Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 873: Borrow

Although Guan Shanhai was both a teacher and a friend to Wu Yao, and Wu Yao still addressed him as “teacher,” this didn’t mean that Wu Yao placed the same absolute trust in Guan Shanhai as the Second Imperial Preceptor did.

Wu Yao’s curiosity surpassed everything else. His cultivation journey began with his curiosity about a cultivation manual found on a deceased cultivator. Subsequently, his rapid improvement in cultivation came from his curiosity about what higher cultivation realms felt like. Driven by curiosity, he established the Great Yu Dynasty, cultivated until he became an immortal, and even sacrificed the dynasty to discover what lay beyond their world.

The Wu Yao imprinted by Guan Shanhai had a personality identical to the real one. He wanted to know what had happened, why the real him wasn’t here, and why they were fighting now.

Before Guan Shanhai could answer, the Nightmare Supreme Lord staggered several steps back, his expression looking like he had just seen a ghost, his voice quivering. “Guan Shanhai, w-w-w-when did you become an immortal?!”

The Nightmare Supreme Lord’s memories still lingered in the late Great Qian era, where the battle for supremacy was ongoing. At the time, he had defeated countless formidable enemies, including General Yu. To establish a new dynasty, he still needed to defeat the rising star Wu Yao and his teacher, Guan Shanhai.

But even Guan Shanhai has become a damned immortal? How am I supposed to establish a f*cking new dynasty?

The Myriad Spells Daoist Lord and the Wooden Seal Savant also had disbelief painted on their faces upon seeing the three legendary figures—Guan Shanhai, Wu Yao, and the Nightmare Supreme Lord.

Seeing the half-immortals whom he imprinted making a din, each with varied expressions, Guan Shanhai felt a wave of exhaustion. We haven’t even fought yet, and they’ve already become a laughingstock.

Guan Shanhai sighed. In a battle between immortals, every second counted. With a thought, he stripped away the four’s lives and devoured their Incipient Dao Fruits in spite of their terrified expressions.

Although he couldn’t control the thoughts of those he imprinted, he could control the imprinted Incipient Dao Fruits. However, a person and their Incipient Dao Fruit were closely connected, so he couldn’t imprint just the Incipient Dao Fruit.

Hence, he acquired four Incipient Dao Fruits: the Dreamscape Incipient Dao Fruit, the Replacement Incipient Dao Fruit, the Longevity Incipient Dao Fruit, and the Wooden Seal Savant’s Rejuvenation Incipient Dao Fruit.

Guan Shanhai instantly accelerated his own time, making himself so fast that Meng Junzi’s spiritual consciousness couldn’t react. To those below, it appeared as if he had vanished into thin air.

“Nine-Cycle Imperishable Golden Body.”

Guan Shanhai activated a mystic Buddhist art. Having endured nine ordeals to forge an imperishable golden body, he transformed into a great golden Buddha. He had used this golden body method to survive his Immortal Ascension Tribulation. Now that he employed it again as an immortal, one could imagine how incredibly tough his immortal body had become, almost as if it were eternally indestructible.

Among everyone in the imperial city, only Lu Yang and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy could clearly see what Guan Shanhai was doing.

Watching Guan Shanhai continuously accelerate his time, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy smiled. “Quite resourceful—using the Myriad Spells kid’s Longevity Incipient Dao Fruit to accelerate his own time and then reinforcing his body, making the power in every move rival that of an immortal artifact.”

Like a ghost, Guan Shanhai appeared behind Meng Junzi. His fingers merged into a golden immortal saber, planning to behead Meng Junzi. His hand was also imbued with a curse. Even if Meng Junzi could reattach his head, it would still damage his vitality.

However, to Guan Shanhai’s surprise, Meng Junzi merely tilted his head back slightly, evading the strike!

“How is this possible? You can see me?” Guan Shanhai couldn’t help but be astonished. This initial strike had actually missed.

“Great Compassion Seal!”

