Chapter 701 I am a good boy who cures diseases and saves lives!
Ning Zhuo's scattered consciousness covered the two flying letters, and he quickly read through them and found out the cause and effect.
"Interesting." Ning Zhuo's eyes flashed.
He looked at the two pieces of Fei Xin in his hand and began to ponder the value of this information.
Ning Zhuo originally thought that his performance on Yu Heye was enough to convince Chen Xi, Situ Xing and others to let him join the team.
But now, Situ Xing is making things difficult for Ning Zhuo again.
"No, he is not trying to make things difficult for me, but to make things difficult for Chen Xi." Ning Zhuo knew very well that he and Situ Xing had never met each other.
"Chen Xi introduced me because he wanted to use me to increase his voice in this gang."
"Su Lingkou is the only one beside him at the moment."
"But Situ Xing is very wary of Chen Xi. There's a secret rivalry going on between the two of them, and I'm just a pawn in it."
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
As an outsider, Ning Zhuo often encounters such situations when he comes here.
Looking at the current situation, just by joining this small group, Ning Zhuo would be dragged into it and become a pawn in the battle between Chen Xi and Situ Xing.
It is conceivable that if Ning Zhuo really joins the Wanxiang Sect and fails to understand the situation, he will most likely become a pawn on the front line of the transition between the old and the new.
Small groups like Chen Xi and Situ Xing were fine, after all, their strength was only at the Foundation Establishment stage. But if they failed to grasp the situation and were involved in the grand chessboard of the Wanxiang Sect, being caught in the vortex of the transition between the old and the new, then they would be in big trouble.
"Boss." Ning Zhuo used his spiritual consciousness to contact Sun Lingtong in Shuyuzhai through the thread of life.
While Ning Zhuo was in seclusion for a short period of time to break through his cultivation, Sun Lingtong had been in Meng Yaoyin's cave before her death, using his talent to get the pages of Luoshu and comprehend the formation.
Sun Lingtong listened to Ning Zhuo's simple description, thought for a moment, and responded: "Xiao Zhuo, it's just you who should make the decision on this little matter."
Ning Zhuo was stunned for a moment. "Boss, do you trust me so much? We agreed before we left Huoshixian City that any major decisions must be discussed with each other and communicated in advance."
Sun Lingtong chuckled, "Isn't that what we agreed to before we set out? We traveled all the way, visited several countries, even participated in the Thousand Peaks Forest Campaign, and even disrupted the century-long plan of the Lord of Wangchuan Mansion."
"You're already different from before."
"For matters like this, you just make the decision!"
A warm feeling of trust surged in Ning Zhuo's heart.
Sun Lingtong was already impatient: "If it's nothing serious, don't bother me."
Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong lost contact and read the Fetion message again.
The first letter was fine, but in the second letter, Shen Xi gave detailed information about Gongsun Yan.
The intelligence content includes the opponent's talents, appearance, combat habits, etc.
Chen Xi also speculated that since Gongsun Yan was Lin Jinglong's most capable subordinate, if Ning Zhuo got involved, he would likely become his enemy in the future.
Knowing yourself and your enemy ensures victory in every battle. Therefore, it is good to know some information about the enemy in advance.
If it were an ordinary person, they might have been secretly moved by Shen Xi's heartwarming behavior.
But Ning Zhuo was very clear: he and Shen Xi were already on the same side, and if Shen Xi helped Ning Zhuo, he was actually helping himself.
Ning Zhuo stroked the mechanical ring on his finger, thoughts popping up in his mind and then disappearing quickly.
There are so many ways to deal with the problem.
But just like when he dealt with Yu Heye before, he needed to understand the situation clearly and control the strength of his attack.
If the force is too light, the opponent will not react. If the force is too strong, it will turn into an enemy, which is too much.
What to do?
Inside the cave.
Gongsun Yan sat cross-legged on the cushion, staring at a piece of wood in his hand.
