[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-who-let-him-cultivate":3,"chapter-who-let-him-cultivate-who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-5":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},2226147,4131,"Chapter 5","who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>Everyone arrived at the Heart-Questioning Mountain and felt nothing, only Man Gu clearly felt his strength declining, and all his physical standards moved closer to everyone else's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boiling Ancient Barbarian blood in his body calmed down and could no longer provide him with a constant stream of power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone looked at each other and finally looked at the strongest, Man Gu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll go first.\" Seeing everyone looking at him, Man Gu didn't stand on ceremony and simply became the first person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One step, two steps, three steps... ten steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man Gu walked the first ten steps easily. Starting from the eleventh step, the pressure gradually appeared. He felt as if he were carrying a stone slab on his back; the higher he climbed, the heavier the slab became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was still within a bearable range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keep climbing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man Gu panted twice, stabilized his breathing, and walked towards the twentieth step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man Gu climbed to the twentieth step, his pace becoming more and more difficult, and his speed of climbing the stairs becoming slower and slower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the twenty-ninth step, sweat had already begun to seep from Man Gu's back, soaking his clothes. He had to stop, panting heavily, and sit on the steps to rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even sitting down, there is pressure.\" Man Gu gritted his teeth, muttering to himself, too tired to speak. He had now just changed from standing and carrying a stone tablet to sitting and carrying a stone tablet, and his recovery speed was very slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Man Gu walking so difficultly, everyone knew that this mountain was not easy to climb, and their hearts sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone said in a deep voice: \"I have heard of similar places from the elders in my clan. This Heart-Questioning Mountain can test the heart of seeking the Dao. The simpler a person's heart, the firmer their will, and the purer their heart of seeking the Dao. Man Gu is from the Ancient Barbarian clan, famous for being single-minded. If even he climbs so difficultly, I'm afraid we will climb even more difficultly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can the meditation mantra settle the heart? Will it work?\" someone else thought of a way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third test required climbing to the fiftieth step; it didn't require being in the top few to pass. They were not in a competitive relationship right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone nodded one after another, all feeling this was a good idea. The elders at home had all taught similar mantras for self-cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang opened his mouth; he didn't know any meditation mantras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you want me to teach you a meditation mantra?\" Meng Jingzhou asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang shook his head: \"Not yet, I want to think of other methods.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Meng Jingzhou didn't force the mantra on Lu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou woke up from meditation, feeling his heart was unprecedentedly calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meditation mantra worked!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou's meditation time was longer than others. When he woke up, others were already at the twenty or thirty-step mark, sweating profusely and needing great perseverance to take another step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large drops of sweat covered their cheeks, and they didn't even have the strength to wipe their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone wanted to take a shortcut, thinking that only the stairs had pressure, so they bypassed the stairs to the fiftieth step. But when they reached the mountain land on the side, they found that this method didn't work; the entire Heart-Questioning Mountain had greater pressure the higher one went.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others wanted to use magic treasures, only to find that the magic treasures had lost their ability. No matter how miraculous the magic treasure was, it couldn't even be activated, becoming a pile of scrap metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder Dai Bufan wasn't worried about them using magic treasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang lagged behind everyone, being the most conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was barefoot, squatting on the tenth step, thoughtful, not knowing what he was observing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing? Everyone else has climbed very far.\" Meng Jingzhou asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang didn't speak, holding a shoe in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang threw the shoe, and it landed on the eleventh step: \"Pick it up and try.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou didn't understand Lu Yang's meaning, but he did as he was told. Immediately, he found that the shoe was heavier than usual, as if something was pulling it from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou seemed to understand a little. He threw the shoe to the twelfth step and found that the shoe's falling speed was the same as on the eleventh step, but it was heavier when he picked it up than on the eleventh step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you discover any pattern?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou frowned: \"If an object doesn't land, the pressure won't be transmitted to the object. Only when the object lands and makes contact with the ground is there extra pressure?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly.\" Lu Yang hammered his palm with his fist, happy that someone finally had the same idea as him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou was thoughtful. In his calm state, his mind turned quickly: \"The stairs are inclined, and there are so many trees here. We can build a '7'-shaped ladder, with one end buried in the ground and the other end leading straight to the fiftieth step.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang said firmly: \"Yes, this third test should be testing our wisdom. This is the standard answer!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou understood Lu Yang's idea and quickly raised another question: \"How are we going to cut down trees?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no axes or saws; how could they cut down trees to make a ladder?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you have any sharp magic treasures on you?\" Lu Yang had already thought of this problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought about cooperating with others, but unfortunately, no one else could understand his idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou took out a dagger: \"This was given to me by a clan elder for self-defense. It can be activated by thought, and its speed is comparable to the Golden Core stage. However, on the Heart-Questioning Mountain, it can't fly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter, as long as it's sharp.\" Lu Yang laughed. The Meng family was a great clan; the magic treasures they refined, even if they couldn't be activated, were far sharper than commoner axes or saws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just right for cutting down trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come over and see. While you were meditating, I already designed the blueprint.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang took Meng Jingzhou to a patch of soft sandy ground, where the blueprint Lu Yang designed was drawn—it was exactly a '7'-shaped ladder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two discussed it slightly and began to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Meng family dagger was indeed sharp; thick trees were like paper in front of the dagger, and the trees were quickly whittled into strangely shaped wooden boards by the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Heart-Questioning Mountain, cultivators and mortals were the same, and the trees that could grow here were naturally the most common kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon Meng Jingzhou discovered another problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How do we connect these two wooden boards? Don't say we don't have nails in our hands; even if we did, we couldn't connect such thick wooden boards.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you ever heard of mortise and tenon structure?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yang was helpless. While taking the dagger to whittle the wooden board connections into a mortise and tenon structure, he explained the wisdom of the mortal world to Meng Jingzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This protruding part is called a tenon, and this recessed part is called a mortise. Combined, it's a mortise and tenon structure. The biggest feature of the mortise and tenon structure is that it is exceptionally sturdy without using nails on the object.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Jingzhou listened very carefully. The Meng family used spiritual energy for refining tools; it was tool-refining art, and they didn't need mortise and tenon structures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the stairs, everyone was sweating profusely, tired and panting, just to climb to the fiftieth step and be the first to pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps being the first to pass would gain the appreciation of the Profound Heaven Sect and lead to key cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone also understood why there was no time limit; climbing consumed too much physical strength. If one stayed for a long time, they would be too hungry to even stand, let alone climb the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below the stairs, the two were also sweating profusely, tired and panting. After a long time, they cut down patches of trees and, after several trials and errors, finally made the ladder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ladder had a strange shape, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, with a curved end. Rather than a ladder, it was more like a huge \"7\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding land was bare, as if bitten by a huge pig demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Profound Heaven Sect disciple secretly glanced at Dai Bufan. They remembered that Senior Brother Dai Bufan loved to show off his lush Heart-Questioning Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dai Bufan's eyelids twitched, and he clenched his fists involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>",1466,"2026-06-17T22:30:18.437Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e991d551b318918e983578dfa3006ff552511364f8fddb6c3a5d49cc11f06642","who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-6","who-let-him-cultivate-chapter-4",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwho-told-him-to-cultivate-cover.jpg"]