Chapter 346

"This little brat! When you come back, I will definitely hang you up and beat your butt until it's swollen." Ning Jiufan was so angry his teeth itched.

A flying letter, like a bird, kept colliding with the window lattice.

With a thought of his spiritual sense, Ning Jiufan pushed open the window and let the flying letter in.

It was a letter from Unlike Ning Zhuo.

"Ancestor, when you see this letter, I must have already run away from home..."

The content of the letter was mainly Unlike Ning Zhuo's views on the current Ning family, Fire Persimmon Xiancheng, and the game between the Zhu and Meng families.

Unlike Ning Zhuo predicted: Next, surrounding the positions of the Lava Xian Gong, the Ning family and Zhou family would inevitably have huge conflicts and competition with the Meng family. On this point, don't forget the Taiqing Palace!

The Taiqing Palace took away a batch of Zheng family cultivators, among whom some possessed Xian Gong positions. Unlike Ning Zhuo felt that this super sect taking away the Zheng family might not have given up on the Lava Xian Gong yet.

This might be a point that could be utilized.

Unlike Ning Zhuo specially left behind a batch of supplies, which would be delivered to Ning Jiufan by his subordinates in a few days. Unlike Ning Zhuo did this specifically to compensate and give back to the family's main lineage, to repay the kindness of his upbringing.

Finally, Unlike Ning Zhuo reminded Ning Jiufan: with him gone, he hadn't left behind any mechanism creations, so Ning Jiufan needed to take good care of the branch family. Although the Nascent Soul demon ape could be forcefully controlled by official arts and magic treasures, Unlike Ning Zhuo strongly advised against doing so.

According to his words, winning people over with emotion was the royal way!

After reading it, Ning Jiufan's anger subsided by more than half, and he snorted: "This stinky brat, he still cares about the family after all."

"It's just that he worries too much, actually managing things up to me, the ancestor. Hmph!"

"Wait, could this letter also be his calculation? Did he even calculate my anger?"

Ning Jiufan's face was uncertain.

It had to be said that during the process of seizing the Lava Xian Gong, the endurance and strategy Unlike Ning Zhuo displayed left too deep an impression on Ning Jiufan.

So much so that he, a dignified Golden Core cultivator with extraordinary combat power, had become suspicious and paranoid at this moment, secretly guessing if he had been fooled by Unlike Ning Zhuo again and calculated by the latter.

After thinking hard for a moment, Ning Jiufan spat out a turbid breath and stopped struggling.

"Thinking too much is of no benefit."

"Unlike Ning Zhuo's nature is not bad, his heart is toward the family; although he has many cunning and strange thoughts, he has a bottom line. Such talent still needs to be won over."

Ning Jiufan had already begun to think about how to raise Ning Zhong's status. Perhaps he could raise Ning Zhong's status by posthumously conferring a title, strengthening Unlike Ning Zhuo's sense of belonging to the family.

"Besides that, during the Ghost Festival, the family's grand sacrifice can communicate with the underworld. I will personally come forward to seek higher-standard wishes and blessings for Unlike Ning Zhuo."

City Lord's Mansion.

"Unlike Ning Zhuo left?"

"A Nascent Soul level mechanism, capable of escaping through the air... he really knows the Lava Xian Gong very well."

Fei Si saw this intelligence and felt relieved in his heart.

Beside the sleeping mat, how can others be allowed to snore?

Although Unlike Ning Zhuo's cultivation was low, the combat power and strategy he displayed made those in the know deeply wary.

Fei Si was no exception.

Zhu Xuanji set off from Fire Persimmon Xiancheng on the morning of the next day.

When flying into the air, he couldn't help but look back.

Fire Persimmon Mountain crouched on the earth, among the towering mountains, like a giant that had just awakened.

After the previous violent eruption, the cooled lava on the upper part of the volcano turned into a large red-black carpet, covering the hillside.

The traces of flowing lava were like huge veins, winding and twisting, recording the silent roar of nature.

And in the middle section of the volcano, the huge building complex formed the appearance of Fire Persimmon Xiancheng. Although there was some damage, it was generally safe and sound. Having faced the danger of annihilation from the beast tide, it relied entirely on the unity of the city's people, who worked together to turn danger into safety.

And on the lower section of the volcano, at the foot of the mountain, was a large area of persimmon forests.

Although the last Fire Persimmon Festival was only a few months ago, because of the volcanic eruption, infinite geothermal heat surged up, which was fully absorbed by the defensive array, thereby transforming into the yield of fire persimmons.

Between the once bare branches, there were already many small fire persimmons, newly formed. Red and round, they looked like the future hope of Fire Persimmon Xiancheng.

However, the prospects of Fire Persimmon Xiancheng were still like the layers of clouds and mist that lingered on the top of the mountain all year round, confusing and unclear.

A golden light flashed in Zhu Xuanji's eyes, immediately piercing through the clouds and mist, seeing the Lava Xian Gong floating on the lava in the crater.

The Lava Xian Gong was being rebuilt; Meng Kui personally took action, using his magic power to grab the parts that had fallen from the lava. There were also many cultivators cooperating with him, going all out to piece back together the parts of the Xian Gong that had broken off.

"Three Sects' Supreme..." Zhu Xuanji showed a look of wariness.

These days, whenever he calmed down, the scene of him turning his gun at the final moment to help Unlike Ning Zhuo deal with Meng Kui would involuntarily appear in his mind.

At that moment, he turned the mirror surface as if possessed, fixing it on Meng Kui's magic power hand.

This action placed the Nandou royal family before Meng Kui, directly preventing the latter from taking action against Unlike Ning Zhuo.

