Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 779: Caught Red-Handed With the Goods

The Juxuan Island Four Thieves fixed their predatory gazes on Xiao Xinghai, killing intent rising.

“Who exactly are you?! Where’s the Dragon Pearl?!”

Xiao Xinghai was even more clueless. What Dragon Pearl? Who are you four? Where am I?

The Juxuan Island Four Thieves grew angrier. They had painstakingly prepared for a hundred years just to steal the Dragon Pearl, only to have it swapped out after the deed.

It must be that Liu fellow’s doing!

“Still playing dumb? Die!”

Although their cultivation realms had dropped, they were still at the Divine Transfiguration Stage, not to mention that Xiao Xinghai was severely injured and struggled to even stand.

Xiao Xinghai didn’t understand what was happening and had a look of innocence as he let the four attack.

The moment the attacks landed on Xiao Xinghai, one of his hairs suddenly erupted with a gloomy light.

As a peerless prodigy of the Kunpeng Tribe, his cultivation talent could be considered number one in the tribe’s history. How could he not have life-saving items on hand? This hair was one of the Black Feather Venerable Lord’s feathers, which would manifest when Xiao Xinghai was in danger.

“Ah—!”

The Juxuan Island Four Thieves were swept by the black light and stopped breathing.

~~~

Meanwhile, after the Dragon Tribe received the news, they split into two groups to track Lu Yang’s group of four and the Juxuan Island Four Thieves.

“Those four Divine Transfiguration cultivators carried a coffin away?” A Dragon Tribe elder sneered. Did they think they could escape like that?

“Give chase!”

The Dragon Tribe elder led a large contingent and flew out of the sea market with great fanfare, inquiring with the nearby schools of fish where the four had gone.

This was his talent—he was born able to communicate with ordinary fish lacking spirit intelligence.

After obtaining information from the schools of fish, they transformed into their true forms. Dozens of true dragons flew over the sea surface, their presence awe-inspiring.

“It’s this island!”

By the time they arrived, they saw Xiao Xinghai lying in the coffin, soaked in blood. He was gasping and extremely frail, unable to stand. The Juxuan Island Four Thieves lay on the ground, blood pooling around them.

The dragons’ hearts shook at this sight. This person fought bloody battles and slew four thieves. He is a hero of the Dragon Tribe!

The dragons descended. Some verified the identities of the four Divine Transfiguration cultivators, while more surrounded Xiao Xinghai, praising his heroic feat.

Xiao Xinghai was utterly flummoxed.

I was just lying in the coffin. Someone opened it and wanted to kill me, the Old Ancestor’s feather retaliated, and now I’m a hero of the Dragon Tribe?

Where did Lu Yang and the others go?

~~~

Lu Yang and the others held on to the Ancestral Dragon Grass, preparing to look for the black-robed Dragon Tribe elder. Halfway there, Lu Yang stopped the other three.

“Wait a moment.” 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

“What’s wrong?”

“If we hand over the item to the Dragon Tribe elder and he reneges, running off while we go back to fetch the coffin, what do we do then? He’s masked; we don’t know him.”

“True. Shall we directly carry the coffin to him then?”

“Right.”

