Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 246: Twin Golden Cores

In the crystal-clear lake, a graceful figure swam through the water, her movements light and fluid as her hands parted the surface like a fish leaping out of water; it was a scene of mesmerizing beauty.

The graceful figure lay in the lake and flowed with the current, enjoying this moment of peace and relaxation.

Beside the lake, Lu Yang wore a helpless expression. “Immortal Fairy, can you not swim here?”

“Why are you meddling with me swimming too? Tch, take this spray.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy pouted and clasped her hands. A jet of water sprayed out from the gaps between her fingers and sprayed toward Lu Yang, who easily dodged it.[1]

“I naturally won’t care about you swimming, but please don’t swim inside my mental space; it makes it seem like my mind is dimwitted with nothing but water.”[2] Lu Yang implored in exasperation.

Ever since the Everlasting Immortal Fairy came back, she has developed a peculiar love for playing with water, even conjuring a lake in my mental space.

“Go go go, continue your training. Don’t mind me.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy kicked Lu Yang out of his mental space, as if she was the real owner.

Lu Yang was indeed in the middle of his training. At the moment, he was surrounded by three Golden Core wild boars, while Meng Jingzhou and the Eagle Mountain Five Heroes were watching the showdown from the trees.

The wild boars charged recklessly with overwhelming strength. Lu Yang tried to avoid their frontal attacks and strike from the side, but the three boars worked together so seamlessly that they left him no opportunity to attack from the flank.

Bang!

One of the wild boars slammed right into Lu Yang, sending him flying away as dust swirled in the air.

“Wild boars, jiayou! Crush him!” Meng Jingzhou gloated at the side.

“Young Hero Lu, are you alright? It seems like one of the wild boars is at the Intermediate Golden Core Stage, and the other two are at the Apex Basic Golden Core Stage.” The Eagle Mountain Five Heroes had a conscience and were concerned about Lu Yang’s safety.

“It’s fine; no problem at all. If he can’t even defeat them, how can he call himself the top of our cohort? He might as well give the position up to me.” Meng Jingzhou waved his hand nonchalantly. The last time, Lu Yang had kicked me down from a tree to meet the enemy head-on. It’s time for the roles to be reversed.

The three wild boars wanted to press their advantage, but when the smoke cleared, Lu Yang had vanished.

Suddenly, they became alert and tried to dodge, but it was too late. A cold gleam of light shot up from beneath the ground, and the meter-long Qingfeng Sword pierced the belly of one of the wild boars.

The wild boar attempted to resist, but Lu Yang flicked his wrist and changed his sword move, softly commanding, “Slash.” He cleanly cleaved the wild boar right down the middle, splitting it into two.

One swing of the sword was all it took to kill an Intermediate Golden Core demon beast.

After training in the jungle for several days, Lu Yang had already fought with more than a dozen kinds of Golden Core demon beasts. His biggest takeaway was that it felt completely different from sparring with the senior disciples at the Dao-Seeking Sect. The Golden Core cultivators outside here are so much easier to deal with.

If I want to build self-confidence in the future, I shouldn’t do it in the Dao-Seeking Sect but come out here instead.

“I’ve told you. You are capable of challenging opponents above your level. It’s just that the opponents you faced before were too abnormal!” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy protested in the mental space.

When I just resurrected, I wanted to use Lu Yang’s body to show off my skills and what it means to challenge those at higher levels. Who would have thought that each of those fellows in the Dao-Seeking Sect was more outrageous than the next? All of them could rank among the top talents even in the ancient era of prodigies; I couldn’t beat any of them.

Fortunately, relying on my exceptional wisdom later, I used Lu Yang’s body to challenge those at higher levels and even defeated a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator, successfully restoring my reputation.

The other two wild boars saw that their big brother had died and hastily turned to flee.

“Chase them! We can’t let them escape!” Lu Yang reminded Meng Jingzhou.

“I know, no need for you to tell me.” Meng Jingzhou jumped down from the tree and joined Lu Yang, each hunting down one wild boar.

These wild boars were roving demon beasts that attacked human cultivators; no one knew how many human cultivators they had killed. Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were certainly not letting them get away.

The Eagle Mountain Five Heroes waited in place. In just a few minutes, they heard the sounds of battle nearby, though they faded as quickly as they came. By the time the five of them regained their senses, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were each hauling a wild boar back.

