True Immortal's Fate
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Ever since Buddha Xuanmen had successfully advanced to the Spirit Communion Stage, Dong Santong had stopped cultivating on Heavenly Capital Peak and returned to Jade Bamboo Peak. Fortunately, it was not far away, so seeing him was hardly impossible. But after receiving that enormous quantity of heavenly starstone, Dong Santong seemed utterly determined to cultivate some divine ability and shut himself away in seclusion. When Li Xiaoya first visited, he would still come out to see him, but later he refused to emerge at all, leaving Li Xiaoya thoroughly frustrated. What divine ability was this fellow cultivating? Over the following decades, however, Li Xiaoya was astonished. Every ten years or so, Dong Santong would come looking for a sparring match. At first, Li Xiaoya thought little of it, but then he discovered that Dong Santong had begun practicing body tempering as well. His technique was not the same as Li Xiaoya's, though; he cultivated a supple-body art that made his entire body extraordinarily flexible. His cultivation was also improving faster than Li Xiaoya's! He had actually reached the eighth layer of the late Nascent Soul Realm. Had Li Xiaoya not cultivated the sword dao, he might already have been no match for Dong Santong.
If Li Xiaoya's defense embodied hardness, Dong Santong's embodied softness. Fighting Dong Santong with nothing but the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art and physical attacks really offered little chance of victory. The fellow had turned into a cushion of flesh that simply could not be battered apart, with exceptionally powerful defenses. Combined with his endlessly shifting Light Invisibility Art, his attacks were formidable too. No wonder Dong Santong had