Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 317: Fifth Elder’s Whimsical Yet Ingenious Idea

“It’s a pity Lu Yang didn’t learn my Immortal Fairy Fist Technique. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have passed out.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy felt that Lu Yang was great in every way, except for his stubborn refusal to learn her fist technique.

“Immortal Fairy Fist Technique?” Yun Zhi repeated softly. She put down her chopsticks, a trace of interest glinting in her eyes.

“It’s also called the Health Maintenance (Yangsheng) Fist Technique. Once mastered, your body becomes like medicine. You will no longer have to take pills when you’re sick or cultivating, and no poison in the world will affect you.

“However, to learn the Immortal Fairy Fist Technique, you must first master over a thousand other fist techniques, including the Arhat Fruit Fist, Malva Nut Fist,[1] and Ginseng Fist. You have to integrate them, discard what is false and retain what is true, sieve out the dregs and preserve the essence, and use your body as a furnace to merge these techniques into one body. That is the Immortal Fairy Fist Technique.”

Yun Zhi fell silent for a moment. Then, she stood up and asked solemnly, “Senior, could you teach me?”

“Of course.”

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When Lu Yang woke up, he was no longer in the kitchen. fгeewebnovёl.com

“You’re awake? How do you feel?”

Lu Yang replied in his mind, I passed out from the spiciness, and you’re still asking me how I feel?

“My cultivation...” After stretching a little, Lu Yang noticed that his cultivation had actually improved slightly, advancing from the Basic Golden Core Stage to the Intermediate Golden Core Stage.

But I didn’t do anything.

“Hehe, did you think I just made an ordinary plate of Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry? No way! What I made was Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry that boosts your cultivation! You barely feel the improvement because you only took one bite. If you had finished the whole plate, I guarantee you’d have advanced to the Advanced Golden Core Stage!”

Lu Yang felt that although his step-by-step cultivation progress was slow, it was at least safe. If he followed the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s logic and ate the whole plate, he was afraid he might metamorphose and ascend to an immortal on the spot.

Outside the cave abode, Meng Jingzhou hollered, “Lu Yang, are you awake?”

“Yes, I’m awake.” As Lu Yang stepped out of the cave abode, he squinted under the blinding sunlight.

Standing at the entrance of the cave abode were Meng Jingzhou, Li Haoran, and Qin Yanyan.

Seeing that Lu Yang was awake, Meng Jingzhou heaved a sigh of relief. “You’re finally awake! You’ve been unconscious for three months!”

Lu Yang was floored. I didn’t expect the “medical potency” of the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s poison to be so strong.

Li Haoran said helplessly, “Senior Brother Meng, Senior Brother Lu was only asleep for two hours.”

“Hey, Junior Brother Li, that’s not fair. It wasn’t easy for me to successfully trick Lu Yang once, yet you just had to expose me.”

Qin Yanyan silently observed this scene, wondering if the exceptional wit of the two peerless prodigies, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, was honed by integrating schemes and deceit into their daily lives.

It’s very likely.

“Come on, let’s go find Fifth Elder. If he joins the Heavenly Court Sect, he’ll be considered an elder-level member!”

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With Li Haoran leading the way, the group soon found Fifth Elder, who was in the middle of refining artifacts.

Fifth Elder tossed his Daoist robe into the fire, subjecting it to the test of the raging flames. When the robe was scorched red, he reached in and pulled it out, his expression unchanged throughout the process.

He took a small hammer from his waist and began hitting the robe, producing a series of clanging sounds. Then, he plunged the robe into water, and a hiss marked the end of the refining process.

Fifth Elder looked at the newly refined Daoist robe in satisfaction and casually put it on. Only then did he realize that Lu Yang and the others were watching from nearby.

“Oh, it’s Little Lu.”

“Fifth Elder, are you refining clothes?” Lu Yang asked with uncertainty. The process looked less like refining clothes and more like forging some metal magical artifact.

“I’m trying to combine clothing and transportation tools.”

“Combine them?” Everyone was bewildered. Was there any connection between the two?

