Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 79: Everlasting Immortal

Fortunately for Chi Xulong and the others, they were crafty veterans who wouldn’t disclose the diabolic creed’s secrets just because they were locked up. Otherwise, Branch Leader Chu would have considered silencing them.

Branch Leader Chu sent word for Lu Yang and the other two to head to the Yanjiang Branch for their initiation ceremony.

As for those dim-witted bunch of fools, let them sit in prison for ten days first to cool off.

Branch Leader Chu was sitting lazily on a jade chair. Looking up at the three people standing in front of him, he complimented, “Your idea of opening a barbeque shop is a good one; keep it up. This is a channel for us to establish connections with the authorities.”

Branch Leader Chu dismissed the attendants. As they were entry-level members of the creed and hadn’t gone through trials, they weren’t qualified to be privy to the diabolic creed’s secrets.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you all to pay your respects to the Everlasting Immortal.”

Branch Leader Chu led them to another place with a floating stone. On it were buildings from an unknown era. Eroded by the tide of time, they had already collapsed. The ambient light made it look oppressive and stifling. Treading through the ruins gave a heavy feeling of walking through history.

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Even the erudite Meng Jingzhou couldn’t discern which era the buildings had been constructed. They definitely don’t belong to these one hundred thousand years ruled by the Great Xia Dynasty! Meng Jingzhou was secretly stunned. Could they be from the Great Yu Dynasty?

Historical books recorded that the last emperor of the Great Yu Dynasty led a debauched lifestyle. The court fell into pieces and the world was plunged into chaos. That was when the Meng Family’s ancestor and the Great Xia Emperor’s ancestor rose in revolt and sought to vie for dominion over the Central Plains.

The Dao-Seeking was established 120,000 years ago during the Great Yu Dynasty, but that was at its peak, when its position was unshakable.

At the end of the buildings was a statue about four meters tall. It looked similar to the one in Qin Yuanhao’s house. Its face was blurred, and it was clad in long robes, making its gender indiscernible.

It was none other than the Everlasting Immortal.

Branch Leader Chu held up three lit incense sticks and bowed to the Everlasting Immortal. He turned to the trio and told them, “Sit in meditation for an hour to dispel any adulterated thoughts.”

The three incense sticks weren’t ordinary goods. After inhaling the scent, their restless hearts surprisingly calmed down.

Dispelling adulterated thoughts was basic for the three of them. Branch Leader Chu nodded slightly upon seeing how fast they settled their hearts.

Even with the help of the precious incense, their speed is still amazing. Most diabolic cultivators are impatient and irascible, cultivating just their bodies but not their hearts. These three are indeed hard to come by. They probably encountered a fortuitous opportunity somewhere before.

If it had been in the past, Branch Leader Chu would have stopped at nothing to get his hands on their fortuitous opportunity. However, these three people were different. They were of key interest to the creed leader. He didn’t have the courage to make a move.

An hour later, the three of them woke up and followed Branch Leader Chu’s instructions to pay their respects to the Everlasting Immortal. After completing the elaborate steps, the three of them were now officially followers of the Everlasting Creed.

Branch Leader Chu said with his hands behind his back, “Before joining our creed, you might have only known that we Everlasting Creed worship the Everlasting Immortal and that becoming followers could extend your lifespan. You probably know little about the Everlasting Immortal.”

The three nodded. They had no clue about the Everlasting Immortal; this was, in fact, the only immortal they had ever heard of.

Branch Leader Chu reverently went into detail, “The existence of the Everlasting Immortal is a taboo. He has lived through the ages alongside heaven and earth, witnessing the ups and downs of this world. Even if his physical body perishes, his immortal soul decays, and only a sliver of his spirit light lingers in the mundane world, as long as someone still remembers him, he can come back to life, everlasting for eternity!”

The trio’s hearts were thunderstruck. They didn’t know how much of what Branch Leader Chu had said was true.

As long as someone still remembers the Everlasting Immortal, he will be undying and imperishable? This has never appeared even in the legends! To have such divine wonders, he truly deserves the title of “immortal.”

Branch Leader Chu continued, “Having attained enlightenment and become an immortal in ancient times, he is cognizant of ancient secrets through the ages, and the power he possesses is far beyond what us plebeians can oppose.

“Now that the Great Era is upon us, the old monsters buried in the wilderness are crawling out of their coffins. If we want to survive in this Great Era, we can only resurrect the Everlasting Immortal to protect us!”

Lu Yang hesitated for a bit before asking, “So how are we resurrecting the Everlasting Immortal?”

“The Everlasting Immortal attained enlightenment through battles and became an immortal through slaughter, something he delights in. We have to stir up war in this world and please him through the death of millions. This is just the first step. The subsequent steps are not what someone at your position can have access to.”

“Millions of deaths?!” Meng Jingzhou was flabbergasted. How many lives would that be? You can’t even use “corpses strewn across the ground” to describe the carnage!

“Is that a lot? Not at all.” Branch Leader Chu shook his head. Most people would have similar reactions upon hearing this number, but after regaining their composure, they would change their minds. With how expansive and boundless the Central Continent was, millions of people might seem like a lot, but when they averaged it out, they would realize that it was just one death in every few thousand people.

“Do you know how many people die from exhaustion every year? How many people die from suicide after being driven to their wits’ end? How many people die from illnesses? How many people die due to medical treatment by quacks? How many unclaimed corpses does the Great Xia Dynasty discover every year?”

Branch Leader Chu sneered. “Do you know? Of course not! That’s because the Great Xia Dynasty doesn’t dare to announce the real numbers!

“If we don’t revive the Everlasting Immortal, who’s going to protect the vast Central Continent? When the old cultivation monsters awaken one after another, the death toll won’t be just this number of people.”

“Is the Ancient Great Era really so terrifying?” A chill seeped into the depths of Lu Yang’s heart.

Branch Leader Chu didn’t answer, simply signaling for the three to follow him. He went around the Everlasting Immortal’s statue and passed through an area of ruins, explaining as they walked, “These ruins date back to ancient times. Through the corrosion of time, they have crumbled and become dilapidated.

“Ten thousand years ago, the creed founder discovered this place by chance and learned of the Everlasting Immortal’s existence. The era of the Everlasting Immortal is so distant in the past that people have forgotten about the immortal who once protected the world. It was the creed founder who brought the Everlasting Immortal back into this world! The creed founder replicated the ruins and preserved them at the various bases. This is one of them. It has since been ten thousand years.”

Meng Jingzhou thought to himself, No wonder I couldn’t tell. Turns out it’s a replica of ancient ruins. Only legends from ancient times have been passed down to the present; very few things have survived until now.

Branch Leader Chu stopped at a stone wall. “It’s right here. This is the scene of a sacrificial ritual from ancient times.”

The first thing they took in from the stone wall was the Everlasting Immortal, who had his arms wide open. There were countless orbs of myriad sizes at his chest. Some of them even had ring-shaped objects around them, though their purpose remained unknown. Each orb had a small figure kneeling on it, holding up tributes to be offered to the Everlasting Immortal.

“What are these orbs? And why are the people standing on them?” Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu were bewildered.

Lu Yang’s pupils dilated upon seeing the mural. These orbs resemble the celestial bodies from the previous era, and the ring-like objects should be meteor dust.

Branch Leader Chu slowly explained, “These are called planets. In ancient times, there was no Central Continent. All races lived on planets.

“At the end of the ancient era, an unfathomable existence refined all the planets into what is now the Central Continent!”

His words sent shock waves through the trio!