Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

As his good brother, Meng Jingzhou felt obligated to console Lu Yang. “Old Lu, try to be more normal. Everyone knows about your talent in spells. Although you often learn them off-kilter, we all praise you as a spell genius outside. No one has ever mentioned you learning them wrong. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”

“I’m perfectly normal. Look at the spells I didn’t learn wrong—Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth and the Play-Dead Technique. The Taotie Tribe’s inherent divine ability wasn’t originally about devouring everything; it was about being able to eat spirit energy and soil.”

“Yes. This immortal can vouch for that,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy assured. She was the one who had imparted this ability to Lu Yang.

“And the Play-Dead Technique is just as the Immortal Fairy taught it.”

“See? Every spell I didn’t learn wrong is the spell in its original form.”

Meng Jingzhou let out a long hiss. When you put it that way, it actually makes sense.

In other words, the spells circulating today are not what they originally were. Old Lu’s Origin-Tracing Incipient Dao Fruit can restore spells to their original forms?

“Should we ask Big Senior Sister?”

“Sure.” It’ll be the perfect opportunity to share the good news with Big Senior Sister.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou repaired the lake before paying Yun Zhi a visit.

The Everlasting Lineage and Meng Jingzhou made their way to Yun Zhi’s cave abode. The doors opened, revealing her inside, sipping tea and reading. Lu Yang noticed that the tea set she was using was the one he had gifted her.

“What brings you here?” Yun Zhi set down her teacup and gestured for them to sit.

Yun Mengmeng dragged a small stool over and sat beside Yun Zhi, gesticulating exuberantly. “Little Zhi, let me tell you, the Second-in-Command is amazing! He has become a half-immortal, absolutely unbeatable at his level. The First-in-Command even complimented his Incipient Dao Fruit, saying he had grasped the essence of the Unbeatable Golden Core. It’s a pity I met the First-in-Command too late to form an Unbeatable Golden Core myself...”

Yun Zhi reached for a biscuit from beside the table and stuffed it into her good sister’s mouth. “Little Junior Brother, feel free to speak.”

“Big Senior Sister, I have condensed an Incipient Dao Fruit and have named it the Origin-Tracing Incipient Dao Fruit. It can trace back to the origin and return things to their most primitive state. However, I’ve just condensed it, and its power is still lacking. I could only revert Old Meng’s cultivation from the Intermediate Transcendent Tribulation Stage to the Basic Transcendent Tribulation Stage.”

Meng Jingzhou shot Lu Yang a furious glare. Just talk about your own Incipient Dao Fruit. Why drag me into this?!

Yun Zhi trembled almost imperceptibly. She understood the intention behind her little junior brother condensing the Origin-Tracing Incipient Dao Fruit. If Little Junior Brother attains immortality, it’s indeed possible for him to pull me back from my Dao Union state.

A sense of self-reproach washed over her. As Big Senior Sister, I ought to be the one sheltering Little Junior Brother from storms. Yet in the end, I’m the one who needs him to worry about me.

Her gaze softened slightly.

Lu Yang looked a bit sheepish. “However, I ran into a small issue while using the Incipient Dao Fruit.” I’m already a half-immortal, yet I still have to seek Big Senior Sister’s guidance.

“What issue?”

Lu Yang recounted everything that just happened, along with his speculations.

After he finished, even Yun Zhi, whose visage rarely betrayed any emotion, seemed to have a twitch at the corner of her eye.

Little Junior Brother’s conjecture about primordial forebears borders on absurdity, yet upon closer thought, it’s not without merit.

“I regret to say that I can’t offer an explanation for this.” When it came to history, Yun Zhi knew far less than the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, who had lived through the ancient era. If even the Everlasting Immortal Fairy can’t confirm the truth of his hypotheses, how could I be sure?

“If only there were a way to verify one of these theories.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Eh, that reminds me. The Nine-Layers Immortal once told me that the golden crows originally had two legs!”

