If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1418 The Path of Examination in the Great Luo Path
In fact, Grand Tutor Yu's considerations regarding "stealing the immortal book" were even more thorough than those of the Mysterious Emperor.

Why did she wait for two months?

It was exactly two months, not three or four months, and not just half a month.

Because she was calculating the situation of Master Yumen, and wanted to create a perfect alibi for him.

When Master Yumen took her "Grand Master Yu's Divine Mantra" to Shangqing Heaven and met the Dao Ancestor, even though she directly blew up Taiyi Dao Cave Heaven, it had nothing to do with him.

For example, right now, the Five Elements Escape Technique was stolen by Grand Master Yu, and Zhang Daoling, the founder of the Taiyi Sect, simply ran away and hid, making himself impossible to find.

Why did he run away?
If he didn't run away, the one kneeling before the Goddess of Mystery to beg for forgiveness wouldn't be the Divine Mace Protector, but Zhang Daoling himself.

Even though Zhang Daoling escaped, the Goddess of Mystery only captured the Divine Mace Protector as a scapegoat and never considered going to Shangqing Heaven to capture the Jade Gate Immortal.

If Divine Mace Protector could be found guilty of even one part, then Jade Gate Immortal would be guilty of ten parts.

After all, for Taibao to let slip the secret, there had to be a major premise: that Master Yumen really had planned this and even carried out the "sending the immortal book" plan.

Of course, Grand Tutor Yu had already anticipated that his theft of the immortal book would not cause Taiyi Dao any unbearable trouble.

If the Heavenly Court truly investigates thoroughly and deals with the matter seriously, Jade Gate Immortal will not attempt to send her the immortal book.

Even if Master Yumen goes mad, he is not the only immortal in Zhengyang Palace.

For example, Xuan Tianzi, who took Taibao away, was not only a True Person of Zhengyang Palace, but also one of the people who knew about the Heavenly Immortal Technique that True Person Yumen sent out.

In less than two days, just one day, Grand Tutor Yu unlocked the "combination lock" of the immortal book.

She then immediately looked at and recorded the information inside.

Just two and a half days later, a divine light descended from the sky and transformed into a ten-foot-tall, purple-faced divine general.

The Divine Mace Protector once again graced the Grand Tutor's Mansion in Xianyang.

"Come, let's fight again. You take the immortal book back." Grand Tutor Yu beckoned to him.

Taibao's eyes flashed with divine light as he looked at the immortal book in her left hand.

It has transformed from a "jade tablet" into a paper-bound book with a blue cover.

"You finished reading it so quickly? Even if you did, you still need to handle the immortal book from time to time and comprehend the Dao traces within it! It's only been a few days, what's the rush? You have at most three years to read it!"

Grand Tutor Yu sighed, “I really want to be in no hurry, I really want its Dao traces to be difficult and profound, but it is too common.”

No wonder Qingsong has cultivated for hundreds of years but hasn't even attained the level of an ordinary rogue immortal.

Qingsong Daotong only cultivates the "Five Elements Escape Technique". He is not even a terrestrial immortal, let alone a celestial immortal. He is not an immortal.

Grand Tutor Yu's blatant disdain displeased the Grand Protector.

"The Five Elements Escape Technique is one of the 'Five Secrets' passed down by Zhang Tianshi, and it is the most commonly used celestial immortal technique in the Heavenly Court!"
Once you become a Celestial Immortal using this immortal technique, breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm will be much easier than with other immortal techniques.

I heard that it could increase the chances of breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm by 20% out of thin air.

The Five Elements Escape Technique's supernatural powers and secret methods are also quite powerful.

Grand Tutor Yu nodded and said, "To cultivate the immortal golden elixir, one must gather the five elements and harmonize the four symbols."

During the cultivation of the Five Elements Escape Technique, the five elements are naturally complete, eliminating the need to accumulate them.

Strength is related to supernatural abilities.

A Qi cultivator who practices the Five Elements Escape Technique, once they master its great supernatural power, will be no weaker than anyone else.

But the ultimate goal of cultivating the Celestial Immortal Technique is to attain the Dao!

