Just a Useful Pawn in the Stain Sect

Chapter 638: Chapter 633: Investigate Everything

Outside the White Jade Hall of the Heaven and Earth Immortal Journey.

Several Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Immortal Journey were cautiously watching the slightly trembling hall, their faces filled with confusion. "How long has it been?"

"Isn’t the Immortal Monarch coming out yet?"

"Is it your place to worry about the Immortal Monarch’s business? It just means she’s in there with True Monarch Minghe discussing a multi-billion-dollar project!"

"That makes sense..."

.......

Meanwhile, the inside of the White Jade Hall was already a wreck. The clash between Lü Yang and the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch had pulverized all the tables, chairs, and screens within.

Just moments before, the two had fought from the center of the hall to its corners—against the walls, before the great doors, beside the tables and chairs... Traces of their fierce Combat were left in every corner of the hall. Even the Second Grade Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Grand Array was on the verge of collapse.

The Jade Toad Immortal Monarch’s shapely body trembled with rage.

The effect of the second Forbidden Technique she had mastered, the Lesser Yin Sealing Technique, was very simple: it anchored her Dharma Body and Mana at their Peak state.

While the effect lasted, her Dharma Body could not be injured, and her Mana could not be depleted.

This was, without a doubt, her strongest state.

In this state, she held every advantage in Combat, able to unleash all sorts of high-powered Abilities at will without worrying about injury.

If not for this, how could she have been one of the very few Early-stage Immortal Monarchs to survive the great calamity five thousand years ago?

But now, she had met the strongest opponent of her life. Her proudest, strongest state couldn’t gain the slightest advantage against Lü Yang.

In fact, she was even at a disadvantage.

BOOM!

With a loud crash, Lü Yang’s palm struck the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch’s abdomen viciously. Then, his five fingers curled into a claw, tearing viciously at the snow-white flesh.

Although the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch reacted with lightning speed, kicking her long, fair leg up high to send Lü Yang flying and avoid being disemboweled, a red palm print was still left on her flat, fair abdomen. The residual heat from the blow spread throughout her entire body.

"If this goes on..."

The Jade Toad Immortal Monarch’s elegant brows furrowed, and a flush appeared on her delicate cheeks. Looking at the palm print on her abdomen, a shadow finally clouded her eyes.

She wasn’t bothered by the suggestive nature of their close-quarters combat, nor did she mind "baring it all" to Lü Yang.

In fact, some of the recent intimacy had been her own doing. After all, if a little exposure was all it took to defeat an opponent, she was more than willing.

Unfortunately for her, Lü Yang was completely unmoved.

What truly concerned her was that Lü Yang could actually leave a mark on her body... This meant the effect of her Lesser Yin Sealing Technique was weakening.

In contrast, Lü Yang’s Qi trace showed no signs of weakening whatsoever.

It was as if a Divine Spirit resided within his powerful physique, making him fight with ever-increasing ferocity in their hand-to-hand battle.

’Am I going to lose?’

The Jade Toad Immortal Monarch bit her lip, and the thought that her Resurrection Coin had been disabled by Lü Yang’s Engraving Laws sent a profound premonition of death washing over her heart.

If this continued, she would die!

On the other side, however, Lü Yang was extremely excited. His eyes were glowing, for in this brawl, he had seen everything about the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch!

Until now, Lü Yang had never considered the Celestial Immortal Monarchs worthy of his attention.

The only things he found noteworthy were the Fruits and the Cultivation of the Celestial Mansion; the Celestial Immortal Monarchs themselves, he had never taken seriously.

Until he saw the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch.

In her, Lü Yang saw the system of the ancient Celestial Immortal Monarchs from the era of the millennial calamity, and a series of epiphanies blossomed in his mind.

’So this is a true Celestial Immortal Monarch.’

’The cultivation of the Celestial Mansion centers on the Spirit Platform. The Spirit Platform is their Dao Foundation, and the process of wiping the Spirit Platform clean is their Foundation Establishment Realm training.’

’Finally, when the Spirit Platform is wiped clean of dust and begins to glow, one can begin Seeking Gold.’

’A flawless Spirit Platform can be used to hold a Fruit. Although it’s not as direct as having a Grotto Heaven of the Immortal Pivot take residence, it’s still a method for controlling a Fruit.’

’But in the process of holding the Fruit, the Spirit Platform will continuously degrade. After a thousand years, the Spirit Platform will completely collapse, and the Celestial Immortal Monarch will perish... Therefore, to break through to the Middle Stage of Immortal Monarch, one must continuously devise Forbidden Techniques to reinforce the Spirit Platform, eventually reaching a Realm where the Spirit Platform is indestructible...’

