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"Damn, fighting oneself is really exhausting. Luckily, the Invincible Nascent Soul is not too bright." After a series of explosive moves, Lu Yang almost couldn’t hold on.

To be precise, the Invincible Nascent Soul doesn’t have a brain; it represents the theoretically strongest state of Lu Yang.

However, this theory is limited to techniques. Although it’s highly adaptable, it still isn’t as versatile as Lu Yang.

It was a method that Lu Yang thought up in the middle of the battle. No matter how adaptable the Invincible Nascent Soul could be, it wasn’t as flexible and changeable as Lu Yang himself. The most obvious evidence was that the Invincible Nascent Soul froze for a moment upon witnessing this scene, unable to react in time.

Additionally, the theoretical strongest state was not the same as practical reality. The Invincible Nascent Soul could wield only the power it possessed, but Lu Yang was different; he could also draw upon his true form’s strength!

Less adaptable than himself, less able to leverage strength than himself—those were the two major weaknesses of the Invincible Nascent Soul.

If Lu Yang still couldn’t beat the Invincible Nascent Soul with this strategy, he wanted to simply resort to using Fairy Eternity’s Imitation Fist and beat the Invincible Nascent Soul until it was utterly defeated.

After all, Fairy Eternity wouldn’t lend her strength to the Invincible Nascent Soul, who couldn’t use the Fairy Imitation Fist.

One weak move led to a series of setbacks. Having been struck by that punch, the Invincible Nascent Soul lost its initiative once again. It wanted to use Lu Yang’s Imitation Fist to quickly recover its spiritual power, but Lu Yang didn’t give it the chance.

Swordsmanship and magic skills used in unison, Lu Yang forced the Invincible Nascent Soul into continual retreat, its aura weakening by the second.

Boom—

Lu Yang struck the Invincible Nascent Soul again, sending it flying and breaking one of the great hall’s pillars.

Lu Yang pressed his attack, but unexpectedly, the Invincible Nascent Soul, as if seeing its own defeat, took a step forward and vanished into thin air!

Lu Yang’s pupils contracted, and in an instant, he realized what magic skill the Invincible Nascent Soul had used.

"Heaven and Earth in an Inch?!"

This was the first Spatial Divine Ability Lu Yang had learned, which could randomly teleport him to a cliff.

However, due to its strong randomness, Lu Yang, having other means to handle danger, would not use this ability if he could avoid it. After learning it, he had left it untouched.

To think that he hadn’t used it himself yet, but the Invincible Nascent Soul had already employed this magic skill to flee.

The Invincible Nascent Soul didn’t use it when it was previously subdued by Fairy Eternity because she was too powerful, and it didn’t have the chance to execute the skill.

But Lu Yang wasn’t very far off from the Invincible Nascent Soul in power, and during the fight, it was easy to give the Invincible Nascent Soul a chance to escape.

"Don’t think you can get away like that! Heaven and Earth in an Inch!"

Although the location of the cliff was random, the Invincible Nascent Soul was ultimately a part of Lu Yang. Wherever the Invincible Nascent Soul would randomly go, so would Lu Yang.

Lu Yang’s true form took a step forward and also disappeared from the Spiritual Space.

Now that the fight had left the body, there was no need to use his soul to battle anymore.

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"Hm? Where is this?" After stepping forward, Lu Yang found himself surrounded by darkness, and looking up, he saw only a sliver of sky.

He was standing on a rock platform jutting out from a cliffside, with a cave entrance near the platform.

Intuition told Lu Yang that the Invincible Nascent Soul was hiding deep within the cave.

Using Three Flavored True Fire to light up the cave, he found the interior was covered with spider webs, and countless bats hung upside down from the ceiling which, startled by the True Fire, suddenly flew out en masse like a dark cloud.

In the depths of the cave stood a stone stele.

Lu Yang examined the stele closely. The inscription implied that its creator was a Cultivation Great Power who had retreated here to attempt a breakthrough to a higher level, but had failed and died. Before his death, he left a challenge, stating that anyone who could pass it would become his inheritor and receive all of his legacy.

Lu Yang read out the last line word by word: "My inheritor, if you receive my legacy, it means you possess wisdom, courage, and a sense of Tao. I trust that in the future, you will surely fulfill your master’s lifelong wish and become a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator..."

