Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 722: The Real and Fake Myriad Spells Daoist Lords

Chapter 722: The Real and Fake Myriad Spells Daoist Lords

“What did you just say?” Gu Xie wondered if he had misheard.

Why would a Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation suddenly appear?

Just who is the half-immortal here—you or me?

Besides, I haven’t heard of any lightning tribulation called the “Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation!”

What the hell is this Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation?! Did I miss it in some ancient text?

Within the Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation, Gu Xie saw the Jade Purity Heavenly Tribulation, the Cosmos Great Lightning Tribulation, and the Silent Annihilation Purple Lightning Tribulation... It was as if all the lightning tribulations had gathered together.

BOOM.

Before the Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation had even fully formed, its shockwaves already flattened one mountain peak after another. Several large rocks fell from the sky, landing near their feet.

~~~

Outside the illusory domain, Dai Bufan’s eye twitched violently.

He had originally wanted to see how the Founding Ancestor would overcome his heart devil. Before the Innate Daoist Priest’s heart devil appeared, the sudden flash of lightning nearly blinded him. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

“Whose heart devil is this?!”

Which mortal’s heart devil creates such a huge commotion? The lightning tribulation I faced to reach the Fusion Stage wasn’t even this intense!

“That Gu Junye fellow.” The River Spirit conjured a chair from water and sat down beside him with his legs crossed. He controlled all the heart devils and knew who generated each one.

Dai Bufan whipped his head around and stared at Meng Jingzhou. “You need to give me an explanation.”

Meng Jingzhou wanted to drag Lu Yang down with him, but suddenly remembered that Lu Yang had disappeared before the second round started. Could it be that bastard Lu Yang knew there’d be trouble and ran off in advance?

“They’re kids, after all. It’s totally normal for them to have vivid imaginations.”

“What’s the Founding Ancestor’s heart devil?” Dai Bufan asked the River Spirit curiously.

The River Spirit waved his hand. “He might have had a heart devil before, but not anymore. If not for him having nothing better to do than to form a team, he would have passed on his own.”

~~~

The Innate Daoist Priest truly had no heart devil. He had one during the Great Yu era, but after seeing his contemporaries imprisoned at Incarceration Peak and realizing even heart devils could be captured, his own heart devil vanished.

Gu Xie’s eyelids twitched as he watched the swirling lightning tribulation overhead. If I act, I’ll definitely expose my identity. If I don’t act, I’ll be struck dead by lightning and fail.

Why was I out of my mind to form a team with you three?

The Innate Daoist Priest had never witnessed such a massive lightning tribulation and murmured in admiration, “As expected of the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord. Even his heart devil is this powerful.”

Gu Xie’s expression was even more stunned than when he encountered the lightning tribulation. “Who is the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord?”

The Innate Daoist Priest pointed at Gu Junye. “Him. He’s the reincarnation of the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord.”

Gu Xie was dumbfounded. If he is the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord, then who am I?

Soon, Gu Xie realized that Gu Junye was an imposter.[1]

He has a death wish!

Wait, that’s not right. The world only knows that I, the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord, is a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator; they don’t know I had become a half-immortal long ago. Besides, a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator can’t possibly encounter an Immortal Ascension Tribulation!

How does Gu Junye know he’s a half-immortal?

He asked Gu Junye nonchalantly, “How do you know the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord was a half-immortal? Why haven’t I heard of that?”

Gu Junye turned his head, his eyes revealing loneliness, as if he was recalling his past life. “What half-immortal? The Myriad Spells Daoist Lord was a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator, of course.”

“How could a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator survive an Immortal Ascension Tribulation?!” Gu Xie fumed, feeling he was being toyed with.

The corner of Gu Junye’s mouth curved into a mocking smile as he said meaningfully, “Becoming an immortal means becoming an immortal. If you haven’t, then you haven’t. Where does this so-called ‘half-immortal’ come from? It’s merely the idle talk of the common folk.”

Gu Xie initially wanted to refute this, but upon deeper contemplation, he found Gu Junye’s words surprisingly reasonable.

Gu Junye paid no further attention to Gu Xie. In truth, he didn’t know about the half-immortal realm; he had simply gone along with Gu Xie’s words earlier. Gazing at the fully formed Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation overhead, he said insipidly, “No matter. Since this matter arose because of me, it shall end with me.”

Under the astonished gazes of the other three, Gu Junye slowly flew into the air and faced the lightning tribulation head-on!