The log was about three feet long and as thick as a child's arm. It had been struck by lightning and reduced to a charcoal, but it was not dead.
If you look closely, you can see a gentle, jade-like azure light emanating from the scorch marks and cracks. Within this azure light, you can even see some incomplete lightning patterns, looming in the distance.
Gongsun Yan held the piece of wood in his hand and could feel the warmth emanating from the wood.
This is the precious wood that he agreed to fight with Lin Jinglong in exchange for - Lightning Struck Wood Chunsheng!
This has to start with the Lin family's signature skill, "Spring Thunder of Ten Thousand Trees".
This skill can gather the essence of all trees, cultivate Yi wood magic power, and then transform it into spring thunder.
The essence of this is: thunder and rain, life and death shine together. The magic of the Wood Element is always characterized by growth and endurance. Yi Wood Spring Thunder can both injure the enemy and bring life.
Any cultivator who practices "Spring Thunder Attraction of Ten Thousand Trees" has the ability to mass-produce Lightning-Struck Wood - Spring Growth.
Gongsun Yan was no stranger to this kind of precious material.
He skillfully crushed the spirit stones to increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave.
As the Thunderstruck Wood, Spring Thunder, immersed itself in this spiritual energy, a thin layer of wispy green mist gradually formed on its surface. Gongsun Yan took a deep breath, feeling the air refreshing, as if he were in a forest after rain.
He could feel more deeply the vitality of the sprouting of early spring grass and trees contained in the Thunderstruck Wood and Spring Thunder, as well as the unique coldness of thunder that purifies all things.
The distracting thoughts and restlessness that had been lingering in his sea of consciousness and dantian slowly dissipated under this breath.
This is exactly why Gongsun Yan wants to use this kind of wood.
His talent was just a low-level talent. This level of talent had both advantages and disadvantages.
Melting the heart can produce heart fire. Heart fire can be regarded as a quasi-fire, which can be combined with any fire-based skills in the world to form a corresponding fire.
The advantage of heart fire is complete control.
A cultivator does not need too much fire realm or attainments in martial arts to naturally have complete control over the fire in his heart.
He can make the most delicate adjustments, so that every bit of the heat of the heart fire is under his control.
This kind of heart fire is naturally suitable for refining medicine and weapons!
Because of this talent, Gongsun Yan chose weapon refining among the hundred arts of cultivation. It was also because of this talent that he chose to rely on the Lin family—he needed the Lightning Wood Spring Thunder to alleviate the drawbacks brought on by his inner fire.
The more times and longer the heart fire is used, the more it will disrupt the balance of the five elements in the human body, which will easily cause imbalance in the human mechanism and lead to various diseases.
Therefore, Gongsun Yan's appearance was inhuman, with bronze skin and dark gold bones and muscles, which were all forced changes.
This imbalance not only affects the cultivator's body, but also their spirit. Using the Heart Fire for a long time can make a person impatient, violent, reckless, eager for quick results, and lose their composure.
This is even more terrible.
Because even with the most basic practice, once your mind is unstable, there is a risk of going astray.
What's more, matters like refining equipment require endurance and patience. You will definitely not be able to do it well if you are impatient for success.
It was precisely because of this negative impact on the mentality of cultivators that when Gongsun Yan was carefully choosing the direction of his cultivation, he gave up alchemy and chose to refine weapons.
This is because, compared to refining tools, alchemy requires more precise control. Refining tools is relatively more rough and has a higher tolerance for errors.
Gongsun Yan was worried that his mentality was unstable and that his alchemy would fail, all his efforts would be in vain.
The consequences of failing in alchemy are often more serious than those of refining equipment.
When precious medicinal materials are mixed together, their medicinal properties penetrate each other, and if the alchemy fails, they often become waste.
But this is not the case with refining equipment. Sometimes, even if it fails, some costs can be recovered from the waste materials to reduce losses.
Don't underestimate this loss.