Why do you think there's no struggle for the Great Dao when practicing the Five Elements Escape Technique?

Since the Five Elements Dao already has an owner, there is nothing to contend for, so there is naturally no need to contend for it.

People like Yin Yinzi and the former Three Immortal Maidens, if not creating a completely new path, at least created a completely new set of rules for the Great Dao.

Thus a debate arose over the Great Dao.

The Five Elements Escape Technique cultivates the Five Elements Great Dao without creating a new Five Elements Great Dao.

The Five Elements Dao is the foundation of the Pangu World, just like the steel frame of the skyscraper in Xiaoyu's previous life.

If technology advances and stronger steel bars become available, can we remove the old steel reinforcement framework from the original building and replace it with a new, more advanced steel bar?

If that were to be done, the building would collapse.

Even if the Pangu world does not collapse directly, it will certainly be violently turbulent.

If a piece of ceiling falls down or a load-bearing column collapses, it could crush or kill residents inside the building.

If a global ecological disaster were to occur in the Pangu world, it could directly wipe out the "fragile" human race.

Therefore, the Five Elements of the Pangu world do not need to be replaced. The rules of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—have been "spiritually transformed" into "humans" (gods), namely the White Emperor, the Black Emperor, the Red Emperor, the Yellow Emperor, and the Green Emperor.

Even if later practitioners attain the Great Luo and make innovations, they can only make minor repairs to the existing Five Elements Great Dao and upgrade it on the original basis: they dedicate their own Dao to the Five Elements Emperors so that the emperors can upgrade and become stronger, rather than becoming the new masters of the Great Dao themselves.

"Is this 'Five Elements Escape Technique' completely useless to you?"

Divine Mace Protector frowned and said, "You were never able to cultivate the Celestial Immortal Technique in the first place."

The Jade Gate Immortal Master gave you the Celestial Immortal Techniques only so that you could learn from the strengths of various schools and understand the profound mysteries of the Great Luo Path.

Grand Tutor Yu nodded and said, "Of course it's useful, and even more useful!"

However, their uses are also categorized and vary.

It's not the kind of thing I initially imagined—that one can comprehend, create, and merge with the Dao, possessing their own exclusive Great Dao.

My purpose in studying the Celestial Immortal Technique is precisely to understand how one reaches the pinnacle of immortality.
This book, *The Five Elements Escape Techniques*, didn't perfectly answer my question, but it brought me unexpected joy.

The Divine Mace Protector asked in surprise, "The Five Elements Escape Technique can't create or merge with the Dao? It should be able to prove the Great Luo Dao!"

"It can attain the Great Luo realm, but its power after attaining the Great Luo realm is very different from that of other Great Luo Golden Immortals."

It's not a difference in strength, nor in the authority of Heaven, but rather a kind of..." Xiaoyu's expression also became conflicted.

She sensed something was wrong, but her understanding and knowledge were limited, and she couldn't articulate it clearly.

"I reckon there are even higher realms after the Great Luo Golden Immortal, which are related to the void and chaos beyond the realm."

Other Great Luo Golden Immortals can transcend the world and continue to climb to the peak in the chaos.

Those Grand Luo Golden Immortals who cultivate the Five Elements Escape Technique are practically bound to the Pangu World; their path forward is exhausted. Well, that's a bit of an oversimplification. The Pangu World is powerful, and they become even stronger—it's a different kind of realm advancement.

As the saying goes, life is a journey of self-cultivation. Conversely, self-cultivation can be compared to life.

In Xiaoyu's previous life on Earth, a material world, some people were self-employed, while others passed the civil service exam and entered state-owned enterprises. Even if the CEO of a state-owned enterprise led the company to great heights, it only increased state-owned assets and served the people of the whole country. He himself only received a salary and shouldn't have become a billionaire.

Those who cultivate the Five Elements Escape Technique are the "civil servants" of the Pangu Mystic Sect.

The Five Elements Dao will never belong to them.

