Chapter 933: Fire of the Earth's Core

Lu Yang had weathered countless storms and escaped with his life from battles among immortals more than once or twice, yet he had truly never encountered a situation where he was surrounded by a swarm of female cultivators.

Half the reason Lu Yang was so popular lay in the sheer legend of his experiences; a cultivator completing even one such feat in a lifetime was rare, let alone living through so many.

The other half of the reason was due to the dedicated publicity of Daoist Buyu, who used a distorting brush or fabricated facts entirely to mold Lu Yang into an utterly perfect figure.

Though they knew Daoist Buyu’s words were not to be trusted, "The Legend of the Askar Sect: Lu Yang's Chapter" had been drummed into their ears so repeatedly that their subconscious minds had merged the Lu Yang of the stories with the Lu Yang of reality.

"Don't know what to do? Let this Immortal handle it!" The Immortal Fairy took everything upon herself, carrying quite the demeanor of a big boss.

Lu Yang naturally would not be deceived by the Immortal Fairy’s superficial display, asking calmly instead, "Fairy, have you encountered this kind of scene before?"

"Of course, what kind of scene has this Immortal not witnessed?"

"Back when this Immortal created the Mother-Child River, plenty of female cultivators came to pay homage to me, praying for river water and praying for children, quite similar to the current situation."

It is nowhere near similar!

Lu Yang rejoiced that he had not blindly handed over control of his body to the Fairy, otherwise there was no telling what kind of chaos would have broken out.

Since he did not know what to do, Lu Yang felt it might not be a bad idea to take out a shadow-recording orb to document this scene; it was a pity Old Meng could not come to the Laurel Immortal Palace, and showing him the recording upon returning would make up for the regret.

Lu Yang felt that he, as a good brother, handled matters rather thoroughly.

Though Lu Yang himself was unreliable and the Immortal Fairy was equally unreliable, Lan Ting was very dependable.

"Alright, alright, everyone calm down. Senior Brother Lu Yang will be staying at the Immortal Palace for a long period, so there will be plenty of time to interact with everyone in the future. There is no need to crowd around and make things difficult for Senior Brother Lu Yang!"

Lan Ting exhorted loudly a few more times before the disciples of the Immortal Palace dispersed one after another.

Lu Yang was dumbfounded; wasn't it said he would only stay at the Immortal Palace for a few days, so how had it suddenly become a long stay?

Lan Ting hastily clasped her hands in apology, "I am sorry, I could only say that in the heat of the moment, otherwise they would not have left."

She raised her head to stealthily observe Lu Yang's expression, speaking with a touch of embarrassment, "Could I trouble Senior Brother Lu Yang to stay a bit longer at the Immortal Palace? I have already said the words, and if Senior Brother leaves after two days, my credibility will be..."

"But Senior Brother can rest assured, our Immortal Palace does not lack cultivation resources. Whatever you need for your cultivation, I... we will provide it all."

Since matters had reached this point, Lu Yang could only agree.

After all, he could cultivate anywhere and was not picky about the place.

"I will take you to your lodging first," Lan Ting said hurriedly, seeing her scheme succeed.

Soon, Lan Ting led Lu Yang to a cluster of continuous courtyards, which were the guest rooms the Laurel Immortal Palace used to entertain visitors; a laurel tree was planted in the courtyard of each residence, so that guests could see the immortal-treasure-like laurel trees whenever they pushed open their doors or windows.

As there were no other guests at the moment, Lan Ting arranged for Lu Yang to stay in the very first courtyard.

The courtyard possessed an ancient and elegant charm, with a thick layer of snow accumulated over the courtyard and the tiles, offering a distinct kind of beauty.

There was also a spirit-gathering formation inside the room, which was sufficient even for a cultivator of the Body Integration Stage to use.

The only minor flaw was that the room was laid out with bronze mirrors, rouge, and the like, completely incompatible with Lu Yang’s gender... this was a guest room meant for entertaining female cultivators.

The Laurel Immortal Palace had simply never considered the matter of entertaining male cultivators.

