Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 800: Junior Brother Gu, What Insights Have You Gained From This?

Chapter 800: Junior Brother Gu, What Insights Have You Gained From This?

“Senior Brother Dai, wake up, wake up.”

Dai Bufan faintly heard someone calling him.

Who’s calling me? So noisy.

Struggling to open his eyes, he saw Lu Yang’s large face extremely close to his, gazing at him earnestly.

Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Lu Yang’s large face moved slightly away.

Dai Bufan shook his head. I can’t help but feel like I’ve forgotten something. What happened before this? Why did I pass out?

“Ah, it’s Junior Brother Lu. What brings you here?”

Lu Yang gestured to the row of people behind him, each trussed up like zongzi rice dumplings.

Lu Yang boasted to Dai Bufan, smiling somewhat sheepishly. “Senior Brother Dai, I just went out to have some fun, and I accidentally captured the Four Ancient Immortals, all the slumbering immortals from antiquity, the founding Qian emperor, the founding Yu Emperor, the first Imperial Preceptor, the founding Xia Emperor... With this, victory will definitely belong to our Dao-Seeking Sect in the Battle of the Great Era!”

“What?!”

Dai Bufan’s eyes flew open. He bolted upright, eyes wide and round, staring at Lu Yang’s detestable, large face.

He looked at Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and the others in bewilderment. The row of ancient immortals trussed up like zongzi had all vanished.

“So it was a dream, just a dream...” A chill ran down Dai Bufan’s spine as he recalled the scenes in the dream. He was relieved that it had been a false alarm.

First Elder excelled in dreamscapes, and Dai Bufan himself knew some dreamscape spells. It had been centuries since he last had a nightmare.

“Senior Brother Dai, are you alright?” Lu Yang asked with concern. Senior Brother Dai, your Dao heart really can’t make it. This is hardly anything. If I weren’t worried about putting you on the hit list, I would have told you about Hui Doudou’s identity.

As Dai Bufan’s memories gradually returned, he recalled what Lu Yang had said before he fainted.

Lu Yang, you kid really have a knack for stirring things up. It’s said that the East Sea has no half-immortals. Yet as soon as you went there, not only did you give the East Sea a half-immortal, but you also got two half-immortals killed there.

As for the immortal battle, it’s something that hasn’t occurred in three hundred thousand years.

“Any single one of the events that transpired in the East Sea could earn a place in the annals of history. And you’re now telling me that all of these incidents are related to you?”

Lu Yang felt rather bashful, not expecting Dai Bufan’s compliment. “It’s not quite as impressive as you make it sound...”

Dai Bufan forcibly stabilized his Dao heart. “All of you, tell me properly. How did you go from a leisurely two-day trip to the East Sea to triggering a great immortal battle in the East Sea?”

Lu Yang recounted most of the events as the primary firsthand witness who personally experienced everything, while Meng Jingzhou and the others provided supplementary details.

Only then did Dai Bufan straighten out the sequence of events. According to the accounts of the five, the East Sea affairs truly can’t be blamed on Lu Yang. It was simply a problem of luck.

From an intelligence standpoint, this was priceless information. Dai Bufan dared say the East Sea matters would shock the entire cultivation world, but only Lu Yang and his companions knew the full story behind them; others only saw the surface.

From the standpoint of the supervisor of the Great Mission Hall, Dai Bufan simply wanted Lu Yang to take over his position.

Dai Bufan held his forehead, feeling a headache coming on. He shooed the five away as though he was swatting flies. “Alright, alright, I know what happened. Let me have some peace and quiet.”

I need to properly digest the intelligence about the East Sea.

After Lu Yang and the other four left, Dai Bufan sat cross-legged, steadying his breathing. He replayed the East Sea events repeatedly in his mind, finally erupting with a furious roar.

“Even if it was just luck, isn’t this whole thing just too damn outrageous?!”

Boom!

