Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality-Chapter 535: Time stoppage

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Lu Yang looked at Meng Jingzhou with a peculiar expression. "Your Meng family sure has a lot of tricks up its sleeve to make money."

"Why are you looking at me like that? It wasn't me who inflated the price of the Ten Thousand Year Ice. It was the Meng family, from tens of thousands of years ago." Although Meng Jingzhou often said "our Meng family," when it came to his reputation, he was quick to distance himself.

Though the Ten Thousand Year Ice was indeed manipulated by the Meng family, it was only for ordinary ice. If it were something like Xuan Ice Essence or Ice Embryo, it would still be quite useful after many years.

For instance, ancient cultivators often used Xuan Ice Essence that was tens of thousands of years old to freeze their bodies, waking up now only to find themselves trapped in Great Xia.

Some were even more unfortunate, using Xuan Ice Essence that wasn't old enough or was outright fake, causing the ice to melt halfway and forcing them to awaken prematurely. The ancient Body Fusion stage cultivators Lu Yang encountered in Buyi Town's Rule's Strange were in such a predicament.

"Why bother with Ten Thousand Year Xuan Ice Essence? According to this Immortal, one Immortal Fairy fruit would ensure they sleep forever, never waking prematurely."

"But Immortal Fairy, isn't your Immortal Fairy fruit meant for preserving corpses, preventing them from decaying?"

"What's the difference? Those who freeze themselves with Xuan Ice Essence are practically dead anyway. Why else do you think they can sleep until now without aging? It's because they're in a state of suspended animation."

"Well, calling it suspended animation isn't entirely accurate. It's more like near-time stoppage."

"Time stoppage?"

The Immortal Fairy nodded seriously. At that moment, she recalled Little Yun's warning not to reveal too much to Lu Yang. She thought of her own carefree days, roaming the ancient world, unrestrained.

Little Yun? She didn't take her seriously at all!

"Listen, what I'm about to tell you is top secret. Don't let Little Yun know!"

Wise as the Immortal Fairy was, she quickly thought of a perfect solution.

"Please, Immortal Fairy, you know me. I can keep a secret!" Lu Yang patted his mouth, promising his reliability.

Though Lu Yang remembered his eldest senior sister's warning, his curiosity was piqued by the Immortal Fairy's tales.

Of course, if the Immortal Fairy wanted to share some ancient dark history, that would be a different story.

The First Leader and Second Leader exchanged a knowing smile, having already forgotten their internal conflict from three days ago.

"If you cultivate the Heavenly Eye and enhance your vision, you'll see that everything in the world is in motion, whether it's people, objects, dust, or even the smallest particles seen through the Heavenly Eye."

"Everything is in motion."

"Jiuchong Immortal, with his Yin-Yang Dao fruit, mastered extreme temperatures. He discovered that motion isn't absolute. If you lower the temperature to the extreme, even the smallest particles will freeze and stop moving."

"Jiuchong Immortal consulted Time Immortal about this, and after research, Time Immortal confirmed that with extreme cold, Jiuchong Immortal could achieve time stoppage."

"Time Immortal can also stop time?"

"Of course, Time Immortal can stop time for the entire world, much more extensively than Jiuchong Immortal."

"Later, Jiuchong Immortal found that under extreme heat, the smallest particles moved faster. He adjusted the temperature to its highest, far beyond the sun's heat."

"At this extreme heat, the smallest particles moved at the speed of light, entering the realm of the Time Dao fruit."

Lu Yang pondered the story and felt he had gained much insight. "Immortal Fairy, are you saying that all Dao fruits, regardless of their nature, ultimately lead to the same truth?"

The Immortal Fairy stared into Lu Yang's eyes for a moment. She had merely remembered this story because of the Ten Thousand Year Xuan Ice Essence, without any deeper meaning.

"Yes, this Immortal wanted to convey that principle. I didn't expect you to grasp it on your own!"

As they spoke, the group arrived at the Metal Vein.

Upon stepping into the Metal Vein, everyone felt a tingling sensation on their skin. Their golden cores instinctively protected them, covering their bodies with a thin layer of spiritual energy, making the tingling sensation disappear.

"This is the unique invisible metal energy of the Metal Vein," Bai Ming explained. "According to Elder Tong, the Metal Vein elder, the Metal Vein is composed of countless precious gemstone veins. These gemstones have their own pride and refuse to coexist with other ores. The collision of these gemstones causes the metal energy to leak, creating the unique phenomenon of the Metal Vein."

The land of the Metal Vein had sparse vegetation. Even the occasional spiritual plants had a metallic sheen, having been assimilated by the Metal Vein.

Plants that could grow in such an environment were undoubtedly powerful.

Lu Yang, with his sword spiritual root, a variant of the metal spiritual root, could feel the active metal energy of the Metal Vein. If refined, this metal energy would become the most basic sword energy.

Man Gu saw many disciples of the Five Elements Sect sitting cross-legged on the Metal Vein, with artifacts floating above their heads, rising and falling like they were floating on the sea.

Some worked in pairs, controlling multiple artifacts in combat, forming powerful arrays. Their precise control showed the strength of their divine sense.

Bai Ming smiled and said, "The Metal Vein specializes in controlling metals, similar to swordsmanship."

"The best at controlling metals was the first Metal Vein elder. His cultivation was earth-shattering, and his every move conformed to natural laws. He was incredibly powerful. If it weren't for him moving several veins here when the sect was founded, the Metal Vein wouldn't exist as it does today."

"So, the Metal Vein of your Five Elements Sect was stolen from elsewhere?"

"Not stolen," Bai Ming corrected. "It was illegal mining."

"And the first Metal Vein elder studied law. When Great Xia was just established, the legal system was incomplete, and the criminal code hadn't even been drafted. He took advantage of this gap to contribute to the sect by stealing several veins."

Without a criminal code, there was no crime.

Lu Yang: "..."

"The first Metal Vein elder said that as cultivators, our actions should conform to natural laws. This implies that cultivators are part of natural laws. So moving the veins to the Five Elements Sect wasn't illegal mining but natural migration of the veins, just sped up with his help, which isn't a crime."

"And then?"

"The imperial court didn't buy it."

"I figured."

"Later, he took a loan from the Meng family to buy those veins."

Bai Ming glanced at Meng Jingzhou and added, "As for the loan from the Meng family, it was paid off sixty thousand years ago."

Still working on the second chapter.