The Five Elements Dao is the foundation of the lives and existence of all living beings in the Pangu World. By cultivating the Five Elements Escape Technique and dedicating all their innovations to the Five Elements Dao, they are essentially serving all beings in the Three Realms.

The other Great Immortals are individual entrepreneurs, like Lao Huang and Lao Ma in the United States, who have built their own empires in their respective fields.

In the end, Old Ma achieved his ultimate wish—to escape Earth and ascend to Mars; he became the King of Mars!
Old Huang and Old Ma have money and power, and civil servants can also use the power of the government.

They are both Great Luo Immortals, and they all possess the authority of Great Luo Immortals. It's hard to say who would win in a head-on clash; it depends on whose tactics (supernatural powers) are more skillful.

However, once outside the Pangu World, a Great Luo cultivator who practices the Five Elements Escape Technique will definitely suffer.

Other Great Luo Immortals not only possess their own unique Great Dao, but can also copy and paste the complete Pangu Five Elements Great Dao through the Heavenly Heart Imprint.

Pangu, as a civil servant, can also copy the exclusive Dao of other Great Luo Immortals, but he does not have his own exclusive Dao. The copied Dao only contains "data" and lacks a certain power that Grand Tutor Yu does not yet understand.

That power remains useful even in the chaotic outer realms, and can even be upgraded to enhance one's realm.

Pangu, the civil servant, has no exclusive path or power. It's as if a civil servant who leaves office and goes abroad is nothing. But Lao Ma and Lao Huang, with their technology, money, and factories, remain wealthy and powerful abroad, with no fundamental difference from when they were in China.

Without a doubt, Grand Tutor Yu was unwilling to be a civil servant serving all beings in the Three Realms.

Her book, "The Mixture of Wind and Myriad Paths to Refine the Spirit," also failed to offer much insight into the path of a "civil servant."

She wants to transcend!
The Five Elements Escape Technique could not satisfy her desires, hence her disappointment. However, the "path to becoming a civil servant" offered by the Five Elements Escape Technique broadened her horizons and brought her other gains.

The gains were equally substantial.

"Right now, you haven't even reached the 'Pure Yang Immaculate Realm' of a Golden Immortal. At most, your immortal power is pure Yang, but your soul and physical body are not. The Five Elements Escape Technique should be able to give you some enlightenment, right?"

The Divine Mace Protector said, "Don't be overly ambitious. Surviving this great calamity of heaven and earth intact will be a victory more gratifying than attaining the Great Luo Dao."

Grand Tutor Yu nodded slightly. "You're right. The immortal book has been a great help to me, and I have a clearer understanding of the path ahead."

Whether in personal cultivation or in the deduction of the "Great Luo Strong Killing Method", "Five Elements Escape Technique" provides a wealth of high-value reference data.

It can only be said that other celestial techniques may be more helpful in the above two aspects, but the role of the "Five Elements Escape Technique" cannot be denied.

"Come on, let's fight again! Now that you've learned the 'Divine Mace Master's Mace Technique Breakthrough,' your martial arts skills should have improved considerably," Grand Tutor Yu said, drawing his sword.

—I've returned to the Heavenly Realm, and I've just taken out the manual, but I haven't had a chance to study it properly yet!

Taibao muttered to himself, but also shouted angrily, "Grand Tutor Yu, I lost to you last time because I didn't have enough to eat. This time I've come with a full stomach, and I'm determined to take back the Immortal Book."

"Ahhh~~" he roared and charged at Grand Tutor Yu with his double maces.

Grand Tutor Yu raised his sword to meet him.

They fought for two days and two nights, battling from the sky to the ground, and from the ground to the nearby Wei and Jing Rivers.

Although there was an element of performance involved, both of them possessed extreme strength and speed, and their skills were exquisite.

To an onlooker, it was absolutely earth-shattering, upheaval, and a dramatic change in the weather. These words are not embellishments or exaggerations, but rather a true description of the scene.

"Hahaha, although you are more skilled, you have lost this time."

Taibao was in a sorry state, his divine armor was tattered, and his divine mace in his left hand had been knocked away, but he still held the immortal book in his hand.

