This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

‘Why do I feel more and more like a villain the longer I live?’ Tianyi asked himself. Thoughts of healing Chou Nu and tricking Mo Ling into the Immortal Court appeared in his brain, but he quickly erased those ideas. His goal was the Bodhi Tree, and that meant cutting off Mo Ling’s greatest fortune. How could he willingly give it up?

Even if Tianyi gave him something back, could it compare? Since they were destined to be enemies, cut the grass by the roots.

In the time it took for Tianyi to think, Mo Ling had already locked onto him. Since those arrogant venerables actually bowed to him, that must be the emperor spoken of in their mouths. As the root cause of everything, Mo Ling wanted to kill him.

His original plan was to deal with the venerables, but he knew that with the respect they showed, the true core and foundation was Tianyi. Although he wasn’t a match for the venerables, he had confidence in the trump card the Bodhi Tree left in him. So, a silver aura coated his body, and he rushed toward Tianyi.

When Mo Ling saw Tianyi only raising a hand in defense, he sneered. The power of a venerable pale in comparison to the Bodhi Tree. Even saints were no different from ants to it.

He punched.

The scene of his fist blasting away the palm and sending the receiver’s soul into reincarnation did not appear. Instead, his fist sunk into the other’s skin.

Horror dawned on Mo Ling’s face. He wanted to extract his fist and retreat, but it was as if something was shackling it in place. No, worse than that. Something was pulling him in!

In his eyes, the world became bigger. No, to be more precise, he shrunk as he was sucked into Tianyi’s sleeve. No matter how hard he struggled, it was useless. In a single second, but appeared to be a long time in his eyes, Mo Ling disappeared into Tianyi’s palm.

After a momentary blackout, Mo Ling found himself standing in the middle of a vast plain. He looked around, dazed. “Am I under an illusion?”

He immediately refuted the idea. Thanks to his inheritance, he knew the power of illusions, but he also knew that the power of the Bodhi Tree in him was the perfect defense against soul methods and illusions. It was practically impossible to put him under an illusion while his body contained the power of the Bodhi Tree.

Mo Ling wanted to summon the power of the Bodhi Tree and figure out what exactly happened to him, but to his horror, the Bodhi Tree’s power was leaving his body. “No, come back!”

Just like when he punched Tianyi, no matter how he struggled, he could not stop the Bodhi Tree’s power from leaking from his body. He had a hunch that the moment the Bodhi Tree’s power completely left him would be the moment he died.

He didn’t know how, but Mo Ling knew that it was the person addressed as emperor by the sky venerable who caused all this. The Bodhi Tree’s power continued to dwindle. In just a few breaths, he had less than thirty percent left.

After a moment of hesitation, Mo Ling activated the final trump card the Bodhi Tree left in him: reincarnation. His soul will leave his body and enter the Six Paths of Samsara and be reborn. Although it meant abandoning everything, it was his only way to survive. ‘Nine Heavens Emperor, just you wait!’

Soon, Mo Ling’s soul left his body. Without it, the Bodhi Tree’s power left his body even faster. With one last glance, Mo Ling flew up toward the Six Paths of Samsara. Only…

“Where’s the Six Paths of Samsara?!”

Tianyi had a strange expression on his face. He didn’t expect Mo Ling to commit suicide. After hearing Mo Ling’s last words, he understood. The unlucky bastard didn’t expect that he had left the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Unlike the three thousand immortal realms, Tianyi hadn’t set up the Six Paths of Samsara yet in his inner universe.

Although he had some minor accomplishments in the Law of Life and Death, that wasn’t the same as the Law of Samsara. Tianyi held his chin. ‘Perhaps I should try to understand it?’

He shook his head. Right now, Tianyi’s primary goal was to refine the Bodhi Tree and become its master. Thanks to the Bodhi Tree’s power he extracted from Mo Ling, it would be far easier to complete his goal.

But before that.

He glanced at the sky venerables. “Cut the grass by the roots. You should know what I mean, right?”

The Grand Sky Venerable quickly answered. “Yes, Emperor.”

Tianyi couldn’t help but worry. After a moment, he summoned Su Bojing and had him take control of the situation. After issuing orders, he also took out his Xiyi Talisman and contacted the high echelon, explaining the situation. He didn’t think the people who sealed the Impermanence Realm would stand quietly and watch as he refined the Bodhi Tree.

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He returned to the cosmic clad Bodhi Tree. Once there, Tianyi sat down in the air and closed his eyes.

First, he refined the Bodhi Tree’s power he extracted from Mo Ling. Only after completely controlling it did Tianyi take it out. Once it appeared in the Impermanence Realm, it vibrated, resonating with the Bodhi Tree’s core. Ṙ�

Although the ball of the Bodhi Tree’s power didn’t directly allow Tianyi to refine the Bodhi Tree, it gave him a key that accessed the outer core of it. Through this key, Tianyi invaded the Bodhi Tree. Constantly eroding its will and bringing it under control. It was only a speck at first, but as more time passed, the more the Bodhi Tree was dyed by Tianyi’s qi.

Naturally, the Bodhi Tree resisted, but it was only a tree that had not opened its spirituality, and the only thing it could do was act according to its instincts. While Tianyi poured his qi into its core, the Bodhi Tree also sent its energy into Tianyi.

The Bodhi Tree’s power had an innate ability to pull anyone stained by it into an illusion of samsara. In essence, anyone touched by it would dream of their reincarnated life.

