Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 45: Don’t Forget To Use Your Youtiao As A Weapon

With one hand holding a sword in battle, Lu Yang’s other hand grabbed hold of Qi Wu’s neck and tossed him backward. “Run! There’s a door at the back!”

In the blink of an eye, Qi Wu had already been hurled three to four meters away. Just as he was about to crash to the ground, an invisible force emerged from beneath him, propping him up and setting him on the floor steadily.

“Thank you for saving me, master immortals!” After expressing his gratitude, he immediately fled outside with A’yue and the rest without any hesitation.

Although they weren’t sure of Lu Yang’s and the tiger demon’s cultivation, they knew enough that when a cultivator battled, the surroundings would inevitably be implicated regardless of the outcome. As mere mortals, being an audience for even a moment bore a heavy price—either lying in bed for the rest of their lives or lying underneath the ground.

The tiger demon’s hair was pricked up, and the “王” pattern on its forehead glowed faintly. Determined to rip Lu Yang into pieces, its attack became fiercer.

“I’m here to help you!”

The voices came from the other mountain god statues. One person held a scripture and looked like a refined scholar while the other was radiating from head to toe as if he was an enlightened monk who had forged a body of pure gold!

Man Gu lifted the scripture in his hand but found it too light. He stowed it away and took out two copies of The Great Xia Dictionary from the front of his robes.

“It feels right.”

Since Man Gu was young, the education he had received was that the Barbarian Tribe was a warrior race. Weapons could take on any form, and anything could become one’s weapon—one should use whatever felt handy.

What felt the most handy to him now were books.

“Knowledge is power!” With two dictionaries in his hand, he smashed them against the tiger demon’s head as if he was holding two bricks. Even the tiger demon was dazed, having never seen such a weapon before.

On the other hand, Meng Jingzhou needed no weapon; his body was the strongest weapon. Transforming into a golden figure, he charged at the tiger demon. The tiger-henchman ghost standing behind the tiger demon let out a blood-curdling shriek as its body began to sizzle with smoke.

The Pure Yang Spirit Root had exceptional effects toward ghosts and monsters!

Scared out of his wits, the tiger-henchman ghost no longer obeyed the tiger demon’s orders as it fled the temple and vanished into the rain.

Never had the tiger demon been this incensed.

Although it didn’t wish to engage in conflicts with cultivators, that didn’t mean that it was scared of them. These brats don’t know their place. I can easily tear them into pieces and escape somewhere else. Let’s see who can find me then.

Though it’ll be a pity to leave behind Pine Mountain. This is a favorable place with good feng shui.

With the thought crossing its mind, the tiger no longer held back. Its tail swept toward Lu Yang with a whoosh sound. Had Lu Yang continued to attack, only severe injuries would have awaited him! Swiftly coming to a decision, Lu Yang sheathed his sword and retreated. As the tiger’s tail hit the ground, the whole temple shook.

Their expressions turned grave. “It has already produced the phantom of a Golden Core!”

When cultivators formed their golden core, it usually first manifested itself as a shadow. Only after the golden core solidified did they officially enter the Golden Core Stage.

The tiger demon in front of them was clearly in the process of forming its Golden Core, and its strength was remarkable!

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“I am a mighty being at the Half-Step Golden Core Stage, yet a bunch of Foundation Establishment brats dare to harm me!”

“Half-Step Golden Core?” Lu Yang looked toward Meng Jingzhou. I’ve never heard Big Senior Sister mention this before.

The ordinary Meng Jingzhou explained, “It’s when one hasn’t formed their Golden Core but find themselves too amazing to be mentioned in the same breath as others at the Foundation Establishment Stage. They forcibly push themselves to the Golden Core Stage, but the ones truly at the Golden Core Stage don’t even give them a proper look in the eye, so they’re quite pitiful.”

The kind Man Gu added, “It’s normal for Brother Lu not to know. Our sect’s senior disciples scoff at this concept. Why do you need a transition phase for solidification? Only plebeians do that. All the senior disciples formed their golden core directly.”

The honest Lu Yang looked at the tiger demon with pity. “Pitiful, indeed.”

The tiger demon grew increasingly enraged, its eyes bloodshot. The cultivation stage I am so proud of is disparaged into nothing by these three fellows. And the worst part is that it’s their genuine thoughts!

They could have at least pretended!

The tiger demon released its oppressive pressure, making the first move to suppress the trio.

Unexpectedly, the three were completely not affected, and Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou even sneered, “We have previously experienced the oppressive pressure of a great demon at the Nascent Soul Stage who also possessed Ancient Dragon blood. How could we possibly be affected by you?”