The stone stele’s creator was only at the Golden Core Stage, and whatever arrangements he had made couldn’t escape Lu Yang’s Spiritual Sense. With a sweep of his Spiritual Sense, Lu Yang perceived the hidden inheritance beneath the stele: a cultivation technique, a Storage Ring whose contents were unknown, and a bag of Spirit Stones.

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"It’s actually an incomplete Cultivation Technique," Lu Yang was surprised and quickly read through the entire technique with his Spiritual Sense.

This truly was an incredible opportunity—if the Cultivation Technique could be completed, one could cultivate to the Divinity Transformation Stage!

Moreover, even if the Cultivation Technique were completed, it would only be the upper half of the technique. If the upper and lower parts of the technique could be combined, it would be enough to support cultivation to the Body Integration Realm!

Lu Yang quickly set aside thoughts of the Cultivation Technique inheritance. When he expanded his Spiritual Sense, he easily found the Invincible Nascent Soul hiding behind the stele.

The Invincible Nascent Soul also realized it had been discovered by Lu Yang and, transforming into a bolt of lightning, fled out of the cave.

"Don’t run!"

Lu Yang followed closely behind, and the pair—man and infant—hugged the cliff as they dashed straight towards the narrow path between the peaks.

Just as Lu Yang was about to catch up with the Invincible Nascent Soul, he heard a scream—’Ahh!’—from above the cliff, as a herb collector with a basket on his back accidentally fell off the cliff.

Lu Yang gave up the chase of the Invincible Nascent Soul to catch the falling herb collector.

"That was close, lucky you ran into me. If you had fallen down like that, not even the tree branches growing out of the cliffside might have caught you."

After saying goodbye to the bewildered herb collector, Lu Yang continued the pursuit of the Invincible Nascent Soul.

The Invincible Nascent Soul kept using ’Heaven and Earth in an Inch’ to escape, and Lu Yang pursued with the same move. They fought in different crevices of the cliffs, occasionally encountering pools of blood in the valley bottoms that could awaken one’s Bloodline, ownerless magic artifacts that could grow, and old men with only their Soul bodies remaining…

And each time Lu Yang was about to catch up with the Invincible Nascent Soul, he’d encounter a falling dragon person, a junior cultivator tumbling off the cliff, or a despised Princely Heir…

Lu Yang could only save them before continuing his pursuit of the Invincible Nascent Soul.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a continuous series of cliff falls, and after five cliffs, he finally caught up with the Invincible Nascent Soul.

"Still trying to run!"

Without the support of elixirs, the Invincible Nascent Soul was already exhausted, while Lu Yang, constantly consuming elixirs, was vibrant and full of energy.

A huge palm descended as if the sky was collapsing, but Lu Yang was not frightened by this move. He decisively swung his sword, and his Sword Qi turned into a dragon, soaring into the sky, breaking through the seemingly strong but actually weak palm, pinning the Invincible Nascent Soul against the cliff face!

"You’ve lost."

With an indifferent expression, Lu Yang hovered in front of the Invincible Nascent Soul, pointing the tip of his Green Peak Sword at the little creature, the shining blade extremely intimidating.

The Invincible Nascent Soul hung its head in defeat and obediently flew into Lu Yang’s Spiritual Space.

"Strange, why do I feel like I still can’t control the Invincible Nascent Soul?"

Although he had won against the Invincible Nascent Soul and it had become obedient, Lu Yang still felt that something was off—as if the Invincible Nascent Soul was not fully obeying him.

Fairy Eternity pondered for a moment; this was something she had not encountered before. It shouldn’t be the case.

"Oh—I understand now. It was I who defeated the Invincible Nascent Soul first, and you defeated it afterwards. If you want to fully control the Invincible Nascent Soul, you’ll need to defeat me!"

Lu Yang: "..."

Are you doing this on purpose, Fairy?

Fairy Eternity, with a grin, moved closer to the iron-faced Lu Yang, awkwardly trying to appease him with a smile.

"Ah, Little Yang, don’t be angry. How about this—you hit me once?"

Lu Yang looked at Fairy Eternity with suspicion and gently pushed her.

Fairy Eternity staggered back two steps, then dramatically collapsed onto the bed, covering her face and elongating her voice:

"Ah—I’ve lost."

That day, Lu Yang defeated the Invincible Nascent Soul and Fairy Eternity, achieving an unprecedented feat in history.

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