Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 203: The Paradox of the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage

After a night of rest, Lu Yang yawned as he stepped out of his cave abode, feeling completely refreshed. His face glowed with vitality like he had been revived.

“Mmm, I’m alive again!” Lu Yang stretched his body, feeling that his body was surging with power. A good night’s rest really does work wonders.

Lu Yang recalled the destruction of the Everlasting Creed vividly, as though it had happened just yesterday.

He noticed the Everlasting Immortal Fairy sleeping soundly inside his mental space. When she was sleeping, she exuded a sense of serene elegance. Along with her unparalleled beauty and curves, she perfectly fit the image people had of an “immortal fairy.”

When the Everlasting Immortal Fairy doesn’t speak, she can easily bluff those who don’t know her.

It’s a rare moment of quiet.

“Do souls need to sleep too?” Lu Yang remembered that the Yellow Millet Dream Pillow the Everlasting Immortal Fairy used and could only attribute her sleeping to her “personal interest.”

Sensing the hazy morning light, the speed of the spirit energy in him involuntarily flowed faster, as if new energy was coursing through him. “I’m almost at the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage,” Lu Yang mumbled to himself.

He sat cross-legged as he silently activated the Clear Heart and True Nature Mantra. As the spirit energy in him followed the path of his cultivation technique, it flowed faster and faster, constantly cleansing him and strengthening every part of his body.

Lu Yang tried to use this opportunity to strengthen his hair but to no avail. “I wonder how Meng Jingzhou managed to train his hair.” He remembered Meng Jingzhou using his hair to knock his opponent from the Five-Elements Sect and achieving outstanding results.

Casting away all distracting thoughts, he settled down and let himself become one with nature. Spirit qi from heaven and earth continuously streamed into him while he exhaled spirit qi back to them.

Throughout this process, his cultivation realm climbed without stopping.

“Hmm? What are you doing? Cultivating?” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy woke up, rubbing her eyes in a daze. She could sense Lu Yang’s cultivation stage rising, yet something felt amiss.

“No, I’m trying to advance to the next stage,” Lu Yang explained seriously. “I’m already at the Half-Step Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage.”

“Oh, so you’re almost at the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage?”

“Soon, a question came to mind.”

“What’s that?”

“Since I’m now at the Half-Step Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage, if I take a half-step of the half-step, wouldn’t I be closer to reaching the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage?”

“That’s right.”

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“Then if I take a half-step of the half-step of the half-step, wouldn’t I be even closer?”

“That’s right.”

“If I keep taking such half-steps forever, wouldn’t I keep getting closer to the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy nodded blankly.

“I keep breaking through, but I still can’t reach the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage. Does this mean that the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage is just an elusive realm that no one has actually reached?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy furrowed her brow as she contemplated for a moment. I’m probably half-asleep. I should go back to sleep. With a tilt of her head, she continued to sleep.

After she fell asleep, Lu Yang continued pondering this philosophical question. What exactly is the answer? Is it meaningless for me to keep breaking through? Could it be that the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage doesn’t even exist?

The puppet hiding in the dark could no longer watch on. It sneakily ran up behind Lu Yang and delivered a kick to him.

As Lu Yang relaxed at that moment, he successfully took another half-step.

Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage!

“Who kicked me?!” Lu Yang spun around deftly, but the puppet had long fled.

However, even if it had already escaped, Lu Yang could still guess that it was the puppet’s doing. Aside from Lu Yang, the puppet was the only one that could move on Heaven’s Gate Peak.

“Forget it, it’s beneath my level to bother with it. I’ll go to the Great Mission Hall to redeem my rewards!” Lu Yang reckoned that even if he found the puppet, he wouldn’t be able to defeat it. Getting beaten up first thing after breaking through isn’t worth it.

That’s inauspicious.

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Only after Lu Yang waited at the entrance of the Great Mission Hall for a while did Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu rush over. It had also been very tiring for the both of them; they had slept straight through from last night until now.

Meng Jingzhou headed into the Great Mission Hall to buy premium fodder which he would mix according to the proper ratio before feeding his old horse later.