Nothing more needed to be said for Man Gu. With the blood of the Ancient Barbarian Tribe coursing in his veins, he feared no oppressive pressure. The Ancient Barbarian Tribe was unbridled in ancient times because they had feared nothing.

The emphasis was on being barbaric.

The tiger demon gave up on mimicking how a human stood. It lowered its front limbs and crouched down until its jaw touched the ground, its eyes staring fixedly at the trio.

Boom!

The tiger demon pushed off with its hind legs, rocketing toward the trio like a cannonball. Lu Yang blocked with the Qingfeng sword in front of his chest, barely fending off the tiger demon’s sharp claws. Only after he whirled around and stepped back did he manage to negate the tiger demon’s forceful attack.

This was unlike the confrontation with the Painted Skin Ghost. The latter’s strength lay in trickery, and offense wasn’t its fortitude. Once its identity was exposed, victory would be within reach. However, the tiger demon was different.

The demon race was known for their physical prowess and resilient bodies, not to mention that the tiger demon’s cultivation was almost one main stage higher than the three of them. It was no easy feat for Lu Yang to be unscathed after blocking the attack with his sword.

Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu moved in to flank the tiger demon. However, talisman runes flickered within the tiger demon’s blood, turning into a gust of wind that flew above the two and dealt them a powerful blow.

Clouds follow dragons; winds follow tigers. The innate ability to manipulate wind elemental spells originated from his bloodline!

In the air, Meng Jingzhou couldn’t find leverage and met the tiger demon’s palm head-on. Man Gu protected himself with the dictionaries before his chest, and half of them were shredded by the tiger demon’s claws.

Lu Yang took the opportunity to unsheathe his sword, thrusting it forward tenaciously. The sword was like a bolt of lightning, reaching the tiger demon in the blink of an eye. Despite stabbing multiple times, the tiger demon’s skin was too thick to pierce through.

The tiger demon was about to burst into laughter, mocking Lu Yang for overestimating himself and being unable to penetrate even his defense when multiple sword qi suddenly erupted from within its body, causing it to bleed profusely.

They had pierced it from exactly the positions Lu Yang had stabbed—covert force sword qi! Lu Yang didn’t even need to pierce through his opponent. All he had to do was to inject the sword qi into the other party’s body! This was where demons fell short compared to physique cultivators. The former’s tenacity was only on the surface; their internal organs and blood vessels were extremely fragile!

The tiger demon retreated, not wanting to clash directly with Lu Yang’s sword. However, Lu Yang didn’t relent. After the tiger demon dodged his sword in his right hand, Lu Yang’s left hand whipped out a youtiao, smacking it right on the tiger demon’s head!

Originally, the tiger demon could have evaded the strike, but when it saw its opponent only taking out a youtiao, it let down its guard and mocked Lu Yang for being a little kid who simply took out any toy he could find in desperation.

And then he got smashed silly.

What kind of youtiao is this?!

In the few seconds the tiger demon remained in a stupor, Meng Jingzhou transformed into a mountain, slamming right into the tiger demon’s waist. The tiger demon might have seemed cunning and experienced, but it was full of flaws. Holding deep faith in its principle of avoiding fights, it would definitely flee if it could. Ever since it started cultivating, it had hardly exchanged blows with anyone.

As the tiger demon staggered backward from the force, Man Gu smashed at its eyes. The tiger demon hastily turned its head away and got hit in the cheek instead. Even a patch of its skin dropped off.

The tiger demon instinctively swung its tail at Man Gu. The latter stepped on the tail by following its momentum and was mostly unhurt. Lu Yang instantly struck with his sword several times and even used the youtiao to supplement a few hits, forcing the tiger demon to keep retreating.

Through this exchange, the trio ended up gaining the upper hand instead. The tiger demon realized that although his opponents might be young with low cultivation, they demonstrated formidable potential. That implied that they had a powerful backing, so the tiger demon began to consider retreating.

However, the trio was not going to let the tiger demon escape. If they let the tiger return to the mountain,[1] who knew how many more people would become its victims?

“Don’t go overboard with your bullying!” the tiger demon roared in rage.

The three could see that the tiger demon was prepared to fight to its death, and they secretly became more wary.

The tiger demon’s eyes widened. Acting on its backup plan, it roared until those outside could hear it. “Wifey, someone wants to kill me!”

1. This can be understood literally and figuratively as the idiom of letting a tiger return to its mountain is used here. ☜