Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 464: Lost a Fortuitous Opportunity
The Taciturn Daoist Priest had pieced everything together after he received his disciple’s letter. A battle was inevitable. While he could hold his own against a Great Yu Transcendent Tribulation cultivator temporarily, he would undoubtedly lose out in prolonged combat.
The letter had stated that experts from the imperial court and the Five Great Immortal Sects were already en route. His task was simple—ignite a grand battle to draw the opponent’s attention and buy time until reinforcements arrived.
“Senior Chen Tao.” The Taciturn Daoist Priest glanced upward at the figure now confronting the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord, his heart settling down.
The Luoshui Guard was the imperial court’s specialized force for dealing with plundering cultivators and archaic cultivators. Among them, the strongest nine were known as the “Nine Palaces.” As their head, Chen Tao’s cultivation realm and power were unfathomable.
In terms of seniority, Chen Tao was even older than the Taciturn Daoist Priest’s shifu; he was a bona fide old monster of the cultivation world. The fact that the imperial court had dispatched Chen Tao spoke volumes about how seriously they viewed the Great Yu cultivators’ threat.
“Pah!” The Taciturn Daoist Priest spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, his face grimacing in pain; he felt as if his whole body had fallen apart.
During the fight earlier, he had used sword qi to reinforce his body, temporarily bolstering his physical resilience. But now that the sword qi had dissipated and his injuries acted up, every acupoint was bleeding, soaking his robes in blood in mere breaths.
“Truly brutal.” The Taciturn Daoist Priest fished out several pills from his sleeves, each a supreme-grade pill etched with pill marks and exuding pill fragrance, and swallowed them whole.
His wounds began to close, the pain easing. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
“Cleanse Body. Cleanse Garment.” As the Taciturn Daoist Priest cast the Body-Cleansing Technique and Garment-Cleansing Technique, the bloodstains vanished, and his robes became pristine as new, his body now feeling light.
“Seventh Senior Brother’s pills never disappoint.” The pills he had just consumed were priceless treasures that Seventh Elder had refined from the roots of Little Herb Kings. It could even be the headline item of an auction for Fusion cultivators. Since the Taciturn Daoist Priest often traveled around and was bound to run into danger, he always kept such life-saving pills on hand.
“Chen Tao of the Luoshui Guard?” The Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord’s gaze locked onto the elderly newcomer without a shred of carelessness. He could sense a lethal threat radiating from Chen Tao.
“Run!” This is no place to linger. I must escape right away!
“Let’s see where you can run to!” Another voice rang out behind the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord.
Whirling around, the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord blanched. Another Transcendent Tribulation cultivator has arrived!
From below, the Taciturn Daoist Priest recognized the new visitor—another of the Luoshui Guard Nine Palaces. “The Luoshui Guard has three Transcendent Tribulation cultivators in total, yet the imperial court has sent two at once. They’re truly going all out.” The Taciturn Daoist Priest grinned. The more people join, the lower the chances of the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord escaping.
Without hesitation, the newcomer unleashed a river of talisman runes that flowed out from the void and coalesced into chains of law, aiming to capture the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord alive.
The Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord’s heart sank. The talisman runes flow naturally and ceaselessly like a river, proof that this person has achieved major success in talismans. Once these chains weaved from the talismans bound me, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to break free in a short amount of time.
He charged skyward, desperate to breach the encirclement by the two Transcendent Tribulation cultivators.
“Trying to escape? Have you asked the Dao-Seeking Sect?!” Grandpa Ba’s voice boomed from above as he stomped downward on the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord.
Grandpa Ba stood at the array’s core, forming a blockade above Dingxin City, while Third Elders and others took positions according to the Seven Stars.
Seven Stars Converged—North Star Array!
The Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord avoided them, activating his Asura Body, which rampaged and shattered space. Just as he was about to lunge into the rift, a voice echoed from within.
“Did you forget the Prison Suppression Sect?”
From the space rift surged ancient ferocious beasts—Dijiang Bird[1], Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, Hundun Beast, and more—their mountain-sized forms exuding primeval savagery, and their features twisted as they bared their fangs.
Eight strong figures stepped out of the space rift, their bodies adorned with tattoos of these very ancient ferocious beasts.
