John was beginning to have fun!

In his 'infinite speed' mode. He and Baohu competed to see who had more 'stamina'. Baohu wasn't able to maintain this state for much longer.

Soon time returned to normal for him. But John wasn't close to his limit.

John was bouncing Baohu back and forth repeatedly.

An endless attack. Each punch left indents on his body.

John continued to talk to his opponent.

John stopped attacking and looked at Baohu. His limbs were twisted, even his head was facing the wrong way. But they started to untwist and soon he was back to full health.

John tapped his head.

"Beating an immortal is actually quite easy."

"While it may seem like we can fight forever. There are other weaknesses."

"You can seal them, manipulate their memories, or even mess with their soul."

Baohu flew back.

But it was too late. John was operating at a different level when it came to speed. John appeared in an instant in front of him.

He then flicked his finger on Baohu's head.

The intelligence left their eyes.

A film of spiritual energy surrounded them and erased their body.

"Dead in both body and soul."

John looked at Du.

"Let's g-"

A beam of light shot down from the sky.

Three true immortals appeared.

They talked among themselves as if John wasn't a threat.

"He killed your disciple."

A man in a red daoist robe looked at John.

"Trash."

John dodged a flurry of attacks.

He started to feel a bit of a headache.

A man in green robes looked on in shock.

"This mortal... He is resisting my curse! What strong willpower..."

Soon the three immortals surrounded John in the sky.

One was wearing green robes, one red, another blue.

They all attacked at once. But John was only getting more familiar with his power. He was perfecting it. He casually dodged all of their attacks.

John cracked his neck as he went on an offensive.

"Watch out! He can damage the soul!"

The three retreated.

"He is able to resist my curse. He is able to dodge your attacks. He also is capable of breaking through your defense."

"He killed Baohu. He can definitely kill us... unless."

Their expressions changed in an instant.

"Do we really need to do this to beat this mortal?"

"If we don't... he will kill us all. This is our only chance."

John was quite cocky. He allowed them to talk amongst themselves as he began to manipulate the spiritual energy around him.

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But to his surprise. The three held hands and started to spin around.

"What are they doing?"

A flash of light blinded John.

He felt a pressure on his entire being. His eyes were switching modes trying to figure out what they were doing.

He then saw a single man.

His hair was purple.

His clothes were light blue.

His eyes were a blinding yellow.

A cloud of spiritual energy began to radiate off this man. The three true immortals had disappeared. Well, to be specific. They had fused!

John was shocked.

"Fusio-?"

John slid his head to the side.

He couldn't help but think.

"Fast!"

A white aura surrounded this weird fusion.

John sent out a punch. But they dodged it.

John couldn't even see how they did it. They were too fast!

"I don't believe you are faster then me!"

John's blood was pumping. He was feeling 'great'! This is what he had been looking for...a real fight!

They both remained in the sky and sent thousands of punches in an instant at eachother. Fist marks were engraved all over. It looked as if their muscles were dented metal.

But then something weird happened.

The fusion flew away from John putting up some distance.

"Running away?"

The fusion started to laugh.

It then crossed its fingers and spoke:

"You are the strongest mortal. I will give you that. But together. We do not know defeat."

"There's a first time for everything."

John charged at them.

They then said a word.

"Red."

A red ball of energy appeared above their finger.

"Green."

A green ball of energy appeared beside the red ball.

"Blue."

A blue ball of energy joined in.

They then combined together forming a white ball of energy.

"Be happy mortal. You have made us use our strongest attack."

"White."

A white ball of energy was sent flying at John.

"This is your greatest attack?"

John laughed and dodged the attack.

"Pathe-"

"You have underestimated us. This attack cannot be dodged."

John saw an explosion of white with him at the center. His formations became confused as he felt his connection with spiritual energy temporarily cut.

He couldn't help but think:

"An attack that cannot be dodged? That's bullshit!"

The spiritual energy with John's brand tried to leap. His programs tried to go off.

But 'white' had completely distorted the spiritual energy. That wasn't all it was doing either. It was still attacking him!

"An attack that never ends... an attack that one cannot dodge."

John was existing in a half-leap state with his soul. But a white explosion was going off every millisecond.

He was leaping to different locations every instant.

As John tried to reform.

He was getting destroyed in an infinite cycle.

They had also formed a barrier with a radius of a few kilometers. They were also manipulating spiritual energy.

Depriving the area of spiritual energy.

With each death... John was growing weaker and less stable!

"How do I beat this?"

John couldn't think faster despite wanting to. He was reaching his limit.

But then he started to become happy.

"Endless pressure makes the diamond!"

"This is the whole point of my test."

"I either die. Or I win."

John began to manipulate the formations in Du's body.

The trace of his origin!

You see. As an origin. John has some unique abilities.

Consciousness Manipulation, Existence Permanence, Burden, Misfortune, Fall, Ruin...John had sealed his abilities. But the trace within Du was like a one time use buff.

And a very important one.

John spoke at the edge of death.

"You guys wanna pull some bullshit!?"

"Then allow me to show you my bullshit."

"Adversity."

The trace of origin in Du's soul disappeared as John used the 'adversity' ability.

What did this ability do?

It made it so John would grow stronger

How did he grow stronger?

From stress!

John continued to try to reform his body. Each time. A white explosion of spiritual energy would disrupt the process.

Again! Again! Again!

A thousand times.

Ten thousand times.

The spiritual energy was running low in the surrounding area.

Then a change happened in John.

He started to get faster.

Smarter.

Stronger.

So fast. That he was able to reform his body more and more on each attempt.

John completely reformed as a white explosion of energy exploded surrounding him. He survived! He then healed in an instant.

The blast exploded with him at the center again. He survived!

John switched the mode of his eyes observing the logic of this ball of energy.

The fusion looked at John with shock on its face...

"He is... becoming stronger."

"We can't let this continue."

"Red."

"Green."

"Blue."

"White!"

They began the process of making more 'white' attacks.

John was too busy dealing with just one!

Soon another attack joined in.

An infinite attack that couldn't miss.

Then another.

Another.

John was destroyed an endless amount of times.

John's body was torn to peices and in constant death and rebirth.

He would reform and get wiped out by blinding white energy over and over again. But he had a crazy smile on his face.

"I got it!"

John slapped his hand casually as a white ball of energy was deflected.

Then another. And another.

"Impossible!?"

John continued to slap the balls of energy as they bounced off his hand as if they were made of rubber.

Multiple explosions went off around John.

But he wasn't even hurt.

"I have to thank you. That was the first time I've ever encountered such a unique way of attacking."

John's eyes were wide open.

He was floating.

He looked up at the sky.

His smile made him look insane.

"Existence tracing attack! A complete game changer."

John held out his index finger.

"Red."

A red ball of energy appeared above his finger.

"You're bluffing!"

"Green."

A ball of green energy.

"That attack took generations of true immortals to comprehend. It took the combined efforts of our ancestors and fusion to pull it off! You can't have grasped it in a few seconds..."

"Blue."

"You're a monster! Who the hell are you!? You can't do that!"

John chuckled. The colors combined together...

"White."