Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 381: The Heavenly Court Creed Gains a New Member

“Want to come with me to Yanjiang Commandery?” Lu Yang asked Meng Jingzhou.

Meng Jingzhou was clearly tempted, but he shook his head. I still need to train my shadow. I can’t leave yet.” If Third Elder inspected his progress and found him slacking, he feared it’d spell disaster.

The perils on the path of cultivation are indeed manifold.

“Fine.” Lu Yang pouted. Going alone would inevitably be quite dull.

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“Hey, Junior Sister Tao! Over here!” At the mountain’s base, Lu Yang spotted Tao Yaoye, who seemed to be meandering aimlessly.

“Senior Brother Lu, what is it?” Tao Yaoye’s lips carried a faint smile that enhanced her attractiveness. In addition to her graceful bearing, one could easily imagine the stunning beauty she would become.

“Do you want to join our Heavenly Court Creed?” Lu Yang fervently invited. As young creed leader, I should recruit a few more talents for the creed. ”You probably haven’t heard of the Heavenly Court Creed. It’s the number one...”

Sure.”

“Huh?” Lu Yang was taken aback that Tao Yaoye had agreed so easily.

“You’ve heard of the Heavenly Court Creed?” Lu Yang wondered if Sixth Elder had mentioned it to Tao Yaoye.

“Not at all.”

“Then why did you agree so quickly?”

Tao Yaoye revealed a sly smile, her eyes twinkling mischievously. “Would you sabotage me, Senior Brother Lu?”

“Of course not!”

“It’s settled then. If you’re inviting me to join the Heavenly Court Creed, it must be for my own good. If that’s the case, why would I refuse?”

Lu Yang was speechless. I’ve never considered this perspective.

Tao Yaoye asked curiously, “So, what exactly is this Heavenly Court Creed?”

“It’s the number one great creed of our era! Our sect’s eight elders and Shifu serve as the heavenly kings, Big Senior Sister is the creed leader, and I’m the young creed leader. We worship the omnipotent Dou Heavenly Sovereign!”

Tao Yaoye automatically ignored the “Dou Heavenly Sovereign” she had never heard of before. I finally understand why Shifu has been so stressed lately about coming up with a name and mentioned something about a “heavenly king.”

“Apart from them, our members include Meng Jingzhou, Li Haoran, and his ex-daughter Qin Yanyan.”

Tao Yaoye’s expression turned peculiar. The Heavenly Court Creed’s roster is so complicated.

Also, why was the Heavenly Court Creed established? Is Senior Brother Lu not content with eliminating diabolic creeds? Does he plan to replace them instead?

“Here’s what happened. Initially, Meng Jingzhou, Li Haoran, and I were just out catching ghosts...” Lu Yang recounted the whole story, leaving Tao Yaoye utterly dumbfounded.

As expected of Senior Brother Lu! His sharp mind is always full of ideas. He could even create a fake creed to deceive the Nine-Netherworlds Creed and gain their trust. This is much more proactive than infiltrating the Nine-Netherworlds Creed as spies.

“After all, we have proclaimed our Heavenly Court Creed as the ancient Heavenly Court, so we’ll need to showcase a few geniuses. Junior Sister Tao, I believe you’ll make a perfect ancient genius.”

Tao Yaoye glowed, happy that Lu Yang had acknowledged her.

“I’m heading to meet the higher-ups of the Nine-Netherworlds Creed now. Want to come with me, Junior Sister?”

“Let’s go.”

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One More Time Barbeque Shop’s Headquarters, Yanjiang Commandery.

The barbeque business flourished, rapidly expanding throughout neighboring commanderies. If not for the shortages of barbeque grills and fire seeds, their barbeque shops would have sprung up everywhere, forming a full-fledged franchise chain.

The Nine-Netherworlds Creed had dedicated considerable effort to opening the barbeque shops, with the creed leader offering full support. He had ordered members to put aside their current work and refrain from killing people for the time being, declaring that the creed’s primary objective now was to focus on running the barbeque shops.

