Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

“Dean Gao? Welcome to our world.” Dai Bufan was grinning from ear to ear. Junior Brother Lu really is something. He brought the Interstellar Alliance’s greatest genius straight here. This is exactly the kind of talent our cultivation world needs right now.

“I never imagined that you’d accomplish so much at such a young age. That’s truly impressive,” Dai Bufan remarked.

Dean Gao stared at Dai Bufan, who looked barely over twenty, and fell into deep thought. And how long has this person lived?

Dai Bufan analyzed, “Junior Brother Lu, based on your description, the aid team Dean Gao has brought possesses an incredible amount of knowledge. Integrating that with our hundred cultivation arts isn’t something our Dao-Seeking Sect can handle alone! I suggest we inform the Xia Emperor, the Old Dragon Emperor, and the others to mobilize the full strength of the cultivation world.”

“I’ll follow your lead, Senior Brother Dai,” Lu Yang said. This is Senior Brother Dai’s area of expertise, which is one reason I brought Dean Gao to see him.

~~~

A few Dao-Seeking Sect disciples couldn’t suppress their curiosity and struck up a conversation with the aid team members seated at the Great Mission Hall’s entrance.

“Excuse me, did you run into diabolic cultivators?”

The aid team was equipped with memory chips. On the way here, Lu Yang had loaded the Cultivation World’s language into them, so they could understand what the disciples were saying. They simply couldn’t understand what they meant.

“D-Diabolic cultivators?”

“Isn’t your body modified by diabolic cultivators? You’re covered in metal, like a puppet.”

“Eh, isn’t that Senior Brother Li? Senior Brother Li, come take a look! Lu Yang brought these people back. It looks like their bodies were modified by diabolic cultivators.”

Li Haoran was passing by and came over when he heard someone calling him.

“There are still diabolic cultivators these days?” Li Haoran was astonished. Haven’t they all become Man Gu’s performance metrics?

The aid team finally understood what Li Haoran and the others meant. One of them stepped forward to explain. “Our bodies have nothing to do with diabolic cultivators. These are the Interstellar Alliance’s mechanical bodies. We voluntarily modified ourselves. If any part of our bodies malfunctions, we simply replace it. It’s extremely convenient.”

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly went rigid. He lost his balance and collapsed to the ground, startling everyone.

“Old Ji, what’s wrong?”

Old Ji lay on the ground, trying repeatedly to get up, but to no avail. “I don’t know what’s going on. My body feels out of control.”

“What does the self-diagnostic program say?”

“It says the fault is unknown and recommends sending it back to the factory for repairs.”

“Send it back to the factory for repairs?!” This is the Cultivation World. How could we possibly send it back to the factory?

“Let’s find Dean Dao. He’ll definitely have a solution.”

“Move aside. Let me see what’s going on.” Li Haoran pushed through the crowd. He crouched down to examine Old Ji, and his expression shifted to surprise.

“Your mechanical body is rejecting spirit qi. Have you never been exposed to it before?”

As he spoke, Li Haoran pressed his palm against Old Ji’s chest. Countless tiny lines and runes extended from his hand.

“Fixed.”

Li Haoran rose and dusted off his hands.

“Fixed?”

To the onlookers, it looked as though Li Haoran had simply patted Old Ji.

Old Ji tried to get up. Sure enough, he could move again. The self-diagnostic program detected no faults. When he flexed his arm, however, he froze.

“What’s wrong?” his companion asked in concern.

“My arm—no, not just my arm, my legs, too...” Old Ji muttered nonsensically. Suddenly, he leaped upward with force, shooting more than ten meters into the air!

The aid team members gaped, their heads bobbing up and down as they tracked Old Ji’s figure. Old Ji’s body hadn’t been equipped with any jumping functionality.

“Old Ji, stop jumping for a second. What’s going on?”

“I have no idea. I just got up and could jump.”

He just got up and could jump? When Old Ji was lying on the ground, what he had been in contact with was...

The entire aid team turned to look at Li Haoran.

“I simply made some rough modifications to the materials of his mechanical body, so that he could adapt to the Cultivation World’s environment, and refined it a bit while I was at it.” Li Haoran hadn’t intended to explain. Such matters were trivial to him.

“Can we become like Old Ji, too?” The aid team members’ eyes sparkled. With just a touch, Old Ji went through a complete transformation. What divine technique was that?!

Li Haoran nodded. “Of course. The materials in your mechanical bodies are of decent quality. It’s just that they lack the guidance from spirit qi. Give me some time, and I can even make you fly.”

“Fly?”

Hearing that they could fly, the aid team scrambled to crowd around Li Haoran.

“Me first, me first!”

“I’ll help you all test the waters.”

~~~

“Dean Gao, this way, please.”

Dai Bufan, Lu Yang, and Dean Gao walked out of the Great Mission Hall together.

“So we can actually fly without external devices!”

The Interstellar Alliance did have mechanical bodies capable of free flight, but their exorbitant cost was far beyond what the aid team members could afford.

Moreover, their bodily functions had now been enhanced across the board, with flight being just one aspect. It was hard to believe that just a few touches from Li Haoran could bring about such a monumental change.

“I can fly higher than you!”

“Let’s have a contest then!”

Watching his aid team soar across the sky, Dean Gao was lost in thought for a long while. What happened while I was inside?

“Mr. Li, you must be the Cultivation World’s greatest scientist.”

“Mr. Li, your skills are amazing. Even our Dean Gao couldn’t modify us like this.”

Li Haoran felt a bit embarrassed by the compliments and decided to show off a little of his real skill. “Actually, your mechanical bodies can be further modified. If you ask me, keeping the brain is unnecessary. Just remove it and let the soul inhabit the mechanical body. I guarantee it’ll be even more comfortable than it is now!”

At those words, the boisterous aid team suddenly fell silent. That sounds a bit too extreme...

“Ahem!” Dean Gao cleared his throat loudly. The aid team spotted him and immediately stood at attention.

“They’re all guests here. Feel free to enjoy yourselves,” Dai Bufan said, smoothing things over.

“Sorry for letting you see that, Mr. Dai.”

“Junior Brother Li, you’re already at the Fusion Stage. Congratulations, congratulations.” Lu Yang noticed that Li Haoran had safely passed the Void Refinement Stage and become a Fusion expert.

Li Haoran pressed his palms together, completely unwilling to accept Lu Yang’s goodwill. “I’d be grateful if you’d just stop showing off your cultivation in front of me.”

Lu Yang laughed heartily and patted Li Haoran’s shoulder. “Junior Brother Li, you’re being too formal. When have I ever bragged to you about being a half-immortal who can use two Incipient Dao Fruits?”

Li Haoran. “...”

Dai Bufan summoned a flying vessel and took the aid team and Lu Yang to the imperial city.

~~~

On the Great Snow Mountain, Qing He was playing chess with the Moonchaser True Lord when she suddenly sensed something and turned to look toward Heaven’s Gate Peak.

“What’s wrong, Fellow Daoist Qing He?”

“Strange. Why do I sense Pillar Minister Lu’s aura?”

The Moonchaser True Person waved her hand repeatedly. “Impossible. You must be mistaken. If Lu Yang had returned to the Dao-Seeking Sect, how could he not have come to Heaven’s Gate Peak to see you?”

“True. Let’s continue then. Wait, weren’t the pieces in different positions just now?”𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