“Overturning Heaven!”

“Boundless Primordial Magnetism Immortal Art!”

A Buddha’s hand larger than the imperial city blotted out the sun, tearing through layers of clouds and crashing down. Guan Shanhai carried the might of “Overturning Heaven” as he struck a palm toward Meng Junzi’s chest. The two warping forces, one positive and one negative, trapped Meng Junzi between them, seeking to distort his physical form.

Guan Shanhai unleashed three peerless immortal techniques in succession, each one powerful enough to crush a half-immortal. Only Ao Ling would fare slightly better; her immortal body would be broken, but she could barely survive. Even an immortal who suffered the blow without any defense would vomit blood profusely.

The only two weaknesses of these immortal techniques were their slow activation and inadequate attack speed. But with Guan Shanhai’s own time accelerated, even those two weaknesses disappeared.

“Heaven-Earth Dharma Manifestation, Heaven-Mending Technique, Endless Creation.”

To Guan Shanhai’s surprise, Meng Junzi also unleashed three peerless immortal techniques in an extremely short time.

Meng Junzi transformed into a colossal Heaven-Earth Dharma Manifestation, feet planted on the earth. He pierced through the Buddha hand descending from the sky, letting light return to the imperial city. He used the ancient Heaven-Mending Technique to block Overturning Heaven’s might and performed a creation spell to neutralize the positive and negative warping forces, effortlessly resolving the three-pronged assault.

“How is this possible? Shouldn’t you have the Borrowing-Lending Dao Fruit?!”

Toward the end of the Great Yu era, he had paid close attention to Meng Junzi and Jiang Ping’an, using his powerful immortal consciousness to monitor them constantly. He had long learned of their Incipient Dao Fruits.

Meng Junzi had possessed the Borrowing and Lending Incipient Dao Fruit. Its most common usage was to “borrow” an enemy’s magical treasures, spirit stones, and other items. This left the opponent unarmed while he was fully equipped, making them utterly unable to fight him.

But the issue is that the Borrowing-Lending Incipient Dao Fruit’s applications had absolutely nothing to do with time. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been so confident in engaging him in battle!

“Immortal Fairy, what’s going on? Can the Borrowing-Lending Dao Fruit also borrow time?” Lu Yang asked, unable to make sense of a high-level combat like this.

Unlike Guan Shanhai, who was still trying to process what happened, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy was knowledgeable and had discerned some clues. “Interesting. Meng Junzi probably didn’t borrow time just now; he simply increased his speed.

“This reminds me of an enemy the Epoch Immortal encountered on his path to immortality. That person wielded the Speed Incipient Dao Fruit, claiming to be the embodiment of the world’s ultimate speed. When speed reaches a certain level, it becomes related to time. Therefore, between that person and the Epoch Immortal, only one could become an immortal.”

Lu Yang theorized, “Could it be that someone in your era also grasped the Speed Incipient Dao Fruit? And Meng Junzi’s Borrowing-Lending Dao Fruit can borrow others’ Incipient Dao Fruits?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy replied, “Do you remember the Meng Family’s ‘Borrowing Spell?’ When cultivators at the Fusion Stage or above borrow money from the Meng Family, they not only leave a promissory note but also lend the Meng Family one of their moves. This ability is something this immortal has never seen before. It must have been developed by the Meng Family; perhaps it evolved from the Borrowing-Lending Dao Fruit.”

“That powerful?” Lu Yang was startled. “Wait, if even Incipient Dao Fruits can be borrowed, could lifespan also be borrowed?” Realization suddenly dawned upon Lu Yang.

Since the Xia Emperor could deceive an immortal like the Imperial Preceptor into believing that his lifespan was depleted, it suggests that the Imperial Preceptor hadn’t encountered something like this before, and that this ability should be considered to be at the “immortal” level.

The Borrowing-Lending Dao Fruit perfectly matches both conditions.

“That’s likely the case.”