Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 682: Issue With Form of Address

The Void Emptiness Supreme Lord was shocked and furious.

This grandson Jiang Ping’an is truly a bastard! You’re already an immortal, yet you still have the shame to propose a one-on-one fight?

I’ll fight you one-on-one, your grandmother!

Yun Zhi hadn’t been sitting in the monarch chair for long before the Void Realm shattered.

The Void Emptiness Supreme Lord was beaten by Jiang Ping’an beyond recognition. Abilities like limb regeneration and revival from a drop of blood all failed at this moment. His injuries increased visibly, unable to heal.

Thud. The Void Emptiness Supreme Lord was tossed to the ground.

Jiang Ping’an let out a long breath and wiped non-existent sweat from his brow, as if he had just been through a fierce battle. “Void Emptiness, I didn’t use any tricks, this time, did I? It was a one-on-one fight that relied on true skills. You should be completely convinced of your defeat now, right?”

After becoming an immortal, Jiang Ping’an hadn’t had the chance to show off to an old acquaintance. He had waited a hundred thousand years for this opportunity, not expecting to finally achieve it today.

Satisfying.

If the Void Emptiness Supreme Lord wasn’t in so much pain that he couldn’t stand up, he would have pounced on Jiang Ping’an to bite his throat.

“This chair is quite nice. Who crafted it?” Jiang Ping’an noticed the monarch chair that Yun Zhi was sitting on. If I weren’t advocating for a simple life recently, I’d want such an imposing chair.

“A local specialty from the Demon Region, a gift from my Little Junior Brother.”

“I remember your Little Junior Brother is called Lu Yang?” Jiang Ping’an rarely paid attention to matters outside, only hearing Yun Zhi mention him during their conversations.

“Yes, I have high hopes for him. He has already brought me many surprises. For instance, capturing Void Emptiness this time was partly his credit. He will surely have a place in the upcoming Battle of the Great Era.”

Jiang Ping’an chuckled. “I’ve never heard you speak so highly of anyone, fellow Daoist.” Hearing that Lu Yang helped capture the Void Emptiness Supreme Lord, Jiang Ping’an formed a favorable impression of this young cultivator he hadn’t met.

“There is another person whose future is also destined to be extraordinary.”

“Who?”

“A junior brother sent by the Meng Family.”

Jiang Ping’an clicked his tongue in amazement, sounding envious. “Why can’t our Jiang Family produce such talent?”

Aside from himself, the old ancestor, the Jiang Family’s most talented individual was the First Imperial Prince, Jiang Qun, who reached the Fusion Stage before a thousand years old. However, he was far from earning Yun Zhi’s appraisal of “extraordinary.”

Hearing their conversation, the Void Emptiness Supreme Lord suddenly recalled the Meng Family’s descendant he had seen in Chunjiang City.

It’s him?

What luck does Meng Junzi have? His character is nothing special, yet he has such an outstanding descendant!

At the time, he only noticed that Meng Jingzhou was a descendant of the Meng Family and didn’t pay further attention. Judging by her evaluation of him, this descendant of the Meng Family must be a cultivation genius, at least a half-immortal like myself.

“How do you plan to deal with Void Emptiness?”

“His heart is not righteous. Releasing him would be like freeing a tiger back to the mountains, leading to endless future troubles. I plan to strip him of his physical body and suppress his soul at Incarceration Peak.”

Unlike the Everlasting Immortal, a half-immortal without prior offenses and with remorse, the Void Emptiness Supreme Lord merely submitted to power temporarily, so he mustn’t be released.

Jiang Ping’an nodded. He had no objection to Yun Zhi’s approach. If it were him, he would do the same. The Void Emptiness Supreme Lord was determined to oppose his rule. Releasing him to the outside world could easily stir up further incidents, destabilizing the national fortune and giving other forces an opening to strike.

“Fellow Daoist Jiang, there’s one more matter I’d like to hear your opinion on.”

“Let’s hear it?” Jiang Ping’an was somewhat surprised. He noticed Yun Zhi’s brow furrowing almost imperceptibly when she said this, something that had never happened before.

