Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 26: The Origin of The Meng Family

There were numerous businesses within the Dao-Seeking Sect, offering food, drinks, and entertainment. Cultivation was not just about going into seclusion; dull and monotonous cultivation wouldn’t lead to one becoming an immortal. The necessary forms of entertainment should also be available.

One example was the Sichuan hotpot they mentioned earlier, and another was the Hundred Fragrance Restaurant they were heading to.

However, Lu Yang heard that this was not the case for the Dao-Seeking Sect in the past. Back then, cultivation meant purely cultivation and didn’t include these miscellaneous activities that would affect one’s heart to seek the Dao.

Later, the old sect leader and former elders retired, and the new sect leader and eight elders assumed their positions, bringing a transformative change to the Dao-Seeking Sect. They encouraged everyone to cultivate hard and play hard. In their words, if even such distractions could affect one’s heart to seek the Dao, then one should forget about seeking to become an immortal.

Lu Yang felt that the current culture in the Dao-Seeking Sect was unhealthy. Once I become a higher-up in the sect, I must organize a reform.

The Hundred Fragrance Restaurant was bustling with people. Many Dao-Seeking disciples who had completed their missions or finished an arduous session of cultivation liked to gather here for a meal and share their insights regarding cultivation and their missions.

Just the taste of the food alone was already better than the dining hall.

“Waiter, we previously reserved table nine. Serve the three sets of utensils and dishes as I’ve ordered earlier.”

“Got it, please wait a moment.”

Upon reaching the second floor, the aroma of the dishes from other tables wafted into their noses, greatly boosting their appetite.

Lu Yang had been staring at the waiter for a long while, only retracting his gaze after the waiter disappeared at the entrance of the stairway. He realized that he couldn’t tell the waiter’s cultivation.

Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye looked around, both curious about this place. The former had meals at Heaven’s Gate Peak while the latter could cook, so they didn’t have a need to come here.

On the other hand, Meng Jingzhou was fairly familiar with such places. “You’ve never come here before, right? Let me tell you, there are loads of delicious food here. There’s only food you’ve never imagined before and no food you can’t find. Check out the menu.”

Lu Yang looked at the menu and flipped open to the first page, quickly drawn to its contents.

There were no dishes on the first page but only a prominent notice: “This establishment only sells prepared dishes and not raw ingredients. We seek your understanding.”

The second page was the main part, listing dishes with two types of prices—contribution points and spirit stones.

"Steamed Lightning Tribulation Liquid: Essence left behind during a cultivator's lightning tribulation; greatly beneficial for becoming enlightened with the Dao of Thunder and Lightning."

"Braised Ice Abyss Giant Elephant in Soy Sauce. The Ice Abyss Giant Elephant lives in the frigid far north. They are the dominant species in the Extreme North. An adult can crush glaciers with a single foot and remain standing upright against avalanches."

"Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry: Our shop offers various types of eggs including ordinary chicken eggs, eight treasure chicken eggs, and golden great peng bird eggs."

Noticing the prices, Lu Yang couldn't help but click his tongue. These items were clearly not meant for Foundation Establishment cultivators like them. Besides, they also couldn't afford them. However, there were things he could afford, such as stir-fried Fasting Pills.

Tao Yaoye saw Lu Yang’s furrowed brow and thought he was shocked by the prices. She couldn't help but ask with a smile, "What's wrong? Did you come across some problem?"

"Look, the meaning of fasting is to consume the spirit qi of heaven and earth instead of eating meals. Taking Fasting Pills allows one to fast."

"That's right." Tao Yaoye nodded.

"Then do you think that eating stir-fried Fasting Pills counts as eating or fasting?"

Tao Yaoye and Meng Jingzhou were both stunned. At first, they thought that the question was nonsensical, but upon further contemplation, they found it oddly profound.

The three called the waiter over and asked if he knew the answer. The waiter was also stumped. Despite working here for such a long period of time, it was his first time encountering a customer asking such a question.

Is it because I took too long to serve them?

