Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 743: Sealing the Bloodline

Upon hearing that she could go to the East Sea with Lu Yang, Tao Yaoye happily agreed.

Li Haoran was the same. Upon hearing they could go out, he immediately agreed, fearing Lu Yang might change his mind.

“Go to the East Sea? Great, great.” Man Gu’s eyes lit up, but then he remembered something and showed a troubled expression.

“What’s wrong?” Lu Yang asked.

“Isn’t the East Sea full of sea tribes? Brother Lu, you know my bloodline. Although it becomes extremely powerful when fighting sea tribes, it also enrages them. I’m worried that as soon as I arrive at the East Sea, I’ll be surrounded by sea tribes before I even do anything.”

Lu Yang recalled that this was the blessing the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had bestowed upon the Ancient Barbarian Tribe.

“That is indeed a problem... Immortal Fairy, do you have any good solutions?” Lu Yang pondered a moment and decided it was quicker to inquire with the culprit directly.

“Of course. Just use the Unbeatable Nascent Soul and beat up all the sea tribes that surround you.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy waved her little fists around with “heihei” and “aha” sound effects, as if there were invisible enemies in the mental space.

“...Is there a more peaceful method?” Lu Yang had always advocated avoiding force whenever possible.

“This immortal could reluctantly enhance the Barbarian boy’s bloodline effect. That way, even Fusion seafolk would grow fearful of him, ensuring you five can roam the East Sea unimpeded. Although this would attract the hatred of Transcendent Tribulation seafolk, how many Transcendent Tribulation cultivators could there be in the East Sea? You won’t run into them.”

“...Can we try another method?” Lu Yang heard that the East Sea had the Dragon Palace and Nine Major Sea Tribes, which meant there were at least ten Transcendent Tribulation cultivators. Furthermore, it was reasonable to assume that a behemoth like the Dragon Palace couldn’t have only the Old Dragon Emperor at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy relented. “Then the only option left is sealing—temporarily sealing the Ancient Barbarian bloodline and removing the seal after leaving the East Sea.”

Lu Yang was overjoyed. “Let’s go with this method!”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy drew an extremely abstruse array.

“What is this?”

“A sealing array. Your cultivation isn’t sufficient to draw it. Have your Second Elder draw it.”

“Gotcha.”

~~~

The group found Grandpa Ba at the entrance of the herb garden. He was lying on a deck chair and humming a comfortable tune, a palm-sized leaf covering his face. Two leaves that were half a person’s height hovered above his head and swayed gently, serving as cattail-leaf fans.

“Grandpa Ba, we need your help with something.”

Grandpa Ba opened his eyes and removed the leaf from his face, looking somewhat uncomfortable under Lu Yang and the others’ earnest gazes. “Just shoot. Don’t look at me like that.”

“The few of us are planning to go play at the East Sea for a couple of days. It’s just that Man Gu’s bloodline tends to draw hatred. Coincidentally, I found a bloodline-sealing array in an ancient text, so we came to ask for your help.”

“I see. That’s easy enough. What does the array look like?”

“Here.” Lu Yang took out the array transcribed from his mental space.

Grandpa Ba took it and marveled, “As expected of an ancient array. The design is exquisite.

“Wait a bit, I’ll get it done in two hours.” For an unfamiliar array, Grandpa Ba would need to study it carefully before he could draw it. Layers, stroke order, and the amount of spirit energy used—these aspects required research and experimentation.

Two hours later, Grandpa Ba had Man Gu lift his shirt. He slapped his belly and left an ancient seal on it.

“Settled. Speaking of which, I’ve sealed someone’s bloodline before, but the sealing array you found is much more elaborate, Lu Yang.”

“Who did you seal it for?” Lu Yang asked curiously.

“A friend I made in my youth—Ao Ran from the East Sea Dragon Palace.”

“You have a friend from the Dragon Palace?” Lu Yang’s group was surprised. They thought the Dao-Seeking Nine was as notorious in the East Sea as they were in the Demon Region. They had even prepared themselves to be enemies of the world.

Grandpa Ba glared at Lu Yang and the others. “What are you talking about? What’s wrong with me having a friend from the Dragon Palace? The one with enemies everywhere is Old Nine.”

Lu Yang uttered, “Oh.” So it’s similar to the situation in the Demon Region. Our mental preparation wasn’t in vain. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

“He possesses the purest Dragon bloodline. He asked me to seal most of his bloodline so that the strength he displayed outwardly would be weaker.”

“Why would he do that?” Lu Yang and the others were baffled.

“So that when someone provoked him, he could declare with a dark expression, ‘You forced me to release the seal.’”

Lu Yang, “...”

“Be careful when you go to the East Sea. Although the Dragon Palace keeps order, the situation there is still quite chaotic.”

“Quite chaotic?”

“The East Sea isn’t just home to seafolk; there are humans too. The sea tribes live in the sea, while the humans live on the islands. Due to historical reasons, the two races have longstanding grievances with each other, and conflicts constantly break out. Moreover, it’s outside Great Xia’s jurisdiction, so fights can get out of hand.”

Even Meng Jingzhou was hearing about this for the first time. None of them knew much about the East Sea.

Only Li Haoran had a better understanding of the East Sea due to his past life memories, especially since the Nine-Netherworlds Creed had expanded its operations there or conducted some secret transactions. No matter how long Great Xia’s reach was, it couldn’t extend to the East Sea. The smuggling business the Nine-Netherworlds Creed was currently involved in had been expanded during Qin Haoran’s time as creed leader.

Qin Haoran had another reason for expanding operations overseas—if creditors ever came knocking, he could flee to the East Sea.

Unfortunately, this diabolic path leader was bound by love and trapped himself in Great Xia.

Grandpa Ba kindly reminded them, “By the way, none of you have been to the sea before, so your swimming abilities are probably not great. Before going to the East Sea, it’s best to exchange for a Water-Repelling Pearl, which can help you move freely underwater. They’re available in the Great Mission Hall.”

Unlike the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s Water-Repelling Mantra, which drained moisture from both friend and foe alike, the Water-Repelling Pearl genuinely repelled water.

“Can I ask what Shifu had done in the East Sea?”

“Oh, there’s plenty. For instance, he had an ambiguous relationship with the Dragon Palace’s princess.”

Lu Yang was flabbergasted. Despite Shifu’s old age and fading looks, I didn’t expect him to have been a debonair man in his youth. “Shifu had an ambiguous relationship with the Dragon Palace’s princess?!”

“It wasn’t exactly ambiguous. It’s just that when Old Nine was young, he needed a supreme treasure from the Dragon Palace to save someone. That treasure was the Dragon Palace princess’s favorite magical treasure, which she stored inside her stomach. Thus, Old Nine shrank himself, entered the princess’s stomach, and stole the treasure. After the incident came to light, Old Nine kept calling the Dragon Palace’s princess ‘mommy.’”

Lu Yang, “...”

~~~

The five thanked Grandpa Ba and headed to the Great Mission Hall, each exchanging for a Water-Repelling Pearl. The pearls were exorbitant, but the five had accumulated many contribution points from missions, so the cost was negligible.

When the senior female disciple at the Great Mission Hall saw all five of them exchanging for Water-Repelling Pearls, she quickly called Dai Bufan over.

Dai Bufan initially thought Lu Yang was taking the four somewhere to pull off some grand scheme. He only exhaled a sigh of relief after hearing they were just accompanying the old horse to visit relatives and seizing the chance to play in the East Sea for a couple of days.

“Go on, go on. Have fun.”