Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 811: The Heartless Creed’s Entrance Trial

The Heartless Creed was said to consist entirely of heartless individuals. Their recruitment criteria were extremely stringent, which was why they had the fewest members among the Four Great Diabolic Creeds.

Of course, in terms of follower count, they still couldn’t compare to the Heavenly Court Creed, which had been established for only two years yet possessed a history of four hundred thousand years.

It was unknown whether the Heartless Creed’s philosophy truly had some merit or if they had other methods, but their members’ cultivation levels were generally high.

Lu Yang recounted the intelligence on the Heartless Creed to the Innate Daoist Priest. “The Heartless Creed’s philosophy is that only those bereft of compassion and righteousness can attain the Great Dao and become a supreme immortal. Worldly relationships are shackles to them. Kinship, love, friendship—these emotions are poison to them and not to be touched. Even if such ties exist, they must be severed as soon as possible.”

The Innate Daoist Priest didn’t know much about the Heartless Creed, just like Lu Yang had only known the name of the Everlasting Creed when he reached the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The Lu Yang today was different. On the surface, he had excellent relations with Dai Bufan, who was in charge of the intelligence network. Behind the scenes, he relied on his status as the young creed leader to gather considerable intelligence from the Nine-Netherworlds Creed and the Radiant Sun Creed.

However, the Heartless Creed was inherently insular, treating the Nine-Netherworlds Creed and the Radiant Sun Creeds with indifference. Therefore, these two creeds couldn’t fully understand the Heartless Creed’s situation either.

“Is that the Heartless Creed’s base over there?”

Lu Yang and the others were in a forest. The two they had been tailing knocked on the bark of a certain large tree before getting sucked into the tree, vanishing from sight.

Through his spiritual consciousness, Lu Yang discovered that the tree’s interior was hollow. With its roots as channels, it transported people to an underground cavity beneath the roots.

“That’s the fifth cultivator going underground, right?” Meng Jingzhou transmitted an auditory message to the other two. They weren’t clear about the situation here and were in the middle of observing. Aside from the two cultivators who just entered, three more cultivators individually entered the underground cavity.

“Then it can’t be wrong. It’s the Heartless Creed’s recruitment day today.” The Innate Daoist Priest was certain he hadn’t misheard. “I’ll go down first.”

“Wait, wait.” Lu Yang hurriedly pulled the Innate Daoist Priest back. “We brothers have some experience in this area. How about letting the two of us accompany you down?” He was worried about letting the Innate Daoist Priest go to the Heartless Creed alone.

The Innate Daoist Priest thought it over and felt that Lu Yang’s words made sense. Although my cultivation experience surpasses these two juniors, my infiltration experience can’t compare.

“That works too.”

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou put on masks, altered their appearances, and suppressed their cultivation to the Basic Foundation Establishment Stage. As long as the Heartless Creed below didn’t have any Divine Transfiguration cultivators, no one would see through their cultivation levels.

Following the steps they had observed previously, the trio knocked on a specific patch on the giant tree’s bark. A suction force pulled them into the tree, and they slid down to the underground cavity.

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“Oh, more people, and three of them at that?” The Heartless Creed member who saw Lu Yang’s trio was puzzled. Typically, heartless people rarely traveled in groups—two together was already rare, and three together was even rarer. But it wasn’t unheard of, so he didn’t suspect much.

“Come with me,” the Heartless Creed member guarding the entrance said expressionlessly.

From the corner of his eye, Lu Yang surveyed this underground cavity, which looked like a large restaurant that had been buried in the earth. He wondered how long this base had been built.

This area belonged to Ye City, so this base should be called the Heartless Creed’s Ye City Branch.

The Heartless Creed follower leading the way was nearly at the Golden Core Stage. Along the way, several other Heartless Creed followers were patrolling, all at the Golden Core Stage.

The follower led the trio to the deepest part of the cavity. At this point, seven other cultivators had already arrived, wanting to join the Heartless Creed. Their cultivation levels varied—the highest was at the Golden Core Stage, while the lowest was only at the Level Three Qi Training Stage. However, judging by the Heartless Creed’s reaction, they didn’t place much importance on cultivation level.

“Three Basic Foundation Establishment cultivators? Got it. You may leave.” The cultivator responsible for selecting new followers nodded, his expression cold. His eyes were like those of a dead fish, looking at everyone as if they were corpses.

Lu Yang noted that he had the highest cultivation here, at the Intermediate Nascent Soul Stage.

“How did you all find this place?” this Intermediate Nascent Soul cultivator asked.

Lu Yang replied in a similar tone. “We tailed certain people here. The three of us have long wanted to join the Heartless Creed. Now that we finally found an opportunity, we decided to come.” Regarding how we found the place, there’s no need to lie. If anything, tailing others here has more of a diabolic cultivator flair.

The Intermediate Nascent Soul cultivator didn’t respond to Lu Yang’s answer, but based on the fact that he didn’t chase them away, he likely didn’t suspect them. Or perhaps, he didn’t need to suspect them at all. He only believed in the test results.

After Lu Yang’s group arrived, they waited another four hours. Seeing no new cultivators came to join the Heartless Creed, the Intermediate Nascent Soul cultivator announced frostily, “Alright, enough waiting. Even if more people come, they have no fate with our creed. My name is Niu Qianshan, the Branch Leader of this branch. The purpose for which you have all gathered here goes without saying—it’s to join our Heartless Creed.

“Our creed doesn’t care about your backgrounds or your cultivation levels. As long as you can be bereft of compassion and righteousness and uphold the Heartless Dao, you are all members of our creed.”

Niu Qianshan took out a stack of yellow papers, drawn with arrays that Lu Yang couldn’t understand. He gestured for his subordinates to distribute the yellow papers to all the cultivators.

“Hmm? What an ingenious array. Whoever designed this is a talent.” A rare compliment came from the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

Niu Qianshan continued, “Our creed’s entrance trial isn’t as fussy as the Nine-Netherworlds Creed’s or the Radiant Sun Creed’s. Our creed’s trial only has one component to it—prove that you are individuals bereft of compassion and righteousness!

“What you need to do next is sit in meditation on this yellow paper.

“Once you’re in meditation, the array on the yellow paper can peer into your hearts and identify the person closest to you in the deepest part of your heart—be it your parents, elders, or friends—and manifest them.

“Moreover, you will forget your circumstances, forget this is a test, and believe it is reality. You must kill the person you see!”

At the end, Niu Qianshan’s visage turned deranged and fearsome, his entire expression twisted. To join the Heartless Creed, he had personally killed his wife and child.

“Of course, considering the other party’s cultivation might exceed yours, making it hard to kill them, the person manifested by the array will have cultivation equal to yours.

“The trial begins!” Niu Qianshan announced coldly.

The ten test-takers, including Lu Yang, sat in meditation on the arrays. They were all heartless individuals with steadfast Dao hearts and quickly entered meditation.

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When Lu Yang woke again, his mind felt muddled, as if he had forgotten something. Soon, he regained clarity with the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s help.

“I remember now. I’m currently participating in the Heartless Creed’s trial. I need to kill the person who appears in the illusion. Since I’m already awake, passing the trial shouldn’t be difficult...”

Before Lu Yang finished speaking, he saw two familiar, graceful figures approaching. One was Yun Zhi, and the other was Huang Doudou.

Lu Yang, “...”

If I could win this fight, it would be a damned miracle!