Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 867: Northern Great Emperor of Wealth

When Jin Caiwei first came to Great Xia, she had intended to establish a cooperative relationship with the Dao-Seeking Sect. However, after Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi informed her about the matters of the Heavenly Court while staying at the Meng Estate, she decided to join the Heavenly Court as well.

After all, joining the Heavenly Court essentially made her half a Dao-Seeking Sect member, which wasn’t too far from her original goal.

The title “Northern Great Emperor of Wealth” was one Jin Caiwei had chosen for herself, embodying her fondest hopes and aspirations.

“Northern Great Emperor of Wealth?”

Jin Caiwei’s sudden appearance instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the imperial city.

“Why has the ancient Heavenly Court also come to the imperial city?”

“Who is this qiongqi from the ancient era? According to records, the qiongqi among the half-immortals was male.”

“No one seems to match.” The crowd couldn’t come up with a corresponding ancient half-immortal.

“Don’t bother about that now. Judging by the title, this great emperor oversees wealth and fortune. Do you think paying respects could bring prosperity?”

“That seems to make sense. Should we give it a try?”

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“It’s you again, the Heavenly Court?” General Yu’s smile faded, the roguish grin vanishing from his face. “Wu Youdao’s operation in Wilderness Province failed because of your Heavenly Court. And now you wish to stick your oar in again?”

“Stick our oar in?” The white qiongqi revealed a mocking smile. “This immortal peach originates from the sole World Natural Spiritual Root between heaven and earth. Consuming one leads to boundless marvels; it’s far more than simply extending one’s lifespan.

“The ancient immortals partook of it. That World Natural Spiritual Root originally belonged to our Heavenly Court. It is a pity that it was lost during the immortal battles at the end of the ancient era.

“Now that the immortal peach has reappeared, this is our opportunity to search for that World Natural Spiritual Root again.

“You Great Yu cultivators are blind and ignorant, unable to recognize an immortal treasure. To think you tried to destroy this immortal peach—utterly ignorant!”

“The sole World Natural Spirit Root between heaven and earth?” General Yu was startled by this title. The name alone implies how extraordinary the immortal peach must be.

Indeed. Aside from the legendary immortality elixir, only such an immortal treasure could possibly rescue the wizened Xia Emperor from the brink of death.

“What’s the point of wasting so many words with a country bumpkin from later generations like you? Dao-Seeking kid, pass me the immortal peach!” A gigantic white tiger paw that resembled a small mountain reached toward Lu Yang.

Lu Yang stood dumbfounded in place, frightened by the ancient qiongqi’s terrifying oppressive pressure.

“First come, first served. This immortal peach rightfully belongs to our Great Yu!” General Yu unleashed a fiery spirit saber that seared spirit energy, deflecting Jin Caiwei’s paw.

General Yu had figured things out. The Xia Emperor is protected by national fortune and can’t be easily killed; we can only wait for him to die of old age. My mission is to prevent the immortal peach from reaching the imperial palace. Whether the immortal peach is destroyed or becomes mind makes no difference.

In that case, we will follow the rules of the jianghu: whoever has the stronger fist will claim the treasure!

Innumerable rare spirit metals were smelted into metal plates within the flames. These metal plates flew out and attached themselves to General Yu’s body, forming a full suit of armor.

This was the attire he wore during the campaigns at the end of the Great Qian era. Back then, he commanded vast armies, brimming with vigor and ambition—a formidable lord worthy of contending for supremacy.

General Yu gripped a fire-tipped spear as he charged at Jin Caiwei.

“Courting death!” The golden tiger eyes turned icy. The qiongqi governed slaughter and warfare. Her father had carved out a fearsome reputation through carnage in the ancient era. As the Old Qiongqi’s little daughter, how could she be weak?

The qiongqi roared and flapped its bone wings as though countless vengeful spirits were wailing, shattering the surrounding space.

General Yu tread upon the space fragments, lunging straight toward Jin Caiwei.

The white qiongqi opened its maw and directly clamped down on the head of the fire-tipped spear. With a violent twist of her head, she flung both the spear and General Yu away.