A cultivator's life is not short, and they will have to refine weapons and elixirs many times. The accumulated losses from each time will become a huge number over the course of a lifetime.
This huge loss may very well represent the height of a monk's lifelong practice and achievements in all aspects.
Gongsun Yan held his breath and concentrated, slowly unleashing his talent and unleashing his own inner fire.
The fire in his heart was thrown into the lightning-struck wood and spring thunder in front of him, and it quickly ignited.
The charred shell of the lightning-struck wood made a slight cracking sound, and the precious material burned, dyeing the orange-red heart fire into blue-black.
Gongsun Yan carefully recovered his heart fire.
Of course, this is only a small part of the recycling.
The dark blue heart fire merged into his body, bringing with it the life-destroying power of spring thunder. The heart fire flowed through his body, leaving countless fine, shimmering blue and cyan burn marks wherever it passed.
After these scars appeared, they healed quickly under the nourishment of the unique vitality of spring thunder.
The necrotic tissue was instantly disintegrated and reshaped by the life-giving power of thunder, as if it had experienced a baptism of thunder and the growth of plants from the inside out.
Every time he was broken down and rebuilt, Gongsun Yan felt pain all over his body and soul. But as he healed, he would feel a sense of comfort from deep within his heart, as if he had been reborn.
The dark blue heart fire came to his dantian above his sea of consciousness.
A lot of distracting thoughts, anxiety, impatience, etc., all dissipated under the power of spring thunder, as if washed away by a heavy spring rain, leaving no trace.
Gongsun Yan felt more and more relaxed, and his mind gradually approached the clear and bright state of "empty mountains after rain, clear mirror and still water".
But at this moment, a laugh suddenly came from behind him.
"Hehehe."
Gongsun Yan suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils shrinking to the size of a pinpoint! The hairs on his body stood on end. He had never expected that someone would sneak into his cave and come up behind him without him noticing.
The strong sense of crisis made Gongsun Yan activate protective measures without hesitation.
At the same time, he turned around eagerly, wanting to attack the person head-on.
But just as he turned halfway, his vision went dark and he completely fainted!
Sun Lingtong whistled.
Gongsun Yan's cultivation is not strong, he is only at the foundation-building stage.
Sun Lingtong is capable of dealing with Jindan cultivators, let alone beings of the same level.
Ning Zhuo asked him to move, and he easily knocked Gongsun Yan unconscious.
Not long after.
Pa pa pa.
A series of slaps landed on Gongsun Yan's face. The latter opened his hazy eyes, his mind in a trance.
But the next moment, Gongsun Yan remembered something and his body felt like it was electrocuted. If he had not been tied up, he would have jumped up.
"Who are you?!" He looked at Ning Zhu in front of him and asked in shock and anger.
"Don't move, don't move." Sun Lingtong stood behind him, put her small hands on Gongsun Yan's shoulders, and directly restrained him.
In just a few breaths, cold sweat had already seeped out of Gongsun Yan's forehead.
He looked at Ning Zhuo carefully and saw that he was wearing a white shirt, like a sunny boy, except that his head was a little big. Overall, he had a kind and amiable temperament.
Gongsun Yan was not infected by this temperament.
What a joke!
Would a kind and amiable person sneak into other people's caves and attack other cultivators?!
Ning Zhuo smiled at Gongsun Yan: "Don't be afraid, I'm here to heal you."
His smile and words made Gongsun Yan even more frightened: "Is this young cultivator suffering from some kind of mental illness?"
"Or is he a perverted demon cultivator who takes pleasure in torturing others?"
Despite Gongsun Yan's massive build and unearthly appearance, he actually had little combat experience and was more focused on refining weapons. His cultivation resources were usually exchanged for the fruits of his refining.
He was sent by the Lin family to assist Lin Jinglong. He was not a combatant, but to provide technical support.
However, even so, Gongsun Yan's combat power is still among the best among Lin Jinglong's subordinates due to his talent, equipment and other factors.
