The State Preceptor Who Was Blown Up for Ten Days

Does having too much karma really affect spiritual practice?

"You never know, I don't think so, but plenty of people do." The Immortal Fairy shrugged; her views always differed from the prevailing opinion.

"You remember that the characteristic of immortals is forgetting, right? Don't you think that's somewhat similar to what's happening now?"

After the Immortal Fairy reminded him, Lu Yang realized that this was indeed the case. In a sense, the characteristics of immortals were like a manifestation of severing cause and effect.

"The characteristics of immortals... are they meant to sever causality?"

"You're right. Ying Tianxian and the others all believe that only by severing all karmic ties can one advance in cultivation. But I don't think so. I believe that the more karmic ties one has, the higher one's cultivation will be."

"Going a step further?"

Lu Yang seemed to have heard something incredible. "Immortals can advance even further?"

"We calculated using five Dao Fruits, and theoretically it's feasible. However, none of us have succeeded, and no one knows if we can take that next step. Nine-fold Immortal was the first to become an immortal. At least none of the five of us have succeeded, and no one before us has succeeded either."

"The term 'Immortal Characteristics' is actually a name given to Ying Tianxian and the others. The four of them became immortals first, and when they were condensing their Dao Fruits, they chose to forget the characteristics of those Dao Fruits. That's why, without my approval, the term 'forgetting' was used to refer to this characteristic."

"I was the last one to become an immortal, and I didn't choose to forget myself upon becoming an immortal, so I don't have any immortal characteristics."

"So, the characteristics of immortals are not essential for immortals, but rather the result of different choices made by each immortal?"

"Yes, look at that immortal who holds the national destiny; he also chose the forgetfulness trait."

"But isn't his Dao fruit related to the power of the nation's destiny and the Great Xia Dynasty? The karmic burden on him is heavier than anyone else's, so why would he choose this path?"

"It's simple. If he wants to go further, he can just change the person bearing the karmic consequences, right?"

"Didn't you just say that the origin of the Third Leader's statue was originally irrefutable proof of the Third Leader's existence, and that there was a causal relationship between the Third Leader and his statue? Now it has been changed to the leader's dream, and the leader and the Third Leader's statue have become causally related."

"The third leader set the goal of making the barbecue restaurant bigger and stronger, and all the restaurant's actions were in accordance with this goal. The third leader and all his subsequent actions created a cause and effect. Now that the goal has been changed to the leader's, the leader is bearing the consequences of all these actions."

"This is a manifestation of changing the bearer of cause and effect; replacement is also a form of forgetting."

Lu Yang vaguely grasped the clues, but the Immortal Fairy had said too much, and 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 the Third Master first."

"How can we save them?" Lu Yang asked, puzzled. He hadn't even found any trace of the immortals.

The Immortal Fairy, hands on her hips, ordered Lu Yang, "Go and call Yun'er over. What kind of logic is it to have your subordinates do the work while you, the Sect Master, do it?"

Forced by the acting Sect Master's tyranny, Lu Yang had no choice but to go to Prison Peak to find his senior sister.

The eldest sister is interrogating the Black and White Venerable at Prison Peak.

Lu Yang arrived at Prison Peak, where his senior sister was whipping the Black and White Venerable. The Black and White Venerable looked like an old man, but his body was very strong. Despite screaming in pain, he was not killed.

"Junior brother, is something the matter?"

The eldest sister stopped, the whip cracking in the air before she folded it into three pieces and held it in her hand with practiced ease.

"It's like this..."

Lu Yang recounted what he had discovered, as well as the Immortal Fairy's speculation.

The Black and White Venerable listened with trepidation. He had secretly studied it his entire life but had never been able to figure out what the Imperial Preceptor's Dao Fruit prototype was. How could the other party have determined it in just a few words?

Judging from their words, the Ask Dao Sect also has a demigod, Imperial Preceptor is currently engaged in a fierce battle with him?

And why would only Lu Yang, Golden Core cultivator, know about their target's affairs?

