Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 72: Three Heroes of the Diabolic Creed

Lu Yang was sixth in the line of ten interviewees. He had also noticed that the people in front of him would run out at the speed of a hundred-meter sprint after entering the examiner’s room, after which they would run back again, repeating this process a few times.

“What kind of strange interview question is this?”

Lu Yang was not one to sit still. Although the rules forbid him from asking the other interviewees about the contents of the interview, there was no rule about going out to take a look.

He asked a rogue diabolic cultivator next to him who was resting with his eyes closed, “Do you want to go out and take a look?”

The rogue diabolic cultivator glimpsed at Lu Yang in contempt and said nothing. How could diabolic cultivators act in groups? This guy must be trying to trick me. No way. Not going.

Not receiving a response from the other party, Lu Yang became sympathetic. He’s handsome, but it’s a pity that he’s deaf. What is he going to do when he can’t hear the examiner speak during the interview later?

Seeing no one pay any attention to himself, Lu Yang headed outside, where he was greeted by a bustling marketplace. One could find vendors selling fruits, eggs, pork, and all common types of food here. The hawkers would set up stalls or push small carts and peddle their goods.

“I’ll have an apple.” Lu Yang bought an apple and rubbed it before eating. As he munched on the apple, he observed the actions of the interviewees.

The third person happened to run out to see if there was anyone selling potatoes. Upon spotting a potato vendor, they immediately ran back to report to the examiner.

In less than three minutes, this person came running out again. They asked the old man selling potatoes how many jin of potatoes there were in total and how much each jin cost.

Another three minutes passed. It was still the same person. They had run out to inspect the quality of the potatoes.

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Afterward, the fourth person came. Their process was practically identical to the third person’s. The only difference was that he made four trips as he wasn’t as quick-witted as the third person.

Lu Yang continued to chew on his apple, deep in thought.

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“Next, Fang Hao,” the plump examiner called.

Fang Hao was the person Lu Yang had invited to go out together with earlier.

“Here!” To Lu Yang’s surprise, Fang Hao was actually not deaf.

“Go to the marketplace and see if there’s anyone selling potatoes.” The plump examiner repeated his usual trick.

Fang Hao hastily dashed out. He was taking quite the time to come back, something the plump examiner found puzzling.

Just as the plump examiner was getting impatient, Fang Hao returned. “There’s no one selling potatoes in the marketplace.”

“How many jin of potatoes...wait, what did you just say? There’s no one selling potatoes?”

Fang Hao didn’t understand why the plump examiner had such a huge reaction, but he still nodded. “That’s right. I ran around the marketplace twice to make sure that there was nobody selling potatoes.”

“That’s impossible!” The plump examiner thought that Fang Hao was lying to him. He hurriedly ran out with Fang Hao following closely behind.

As soon as the plump examiner stepped outside, he saw Lu Yang pushing a cart of potatoes. The cart read “potatoes not for sale.”

Meanwhile, the old man who was supposed to be selling potatoes was happily counting his silvers.

Seeing the plump examiner, Lu Yang ran with the cart of potatoes.

The plump examiner was furious. What am I going to do with the remaining interviews with the potatoes gone?

“Stop right there!!”

