Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 753: Metamorphic Immortal Grass

“Hero Yan, you’ve just broken through, and your foundation is unstable. The most urgent matter now is to find a quiet place to go into seclusion,” Lu Yang advised kindly.

“You’re right, Daoist.” Hero Yan felt immense respect for Lu Yang. With the arrival of Lu Yang’s group, Fangshan Island had gained a fifth-grade spirit vein, and he had successfully passed the lightning tribulation and become a Divine Transfiguration cultivator.

With the help of the fifth-grade spirit vein, his two brothers also had a small chance of cultivating to the Divine Transfiguration Stage.

I never expected that kindly informing them about True Lord Horse’s banquet would yield such returns.

Wait, now that I think about it, True Lord Horse’s banquet seemed to have been just this morning.

Hero Yan sorted through the day’s events.

Morning: Attended True Lord Horse’s banquet.

Noon: Invited Lu Yang’s group to Fangshan Island.

Afternoon: Spirit vein anomaly, emergence of immortal grass.

Night: Twelve Divine Transfiguration cultivators attacked, and I took the Divine Concentration Pill to become a Divine Transfiguration cultivator.

“What should we do with the Metamorphic Immortal Grass? Do we bring it back or consume it now?” Lu Yang and the others gestured toward the Metamorphic Immortal Grass, considering which option was more beneficial.

“How about plucking a leaf to taste and see how many years of cultivation it boosts?” Li Haoran had heard of the Metamorphic Immortal Grass, but it was his first time seeing it, much less consuming it.

Lu Yang shook his head, turning down Li Haoran’s idea. “The immortal grass is precious. If we pluck a leaf without a proper sealing method, the medicinal properties will leak through the opening, and the gain won’t be worth the loss.

“If we consume all of it, we can indeed quickly increase our cultivation, but we’ll lack some stabilization, which would hinder our future cultivation.”

Generally, the Metamorphic Immortal Grass was consumed by Fusion or Transcendent Tribulation cultivators. Reaching Great Perfection in these two cultivation realms didn’t require comprehension but gradual, time-consuming efforts.

“In my opinion, it’s better to bring it back to the sect and ask for Big Senior Sister’s view.”

Everyone nodded; that sounded like a plan.

Lu Yang stored the immortal grass in a wooden box and affixed several talismans.

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When night fell and all was quiet, the wooden box shook incessantly, as if an invisible hand was touching it.

The box opened, and the immortal grass shook its head, then stealthily climbed out of the box.

It looked up at Lu Yang, who was cultivating in the lotus position, and smiled with contempt.

“You want to eat me? Dream on.”

Despite saying this, it remained cautious, gingerly climbing down from the bed. The moment it tried to push open the window, a lamp lit up, illuminating the room.

A chilling voice came from behind the immortal grass.

“As I thought, it is an immortal grass that has gained sentience.”

The Metamorphic Immortal Grass jerked its head around and saw Lu Yang with an uncanny smile.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Four figures appeared in the room, surrounding the Metamorphic Immortal Grass.

“Senior Brother Lu, you guessed it correctly. This is a little herb king.” Tao Yaoye’s searing gaze bore into the Metamorphic Immortal Grass.

“I never expected us to find a little herb king in the East Sea,” Li Haoran marveled. Immortal grasses were rare to begin with, and this one was at the level of a little herb king. Even Transcendent Tribulation cultivators would go crazy fighting over it.

“This is my first time seeing a little herb king. Is it tasty?” Man Gu had never been to the herb garden.

Earlier, when they were openly discussing what they should do with the immortal grass, Lu Yang had secretly transmitted an auditory message to the others, informing them about his suspicion that it was a little herb king-level immortal grass.

At night, when the immortal grass heard they were taking it back to the sect, it stopped pretending and exposed itself.

In fact, Lu Yang didn’t suspect it—he had simply heard from the Everlasting Immortal Fairy that the immortal grass’s age indicated it was planted in ancient times. Its owner was probably that tyrannical holy son who was a big bully, and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had beaten him up.

That holy son also possessed the Metamorphic Immortal Physique. Seeing that he was no match for the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, he borrowed power from his future self, raising his realm to the Void Refinement Stage.

Then, he got a worse thrashing.

“He probably planted it here in the ancient era. But after I beat him up a few times, his brain got addled, and he forgot where he planted the immortal grass,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy analyzed with conviction, and it actually made some sense.

Lu Yang felt that this Kunlun Holy Son was truly unlucky.

Since the immortal grass had grown from ancient times until now, it was obvious it would have gained sentience and become a demon spirit. These sentient spirit plants inherently yearned for freedom. They spent their entire lives rooted in the soil, unable to run. Once they got the rare opportunity to run, they naturally wanted to roam around and play.

The Metamorphic Immortal Grass usually moved around Fangshan Island via the spirit vein. Otherwise, the legend of a rare treasure in the spirit vein wouldn’t have appeared on Fangshan Island. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

This time, it resonated with Tao Yaoye, which allowed Lu Yang and the others to discover its existence. Realizing it could be taken away, it played dead during the day to lull them into letting their guard down, planning to escape at night.

Unfortunately, its plan failed.

“Who planted you back then?” Meng Jingzhou asked curiously.

“Human, watch your tone!” The Metamorphic Immortal Grass looked down on short-lived species like humans. Of course, demons were also short-lived species in its eyes.

A ball of pure yang flame burst forth from Meng Jingzhou’s palm, his tone icy. “Should we roast and eat it?”

My barbecue skills aren’t rusty, not to mention that the three great founders of One More Time Barbeque Shop are all here.

Man Gu tactfully whipped out the Man Family’s eighteen-generation ancestral seasoning. If he was lucky, he could even have the first old ancestor of the barbecue Barbarian clan possess him.

Feeling the scorching flame, the Metamorphic Immortal Grass flapped its leaves, trying to extinguish the fire in Meng Jingzhou’s palm, saying with an ingratiating smile, “I was just joking. Why can’t you take a joke?

“Don’t blame me for not saying; I really don’t know who planted me. When I was planted, I wasn’t a little herb king yet.”

Lu Yang nodded. This was the truth. If the Metamorphic Immortal Grass had been a little herb king in the ancient era, the Kunlun Holy Son would have carried the flowerpot with him everywhere, every day.

“Immortal Fairy, is the Kunlun Holy Son still alive? Should we return it to its original owner?” Despite being in the treacherous East Sea, Lu Yang hadn’t lost his conscience.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy waved dismissively, “No need; he’s already dead. According to ancient rules, this immortal grass should belong to me. But I have no use for this thing, so I’ll give it to you youngsters.”

Lu Yang’s heart skipped a beat. The Battle of the Great Era in ancient times was truly brutal. Even someone as strong as the person with the Metamorphic Immortal Physique died at the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s hands. Moreover, judging by her tone, this Kunlun Holy Son wasn’t even considered a formidable opponent.

“That was when I was still a half-immortal. The Kunlun Holy Son—oh, he was already the Holy Lord then—he insisted on fighting me. As usual, he couldn’t beat me, so he kept using his Metamorphic Immortal Physique to borrow power from his future self.”

“And then you beat him to death?”

“Nothing of the sort. He borrowed power from his future self and ended up borrowing until he died.”

Lu Yang was flummoxed, completely unable to understand what had happened.

Seeing Lu Yang so obtuse, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy patiently explained, “His future self was already dead. When he borrowed power from his future self, he also borrowed his death state, causing his present self to die as well.

“See, doesn’t that create a closed loop?”

Lu Yang, “...”

Wait, why is my brain even more confused now?

Immortal Fairy, do you even have any opponents who are normal people?