Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 399: Elders’ Medical Consultation

At Heaven’s Gate Peak, the elders convened for a medical consultation.

They gathered around Meng Jingzhou, clicking their tongues in amazement.

“Nephew Meng has quite the interesting curse here.”

“Exactly! Despite having lived for over two thousand years, I’ve never encountered such a peculiar curse, not even during my travels in Wilderness Province.”

“This curse is useless against Nephew Meng, right? Anyway, he has a Single’s Spirit Root, and the curse will fade on its own eventually.”

“Don’t worry, Little Meng. Since Qiu Jin’an did this to you, I’ll make sure he pays for it!”

“Good disciple, how are you feeling now?”

“Wilderness Province is known for its widespread practice of witchcraft and as the source of curses. Old Four, you’re the only one who’s been there and studied curses. What do you think?”

All eyes turned to Fourth Elder, who was fanning himself leisurely.

Lu Yang recalled the information he had regarding Wilderness Province.

Wilderness Province was located west of the Central Continent, close to Liang Province and the Buddhist Kingdom in the west. Witchcraft and corpse-driving arts flourished there. The populace was forthright and unrestrained, while the place preserved ancient traditions. This was also where Man Gu’s old house was situated.

Fourth Elder had a troubled expression. “After being planted with a gu curse, I did study the art of curses for a while. For instance, I can tell that Nephew Meng can only have a chance of removing this karmic backlash by shattering his golden core and forming his nascent soul. I must stress that it is ‘a chance’ and not guaranteed. If he advances to the Nascent Soul Stage but still fails to undo the curse, he’ll just have to wait until he breaks through to the Divine Transfiguration Stage. The moment he breaks through, the curse will definitely be broken.”

Meng Jingzhou’s face instantly went pale. Reaching the Nascent Soul Stage is not that worrying, but Divine Transfiguration? How many years of cultivation would that take?

“I can dispel some simple curses that are very shallow. For example, the curses you all are subjected to daily have been removed by me, but Nephew Meng’s curse is of too high a level and beyond my cultivation.

“If I could advance to the Transcendent Tribulation Stage, I’d have the confidence to settle it.”

Grandpa Ba rolled his eyes. “You? Reach Transcendent Tribulation Stage? Get in line behind Big Bro and Old Nine. How could your cultivation progress compare to theirs?”

Fourth Elder shrugged. “Then I’m out of ideas. Wait, can’t we ask Shifu for help?”

Seventh Elder didn’t favor the idea. “Although Shifu is at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage, he’s not familiar with curses. Besides, he’s busy overseeing Incarceration Peak and can’t be distracted.”

“Disciple, why don’t you try using Single’s Curse Fist on Old Two again? Maybe the backlashes would be neutralized?”

Meng Jingzhou vehemently shook his head. Are you joking? You call that backlash neutralization? That’s called backlash compounding!

“Actually, Nephew Meng, you don’t have to be so anxious. Your curse isn’t as severe as you think,” Fourth Elder consoled.

“Could you elaborate, Fourth Elder?”

“The karmic backlash is split between you and Qiu Jin’an. Half a karmic backlash is more manageable than a full karmic backlash.”

Meng Jingzhou’s eyes lit up. “Does that mean you have a solution, Fourth Elder?”

“No.”

Meng Jingzhou, “...”

Third Elder proposed, “I heard that Nephew Li can regrow severed limbs, changing his entire body by replacing his body parts to evade karma. Could we apply that method to Nephew Meng? Old Seven, can you concoct a limb regeneration medicine for my disciple?” He was referring to Li Haoran’s Rebirth Golden Core.

“Concocting the medicine is easy. It’s just requesting a few root whiskers from the little herb kings. But would this method really be useful?”

Fourth Elder vetoed the idea. “Nephew Li’s Rebirth Golden Core can evade karma, but Nephew Meng’s karmic backlash is too high a level for this to work.”

Grandpa Ba suggested another idea. “The Heaven Strategy Sect is well-versed in the arts of karma. The location of our Dao-Seeking Sect was chosen based on calculations made by people from the Heaven Strategy Sect at the request of our founding ancestor, and it has been blessed for twelve thousand years. If they could even divine something like this, their expertise in the karma arts must be unparalleled. Karmic backlash should be within their scope. Why don’t we get them to try?”

Eighth Elder shook his head. “I remember the Heaven Strategy Sect’s legacy originated from the ancient Exalted Shi clan. They excel in karma arts and can perform calculations, but the Heaven Strategy Sect believes that karma can’t be erased—it’ll only transform from one type of karma to another. Hence, they rarely involve themselves in worldly affairs. If they meddle too much, the karma might taint them and cause them to lose their divination abilities.”

“I’ve heard about this too. It’s said that the Exalted Shi Clan didn’t have a good reputation in ancient times. They frequently abused their divination abilities for personal gain at the expense of lives, disrupting the order in the world to seek breakthroughs.

“Later, the Exalted Shi Clan offended an unknown expert, who inflicted a devastating blow to their clan. From then on, they never recovered. By the time the Exalted Shi Clan wanted to take revenge, that expert had ascended to an immortal. Fearing they might attract this ancient immortal’s attention, they ordered the entire clan to be sealed off, forbidding any contact with the mundane world lest they get influenced by worldly karma and bring upon terrifying calamities.

“After the Heaven Strategy Sect inherited the remnants of the Exalted Shi Clan, they became a secluded sect. If we ask the Heaven Strategy Sect to handle this matter, they’d probably change Nephew Meng’s situation from ‘unable to meet women’ to ‘unable to meet men.’

“In that case, how about we place another curse on Nephew Meng to make him get romantic peach-blossom tribulations every day. Perhaps these two curses would cancel each other out?”

“That sounds like a plan. Who knows how to cast curses? Old Four, can you do it?”

Fourth Elder rolled his eyes, feeling that his fellow senior and junior brothers were giving him too much credit. “No, I studied how to break curses, not cast them. If I knew how to cast a romantic peach-blossom tribulation, I would have cast it on myself first.”

“Old Four, you’re a proper Confucian cultivator. Why would you need romantic peach-blossom tribulations?”

“To emulate the ancients who maintained their composure even with a beauty in their arms, thereby tempering the heart and character of a gentleman.”

“That’s the same excuse all ‘gentlemen’ use when visiting brothels.”

“They copied me.”

“Has anyone learned how to cast Tame Head Curses from the eastern seas? The principles are more or less similar to curses. It might solve our current predicament.”

“Old Ba, you’ve been to the East Sea, right? Did you learn it?”

“No, I was being hunted down by the merfolk. How would I get the time to study Tame Head Curses?”

While the elders continued their discussion on Meng Jingzhou’s curse, Lu Yang stayed in his mental space to seek an ancient immortal’s assistance.

Logically speaking, with an ancient immortal as my golden finger cheat—and the most powerful one at that—no matter what troubles I run into, the ancient immortal should always have a way.

“Immortal Fairy, do you have any other ideas?”

“Yes.”

“What is it?”

“As the saying goes, when one dies, the Dao vanishes, and all karma is gone. As long as one dies once, their karma will naturally disappear.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy cheerfully proposed her carefully thought-out second solution.

Lu Yang suspected that given Meng Jingzhou’s intelligence, he probably wouldn’t approve of this method.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was displeased with Lu Yang’s attitude. I frequently used this method to evade karma, and it worked perfectly every single time.

The more Meng Jingzhou listened to the elder’s discussion, the more he found their methods unreliable. Better to self-help than to seek help. “Why don’t I make a trip to Wilderness Province? Who knows if I might find a solution there?”

“That actually sounds like a workable plan.”

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