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Lost?

Senior Brother Fire Saint, who had mastered a complete Dao... had actually lost!?

Some of the third-generation disciples who had already begun smiling, including True Person Sloppy, all revealed shocked expressions. They involuntarily rose from their seats in the stands and stared at the gray-robed youth sitting cross-legged atop the stone pillar.

Fire Saint, on another stone pillar, also wore a face full of disbelief.

"I... lost?"

Fire Saint looked toward the battlefield.

The Thousand Sword Puppet under his control had been crushed by the enormous Sword Wheel until even its puppet body was damaged in several places.

"What a monstrous genius!"

Fire Saint recalled their earlier spar.

Even someone as proud as him had to admit it.

Although his Dao Comprehension Realm was slightly higher than Xia Manggan's, when it came to application techniques, he truly fell short.

Especially the True Intents of the three Great Daos Xia Manggan had displayed—they had combined flawlessly in that final Sword Wheel move.

Even now, Fire Saint still felt shocked and amazed when he thought back on it.

"Junior Brother Xia Mang's application of the Dao has earned my, Fire Saint's, admiration. I concede this defeat wholeheartedly."

Fire Saint looked up at Xia Manggan on the opposite stone pillar. "Once Junior Brother Xia Mang's cultivation level rises, I hope we can have a proper match again."

"I also greatly admire Senior Brother Fire Saint's strength. If there is a chance, we can compete again outside."

Xia Manggan knew that Fire Saint's strongest path was actually Fiendgod Body Refining.

The strange divine pattern resembling the character "Wan" between his brows was a special divine pattern condensed from a Buddhist Sect Fiendgod Body Refining technique.

Otherwise, if he had cultivated only Qi Refining Path techniques, Fire Saint would have broken through to become a Primordial Spirit Daoist decades ago with his Dao Comprehension Realm.

He would not still be lingering among the third-generation disciples today.

"Good. I'll wait for your Fiendgod Body Refining breakthrough."

Fire Saint smiled faintly, rose to his feet, and flew away from the stone pillar.

"Fire Saint's Dao Heart is truly impressive."

"Yes. If an ordinary old disciple were defeated by a newly initiated disciple, even if he recognized the gap between them, he would likely find it hard to accept for a time."

"With Fire Saint's Dao Heart, he can look forward to becoming an Earth Immortal someday."

"Yes. Becoming an Earth Immortal will not be difficult for him."

In a corner of the Dao Discussion Hall.

Several Immortals watched Fire Saint swiftly calm his mind and return to his usual composed manner, voicing their praise one after another.

Only Immortal Hanshan carefully recalled the Sword Wheel Xia Manggan had revealed at the end, his eyes filled with delight.

A long while passed.

"He has already found his own path." Immortal Hanshan slowly nodded.

There was regret, joy, and even a faint trace of envy in his aged voice.

"Found his own path?" Immortal Wufeng asked curiously. "Wasn't Xia Mang's move simply the simultaneous use of the True Intents of the three Great Daos—Life and Death Dao, Universe, and Time Dao? Was there something else we failed to see?"

The other three Immortals also looked over in confusion.

"You do not comprehend the Great Dao of Life and Death, so it is only natural that you failed to see it."

Immortal Hanshan sighed. "The move Xia Mang used just now was not merely the simultaneous use of three Great Dao True Intents.

Rather, he used the Great Dao of Life and Death as the foundation, merging the True Intents of the other two Great Daos into it. Then, with the Dao of Water and Fire as its manifestation, he ultimately unleashed it through flying swords."

"You mean?" Immortal Wufeng's expression changed. "Like how the Great Dao of Taiji merges Yin-Yang Dao? Then Xia Mang's Dao Comprehension Realm..."

"Though he is still some distance from the Dao Domain Realm, he has clearly found the right path and has begun advancing along it."

Immortal Hanshan said wistfully, "Even I spent several thousand years before finding my own path, and only after becoming an Earth Immortal. If I had realized it as early as he has in the Purple Mansion Myriad Phenomena stage, then when facing the Heavenly Tribulation... I might have had a forty to fifty percent chance."

"Gasp~~~"

The other four Immortals could not help drawing in sharp breaths.

One had to know.

Ordinary Void Return Earth Immortals faced their Heavenly Tribulations by gambling on luck. Many did not even have a ten percent chance.

A forty to fifty percent chance... was practically the same as having one foot already in the Heavenly Immortal realm.

"It must be a generational inheritance left by Patriarch Hunyuan Heavenly Immortal."

Black Crown Immortal speculated, "Perhaps Hunyuan Heavenly Immortal comprehended the Great Dao of Life and Death back then. Otherwise, without guidance from an inheritance, no matter how monstrous Xia Mang may be, he should not have found the right path so soon after beginning cultivation."

