Chapter 317: The Fifth Elder’s Ingenious Idea

Translator: yikaii Editor: yikaii

“It’s a pity Lu Yang didn’t learn my Fairy Fist Technique, otherwise, he wouldn’t have fainted.” Everlasting Fairy thought that Lu Yang was good in every way, except that he was too stubborn and unwilling to learn her fist techniques.

“Fairy Fist Technique?” Yun Zhi repeated softly, putting down her chopsticks with a look of interest.

“Also known as the Health-preserving Fist techniques, if practiced successfully, your body itself becomes a remedy. You won’t need to take pills for sickness or cultivation, and no poison in the world will affect you.”

“But to learn the Fairy Fist Technique, you must first master over a thousand different fist techniques, such as Monk Fruit Fist, Fat Sea Fist, and Ginseng Fist. You must integrate them, discard the false and retain the true, eliminate the dross and keep the essence, using your body as a furnace to merge the thousand fist techniques into one, which is the Immortal Fist.”

Yun Zhi was silent for a moment, then stood up and solemnly asked, “Senior, may I learn it from you?”

“Of course you can.”

…

When Lu Yang woke up, he had already left the kitchen.

“Awake? How do you feel?”

Lu Yang thought to himself that he had been fainted by the spiciness, and she was asking how he felt.

“My cultivation level…”

Lu Yang moved slightly and discovered that his cultivation level had slightly improved, from the early stage of the Golden Core to the mid-early stage of the Golden Core.

He hadn’t done anything.

“Hehe, did you think I made an ordinary dish of stir-fried tomatoes with eggs? How could that be? I made a dish that can enhance cultivation!”

“You think the improvement is small because you only took one bite. If you ate the whole plate, I guarantee you’d advance to the late stage of the Golden Core!”

Lu Yang thought that his slow and steady cultivation progress, though gradual, was safe.

If he followed Everlasting Fairy’s theory and ate the whole plate, he feared he might “ascend” directly to heaven.

(TL Note: The word here is 羽化 which can mean to ascend in daoism but also has another meaning which is to die)

Outside the cave, Meng Jingzhou shouted at the top of his lungs, “Lu Yang, are you awake?”

“Awake.” Lu Yang stepped out of the cave, squinting against the blinding sunlight.

In front of the cave stood Meng Jingzhou, Li Haoran, and Qin Yanyan.

Seeing Lu Yang awake, Meng Jingzhou breathed a sigh of relief, “Finally, you’re awake. You’ve been unconscious for three months!”

Lu Yang was shocked, not expecting Everlasting Fairy’s poison to be so potent.

Li Haoran said helplessly, “Senior Brother Meng, Senior Brother Lu has only slept for two hours.”

“Hey, Junior Brother Li, that’s not fair. How hard is it for me to trick Lu Yang once, and you just expose me.”

Qin Yanyan silently observed the scene, wondering if Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, these two extraordinary geniuses, had honed their cunning and deceitful skills through such daily interactions, thus developing their impressive talents.

Quite possible.

“Let’s go find the Fifth Elder together. Since the Fifth Elder joined our Heavenly Court Sect, he’s become one of the founding members!”

…

With Li Haoran leading, the group quickly found the Fifth Elder who was refining tools.

The Fifth Elder threw his robe into the fire, subjecting it to the test of flames. When the robe turned red-hot, he retrieved it from the fire with a calm expression.

The Fifth Elder took a small hammer from his waist, tapped the robe a few times, then placed it in water. With a hiss, the refining process was complete.

The Fifth Elder looked with satisfaction at the newly refined robe and casually put it on. Only then did he notice Lu Yang and the others standing not far away.

“Little Lu, is that you?”

“Fifth Elder, are you refining clothes?” Lu Yang asked uncertainly, as the process resembled refining a metal artifact rather than clothing.

“I’m trying to combine clothes with transportation tools.”

