Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 971: Big Brother Heaven Mandate

Lu Yang retreated half a step, then realized that leaving now was too late, so he stepped back in.

“Who are you?!” The Heavenly Centipede Daoist Priest’s expression shifted drastically when he saw Lu Yang create a stable spatial channel. What level of powerhouse is he?

“He... he is Lu Yang!” With how far and wide Lu Yang’s reputation had spread, even his portraits had been circulated within the Demon Region.

Sealed away for a hundred years, the Heavenly Centipede Daoist Priest naturally didn’t recognize Lu Yang, but that didn’t stop the fear from setting in.

“Leave quickly, all of you. Let me handle this.” Lu Yang shooed the minor demons.

Noticing that their eyes kept darting toward Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi, he added, “There’s still hope for her; I can save her. Go now.”

Only then did the little demons hastily flee the ancient tomb.

“Seniors, stop crying, and stop sleeping. Get up, please,” Lu Yang said helplessly.

Had I known what transpired here, I would have arrived a little later.

Now, it’s too late for all that.

With Law Follows Words, Lu Yang brought Ao Ling back to life. She sprang up nimbly from the ground. “Senior Brother, what brings you here?”

Jiang Lianyi stopped crying and no longer deliberately emanated her phoenix aura.

“I found an old friend who wishes to meet both of you.” Lu Yang raised his hand to show the black ancient ring. “Right here.”

“Which friend?” The two women were curious. It was rare for them to meet an acquaintance from their era.

“It’s the Heaven Mandate Immortal.” Lu Yang didn’t keep them in suspense.

“Big Brother Heaven Mandate?!” The two were astonished, their faces lighting up with joy. They had thought that Lu Yang might have found someone like the Little Qiongqi, not the Heaven Mandate Immortal, who was extremely close to their husband.

“But should we first deal with this Golden Core centipede?” Lu Yang’s gaze fell upon the Heavenly Centipede Daoist Priest. “What has this centipede done?”

“We happened to pass by and heard that this centipede had committed many evil deeds and was sealed here, so we decided we might as well get rid of it.”

Lu Yang remarked inwardly, And you decided you might as well recruit a group of minor demons to set the scene and build up the atmosphere, did you? But since you are my junior sisters, I won’t call you out.

The Heavenly Centipede Daoist Priest shuddered. Although he didn’t know the trio’s true identities, he could feel the oppressive pressure exuding from them.

Even the Intermediate Nascent Soul old demon I encountered more than a century ago didn’t possess a fraction of the terrifying oppressive pressure these three emit.

And did I just hear him mention the Heaven Mandate Immortal?

Who is he? An ancient immortal playing around in the mortal realm?

Did I violate some heavenly law? Why do I have to be hunted, besieged, and intercepted by three mighty experts the moment I emerge?

I’m a Half-Step Nascent Soul cultivator, not a half-immortal!

Had I known, I would have continued sleeping in the coffin.

“You three...”

Lu Yang levitated the broken half of a sword from the ground, infused it with a wisp of sword qi, and casually tossed it behind him. It pierced the Heavenly Centipede Daoist Priest’s brow. With two strangled sounds, the centipede collapsed into the coffin, fitting neatly inside.

The two women and Lu Yang entered the ancient ring. There stood the Heaven Mandate Immortal at the edge of a precipice overlooking the ocean, one hand behind his back and the other hanging naturally at his side. His white robes billowed in the sea breeze as endless waves crashed against the shore.

The Heaven Mandate Immortal turned, his gaze steeped in the vicissitudes of three hundred millennia. “Two younger sisters-in-law, it has been a long time; three hundred thousand years. How have you fared?”

Even without seeing his face, his bearing alone told the two women who he was. Overjoyed, they exclaimed, “Big Brother Heaven Mandate!”

Separated for over three hundred thousand years, their reunion in this small world filled them with a joy beyond words.

“Big Brother Heaven Mandate, we never expected you to be here!”

“You two are as close as biological sisters, just like in ancient times.”