In his rage, Dai Bufan’s aura shot skyward. In one go, he advanced to the Intermediate Fusion Stage!

~~~

A month had passed since the Dao-Seeking Sect’s entrance trials. The four newly recruited disciples had each become disciples under various elders.

The Innate Daoist Priest became the Vast Sea Daoist Lord’s disciple; Gu Junye became First Elder’s disciple; Zhou Xing’er became Grandpa Ba’s disciple; Zhuang Ping became Fourth Elder’s disciple.

First Elder was currently lying in some random coffin, so Dai Bufan had no choice but to take on the role of his shifu, instructing Gu Junye in a certain clearing on the back mountain.

Perfect for a change of mood, he thought.

“Our lineage oversees both the Great Mission Hall and the enforcement of sect discipline. The most important thing is to avoid stirring up trouble. Since you have joined our lineage, you must abide by the rules. Remember: Do not stir up trouble.”

“Understood, Senior Brother,” Gu Junye replied, obediently sitting across from him and listening to him teach.

“As for a prime example of what not to do, it’s that kid, Lu Yang. Whenever he goes out on a mission, he’s bound to stir up something. At the start, it wasn’t so bad—he just joined the Everlasting Creed and such. Later, he attended the Qing Province Grand Ceremony and encountered two archaic Fusion cultivators and one archaic Transcendent Tribulation cultivator. After that, he went to the Wilderness Province and encountered three archaic Transcendent Tribulation cultivators... Not long ago, he returned from the East Sea. The events there are inextricably linked to him as well.”

Dai Bufan enumerated Lu Yang’s inexplicable connections with high-level cultivators. Every time Lu Yang returned, his harvest was enough to scare Dai Bufan half to death.

“Junior Brother Gu, tell me, what insight have you gained from this?”

Gu Junye’s eyes shone brightly. “Such is how a true man ought to be!”

Dai Bufan, “...”

Is it too late to get a different junior brother now?

~~~

When Lu Yang returned to Heaven’s Gate Peak, he saw Yun Zhi and Ao Ling having tea. Ao Ling had one leg crossed over the other, appearing quite unrestrained.

“Our sect already has two guest elders: Senior Immortal Fairy and Senior Lianyi. I wonder if you might be interested in becoming a guest elder of our sect, Senior Ao Ling.”

“Damn it! Lianyi got ahead of me again,” Ao Ling grumbled with regret. Why is it Jiang Lianyi who woke first and not me?

Falling a single step behind means falling behind everywhere. Even if I become a guest elder now, there would still be a Jiang Lianyi standing between me and Everlasting-jiejie.

“Then what benefits do I get for becoming a guest elder?”

“There are naturally many benefits to being a guest elder. For example, if there is anything in our sect that catches your eye, you may feel free to take it, Senior.”

“Oh? There are such perks?” Ao Ling gaze fell upon Lu Yang, who had just arrived, and a smile of keen interest spread across her face.

Lu Yang felt an ominous feeling well up within him.

“Little Junior Brother is not a thing,” Yun Zhi reminded. “However, our sect has captured several half-immortals and confiscated their assets. These are all stored in the treasury now. You may choose one item you like from among them.”

With Lu Yang acting as bait to hook a whole bunch of half-immortals, the Dao-Seeking Sect’s wealth and foundation now surpassed even that of the Dragon Tribe.

Yun Zhi continued, “Alternatively, you can make contributions to the sect, earn contributions, and use these points to exchange for the ‘Dao-Seeking Sect Leader One-Day Experience,’ temporarily becoming the sect leader. Everyone in the sect must obey the acting sect leader’s commands.”

“Even guest elders are no exception?”

“Guest elders are no exception.”

Ao Ling slapped her thigh. “I’ll do it!”

“Then can I also earn contribution points?” Hearing Yun Zhi’s words, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy suddenly remembered she hadn’t received any contribution points in a long while.

Yun Zhi replied, “Senior Immortal Fairy, you have made indelible contributions to the sect. Naturally, you have earned contribution points.”

“Then I want to redeem the ‘Dao-Seeking Sect Leader One-Day Experience!’” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s eyes gleamed.

Yun Zhi was not surprised. “What is the duration you wish to redeem, Immortal Fairy? One or two years...”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had contributed greatly to the Dao-Seeking Sect’s capture of half-immortals, which meant her contribution points were as vast as the ocean.

“One year will do.”

Yun Zhi nodded. “In that case, starting from today...”

“Wait! This immortal is just redeeming it in advance. I don’t want to be the acting sect leader yet.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy recalled the previous two times she immediately became the acting sect leader. One involved organizing the exchange with the Five-Elements Sect, and the other involved organizing the Dao-Seeking Sect’s 120,000th anniversary celebration.

Both were fraught with difficulties. If I hadn’t had Lu Yang as my golden finger cheat, I might not have made it through those two challenges.

This time, I must pick a favorable time to become the acting sect leader.

It was Yun Zhi’s turn to be stunned. She didn’t expect the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s intelligence to have improved by leaps and bounds without her noticing.