Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 525: The Nine-Layers Immortal’s and the Qilin Immortal’s Dao Fruits

Chapter 525: The Nine-Layers Immortal’s and the Qilin Immortal’s Dao Fruits

“Junior Brother Lu, there’s a thank-you letter for you.” Ten days later, a senior male disciple on duty at the Great Mission Hall delivered a letter to Lu Yang, who was currently opening his mouth to devour spirit energy for cultivation.

Lu Yang opened the letter. It was from Squire Song.

The letter primarily expressed gratitude for Lu Yang’s assistance in resolving the incident with the washerwoman, which had allowed the Song Family’s business to get back on the right track.

It also mentioned the matter regarding his youngest daughter and Young Master Zhou. Squire Song wrote that after investigations, it turned out that Young Master Zhou was his biological son, while his youngest daughter, Song Lian’er, turned out to be the steward’s daughter.

As for how such a mix-up had occurred in the first place, Squire Song didn’t elaborate. Lu Yang surmised that the midwife had mixed up the babies during childbirth.

He quietly tucked the letter away. The Song Family’s relationships were so convoluted that they gave him a headache.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy commented, “This is nothing. Back in ancient times, it was all tribes and clans. Their relationships were far more complicated than this.”

“Which tribe were you from, Immortal Fairy?” Lu Yang asked casually, only to be met with an unusually long silence from her.

“...A small tribe. Nothing worth mentioning,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy muttered softly, her usual vivacity vanished. “It was gone before I came of age, destroyed by a battle between a man and a beast that implicated our tribe.”

Lu Yang fell silent. He didn’t know what to say. Saying something wrong might only make things worse.

The era before the age of the Five Ancient Immortals wasn’t idyllic times. Small tribes being crushed overnight was commonplace.

“Little Junior Brother, come here for a moment.”

Fortunately, Yun Zhi’s auditory message broke the heavy silence.

“Big Senior Sister, what is it?” Lu Yang asked upon finding Yun Zhi. The latter rarely came looking for him.

Could Shifu have been caught again and needs a guarantor for bail?

Or could Shifu have been caught again and has to be visited in prison, but Big Senior Sister is too embarrassed to go herself and wants me to go instead?

Or could Shifu have finally been caught by enemies, beaten until his life is hanging by a thread, and needs someone to save him?

“Wait for the others.”

Soon, the “others” Yun Zhi mentioned arrived at Heaven’s Gate Peak one after another—Meng Jingzhou, Tao Yaoye, Man Gu, and Li Haoran.

“Greetings, Big Senior Sister.” The four bowed respectfully upon arriving.

Yun Zhi explained, “Here’s the situation. The Five Great Immortal Sects have a tradition of student exchanges. This time, five disciples from our Dao-Seeking Sect can study at the Five-Elements Sect. You five can go there.”

Originally, the exchange was supposed to be with the Moon Laurel Immortal Palace, but Palace Leader Luo had adamantly refused to let Lu Yang set foot there. Thus, Yun Zhi could only arrange for the exchange to be with the Five-Elements Sect instead.

“Go to the Five-Elements Sect?” Lu Yang and the others couldn’t stop the corners of their mouths from turning upward at the good news, their eyes alight with excitement.

Most of them had never visited another immortal sect before.

Meng Jingzhou was also delighted, not expecting to return to the Five-Elements Sect so soon.

When Qiu Jin’an had used Meng Jingzhou’s body to strike Grandpa Ba with the Single’s Curse Fist, he promised to teach Meng Jingzhou a five-elements spell. Four months ago, Meng Jingzhou had gone to the Five-Elements Sect to learn a powerful spell from Qiu Jin’an, though he hadn’t yet found an opportunity to use it on Lu Yang.

“So who’s coming to our sect this time?”

“Shi Chan from the Hanging Monastery.”

Lu Yang had long heard of Shi Chan. It was said that Shi Chan was still working at a slaughterhouse, butchering pigs. I wonder how that’s going.

