Chapter 494: The National Teacher Who Was Bombed for Ten Days

Chapter 503: The Imperial Advisor Who Was Bombed for Ten Days

"Does having too much karma truly affect cultivation?"

"Hard to say. I don't think so, but plenty of people do." Immortal Fairy shrugged, her views always differing from popular opinion.

"Do you remember that an Immortal's characteristic is forgetting? Don't you think it's somewhat similar to what's happening now?"

After Immortal Fairy's reminder, Lu Yang realized that it was indeed the case. In a sense, the Immortal's characteristic seemed to be a manifestation of severing karma.

"The Immortal's characteristic... is it to sever karma?"

"You got it. Ying Tianxian and the others believe that only by severing all karma can one's cultivation advance further. But I don't think so. I believe the more karma you have, the higher your cultivation will be."

"Advance further?"

Lu Yang seemed to have heard an astonishing phrase: "Immortals can still advance further?"

"We've deduced it with five Dao Fruits; theoretically, it's possible. However, no one has succeeded, and no one knows if another step can truly be taken. Nine-Fold Immortal was the first to become an immortal. At least none of the five of us succeeded, and no one before us did either."

"The 'Immortal's characteristic' is actually what Ying Tianxian and the others called it. The four of them became immortals first, and when they condensed their Dao Fruits, they chose 'forgetting' as a characteristic of their Dao Fruits. That's how 'forgetting' was dubbed the 'Immortal's characteristic' without my decision."

"I was the last to become an immortal, and I didn't choose forgetting when I ascended, so I don't have the Immortal's characteristic."

"So, the Immortal's characteristic isn't a mandatory trait for immortals, but rather the result of each immortal's different choice?"

"Exactly. Look at the immortal who holds the national destiny; he also chose the forgetting characteristic."

"But isn't his Dao Fruit related to the power of national destiny and the Great Xia? The karma on him is immensely heavy, incomparable to anyone else. How could he choose this path?"

"It's simple. He wants to advance further. When the time comes, he just needs to change the bearer of karma, right?"

"Didn't you just say that the origin of Third Boss's statue was originally solid proof of Third Boss's existence, and there was karma between him and his statue? Now it's been replaced by the sect leader's dream, creating karma between the sect leader and Third Boss's statue."

"Third Boss set the goal for the barbecue restaurant to grow bigger and stronger, and all actions of the restaurant followed this goal, creating karma between Third Boss and all subsequent actions. Now that the goal has been changed to one set by the sect leader, it means the sect leader bears the karma of all these actions."

"This is a manifestation of changing the karma bearer. Substitution is also a form of forgetting."

Lu Yang vaguely grasped a clue, but Immortal Fairy had said so much that there seemed to be too many clues, making it difficult to know where to start.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's save Third Boss first."

"How do we save him?" Lu Yang was puzzled. He hadn't even found a trace of the Undying Immortal yet.

Immortal Fairy put her hands on her hips and instructed Lu Yang, "Go call Yun girl over. What kind of subordinate doesn't do work and makes the sect leader do it?"

Under pressure from the acting sect leader's perceived tyranny, Lu Yang had no choice but to go to Prisoner Peak to find Senior Sister.

Senior Sister was interrogating Black and White Venerable on Prisoner Peak.

When Lu Yang arrived at Prisoner Peak, Senior Sister was whipping Black and White Venerable. Black and White Venerable looked like an old man, yet his body was incredibly tough. He screamed in pain but showed no signs of dying from the whipping.

"Junior Brother, is something wrong?"

Senior Sister stopped, flicking the whip in the air with a snap. It folded into three sections, which she held in her hand with practiced ease.

"It's like this..."

Lu Yang recounted what he had discovered and Immortal Fairy's conjectures.

Black and White Venerable listened from the side, his heart pounding. He had secretly researched for a lifetime and never figured out what the Imperial Advisor's Dao Fruit prototype was, yet the other party confirmed it in just a few words?

From what they implied, Dao-Seeking Sect also had a half-immortal, and the Imperial Advisor was currently in a fierce battle with him?

And why would their target for this trip — Lu Yang, who was only at the Golden Core stage — know all these things?

