Chapter 723: Being too famous also has its advantages
“There’s a sequel to The Vowel Reed Book.”
"This book records twenty types of vowel reeds, but that's just the basics. There should also be some auxiliary reeds."
“There should be more than twenty types of these auxiliary reeds.”
"Perhaps the next time I pass the Xingyun test on Qinghuangzi, I should get a copy of the 'Consonant Reed Book'?"
Ning Zhuo guessed secretly.
The "Vowel Reed Book" in his hand was written by Qing Huangzi, and thus left his mark.
Meaning is information that cannot be expressed in words.
But through the use of pictorial writing, Ning Zhuo was able to understand it.
As an author, Qinghuangzi only wrote a small part of his own heritage. Obviously, "The Book of Vowel Reeds" is the foundation of the foundation.
He didn't write about the sequel at all, but Ning Zhuo could get a glimpse of the subsequent content through the meaning contained in it.
"As a Taoist tool, the Luoshu pages also provided me with great help."
"Under its influence, I can always stay on the right path and understand this intention."
The result of this attempt seemed to open a window for Ning Zhuo.
His eyes flashed with brilliance, and he quickly thought: "If I want to explore the fundamental cultivation method of a powerful cultivator, can I also use the other authentic works he left behind to guess their meaning and find out the secrets of the cultivation method?"
Ning Zhuo thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "This should be quite difficult!"
"At least these authentic writings should be related to the fundamental cultivation method. Otherwise, the intention left by the great master when writing them would involve other aspects."
"etc."
"Many cultivators observe battlefields and comprehend the sword and lightning marks left by clashes between powerful beings, often gaining insights."
"Isn't this exactly the same principle as when I use the pictographic brush?"
Ning Zhuo couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart when he thought of this.
“There are so many ways to learn!”
“Learning never ends!”
Ning Zhuo put the pen into the pen case and continued to nurture it.
Just from the copying, the pictorial brushstrokes have become dim again. If you use them again, it may damage the foundation.
"Alas, I am not a Confucian scholar. I don't have the literary mind or spirit. This results in my inability to use the Huiyi brush for a long time."
"It would be nice if there were multiple pens so I could take turns using them."
Before starting his daily training, Ning Zhuo called Gongsun Yan, gave him a list of materials, and asked him to go out and purchase them.
Although there was no explanation on the Qinghuangzi, since Ning Zhuo had obtained the "Vowel Reed Book", he naturally had to refine the mechanical parts inside.
Bang!
Ban Ji swung his arms, and his magic power burst out, directly smashing the last flowerpot in the cave.
The cave was already in a mess.
This is all the result of Banji venting his anger and abusing his magic power to attack at will.
"Ning Zhuo, I want you to die, I want you to die!" Ban Ji gritted his teeth.
He prepared for Qinghuangzi's Xingyun test for a long time, but he was eliminated in the first round!
There is no doubt that all this is Ning Zhuo's fault!
"It's my own fault too!"
"I was too careless! My advantage in the spiritual battle was too great, which made me careless! If I had noticed earlier that Ning Zhuo was in contact with others, and I had been secretly on guard, I would definitely have had a chance!"
Bang!
Thinking of this, Ban Ji slapped himself twice.
His cheeks quickly became red and swollen.
His eyes were bloodshot, his hair was disheveled, his expression was ferocious, and he faintly exuded an aura of madness.
The swelling and pain on his face was not even one ten-thousandth of the pain he felt inside!
Qinghuangzi had already taken the initiative to publicize it in order to attract more monks to compete and help him select the best successor. So after Ban Ji heard the news, he started preparing.
He prepared a lot.
"I even summarized and deduced the 48-note reed!"
"The winners this time received the 'Vowel Reed Book,' which only has twenty copies. There will definitely be follow-up articles!"
"If I can pass this first round and retain my qualification to compete, I will definitely have a huge advantage in the subsequent trials and competitions!"
But it was too late, Ban Ji was eliminated in the first round.
This is a huge psychological gap for Ban Ji!
Such a failure added to his intense sense of shame.
“Ahhhh!”
"It's all because of you, Ning Zhuo, you deserve to die!"
"I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, what human robbery? I'm going to crush you to pieces!"
Banji roared, and suddenly the jade pendant hanging around his neck burst out with a green light.
The light flowed quickly through Banji's body like water, and finally gathered into his sea of consciousness, waking him up immediately.
The anger on Benji's face disappeared, replaced by a look of horror.
"That was close, I almost went crazy!"
