Who Let Him Cultivate?!

Chapter 873: Chapter 872: The Great Yu National Preceptor’s Dao Fruit Chapter 873: Chapter 872: The Great Yu National Preceptor’s Dao Fruit “But do you really think you can take me down that easily!”

Even though he was being schemed against, Guan Shanhai wasn’t flustered; he was not unwilling to fight, just not eager to engage in battle!

Moreover, Meng Junzi didn’t even know what his Dao Fruit was.

To his surprise, what Meng Junzi said next made his heart skip a beat.

“If I’m not mistaken, Guan Dao You’s Dao Fruit ability is assimilation, isn’t it? It can completely transform one person into another. If that weren’t the case, Guan Dao You wouldn’t be able to restore Great Yu.”

Meng Junzi and Jiang Pingan had been aware of Guan Shanhai’s existence early on and noted his ambition to revive Great Yu.

Guan Shanhai’s Dao Fruit was never recorded in any historical records. Reviving Great Yu was not as simple as just killing off the Jiang Family and taking their place—the evolution over a hundred thousand years meant that Great Yu and Great Xia were entirely different dynasties.

Both of them suspected that Guan Shanhai’s Dao Fruit could help in reviving Great Yu and made many speculations about it.

When Meng Junzi then saw Guan Shanhai transform a corpse into the Second Imperial Teacher, he finally confirmed his conjecture.

Actually, Meng Junzi’s guess was slightly off from the truth; Guan Shanhai had named his Dao Fruit “Imprinting Dao Fruit.”

For instance, he could take a dead body at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage as a vessel and imprint the memory of the Second Imperial Teacher onto it as he remembered him.

This was more than just copying of memories; it could fully restore appearance, muscle memory, the outline of their Dao Fruit, instinctive reactions, and unique constitutions, nearly the same as resurrection!

The only issue was that he was unaware of the events that unfolded after the Second Imperial Teacher entered the Seek Dao Sect, hence the imprinted Second Imperial Teacher would lack the memories of his life prior to his death.

Using a living person as a vessel was even more effective. Imprinting on the dead meant only creating a body with memories, but imprinting on the living could completely alter a person’s soul into that of another!

The Power of National Fate was linked to the people of Great Xia, and this was what Guan Shanhai was interested in.

In his mind, he remembered the early days of Great Yu, an era deemed by Great Xia as the “Prosperous Age of Wu Yao,” in its entire splendor. He remembered every person, event, and object from that time—he recalled all three thousand years of that era.

He could use the Power of National Fate to imprint the people from the “Prosperous Age of Wu Yao” into the present day Great Xia, turning Great Xia’s people into those from that age!

For example, he could use his Imprinting Dao Fruit to transform Lu Yang into a genius from the Prosperous Age of Wu Yao.

Only then could it be called the revival of Great Yu!

In fact, he could transform Great Xia into his vision of Great Yu without relying on the Power of National Fate, but this method would be slow, and Jiang Pingan would certainly intervene and cause disruptions, far less efficient than utilizing the Power of National Fate.

It was just that he hadn’t yet begun to assimilate the Power of National Fate; ever since Meng Junzi appeared, he had been on constant alert, daring not to be distracted and continue the assimilation process.

A figure was anxiously directing an army to enter the Imperial City.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry, everyone get to your assigned positions quickly, deploy the grand formation! If there’s the slightest mistake, be prepared for martial law!”

This was the Imperial City’s Imperial Guard Army, stationed near the Imperial City. Now that the Imperial City was in trouble, although they couldn’t influence the outcome of a battle between Immortals, they could deploy barriers to ensure the city wasn’t affected by the battle.

The one commanding them was none other than Meng Jingzhou’s third uncle, the former frontier general who guarded the Lock Demon Gate, known as the scholarly general Meng Poci.

Meng Poci looked up at the two conspicuous figures in the sky, clutching the transfer order he just received, and muttered softly.

“Bringing me from Lock Demon Gate to the Imperial City last year, could it have been for today’s battle?”

