Two Lessons from Daoist Buyan
Lu Yang was deeply moved by the friendship among the five High Antiquity immortals.
To set up an unprecedented cage and imprison the murderer within, which can only be untied by gathering the power of the five High Antiquity immortals—what a grand vision and what a magnificent undertaking! Lu Yang was in awe.
Lu Yang had no other thoughts but one remaining question: With the Immortal of Time gone, how could he gather the power of the Five High Antiquity Immortals?
Even the Immortal Fairy was stumped by this question. After pondering for a moment, she proposed a solution that seemed impossible. "Why don't you become an immortal and end your Dao Fruit of Time?"
Lu Yang: "..."
Fairy, aren't you overestimating me?
The rules of time are incredibly difficult to master. The Immortal of Time, relying on his identity as the Jianmu tree, slowly wore himself down with endless lifespan, exchanging time for time, until he finally mastered the rules of time.
I'm only eighteen years old, and I'm already planning to master the Dao of Time?
How do I master it? By possessing the body of the Fairy of Time, or by having you, Fairy, teach me the rules of time?
"It's a pity that Ying Tianxian and the others are still missing, even if they are alive, we don't know where they are. Otherwise, we could just find them and ask them directly." The Immortal Fairy shook her head regretfully, but Lu Yang could tell that she was in a good mood.
Previously, the identity of the murderer was unknown, and it was suspected to be one of the Four Immortals of High Antiquity. After this investigation, the possibility of the Four Immortals of High Antiquity was finally ruled out, and I can relax now.
"Alright, it's time to go back."
The deepest levels of the mainland have been explored; there is no need to stay any longer.
The human and the immortal joined forces, and Lu Yang used the Shrinking Earth Technique to swim on the ground as if he were swimming.
He pushed off with his feet and pushed aside layers of soil with his hands, like a fish swimming through the land... but he didn't quite manage to swim.
Lu Yang blinked. His movements were perfect, but he just couldn't get to the top.
He mustered all his strength, pushed off with both feet, and pushed aside layers of soil with both hands, like a fish swimming through the land... but he still couldn't swim through.
He looked down at the lowest barrier on the continent; it was this thing that had attracted him.
Seeing Lu Yang's predicament, the Immortal Fairy suddenly realized something and said, "Oh, I forgot, there's gravity here. You're being pulled in."
The four High Antiquity immortals possessed superb skills; their transformation of stars into continents wasn't like kneading clay together. In the process, they preserved gravity, or rather, they used Law Technique to construct a gravity array... In any case, the continents possess gravity.
"Just put in a little more effort and you'll make it up," the Immortal Fairy encouraged Lu Yang.
Lu Yang sank effortlessly; at most, he would use "Draw a Dungeon" to slow down when the descent was fast.
Going up now would be too troublesome.
Lu Yang had no other choice but to try his best to swim up.
It took him five days to descend to the Earth's core and thirteen days to return to the surface, leaving him breathless with exhaustion.
Fortunately, the Immortal Fairy guided them, preventing them from veering off course. Had they veered even slightly off course, they might have ended up in the territory of the Suanni or Qiongqi tribes.
"Your trip will take quite a while." Meng Jingzhou was meditating with his eyes closed when he sensed Lu Yang burrowing into the ground like an earthworm and woke up prematurely.
Lu Yang rolled his eyes at Meng Jingzhou: "It would take you this long to go down and come back."
The third senior sister looked at Lu Yang, who had arrived ahead of schedule, with slight surprise. Her junior brother's round trip was a few days shorter than she had anticipated.
"At this speed, even those in the Nascent Soul Realm would be ashamed of themselves," she thought to herself. Her junior brother was even stronger than she had imagined; no wonder her senior sister had made him the acting Sect Master.
"So, what did you learn? Your senior sister didn't lie to you, did she?"
Lu Yang nodded. This trip had been very fruitful, but he couldn't tell others about what he had gained, as it would have too great an impact.
Moreover, it's pointless to explain the contents of the Four High Antiquity's Dao Fruits; they'll be forgotten as soon as they're mentioned.
"Now that you're back, you two stay here and keep watch. I'm going outside to see if those old guys have left yet." The third senior sister got up to stretch her limbs, telling the two not to wander off, and that she would be right back.
The third senior sister picked up a talisman, which spontaneously combusted. Before everyone's eyes, she vanished from the spot, unseen by either sight or Divine Sense.
This is a very sophisticated invisibility talisman; only the Immortal Fairy can see Third Senior Sister.
About half an hour later, Third Senior Sister returned as promised, bringing good news. "They're all gone, we're safe!"
Lu Yang and his companion breathed a sigh of relief; they were finally safe.
Where do we go now?
"The Qiongqi tribe, that's where my second stronghold is."
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou gasped. "Third Senior Sister, are you leading us into the main camp?"
"It's alright, I've been to the Qiongqi Clan countless times. Don't be fooled by their formidable reputation outside; their internal management is actually quite lax, nothing like our Ask Dao Sect."
The two followed their third senior sister away, only to discover upon exiting the cave that it wasn't actually in the mountain, but rather at the foot of the mountain, requiring them to climb upwards to leave.
The mountains were shrouded in thick fog and dew, and the muddy paths were full of potholes and puddles, indicating that it must have rained recently.
The third senior sister suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong, Senior Sister?"
Third Senior Sister pointed to a small puddle and said, "Follow me and jump in."
"Ah?"
The third senior sister didn't explain much, and jumped into the puddle. Strangely enough, the puddle was just formed after the rain and looked only two or three inches deep. When the third senior sister jumped in, she disappeared completely.
Although the two found it strange, they did not suspect their third senior sister and both jumped in as well.
Lu Yang felt as if his body was completely submerged in water, entering the depths of the East China Sea. He lost all sense of direction and couldn't tell which way was north, south, east, or west. He swam desperately in one direction, and after a couple of strokes, his head felt light, and he surfaced, climbing out of the puddle.
The surrounding scenery was exactly the same as before I jumped in.
"This is the outside world," the third senior sister said with a smile. This was the place she built when she first came to the Demon Realm. The fact that it remained undiscovered for so long naturally meant it held hidden secrets.
Lu Yang understood. His third senior sister had used the abundant rainfall in the mountains and forests to create a mirrored underground space, with a puddle as the entrance. They had been hiding in this underground space for the past few days.
"This is the second lesson Master taught us: to learn to hide."
The first lesson the Silent Daoist taught his third senior sister was to escape, and the second was to hide.
Lu Yang recalled his senior sister's teaching process: the first lesson was to make him swing a large vat and perform acrobatics, and the second lesson was to make him take a hot bath.
It's hard to say who's better.
"It's 150 li from here to the Qiongqi Clan," the Third Senior Sister said, pointing in a direction. "On the way, we'll have to pass through a branch tribe of the Qiongqi Clan."
"Take these two invisibility talismans. Light them when you get close to the neighboring tribe." The third senior sister handed each of them a talisman.
"A collateral tribe?"
"These are Qiongqi with impure bloodlines. These Qiongqi are not qualified to be included in the Qiongqi clan's genealogy. You have seen the situation in the Demon Realm; it is very dangerous. So they live near the Qiongqi clan, acting as guards and servants."
"Was the first Demon Beast we killed a hybrid Qiongqi?" Meng Jingzhou asked in a low voice.
Lu Yang nodded. It was true. It was he, Meng Jingzhou, and Man Gu who eliminated the tiger demon. That tiger demon had Qiongqi blood and was a hybrid.
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