This is the characteristic of magic skills - extreme, quick to achieve, and difficult to stabilize.
Ban Ji's magic skill "Greedy Demonic Heart Skill" mainly cultivates the upper dantian sea of divine sea, which makes Ban Ji's emotions easily explode and he tends to go to extremes when thinking about problems.
Whoosh whoosh…
Banji was panting, his forehead covered with fine beads of sweat.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead with an embarrassed look on his face, and subconsciously grasped the jade pendant hanging around his neck.
This magic weapon comes from the Ban family and is one of their heritage. It has helped Ban Ji escape from the predicament of being possessed by demons many times.
Gradually calming down, Ban Ji paced in the cave and began to think about how to deal with Ning Zhuo.
"This is my personal calamity... but I can't just take action and eliminate Ning Zhuo."
Before this, Ban Ji had sent a letter for discussion, but Ning Zhuo declined it.
Ban Ji wanted to join the Wanxiang Sect, which had few rules but could be easily violated.
One of the rules clearly stipulates that people like Ban Ji and Ning Zhuo must go through the martial arts hall to resolve conflicts.
If Ban Ji had attacked Ning Zhuo directly, once it was exposed, he would have been brought to justice by the Wanxiang Sect and even made an example of him to serve as a warning to others.
"There have been so many Feiyun Conferences, and no one has done this for hundreds of years."
"I'm afraid that no matter how much I provoke Ning Zhuo, he won't enter the martial arts hall with me!"
Ban Ji had already met Ning Zhuo.
Through the natural aura of magic, he knew that Ning Zhuo was only in the middle stage of foundation building, while he himself was already at the peak of foundation building.
"Although Ning Zhuo has a Jindan-level robot, his control is insufficient."
"My control ability is much stronger than his, and my spiritual awareness is far ahead!"
"His Jindan-level mecha is probably a guarantee given to him by his family."
"And the Jindan-level mechanical creation in my hand is my true combat power. I have painstakingly crafted and improved it step by step over many years!"
“And more than one!”
Ban Ji showed a hint of pride.
"I'm much stronger than Ning Zhuo, but this guy definitely won't take it head-on."
"He used the Wanxiang Sect's rules to harass me and sabotage my plans. And yet I can't just do anything. Disgusting, truly disgusting!"
"This hypocritical villain!"
Ban Ji was filled with rage. Thinking of this, the image of the big-headed boy smiling at him appeared in his mind.
Ban Ji narrowed his eyes, wishing he could tear Ning Zhuo's mouth apart.
"You can't count on Qinghuangzi anymore."
"But I have other options!"
"Next, we can't fail again."
"I was really careless this time. I leaked the information in advance, allowing Ning Zhuo to interfere in Qinghuangzi's trial."
Ban Ji made up his mind that from now on, he would keep his whereabouts strictly confidential.
"We must prevent Ning Zhuo from bothering me again!"
"I practice demonic arts, which is against the harmony of nature. Ning Zhuo is my current calamity, so as long as I am in front of him, my luck will definitely be lower than his, and I will most likely suffer misfortune."
"We can't fail in the next Xingyun test."
"It's not only a test, but also a way to build connections. When I join the Wanxiang Sect in the future, with these connections, I can quickly gain a foothold and develop smoothly."
The Xingyun Test and Feiyun Conference have a huge impact and extraordinary significance for cultivators.
Ban Ji paced for a while, thought about it, and sent four Fei letters in succession.
"Find something for Ning Zhuo to do first."
"After I've passed these few Xingyun trials, I'll come back and deal with him properly!"
A moment later, in the cave that had been cleaned and repaired, Ban Ji welcomed four demon cultivators.
A rust carver, a nonsense monk, one called Lady Pansi, and the last one was nicknamed Miasma Mother.
Ban Ji said bluntly: "I paid a large sum of money to invite the four of you to attack together, just to deal with one person."
"This man is called Ning Zhuo. He ruined my chance and has a deep hatred for me!"
"Do your best to harass him and distract him. If you do well, I'll give you more rewards!!"
As he spoke, Ban Ji handed the four jade slips he had copied to the four demon cultivators: "This contains Ning Zhuo's information."
The four cultivators immediately used their spiritual sense to penetrate the jade slip and read it quickly.
Miasma Mother Liu Qingyan frowned slightly: "So little information?"
Ban Ji: "I have purchased the highest level of intelligence from the Trade Hall. Ning Zhuo... he is probably not a native of this country."
Madam Pan Si laughed playfully, "Although we don't have much information, seeing as he's hanging around with Shen Xi and Lin Jinglong, he must be someone special."