Ning Zhuo knew that most people were speechless, so he stretched out his hand and grabbed Gongsun Yan's head directly, as if he was holding a ball.
"Damn it, this evil cultivator might want to search my soul!" Gongsun Yan's heart suddenly rose to his throat.
But Ning Zhuo only used his magic power and spiritual awareness to inspect Gongsun Yan's internal condition.
Gongsun Yan had no power to resist and could only allow Ning Zhuo's spiritual consciousness to sweep through his body at will, revealing his inner thoughts.
"You are indeed very ill. Don't be afraid, I can cure you." Ning Zhuo gave him a friendly smile.
He then took out his natal mechanical fan.
Gongsun Yan widened his eyes and subconsciously leaned his upper body back, trying to distance himself from Ning Zhuo.
Without success.
Gongsun Yan threatened, "Wait, wait! You know, I've already joined the Lin family. If you want to attack me, think of Master Lin Jinglong and the Mo Gaofeng Lin family!"
Ning Zhuo turned a deaf ear and just fanned the Five Elements Mechanical Fan.
His innate magic, the Five Elements Life and Death Technique, was used on the spot!
The imbalance of the five elements in Gongsun Yan's body caused various illnesses. When he was affected by the Five Elements' Birth and Death Technique, he suddenly underwent earth-shaking changes.
Gongsun Yan's body trembled, his eyes widened, and he looked confused at first.
But the body's reaction is real.
It's like a dry desert suddenly hit by a heavy rain.
During the rain, the fire element subsides significantly, the water element irrigates, the earth element nourishes, the wood element rises, and the metal element grows, ultimately achieving a balance among the five elements.
His bronze skin had noticeably darkened, and his dark golden bones and muscles also revealed a normal luster.
The power of spring thunder is to destroy and then rebuild, healing him. Ning Zhuo's Five Elements Fan, on the other hand, fundamentally restores the balance of the five elements. The former only treats the symptoms, not the root cause, while the latter directly addresses the root cause!
These are two completely different levels of solutions.
Gongsun Yan looked at Ning Zhuo in disbelief: "How did you do that?"
How is it possible to restore the balance of the five elements in your body in an instant?
Gongsun Yan had always been troubled by his conservative nature, having tried countless methods. Ultimately, he had no choice but to join the Lin family because the treatment plan to restore the balance of the five elements was too difficult to implement.
Ning Zhuo smiled: "It's very simple, just fanning you."
"You're lucky. I happen to have a five-element fan like this."
Gongsun Yan's eyes suddenly became hot, and he stared at Ning Zhuo's natal magic weapon, and was stunned for a moment.
Ning Zhuo then introduced himself: "My name is Ning Zhuo. I believe Daoist Gongsun Yan should have heard of me."
Gongsun Yan was in a daze for a moment before he reacted.
"Ning Zhuo? Are you Ning Zhuo?!" He was no longer so frightened, but questioned, "Do you know that treating me like this is against the sect's rules?"
"We agreed to resolve the conflict in the martial arts hall."
"You sneaked into my cave and attacked me..."
Ning Zhuo interrupted, "No, I'm here to treat you."
Gongsun Yan sneered: "That's just specious talk..."
Ning Zhuo spread his hands and interrupted again: "Just tell me, is the effect good?"
Gongsun Yan's expression froze for a moment, then he gritted his teeth, "Do you think I'm so easy to heal? My physical problems can be solved, but how can I eliminate Pan Heng's restlessness, anger, and distracting thoughts in my sea of consciousness? I'll need the help of the Lightning Wood!"
Ning Zhuo was obviously prepared and waved the fan again without thinking.
The wind blown out this time directly affected Gongsun Yan's upper dantian, and all the irritability, anger, etc. in his sea of consciousness were completely restrained and swept away.
Ning Zhuo smiled: "How?"
Gongsun Yan opened his mouth wide, completely stunned, staring blankly at Ning Zhuo... at the mechanical treasure fan in his hand.
(End of this chapter)
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