"I will clean it up right away!" Lan Ting said in embarrassment; she had only thought of bringing Lu Yang to the Immortal Palace, but had never thought that the Palace lacked guest rooms suitable for him.

"It is fine, it is fine, just leave them here." Lu Yang felt bad about troubling Lan Ting; the bronze mirrors, rouge, and such could just stay on the dressing table. He had no use for them anyway, and they were not in the way, so there was no need to cause a fuss over moving them back and forth.

It was not his first day staying in a place resembling a lady's chamber; back when the Immortal Fairy had occupied his mental space and decorated it in a pink, tender style, the guest rooms of the Immortal Palace were considered excellent compared to the Immortal Fairy’s chamber.

It was only now that the Immortal Fairy wanted to establish the Great Bean Dynasty and was developing the mental space toward the style of a palace, otherwise his mental space would still be pink and tender.

As they spoke, Lu Yang discovered that heavy goose-feather snow was falling in his mental space, quickly covering the ground and even leaving snow upon the imperial throne.

"Woohoo, it is snowing!" The Immortal Fairy leaped directly down from the throne, throwing herself onto the snow to roll back and forth, her laughter never ceasing.

Without needing to ask, it was obviously the Immortal Fairy's doing again, wanting to change the environment.

"Little Yangzi, come and play together." The Immortal Fairy lay on the ground, her two feet turned upward and rocking as she tilted her head up to look at Lu Yang, offering an invitation.

Lu Yang refused without a second thought, "No, I still have to tour the Immortal Palace."

...

"Here is the alchemy room." Lan Ting led Lu Yang to the adjacent area, where Lu Yang felt a continuous wave of heat emanating from the alchemy room, astonishingly stable.

"Beneath this lies a subterranean core fire. The alchemy room draws the core fire up to serve as the fire aperture, supplemented by various true fires to raise the flame temperature and grant various attributes for refining pills."

"Legend says this is no natural fire, but an immortal fire passed down from the ancient era, burning continuously until now!" Lan Ting revealed a longing expression; an immortal fire that had burned for three hundred thousand years—just how powerful must the ancient immortals have been.

Inside the mental space, the Immortal Fairy was gathering a pile of snow to throw upward when she suddenly sensed something, speaking in pleasant surprise.

"Eh, isn't this the fire left behind when this Immortal was barbecuing on the moon back then?"

"Back then, the Immortal Yingtian was too lazy to move the laurel tree back and forth, so he suggested simply raising a campfire on the moon to eat."

"We ate so heartily back then that the Immortal Yingtian and the others ate until they fainted from being stuffed, and it was this Immortal who carried them back one by one."

"Could it be that back then this Immortal only cared about moving people and forgot to put out the fire?"

The Immortal Fairy was quick to correct her mistakes, making a gesture prepared to extinguish the immortal fire, but was hurriedly stopped by Lu Yang.

"It is truly comforting that Your Majesty is ready to correct errors upon realizing them, making you a rare wise ruler in history. However, these common people still need to use the immortal fire to live their days, so there is no need to extinguish it."

"Oh, alright then." The Immortal Fairy was truly a wise ruler of a generation; she did not become angry after her absurd action was stopped by her confidant, which was extremely rare throughout history.

"To the right side is a restricted area, so Senior Brother Lu Yang must absolutely not approach it, lest there be a danger to your life." Lan Ting pointed to the right side of the alchemy room, where there stood a palace that appeared luxuriously decorated, the wooden pillars supporting the palace entrance reaching over ten meters high.

"What is that place?"

"The hot spring pool. There is still a surplus of the subterranean core fire, so the predecessors built this hot spring pool along the way when they constructed the Immortal Palace."

Lan Ting pointed to the left side again and said, "The artifact refining room on the left side shares a similar principle with the alchemy room, also meant to utilize the subterranean core fire."

Helping the Immortal Palace preserve the subterranean core fire, allowing the alchemy room, the hot spring pool, and the artifact refining room to continue existing, was a matter of great merit. Lu Yang felt that if the power of merit could be used to cultivate immortality, he would have already relied on the power of merit to cultivate to the Tribulation Transmutation Stage.