“Combine them?” Everyone was puzzled. Was there any connection between these two items?

“Why not?” As a grandmaster of refining, the Fifth Elder enlightened everyone on the spot.

“Transportation tools, whether a carriage or a flying boat, are meant to facilitate travel, right?”

“Carriages, flying boats, and flying swords all share a common feature—they can carry us.”

“If that’s the case, why have we always overlooked the most common thing that carries us—clothes?”

Lu Yang thought about it and realized it was true. Clothes, when worn, essentially wrap around their bodies. From another perspective, people are the carriers for their clothes.

“So I believe that clothes are the most suitable means of transportation. Look.”

The Fifth Elder channeled his spiritual qi, and the refined robe flew up, carrying him with it.

The Fifth Elder flew around in the air for a while, then landed steadily and continued, “Generally, cultivators in the Golden Core Stage can fly by themselves. In special cases, sword cultivators can fly with their swords as early as the Foundation Building Stage.”

“So if Foundation Building Stage sword cultivators can fly with swords, why can’t regular Foundation Building Stage cultivators fly with clothes?”

“Of course, my current method of refining clothes is too cumbersome and not yet feasible for the Foundation Building Stage. But once I refine and simplify it, and patent it, promoting it in the cultivation world, wouldn’t an endless stream of wealth flow into our Artifact Refining Peak?” The Fifth Elder spoke excitedly, envisioning buying more materials and refining better artifacts with the influx of wealth.

“Fifth Elder, you have great talent!” Lu Yang sincerely felt this idea was very feasible.

The Dao Seeking Sect’s immense wealth depended on the talents of extraordinary artifact refiners and alchemists like the Fifth Elder and the Seventh Elder. Particularly, artifact refining was highly praised in the cultivation world.

“And who is that young girl?” The Fifth Elder pointed at Qin Yanyan.

“She is the daughter of Junior Brother Li’s former wife.” Lu Yang explained.

The Fifth Elder was shocked. When did his disciple get married?

“She’s the daughter of my wife from a previous life!” Li Haoran quickly clarified.

The Fifth Elder understood, “Oh, Qin Yanyan, right? Haoran mentioned you before. So, technically, you’re my grand-disciple.”

Qin Yanyan: “…”

She regretted coming to the Dao Seeking Sect a bit. Here, she had the lowest seniority. Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou kept calling her “little niece,” and now she was directly a grand-disciple.

Qin Yanyan was about to say that past lives were past lives, and this life was this life; they shouldn’t be mixed. But then she saw the Fifth Elder take out a magical artifact from his robe.

“It’s our first meeting, and it’s customary to give a little something. I don’t have anything great on hand, but seeing that you’re a talisman cultivator, take this talisman brush. It contains eighteen common talismans, and you can instantly draw them by channeling your spiritual qi. It should be of some help to you.”

Qin Yanyan was startled by the artifact’s capabilities. A talisman brush was an essential magical artifact for talisman cultivators. She had a talisman brush that contained ten talismans, which Su Yiren had specially commissioned a renowned artifact refiner to make. The refiner had said that the maximum number of talismans a Golden Core level talisman brush could hold was ten.

“This is too precious; I can’t accept it.”

“Take it. It’s just a little something I made in my spare time; it’s not worth much.” The Fifth Elder generously said.

Li Haoran looked enviously at Qin Yanyan. Why was his master’s first meeting with Qin Yanyan a gift-giving occasion, while his own first meeting involved being thrown into magma?

“By the way, why are you looking for me?” The Fifth Elder finally remembered that Lu Yang and his group must have come for a reason.

“Well, we’ve established a Heavenly Court Sect. It has profound foundations, with ancient immortal inheritances, support from prominent families, someone who was once at the half-step Tribulation Crossing Stage, and the first hei of the Nine Nether Sect. We would like to ask the Fifth Elder to become the protector of our Heavenly Court Sect.”

(End of the chapter)