Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality

Chapter 153: The Human Vegetable

(TL Note: The title uses the word for a person in a vegetative state where a person is awake but is showing no signs of awareness.)

Legend has it that at the beginning of the Great Yu Dynasty, there was a genius who had a natural affinity for techniques, capable of quickly learning any technique, with a talent close to that of an immortal.

This genius grew at a pace beyond everyone’s imagination, completing in the shortest time the realms that other cultivators spend their entire lives pursuing, becoming a Tribulation Crossing Stage master, known as the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws.

Ancient records state that when the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws was young, he learned the technique of tree planting. In just half an hour, he mastered the technique that took others days or even months to learn.

The True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws planted a willow seed, which took root upon touching the ground, grew into a robust tree, flowered, and bore fruit, becoming a beautiful tale passed down through ages to this day.

Peach Blossom Leaf compared the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws with Lu Yang and felt that Lu Yang was still a cut above.

In half an hour, Lu Yang grasped the essence, used the earth escape technique to plant trees, and the willow tree grew rapidly, flowered, and produced two Lu Yangs.

“Senior Brother Lu is still more impressive.”

There were two people on the willow tree, one was Lu Yang, and the other was also Lu Yang.

One Lu Yang was the original, while the other Lu Yang wore clothes made of willow leaves, at the cost of not a single leaf remaining on the willow tree; they all went to clothe Lu Yang’s clone.

“Where did I practice wrong?” Lu Yang persevered in searching for the problem.

The result was the same as before, with no reason found.

“Lu Yang, you’ve become a human vegetable!” Everlasting Fairy exclaimed with schadenfreude.

“Shut up,” Lu Yang’s face darkened, “Let’s come down for now.”

Lu Yang moved his body a bit, which didn’t affect much. He cut off the willow branch behind his neck and landed on the ground with a grunt.

He looked towards his other self, trying to control him with his mind, and indeed, the other’s fingers moved slightly.

Under Lu Yang’s control, the human vegetable also cut off the willow branch behind his neck and successfully landed on the ground.

The two Lu Yangs detached from the willow tree, which quickly withered, shrinking back into a willow seed, only the willow seed had completely lost its vitality and could not grow again.

Lu Yang controlled his clone’s movements, initially unskilled but gradually becoming adept, managing to multitask, moving himself while controlling the clone.

“Hehe, you have me to thank for this!” Everlasting Fairy claimed credit.

“You can control another clone because you have opened up a mental space, and your mental power is much stronger than that of the Foundation Building stage. Think about it, how did you open up the mental space initially?”

Lu Yang thought for a moment and said seriously, “It was because you, Fairy, wanted to possess me, forcibly entered my body, and opened up the mental space.”

Everlasting Fairy’s pretty face darkened, emphasizing, “I was pretending, I told you that was all an act!”

Lu Yang felt that with Everlasting Fairy’s intelligence, it indeed was an act initially.

Lu Yang continued to explore the clone, which could only move within a twenty-meter range. Once beyond twenty meters, he could no longer sense the clone’s presence.

Twenty meters was precisely the range of Lu Yang’s mental power.

Within these twenty meters, only within ten meters was the control precise; beyond ten meters, the control weakened with distance.

Lu Yang’s clone was not sturdy, just like the willow wood.

“Is it because the willow wood is a common material, so it’s not sturdy?”

Lu Yang wanted to try a real spiritual plant, but he had not collected any tree seeds before and had no suitable materials at hand.

“Senior Brother Lu, try this peach tree seed, it’s not a common item?” Peach Blossom Leaf, seeing Lu Yang’s difficulty, kindly handed him a seed.

Peach Blossom Leaf eagerly observed Lu Yang, very fond of exploring new things and unsolved mysteries, and the most intriguing mystery for her right now was Lu Yang.

“This is too much, how many contribution points? I’ll buy it.” Becoming a spy for the demonic sect gave him a lot of contribution points, and Lu Yang hadn’t spent them all up to now.

“No need, this is a peach tree seed from the Dust-Free Peak, it’s free.”

Lu Yang remembered Peach Blossom Leaf’s kindness and attempted to plant the peach tree.

