"Are you talking about Ning Zhuo? Everyone in Huoshixian City knows him." Sun Lie was slightly surprised, but still answered Liu Zhen.
"I wonder how your sect heard of Ning Zhuo's reputation, and why you want to find out about him?" Sun Lie was curious.
Liu Zhen explained the whole story. There was nothing to hide. On the other hand, he trusted Sun Lie who saved his life.
After Sun Lie heard this, he suddenly realized, "It turns out that Ning Zhuo has long been out of Huoshi Xiancheng and has gone out to travel. No wonder he always practices in seclusion and has not appeared in public for many days."
Ning Zhuo left secretly at that time, using the mechanical creation Wanliyoulong. In the entire Huoshixian City, only high-level monks knew this secret.
Sun Lie was obviously not among them.
Liu Zhen then bowed and said, "Master Sun, please tell me about Ning Zhuo in detail."
Sun Lie said: "Speaking of Ning Zhuo, he is indeed a young hero, very remarkable."
"His parents in his early years..."
After Sun Lie’s introduction, Liu Zhen was speechless for a long time.
He tended to believe that what Sun Lie said was true, after all, there was no need for the latter to lie to him. Moreover, he could easily find out these situations from other people.
"But if that's the case, this Ning Zhuo is too amazing and really inspiring!"
Although Ning Zhuo is not in Huoshixian City now, he has become a topic of discussion among the citizens, and the conversation is getting more and more exciting.
Because although he came from a prominent family, he was humble in his early years, suffered a lot of exclusion and criticism, and was not very noticeable.
It was also when the Lava Fairy Palace came into being that he rose rapidly and gradually showed his brilliance. In the end, he successfully split the family, replaced the Zheng family, and became the patriarch of the Ning family.
The citizens of the city would not know the final inside story of Lava Fairy Palace, but the existence of the Ning family branch was always there, silently telling everyone - Ning Zhuo's achievements! Such a foundation is quite rare for a middle-aged person. And Ning Zhuo is only a 16-year-old boy.
Ning Zhuo's success has inspired many young people. It has given the vast majority of lower-class urban residents the best role model. Ning Zhuo's success is also their inner desire.
Therefore, before they knew it, Ning Zhuo had become an idol of the citizens of Huoshi City.
"Ning Zhuo is actually of such an identity. He has been looked down upon for many years, and only recently has he gained the favor of the family's Jindan ancestor."
"How did he do that?"
"Dividing the family is a very taboo thing!"
Liu Zhen felt curious and also found it incredible.
How did Ning Zhuo achieve a peaceful separation? What happened to the Ning family's main branch? Didn't they stop it? Didn't the Ning family have a Jindan ancestor? Just watch him separate? Liu Zhen realized that things were far from as simple as they seemed. Ning Zhuo must have reached many secret agreements with Ning Jiufan, the Ning family's Jindan ancestor, and the Ning family's main branch! Liu Zhen thought about it and asked Sun Lie: "So, what do other forces in Huoshi Xiancheng think about the Ning family's separation?"
Sun Lie smiled and said, "You asked a good question."
"I won't talk about the other things. Let me just talk about what happened during the family separation ceremony when Ning Zhuo was setting up the buffet."
After hearing this, Liu Zhen was shocked.
“Ning Zhuo is only a foundation-building cultivator, but on the day of the family division ceremony, he attracted two Jindan cultivators, Fei Si and Zhou Nongying, to personally congratulate him!”
"And Zhu Hou, a member of the royal family, is also present?"
"Song Fuli, a Jindan cultivator from Yunshang, doesn't get along with Ning Zhuo. He blocked Ning Zhuo's door and tried to make things difficult for him. In the end, he was persuaded to leave by several consecutive Feixun messages. He was quite embarrassed!"
What does this mean? Liu Zhen knows it very well.
"This shows that the new force established by Ning Zhuo has been fully recognized by the existing factions in Huoshi Xiancheng."
"They are very supportive and are even willing to come forward to persuade Song Fuli to quit!"
"It seems that the Ning family branch will flourish in the future."
"Ning Zhuo is really amazing!"
Liu Zhen originally thought that Ning Zhuo was just the son of a cultivation family, and had been protected by his elders since childhood.
I didn't expect that he was the patriarch who started from scratch and established the foundation of the branch family! Sun Lie showed a mysterious look on his face and told Liu Zhen: "According to rumors, Ning Zhuo even played a very important role in the final moments of the battle of Lava Fairy Palace."
"Really?" Liu Zhen listened carefully, and all kinds of guesses emerged in his mind.
"This is so inspiring!" Liu Zhen exclaimed.
Of course, he couldn't just inquire from Sun Lie.
He left Ziyang Villa and went to various places in Huoshi Xiancheng to gather information everywhere.
This information is not much different from what Sun Lie said.
Liu Zhen came to the original site of the Zheng family and looked at the plaque of the Ning family. He was filled with emotion: "Although Ning Zhuo is young, he is by no means simple."
"Looking back at his rise to power, he was mistreated and ignored when he was young. He seized the opportunity at Lava Fairy Palace. He ignored his status as a child of a wealthy family and was willing to act as the master of the black market and be driven by the City Lord's Mansion."
"He is very good at using others to achieve his own goals. In the process of strengthening himself, he used many resources of the Zhou family, the Zheng family, and even the City Lord's Mansion."
