Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 370: Hiding in a Prison Cell Should Be Safe

After the lightning tribulation, the Calamity Venerable Lord lay nearly lifeless, his body charred and hardly any different from a corpse. “Damn it, you’re just at the Fusion Stage! Why would you attract such a powerful lightning tribulation?!”

Vice Creed Leader Shi remained silent. The lightning tribulation was worth one billion spirit stones; of course, it’d be powerful.

Having endured a lightning tribulation once, Vice Creed Leader Shi was fully prepared this time. His scorched skin cracked like a ceramic statue, revealing fresh skin beneath as he tore away the outer layer.

“Entry-level Cicada Molting Spell?” The Calamity Venerable Lord recognized the method.

Vice Creed Leader cast a glance at him wordlessly and swallowed a pill, eliciting the envious gaze of the Calamity Venerable Lord.

The Entry-Level Cicada Molting Spell could only keep him clean. He still needed pills to replenish his depleted energy from the lightning tribulation.

The Calamity Venerable Lord was tempted to snatch the pills, but his wretched state barely allowed him to move, let alone steal the pills.

As Vice Creed Leader Shi refined the medicinal properties of the pills, he sneered at the Calamity Venerable Lord. “It wasn’t easy for me to turn over a new leaf and start an honest business, yet you bunch of archaic cultivators ruined everything! Serves you right to have fallen into my hands!” Abandoning all techniques and rules, he resorted to pure punches and kicks to vent his fury on the Calamity Venerable Lord.

“You damned bastard! How dare you cut off my path to fortune?!

“Did you really think modern cultivators are easy to bully?!

“If I don’t beat you until your mom can’t recognize you, I’ll renounce my family name!”

The Calamity Venerable Lord was beaten until he had a bloody nose and swollen face, and not a single bone was intact, with special care received in his nether regions.

Vice Creed Leader Shi flicked his right hand and produced iron chains as thick as one’s arms, trussing up the Calamity Venerable Lord like a pig before carrying him off.

“N-no! I can’t let him take me!” The Calamity Venerable Lord could tell that Vice Creed Leader Shi was a ruthless person. There’s no way I’ll survive if I go with him!

I must run!

Biting his tongue, he spat a mouthful of essence blood and transformed into smoke. Slipping through the chains, he ripped apart space and vanished.

“He burned his lifespan!” Vice Creed Leader Shi’s eyes narrowed, not expecting the Calamity Venerable Lord to be this ruthless. My iron chains can restrain the body and soul. Based on his condition, he wouldn’t have been able to escape without burning at least several millennia of his lifespan.

“Truly ruthless! With this much burned, how many years would you have left?” Vice Creed Leader Shi couldn’t do anything about his enemy’s methods. “Whatever. Since he has escaped, so be it. I’ll just take revenge on other archaic cultivators.”

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The Calamity Venerable Lord was still fleeing. Through this debacle, he realized it would be tough for him to obtain any advantage in the upcoming Battle of the Great Era.

“Something went wrong with my line of thought! It was only because I wanted to hide in a desolate place earlier that I encountered that lunatic’s lightning tribulation. This time, I’ll hide in a city!” He changed his approach and headed for the nearest city.

“Dayan Commandery—good name! ‘The dayan wild geese fly south, and one rises again from the mountains.’ It does fit my situation!”

To be safe, he cautiously scanned Dayan Commandery with his spiritual consciousness. “It looks like a prosperous city, and the commandery governor is only at the Divine Transfiguration Stage. Ideal for hiding!” The Calamity Venerable Lord smiled.

Heaven is helping me!

Having burned his lifespan, his cultivation realm had fallen to the Basic Fusion Stage, barely retaining his Fusion cultivation. Due to the unique nature of the Void Refinement Stage, he could have fallen from the Fusion to the Divine Transfiguration Stage.

“Fortune has always been on my side!”

Sneaking into Dayan Commandery, he contemplated the optimal hiding spot for him to return to his cultivation realm. “I can recover my cultivation by devouring other people’s vitality. It’s best to have no disruption during the process. I should find somewhere lifeless!”

A brilliant idea struck the Calamity Venerable Lord.

“I’ll go to the prison!”

