Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 711: Truly Two Good Kids

Hearing the youth announce his identity, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were both stunned, involuntarily taking two steps back with a dreadful sense of impending doom.

Innate Daoist Priest?

The Founding Ancestor?

Lu Yang was the first to regain his composure. He cracked the whip in his hand loudly. Sparks flew from its tip, frightening the youth until he trembled. Lu Yang smirked menacingly. “Audacious! How dare you impersonate the senior I admire most! Let me ask you, what is the Innate Daoist Priest’s real name?”

“Qi Tongtian.”

“How did the Dao-Seeking Sect get its name?”

“I spent a hundred thousand spirit stones to ask someone from the Heaven Strategy Sect to calculate the location with the best feng shui to build the sect. After learning the results, I set off but got lost halfway. I had no choice but to ask an old farmer by the roadside for directions. To commemorate this experience and thank the old farmer, I named the sect the ‘Dao-Seeking Sect.’”

“How many wives did the Innate Daoist Priest have?”

“When did I ever take a wife?”

“Why didn’t you take a wife?”

“Poor. No spirit stones. All the spirit stones were used to build the sect.”

The youth’s feet were tied as he hung from the tree. A slight breeze was enough to make him spin.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou exchanged a glance. Oh no. He answered everything correctly. It seems he really is the Innate Daoist Priest.

Lu Yang cleared his throat and plastered on a smile as he hastily lowered the upside-down Innate Daoist Priest. “The Innate Daoist Priest is the person I respect most. When I encounter difficulties in cultivation, I often recall how you established the Dao-Seeking Sect under such arduous circumstances. It truly inspires me. I thought you were an imposter just now. Please forgive me, Founding Ancestor.”

The Innate Daoist Priest was merely a mortal now. Having been hung upside down for a while, he felt dizzy once his feet touched the ground and didn’t immediately process Lu Yang’s words.

Meng Jingzhou tactfully found a chair from somewhere and invited the founding ancestor to sit.

The Innate Daoist Priest thanked them and sat on the chair for a while to recover, then suddenly realized they had addressed him as “Founding Ancestor.”

“Wait, you two are from the Dao-Seeking Sect?”

The two bowed and nodded, behaving as deferentially as they could. “My name is Lu Yang. You can just call me Little Lu.”

“My name is Meng Jingzhou. You can just call me Little Meng.”

The Innate Daoist Priest looked at the two with a peculiar expression, recalling the stories he had heard by the roadside.

“So you’re the Lu Yang who challenged higher levels at the Foundation Establishment Stage, defeating Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Divine Transfiguration cultivators?

“And you’re the Meng Jingzhou who has a steadfast Dao heart and remains unflustered despite beauties in his embrace, wholly devoted to the Dao?”

“Founding Ancestor, you must be tired after being hung from the tree. Let me massage your shoulders.”

“Let me massage your legs.”

As they massaged the Founding Ancestor, they chatted casually. “Founding Ancestor, weren’t you the one who found the Dao-Seeking Sect? Why didn’t you slumber within the sect?” 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

The sect had a tomb for the Innate Daoist Priest. No one knew he had faked his death and that his true body was elsewhere.

The Innate Daoist Priest felt like crying but had no tears. “I also never expected the sect I founded back then to last until now.”

When he established the Dao-Seeking Sect, he was only at the Void Refinement Stage. He advanced to the Fusion Stage after the sect was built. It was just an ordinary first-class sect. Who could have imagined a first-class sect would survive for 120,000 years and even thrive as time passed?

The ethos of the Great Yu era was terrible. If a sect fell, enemies would dig three feet underground, not just to search for treasures but to eradicate them by the root. If he had chosen to slumber in the Dao-Seeking Sect, and the sect was destroyed one day, he would be killed by enemies in his sleep.

Had I known the Dao-Seeking Sect would do so well, why would I have wasted so much energy to find a secret place to slumber back then?

“Then why did you disperse your cultivation to cultivate anew?”

The Innate Daoist Priest felt even more wronged. “Do you think I wanted to? I had just woken up and wasn’t fully recovered when three Great Qian cultivators burst in to rob my Golden Cicada Shell. The leader was called ‘Chess-Observing True Lord’ or something. Oh boy, those three were ruthless. If I hadn’t gambled by dispersing my cultivation to cultivate anew and escaping, my life would have ended there.”

Lu Yang’s mouth twitched. So you were the victim of the Chess-Observing True Lord’s robbery.

Meng Jingzhou said indignantly, “They’re too much! That Chess-Observing True Lord is really lawless, utterly disregarding our Dao-Seeking Sect!”

Lu Yang was even more furious. “How dare he treat our Founding Ancestor like this! If I run into him, I’d rather throw away this worthless life of mine than let him get away with it!”

The Innate Daoist Priest was deeply moved. Truly two good kids.

He continued, “After escaping, I heard the Dao-Seeking Sect still existed and had become one of the Five Great Immortals. I wanted to head there, but it’s too far from here. I needed to earn enough travel expenses first.

“Well, before I could earn enough, Great Xia’s official cultivators came pursuing me. I was about to run when you two blocked me and strung me up here.”

“What did you do? Why did you have to run at the first sight of Great Xia cultivators?” Lu Yang massaged the Innate Daoist Priest’s shoulders even more attentively.

The Innate Daoist Priest’s visage was plagued with worry. “I had to run even if I didn’t do anything. I’m not a cultivator from this era. The Great Xia official cultivators would definitely arrest me if they saw me. I figured the Dao-Seeking Sect would be safer.”

Lu Yang finally understood. The Founding Ancestor has just awakened and doesn’t know about Great Xia, judging Great Xia by the standards of the Great Yu authorities.

Great Xia didn’t arrest all archaic cultivators. For those willing to follow Great Xia’s rules, Great Xia would at most register them and wouldn’t do anything to them.

As for victims like the Founding Ancestor, they will be protected.

The Innate Daoist Priest sighed. “What a pity about my Golden Cicada Shell.”

“How did the Chess-Observing True Lord and the other two cultivators find out that you had the Golden Cicada Shell?” Meng Jingzhou asked curiously.

The Innate Daoist Priest seemed to remember something. He hammered his thigh and said furiously, “It must have been that Great Yu Alliance bunch.”

“Great Yu Alliance?” Lu Yang had a recollection of Wu Youdao mentioning this organization.

“An alliance formed by a group of Great Yu cultivators. After I awoke, they located me right away and hoped I’d join them. I thought they seemed unreliable and rejected them.

“They must have discovered I possessed the Golden Cicada Shell, but it was inconvenient for them to act directly without breaking their rules. Thus, they secretly informed the Great Qian cultivators and had them rob me, planning to snatch it back themselves afterward. That would make it legitimate.

“I reckon they didn’t expect the Great Xia cultivators to arrive so quickly. They didn’t dare act openly and had to give up.”

Lu Yang patted his chest in assurance. “Don’t worry, Founding Ancestor. If we ever bump into that Great Yu Alliance bunch, our Dao-Seeking Sect will definitely help you seek redress and reclaim your dignity!”

The Innate Daoist Priest thought, These two are truly filial, and their talent is also high. They are indeed as described in the storytelling tales—rare, excellent seedlings.

With these two around, the future of the Dao-Seeking Sect is vast. They will surely have a place in the upcoming Battle of the Great Era.

“By the way, Founding Ancestor, our mission outside is over, and we’re returning to the sect. Would you like to come back with us?”

“Absolutely.”