Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

Crack. Crack.

The cold storage shattered, and the Jade Rabbit’s corpse darted out, charging at Lu Yang with bloodshot eyes.

Lu Yang scratched his cheek, somewhat perplexed. Mi Xue’er’s condition was called bloodline resonance. If she could endure it, both her soul and her bloodline power would grow tremendously.

Just moments ago, he sensed that Mi Xue’er fought the negative emotions to a standstill. Given that she had withstood the anti-gene agent and awakened her bloodline, her willpower had to be formidable.

With some more effort, she could have pulled through. So why did she suddenly fall to the dark side for no reason? I’d merely shielded Lan Hai and Yu Ran from the oppressive pressure.

The Jade Rabbit had been at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage before it died. But controlled by Mi Xue’er, who had no foundation in cultivation, it couldn’t unleash even a millionth of its power.

“All of you have been fighting for so long. It’s my turn now.” Lu Yang stepped forward valiantly. Even with only a fraction of its strength, the Jade Rabbit was beyond what Lan Hai or the others could handle.

A single attack from it could plow through a hundred Class-A warriors stacked together. If this Jade Rabbit were allowed to run wild, the entire Interstellar Alliance would be powerless against it.

As the Jade Rabbit charged headlong at him, Lu Yang casually grabbed it by the ears, letting it thrash its legs helplessly in the air.

Lan Hai and Yu Ran were utterly flummoxed. First, they watched Mi Xue’er, who seemed to have grown extremely strong, mow through the enemy forces. After that, she inexplicably collapsed, and a cute little pet rabbit burst out from the depths of the cold storage, only to be effortlessly subdued by Brother Meng.

What in the world is going on? Also, Brother Meng looks so pleased with himself, as though he’d accomplished something impressive.

Seeing that the Jade Rabbit was still restless even after being grabbed by the ears and was even trying to bite Lu Yang, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy sent out a wisp of her consciousness with an unfriendly expression and warned, “Behave. Stop hopping around.”

Though it was simply a verbal warning, it sent tremors through the Jade Rabbit’s desolate mental space, awakening its primal instincts from its time alive. It trembled uncontrollably, and Mi Xue’er, whose consciousness had been consumed by the negative emotions, was shaken awake, regaining control of her own body.

“Immortal Fairy, your words are that effective?” Lu Yang was stunned. This is hardly any different from Law Follows Words.

“Of course. Who is this immortal? Living or dead, what demon beast doesn’t fear me?”

Lu Yang felt that the reason the demon beasts feared the Everlasting Immortal Fairy wasn’t something particularly worth boasting about. At that thought, he cupped his fists. “Your Exalted Majesty’s might shakes the four seas and eight wilderness. Without deploying a single soldier, you subjugated all demons through your culinary arts alone.

"This is truly the mark of a wise ruler.”

As an official, the most important skill is multitasking—saying one thing while thinking another.

“What happened to me?” Mi Xue’er woke up, clutching her head in pain. I felt like I had turned into a rabbit, charging at Brother Meng, and then woken up in fright?

Lan Hai and Yu Ran hurried over to help her up and check her condition.

“Xue’er, are you alright?”

“I’m fine... In fact, I feel amazing.” Mi Xue’er had never experienced anything like this. It was as though she had surpassed the limits of the human body. She could flip a tank with ease, and she was now impervious to blades and bullets. How did this happen?

Suddenly, the ground shook, startling everyone.

Lu Yang looked up and raised an eyebrow, his gaze piercing through the thick layers of earth to see the sun above undergoing a strange transformation.

Aren’t they illegally mining the sun? What in the world did they dig up?

