Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 725: Gu Xie Is Unable to Endure It Anymore

The conflagration had appeared suddenly. Seeing the dire situation, Gu Xie knew that if he burned to death here, there would be no need to talk about filial piety.

Moreover, I’m currently a mortal and can’t use my powers.

It’ll be too late if I wait for the fire to die out or for rescue. There’s only one way to survive.

Gritting his teeth, he adjusted his posture and jumped down from the top of the granary.

My luck isn’t bad; I only broke my leg.

A day later, Gu Xie lay there in despair, devoid of all will to live. No one in the family was taking care of him. He didn’t even have the right to lie on a bed and could only lie on a straw mat covered with a straw “quilt.”

“Son, are you alright?” His father seemed to be concerned.

Gu Xie remarked, I’m lying here like this, and you ask if I’m alright? If you hadn’t set the fire, would I have been nearly burned to death?

If this were reality, he would have killed this “father” several times over now. But this was part of the trial testing filial piety. He could only suppress the rage in his heart and force a smile. “Father, I’m fine.”

His father breathed a sigh of relief. “I told you we didn’t need to get medicine from the physician—what a waste of money. You’ve been strong since childhood; you’ll recover even without medicine.”

“Father is right.”

During mealtime, Gu Xie’s stepmother complained in a shrill voice, “When will he get better? We can’t afford to keep a useless person in the house.”

Three months later, Gu Xie finally recovered and could work in the fields.

Another three months passed. Gu Xie’s father approached Gu Xie, saying that other families had wells, but they didn’t, and that he planned to have one dug.

This task naturally fell to Gu Xie. His father and stepmother couldn’t bear to let his younger brother do the work.

Gu Xie was physically strong. Grunting with effort, he swung the shovel and managed to dig a well three or four meters deep in half a day.

Just as Gu Xie wanted to rest for a while, a shovelful of dirt landed on his head. He looked up and found his father and younger brother filling the hole.

“What are you doing? I’m still down here!”

His father and younger brother turned a deaf ear, speeding up their shoveling to bury Gu Xie alive.

Gu Xie was furious. They’re not even pretending anymore!

Fortunately, while digging the well, he had carved small footholds into the wall to serve as a ladder. In a few quick moves, he used them to leap out of the well, startling his father and younger brother.

Covered in dust, Gu Xie demanded, “What are you doing?!”

His father quickly regained his composure. “We didn’t know you were down there.”

Gu Xie glared at his father hatefully. If not for this being a test, I’d bury this whole family alive!

Time passed.

Gu Xie seemed to have forgotten the two life-threatening crises and his family’s bullying. He remained respectful to his parents and kind to his younger brother. Unfortunately, his father contracted a serious illness that ultimately couldn’t be cured. His younger brother married into another family and moved to the city, never contacting them again.

In contrast, Gu Xie appeared extremely filial and was renowned throughout the village as a paragon of filial piety. Later, the story of Gu Xie’s filial piety reached the county, and the county magistrate promoted him to a constable to commend him.

Somehow, Gu Xie’s mother developed a gambling addiction. As a constable, Gu Xie ran into her multiple times during raids on gambling dens and secretly let her go each time. The county magistrate eventually found out and dismissed Gu Xie from his post.

Gu Xie successfully married and had children, living with his mother. Unfortunately, good times didn’t last long. His mother gambled away the family fortune. It was winter, and the family had no money and food for everyone.

Gu Xie’s wife discussed it with him. “We can give birth to more sons, but we only have one mother; let’s bury our son.”

Gu Xie agreed with his wife’s idea. One night, they went to dig a pit. Before they had dug deep, the shovel hit something.

“A jar?”

The couple opened the jar and found it full of glittering gold!

They were over the moon. With this jar of gold, we no longer have to bury our son, and our family can even become wealthy and famous!

His wife knelt on the ground, believing their filial piety had moved the heavens.

With the gold, Gu Xie’s family soon lived a life of luxury, moving into a large residence. Gu Xie’s mother lived out her remaining years in comfort and passed away peacefully.

