Chapter 105

Since Li Leifeng said so, he was not polite, immediately reached out to take his pulse, injected magic power into Li Leifeng's body, and at the same time, a pair of golden eyes shot out divine light.

Soon, Zhu Xuanji investigated Li Leifeng's physical condition clearly, and was shocked.

"Old Senior Li, you..."

Li Leifeng persisted for a long time before he finally couldn't help but cough violently.

His aura dropped again, falling to the Qi Refining stage, and at the same time, he coughed with blood at the corner of his mouth, his face pale.

"I am already old, my body is decaying, and even maintaining breathing is extremely difficult."

"Even if Lord Zhu's magic power is gentle, it has caused non-negligible damage to this old man."

"However, it's fine."

"If this old man hadn't had a miraculous encounter when he was young and taken a longevity-increasing ganoderma, I wouldn't have lived to this age."

"I have to thank Lord Zhu for helping this old man find relief."

Zhu Xuanji sighed, his brows furrowed, unable to hide his guilt: "Old Senior Li, I know your contribution to Ciyou Garden, why do you have to do this?"

He was a smart man, and after being tricked, he saw through Li Leifeng's trick.

He felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Li Leifeng smiled: "Lord Zhu, if you really have a sense of guilt, represent the imperial court and arrange a good director for this Ciyou Garden. If not, even if this old man dies, I won't be able to rest in peace."

Zhu Xuanji raised his head and couldn't help but sigh.

His main purpose in coming here was to investigate Li Leifeng.

According to the information he collected from the City Lord's Mansion and the three major families, Li Leifeng was the undisputed number one suspect.

Although he was not at the Jin Dan stage, he possessed a thunder spirit root and, at his peak, held the mechanical tower, possessing half-step Jin Dan combat power!

Moreover, he possessed profound mechanical attainments and was recognized by the Lava Immortal Palace, becoming a candidate among Foundation Establishment cultivators who could enter the Immortal Palace.

According to the records of the four major families, Li Leifeng had entered the Immortal Palace several times and gained a lot.

This was still in the records.

In fact, before the Lava Immortal Palace was bombed out, the top of Fire Persimmon Mountain was not under martial law, the path of the Red Flame Demon Melting Cave was fixed, and many cultivators could easily disguise themselves and enter the cave to explore.

It was impossible for the four major forces to record all the cultivators who entered the Immortal Palace.

In other words, the number of times Li Leifeng entered the Immortal Palace to explore was far more than recorded.

Zhu Xuanji now confirmed that Li Leifeng's lifespan was about to end and his time was running out.

And he, a dignified Jin Dan cultivator, was tricked by Li Leifeng.

Zhu Xuanji sighed in his heart.

He had been dealt with by such tricks many times.

Once he appeared in public, his past experiences, personality, and likes and dislikes would be found out by those with ulterior motives.

Li Leifeng's move hit Zhu Xuanji's weakness.

Small people have their own way of survival!

Zhu Xuanji knew that this investigation confirmation would shorten Li Leifeng's lifespan by at least three months.

He felt guilty and had to promise that he would find an excellent director for the Ciyou Garden in Fire Persimmon Immortal City.

Li Leifeng nodded and smiled: "Lord Zhu, after this old man passes away, there will be a legacy meeting, where I will give away all my belongings to others."

"I know you are from the royal family, a divine catcher, wealthy, and in a high position."

"But this old man still wants to give you something to show my respect."

"This old man naturally cannot take out any magic treasure that can catch your eye, but I have a small toy I accidentally collected in my early years, which is very interesting."

"Lord Zhu, please look."

Zhu Xuanji took a wooden board.

The wooden board was as big as a chopping board, very heavy, light yellow in color, with many natural wood textures. Moreover, there were various lines crisscrossing on the surface of the wooden board, cutting the wooden board into many small pieces of different sizes.

Zhu Xuanji himself possessed mechanical attainments, and just at a glance, he was attracted.

He tried to press one of the wooden blocks with his finger and then successfully dragged it to the side.

Just as he saw through, these wooden blocks could be moved.

"Interesting." Zhu Xuanji moved his fingers frequently, moving many wooden blocks back and forth, gradually discovering the clues.

"This kind of mechanical wooden board hides some kind of information; as long as the wooden blocks are moved and placed in a correct position, we can learn a part of the information."

"And only when we get all the information can we piece together everything this wooden board wants to express."

Zhu Xuanji frowned upon hearing this: "There are many such wooden blocks, how long will it take to move and place them to learn all the content?"

Li Leifeng laughed dumbly: "This is a mechanical toy, like the Yilun, Erlangtui, and Sanmao I played with when I was young."

"It's just very complicated and can pass the time."

Zhu Xuanji laughed: "What I need most is time, how can I pass it?"

Saying this, he activated his golden eyes to observe.

Cheating like this, he immediately obtained all the information in the mechanical wooden board toy: "This is just an immortal god story? And not the full text?"

Li Leifeng sighed: "Lord Zhu, this is just a toy."

"In this old man's opinion, perhaps it was made by a mechanical cultivator in his later years for his own descendants when he was playing with his grandchildren."

Zhu Xuanji nodded and put the mechanical wooden board back: "I think this wooden board is more suitable to stay in Ciyou Garden. Old Li, I'm leaving. I will do what I promised you."