Noticing the imprint of a tiger’s tooth on the fire-tipped spear, General Yu’s expression changed. This fire-tipped spear had accompanied him through numerous battles over the years. Even when facing enemies like the Nightmare Supreme Lord and the Yu Emperor Wu Yao, it didn’t sustain a single scratch. Yet, a single bite from this ancient qiongqi had damaged it.

With these two ancient figures in combat, Lu Yang dared not get involved. He hastily clutched the immortal peach and fled.

“Dang, he’s coming this way!” The higher-ups of the Nine-Netherworlds Creed and the Radiant Sun Creed had been enjoying the spectacle when they saw Lu Yang running toward them and were scared out of their wits.

As Fusion cultivators, their running speed exceeded Lu Yang’s. Hence, they had run ahead of him to get a better view of the spectacle. Now that Lu Yang was trying to break free from the battlefield and make his way to the imperial palace, he was naturally headed in their direction.

But the problem was that while Lu Yang wanted to leave the battlefield, the two half-immortals in the sky wouldn’t allow it!

No matter how strong the higher-ups of the two diabolic creeds were, they dared not observe a half-immortal battle at close range.

General Yu didn’t dare to engage Jin Caiwei head-on again. He activated his Incipient Dao Fruit. A black-red flame appeared in his right palm, causing Creed Leader Chi’s eye to twitch.

He sensed that the temperature of the flame in General Yu’s hand was even higher than the surface of the sun. This is a heat capable of incinerating Fusion cultivators and severely burning Transcendent Tribulation cultivators!

In General Yu’s left hand, a hovering block of ice materialized. The surrounding temperature plummeted rapidly. Countless icicles condensed in the air, and the trees below froze into brittle lumps of ice that would shatter at a touch.

Extreme heat and extreme cold were simultaneously controlled by General Yu. The two opposing forces treated him as their boundary and didn’t interfere with each other, coexisting peacefully. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Jin Caiwei recognized General Yu’s Incipient Dao Fruit at a glance. “Controlling dual extremes. It appears you possess a Yin-Yang Incipient Dao Fruit.”

Although Jin Caiwei hadn’t lived through the Battle of the Great Era in ancient times, she had often heard her father recount tales from that time, including the Nine-Layers Immortal’s Yin-Yang Dao Fruit.

“If it were the Nine-Layers Immortal at the Half-Immortal Stage, I indeed wouldn’t be a match. But you? You’re far from it!”

“Arrogant! Today, I’ll make you understand that the past is inferior to the present!”

The black-red flames and dark icicles shot toward Jin Caiwei. The flames spread with a momentum threatening to incinerate space itself. While the dark icicles couldn’t match the level of cold achieved by the Nine-Layers Immortal—which could even freeze time—it could still slow its flow and impede movement!

Jin Caiwei extended her tiger paw and pressed gently downward. Subjected to pressure from above and below, the black-red flames and dark ice were compressed into a plane. From the front, one would only see a black line without any height.

At first, General Yu thought nothing much of it, trying to control the direction of the flames and ice, but he soon realized something was wrong. He could only adjust their movement forward, backward, left, and right, but not up and down. It was as if the flames and dark ice were trapped within an invisible plane, having lost the ability to move vertically.

Even the emitted heat and cold could only be sensed within that plane.

The flow of time returned to normal.

In reality, once struck by the Planary Incipient Dao Fruit, one could only move parallelly, unable to flip over any obstacles. When everyone had transformed into planes to infiltrate the imperial palace, Jin Caiwei allowed them to move at will.

“What is this Incipient Dao Fruit of yours?!” General Yu demanded.

Jin Caiwei naturally wouldn’t answer such a foolish question. Her response to General Yu was another tiger’s roar.

The roar formed sonic waves, crashing upon him unceasingly like colossal waves. Under the assault of these layers of sonic waves, General Yu was pinned in that space, unable to move.

Jin Caiwei activated her Planary Incipient Dao Fruit once more, planning to compress General Yu into a plane.

General Yu knew he absolutely must not be hit and yelled, “Yin-Yang Swap!”

General Yu exchanged places with his own shadow. The shadow became a plane, unable to move vertically, while he himself escaped disaster and was left reeling from the trauma.