Prisoners have no human rights. Nobody would notice even if something happened.

He transformed into smoke and slipped into the prison.

As soon as he slipped in, he heard two people arguing.

“I’ve told you, that’s not how this law works! Is there a problem with your brain?”

“Nonsense! I was the one who formulated this law. How could I not know how to apply it?”

“Just because you formulated it, you think you understand it? I raised Yun Zhi, but I don’t even know how strong she is now!”

“Dogshit logic!”

“You’re the one with dogshit logic!”

As the Taciturn Daoist Priest bickered with the Minister of Justice, the usually refined and easygoing Minister of Justice became increasingly irascible.

“Wait a moment.” The Taciturn Daoist Priest raised his hand, sensing something amiss.

“Who’s there?!”

“What a heavy stench of blood!” The Minister of Justice, Xu Xin, was taken aback. He had prosecuted numerous fiendish criminals, but none of them could compare to the Calamity Venerable Lord’s fetor of blood.

Diabolic cultivators had secret spells to hide their bloody aura out of fear for the righteous path, but the Calamity Venerable Lord bore no such concept. During the Great Yu era, one’s level of bloody aura was irrelevant, sometimes even a symbol of honor.

“Hehe, to think you could detect this venerable one! You two juniors do have some skills. In that case, you shall become my nutrients!” The Calamity Venerable Lord assumed he had leaked his aura out of carelessness. But that’s just a trivial matter. I naturally have my way to control these two people!

Even if I couldn’t deal with others, surely I can handle two criminals?

A sinister and frightening light suddenly flashed, and wicked energy swirled in the narrow space, creating a black hole-like suction force accompanied by silent screams that seemed to have come from the abyss.

“Become my slaves!”

The Minister of Justice struck out violently, and an intangible golden hand slapped the dense smoke apart, sending the Calamity Venerable Lord tumbling to the ground.

The eerie light, malignant energy, and silent screams disappeared.

“Who do you think you are? How dare you play such tricks before this official?”

The Calamity Venerable Lord was sprawled on the ground, yet to regain his senses. How did I fall?

“Diabolic cultivator! Seize him!” The Taciturn Daoist Priest attacked. His sword heart pulsed as tens of thousands of sword qi circulated in a grand, unceasing display, filling the entire space.

It was impossible for the Calamity Venerable Lord to tear open space and escape even if he wanted to!

As someone who frequently escaped, the Taciturn Daoist Priest naturally knew how to deal with others who frequently escaped. Only Yun Zhi can lock me up. Anyone else won’t have the same confidence.

The Calamity Venerable Lord, “...”

He remained speechless for a long time, unsure of what expression he should even show to convey his feelings.

What’s going on? Why are there such powerful people imprisoned here? They’re even stronger than that lunatic who endured the lightning tribulation earlier!

The prison cells have no restrictions either. Why are the two of you locked up here? Because the prison is warm in winter and cool in summer? freeωebnovēl.c૦m

“Who is this?” Xu Xin had never seen someone this eager to court death.

“Who knows? But I bet he’s a bad egg. Maybe he’s some archaic cultivator rube who got beaten and fled to the prison to recuperate from his injuries. Let’s capture him first. It will count as a great meritorious service, and we might get a reduced sentence!” The Taciturn Daoist Priest exclaimed in delight. We were just sitting in prison when this opportunity fell from the sky and into our laps.

Xu Xin was also delighted upon hearing the Taciturn Daoist Priest’s words.

Yun Zhi had been tailing the Calamity Venerable Lord this whole time. Watching this scene unfold, she sighed slightly, realizing her hopes of following him back to his lair were dashed.

It couldn’t be helped. The Calamity Venerable Lord was simply too unlucky. First, he encountered the old horse and got kicked by its hind legs. Then, he got caught in Vice Creed Leader Shi’s lightning tribulation. After that, he crashed the prison cell housing the Taciturn Daoist Priest and Xu Xin in Dayan Commandery and was apprehended. It was truly miraculous for him to have survived this series of unfortunate events.

Yun Zhi had never met someone with such bad luck.

Best to take him back for interrogation and torture.

She materialized in the cell. “Shifu, Lord Minister, it’s been a long time.”

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