Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 470 - 467 - Taoism Fruit

"How long can you hold on like this?"

Excitement twisted across Shakyamuni's face, thrilled at the prospect of Lu Ren exhausting himself to death.

Lu Ren's expression remained calm, even as the veins bulged all over his body from the exertion of fully activating the Three Lives True Scripture. His hands ceaselessly formed seal techniques, drawing high-dimensional level energy from the Red Dragon Inner Core, which collapsed into vast energy replenishment.

"At this level of exertion, I can last with you for a month."

"Hmph, arrogant."

Shakyamuni spoke no further. His earlier words weren't for reminiscing with Lu Ren or spouting lowbrow insults, but for using the power of Divine Thought. Buddhist True Words tirelessly aimed to affect Lu Ren's mind—his most proficient technique. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Yet no matter how he provoked, Lu Ren seemed entirely unaffected, showing not the slightest response.

This made Shakyamuni certain that the other had either some secret treasure dao artifact safeguarding his primordial spirit or was practicing a highly unique secret technique that rendered him unaffected by the Buddha's chant.

"Ding, you have been affected by Sakyamuni's Buddha's chant... System has automatically blocked it."

This prompt almost flooded Lu Ren's mind, with hundreds of alerts per second, indicating the vast and intense assault—the most severe he had faced.

Even when dealing with Outer Gods trying to communicate mentally, it wasn't this intense.

As he was about to act, Lu Ren preemptively moved, creating clanging within himself using his life magnetic field as a guide, incessantly twisting and transforming.

In his actions, a strange depression field formed, where everything was entirely confined by Lu Ren's radiating field, even Shakyamuni's movements were completely stalled.

Shakyamuni's eyes widened, watching as Lu Ren's large hand descended quickly over his head, perfectly molding a golden Buddha hand, capable of shattering the void, collapsing everything with overwhelming force.

Shakyamuni sneered, "You're actually using the True Skill I created against me. It's really too..."

Before he could finish, Shakyamuni sensed a destructive force potent enough to shatter his Taoism Fruit, crashing down with Lu Ren's Buddha hand.

How is this possible?!

Someone who isn't even a True Immortal, how could they unleash such an attack?!

Shakyamuni roared internally, barely able to speak, as the True Immortal Path Fruit above him suddenly emitted a purple-black aura, innumerable tendrils reaching out, trying to entwine Lu Ren's collapsing Buddha hand.

However, those chaos-ridden, twisted tendrils that emitted indescribable horrific mental corruption disintegrated upon contact with Lu Ren's descending Buddha hand, as if encountering their natural nemesis.

Boom!!

The palm struck Shakyamuni solidly, its overwhelming force cracked his Buddha's Dharma Body instantly, causing the True Immortal Path Fruit above to be restored, floating behind him, perpetually releasing a strange power to fend off Lu Ren's Buddha hand's attack.

Meanwhile, Shakyamuni lifted his arms, his whole body surging with true power, barely resisting Lu Ren's strike.

His body was filled with cracks, resembling a porcelain doll about to shatter. It looked like a bit more force from Lu Ren would completely crush him.

Lu Ren's expression was icy, facing a mindset as twisted as Shakyamuni's, with an attitude of being in full control. An immediate unexpected strike like this would absolutely catch the opponent off guard.

Not waiting for Shakyamuni to recover, Lu Ren pressed the attack, unleashing Three-Headed Six-Armed Skill with the Hundred Forms Merging of Future Buddha True Scripture, causing his flesh to wriggle and continuously push the limits.

The relentless attack dragged Shakyamuni into a brawl.

Despite being a Martial Path expert, Shakyamuni invested more effort in magical techniques. In close-range combat, no matter how talented Shakyamuni was, against a Martial Arts Family specialist focused on cultivation system, he was hard-pressed to resist.

At last, Lu Ren's fists, like dragons surfacing from the sea, collided to create a visible shockwave, stunning Shakyamuni, before the other four arms seized the opportunity, each delivering a Death Blow Fist Seal, rending Shakyamuni apart in an instant.

As blood and flesh flew wildly, Lu Ren's six hands converged, releasing a beam so bright, more dazzling than the distant crimson Great Sun, incinerating every piece of flesh ahead like a wildfire eruption.

The swiftly advancing beam struck a towering mountain thirty miles away within seconds, leveling what was once a famed peak, leaving only a perfectly flat surface and a giant trench gouged from Lu Ren's feet onward.

Is it over?

Lu Ren couldn't help but entertain this thought, but quickly dismissed it, knowing that such a monstrous being like Shakyamuni, who had survived countless stratagems, couldn't possibly be defeated by a single attack of this degree.

Buzz!

A humming sound suddenly emanated through the world, the air vibrating, causing a nameless stirring that made Lu Ren's heart skip a beat before he forcibly stopped it. Allowing his heartbeat to align with the opponent's rhythm would result in severe consequences.

Then, abruptly from the void appeared Shakyamuni's True Immortal Path Fruit, the giant eye blinking incessantly, staring at Lu Ren, unleashing deeply corrupting mental energy, tentacles and human arms flailing around, forming circles around the eye—a grotesquely deformed sight.

This was Shakyamuni's True Immortal Path Fruit that had endured ages, transforming into such a bizarre entity.

"You want to kill me?" Shakyamuni's voice, steeped in oppressive madness, echoed across the heavens, a thunderous whisper.

"You should know, as long as the Taoism Fruit is intact, an immortal will not perish."

In the skies, Shakyamuni's figure emerged amidst a storm of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, his face twisted with malevolently vicious expressions as he glared fiercely at Lu Ren.

As Shakyamuni said, why the Immortal Path Cultivation System is so obsessed with condensing the Heaven, Earth, and Human Taoism Fruit is clear. Once an Immortal Human Path Fruit is formed, life level leaps, all True Spirit Primordial Spirit entrusts to a form straddling between reality and dimension—a Taoism Fruit—which can render one imperishable.

This is why only a True Immortal can defeat a True Immortal.

As one progresses, there is no concept of fighting across levels.

"Do you understand how many years I spent turning my Taoism Fruit into this form, the enormous cost, the effort, the mind it took?! A child as naive as you, what do you know of my suffering?!"