Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 822: All Cellmates Have Left

After listening to the detailed report from his subordinate, the Minister of Justice verified that he wasn’t mistaken.

It’s indeed the Taciturn Daoist Priest, this grandson who captured Su Moran.

“Let’s go, we’re heading to Ye City. Also, call the Luoshui Guard. Remember not to be too conspicuous, lest we alert the Heartless Creed to our movements!”

The Minister of Justice led a small contingent of elites toward Ye City. Recalling scenes from his youth of being tricked by the Taciturn Daoist Priest in the imperial city, he seethed with indignation.

“Even he could become a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator? Is there no justice in this world?! 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

“So much administrative work—let His Majesty handle it from now on. I’m going to cultivate!”

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On the way to Ye City, the Luoshui Guard personnel joined the Minister of Justice. The leader of the squad was Luo Changhe,[1] an Intermediate Transcendent Tribulation cultivator and one of the Nine Palaces of the Luoshui Guard.

Unfortunately, they arrived a step late. The Vast Sea Daoist Lord had already teleported Su Moran’s soul back to the Dao-Seeking Sect.

Nevertheless, it wasn’t all too late. The Taciturn Daoist Priest and his cellmates were still serving their sentences here.

“Old Xu, over here, over here!” The Taciturn Daoist Priest waved from below, greeting the Minister of Justice, Xu Xin.

Xu Xin realized he really couldn’t see through the Taciturn Daoist Priest’s cultivation level now, confirming the latter had genuinely reached the Transcendent Tribulation Stage, rather than defeating Su Moran through some secret art that endowed him with a temporary spike in power.

The moment the Xu Xin landed, he heard the Taciturn Daoist Priest speak in an aged and patronizing tone. “Little Xu, you’re a veteran. You understand the rules of the cultivation world without me having to explain. In the cultivation world, the strong reign supreme. Considering that we were once peers, you can just call me Senior Taciturn.”

Xu Xin rolled his eyes, unwilling to engage with the Taciturn Daoist Priest.

Only then did he notice the Taciturn Daoist Priest’s cellmates.

“Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, what are you two doing here as well?”

Back when he had been tricked into prison by the Taciturn Daoist Priest, he had seen Lu Yang visiting.

As for Meng Jingzhou, how could he not recognize someone from the Meng Family? They were another major faction driving the improvement of Great Xia’s legal system.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou opened their mouths, but they were too embarrassed to say they had mutually stolen from each other so that they could come in to accompany the Innate Daoist Priest.

Seeing them like this, Xu Xin understood. They must have been sabotaged by the Taciturn Daoist Priest.

“Where is Su Moran?” Xu Xin remembered the purpose of his visit.

“Founding Ancestor Vast Sea sent him back to our Dao-Seeking Sect.”

Xu Xin turned around, prepared to head to the Dao-Seeking Sect, but the Taciturn Daoist Priest pulled him back.

“Hey, wait, wait, wait. I worked so hard to capture Su Moran. That counts as a major meritorious service, right? Go through the procedures and get me released.”

The Taciturn Daoist Priest’s original intention in staying in prison was to let Chieftain Jin experience life. After the incident in Ye City, this place was no longer suitable for them, so they might as well get out.

He pointed at Chieftain Jin beside him. “And my little brother here, you can just call him Jinzi. He captured a Fusion cultivator from the Heartless Creed. That’s also a major meritorious service.”

Xu Xin gave Chieftain Jin a meaningful look. In this day and age, there’s still someone eager to hang out with the Taciturn Daoist Priest? Is there something wrong with his brain?

“Fine. I’ll go look for the City Lord later to complete the procedures. Nothing else, right? If not, I’m leaving.” Xu Xin was in a hurry to get to the Dao-Seeking Sect.

“And also, this person needs to be released too.”

“Could you say everything at once? Who is this person now?” Xu Xin looked in the direction the Taciturn Daoist Priest was pointing and saw the Innate Daoist Priest sitting in the corner.

“He’s a disciple of our Dao-Seeking Sect. His original intention was to infiltrate the Heartless Creed as a spy, but he didn’t expect the Heartless Creed base to be raided by the Ye City authorities. He was too embarrassed to say he was from the Dao-Seeking Sect, worried about tarnishing our sect’s reputation, so he got arrested.”

Xu Xin was flabbergasted. I didn’t expect the Dao-Seeking Sect to have such a pure-hearted and honest disciple. Judging by how he has just reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, he has probably been in the Dao-Seeking Sect for about a year.

