Chapter 525: The Dao Fruits of Nine Layer Immortal and Qilin Immortal

"Junior Brother Lu, there is a thank-you letter for you." Ten days later, a senior brother on duty at the Mission Hall delivered a letter to Lu Yang, who was currently training with his mouth open to swallow spiritual energy.

Lu Yang opened it, and it turned out to be written by Squire Song.

The letter was mainly to thank Lu Yang for lending a helping hand, resolving the issue of the washerwoman, and getting the Song family's business back on track.

The letter also mentioned the matters regarding the younger daughter and Zhou Lang. Squire Song said that after an inspection, Zhou Lang was indeed his biological son, while the younger daughter, Song Lian'er, was actually the housekeeper's daughter.

As for what accident had occurred back then to cause such an mix-up, Squire Song did not go into detail in the letter. Lu Yang guessed that the midwife must have taken the wrong baby when they were born.

Lu Yang silently put the letter away; the relationships within the Song family were intricate and convoluted, giving him a headache just looking at them.

"This is nothing. Back in ancient times, everything revolved around tribal clans, and the relationships back then were far more complicated than this."

"Immortal, which tribe were you from?" Lu Yang asked casually, but unexpectedly, his question was met with a long silence from the Immortal Fairy.

"...A small tribe, not worth mentioning. It was destroyed before I even reached adulthood, caught in the aftermath of a great battle between a man and a beast." The Immortal Fairy mumbled softly, lacking her usual liveliness.

Lu Yang also fell silent, unsure of what to say at this moment, fearing that saying the wrong thing would only produce the opposite effect.

The era before the Ancient Five Immortals was by no means a beautiful one; small tribes being ground into dust on a whim was a common occurrence.

"Junior Brother, come over here for a moment."

Fortunately, the Grand Senior Sister's voice transmission broke the silent impasse at this opportune time.

"Grand Senior Sister, is something the matter?"

Lu Yang found the Grand Senior Sister. It was rare for her to look for him. Could it be that Master had been caught again, and needed a guarantor to handle his release on bail pending trial?

Or perhaps Master had been locked up again and needed a prison visit, but Grand Senior Sister found it embarrassing to go herself due to her pride, so she wanted him to go?

Could it be that Master had finally been caught by his enemies, beaten within an inch of his life, hanging by a thread, and needed rescuing?

"Wait for the others to arrive."

After a short while, the others the Grand Senior Sister spoke of arrived at Tianmen Peak one after another: Meng Jingzhou, Tao Yaoye, Mangu, and Li Haoran.

"Greetings, Grand Senior Sister."

The four of them arrived at Tianmen Peak in sequence, greeting the Grand Senior Sister with utmost obedience.

"It is like this: there is a tradition of exchanging disciples for study among the Five Great Immortal Sects. This time, disciples of the Seeking Dao Sect can go to the Five Elements Sect to study. There are five slots available, and it just so happens that the five of you will go to learn."

Originally, the disciples of the Seeking Dao Sect were supposed to go to the Laurel Fairy Palace to study, but Palace Master Luo's attitude was resolute, refusing to let Lu Yang enter the Laurel Fairy Palace for dear life. The Grand Senior Sister had no choice but to change it to the Five Elements Sect.

"Going to the Five Elements Sect?" Upon hearing this good news, the corners of Lu Yang and the others' mouths curled up involuntarily, their eyes revealing joy.

They had never been to any other immortal sects before.

Meng Jingzhou was also delighted, not expecting that he would be able to return to the Five Elements Sect so soon.

Qiu Jin'an had once used Meng Jingzhou's body to deliver a Single's Curse Punch to Old Man Ba, and promised to teach Meng Jingzhou a Five Elements spell. Four months ago, Meng Jingzhou went to the Five Elements Sect to find Qiu Jin'an and learned a Five Elements spell of immense power, though he had never found a chance to use it on Lu Yang.

"Then who is coming to study at our sect this time?"

"Shi Chan of the Hanging Temple."

Lu Yang had long heard of Shi Chan's name. It was said that he was still slaughtering pigs at a slaughterhouse, though he didn't know how the slaughtering was progressing.

"Then pack your things and prepare, we set out in two days."

