Who Let Him Cultivate?!
Chapter 1151 - 1150 The Worldly Venerable Observes the Future

"What, you were constables this whole time?" Yue Changhe was taken aback.

"I always thought you were hunting me down because I carry the bloodlines of both the Human race and the Demon race. The two powerful forces you represent must have valued the rarity of my bloodline so much that you were sent to capture me and subject me to inhuman experiments, or to use me as a pivot in the relationship between the Human race and the Demon race."

Originally, when Yue Changhe saw the man with the eagle eyes and the hulking monk approaching fiercely, demanding to know whether he was from the Human race or the Demon race and insisting he make a choice, he knew they meant business, so he ran for his life.

The man with the eagle eyes hissed, "It seems your understanding isn't exactly wrong."

Lu Yang nodded secretly; he had thought the same and had stepped forward intending to say a few words to smooth things over.

But there was no need for Yue Changhe with his small frame to be the pivot between the two races; the pivot now was the "East Sea Economic Alliance" between Great Xia, Buddha Country, Demon Territory, and the East Sea.

Back when he was still recovering in bed, he had been a witness to the alliance treaty discussed by Emperor Xia, Zhu Tian, and Ao Ling.

After learning of the treaty, the Buddha Country took the initiative to join.

"Nonsense, I explained the reason when I first saw you; you're evading arrest!" the big monk shouted angrily. He had crossed nearly half of the Buddha Country in pursuit of Yue Changhe and had even worn through two pairs of cloth shoes. Even he was losing his temper.

"You clearly said you were taking me to Western Heaven!"

"What I said was that I would take you to the Western Paradise Temple. It was you who ran off before I could finish explaining!"

Yue Changhe scratched his head awkwardly; it wasn't his fault they had chosen such a misleading name for their temple.

"Wait, that's still not right. What crime did I commit for you to capture me?"

"You kidnapped the little princess of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, and you still deny it?"

"I kidnapped that little girl?" Yue Changhe's eyes widened, his face expressing an "I knew you bald-headed monks had it in for me" look.

He wasn't afraid to confront the big monk since the living Buddha was present.

"It was that little girl who snuck out of her clan herself, ran all the way from the Demon Territory to the Buddha Country. When she left, she didn't even carry a single Spirit Stone. If I hadn't found her, she might have starved to death."

"That little girl is really hard to please; she eats nothing but delicacies from the mountains and the sea. She nearly made me go broke."

"Later, she told me she was the little princess of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and asked me to take her back. She said she would pay me back tenfold or a hundredfold."

"The thing is, my parents secretly gave birth to me, so I'm not officially registered. I couldn't leave the Buddha Country through proper channels. So, I had the little girl write to her family herself, asking them to send someone to pick her up quickly."

The man with the eagle eyes showed an intrigued expression: "Did you see what the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's little princess wrote in her letter?"

"No, why? As long as the Nine-tailed Fox people took her away, that's all that mattered."

The man with the eagle eyes took out a letter to show everyone. The writing was childish and crooked:

"Mommy and Daddy, I'm living at a big brother's home in Buddha Country, and I am safe. The big brother said he's 'black-something,' has a special identity, and can't leave Buddha Country. He asked me to write to you to take me home. Oh, and when you come, bring lots and lots of Spirit Stones."

"...wait, so the Nine-tailed Fox Clan thought I had kidnapped that little girl? Why didn't they do anything when they came to pick her up?!"

Yue Changhe was astonished; the Nine-tailed Foxes were a major clan in the Demon Territory, they could crush him with a single fingertip.

The eagle-eyed man put away the letter and seriously said, "Initially, when the Nine-tailed Fox Clan took in the little princess, they thought about taking action against you since your strength was too low. But upon reflection, considering your low cultivation level, you surely weren't the main culprit. Perhaps there was an ambush around, so they took the money and hurriedly concluded the affair."

"Didn't that little girl properly explain to her family?" Yue Changhe gritted his teeth in anger, resolving to thoroughly discipline that little wench when he saw her again!

"It is said that the little princess awakened her second tail on the way back and has been in a deep slumber ever since, yet to awaken," the eagle-eyed man's tone grew stranger as he spoke, suggesting that what Yue Changhe said might not be false.

Lu Yang had heard of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan. The foxes in the clan were not born with nine tails; rather, they awakened them gradually. The more tails one awakened, the higher their status in the Fox Clan.

There were three methods of awakening: one was innate talent, where one would naturally awaken once they reached a certain age; another was external interference, such as consuming Heaven and Earth Treasures or undergoing the Fox Clan's trials; and the third was a change in one's mind state, such as experiencing the blossoming of first love.

"Little Changhe, so you are here."

An old, decrepit voice reached everyone's ears. A hunched-old man appeared in the temple, leaning on a cane. Aside from Immortal Fairy, Lu Yang, Ao Ling, Jiang Lianyi, Qinghe, Jin Caiwei, and Yun Mengmeng, no one knew how the hunched elder had appeared.

The elder ignored the crowd, strolling leisurely in the Ancestral Temple as he circled around Yue Changhe, sighing wistfully, "The resemblance is uncanny. He looks just like young Yue Fang did back in the day."

Yue Changhe was on high alert, staring fixedly at the old man, poised to attack at any moment as he slowly uttered two words, "Grandfather."

"If you hand over the jade pendant your father left you, considering you have called me 'Grandfather', I might overlook the filthy human blood flowing in your veins and spare your life."

"Spare my life?" Yue Changhe scoffed.

"You killed my father over that jade pendant, and now you think you can let me live!"

The hunched elder shook his head in disappointment, "You're as stubborn as your father. Having had a streak of fortune, you no longer put our clan in your eyes. You fell in love with a human woman and sullied the bloodline of our mighty race."

"Humans are the leaders of all spirits, and the Demon Race also has its True Immortals. There is no superiority or inferiority in bloodline…"

The echo of Lu Yang's previous words reverberated in the temple, startling the eagle-eyed man and the Great Monk.

It turned out that when the Worldly Venerable uttered those words, he wasn't addressing them, but rather the hunched elder.

To overlook the past and predict the future—is this a glimpse of the Venerate's extraordinary power?

"Who is speaking!" The hunched elder's skin crawled as he could not pinpoint the source of the voice.

"Daring to fool around before me, utterly ignorant of life and death!" The elder erupted in rage, unleashing the imposing pressure of Combined Great Ability. His race was born with immense strength; few cultivators of the same level could match his power!

"Goodness, Benefactor, to kill your own offspring is truly devoid of all conscience."

Lu Yang extended a finger, placing it on the hunched elder's forehead. The elder remained immovable.

In the elder's eyes, that was not merely a finger, but rather the sky collapsing, smashing the temple and ruthlessly crushing him.

"My dear grandson, so you were hiding here. You really gave your grandfather quite the search."

A ghastly voice drifted in as another figure appeared in the Ancestral Temple.

"Hand over the cultivation technique your mother left you, and I can leave you with an intact corpse to avoid ending up with no remains, just like your mother."

The eagle-eyed man and the Great Monk simultaneously recalled the first thing Lu Yang said when he appeared:

The monk was unwilling to reveal himself to the world, but seeing as three benefactors have entered the temple with a dispute, it was only right for the monk to intervene.

Could it be that the Worldly Venerable was not referring to the three of them, but rather to Yue Changhe and his paternal and maternal grandfathers?!