“How are they not related?” As a grandmaster of artifact refinement, Fifth Elder proceeded to explain. “Transportation tools, be it carriages or flying vessels, are all to make your travel more convenient, right?

“Carriages, flying vessels, and flying swords all have one thing in common—they can carry us. In that case, why have we always overlooked the most common thing that carries us—clothing?”

Lu Yang contemplated and realized it did make sense. From another perspective, when we wear clothes, aren’t they essentially wrapping around our bodies?

People are the carriers of clothing.

“Therefore, I believe that clothing is the most suitable mode of transportation. Watch this.” Fifth Elder activated his powers, and the refined Daoist robe floated upward, carrying him along with it.

After spinning once in the air, he landed smoothly and continued speaking. “Normally, only Golden Core cultivators can fly on their own, with the exception of sword cultivators, who can already fly on their sword at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

“If Foundation Establishment sword cultivators can fly on swords, why can’t ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators fly with clothes?

“Of course, my current method of refining clothing is too complicated, and I still can’t make it accessible to Foundation Establishment cultivators. But once I’ve streamlined and simplified the process, registered a patent, and promoted it in the cultivation world, wouldn’t endless wealth flow into Artifact Refinement Peak?” Fifth Elder’s eyebrows seemed to dance with exultation as he spoke. Once the Artifact Refinement Peak has money, we can buy more materials and craft even better magical treasures.

“Fifth Elder, you’re a genius!” Lu Yang’s words were heartfelt. He believed the idea was highly feasible.

The Dao-Seeking Sect’s inexhaustible supply of spirit stones was thanks to geniuses like the Fifth Elder and Seventh Elder, who excelled in artifact refinement and pill concoction respectively. In particular, their artifact refining skills and achievements received widespread acclaim in the cultivation world.

“Who’s this little lass?” Fifth Elder pointed at Qin Yanyan.

“This is Junior Brother Li’s ex-wife’s daughter,” Lu Yang introduced.

Fifth Elder jumped in shock. When did my disciple get married?

“It’s my ex-life’s wife’s daughter!” Li Haoran quickly added.

Realization struck Fifth Elder. “Oh, Qin Yanyan, right? Haoran has mentioned you. That means you are my grand-disciple.”

Qin Yanyan, “...”

She was starting to regret coming to the Dao-Seeking Sect. Not only did she have the lowest seniority here with Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou constantly calling her “niece,” but now she had also become someone’s grand-disciple.

Qin Yanyan was just about to say that her past life and current life shouldn’t be conflated when she saw Fifth Elder fish out a magical treasure from the front of his robe.

“As this is our first meeting, it’s only proper that I give you a gift. I don’t have anything valuable on hand, but since you look like a talisman cultivator, do take this talisman-making brush. It’s inscribed with eighteen common talismans. With a bit of power, you can instantly draw them. It should be helpful to you.”

Qin Yanyan was startled by the magical artifact’s capabilities. A talisman-making brush was an essential tool for talisman cultivators, and she owned one herself. It was inscribed with ten talismans and crafted by a renowned veteran artifact-refining master at Su Yiren’s request. The master even said that a Golden Core talisman-making brush could only be engraved with up to ten types of talismans.

“This...this is too precious. I can’t accept it.”

“Just take it. It’s a little thing I made in my spare time, not worth much,” Fifth Elder said generously.

Li Haoran looked at Qin Yanyan with sourness pouring into his heart. Why did Shifu give Qin Yanyan a gift upon their first meeting, while his gift for our first meeting is throwing me into lava?

“By the way, why are you looking for me?” Fifth Elder finally recalled that Lu Yang and the others must have come for a reason.

“Basically, we have established the Heavenly Court Creed, which boasts a solid and ancient foundation, bolstered by ancient immortal legacies and support from prominent ancestral clans. One individual was once a half-Step Transcendent Tribulation cultivator, while another was the first successor of the Nine-Netherworlds Creed.

“Fifth Elder, we’d like to ask you to become a protector of our Heavenly Court Creed.”

1. Malva nut is called “fat ocean” in Chinese. ☜