[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-who-let-him-cultivate":3,"chapter-who-let-him-cultivate-who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-48":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Who Told Him to Cultivate!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2226229,4131,"Chapter 48: The Lair","who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-48",48,"\u003Cp>Seeing the battle end, the ten water buffaloes had nothing left to do, so they vanished into thin air and returned to the spirit fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is it? Can you get up?\" Man Gu stepped forward with concern. Lu Yang’s decisive azure sword strike had won his admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he and Meng Jingzhou had assisted from the side and injured the tiger demon, Man Gu suspected that even without them injuring the tiger demon, Lu Yang’s strike could have killed it all the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang ate a packet of Qi-Returning Powder, and his breathing quickly returned to calm, his aura also steadily improving—a speed that definitely couldn't be achieved by a few packets of Qi-Returning Powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should have bought Qi-Returning Pills; this powder is so dry,\" Lu Yang muttered, circulating the Water Condensation Technique. A small ball of water appeared at his fingertips, and a water column two fingers wide extended into Lu Yang’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Was that 'Size as You Wish' you just used?\" Seeing Lu Yang suddenly shrink and then suddenly grow, Meng Jingzhou felt the move was very familiar, like a spell called 'Size as You Wish' used by an uncle in his clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as far as he knew, this spell was extremely difficult to cultivate, and the threshold was also extremely high; it was impossible to cultivate successfully before the Golden Core stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something similar. I used the spell 'Inch-by-Inch'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"'Inch-by-Inch'?\" Meng Jingzhou was full of question marks. As a member of the Meng family, he had heard of all spells, but he felt exceptionally unfamiliar with this spell called 'Inch-by-Inch'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be a spell created by Senior Sister Yun Zhi?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it this way, it made perfect sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junior Sister Lanting greets the three fellow Daoists,\" Lanting said, walking over gracefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are all disciples of the Dao Sect. This is Meng Jingzhou, and this is Man Gu,\" Lu Yang introduced. Because the situation was urgent earlier, he had only introduced himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So it is Fellow Daoist Meng and Fellow Daoist Man.\" It was clear Lanting was very cultured and polite to everyone. Earlier, facing mortals like Qi Wu, she hadn't driven them out while she sheltered from the rain in the Mountain God Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Many thanks to Fellow Daoist Lanting for your help. Otherwise, if these two tiger demons had attacked together, it would have been very troublesome, and the mission might have failed,\" Lu Yang thanked her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was actually just polite talk; the three of them still had trump cards they hadn't used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this was your mission,\" Lanting didn't say much. She had also come down the mountain this time to complete a secret mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that she was unfamiliar with the place, hadn't gone down the mountain during the day, and encountered a rainy night, so she wanted to find a place to stay, not expecting to run into such a situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know a little bit of rune art. The tiger skins of these two tiger demons look quite good. Could you part with them and let me have them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Naturally, that is possible,\" Lu Yang smiled. \"I wonder what else Fellow Daoist Lanting needs? Feel free to take it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiger skins were very valuable, but compared to the help Lanting had provided, they were still inferior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lanting shook her head and made no further requests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man Gu had lived in the wilderness with his parents since he was a child, so he was very familiar with skinning. He joined two fingers, sharper than a butcher’s knife, and with a few quick motions, he peeled off both tiger skins completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lanting accepted the tiger skins, she politely said goodbye to Lu Yang and the others and disappeared into the depths of the mountain forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her senior sisters had told her not to rashly approach people from the Dao Sect while her psychological quality wasn't strong enough, lest she be assimilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jingzhou, do you want the tiger bones and tiger whip?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou was confused: \"What would I want tiger bones and tiger whip for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang chuckled evilly: \"For virility.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get lost!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his Pure Yang spiritual root, did he need virility? If he were any more virile, could his body handle it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Collect these two tiger demons; this is important evidence for our mission completion,\" Lu Yang took out his identity jade pendant and wiped it with his thumb, and the two tiger demon corpses were collected into the pendant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jade pendant could also be used as a storage ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go. The female tiger demon made quite a commotion when she came, knocking down many trees. We can just follow the traces she left in reverse, and we should be able to find their lair.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two tiger demons had occupied Songshan for many years, so they must have a lair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy rain had no effect on the three of them; any rain-avoidance spell could keep them dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the collapsed trees and shattered boulders, the three of them found the tiger demon’s lair before long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a three-meter-high cave, pitch black, and they couldn't see what was inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does anyone have a torch?\" Man Gu asked. He couldn't see anything in the cave, and who knew if there were any mechanisms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had read in books that such eerie caves were best for traps, like accidentally stepping on a brick and having arrows from the walls turn people into honeycombs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or suddenly having a burst of poison gas kill people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or at worst, boulders rolling down and crushing people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who has nothing better to do than set up so many traps at home? Are they afraid that coming home is too convenient?\" Lu Yang was speechless, feeling that Man Gu was always letting his imagination run wild in strange places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That said, having a torch did add to the atmosphere of exploration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavy rain pouring outside the cave, the three of them holding torches and discovering treasure inside—just thinking about this atmosphere was exciting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who goes out with a torch?\" Meng Jingzhou complained. They were cultivators; they had fire control spells they could use, so why use a torch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open your mind,\" Lu Yang said, taking out a fried dough stick and lighting it with a spark. The whole stick immediately caught fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like it could burn for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang held the burning dough stick, not afraid of the heat, looking very proud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The canteen’s food was truly useful; besides being edible and good for fighting, it could also serve as a torch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man Gu suddenly realized; sure enough, following Brother Lu allowed one to learn things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang walked in front holding the burning dough stick, with Man Gu and Meng Jingzhou following closely behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no traps as Man Gu had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only the lairs of wild beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rare treasures from merchants, classics and histories from scholars, martial arts manuals from martial artists...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These things didn't need to be handed over to the sect; they were their spoils of war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jewelry and antiques...\" Among the three, Meng Jingzhou had the most experience, so he was responsible for identifying the origins of these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A cup from a hundred years ago. Not worth much.\" For cultivators, a hundred years was like a white horse passing a crack several times, very short. Any item in their homes had a history of over a hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the cultivation world, antiques were the least valuable things; only mortals found them rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A rusty iron knife. Why would a tiger demon keep this thing? To grind its teeth?\" Meng Jingzhou shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang thought to himself, don't look down on a rusty iron knife. Do you believe one cut will give you tetanus?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Elephant Boxing? I remember it’s a type of martial art from the common folk that imitates animals?\" Meng Jingzhou flipped through a few pages, had no interest, and threw it to Lu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang was a bit interested and planned to practice it in a few days when he had time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Sages' Words...\" Meng Jingzhou sneered repeatedly. \"What use do two beasts have for the Sages' Words? Aren't they still beasts?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sages' Words was an introductory book for Confucian cultivators, recording the earnest teachings of the sages. Man Gu knew the content by heart and had a deep understanding of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man Gu put away the Sages' Words. It wasn't that the book was worth much, but its status was unusual, so it should be put away properly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was respect for the sages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm? There’s a letter here. Is it written to the tiger demon?\" ===== CHAPTER 115 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1457,"2026-06-17T23:08:26.054Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","5c687cdba0d40e4a511999d399e23e63863b6f507836ae545cbd74a318dfa871","who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-49","who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-47",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwho-told-him-to-cultivate-cover.jpg"]