The two had just passed each other, and he "deliberately" lost a move. Taking advantage of Grand Tutor Yu's carelessness, he used the Taiyi Dao secret technique to forcibly summon the immortal book back.

"Give me back the immortal book!" Grand Tutor Yu roared.

"I'm off!" Taibao leaped into the deep divine dimension, quickly leaving the mortal realm and arriving in the celestial realm, where he immediately handed the immortal book to the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden.

The Goddess Xuan Nu put away the book, glanced at him expressionlessly, and waved him away without saying a word.

The fiefdom of Ying Tong, the King of Bohai, was located in the northeast of China, roughly one-third of the former Yan territory.

It wasn't that Grand Tutor Yu was stingy and unwilling to hand over the entire Yan territory to him.

The "China" of this world, located in Jambudvipa, is several times larger than East Asia in her previous life. Its vast territory is too large for the Qin dynasty's vassal kings to control in a short period.

In fact, all their fiefdoms were divided according to their own governance capabilities.

In the dream journey, the amount of land they could control was determined by how many areas Yu Taishi would allocate to them in reality.

The capital of the former Yan region was Ji County, while the royal palace of King Ying Tong of Bohai was located in Wuzhong County, which was close to the Great Wall in the north.

Grand Tutor Yu has completed the reconstruction of the ley lines in Qi and Zhao. Next, he will continue north, first entering Ying Tong's fiefdom.

Last year, the King of Bohai was assassinated by Yan Wushuang, a local hero known as the "posthumous son of Yan Dan". Ying Tong survived thanks to the protection of an old eunuch who practiced the Lotus Sutra, but his eldest son died.

At the end of last year, after the year-end summary meeting of the Ying clan kings in a dream, Grand Tutor Yu promised Ying Tong that he would help him take revenge.

After leaving Xianyang, Grand Tutor Yu planned to fulfill his promise.

On the second day after Grand Tutor Yu arrived in Yan, inside a "submarine" shaped like a black tortoise on the Gushui River in Yuyang County.

Yan Wushuang sat cross-legged on the "bridge" on the second floor, his eyes slightly closed, silently circulating his profound inner energy.

Not far from him, a pretty maid was helping to add "Moonscale Incense" to the incense burner.

Moonscale Incense is even more precious and magical than the Rejuvenating and Reviving Incense. Once lit, it can blur the barriers of space and time, allowing one to contact the celestial realm in a primordial spirit state. It is most suitable for use in invoking immortals and spirit mediumship, as well as for the cultivation of the Yin spirit.

The incense, shimmering with silver light, wafted out, and another Yan Wushuang floated out from his clay ball.

Like immortals, they drifted through the misty air. Even the maidservants who had only cultivated mortal immortal martial arts were clearly visible.

"Young Master has mastered the great supernatural power of astral projection! From now on, Young Master can move freely in Yan as astral spirit without worrying about his identity being exposed," she said happily.

Yan Wushuang, in his Yin God form, smiled faintly and said, "With this 'Xuanwu Warship,' I didn't have to worry anyway."

The maid's expression was grave. She said, "Young master, please don't be careless. Although the Qin Dynasty has long since dismantled almost all of the Mo Clan's mechanical beasts, since you were able to purchase parts from the Eastern Navy and assemble one yourself, it's hard to guarantee that the scoundrel Ying Tong won't directly demand the warship from the Eastern Navy."

The East Sea Fleet certainly didn't destroy all the Mo Clan mechanical beasts.

The Xuanwu warship can only submerge; they also have the Flying Azure Dragon ship and the invincible water ape beast!

Yan Wushuang sneered, "If the Donghai Army were truly obedient to the Qin Dynasty, they wouldn't have sold the mechanical beast to me."

Even though Yu Yu is the commander of the East Navy regiment, he cannot control all the military commanders within the regiment.

"Young Master, something has happened!" Just then, a middle-aged Taoist priest quickly climbed the stairs and arrived at the "bridge" door, saying nervously, "Grand Tutor Yu of the Great Qin Dynasty is searching for your whereabouts in Yan!"

(End of this chapter)