Chapter 386: Young Master Ning Zhuo is Still Simple

Great Dispute Peak, back mountain, Ten Thousand Demon Cave.

"Senior Brother."

"Senior Brother! We've come to see you."

A group of people called out at the cave entrance.

A few breaths later, Linghu Jiu's voice came: "Come in."

A group of junior brothers led by Lao De poured into the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and paid their respects to Linghu Jiu one after another.

"Senior Brother, how are you doing here?" Lao De spoke first.

Linghu Jiu shrugged: "Everything is fine; you guys know that I have long been accustomed to the environment here."

"What I worry about instead is Little Junior Sister."

"She has a lively personality, and now that she has been grounded in her own room for so long, wouldn't she be bored to death?"

The junior brothers sighed along, and immediately, one word after another.

"Yes, I am as worried as Senior Brother."

"Yesterday, I got six musical note bugs, put them in a cup, and had her personal maid send them to her to play with."

"Oh? I just sent a mechanism puppet in the day before yesterday."

"I pleaded with Master, but was scolded, sigh..."

The feelings of the junior brothers were all very good. This was because when Lin Bufan accepted disciples, he specifically chose those of similar age and cultivated them from childhood.

These people grew up together, so naturally, their friendship was deep.

Lao De changed the topic: "In my opinion, Little Junior Sister went too far this time. I don't know what kind of love potion that Ning Zhuo fed her to make her help him with all her might!"

"Senior Brother, we have pooled our money and paid off Little Junior Sister's external debts."

"However, that Ning Zhuo cannot be let off; he needs to be taught a lesson. Otherwise, everyone's heart will not be at peace."

The topic turned to Ning Zhuo, immediately triggering resonance among the crowd.

"Yes, yes, that Ning Zhuo is too cunning, relying on his good looks and flowery words to deceive our Little Junior Sister!"

"We all paid a huge price, but he reaped the biggest benefits; this absolutely cannot be."

"Senior Brother, among us junior brothers, you treat Little Junior Sister the best. We don't recognize others, only you."

"Yes, Senior Brother!"

"Senior Brother, we have discussed it. If we really take action against Ning Zhuo ourselves, it will have a bad influence. Why not use the sect rules to incite other stationed cultivators to go and trouble Ning Zhuo?"

"You don't know, Little Junior Sister is grounded and depressed every day, while that kid acts like nothing happened, throwing Little Junior Sister to the back of his mind, only caring about sparring and discussing martial arts with the newly met Han Zhou, living a very comfortable life!"

Linghu Jiu, upon hearing this, showed a stern expression and shook his head to refuse: "This cannot be done."

"There is no wall that doesn't leak wind. If you incite other cultivators to deal with Ning Zhuo, it will cause great damage to the reputation of my Ten Thousand Medicines Sect."

"If this were to be disclosed, more than half of the results that the Ten Thousand Medicines Sect has carefully managed for so many years would be damaged."

"For the sake of mere private interests, disregarding the benefits of the entire sect, is this what we should do?"

The junior brothers couldn't help but fall silent, looking at each other.

Lao De said unwillingly: "Then Senior Brother, are we just going to let Ning Zhuo live so comfortably? He has made rapid progress recently, but many of these cultivation resources were paid for by us junior brothers out of our own pockets."

"We only need to show a little willingness, and those stationed cultivators will be like cats smelling fish, taking the initiative to rely on us and willingly help us deal with Ning Zhuo!"

"And to make them keep it secret, we only need to sign a contract."

Linghu Jiu sighed: "Human hearts are easily changed. How enthusiastically they rely on you and me now, they may hate you and me just as much in the future. On the contrary, those who have always had a flat attitude are more reliable in character."

"Such shady things are not what we righteous gentlemen should do; don't think about it anymore."

"I have long been quite curious about this friend Ning Zhuo; when I leave the cave in the future, I will definitely meet him in person."

Lao De sighed: "Since that's the case, then let you handle it yourself, Senior Brother."

The junior brothers exchanged words again, talking and laughing during the period, and finally parted reluctantly.

Leaving Great Dispute Peak, the other junior brothers then discussed unwillingly: "Are we just going to let it go like this?"

"Since Senior Brother said so, let's do it this way."

"Senior Brother has been grounded for several months, right? By then, the day lily will be cold. Ning Zhuo might have run away long ago!"

"If you just say he is greedy for money, then forget it. The key is that he deceived our Little Junior Sister's feelings and used our Little Junior Sister; can this be tolerated?!"

Lao De smiled slightly: "Senior Brother is just worried that we will destroy the reputation of the Ten Thousand Medicines Sect."

"How about this, we will never show our faces, never talk secretly with those stationed cultivators, and don't even have any hints in private."

"We only spread rumors! In my opinion, Ning Zhuo climbed too fast. Initially, he was in a cave dwelling with a ranking of over two hundred, and now he has jumped into the top ten."

"In the last battle, he won quickly against Chang Yan; can it reflect his true strength?"

"I think there are quite a few people who have the same doubts as me!"

"We only need to stir up a wave of rumors, and we should be able to incite others to take the initiative to challenge Ning Zhuo."

