Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 81: Stone Covert Weapon

“By the way, Branch Leader, you left without paying the bill for our previous meal. Are you going to hold it off or settle it now?” Man Gu asked right before he was about to leave.

Lu Yang hastily interjected Man Gu, “Shush! As part of the diabolic path, it is only right and proper of us to dine and dash. How could the branch leader be the type of good person who pays for their meals?!”

Meng Jingzhou concurred, “Exactly! What the branch leader said was that he would treat us, not settle the bill. How could you not even make such a simple distinction?!”

Branch Leader Chu, “...”

I must admit that when it comes to making sarcastic jabs at people, I’m no match for these three.

He gritted his teeth, resisting the urge to hit them, and threw a gold ingot to Man Gu. “Keep the change. You three, get out of here right now!”

Man Gu’s face was one of bewilderment. I’m just asking for money like a normal person would, but why do Brother Lu and Brother Meng sound strange? They seem to be speaking for me and the branch leader at the same time.

By the time the trio left, it was already late at night. Lu Yang gazed up at the resplendent starry sky and remarked, “Who would have thought that the stars in the sky are all fake? That was totally unexpected, truly unexpected.”

Meng Jingzhou scratched his head. “It’s not that unexpected right? Since I was young, my grandfather has told me that he’d get anything I wanted, including the stars in the sky. I was about seven or eight when I pointed at a star and said that I wanted it. My grandfather then traveled to the universe. When he returned, he placed a speck of light the size of a fingernail in my hands, saying that it was a star. Coincidentally, there was also one less star in the sky. I gestured to my grandfather, telling him that stars should be very big, even bigger than our courtyard. He just smiled mysteriously and claimed that stars were indeed this small.”

“What happened after that?” Lu Yang was intrigued.

“After that? After that, someone who seemed to be a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Justice came. They said that my grandfather was guilty of stealing natural resources and demanded that he return the star. My grandfather returned that speck of light, and a star appeared in the night sky again.

“At the time, I already felt that something was fishy, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Over time, I forgot about it. Hearing about all this today, I realized that what I held in my hand then was really a star.”

“As expected of someone from the Meng Family. Your childhood experience is already very different from ours.” Lu Yang shook his head, trying to recall what he was doing during his own childhood.

Oh, I’ve remembered. When I was young, I was reminiscing about my life before transmigration and the classical poems I had to memorize, such as “The lofty tower stands a hundred chi high; I could pluck the stars with my hand. I dare not speak in a loud voice, lest I disturb those up in the sky.” [1]

I could only pluck stars in poems while Meng Jingzhou could pluck stars in reality. This is truly what disparity looks like.

Recently, Lu Yang had been contemplating whether he should write a novel like The Drifting Earth, but in the context of this world, it was probably not planets pushing the Earth but rather a formidable cultivator.

The trio didn’t continue dwelling on the issues of the stars and continent any longer. Such matters were too distant for them. With their current cultivation, they even struggled with lifting huge rocks, much less moving stars.

“Rest early. Tomorrow, we will visit our fellow creed members in prison.”

The three yawned. At the Foundation Establishment Stage, they could sit in meditation in place of sleeping. Although the effects were the same, the three of them still preferred to sleep.