"Perhaps. Perhaps it is the Patriarch's inheritance, or perhaps the Xia Mang Clan has guidance in this area." Immortal Hanshan nodded gently and continued watching his disciple in the distance.

Yet his gaze seemed unfocused, as though he had fallen into memories.

The other Immortals exchanged glances and sighed inwardly.

Some were Earth Immortals who had yet to undergo tribulation.

Others had become Loose Immortals in their first lives and still had opportunities for reincarnation and recultivation.

But Immortal Hanshan had already reincarnated three times and cultivated through four lives.

If he failed in this life... he would likely fall into the Six Paths of Reincarnation and find it difficult to return to the immortal path.

"Why think so much?" Immortal Wufeng took a swig of wine. "Among these three new disciples, one is a monstrous genius and another is a freakish monster. Our Black-White Academy should be happy to have received these two treasures."

"Right."

"We should be happy."

"Look, Xiao Lata is about to take the stage."

True Person Sloppy had already selected a new Thousand Sword Puppet from the side hall of the Dao Discussion Hall where the puppets were stored. He brought it into the battlefield within the Sealing Array.

"Senior Sister, can Young Master Xia Mang still win?"

Beside Yu Wei stood a long-haired woman in water-blue Daoist robes. She looked at Xia Manggan atop the stone pillar, her eyes faintly gleaming with fascination.

"No." Yu Wei answered without hesitation.

"Not even the slightest chance of a miracle?" The long-haired woman smiled softly. "Senior Sister said just now that Junior Brother Ji Ning had reached his limit too, but didn't Junior Brother Ji Ning still win?"

"This is different."

Yu Wei gazed at the distant battlefield. "Sister Jiu Lian, do you believe me? Even against Senior Brother Fire Saint, if I discussed the Dao with him now, I would have a seventy or eighty percent chance of defeating him. But against Senior Brother Sloppy... even if all the memories of my past life awakened, I might not necessarily win."

"Mm." The long-haired woman called Jiu Lian nodded. "I believe you."

She and True Person Sloppy were both disciples of Immortal Wufeng.

She had once been fortunate enough to witness a Dao discussion spar between her master and Eldest Disciple.

That time.

No matter how her master attacked, Eldest Disciple had seemed like a vast, turbulent ocean.

Not only could he receive every attack, but as the waves continuously gathered, the power of Eldest Disciple's attacks grew greater and greater.

Even his master, a Loose Immortal who had cultivated for over two hundred thousand years, had faintly fallen into a disadvantage.

In Jiu Lian's eyes, even her master's eventual victory in that Dao discussion spar had seemed like something Eldest Disciple deliberately yielded.

"Defeating Senior Brother Fire Saint should be his limit." Jiu Lian silently thought, After all, no matter how monstrous one is, there should still be a limit.

In her heart, Eldest Disciple True Person Sloppy was practically the limit of what could be achieved at the Wanxiang Daoist realm.

Sure enough.

As the Sealing Array activated.

All one thousand of True Person Sloppy's flying swords transformed into flowing water, bringing the entire battlefield into a vast ocean world of water.

Countless waves pressed atop one another, layer upon layer.

Even though Xia Manggan immediately used the Sword Wheel move that had defeated Fire Saint, constantly cycling through Life and Death Dao to dissolve the pressure and continuously affecting the surrounding Heaven and Earth, space, and flow of time.

The wave-like sword light formed by True Person Sloppy's flying swords was like a true ocean.

No matter how the seas changed into fields and fields into seas, I remained unmoved.

He simply sent the wave-like sword light crashing down in endless layers, vast and mighty, upon Xia Manggan's Thousand Sword Puppet.

"Junior Brother Xia Mang is going to lose."

Fire Saint sighed softly.

Only those who had truly fought True Person Sloppy knew just how terrifying those seemingly ordinary, yet endlessly profound, layered waves were.

"Haha, Xiao Lata is going to win."

Immortal Wufeng hopped about and laughed. "I told you, no matter how heaven-defying that little monster is, he cannot possibly be Xiao Lata's match."

After saying that, as though he felt it was not quite safe enough, he hurriedly added, "At least not now. He still cannot defeat Xiao Lata yet."

"Look."

Immortal Diancai suddenly spoke. "His eyes have changed."

"What eyes? He doesn't follow the Sword Dao, so why would he temper a sword heart?" Immortal Wufeng muttered as he looked carefully.

Xia Manggan's habitual motion of fiddling with the ring on his hand abruptly stopped, and his entire aura suddenly changed.

Those deep eyes seemed to transform directly into two Black-White Wheels, slowly rotating.

Boom! Boom!!

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