“I have a good friend named Yun Mengmeng. Recently, she learned that she wasn’t born to her parents in the normal way. Instead, an immortal with the power to grant life had created an immortal entity, and her mother used it to give birth to her. How should she address this immortal?”

Jiang Ping’an inhaled sharply. Despite having lived a hundred thousand years, he had never heard of such a thing.

“I don’t know either.” Jiang Ping’an pondered for a long while but couldn’t figure out the appropriate form of address.

Having achieved her purpose at the imperial palace, Yun Zhi didn’t linger further. She carried the Void Emptiness Supreme Lord back to the Dao-Seeking Sect as she still needed to interrogate the two half-immortals, especially the Nightmare Supreme Lord.

As a half-immortal from the late Great Qian era, he must know many secrets. Setting aside distant matters, even the situation with the Twins River was previously unknown to Yun Zhi.

Jiang Ping’an waved goodbye. “Take care, see yourself out. I’ll visit in prison when I get the chance!” 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

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Seeing Yun Zhi return to Incarceration Peak, the prisoners grew tense again.

Without a word, Yun Zhi pressed a hand each on the Nightmare Supreme Lord’s and the Void Emptiness Supreme Lord’s foreheads and gently pulled. Just like that, the two felt their bodies lighten as their souls separated from their physical forms.

The childlike grand-shifu smiled, his eyes almost forming slits, as he dragged away the two empty corpses. These are excellent materials for refining magical treasures.

Yun Zhi gazed at the two coldly. “You have two choices now. Either truthfully disclose all the information you know, or don’t expect to keep your souls—they’ll be perfect for refining magical treasures. Using half-immortal souls as materials can count as contributing to the artifact-refining community.”

Having encountered numerous people, they could tell at a glance that Yun Zhi wasn’t bluffing.

“We’ll confess everything.”

Yun Zhi nodded, satisfied with their attitudes. She confined them in separate, isolated rooms for individual interrogation.

She first interrogated the Nightmare Supreme Lord.

“Where did you learn about the Twins River?”

“I saw it in an ancient text. It recorded both the Twins River and the Mother-Child River. But I only learned the Twins River’s location; I have no idea where the Mother-Child River is.”

“Where did you obtain the ancient text?”

“After leading my army to breach the Great Qian imperial palace, I found it in the imperial study.”

Historical texts recorded that the Nightmare Supreme Lord breached the Great Qian imperial palace and proclaimed himself emperor. This resulted in everyone vying for supremacy under the pretext of crusading against a renegade, and he was ultimately defeated by the rising new talent, the Yu Emperor.

Great Qian was the dynasty closest to ancient times. The ancient texts in its imperial study likely exceeded the total of all extant ancient texts today.

“Where is that ancient text now?”

“I burned it after memorizing the contents.” The Nightmare Supreme Lord was very nervous.

“Hmm?” As expected, Yun Zhi wasn’t satisfied with this answer.

The Nightmare Supreme Lord hastily explained, “It’s true! My subordinates can attest to it! At the time, I thought even if I failed to seize the empire, the knowledge would be in my mind, and my opponents would spare my life for that information.”

In fact, this consideration stopped the Yu Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor from delivering a fatal blow; they held back and gave him a chance to escape.

“What were the cultivation levels of the founding Yu Emperor and the first Imperial Preceptor?”

“When they fought me, they were definitely half-immortals. But whether they became immortals later, I don’t know.”

“What do you mean?”

“After surviving the great battle, I didn’t fall into a slumber directly. Instead, I hid in the shadows, watching how Wu Yao rose to an emperor step by step.”

Wu Yao was the first Yu Emperor.

“Wu Yao presided over the nation-founding ceremony. At the grand ceremony, the winds and clouds shifted, and various unusual phenomena arose. Thunder clapped incessantly, and even heaven and earth were lit up with tribulation lightning. The scribes recorded that as a symbol of Wu Yao’s brilliance and the Great Yu Dynasty’s establishment aligning with the will of heaven and earth."