Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality

Chapter 244: This Meal is Poisoned...

“Who are you?” Everlasting Fairy asked warily, looking at the four newcomers. Each of them had a higher cultivation level than hers, all at the Golden Core stage.

Lu Chang’s smile widened. (TL Note: Not really relevant but the Lu in Lu Chang’s surname and Lu Yang’s surname are different)

These four often roamed the dense forest. Outwardly, they were like everyone else, fighting demonic beasts and gathering rare treasures. In reality, they were all demonic beasts in disguise. They secretly killed and robbed, taking storage rings, looting everything, and trading with corrupt humans for high profits.

They initially came to discuss their next plan with the lake’s master, but unexpectedly encountered a young girl here.

She was at the late Foundation Establishment stage, looked cute and innocent, dressed sloppily, and was barefoot. She was likely a young lady from some noble family out for training, separated from her guards.

This was a common occurrence since the vast forest couldn’t be patrolled entirely by just Golden Core stage cultivators.

According to their knowledge, there was a giant demonic beast of the elephant tribe with Nascent Soul stage cultivation nearby, an incredibly powerful entity.

Lu Chang couldn’t identify what Everlasting Fairy was wearing, but he could tell the material was extremely valuable.

A young lady from a noble family out for training surely had plenty of good things on her. Even if the family pursued them later, it didn’t matter. This was the dense forest, where life and death were often left to fate. Who could guarantee that training wouldn’t lead to accidents?

At worst, they could blame the deaths on other humans, as humans often did similar things themselves.

And this young girl was cooking here, seemingly carefree and easy to deceive.

Lu Chang considered all possible scenarios, ensuring there was no danger, before approaching Everlasting Fairy kindly to inquire about her background.

“We are cultivators here to gather medicinal herbs by the lake. We didn’t expect to meet a young girl like you here. This place is very dangerous, with Golden Core stage demonic beasts lurking around. Even we dare not stay here long.”Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

Everlasting Fairy recalled the lake’s master she had easily killed with a punch earlier, thinking it was weak and posed no threat. She shook her head, “Dangerous? Not really.”

“Maybe you haven’t encountered any yet. Where are your family elders? This place is very dangerous!”

“They went to challenge a Golden Core stage demonic beast. I felt bored, so I ran out... wait, no, he’s not my family elder!” Everlasting Fairy instinctively followed Lu Chang’s lead but quickly corrected the logical inconsistency.

Lu Yang was just a junior; she was the elder.

Lu Chang and the other three exchanged glances, convinced that this young girl had snuck out.

“King Fish, are you here?” Lu Chang secretly used his divine sense to communicate with the lake’s master, trying to inquire about the young girl’s situation and whether to collaborate for a big haul.

“Not here?”

Lu Chang called out several times with his divine sense but got no response from the King Fish.

Could it have transformed and gone elsewhere to hunt?

“Then why didn’t you react?”

“Why should I?”

Just as Lu Chang was about to praise her courage, he felt the fish in his stomach turn from water to fire, burning his meridians and rendering him powerless, sweat beading on his forehead.

Thud—

Lu Chang collapsed, clutching his stomach and writhing on the ground. The other three men were similarly affected, lying on the ground, staring at the harmless-looking Everlasting Fairy in disbelief.

They reverted to their original forms: Lu Chang as a fox, the others as a hedgehog, a snake, and a lynx.

Everlasting Fairy realized that the fish meat was highly toxic, potent enough to corrode Lu Yang’s wooden avatar. If this continued, she would soon have to return to Lu Yang’s side.

She quietly activated her immortal ariaya-phala, dispersing the fish’s toxins.

“What kind of fish is this? How did you poison it?” Lu Chang widened his eyes, trying to divert Everlasting Fairy’s attention while secretly using his cultivation to resist the poison.

She saw through their disguises, acted nonchalantly, and even invited them to eat the poisoned food. What a cunning mind!

“It’s the fish king you were looking for. It tried to eat me, but I ate it instead,” Everlasting Fairy said innocently. “You were looking for it, right? It’s a bad demonic beast, so don’t look for it anymore.”

Everlasting Fairy wrinkled her nose, annoyed at the fish king’s impudence.

In ancient times, no demonic beast would dare behave like this towards her—it would be considered treason and grounds for suicide.

“The fish king was a pufferfish?!” Lu Chang exclaimed. The fish king was the master of this lake, a late Golden Core stage pufferfish, with a body full of deadly poison!

Most importantly, this little girl was only at the late Foundation Establishment stage. How could she have defeated the fish king?

“Attack! Kill her! She ate the fish and survived, so she must have an antidote on her!” Lu Chang and the others temporarily suppressed the pufferfish’s poison with their cultivation and launched an attack.

“And grab her storage ring while you’re at it!”

Four Golden Core stage cultivators against a Foundation Establishment stage girl—there was no way she could win, right?

“So, you’re just like the big fish, all bad demonic beasts!” Everlasting Fairy was displeased with their attitude.

She had intended to detoxify them but hadn’t expected them to turn on her.

(End of the chapter)