Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 505: Curse Backlash
Curses were but one manifestation of karma. For most, casting a curse required one to pay a corresponding price. For example, the price of Meng Jingzhou’s self-taught Single’s Curse Fist was the need to preserve yang energy before immortal ascension.
However, since the Imperial Preceptor wielded the Karma Incipient Dao Fruit, he didn’t need to pay such a price.
The Seven Calamities and Eight Sufferings were a concept proposed by the Buddhist sects. It encompassed all worldly misery and stood as the pinnacle of curses. Compared to this, Meng Jingzhou’s Single’s Curse Fist wasn’t even fit to tie its shoes.
After a series of defeats, realization finally dawned upon the Imperial Preceptor. With the Everlasting Immortal Fairy and Yun Zhi present, escape was impossible.
Since I can’t escape, I’ll drag one down with me!
Among his foes, Lu Yang had the lowest cultivation. Furthermore, he was the reason the Great Yu cultivators had come to the Dao-Seeking Sect. Every failed plan bears a trace of Lu Yang’s involvement.
The capture of the Black-White Venerable Lord also meant that the rest of his subordinates who had infiltrated the Dao-Seeking Sect had faced a similar plight.
Complete wipeout!
Rather than saying it was the Dao-Seeking Sect that thwarted Great Yu’s resurgence, it’s more accurate to say it was Lu Yang, this stumbling block, who got in the way!
It doesn’t matter even if I get captured. Great Yu still has Shifu and the slumbering cultivators from the mid to late Great Yu era. There’s still hope for resurgence.
Then I just have to eliminate Lu Yang!
He cast upon Lu Yang the most painful and ruthless curse imaginable. Let alone the Golden Core Stage, even if Lu Yang were at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage, he’d no doubt die!
In the Imperial Preceptor’s vision, shackles fell from the heavens, assembling themselves midair. Wrought from blood and punishment, they descended upon the mortal realm to deliver the most excruciating punishment possible.
These shackles were a manifestation of the curse, invisible to even those proficient in karmic spells. Only the Imperial Preceptor, a half-immortal who devoted himself to studying karma and condensed the Karma Incipient Dao Fruit, could witness all of this.
The heavy shackles produced a resonant clatter like the sound of Dao with each collision.
You dared to get so close to me? Now it’s too late for regrets!
The Imperial Preceptor observed their expressions with keen interest, eager to see their visages twisted in regret and sorrow—regret for underestimating him and sorrow for Lu Yang’s inevitable doom.
Instead, he saw Lu Yang’s expression remain unchanged, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy looking utterly baffled, and Yun Zhi’s face as impassive as ever.
Not a trace of the regret or sorrow he had hoped for.
As the shackles closed in on Lu Yang, he suddenly erupted with golden light, revealing two thick threads of karma coiled around him, one connecting him to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy and the other to Yun Zhi. The moment the shackles touched him, they rebounded violently straight back to the Imperial Preceptor.
The Imperial Preceptor could only watch in horror as his curse backfired, letting out a roar in indignation. “NO!!!”
What’s with the karma on this brat? It’s just two threads of karma, yet they had completely warded off my proudest curse?!
The one who had slapped me is an immortal—how could an immortal share such a deep karmic bond with a mortal?!
And the other one who interrupted my spell—her karmic tie with Lu Yang had also deflected the curse!
For karma alone to repel my curse... that means she’s also an immortal!
These two breathtakingly beautiful women are immortals!
What kind of joke is this? How could a tiny sect like this possibly harbor two immortals?! In his twenty thousand years of life, the Imperial Preceptor had never heard of any sect with two immortals. Not even our Great Yu Dynasty had achieved that!
What on earth is this Dao-Seeking Sect? Even calling it a dragon's lair or a tiger’s den wouldn’t be enough to describe the perils of this place. Invading the imperial palace would have been safer than setting foot here!
The Imperial Preceptor felt a burst of flames in his heart, scorching him until he writhed on the ground. At the same time, it was as if a globe of water had encased his head, drowning him like a helpless immortal.
The curse backlash afflicted him with two of the Seven Calamities: fire and water.