"The prices here aren't low. Do you have enough contribution points?" Lu Yang didn't dwell on the question about the Fasting Pills. Instead, he was worried whether they had sufficient money for the food.

Meng Jingzhou had only completed three missions, so he couldn’t have earned that many contribution points. It also feels like it’s in Meng Jingzhou’s character to invite me and Tao Yaoye to a big meal only to end up washing dishes to make up for the bill.

"What contribution points? Of course, we’re using spirit stones," Meng Jingzhou said in the tone of a wealthy person.

Tao Yaoye gave Lu Yang a slightly surprised look, wondering why he would worry about the Meng Family lacking money. "Haven't you heard of the Meng family?"

Lu Yang was baffled. "Is Meng Jingzhou’s Meng Family very famous?"

The Central Continent is so vast that cultivators can spend all their lives exploring it and still not be done. There are multiple families and clans with the surname Meng. How would I know which one Meng Jingzhou is from? He had known Meng Jingzhou for a while now, but he had never heard him talk about his family.

When Meng Jingzhou came to the Dao-Seeking Sect for the entrance trials, not even a single senior member from his family accompanied him. Lu Yang had thought that Meng Jingzhou’s family had waned and needed Meng Jingzhou who had a Single Spirit Root to restore the family.

"The most famous one."

Lu Yang's pupils contracted. He now knew which Meng family Meng Jingzhou belonged to. There were many Meng families, but the most famous one was the Meng Family of the capital city. "The Meng family of the imperial city that once fought alongside the ancestor of Emperor Xia and established the Great Xia Dynasty?!"

Lu Yang was truly shocked. The Meng Family of the imperial city had a significant background. A hundred thousand years ago, when the world was in turmoil, it was often said that heroes emerged in turbulent times. The ancestors of the Meng Family and Emperor Xia led an uprising, fighting across the land for dominion, giving birth to a legendary story that was widely praised.

Even until now, the story was still popular among storytellers in teahouses and on opera stages.

A hundred thousand years ago, the previous dynasty was beset by internal strife and external threats, culminating in its fall and the start of a turbulent era. Demons and sea beasts left their territories, desiring to obtain a slice of the prime land that was the Central Continent.

The ancestor of the Meng Family rose from their ancestral land in the east, waging wars across countless li. The demon beasts fleeing from slaughter escaped back to the Demon Region, the sea beasts went back to hiding in the eastern sea, and traitorous officials and bandit heroes bowed their heads to them.

The Meng Family’s ancestor led the army for a thousand years, conquering half of the Central Continent, becoming one of the two hegemons of the land.

The other hegemon was the ancestor of Emperor Xia, who had conquered the other half of the territory. Emperor Xia’s ancestor had also driven away barbaric tribes and demon beasts, playing a part in ending the turbulent era. Each of them governed half the land, and they both made similar meritorious achievements.

At the time, people thought that the two hegemons would either rule each half of the Central Continent or start an all-out war for dominance. Thus, various strategists began to calculate which side had a bigger advantage and how the other weaker party could overcome the difference in strength.

What the people didn't expect was that both the Meng Family’s and Emperor Xia's ancestors felt that the continent had already suffered a thousand years of chaos. People were in a miserable plight, and blood flowed like rivers—it was a living hell. If the war continued, who knew how many more years of turmoil there would be and how many more would die?

They fought not for the imperial throne but to return peace to the world.

As such, the Meng Family’s and Emperor Xia's ancestors abandoned their armies and fought a decisive battle as cultivators in the expansive starry sky. During that battle, the heavens and earth almost collapsed, the sun and the moon lost their brilliance, and massive stars fell. In the end, Emperor Xia's ancestor gained a slight edge and became the final victor.

The Meng Family’s ancestor accepted the defeat and conceded. At that time, Emperor Xia's ancestor publicly declared that as long as Great Xia existed, the Meng Family would never perish.

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And so it was. After the Great Xia Dynasty was established, the Meng Family settled in the capital city and was never oppressed.