Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 256: Mother-Child River and Twins River

“Back when I was an overlord and ruled an entire planet, I could do as I wished and bestow blessings upon the world. This Twin Lotus Flower was a new species I cultivated.”

“Something like that happened?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy chattered nonstop in Lu Yang’s mental space. At first, Lu Yang treated it as background noise, letting her words go in one ear and out the other. But now, he was intrigued.

All this time, Lu Yang had a feeling that natural treasures had existed since ancient times, unchanged throughout the ages. For example, precious medicinal ingredients, such as ginseng and lingzhi[1], and other plants by the roadside, like green foxtail and wild chrysanthemum, had existed since the earliest records of humankind.

Since they were called “natural treasures,” they were naturally treasures nurtured by heaven and earth. Lu Yang had never heard of natural treasures being cultivated by formidable experts in later generations.

But now he had.

“Tell me, what’s the story?” Lu Yang asked eagerly.

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The Everlasting Immortal Fairy smiled smugly, pleased with Lu Yang’s attitude. That’s right—this is how you should treat an immortal. “To explain this matter, I’ll have to start by talking about my abilities.

“That happened after I became an immortal. As you know, I was incredibly renowned in the ancient era, and numerous people voluntarily worshipped me. At that time, a pious female believer came to me with a request, hoping to conceive twins. Something like that was beyond what humans were capable of, so she could only seek out an immortal.

“I figured that fulfilling such a wish wouldn’t cause any problems, so I decided to take care of it.” I’m an immortal with propriety; I don’t just grant any wish.

“Originally, I could have concocted a pill to help this believer conceive twins, but I remembered the Nine-Layers Immortal once said, ‘When one believer makes a wish, ten others will make the same wish.’ Childbearing has been a perennial wish throughout history; there are bound to be more than a few believers who wish for twins. Even if I craft a pill now, what should I do when others pray to me for the same wish? Continue concocting pills? That’s too troublesome.

“Thus, I came up with a solution once and for all—using my supreme mighty abilities to borrow spirit qi from heaven and earth, extract the Dao charm, and change part of the rules. Along with various methods beyond what you can fathom now, I refined a river into an immortal artifact. Anyone who drank from its water could conceive twins.”

“And I named the river as Twins River.”

Lu Yang fell silent briefly before asking, “...By any chance, you didn’t suddenly think of another idea and create a second river called the Mother-Child River after that, did you? Where any women who drank from it would become pregnant and only give birth to girls?”

“That I didn’t...”

Lu Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

“I created the Mother-Child River before creating the Twins River.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was curious. “How did you know about the Mother-Child River? Were the records of it in ancient texts?”

“Just pretend I saw it in a dream.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy didn’t dwell on it. “The living beings in the river were affected by the waters, which shifted their souls at the source, or should I say, altered them.

“The most notable change was a lotus plant. Originally, only a single flower would bloom, but after growing in the Twins River, it bloomed in pairs instead. I found it fascinating and named this lotus flower as...”

“Twins Lotus Flower?” Lu Yang blurted out.

“Beautiful Sisters Flower.”[2]

Lu Yang, “...”

“After the Heaven Mandate Immortal learned of this, he told me that the name ‘Beautiful Sisters Flower’ fails to reflect the grandeur of an immortal’s creation, so he advised me to change it to ‘Twin Lotus Flower.’

“I thought it was a good name, so I accepted it.

“The lotus seeds of the Twin Lotus Flower taste nice, and I often made congee with them for the Heaven Madante Immortal and the others.” When the Everlasting Immortal Fairy previously mentioned that lotus seed soup could bless people with children and fortune, she wasn’t making things up; it was a real possibility.

“Since the ancient era has passed, I have no idea where the Mother-Child and Twins River went, whether they were refined into other immortal artifacts or hidden away by someone.”

The Twin Lotus Flower was a precious natural treasure that could aid one in forming a first-grade golden core. People had always assumed them to be treasures nurtured by nature, never suspecting it was an immortal’s creation. Moreover, its original purpose was not for golden core formation but for making porridge.

“How is relying on the Twin Lotus Flower to form a golden core anything impressive? If you stick with me, I’ll teach you how to form the Unbeatable Golden Core.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy turned her nose up at the notion of using the Twin Lotus Flower to form one’s golden core, believing the resulting golden core to be far inferior to her own golden core.

Even among first-grade golden cores, not all are created equal.

Lu Yang rolled his eyes and ignored the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, refocusing on the discussion regarding how they should divide the lotus flower.

Meng Jingzhou proposed, “Since the Twin Lotus Flower assists with golden core formation, why don’t the four of us observe it together? Whoever gains enlightenment in forming a golden core shall get the lotus flower. How’s that?”

The other three agreed.

Meng Jingzhou fetched a vase and placed the Twin Lotus Flower inside. The four of them sat around it, staring fixedly at the flower.

This scene was genuinely uncanny, resembling a forbidden ritual of a diabolic creed. Fortunately, these four people were disciples of the Dao-Seeking Sect and bona fide members of the righteous path—no one would find them suspicious.

Lu Yang stared intently at the Twin Lotus Flower, hoping to form an offensive Yin-Yang Golden Core like his second senior brother did.

Meng Jingzhou seared the image of the Twin Lotus Flower into his mind. Over time, the Twin Lotus Flower had developed the ability to invert attributes. He attempted to use this opportunity to reverse yin and yang so that he could transform his Single’s Spirit Root into a Harem Spirit Root.

Tao Yaoye pondered adding yin and yang changes to her illusions to make them even more enigmatic. It would be ideal if she could merge these changes with her comprehension of Golden Core formation.

Man Gu stared fixedly at the Twin Lotus Flower, his mind filled with poetic descriptions of lotus flowers, such as “Emerging from the mire, unsullied by the filth; cleansed by water, yet never bewitching”[3] and “Boundless verdant lotus leaves extend to the sky, the sunlit flowers blush with a crimson hue.”[4]

Soon, another crucial question crossed Man Gu’s mind. “Can we eat the lotus flower? Can it be roasted?”

Just like that, the four sat in silence for two whole days.

Lu Yang studied the lotus until his eyes grew dry. He took out the eye drops Yun Zhi gave him. After applying a few drops, he felt much better.

“Did you comprehend anything?” he asked.

The other three shook their heads.

Despite two days of effort, they had come up empty-handed, which implied that their fortuitous opportunities did not lie with the Twin Lotus Flower; forcing the formation of a golden core wouldn’t work.

“It’d be a waste to just throw it away. We worked so hard to get it. How about selling it at the merchant guild? We can split the spirit stones evenly,” Tao Yaoye suggested. Trying to comprehend it further won’t yield any results, so we might as well give up now and cut our losses early.

“Sounds good.” Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu had no objections.

Lu Yang raised his hand with a different request. “I want the lotus seeds. I’ll just forfeit my share of the spirit stones from the auction. Would that be fine?”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had been making a ruckus in his mental space all this time, insisting on getting the lotus seeds. To appease the immortal and avoid calamity, Lu Yang had no choice but to claim the lotus seeds.

1. Lingzhi is a type of mushroom, and the “zhi” character is the same as the one in “Yun Zhi.” It is said to have many health benefits, and they may even have other mystical properties in stories. ☜

2. The translation here is more literal due to the wordplay on “flower.” The original term refers to a pair of beautiful sisters. ☜

3. This is from the poem Ai Lian Shuo or “On the Love of Lotus” by Song Dynasty poet Zhou Dunyi. ☜

4. This is from the poem “Leaving Jingci Temple at Dawn and Bidding Farewell to Lin Zifang” by Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli. ☜