“Big Brother Heaven Mandate, what exactly happened back then? Where have you been all these years?”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal gazed upward. “It’s a complicated story. Sit, all of you. I’ll explain slowly.”

He controlled the small world, conjuring five chairs, and invited them to sit and enjoy the sea breeze.

“Here’s what happened back then...”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal recounted the tale from the beginning, omitting the details of Hui Doudou, merely mentioning that they had encountered a powerful enemy they couldn’t defeat and had been forced into hiding.

Jiang Lianyi was unaware of Hui Doudou’s existence. If the Heaven Mandate Immortal told her, she would also end up on the hit list.

“To think so much has happened. It sounds like you’ve also endured much hardship these three hundred thousand years, Big Brother Heaven Mandate.”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal had hidden in the ancient ring’s small world, searching for trustworthy cultivators to gather intelligence while waiting for the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s resurrection. It was certainly far from as easy as he made it sound. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

“Aiya, I won’t call that hardship. I still manifested myself before people daily, just as before.”

“And the one who had his body taken over...” The two women hesitated, not daring to finish the sentence. If it were the Qilin Immortal who had his body taken over, what then?

The Heaven Mandate Immortal fell silent. He couldn’t pat his chest and guarantee that the one who had his body taken over wasn’t the Qilin Immortal. If it truly was the Qilin Immortal who had his body taken over, and the two women trusted him, only to fall victim, what then?

“Don’t worry, it’s fine! Lu Yang and I will definitely find the one whose body has been taken over!” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy stepped forward to ease the tension.

Lu Yang looked at the Everlasting Immortal Fairy as if he had seen a ghost. Immortal Fairy, you can say what you like, but can you not drag me into it? With my puny frame, do you think I’d dare get involved with the mastermind?

“That’s right. The Immortal Fairy and I will definitely find who it is!” Knowing the Everlasting Immortal Fairy meant well, Lu Yang went along with it.

The two women had witnessed Lu Yang’s skill and luck before and were confident he was absolutely reliable. “Then we’ll have to thank you in advance, Everlasting-jiejie and Senior Brother Lu Yang.”

Next, the Heaven Mandate Immortal recounted his encounter with the Specter Lord, then with Lu Yang and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, eventually following Lu Yang to the Dao-Seeking Sect, where he met Yun Zhi.

When the two women heard that he had offered to let Yun Zhi have three moves, they involuntarily sat up straight.

We’ve got to give it to Big Brother Heaven Mandate; even Everlasting-jiejie in her prime wouldn’t dare offer to grant Yun Zhi three moves, would she?

“Ahem, don’t look at me like that. I genuinely didn’t expect her to be that formidable.” It was rare for the Heaven Mandate Immortal to be embarrassed, and he averted his gaze. “I’d assumed she was at most at the same level as Qilin. Who would have thought that she would be this powerful? Looking back, she must be Yun Mengmeng, the creed leader of the Heavenly Court Creed.”

The two women glared indignantly at the Heaven Mandate Immortal. “When you fought our husband all the time, you never offered him three moves.”

“Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue.” The Heaven Mandate Immortal smiled ingratiatingly. He quickly changed the subject. “By the way, I heard that Zhu Tian is now the monarch of the Demon Kingdom. I didn’t expect him to have also slumbered until now. My small world has been lacking furniture; this is a perfect chance to have him craft some.”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal could craft furniture by reshaping the small world, or he could also ask Lu Yang to buy some from the outside world, but in terms of comfort, nothing could match Zhu Tian’s craftsmanship.

“Who would have imagined Zhu Tian to still be alive in this era? When Lianyi told me he was still around, I thought she was joking.” Ao Ling chuckled.

Since Zhu Tian was under the influence of Jiang Lianyi’s Law of the Jungle Incipient Dao Fruit, she could sense his location. She pinched her fingers to focus. “Zhu Tian is in the Demon Kingdom’s capital. Shall we go over now?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had revealed herself to Zhu Tian before, and she was aware of Lu Yang’s true identity. There was no need for them to be secretive when meeting him.