Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 423: Ghost Calamities

“Old Lu should break through in three to five days. You just have to wait.

“Recently, Hanshui City has seen multiple ghost calamities. If you’ve nothing much to do these few days, you could catch ghosts around the city. They can be converted to contribution points when you return to the sect. I’ll write you a letter of proof.” Elder Gai chuckled, showing considerable favor to these three juniors.

“Ghost calamities?” Lu Yang was bewildered. With a provincial governor overseeing Hanshui City and the Corpse-Driving Sect’s support, what kind of ghosts would dare show themselves?

Elder Gai sighed. “Wasn’t the previous provincial governor reported and arrested? A whole group of officials was also implicated, leading to a major reshuffling of personnel in Wilderness Province’s bureaucracy.

“Right when this happened, numerous ghost calamities emerged throughout Hanshui City. Even rules can’t suppress them completely. It’s probably due to Fusion cultivators opposing us in secret.

“The newly appointed provincial governor could barely stabilize his footing before this crisis hit. His countermeasures weren’t appropriate, and the ghost calamities couldn’t be contained.

“Since the Nine-Netherworlds Creed specializes in commanding ghosts, the provincial governor suspects they are secretly responsible. Strict investigations are ongoing, though they have yet to produce significant results.

“The Corpse-Driving Sect is a renowned major sect in Wilderness Province. We should naturally take responsibility by encouraging disciples to handle these ghost calamities. These ghost scourges are not low-level enough for you to manage. Of course, you can also choose to stay here and study Corpse-Driving Techniques. The choice is yours.”

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou exchanged glances, spotting the suspicion flashing in each other’s eyes.

How could the Nine-Netherworlds Creed be secretly responsible? They’re too busy running the barbeque business to stir up trouble. Are they dissatisfied with how much money they’re raking in?

No matter who has caused the ghost calamities, as Dao-Seeking Sect disciples, we ought to deal with it.

After the group bid goodbye to Elder Gai, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s voice echoed in Lu Yang’s mind. “That old man just now wasn’t a living person but a walking corpse. The craftsmanship is pretty brilliant.”

“Who?” Lu Yang thought he had misheard.

“The old man we just met.”

Lu Yang’s mind raced through countless possibilities before locking onto the most chilling one. Elder Gai had died, yet no one knew, and someone refined his corpse to create the illusion that he’s still alive.

“Brother Zhao, I saw that Elder Gai seemed a bit...unusual,” Lu Yang probed cautiously.

Zhao Po gave him a thumbs-up. “Keen eyes, Brother Lu! You actually saw through that! The one seated just now wasn’t my shifu but a walking corpse he refined.”

“What’s this about?” Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu perked up with interest.

Zhao Po explained cheerfully, “Since we Corpse Drivers constantly come into contact with corpse energy and deathly energy, our bodies lose the yin-yang balance, where yin energy rises while yang energy weakens, causing us to become frail. Even ordinary cultivators have stronger physiques than us, much less physique cultivators like Brother Meng.

“A Corpse Driver’s entire cultivation is reflected in their refined walking corpses. For safety reasons, once Corpse Drivers reach the Divine Transfiguration Stage, they stop showing up in person, letting the walking corpses do so in their stead. It’s not just my shifu who does that. All the elders in the sect interact with the outside world through walking corpses. No one knows where their true bodies are. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

“Besides, most Corpse Drivers dislike socializing, fear strangers, and are reticent. Using walking corpses to act on their behalf suits them perfectly, so why wouldn’t they do that?” Corpse Drivers interacted with corpses all year round and were mostly introverted. Zhao Po was an outlier.

“So that’s how it is.” Lu Yang realized he had overcomplicated matters.

“Shall we visit our sect’s study hall first, or should I accept some missions, and we can go settle the ghost calamities together?”

Lu Yang’s lips curled into a smirk as he declared solemnly, “Settling the ghost calamities naturally takes priority! Old Meng has a Single’s Spirit Root and Double Single’s Golden Cores—any ghost that sees his pure yang body will flee without a trace! With Old Meng stepping in, taking care of these ghost calamities will be easy!”

Although Lu Yang rarely complimented him and was speaking the truth, Meng Jingzhou just couldn’t bring himself to be happy. You’re the one with a Single’s Spirit Root! Your whole family has Single’s Spirit Roots!

Sometimes, Meng Jingzhou genuinely wanted to pummel Lu Yang with a set of the Single’s Curse Fist, but he didn’t dare to do so. His instincts warn him that if he went through with it, it would exacerbate his karmic backlash. It’d be truly irreversible then.

Hmph, Lu Yang? Just you wait, I’ll let you have a taste of fist techniques once I ascend to an immortal!

“Does that mean we can accept any Golden Core missions?” Zhao Po pondered. With us four Golden Core cultivators stepping in, we can easily sweep through the Golden Core ghost calamities missions.

Lu Yang waved his hand. “Be bolder and think bigger. We can take on Nascent Soul missions too.”

Zhao Po was stunned, but he soon understood. If the four of us join hands, dealing with Nascent Soul ghosts should be no problem. “Alright, I’ll get the Nascent Soul missions then. Please wait here briefly.”

After Zhao Po stepped away, Lu Yang fished out his Nine-Netherworlds Token to contact Vice Creed Leader Shi.

One of the Heavenly Kings of our Heavenly Court Creed has come across ghost calamities in Hanshui City of Wilderness Province. The provincial governor suspects your creed’s involvement—is this your doing?

After waiting a while, there was still no response. Lu Yang thought Vice Creed Leader Shi was busy and didn’t pay attention to the Nine-Netherworlds Token. Just as he was about to stow it away, it heated up and displayed lengthy text.

Lu Yang didn’t know what to say. “So it wasn’t because he didn’t see my message—he was too busy scribbling away like a madman.”

Vice Leader Shi’s response read:

This is pure slander! Those bastards from the imperial court are placing the blame on us and dumping a basin of poop on our heads again! Our creed leader fully agrees with what you have proposed, Young Creed Leader Lu. With the Nine-Netherworlds Creed shortage of powerful cultivators, we should concentrate on cultivation to increase the number of cultivators from the Fusion to the Transcendent Tribulation stages. All our creed’s activities have come to a standstill while we focus on opening chain stores and expanding our franchise to earn money. This is the creed leader’s decision.

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At a branch of the Nine-Netherworlds Creed, Vice Creed Leader Shi fumed after reading Lu Yang’s question. “We don’t even have time to earn money, so where would we find the time to cause ghost calamities? What would we gain? This is not the first or second time the imperial court is slandering us! Whenever there are unexplained incidents, they’ll pin it on us diabolic creeds! As if we’d have spare time for this!” He ranted while replying to Lu Yang. If the Heavenly Court Creed misunderstands that our creed didn’t care about the big picture and acted on our own, it will jeopardize future collaboration.

After he was done, he felt the need to explain a bit more to Lu Yang, but found that the Nine Netherworlds Token was no longer working. “Five-day cooldown? So troublesome.”

Vice Creed Leader reclined against his chair and gazed at the ceiling when he suddenly slapped his forehead. “Hai, why am I worrying about this? Isn’t the creed leader in Wilderness Province?”

Producing another Nine-Netherworlds Token, he relayed Lu Yang’s message and asked the creed leader how he intended to handle the issue.

The creed leader’s reply came swiftly:

I’m in Hanshui City.

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