Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 136: There’s No Way To Get Through This?

The apothecary owner slowly continued, “This place is a result of rules set by several Fusion cultivators. However, arrays have a Life Gate and a Death Gate, for the heavenly law always leaves a sliver of hope. As such, the rules formulated here must encompass a path to survival.

“That said, those Fusion cultivators wouldn’t be willing to let anyone leave, so they created this specious rule, aligning with their interests while adhering to the heavenly law’s principle to leave a glimmer of hope.”

Lu Yang resisted the impulse to cuss and continued writing: Then how do we kill the town mayor?

The apothecary owner replied: You can’t kill him. The town mayor is undying. How would you even kill him?

Meng Jingzhou clenched his fists; in his heart, he was cursing the bunch of Fusion cultivators who set those rules. You might as well not stipulate twenty-one rules. There’s no difference anyway!

Lu Yang’s expression was also grim, but he kept his cool, knowing that swearing wouldn’t solve the problem. He continued to write: Where is the town mayor?

The apothecary owner chuckled. “Are you seriously thinking of killing the town mayor? Unfortunately, I don’t know where he is. But you can ask the bailiffs. After all, they’re the closest to him. As for whether they’d tell you anything, that’s out of my hands.”

As they were leaving, the apothecary owner called out, “Since you truly seem bent on leaving this place, I’ll give you a warning. The town mayor knows everything that happens in his town. This is his ability. Be careful, you two.”

Meng Jingzhou was about to politely thank him when he remembered that they mustn’t speak to the apothecary owner, so he could only nod his head in acknowledgment.

Lu Yang remained unmoved throughout.

Meng Jingzhou whispered, “Do you think everything the apothecary owner said was true?”

Lu Yang didn’t reply right away. Only after they were a distance from the apothecary did he sneer. “Under the restrictions of the rules, what he said is naturally true, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s on our side.

“Do you know the biggest difference between him and the innkeeper?”

“What?”

“The apothecary owner kept trying to make us talk.”

Meng Jingzhou was startled, and realization dawned upon him. With the innkeeper, both parties communicated through writing, but with the apothecary owner, he would reply to them verbally despite them writing the entire time.

If one party kept speaking, the other party could easily slip up and respond verbally.

“Wily old fox.” Meng Jingzhou cussed under his breath. He paused for a bit, feeling that things didn’t add up. “Hold on, if he was trying to harm us, why did he still remind us that the town mayor knows everything that happens in town?”

Lu Yang answered without hesitation, “He saw that he couldn’t stop us from trying our best to leave, so he gave us another crucial piece of information to let us know that the town mayor is undefeatable.

“This would lead to two likely outcomes. Either we give up on leaving or fall apart by ourselves before the battle even begins.”

Meng Jingzhou clicked his tongue, finding that the situation had become even more tricky. “The biggest problem now is that the town mayor knows everything we’re up to. Even if we figure out how to leave, he can still stop us!”

How can we escape right under the town mayor’s nose?

Lu Yang pondered for a moment when suddenly, an idea struck him. He took out some paper and pen, writing: Let’s communicate in writing. It might reduce the town mayor’s attention on us.

Meng Jingzhou nodded.

Lu Yang: Do you still remember the jade pendant the sect distributed to us? Every jade pendant is a symbol of our identity. As soon as the jade pendant breaks, the sect will automatically send someone over to investigate. The jade pendants are too hard for us to shatter, but we can throw them to the exit, where the gales will crush them.

A spark twinkled in Meng Jingzhou’s eyes as he did some calculations. This really seems like a good idea.

Meng Jingzhou: But how do we deal with the town mayor?

Lu Yang: We need to figure out the town mayor’s modus operandi. Let’s start with the yamen bailiffs.

Writing and drawing on the paper, the two sketched out a detailed plan, then burned it to a crisp, acting as if nothing had happened.

As the two continued walking, they found themselves in the vicinity of the private school. As usual, they could hear the sound of people reading aloud. However, according to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, it was actually the sound of barking dogs altered by the rules. If someone couldn’t suppress their curiosity and entered the private school, the sound of reading would turn into barking, and something terrible would happen.

The private school teacher approached Lu Yang, once again persuading him to enter the private school, but Lu Yang kept his head lowered and turned a deaf ear to him.

He had the gift of the gab, rambling on, “Friend, we meet again. You came alone this time. It looks like you had a falling out with your companion, which means that you still believe me deep down. Don’t trust what the rules say. Nine out of ten are false. You won’t be able to distinguish them...”

Just as the private school teacher wanted to launch a surprise attack on Lu Yang by bending down to look him in the eye, everything suddenly went black before his eyes.

The clueless private school teacher had been so focused on Lu Yang that he didn’t notice Meng Jingzhou sneaking up on him from behind and throwing a burlap sack over him.

The two rubbed their hands. They had suffered quite the scare from the private school teacher previously, but this time, they weren’t afraid of meeting his eyes. We must take revenge!

Those from diabolic creeds were emotionally driven people who would always repay a grudge—a trait that Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou exemplified.

“Beat him!”

The two lashed out with their fists and kicks, showing no mercy to the private school teacher, who had never experienced anything like this before. He howled in anguish, “Stop hitting me, please stop!”

<Rule 9: The person wearing gray clothes is the private school teacher. If you meet the private school teacher, you must pretend that you did not hear whatever they said.>

Both of us are benevolent and soft-hearted people. We will stop beating the other party if they beg for mercy. Unfortunately, we are bound by the rules and must pretend that we didn’t hear anything the private school teacher said.

We have no choice but to keep hitting him.

Finally, the two let out a long sigh of relief, feeling satisfied after venting out on the private school teacher. Before leaving, Meng Jingzhou even spat phlegm. “Ptui! Scum! Don’t let me see you again.”

Arms around each other’s shoulders, they headed back to the inn.

After the private school teacher struggled free from the sack, he glowered fiercely at the two departing figures in the distance. “Don’t let me see you again!”

~~~

When it was 9am on the fourth day, the two went to the restaurant downstairs—the only place in town that sold meat baozi.

<Rule 11: All food in the town is provided free of charge, and you can help yourself to it, but never eat meat baozi.>

Since the meat baozi were free, they decided that they could swipe them away even if they couldn’t eat them, so they packed up all of the meat baozi with the same sack they had put over the private school teacher yesterday.

When the yamen bailiffs in black clothes arrived at the restaurant as usual, they discovered that all the meat baozi were gone.

“Who did this?!” they shouted in rage.

According to the “Buyi Town’s Yamen Bailiff Rules,” we can only eat meat baozi every day. Now that there’s none left, what are we going to eat?!

“Boss, look at those two people. Are they carrying our meat baozi on their back?” A yamen bailiff with a keen sense of smell pointed out.

Noticing the yamen bailiff’s gazes shifting to them, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were aware that they were exposed and immediately fled.

The bailiffs were originally only suspicious, but they were now certain. “It’s definitely them! After them!”

The civilians of Buyi Town realized that the usually quiet town was unusually noisy today.

“Stop, you two bastards!”

Lu Yang yelled back as he ran, “That won’t do! Rule 12 states that if we encounter people from the authorities, we have to run immediately. I’m just following the rules. Don’t make things hard on us.”

The chief yamen bailiff was fuming. “But those damn rules didn’t tell you to take away our meat baozi!”

With Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou moving at lightning speed, the yamen bailiffs couldn’t catch up with them at all.

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