Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 389: Alignment of Nine Stars

Returning to Heaven’s Gate Peak, Lu Yang sat cross-legged on the sword qi boulder and opened his mouth to devour spirit qi as he calmed his mind to cultivate. An endless stream of spirit qi gushed into his body, converting into pure spirit energy under the effects of the Clear Heart True Nature Mantra and surging through him.

Slowly extending two fingers, a one-zhang-long cyan sword qi condensed at his fingertips.

“Go!” With a sudden thrust of his fingers, the cyan sword qi shot forth, piercing clean through three trees and embedding half an inch into the fourth before dissipating.

These were no ordinary trees from the outside world but Qiu-Dragon Trees specially planted by the Taciturn Daoist Priest on Heaven’s Gate Peak. Their roots were as thick as qiu dragons[1], and their barks were layered like the scales of dragons.

Legends speak of a great battle that once erupted in the Demon Realm, which the Dragon Tribe participated in. Innumerable true dragons perished, their blood dyeing the rivers red and seeping into the trees by the bank, mutating these trees to obtain the power of true dragons.

This was the origin of Qiu-Dragon Trees.

Priced exorbitantly, second-class and third-class sects could only afford one or two Qiu-Dragon Trees for decoration purposes, a stark contrast from Heaven’s Gate Peak, which had an entire grove of Qiu-Dragon Trees.

Peering through the holes in the first three trees, Lu Yang’s heart leapt with joy at the half-inch indent in the fourth tree. Previously, his sword qi could pierce through only three trees before depleting upon striking the fourth, not even leaving a scratch on its bark.

“All those days of cultivation paid off!” Lu Yang felt that his control over sword qi had become more seamless. The three-inch cyan sword qi coiled around his fingers deftly like a snake. He could even use it to clean his ears now.

“It’s a pity that no peers at the same cultivation realm can match me in the Sword Dao. Otherwise, a friendly discussion would have been delightful.” Lu Yang shook his head regretfully.

Although he hadn’t pitted his Sword Dao against peers of the same cultivation stage, the confidence from his Unbeatable Golden Core made him believe that he was number one!

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy nodded secretly. This is the Unbeatable Momentum! Lu Yang resembles my younger self; he’s destined for greatness!

“By the way, Immortal Fairy, since the five of you made up the Buddhist sects, do you know ‘Buddhist Kingdom in Palm?’”

“What’s that?”

“You’ve never heard of this mighty ability? It’s a supreme spatial ability from the Buddhist sects, surpassing even the Six Mighty Abilities like the Heavenly Eye Ability and Heavenly Ear Ability.

“Buddhist Kingdom in Palm—a great nation in the palm with infinite space. Once you land within the palm, neither supreme mighty abilities nor extreme speeds can let you escape. Once a single palm descends, it signifies the fall of a nation. It is unparalleled.

“Some say that the Golden Buddhist Kingdom in the west is actually a manifestation of Buddhist Kingdom in Palm.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy mused, “I’ve never heard of Buddhist Kingdom in Palm, but it should be a spell created by later generations or a renamed spell from our era.

“For example, I know a mighty ability called Cosmos in Palm, where the palm encompasses heaven, earth, and the cosmos. The stars in the sky are mere playthings in the palm, and the sun and moon are mere yin and yang orbs.

“Perhaps Cosmos in Palm was rebranded by later generations as Buddhist Kingdom in Palm.

“Remember how the Ancient Nameless One refined the stars into the continent? They might have used this move!”

The thought of the Ancient Nameless One wielding Cosmos in Palm made Lu Yang’s scalp tingle. To casually rearrange the stars—what terrifying power must it have been?! Even natural disasters become as trivial as dust before the mighty force of immortals!

“Do you know the rotation of the stars follows a pattern? Oh right, you’ve never been to space, so you haven’t seen stars orbit.”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy continued in a smug tone. “During my travels through outer space, I observed asteroids orbiting stars and small stars orbiting larger stars. I couldn’t help but hypothesize—is the orbit of smaller bodies around larger bodies some law or pattern of stellar motions?

“According to my observation, hypothesis, modeling, calculation, and verification, finally—”

“You finally figured out the pattern of stellar motions?” Lu Yang interjected. The Immortal Fairy still has rare intellectual moments.

“—Finally, the Nine-Layers Immortal told me that someone else had already deciphered the law that governs the motion of stars.”

Lu Yang, “...”

Fair enough. It’s not like you can go to space only after becoming an immortal. Even Fusion and Transcendent Tribulation cultivators can travel to outer space. Any motivated person who camps beside the stars for a few years can figure it out. If someone has temporal spells, half an hour might be all they need to solve it.

“Back then, astrological divination with stars was trendy. A great divination master pointed to a nebula and predicted that when nine stars align, chaos would break out in their respective regions, with the common people displaced and the star regions destroyed.

“And according to the orbital patterns of stars, the nine-star alignment will occur in three years!

“This diviner was Shi Cang of the Exalted Shi Clan, renowned for his fifty-percent prediction accuracy.

“As you know, some cultivators believe in fate, while some don’t, and everyone began discussing how to deal with this disaster.

“Believers felt that Master Shi Cang was right and urged inhabitants of these stars to evacuate to habitable stars with sparse populations.

“Skeptics felt no need to make billions of living beings migrate just based on one man’s words, for this process would inevitably result in a high death toll. Upon arriving at the new stars, everything must start over, but how many generations would that take?”

“So, Immortal Fairy, were you a believer or a skeptic?”

“After listening to it, I smashed one of the uninhabited stars. That way, the alignment of nine stars would never be possible!”

Lu Yang silently gave her a thumbs-up. The Immortal Fairy is truly impressive.

“Although I had yet to become an immortal then, crushing one or two stars was simple. After breaking that star, I realized that an array was hidden in the star core. Puzzled, I investigated further and discovered that the same array was present in the star cores of these eight stars.

“According to my speculation, when the nine stars align, the array will resonate with one another and trigger a giant explosion.”

“It was a deliberate setup?!”

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy fiercely spat. “That’s right! It was that bastard Shi Cang who used divination as a guise to sow chaos and line his own pockets. In fact, every disaster they supposedly predicted was orchestrated by them in the shadows!

“In a fit of rage, I recklessly slaughtered Shi Cang. Despite his clan stepping in with apologies and reparations, I still chose to kill him without hesitation. Offended by my refusal to give them face, the Exalted Shi Clan hindered my path to ascension.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy huffed. “But their attempts were futile. With my unparalleled talent across the ages, when it was time for me to advance to the Transcendent Tribulation Stage, nothing could stop me!”

Lu Yang applauded vigorously. The schemes and conspiracies during the ancient era really operated on an unimaginable level, easily plotting on the scale of stars. Just how many lives would have been caught in the catastrophes?

While Lu Yang was mulling over how terrifying the ancient schemes were, he heard the Everlasting Immortal Fairy ask, “By the way, do you want to learn Cosmos in Palm? I know it.”

“Cosmos in Palm? Me?” Lu Yang stared at his small palms. The Immortal Fairy is overestimating me.

1. Qiulong is a type of dragon with horns. ☜

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