"He also mobilized the family internally to bring down the young patriarch of the main lineage. His political tactics were incredibly sharp!"
"Rather than saying he is a young hero, it would be better to say he is a young tyrant."
"When dealing with a person like this, you must never underestimate him! Be careful of him taking advantage of your power."
Liu Zhen left early and didn't know that his junior sister had been put in solitary confinement for helping Ning Zhuo too much.
With other thoughts in mind, he took the initiative to walk to the gate of Ning Zhuo's branch.
Facing the monk who was serving as the gatekeeper, he said directly: "I am a casual cultivator. I heard that they are recruiting workers here?"
The guard looked him up and said, "If you want to work, please register first. Someone will lead you there. Do not wander around in the Ning family's land, otherwise you will bear the consequences yourself."
Liu Zhen had no intention of running around.
This time, he just wanted to take advantage of the recruitment opportunity to go deep into the Ning clan branch to find out the truth in person.
Not long after, Liu Zhen and other monks who were doing odd jobs were led into the weapon refining room together.
In the refining room, a large number of furnaces are constantly calcining and refining day and night.
According to the foreman's arrangement, Liu Zhen came to his post and started working.
After only half a day, his frail constitution could no longer bear it and he became so weak that he was seeing stars.
"This is such a huge workload. I barely had a break the whole morning."
Liu Zhen was covered in dust and felt quite horrible.
He couldn't go on. If he continued, he would faint from exhaustion.
He spoke to the foreman.
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The foreman had long been dissatisfied with his efficiency: "How come you are so weak?"
Liu Zhen sighed: "I didn't expect this job to be so hard!"
The foreman shook his head: "Otherwise, why would the Ning family pay us such a high salary? It is indeed a bit difficult for you to earn this money. Go, go."
"You can't do it, but there are plenty of people who can do it."
As he was talking, a one-armed monk walked in and shouted angrily, "Why is the output of your room three the lowest among all the refining rooms?!"
"What on earth are you doing?"
"Do you know that we are rushing the deadline? If we don't refine this batch of Yurun Xuangang, there will be more later! The family treasury is almost full!"
The foreman waved at Liu Zhen and ignored him. Instead, he ran to the one-armed monk, bowed and nodded to him, and apologized repeatedly.
The one-armed monk was none other than the one-armed craftsman, one of the three wanderers in the black market.
Ever since Ning Zhuo established the branch family, he recruited him and made him temporarily the chief weapon refiner of the branch family.
The one-armed craftsman enjoys this job very much and always has a strong work ethic.
When Liu Zhen left the Ning clan's branch clan's land, he had already made it clear in his mind that although the branch clan had just been established, its family tradition was very good and the work was in full swing.
Even though the one-armed craftsman was a hired guest, he still treated it as his own business.
When Liu Zhen was about to go out the door, a group of young monks happened to be chatting happily and striding into the clan territory with their heads held high.
Liu Zhen keenly observed that although this group of monks were very young, they had extraordinary bearings, and the rest of the Ning family members treated them with respect and envy.
Some of the young monks were still holding parts of the monster's corpses, with a lot of murderous and fighting intent left in them.
He must have just returned from hunting.
Liu Zhen went to ask the security guard and learned the identities of these people.
Almost all of them are Ning Zhuo’s classmates.
Especially the leaders Ning Yong and Ning Chen, who had followed Ning Zhuo long before the family split.
They received a lot of care from Ning Zhuo. Obviously, in Ning Zhuo's heart, the friendship between these two classmates was the deepest.
"It turns out that he is Ning Zhuo's confidant and the future backbone of the family."
"But their cultivation is generally weak, so how come the corpses of the monsters they hunt are generally at the foundation-building level?"
Liu Zhen went to ask again with doubts.
The answer he got shocked him.
It turned out that according to the agreement among the three families, there were a large number of cultivators in Ning Zhuo's branch family, who occupied important positions in the Lava Fairy Palace.
With these positions, they can borrow the power of Asgard to help them in hunting.
"So, the Ning clan branch also has a certain degree of control over the Lava Immortal Palace?"
After discovering this, Liu Zhen's assessment of the Ning family branch was raised to a higher level.
"The Ning family branch will start a large-scale equipment refining business, and the benefits will definitely not be bad."
"Jade-Run Black Steel... How come the Ning family branch suddenly has such a large-scale cooperation with Yugang Mountain?"
"The Ning family branch has a lot of control over the Lava Immortal Palace, which allows them to stand firmly in the power structure. As long as these positions are still there, they will not fall down the hierarchy."
"In comparison, there are very few people in the main branch of the Ning family who hold positions in the Immortal Palace. The contrast between the two is quite striking."
"The Ning family branch has Huoshi Mountain as its backing, and has inherited the Zheng family's foundation. It has close relations with other forces in the city, and is developing rapidly and steadily."
Liu Zhen was deeply moved.
He envied Ning Zhuo very much! This is the foundation of a man.
"I am much older than him. Compared with him, I feel like I have lived in vain for so many years!" Liu Zhen felt a little bored when he thought of this.
He suppressed his disappointment, made the information into a jade slip, and sent it out through the post station of the Nandou Kingdom first.
Afterwards, he and Sun Lie set off together, heading back to Wanyaomen.
(End of this chapter)