The others, upon hearing this, all had their eyes shining, praising repeatedly.

"Good plan, good plan."

"This method is good; we didn't go down, just blowing wind."

"Even if investigated, it won't be traced to us."

Small Dispute Peak, martial arts arena.

Ning Zhuo and Han Zhou were sparring.

But unlike before, Han Zhou was at a disadvantage, while Ning Zhuo firmly occupied the upper hand.

The reason for all this was that Ning Zhuo had mechanism arms and legs floating around him.

These arms, like floating hands, were all capable of floating in mid-air.

Ning Zhuo controlled them to constantly perform the martial art Frost Fist, and used those mechanism legs to perform the martial art Old Cold Leg.

If Han Zhou had to face two hands and two legs, that would be fine. But the problem was, he was facing a siege of ten arms and ten legs together!

Han Zhou looked like he was being besieged by a group of people, only able to retreat constantly, pulling away the distance, attempting to find flaws.

As a result, he was surprised to find that Ning Zhuo's mechanism control level was extremely high; controlling these mechanism hands and feet was not only natural and free, but the formation was tight, cooperating with each other, and not a single one was reckless, with no flaws at all!

"You... stop, stop for a moment." Han Zhou was beaten for a while and couldn't stand it anymore, directly waving his hand to call a stop.

Ning Zhuo was not satisfied: "Brother Han Zhou, I haven't mastered the control yet; I just had many insights, perhaps I can use these mechanisms to perform different bitter cold martial arts."

Han Zhou's eyelid twitched.

He praised from the bottom of his heart: "Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo, I never thought that your mechanism control technique would be so powerful, definitely stronger than your martial arts, no, Five Elements spells!"

Han Zhou could also be considered to have traveled to various places and broadened his horizons. After sparring with Ning Zhuo in person and experiencing the latter's mechanism arts, he immediately changed his understanding and evaluation of Ning Zhuo in his heart.

"So, Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo is hiding very deep; what he is truly good at is not Five Elements spells at all."

This was completely different from the outside estimation!

"In that case, Brother Han Zhou, why don't you rest for a while, and we'll practice again." Ning Zhuo's smile was like a spring breeze.

Han Zhou was not happy to continue sparring, but under the infection of Ning Zhuo's Buddha Heart Demon Seal, no, smile, he nodded.

Looking at Ning Zhuo in his original place, alone controlling those mechanism arms and legs, training seriously, and occasionally stopping to frown and think, Han Zhou couldn't help but inexplicably look forward to the day when Ning Zhuo would show this combat power in public and see the reaction of others.

"Hehehe." He laughed out loud when he thought of the fun part.

Ning Zhuo's ears moved slightly, hearing Han Zhou's laughter, and a faint sense of pleasure arose in his heart.

"Brother Han Zhou gets along with me very harmoniously. Before, when I saw him, he was quite sorrowful. Now he is open-minded, and his smiles have increased every day."

"This feeling of being able to make people around me happy is really good."

Today's sparring, Han Zhou was clearly much more staggering, and Ning Zhuo showed a satisfied smile.

The effectiveness of the sparring was very good, making him very gratified.

He and Han Zhou bid farewell, as if returning to the days when he and Lin Shanshan were together day and night.

Han Zhou walked a few steps, suddenly stopped, and called out to Ning Zhuo: "Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo, almost forgot, the wind has been a bit wrong recently."

"What's wrong?" Ning Zhuo showed a look of doubt.

Han Zhou said: "It's about you. I don't know if you have noticed recently that there is a very bad rumor about you on Small Dispute Peak."

"Saying you are arrogant, looking down on people, saying your strength is actually insufficient, and that you only took advantage of the battle with Chang Yan before, occupying the results of a successful preemptive strike."

"In my opinion, it should be that you occupy the top ten cave dwelling of Small Dispute Peak, causing many people to be jealous."

"These people want to challenge you and compete for the cave dwelling in your hands, but they are afraid of failing the challenge, so they spread such rumors, wanting to incite others to challenge you more, so as to pave the way for themselves."

Ning Zhuo frowned immediately: "So that's what happened!"

"Brother Han Zhou, thank you for the reminder; otherwise, I would still be kept in the dark." Ning Zhuo bowed deeply and thanked him.

Han Zhou sighed: "Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo, you can't just focus on training. Small Dispute Peak is not the same as your family environment; many times, fighting is not just a fair challenge, but also many secret calculations off the field."

Ning Zhuo frowned even tighter: "Then what should I do?"

Han Zhou had no good way either, just urging Ning Zhuo to pay more attention: "I think you can challenge someone as soon as possible and show your mechanism arts. In this way, there will be no such slanderous rumors about you."

"Thank you for your advice!" Ning Zhuo bowed again and said many words of thanks.

This led Han Zhou to worry about Ning Zhuo on the way back: "Ning Zhuo is a young master of a family after all; his mind is still too simple. Just went out to travel, doesn't know the sinister nature of the human heart."

"From these rumors, it can be seen that the environment he lived in before was relatively stable and beautiful."

"Sigh, it's shameful to say. Even if it's me, contacting him, sparring and training with him, isn't it also wanting to convert him, with bad intentions."