He remained unyielding despite bathing in the tribulation lightning, as if a figure from time immemorial had manifested at this moment, eternal throughout time. For a moment, Gu Xie felt that the other party was the true Myriad Spells Daoist Lord and that he himself was the imposter instead.

The next moment, Gu Xie and Vast Sea Daoist Lord realized simultaneously. Gu Junye is undoubtedly a mortal. The reason he can fly and face the lightning tribulation unscathed is that this is an illusory domain!

If heart devils can be imagined, one’s own strength can also be imagined!

Having connected the dots, the two felt greatly reassured. It’s fine as long as we can rely on our imagination for strength.

The Vast Sea Daoist Lord felt that this was a good opportunity to see what his heart devil was. If he didn’t open his heart, the River Spirit couldn’t draw out his heart devil.

Gu Xie and the Vast Sea Daoist Lord instantly erupted with a massive boost in power, envisioning themselves as mortals becoming Transcendent Tribulation cultivators. They stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Gu Junye and jointly resisted the lightning tribulation.

Due to the Innate Daoist Priest’s lack of imagination, he could only watch from below.

The three joined forces to fight the lightning tribulation.

“Why is this lightning tribulation so powerful?” Gu Xie inwardly cursed after experiencing it firsthand, realizing the lightning tribulation was even fiercer than it appeared.

~~~

Meanwhile, Zhou Xing’er was also trapped in her heart devil of being berated by her mother.

“I gave birth to you and raised you for so long. Find a good family to marry into in the future; that can earn you some spirit stones and support your elder brother’s cultivation!”

Zhou Xing’er was timid and didn’t utter a word.

~~~

The lightning strikes fell, containing boundless power, as if they intended to split heaven and earth apart again to create the universe.

“This is the Jade Purity Heavenly Tribulation,” Gu Junye explained. He had seen a description of it in an ancient text sold at a street stall.

Gu Xie was struck until smoke practically emitted from his mouth. Forget about scheming to eliminate the other three; I’ll be lucky not to be eliminated myself.

The Vast Sea Daoist Lord had a Lightning Spirit Root and had his own methods for dealing with lightning tribulations, so he fared slightly better than Gu Xie.

Gu Junye had imagined himself enduring a lightning tribulation countless times. He could survive all of them except the eighty-first.

~~~

“You have a Dual Spirit Root? Perfect! You can transplant your spirit roots to your elder brother. Let him cultivate; his talent is surely higher than yours!” Zhou Xing’er’s mother continued to point at Zhou Xing’er and chastise her. She wore a shrewish expression, and spittle flew everywhere.

Zhou Xing’er kept her head down, not daring to retort.

~~~

“This is the Silent Annihilation Purple Lightning Tribulation!”

Purple heavenly lightning descended, piercing through space and annihilating all things into utter stillness. The three were blasted until they were on the brink of death.

Gu Xie was charred all over, and the Vast Sea Daoist Lord and Gu Junye weren’t much better. After eighty tribulation lightning strikes, they didn’t have a single area of intact flesh left on them.

Gu Xie glared at Gu Junye resentfully. Once I conquer the Dao-Seeking Sect, you will be the first to die!

Crack.

The eighty-first tribulation lightning fell. The three braved it with sheer willpower and finally survived it.

Thud. They crashed into the ground simultaneously and created a crater, their lives hanging by a thread.

~~~

“You’re saying a half-immortal has infiltrated the entrance trials?” Yun Zhi repeated, her eyelids lifting slightly upon hearing Lu Yang’s report.

“Yes, that person calls himself Gu Xie, but his real name is unknown.” Lu Yang was about to say more when Yun Zhi raised a hand to interrupt him.

“Wait a moment, Little Junior Brother. I sense someone has manifested me as their heart devil. Let me go and take a look first.”

~~~

“It’s finally over.” Gu Xie heaved a sigh of relief. He was worried that if the strikes continued, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from using his Incipient Dao Fruit.

An Incipient Dao Fruit is definitely not something a mortal can imagine. Using it would have exposed me immediately.

Gu Xie had blocked the River Spirit’s probing. From the River Spirit’s perspective, Gu Xie had no heart devil.

It should finally be over now.

Before Gu Xie could catch his breath, he felt an oppressive pressure descend from the sky, even more terrifying than the previous Ninety-Nine Immortal Ascension Tribulation.

He looked up and saw a female cultivator high up in the air. She had her back to the sun, her features indistinct, appearing divine and sacred.

The Vast Sea Daoist Lord’s heart devil—Yun Zhi.

1. Just a small note: they don’t use the same “gu” in their names. ☜