Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 747: True Lord Horse

The moment the old horse saw Lu Yang, he mostly sobered up.

Although Lu Yang had altered his appearance, the old horse hadn’t just met him yesterday. He was always present when Lu Yang changed his appearance.

The old horse shifted his gaze to the four people beside Lu Yang, and he completely sobered up.

Wait, why are you five here?

Do you know how far this place is from where I dropped you off? Even if you had flown at full speed, it should have taken three days to get here!

Did you run straight to my home right after I dropped you off?

Although the Dragon-Horse Tribe couldn’t compare to the Ten Great Races like the Kunpeng and the Xuanwu, it still held considerable status in the East Sea. According to Great Xia’s sect ranking system, it could be classified as a first-class sect.

Along with the old horse’s return, the Dragon-Horse Tribe’s status among the sea tribes had risen by half a level.

After all these years of cultivation, the old horse had become the undisputed number one expert of the Dragon-Horse Tribe. Even the Chieftain or the Grand Elder was no match for him.

Now that the old horse had returned to his hometown in glory, he naturally wanted to show off wantonly.

For this end, he had specifically dropped Meng Jingzhou and the others off at the East Sea border. He figured that with their methods—asking for direction, finding a map, and so on—it would take at least ten days to reach the depths of the East Sea. This wasn’t even counting any trouble they might stir up along the way. If something else happened on the road, they might not even reach in half a month.

Unexpectedly, despite agreeing to meet again in two months, they had run into each other after only three days, and in such an awkward situation at that.

“Fellow Daoist, offer a toast to True Lord Horse,” the Fangshan Island Three Heroes reminded through an auditory message upon seeing Lu Yang frozen in place.

Although this True Lord Horse from the Dragon-Horse Tribe seems amiable, he is a Fusion cultivator after all. If he gets offended, even a minor action from him won’t be something a Nascent Soul cultivator can withstand.

“True Lord Horse, I offer you a toast,” Lu Yang said respectfully. As Yun Zhi’s junior brother, the Second-in-Command of the Everlasting Lineage, the Young Creed Leader of the Heavenly Court Creed, and the Phoenix Ancestor’s senior brother, he was affable and carried no airs, even treating seniors with utmost courtesy.

“True Lord Horse, we offer you a toast.” Meng Jingzhou and the other three came forward to join in on the fun, struggling to hold back their laughter.

“True Lord Horse, do you know these five people?” The old horse’s follower, the Dragon-Horse tribesman who had earlier served as the straight man, asked perceptively. He noticed the odd atmosphere between the old horse and Lu Yang’s group.

“Of course, we know each other. We had the honor of meeting True Lord Horse at the Dao-Seeking Sect,” Lu Yang replied with a hearty laugh.

“Ah, yes, I know them. They are from Great Xia’s... Where in Great Xia are you from now?”

“The Five-Elements Sect.”

“Yes, they are prodigies from the Five-Elements Sect. They’re truly extraordinary, pillars of talent that will surely achieve great things in the future.” The old horse surmised that Lu Yang and the others wouldn’t dare reveal their true identities and praised them effusively.

“The Five-Elements Sect, one of the Five Great Immortal Sects?” someone exclaimed. This is an incredible background! No wonder the old ancestor values these five so highly.

A significant number of sea tribes even considered marrying off their younger generations as an investment.

One advantage of the seafolk was their high fertility. Even if the investment failed, it wouldn’t matter much, and if it succeeded, the benefits would be immense. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Meng Jingzhou nodded repeatedly. “True Lord Horse has a formidable reputation in our Great Xia. In recent years, there have been several battles involving Transcendent Tribulation cultivators and half-immortals in Great Xia, and True Lord Horse was present at all of them. He moved freely and remained unscathed in those battles, displaying extremely sophisticated methods. Even those Transcendent Tribulation cultivators addressed him respectfully by adding ‘old’ before his name.