It was the Prison Suppression Sect’s battle tattoo cultivation method!
“The Five-Elements Sect...”
“The Moon Laurel Immortal Palace...”
“The Hanging Monastery...” Though the Hanging Monastery had sent only one person, it was their Custodian Monk, whose combat prowess was no less than Qiu Jin’an’s.
Officials and generals from the imperial court also joined the fray, brimming with battle spirit as they cracked their knuckles.
Due to their high cultivation, the two Nine Palaces from the Luoshui Guard had arrived first, soon followed by Fusion cultivators from the Five Great Immortal Sects, who besieged Dingxin City until not even a drop of water could leak out.
In total, over forty Fusion cultivators had gathered. And these weren’t just any Fusion cultivators—they hailed from the Five Great Immortal Sects. Any one of them was capable of outmatching the average Fusion cultivator.
With the two Nine Palaces and the immortal sects’ Fusion cultivators, even Wu Youdao’s trio would have been reduced to punching bags. Even if the trio had obtained Wilderness Province’s national fortune and Wu Youdao’s Dragon-Tiger Qi had undergone evolution, they would still stand no chance.
To prevent another Hanshui City incident, the imperial court and immortal sects had specially mobilized overwhelming manpower to purge Ji Province of all potential threats. It could be said that if any Great Yu cultivator dared to show themselves now would face the combined wrath of the righteous path!
By the same logic, the Taciturn Daoist Priest dared not show himself either.
The people in Dingxin City had never witnessed such a sight. They couldn’t distinguish Transcendent Tribulation cultivators from Fusion cultivators, nor were they aware that any one of these figures outclassed their own city lord—a mere Void Refinement cultivator.
However, this didn’t stop them from cheering in excitement. They had been tormented under the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord’s rules for far too long, where even minor infractions would lead to death, forcing everyone to live in constant vigilance.
“Boss, I’ll take my leave first. Until we meet again.” The Taciturn Daoist Priest bid farewell to the gobsmacked teahouse owner.
In truth, the teahouse owner was a cultivator, but his cultivation was mediocre at best, so he opened a teahouse in Dingxin City to pass the time. Even he could sense that the cultivators who had just arrived eclipsed the city lord in cultivation; they were peak experts in the cultivation world. It had been nearly a hundred years since so many experts acted together. Even now, he still couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Ah, you’re leaving?” The teahouse owner wanted to urge the Taciturn Daoist Priest to stay. Just now, he spoke like he was prepared to lay down his life and go all out against the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord. So why is he leaving now that help has arrived?
“If I don’t leave now, I won’t be able to leave anymore.” Without further explanation, the Taciturn Daoist Priest slipped away while the crowd’s attention was on the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord.
“Capture him alive!” Chen Tao barked, then led the charge. Biting his fingertip, he sent droplets of golden blood flying out, each transforming into divine weapons that rained toward the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord.
“It’s been ages since we’ve seen Senior Chen Tao’s Hundred Refined Divine Weapons!” Someone from an immortal sect marveled, joining the assault with a kaleidoscope of attacks that rendered the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord helpless.
Despair took root in the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord’s heart as the chains formed from talisman runes shackled him, sealing his cultivation.
“Finally caught one!” Chen Tao smirked. Until now, Great Yu cultivators have only been captured by the Dao-Seeking Sect. This time, it’s finally the imperial court’s turn.
“By the way, where is that cultivator who tied with the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord?”
Chen Tao had directed all his attention on the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord, not registering the person who had fought with the latter.
“Ask the city lord. He must have seen him,” Grandpa Ba suggested.
Under the scrutiny of so many experts whose cultivation far surpassed his own, the trembling city lord sketched a face they all knew too well.
“Damn it! That little Taciturn brat got away!”
Everyone slapped their thighs in frustration, as if they had lost a tremendous fortuitous opportunity.
If the Taciturn Daoist Priest had stayed, what a perfect chance for payback it would have been!
“Interrogate and torture the Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord. If not for him, that little Taciturn brat wouldn’t have escaped!”
The Dawnbreaker Venerable Lord, “...”
Didn’t I hear that Great Xia cultivators get along peacefully? It sure doesn’t look that way...
1. Dijiang ☜