"At that time, protecting Unlike Ning Zhuo, was it... really my intention? Or was I already controlled?"

After it ended, Zhu Xuanji recalled that critical moment and felt it was very strange, very fishy, like a puppet being manipulated.

But as the number of recollections increased, his feeling gradually blurred; it seemed like his own subconscious action at the time, with physical movements taking priority over thoughts in his mind.

By now, he had recalled it too many times, to the point of becoming suspicious and paranoid.

Gradually leaving Fire Persimmon Xiancheng behind, Zhu Xuanji finally couldn't help but reach out and touch the top of his head.

"On top of my head, was a Human Life Hanging Thread tied?"

He touched nothing.

Once, the scene he saw in the royal capital floated into his mind again. Among them, a passage from the Three Sects' Supreme made him feel colder the more he pondered it.

At that time, the Nandou Retired Emperor was angry and took away the Jin Fengjing.

The Three Sects' Supreme said this to her: "The karma is set. Since you have taken this Jin Fengjing, from now on, protect the Xian Gong inheritance for me."

After Meng Kui was yielded to by Unlike Ning Zhuo and became the Palace Master, every time Zhu Xuanji thought of this sentence from the Three Sects' Supreme, he felt more and more that this sentence from the Three Sects' Supreme was not said to the Nandou Retired Emperor, but... to him!

"Think carefully, ever since I stepped on Fire Persimmon Mountain, I have been led by the nose."

"I have been guarding against this point, maintaining vigilance against the City Lord's Mansion and the black-shadow demon cultivators. Many clues, even if placed before my eyes, I have to maintain my own initiative."

"However, in the end, I still returned without success."

"No, my greatest merit might be representing the royal family, at the last moment, using the Jin Fengjing to shine on Meng Kui, protecting Unlike Ning Zhuo!"

"Could the Lava Xian Gong be a stage set up by the Three Sects' Supreme, and I am just one of the puppets arranged long ago?"

"Clearly, the first time I used Trace the Source, I saw Unlike Ning Zhuo as the real culprit. But in the subsequent investigation process, although I made progress repeatedly, the results again and again proved Unlike Ning Zhuo's innocence!"

Zhu Xuanji's heart was full of doubts.

After he handled the matters at hand, he couldn't wait to return to the royal capital immediately.

His mood was very urgent.

He really wanted to see the monarch again and tell her face-to-face about the doubts and guesses in his heart.

Strangely, the further he was from Fire Persimmon Mountain, the more peaceful and calm Zhu Xuanji's mood became.

This feeling was as if a wild beast was moving away from a huge trap!

A sense of security arose spontaneously.

"Fire Persimmon Xiancheng, Lava Xian Gong... there is something strange."

A intuition arose in his heart, telling Zhu Xuanji to stay far away from these things in the future.

"And that Unlike Ning Zhuo!"

"I will also minimize contact; this is the successor designated by the Three Sects' Supreme, the child of the catastrophe of the Buddha-Demon struggle."

With the successive departures of Unlike Ning Zhuo, Zhu Xuanji, and others, Fire Persimmon Xiancheng gradually returned to its past tranquility.

Without the Red Flame demon beasts raging, and with the Lava Xian Gong having an owner, the outside cultivators also left Fire Persimmon Mountain one after another.

Fire Persimmon Xiancheng, Flying Disc Workshop.

An old man in a black robe with gray whiskers sat on a mechanism chair, breathing and accumulating magic power.

The mechanism chair floated in mid-air, a few feet off the ground.

The old man's eye sockets were sunken, his breath long; it was Chen Cha.

Suddenly, Chen Cha's body shook violently, as if electrocuted, and then he opened his eyes abruptly.

His pupils disappeared completely, and his eye sockets were filled with creepy whites.

From the whites of his eyes, wisps of white smoke drifted out.

Chen Cha seemed to have become a different person, slowly turning his head, looking around, and then staring fixedly at the direction of the Lava Xian Gong.

His fingers pinched, the speed of the movement leaving trails of finger shadows in his vision.

Along with his calculation, the white smoke in his eyes drifted out more and more severely, floating in mid-air, making Chen Cha look like an immortal in the mist, mysterious and unpredictable.

"Zhu Xuanji should have stayed here to guard the Xian Gong from now on, why did he leave?"

"And that Sun Lingtong actually left too!"

"This game was set up by the Three Sects' Supreme; logically, there shouldn't be any loopholes. There is the Human Life Hanging Thread divine ability in the Lava Xian Gong, which can be called foolproof. But the situation has collapsed to this point; who destroyed it?"

"Once this place is broken, the layout of this mansion in the Nandou Kingdom has collapsed by more than half. Headache, headache. How to make up for it?"

Chen Cha finished his calculation, his face full of misery.

"Could it be that Unlike Ning Zhuo who ruined this game?"

"The current priority is to find the two, Sun and Ning, and see where exactly the problem lies."

After thinking, Chen Cha slowly closed his eyes.

The white smoke filling the room dissipated rapidly.

Chen Cha's breathing stabilized again, and he continued to breathe.

After a stick of incense, he slowly opened his eyes, and his pupils returned to normal. With his magic power fully accumulated, Chen Cha began to study the mechanism classics.

These mechanism classics were all specially arranged by Unlike Ning Zhuo before leaving the city, letting his subordinates give them to Chen Cha.

"Being able to know Unlike Ning Zhuo is my luck." Chen Cha absorbed the knowledge in the jade slip, and gratitude toward Unlike Ning Zhuo arose spontaneously in his heart.

He actually had no memory of the strange state that had just occurred to him, completely unaware!