Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 101: Fabricating Nonsense Impromptu

|| Tang Yunsheng, male, 102 years old, Nascent Soul Stage, current inspecting officer of the Everlasting Creed

Having received a message from Branch Leader Chu to come earlier, he decided to adjust his schedule and first arrived in Qinghuai Commandery, which was from Yanjiang Commandery by only one mountain.

“After going over this mountain, I’ll reach the place Little Chu mentioned.” Suddenly, Tang Yunsheng sensed a strange fluctuation of aura waves. “Hmm? What aura wave is this?”

Following the sensation, he found himself at a stable of a posthouse. Inside the stable was an old horse with dragon scales on its forehead and a small brown mare snuggled together, seemingly an indication of their deep affection for each other.

The servant boy at the stable brought a bundle of carefully handpicked grass feed and placed it in the manger. The old horse glanced at it in disdain, not deigning to eat it at all.

The servant boy muttered under his breath, “Already striking it off with a new horse? The white pony just left.”

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As if the old horse could understand his words, it glared at the servant boy. Afraid of provoking the aberrant beast, the servant boy quickly scurried away.

The high-quality grass feed provided by the owner of the old horse had long been eaten up. Despite the finished supply, there was still no word from its owner. The postmaster speculated whether something had happened to the owner or if he had died. After all, the horse’s owner was headed for Pine Mountain.

After the premium feed ran out, the postmaster had the servant boy feed the horse with regular fodder. If the owner still didn’t return, he would sell the old horse to cover the cost of the fodder. However, the old horse scorned the stable’s fodder, unwilling to eat even a single bite, and a whole month had passed since.

The postmaster grew increasingly fearful. This isn’t just an aberrant beast with scales on its forehead but an extremely high-level demon beast, one that has reached the realm of fasting!

Aberrant beasts were a species between demon beasts and wild beasts. They possessed bloodlines of demon beasts, but these were so diluted that they couldn’t activate it. For their outer appearance, they would exhibit some atavistic traits such as scales, feathers, and horns. They were stronger than regular wild beasts, but their strength was limited.

When Tang Yunsheng caught sight of the old horse, he was over the moon. This is actually an extremely rare dragon horse! I just don’t know how pure its bloodline is.

“If it wasn't for me happening to visit the vast Eastern Sea once, I wouldn’t have recognized it.” Tang Yunsheng was very excited to stumble across this unexpected surprise.

Dragon horses are so rare, yet there’s one in the stable of such a remote and small commandery! It must be that the owner couldn’t discern the treasure they have, and since the dragon horse has yet to awaken, it’s left here in this backwater like a pearl buried by dust.

“As a Nascent Soul expert, I haven’t found a suitable mount all this while. This is definitely a gift from the Everlasting Immortal for my devotion!”

Tang Yunsheng prayed to the Everlasting Immortal for a moment before leaping into the stable.

The old horse turned its head to glance at Tang Yunsheng but paid no heed to him, continuing to nuzzle the brown mare tenderly.

“Poor dragon horse, you are unaware of your noble heritage and have fallen in love with a mortal horse. Come with me; I’ll show you how powerful you truly are!”

Tang Yunsheng reached out his golden hand, attempting to take the old horse away, but the old horse kicked backward with its hooves, breaking Tang Yunsheng’s hand. Feeling stiflement in his chest, Tang Yunsheng spat out a large mouthful of blood, his breathing instantly becoming feeble.

He looked at the old horse in terror, the excitement he felt moments before completely replaced by endless fear. Then, he turned and ran.

There must be a formidable master capable of treating life as a game staying here, and they are keeping the dragon horse as just an ordinary horse in the stable! My actions from earlier definitely couldn’t have escaped the formidable expert’s notice. I must flee as fast as possible and hope that they will let me off the hook on account of my ignorance!

The old horse neighed, flaunting its strength to the brown mare.

Tang Yunsheng fled for some time. When he found no signs of the puissant figure coming after him, he realized that the other party probably hadn’t taken offense to his actions.

“Ugh!” He spat out another mouthful of blood. Randomly finding a secluded spot, he sat down in a meditative state and ingested a pill to heal his injuries. The kick from the horse’s hooves was a severe blow to his vitality.

When he opened his eyes again, he heard a rumbling sound from the other side of the mountain, as if something colossal had plunged to the ground.

“It’s already night?” Tang Yunsheng was surprised to see that the sky was already dark, not expecting him to take such a long time to recover from his injuries.

Having regained sufficient strength to protect himself, he crossed over Pine Mountain and arrived at the crash site of the flying vessel. There, he saw Branch Leader Chu getting impaled by Lu Yang’s sword, his life force extinguished.