That jogged Lu Yang’s memory as well. The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had mentioned this when he first learned the Golden Bird True Flame. Looks like it’s time for a visit to Senior Nine-Layers Immortal.

“Where is Senior Nine-Layers Immortal?”

“In the imperial city,” Yun Zhi replied. “The preliminary preparations for the seal removal are complete. Only Senior Immortal Fairy’s Everlasting Dao Fruit is still needed. The four seniors are all gathered in the imperial city. They told me to take you and Senior Immortal Fairy there after you emerge from seclusion.

“They specifically stressed that you must be present, Little Junior Brother.”

Lu Yang was overwhelmed by the favor. I didn’t realize I held such weight in the eyes of the Four Ancient Immortals.

“They said you must properly report on their monumental feat of removing the seal.”

Lu Yang. “...”

I overestimated myself.

“Come on. I’ll go with you.”

Yun Zhi put away the tea set. It’ll be a pity not to witness such a historic moment in person.

Yun Zhi, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, Yun Mengmeng, Lu Yang, and Meng Jingzhou set off for the imperial city. With Yun Zhi leading, they quickly arrived at the imperial city.

Upon arrival, they learned from the Xia Emperor that though the Four Ancient Immortals were in the capital, they were not together. Each of them was enjoying their own life.

For instance, the Nine-Layers Immortal held a teaching position at the Imperial Taixue Academy. The place was dedicated to the study of history, with historians across Great Xia gathered here.

Stepping into the Imperial Taixue Academy again, Lu Yang felt a wave of nostalgia. “Come to think of it, the previous dean of the academy was Guan Shanhai.”

When the group found the Nine-Layers Immortal, he was in a lecture hall discussing historical topics with the historians. None of them knew his true identity; they simply assumed he was a teacher with an impressive background.

“Let me tell you. Among the Four Ancient Immortals, the Nine-Layers Immortal was undoubtedly the strongest. There’s historical evidence for this. Look, here’s his immortal manuscript. It can’t possibly be forged!”

“It’s indeed the Nine-Layers Immortal’s handwriting. But why does this book look so new?”

The Nine-Layers Immortal cursed inwardly. I forgot to ask Epoch to age the manuscript.

Just as Yun Zhi was about to call the Nine-Layers Immortal out, Lu Yang stopped her. “Big Senior Sister, we shouldn’t do that. Senior Nine-Layers Immortal is here incognito. He clearly doesn’t wish to reveal his identity. If we barge in, won’t we expose him?”

Yun Zhi nodded. Little Junior Brother is still the thorough one. She transmitted an auditory message inviting the Nine-Layers Immortal out for a chat instead.

In the middle of his debate, the Nine-Layers Immortal received the message and left the lecture hall. Upon seeing the group outside, he froze and immediately regretted it.

“Aiya, why did all of you come? If you were all here, you should have walked into the lecture hall and said, ‘Senior Nine-Layers Immortal, the time has come. Please remove the World Seal.’

“That way, the entire Imperial Taixue Academy would have learned my true identity!”

Everyone was speechless.

“Senior, if you’re so eager to reveal your identity, why are you going incognito here in the first place?” Lu Yang asked.

“How is revealing my own identity and having someone else expose it the same?!”

“You have a point.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy interrupted the Nine-Layers Immortal’s account of his experiences and asked, “Nine-Layers, didn’t you once say that the golden crows originally had two legs?”

The Nine-Layers Immortal was baffled. Since when did Everlasting take such an interest in history?

“That’s right. The golden crows had only two legs in the primordial era. Later, when the primordial forebears grew powerful and heard that golden crows could enhance virility, they began hunting them. To survive, the golden crows chose to sever their own legs, and over time, they evolved to have three legs.

“The geckos learned their tail-shedding survival tactic from the golden crows.

“As for their appearances, this is what they looked like.”

The Nine-Layers Immortal raised his hand and conjured a life-like, blazing two-legged golden bird.

It was identical to Lu Yang’s Golden Bird True Flame.