The peach tree seed was buried in the soil, and he activated the tree planting technique, but nothing happened.

“Do I have to use the Shrinking Earth technique?” Lu Yang wondered, as he had used it when planting the willow seed.

“Shrinking Earth.”

Lu Yang shrank into the earth, operated the tree planting technique, and it indeed worked.

A robust peach tree broke through the soil in front of Peach Blossom Leaf, bearing two Lu Yangs on it, one the real Lu Yang and one a vegetable Lu Yang, with pink blush smeared on his cheeks.

Lu Yang twitched at the corner of his eye: “How come this peach tree even comes with coloring?”

“Never mind, as long as it works.”

Lu Yang controlled his vegetable self to move and rejoiced in his heart. He could clearly feel that the body strength of the vegetable Lu Yang had changed, approximately seventy to eighty percent of his own strength.

This was already quite impressive.

Think about it, during battle, using the tree planting technique to produce two of oneself, with the newly emerged self having seventy to eighty percent of one’s strength, and cooperating seamlessly with oneself, instantly boosting battle power and catching the enemy off guard.

Peach Blossom Leaf also noticed this and admired Senior Brother Lu.

The True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws was a genius, but he just followed the footsteps of his predecessors, earnestly practicing the tree planting technique without innovation. Look at Senior Brother Lu, who has forcibly trained it into an attack-type Technique, and with very strong attack power at that!

At this moment, Sixth Elder silently watched Lu Yang from the sky and turned to leave.

Originally, she thought if Lu Yang had any questions that Peach Blossom Leaf couldn’t answer, she could come down to answer them, fulfilling her duty as a senior.

Now, seeing the situation, she thought it best to leave the answering to Little Yun and not overstep her role.

“Little Yun said Lu Yang’s talent in the Dao is enough to establish a sect…”

Sixth Elder expressed skepticism towards this.

His talent is indeed high, but to say establishing a sect, could his disciples learn it?

Lu Yang was engrossed in cultivation, becoming more proficient in using the human vegetable, while Peach Blossom Leaf observed by the side, gaining a deeper understanding of the tree planting technique.

Of course, it was about the normal tree planting technique.

As evening approached, Lu Yang felt embarrassed to stay at Dust-Free Peak any longer. He said goodbye to Peach Blossom Leaf and went to the mission hall to exchange for some items. He couldn’t always use Peach Blossom Leaf’s seeds and needed to buy some for backup.

Everlasting Fairy wholeheartedly agreed with this, finally able to shop to her heart’s content.

After Lu Yang left, Peach Blossom Leaf’s expression changed. She felt an inexplicable oppression, a suffocating pressure.

Danger!

She helplessly turned her head and transmitted a message to her master: “Master, could you give me a heads-up before you come? It’s not easy for me to hold my breath every time.”

Sixth Elder stood behind Peach Blossom Leaf with an innocent expression.

“I forgot you’re not yet at the Golden Core stage.” Sixth Elder subconsciously thought all her disciples were at the Golden Core stage.

Peach Blossom Leaf: “…”

Is this karma?

Teasing Senior Brother Lu about his low cultivation in the morning, and now it’s my turn in the evening.

Sixth Elder didn’t forget the purpose of her visit: “Do you have feelings for Lu Yang?”

Peach Blossom Leaf’s cheeks rapidly turned red. Although she was usually forthright, when it came to this question, whether she liked him or not, she was unwilling to discuss it with her master: “Master, what are you talking about? My interactions with Senior Brother Lu are normal.”

Sixth Elder continued to transmit: “Some days ago, Hongxia kept asking me what kind of person Lu Yang is. I suspect she heard that Lu Yang is an outstanding kid and wants to introduce her excellent disciple Lan Ting to Lu Yang. If you have feelings for him, you should be careful.”

Sixth Elder looked certain of her conjecture.

Luo Hongxia, the palace master of Moon Laurel Immortal Palace.

Peach Blossom Leaf rolled her eyes but said nothing.

To outsiders, the long, silent stare between master and disciple was a very strange scene.

Of course, from another perspective, it could also be interpreted as the master and disciple having a tacit understanding, everything understood without words.

(End of the chapter)