Sit in meditation? We’ll leave it for the Golden Core Stage.

~~~

Early the next morning, Lu Yang found Constable Captain Wei, who readily approved his request to visit the prison and handed him a slip of paper.

Right as Lu Yang stepped inside, he felt as if his spirit energy was shackled, unable to manipulate any of it. Even his body became sluggish.

“Is this the Spirit Energy Disabling Array?” Lu Yang was surprised. He hadn’t expected the Spirit Energy Disabling Array to be as powerful as what Captain Wei had described.

When Captain Wei approved of Lu Yang’s visit to the prison, he had cautioned him to be careful of the Spirit Energy Disabling Array in the prison. It was specifically designed with cultivators in mind. Within the range of the array, cultivators’ cultivation will be frozen, preventing them from using any spells. This was to thwart prison breaks and escapes.

As the Spirit Energy Disabling Array was of a high tier, even Golden Core cultivators would be restricted. There were no exceptions.

Lu Yang had arrived just as the prison wardens were changing shifts. The prison wardens from the day shift yawned with tears in their eyes, their eyes in a daze as if they hadn’t woken up. As for the night shift wardens who were about to get off, they were in good spirits and teased, “Old Zhou, aren’t you usually the most energetic? Why are you so tired today? You didn’t do something shameful or secretive last night, right?”

Old Zhou’s mouth opened wide as he finished yawning before saying, “I don’t know what's been going on recently. I just can’t seem to wake up. It’s hard to get up in the morning. And it’s not just me, the same goes for my wife. Before coming here, I even washed my face, but I’m still sleepy.”

The night shift prison warden smiled. “It must be because you did something at night that kept you from sleeping well. Look at me, I’m not tired.”

Old Zhou’s mouth twitched. “You’re a cultivator; you’re different from me.”

The night shift prison warden waved dismissively, “I’m just at the Level One Qi Training Stage. Whether I’ll even reach Level Two is totally up in the air. I’m not really a cultivator.”

The prison’s rule was that the wardens in the day shift would be mortals while the wardens in the night shift would be Level One Qi Training Cultivators as the latter could ensure that they stay awake and vigilant during the night.

Cultivators were unwilling to be suppressed by the Spirit Energy Disabling Array and be no different from mortals. However, it was clearly inadequate to only have Level One Qi Training prison wards on guard, so there were covert sentinels posted outside to keep watch as cultivators.

After the change of shift, Lu Yang used the slip of paper to find Old Zhou. After glancing at Lu Yang and searching him, Old Zhou saw that he brought nothing else but a lunchbox, so he allowed him to pass.

~~~

Chi Xulong was infamous for his ruthlessness among the rogue diabolic cultivators in nearby commanderies. He thought that after he joined the diabolic creed, he would realize his grand ambitions, carve out his own territory, and become the local tyrant. Even imprisonment couldn’t change his aspirations.

Since I’m in prison, I’ll become the prison tyrant first!

The first hurdle standing in front of me is that I’m unable to intimidate others.

Chi Xulong was currently confined in a cage where even Foundation Establishment cultivators couldn’t break free. He didn’t even have a weapon at hand. The people in the neighboring cells were relentless with their insults or sarcasm. Chi Xulong could only grind his teeth in rage.

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At this moment, his cellmate Shen Jinyi came up with an idea. He held a small stone in his mouth and spit it out. The stone shot out like a bullet with incredible power. One could only imagine the impact if it struck a person. As a killer, Shen Jinyi was well-versed in using various items as covert weapons.

“As brothers in the same dire straits, we should all the more cooperate sincerely and forge a way out together!” Shen Jinyi said with the code of brotherhood. “Once you learn this technique from me, you’ll be invincible in prison. Let’s conquer the prison together!”

Greatly spurred on by his words, Chi Xulong woke up early and slept late just so that he could diligently learn to use his mouth to shoot stone covert weapons with his mouth.

Unfortunately, Chi Xulong lacked the talent. Despite his brute strength, he couldn’t master the technique at all.

“You have to do it this way. Hold air in your mouth, then spit it out. Speed is key!” Shen Jinyi demonstrated, trying hard to teach Chi Xulong.

“I know, it’s just spitting it out.” Chi Xulong was getting impatient.

“No, no, that’s wrong, you’re not pouting enough. It should be like this.”

“Like this?”

Lu Yang stood outside, looking at both Chi Xulong and Shen Jinyi pouting, wondering if he should remind them that such a scene could be easily misunderstood.

Let me capture this with a recording orb first.

1. This is a famous poem “A Night’s Lodging at a Mountain Temple” by famous poet Li Bai. The original poem has each stanza at five characters, so I translated it to eight words per stanza for the English version. ☜