Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 236: Big Senior Sister’s Age

“I’ll repeat this: don’t try to imitate me,” Yun Zhi reminded multiple times, worried that Lu Yang might take things too hard and insist on competing with her.

“I’ll definitely definitely not imitate you!” Lu Yang vowed.

“Alright, I’m going to cultivate. You may continue to select a method for forming your golden core.”

“Understood.”

After learning the specifics of Yun Zhi’s golden core formation, Lu Yang immediately abandoned all ideas of learning from her. This method is too outrageous. I’m just someone with a Sword Spirit Root, nondescript and unremarkable. I lack the kind of talent Big Senior Sister has.

The nursery rhyme is supposed to be “Twinkle, twinkle, little star; How I wonder what you are.” But perhaps it should now be changed to “Twinkle, twinkle, golden cores; How I wonder where you’re from.”[1]

It makes sense, and it’s catchy.

With that question settled, another sprang up in his mind.

Exactly how old is Big Senior Sister? How many hundred years old is she?

Lu Yang was itching to uncover the truth. He recalled that Dai Bufan had been in charge of the first round of the sect’s entrance trials. Senior Dai Bufan could tell a person’s spirit root and age with just a touch. “Immortal Fairy, do you have any spells that can determine other people’s ages?”

“I do.”

Lu Yang had only brought it up casually, not expecting a positive response. Nothing less from the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

“Hehe, this spell of mine is amazing. It can ignore the other party’s cultivation and lets you see their age.”

“So powerful?!” Lu Yang exclaimed.

“Of course! Don’t you know who I am?!”

Since it was a minor spell, or rather, a simple trick, it was easy to pick up. After reciting ancient phrases and practicing twice, Lu Yang had it down. Activating the ancient spell, he felt that the sight before him had broadened, as if he had just comprehended something.

“Let me test it on myself first.” Lu Yang stretched out his hands and saw a number appearing before his eyes: sixteen years old.

Correct, I’m only sixteen years old.

“Let’s try it on the Immortal Fairy now.” Lu Yang shifted the spell to the happy-go-lucky Everlasting Immortal Fairy, and a number again showed up before him: sixteen years old.

“Hmm?” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy always brags that she’s a prodigy and beauty who passed away in her prime and is now only sixteen years old.

But I can tell that it’s all rubbish even if I use my buttocks to think.

Sixteen years old and already an immortal? Is a whole era equivalent to one year old?

Completely baffled, he checked a senior male disciple who passed by. It’s also sixteen years old!

“...Immortal Fairy, is there something wrong with your spell? Why does it display ‘sixteen years old’ for everyone?” Considering his dark track record, Lu Yang wondered if he had cultivated it wrong.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy spoke with overwhelming confidence. “Forget whether the age is accurate. Just tell me whether you’re able to ignore one’s cultivation to see the age!”

Lu Yang was at a loss for words.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy continued, “Back in the ancient era, everyone liked to use age to determine their seniority, but that wasn’t a good thing. Are older people always right and younger people always wrong?

“In order to turn around such a situation, I specifically invented this spell that shows everyone’s age as sixteen years old. Unfortunately, my ideas were too forward-thinking back then, and people couldn’t accept them.”

Lu Yang remarked, “Your idea is still very forward-thinking now.”

So how can I figure out Big Senior Sister’s age? The first method Lu Yang came up with was to find out which cohort of disciples he was from. The Dao-Seeking Sect, or rather, the Five Great Immortal Sects, were very regular in their recruitment cycle; they took in a batch of disciples every year without fail.

However, he soon dismissed the idea. The Dao-Seeking Sect dared to accept even Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou. Contrary to what it seemed, the bar for entry was set absurdly high. In fact, the cohort Lu Yang belonged to had a larger intake than usual. Some candidates might meet the criterion for spirit root but not their mindset, and they wouldn’t be able to join the Dao-Seeking Sect. This resulted in cases where the Dao-Seeking Sect couldn’t recruit anyone. That meant that Lu Yang couldn’t calculate Yun Zhi’s age by deducing which batch of disciples she was from.

Lu Yang mumbled, “Shall I ask Senior Brother Dai Bufan then? He’s from the same cohort as Big Senior Sister, so he surely knows her age!” He decided to act on his idea right away, but due to what happened during the third round of the selection trials, he couldn’t help but feel guilty when facing Dai Bufan alone.

Let me find a helper.

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“Go ask Senior Dai about Big Senior Sister’s age?” Meng Jingzhou’s countenance betrayed his eagerness. “Won’t Big Senior Sister find out?”

“She won’t. She was still cultivating when I left; she won’t have time to notice us.”

“Then what are we waiting for? Go go go!” Meng Jingzhou urged Lu Yang.

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“You want to ask about Big Senior Sister’s age?” Dai Bufan stared at them with a weird expression. “You two have quite the guts to dare ask about such a secret! Be careful not to invite calamity!” Dai Bufan was kind enough to warn the two of them.

This matter is a top-level secret in the Dao-Seeking Sect, even more confidential than information on Dao Fruits. It mustn’t be divulged to others.

“Do you know what happened to the last disciple who asked this question?!” Dai Bufan asked ominously.

“We’re just asking casually.” Meng Jingzhou put on his professional smile, which looked very fake.

“Yes, that’s right, we’re just concerned about Big Senior Sister. We know how hard it is for her to work day and night for the sect, so we would like to know her age to prepare a suitable gift for her.” Lu Yang flashed the same smile as Meng Jingzhou.

Dai Bufan rolled his eyes. Only a fool would believe them.

This is taboo. I mustn’t say anything.

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“Aren’t you afraid that Big Senior Sister will find out?” Dai Bufan questioned.

Meng Jingzhou grinned slyly. “Hehe, Big Senior Sister is cultivating now and can’t spare any attention to what’s happening here. Senior Brother Dai, as long as you keep silent, she definitely won’t know about this!”

Dai Bufan shook his head. “Big Senior Sister is omnipotent. How could she possibly not find out? Let me give you a word of caution, don’t ask anymore; this question is extremely dangerous.”

“It won’t be dangerous.” Meng Jingzhou didn’t think that this matter was a big deal.

Dai Bufan smirked. “Is that so? In that case, why don’t you turn around and ask the person in question?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

A sense of foreboding immediately swelled within them. They felt as if the surrounding temperature was plummeting drastically, close to freezing them into ice sculptures. They turned their heads stiffly and saw Yun Zhi standing right behind them with an elegant deportment. She was staring at Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, her face devoid of emotions.

Dai Bufan sighed. “See? I already told you not to ask this question, for it will invite calamity.”

From the moment the two had found him, Yun Zhi had been standing behind quietly. Dai Bufan tried his best to hint to them, but the two were bent on digging their own graves; no one could stop them.

Perhaps this tribulation is meant to be.

Yun Zhi softly called out, “Little Junior Brother.”

Lu Yang jumped in fright as he hastily answered, “Here!”

“Junior Brother Meng.”

“Here!”

“Do the two of you find cultivation too boring? Is that why you have the time to care about such a trivial matter?” Yun Zhi’s voice contained a rare trace of gentleness, as if she was concerned about Lu Yang’s and Meng Jingzhou’s progress in cultivation.

Cold sweat poured down Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, drenching their clothes. They shuddered non-stop, lost for words.

1. The Chinese version of this nursery rhyme is somewhat different from the original. Instead of “How I wonder what you are,” it’s “The sky is full of little stars.” Here, it is then changed to “The sky is full of golden cores.” ☜