The commander of the Imperial City’s Imperial Guard Army wasn’t Meng Poci. However, after Emperor Xia’s feigned death and Guan Shanhai’s appearance, Meng Poci suddenly received a telepathic message from Meng Junzi, instructing him to rush to the Imperial City’s military camp to take control of the Imperial Guard Army and giving him a transfer order with the Jade Imperial Seal.

When he saw Meng Junzi, Meng Poci was dumbfounded; he didn’t expect the old ancestor to appear at that time.

Without time for shock, he hastily rushed to the army camp outside the Imperial City.

The Great Xia military was filled with seasoned veterans, many of whom had more years of service and higher Cultivation Levels than Meng Poci, yet when it came to defensive formations, none could compare to him.

Guan Shanhai paid no attention to the commotion below; he didn’t care what sort of reaction the Imperial City might have. His sole enemy from beginning to end was none other than Meng Junzi.

“Three friends from the Heavenly Court, I can handle matters here. What do you think?”

Meng Junzi spoke politely to Ao Ling and the other two, aware that they were actually on his side.

In a battle of Immortals, Ao Ling and his companions could not lend a hand, and with Ao Ling’s time in the Immortal’s Body drawing to a close, staying would only add obstacles for Meng Junzi. Understanding the situation, the trio wisely left the battlefield.

“It seems that a battle between us is inevitable,” said Guan Shanhai with a smile that did not reach his eyes.

At the same moment, the Second Great Yu National Preceptor erased his own causality, vanished into thin air, and suddenly appeared behind Meng Junzi, raising a dagger forged from Immortal Stone, and ferociously stabbed towards the top of Meng Junzi’s head!

Meng Junzi raised a hand and grabbed the wrist of the National Preceptor, applying a slight pressure and crushing it.

“The outline of the Dao Fruit of Causality is indeed troublesome to deal with, but that’s for Semi-Immortals. To an Immortal, it’s not a concern!”

The wrist of the Second Great Yu National Preceptor shattered, and along with it, the dagger in his hand fell. Meng Junzi reached out to pick up the spoils of war, this item could be considered an Immortal Treasure, quite a rarity.

Boom—
Without warning, the dagger exploded, releasing a toxic green smoke that spread around Meng Junzi.

This was a deadly poisonous fog, formed from the collective resentment of hundreds of millions of the deceased from the last period of Great Qian, surrounding and causing the poisoned person to self-destruct from within!

The Second Great Yu National Preceptor took the opportunity to flee far away, also leaving the battlefield.

He specialized in assassination and curses, but neither was effective against an Immortal; his real purpose in the previous attack was to set the dagger for self-detonation.

Meng Junzi heard innumerable wails around him, blaming the heavens for their injustice, for bringing war to the world, blaming the dynasty for its indifference, not caring about the lives of the people.

“Stop complaining, it’s as if you’re blaming me for this too.”

Meng Junzi remained completely unaffected by the resentment, directly absorbing the poisonous fog until it was gone.

No matter how his opponents judged him, he had always acted justly and sat upright, with a clear conscience.

When Meng Junzi absorbed the fog, he noticed that behind Guan Shanhai stood five figures.

The Jade General, Nightmare Supreme, Master of All Laws, Wood Imprint Elder, and Emperor Yu Wu Yao from his Semi-Immortal period!

Five Semi-Immortals!

Except for the Jade General, the other four had been imprinted using the bodies of those in the Transcendence Tribulation Stage.

The Jade General was aware of the current situation, while the other four knew nothing about it.

Emperor Yu Wu Yao’s expression changed dramatically. He remembered defeating Nightmare Supreme with his teacher and preparing to conquer the last state, and his teacher should also still be a Semi-Immortal.

But what about here? Nightmare Supreme was still alive, his teacher had ascended to immortality, and the huge city below did not belong to any place in his memory.

Considering his teacher’s Imprinted Dao Fruit Outline, it was not hard to guess that he was an imprinted person.

“Teacher, what time is it now, and whom are you fighting against?”

Guan Shanhai frowned imperceptibly, finding the trouble with imprinted individuals – they were exactly like the real people, not under his control.