Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

After a day’s work, Tang Yu dragged his exhausted self home. The house was empty, save for a black cat meowing.

On any other day, Tang Yu could have been in the mood to play with his pet, but his heart felt empty now, his mind replaying the scene of his superior reprimanding him and the breakup text from his girlfriend.

“Tang Yu, we’ve been together for two years, but you’re just not ambitious enough. You don’t know how to curry favor with your superiors. What’s the use of just working your head off? I can’t see a future with you. Let’s break up.”

Tang Yu sighed. He truly couldn’t bring himself to curry favor with his unethical superior.

He glanced at the small brass cauldron on the television cabinet. It was the size of a palm, inscribed with incomprehensible patterns.

“If only you could fetch a good price,” Tang Yu remarked, shaking his head helplessly.

This was an heirloom from his great-grandfather, said to have been passed down from his great-grandfather’s great-grandfather.

He had no idea how many generations it had been passed down, but its craftsmanship was exquisite. He was certain it was an antique with a remarkable history. Yet several appraisal experts had all declared it a modern imitation that was even younger than him.

“Pah! What bullshit experts? They don’t know how to discern quality.” Tang Yu spat.

Worn out after a full day, Tang Yu collapsed onto his bed halfway through undressing.

After he fell asleep, as spirit qi was restored, the small brass cauldron trembled slightly, its runes flickering. By midnight, a drop of rich spirit water had gathered within—the Creation Divine Liquid condensed by the cauldron.

The black cat climbed to the cauldron’s edge and licked up the drop of liquid. Its fur grew even glossier. Suddenly, knowledge of the cauldron’s origin appeared in its mind. It was a treasured cauldron used by ancient forebears to worship immortals. It could condense Creation Divine Liquid, which had miraculous effects such as improving constitutions and awakening bloodlines.

“Supreme... Daluo... Mantra...” The black cat spoke in a female voice, haltingly uttering the name of a cultivation technique that had also appeared in its mind.

There were many cases like Tang Yu’s. Numerous ancient spirit treasures deprived of spirit qi had degenerated into ordinary objects and become scattered across the world. With the revival of spirit qi, these spirit treasures awakened one after another, revealing their various powers.

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Entering the cave abode, the group discovered a completely different world within.

The cave abode wasn’t barren like Kunlun Mountain. It brimmed with vitality, immortal spirit qi flowing through the air. A single breath could extend one’s lifespan, and even Lu Yang found it beneficial. It was hard to imagine that this cave abode had endured four hundred thousand years. Everything was pristine, seemingly untouched by time, as though its owner had just stepped out.

And now, its owner had returned.

A soft bed, casually placed chairs, rugs made from top-tier demon beast fur, decorative bookshelves. Lu Yang found the furnishings strikingly familiar. Isn’t this exactly how my mental space looks?

“Woohoo, back home!” The first thing the Everlasting Immortal Fairy did upon returning home was to pounce onto the big bed, feeling right at home.

“So this is Senior Everlasting’s home.” Bai Shuang and Xia He marveled. According to the myths and legends, such a wondrous place should be called an immortal’s abode.

The two women were quickly drawn to the objects on the shelves. The books were decorative, and so were these. Although they couldn’t identify their origins, beauty was universal. At just one glance, they were captivated by the exquisite craftsmanship and the breathtaking patterns of the bronze mirrors, vases, and incense burners. They couldn’t tear their eyes away.

“These are all top-tier immortal treasures,” Lu Yang exclaimed. A half-immortal would view a single immortal treasure as important as their life, yet here they are piled like cabbages.

For instance, the vases contained immortal liquids. A single drop could let a demon beast take human form and grow into a thousand-year-old great demon. This was useless to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, so they were placed here purely for decoration.

Lu Yang clicked his tongue. I’m doing quite well for myself now, yet my cave abode is austere, nothing like the Immortal Fairy’s extravagance.

“Take whatever you like,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy said generously. As the saying goes, when you accept something from someone, you owe them a favor. Once they take something, they can’t covet my Xiao Yangzi anymore.

“That doesn’t seem right.” The two women demurred. They were unaware of the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s little schemes, but based on Lu Yang’s descriptions alone, they knew how precious these items were and felt embarrassed to take them.

“What are these?” They accidentally touched the transparent stones on the floor. The stones resembled glass and covered the ground, seemingly arranged in some pattern.

“Empty spirit stones.” Lu Yang picked one up and tossed it aside. These were all top-grade spirit stones. Their energy had dissipated into the outside world when the seal on the cave abode opened, improving the Blue Planet’s environment.

Suddenly, Lu Yang froze. He picked up one stone to examine it, then picked up several more, only to realize they were all intact. The spirit stones hadn’t shattered and released their spirit qi into the cave abode as he had previously assumed. In other words, these spirit stones had been extracted by the Immortal Fairy for cultivation?

Lu Yang soon realized something. This cave abode isn’t just the Immortal Fairy’s home; it is also where she cultivated.

When Lu Yang underwent his Divine Transfiguration tribulation, he had encountered a thought left by the Heaven Mandate Immortal within the heavenly tribulation. According to that thought, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had been attacked by the mastermind an hour after entering the cave abode, and the Heaven Mandate Immortal hadn’t even sensed how the mastermind got in.

This also means that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s cave abode is also the place where she had perished! The mastermind had struck here! But judging by the Immortal Fairy’s relaxed state upon returning home, she probably hasn’t realized this yet.

Lu Yang recalled that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had always been amnesiac about her assassination. She couldn’t remember what had happened.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy sat up in bed and let out a puzzled sound. Stroking her chin, she walked out of the cave abode, then came back in. She sat at the table and made a few gestures, seeming to be writing something. Then she counted the spirit stones on the floor and sat cross-legged on the bed in the standard posture for meditation.

“Immortal Fairy, what are you doing?” Lu Yang noticed her strange behavior and pulled Bai Shuang and Xia He aside to keep them out of her way. He had a vague idea of what she was doing.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy didn’t hear Lu Yang’s question. “I feel like I have cultivated with this exact routine before—enter, write insights, meditate on the bed. Strange, why is my memory so blurry?”

She was lost in her own world and mumbled to herself, making Lu Yang’s heart skip.

She sat on the bed in the lotus position for a moment, then drew out an “oh” sound as realization dawned upon her. “I remember now. Back then, I had an insight and hurried back to the cave abode to cultivate. Let me think what that insight was... Ah, I remember. I had figured out how to break through to Omniscience. I was going to break through to the Omniscience realm in one go!”

At those words, Lu Yang felt as though a bolt of lightning had struck him. A terrifying thought flashed through his mind. The problem that had plagued him all along finally became clear.

I was wrong. My previous conjectures were all wrong. The mastermind’s realm wasn’t Immortal at all. It was Transcendence!𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