Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 214: Break off the Betrothal!

Lu Yang began considering whether he should tell Yun Zhi about the stories the Taciturn Daoist Priest had made up. If I tell Big Senior Sister, Shifu will certainly be in for it. But if I don’t tell Big Senior Sister, she may assume that I’m in cahoots with Shifu.

“One is Shifu, and the other is Big Senior Sister. It’s a tough choice.” Lu Yang let out a long sigh, stuck between a rock and a hard place.

He took out a copper coin and decided to leave the result up to fate.

With a gentle flick, the copper coin made a crisp sound and spun rapidly in the air like a sphere. The trio had their eyes fixed on the coin, raising their heads up and down.

Clink.

It landed heads up.

“Looks like the heavens want Shifu to be doomed,” Lu Yang concluded.

“Senior Brother Lu, why don’t you try again?” Li Haoran urged. When he was soaking in lava, he had heard Elder Zhou Xin complain about how unreliable the Taciturn Daoist Priest was.

But no matter what, the sect leader is still the sect leader.

Lu Yang nodded. I don’t want to be a snitch either. He flicked the coin once more.

The coin landed tails up.

Li Haoran sighed in relief. Looks like the sect leader narrowly avoided disaster this time.

However, he also heard Lu Yang sighing beside him. “Looks like the heavens want Shifu to be doomed.”

“Wait a minute, Senior Brother Lu, why are you informing Big Senior Sister for both head and tail? How can we not tell this to her?”

“Of course, it’s when the coin stands on its edge.”

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Noticing Li Haoran’s dazed expression, Meng Jingzhou explained, “Think about it, there are two possible outcomes when a coin lands: flat or standing, right?”

“Right.”

“So there is a 50% chance that Lu Yang doesn’t tell this to Big Senior Sister. That’s already a very high probability.”

Lu Yang gave Meng Jingzhou a look that said, “You have my approval.”

The corners of Li Haoran’s eyes twitched. “Senior Brother Lu, if you want your shifu dead, you should say so directly. Why go through all the extra steps?”

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou missed Man Gu. If it were Man Gu, he would have believed it right away.

While they were chatting, they arrived at Li Haoran’s old house. The old horse stopped the carriage, and Li Haoran was the first to alight. “Senior brothers, please take a look. This is my home. Although it’s a bit old and rundown, it bears the memories of my childhood. I still remember I often climbed the tree in front of the house when I was little.”

“...Junior Brother Li, I don’t think your house can be described as ‘a bit old and rundown.’”

Li Haoran turned his head and saw that the house of the Li Family was being torn down.

“Where’s my house?!”

I have just been away for slightly over a year, and my house is already gone?

“Eh, isn’t that the Li Family’s son? I heard you’ve made a name for yourself and joined the Dao-Seeking Sect.” An old man recognized Li Haoran.

“Uncle Zhang, where’s my house?” Li Haoran hurriedly asked upon seeing a familiar face.

“Hmm? Didn’t your parents tell you? To celebrate your becoming a disciple of the Dao-Seeking Sect, your family sold your old house and moved to Chunyuan Street.”

“...Was it really to celebrate my becoming a disciple of the Dao-Seeking Sect?” Li Haoran covered his face with one hand helplessly.

Following the directions from Uncle Zhang, the trio finally found Li Haoran’s real house.

Before entering, Lu Yang secretly transmitted an auditory message to Meng Jingzhou, “Did you prepare the gifts for meeting Uncle and Aunt[1]?”

“I’ve done that long ago. There is plenty of good stuff inside my identity jade tablet. What about you?”

“Before coming here, I went to the Great Mission Hall to exchange for some pills and rare natural treasures.”

Only after their exchange did they alight the carriage with a peace of mind.

Li Haoran had yet to knock on the door when they heard an unfamiliar female voice from inside.

“I will absolutely not agree to this marriage!

“Betrothal before birth? Did you get my consent?

“You want me to accept this betrothal? Don’t even think about it!”