The two cultivation systems were similar, yet different!

It was precisely to understand this cultivation system that Lü Yang had chosen to fight alone, without letting Summon, Progenitor Tingyou, or the Demon-Vanquishing Perfected intervene.

Otherwise, given his usual style, he would have long since called everyone out to gang up on the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch.

The rewards for doing so were immense.

In short, he had seen the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch’s Dao!

Through this fierce exchange with the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch, his understanding of the Celestial Mansion’s so-called Forbidden Techniques deepened, and he even had the idea of trying one himself.

’True Treasures and Forbidden Techniques.’

’I haven’t forged my own path yet, so it wouldn’t be good to refine a third True Treasure... But a Forbidden Technique? I might just be able to try refining one.’

What would happen if he matched one Forbidden Technique with two True Treasures?

Perhaps it wouldn’t form a Seeking Dao Immortal Technique, but even an approximation would grant him some insight and further clarify the path he should take in the future.

At this thought, his attacks became even more ferocious.

’It’s a shame the Heaven-Mending Skill is hardly effective on Perfected Lords anymore. If I’d known, I would have gone to Heaven Mending Peak before I left and asked if there was an upgraded version...’

Of course, there were still other ways.

’I’ll shatter her Spirit Platform, leaving only her Soul to drift out. There’s no Netherworld to receive it here, so her Soul will have nowhere to go. It won’t escape my grasp!’

BOOM!

Another deafening crash. The Jade Toad Immortal Monarch staggered back, the effect of her Lesser Yin Sealing Technique growing weaker and weaker. The palace gown she wore was now almost completely destroyed.

Her enchanting limbs were completely exposed to Lü Yang’s eyes. Her fair skin, flushed crimson from the churning of her qi and blood, looked so delicate it might break at a touch. It seemed as if a gentle pinch could squeeze water from it. Compared to the fierce warrior she had been just moments ago, she now exuded a contrasting frailty.

However, Lü Yang remained unmoved.

’You’re testing me with this? I’m a veteran of a hundred battles, what kind of scene haven’t I witnessed? You’re trying this on me? Let me tell you, you’ve got the wrong guy!’

"Die!"

With a final blow, Lü Yang struck the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch on the forehead, shattering her radiance and completely breaking her Lesser Yin Sealing Technique.

"AH!"

The Jade Toad Immortal Monarch screamed as Lü Yang broke through her tightly guarded Dharma Body. In an instant, it was covered in cracks, and then, like a dam bursting, it exploded violently!

At that moment, the Deprive effect and numerous other rules she had suppressed with her Water and Fire Treasure Bottle Seal rapidly resurfaced. Countless bolts of Celestial Fire descended from the heavens, continuously evaporating the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch’s qi and blood. What little Mana she had left was forcibly seized by Lü Yang, leaving her unable to counterattack.

Meanwhile, Lü Yang’s actions didn’t pause for even a second.

With the Tribulation Wave in hand, he slashed out again. The sword cleaved through the Fruit Position Imagery surrounding the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch and finally landed on her Lesser Yin Fruit.

Reform Technique!

The Divine Effect of the Tribulation Wave, now a True Treasure, was its ability to forcibly leave his mark within the Fruit Position Imagery. At this moment, it became the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

What Lü Yang engraved was very simple.

The imagery of the Lesser Yin Fruit Position unifying water and fire—he used the Tribulation Wave to draw a large "X" over it, temporarily deleting it!

PUH!

Instantly, the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch felt the water and fire imagery within her go berserk, while the Lesser Yin she relied on had lost its unifying concept.

BOOM!

Without any suspense, the Spirit Platform that the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch used to house her Lesser Yin shattered amidst the rampaging water and fire, and a Soul drifted out!

Then, she saw Lü Yang’s large hand.

He grabbed it! And began Refining it in an instant!

Not only that, but having lost her Spirit Platform, she was now like those Early-stage True Monarchs whose Grotto Heavens had fallen. Though she was still alive, she had lost her True Monarch Position.

In other words—

’I can use the Heaven-Mending Skill now!’

The next second, Lü Yang reconstructed a physical body for the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch, then strode forward resolutely and began to forcibly extract the knowledge of the Lesser Yin and Taiyin Dao Practice that he needed.

"Ah..."

At this moment, the Jade Toad Immortal Monarch was finally stripped of all her defenses by Lü Yang. Her vast reserves of Cultivation and Knowledge were mercilessly plundered by him!