Chapter 1052: Advanced Studies in Prisoner Peak

Dai Bufan drifted through a long and winding dream, envisioning himself born under celestial anomalies, a prodigy of unmatched talent who, upon entering the Wind-Inquiring Sect where geniuses gathered like clouds, could still suppress his peers and sweep all before him, second only to Yun Zhi.

He conducted himself with measured restraint, deeply loved and respected by his junior brothers and sisters, and after stepping into the Body Integration Stage, he presided over the affairs of the Mission Hall, winning the absolute admiration of all sides...

"Senior Brother Dai, Senior Brother Dai, wake up!"

Lu Yang shook Senior Brother Dai, who was lying on the ground, pinching his philtrum with force until Senior Brother Dai suddenly sat bolt upright, his eyes dazed and his memories in a chaotic tangle.

Was that... a revolving lantern of his life just now?

"Senior Brother Dai, you're finally awake, you scared me to death just now." Lu Yang wiped away his sweat, reflecting that the ancients spoke truly when they said extreme joy and extreme sorrow were bad for the body.

"What just happened to me?"

Lu Yang looked at Senior Brother Dai, his eyes bright and sincere: "Just now I said I became an immortal, and you stood up in joy, Senior Brother Dai, but you lost your balance, swayed twice, and passed out."

"You became an immortal?" Senior Brother Dai thought about it, and immediately pulled a crimson auspicious cloud banner from his storage ring, making a motion to smash it toward Lu Yang.

"You are only in the mid-stage of Soul Formation right now, and you dare to swindle your way onto my head?"

Lu Yang was so frightened he quickly covered his head: "Hey, hey, hey, don't hit me, don't hit me, everything I said is the truth."

"I even have a witness."

"A witness?"

Lu Yang tapped the center of his brows, and a comatose soul body floated out.

"This person is Lord Sichen of the Great Gan."

Having survived successive self-detonations, Lord Sichen had managed to keep his life by luck, but he had yet to wake up.

Seeing the half-dead witness, Senior Brother Dai put away the auspicious cloud banner, smilingly invited Lu Yang to the main seat, and began massaging his shoulders.

Several times Lu Yang tried to stand up, only to be held down firmly by Senior Brother Dai.

Senior Brother Dai leaned down, whispering into Lu Yang's ear, making Lu Yang shudder involuntarily: "Immortal Lu, what on earth is going on here? What did you do in the Buddhist Kingdom?"

"It was nothing really, just that I usually do a lot of good deeds, which counted as great merit for the Buddhist Kingdom, so the power of incense there just kept surging toward me, I couldn't refuse it even if I tried, it couldn't be stopped, so I used the power of incense to condense an immortal body."

"Then I used this immortal body to capture Lord Sichen along the way."

"It's just that this immortal body was only temporarily condensed and cannot leave the Buddhist Kingdom. Once I returned to our Great Xia, my realm reverted to normal."

"What kind of good deeds did you do for the power of incense to be enough to condense an immortal body? Did you dig up the Buddhist World-Honored One?"

Lu Yang beamed with joy, giving Senior Brother Dai a thumbs-up: "They don't call you the backbone of our Wind-Inquiring Sect for nothing, Senior Brother, your guess is spot on."

Senior Brother Dai only thought Lu Yang was teasing him, and impatiently waved his hand to drive this troublesome junior brother out, out of sight, out of mind: "Get out, get out, if you don't want to say it, forget it, hurry up and send Lord Sichen to the Prisoner Peak."

"Alright."

Lu Yang slipped out of the Mission Hall smoothly, entering the Prisoner Peak with practiced familiarity.

The prisoners of the Prisoner Peak, who had been chatting, went completely silent the moment they saw it was Lu Yang, quickly lowering their heads and not daring to look him in the eye, terrified of making eye contact.

The child Grandmaster floated over with a chuckle: "Little Lu is here, did you catch someone again this time?"

"Yes, I caught four. This one is Lord Sichen of the Great Gan, a half-immortal."