“Despite the strict management of access to the Dao-Seeking Sect, True Lord Horse is an exception. He can enter the sect at will, with no one stopping him.”

The crowd let out gasps of surprise. Having disciples from a Great Xia immortal corroborate this further illustrates how successfully True Lord Horse is thriving in Great Xia.

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After the banquet ended, the old horse secretly sought out Lu Yang’s group and transmitted an auditory message. Following the instructions, they came to a side hall of the palace.

“What are all of you doing here?” The old horse wore a strange expression. He had been holding this question back throughout the entire banquet and was dying to know the answer.

Lu Yang showed an innocent look. “Well, this is our first time in the East Sea. We’re unfamiliar with the place, so we figured we should find a place with many high-level cultivators to buy a map, and we coincidentally came here.”

“It was really a coincidence.” Lu Yang emphasized repeatedly that today’s meeting was an accident.

The old horse, “...”

Had I known earlier, I shouldn’t have left in such a hurry. If I’d left a map, nothing would have happened today.

“Wait here, I’ll get you a map.” The old horse’s face was dark. He hadn’t returned to the East Sea for over a hundred years and didn’t have a ready map on hand.

Before long, the old horse returned with five jade slips in his mouth. These jade slips contained the most detailed maps he could find in a short time.

Lu Yang and the other four activated the jade slips with their spiritual consciousness and finally saw the full view of the East Sea. It was indeed much more detailed than the map sold for ten spirit stones at the Treasure Pavilion. It depicted everything, including the Ten Great Races of the East Sea, islands inhabited by humans, and even those lesser sea tribes.

After seeing off Lu Yang’s group, the old horse’s mood improved tremendously. With Lu Yang’s group at the banquet, he had felt restrained and hadn’t been able to truly let loose.

“Should I find another reason to hold a banquet? What reason would be good...”

Sea tribes enjoyed holding banquets. This was a tradition left by the Dragon Tribe since ancient times.

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“Back in ancient times, we also often held banquets,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy remarked. Witnessing the Dragon-Horse Tribe’s banquet, she couldn’t help but reminisce. “Especially Zhu Tian; he would sing and dance, making it especially lively.”

Since entering the East Sea, Lu Yang’s mental space had been transformed beyond recognition by the Everlasting Immortal Fairy again—it was now filled with seawater. The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had turned herself into a jiao-folk, with a human upper body and a fish tail, and was swimming around in the water leisurely.

A water bed floated on the sea surface. Whenever the Everlasting Immortal Fairy got tired from playing, she could just sleep on it. It was quite convenient.

Lu Yang felt that if he shook his head slightly, he could hear the sound of seawater.

“Second-in-Command, you need to cultivate diligently. Your current mental space still isn’t big enough,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy earnestly advised, urging Lu Yang not to grow complacent or lazy.

“Yes yes yes, I will definitely work hard in cultivating to clear out more space for you to play, Immortal Fairy.”

“What a pity, this place is too far from the Demon Region. Otherwise, we could call Zhu Tian over and organize a banquet in the East Sea.” The banquet the Everlasting Immortal Fairy referred to was the legendary banquets of immortals. They were grand and magnificent, on a scale completely different from the Dragon-Horse Tribe’s.

Lu Yang thought, Zhu Tian is the ruler of the Demon Region after all. Immortal Fairy, can’t you save some face for him?

He recalled Zhu Tian calling him “big brother” multiple times and stuffing four monarch chairs into his hands before departing. His attitude is extremely sincere.

“Fellow Daoists, are you planning on heading anywhere in the East Sea? If you don’t mind, why not come visit Fangshan Island?” The Fangshan Island Three Heroes invited Lu Yang and the others.

It was rare for them to encounter cultivators from Great Xia, especially those from a top-tier faction like the Five-Elements Sect. Naturally, they wanted to seize this opportunity to interact with the other party as much as possible.

“Sure,” Meng Jingzhou agreed readily. Since they had nothing else to do, they might as well visit Fangshan Island.