Eldest Senior Sister!

"Fairy, your weather forecast is truly accurate!" Lu Yang said through gritted teeth.

In reality, Yun Zhi gently patted Lu Yang's shoulder, speaking in a soft tone, "Little Junior Brother, has cultivation been too intense lately, causing you to start speaking nonsense?"

Lu Yang trembled all over, shaking his head subconsciously, then immediately realized his reaction was wrong, and hastily nodded like a chicken pecking at grain, unable to utter a single word.

He finally knew what kind of spell he had mastered.

Predicting the Future—Knowing in advance the things that would not come.