Why Don't You Stand Up First?

"So the puppet I've been fighting every day is at the Tribulation Transcendence stage?" Lu Yang was dumbfounded. Through the Immortal Fairy's immortal sense, he had witnessed everything that took place on Tianmen Peak. The Immortal Fairy gave a couple of chuckles, completely unsurprised. "I told you long ago, someone guards the sect treasury." Lu Yang recalled that back when he asked Eldest Senior Sister for flying car patent fees and she brought him to the treasury to collect spirit stones, he had worried that the treasury door was too easy to open. Eldest Senior Sister was not always on Tianmen Peak, so the treasury had felt terribly insecure. Back then, the Immortal Fairy had told him there was no need to worry about the treasury's safety. "Wait a minute. You knew all along the puppet was Tribulation Transcendence, and you never stopped me whenever I fought it?" Lu Yang asked, his face darkening. "You looked like you were having fun," the Immortal Fairy said gloatingly. She had done it entirely on purpose. ... High in the sky, Daoist Lord Wanfa realized Daoist Lord Hanhai was troublesome to deal with, and after that brief burst on Tianmen Peak, Venerable Huangquan had gone completely silent. He had likely met his demise. This meant the Dao Seeking Sect still had hidden masters. Continuing the fight was no longer a wise choice. Furthermore, Daoist Lord Hanhai was truly difficult to handle; any direct attack Wanfa launched could be redirected by him. Leaving behind an avatar to pin down Daoist Lord Hanhai, he spun around to flee. Yet before he could even escape the Dao Seeking Sect, he slammed hard into an invisible barrier. "A spatial barrier?" "Do you think the Dao Seeking Sect is a place you can just come and go as you please?" Even as Daoist Lord Hanhai spoke, he executed a spatial cut, slicing the avatar Daoist Lord Wanfa had left behind to pieces. Daoist Lord Wanfa's expression darkened thunderously. It seemed today was destined to be a fight to the death. "Boundless Qiankun, All Arts Converge as One!" Daoist Lord Wanfa accelerated time, transforming into a thousand-armed Buddha. Spells and techniques of every kind came effortlessly at his fingertips, fusing together. The Five Elements, Yin and Yang, substance and void, wind and lightning, soul... attacks of every kind burst forth at once. Like a primordial deity dividing the heavens and earth, the world seemed to shatter as the fundamental energies composing reality spilled out, whipping up a tempest of spells! He was not attacking Daoist Lord Hanhai, but rather the cultivators fighting below from both the Dao Seeking Sect and the Great Yu Alliance. With All Arts Converged as One, a single brush with this technique meant death, even for Tribulation Transcendence cultivators! He did not care about the lives of those in the Great Yu Alliance; he was betting that Daoist Lord Hanhai did! Daoist Lord Wanfa bet correctly—Daoist Lord Hanhai indeed cared. Daoist Lord Hanhai invoked his rudimentary Spatial Dao fruit, absorbing all the attacks into an alternate space. This was the exact opening Daoist Lord Wanfa had been waiting for! Daoist Lord Hanhai possessed only a rudimentary Dao fruit, not a full Dao fruit, so the space he could open was limited. Wanfa refused to believe Hanhai could absorb such an immense onslaught while still having enough strength left to erect a spatial vortex defense around himself! "Die!" Daoist Lord Wanfa concentrated his destructive energy into his fingertip, piercing right through Daoist Lord Hanhai's abdomen! "Skipping back and forth with accelerated time over and over was getting annoying. Finally caught you!" Daoist Lord Hanhai's chilling voice rang out. Daoist Lord Wanfa immediately sensed danger and tried to pull his hand back and escape, but his arm had long been anchored within Hanhai's abdomen, impossible to wrench free! Daoist Lord Wanfa acted decisively. Severing his right hand, he continually invoked accelerated time to put distance between them. "Too late!" Daoist Lord Hanhai had long since placed a spatial mark upon Daoist Lord Wanfa. No matter how fast Wanfa moved, Hanhai could instantly keep pace! Daoist Lord Wanfa needed time to recover from his injuries—an extraordinarily brief moment, less than a single breath. Yet Daoist Lord Hanhai refused to grant him even that sliver of time, pursuing him relentlessly and leaving him battered and disheveled. "Casting Off the Mortal Frame, Lifespan Curse!"