What kind of place is the Ask Dao Sect?

"Senior, please come out."

The eldest sister, expressionless, invited out the Immortal Fairy. The Immortal Fairy, like a child who had made a mistake, cowered in front of the eldest sister.

But then she thought again, wait a minute, she's the acting Sect Master, what is she afraid of?

The senior sister calmly looked at the immortal fairy with her head bowed. "I should have told you, senior, that Lu Yang is still young and his cultivation is not high enough. Things like immortals and Dao fruits are too far away from him. Don't talk about these things, lest you become too ambitious and affect your cultivation. You've said too much this time."

"I was wrong." As the acting Sect Master, the Immortal Fairy was flexible and knew when to yield; she admitted her mistakes.

"How does Senior intend to find the immortal beings whose cause and effect have been erased?"

The eldest sister naturally still remembered the existence of the Immortal Immortal.

"Hehe, it's hard to find others, but easy to find the third leader."

The Immortal Fairy smiled smugly, proud of her own Dao Fruit. She asked Lu Yang to take out the Immortal Immortal statue she had obtained from the barbecue restaurant, and then recited the title and name of the Third Master.

"Immortal Cloth has a face."

Inside the makeshift space, two figures were panting heavily.

"This guy is really tough to deal with. What exactly is the rudimentary form of this grandson's Dao Fruit?" The Immortal Immortal possessed all the memories of the Immortal Cult's followers, a vast amount of memories, yet he knew nothing about this level of battle and still hadn't figured out the Imperial Preceptor's rudimentary form of Dao Fruit.

Even a nascent immortal Dao Fruit couldn't withstand a self-destruction that lasted for ten days.

If it were a complete Immortal Dao Fruit, it could self-destruct countless times without consequence. Unfortunately, the Immortal Immortal's Dao Fruit was only formed half a year ago, and it is still far from being a complete Immortal Dao Fruit.

It is truly remarkable that one could fight to such an extent against Imperial Preceptor has been cultivating the rudiments of the Dao for ten thousand years.

The immortal immortal was in a sorry state, but the Imperial Preceptor was even worse off. He himself couldn't count how many times he had been bombed in the past ten days, and there wasn't a single unscathed spot on his body.

He had encountered stronger opponents before, but this was the first time he had ever met one as formidable as this.

He did try to escape along the way, but once he disappeared and erased the cause and effect, he would self-destruct, causing the space to tremble and leaving not a single crack open.

"What luck! We've run into the true protector of the Ask Dao Sect!" Even the Imperial Preceptor, known for his good temper, would curse loudly in this situation.

"A true protector of the Dao? I've only been at the Ask Dao Sect for half a year."

"Half a year? You, a dignified half-immortal powerhouse, are holed up in this tiny place? What's so special about this place that you should be here? I admit my mistake; I shouldn't have attacked you. How about this, let's become friends through this fight. 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 Preceptor thought the other party was staying there to recover their physical body, and that there was no need for them to fight to the death; they could cooperate.

The immortal looked at the Imperial Preceptor with a hostile expression, finding him incredibly treacherous. "I am a prisoner, and you're instigating me to escape?"

"Prisoner?"

The Imperial Preceptor was terrified; who could possibly imprison a demigod?

Suddenly, the immortal was startled, a smile appearing on his lips. He sensed that the chief was calling him.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Imperial Preceptor was stunned, he struck instantly and grabbed the Imperial Preceptor tightly.

The Imperial Preceptor knew inwardly that something was wrong, and that he had seized the opportunity to self-destruct at close range!

In the past, when immortal immortals self-destructed, he always relied on the effect of the nascent Dao Fruit of Cause and Effect to stay far away.

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

Unexpectedly, the immortal did not choose to self-destruct. Instead, a spatial portal appeared behind him, and he took a step back while holding the Imperial Preceptor.

Thump.

Two semi-immortal level experts fell to Prison Peak at the same time.

The Imperial Preceptor stared blankly at the indifferent Senior Sister and the smirking Immortal Fairy.