“Dinner tonight is settled.”

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Night fell, and the Three Flavor True Fire was ignited, casting a rosy glow on the faces of the seven people. A wild boar was placed over the fire to be slowly roasted. As it sizzled, oil dripped onto the true fire, causing the flames to flare even higher.

“I never thought we’d get to eat food roasted with true fire in our lifetime. We owe it all to Young Hero Lu,” the Eagle Mountain Five Heroes remarked. They didn’t expect a young man like Lu Yang to master a type of true fire.

While Lu Yang was roasting the boar, the Five Heroes were busy dissecting the other two boars. Inner cores, hide, tusks, and beast bones were valuable commodities that could fetch high prices in the Demon Suppression Pass. The inner cores could be used as the primary materials for concocting pills, the hide for refining magical artifacts, tusks for accessories to symbolize one’s status, and beast bones for brewing nourishing bone broth.

“Look! This wild boar demon has Twin Golden Cores!” One of the Five Heroes exclaimed.

“What? There’s such a thing?” The hook-nosed boss immediately walked over to inspect the situation.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were also intrigued and set aside their tasks. They had only seen Twin Golden Cores in the Dao-Seeking Sect and never heard of anyone outside the sect possessing such an ability to form two golden cores.

Two golden cores lay on the ground: one a dazzling gold and the other pitch-black. They represented two extremes—one bright and one dark—carrying a charm of “Dao” within them.

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The more Lu Yang mulled over it, the more he felt that these two golden cores were impressive and encompassed boundless principles.

Good stuff.

Lu Yang marveled at his own growth. “I never thought I’d defeat a demon beast with Twin Golden Cores one day.”

Meng Jingzhou was equally amazed; he had never heard of anyone with a black golden core.

Golden cores were divided into nine grades: the first grade was the brightest and a brilliant gold, while the ninth grade was the most inferior, dull and lusterless but still gold.

This wild boar’s appearance is nothing extraordinary, yet it could form a black golden core. Is it because it has an ancient bloodline, or did it experience some fortuitous encounter?

“This wild boar is the descendant of the ancient Mountain-Shouldering Boar[3] that was capable of carrying two enormous mountains on its shoulders. It was full of gall but lacked the brains, so it had a low rank among the demons,” the hook-nosed boss mused. Having lived in the jungle for a long time, he was highly knowledgeable about demon beasts.

“That means it had some other fortuitous encounter?”

Meng Jingzhou speculated, “I heard there’s a rare natural treasure in the jungle, called the Twin Lotus Flower. One lotus seed is bright, while the other is dark. Consuming them can reverse yin and yang, altering one’s constitution. Could this wild boar have accidentally consumed the Twin Lotus Flower and formed the black and white golden cores?”

The hook-nosed boss nodded, agreeing with Meng Jingzhou’s theory. “If that’s the case, this wild boar really was lucky. Numerous people have come to the jungle to seek the Twin Lotus Flower and ended up empty-handed, yet this wild boar found it and ate it!”

Everyone could feel fiery excitement pumping through them. Are there any remaining Twin Lotus Flowers? Could we possibly find clues from this wild boar demon’s body and trace it to the Twin Lotus Flower?

“Immortal Fairy, what do you think? Can you tell where these Twin Golden Cores came from?” Lu Yang secretly asked the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

“Twin Golden Cores? Isn’t the black one a gallstone?” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was befuddled. Isn’t it because the Mountain-Shouldering Boar was full of gall? Secreting bile for a long time can result in it accumulating and forming gallstones, right?

I’ve seen this sort of thing too many times in the ancient era. What were these people babbling about for so long? Where did Twin Golden Cores come from?

Lu Yang, “...”

1. I used “spray” three times here because that’s what the original text did. To be more specific, it’s used when someone wants to spit saliva or spray urine at the other party in a more playful context. ☜

2. You might have come across expressions about how a person’s mind is full of water. It is a figure of speech that means there’s something wrong with someone’s mind. I tried my best to combine the figurative and literal meanings here. ☜

3. The name “Danshan,” translated as “Mountain-Shouldering” here, is from a Chinese folk tale of a man named Danshan who chased the suns away with mountains. ☜