Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 889: Hui Doudou’s Origin

“So you are Lu Yang?” the Heaven Mandate Immortal asked calmly.

“Senior Heaven Mandate, do you know me as well?” Lu Yang was overwhelmed by the honor. I haven’t even introduced myself.

“I was watching from above when you changed your name to trick the lightning tribulation.”

Lu Yang was speechless.

“Who could have thought you’d master Defying Heaven Changing Fate at the Nascent Soul Stage? Juniors are redoubtable indeed.”

Lu Yang didn’t know how to respond to that. Should I go along with what the Heaven Mandate Immortal said, or correct him and clarify that I’ve only learned Defying Heaven Changing Name?[1]

Fortunately, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy came to his rescue.

She asked, “So what happened after this immortal perished?”

Since this thought of the Heaven Mandate Immortal had persisted from ancient times to the present day, what he knew likely surpassed even that of Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi.

“After the four of us learned that you would perish in the future, we took precautions through various means. For example, Epoch often used his Epoch Dao Fruit to glimpse future events; my main body split off this thought of mine, hiding me within the lightning tribulation to observe your movements; Nine-Layers and Qilin searched for the ‘Sixth Immortal.’

“One day before your incident, the Epoch Immortal viewed your future, but all he saw was peace.

“On the day of your incident, I saw you enter your cave abode. After about an hour, your aura suddenly fluctuated violently, then abruptly vanished. Your body, soul, and Dao Fruit—everything was gone. All beings also forgot your existence.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy frowned. I don’t remember this. It seems I really wasn’t in the right state back then.

The Heaven Mandate Immortal continued, “My main body, along with Epoch and the other two, sensed something amiss with you. We rushed to the North Star and sealed it.

“Soon, we discovered an unknown immortal in a corner of the North Star.

“No one knew how this immortal struck within your cave above, killing you silently without leaving a trace of battle, nor how they escaped under our very noses.

“A cataclysmic immortal battle commenced not long after. That immortal’s strength exceeded our expectations; they could hold their own against four of us without being at a disadvantage.

“No, I should say that only such combat prowess could have slain you.

“That immortal didn’t fight to the death with us; they kept fleeing throughout the battle and did manage to run away.

“To prevent that immortal’s escape, the four of us refined the stars into continents, laying a Four Immortals Seal at the bottom. Only your resurrection, combined with the power of us four, can break that seal.”

This was to force that immortal to resurrect the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

Clearly, that immortal refused to take the bait, preferring to be trapped in the box-world than revive the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

“It was within our expectations that the immortal wouldn’t resurrect you. Thus, we chose our original method, faith power.

“Do you remember the Buddhism we fabricated? That was an experiment in researching faith power. Though you paid little attention to Buddhist matters, Qing He was very invested, especially since Buddhist sects were full of tales about you.

“Qing He researched faith power thoroughly, even surpassing the four of us. According to Qing He, faith power could condense a physical form—that is, your body, Everlasting.

“To gather faith power, my main body, Epoch, and the other two established the Ember Legacy Dynasty.

“Ten thousand years after the Ember Legacy Dynasty’s founding, a prodigy was born from the Shi Huang Clan. With the Insight Dao Fruit as his foundation, he proved the Dao and attained immortality, taking the Dao name ‘Left Historian.’ The world called him the ‘Left Historian Immortal.’

“The Insight Dao Fruit could perceive the past, present, and future—the full macrocosmic loop. My main body had him observe the murder process, yet he saw nothing.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy remarked, “Little Ling told me about this.”

“Everlasting, you’ve met Ao Ling? That saves trouble. She should have told you about the ‘Heavenly Court’ and the ‘Underworld,’ right? That comprised molding your immortal body with the Heavenly Court’s faith and summoning the Everlasting Dao Fruit or condensing the Reincarnation Dao Fruit with the Underworld’s faith system, reversing life and death to revive you.”

“Hold on, are you saying that the Underworld system could condense the Reincarnation Dao Fruit?” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy interrupted the Heaven Mandate Immortal. Ao Ling hadn’t mentioned this.

“Ao Ling didn’t tell you? Oh, right, she entered slumber twenty thousand years after the Ember Legacy Dynasty’s founding. The Underworld wasn’t completely constructed then, nor was the concept of the Reincarnation Dao Fruit developed. It’s normal that she didn’t know.

“However, in the end, the Underworld couldn’t condense the Reincarnation Dao Fruit, only its incipient form.”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal shook his head and sighed, regretting the decision to establish the Underworld on behalf of his main body. “It’s just that this Reincarnation Incipient Dao Fruit caused a major problem.”

“It couldn’t resurrect the dead?” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy asked curiously.

He continued shaking his head, his expression plagued with remorse. “The Reincarnation Incipient Dao Fruit could resurrect the dead, and it did resurrect you.

“But it didn’t revive you from your immortal days. It was you from your half-immortal days.”

Lu Yang’s pupils slowly contracted. He seemed to have figured out how Hui Doudou came to be.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had two half-immortal periods, one with the Silent Annihilation Incipient Dao Fruit and the other with the Everlasting Incipient Dao Fruit.

“You resurrected Hui Doudou?!”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal shot Lu Yang a baffled glance. “Who is Hui Doudou?” He still didn’t know the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s full name.

“Nothing. Senior Heaven Mandate, please continue.”

The Heaven Mandate Immortal continued, “Didn’t you once become a half-immortal with the Silent Annihilation Incipient Dao Fruit? Later, Epoch advised you that becoming an immortal like that wouldn’t make you the strongest and that it was better to return to simplicity and achieve immortality through the natural Dao.

“You slashed yourself with a single cut, stripping away and slaying the you who possessed the Silent Annihilation Dao Fruit. Afterward, you returned to the Transcendent Tribulation Stage and recondensed an Incipient Dao Fruit.

“The Underworld resurrected your past self—the you with the Silent Annihilation Incipient Dao Fruit who you once slew!”

Lu Yang roughly understood how Hui Doudou came to be, yet some points remained unclear. He gingerly raised his hand. “May I interject with a question?”

“Ask.” The Heaven Mandate Immortal was quite amicable toward the young cultivator who revived the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

“That immortal fairy with the Silent Annihilation Incipient Dao Fruit was the Heavenly Court Ruler during the Ember Legacy Dynasty, right?” Lu Yang first verified whether they were the same person.

“Correct.”

“We encountered her at the East Sea. Her temperament...how should I put it... It was somewhat different from the current Immortal Fairy—ice-cold. Did some mishap occur during the resurrection?”

From the brief contact at the East Sea, that Hui Doudou was decisive, composed, and ruthless, truly unlike the current Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

The Heaven Mandate Immortal didn’t quite grasp what Lu Yang was getting at. “Isn’t being ice-cold normal?

“She has always been like that.”

“Ah?”

1. I’m not sure if this was already mentioned in an earlier chapter, but “fate” and “name” are both “ming” in Chinese, though their characters and tones are different. ☜