“The Ice-Making Talismans are so cheap! I’ll have twenty!”

Lu Yang looked at Meng Jingzhou in surprise. “Why are you buying so many low-grade Ice-Making Talismans?” These Ice-Making Talismans were only effective against those at the Intermediate and Advanced Qi Training stages, mainly to fill up the list of items on the board.

“Hehe, that you don’t understand. We’re now entering summer, and do you know what’s most important in summer? Coolness!”

Man Gu was puzzled. “But don’t the cave abodes have a Summer-Heat Relieving Array? Isn’t that enough?”

Meng Jingzhou waved his index finger. “Come, I’ll demonstrate it for you.” He whipped out a wooden barrel from his identity jade tablet and filled it with cool water. Then, he jumped in with a splash, leaving only his head exposed.

As he took out an Ice-Making Talisman, the entire barrel of water instantly froze into ice, freezing him inside.

“Refreshing!” Meng Jingzhou shouted. His whole body had turned into an ice block, with only his head able to move. The sensation was so exhilarating that he felt he could fly.

This was the benefit of being a cultivator. Had it been an ordinary person, they would have gotten sick from the cold by now.

Lu Yang’s eyes lit up. He yanked Meng Jingzhou out of the wooden barrel along with the ice block, then pushed it down, sending it rumbling across the Great Mission Hall.

Such an artistic display was rare even in the progressive Dao-Seeking Sect. It immediately attracted the attention of numerous senior disciples.

“Lu Yang, you bastard!” Meng Jingzhou cursed out loud. He felt as if the whole world was spinning around him, and he couldn’t differentiate north from south.

As Lu Yang continued rolling the ice block, he explained. “You don’t understand! What was the biggest problem when the three of us fused? It was being unable to handle too much spinning! We can use this method to train ourselves and get used to spinning in advance.”

Man Gu nodded by the side. As expected of Brother Lu. He is truly quick-witted. I thought that he was purely messing with Brother Meng.

Meng Jingzhou held a dissenting opinion. “Anyone can talk about the theory. Lu Yang, if you’re so capable, let’s switch places. I’ll push you!”

“You were the first to get frozen, so you should train first!” Lu Yang was not getting fooled. What a childish provocation tactic.

In the end, it was a senior male disciple on duty in the Great Mission Hall who stopped Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou with a foul expression. Only then did the two become obedient and go back to redeem their rewards.

“Give me one Ten-Buffalo Strength Pill.” Lu Yang saw a golden core version of the Ten-Buffalo Strength Pill which cost one thousand five hundred contribution points and bought it without hesitation. This price is definitely a bargain!

“Hmm? A Golden Core Stage Experience voucher? What is this?” Meng Jingzhou discovered something strange; even the description was nebulous. He mused, “Could this be for Foundation Establishment cultivators to temporarily enter the Golden Core Stage and experience what it’s like?” There were instances of expert cultivators letting their disciples experience a higher cultivation realm in advance to benefit their future cultivation.

Lu Yang egged him on. “Just buy one and try it out. It’s not like there’s anything to lose.”

Meng Jingzhou felt that Lu Yang made a valid point. It’s not expensive anyway. I’ll just buy one.

He ran to the reception and found the senior male disciple on duty. “Senior Brother, I would like to use this experiential voucher.”

After the senior male disciple ascertained that it was real, he nodded. “You can use it now.”

Meng Jingzhou asked curiously, “Senior Brother, what is this experience voucher for?”

As the senior male disciple contacted someone, he casually replied, “It lets you experience the combat power of a Golden Core cultivator.”

Meng Jingzhou immediately had an ominous feeling. Just as he was about to say something, he felt a pat on his shoulder.

He turned around to see a Golden Core senior male disciple with a bald head. He had a benevolent countenance and revealed a neat row of teeth as he smiled. “Junior Brother, I heard you want to experience the combat power of a Golden Core cultivator? Come, let’s fight on the stage outside.”

Meng Jingzhou, “...”

Lu Yang, you set me up!