Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 85: Lifespan-Reversal Talisman

“Open the door for him!” Zheng Shouhe gripped the dagger tightly as he pressed it against Wen Xiangyu’s back.

Wen Xiangyu had no choice but to open the door.

Upon opening the door, it revealed a delicate-looking person. It was none other than Lu Yang.

Wen Xiangyu tried her best to signal to Lu Yang with her eyes, urging him to run away immediately, but Lu Yang didn't seem to notice. A professional false smile appeared on his visage. “Your barbeque skewers.”

Zheng Shouhe also flashed a professional false smile. It's so obvious that this person is foolishly honest. It'll be too easy to trick him into coming in. “Young lad, why don't you come in and have a seat? I'll get the money for you.”

Believing that it was real, Lu Yang walked inside. He saw that the house was pitch-black and smiled. “Even the lamps are not lit. You sleep so early.”

Watching Lu Yang come in foolishly, panic consumed Wen Xiangyu’s heart. She steeled herself, planning to push Lu Yang out. But how could Zheng Shouhe not see through her intentions?

It's too late. Zheng Shouhe sneered and tossed Wen Xiangyu behind him, thrusting the dagger toward Lu Yang in the darkness.

Having spent long durations in darkness, Zheng Shouhe's eyes were already accustomed to it. Since this lad walked in from the streets, he'll definitely need some time to adjust to the darkness. This is my chance!

It looks like tonight is destined to be a night of bloodshed!

Lu Yang sent Zheng Shouhe flying four to five meters away with a single kick.

There's no point in talking about science with a cultivator.

Zheng Shouhe hadn't expected the kick from Lu Yang to be so powerful and heavy like a boulder crushing his chest. He began to see stars, and he had several broken ribs, causing him to vomit out a copious amount of blood!

He realized that he had encountered a tough one. If I want to live, I must take a hostage!

Forcefully using his willpower to suppress the pain in his chest, Zheng Shouhe flipped over to grab Wen Xiangyu’s wrist. “If you dare to move, I'll kill her!” he threatened fiercely.

The person in Zheng Shouhe’s arms sneered. “Who did you say you wanted to kill?”

Zheng Shouhe lowered his head. To his horror, the person he had caught was not Wen Xiangyu but Lu Yang!

Lu Yang used one hand to push against Zheng Shouhe's chin, while his other hand snatched the dagger and disabled all four of Zheng Shouhe’s limbs effortlessly.

“Jeez, what luck I have! I can come across so many problems when I'm just delivering food.” Lu Yang breathed out. He lit a candle, filling the room with a dim glow.

Wen Xiangyu hadn't expected the tables to turn so quickly. The waiter from the barbeque shop was like a god descending from heaven, subduing the ruthless villain in the blink of an eye.

“Are you alright?” Lu Yang helped the stupefied Wen Xiangyu up from the floor.

“I-I’m fine.”

“That’s good to hear. You can pass me the money for the barbeque skewers then,” Lu Yang said politely.

“Ah? Oh...oh.” Only then did Wen Xiangyu remember that Lu Yang had just come to deliver the food and saved her in passing.

Even after giving Lu Yang the money, Wen Xiangyu still hadn't recovered from the trauma, so she tried to say something to ease the fear lingering in her heart. “You...you're a cultivator?”

“That’s right.”

“Cultivators also open shops?”

“Gotta make a living somehow.”

Zheng Shouhe was lying on the ground and howling in pain, regret flooding him. What luck I have! I just have to bump into a cultivator when I go out. Are cultivators already at the point where they have to deliver food to make ends meet?

Noticing that Wen Xiangyu was still dazed from having narrowly escaped death, Lu Yang chuckled and shook his head. “Let me accompany you to report this case to the authorities.”

“Thank you.” Wen Xiangyu remembered the thief upstairs. “Oh right, there’s another person upstairs, probably his accomplice.” When Wen Xiangyu first woke up, she saw Zheng Shouhe and Lu Zhi together, so she assumed that they were together but simply had a falling out because of her beauty.

When Lu Yang went upstairs and saw the tightly bound Lu Zhi, he also assumed that Lu Zhi was Zheng Shouhe’s accomplice. “A gang-related crime, huh?”

