Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

Having the Fate Arbiter and Guan Shanhai fight is certainly out of the question. The impact of a battle between two immortals can be gauged from the clash between the Nine-Layers Immortal and the Fate Arbiter, which nearly turned the entire Extreme North back into stars scattered across the sky.

The same applies to the Fate Arbiter and Guan Shanhai. If they fight, the entire Dao-Seeking Sect... Oh, wait, Big Senior Sister will lock them back up before that even happens.

However, the idea of suppressing the prisoners’ cultivation and allowing them some freedom of movement is feasible.

Take the Moon Laurel Immortal Palace’s Light-Retaining Treasure Box as an example. Cultivators trapped inside will have their cultivation suppressed to the same level. The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had once taken over my body and used the box to challenge four of the sect leaders of the Five Great Immortal Sects.

Suppressing immortals is definitely beyond the Light-Retaining Treasure Box’s abilities, but asking the Heaven Mandate Immortal to forge a higher-level immortal artifact based on its principles shouldn’t be too difficult.

After all, he is the progenitor of artifact refinement. Surely he can craft something.

“But forging an immortal artifact that can suppress the cultivation of immortals will require a fair amount of immortal gold,” Lu Yang mused aloud. Although I’m not the sect leader, as a member of the Dao-Seeking Sect, I have to think about the sect’s interests.

Isn’t the cost of renovating Incarceration Peak a bit too high?

As Lu Yang was leaving Incarceration Peak, he ran into Yun Zhi, who was heading over.

“Big Senior Sister, do you have some business at Incarceration Peak?”

“I came looking for you,” Yun Zhi replied. “The Fate Arbiter has confessed the method to remove the sun’s seals.”

After learning how to unlock the seals, Yun Zhi had wanted to take Lu Yang on a trip to the sun. She left Incarceration Peak and went to Heaven’s Gate Peak, where she heard that Lu Yang had gone to see Meng Jingzhou. Upon finding Meng Jingzhou, she then learned that Lu Yang had gone to Incarceration Peak to print newspapers.

After a full circle, the two finally bumped into each other at Incarceration Peak.

“So we can finally remove the sun’s seals?” Lu Yang’s spirits lifted. There were two seals on the sun—the first placed by the Midheaven Emperor-Lord and the second by the Yu Emperor Wu Yao. With Guan Shanhai’s capture, Wu Yao’s seal had been undone, causing the sun’s luna power to surge drastically.

Among those around Lu Yang, the person most noticeably affected was Meng Jingzhou. The spike in the sun’s power had nearly broken his Pure Yang Body.

By removing the Midheaven Emperor-Lord’s seal, the solar and luna powers would be liberated, ushering in a spring for cultivators of yin-yang cultivation techniques.

Of course, if the seals couldn’t be undone, having the Nine-Layers Immortal increase the sun’s power would also bring about similar results.

“Wanna go?”

“Yes!” Lu Yang nodded eagerly. No reason not to go.

Yun Zhi nodded and flew ahead, then turned as if remembering something. “Also, Little Junior Brother, don’t keep running around everywhere.”

“Ah? Oh.” Lu Yang was befuddled. Is Big Senior Sister telling me not to roam around on the sun?

Lu Yang performed the Tofu Heavenly Sovereign Animal Form Fist, raising his cultivation to the Apex Transcendent Tribulation Stage. He could now wander around the cosmos freely without needing Yun Zhi’s help.

However, Yun Zhi noticed that Lu Yang couldn’t keep up with her speed, so she simply formed a hand seal and dragged him along.

They arrived at the sun. Waves of extreme yang energy washed over them. In the past, merely approaching the sun would have scorched Lu Yang, but now, he no longer feared the yang power on its surface.

Just as Lu Yang tried to draw closer, golden patterns emerged, encircling the sun’s surface and barring his way.

Countless magnificent runes shimmered like stars, gathering at Yun Zhi’s pale fingertips. The golden bells on her wrist jingled as she raised her hand and touched the golden patterns on the sun’s surface.

Crack.

The golden patterns shattered. The extreme yang energy surged forth, nearly knocking Lu Yang off his feet.