To spend a year in the Dao-Seeking Sect yet still manage to grow out of the mud unsullied is truly remarkable.

“This can also be arranged.”

Xu Xin was about to leave but suddenly stopped. “There’s nothing else this time, right?”

“None, none. Go ahead.”

Soon, those from the imperial court left the prison. The Taciturn Daoist Priest, Chieftain Jin, and the Innate Daoist Priest also departed, leaving only Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou behind.

The two stared at each other. In the blink of an eye, the once lively cell had been reduced to just the two of them.

“Thinking about it carefully, there really doesn’t seem to be any reason for us to be released.”

They hadn’t contributed during the battle, and neither were they unjustly imprisoned like the Innate Daoist Priest.

“How many more days do we have to stay locked up here?”

“Ten days.”

The two brothers shook their heads and sighed. We’ll just have to stay here obediently and cultivate for ten days then.

“We don’t even have a roof over our heads anymore.” Lu Yang looked up. The starry sky was clear and boundless. The roof had been torn off at the very beginning by the Fusion cultivator from the Heartless Creed.

He was cultivating in his mental space, still cuffed with manacles, as he gazed helplessly at the Everlasting Immortal Fairy enjoying life on the other side of the cage. So envious.

“Good things didn’t happen to good people this time.”

~~~

After the Vast Sea Daoist Lord brought Su Moran’s soul back to the Dao-Seeking Sect, he immediately summoned the Grand-Shifu from Incarceration Peak and Elder Tao from the scripture library, and requested Yun Zhi’s presence.

Wu Lei’s corpse was handed over to Fifth Elder to be refined into a magical treasure.

On the other hand, Su Moran’s corpse wasn’t refined. After all, it was the Taciturn Daoist Priest’s spoils of war and could be used to strengthen his personal sword.

The Dao-Seeking Sect’s top-tier combatants convened here and directly performed soul searching, obtaining all of Su Moran’s memories.

Just then, personnel from the Ministry of Justice and the Luoshui Guard rushed over to liaise with the Dao-Seeking Sect regarding the matter on the Heartless Creed.

The Vast Sea Daoist Lord shared the intelligence and frowned. “As I thought, it’s challenging to deal with the Heartless Creed. According to Su Moran’s memories, the Heartless Creed Leader’s appearance and age are unknown, suspected to be a half-immortal. Su Moran speculated that his purpose in founding the Heartless Creed was to gather all heartless individuals, observe their insights on the Heartless Dao, and use that to complete himself.”

“In other words, the Heartless Creed’s creed leader has been the same person since the founding of the Heartless Creed?” Luo Changhe of the Luoshui Guard was astonished.

“Extremely likely!”

“Alright, let’s not discuss that for now. According to Su Moran’s memories, the Heartless Creed headquarters holds his life tablet. Once his soul leaves his body, his life tablet will shatter. The Heartless Creed’s higher-ups will then immediately abandon the headquarters and relocate their base.”

“I’ll open a spatial gate to the headquarters. With luck, we might still be in time.”

Everyone stepped through the spatial gate and arrived at the Heartless Creed headquarters—the bottom of Blue Dragon Lake in Yun Province.

Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, the Heartless Creed had long since evacuated. The entire lakebed had been relocated through mighty abilities, causing the Blue Dragon Lake’s water level to drop by several dozen meters.

“Then let’s go to their respective bases!”

Su Moran’s memories contained the locations of all the branches. The Vast Sea Daoist Lord immediately opened numerous spatial passageways, heading toward those corresponding branches.

Each Heartless Creed branch had experts stationed, the weakest being at the Nascent Soul Stage. However, such levels of cultivation were insignificant before the combined forces of the Dao-Seeking Sect and the imperial court.

Some branches held a higher status and possessed the means to contact the creed’s higher-ups directly. Upon learning of the vice creed leader’s capture, they immediately fled. These branches were extremely few, comprising only one-tenth of the total branches. The other ninety percent of the branches were uprooted by the Dao-Seeking Sect and the imperial court, with interrogations conducted through the night.

The situation for the remaining one-tenth of the branches wasn’t much better. They could run, but their speed was limited by their cultivation. Many were captured by the Fusion cultivators who rushed over.

The Heartless Creed’s foundation was shaken, its vitality severely damaged.

1. “Changhe” literally translates to long river. ☜