She looked at Ban Ji with a seductive look, "Master Ban, it's rare for you to hate a peer this much. What on earth did he do to you?"
Ban Ji snorted coldly and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "If it weren't in the Wanxiang Sect... If it were outside, I would have crushed him into slag long ago."
Rusty Carpenter's voice cracked as he urged Benji to tell the truth: "The intelligence didn't say how you were framed. If you want us to deal with him, you have to tell us more. Why are you hiding it?"
"If you delay us, I'll start to suspect that Ning Zhuo is just a cover and that it's you, Ban Ji, who's trying to delay us!"
Banji narrowed his eyes and stared at the Rustler, his murderous intent clearly visible. "Blacksmith, don't be ungrateful. I'm plotting against you? Do you have the support of your family? My future is far brighter than yours. Do you think I'd waste my energy plotting against you?"
The rustsmith was provoked and took a step forward, approaching Ban Ji.
Seeing the two men disagreeing, the monk Random Words quickly stepped between them and said, "Well, we haven't even dealt with Ning Zhuo yet, and we're already fighting among ourselves. That's not good."
He first said to the rustsmith, "The four of us have all had good cooperation with Banji before, and we even had an agreement to invite him to help. This time, he's willing to use that agreement to invite us to take action. Let's proceed as agreed."
The Rust Craftsman snorted coldly and took the initiative to retreat to his original position.
The foolish monk said to Ban Ji, "Master Ban, what the rustsmith said is also true."
"A few of us are here for this Feiyun Conference and want to join the Wanxiang Sect."
"You've used up your promise, allowing us to deal with Ning Zhuo. We also want to try Feiyun's small test several times..."
Before he could finish, Banji interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Since time and energy are so precious, why don't you hurry up and do it?"
"Stop talking about raising the price."
"no need!"
"After the task is completed, I will reward the person who did it with three times the price."
“That’s it!”
"My offer is already quite high. Don't be too greedy, the four of you. It's up to you whether to accept it or not. Just one word!"
Ban Ji stared at Si Xiu with great force.
The atmosphere in the cave became solemn.
Pan Si suddenly smiled, breaking the atmosphere. "Take it! With such a high price, of course I'll take it."
"Where are you three?" Ban Ji put his hands behind his back and smiled arrogantly.
The Deceitful Monk and the other three looked at each other and nodded.
Ban Ji paid the deposit and bowed to see the guests off: "Then I will wait to hear good news from you four."
Watching the four men leave, Ban Ji thought to himself, "Any one of these four is about as strong as me."
"I don't believe that the four of them can't control you!"
The challenge letter and rumors against Ning Zhuo appeared almost at the same time.
"A false monk?"
"Who is this?"
Ning Zhuo looked at the Fetion message and felt confused.
Not long after, the chef came to report the rumor.
Ning Zhuo was somewhat stunned. "The rumor is about the Monk of Delusion challenging me, and he made up an excuse, saying that my family had nearly killed him. This time he came to seek revenge and to show the righteous path."
"This method... is really old-fashioned."
Ning Zhuo naturally thought of Ban Ji and Pi Fujie.
"The Monk of Falsehood came prepared, and his malicious intent is obvious. I'm afraid these two are closely connected."
"But, slandering my family... Do you know where my family is? Do you know who they are?"
Ning Zhuo couldn't help but sneer a few times.
If he were in the same situation as Shen Xi, it would be really difficult to deal with.
The Shen family of Jiugong Xiancheng is well-known in Feiyun Country. As the current generation of the family, the face of the foundation-building level, and a recognized genius cultivator, Chen Xi must immediately stand up to defend this slander of the family's reputation.
The same goes for Lin Jinglong and Situ Xing.
Families, sects, and so on, would deliberately foster certain fronts. A front at the Foundation Establishment stage represented the future of the faction. A front at the Golden Core stage represented the faction's negotiating power. After all, Nascent Soul cultivators couldn't move freely and often had to report.
In most cases, minor frictions between forces rely on the competition between Jindan-level cultivators to determine the superiority and the outcome.
A cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage could single-handedly destroy an ordinary town. Once such power was deployed, it would be no small matter.
Ning Zhuo is not Shen Xi, and the Ning family is not the Shen family of Jiugong Immortal City. Ning Zhuo and the Ning family's reputation in Feiyun Country is equivalent to nothing.
So, when the rumor spread, people's first reaction was not to look down on the Ning family, but to wonder - who is Ning Zhuo? Who is the Ning family?
(End of this chapter)
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