What kind of bizarre place was Dao-Seeking Sect?

"Senior, please come out."

Senior Sister expressionlessly invited Immortal Fairy out. Immortal Fairy appeared like a child who had made a mistake, shrinking back timidly when she saw Senior Sister.

But then she had a sudden thought: *Wait, that's not right. I'm the acting sect leader. What do I have to be afraid of?*

Senior Sister calmly looked at the bowed Immortal Fairy: "I should have told you, Senior, that Lu Yang is still young and his cultivation is insufficient. Matters like immortals and Dao Fruits are too distant for him. Don't speak of these things, lest he become overly ambitious and it affects his cultivation. You've said too much this time."

"I was wrong." As the acting sect leader, Immortal Fairy was flexible and quick to admit her mistakes.

"Senior, how do you intend to find the Undying Immortal whose karma has been erased?"

Senior Sister naturally still remembered the existence of the Undying Immortal.

"Hehe, others are hard to find, but Third Boss is easy."

Immortal Fairy chuckled smugly, proud of her own Dao Fruit. She told Lu Yang to take out the Undying Immortal statue he got from the barbecue restaurant, then recited Third Boss's title and name: "Undying Immortal Bu Yaolian."

In the temporarily constructed space, two figures were panting.

"He's really tough to deal with. What exactly is this bastard's Dao Fruit prototype?" The Undying Immortal possessed all the memories of the Undying Cult's followers, a vast amount of memories, yet he knew nothing about battles of this caliber and still hadn't figured out the Imperial Advisor's Dao Fruit prototype.

A self-detonation lasting ten days was unbearable, even for someone with an Undying Dao Fruit prototype.

If it were a complete Undying Dao Fruit, self-detonating any number of times would be fine. Unfortunately, the Undying Immortal's Dao Fruit prototype had only condensed half a year ago, still very far from a complete Undying Dao Fruit.

It was truly difficult to fight the Imperial Advisor, who had condensed his Karma Dao Fruit prototype ten thousand years ago, to such a standstill.

The Undying Immortal was in a sorry state, but the Imperial Advisor was even worse. He himself had lost count of how many times he had been bombed in those ten days; there wasn't a single good spot on his entire body.

He had encountered stronger opponents, but this was his first time facing such a troublesome one.

He wasn't without thoughts of escaping midway, but as soon as he disappeared and erased his karma, this guy would self-detonate, causing the space to become turbulent, making it impossible to open a single rift.

"What rotten luck, to directly encounter the true protector of Dao-Seeking Sect!" Even with the Imperial Advisor's good temper, he wanted to curse aloud in this situation.

"The true protector? I've only been in Dao-Seeking Sect for half a year."

"Half a year? You, a majestic half-immortal expert, hiding in such a small place? What's worth staying here for? I admit I was wrong; I shouldn't have attacked you. How about this: we've fought, now we're acquainted. If you have nowhere to go, you can come to our Great Yu. I have a way to help you restore your physical body!"

The Imperial Advisor thought the other party was staying there to restore his physical body, so there was no need for them to fight to the death; they could cooperate.

The Undying Immortal looked at the Imperial Advisor with an unkind expression, thinking he was insidious: "I'm a prisoner. Are you trying to incite me to escape?"

"A prisoner?"

The Imperial Advisor's hair stood on end. Who could possibly imprison a half-immortal?

Suddenly, the Undying Immortal paused, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth. He sensed that the First Boss was calling him.

Seizing the moment the Imperial Advisor was stunned, he instantly acted, latching onto the Imperial Advisor in a tight embrace.

The Imperial Advisor secretly thought, *This is bad. He's seized the opportunity to self-detonate at close range!*

Previously, when the Undying Immortal self-detonated, he relied on the power of his Karma Dao Fruit prototype to get far away.

If he had been bombed a few times at close range, he would have been blown to bits long ago.

Unexpectedly, the Undying Immortal did not choose to self-detonate. A spatial portal appeared behind him, and holding the Imperial Advisor, he stepped backward.

*Thud.*

Both half-immortal level experts simultaneously fell onto Prisoner Peak.

The Imperial Advisor stared blankly at the expressionless Senior Sister and the grinning Immortal Fairy.