Half a year later, the true owner of the gold found Gu Xie’s family and demanded they return it. However, they had already spent all the gold, and there was no way to return it. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Gu Xie was thrown into prison.

The illusion ended.

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Gu Xie woke up, finding himself to be the last one to do so; Gu Junye and the others had awakened long ago.

Dai Bufan shook his head lightly upon seeing Gu Xie wake up. “You failed.”

“I failed?” Gu Xie was stunned. How did I fail when everything was fine? Everyone and all the villages within ten li knew about my filial piety!

“Putting aside that you still treated your family with respect despite their multiple attempts to murder you...

“...let’s talk about your stepmother’s repeated gambling. You didn’t stop her and even abused your authority for her. Not to mention your subsequent plan to bury your son, constituting an interrupted act of intentional homicide. In addition, you used the gold you unearthed to let your stepmother live out the rest of her life comfortably, making it impossible to return the gold, constituting the crime of misappropriation.“

Failing alongside Gu Xie were his aides. However, they weren’t as patient as he was. Under their families’ incessant bullying, they snapped and killed their entire families, never holding out until the constable stage.

Gu Xie pointed at Gu Junye and the others. “So they all passed?”

“Of course, they passed.”

Dai Bufan felt that letting Gu Xie leave directly might trigger him to take extreme actions, so he snapped his fingers and replayed Gu Junye’s illusion.

After Gu Junye jumped off the roof and broke his leg, he directly reported his parents to the county magistrate. The county magistrate deemed the parents guilty of attempted intentional homicide and sentenced them to ten years in prison.

He passed.

“Where is the filial piety in that?!” Gu Xie roared in rage. I clearly remember the third round tests filial piety.

“Letting one’s parents understand that they must not harbor malice toward others and that wrongdoing deserves its due punishment naturally aligns with filial piety.”

Dai Bufan replayed the Innate Daoist Priest’s illusion.

The Innate Daoist Priest was digging a well. When he saw his father and younger brother trying to bury him alive, he jumped out of the well and killed them both.

He passed.

“He killed people and still passed!” Gu Xie had also wanted to kill his father and younger brother at the time but had restrained himself.

“That was justifiable self-defense.”

Gu Xie pointed angrily at his subordinates who had failed. “Then why did they fail for killing people?”

Dai Bufan patiently explained, “Justifiable self-defense requires urgency. They endured bullying over time, resulting in anger building up in their heart until they finally snapped and erupted violently. They killed because of a minor incident at the time, which lacked urgency. It doesn’t constitute justifiable self-defense.

“Accumulating anger with no outlet is not the path of cultivation.”

Noticing that Gu Xie’s emotions were somewhat out of control, the Innate Daoist Priest stepped forward to offer consolation, though somewhat shyly. “Fellow Daoist Gu Xie, you’re too kind-hearted. How could you endure others wanting to kill you? That’s not good. You need to be decisive in killing, like me.”

Gu Xie could no longer suppress his fury. Ever since he started participating in the trials, he had suffered humiliation after humiliation. First, I was struck by lightning eighty-one times for no reason in the second round, then beaten to a pulp by Yun Zhi, leaving me with numerous fractures and not a single skin intact. Later, in the third round, I endured humiliation for the sake of filial piety, only for the Dao-Seeking Sect to tell me I failed and that I’m too kind-hearted!

They’ve gone too far with the bullying!

“Kind-hearted your grandfather!” Gu Xie wanted to send the Innate Daoist Priest flying with a sweep of his sleeve.

He had originally planned to pass the trials, enter the core areas of the Dao-Seeking Sect, and break it from within. Who would have thought that not a single member of our Great Yu Alliance would pass, experiencing a complete wipeout!

The ultimate disgrace!

I won’t endure it anymore! You all must die!

“How dare you harm others?!”

The Vast Sea Daoist Lord realized something was wrong the moment Gu Xie’s killing intent surged. This Gu Xie has been hiding his true strength! He boldly struck out, colliding with Gu Xie’s sleeve.

The two forces clashed, their energy shooting upward into the firmament.

You dare to kill the Old Ancestor? You must be tired of living!