Lu Yang’s group turned back toward the merchant guild.

~~~

At the merchant guild, Steward Liu no longer stayed at the reception since his task was finished, letting another subordinate take over.

“Hello, we’re here to collect a coffin. We stored it here three days ago and even deposited three hundred spirit stones.” Meng Jingzhou produced a receipt issued by Steward Liu.

The person at the front desk checked the receipt against the ledger. After confirming it matched, he searched for a while before finding the coffin covered with black cloth.

Receiving the coffin covered with a black cloth, Lu Yang and the others thought the merchant guild was quite considerate. He lifted the cloth and confirmed the style of the coffin was the same as before, then eagerly went to find the black-robed Dragon Tribe elder.

Carrying the coffin, they ignored the strange looks from others and ran into the room at the far end of the teahouse’s west wing.

The black-robed Dragon Tribe elder had long been waiting in the room.

Lu Yang held the wooden box containing the Ancestral Dragon Grass in one hand and carried the coffin on his shoulder.

The black-robed Dragon Tribe elder jolted. He hadn’t expected Lu Yang’s claim about an injured friend needing Dragon blood to be true.

Three days have passed. They helped me find the Ancestral Dragon Grass, but their friend has already died.

People often fantasized that bathing in Dragon blood could resurrect the dead or grant longevity. In reality, how could the Dragon blood possess such heaven-defying effects?

“Senior, we’ve completed the task.”

The black-robed Dragon Tribe elder hadn’t expected Lu Yang and the others to be so efficient. “You weren’t discovered, right?”

“We weren’t.”

Lu Yang handed over the wooden box.

The black-robed Dragon Tribe elder opened the box. Seeing the Ancestral Dragon Grass with leaves shaped like a dragon claw lying inside, he exhaled a sigh of relief. I’ve finally found it.

Lu Yang rubbed his hands, smiling ingratiatingly. “Senior, since we’ve completed the task, about the Dragon blood...” A Fusion cultivator’s Dragon blood will surely greatly aid Fellow Daoist Xinghai’s discovery, perhaps even enhancing his Dragon Transformation Mantra.

“I’ll naturally give it to you. I always keep my word.”

Right then, a gigantic dragon claw tore open the teahouse’s roof, sending the patrons scattering in panic.

“Ao Ran, to think it was you who stole the Dragon Pearl! You even hired four human helpers!”

Three enormous dragons circled above the sea market, staring at the black-robed Dragon tribesman. Their whiskers swayed with the water, and their dragon eyes were imposing, fully displaying the might of the East Sea’s overlords.

“Ao Ye, what venomous slander!” Ao Ran was enraged. “What Dragon pearl? I’ve never even seen it! And I certainly don’t know these four people!” I’ve heard the Dragon Pearl was lost, but you three were responsible for guarding it. How is it related to me?

Lu Yang’s group felt the name Ao Ran sounded familiar.

Man Gu had the least things occupying his mind and was the first to remember. Before they set off for the East Sea, Grandpa Ba mentioned he had a friend in the East Sea named Ao Ran, who often liked to seal his cultivation and act out scenes of breaking through on the spot.

“Senior Ao Ran, the four of us are from the Dao-Seeking Sect. I’m Man Gu, and these three are Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Li Haoran!”

“You all are from the Dao-Seeking Sect?” Ao Ran remembered a letter Grandpa Ba had sent him not long ago. It stated that the Dao-Seeking Sect has five outstanding juniors heading to the East Sea. As these five like to cause trouble, he requested me to look out for them if I run into them.

“And you still claimed you don’t know them!” Upon hearing Lu Yang’s name, Ao Ye and the other two seemed to recall something. “Lu Yang is that Old Taciturn Scoundrel’s disciple!”

To think that master and disciple took turns stealing the Dragon Pearl! They truly have no regard for our Dragon Palace!

“You three, stop your unreasonable accusations!” Ao Ran shielded Lu Yang’s group, suspecting Ao Ye’s trio was seizing the opportunity to make things difficult for them.

“Unreasonable accusations? Then what’s in that wooden box?!”

As someone who stood straight, Ao Ran wasn’t worried his shadow would be crooked. He opened the box, revealing the dragon-claw-shaped grass. “Ancestral Dragon Grass, a congratulatory gift for the Palace Leader’s grand birthday. What’s the problem?!”

Ao Ye’s trio mumbled inwardly. This isn’t right. Isn’t the Dragon Pearl supposed to be in the wooden box?

Suddenly, they turned their gazes to the most conspicuous object in the room—the coffin.

“What’s inside that coffin?”

Ao Ran angrily opened the coffin. “It’s a person inside the coffin, of course!”

Then everyone saw that secured within the coffin was a crystal-clear, smooth and round pearl that was the size of a palm.

It was precisely the Dragon Pearl.

Absolute silence fell over everyone.

Ao Ran, “...”

“Caught red-handed with the stolen goods—how else do you plan to defend yourself?

“You even wanted to slit your wrist earlier. Were you planning to drip blood and claim ownership?”