Insignificance

As she stared at the Three Cultivators surrounding her, the Apostle couldn't help but clench her teeth and try her best to heal her body.

Sadly though, no matter how much the Apostle struggled, the flames that had burned her seemed to have gone into a completely different dimension of power, far beyond what the Apostle was currently capable of dealing with.

So much so that even though those flames were extremely weak in terms of raw power, and they wouldn't be able to injure her in her true state, if she was, in fact, injured by them, she wasn't sure that she would be able to heal herself, even with her full power as a Rank 5 True Immortal.

But even though the Apostle had been greatly weakened by Ye Feng's nearly suicidal attack, this did not cause the remaining three cultivators to become any more relaxed.

In fact, as they gazed into the eyes of the apostle, which were full of madness, all three of them felt a chill in their hearts.

At this very moment, after taking another look at the two young cultivators next to her, the Primordial Water Drop suddenly made a decision.

In but an instant, the old water drop suddenly appeared behind the Apostle and threw herself towards the Apostle, without any regard of her own life.

Just as Xu Yue was about to try to intervene and try to save the water drop, an old voice suddenly appeared in her mind.

'Don't worry, as long as drops of water still exist inside the Three Thousand Regions, I may die but not truly perish.'

Only a moment, under the extremely horrified eyes of Xu Yue, Hao Xifeng, as well as those of the Apostle, who had just unleashed a barrage of attacks into her, the body, soul as well as the existence of the drop of water suddenly became unstable.

Before the Apostle could do anything, the Primordial Water Drop used the last power that she could squeeze out of herself to try to imprison the Apostle, causing a look of disdain to appear on the latter's face.

In but an instant, the Apostle dealt a lethal blow to the Existence of the Water Drop before turning her attention tot the other two, who had flown far away by now.

'I can catch up with them in just a few minutes at most,' thought the Apostle, when suddenly, and without any warning, everything went white.

Even though Xu Yue and Hao Xifeng had managed to fly far away, the moment the Primordial Water Drop self-destructed, both of them were suddenly sent flying.

As she flew through the skies of the Three Thousand Regions, though, a weird expression appeared on the face of Xu Yue, one of doubt.

In an instant, Xu Yue turned her attention to her own fate, causing a look of extreme doubt to suddenly appear on her face.

"Was that the reason why I couldn't break through?" mumbled Xu Yue as she became aware of the circumstances of what had happened, causing her to become furious.

Even though Xu Yue called herself the master of her own destiny, up until now, her fate seemed to have been taken control of by somebody else.

Xu Yue was fated to die at the hands of the Apostle, and this time, unlike the other time something like this had happened, she did not break out of this fate with her own strength.

In fact, Xu Yue was not even aware of this fact.

The one who had saved Xu Yue was Ye Feng, who, for some reason, displayed strength beyond what she should be fated to have.

In fact, Xu Yue was not aware of just how abnormal Ye Feng's burst of strength was, as in normal circumstances, the Grand Dao itself would have been alerted by it.

This strength, which would have alerted even the Grand Dao, completely destroyed the chess board that this certain being had set up, saving Xu Yue from her fate.

This also tied in with Xu Yue's bottleneck, which had also been caused by Fate.

Previously, although she was unaware of it, Xu Yue was actually being restricted by Fate itself, lest she be too powerful and survive that battle.

But now that this arrangement had been thrown out of the window, Fate no longer had any reason to try to restrict Xu Yue, which destroyed that seemingly impossible bottleneck of hers.

Even though the Apostle could still revive herself after being killed, right now, her threat to Xu Yue had been completely destroyed, causing the Dao Tree in the center of Xu Yue's Sea of Consciousness to suddenly transform once again, as if chains had been taken off it.

Nine years later,

In what seemed like only a moment, Xu Yue suddenly opened her eyes and stared at the surrounding room with a confused look on her face.

...

Nine years ago,

The moment the first Apostle had been defeated, the situation around the battlefield suddenly shifted.

As she noticed the fact that Xu Yue did not seem to be able to fight, Hao Xifeng quickly took her to a safe location before surveying the battlefield.

A few moments after that, Hao Xifeng then began intervening in another battle, the battle between Shen Xi, the ancestor of the Yin-Yang Temple, and a newly born apostle, causing the battle to quickly tip in the favor of Shen Xi.

Although something like this might seem minor at first glance, in a battle, even the tiniest of details could completely change its outcome.

And with her rather extreme power, Hao Xifeng was in no way a tiny detail, as she quickly allowed Shen Qi to overwhelm the Apostle.

Sadly for Hao Xifeng, though, none of this actually mattered, as the battle soon ended without her being able to affect anything in the slightest, as a female figure, Yang Bing, who was descended to the mortal world, suddenly appeared above the Three Thousand Regions, causing the Apostles to suddenly freeze.