“What’s going on?” Lu Yang was bewildered. One moment, the Imperial Preceptor had been glaring at me viciously and spouting a bunch of incomprehensible incantations. The next moment, he’s rolling on the ground, howling ceaselessly as if he is begging for death.
“Curse backlash,” the Everlasting Immortal Fairy replied. “He tried to curse you with the Seven Calamities and Eight Sufferings, but with me protecting you, the curse couldn’t touch you. The curse backfired on him, and he’s suffering from it now.” She glanced at the Imperial Preceptor like he was an idiot. As I thought, he’s not very bright.
The Black-White Venerable Lord watched as the Imperial Preceptor’s trump cards were effortlessly neutralized one after another. His heart sank to the bottom. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
The Dao-Seeking Sect’s waters truly run deep.
“Big Boss, do you want to protect me too?” The third-in-command, Everlasting Immortal, sidled up to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy with a sycophant smile.
The Everlasting Immortal Fairy shot him a sidelong glance and waved him off. “Shoo shoo shoo, why should I protect you? If you ever get cursed, just self-detonate a few times and you’ll be more or less fine.”
The Everlasting Immortal slunk away, resuming his chat with the Black-White Venerable Lord. “Brother, how did you get caught? Did you sneak into the Dao-Seeking Sect with that idiot rolling around on the ground? Didn’t you know the Dao-Seeking Sect is my First-In-Command’s turf? Back in the day, even the Four Ancient Immortals didn’t dare barge in here carelessly. When they did visit, they treaded lightly, not even daring to breathe too loudly.”
The Black-White Venerable Lord, “...”
Damn it, just stop speaking. The more you talk, the more I regret everything.
The Everlasting Immortal continued, “Thankfully, I defected to the Dao-Seeking Sect early. Otherwise, I would be getting tortured just like you.” He was glad he had cowardly surrendered the moment he realized the Everlasting Immortal Fairy outranked him.
The Black-White Venerable Lord asked, “So, are you now the Dao-Seeking Sect’s guest elder or elder?”
“Prisoner.”
The Black-White Venerable Lord, “...”
Lu Yang clapped his hands cheerfully. “No matter what, we’ve finally rounded up all the Great Yu cultivators in one fell swoop. A cause for celebration!” Lately, my luck has been awful. I’d run into Great Yu cultivators every time I went out. This time, I finally don’t have to worry about that anymore.
“Hehe, and that’s all thanks to my brilliant leadership as the acting sect leader.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy planted her hands on her hips, unable to stop grinning from ear to ear.
“The Immortal Fairy is wise and brilliant! With the Immortal Fairy here, the Great Yu cultivators are nothing to fear!” Lu Yang continued clapping and spared no effort in flattering her.
“Rounded up in one fell swoop?” The Black-White Venerable Lord felt a sense of dread at Lu Yang’s words.
Lu Yang turned to him with a cheeky smirk and casually said, “You know Wu Youdao, the sixth Yu emperor, right? He’s here too. The Immortal Fairy and I caught him together.”
“You captured His Majesty?!” The Black-White Venerable Lord’s eyes nearly bulged out of his skull. After the battle at Hanshui City, he had lost contact with Wu Youdao. He had assumed Wu Youdao and the others were recuperating from severe injuries somewhere. Never had he imagined they’d been captured by the Dao-Seeking Sect!
This Lu Yang truly is our Great Yu’s greatest obstacle!
I’d originally thought Lu Yang’s interference in Hanshui City was simply exposing Huang Ming’s existence. I didn’t expect that even His Majesty’s capture was his doing!
Yun Zhi paid no attention to Lu Yang and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s back-and-forth adulation. She was prepared to interrogate the Imperial Preceptor, who was still shrieking in agony on the ground.
“I ask, you answer.”
“AAAAAHHHH!”
“How many cultivators does Great Yu have in total?”
“AAAAAHHHH!”
“After this failure, does Great Yu have any backup plans?”
“AAAAAHHHH!”
It wasn’t that the Imperial Preceptor was refusing to confess. The torment from the Seven Calamities and Eight Sufferings was simply so unbearable that he couldn’t force out a single word.
Yun Zhi sighed. Despite having interrogated countless people, it’s my first time encountering a situation like this.
