Sleep

As Xu Yue tried examining the jade slip, and the words written on it further, the jade slip suddenly disappeared.

"What," mumbled Xu Yue as she began looking around, searching for a culprit. But before she could search much more, Xu Yue found herself back on the surface.

As she looked around for a moment, Xu Yue began flying in the direction of the cave abode, but when she arrived at the entrance, a shocked expression appeared on her face.

"It's gone," mumbled Xu Yue as she looked at the natural cliff in front of her. A moment after that, Xu Yue placed her hand on the rock in front of her, her expression becoming even more shocked at that moment. Looking into the rock's past, Xu Yue discovered that no cave abode had existed in the rock in front of her.

Suddenly, Xu Yue began looking in her spatial ring for the formation flags she had obtained at the auction. After a few moments, the shock on Xu Yue's face disappeared, being replaced by a frown.

"They are also gone," mumbled Xu Yue as she fell into deep thought, and began looking through her memories about the cave abode, and after a while her memories about the jade slip.

Remembering the faint intent inscribed in the jade slip, and after a few moments, she managed to translate the small amount of text from the first part of the jade slip. 'It's as I thought, although gravity exists, it's too different, it's as if th-' Suddenly, anger appeared on Xu Yue's face as she somehow forgot about the rest of the jade slip.

After a few minutes and after having managed to calm down her anger, Xu Yue realized something. "My memories were not tampered with, rather, it's as if the past itself was changed and my memories changed with it," thought Xu Yue as suddenly another thought entered her mind. Xu Yue then promptly sat down before beginning to feel the past of the mountain in front of her.

"Nothing," mumbled Xu Yue as everything in front of her lined up perfectly, presenting a clear picture that nothing had happened.

But before she could do anything else, Xu Yue felt an extremely familiar yet faint aura, at that moment it was as if lightning had struck her. After this, Xu Yue got up and picked up a random rock and stared intently at it.

Moments later, as Xu Yue had changed the fate of the rock, it suddenly morphed into a low-grade spiritual stone, but what Xu Yue was looking for was what she could feel after it had been morphed. After the rock transformed into a spiritual stone, Xu Yue could feel a very faint yet familiar aura around it.

"So the Dao of Fate was used," mumbled Xu Yue's main body as several jade slips about the Dao of Fate appeared in front of her. "Hongjun, Immortal ancestor of the Heaven Scrying Temple, but what does he have to do with the Wu clan," mumbled Xu Yue's main body as she continued pondering.

...

As he opened his eyes, a frown appeared on the young-looking old man Hongjun's face. "So she was the one who discovered it," mumbled old man Hongjun as slightly gritted his teeth before waving his left hand, causing the cave abode his much younger self had created to be destroyed.

"If only I destroyed it back when I was in the lower dimension, this is too troublesome," mumbled Hongjun as he felt the nearly infinite dimensional wall disrupt his power, causing him to use much more effort in destroying it.

"Why am I so bothered about it, even if someone discovers it, nothing will change," mumbled Hongjun as he fell into a deep silence.

...

Unaware of Old Man Hongjun's troubles, right now, Xu Yue was in deep thought. "Where did he come from for the very laws of reality to be different," mumbled Xu Yue as she felt that she was missing a key component from the puzzle, something that would change her very perspective and put things into place.

Sadly, Xu Yue did not know that it was too early for anyone to realize, maybe if this had happened in the future she may have had an idea, but right now she did not.

...

In another time and space, Everything was asleep, from the lowest of mortals to the highest of immortals, the Grand Dao, nearly almighty as it is, was also asleep, it was unknown how many eons had passed since the sleep had begun, but even so, even the beings with the shorted lifespan were still alive, asleep.

Time had also fallen asleep, granting them eternal life until it woke up.

"It's too boring," mumbled third as she looked at the still reality before her.

"Wake up," said third as she poked fourth's cheek with her long fingers.

"Wha-" mumbled fourth as she woke up from her long sleep, the moment fourth opened her eyes, reality continued on as if nothing happened. Everyone, every living or not living being had immediately woken up and were unaware of their almost eternal sleep.

The only being aware of what had happened was the Grand Dao, which looked at fourth who was sitting in a bed in a tiny corner of reality with terror in its eye. It knew that this being was not just stronger than it, it was at a different level than it.

"Is it so nice to sleep all the time?" asked third as she handed a small ball of light to fourth.

Looking at the ball of light, fourth let out a small yawn.

"It is," said fourth before closing her eyes. As soon as the fourth closed her eyes, everything stopped and regained its stillness once again, only third's incarnation, which was a small portion of a being of the same level could remain awake in the same reality as fourth.

Seeing everything stop, third did not have any desire to remain in this dead reality, she then disappeared in the river of time, leaving fourth to sleep, unknown when she will next awake, maybe only when the next one of her kind appeared would reality continue. But for at least the next billion years, everything would sleep.