Lu Yang passed.

~~~

“This is preposterous!” The vice creed leader flew into a rage, wild and frightening aura waves emitting from him. The whole hall shook, and ripples formed on the water surface, obscuring the scenes of the live broadcast.

The exam I’ve meticulously designed is riddled with flaws in front of these two scourges! It’s an absolute disgrace!

The creed leader calmly intervened to suppress the vice creed leader’s aura waves. It wasn’t easy for us to find a place to build this hall. If we get discovered by the righteous path because of a mere matter like this, that would totally be a joke.

The creed leader advised, “Don’t get angry so easily. Their current selves have forgotten everything else except for their task to find a way to pass the trials. As a diabolic creed, what we’re particular about is killing people to revive the Everlasting Immortal. How can we kill people because of something like this? Besides, these two people are rare talents who can blaze a new trail. Ever since the inception of the Everlasting Creed, there haven’t been major breakthroughs. I feel that these two people are our hope.”

The vice creed leader thought to himself, That means that there is no hope left for the Everlasting Creed.

The creed leader said with slight excitement, “Speaking of which, Man Gu, as well as Meng Jingzhou and Lu Yang, they’re all from Yanjiang Commandery, right? I didn’t expect three talents to appear in a small place like Yanjiang Commandery. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call them the Three Heroes of the Diabolic Creed. With these Three Heroes, our sect will be stronger than ever like a tiger that has grown wings!”

The vice creed leader muttered softly, “Like a tiger that has grown wings? Isn’t that a qiongqi[1]? Even a qiongqi can’t defeat the righteous sect.”

The creed leader glared at him. “Shut up, you didn’t have to show off that you’re cultured.”

The vice creed leader obediently shut his mouth.

~~~

At Yanjiang Commandery, eleven administrators were trying their best to maintain the great array. Close to a hundred rogue diabolic cultivators stood rooted to the spot, their eyes vacant and in a daze. Their consciousness was undergoing the trials on behalf of their physical body.

Maintaining the great array was too boring, so the administrators began to chat while ingesting Qi Restoration Pills. “Qin Yuanhao has disappeared for so long that he’s probably dead.”

“He’s definitely dead. We just don’t know how he died. I’ve said a long time ago that with this fellow constantly scheming and thinking that everything was under his control, it was only a matter of time that he would offend an enemy, and they would find a dark, windy night to get rid of him.”

“Qin Yuanhao’s body hasn’t been found either.”

“Did one of his enemies kill him?”

“What else then? It can’t possibly be his benefactor turning on him and killing him, right? Those in our line of work have no benefactors.”

“Why did I hear that the night Qin Yuanhao died, he went to have a whale of a time in the brothel with Big Mouth Wang?”

The administrators chuckled.

Just as Qin Yuanhao had wished, Big Mouth Wang had gone around spreading rumors of how he and Qin Yuanhao were a force to be reckoned with, battling it out all night long with no mercy in the brothel.

Then, Qin Yuanhao died.

Hence, rumors of Qin Yuanhao dying from exhausting his energy spread in Yanjiang Commandery. Qin Yuanhao could probably rest in peace if he learned about this in the underworld.

“I wonder how many people in this batch will pass the trials.”

Although there were many people participating in the initiation ceremony, those who could pass the trials and successfully join the creed were a different matter. Having one out of ten make it was already a decent number.

To become administrators, they had all passed similar trials, so they understood the difficulty within.

With the vice creed leader personally organizing it this time, the difficulty level will definitely go down in history!

“Only the branch leader knows the results.” The eleven people turned to look at the branch leader who was in a meditative state.

The branch leader had made use of the great array constructed by the Everlasting Creed to enter the mysterious space. All branch leaders were able to view their respective branch’s performance.

As Lu Yang and the other two displayed exemplary performance, the branch leader was so thrilled that it seemed like a chrysanthemum had bloomed on his face. However, he was wearing a mask, so no one could see how ecstatic he was.

He excitedly mumbled, “If these three people can successfully pass and earn high praise from the higher-ups, the Yanjiang Branch’s year-end performance will definitely be among the top! If I push it a bit more and improve my cultivation, maybe I can be transferred to a wealthier place as branch leader, or I may even be directly promoted to Hall Leader!”

After the three rounds of trials ended, the vice creed leader and creed leader assessed the new members with outstanding performance. For example, their evaluation of Qin Yuanhao was “diabolic nature to the bone.”

The branch leader believed that Lu Yang and the other two would receive a much higher appraisal than Qin Yuanhao.

It’s so obvious at a glance that these three aren’t any good eggs!

1. Just in case, here’s a refresher: Qiongqi is one of the Four Fearsome Beasts. I suppose it does somewhat resemble a tiger with wings. The tiger demon in earlier chapters was said to have some Qiongqi blood in them. ☜