Then they heard Li Haoran’s father’s voice. “This marriage was agreed upon a long time ago...”

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou exchanged glances with each other upon hearing the argument inside. Looks like things aren’t going very smoothly.

With his brow furrowed, Li Haoran pushed the door open and deliberately announced in a loud voice, “Mom, Dad, I’m back!”

Upon opening the door, they saw Li Haoran’s parents standing in the courtyard looking somewhat awkward, as if things had escalated beyond their control.

The person arguing with them was a beautiful girl who looked to be around Li Haoran’s age. Standing behind the girl was a captivating female cultivator who bore some resemblance to the girl, perhaps her older sister or mother.

“Haoran, you’re back?” Li Haoran’s parents were elated to see their son return.

“Dad, Mom, let me introduce you to my two senior brothers from the Dao-Seeking Sect, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou.”

“Nice to meet you, Uncle and Aunt.” Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou flashed a warm smile and presented the gifts they had prepared.

“You didn’t have to.”

“We bought them along the way. They’re not worth much.”

After some courteous declinations, Li Haoran’s parents accepted the gifts.

“So you are Li Haoran?” The girl looked at him with a frown. To be fair, Li Haoran does look handsome and talented, but no matter how I look at him now, I just find him unpleasant to the eye.

“Who are you?” Li Haoran shot back in an unfriendly tone.

Worried about the conflict exacerbating, Li Haoran’s parents quickly introduced the visitors. “She is Qin Yanyan, and this is her mother Su Yiren, also the expert who saved us back then.”

Inside Lu Yang’s mental space, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy softly claimed, “This Su Yiren is quite something; she’s at the Fusion Stage.”

There was a plethora of talented individuals on the Central Continent, many of whom were Fusion cultivators Lu Yang had never heard of before. Even Meng Jingzhou, who hailed from the Meng Family, couldn’t claim to know every Fusion cultivator.

“Fusion Stage?” Lu Yang was astonished. Is Junior Brother Li worth that much? A Fusion cultivator not only rescued his parents but also arranged a future marriage for the unborn child in the belly. Apart from Li Haoran’s Fire Spirit Root, Lu Yang couldn’t discern anything special about Li Haoran. He’s not someone who suddenly fell from a genius to trash, nor did he exhibit strange behaviors or spout cryptic lines.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy teased, “You’re also worth a lot. That little lass Yun Zhi personally arranged a marriage pact between you and Lan Ting. If that really went through, you’d have an entire team of Fusion cultivators backing you up.”

Lu Yang rolled his eyes, choosing not to bother with the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s remarks.

Qin Yanyan sized Li Haoran up. “I heard you’re from the Dao-Seeking Sect and rank fifth in your cohort. That’s so disgraceful. A Fire Spirit Root, yet that’s all you got?”

Li Haoran thought about the four who ranked before him. The first has a Sword Spirit Root and is personally trained by Big Senior Sister, possessing talent in spells that rivals hers. The second has a Single’s Spirit Root and hails from the largest ancestral clan, the Meng Family. The third has a Metamorphic Celestial Physique which is even rarer than a Single Spirit Root. The fourth is the last descendant of the Ancient Barbarian Tribe and bears the entire tribe’s fortune.

It doesn’t seem that disgraceful for me to rank fifth.

Man Gu was the last of the Ancient Barbarian Tribe, and legend had it that the final member of a race would embody all its luck.

If anything, it would be strange if I could surpass these four.

“Let me give you a piece of advice. Annul the betrothal, and we can part ways amicably, leaving us a chance to meet again in the jianghu without hard feelings. If you refuse...” Qin Yanyan’s lips curled into a sneer, the consequences of rejecting her unspoken but clear.

“What if I refuse?” Li Haoran challenged.

Qin Yanyan continued to sneer, though she actually hadn’t figured out how she should threaten Li Haoran if he refused.

1. It’s a polite way of referring to someone’s elders. ☜