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 hitting the window lattice.

Ning Jiufan's spiritual sense moved, he pushed open the window and let the flying letter in.

It was a letter from Ning Zhuo.

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

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

Ning Zhuo predicted: Next, surrounding the duties of the Lava Immortal Palace, the Ning family and the 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 group of Zheng family cultivators, some of whom possessed Immortal Palace duties. Ning Zhuo felt that this super sect taking away the Zheng family might not have given up on the Lava Immortal Palace.

This might be a point that could be utilized.

Ning Zhuo specially left behind a batch of supplies, which would be delivered to Ning Jiufan by his subordinates in a few days. Ning Zhuo's move was specifically to compensate and give back to the family's main branch, to repay the kindness of cultivation in the past.

Finally, Ning Zhuo reminded Ning Jiufan: He didn't leave any mechanical creations behind this time, so he needed Ning Jiufan to take care of the branch family. Although the Nascent Soul demon ape could be strongly controlled by official arts and magic treasures, Ning Zhuo strongly advised against doing so.

According to his words, winning people over with affection is the royal way!

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

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

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

Ning Jiufan's face was overcast and sunny.

It must be said that Ning Zhuo's forbearance and strategy shown in the process of seizing the Lava Immortal Palace left too deep an impression on Ning Jiufan.

So much so that he, a dignified Jin Dan cultivator with extraordinary combat power, had become suspicious and paranoid at this moment, secretly guessing whether he had been deceived and calculated by Ning Zhuo again.

After thinking hard for a while, Ning Jiufan let out a turbid breath and stopped struggling.

"Thinking too much is of no benefit."

"Ning Zhuo's nature is not bad, his heart is toward the family, although he has many cunning thoughts, he still has a bottom line. Such talent should still be won over more."

Ning Jiufan had already begun to think about how to raise Ning Zhong's status. Perhaps, he could raise Ning Zhong's status through posthumous titles to strengthen 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 Ning Zhuo."

City Lord's Mansion.

"Ning Zhuo left?"

"A Nascent Soul level machine that can escape into the sky... he really knows the Lava Immortal Palace very well."

Fei Si felt relieved after seeing this intelligence.

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

Although Ning Zhuo's cultivation was low, the combat power and strategy he revealed made anyone who knew about it deeply wary.

Fei Si was no exception.

Zhu Xuanji set off and left Fire Persimmon Immortal City on the morning of the next day.

When he flew into the sky, he couldn't help but look back.

Fire Persimmon Mountain crouched on the earth, among the high mountains and ridges, like a giant that had just woken up.

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

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

And in 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, endless geothermal heat surged up, which was fully absorbed by the protective array, which in turn was converted into the production of fire persimmons.

Among the once bare branches, there were already many small fire persimmons, newly formed. The red and round appearance was like the future hope of Fire Persimmon Immortal City.

However, the prospects of Fire Persimmon Immortal City were still like the heavy clouds and smoke lingering on the top of the mountain all year round, confusing and unclear.

A flash of gold flashed in Zhu Xuanji's eyes, and he immediately saw through the clouds and smoke, seeing the Lava Immortal Palace floating on the lava in the crater.

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

"Three Sects Supreme Person..." 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 Ning Zhuo deal with Meng Kui would involuntarily appear in his mind.

At that moment, he turned the mirror surface as if possessed, locking onto Meng Kui's magic hand.

This action placed the Nandou royal family in front of Meng Kui, directly preventing the latter from taking action against Ning Zhuo.

"At that time, protecting 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 memories increased, his feeling gradually blurred; it seemed to be his subconscious action at the time, with physical movements taking precedence over thoughts in his mind.

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

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

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

He touched nothing.

Once, the scene he saw in the royal capital surfaced in his mind again. Among them, a passage from the Three Sects Supreme Person made him feel colder the more he tasted it.

At that time, the Nandou Retired Emperor was angry and took away the Golden Phoenix Mirror.

The Three Sects Supreme Person said this to her: "The karma is set. Since you have taken this Golden Phoenix Mirror, from now on, protect the inheritance of the Immortal Palace for me."

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

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

"I have been guarding against this point, staying vigilant against the City Lord's Mansion and the black-shadow demon cultivators. Many clues, even if placed in front of me, 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 Golden Phoenix Mirror to shine on Meng Kui, protecting Ning Zhuo!"

"Could the Lava Immortal Palace be a stage set up by the Three Sects Supreme Person, and I am just one of the puppets already arranged?"

"Clearly, the first time I used the Trace-Tracing Art, I saw Ning Zhuo as the real culprit. But in the subsequent investigation process, although I made progress repeatedly, the results again and again proved 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 his doubts and guesses in person.

Strangely, the further away 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 Immortal City, Lava Immortal Palace... there is something strange."

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

"And that Ning Zhuo!"

"I will also try to reduce contact; this is the successor designated by the Three Sects Supreme Person, the child of the Buddha-Demon struggle."

With the successive departures of Ning Zhuo, Zhu Xuanji, and others, Fire Persimmon Immortal City gradually returned to its former calm.

Without the ravages of the Red Flame beasts, and with the Lava Immortal Palace having a master, the visiting cultivators also left Fire Persimmon Mountain one after another.

Fire Persimmon Immortal City, Flying Disc Workshop.

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

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

The old man's eye sockets were sunken, his breath was long, and he was none other than Chen Cha.

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

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 to look around, and then fixed his gaze on the direction of the Lava Immortal Palace.

His fingers pinched, and the speed of the movement left shadows in his field of vision.

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

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

"And that Sun Lingtong actually left too!"

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

"Once this place is ruined, the layout of this office in the Nandou Kingdom will collapse by more than half. Headache, headache. How to make up for it?"

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

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

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

After thinking it over, 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 mechanical classics.

These mechanical classics were all specially arranged by Ning Zhuo before leaving the city, and he had his subordinates give them to Chen Cha.

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

He actually had no memory of the strange state that had happened to him before, and was completely unaware!