Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 347: Where’s My Royalty Fee?

Yun Zhi produced a gilded invitation whose cover revealed its lavishness. “The Qing Province Grand Ceremony includes a fighting tournament for the younger generation. The local authorities invited our sect, hoping we could send a representative. I was already planning to inform you, but since Junior Brother Meng has brought it up, that saves a lot of trouble.”

“A tournament for the younger generation?” Lu Yang was tingling with eagerness. Apart from the Five-Elements Sect’s disciples, he hadn’t had much chance to spar with peers of the same age.

“Let’s go then. We can take my carriage,” Meng Jingzhou offered.

“Just the two of us? Aren't Junior Sister Tao and the others going?”

“I have already asked them. Junior Sister Tao said she’s waiting for some results from Second Elder and Eighth Elder. Not sure what that’s about. Moreover, she was engrossed in researching the Metamorphic Immortal Physique, so I didn’t press further.

“Junior Sister Man has returned to his old home in the Barbarian Tribe. I have no idea when he’ll be back.

“Junior Brother Li is enjoying time with family, trying all sorts of ways to help our niece form her golden core, so he’s also not willing to leave.”

Meng Jingzhou found it a pity. This is such a rare opportunity. With seventeen provinces in the Great Xia Dynasty, only seventeen events of such scale occur every year. Missing this would mean waiting half a month for the next. It’s unfortunate that they can’t make it.

As someone who thrived in lively environments, it was naturally the more the merrier for him.

~~~

Only after Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had departed did Yun Zhi suddenly remember something and open the invitation.

On the 3rd day of the 99,860th year of the Great Xia’s calendar, the Qing Province Grand Ceremony will commence as customary. We humbly request your esteemed sect to send outstanding disciples to participate and offer some guidance as judges.

“Little Junior Brother and Junior Brother Meng won’t go onto the arena stage...right?” Yun Zhi mumbled to herself, though she dismissed her concern as unwarranted.

As the top two disciples of the younger generation in the Dao-Seeking Sect, their abilities undoubtedly outclass other peers.

If they do compete on the arena stage, that would be outright bullying.

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“Back home, I often heard stories about these grand ceremonies and how spectacular they were. Just listening to the descriptions made me wish I could check it out myself. Unfortunately, I hadn’t started cultivating then, so I wasn’t qualified to attend the grand ceremony.

“The Qing Province Grand Ceremony caters to cultivators. To avoid disrupting the lives of mortals, the Qing Province will demarcate an area of land outside the city and have major cultivators temporarily construct a city.”

Meng Jingzhou gestured animatedly on the carriage, while Lu Yang listened with rapt attention, feeling that he had broadened his horizons.

“In addition to duels, there are auctions, eyesight appraisals, barter, ancient ruin exploration, golden core appreciation, and many more. Every cultivator who goes there will take away something.

“And it’s not just the younger generation. Mid- and high-level cultivators also participate, though they keep to their own circles and don’t mingle with us.”

These mid- and high-level cultivators were fairly older than Lu Yang and his peers. If they were present, the younger generation would inevitably feel restrained and dare not act freely.

Lu Yang understood this all too well. It’s like when classmates come over to play. The vibes when the parents are present versus when absent are totally different.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy chimed in. “A cultivator's exchange conference? We had those back in my day too. But back then, everyone was more hostile, threatening to kill your entire family at the slightest provocation. What appeared to be an exchange on the surface usually consisted of ambushes and murder by plundering cultivators in the dark. It was extremely dangerous.

“Hence, only major tribes and clans were eligible to host these exchange conferences to ensure the highest level of safety. They included the Lianshan Clan behind the Nine-Layers Immortal, the Dragon and Phoenix tribes, and the tribes of the Four Perils.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy lamented as she reminisced. Those were truly difficult times.

Lu Yang recalled how the Nine-Layers Immortal had once asked for the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s cooking to extract confessions from criminals. These criminals should be referring to cultivators like plundering cultivators who had crossed the bottom line of the ancient major Lianshan Clan.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy continued, “After the five of us became immortals, we would occasionally hold our own exchange gatherings. Ours were much safer, with no reckless fools who dared to murder and plunder under our watch. However, I wasn’t adept at organizing such events, so Qing He helped me handle the arrangements.

“Once, since it was my turn, I proposed hosting the exchange session somewhere unique, such as the Mother-Child River or Twins River. What amazing scenes of mountains and waters! Anyone who fancied playing with water could even enter the river for a swim.

“However, Qing He flatly refused my suggestion, insisting that those places were too dangerous.”

Lu Yang commented inwardly, Immortal Fairy, those rivers of yours are the greatest enemy to family planning. Who would dare take a dip there?

She went on with her story. “Sometimes, the Heaven Mandate Immortal would pretend to ‘accidentally’ leak out some books from our exchange gatherings, chronicling the glorious achievements of us five immortals.

“I asked the Heaven Mandate Immortal why he did that, and he said that if an immortal publicly bestowed the masses with such books, people would doubt the authenticity of the contents, but if an immortal ‘accidentally’ let them leak out, people would be far more convinced of the authenticity.”

Lu Yang highly agreed with the Heaven Mandate Immortal. I have learned a new trick.

What Lu Yang didn’t know, however, was that this was how the infamous rumor of the Heaven Mandate Immortal impregnating countless women had spread.

