Who Let Him Cultivate?!

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Although Guan Shanhai and Wu Yao had a relationship that was both mentor and friend, and Wu Yao even called Guan Shanhai 'teacher', this did not mean that Wu Yao had absolute trust in Guan Shanhai, the same way the second Imperial Teacher did.

Wu Yao's curiosity outran everything else; he was curious about all unknown things, and his path of cultivation began from curiosity about the cultivation technique in the arms of a dead cultivator.

His cultivation level soared because he was curious about what it felt like to reach higher realms.

Driven by his curiosity, he established the Great Yu Dynasty, cultivated to an immortal, and even sacrificed the Great Yu Dynasty to find out what the outside world was like.

The Wu Yao replicated by Guan Shanhai had the exact same personality as the real Wu Yao; he wanted to know what had happened, why his real self wasn't there, and why he now had to fight.

Before Guan Shanhai could answer, they heard Nightmare Supreme retreating several steps with a look of utter shock, his voice quivering.

"Guan Shanhai, when did you, you, you become an immortal?!"

Nightmare Supreme's memory still lingered in the Great Qian Last Period of the world's struggle for supremacy, when he had defeated countless formidable enemies, including General Yu, and to establish a new dynasty, he still needed to defeat the rising star Wu Yao, as well as Wu Yao's mentor Guan Shanhai.

But the current problem is, if you, Guan Shanhai, have damn become an immortal, how am I supposed to establish a new dynasty?

Master of All Laws and Monk Woodyprint, seeing the three legendary figures—Guan Shanhai, Wu Yao, and Nightmare Supreme—all showed an expression of disbelief.

Watching his half-immortal replicas arguing noisily with different expressions, Guan Shanhai felt a wave of weariness; they were already providing entertainment before the fight even started.

Guan Shanhai sighed, knowing immortal battles were a matter of split-second decisions. With a mere thought, he stripped the four of their lives in their expressions of horror, swallowing up their Dao Fruit Outlines.

Although he couldn't control the thoughts of those he imprinted, he could control the Dao Fruit Outlines he imprinted.

The only problem was that people and Dao Fruit Outlines were tightly interlinked; he couldn't just imprint the Dao Fruit Outlines.

Thus, he obtained four Dao Fruit Outlines: Dreamland Dao Fruit Embryo, Swap Dao Fruit Embryo, Longevity Dao Fruit Embryo, and Monk Woodyprint's Rejuvenation Dao Fruit Embryo.

Guan Shanhai instantly accelerated his own time, increasing his speed to a level that even Meng Junzi's immortal senses could not react to—in the eyes of those below, it seemed as if he had vanished into thin air.

"Nine Revolutions Indestructible Golden Body."

Guan Shanhai activated the profound Buddhist skill, endured nine hardships, and molded an undying golden body, transforming into a golden-bodied Buddha.

He had used this Golden Body technique to pass through his Immortal Ascension Tribulation, and now that he had become an immortal, reactivating the Golden Body technique, one could imagine just how hard his Immortal's Body had become, saying it was eternally undying wouldn't be an overstatement.

In the Imperial City, only Lu Yang and Fairy Eternity were able to clearly see what Guan Shanhai did.

Fairy Eternity, looking at the ever-accelerating Guan Shanhai, said with a smile, "Quite a clever approach, using the young Master of All Laws' Longevity Dao Fruit Embryo to accelerate your own time and further fortify your body, making every single one of your movements powerful enough to rival that of an Immortal Artifact."

Guan Shanhai appeared behind Meng Junzi like a ghost, his five fingers coming together to form a golden Immortal Saber, aiming to decapitate Meng Junzi!

His hand was also imbued with the power of a curse, ensuring that even if Meng Junzi could reattach his head, it would still damage his vital energy.

However, to Guan Shanhai's surprise, Meng Junzi's head tilted lightly backwards, just managing to dodge the strike!

"How is this possible, how can you see my movements?"

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Guan Shanhai couldn't help but feel astonished, his preemptive strike had unexpectedly missed.

"Great Compassion and Mercy Seal!"

"Overwhelming Heaven!"

"Boundless Yuan Magnet Immortal Technique!"

Eclipsing the sun, a Buddha's hand larger even than the Imperial City broke through layers of clouds and came crashing down. Carrying the might of Overwhelming Heaven, Guan Shanhai struck at Meng Junzi's chest with his palm. Two contrasting spirals of force, one positive and one negative, clamped around Meng Junzi, intending to twist his physical body.

With one move, Guan Shanhai had unleashed three supreme Immortal Methods, each powerful enough to crush a Semi-Immortal. Even Ao Ling would fare only slightly better, with her Immortal's Body being shattered, barely clinging to life. Had an Immortal been hit without any defense, they would have been spitting blood incessantly!

The only two weaknesses of these three Immortal Methods were their slow casting speed and attack speed, but with the acceleration of his own time, the two weaknesses were no longer an issue.

"Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect, Sky Mending Technique, Creation Infinite."

What Guan Shanhai didn't expect was that Meng Junzi also managed to employ three supreme Immortal Methods in an extremely short amount of time.

Meng Junzi transformed into a colossal Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect, his feet planted firmly on the ground, piercing the descending Buddha's hand, restoring light to the rebuilt Imperial City.

He also used the ancient Sky Mending Technique to block the might of Overwhelming Heaven, and with a Creation spell, neutralized the positive and negative twisting forces, effortlessly resolving the three-pronged attack.

"How is this possible, shouldn't you have the Borrowing Dao Fruit?"

In the late period of the Great Yu, he paid great attention to the affairs of Meng Junzi and Jiang Pingan, constantly observing with his powerful Immortal sense, and knew early on about the outlines of their Dao Fruits.

What Meng Junzi held was the Borrowing Dao Fruit Embryo, with its most common use being to borrow enemies' magic artifacts, Spirit Stones, and such, rendering the enemies unarmed while he was fully equipped, leaving no room for them to fight back.

However, the use of the Borrowing Dao Fruit Embryo had nothing to do with time, otherwise, he wouldn't have been so confident in this battle!

"Fairy, what's going on, can the Borrowing Dao Fruit also borrow time?" Lu Yang asked, unable to comprehend such high-level combat.

Unlike Guan Shanhai, who hadn't yet reacted, Fairy Eternity, who was worldly and experienced, saw some clues: "Interesting, Meng Junzi just now didn't borrow time per se, he simply sped himself up."

"This reminds me of an enemy Time Immortal encountered on the road to ascension, who held the Speed Dao Fruit Embryo, touted as the supreme speed in the world. When speed reaches a certain threshold, it starts to interact with time, hence, only one of them could ascend to Immortality."

"Could it be that in your era, someone also has the Speed Dao Fruit Embryo, and Meng Junzi's Borrowing Dao Fruit can borrow other people's Dao Fruit Embryos?"

"Do you remember the 'Borrowing Technique' divine ability of the Meng Family? When cultivators above the Unification Realm came to borrow money from the Meng Family, they had to leave a debt note and also lend one of their techniques to the Meng Family. This divine ability, never seen before by this Immortal, must be uniquely created by the Meng Family, perhaps evolved from the Borrowing Dao Fruit."

"That powerful?" Lu Yang was taken aback.

"Wait, if even the Dao Fruit Outline can be borrowed, then wouldn't it be possible to borrow lifespan?" Lu Yang suddenly realized.

Emperor Xia's exhaustion of lifespan that managed to deceive the Immortal national teacher suggested that not only had the national teacher never seen it, but it was also a divine ability at the level of 'Immortals'.

The Borrowing Dao Fruit fully met these two criteria.

"That should be the case."