Battles between half-immortals were notoriously difficult to decide. For instance, the Immortal Celestial self-detonating for ten days while the second Imperial Preceptor was blasted for ten days was practically a routine occurrence.
By the same logic, if Daoist Lord Hanhai and Daoist Lord Wanfa were left to fight uninterrupted, it was entirely possible they would trade blows for eight to ten days.
It was the Immortal Fairy tripping him up from the shadows that brought this battle to an early conclusion.
Daoist Lord Hanhai, however, remained completely oblivious to this.
Daoist Lord Wanfa tried to struggle, but it was futile. The spatial imprisonment pinned him dead to this space; without Daoist Lord Hanhai's consent, there was no way he could escape.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined running into an immortal possessing a superior Dao fruit at the Dao Seeking Sect. Was the legendary Immortal Suiyue here, or was it the immortal who commanded the "Undying" Dao fruit?
Regardless of which it was, both possibilities proved that the Dao Seeking Sect was terrifying beyond measure.
At this moment, the look in his eyes when he turned to Lu Yang changed completely. With an immortal present in the Dao Seeking Sect, the immortal sword in Lu Yang's possession could never have escaped their discerning gaze.
How could an immortal leave such an unrivaled immortal sword alone and allow a mere Nascent Soul stage cultivator to wield it?
The answer was glaringly obvious—the immortal held Lu Yang in exceptionally high esteem, even bestowing an immortal sword upon him!
Lu Yang had a feeling that Daoist Lord Wanfa was looking at him rather strangely, though he could not quite put his finger on what was off about it.
The Great Yu Alliance side wanted to flee, but how could the Dao Seeking Sect let them have their way? They had always adhered to the philosophy of pursuing a beaten foe to the bitter end.
In particular, Child Grandmaster Tang Shengyi fought the most ferociously. Watching this, the elders were reminded of rather unpleasant memories from their childhood.
"Master's combat techniques seem noticeably sharper than before," the Grand Elder remarked via voice transmission to his junior brothers and sisters while bashing enemies with the Yellow Millet Pillow.
"Right? The way he's going, taking on two at once looks like no trouble at all."
"When did Master become this formidable?"
What the elders did not know was that while guarding Prison Peak, Child Grandmaster frequently consulted the prisoners there on combat techniques in his spare time.
And what manner of figures were the prisoners captured and thrown into Prison Peak over the past two years? The sixth Emperor Yu, peak Tribulation Transcendence experts, half-immortals, the late Great Yu Imperial Preceptor... Every single one was a legendary powerhouse tempered by hundreds of battles.
When Child Grandmaster asked them for advice, how could they dare hold anything back? Naturally, they laid everything out in full.
As a result, Child Grandmaster's combat techniques had improved by leaps and bounds.
"Spatial Cage!"
Daoist Lord Hanhai channeled his rudimentary Dao fruit, trapping every single cultivator from the Great Yu Alliance within the bamboo grove. Not one could get away.
"Hahaha! Trying to run? Do you think you can escape!"
After capturing Daoist Lord Wanfa alive, Daoist Lord Hanhai's confidence surged tremendously!
In the domain of the Dao Seeking Sect, with the exception of Yun Zhi, he was the strongest!
"Finally, it's all settled." Senior Brother Dai wrapped up his battle and let out a long sigh of relief. This catastrophe had been fraught with danger, but thankfully ended without disaster.
Who could have imagined that a perfectly ordinary entrance test for new disciples would turn into a clash of half-immortals in the blink of an eye—and that two half-immortals had even participated in the test itself?
'It seems the advent of the Golden Age has really brought all sorts of monsters and eccentrics out of the woodwork. Previously, Junior Brother Lu and Junior Brother Meng were just unlucky to have bumped into high-level battles,' Senior Brother Dai thought to himself.
"Junior Brother Lu, Junior Brother Meng, get ready to wrap up the entrance test."
Back when the situation grew dire, all the applicants taking part in the third round of the test had been pulled into the Dao Seeking Sect. Among them, only Zhuang Ping, Zhou Xing'er, Gu Junye, and Daoist Xiantian had passed the test.
Aside from Gu Junye and Daoist Xiantian, everyone else who had taken part in the third round wore expressions of lingering terror. Having witnessed the sheer foundation of the Dao Seeking Sect and a clash between half-immortals with their own eyes—a battle of such caliber would frighten ordinary cultivators out of their wits, to say nothing of mortals.
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