At the same time, every cultivator in the world felt the change in the sun. Those who practiced yin-yang cultivation techniques sensed it most keenly, and many seized the opportunity to break through their bottlenecks.

But none of this concerned Yun Zhi.

“It’s done,” she said impassively. With a gentle vertical slash, she opened a door in the sun’s surface, revealing the world within the sun’s grotto-heaven.

Inside was a majestic palace wreathed in immortal energy. It was dazzling with gold and splendor, as if every splendiferous thing in the world had been used to adorn it. The sheer quantity of natural treasures was beyond measure. Even the Great Xia Imperial Palace paled in comparison.

“This is the Great Qian Immortal Palace!” Lu Yang suddenly realized.

This is the immortal palace the Great Qian cultivators spoke of! But the Midheaven Emperor-Lord has placed a restriction on them, preventing them from revealing its location.

So the immortal palace has been right above us all along!

This can’t be called right under our noses—it’s right above our noses. It’s not hiding in the darkness under the lamp but right inside the lamp.

“Yes, this is the Great Qian Immortal Palace.” Yun Zhi wasn’t surprised; the Fate Arbiter had already confessed everything.

Sensing Lu Yang’s wariness, Yun Zhi shook her head to signal him to relax. “The Emperor-Lord is no longer here. During the battle between the Fate Arbiter and the Nine-Layers Immortal, he had already detected my presence. Based on his personality, his first instinct would have been to return to the immortal palace and flee with his subordinates. Perhaps he escaped in such haste that he couldn’t take the immortal palace with him.

“There’s no one left in the immortal palace.”

Lu Yang felt a twinge of disappointment, but quickly realized that the immortal palace itself was a reward.

I’ve been vexed over the lack of immortal gold to renovate Incarceration Peak. Isn’t it here now?

The senior sister and junior brother entered the immortal palace. Its interior was equally grand. Murals depicted extraordinary events: mountain-sized titans driving divine oxen to till the earth, sages splashing ink to create paintings and embellishing the stars in the sky, divine beings subduing demons and vanquishing devils to bring peace to the world, and the Midheaven Emperor-Lord seated at the center of heaven and earth, propping up the sun and moon in his hands...

As the strangers arrived, divine beings and demon beasts crawled out of the murals, lunging at them with claws bared.

This was the ability of the Fate Arbiter’s Spirit Awakening Dao Fruit. Even an immortal caught off guard by such an attack would sustain serious injuries.

Without even looking, Yun Zhi snapped her fingers. The divine beings and demon beasts grew blurred like paintings soaked in water, then receded like the tide and gradually dissolved.

All this was but a trivial matter for Yun Zhi, not worth dwelling on. She began to explain the origin of the immortal palace.

“At the very beginning, to reduce the influence of faith power, the Midheaven Emperor-Lord, the Fate Arbiter, and their followers built this immortal palace within the sun. In addition, since the sun lies at the world’s center, it could also aid in searching for the Four Ancient Immortals.

“To prevent others from entering the sun, the Midheaven Emperor-Lord placed a seal.

“Later, Great Qian collapsed, and Great Yu was established. The Yu Emperor Wu Yao didn’t know the purpose of the seal on the sun, but he disapproved of the Midheaven Emperor-Lord claiming it for himself. Thus, he set another seal, trapping both the Midheaven Emperor-Lord and the Fate Arbiter inside the sun.

“Actually, the Midheaven Emperor-Lord wasn’t skilled in sealing arts. He had relied on the accumulated faith power to place the seal. Forcibly breaking the seal would expose his and the Fate Arbiter’s existence, which would be detrimental to efforts in reducing the influence of faith power.

“To escape the sun, the Midheaven Emperor-Lord and the Fate Arbiter studied Wu Yao’s seal for a hundred thousand years. Finally, they found a loophole—a way to leave even without breaking the seal.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy understood and summarized with her hands tucked into her sleeves. “In other words, those two big idiots, the Midheaven Emperor-Lord and the Fate Arbiter, were locked in their own homes by Wu Yao, and it took them a hundred thousand years of picking the lock to get out?”

Lu Yang was silent. The grudge between the Midheaven Emperor-Lord and Wu Yao is surely no small one.