~~~

After the old horse leisurely ambled for two days, traversing mountains and rivers, they finally arrived in Qing Province.

Once they entered Qing Province’s territory, the old horse withdrew its spatial-traversal abilities. Since they took small, remote mountain paths, no one was around to see them. However, they were now in Qing Province, which was crowded and bustling; it could terrify pedestrians.

Meng Jingzhou stuck his head out, grinning at the nearby scenery. “We’re almost there.”

Lu Yang peeked out his head from the other side. Dense mountain forests, lush vegetation, and massive peaks stretched before them, dotted with limestone structures in a picturesque fashion. It was as if the scene came straight out of a painting.

Although these structures were said to be hastily constructed, their architecture was exquisite, clearly crafted with attentiveness. Numerous cultivators that looked like tiny black dots in the distance darted between the structures.

Their nondescript carriage drew no attention as the two arrived.

Whoosh!

A shadow hurtled past overhead. Looking up, the two spotted a flying vessel streaking through the sky at high speeds, which elicited gasps from the crowd.

“Look! That’s the flying vessel from the Thunder-Fire Sect. It’s moving so fast! How many spirit stones must it have cost? I heard the Thunder-Fire Sect has produced an impressive genius in this generation. Are those few people flying closely behind the guardians of the genius from the sect?

“Oh, I was wrong. The Thunder-Fire Sect’s flying vessel is speeding, and those behind are constables.”

“What’s that strange magical artifact? It bears the emblem of the Cloud-Dream Sword Sect!”

“Beneath the magical artifact is a sword, and above it is a large metal casing. Never seen anything like it before.”

“I know this! It’s called a flying carriage. I heard that a Sword Dao genius from the Dao-Seeking Sect invented it, and it hasn’t become mainstream yet. Flying swords used to carry only one person, but this flying carriage can carry five people.”

“As expected of the Dao-Seeking Sect. Their unconventional but wondrous ideas are far beyond us.”

“Absolutely. Rumor has it that there are subtle signs of the Dao-Seeking Sect rising to become the leader of the Five Great Immortal Sects. Apparently, every member of the sect is a prodigy!”

Meng Jingzhou turned to glance at Lu Yang, whose expression had turned peculiar.

I did invent this flying carriage, but after Fifth Elder had Li Haoran apply for a patent, this matter had slipped my mind. It’s already at the mass-production stage?

“Wait a minute, where’s my royalty fee?”

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