Li Leifeng: "Lord Zhu, go slowly. Please forgive this old man for not being able to get up to see you off."

Zhu Xuanji hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't, don't, don't, you just lie down, it's fine."

He was afraid that Li Leifeng would see him off and lose another piece of lifespan.

Walking out of Ciyou Garden, Zhu Xuanji couldn't help but sigh, looking up at the sky, and secretly said: "Heaven, why don't you give the good people in the world a little more tolerance?"

Zhu Xuanji felt lost, full of regret that Li Leifeng was about to pass away.

As for the time he would spend reporting to the imperial court and exerting his own efforts to participate in selecting the director of Ciyou Garden, it would all consume energy and delay the investigation.

But he was willing to do it!

Ning Zhuo didn't sleep very well in Ning Xiaoren's mansion.

In fact, it was even worse than at his uncle's house.

What really gave him a sense of belonging was the small courtyard his mother left him.

Breakfast was rich, with many spiritual foods.

Ning Xiaoren came over specifically to have breakfast with Ning Zhuo.

He asked with concern how Ning Zhuo rested last night and whether the food was to his taste.

Ning Zhuo showed raw, awkward, and at a loss in the face of Ning Xiaoren's care.

Ning Xiaoren observed his words and expressions, and reduced his enthusiastic care appropriately.

Only then did Ning Zhuo gradually relax and start eating the spiritual food. These things could increase cultivation!

Ning Xiaoren was surprised to find that Ning Zhuo was eating more and more, faster and faster.

Most of a plate of spiritual food was wiped out by him.

Some spiritual side dishes were small in quantity, and the point was the taste. As a result, Ning Xiaoren just raised his chopsticks—gone!

"Eat, eat well, if you like it, eat more." Ning Xiaoren smiled.

Ning Zhuo's chewing movement paused slightly, and he showed an awkward expression again.

Ning Xiaoren laughed loudly: "Good child, good child. Eat more to practice faster, and you will have more gains exploring the Immortal Palace."

"Tha... thank you Young Patriarch." Ning Zhuo's mouth was full, his voice unclear.

Ning Xiaoren laughed again: "I said it, just call me Uncle Ning."

Ning Zhuo called him Uncle Ning once.

"Good, from now on we will call each other uncle and nephew." Ning Xiaoren stood up, "Eat well, eat until you are full. Practice later, don't waste the spirit stones. I heard you like mechanical arts, I will send you some mechanical books to read later."

Ning Zhuo immediately showed joy, hurriedly stood up, and cupped his hands to thank him.

Ning Xiaoren laughed, waved his hand, and walked out of the room.

After returning to his study, his expression turned cold; he wasn't full, which was the first time in his own mansion. He had to order another breakfast and let the servants prepare it.

Ning Zhuo flipped through the books.

These books were clearly from the Ning family's secret treasury, and their quality was clearly a grade higher than the books in the open library.

Ning Zhuo was focused on the surface, but was actually absent-minded.

If it were a normal day, he would definitely be thirsty for knowledge and wouldn't be able to put these books down.

But now, he knew his situation very well.

Don't look at how he was being treated kindly by Ning Xiaoren right now; maybe the next moment, the other party would turn his face and throw Ning Zhuo into a private prison.

Ning Zhuo was taking a risk!

But he had to.

The appearance of Yuan Dasheng forced him to enter the game, dangerously, and he eliminated this strong enemy. He was a line away from being exposed.

Zhu Xuanji appeared too early and had been investigating, bringing great pressure, forcing Ning Zhuo to act as soon as possible.

"When did my situation become increasingly difficult?"

Ning Zhuo looked back to the beginning, which was when he decided to bomb the Immortal Palace!

Once this was done, he was like stepping into a lonely boat, having to cross heavy giant waves, and he had to reach the other shore to be considered safe.

During this period, if he made a slight mistake, or even was a little slow, he would be destroyed.

He couldn't get off the boat anymore.

As long as the Immortal Palace was seized by others, they would inevitably be able to investigate the scene of the bombing of the Immortal Palace and expose Ning Zhuo as the real culprit.

He could only move forward, constantly moving forward, gritting his teeth, and no matter how many difficulties there were, he had to bite the bullet and move forward desperately!

"After a long night, Ning Xiaoren still treats me kindly, which shows that their investigation has had results."

"These are all the defenses I have woven step by step since I was two years old. The many pieces of evidence I played and manufactured are naturally distributed in the trajectory of my growth."

"As long as they investigate these, they will get a reasonable explanation and realize that I have the talent for mechanical arts."

"Even if they search out the underground workshop, it doesn't matter; I have already cleaned it up. And I left behind many modification drafts for researching and creating the Mechanical Fire-Exploding Monkey, as well as many failed mechanical prototypes, etc."

Although Ning Zhuo was alone, he had an advantage.

That was that he had been preparing since more than ten years ago, and during his more than ten years of growth, he deliberately arranged many traces and clues.

These clues and information, when collected, could form intelligence.

And such intelligence was actually a personal defense line carefully prepared by Ning Zhuo—who would think that a two-year-old child started acting since he was a child?

As long as his early intelligence talent was not discovered, Ning Zhuo could temporarily hold this defense line.

Of course, Ning Zhuo's love and addiction to mechanical arts were not a pretense, but a true performance.

"Ning Zhuo, come out." Not long after, Ning Xiaohui's voice suddenly came from outside the house.