“Get ready then. You’ll set off in two days.”

“Which elder is leading us?” Lu Yang asked. Logically speaking, there should be someone leading the team. The sect can’t possibly send five juniors alone. That wouldn’t fit the rules.

“First Elder hasn’t returned since he last impersonated our shifu. Second Elder volunteered, but the Five-Elements Sect refused. Due to unresolved issues from the past, the other elders fear retaliation if they go alone.

“Therefore, you’ll be going to the Five-Elements Sect without a supervising elder this time.”

Lu Yang, “...”

Why does this trip suddenly feel so perilous? We wouldn’t be walking in and getting carried out, right?

“It’s fine. I’ve been to the Five-Elements Sect before. I’ll lead all of you.” Meng Jingzhou immediately stepped forth, seizing the chance to become team leader.

Lu Yang eyed him skeptically, suspecting that Meng Jingzhou was plotting against him. “Are you even reliable?”

“More than you.”

“Fine then.”

Lu Yang didn’t argue with Meng Jingzhou. After all, we have no better options.

“The Five-Elements Sect’s philosophy contains valuable insights worth adopting. Learn what you can,” Yun Zhi advised.”

The five chorused in agreement.

“Five elements, huh? Speaking of which, the Nine-Layers Immortal’s Dao Fruit is somewhat related to the five elements,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy mused.

“What was the Nine-Layers Immortal’s Dao Fruit?”

“The Yin-Yang Dao Fruit. It represents the extremes in the world—scorching heat and bitter cold, rapid speed and utter stillness, strength and weakness, and so forth. Its applications are complex and can’t be explained in just a few sentences.”

“And what about the Qilin Immortal’s Dao Fruit?”

“Survival of the Fittest Dao Fruit. Simply put, any technique used against him cannot be used a second time. For example, if you strike him with Cosmos in Palm, slamming him to the ground or absorbing him into your palm, his Dao Fruit would quickly adapt to that technique. If you attempt the same move again, it will no longer be effective.

“Once, when the Nine-Layers Immortal seared the Qilin Immortal with the world’s most scorching flames, the Qilin Immortal wailed in agony. However, the next time this move was unleashed, the Qilin Immortal could dance and bathe within the sea of flames.”

“So the Qilin Immortal won?”

“No. The Nine-Layers Immortal recorded the Qilin Immortal bathing and blackmailed the Qilin Immortal into surrendering.”

Lu Yang, “...”

Why does the way you immortals fight and win not quite like what I’d envisioned?

“Then, was the Qilin Immortal fine after eating your cooking?” Doesn’t this imply that the Qilin Immortal would develop immunity after getting poisoned by the Everlasting Immortal Fairy once?

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was baffled. “What do you mean by whether he was fine?! Are you insinuating that he’d get sick of eating my cooking? No, that’s impossible! As an immortal chef, I strive for innovation and make every meal a unique culinary creation!”

Lu Yang thought, Actually, Immortal Fairy, the Qilin Immortal might have preferred for you not to innovate.

“One more thing. I remember the dragon and phoenix prodigies lost to the Qilin Immortal when vying to become immortals. Were there fixed quotas for immortals?” This had long perplexed him. Is there a need to compete to become immortals? What were those people in ancient times really fighting over?

“No, that’s not the case. It was simply because those two little lasses’ Dao Fruits conflicted with the Qilin Immortal’s.”

“Conflicted?

“One of their Incipient Dao Fruits was called ‘Natural Selection Incipient Dao Fruit,’ and the other was called ‘Law of the Jungle Incipient Dao Fruit.’ Both embody rules rather close to the Qilin Immortal’s, don’t they?

“It’s just like how only one Everlasting Dao Fruit may exist. As long as I’m around, no Everlasting Incipient Dao Fruit can ever become a true Dao Fruit.

“When the rules are similar, only one Dao Fruit can exist. Thus, it was destined that only one among the three could become an immortal. The other two can at best become half-immortals who are infinitely close to immortals, but never true immortals.”