Lu Yang brought Lord Sichen out from his mental space, unafraid that Lord Sichen would cause trouble with his embryonic Time Dao Fruit upon waking, for the Time Immortal had already used the Time Dao Fruit to lock down the abilities of Lord Sichen's embryonic Dao Fruit.

The current Lord Sichen was no different from someone in the Tribulation Transmutation Stage.

"A half-immortal, not bad, not bad." Since even immortals were locked up here, the child Grandmaster was no longer surprised to see a half-immortal.

He assumed Lord Sichen had been captured and brought back by Yun Zhi.

Next, Lu Yang brought out Venerable Qingyan of the early Tribulation Transmutation Stage, Duan Qinshui of the early Body Integration Stage, and Mo Xiaochou of the mid-Soul Formation Stage from the Green Peak Sword.

As the three were hauled out by Lu Yang, they felt the cultivation realms of the prisoners on the Prisoner Peak and trembled with fear.

They hadn't heard of the Wind-Inquiring Sect capturing any great experts in recent years, so why were the prisoners on this Prisoner Peak all so terrifying?

"Eldest Senior Sister will come over to interrogate Lord Sichen."

Lu Yang sent a divine sense transmission to the child Grandmaster: "Grandmaster, please interrogate Duan Qinshui and Mo Xiaochou later. These two went to the Western Heaven Temple to steal things. If they have no other cases on them, it won't amount to the death penalty, at most they'll be locked up for dozens or hundreds of years."

Lu Yang was not worried that these two would leak his secrets after being released.

By the time they came out, who knew how many years would have passed, and by then, it would likely be known to everyone anyway.

"Alright, you don't need to worry about the aftermath." The child Grandmaster locked the four people into cages, feeling a sense of fulfillment as he looked at the cages that were gradually becoming insufficient.

It was rare for newcomers to arrive, so the prisoners of the Prisoner Peak gathered around curiously. Venerable Qingyan fared better, as his cultivation was still passable, but Duan Qinshui and Mo Xiaochou could not hold up, especially Mo Xiaochou, whose cultivation was at the very bottom. The prisoners shook their heads repeatedly, looking at him with utter disdain.

"What kind of garbage are you two cultivating? Did you pick up your cultivation techniques from a trash heap?"

"The path of this spiritual energy circulation is also wrong, so many mistakes."

"Come, come, come, let this old man teach you how you should cultivate."

The prisoners of the Prisoner Peak were usually very idle, and bored out of their minds anyway, so they might as well teach these two newcomers how to cultivate.

Duan Qinshui and Mo Xiaochou were overwhelmed by the unexpected favor and listened to the lectures intently.

...

In a mysterious place, a figure sat upon a throne built of withered bones, pondering the intelligence just received. His eyes gradually brightened, for the matters hidden behind this intelligence were by no means simple.

"A mysterious immortal, self-detonating multiple times, could it be that the Immortal Dao Fruit has appeared?!"

"Who is that mysterious immortal? Is it Immortality? Has Immortality been resurrected? Who did it, Ying Tian, Shensui, and the others?"

The figure quickly calmed down, realizing something was amiss.

"No, according to the descriptions of Ying Tian and Shensui, if it were the Immortal Dao Fruit, the power of the self-detonation should be even greater."

"Moreover, Ying Tian and Shensui have no reason to resurrect Immortality. If Immortality is resurrected, how can they obtain the Immortal Dao Fruit?"

"Then it must be the embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit?"

At this thought, the figure rose in excitement and paced back and forth: "The embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit, the embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit has finally appeared!"

"What a pity that back when the Immortal Sect condensed the embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit, they wanted to wait for a while to let the Immortal elevate its completion level, which caused them to lose the initiative, only to be disrupted by Yun Zhi of the Wind-Inquiring Sect, and even their clone was destroyed by her."

"If I had struck in advance, the embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit would have been in my hands long ago!"

"If I obtain the embryonic Immortal Dao Fruit, I would have a chance to escape with my life even if I encounter the Immortal of Nirvanic Extinction!"

"However, that mysterious immortal is somewhat strange; his body was condensed from the incense of the Buddhist Kingdom, which means he is not yet an immortal."

"It is good that he is not an immortal, it is good that he is not an immortal."