“...This is the surprise Little Chu was talking about?”

I can’t say whether it’s a surprise, but I am definitely shocked.

Before embarking on his trip, the higher-ups of the Everlasting Creed had instructed him to pay attention to Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Man Gu, even providing him with their portraits. Now, even if he didn’t want to, he had no choice but to pay attention.

“Who are you!” Lu Yang raised his sword warily as he stared at Tang Yunsheng.

Tang Yunsheng looked at Lu Yang with an ambiguous smile. “Lu Yang, you dare to point your sword at me? I am Tang Yunsheng, the Inspecting Officer of the Everlasting Creed.”

Hearing Tang Yunsheng’s identity, he gestured behind his back for Lan Ting to swiftly leave the scene, for it would be tricky to explain her presence to Tang Yunsheng.

“Oh, it’s Inspecting Officer Tang.” Lu Yang’s tone became more polite, but he still eyed Tang Yunsheng suspiciously, clearly not fully trusting his identity yet.

Tang Yunsheng couldn’t be bothered to explain anything else to Lu Yang and instead asked, “Why did you kill Li Shouyi?”

Li Shouyi was the commandery governor of Yanjiang Commandery and Branch Leader Chu’s real name. Tang Yunsheng was used to calling him “Little Chu.”

Lu Yang replied gravely, “That’s because he nearly exposed his identity as a member of the Everlasting Creed!”

“Oh?” Tang Yunsheng looked at Lu Yang, curious to hear what explanation the latter could give.

Suddenly, there was a commotion from the foot of the mountain. Fang Qingyun was leading a large group of men to investigate the crash of the flying vessel. Among them were also physicians in charge of rescue efforts.

“Let’s leave first!” Tang Yunsheng was still seriously injured and didn’t want to run into the authorities. With a sweep of his sleeve, he wrapped up Lu Yang and the other two and escaped to a faraway place.

Tang Yunsheng skillfully took the trio to the Yanjiang Branch—the safest place in Yanjiang Commandery.

“You can tell me now. Li Shouyi has always been prudent. How did he expose his identity?”

Lu Yang revealed everything about the Lifespan-Reversal Array, then added, “Branch Leader Chu...wait, I mean, Commandery Governor Li’s plan could be considered airtight. He first made One Zhang Red a scapegoat, then set up the Lifespan-Reversal Array in secret. As long as he destroyed the small flags afterward, there would be no traces left.”

Tang Yunsheng nodded. Li Shouyi has always been cautious, and he had used the extremely obscure Lifespan-Reversal Array. The plan this time was flawless.

“But an accident still happened. The three of us opened a barbeque shop here, since such a place is best for gathering local intelligence. We noticed a disciple from the Moon Laurel Celestial Palace passing by, and she seemed to be proficient in arrays and have seen through the Lifespan-Reversal Talismans on the small flags!

“We can’t lay our hands on disciples from the Five Great Immortal Sects. As we were worried that Governor Li might get found out and implicate the whole creed, we urged him to quickly go into hiding. However, he insisted that it was a critical juncture. As he had to use the Lifespan-Reversal Array to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage, he absolutely couldn’t hide. Out of options, we could only try to kill him before the Great Xia Dynasty captures him, stamping out any potential complications in the future!

“You also noticed the people from the authorities earlier, right? The one leading them is Chief Constable Fang Qingyun. Why else did he bring so many people? They were certainly there to stop the Lifespan-Reversal Array from activating and arrest Commandery Governor Li!”

Tang Yunsheng nodded, agreeing with the trio’s actions. The matter regarding the disciple from the Moon Laurel Celestial Palace is easily verifiable, so they can’t lie about that. Li Shouyi was indeed also obsessed with rising to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Usually, branch leaders would be at the Nascent Soul Stage. It was only because Yanjiang Commandery was small that the branch leader stationed here was at the Golden Core Stage. If Li Shouyi wanted to be promoted to a branch leader of a prosperous region, he needed to progress to the Nascent Soul Stage now. This also applied to his identity as a government official. Without adequate cultivation, the path to promotion would be fraught with challenges.

Man Gu looked at Lu Yang in astonishment. It was totally not in the plan to encounter Tang Yunsheng after killing Branch Leader Chu. I have also not thought about a reason for killing him. How did Brother Lu manage to do it impromptu?

Meng Jingzhou inwardly gave Lu Yang a thumbs-up. The reason Lu Yang came up with is pretty similar to the one I’ve just fabricated on the fly.