Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 729: Why Insist on Seeking Your Own Death?

“Oh no!” The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord felt an ominous feeling welling within, as if the puppet wasn’t raising a hoe but a sharp heavenly saber.

“Yellow Springs Secret Art!”

As the hoe descended, the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord hastily employed a life-preserving secret art, transforming his entire body into Yellow Springs water.

The Yellow Springs water was split by the hoe. The two water spheres retreated backward and merged back into one before reforming into the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord’s figure.

“Huff, huff, huff...”

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord looked at the puppet with lingering fear. It was just a swing of the hoe, yet it had forced me into a desperate situation and a life-and-death peril.

How could the Dao-Seeking Sect have a puppet of this level?

To his knowledge, even the Puppeteer Sect, one of Great Xia’s S-class sects and the most skilled in crafting puppets in the current age, couldn’t produce a puppet like the one before him.

Who exactly crafted it?!

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord’s eyes flickered with a trace of fear. The Dao-Seeking Sect’s foundation is truly terrifying. Even while facing an invasion, they still have the capacity to guard their treasury with a Transcendent Tribulation-level puppet.

Soon, the fear in his eyes vanished, replaced by thick mockery. I’m not someone who can be scared off by a mere puppet. This puppet is made of a special material that is extremely hard; it’s difficult to dismantle it by brute force.

“But the gap between a puppet and a cultivator cannot be bridged by puppeteering techniques alone!

“I hereby establish the rule: [Within Heaven’s Gate Peak, spirit energy cannot be used to activate magical treasures.]”

Transcendent Tribulation cultivators possessed the ability to establish rules. No matter how brilliant the puppeteering techniques, they would hit walls everywhere when faced with the power of rules.

Puppets fell under the category of magical treasures. There were two ways to activate a puppet: one was to have a puppeteer control them secretly, and the other was to have the puppet move autonomously.

A Transcendent Tribulation-level puppet required the puppeteer to have cultivation minimally at the Fusion Stage.

If this puppet before me is controlled, the puppeteer definitely isn’t at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage.

If this puppeteer were at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage, they would control the puppet while also participating in the fight themselves, which isn’t happening.

If it is not controlled by a puppeteer, a puppet operating autonomously is merely an inanimate object and no match for me at all!

The wooden puppet was crafted based on a female appearance, but its creator had not carved any facial features.

It tilted its head slightly. Although it couldn’t display any expression, one could imagine a look of confusion on its face.

Bang!

The puppet punched the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord right in the face. It caught him off guard and knocked out two of his front teeth.

“How is this possible?!”

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord was so flustered that he ignored his lost teeth. He was certain the established rule was active. Moreover, he had set a small range for the rule, such that it has strong binding power, preventing even himself from using magical treasures.

Yet this puppet can move freely!

The puppet clearly had no intention of explaining. It kicked the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord and sent him tumbling.

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord’s gaze grew increasingly fierce. He had originally wanted to end the fight quickly. After all, he had secretly sneaked into the sect, and if he was discovered by the Dao-Seeking Sect, it could alert those in the bamboo forest, shifting the battlefield here.

But I can’t afford to care so much now.

“Netherworld specters and wraiths, the Yellow Springs ferry them, three sighs at the Naihe River of Forgetfulness!”

The Yellow Springs spawned, corroding the earth. Thousands of ghosts and evil spirits roamed, emitting resentful sighs. Their grievances soared skyward, nearly materializing. Heaven’s Gate Peak seemed to transform into a living hell.

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord didn’t hold back. This was his ultimate move, and the method by which he had dominated an entire era with a proud smile. Cultivators of that time would fall into trepidation and despair upon hearing the words “Yellow Springs.”

This technique was too ostentatious. Whether it was disciples taking shelter in the Dao-Seeking Sect’s core areas or the elders fighting in the bamboo forest, they all noticed the commotion at Heaven’s Gate Peak.

At first, they grew tense, realizing an enemy had infiltrated. But when they saw the location was Heaven’s Gate Peak, they acted as if nothing had happened and continued engaging their current opponents.

The puppet appeared as if it hadn’t seen the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord’s move. Holding the hoe, it strode forward and stepped into the corrosive Yellow Springs without any damage to its feet.

The malevolent ghosts living in the Yellow Springs howled and swooped toward the puppet. But it simply swung the hoe, dispelling all ghosts and evil.

“How is this possible?!”

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord was dumbfounded. This is my strongest move! The puppet can’t possibly be unscathed!

The puppet swung the hoe. Its movements were simple yet unavoidable. Each strike carried the terror of heaven collapsing and earth cracking. In no time, it had beaten the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord black and blue.

Seeing the hoe with the aura of death being raised again, the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord didn’t hesitate. Ignoring the side effects, he unleashed the Yellow Springs Secret Art once more and sped toward the summit of Heaven’s Gate Peak.

I can’t get tangled with it any longer. Only by finding the Yu Emperor’s immortal treasure can I find a way to break out of this situation!

The puppet watched the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord flee and did not pursue him.

“It’s right here!” The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord sensed an intensely rich treasure aura. It’s getting closer and closer!

Charging through a grove of trees, he followed the treasure aura to a cave. He punched the cave entrance open, and the treasure aura immediately spilled out. This was a peerless fragrance he had never smelled before!

The Yu Emperor’s treasure is here!

The Dao-Seeking Sect’s treasury was vast and comprehensive. The further in he went, the more precious the items became.

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord ignored those Fusion and Transcendent Tribulation-grade treasures. He reached the deepest part of the treasury, where he saw immortal artifacts casually placed on the ground. His eyes were filled with avarice.

“The Immortal Dao Array Diagram, the Immortal-Exterminating Sword Array, Nine-Dragon Big Dipper Shield...”

Suddenly, as if he sensed something, he looked up at a fruit placed on a desk. His body began to tremble uncontrollably.

As the Myriad Spells Daoist Lord’s aide, he had once seen him display his Incipient Dao Fruit. It was an ethereal fruit containing the Dao of longevity and myriad spells along with the power of time; it was infinitely profound and wondrous.

But the fruit on the desk was complete and not ethereal in the slightest. It was perfect and flawless.

The Myriad Spells Daoist Lord’s long sigh from that time was still etched in the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord’s memory.

“Only a solidified fruit is a true Dao Fruit. When will my fruit become complete?”

Now, a solidified, complete fruit lay before his eyes, yet immense panic surged within him.

Is this the legendary Dao Fruit?

Why is it here?

The immortal artifacts here were relics left by the Yu Emperor. Then what about this Dao Fruit?

Has the Yu Emperor really gone to the outside world?

Various doubts flooded his mind, accompanied by an indescribable sense of horror.

A long, drawn-out sigh sounded.

“Why insist on seeking your own death?”

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord whirled around. At the cave entrance stood a female cultivator holding a cup. The aroma wafted through the air, seemingly encompassing the charm and flow of Dao.

This was freshly picked Wudao Enlightenment Tea from this year, also the highest-quality Wudao Enlightenment Tea in the world.

The female cultivator sipped her tea delicately, blowing away the Dao essence in the aroma, as if she hadn’t been the one who spoke just now.

The Yellow Springs Venerable Lord tried to speak, but found his body rigid and immobile like a clay statue. He could only watch helplessly as the female cultivator walked toward him step by step.

The female cultivator extended a finger and touched the Yellow Springs Venerable Lord’s forehead. His body dissipated bit by bit until it turned into nothingness.