Lu Zhi cried out in protest, “Don’t say that! I’m not with him! He’s a kidnapper, while I’m just a thief. The punishments for both are completely different!”

Lu Yang was amused. “You know the law quite well.”

“Those in our line of work always check the law before committing a crime to check how many years we’ll be sentenced to,” Lu Zhi explained in a manner that showed how adroit he was.

“Let’s go to the yamen then. We’ll see how many years you get sentenced to.”

As soon as Lu Zhi heard the word “yamen,” he grew so terrified that he implored, “No, no, please don’t, brother! We can discuss it peacefully. We are all just trying to get by in the jianghu, so why push things so far? How about this? Why don’t I give you something good and you’ll let me off the hook?”

Lu Yang sized up Lu Zhi and determined that he was just a mortal. “What good thing?”

“A yellow paper that can make people sleep. With this paper, you can make anyone fall asleep, and you can do whatever you want with her!”

Associating it with the strange occurrences recently, Lu Yang furrowed his brow as he realized that things weren’t as they seemed. He asked in a cold voice, “Where’s the thing?”

Lu Zhi thought to himself, I’m not silly! How could I answer just because you asked? “Promise to let me go first!”

Lu Yang solemnly vowed, “I, Chi Xulong, swear to the heavens that if I don’t let you go, may Chi Xulong be struck by five bolts of lightning!”

Lu Zhi was overjoyed. “The yellow paper is on the corner of the outer wall on the first floor.”

Evidently, Lu Zhi was also not very clever.

Lu Yang jumped down from the second floor and circled around the first floor, discovering a piece of yellow paper. There was an indecipherable symbol drawn on it, which made it look like some kind of talisman.

He stowed away the talisman and returned to the second floor. “Where did you get this thing from?”

“Right under the Big Stone Bridge. I once fled by boat and happened to see a yellow paper pasted to the bottom of the Big Stone Bridge when I looked up.”

Lu Yang nodded. He went downstairs to connect Zheng Shouhe’s legs and sent the two of them to the yamen with Wen Xiangyu following closely behind.

“Hey hey hey, you went back on your word!” Lu Zhi hollered.

Lu Yang snorted. The one getting struck by lightning is Chi Xulong. What does that have to do with me, Lu Yang?

Captain Wei happened to be on duty tonight. When he saw Lu Yang escorting two criminals to the yamen, the feeling of “it’s you again” sprouted in his heart.

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After listening to the situation regarding the two criminals, he was no longer in a mood to joke. Zheng Shouhe is wanted for murder and is a major criminal. Lu Yang has accomplished a meritorious achievement.

Lu Yang passed the yellow paper to Captain Wei. “This is the yellow paper Lu Zhi mentioned.” He had already noted down the symbol on the yellow paper.

Captain Wei took the yellow paper and also realized the gravity of the issue. I’ve been hearing subordinates mention that they were sleepy in the morning. Since I didn’t feel anything, I didn’t think it was anything significant. But it now looks like someone is purposely causing trouble!

We don’t even know how many yellow papers there are in Yanjiang Commandery!

However, Captain Wei also didn’t know what the symbol on the yellow paper represented. I’ll ask the chief constable when he gets to work in the morning.

“Thank you, I’ll send you another silk banner tomorrow.” After recording Lu Yang’s and Wen Xiangyu’s statements, Captain Wei waved goodbye.

Before leaving, Lu Yang made a trip to the prison and found Chi Xulong. “I have a brother called Zheng Shouhe who will be coming in for a while. Please look after him.”

Chi Xulong sneered. To think that you also need to beg me for help. Look after him? I have already mastered my stone-spitting divine arts. Watch how I’ll sort him out!

After sending Wen Xiangyu back to the tofu shop, Lu Yang firmly refused the tofu she offered.

Having gone through all that, the barbeque shop had already closed by the time Lu Yang returned. The two tiger-henchman ghosts were washing the dishes.

Lu Yang passed the drawings of the symbol from the yellow paper to Lan Ting. “Take a look at this sigil. Can its effects cause people to fall asleep?”

After examining it, shock spread across her visage. “Where did you find this? This is a Lifespan-Reversal Talisman. It will absorb people’s lifespans. On the surface, symptoms are a lack of energy and excessive sleepiness. This type of sigil only affects mortals, whereas cultivators are completely unaffected.”