Chapter 1876 - 439: Earthly Immortal? So There’s a Shortcut You Didn’t Tell Me!_2
Chapter 1876 - 439: Earthly Immortal? So There’s a Shortcut You Didn’t Tell Me!_2
For instance, two of the top figures in the world right now: the Living Buddha Basiba and Wudang’s Zhang Sanfeng.Their ability to enter the Land Immortal Realm is inseparable from the two great battles of the past.
One battle was when the Mulan people invaded the Central Plains, and the Living Buddha Basiba led the Mulan cavalry, trampling over the Central Plains. At that time, many Central Plains people were killed, including numerous strongmen of the Melt God Realm.
This allowed Basiba to acquire many Innate Dao Fruits, directly aiding his ascension to the Land Immortal Realm.
Then there’s Master Zhang of Wudang. Master Zhang was a man of extraordinary talent, who even as a young man advanced to the Melt God Realm without the use of elixirs, based solely on his invincible talent.
However, upon entering the Melt God Realm, without the support of the Innate Dao Fruit, he had no way to enter the Land Immortal Realm.
At that time, just as the Mulan people were entering the Central Plains and causing chaos in the Martial Arts world, some cowards in the Central Plains also began to rely on the Mulan people, intimidating others and plaguing the civilians.
This is when Master Zhang could no longer stand it and took action, initiating the Sixty Years of Demon Cleansing, slaughtering countless people from the Martial Arts world and Mulan martial artists, amassing countless Dao Fruits, and eventually entering the Land Immortal Realm.
Summarizing these two top figures of the Land Immortal level, it becomes evident that they ultimately relied on a significant amount of killing and the seizing of Dao Fruits to achieve the Land Immortal Realm.
This perfectly illustrates the saying in the Taoist Scripture: "Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs."
This is the iron law of advancement into the Melt God Realm summarized by countless people.
Back then, after Du Zundao captured Liu Futong, he was eager to extract the Innate Dao Fruit from him to elevate his own realm.
However, there was always a crucial problem that couldn’t be solved.
Someone asked, what is this crucial problem? It was that Du Zundao didn’t know the Cultivation Technique to extract the Innate Dao Fruit.
Only two people in the world knew this technique: the Living Buddha Basiba and Wudang’s Zhang Sanfeng.
One of them serves as a tribute to the court and therefore doesn’t wish to pass on these Jianghu methods, keeping them confined to the higher echelons of Mulan.
The other is Wudang’s Zhang Sanfeng, who has always felt that this method is against the natural order and so doesn’t wish to pass it on, focusing instead on studying methods of nurturing life. In his words, once a person dies naturally, the Innate Dao Fruit can still be claimed.
Of course, this action by Master Zhang has drawn some criticism from Jianghu people, who believe that Zhang Sanfeng, now a well-fed man, is oblivious to the hunger of others.
Having become a Land Immortal, he hides this method, and claims it harms the natural order, but in truth, he fears that if others learn it, they too will become Land Immortals and threaten his status!
But these people only dare to secretly complain; no one truly dares to confront Zhang Sanfeng openly.
However, the older Melt God Realm strongmen know that once in the Melt God Realm, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures hardly have any effect—they need Dao Fruits to elevate their realms.
But available Dao Fruits are rare, having all turned into combat strength.
Thus, to advance, one must find a way to turn those Melt God Realm strongmen who have consumed Dao Fruits into Dao Fruits themselves and absorb them.
This process is inevitably bloody,
which is why many Melt God Realm strongmen were very active in the Jianghu before they became famous, but after gaining fame, many quietly hide away, disappearing into the deep mountains.
Only after their death, when their Dao Fruit is absorbed by Heaven and Earth and returns to the land in the form of natural nurturing, can the Dao Fruit’s origin be traced.
There have been no large-scale hunting events in recent years for two reasons.
First, there is a balance between Basiba the Living Buddha and Zhang Sanfeng: as long as Mulan martial artists don’t hunt Han martial artists indiscriminately, Han martial artists won’t hunt Mulan martial artists wantonly.
However, if Basiba breaks the agreement and intervenes in martial artist conflicts or intentionally guides martial artist disputes, then Zhang Sanfeng will also hunt Mulan martial artists, achieving a delicate balance between the two.
Both are cautious, allowing Jianghu to develop on its own.
Secondly, both of them keep the method of seizing others’ Dao Fruits highly secretive. Basiba doesn’t openly share it, only passing it to the Mulan high echelon.
He also instructed that this method must not be leaked, as he fears Han people learning it would endanger Mulan martial artists’ safety.
Thus, this secret method is closely guarded, known by very few.
Du Zundao brought this up because Prime Minister Tuotuo promised that if Du Zundao helps him complete his plan, he would find a way to teach this secret method of seizing others’ Dao Fruits to Du Zundao.
This was incredibly enticing to Du Zundao.
You see, if he had known this method of seizing back then, Liu Futong’s Dao Fruit would have been his long ago, and he would have become that powerful Third Transformation Melt God Strongman.
Moreover, in this current environment, any major battle will undoubtedly lead to a war of plunder, and at that time, those who know this Cultivation Technique will become stronger with each fight; those who don’t will be merely a dish in others’ recipe, never becoming the predator.
This Cultivation Technique is much like the teeth of a tiger; once you learn it, you can bite others. If you don’t learn it, you may remain someone else’s prey for your entire life!
Du Zundao was resolved to serve Tuotuo faithfully because of his promise to give him this Cultivation Technique.
Du Zundao is a very pragmatic person, and how long he lives or how he lives in the future depends primarily on the extent to which his Martial Arts path can reach.
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