"Who is our leading elder?" Lu Yang asked. Logically speaking, there should be someone leading the team; they couldn't just let the five of them as juniors go to the Five Elements Sect by themselves, as that would against the rules.

"The First Elder disguised himself as Master last time to go out and has not returned since. The Second Elder did volunteer to go to the Five Elements Sect, but the Five Elements Sect disagreed."

"Due to issues left over from early years, the remaining elders worry that going over alone makes it easy to suffer retaliation and revenge, so they dare not go."

"Therefore, you have no leading elder for this trip to the Five Elements Sect."

Lu Yang: "..."

Why did it feel like this trip to the Five Elements Sect was fraught with danger?

Would they walk in on their own feet and come out carried on stretchers?

"It's fine, I've been to the Five Elements Sect before, I'll lead you." Seeing an opportunity to be the team captain, Meng Jingzhou immediately stepped forward to assume the responsibility.

Lu Yang eyed Meng Jingzhou askance, feeling that this grandson of a gun wanted to seize the chance to mess with him: "Are you reliable?"

"More reliable than you."

"Fine then."

Lu Yang didn't argue with Meng Jingzhou, since there was no one else to lead the team anyway.

"The Five Elements philosophy of the Five Elements Sect has its merits; you can learn from it when you arrive." The Grand Senior Sister enjoined the five of them.

The five of them answered in unison.

"The Five Elements, huh. Speaking of which, the Dao Fruit of the Nine Layers Immortal actually has some connection with the Five Elements."

"What kind of Dao Fruit is the Nine Layers Immortal's?"

"The Yin-Yang Dao Fruit, representing the extremes of the world: extreme heat and extreme cold, rapid speed and absolute stillness, strength and weakness, and so forth. It is very complex to use, not something that can be explained in a sentence or two."

"Then what about the Qilin Immortal's Dao Fruit?"

"The Survival of the Fittest Dao Fruit. You can simply understand it as: any move that has been used against the Qilin Immortal cannot be used a second time. For instance, if you strike him with the Universe in the Palm, smashing him into the ground or sucking him into your palm, his Dao Fruit will rapidly adapt to this move. When you display this move again, it will fail to cause any damage to him."

"Once, the Nine Layers Immortal roasted the Qilin Immortal with the most extreme fire in the world, causing the Qilin Immortal to howl in pain. The next time the same move was used, the Qilin Immortal was able to dance and take a bath within the sea of fire."

"So the Qilin Immortal won?"

"No, the Nine Layers Immortal recorded the process of the Qilin Immortal taking a bath, and used it as a threat to make the Qilin Immortal surrender."

Lu Yang: "..."

Why is the way you immortals win battles somewhat different from what I imagined?

"Then was the Qilin Immortal fine after eating the food you cooked?"

Wouldn't this mean that once the Qilin Immortal was poisoned by the Immortal Fairy, he would become immune?

Asked this question, the Immortal Fairy was left scratching her head in bewilderment: "What do you mean fine or not fine? Are you saying he would grow tired of eating this Immortal's food? He wouldn't. As an Immortal Chef, I strive for innovation in my cooking, making dishes of different styles and varieties every time!"

Lu Yang felt that if you didn't innovate, Fairy, the Qilin Immortal would probably be much happier.

"One more thing. I remember that the chosen talents of the Dragon and Phoenix races lost to the Qilin Immortal when competing for the position to become an immortal. Is there a fixed quota for becoming an immortal?" This had always been a doubt in Lu Yang's mind. Was it necessary to compete to become an immortal? What exactly were those ancient people fighting for?

"That's not the case. It's just that the embryonic Dao Fruits of those two little girls conflicted with the Qilin Immortal's."

"Conflicted?"

"The embryonic forms of their Dao Fruits, one was called the Natural Selection embryonic Dao Fruit, and the other was called the Law of the Jungle embryonic Dao Fruit. The rules represented by these two embryonic Dao Fruits are very similar to the Qilin Immortal's, right?"

"Just as there can only be one Immortal Dao Fruit, as long as this Immortal is around, no embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit can become a true Dao Fruit."

"There can only be one Dao Fruit of similar rules."

"The three of them were destined to have only one person become an immortal, while the other two could at most be demi-immortals infinitely close to an immortal."

(End of this chapter)