This is much safer than taking loans with the members’ identities. The creed leader couldn’t stop smiling all day, even giggling when he meditated.

Vice Creed Leader Shi remained unaware that the creed had been in the red for nearly a thousand years, and neither did he understand why the creed leader had temporarily cast aside the creed’s teachings and urged him to devote himself to operating the barbeque shops.

Perhaps the creed leader loves wealth, or maybe there are other reasons. Anyway, the creed leader’s motives have nothing to do with me. I’m running the barbeque shop to solve my one billion debt problem. Even with my sublime cultivation, I can’t withstand monthly heavenly lightning forever. If I ever fail to endure one, I’d be fried. I’m determined to make the barbeque shop bigger and stronger!

Moreover, he knew there were two key factors to running shops successfully: an undivulged secret and a favorable business environment.

The first one goes without saying. The barbeque shops are thriving precisely because of the secret recipe.

For the second point, there are many things we could do, such as building good relations with the local authorities. But bribery is risky and unreliable. If any bribed officials were to be exposed, wouldn’t our barbeque shops be doomed?

Vice Creed Leader Shi changed his line of thinking.

What do the authorities need?

It’s stability and order.

Our barbeque shops can help the authorities capture criminals and punish them.

In terms of crime, who can be more professional than diabolic creeds?

Current crimes are just child’s play to us and tricks we’ve grown tired of. It can’t be any simpler to deal with them. Of course, we can’t do these things openly; that’d be too conspicuous. The best method is to do them secretly and make the authorities suspect we’re behind it despite having no evidence.

That’s the ideal scenario.

This way, the authorities would suspect that the barbeque shops are a secret business of some righteous faction. At the same time, the barbeque shops also get to punish evildoers frequently and maintain stability.

With these two elements, the authorities will definitely lean toward protecting the barbeque shops.

Reality proved Vice Creed Leader Shi’s ideas correct. Yanjiang Commandery had achieved unprecedented stability and order, with many jail cells empty. The authorities no longer had to conduct random inspections or make subtle hints.

In the dead of the night, the barbeque shop headquarters closed. As creed members cleaned the main hall and backyard, Vice Creed Leader Shi bent over the table, writing furiously to organize this month’s worth of business insights.

“Creed Leader, the people from the Heavenly Court Creed have arrived,” Huo Huashen informed him respectfully. As the main branch manager, he was responsible for implementing Vice Creed Leader Shi’s plans.

Three days had passed since sending the message, during which Vice Creed Leader Shi hadn’t gone anywhere, waiting at the headquarters.

“Creed Leader Shi, it’s been a long time!” Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye pushed open the door. “It looks like your creed’s business is doing well, needing new barbeque grills and fire seeds so soon.”

“Not at all, it’s just luck.” Seeing it was Lu Yang, Vice Creed Leader Shi didn’t dare show off his achievements. This is the young creed leader of the Heavenly Court Creed and a personal disciple of Dou Heavenly Sovereign. I can’t afford to slight him.

“This is...” Vice Creed Leader Shi looked curiously at Tao Yaoye.

“This is another member of our Heavenly Court Creed, Tao Yao. She’s so talented that both my shifu and the creed leader have showered her with endless praise.”

Vice Creed leader Shi put on a solemn and deferential countenance. “So it’s Prodigy Tao.”

Despite showing nothing on her visage, Tao Yaoye was inwardly surprised. I know that Senior Brother Lu is meeting with the Nine-Netherworlds Creed, but I didn’t expect him to immediately meet with their top leadership and interact with them as equals.

Is this Senior Brother Lu’s usual social circle?!

Within the sect, he interacts with elder-level figures; away from the sect, he interacts with creed leader-level figures. And they’re all at the Fusion Stage! freewebnøvel_com

Lu Yang and Vice Creed Leader Shi chatted and laughed with ease, not at all realizing how terrifying the other party’s identity was.

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