“Brother Meng, earthquake, watch out! Eh, where’s Brother Meng?”

~~~

On the sun’s surface, within a Sun City encased by mechanical structures, two Murong Group engineers leaned against a railing, chatting casually.

“This mechanical arm of yours looks pretty nice. Where did you buy it?”

“It’s Huanyu Technology Group’s latest model. Not bad, right?”

“It’s really not bad. I’ll get a pair once I get my paycheck.”

“Dream on. You think this is something you can just buy? You have to queue and enter a lottery.”

Although it was called a Sun City, there were hardly any living souls around. Its operations were mainly managed by the Murong Group’s proprietary artificial intelligence.

The AI mining equipment automatically mined the sun, sending a constant stream of solar energy via space elevators to nearby planets. The engineers were only here to prevent accidents.

Ever since the Murong Group won the bid and built the Sun City, minor malfunctions had occurred only once every thirty years on average; major incidents had never happened.

Suddenly, alarms blared from every direction, red warning lights illuminating the engineers’ pallid faces. The two engineers injected tranquilizers into their brains, forcing themselves to calm down.

This frequency of alarms signaled the Sun City’s highest-level alert, indicating that over thirty percent of its parameters had exceeded their critical thresholds.

They quickly pulled up the monitoring data and discovered that fifty percent of the parameters had already surpassed their maximum values, while the others were rapidly approaching their upper limits.

Sixty percent...

Seventy percent...

The situation had gone far beyond anything the Murong Group had anticipated.

Both engineers exchanged a glance. Even the tranquilizers couldn’t keep them composed.

“The sun is going to explode?!”

But how is that possible?

There had been plenty of cases of illegal stellar mining, yet its accident rate was less than one percent, and none of those incidents had ever reached the point of triggering a star explosion.

Similar situations were unfolding across all Sun Cities. Panic spread through the Murong group, and even the family head grew restless. The Stellar Society’s warnings hadn’t been exaggerated at all. The sun really is going to explode! If the sun explodes, the entire galaxy will be annihilated. Not a single person will survive!

𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The countdown on the screen ticked down rapidly. It displayed the artificial intelligence’s prediction for the sun’s explosion.

When the number hit zero, the two engineers turned ashen, but the expected explosion never occurred.

“I-It’s fine now?”

“Why didn’t it explode?”

“Could it have been a system malfunction?”

Just as they were celebrating their narrow escape, the Sun City shook, and bubbles churned across the sun’s surface. A vermilion-gold feather shot up through the energy extraction shaft. The feather was enormous, larger than a whale.

A bird’s cry resonated through the cosmos, shattering countless instrument panels. Even high-strength nanomaterials were useless. Crimson gold wings surged forth, blotting out the sky. Streams of molten lava at tens of thousands of degrees flowed between the feathers.

The two engineers finally saw the monster’s true appearance. It was a colossal, bizarre bird with three legs, a vermilion-gold body, and hollow eyes. Its beak held an unrecognizable ore.

So all the earlier phenomena weren’t signs of an imminent sun explosion? It was because this strange bird was burrowing its way out of the sun?! What kind of monster is this? Had it been living inside the sun all this time?

Before they could be happy for long, they noticed glaring cracks spreading across the sun’s surface, about to split apart at any moment. This strange bird could cause the sun to crack apart just by emerging?!

The colossal bird flapped its wings and sent lava splattering everywhere, enough to obliterate the Sun City.

Just as they had lost all hope, a figure appeared, his features indiscernible. With a punch, he smashed the colossal bird back into the sun.

“Immortal Fairy, what’s with this Golden Crow corpse? Why did it suddenly start moving? It seems to have been influenced by the Jade Rabbit?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy pursed her lips, recalling the familiar-looking Golden Crow. Realization dawned upon her. “This immortal remembers now. The Nine-Layers had made this Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit pair mate to study the Dao of Yin and Yang.

"They looked so similar that even I had trouble telling them apart. The Nine-Layers Immortal must have released them after his research, and they moved here, eventually dying of old age.”

“And what about that pile of top-grade spirit stones in this Golden Crow’s beak? Were they burial objects from the Golden Crow Tribe?”

“They were probably the research fees the Nine-Layers Immortal paid them. He couldn’t finish spending them all before he died, so he simply took them to the grave as his burial objects.”