Unfortunately, Tianyi’s true form was that of an universe. His soul might not have grown to the point of controlling the entire universe, but the Bodhi Tree’s power was still far from enough to cause it to fall under an illusion. That didn’t mean Tianyi didn’t take advantage of it.

Although his strength had increased since entering the Immortal Realm, he felt that his willpower had not grown much in comparison. Although it was a bit troublesome, it acted as a fine whetstone to sharpen his willpower. Tianyi summoned one of his conduits and directed most of the Bodhi Tree’s power to it, so that it would fall in an illusion. If the conduit couldn’t stand it anymore, he would just summon another one and repeat the process.

Like this, several months passed.

One day, Tianyi opened his eyes. “Finally couldn’t wait to take action?”

He looked behind him to see the members of Thunderclap Academy flying toward him with great momentum. Kai Yanwu was among them, but he looked unimportant. The Pill Palace was touted as the strongest force in the Impermanence Realm for having six venerables, but shockingly, the Thunderclap Academy possessed twenty-one. And those were the ones present. It remained unknown if any of them stayed back in their headquarters.

Tianyi narrowed his eyes, and his immortal sense shot forth. They condensed and formed into swords, invisible to normal eyes. The immortal sense swords penetrated into the bodies of the venerables from Thunderclap Academy. They didn’t even have a chance to scream before they plummeted to the ground, creating craters upon landing. Luckily, they were sturdy, so it only roughed up their skin and clothing.

He sighed and descended. Tianyi didn’t kill them. He wanted to take them back and interrogate them. A force that was low-key yet had a history longer than the rest of the forces and enough experts to dominate the realm, what part wasn’t suspicious?

When Tianyi moved to store them in his pseudo realm artifact, a change occurred. A man in kasaya and short hair appeared. Although he dressed like a monk, he exuded a murderous aura that was incompatible. Lightning arced around him and caused his hair to spike up and turned golden.

“Zi Zun?” Tianyi muttered in surprise. Even if he hadn’t traveled to another timeline and met the Nine Thunders Monarch, there was no way he would mistake that distinctive form.

“Die!”

“Did you start the Thunderclap Academy?” Tianyi asked, but Zi Zun had no intent on answering. He waved his hand and Zi Zun froze in the air. Zi Zun’s cultivation method seemed to have hints of Buddhism, but his foundation was still Daoism. “That’s impossible. The history of Thunderclap Academy is far longer. Or maybe you’re the new supervisor.”

Zi Zun gritted his teeth and stared at Tianyi with hatred. This puzzled the latter. Why did Zi Zun hate him so much? He was confused, so he asked. It wasn’t like Zi Zun was powerful enough to hurt him.

Upon hearing this, the hatred seeped out of his eyes. “Ignoring all that you did to me, the most unforgivable thing is what you did to Brother Lovespot. If it weren’t for you, would we have joined Buddhism?”

Tianyi blinked. His mouth twitched. “Brother Lovespot?”

“Yes!” Zi Zun roared. “Brother Lovespot is an honorable man. Yet, the Buzhou Immortal Sect slandered him to the point of dragging his name through mud. None of you are good stuff!”

His lips twitched even more. “Is your brain okay? Lovespot really did all that stuff. The one you so tenderly address as Brother Lovespot is probably the Dragon Emperor. You didn’t know, did you? The Dragon Emperor possessed Lovespot.”

Despite the irony, Zi Zun felt like he had been struck by lightning. However, he quickly regained his confidence. “You lie! You’re trying to disturb my mind.”

Tianyi had a helpless smile. “Forget it. I’ll tell you, I killed the Dragon Emperor who surrendered to Buddhism. Has he mentioned this?”

“You killed him! So you were the culprit!”

“Don’t act so excited. Judging from your words, it seems he didn’t return to the Pure Lands Pseudo System. I guess he must have used this chance to hide.” Tianyi said to Zi Zun’s angry face. He spoke and stopped from him saying. “Don’t act surprised. I killed the Dragon Emperor many times. Yet, he always springs back like a cockroach. If I meet him again, I’ll capture him and show you.”

Tianyi shook his head and slapped Zi Zun’s stomach. Zi Zun spat out a mouthful of blood and his transformed state receded, his hair turning back to black. Once again, he waved his hand in order to absorb Zi Zun and the other venerables into his pseudo-realm artifact.

Once he did, Tianyi stilled. He looked up. Although the sky was still bright and blue, he saw a colossal hand as large as a continent descending. With his senses, he could tell this hand wasn’t inside the Impermanence Realm, but in the Vast Void.

Tianyi didn’t have any chance to say anything. He teleported to his subordinates and stored them all in his inner universe. It only took less than a second, but the giant palm had already arrived. It cracked the sky, breaking the seal on the Impermanence Realm, starting its destruction, and slammed into him.

Upon contact, Tianyi heard thousands of Buddhas chanting in his ears. It instantly reminded him of the popularized technique, the Buddha Palm.

Still, that thought only flashed for a second, as he had more troubling matters to worry about. All his artifacts, including his defensive robes and pseudo-realm artifact, burst into flames. Even the dimensional boundaries of his body were being burned. Soon, Tianyi was engulfed in flames.

The gigantic palm proceeded and grabbed the Bodhi Tree, yanking it from the Impermanence Realm. The hand was delicate and did not harm the tree, but the Impermanence Realm, which originally still had time before complete destruction, directly shattered into thousands of pieces.