Merely a short while after she began her seclusion, Xu Yue suddenly opened her eyes, as a somewhat unexpected insight poured into her mind.

The Dao of Time, one of the three most powerful Dao's alongside the Dao of Fate and the Dao of Space, as well as the Dao which Xu Yue had comprehended the least.

Other than some basic understanding that she had obtained after mastering some basic techniques from the sect, Xu Yue's comprehension of the Dao of Time was nonexistent.

As such, the fact that understanding of the Dao of Time had begun pouring into her from one of her incarnations made Xu Yue caused Xu Yue to be alerted, and turn her attention to that particular incarnation.

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As she watched and listened to Dai Jie preaching his understanding of the Dao of Time to her, Xu Yue's incarnation couldn't help but smile.

Although as an incarnation, her comprehension ability was much less that of her main body, Xu Yue was still Xu Yue, and with someone teaching her, was able to pick up some things from Dai Jie's small sermon.

After listening to Dai Jie for around a month, Xu Yue couldn't help but feel as though she had picked up some interesting comprehensions, causing her to send them to the main body, who she thought would be quite interested in them, and could perhaps use them in her seclusion.

Originally, the incarnation thought that the main body would have simply taken in these insights and simply continue her seclusion, sadly for this small incarnation who did not want to disturb the main body, this was not the case.

Merely a moment later just as the incarnation was about to continue peacefully listening to the sermon, she suddenly shrunk her head back, as at this very moment, she suddenly felt a heavy gaze land on her.

Even though in essence, both of them were Xu Yue, and were the same being, the difference between incarnation and main body was far beyond immense.

In a moment, the difference between main body and incarnation suddenly disappeared, as the look in the eyes of this small incarnation subtly changed.

Oblivious to the change that had taken place in the cultivator in front of him, Dai Jie continued his sermon on the Dao of Time, feeling extremely indebted to the person in front of him, who had started his cultivation path.

In the end, Dai Jie would not notice this change, as the moment his sermon ended, the change reverted itself.

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As soon as she returned to her seclusion, Xu Yue, whose understanding of the Dao of Time was much higher than before, and had nearly caught up with Dai Jie, couldn't help but fall into thought.

Right now, Xu Yue's understanding of the Dao of Time was below the level necessary to reach the Minor Transcendence Realm, but even so, the cultivator still couldn't help but let out a faint sigh.

"As expected, I'm really much less suitable to the Dao of Time than him," mumbled Xu Yue as she took another glance at Dai Jie, scaring the small incarnation once again.

Although Xu Yue's comprehensions was miles above that of Dai Jie, in truth, she was not actually very suitable to the Dao of Time.

With the help of someone who understood the Dao of Time, like Dai Jie, Xu Yue's understanding was able to quickly grow thanks to her monstrous comprehension ability, but if she truly wanted to go above that, Xu Yue knew that her affinity to the Dao of Time would make this extremely difficult.

"I should check up on him again in around a hundred thousand years..." mumbled Xu Yue before closing her eyes.

If in a hundred thousand years, Dai Jie was still alive, Xu Yue would 'steal' his comprehension of the Dao of Time once again and give him a few benefits.

A few moments later, time actually began moving a little bit faster around Xu Yue, around 1.5 times faster than normal.

Of course, this also meant that Xu Yue's lifespan was being drained 1.5 times faster than usual.

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In the end, although Xu Yue's incarnation could not compare with Dai Jie in terms of the Dao of Time, in everything else, the incarnation was far above him, allowing it to give him a few pointers in return for his sermon.

In fact, the 'few pointers' that the incarnation gave Dai Jie before leaving were not as insignificant to him as they were to her, leaving Dai Jie in a state of thought.

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"As expected, my understanding of the Dao cannot yet be compared with senior..." mumbled Dai Jie as he digested the pointers given to him by the senior after she saw his Dao of Battle.

Sadly though, it seemed as though the senior's understanding of the Dao of Battle was quite a bit biased towards the Sword Dao, which made it a bit unsuitable for Dai Jie, furthermore, her understanding was also quite a bit bloodier than that of Dai Jie, who liked pure fighting, if that were not the case, Dai Jie would have been able to benefit even more.

In the end it was inevitable that her maid, who cultivated the Slaughter Sword Dao, influenced's Xu Yue's understanding of the Dao of Battle.

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Holy Land of the Five Elements.

As he looked at his teacher, who was currently standing in front of him with a blue scepter in her hands, Gao Hai couldn't help but take in a deep breath.

Seeing this, Yan Xueqin couldn't help but shake her head and slightly chuckle.

"Gao'er, you're about to become the Palace Master of the Water Palace, you should try to be more calm," said the old cultivator, who was about to become the former Palace Master.

Hearing the words of his teacher, Gao Hai couldn't help but feel sweat falling down his forehead.

Unlike most other sects, the Holy Land of the Five Elements was actually divided into five Palaces dedicated to each of the Five Elements.

But even so, being the Palace Master of one of the Palaces was a heavy responsibility, which made Gao Hai slightly tremble even when he just thought about it.

A/N: We first met Gao Hai in chapter 48 Apex Predator 2 ;)