Who Let Him Cultivate?!

Luo Hongxia and Elder Zhu Hong stood rooted to the spot, at a loss for what to do.

Elder Zhu Hong admitted she liked children, but she had never imagined that the Fairy Palace would be filled with so many of them.

"Could someone have used a magic skill to reverse time, causing the Fairy Palace to return to the past?"

"That's not right; if we had gone back to the past, it wouldn't be like this."

The disciples of the Fairy Palace varied greatly in age, yet now all appeared as children — an occurrence time reversal could not explain.

What on earth had happened?

They had only left for three days, so how come the Fairy Palace felt so unfamiliar?

"Are you... Lu Yang?" Luo Hongxia asked hesitantly, being able to recognize Lu Yang's original appearance even in this child's form.

"Not right now," Lu Yang firmly denied, then quickly picked up the clothes from the ground and wrapped himself up.

"The real me is Lu Yang."

The person who was naked in the icy, snowy outdoors just a moment ago had nothing to do with him.

"What in the world is going on?"

"I don't know either. We just ate some roasted rabbit, then took a nap, and turned out like this," Lu Yang was innocent, just as confused as anyone else. How did he end up as a child when everything was fine before?

"Fairy, stop sleeping, wake up!" Lu Yang shook Fairy Eternity, who was lying on the bed of snow with her fingers interlaced across her chest.

Fairy Eternity looked extremely beautiful when asleep, so glorious that it made Lu Yang forget all about her various past actions and admit she was among the top ten beauties of the Ancient Times.

But now was not the time to admire how pretty Fairy Eternity was!

Fairy Eternity was even more deeply asleep than Lu Yang, equally unwilling to wake up.

When she woke up from her slumber, she instantly perked up at the sight of Lu Yang's youthful appearance.

"Ah, how have you become so small?"

Fairy Eternity sat up abruptly, gesturing to compare Lu Yang's height with her own, noting that the current Lu Yang only reached her waist.

"You've truly become Little Yang."

"That's why I've come to ask for the Fairy's diagnosis," Lu Yang sought help from Fairy Eternity.

"Oh dear, you're quite cute being so tiny," Fairy Eternity chuckled, squatting down to pat Lu Yang's head, showing no intention of dealing with the situation.

...

Outside, the disciples of the Immortal Palace were gradually awakening, and their high-pitched, childlike screams mingled with sobs, making Lu Yang feel as if he had wandered into a nursery, where he was the 'big kid' – not crying or fussing.

Luo Hongxia and Zhu Hong went from soothing one child to the next, their bodies not tired, but their hearts were exhausted.

Elder Zhu Hong felt that she didn't really need the water from the Twin River anymore.

"Elder Brother Lu Yang, what is going on with us…" Lan Ting timidly wrapped her clothes around her body, even covering her head, leaving only half her face exposed.

Lu Yang held his forehead, Junior Sister Lan, don't look at me with that kind of gaze; it makes it seem like something happened between us last night.

Together we barely make up a legal adult; what could have happened?

Fortunately, the disciples of the Immortal Palace were not truly children. Often going on missions and handling major events, they calmed down after their initial shock upon waking.

Though they had indeed never seen a situation like this before.

The other Elders, hearing that something had occurred, all rushed over.

Only the disciples had partaken in eating the rabbit last night; the Elders, upholding their status, did not join the grand gathering.

"Junior Sister Yulu, can you see what's the matter?" Luo Hongxia called over Elder Zhou Yulu, who was most skilled in medical expertise. The bloodline issue of the Xue Shilou was something Elder Zhou Yulu had remedied.

Elder Zhou Yulu jumped as she saw the ground covered with children, but her composure as a doctor allowed her to settle down and resist the urge to record the scene with a Recording Orb, checking the pulse of each child.

"Poisoned? That doesn't seem right, could it be a tonic?"

"Could the problem have been with what we ate yesterday?" Luo Hongxia noticed only a skeleton remained on the rack, which had once held a demon rabbit.

"It shouldn't be, I checked the demon rabbit before we ate it, and there was no problem."

Despite saying this, Zhou Yulu still scraped off a small piece of meat from the skeleton and immersed her Immortal Sense into it, continuously analyzing.

"The meat indeed has no issue."

Lu Yang breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't his fault, it was fine.

Suddenly, Elder Zhou noticed the charred remains in the large pit, which appeared somewhat strange.

"Did someone split the laurel tree to use as firewood?"

She drew a piece of the char toward her and immersed her Immortal Sense into it to analyze the cause, eventually discovering the problem.

"The laurel tree has been tampered with. This tree had been altered with several substances that had the effect of shrinking."

"After burning, the laurel tree's fragrance covered other odors, and those who smelled it would be affected without realizing."

In fact, the rabbit meat that had been smoked with the laurel tree also retained some of these substances, but only on the surface layer of the meat; the flesh closer to the bone hadn't been smoked through.

Lu Yang's relieved breath was taken back. So, it was still related to me after all.

"Then, is there a problem with little Lan and the others?" Luo Hongxia was most concerned about this.

"There's no major issue. It's just that their bodies have shrunk. If left alone for a few days, they will return to normal," she answered.

"I guess by the time my antidote is developed, they will all have returned to normal."

"As long as it's nothing serious."

"Palace Master, the current problem is not with Junior Sister Lan and the others, but with the laurel tree," stated Elder Zhou, pointing to the skeleton of the demon rabbit. "This demon rabbit grew large because it ate mooncakes filled with osmanthus paste, and then we discovered that Zhang Guihua's laurel tree had issues, containing substances that make people grow larger."

"Now, we have discovered another laurel tree that has the effect of shrinking people."

"Who exactly has tampered with the laurel trees, and how many trees have been affected?"

Luo Hongxia looked grave. This was indeed a serious issue.

The Immortal Palace was protected by an Array Method; outsiders couldn't enter. This was the doing of someone from within the Immortal Palace!

"Fairy, do you know who did this?"

Fairy Eternity shook her head. "I do not know."

She was not someone who lacked self-restraint, using her Immortal Sense to observe everything that happened in the Immortal Palace all day long.

The laurel tree matter was important, but it wasn't the most pressing issue.

The most pressing issue at the moment was the children.

"Lu Yang, perhaps you should return to the guest room first?" suggested Luo Hongxia.

Lu Yang was the only male cultivator on the scene, and the Disciples of the Immortal Palace who had turned into children couldn't fit into their clothes. With Lu Yang present, they were too embarrassed to move, worried he might see something he shouldn't.

"Alright," Lu Yang agreed, understanding the principle that men and women should be treated differently.

However, it was clear some did not understand this principle, such as Fairy Eternity.

Inside the Spiritual Space, Fairy Eternity swung mini Lu Yang's arm around in circles, making a melodious sound as they rotated, filling the Spiritual Space with her laughter and jovial sounds.

Lu Yang was expressionless, looking at Fairy Eternity with dead fish eyes, like a toy being played with at her whim.

"Fairy, men and women should maintain a degree of separation, touching each other is inappropriate," Lu Yang kindly reminded her, attempting to improve his treatment.

Fairy Eternity squatted down and poked Lu Yang's forehead, finding the current Lu Yang particularly fun. Smiling, she said, "Why should a little thing like you care about the difference between men and women?"